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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...

though we may be miles away from our own family and friends, in the local church we quickly discover a new family and new friends, because of the common salvation we have in Christ. The third great blessing that comes to us in our adoption is the gift of the Spirit of God, whom Paul calls “the Spirit of adoption” in Romans 8:15. It is the indwelling Spirit of God in our hearts who gives us the boldness to cry out “Father” (Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6). He bears internal testimony to the reality of our adoption,
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