death and resurrection for the redemption of our sins ... and we repent,
turning to God in our lives ... we are adopted as heirs in His
kingdom.
But that adoption ... although "signed, sealed and delivered",
awaits the day when we are finally free from our sinful flesh ... from
this world around us ... and we shall receive the full inheritance that
our adoption has for us in Christ. Amen.
Romans 8: 22-23
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together
until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first
fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body