Greetings, friends and new listeners, and welcome to this program of the R.G. Hardy Ministries. I'm Sharon Knotts, thanking you for joining us today because we know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Today's message by my father, Brother Hardy, is the Christian Adoption. As the children of God we have been begotten again by the incorruptible seed of the Word of God.
But do you know that we have also been adopted into the family of God? Adoption in Bible times was an ironclad legal process by which the adopted child became heirs to the wealth and privileges of the father's family. Find out what this means to us as children of God in the Christian adoption. I'm talking about being adopted in the God's Family. being transferred from the absolute power of the devil, the law, and the sin into the absolute power of El Shaddai, Almighty God.
I'm talking about My old life. has been wiped out. and all of the debts that belong to it have been eradicated from my record. Hallelujah. And if the devil would ever go to God.
And say, Hardy sinned in 1930. God will look at the records and say, sorry, I don't have any record. The only record I have is 1953. That's when I adopted him and made him my son.
Sounds like. Cause it's far. God will say Devil, because as far as I'm concerned, he never existed until I adopted him into my family. And since I adopted him, he is my son and my heir. And he is going to enjoy all of my wealth and my benefits and my power forever.
Because No one can cut him out. of the inheritance. The Roman law You could not be cut out once you were made the heir. And once you've been made the heir of God And a child of God. Nothing can cut you out.
The only way that you won't get your inheritance is if you become a prodigal and leave it. But nothing can cut you out. The devil can't cut you out. Demons can't cut you out. The law can't cut you out.
Shin. Can't cut you out unless you let it ring in your mortal body. The only way you won't inherit is if you willfully walk away from it. And I'm not that dumb. How about you?
I'm not gonna go back under. The power of Saint. I'm going to stay. Under the power of Almighty God. And God says, I give you my power.
Behold, I give you power. I've got power over everything. And now that you're my son, that's part of your inheritance. I give you power over everything. And not only am I not under the power of the devil and sin and the law, I've got power over the devil and sin and everything.
Everything. Everything in this life is ours. Everything in this present, you know, most people are preaching. About. going to be.
You know, most of the Christian world Here's They have faith. But they always got the faith and it used to be. God used to. Then we got another group saying, God's going to. God used to supply his people's needs under Moses and the old covenant.
God used to heal. And then in the millennial reign, God's going to supply the need. And God's going to heal and God's going to deliver. But what about right now? My Bible said God is the same.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, forever. You can't say God used to. And you can't say, God. Will, you got to say, God is. He that cometh to God must believe that he is.
And we have at our disposal right now at this present time in this present world all of God's riches and God's power. Power to defeat the devil. Power to overcome sin and the flesh and the world and the devil. Power. to have all of our needs supplied.
Power to be healed and to be delivered. All things are ours right. Mao! Give him a good clap offering. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Right. Praise him, praise him, praise him. Like I said, I'm not sorry because I'm not sorry. I'm excited.
I believe being a Christian is the most exciting thing. vocation on the face of the earth. I believe the gospel is the most exciting book on the face of the earth. I believe living the Christ life. The way God's word says we are delivered is the most exciting.
Life on the face of the earth. You know some people have just enough religion to be miserable. They know what they shouldn't do. And they don't have enough. Power to enjoy.
What they should have. Oh, but thank God. Since I found out That God is my Patriopatastes. And sin does not rule over me, and the devil can't rule over me, and no. Part of my old life can rule over me.
It's been wiped out. And I've got a new father. And I'm in a new standing beside in the... Eyes of the law of the courts of heaven, and God is my Father, and I am His heir, and all that is His is mine now. Oh, when I have a need, I can come boldly.
Now you understand that verse? Come boldly to the throne of grace. and say I don't deserve it, but you adopted me. I don't deserve it, but you made me. Your son.
I don't deserve it, but you made me your heir. And you said that right now everything you have is at my disposal and you will find mercy and grace to help and leave the presence of your almighty father with what you have need of and go on your way singing, I got just what I wanted. I got just what I wanted. I got just what I wanted from the Lord. My, don't the scriptures take a new life.
Let not your heart be troubled. Why? Nothing of the old life can get me. That's all on that side of the cross. I'm on this side of the cross.
And that's in the old family. And that old life has passed away. I'm in the new family. I got a new father. I got a new life.
I got a new position, I got new benefits, I got a new destiny, and that's heaven and eternal life, if you please. But I don't want to talk about so much as the Sweet by and by. I want to know more about the now, now, now. Yeah. That I can have.
For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. But you have received the Spirit That places you as a son. That's what the Greek word really means, adoption. Makes you take your place as a son. You know God is waiting for you to take your place as a son.
