Pastor Pete Hartwig

SLIDE: Covered – Adoption

Jesus taking our place in court, Sacrifice for sin, prisoner exchange, battlefield, bought out of slavery, debt for sin is paid, triumphal procession, ADOPTION

SLIDE: think of someone who has been affected by adoption

How have their lives been changed?  COVERED!

Follow Jesus – serve others –

Feet to your faith …. fostering and adoption!

SLIDE: Moses & Esther

(Exodus 1:15-22) Pharaoh ordered all Hebrew male infants be put to death.  a basket, one of Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him into the royal family and named him Moses (Exodus 2:1-10)

Esther: parents died, uncle Mordecai,

Adoption today = from bad situation to good.

January 2007 – When Leslie Lynch King, Jr. died it made headlines around the world. Commentators talked about his legacy, and in the United States flags were lowed to half-staff in his honor. That always happens when a president dies.

But who was President King? You can’t find any record of a man by that name occupying the White House. But he did. Leslie Lynch King, Jr. served as president during a crisis moment in American history. He is remembered as a decent and honorable man whose solid Midwestern values guided his political career.

Leslie Lynch King, Jr. was born on Monday, July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated sixteen days after his birth and were divorced the following December. According to press reports his father was abusive and had a drinking problem. His mother took her baby and moved back to her parents’ home in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she later married a paint salesman. He later adopted young Leslie and gave him his own name. That name? Gerald Ford. Thus Leslie Lynch King became Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States.

Bad situation to good.  I am adopted.

Follow Jesus – Serve others… FEET to our faith! ADOPTION.

SLIDE:  Romans 8:14-17.  BIG SCREEN!!!

¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. ¹⁵ The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.^[a] And by him we cry, “Abba,^[b] Father.”¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. ¹⁷ Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

SLIDE: “For you did not receive a spirit of slavery resulting in fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption who places you as adult children, co-heirs with Christ, by whom we cry out, Abba, Father.     -Apostle Paul  Romans 8:15

SLIDE: Adoption – “son-placing” 

(huios = sons) and (tithemi = to place)

SLIDE:  Caesar Augustus, Tiberius, Germanicus, Gaius Caligula, Nero, Pliny the Younger, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and Constantius I

Imperial succession – without force-  Augustus & Tiberius

Adopt your successor = authority, power, honor

Buy him back 2xs, Sacrifice of a large animal, legal rights

SLIDE: “For you did not receive a spirit of slavery resulting in fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption who places you as adult children, co-heirs with Christ, by whom we cry out, Abba, Father.     -Apostle Paul          Romans 8:15

SLIDE: The Spirit of Adoption

Not out of need, out of choice and authority, a new position

SLIDE: Co-heir with Christ

Not  backward to begetting, but forward  inheritance, an HEIR

SLIDE: FEAR –  PHOBOS – fear, terror, alarm, the object or cause of fear, withdrawal, fleeing because feeling inadequate 

Slave, freedman, roman citizen, adoption

God does this by replacing the fear of a slave toward a master with the love of a son toward a father.

SLIDE: God as father

God =  “He” or “Father” neutral 

College student – parents –  SPIRIT OF ADOPTION to heal us!

SLIDE: Covered – Adoption

SLIDE:  Carrie Cifers UVA PhD Religion – Bottom Third

SLIDE: No longer a slave to fear you are a child of God