Aim: To confess our sins and believe in Jesus Christ.
Doctrine: Adoption proceeds from God's election before we were born, serving to make better known God's goodness and mercy, and to humble His children the more.
Exposition: Adoption unites the elect with Christ to journey toward holy living and walk in righteousness based in love rather than law (v. 4); not based on our nature, but in God's grace; and not based on our will, but God's (v. 5); ensuring that God's grace gets highest glory, which points us to God's beloved Son (v. 6).
Application: Obtaining your adoption papers in Jesus Christ: guard against imagining your own worthiness by confessing your own damnation and vileness; and guard against speculation that you cannot know you are adopted by believing in Jesus Christ.
Key verse: v. 5 ''...He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.''
Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter.
Text-Featuring a sermon is a less expensive way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands on the right bar with optional newsletter inclusion. As low as $30/day.
This man, undoubtedly the greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology, was born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564.
