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The giving to any one the name and place and privileges of a son who is not a son by birth.
(1.) Natural. Thus [[Text:EBD:Pharaoh (EBD)|Pharaoh]]'s [[Text:EBD:Daughter (EBD)|daughter]] adopted [[Text:EBD:Moses (EBD)|Moses]] (Ex. 2:10), and [[Text:EBD:Mordecai (EBD)|Mordecai]] [[Text:EBD:Esther (EBD)|Esther]] (Esther 2:7).
(2.) National. [[Text:EBD:God (EBD)|God]] adopted [[Text:EBD:Israel (EBD)|Israel]] (Ex. 4:22; Deut. 7:6; Hos. 11:1; Rom. 9:4).
(3.) Spiritual. An act of God's [[Text:EBD:Grace (EBD)|grace]] by which he brings men into the number of his redeemed family, and makes them partakers of all the [[Text:EBD:Bless (EBD)|blessings]] he has provided for them. Adoption represents the new relations into which the believer is introduced by [[Text:EBD:Justification (EBD)|justification]], and the privileges connected therewith, viz., an interest in God's peculiar [[Text:EBD:Love (EBD)|love]] (John 17:23; Rom. 5:5-8), a spiritual nature (2 Pet. 1:4; John 1:13), the possession of a spirit becoming children of God (1 Pet. 1:14; 2 John 4; Rom. 8:15-21; Gal. 5:1; Heb. 2:15), present protection, consolation, supplies (Luke 12:27-32; John 14:18; 1 Cor. 3:21-23; 2 Cor. 1:4), fatherly chastisements (Heb. 12:5-11), and a future glorious inheritance (Rom. 8:17,23; James 2:5; Phil. 3:21).
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