Adoption From The Thematic Bible 3:
Adoption » Subjects saints to the fatherly discipline of God
Deuteronomy 8:5: Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
2 Samuel 7:14: I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men,
Proverbs 3:11-12: My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD Or loathe His reproof, For whom the LORD loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
Adoption » God is long-suffering and merciful towards the partakers of
Jeremiah 31:1: “At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”
Jeremiah 31:9: “With weeping they will come,
And by supplication I will lead them;
I will make them walk by streams of waters,
On a straight path in which they will not stumble;
For I am a father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My firstborn.”
Jeremiah 31:20: “Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a delightful child?
Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him,
I certainly still remember him;
Therefore My heart yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,” declares the Lord.
Finished for today.
God Bless!
