IIT UBF - University Bible Fellowship at IIT

Date: May. 18, 2026

Question

What is adoption?

Answer

Adoption is the act of God's free grace by which we become His sons with all the rights and privileges of being His.

Reference Passages

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

John 1:12

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Romans 8:17

and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

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The Parable of the Sower Explained

Matthew 13:18-23

Key Verse: 13:23

As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”