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Last year a remarkable picture was taken of a boy and his father at a baseball game.
In perhaps the classic father-son setting,
the boy and his father went to the Atlanta Braves Spring Training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
It was the boys first professional baseball game; and to say the least he was pretty excited.
He took a picture of a retired pitcher by the name of Russ Ortiz.
When I was a kid, we didn’t have cell phones.
So in my first professional baseball game, I watched the game.
But being the modern connected culture, that boy decided to send that picture to his mom.
And he is looking down, concentrating on sending the picture to his mom, the batter takes a swing and looses the grip on his bat, and goes flying into the stadium.
Unknown to the kid, a baseball is flying at him right between the eyes.
To see how close it came, let’s look at the picture taken at the ball game.
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If that bat had continued, it would have been a severe injury.
But something stopped that baseball bat from hitting the kid.
The hand of his father.
His father with dad-like instincts reached out and protect his son.
That is an example of what our dad’s have done for us.
From they have taught us, the provision and protection they gave us, the baseball games they shared with us…they are dad
and we owe much to our fathers.
And if you are a father today, I want to thank you on behalf of all the sons and daughters here today,
thanks dad.
Because of the great love that father has for their children,
Often idealized.
The strongest, noblest, smartest people we have ever meet.
As great as dad is, there is one father we all share that is greater.
God the father is:
All-Powerful
All-Present
All-knowing.
He is:
Kind toward us
Patient with us
merciful to us
gracious to us
What is a father to a young child?
The father is the super heroe of the family.
It is always fun to watch a little one marvel at the common strenght
The father is the world to a young child.
Now we love our dads and we owe much to them, but I would like to ask a question.
The father is looked at as the provider of the home.
The father is
God the Father is …
Wouldn’t it be blessing to have God as your dad?
Wouldn’t it be blessing to have God as your dad?
Now dads are great,
but they are not always:
strong enough
always
wise enough
can be everywhere.
(Probably the greatest realization that came to be me as a father is that I can’t always be there for my children)
Futher, dad’s can often be quite sinful.
We be
angry
bitter
unjust
cruel.
The reality is, every dad ultimately needs to bow before the perfections of God the Father.
So wouldn’t it be great to also be the child of God?
To state it another way, wouldn’t it be great if we could call God the Father our dad?
The great truth is that God has made a way for us to be adopted, born again, as the Children of God.
The great truth is that God has made a way for us to be adopted, born again, as the Children of God.
How does God become our Father?
Johb 1:8-13
Friends,
Friends,
According to this passage,
PROPOSITION: God can be our Father
and this text tells us how He becomes our Father.
The first part of becoming the child of God is
1.
By Recognizing the Christ.
Our first part of the passage this morning declares that Israel did not know or receive Christ.
It is almost unfathomable to consider that Israel crucified their Messiah.
a. Israel was God’s people.
Deuteronmy 7:6
Similar from our text last week, God literally purchased Israel out of Egypt through the display of Mighty Power.
So they were supposed to have a love and relationship for God.
But they rejected Christ.
Further,
b.
God had promised he would send a Messiah to save them from their sins.
God promised David that there would be someone who would establish an everlasting Kingdom.
From that day on, Israel had a messiah that was promised to come.
And for the next 1,000 years Israel longed to see the face of that Messiah.
You, see Israel should have recognized who Jesus was.
You, see Israel should have recognized who Jesus was.
We are told by Mark,
Mark 1:14
Jesus then gave numerous miracles to demonstrate he was truly the promised Messiah.
There are so many of them that we could literally all morning just looking at His miracles.
And that would be only the ones actually mentioned by the 4 Gospel writers.
There are many more that were summarized in passages like .
So the Jews should have known, and recognized, and therefore received thier Messiah.
But because they were more ineterest in temporal blessings and keeping the religious status quo of the day, they crucified him.
We ought to learn from their mistake,
because the nation as whole missed out on the most incredible opportunity in human history.
The blessings of the Messiah!!!
We ought to recognize Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah, and receive him.
Without Christ, we cannot have a relationship with the Father.
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