“The Ultimate Dad” The Role of the Father
2 Corinthians 6:18, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Psalm 68:5, “A Father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
is God in His holy dwelling.”
- It’s all about _______________. It’s all about becoming a son or daughter of God.
John 1:12, ”Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.”
Galatians 3:26, ”So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.”
Luke 3:22, ”And the Holy Spirit descended on Him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: ‘You are My Son, whom I love; with You I am well pleased.’”
1 John 3:1, ”See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.”
Ephesians 3:17b-19, ”…And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
- God wants us to _____________ as sons and daughters, and to let that new identity form the deepest understanding of who we are and how we relate to Him.
See Matthew 6:9-13, Romans 8:14-15