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you get adopted, but you inherited all the riches that Christ has because you are now his son or
daughter.

2 Corinthians 6:18 And I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord
Almighty.

Romans 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the
Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

John 1:12-13 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to
become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s
will, but born of God.

9. You are the recipient of eternal life.

A Christian is promised eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Eternal life is the promise of
spending forever in heaven with God. God promises, “Believe and you will have eternal life.” For a
Christian to lose salvation, eternal life would have to be redefined. The Christian is promised to live
forever. Does eternal not mean “eternal”?

10. You will have a desire to know God and read His Word.

Before you trusted in Christ for salvation, you had no real capacity to understand the Bible. But with the
indwelling Holy Spirit enlightening your mind, you can now understand the Bible. You will never
understand it all, because God’s Word and God’s ways are far beyond what we can comprehend as
humans.

Isaiah 55:8–9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts
than your thoughts.

I Corinthians 2:11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him?
So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

I Corinthians 2:14-16 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly
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to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual
person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of
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the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

And since we have Christ’s mind, we can now search the Scriptures daily to better understand who God
is and what He desires for us to do in service to Him. It is through His Word we will learn to become
more like Christ. We will learn how to walk as obedient servants. We will learn what to do and what
not to do. The Bible will become a light to our journey in life, that is, if we read it. So daily, you should
make it a practice of life to have a special time with God. He will speak to you through His word; you
can speak to him through prayer.

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