I Am Adopted by Reverend Craig Logan
All believers in Yeshua, the Christ, are to praise God in one voice. Ephesians 4:4says “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling.” The Church of Jesus Christ is but one body, regardless of heritage, culture, or perspective. And this diversity under one roof allows not only for a richer worship, but it allows the local church to reach more nonbelievers. Messianic segregationists hurt the body in the same way that other separations do. The Holy Bible does not support this principle. The body only functions at capacity when all of the parts are in welcome communication with one another. The Jewish race is still a chosen people with a special place in God’s ultimate plan, but all believers are adopted as it says in Ephesians 1:5 that God has “predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” |
| | Let me now develop a personal illustration for the point I am attempting to make. |
| | I am adopted. This is one major way that I identify myself. I was born out of wedlock to a woman with two other children. Unable to support me, I was thrust into the foster care system. I praise the Lord that she choose life and gave me up for adoption. Knowing that her situation was not healthy, she hoped for a better life for the son she will never know. |
| | At the same time, there was a couple that could not have children of their own that had one adopted child and was in the process of adopting another. These two wonderful people spent the better portion of six years filling out paperwork, interviewing with agencies, and sifting through legal red tape before they finally were blessed with their second child, me. |
 | I tell you this, not to boast about how special I am but to illustrate a greater Spiritual point. I, as I said before, am adopted, not only in my earthly family but also in my spiritual family. Romans 8:15 says that “ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” Later in that same chapter, believers are called “children of God” and “heirs of God.” It is clear that the veil to the Holy of Holies is torn because we have the privilege to call the Almighty God our Daddy. |
| | Now, what of the relationship between those children that were adopted and those that were born into the family of God? Just like any other healthy the adopted children eat at a separate table while the “real” family feasts, the adopted children watch adopted television while the “real” family watches “real” television in another room, and holidays are much more favorable to the “real” children as opposed to the adopted. Does this sound silly yet? But this segregation takes place in churches everyday between Jew and Gentile believers. The Jewish race is very special to God because they are chosen by Him to be His witnesses. They are still a testament to His love and mercy. |
 All believers are born again into the family of God. For Jesus said in John 3:3 “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” The prophet Isaiah says also that “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all.” Whether born into the family or not, our sin has divorced us from the family of God. It is only by Jesus’ shed blood that we are returned to him, or, in the case of the Gentile, brought to his for the first time. Just like my earthly parents spent years sacrificing and working on my behalf, so does God in the adoption of every sinner. |
| | So, may we rejoice together. May we love together. May we serve together. Let us be a Holy and united family of God. Let us truly be “one body” in Christ Jesus. Amen. |
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