He's already done it legally. Transferred you over. It's on record, the Holy Ghost is our witness. The Spirit bears witness with our Spirit that we are.
sons and we can say Abba father. But oh, we got to take advantage. You see, I can be the legal heir of the richest man in America. And everything is mine right now. But if I don't go ahead and avail myself to it, I can starve to death and be beat down.
and be oppressed and I can walk away from it. Nobody can take it from me. But I can fail to appropriate these blessings. Brother, I'm not. I haven't received the spirit of bondage again, the fear.
I'm going to come boldly. The Spirit bears witness with my Spirit. That right now I am the heir.
Son of God. How many say amen? And if I'm an heir, I'm a child. And if I'm a child, if we're children of God. Then what is the consequence of this?
And if heirs That on one hand, Heirs of God? And then on the other hand, Joint heirs with Jesus. We're the heirs of God. But we are the equal heirs with Jesus. God Has given everything over to his first.
Only begotten Son. But then, when he adopted us into the family, he gave us an equal share. Amen. I guess the best way For me to illustrate it that Help me in satisfying me. of being a joint heir.
You see, you can be an heir of somebody. which means they can leave you a dollar. And you'd be an inner. But then he'd leave all the rest. A whole lot of money, but you wouldn't be an equal or a joint heir.
How many say amen? Well, you see the Lord didn't make us a dollar heir. Though he has given Jesus everything, He made you and I. an equal error. And I guess the best illustration maybe.
Would be joint bank accounts. How many ever heard of a joint check-in account or a bank account? You and your wife can go down to the bank. and draw up a joint. checking account.
Which means you both can put in And you both can kick out. Usually The husband puts it all in. And the wife draws it all out. And that's literally what happened with us and God. Jesus put it all in.
Because we had nothing to put in. And now We can equally draw it out. You see, he became poor by putting everything in the account and he knew we would draw it out.
So, when we got adopted, the first thing our new father did after he hugged us and kissed us, and our new brother, the Lord Jesus Christ, embraced us and welcome us. And the Spirit of God kept crying out through us, have a father. And all the angels applauded. was God gave us a checkbook. On the account of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In heaven. And Jesus has already signed it. This is a two signature account. Takes two signatures to get it. And Jesus has signed every check.
In the book. And there's enough checks to cover everything you'll need forever. And he hasn't limited you how many times you can go to the bank. Yeah, yeah. God hasn't limited us.
How many times we can come to him in prayer? In fact, he said, whatever you're going to need, whenever you need help, come on. The bank's always open. 24 hours a day. And the count is limitless.
You can't overdraw. And he's given us the checkbook. And all we got to do by faith and believe in what He's done for us and what He has made us. When he adopted us, is fill out what we need. and place the second signature on it.
and come boldly To the throne of grace, that's the bank. God's the custodian of it. It's in trust for us. How many say you men? And when we come and show them.
The name of Jesus. Already endorsing the check. Because Jesus said whatsoever you ask the Father in my name He will give it to you. How many shame? When we come, you know they check your signature.
Want to see if it's on roll. Even Soon's you come with your prayer. The angel checks the records to see if you've been adopted. Hallelujah! And your name is written in the Lamb's book of life.
Immediately adoption, God wrote your name in. Why not? Kenny comes back says here this is a valid signature Channel. What do you want? And how do you mourn it?
You tell them how much money you want and they usually ask you When it's big, and I believe in asking big. They want to know how you want it. Tens, twenties, hundreds, thousands, millions, gillions. You abide in me. You're adopted in me.
And my words abide in you. Then you shall ask You could fill out the check what you will. and it shall be done it shall be given to you because you are a joint heir Don't think in the old mind when you were a discarded crippled wretched. Bagger. Overlorded.
by the devil and sin. and the world. and bondage. Hey, that old life has been broken. The power of that Patriopatastes has been disannuled, and the cross and on this side, you are a new creation, you are a son of God and an heir of God, and nothing on this side of the cross has any power of you as long as you're on this side of the cross, and all the debts of that part of the cross is wiped out, and everything is new on this side.
Because if you're in Christ, you're a new creature. Old things pass away, all things become new, all things are from your Father. that has reconciled you, adopted you, placed you. As his sons and made you his heirs. and joint heirs.
I tell you, I feel some rich this morning. I kind of know how. A billionaire feels when he wakes up. I don't know what number we'll have to invent one. My number is skeptillion or something.
How many say amen? I own so much. that you can never count the zeros behind it. Yeah, but I'm a little bit more. How many say amen?
I almost got so excited I spoke in tongues. And that's not so bad after all, how many say amen? For he that speaketh in a tongue Speak of not unto man, but unto God. I was probably stopping and saying, thank you, Father Patria Potuste.
Somebody said, I thought you were speaking in tongues then. And then he said, amen. Huh? That I have been emancipated and vindicado hallelujah separate and vindicated of my sins in my own life and declared a son of god and an heir of god and a law a joint heir with the lord jesus christ And because This is what God has made me when He adopted me and placed me as a son. I refuse to be a sinner.
