The privilege of Adoption

You are a…

Member of His body:

1 Corinthians 12:13  

For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

Branch in the vine:

John 15:5  

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

Stone in the building:

Ephesians 2:19-22  

19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household,

20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.

22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

Bride for the groom:

Ephesians 5:25-27 

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

Priest in the new generation:

1 Peter 2:9  

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Dwelling place of the Spirit:

1 Corinthians 6:19  

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

Friends –

Everything comes from him;

Everything comes through him;

Everything ends up in him.

Always glory! Always Praise!