There is another thing that happens in "adoption" you are raised by adoptive parents. Here is the scenario every believer will have happen. First they get born again, and then they will go into a adoptive program. That is what your local church is, it is there to watch over you as you grow. We get so taken up with our adoptive parents we forget that we were birthed by a father. That is what the church does (local church) it provides a home and a place to eat a warm meal and protection from the elements. But a time will come when the child will want to know who their real parents are. We are loved and protected by our adoptive parents but no one has the right to the seed of the biological father but the father.
Now, in the world that may have some twists and turns but not in God. He is there, he watches over you while you are in the custody of another if you will. He waits as you grow, blessing you, taking care of you while in the custody of another. He is a good father. I remember a foster child I knew and they would get big boxes of clothes and gifts at the holidays. I always respected the people and institution that cared and did that for the child.
But no matter the care of a institution or adoptive parents, it cannot replace a child wanting to know who they are and their real parents.
That dear saint will put the child on a road to discover who their parents are. It's a hunger, it is something built into humanity to know their parents. You can live without alot of things but you cannot live without the knowledge of who you are, where you come from, and how it all came together. It is the Lord that has fixed it for a human being to search until the day they die. It becomes a life mission for some, they have lived without real life, and now a taste of life has them searching the world over for the parents.
The scriptures are a perfect path to their parents. They can see and know the father, their father, and begin to learn something about him and move with him. Never forgetting the adoptive parents, even blessing them and working with them for others that need an adoptive parent for a time.
Pastor, preacher, teacher, evangelist, prophet, and so on are all apart of knowing your father.
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; - Ephesians 4:11-14.
Now, in the world that may have some twists and turns but not in God. He is there, he watches over you while you are in the custody of another if you will. He waits as you grow, blessing you, taking care of you while in the custody of another. He is a good father. I remember a foster child I knew and they would get big boxes of clothes and gifts at the holidays. I always respected the people and institution that cared and did that for the child.
But no matter the care of a institution or adoptive parents, it cannot replace a child wanting to know who they are and their real parents.
That dear saint will put the child on a road to discover who their parents are. It's a hunger, it is something built into humanity to know their parents. You can live without alot of things but you cannot live without the knowledge of who you are, where you come from, and how it all came together. It is the Lord that has fixed it for a human being to search until the day they die. It becomes a life mission for some, they have lived without real life, and now a taste of life has them searching the world over for the parents.
The scriptures are a perfect path to their parents. They can see and know the father, their father, and begin to learn something about him and move with him. Never forgetting the adoptive parents, even blessing them and working with them for others that need an adoptive parent for a time.
Pastor, preacher, teacher, evangelist, prophet, and so on are all apart of knowing your father.
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; - Ephesians 4:11-14.
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