[UntoHim]

Romans 9:4 - They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
vr8 - This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
11:17 -But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree..

According to the apostle Paul, this concept of adoption was not a new concept at all, but goes back to what God wanted to accomplish in and for his people from the beginning. As gentiles, we were "grafted in", and as a result we not only gained a "share in the nourishing root", we were adopted as sons by God himself. In a very real sense, this adoption is just as significant as "the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship and the promises."

As J.I. Packer has pointed out, this adoption is not just some dry and sterile "doctrine", but a "privilege of the Gospel". Witness Lee downplayed, and at times even mocked this notion of adoption. Lee claimed that receiving God's life was "the higher gospel", and relegated adoption to "the lower gospel". It took me decades and being away from this unbiblical and absurd notion to come to a proper understanding and appreciation of our adoption as sons. Praise God for brothers like J.I. Packer that the Lord has provided to the Body of Christ!
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