Seeing God as Our Father
Jesus teaches us to call God our Father, and tells us how to pray (Mathew 6:9-13)
“After this manner therefore pray you; our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be
Your name. Your kingdom come, You will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen”.
Father is described in the dictionary as the male parent of a household; a father is
charged with the responsibility of providing for the family and giving instruction to the
children. The father is expected to assume certain responsibilities, first the father is
responsible for the spiritual well being of the family. The father’s responsibility is to
see that no one took advantage of any member of the family. The Father is to
provide for the needs of the members of his family.
Jesus explains this in Matthew 6:25-33, which says “therefore I say to you, take no
thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, nor yet for your
body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat; and the body than
raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better
than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature? And
why take you thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow,
they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say to you, that, even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the
field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more
clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we
eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all
these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you have
need of all these things. But seek you first the kingdom of God, and His
righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you”.
The devil in trying to destroy our image of God as our Father, and goes about to
destroy the family, by breaking up and dividing the family. The same way he
deceived Adam and Eve in the garden by making him doubt that God had their best
interest at heart, he is still trying to deceive others, the world tells people that God is
the caused of all evil, even insurance have in their policies, hurricanes as acts of
God. Many people don’t have a healthy relationship with their natural father, which
makes it hard to trust God as our Father. The Bible says in Psalms 27:10 “when my
father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord Yahweh will take me up”. This is
what we have to hang on to. Jesus ask us a question “what man is there of you,
whom if his son ask bread, will give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him
a serpent? If you then, being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how
much more shall your Father which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask
Him” (Matthew 7:9-11).
Jesus came to show us the Father (John 1:12,18) “but as many as received Him, to
them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them tha believe on His
name. No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the
bosom of the Father, He has declared Him”. He said many times, I only do what I
have seen or heard the Father do and say. He also said “if you have seen Me, you
have seen the Father”.
God Himself revealed Himself to Israel as their Father. God tells David “behold, a
son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all
his enemies round about, for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and
quietness, to Israel in his days. He shall build an house for My name, and he shall
be My son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over
Israel for ever” (I Chronicles 22:9-10).
You can know God as your heavenly Father, because we have been adopted into
the family (Romans 8:14-16) “for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are
the sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit
Himself, bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God”.
Psalms 82:1-8 says “God stands in the congregation of the mighty, He judges among
the gods. How long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked?
Selah. Defend the poor and fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deliver, the poor, and needy, rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not,
neither will they understand, they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the
earth are out of course. I have said, you are gods, and all of you are children of the
Most High. But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O god,
judge the earth, for you shall inherit all nations”.
God wants us to know who we are. We can have the same relationship that Adam
had with God before the fall, before the fall Adam had a loving relationship with his
Creator Father, but when he made the choice to obey the devil, his relationship was
broken and he became a child of the devil. Jesus shows the difference between
children of God and the children of the devil (John 8:42-44) “Jesus said to them, if
God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God,
neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand, My speech
even because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father you will do, he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode
not in the truth, because there is no truth in him, when he speaks a lie, he speaks of
his own for he is a liar, and the father of it”.
When we became born again by the blood of Jesus, we were given the nature of
God (II Peter 1:3-4) “according as His divine power has given to us all things that
pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that has called us to
glory and virtue. Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises
that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escapee the
corruption that is in the world through lust”.
We have been commanded to “be you therefore followers of God as dear children.
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor” (Ephesians 5:1-2).
The concept of adoption and inheritance describe the position of believers in God’s
family (Galatians 4:4-7) “but when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His
Son, made of a woman, made under the law. To redeem them that were under the
law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God
has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father. Wherefore
you are no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through
Christ”. We have been brought into God’s family, the believer must be born again,
or born from above (John 3:3,5). The body of believers known as the church is also
referred to as the “household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).
God asked a very important question in Malachi 2 “if a son honors his father and a
servant his master, where is His honor and reverence? You call Him your Father,
but do you give Him the honor which He deserves? I John 3:1-3 says “behold, what
manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons
of God, therefore the world knows us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved now are
we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that
when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every
man that has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure”.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: November 13, 2009
Jesus teaches us to call God our Father, and tells us how to pray (Mathew 6:9-13)
“After this manner therefore pray you; our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be
Your name. Your kingdom come, You will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen”.
