Christian Life is a Life of Adoption (Matthew 3:16-17)

Message: Mat. 3:16-17   

16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He[a] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Sunday September 17, 2017

“Christian Life is a Life of Adoption”

Pastor Enoch Hanokh

 

“Adoption is an act of God by which He publicly announces the sonship of His children, thereby declaring their adulthood encoded with every due privileges and responsibilities as members of His family.” 

Enoch Hanokh

 

Colossians 1:15-20 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

1. The image of the invisible God.  

Colossians 2:9-10 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

2. The First Born of all creation

Col. 1:15-18 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

3. In Him I am well pleased

Col. 1: .19-20 19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

 

Questions:

1.  Why do you believe that Jesus is not a created being? Name some religious organizations which claim that He not God.

2. How do you understand the expression First Born in Col. 1:15?

3. What was God doing when He declared, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”?

4. What is adoption?