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Tabletalk Magazine, March 2007: Adoption: Reflecting the Grace of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

The family unit was instituted by God during the primeval days of Adam and Eve. The household in ancient times would have consisted of not just immediate members but relatives, servants, and even friends, depending on economic resources. Familial imagery is also employed in Scripture to describe those who are the people of the one, true God. They are all assumed to share in the life of the local...

election as His adopted child was irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). In addition to Israel’s adoption as God’s son, the Old Testament also speaks of the adoption of the Davidic king as God’s son (Ps. 2:7). This unique privileged relationship meant that he and his descendants could not be utterly cast off by God in the way that Saul had been cast off because of his failure. Rather, when they sinned, they would be chastised by God as a father chastises his son (2 Sam. 7:14–16). The covenant between God and
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