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Understanding the Spirit Led Life part V · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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Welcome to the NECF Podcast, where we share our weekly sermons and faithfully interpret
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the Bible to encourage and direct you on your spiritual path.
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We are devoted pastors and special guests, devout to the depths of the Bible, exploring
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its profound lessons and useful applications for your daily life.
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Join us as we explore the timeless truth that have the power to change people's hearts
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and minds, promoting a closer relationship with God and a firm belief in His promises.
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And the reason why we call this life eternal is because it's a life that cannot end.
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And this is not because you do something to earn it.
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It's not a life that you earned by works, but it's a life that you earned by what Christ
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has done.
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Hallelujah.
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Christ is the one that died, Christ is the one that was raised from the dead by the Holy
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Ghost, and Christ is the one that gave to you or has given you the gift of the Spirit.
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And the gift of the Spirit in you is what guarantees that you are eternally secured
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and preserved and protected.
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Hallelujah.
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That is your reality as a believer.
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And that is what we've been trying to understand is spirit-led life.
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So we understand the gifts that we have.
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You and I have been given a special gift.
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Now it's quite very important for us to study what we have, to understand what we have,
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not only to understand it, but to appropriate it in our lives.
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Some of the happenings in our lives is as a result of our lack of understanding of who
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we are, is a lack of understanding of what Christ has done for us, is a lack of understanding
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of the things that we have in Christ.
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Oftentimes we suffer unnecessarily because we are not aware of what we have.
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We are not aware of the authority that we have in Christ Jesus.
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We are not aware of the resources, the riches, and the wealth that we have embedded in our
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identity as the children of God.
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Imagine the God of the universe, the father of all creation, the one who created the heavens
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and the earth.
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It's your father.
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It's your father.
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He resides in you.
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Hallelujah.
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So we began looking at promises.
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We say that this life that we have was promised.
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Amen.
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We say it was a promise that God made.
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And in the story of this promise, or rather promises in scriptures, we came across a time,
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a covenant, and we say that God went into a covenant to ensure the delivery of his promise
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to us.
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Amen.
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God made a covenant to ensure what?
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The delivery of his promise to us.
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He put his integrity on the line to ensure the successful completion of what he has promised.
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And we say that all the promises of God are accomplished in who?
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Are accomplished in the person of Christ Jesus.
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So when you have Christ, you have all that it takes.
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You have all the promises of God.
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Because all the promises of God are yes, they are amen in Christ Jesus.
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Hallelujah.
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So we came across the word covenant, and we began studying what covenant is.
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Just briefly, then we move.
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We came across in scriptures, as though there are three different covenants.
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And the first one we saw in the Old Testament part, the part of scripture we call the Old
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Testament especially, you know, when the Israelites were coming out of Egypt, and there was a
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covenant that was instituted by Moses.
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Covenant, and this covenant is what the scripture refer it to, what the first covenant.
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And we agree with me that we saw that the word first does not mean timing, right?
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It doesn't mean, oh, this is first, this is second, this is third, no.
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So what the Israelites were given through Moses by angels is what we call the first
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covenant, and it's also referred to as the Old Covenant.
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It is the one given through Moses.
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And there is a promise after that, that there will be a new covenant, the new covenant or
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a second covenant that will come to be.
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And in our story we discovered that this second or new covenant is actually not new per se
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because it was a covenant that was already promised to Abraham even before what happened
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in the Exodus, right?
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After the Exodus in Egypt.
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And what God gave to Abraham was a covenant of what?
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Of salvation to mankind.
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The promise was that man or humanity will be saved.
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So actually what happened was that what we call the new covenant or the second covenant
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is actually the previous covenant God made with Abraham even before, you know, the Exodus.
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So why was the first, why was it, why was there a need for the statement of what God
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has already done with Abraham?
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Because the children of Israel were found in unbelief.
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They were found in unbelief, therefore the enactment or the introduction, introduction
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or the Old Covenant was added, meaning that it was introduced because they disbelieved
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first and foremost the covenant of God through their fathers from Abraham to Isaac down to
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Jacob and even to Moses.
