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Intro: Our fathers.
We all have one.
If I were to poll 10 of you, I am sure that 10/10 people would have a dad.
I know, shocking!
It is sobering, however, to think of those 10 individuals and see: how many of them had a Father they could look up to?
Would it be 9 out of 10, 7 out of 10, 4 out of 10?
It saddens me to think of situations that some of you have been through.
I am thankful that I have a great example of a God-fearing dad, not perfect, but constantly seeking to be God-honoring.
The reality is not all fathers seek to display a Christ-like character.
Even the best of fathers fall short of perfection.
Lord willing, our dads, are following that heavenly father, seeking to grow their character closer to that of Him and they can be a good example to us as they imitate Christ.
Someday if God grants me a wife and kids that’s who I want to be: a father seeking to be Christ-like in providing, protecting, teaching, and nurturing my family how God would want me to.
When dads are following God’s design of fatherhood it is sweet.
When spouses follow God’s design of a Husband being willing to lay down his life for His wife and a Wife submitting her husband in the Lord it is awesome.
This is the example I praise God that I was shown growing up by my parents and by other couples.
Regardless of the example your father was to you, either good or bad.
Regardless of your dad being God-fearing or not.
Regardless of the person our father is or was...
Truth: We have a Father we can Follow.
We have a heavenly Father that we can Follow.
He is totally deserving of our adoration.
He is totally deserving of our imitation.
He is the perfect dad.
He always gives us exactly what we need, not what we want.
When we go astray He disciplines us lovingly.
When we go stagnant He introduces situations we know as trials that have the potential to grow us closer to Him if we let them.
We have a Father we can Follow.
We have a Father totally deserving of imitation.
We are called to be “holy as he is holy” as Leviticus and 1 Peter tell us.
We are to be different from those around us our identity in Christ is that we are His beloved children.
We have a Father we can Follow.
He is totally worthy of our imitation and we will see many of those admirable traits of our Heavenly Father as we bounce through Ephesians.
Turn to Ephesians 1:1-14
We have a Father that has adopted us.
We have a Father that has adopted us.
Our adoption means that He has chosen us.
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He chose us before the foundation of the World for a purpose.
To be holy and blameless.
How am I doing at that purpose?
Am I being holy and blameless?
Am I different than the world?
Our adoption means that we should praise Him.
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Part of why He has saved and adopted us into His family is to reveal His great grace.
Am I praising God for His great grace that He has shown to me daily?
Our adoption means that we have forgiveness.
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Our sins have been paid for by the blood, we have been forgiven.
And the great riches of God’s grace has been shown to us.
Our adoption means that we have an inheritance and a purpose.
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Part of our inheritance we obtain now.
Freedom from sins dominance in your life.
The gift of the Holy Spirit.
Peace and Joy.
Part of our inheritance we obtain later.
Freedom from sins presence will come when we enter eternity.
And we know that salvation is final.
Our adoption means that our salvation is final.
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Our adoption is to the praises of His glorious grace.
Our forgiveness is according to the riches of His grace.
Our hope in Christ is to the praise of His glory.
Our possession of our eternal inheritance is to the praise of His glory.
We have a Father who has adopted us.
Let me tell you what I have been taught and read about as far as adoption back in Roman law entail.
by John B. Song
Knowing the meaning of adoption, which preserved Roman power, illuminates the Pauline message.
The grace of adoption was afforded to slaves of sin to make them coheirs with Christ.
Adoption was not an unwelcomed status.
Rather, it was a coveted status among those who could potentially rule the Roman world.
There was nothing more joyful than to discover that one had been adopted by a powerful Roman family.
For Paul, the Roman emperors were no gods, for they were mortal, subject to moral corruption.
Rather, there was greater joy in knowing that one was adopted by God the Father through faith in Christ.
For in Christ, we enjoy the liberties and privileges of being the children of God.
It is a privilege to be a Child of God.
Our adoption means He chose us, we should praise Him for His grace in that act.
He has forgiven us and we have an inheritance and a purpose.
In Roman culture that inheritance wasn’t just an after death thing.
It was a blessing to be had and given by a father at the moment the adopted was made a child.
Our adoption also means our salvation is final, we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit.
It is for sure.
We have a Father we can Follow.
This Father has adopted us.
That is very special and we should treasure that not ignore it.
We have a Father who has adopted us.
We have a Father that we can talk to.
Our fathers will not always be there for us.
It may be a bad decision on their part, or a lack of commitment to communicate with you.
Or it could be that God has brought them into eternity.
And these situations that come up remind us to make the most of our time with our family.
They either know the Lord and can encourage us and teach us, or they do not know the Lord and we must be a light and share Christ with them.
I can think of individuals in my family on both sides of that conversation.
While our earthly fathers will not always be there, our heavenly Father will always be there.
We have a Father that we can talk to.
And He always answers perfectly.
Yae, Nae, Maybae.
We see Paul shares His personal commitment to prayer two particular times in Ephesians.
Both of these statements show just how practical Paul’s doctrine was to Him.
He didn’t just preach pray without ceasing, He lived it.
Here he is going along, writing to the believers in Ephesus and he just breaks into prayer particularly there in Ephesians 3. Prayer should be second nature to us as believers.
Something goes good, we should praise God for it.
Something difficult is happening, we should praise God in it, and ask for strength.
It is not just the super saints that have access to God.
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