Predestined into the Adoption of Children
Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,So that we are on the same page, I like to translate words. The word, Predestinated is translated, "To limit in advance", i.e. (figuratively) predetermine:--determine before, ordain, predestinate. It was determine before hand that we were going to be children of God by Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of his will.
Adoption of children by (or through) Jesus Christ. What does this means. Let me share with you a story about a man that fell in love with a woman that had five children. He loved her so much and wanted her to be his wife so badly that he was willing to adopt her five children as his own. So he did. Well, after several years of marriage, the marriage ended in a divorce, and the wife went to the courts to seek child support.
The man thinking that, since the children were not his biological children, the courts could not make him pay child support for her five children.
The judge explained to the man, that when you adopt children, by law, they become your biological children. It is as if he fathered those five children with his wife, and the law held him accountable and he had to pay child support for those five children. As far as the law is concerned he was their biological father.
This is what adoption has done for us, this is why the Holy Spirit uses the word in Ephesians, Adoption. It is a strong word that carries with it ALL RIGHTS. Once we have been adopted, we supernaturally become the children of God. This can not be revoked and no man can override God
spiritual laws.
Every demon in hell recognizes you as a child of God The Devil does not have any legal authority over you, he can not over ride God, so don't let him tell you that you are not a child of God and that God don't want or love you. God does not modify or change his mind about his children like man. You are his forever.
We have the legal authority in earth to operate as the children of God. So use your legal authority, children of God.
