Ch. 37: Adoption
"Another aspect of our membership in God's family is that we, as God's children, are to imitate our Father in heaven in all our conduct. Paul says, "be imitators of God, as beloved children" (Eph. 5:1). Peter echoes this theme when he says, "as obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; since it is written, 'You shall be holy, for I am holy" (1 Peter 1:14-16). Both Peter and Paul realize that it is natural for children to imitate their earthy fathers. They appeal to this natural sense that children have in order to remind us that we are to imitate our heavenly Father- indeed, this should be something we naturally want to do and delight in. If God our Father in heaven is holy, we should be holy as obedient children." -Wayne Grudem
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