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"ADOPTION"
PAUL KEITH DAVIS, ORANGE BEACH, AL
I went into a room to have time with the Lord with my Bible opened to Romans 8. The following is what flowed out of that.
According to Romans 8:22–23, adoption has a lot to do with the transition...
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"ADOPTION"
PAUL KEITH DAVIS, ORANGE BEACH, AL
I went into a room to have time with the Lord with my Bible opened to Romans 8. The following is what flowed out of that.
According to Romans 8:22–23, adoption has a lot to do with the transition of our natural body into a glorified body (as well as being placed spiritually as a mature son). Paul called it the redemption, "to be ransomed in full" (Strong's 629), of our body. This would be consistent with what the Lord said in Luke 20:35–36 that "...those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead...they cannot even die anymore, for they are 'like angels,' and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection" (emphasis mine). All of that deals directly with adoption.
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:2)
Also, Paul expounded further when he said we are eagerly awaiting the Savior to transform us from our humble state into conformity (adoption) with the body of the Lord's glory (Romans 8:23). The Lord has unlimited power to subject all things to Himself. John also said that "...what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears (the coming of the Lord), we will be like Him (adoption), for we will see Him as He is" (1 John 3:2, parentheses mine).
It is at this point when corruption puts on incorruption. It is the fullness of the seed of God that has been imparted to us before the foundation of the world. By His foreknowledge are we predestined to be conformed (adoption) to the image of the Lord. The literal translation says, "eagerly expecting adoption, the redemption of our body" (Strong's translation of Romans 8:23) implying adoption is the redemption of the body.
Connect that now to the reality that Jesus is the "firstborn" of many brethren (see Romans 8:29). Adoption is being fully conformed to the image of the Son that we also become sons with Him. We have been reconciled to the Father through His fleshly body in death in order to be presented to the Father, holy and blameless and beyond reproach (Colossians 1:22). That is the fullness of adoption.
Instead of the degeneration of the body, it would be the regeneration, quickening of our mortal bodies according to Romans 8:11. "But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies (adoption) through His Spirit who dwells in you" (Romans 8:11, parentheses mine).
It was Paul that taught the principle of adoption. He expressed this, I believe, further in Philippians 3 when he said, "that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death that I may attain to the resurrection of the dead" (vv. 10–11). This would also include the translation of the living saints when we receive our glorified body which is the fullness of adoption.
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September 6, 2024
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