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Saturday, April 30, 2022
THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CHILD OF GOD
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, January 21, 1996
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Source Scripture: Romans 8:9-17
The adoption of a child of God is when God places that child again over all that Adam and Eve lost back in the Garden of Eden; for He places him with an eternal body and places him with all the power and authority that Adam and Eve lost in the beginning.
Now, the requirements for the adoption of a child of God, for the person to be restored to eternal life in the full sense of the Word: with all that was lost in the fall being restored to that child of God; we find that those requirements are so important that, if they are not fulfilled, that person cannot be adopted.
(…) Now, for the adoption of a child of God, that person has to be an attribute of God since before the foundation of the world, and has to have his name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
That person is a soul of God, is an attribute of God, who at the time appointed by God is manifested on this planet Earth in a human body to make contact with the Divine Program, the Program of Redemption that God is carrying out on Earth; that Program based on the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross as the Lamb of God; to then, in the Last Day, every son and daughter of God be adopted, no matter if that person has departed, that son or daughter of God:
After he has heard the Gospel of Christ and has believed it, and has entered into the Gospel of Christ, and has been born again of the Water and the Spirit: he has received the new birth through the Holy Spirit, that person has entered into the Mystical Body of Christ. In other words, these are requirements for the adoption of a son or daughter of God. He or she has to enter by that Divine Program established in the Word of God.
As long as he has not believed, even if he is a child of God, he has not yet entered the Program of Redemption and cannot be adopted; he has not yet taken the first step to enter the Program of Redemption.
(…) Now, the adoption of a child of God has a number of requirements in order to be carried out, and in order for every son and daughter of God to be adopted as kings and priests in the glorious Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, that during that glorious Millennial Kingdom we will be as kings and priests.
Now, it is very important to know and meet the requirements for the adoption.
Now, as Saint Paul says: “It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”1 These people that will be adopted —as we have seen— are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world; and they are sent to live on this planet Earth to enter into the Program of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the Program of Redemption, to enter into the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ; and thus be sealed by the Holy Spirit, by the Seal of the living God, and then, later on, to be adopted into the Kingdom of God.
Saint Paul in Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 22 to 23, tells us:
“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven…”
The firstborn who are inscribed or written in Heaven, or in the Heavens, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, are those who upon coming to this planet Earth will form part of the Mystical Body of Christ, that is, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; because they will believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, and will also receive the new birth through the baptism of the Holy Spirit; and by one Spirit: by the baptism of the Holy Spirit, they will enter into the Mystical Body of Christ.
For there is no other way to be part of, to enter the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, but by means of the new birth; it is through the Holy Spirit that we enter into that Mystical Body of believers. And that is how the sons and daughters of God are sealed.
Saint Paul told us in Ephesians, chapter 1, verses 13 and on:
“In whom (that is, in Christ) ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
(…) It is God who produces this new birth; that is where the person is born in and from another dimension: from the sixth dimension, from the dimension of the theophany, where he obtains a spirit of the sixth dimension. Not a spirit of the world, but a Spirit of God: the Spirit of adoption, which is that Holy Spirit that the person receives; for, in the Day of Redemption (that is, for the seventh millennium), the person, if he died, as he is sealed with the Holy Spirit of God and is in Paradise, will return to Earth in an eternal body that God will give him, that Christ will give him; and it will be a body created by Jesus Christ, by God, and it will be an eternal body.
It will not be the same body that mom and dad gave us, but the one that our heavenly Father will give us. And if the one that our earthly parents have given us has been glorious, has been beautiful, and has been something wonderful, how much more the one that our heavenly Father will give us! The one that our father and mother gave us is not eternal; but the one that our heavenly Father will give us is eternal, to live with it for all eternity.
(…) Now, we have seen that of the last requirements for the adoption of every child of God in the Last Day, we find that: Just as for the adoption of Christ, He had to go up to the top of Mount Transfiguration, and He had to receive Moses and Elijah there in their ministries, bringing the Word to Him, speaking the Word to Him, regarding the things that were to happen at that time… And also His face shone as the sun; which represents the Second Coming of Christ.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Last Day, in order to be adopted, will have to be seeing and receiving the ministry of Moses and Elijah, the ministry of the Two Olive Trees on the summit of Mount Zion, on the summit of the Kingdom of God, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the Age of the Cornerstone; where those ministries are promised to be manifested and to be seen by the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And also the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be seeing the Sun of Righteousness rising; which is the Coming of Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work in the Last Day; where Christ changes from Lamb of God to Lion of the tribe of Judah, to King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.