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So because of unbelief, there was an introduction of another.
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Hallelujah.
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So the expectation of God was for what, for them to exercise faith, for them to exercise
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what?
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Faith.
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But they were found to be in unbelief.
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Hallelujah.
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And we concluded that Jesus Christ coming was a fulfillment of the covenant God made
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with Abraham, the promise through Abraham.
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And we say that Abraham was not expected to do anything.
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It was God himself.
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The covenant is not between two equals.
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It was not between one that would do a particular, play a particular role and another will play
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his own part.
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No.
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It's God all by himself, entering into a covenant by himself.
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The Bible says that he's so by himself because there's no other name that he can sway by.
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So God went into a covenant with himself and he ensured and we look through history that
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no calculation of man, no orchestration of certain could sabotage the promise of Christ
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coming to the world, dying, resurrecting and giving us a promise.
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Hallelujah.
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And we see Jesus in Luke chapter four, 24 verse 49, Luke chapter 24 verse 49.
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We see when Jesus has resurrected, he told the disciples or rather the apostles, give
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me Luke chapter 24 verse 49.
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He says, and behold, I sent the promise of my father upon you.
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Now, but tarry he in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endured power from on high.
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So after Jesus have accomplished everything, he now deliver the promise that a father has
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made and has accomplished in all that Christ has done.
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Hallelujah.
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Praise Jesus.
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So today we'll continue in our study of the promises of God.
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What has God promised?
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What has God promised?
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Romans 8 verse 14, let's go on to Romans 8 verse 14.
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Romans 8 verse 14, we'll read to verse 17.
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For as many as are led by the spirit of God, as many as are directed, as many as are led
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by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received a spirit
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of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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The spirit himself, rather I will say himself, beareth witness with our spirit that we are
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the children of God.
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Verse 17.
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And if children, then heirs, and heirs of God, and heirs with Christ.
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If so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.
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Hallelujah.
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Now the spirit of God only leads those who are what, who are sons, amen.
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Say I am a son.
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If you are not sure, don't say it.
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If you are not born again, you are not a son.
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How we came into sonship is by believing, amen.
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Is by believing.
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The moment you believe, you know, we're taught a doctrine some years ago, and we have actually
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tried to teach that kind of doctrine.
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That when you became born again, you are what?
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You are a child of God.
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And then you grow into sonship, and I found out that it may not necessarily be accurate.
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Hallelujah.
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The day you are born again, you are what?
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You are a son.
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Meaning that all of these gods is yours in Christ Jesus.
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Now your mind, right, may be conflicting with your identity.
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If God says you are a son, your mind should not say otherwise.
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Oh, you know, I have sinned and I have fallen, I'm not worthy.
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That is pride, amen.
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That is seeing yourself beyond what God says you are.
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Less or more is pride.
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And it's walking in unbelief.
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Hallelujah.
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So he says, as many as are led, when were you led by the spirit of salvation?
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Amen.
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The first leading you receive is that you receive the word of God.
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What is the word of God you receive?
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Receive the message concerning the promise of God.
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What is the promise?
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The promise is that God is forgiving sins through the eternal sacrifice of Jesus.
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And you believe you've been led by the spirit of God into believing in that promise, and
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you've received the gift of the spirit of God.
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Therefore you are a son of God.
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And sonship means that all that is God is yours through Christ Jesus.
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Hallelujah.
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I was thinking somebody will rejoice for this.
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Because we are born of the spirit, we are led by the spirit.
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We are born of God.
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God becomes our father.
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Imagine God.
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See, we sometimes see God in a way that God doesn't want us to see him.
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Amen.
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We see God in a way that God doesn't want us to see him.
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We'll see it briefly.
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That God's will for you is to see him as your father.
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Amen.
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And that was his intention right from the beginning, from the foundation of the world.
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Because God was interested in a family.
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God is a family God.
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Amen.
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And what he wants to reflect to us is his loving kindness as father.
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So God becomes your father.
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He becomes my father through the redemptive work of Christ.
