God's Exceeding Love | Clip from Salvation in Full Color: Adoption

Yeah, it's easy to read through a list like this and I think of like in our present situation

Okay, so we're doing a podcast on on the theological topic of adoption We have certain biblical things that are clear and then we have some applications we can give but you know

I mean, this is a nice a nice topic and we're well -behaved and we can run through this list

And say them and everything that we say might be accurate, but it's a very different thing

When you know there are those times even in the Christians life where God seems to pull back the curtain and allow you to see the depths of sin that you are still

Capable of and how ugly it is And and it seems much worse now that you're a

Christian than before, you know Because you think but I've done I've thought those things and said those things and harbored those things

Against him my father not against this foreign King So I think it's it really is wonderful to take these things and say well these are true

But then there are those times in the life where these are not just true These are life and death, you know

And and it's almost as if you want to bring this list back to God and say is it really true, you know?

Is it true for me? I Would say the one that jumps out at me as showing the most

Exceeding display of God's love is when he describes the deformity of humanity that I am

Spiritually without anything that would attract God, but that's that's too bland a way of saying it

It's not just that I don't John Snyder didn't have anything particularly special It's that everything about me if we think of a child, he says, you know their life

There's a disease a leprosy running throughout their their body, you know

Imagine, you know every undesirable thing packed into one child and your heart might go out to them

But you think but I just don't want that and God seems to love to to show his

Superior worth by seeking out the worst, you know and Paul talks about that you know that God might be demonstrated it to be so gracious and glorious, but he saves the worst of sinners and We are not just people that aren't perfect we are

Thoroughly deformed apart from Christ. Yeah, I think

The one of those that that I don't know if the word is grips the one that I've Noticed here in this list is animosity.

We are deformed and Ugly and all of that, but it's we also are actively hostile to God Colossians You know, our minds are hostile to him.

We're enemies to him So I think of you know a little kid and you go Maybe to the adoption agency and you're looking at the kids and there's the you know

The one that's really cute and everything but then you've got the one that's screaming and hitting and kicking and biting and spitting at you and You know, there's this active

Determination to destroy and hurt and Everything that God finds lovely we hate and everything that he hates.

That's what we want And He loves us then Yeah with the illustrations of the you know of deformity and animosity you can still pity deformity

You can say this. I don't know if we can I don't know if we're up To helping this child like, you know, are we adequate for that task?

There's so many needs physical needs But like you said that that does pale in comparison to the moral

Ugliness that we actually rage against him as he brings his kindness to us, you know

And he has to conquer us Not just our enemies But it's a wonderful thing that he's able to do that, you know there are children you adopted maybe a baby and You love that child and for whatever reason they grew up with a distrust of you they know they're adopted and you know, they're sure that their birth parent wanted him and you somehow stole them away and their whole life is

Is kind of raging against you maybe it's under the surface, but they're distrustful but God is able to actually change us and as you say conquer us and all of his children are willing and He is changing us to love him more