376: Kim Carrell – Exhortation: Adoption

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Hello everyone, this is brother

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Simon.
This week’s talk is a short ex

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or done by a brother Kim Carroll
at the Semi Hills Ecclesia to

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the title Adoption.
He starts off with a touching

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and personal story about how he
was adopted at only a few days

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old, which I found to be a quite
a moving story.

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Then he goes through some
examples of adoption in the

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Bible and guess the point how we
all have the opportunity to be

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adopted into God’s great family
and heirs to the promises and

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through faith we are sons and
daughters of God.

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So here is Brother Kim Carroll
on adoption.

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Good morning.
After my mother passed away many

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years ago, I took many of the
files that she had at home with

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back home with me and I didn’t
look at them for several years.

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Eventually I looked through them
and found some things that I

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would be willing to bet that no
one else in this room has.

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That was the application my
parents filled out so that they

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could adopt me showed a lot of
information about them.

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My father was an insurance agent
making $5000 a year.

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They had $300 in their bank
account.

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They were paying $59 a month for
rent for their apartment.

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Gives a time capsule of the
history of my family at that

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time, names of their parents and
grandparents, the state of their

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health or why they died.
A pretty thorough examination of

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my folks background.
They started this process more

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than a year before I was born
and they signed a contract at

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the end of the process.
Adoption, according to the

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dictionary, is to take and raise
the child of others as one’s

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own.
I was adopted when I was only a

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few days old.
Many years ago.

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It was not usual to tell a child
that they’d been adopted.

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My parents did tell me, however,
beginning when I was very

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little.
They told me a story.

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It goes Once Upon a time there
was a farmer and his wife.

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They planted seed in the ground,
but then they went away.

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Another farmer and his wife came
along and watched the seed.

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They tended it and took care of
it.

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Eventually that seed grew into a
beautiful flower.

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And that beautiful flower is
you.

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You all may have some difficulty
in picturing me is a beautiful

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flower, but I tell you the
resemblance was much stronger

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when I was only three or four
years old.

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I was also proud.
I also proudly told anyone who

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would listen that I was adopted.
Now.

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After I began reading the word,
I noticed a story that sounded

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familiar in a way.
The parable is sword that was

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read this morning in Mark 4/3
through 20.

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The seed that falls on the good
soil still must be cared for.

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The one who tends the garden
spreads the word.

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There are some stories about
adoption in the Bible, but that

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word never appears in the Old
Testament.

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Exodus chapter 2 tells the story
of Moses.

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Pharaoh has ordered that every
boy born to the Hebrews must be

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killed.
A Levite woman devises A scheme

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to save her newborn son.
She puts him in a basket and

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sets him afloat in the Nile.
Let’s look at Exodus chapter 2,

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starting at verse one.
Now a man from the House of Levi

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went and took his wife as his
wife, a Levite woman.

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The woman conceived and bore a
son, and when she saw that he

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was a fine child, she hit him
three months.

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When she could hide him no
longer, she took for him, took

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for him a basket made of
bulrushes and daubed it with

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bitumen and pitch.
She put the child in it and

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placed it among the reeds in the
riverbank, and his sister stood

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at a distance to know what would
be done to him.

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Now the daughter of Pharaoh came
down to bathe at the river while

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her young women walked beside
the river.

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She saw the basket among the
reeds and sent her servant woman

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and she took it.
When she opened it, she saw the

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child and behold, the baby was
crying.

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She took pity on him and said,
This is one of the Hebrews

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children.
Then his sister said to

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Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go
and call you a nurse from the

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Hebrew women to nurse the child
for you?

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And Pharaoh’s daughter said to
her, Go.

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So the girl went and called the
child’s mother.

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And Pharaoh’s daughter said to
her, Take this child away and

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nurse him for me, and I will
give you your wages.

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So the woman took the child and
nursed him.

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When the child grew older, she
brought him to Pharaoh’s

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daughter and he became her son.
She named him Moses because she

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said, I drew him out of the
water.

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Moses survives and prospers and
becomes the deliverer of his

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people.
None of this would have been

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possible if God had not allowed
him to be adopted by Pharaoh’s

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daughter.
Elijah also adopted children.

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Two different instances are
related in Second Kings chapter

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4 about Elijah helping to
protect children.

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In the beginning of the chapter,
we learn about a widow with two

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sons who are about to be taken
as slaves to pay the widow’s

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creditor.
Elisha helps her with a miracle

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and saves the sons from slavery.
Elisha, in effect, adopted these

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sons of the widow and helped to
care for them.

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In the second instance, the
Shunamite woman Elijah.

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Elijah asks God to reward her
faithfulness with a son.

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The son is born but soon falls
ill and dies.

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Elijah sends his servant Gehazi
to the boy, but he’s unable to

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raise him.
Then Elijah comes to the house

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in Second Kings 4, starting at
verse 32.

