1. My brother-in-law, my eldest sister’s husband is an adopted child.

His biological father is actually the

brother of his adoptive father.

2. Order of salvation: calling, regeneration, faith and repentance, justification, adoption, sanctification,
perseverance, glorification
- I have not actually thought of the series of acts and processes of my salvation. After reading “We
are Heirs”, it is only that time that I have deeply thought about being adopted by God into His
family; that He adopted me because He loved me.

3. Blessings of salvation – my sins have been forgiven, I am part of God’s family, God will meet my
deepest longings, I am promised of eternal life, I have a new identity

4. How does this truth line up with a cultural view of God as Father?

5. Benefits of being a first born son: had unique access to their father, to family resources, to the family
inheritance, and received the bounty of their father’s affection.
- Yes, I’m an heir in God’s kingdom
- As a child of God, I have unique access to my Father, to God’s resources, to the inheritance from
God, and I am receiving the bounty of God’s affection

6. I view God more as a Father, not as judge because as a Father, who has chosen me as His adopted
child, there is an intimate loving relationship with Him.

7. John 3:16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His ]only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

John 14:1-3 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Jesus Comforts His Disciples
14 “Do not let your heart be troubled; [a]believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go
to prepare a place for you.
3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am,
there you may be also.

Romans 5:1 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Results of Justification
5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, [a]we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ,

Romans 8:1-2 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Deliverance from Bondage
8 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the
Spirit of life [a]in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
 Romans 8:38-39 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
38
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able
to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 2:12 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we
may know the things freely given to us by God,

Colossians 2:13-14 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

13
When you were dead [a]in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made
you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the
certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it
out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

1 Peter 1:3-4 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has
caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away

8. The most meaningful inheritance promise for me right now is: Romans 8:38-39

9. Being secured in God’s family, there is an intimate loving relationship with Him and we can
approach Him without shame and fear of condemnation.

10. Adoption story

11. Enslaved by sin and the ways of the world to feel acceptance from peers.