Joseph - Adoptive Father

Adoption!?

Picture for us?

We are adopted by God

“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.” Hosea 11:1

Galatians 8:15-17 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption (by which we become his children and), 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, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.  

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. (Eph 1:3-6)

God for us

God with us