Congratulations on Your Adoption!
The Spirit:
1. Changes our thinking
2. Produces life & peace in and through us
3. Dwells in us
4. Will resurrect us
5. Makes us like Jesus
6. Confirms our adoption
Romans 8:14-17a ESV
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ,
John 1:12 NIV
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
Ephesians 1:4-5 NIV
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
1 John 3:1a NKJV
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!
patria potestas - “the father’s power”
Two Steps of Roman Adoption
1st Step: mancipatio (emancipation)
2nd Step: vindicatio
Four Results of Roman Adoption
1. The adopted person lost all rights to his old family and gained all rights in his new family.
2. The adopted person became the full heir to his new father’s estate even if there were other sons.
3. The adopted person’s old life was completely wiped out.
4. In the eyes of Roman law and society it was as if the adopted person was literally and completely the son of his new father in every sense.
1st The Holy Spirit leads us
Romans 8:14 ESV
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:14 ESV
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Luke 4:1 ESV
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness
Mark 1:12 ESV
The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
Romans 8:14 ESV
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:13b ESV
…but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Ephesians 1:17 NIV
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 NIV
However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” — but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
John 16:13-14 NIV
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.
2nd The Holy Spirit frees us
Romans 8:15 ESV
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
Romans 8:16 ESV
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
3rd The Holy Spirit confirms us
Romans 8:16-17 ESV
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ…
Galatians 4:7 NLT
Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.
Ephesians 1:11 NLT
Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.
1 Peter 1:4 NLT
and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.
Hebrews 1:2 NLT
God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance,
Romans 8:17 ESV
and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ…
Psalm 73:25-26 NIV
Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Revelation 21:3b NIV
He will dwell with them, and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as their God.