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When Elijah came into the house,
he saw the child lying dead on

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his bed.
So he went in and shut the door

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behind the two of them and
prayed to the Lord.

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Then he went up and lay on the
child, putting his mouth on his

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mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and
his hands on his hands.

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And as he stretched himself upon
him, the flesh of the child

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became warm.
Then he got up again and walked

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once back and forth in the house
and went up and stretch himself

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upon him.
The child sneezed 7 times and

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the child opens his opened his
eyes.

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Then he summoned Gehazi and said
call this Shunamite.

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So he called her and when he she
came to him, he said, pick up

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your son.
She came and fell at his feet,

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bowing to the ground.
Then she picked up her son and

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went out.
Elijah cared for these children

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as if they were his own.
Now we come to the most famous

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adopted child in all history.
Our Lord and Savior Jesus was

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adopted.
He was born of Mary in the Holy

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Spirit.
But Joseph is his father that

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adopts him, cares for him, flees
to Egypt to protect him.

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In Matthew 2, starting at verse
13, it says Now when they had

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departed, behold, an Angel of
the Lord appeared to Joseph in a

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dream and said, rise, take the
child and his mother and flee to

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Egypt, and remain there until I
tell you.

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For Herod is about to search for
the child to destroy him.

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And he rose and took the child
and his mother by night and

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departed to Egypt, and remained
there until the death of Herod.

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This was to fill what the
fulfill what the Lord had spoken

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by the prophet out of Egypt.
I will call my son later.

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Joseph takes him to Jerusalem to
present him at the temple.

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In Luke chapter 2, starting at
verse 22 it says.

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And when the time came for their
purification, according to the

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law of Moses, they brought him
up to Jerusalem to present him

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to the Lord.
As it is written in the law of

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the Lord, every male who first
opens the womb shall be called

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holy to the Lord, and to offer a
sacrifice according to what it

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is said in the law of the Lord.
A pair of turtle doves or two

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young pigeons.
Each year he and Mary take him

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to the temple for the Passover
and help him to grow in wisdom

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and stature.
Now there’s another definition

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of adoption, and that is to take
or receive a new kind of

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relationship and to take on or
act in accordance with an

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attitude.
Let’s think about us.

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Turn to Romans 4, starting at
verse 16.

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That is why it depends on faith
in order that the promise may

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rest on grace and be guaranteed
to all his offspring, not only

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to the adherent of the law, but
also to the One who shares the

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faith of Abraham, who is the
father of us all.

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As it is written, I have made
you the father of many nations

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in the presence of the God in
whom he believed, who gives life

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to the dead and calls into
existence the things that do not

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exist in hope.
He believed against hope that he

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should become the father of many
nations, as he had been told.

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So shall your offspring be all
of us have the opportunity to be

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adopted in the God’s family.
We should remember to thank God

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continually that we’ve been
shown the way to be adopted into

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his family so we may be heirs to
the promise.

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In Galatians 3, starting at
verse 26, it says, For in Christ

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Jesus you are all sons of God
through faith.

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For as many of you as were
baptized into Christ have put on

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Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek,

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there is neither slave nor free.
There is no male or female, for

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you are all one in Christ Jesus,
and if you are Christ then you

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are Abraham’s offspring, heirs
according to the promise.

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I mean that the heir, as long as
he is a child, is no different

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from a slave, though he is the
owner of everything, but he is

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under guardians and managers
until the date set by his

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father.
In the same way, we also, when

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we were children, were enslaved
to the elementary principles of

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the world.
But when the fullness of time

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had come, God sent forth His
Son, born of woman, born under

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the law, to redeem those who
were under the law, so that we

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might receive adoption as sons.
And because you are sons, God

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has sent the Spirit of his Son
into our hearts crying, ABBA

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Father, so you are no longer a
slave but a son, and if a son

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then an heir through God.
Now our method of adoption is

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revealed in Acts chapter 2
starting at verse 37.

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Now when they heard this, they
were cut to the heart and said

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to Peter and the rest of the
apostles Brothers, shall what

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shall we do?
And Peter said to them, Repent

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and be baptized everyone of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for

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the forgiveness of your sins,
and you will receive the gift of

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the Holy Spirit.
For the promise is for you and

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for your children, and for all
who are far off, everyone whom

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the Lord our God calls to
Himself.

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And with many other words he
bore witness and continued to

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exhort them, saying, Save
yourselves from this crooked

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generation.
So those who received His word

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were baptized, and they were
added that day about 3000 souls.

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So now we’re going to turn to
the memorial table to remember

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the sacrifice that that adopted
son made for us, our brother,

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our Savior.
And I congratulate you, who have

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been baptized, on being able to
join me in proudly saying I am a

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doctor.
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