NOT MY PEOPLE
1. Hosea 1:9 Then the Lord said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “NOT MY PEOPLE”), for you are NOT MY PEOPLE, and I am not your God.
2. Hosea 1:10 “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are NOT MY PEOPLE,’ they will be called ‘CHILDREN OF THE LIVING GOD.’
3. Hosea 2:23 I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.’ I will say to those called ‘NOT MY PEOPLE,’ ‘You are my people’; and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
4. Romans 9:25 As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are NOT MY PEOPLE; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”
5. Romans 9:26 and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are NOT MY PEOPLE,’ there they will be called ‘CHILDREN OF THE LIVING GOD.’”
God also promises to regather Israel and her back into the family through a NEW COVENANT.
ADOPTION
1. Romans 8:15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your ADOPTION to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
2. Romans 8:23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our ADOPTION to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
3. Romans 9:4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the ADOPTION to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
4. Galatians 4:5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive ADOPTION to sonship.
5. Ephesians 1:5 he predestined us for ADOPTION to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
CHILDREN OF GOD
- Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called CHILDREN OF GOD.
- John 1:12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become CHILDREN OF GOD—
- John 11:52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered CHILDREN OF GOD, to bring them together and make them one.
- Romans 8:14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the CHILDREN OF GOD.
- Romans 8:19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the CHILDREN OF GOD to be revealed.
- Romans 8:21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the CHILDREN OF GOD.
- Galatians 3:26 So in Christ Jesus you are all CHILDREN OF GOD through faith,
- Philippians 2:15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “CHILDREN OF GOD without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky
- 1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called CHILDREN OF GOD! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
- 1 John 3:2 Dear friends, now we are CHILDREN OF GOD, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
- 1 John 3:10 This is how we know who the CHILDREN OF GOD are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
- 1 John 5:2 This is how we know that we love the CHILDREN OF GOD: by loving God and carrying out his commands.
- 1 John 5:19 We know that we are CHILDREN OF GOD, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
