OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN

FATHERHOOD OF GOD
(Matthew 3:13-17)

1. God is a Patient Father – 2 Peter 3: 9, 15

2. God is a Covenant Relationship Father – Deut. 5:24

3. God is a Compassionate Father – Psa. 103:8-14

4. God is a Pursuing Father – Jer. 31:3

5. God is a Forgiving Father – Isa. 43:25

6. God is a Comforting Father – 2 Cor. 1:3, 4

7. God is a Powerful, Protective, Practical, Possessive Father – 1 Cor. 6:19, 20

In the Gospel of John:

a. The Father’s Unfolding - (John 1:1-14)

The Divine Word reveals the loving Father in His grace and truth.

b. The Father’s House - (John 2:16)

Jesus comes to the Father’s house and he finds it polluted and possessed by religious sinners. Jesus cleanses the Father’s Temple.

c. The Father’s Trust - (John 3:35)

The wealth of the Father is in the Son. Adam failed but Christ was faithful.

d. The Father’s Worship - (John 4:23)

The Spirit nature of the Father seeks all true worshipers who worships Him in Spirit and Truth.

e. The Father’s Will - (John 5:17-42)

Jesus reveals the will of the Father, His working, loving, honoring, committing, sending, witnessing and fitting and Jesus delight is to do all  the Father wishes. Jesus wills and walks in His Father’s will; hence the Father is with Him in all His ways.  Here Jesus taught us to do His will.

f. The Father’s Provisions - (John 6:27-57)

As the Bread of God, Christ is God-sealed, God-given and God satisfying. He that wants Christ wants the Father and everything.

(Jehovah Jireh – The Lord will provides) 

 g. The Father’s Commission - (John 8:16-54)

Jesus was sent by the Father and His vocation was to please Him.  Jesus ministry was to the poor and sick, oppressed and depressed.