Worship Call 0640 Father and Son relationship

Friends, feeling "empty"?

Ephesians 3:16-19 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,  that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height —  to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. In one sermon, D.L. Moody held up a glass and asked, "How can I get the air out of this glass?" One man shouted, "Suck it out with a pump!" Moody replied, "That would create a vacuum and shatter the glass." After numerous other suggestions Moody smiled, took out a pitcher of water, and filled the glass. "There," he said, "all the air is now removed." He used this simple demonstration to explain that living a victorious life is not accomplished by "sucking out a sin here and there," but by being filled with the Holy Spirit. Later, he said, "I believe firmly that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will fill every corner of our hearts. But if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. We must be emptied before we can be filled." Robert, let's begin emptying ourselves today! We need to be filled with God's Spirit so that we can be empowered to do great things! There's no way around it! Shabbat Shalom! Have a blessed weekend! Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah Bradenton, Florida

John 4:21–24 (NASB95) — 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

Note: Worship who?

Not God.

Not the Lord.

But the Father. πατήρ [pater /pat·ayr/] n

Wouldn’t such a language be strange the woman.

What would God be? A man upstairs? a greater power? to the pagan mind a god was as aloof as anything. they resided high above on the mountains and certainly you would call a god deity, “Father would you?”

Father denotes a relationship.

Israel as a nation were called the Sons of God. and exclusive group of people a nation. Sons also referred to the the spiritual beings.

It is what the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit three persons in one God is doing to bring together a relationship between Heaven and earth between man that God had created and His fallen creatures man.

the purpose for creating the creature with volition is relationship. In the Tanakh The spiritual beings that we call Angels are called the Son’s of God. They not only find their origins with God but they commune with God.

the we and the us that we see in the bible such as in Genesis 1:27 may not be the trinity as Jesus says

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 1

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Not to say that Angels had a hand in creation, but none the less present to see the handy work of God.

there is the us in Genesis 11 when God once again said let us

Genesis 11:7 (NASB95) — 7 “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

In 1 King 22 the lord is in the presence of His divine council. these are the Elohim. and not that God needs council with dealing with Ahab but he gives his divine creators participation in the events of creation.

Psalm 82:1–2 (NASB95) — 1 God אֱלֹהִים [ʾelohiym /el·o·heem/] n

takes His stand in His own congregation; He judges in the midst of the rulersאֱלֹהִים [ʾelohiym /el·o·heem/] n. 2 How long will you judge unjustly And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.

note that Elohim is the generic word for God. It is often used for God but it is also used for the spiritual beings. The divine council.

God made both spiritual and human beings, not to fulfill a need that God had but probably as a being himself with His own determination of Choice decided to do so. and those beings were created with volition their own determination of Choice to interact with God in a relationship.

In the T ankh, these divine beings are called the Sons of God. As for Israel they are the children in a sense that they are the offspring of God.

Isaiah 43:1 (NASB95) — 1 But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!

and the Lord says to them

Jeremiah 32:38 (NASB95) — 38 “They shall be My people, and I will be their God;

not Father but supreme being over them.

But something becomes a bit more intiment in the New Testiment

2 Corinthians 6:14–18 (NASB95) — 14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 16 Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 17 “Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you. 18 “And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” Says the Lord Almighty.

Where you find in the Old testament The title, “Son’s of God,” it always refers to what we call Angels but better termed as spiritual beings with rank.

It is not until we come to the Mystery doctrine of new testament that man now moves up to the category of Sons of God. and do not hear again the reference to the sons of God related to the spiritual beings. and it is those who are “in Christ” are those who are dubbed, “Son’s of God.” and if Son’s of God, then a son has a Father and that Father is the God.

In the New Testament writings we first encounter the Father/Son vocabulary when Jesus is teaching his disciples how to pray.

Matthew 6:9 (NASB95) — 9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

I’m wondering, if that was a little foreign to the Disciples to call God Father.

and then comes the sermon on the mount

Matthew 5:5 (NASB95) — 5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

It is the Children of the Father who receives any kind of an inheritance.

Matthew 5:9 (NASB95) — 9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

No wonder the disinherited Satan and His followers hate the christian’s so badly.

Matthew 5:44–45 (NASB95) — 44 “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

The Sons of the Father are imagers of the Lord who himself is the image of the Father, and in so doing we become “chips off of the same block,” so do speak.

Luke 6:35 (NASB95) — 35 “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

Romans 8:13–17 (NASB95) — 13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 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!” 16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

2 Corinthians 6:14–18 (NASB95) — 14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 16 Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 17 “Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you. 18 “And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” Says the Lord Almighty.

22 “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”