I will not let shin reign in my mortal body. It has no more power. Only God has power over me. I will not let the world. Raining my immortal body.
I will not wept. Flash! Rain in my life. And I will not let sickness. Disease.
Theater. privation or poverty reign in my life. I am going to be What God is. You're in here's word. And what he has done by the death of Christ Sure thy am.
And I am going to have. What God says is mine, and I am going to do what God's word says I can do. How many say amen? And God's word. Says I am his heir.
And a joint air with Jesus. And I refuse to like. Because the Lord has provided. And I shall not lack. And I am going.
To do what God says I can do, and he said in Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through Christ because I am an heir to his enabling power and his abilities, and I can do it, and I can live an overcoming and victorious life, just like my elder brother, the Lord Jesus Christ, did. For he is my example, and I am a joint heir with him, and I share in all of his things, in all of his power, in all of his wisdom, in all of his majesty. And as he is in this world, John said in 1 John 4:17, so are we. I am going to be just like he is, a son of God. An heir of God, and I am going to take my inheritance.
And you should. Not only to have my own personal needs supplied. But to finish the work Jesus began to do and to teach. And that's to liberate. the rest of mankind that I come in contact with.
Oh, to let them know that there's a father, another father that loves them. And he she kim. to buy them from that old father, the devil. And sin privation and suffering. Not cripple them.
but heal them. Not you, Sam. But bless them. Hallelujah. Hallelujah!
And not discard them. Give them the wage of sin, death. Oh, but to draw them to his bosom and give them his gift, eternal life. And nothing shall be able to separate us. For what shall separate us?
Who can separate us from this love of God? Oh, the depths of the love of God is beyond finding out. How many say amen? The more I dig in the word, the less I know about God's love. It's greater than I thought it was the time before, the moment before.
Oh, the depths of God's love is past finding out. You're going to have to experience it. How many say amen? And day by day, I'm experiencing God's great love, and I am going to be it. Say it with me.
I am going to be. Who God says I am. And God says I am his son. And I am Hughes Ador. I am going to act.
Like an animal. And I ain't gonna have. The things that belong to To my airship. I am going to enjoy it. I am not going to be troubled.
I'm not going to be afraid. I don't have the spirit of fear, but that spirit on the inside says it's yours. It says, I have a father. I have a father. You're an heir.
You're an heir. You're an heir. It's yours. It's yours. It's yours.
Now for years. A lot of people will understand why I say I refuse to be a sinner. I refuse to be bound. I refuse to be sick. I refuse to be a knee.
I refuse to be weak. Because I am a son of God. I know I don't deserve it, but God loved me anyhow. That's what makes it so wonderful. Hallelujah.
I am an heir of God. Job! Has willed me everything, not in the distance, but right now. Transient. How many say amen?
Oh, I am going to take my place as a son of God, for the whole creation is waiting. It's waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. I know that means the ultimate. Glorification of our body. But the whole creation is waiting now.
You know what would make this world see Jesus and get saved and want to get saved if all of his brothers would live in their sonship. I said if we would act and live what God says we are. Hallelujah. Then that would provoke them to jealousy because God said he raised up the church to provoke the Jew to jealousy. And then he's saying, if they would see the blessings that are ours, the deliverance that is ours, the peace that is ours, if you would refuse to be bound, refuse to sin, refuse to be sick, refuse to suffer want, because the Lord is our shepherd.
We shall not want. All things are ours. Hallelujah. I can say it. I can do all things.
Through Christ. Who shares his inheritance with me? Who strengthens me? Philippians 4.19. But my God shall.
Supply all your needs according to his riches and glory. You are an heir of God. You are a joint heir with the Lord Jesus Christ. God is your Patriot Pacostes. He is your father.
Raise your hand and praise him. Hallelujah. Amen. What an informative and inspiring message by God's servant Brother Hardy, the Christian adoption. Paul wrote to both the Romans and the Galatians that God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Now actually Abba is Aramaic, and it is an intimate term of endearment, equivalent to us saying dear daddy. this is the kind of relationship we can have with our Heavenly Father, because in Roman times adoption was a prized legal process whereby a child became heir to all the wealth and privileges of the Father's family. The Christian adoption can be ordered on C D, and when you order the Christian adoption, we will send you the bonus message by Brother Hardy, heirs of God. Scriptures declare that if we are the children of God, then we are also the heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. This means we're equal heirs with Christ.
Now these two messages show us that we are God's children, God's heirs, and joint heirs with Christ, and that through the knowledge of Christ, we are partakers of the divine nature of God. Both sermons, The Christian Adoption and Heirs of God, can be ordered on a 2 C D set for your love gift to the Radio Ministry of $15 or more. Request Offer 104. Mailed to RG Hardy Ministries, PO Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland, 21203. Or you may order online at rghardy.org.
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