Knowing The Father

Understanding who is He ?

Genesis 1:1 NASB95

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

John 1:1–2 NASB95

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.

Psalm 103:13 NASB95

13 Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

John 3:16–17 NASB95

16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 NASB95

9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

John 1:18 NASB95

18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

1 John 3:1 NASB95

1 See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

What is a Father?

1. He who begets a child

2. The first ancestor; the progenitor of a race or family.

3.One who feeds and supports, or exercises paternal care over another.

4. He who creates, invents, makes or composes any thing; the author, former or contriver; a founder, director or instructor.

You can’t be a father unless you have children

1 John 3:2 NASB95

2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

What should a father be?

A Protector

A Provider

A Teacher

A Leader

A Strong Tower

An Example

A Father should be

Trustworthy

Dependable

Loving

Kind

Honest

Strong

Humble

How should you relate to him as Father?

How should you relate to your earthly father?

How are Jesus and The Father different?

John 10:30 NASB95

30 “I and the Father are one.”

John 14:7–10 NASB95

7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.” 8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.

John 5:19 NASB95

19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

Why do we struggle with God The Father loving us?

We see Him as a disciplinarian, and we want our own way

Hebrews 12:5–8 NASB95

5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him; 6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives.” 7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Why do we struggle against our earthly father?

Same reason, we want our own way

Hebrews 12:9–11 NASB95

9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Learning to know The Father and learning to know His heart

Mark 14:36 NASB95

36 And He was saying, “Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.”

Romans 8:15 NASB95

15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

Galatians 4:6 NASB95

6 Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”