This document summarizes a sermon about adoption based on passages from Galatians and other books of the Bible. The sermon discusses how believers were once held in bondage like slaves or children, but God sent Jesus to redeem believers so that they could be adopted as sons. It emphasizes that through faith in Christ, believers have been bought with a price, redeemed from sin, and can now call God their Father as heirs to His kingdom rather than remaining as slaves.

1. ADOPTION
Galatians 4:1-7
August 9, 2015
By Jim Bradshaw

2. Picking Teams
God has chosen us to be on HIS team

3. Held in Bondage
Gal 4:1-3 NKJV Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a
child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of
all, (2) but is under guardians and stewards until the time
appointed by the father. (3) Even so we, when we were
children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
1. Both Children and Slaves are held in bondage.
2. There are milestones a child must reach to
achieve full freedom.
3. In a spiritual sense we are limited until we reach
maturity.

4. Held in Bondage
Heb 5:12-14 NKJV For though by this time you ought to be
teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first
principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need
milk and not solid food. (13) For everyone who partakes only
of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a
babe. (14) But solid food belongs to those who are of full
age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil.

5. Held in Bondage
Heb 6:1-2 NKJV Therefore, leaving the discussion of the
elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not
laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works
and of faith toward God, (2) of the doctrine of baptisms, of
laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal
judgment.

6. Held in BondageHeld under bondage until the
date set by the Father
2Pe 3:9-12 NKJV The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward
us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come
to repentance. (10) But the day of the Lord will come as a
thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a
great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both
the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. (11)
Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what
manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and
godliness, (12) looking for and hastening the coming of the
day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved,
being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

7. Christ
Paid in full

8. Gal 4:4-5 NKJV But when the fullness of the time had come,
God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
(5) to redeem those who were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption as sons.Redeem – exagorazō : to pay the ransom
1Co 7:23 NKJV You were bought at a price; do not become
slaves of men.
Heb 12:2 NKJV looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand
of the throne of God.
Would we not do the same for family?
Christ
Paid in full

9. God wants us as sons.
1. We must be separate from the world; John 17:17
2. 2Co 6:17-18 NKJV Therefore "COME OUT FROM
AMONG THEM AND BE SEPARATE, SAYS THE
LORD. DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN, AND I
WILL RECEIVE YOU." (18) "I WILL BE A FATHER
TO YOU, AND YOU SHALL BE MY SONS AND
DAUGHTERS, SAYS THE LORD ALMIGHTY."
3. We have been adopted as sons.
Christ
Paid in full

10. Eph 1:5-7 NKJV having predestined us to adoption as sons by
Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His
will, (6) to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He
made us accepted in the Beloved. (7) In Him we have
redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of His grace
Christ
Paid in full

11. No Longer
Slaves
1. We are sons of God through faith; Galatians 3:26, 27.
2. We have a special relationship with God; a slave was not
allowed to call his master, “Abba.”
3. We ARE heirs of the promise; first made to Abraham,
Genesis 12.
4. Mat 25:34 NKJV Then the King will say to those on His
right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the
world:

12. No Longer
Slaves
All Made Possible
by God
1. He chose to adopt us – Let us act like sons.
2. Our adoption is paid for by the blood of Christ; John
3:16, 17.
3. Are you an heir today?