Adopted, Rescued, and Resting in the Strong Hands of Jesus Christ
Q. Why is He called God’s only‑begotten Son,
- Since I am also a child of God?
Because Christ alone
- is the eternal, natural Son of God.
John 1:1-3
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- He was in the beginning with God.
- All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Hebrews 1
I, however, am a child of God by adoption,
- Through grace, for Christ’s sake.
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.
Romans 8:14-17
- For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
- For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
- The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
- and if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
Ephesians 1:5,6
- …having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
- to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 13
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