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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Adoption, Glory, Covenants, Giving of Torah, Worship, Promises, The Fathers, Messiah (Christ) – Romans 9:4-5. The Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul indicated that these eight blessings were initially for
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Jeremiah in chapter 31 reveals in an outstanding manner that the "New Covenant" was initially for
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Israel</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. Paul was chosen of God to reveal the mystery of the Gospel, that Jews and Gentiles together would form the "One New Man" and become joint inheritors of these eight New Covenant blessings. This was difficult for the Jews of Jesus' day to perceive and receive. Gentiles receive the fullness of the Spirit without having circumcision required? And the keeping of the Law? Forget it! But this is EXACTLY what the Apostle to the Gentiles revealed, and had confirmed by Peter, the Apostle of the circumcision, along with James and John. Galatians is Paul's amazing defense of this revelation, which hitherto had not been revealed.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Now see the unique </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Middle East
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> understanding of "Adoption" and how it radically differs from our Western understanding! For a Jewish father, his son is not initially adopted. He is NOT so placed – (for Adoption literally means "the placing of a son") until FIRST he is brought up in father's business under all the chief servants.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>When the son has learned all facets of the father's business under servants – then – when they tell the father that his son is ready – they have a CELEBRATION – and he is declared an OFFICIAL son – and he with his father are NOW over all the servants. It is now "Father and Son."
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Until Jesus was 30 – He was not declared so – but under His step-father Joseph and the synagogue – He proved Himself. On top of this was a TIMING – the kaiROS of His Heavenly Father. The fulfillment of ALL Old Testament prophecy accompanied this! THEN the Holy Spirit led Him to
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Jordan</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">, and John the Baptist obediently obeyed Him by baptizing Him so that He could fulfill all righteousness. God confirmed His Son's obedience when the Holy Spirit as a dove descended upon Him, the sign given to John the Baptist for Messiah. NEXT came 40 days in the wilderness to be tested by Satan. In the gospel of Mark, it says that the Spirit literally propelled Him into the desert for a 40 day testing that paralleled the 40 year testing of
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>It is very clear that here Jesus was tempted in a 3-fold way by Satan. Where Adam and Eve in the beginning failed in a 3-fold temptation – here the last Adam came through triumphantly!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>THEN, and only THEN, Jesus returned from the wilderness testing in the POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Not one miracle, sign or wonder did He perform prior to this time, in spite of what some spurious gospels declare. It was at this time that the Father from Heaven gave the first of 3 declarations concerning the Adoption of His Son! He had come through with flying colors. "This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased! Hear ye HIM!" He is the prophet promised by Moses, to whom obedience is required as a condition for Eternal Life. It is not enough to claim Him as Savior through His Atonement! We must confess Him as LORD – as the One risen from the dead as proof of the efficacy of His Atonement. Twice more in the Gospels the Father confirms the Adoption of His Only Begotten Son. We are not in the same category as Jesus. We are sons by Western adoption – but Jesus is Son by Jewish Adoption! God is our Father, but not in the same way as He is to Jesus, His Only Begotten Son.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>NOTE: There are 381 reference to "son" (huiOS) IN THE New Testament, but only five references to "hui-o-theSIa" (Adoption) – the placing of a son. Jesus experienced this as prophesied by David in Psalm 2 – "THIS DAY have I begotten you – my ONLY begotten adopted Son" said the Father.
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also is called God's son throughout the Old Testament – and corporately must yet experience the eight-fold blessings of the New Covenant as promised in Jeremiah 31. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>And yet more – "The One New Man" of Jew and Gentile as One must experience this as foretold in Ephesians 2. See the Wealth – the DEPTH – and the RICHNESS of these eight-fold blessings of the ONE NEW MAN.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Here we see in Romans 9-11 the incalculable richness and blessing of Jew and Gentile together, the BRIDE of Christ – the ONE NEW MAN. In God's foreknowledge and preordination, we see a prophetic picture of the wild olive Gentile branches grafted into God's olive tree, and then the true Jewish olive branch grafted back into where they had been removed.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Carefully look at the eight true inheritances of the true olive branch that we as Gentiles now freely share – especially this first one of ADOPTION. Remember – God's Bible adoption is NOT like Western adoption. It is not adopting a non-member of your family into your family. It is taking your own flesh and blood son – and preparing him through your servants to become a responsible member of your ruling corporate head of your company.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Has God been able to do this for us? Have we submitted like Jesus did to His tutelage? Like Moses in his 40 year preparation? Like Joseph, Moses, David and Paul in their 13 year period of faith testing? Don't answer too quickly. We must FIRST hear our Father's approval – "THIS is my beloved son in whom I am well-pleased – Hear Him!"
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>In the light of the above, let us carefully look and examine the five only references to "Adoption – hui-o-theSIa" – that appear in the New Testament.
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</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Israel</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. Then in Romans 11 Paul shows that God had previously intended -- but had not revealed till He showed it to Paul – that the Gentiles in the One New Man would be joint inheritors of the New Covenant promises. I have linked these insights with the richness of our inheritance through our Jewish Roots in the tribe of Reuben. I have been asked in July to share these riches in
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Regina</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Saskatchewan</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> at a "</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">School</span>
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Revival</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">" sponsored by Pastor Femi Ogunrinde, July 5<sup>th</sup> through 7<sup>th</sup>. These truths with 11 others came together by the Sovereignty of God during the 1948 Northern Canada Visitation at
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">North Battleford</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. However, they were in but Embryonic form back then. Now it is time to believe for them to be brought into MATURITY. They will THEN be parameters of safety for the last great revival prior to the return of God's Son as King of kings and Lord of lords.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>It is the leading and faith of Pastor Ogunrinde that NOW is the time for these Embryonics to be brought into maturity. Please join with us in prayer that these early days of July will spell out for
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