<TITLE>15. Par 114-122</TITLE>L-114 Now, what is adoption? Now, let me get this now; I don't know whether... I won't have time to get through this, but I'll hit it. Then if there's a question, you can a--ask me a little later on sometime in the message, something. Listen. Your adoption is not your birth. Your adoption is your placing. When you were borned again, John 1:17, I believe. When we are borned of the Spirit of God we are sons of God. But we were predestinated. Now, here's what I'm trying to get you to, for this sons of the last day (You see?), to the... See? We were predestinated to--unto adoption.
Now, now here we are. Now, this is what hurts Pentecostal a little. They say, "I got borned again. Praise the Lord, got the Holy Ghost!" Fine. You're a child of God. That's right. But yet that ain't what I'm talking about. See, you were predestinated unto adoption. Adoption is placing a son.
I'm too close to that, 'cause Becky told me that I get too close to it; you can't hear in the back. I am. See?

L-117 A child... How many knows the rules of adoption in the Old Testament? Of course, you've... Look. A son was born. I believe I got it in some sermon. What is that, Gene, you remember? It's on a tape. Oh, what was that? I--I--I--I've struck on it. Oh, yeah, I got it, "Hear Ye Him," "Hear Ye Him," the adoption of children.
Now, in the Old Testament, when a--when a child was borned in a family, he was a child when he was born, because he was borned of his parents; he was a son of the family and heir of all things. Now, but this son was raised by tutors: Galatians, 5th chapter, 17th to the 25th verse. All right. He was raised by tutors, raisers, teachers. Now, for instance, if I had a son born, now, say, I'm a father and...

L-119 And that's the reason in the King James, how many ever thought that read awful funny in the King James Version, said, "In My Father's house is many mansions"--a house, many mansions? See? Really, in the--in the days that the Bible was translated by King James, a "house" was a "domain." "In My father's domain is many mansions." Not in a house, mansions, but he was called the father of this domain. They had it very Biblical; in the Bible that's the way it is.
When a father had a great big thousand-acre farm, or something other, he had a bunch of people living over here. He had hired hands living over here to take care of sheep; he had some over here to take care of cattle; he had some here that went up to the upper range up there a hundred miles away, and he had some right over here taking care of goats, and he had some taking care of mules and--and different things. He--he just had a big kingdom. And he got on his little donkey and he rode around to each one to see how they was getting along, the sheep-shearing and everything like that. He didn't have time...
You can't hear me when I walk away from there. I--I--I'll try to stay back here. Can you hear me all right now, here? Watch.

L-122 He rode away, and went away, trying to--to take care of his--his--his kingdom. So now he wants... That son is going to be heir of everything that he's got. He's a heir.
And when we are born in the Kingdom of God by Jesus Christ, we're a heir of heaven, joint heirs with Jesus, because He took our place. He became us (sin), that we might become Him (righteousness). See? He become me that I might become Him (See?), joint heirs with Him. All right. Now, remember that's to each one of you.


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