God revealed himself in a progressive way when he first made a nation called Israel from the seed of Abraham. Later on, the entire Israel was called his own people as he selected them and became their God.
Now The Lord has called everyone to be his children by making a covenant on the cross. At the cross, Jesus gave himself and made a way for Gentiles to be part of God’s kingdom.
The Jews who were the chosen people rejected Jesus as their king. So the Lord adopts the Gentiles in his family. Now we the Gentiles can receive the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
We must walk in his words so that we can fulfill his ways and make ourselves eligible to enter his kingdom.
The following Bible verses will help us to understand how we adapt to the family of God and what duties we should do to glorify our God.
1 John 3:1(KJV) Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Colossians 3:20(KJV) Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Hebrews 12:6(KJV) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Esther 2:15(KJV) Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Ephesians 2:19(KJV) Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
John 1:12(KJV) But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
Isaiah 49:15(KJV) Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Ephesians 1:14(KJV) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 6:4(KJV) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Romans 8:29(KJV) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 8:16(KJV) The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Galatians 3:26(KJV) For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:5(KJV) To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
James 1:27(KJV) Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Ephesians 5:25(KJV) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Exodus 20:12(KJV) Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Galatians 4:4(KJV) But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
1 John 3:2(KJV) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
John 11:52(KJV) And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Romans 8:23(KJV) And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Titus 3:5(KJV) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Proverbs 1:8(KJV) My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
John 1:13(KJV) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Romans 8:15(KJV) For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Ephesians 1:5(KJV) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Proverbs 22:6(KJV) Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Esther 2:7(KJV) And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Acts 7:21(KJV) And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
Matthew 18:5(KJV) And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
Romans 9:4(KJV) Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
1 Timothy 5:4(KJV) But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Ephesians 6:1(KJV) Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
