November 29, 2020

God The Father

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Passage: 1 John 3:1-3
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God The Father  

1 John 3:1-3 (NASB)
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.
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.
3  And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

1.     Glorious & Greatest Father

Genesis 1:1 (NASB)
1  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Psalm 19:1-2 (NASB)
 The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
2  Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge.

Psalm 139:1-4 (NASB)
 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2  You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.
3  You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4  Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all.

Exodus 15:11 (NASB)
11  "Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders?

2.     Generous & Giving Father

John 14:2 (NKJV)
2  In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Matthew 7:9-11 (NASB)
9  "Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?
10  "Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?
11  "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him! 

3.     Guiding & Gracious Father      

Hebrews 12:9-11 (NASB)
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.

Galatians 4:4-6 (NASB)
4  But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
5  so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6  Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"