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When you believe.
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Amen.
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When you believe.
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Now, father, the word father, listen, the word father was never used to God in the entire
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Old Testament scriptures.
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If you've studied the Old Testament, what we call, when I say Old Testament contextually,
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what I'm meaning is where Genesis to Malachi.
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I'm very intentional about specifying what I mean by Old Testament.
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All right?
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Because even what we call New Testament is part of Old Testament as well.
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All right?
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By the standard, what is old, what make old old is what?
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The redemptive work, the resurrection of Christ.
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Hallelujah.
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So, God rather was never called a father in the Old Testament part of the scriptures,
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from Genesis to Malachi.
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He was never referred to as father by any man who will see it introduced only in the
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part of scripture we call the New Testament.
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And the first person they introduced this is Jesus, even before his resurrection.
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But at this time, he was God, he was Jesus' father.
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Amen?
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Not any man's father.
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Let's look at the reaction of the Jews to Jesus calling God his father.
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He was in trouble with the Jewish people.
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John chapter 15 verse, John chapter 5, rather, verse 16.
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John chapter 5 verse 16.
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For this reason, John 5, 16 to 18, for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought
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to kill him because he had done these things on the Sabbath, verse 17.
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But Jesus answered them, my father, look at Jesus here, my father has been working until
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now and I have been working.
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Therefore, the Jews sought all the more to kill him.
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Why did they want to kill him?
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Because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was what?
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Was his father.
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For them, for you to associate yourself with God and say God is your father is what is
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blasphemy.
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Because God cannot have a son, you are not worthy to be a son of God.
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He is saying God is his father, do you know what he has done?
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He has made himself equal, he has made himself divine.
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Amen?
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He has made himself divine, he has made himself of equal nature with God.
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One of us because of our understanding of fatherhood, unfortunately, we have experienced
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naturally in a sense, a bad example of a father, therefore when we are saying God is a father,
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the first picture that comes to you is your biological father.
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Oh, when the father comes to the house, everybody disappears and go into hiding.
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You will be praying, when will this father travel so that we can play, so we can enjoy.
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But if you are looking for a perfect example of fatherhood, you study God, hallelujah.
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God is a perfect example of fatherhood.
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So these men here wanted to kill him, Jesus, because what?
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They understood what Jesus was saying.
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For you to call God your father, it means that you are of the same nature with God and
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that is blasphemy.
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Again, John chapter 10 verse 30, 29, we see another circumstances where, you know, the
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Jewish leaders accused Jesus of blasphemy because he claimed unity with the father.
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John chapter 10 verse 30, I and my father are what?
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Are one.
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Then the Jews took stones.
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These people love carrying stones.
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Whenever they hear something they don't understand, what they go for quickly is a stone.
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And actually, actually, that is the behavior of many of us.
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The moment light want to shine in your dark heart, you pick up stones to terminate the
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light.
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Amen.
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So we can change of mind.
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So we can, that prayer, you see, we are the problem for that prayer.
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That prayer we prayed, grow in what?
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In knowledge.
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Grow, want to grow.
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But the problem is not with God.
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The biggest problem is not even any safe.
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The biggest problem is you.
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So the Jews took up stones again to stun him.
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Verse 32, quickly.
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Jesus answered them, many good works I have shown you from my father for which those works
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do you stun me?
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The Jews answered him saying for a good work we do not stun you, but for blasphemy.
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And because you, you, being what?
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Being a man, make yourself God.
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What he mean by saying he and God, he and the father are one, mean that he has equated
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himself.
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He has said I is equal to God.
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Amen.
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Now look at his continuation.
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Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law?
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I said ye are gods.
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If ye call them gods, to whom the word of God came, who are those?
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That is the men of old.
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And the scripture cannot be broken.
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Do you say of him whom the father sanctified and sent into the world, you are blaspheming?
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Because I said I am the son of God.
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So they want to stun him because he said he is the son of God.
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Verse 37.
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If I do not do the works of my father, do not believe me.
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But if I do, though you do not believe me, believe the works that you may know and believe
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the father is where, is in me and I in him.
