Adoption Comes to Us Through Redemption
A Sermon preached on April 14th,1878, by Charles H. Spurgeon "Adoption - The Spirit and the Cry"
"And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" Galatians 4:6
Adoption Comes to Us by Redemption
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem
those that were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons." Beloved, prize redemption, and never listen to teaching which would destroy its meaning or lower its importance.
Remember that you were not redeemed with silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish.
You were under the law, and subject to its curse, for you had broken it most grievously, and you were subject to its penalty, for it is written, "the soul that sins, it shall die".
But now you are redeemed from all; as the Holy Spirit says, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree."
Now you are not under the law, but under grace, and this because Christ came under the law and kept it both by his active and his passive obedience, fulfilling all its commands and bearing all its penalty on your behalf and in your room and stead. Henceforth you are the redeemed of the Lord, and enjoy a liberty which comes by no other way but that of the eternal ransom.
Remember this; and whenever you feel most assured that you are a child of God, praise the redeeming blood; whenever your heart beats highest with love to your great Father, bless the "firstborn among many brethren," who for your sakes came under the law, was circumcised, kept the law in his life, and bowed his head to it in his death,
honoring, and magnifying the law, and making the justice and righteousness of God to be more conspicuous by his life than it would have been by the holiness of all mankind, and his justice to be more fully vindicated by his death than it would have been if all the world of sinners had been cast into hell. Glory be to our redeeming Lord, by whom we have received the adoption!
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