What does First B Jackson teach about adoption by god?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First Baptist Jackson, the teaching on adoption by God begins with a specific moment in redemptive history. In the Advent message drawn from Galatians 4:4-5, the preacher worked through the structure of the text carefully: God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, so that He might redeem those under the law, and so that we might receive the adoption as sons. That word 'sons' carried real weight. In the first-century world, the preacher noted, a son, including an adopted son, held full rights of inheritance. The language is not decorative. It describes a legal standing before God, purchased at cost and given to those who receive it.
The Christmas Eve message returned to the same passage and pressed on its grammar. Using what the preacher called the 'henna clause,' a construction in Greek that signals purpose or expected result, the point was made that God's action in sending Jesus is stated as a certainty, while the benefit of adoption is expressed in a form that carries possibility rather than flat certainty. God acted. The gift is real. But it requires a response. The preacher placed this alongside John 3:16 and 2 Corinthians 8:9 to show that the pattern holds across the New Testament: God moves first, and what He makes available through that movement is received by those who respond to it.
Taken together, what First Baptist Jackson has taught on this topic is that adoption is not a metaphor added to the gospel for warmth. It is one of the stated purposes for which the Son was sent. The redemption and the adoption in Galatians 4:4-5 are linked by design, not by accident. God acts on time and on purpose, and one of those purposes, named plainly in Scripture, is that people might be brought into His family with full standing as sons.
Taught from Galatians 4:4-7 · Galatians 4:4-5 · 2 Corinthians 8:9 · John 3:16 · Romans 8:1-18
The passage taught · 2 Corinthians 8:9
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- December 25, 2021 Christmas Eve Service 4:30pm. A Christmas Eve service exploring three New Testament "so that" passages to show why God sent His Son and what that gift means for anyone who receives it.
- December 4, 2016 On Time and On Purpose - Traditional A Christmas Advent sermon on God's timing and purpose, exploring two Greek words for time and the "so that" phrases throughout Scripture that reveal why Christ came.
Mentioned along the way
- June 16, 2024 Union With Christ Is What It's All About Romans 8 shows that union with Christ, not self-effort, frees believers from sin and death and makes it possible to truly love God and others.