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So this is the same fact we lay claim of at salvation.
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That the believer and God has come into what has come into oneness.
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The believer and God has come into union.
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The believer and God has come into this union that is eternal.
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Into this union of a father and a son.
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First Corinthians chapter 6 verse 17.
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First Corinthians chapter 6 verse 17.
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It says but he who is what, who is joined to the Lord in one is what?
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Is one spirit with him.
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Amen.
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And what, who is joined, how do we become joined with the father?
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When we believe the spirit of God and our spirit has come into union.
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So we are what?
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We are the sons of God.
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We are one with God.
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When are caught with God.
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We are in union with God.
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When agreement with God.
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When eternal agreement with God.
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We cannot be separated from this unity with God because you believe.
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Not also that Jesus never refers to God as a father to any man.
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I've said this earlier on, up until now Jesus has never said God is a father to any man
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except himself.
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Amen.
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So except himself.
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But at the resurrection we see a change.
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It's a change in the fatherhood of God.
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John chapter 20 verse 11.
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Let's see how it was changed.
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When Jesus resurrected there was a change in the fatherhood of God.
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But Mary stood outside by the tomb when Jesus has resurrected and the context is that oh
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they came to the tomb looking for the body and the body was missing and then there were
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a lot of shenanigans that happened and then Mary was there but Mary stood outside by the
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tomb weeping and as she wept she stood down and looked into the tomb and she saw two angels
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white sitting one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had laid
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at land.
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Then they said to her, woman why are you weeping?
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She said to them because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have
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laid him.
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Now when she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there and did not know
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that it was Jesus.
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Jesus said to her, woman why are you weeping?
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Whom are you seeking?
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She said supposing him to be the gardener said to him, sir if you have carried him away
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tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away.
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Jesus said to her, Mary.
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She turned and said to him, Rabboni, which is to say teacher.
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Jesus said to her, do not cling to me for what?
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For I have not yet ascended to the father.
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To whose father here?
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Look at this verse clearly.
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I have not yet ascended to whose father?
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To my father, right?
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But go to where?
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To my brethren.
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Now this is family here.
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To my brethren.
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This is family here.
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I say to them, I am ascended to my father and whose father?
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And your father.
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And my God and your God.
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So at the resurrection God did not only become a father to Jesus on earth but he became father
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to all who believed.
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Amen.
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This is the point where we came into, you know, the family at the resurrection.
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Jesus is no longer the only begotten son of God.
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He was the only begotten because he was the only son.
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Because he came from God.
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But at the resurrection Jesus is no longer the only begotten.
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Jesus is the first begotten and we are many brethren.
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Hallelujah.
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We've come into the family of God.
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We've come into fellowship with God.
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We've come into union with God.
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We've come into this family.
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This oneness.
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God becomes our source.
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God becomes our provider.
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And it's a comfort for you this morning that God is your source.
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Amen.
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God is your comfort.
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God is your protection.
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God is your father.
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And if God is your father you have everything you need in Christ Jesus.
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And all the promises of God are for you, a son.
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The spirit of God is for you, a son.
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To manifest the gifts is for you, the son.
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To manifest the spirit life, the spirit life or rather the spirit of God that lives in
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you is for you.
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It is a right for you.
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It is what defines our family.
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What makes us family and brethren is the indwelling of the spirit of God.
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And all the activities that is expected of a man full of the spirit of God is for every
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member of the family.
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It's not because you've done something good that warrants you exercising all the wealth
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and the riches that are in the kingdom, in the family.
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Hallelujah.
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The disciples are now breaded together with Christ at resurrection.
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Now let's go back to Romans 8 verse 14, particularly verse 15.
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Romans chapter 8 verse 15.
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It says for you, you did not receive the spirit of bondage.
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So the spirit we have is not a spirit that keeps us in bondage to fear, but you receive
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the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba Father, Abba Father.
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So the believer received that spirit that brings him into an intimate relationship with
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God.
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He therefore can refer to God as Abba, amen, as Abba, Abba Father.
