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    Max Lucado
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    Joseph would be the first to tell you that life in the pit stinks. Yet for all its rottenness, doesn’t the pit do this much? It forces you to look upward. Someone from up there must come down here and...

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    Glen Scrivener
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    Genesis 3:15, Romans 5:18-19, Ephesians 1:5, Luke 15:11-32, 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, Genesis 22:8, Matthew 4:1-11
    The hope is held out [in Genesis] that one day the Son would be a second Adam, born to answer the first. . . . And this second Adam would give us a second family to belong to—God’s.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Have you heard God's blessing in your inmost being? Are the words, 'You are my beloved child, in whom I delight' an endless source of joy and strength? Have you sensed, through the Holy Sp...

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    Vaughan Roberts
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    Someone might say of a son, ‘He’s a chip off the old block; he’s the spitting image of his father.’ That is not to say he is identical, but he does bear the family likeness. You can see his father in ...

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    Lydia M. Child
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    Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

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    John Calvin
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    John 1:12
    With what confidence would anyone address God as ‘Father’? Who would break forth into such rashness as to claim for himself the honour of a son of God unless we had been adopted as children of grace i...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

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    F. F. Bruce
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    Romans 12:15
    The term ‘adoption’ (used here in older English versions [of Romans 12:15] may have a somewhat artificial sound in our ears; but in the Roman world of the first century AD an adopted son was a son del...

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    Andrew Arndt
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    Genesis 41:39-43 , Exodus 4:22-23, 2 Samuel 9:6-7, Luke 15:17-24, Galatians 4:6-7 , Psalm 103:13-14
    When he [the prodigal son] found himself desiring to be treated as one of the pigs, he realized that he was not a pig but a human being, a son of his father. . . . Once he had come again in touch with...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Luke 15:11-32, Colossians 3:1-3, Philippians 3:13-14, Isaiah 43:18-19, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:8-9
    When he found himself desiring to be treated as one of the pigs, he realized he was not a pig but a human being, a son of his father. This realization became the basis for his choice to live instead o...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over a...

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    J. F. Wilson
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    Luke 15:11-32, Psalm 136:1-3, Isaiah 9:2-7
    Strange, this familiar Father of prodigals whose love, too much for one lifetime, wills that we shall share the feast of forgiveness and joy in the epilogue of eternity. Strange, this daily advent of ...

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    Alfred Edersheim
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    His previous life had been that of the Perfect Ideal Israelite – believing, unquestioning, submissive – in preparation for that which, in His thirteenth year, He had learned as its business. The Bapti...

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    Dwight L. Moody
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    God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

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    Karl Barth
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    He Himself, Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, was justified by God in His resurrection from the dead. He was justified as man, and in Him as the Representative of all men all were justified.

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    James Merritt
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    Matthew 1:, Luke 1:26-38, 2 Samuel 11:12, Ruth 1:4, Joshua 2:
    Through Jesus’s family tree, God puts his grace on display. God is reminding us that he can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves: pick up broken pieces and put them together, take broken lives an...

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    Kay Arthur
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    Genesis 50:20
    In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have a tree, a cross, shown to you by the Sovereign God of Calvary. Whatever the trial or temp...

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    Sinclair B. Ferguson
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    John 14:21
    Unless God is our Father, we are orphans. But God’s own Son has become our Older Brother. He comes through His Spirit, with His Father, to live with us. The Holy Spirit dwells in our lives, making us ...

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    Dan B. Allender
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    We're in the presence of a good story when the flaw that shatters shalom is also the doorway to redemption... Whether it be our own flaw or the sin of others, God uses the raw material of sin to c...

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    Martin Luther
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    John 1:14, Philippians 2:6-8, Luke 2:7, Matthew 1:23, 1 Peter 2:24
    The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the man...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with t...

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    Jonathan Edwards
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    The creation of the world seems to have been especially for this end, that the eternal Son of God might obtain a spouse towards whom he might fully exercise the infinite benevolence of his nature, and...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man.

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    Thomas Merton
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    The sign Jesus promised to the generation that did not understand him was the “sign of Jonas the prophet”—that is, the sign of his own resurrection. The life of every . . . Christian is signed with th...

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    Andrew Arndt
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    I love that line. “Surely the LORD is in this place,” Jacob muses, “and I was not aware of it.” Isn’t that, more or less, the story with most of us, most of the time?

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    N. T. Wright
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    Luke 12:33-34, Luke 18:28-30, Acts 2:44-45, Matthew 19:21, Mark 10:29-30, Luke 14:26
    Family and property, then, were not for the ancient Jew simply what they are to the modern western world. Both carried religious and cultural significance far beyond personal, let alone “individual,” ...

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    John Stott
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    What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'

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    Meister Eckhart
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    2 Corinthians 5:17, Colossians 1:27, Romans 8:10, 1 John 3:24, John 14:20, Galatians 2:20
    He who abides always in a present now, in him doth God beget His Son without ceasing.

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    R.C. Spoul
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    Nobody is born into this world a child of the family of God. We are born as children of wrath. The only way we enter into the family of God is by adoption, and that adoption occurs when we are united ...

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    Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Genesis 12:2-3, Genesis 18:18, Genesis 22:18, Galatians 3:8-14, Romans 4:16-17
    God’s purpose in blessing Abraham was that through him all nations would be blessed.
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