“Adoption Accomplished: Christ’s Sacrificial Provision” was the title of this week’s sermon. What a provision! We were reminded from Galatians 4:4-5 that the goal of our redemption is life and relationship with our heavenly Father. This was the Father’s heart for us when He sent His Son, and it is the fullness of what the Son accomplished for us at the Cross. How does this amazing gift of grace connect with our lives this very day? Consider these related questions:
- Why can you easily believe that God loves the world, but find it challenging to believe that God has a particular love for you?
- The plan and provision for your redemption came from God the Father. How does your understanding of this truth affect your relationship with the Father?
- We see in Galatians 4:4-5 that the Father’s loving goal in our redemption is “so that we might receive adoption as sons.” When it comes to your redemption what has been your focal point? How will having this focal point of adoption affect your relationship with God?
- It would have been enough for God to have transformed us from enemies to servants, yet He made us his children. How does understanding this kind of love, this kind of grace, affect the way that you live your life?
- How has your growing understanding of the Father’s love affected the way that you pray and read your Bible?
- Have you thought of eternal life and relationship with the Father as two different things? How are they one, and why is this understanding so important?
In the midst of the circumstances of this week, let us be confident of the Father’s love and care – knowing, “when the fulness of time had come, God sent forth his son… that we might receive adoption as sons.”
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