Adoption

Salt Church
Family

 God has purposes and plans for families

 God’s purposes throughout history have been
achieved through families
 God is in the business of:
 Restoring families
 Rebuilding families
 Redeeming families
Book of Ruth

 Chapter 1 - The emptying of hope

 Chapter 2 - Working for a new hope
 Chapter 3 - Hope is born
 Chapter 4 - Hope Fulfilled - The happy ending
Ruth’s adoption

 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then

he went to her, and the LORD enabled her to
conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 14 The
women said to Naomi: "Praise be to the LORD, who
this day has not left you without a kinsman-
redeemer. May he become famous throughout
Israel! 15 He will renew your life and sustain you in
your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves
you and who is better to you than seven sons, has
given him birth.” Ruth 4:13-15
Our Adoption

 “For he chose us in him before the creation of

the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
In love he predestined us to be adopted as his
sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with
his pleasure and will”
Ephesians 1:4-5
Our Adoption

 “Sing to God, sing praise to his name,

 extol him who rides on the clouds —
 his name is the LORD—
 and rejoice before him.
 5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
 is God in his holy dwelling.
 6 God sets the lonely in families,
 he leads forth the prisoners with singing;
 but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.”
Psalm 68:4-6
Our Adoption

“I will say to the north, 'Give them up!'

and to the south, 'Do not hold them back.'
Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the ends of the earth-
everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made."”
Isaiah 43:6-7
Our Adoption

 “Yet to all who received him, to those who

believed in his name, he gave the right to
become children of God— children born not of
natural descent, nor of human decision or a
husband's will, but born of God.”
John 1:12-13
Our Inheritance

 “Now if we are children, then we are heirs—

heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed
we share in his sufferings in order that we may
also share in his glory.”
Romans 8:17
God’s Future pouring into today

 Perez was the father of Hezron.

 19 Hezron was the father of Ram.
 Ram was the father of Amminadab.
 20 Amminadab was the father of Nahshon.
 Nahshon was the father of Salmon.[a]
 21 Salmon was the father of Boaz.
 Boaz was the father of Obed.
 22 Obed was the father of Jesse.
 Jesse was the father of David.