God The Father
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
For several weeks we have been studying the “Fundamentals” of the Bible.
The basic building blocks by which all maturity stands.
Thus, the great importance for us to have the milk of the Scriptures down pat.
Today we are going to look at God the Father, the architect of the universe.
With this in mind let us examine our lesson for today.
God The Father’s Mercy
God The Father’s Mercy
He takes care of our physical needs.
He takes care of our physical needs.
In many ways he does this for the just and unjust.
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
However, He promises to take care of all the physical needs of righteous.
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
He takes care of our spiritual needs.
He takes care of our spiritual needs.
Every spiritual need is granted in the Lord.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
God wants to bless us spiritually.
3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
He wants to be merciful to us.
He wants to be merciful to us.
Even when mercy seems off the table, if we repent God will be merciful.
10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Jonah 3:
2 And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.
Summery
Summery
God isn’t just waiting for us to mess up and then condemn us, no He has always exercised great patience and exceeding mercy.
Why is this the case though? Because...
God The Father Is Personal
God The Father Is Personal
He takes personal pride in being our Creator.
He takes personal pride in being our Creator.
God the Father knows us, on a personal level, better than we know ourselves.
30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
13 The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; 14 from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, 15 he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
God the Father wants us to know Him on a personal level as well.
11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
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He takes personal pride in being Creator of the universe.
He takes personal pride in being Creator of the universe.
God knows each and every star by name.
4 He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.
31 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion? 32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children? 33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
God knows each animal personally.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
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11 I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
Summery
Summery
God the Father is our God who cares for His creation on a personal level not some superficial level.
He wants a close personal relationship with us. This is because of...
God The Father’s Love
God The Father’s Love
He is the complete essence of love.
He is the complete essence of love.
God’s love is thorough and consuming because he is “all love.”
8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
God’s love therefore is active and has been manifested to all of us.
He has manifested His love
He has manifested His love
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Summery
Summery
God’s essence, love, motivates Him in His mercy and desire for a personal relationship with us.
However this has led some to be confused about...
God The Father’s Justice
God The Father’s Justice
There is no contradiction between love and justice.
There is no contradiction between love and justice.
For God to be loving He must also be just i.e. keep His Word that means even loving those that eventually end up in hell.
How can a loving God love those He condemns to hell, after all we know hell awaits the unrighteous.
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Mt 25:
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
So how can this be?
Simple, it would not be just to let everyone into heaven when law requires “law keepers” and “law breakers.”
Think of it like this: A dad tells his kids to pick up their room. He adds to that, if you pick up your room I will give you a treat afterwards. One kid picks up their room but the other doesn’t. The dad loves both kids but justly gives the child that picks up his room a treat and not the other. In order to demonstrate love to the kid that did what was right he must be just with both.
On a much larger scale this is what goes on between Creator and creation.
We are told to obey the Word of the Lord () and if we do there is an eternal inheritance awaiting (). God is love and therefore cannot be an unjust God.
21 Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the Lord? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me.
Summery
Summery
God’s love, which we are to emulate, is merciful and personal but also just.
There is no way to have a “loving God” and an “unjust God.”
Conclusion
Conclusion
God the Father is our amazing and awe-inspiring God.
He is love completely and thoroughly and thanks be to God He is.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.