Father is described in the dictionary as the male parent of a household; a father is
charged with the responsibility of providing for the family and giving instruction to the
children. The father is expected to assume certain responsibilities, first the father is
responsible for the spiritual well being of the family. The father’s responsibility is to
see that no one took advantage of any member of the family. The Father is to
provide for the needs of the members of his family.
Jesus explains this in Matthew 6:25-33, which says “therefore I say to you, take no
thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, nor yet for your
body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat; and the body than
raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better
than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature? And
why take you thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow,
they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say to you, that, even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the
field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more
clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we
eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all
these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you have
need of all these things. But seek you first the kingdom of God, and His
righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you”.
The devil in trying to destroy our image of God as our Father, and goes about to
destroy the family, by breaking up and dividing the family. The same way he
deceived Adam and Eve in the garden by making him doubt that God had their best
interest at heart, he is still trying to deceive others, the world tells people that God is
the caused of all evil, even insurance have in their policies, hurricanes as acts of
God. Many people don’t have a healthy relationship with their natural father, which
makes it hard to trust God as our Father. The Bible says in Psalms 27:10 “when my
father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord Yahweh will take me up”. This is
what we have to hang on to. Jesus ask us a question “what man is there of you,
whom if his son ask bread, will give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him
a serpent? If you then, being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how
much more shall your Father which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask
Him” (Matthew 7:9-11).
Jesus came to show us the Father (John 1:12,18) “but as many as received Him, to
them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them tha believe on His
name. No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the
bosom of the Father, He has declared Him”. He said many times, I only do what I
have seen or heard the Father do and say. He also said “if you have seen Me, you
have seen the Father”.
God Himself revealed Himself to Israel as their Father. God tells David “behold, a
son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all
his enemies round about, for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and
quietness, to Israel in his days. He shall build an house for My name, and he shall
be My son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over
Israel for ever” (I Chronicles 22:9-10).
You can know God as your heavenly Father, because we have been adopted into
the family (Romans 8:14-16) “for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are
the sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit
Himself, bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God”.
Psalms 82:1-8 says “God stands in the congregation of the mighty, He judges among
the gods. How long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked?
Selah. Defend the poor and fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deliver, the poor, and needy, rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not,
neither will they understand, they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the
earth are out of course. I have said, you are gods, and all of you are children of the
Most High. But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O god,
judge the earth, for you shall inherit all nations”.
God wants us to know who we are. We can have the same relationship that Adam
had with God before the fall, before the fall Adam had a loving relationship with his
Creator Father, but when he made the choice to obey the devil, his relationship was
broken and he became a child of the devil. Jesus shows the difference between
children of God and the children of the devil (John 8:42-44) “Jesus said to them, if
God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God,
neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand, My speech
even because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father you will do, he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode
not in the truth, because there is no truth in him, when he speaks a lie, he speaks of
his own for he is a liar, and the father of it”.
When we became born again by the blood of Jesus, we were given the nature of
God (II Peter 1:3-4) “according as His divine power has given to us all things that
pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that has called us to
glory and virtue. Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises
that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escapee the
corruption that is in the world through lust”.
We have been commanded to “be you therefore followers of God as dear children.
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor” (Ephesians 5:1-2).
The concept of adoption and inheritance describe the position of believers in God’s
family (Galatians 4:4-7) “but when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His
Son, made of a woman, made under the law. To redeem them that were under the
law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God
has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father. Wherefore
you are no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through
Christ”. We have been brought into God’s family, the believer must be born again,
or born from above (John 3:3,5). The body of believers known as the church is also
referred to as the “household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).
God asked a very important question in Malachi 2 “if a son honors his father and a
servant his master, where is His honor and reverence? You call Him your Father,
but do you give Him the honor which He deserves? I John 3:1-3 says “behold, what
manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons
of God, therefore the world knows us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved now are
we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that
when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every
man that has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure”.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: November 13, 2009
