Lesson 20 Rescued to Become Adopted Into God’s Family
Questions 3 and 4
Wow, think about this! Because of our sin we were not a part of God’s family, we were not able to come into God’s presence, and we had no eternal inheritance. But then Jesus came! Through His life, death, and resurrection Jesus brought us into the family of God, which then qualified us to share in the inheritance of God’s family.
We receive eternal life and eternal pleasures as God’s gift to us, our inheritance.
“God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure” (Ephesians 1:5 NLT).
Question 3. What thoughts and feelings do you have as you consider that God has adopted you into His family, and through the gospel has qualified you to share an eternal inheritance?
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Bill writes, “This causes me to pause and to be in awe, to imagine that God has had great pleasure in adopting me into His family. On my “spiritual” birth certificate is God’s name as the Father. The old birth certificate who had Satan as the father, is no longer valid.”
When Jesus Christ went to the cross He was performing a rescue: the greatest rescue of all time. All people were under the power of darkness and death, so when Jesus went to the cross, He had to enter into that ominous darkness to rescue us. As Jesus hung on the cross dying in our place, it became dark (it was midday but Jesus hung in ultimate darkness) for three hours and at the proper time, Jesus gave up His spirit and died.
Matthew 27:45-46, 50 NIV From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. (46) About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"). (50) And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
Jesus entered the darkness to rescue you. He died to save you. As He had your sin on Him, He was rejected and forsaken by His Father that you might be accepted and embraced and welcomed into the family.
Question 4. What thoughts do you have as you consider the rescue that Jesus performed on the cross for you?
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