(…) Now, it is not that there are no more children of God. In a house we may have many sons and daughters, but only one is the firstborn. And so it is in the House of God: Only the elect of God, those who are a divine attribute in the mind of God since before the foundation of the world, who have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, are the firstborn of God, those who will be adopted in the Last Day; who have received Christ as their Savior (and if anyone is missing, he will receive Him), and have been born again of Water and the Spirit, and have entered the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, by one Spirit: by the Holy Spirit. And if anyone is missing, he will also obtain it.
And thus will be completed the group of the firstborn, of God’s elect, written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
And then we will all be adopted; because that is what we have come into this world for. We have come from God to Earth, manifested in mortal, temporary and corruptible human flesh, but soon we will be manifested in an eternal body; and that is the manifestation of the sons and daughters of God in the adoption.
(…) Let us, in these remaining days, examining our lives, seeing what God tells us in His Word, and holding on to His Word in all things; for we are soon to be adopted.
And no one wants, nor do I want, neither for me nor for you, that the Tutor will say of any of you: “This is a rebellious child, who does not follow the teachings, the instructions, of Jesus Christ, of the heavenly Father; and who does not do the works that He has appointed to be carried out in the Last Day. And this is a child who does not like to work in the Work of his Father, a slacker!”
A slacker can never be adopted. A lazy child shames his father.
It is necessary for every son and daughter of God to be a worker in the Work of God: take responsibility for the things of his heavenly Father, with the Business of his Father, as Jesus said: “It is expedient for me to be about my Father’s Business.”2 And to be how? Working in them, fulfilling those Businesses. And this way, getting to know more and more each day the whole Program of our heavenly Father pertaining to our time.
I desire, for each one of you, friends and brethren who listen to me here present, and also viewers, that the Tutor, the Holy Spirit, may say of each one of you and also of me:
“These are very obedient and hard-working children in God’s Work of the Last Day. They are not fighting with each other, but they are loving each other with divine love, and they are helping each other, and they are working to the maximum in the Work of God; aware that the Work of God in the Last Day has to be carried out by Christ through His Church, the members of His Mystical Body of believers. And they have said: Here am I, Lord, send me! Send me and use me in Your Work, in all that You have to carry out on this Earth.”
That is the testimony that I want the Holy Spirit to give of each one of you and also of me, so that our Lord may say: “You are so much like Me that I am going to adopt you!” And adopt us all, transform our bodies, and resurrect the dead in Christ.
And all together here on Earth, in eternal bodies, let us be in these last days for the final part of the Work of Jesus Christ, where there will be a full manifestation, a manifestation without limits of the divine power; and things inconceivable to the human mind will be carried out by Jesus Christ through His Church, through the members of His Mystical Body of believers.
It will be a short time, but there will be no limitations.
(…) We have seen what the requirements are; and we all have them.
So the adoption is very close for all of us; for all of us here present, and for those who are through the television, and for those who will also listen to this conference or read it; for those who will read it too. I want to tell you that the transformation of our bodies, of yours too, is very close. Let us be ready for our transformation, for our adoption.
We used to ask ourselves: “Who will be the chosen ones?” Because Christ said: “For many are called, but few are chosen.”3 And we used to ask ourselves: “Will I be one of them?”
And now we do not ask that question. Now with certainty we say openly: “We are the firstborn of God, the chosen of God! We are the sons and daughters of God, who will be adopted, we will be transformed, in this Last Day!”
We have seen the requirements for the adoption; and we have seen that we have those requirements. So it is not an imagination, but a truth revealed to each one of us deep in our souls: We are sons and daughters of God, living in this Last Day, to be soon transformed and raptured.
1 Romans 9:16
2 Luke 2:49
3 Matthew 20:16