Being adopted into God’s family means receiving all the same benefits Jesus received, right? Right. But what, exactly, did all those benefits consist of?

A good friend of Jesus dies, and his other friends want to know why he didn’t stop it from happening. Isn’t he the Son of God? Doesn’t he care? Is there any hope of life? Yes. Yes. And Yes.

Does God love us? How can we tell for certain? Travel back to the day the nation of Israel was officially adopted as God’s son, and find out how they would have answered this question…