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Voddie Baucham - Adoption Improved the Perfect Little Family x Bridget Baucham · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Our adoption journey began early on in our marriage. We
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  Speaker 1: got married the summer between my sophomore and junior year college,
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  Speaker 1: and our first child was born ten months later, so
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  Speaker 1: people thought we were crazy. Our second child was born
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  Speaker 1: till a couple of years later, and after that we
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  Speaker 1: had a girl and a boy, and we heard it
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over again, you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: the perfect little family, and there was so much pressure
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  Speaker 1: on us to just stop there.
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  Speaker 2: But then a few years later, we wanted more children
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  Speaker 2: and had done some things to prevent us from having children,
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  Speaker 2: and we went back and found out that those things
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  Speaker 2: could not be reversed, so we began to at that
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  Speaker 2: point think about adoption.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are with our eleven year old and
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  Speaker 1: our fourteen year old, and we walked into this agency
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  Speaker 1: and we said, hey, we're interested in adopting, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we said that we were adopting several children, and
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  Speaker 1: the lady just went and got our supervisor. We didn't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, know what was going on to tell her
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  Speaker 1: what you just told me, and we just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're interested in adopting maybe a few children. That we
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  Speaker 1: didn't know at the time that adoption agencies in this
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  Speaker 1: country have a hard time finding black families who will adopt.
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  Speaker 1: It was like an answer to prayer for them. We
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  Speaker 1: started our paperwork in May and we were matched in July.
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  Speaker 1: It was almost scary because we were just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sort of getting used to the idea. By the end
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  Speaker 1: of July, there was another baby in our home. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was our first of seven adoptions, and everything changed.
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  Speaker 1: We never went through that process again. The second adoption
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  Speaker 1: was with the same agency, the adoptions Free through seven.
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  Speaker 1: We just got phone calls seven times. The Lord said, yes, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Been incredible for us. We love every minute of it.
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  Speaker 2: We laugh a lot. Yeah, there's a lot of work
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  Speaker 2: to be done, but everybody pitches in and it's great
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: Adoption has helped me both as an individual Christian and
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  Speaker 1: as a pastor. Until you know, I became a father
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  Speaker 1: to adopted children and was able to look at my
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  Speaker 1: children and know these are as much my children as
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  Speaker 1: those children who are related to me biologically. Until that moment,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't able to fully just understand and grasp what
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  Speaker 1: it means to be a child of God because we
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  Speaker 1: are His children by adoption. When you understand adoption, you
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  Speaker 1: get that no, we are his children, and he's not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. Adoption is about the gospel.
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  Speaker 2: For me, adoption is important because it's just a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: picture of God's grace in my life. I was really
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  Speaker 2: the forerunner in doing something to prevent us having more children. Biologically,
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  Speaker 2: I was insane.
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to be in control and I didn't allow
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  Speaker 2: God to be in control. God is so faithful to
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  Speaker 2: give us back with the locust of eaten. I just
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to love on some kids who are
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  Speaker 2: actually my kids and raise them. It's just been a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Not think that I would be almost fifty years old
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  Speaker 2: with seven kids, seven little kids, But I tell you
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't trade this for anything.
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  Speaker 1: When we started this journey, we were on the downhill
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  Speaker 1: side of parenting. You know, we had two kids that
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  Speaker 1: were fourteen and eleven. We were just a few years
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  Speaker 1: away from an empty nest. And now we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: almost fifty, and you know we're looking at ten, eight, six, five, four,
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  Speaker 1: three and almost two. You know, so, no, we're not
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  Speaker 1: doing the empty nest thing. What else are we going
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  Speaker 1: to do? What else are we going to do with
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  Speaker 1: our lives? That would be more important than what we're
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  Speaker 1: doing right now with our lives. I can't think of
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  Speaker 1: anything ind