Counsel for Couples Pondering Adoption

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 27 May 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Adoption is an eternal reality. God planned it before he founded the earth. Now, we have the chance to act it out.

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0:00.0	Last time, in episode number 349, you encouraged folks who were considering adoption with your
0:10.9	own story of adopting Talitho when you were 50 years old, Pastor John, do you have any
0:16.5	more encouragement or guidance as couples ponder this huge life-shaping issue?
0:23.1	One is huge. It was especially huge for us, at least it seemed at the time just overwhelming
0:33.8	to me that my wife wanted to adopt this little girl and I was 50 and that wasn't in the
0:38.8	plan and God had to do a deep work on my life. We had raised only sons, she was going to
0:45.2	be now the first daughter, she was going to be African-American and I'm an old man and
0:48.6	this seemed, whoa, why are we doing this? And God wonderfully turned my heart around. So I'm
0:56.6	aware of how huge this can feel for a mom or a dad and they've got to get on the same page
1:02.3	about that and I want to nudge folks in this session toward taking the risk. Adoption is one of
1:09.6	the most glorious truths in the Bible, right? I'm thinking God's adoption of us and it is glorious,
1:18.0	not only because of what it means vertically between us and God but also because of what it
1:24.1	means horizontally between us and our family. I mean the horizontal effects of a vertical
1:31.9	experience of being adopted are phenomenal in the Bible and should be in our lives but vertically,
1:39.7	this is one of the greatest realities in the gospel. Something that God the Father planned,
1:46.8	Jesus the Son achieved and the Spirit of God applies. In other words, it's a trinitarian event.
1:54.9	Let me give you a text for each of those. So here's the Father in action in adoption. He predestined
2:01.7	us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, Ephesians 1.5. So the Father thought this up and planned
2:09.2	it and destined it, this whole concept of us being adopted into the family of God and then
2:15.1	in Galatians 4, here's the action of the Son. When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his
2:20.5	Son, born of woman, born of the law to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive
2:26.5	adoption as son. So Christ died so that I might be adopted into the family of God and then here comes
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