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Now the word Abba is an Aramaic word.
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It's not completely Hebrew.
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It is like a colloquial expression of the Hebrew language.
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It's in what we call the Pidgin or day to day language.
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It's not an official language.
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And this Abba expresses a sense of tenderness and affection to another.
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It expresses this sense of closeness and affection to another.
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So we are to call God Abba because we've been brought into this union with him.
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He is our Abba, Abba Father, amen.
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Now, you know, when I was, I was told in, I came across a thought.
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I said, there's a difference between having a father and having a daddy.
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There's a difference between how anybody can be a father.
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So long as you are matured biologically, you can be a father.
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You know, I was watching a video of a kid, a baby, one of the shows, Steve Harvey, I'll
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be very precise.
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And the girl was brought to the show because she was smart, a little girl, you know, and
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she was asked to identify a man from the crowd as this, you know, if he was her father.
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And the young girl politely say he isn't, he isn't father, but he is daddy.
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He know that he's not father, but he's daddy.
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Some of you may have come across it.
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And I was like, hmm, there's something intimate between this girl and this man.
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He's not just a father to her, but he's a daddy.
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Amen.
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And then being daddy, it takes a special man.
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Steve Harvey says you take a special man.
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That any man can be a father, but it takes a special man.
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They have done a special responsibility in the life of a child for the child to say you
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are daddy, you are not just father, but you are daddy.
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Daddy expresses this sense of closeness, expresses this sense of this sense of relationship that
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is intimate, that is not just, it's not just official.
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You know, some of us, our parents, we, we, before we, we ask our parents some things,
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we have to write a letter.
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It's a format.
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We will write a letter and we don't give it to him directly.
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We go to the mother and she will now prove, read the letter and ensure that the tune is
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okay, that she can deliver to the father of the house.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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Abba is like saying daddy.
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It's like saying in Nigeria we say pop see, pop man.
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You know, it's not better English, right?
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But it shows this sense of closeness, this sense of affection.
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So because you are a son, you can say Abba.
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So when you come to pray, you don't begin to say God of all nations, the ancients of
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this, the I am that I am, the one who move mountains, the one who speak as smoke, come
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out of the, say Abba, you know, in an attempt to sound spiritual.
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We invent names that are used in the shrine in Africa to call God, especially the Southwest
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Nigeria.
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I didn't say Yoruba.
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Amen.
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And what God wants from you is to see him as Abba.
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Father is even, is even official.
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Say Abba, father, say Abba.
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Say God is my Abba.
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He's my pop man.
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Amen.
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The word Abba shows this sense of affection.
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It was from Arabic, but in the scriptures, it was never translated to English.
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It maintains because how will it even translate it?
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It will lose its meaning.
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They just leave it as Abba.
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We can say example in Mark, Mark chapter 14 verse 36, where it is used, Mark chapter
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14 verse 36, Mark 14, that's specifically.
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Yes.
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And he said Abba, father, this is Jesus.
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Things, all things are possible for you.
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So you see Jesus, when Jesus was praying, he was not using the metal we are using, you
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know, when he asked people to pray in church, that's when you, you see how people will try
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to manifest how spiritual and how, you know, don't complicate it.
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Don't complicate it.
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Call, learn how to call God father.
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Thunder will not strike you.
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Right?
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Nothing will happen to you.
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He's your father.
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That is a kind of confidence you come into.
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Prayer, if you want to pray, that should be your mindset because you are a son.
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So you call him father.
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You call him Abba father.
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So Jesus here says what?
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Abba father, all things are possible for you.
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Take this call away from me, nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will.
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You will see also in Galatians 4 verse 6, where the word Abba was used.
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And because you are sons, what happened?
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God has sent for the spirit of his son into your hearts.
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What is the spirit crying?
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Ancient of this, the I am that I am, the God of Elijah, he's not even your God.
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What does the spirit cries out?
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He cries Abba.
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Amen.
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Say God is my daddy.
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You know what is funny about us?
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We sing my daddy, my daddy, your bikinis.
