The Christian's Adoption, Part 2

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Hardy Ministries. I'm Sharon Notts 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 got something to shout about. I'm talking about being adopted into 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 no record.

The only record I have is 1953. That's when I adopted him and made him my son. Because as 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. Sin can't cut you out unless you let it reign 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 going to go back under the power of Satan. 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 I'm not under the power of the devil and sin and the law, I've got power over the devil and sin and everything that pertains to that old life. That's how complete our adoption in the family of God is. The courts of heaven look on us the same as it looks on Jesus, the actual Son of God. You know, in the sense of having a son, Jesus is really only the Father's real son because that's why he's called the only begotten son.

And he is the legal heir of Almighty God, the heir of all the things of God. Oh, but by a greater law than the Roman law and a greater ritual than the Roman ritual of adoption, we have been emancipated. We have been emancipated by the precious price.

There had to be a price. And this was the price of the blood of the Son of God. And if 30 pieces of silver could buy them under the Roman covenant, how much more shall the blood of Christ for you were not redeemed with such corruptible things as silver and gold. Doesn't so many scriptures take on a new meaning now?

Redeem means bought and purchased. It was a word that meant bought out of the slave market because we were in the slave market of sin. We were a child of sin. Adam and Eve threw us in the trash can. Adam and Eve discarded us and sinned and the devil picked us up and crippled us and made us their servants for their gain.

How many say amen? And most of the time those that were picked up and used that way were treated like more than mere dogs. And at night they would chain them and just give them enough to keep them alive.

And that's where God found us and said I want to adopt that child. And the price was agreed upon. Only the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not 30 pieces of silver.

That wouldn't do it. We weren't redeemed with such corruptible things as silver and gold. God put all of the gold and silver but it wouldn't tip the scale of our sins.

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul. He put all the silver and all the gold and the scales didn't move. That wasn't a price. They couldn't do it.

They couldn't purchase us. He put the whole world on it for the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and it didn't tip the scale. He put all the angels and cherubims and cherubims and all of the angelic beings and all the wealth of the eternal world and we'll never know it until we get there.

And that didn't move the scale. But finally God found the price. He reached up and plucked out the bright in the morning star and the lily of the valley and the son of righteousness. He looked to his own right hand and he took Jesus and put him on the scale and that did it my brother and my sister. That paid the price. And when that happened the devil had to let us go because that was the price that was set. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin and immediately when the blood was shed at Calvary every son that God knew from the beginning for in the beginning he foreknew every one of us and whom he foreknew he called us and at Calvary he justified us and took us into his family as his heirs and joint heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ and no longer does the devil and sin and demons have any power over us for we have a new patria for testes almighty God is our new father. Hallelujah.

Oh give him a good clap. Hallelujah. And because of that I am in upon suffering the effects of that. Enjoying it. I'm enjoying my new status in God. If any man be in Christ he's a new creature. Old things now that means something more than just it used to. Old things pass away.

Hallelujah. That old life of bondage. That old life of sin.

That old life of fear. We don't have that spirit of fear of certain judgment anymore. Oh but we got that new spirit of sonship for the Holy Ghost has been sent as the witness of God to cry out through us Abba Father Dear Dad. You see they had seven witnesses and if perchance that any of the record of the adoption was lost then only one witness had to come and witness that he was there and saw the adoption.

Well I got news for you. Nobody can ever destroy the records in heaven. Oh but we got a more sure word of witness. We got the witness of the Holy Spirit in our heart every day saying Abba Father. Abba Father.

Abba Father. You're a son of God. You're adopted in the family. The devil don't have power over you. Sin don't have power over you.

Death don't have power over you. God is your new father. Righteousness is your new state.

And eternal life is your new destiny. Hallelujah. You are an heir of God. You are a child of God.

Hallelujah. And all of the wealth and all of the benefits of almighty God your father is right now at your disposal. Immediately when the father went down to the clerk of the court of records in Rome and recorded that adoption ceremony witnessed by the seven witnesses immediately not in the suite by and by immediately he had all rights and access to everything that his father possessed. His home, his wealth, his riches, his power, his authority was his at that moment. And at the moment that God adopted us into the family and the recording angel recorded it.

At that moment all of God's power, all of God's riches, all of God's benefits and everything that pertains to God is immediately child of God at our disposal. That's why Paul could say in first Corinthians three sixteen all things are yours. I think I'd like to read that.

How many would like to read that? You got your Bible first Corinthians? Lest somebody think I'm saying my own thoughts. First Corinthians the third chapter twenty first. Therefore let no man glory in men for all things are yours. You know you need if you underline your Bible or red or yellow it or highlight it, highlight it. Whether Paul or Apollo or Cepheus or the world hallelujah or life everything in life's mind or death or things present or things to come all are yours and you are Christ's and Christ is God's. Everything is ours.

Do you begin to grasp it? It's no need for us to run around in poverty and have not our needs supplied. No need for us to be fearful. No need for us to be sick.

No need for us to be bound. Everything that is God is ours. Is God poor?

No, Jesus became poor that we might become rich and this would enable it to happen. 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 is they have faith but they always got the faith and they 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 is 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 now. Give him a good clap. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 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 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's life the way God's word says we are the living 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 patria patastes 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 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.