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But we'll go back and we'll be, we're saying with our lips, but our mind is not allowing
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what we're saying with our mouths.
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In this church, we'll sing it.
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We'll teach it.
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We'll edify you with it.
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We'll enforce it in your spirit until you come to the point that you begin to act it
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and you begin to manifest your right as a son in this kingdom.
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Amen.
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That is why our message will never change.
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Until you come to this realization of who you are in Christ, until you come to the realization
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of what Christ has done and has brought you into our message will never change.
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We see Abba father.
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We see the word father from the good word pather.
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P A T E R.
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What does it mean?
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It means ancestor.
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It means originator.
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We originated from God.
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Amen.
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You originated from God because you believe you originate, you were born in the spirit
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or rather by the spirit.
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Because as I said, God intent was family.
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God is a family God.
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In creating Adam, God wanted a family.
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That was his goal.
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That was his purpose.
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And God wants us to see him and know him as father.
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Now we'll see Paul introduces God as father in Ephesians in the epistles now.
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Going to the epistles to see where Paul begin to explain God as father.
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Ephesians 31 verse 16.
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Let's do this.
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Ephesians 1, 16 to 18.
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Do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God
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of our Lord Jesus Christ, the word the father of glory, the word father, the father of glory
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may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your
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understanding.
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The next verse.
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Being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches
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of the glory of his inheritance in a sense.
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And then chapter 2 verse 18.
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Chapter 2 verse 18.
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For to him we both have access by one spirit to the father.
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Now we see consistently the usage of the word father because at this point God has become
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father to us.
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After the resurrection he has become father.
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Chapter 3 verse 14.
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Ephesians 3 verse 14.
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Ephesians 3 verse 14.
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For this reason I bow my knees to the father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Thing verse 15.
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From whom what?
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The whole family in heaven and on earth is named.
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I'll leave that name there.
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Let's leave it for people that know what named means.
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Chapter 4 verse 1 to 6.
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Chapter 4 verse 1 to 6.
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I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to work worthy of the calling with which
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you were called.
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What calling were you called?
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With all lordliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love because we
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are of this family together, enduring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bone of peace.
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There is one word body, one spirit just as you were called into one hope of your calling.
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One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
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So we are calling to a family.
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We are meant to keep the unity of this family.
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Chapter 5 verse 1.
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Therefore be imitators of God as what?
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As what?
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As children.
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Not just children but as dear children.
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Meaning affection, meaning intimacy, meaning just you are not a prodigal son, you are a
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dear son, right?
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So we are of the household of God.
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It's a family business.
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It's a family thing.
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We belong to the family.
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There is a truth in seeing and knowing God as a father.
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As, not a father, as the father.
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There's truth in what?
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In knowing and seeing God as the father.
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So let me ask a question.
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How did the apostle came to the place of calling God father?
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How did the early apostle go to the concept, you know, the concept of calling God father?
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Was it something they just invented?
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Was it something they just came, ah, if you call God father it will make sense.
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It will bomb.
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If God is now father it will be different from the Jewish people.
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It will be nice.
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You know, the Jews, the Pharisees, they didn't see God as father.
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Now we know him.
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He's close to us.
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So let's just call him father.
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Is that what happened?
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Eh?
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It is evident that nowhere in the Old Testament anyone called God father.
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How did they come up with the concept of this concept?
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Someone heard, I heard someone say it's from Jesus.
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It's partly true.
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But Jesus never invented anything when he came here.
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He came to do, to fulfill.
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He came to accomplish all that has been said.
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So if God is referred to as father in the New Testament, there must be a promise of
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him.
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You know, all this movement is to come to a point where we see in the scriptures, there
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must be a promise of him being a father in the Old Testament scriptures.
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And when we say the Old Testament, we're meaning toward from Genesis to Malachi.
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We've met in this conversation here in the gospels.
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So Genesis to Malachi contains both promises and mysteries, we've said it earlier on, which
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are progressively revealed and fulfilled in Christ.
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And this promise of God being father was spoken by God through the prophets and our promises
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wrapped up in shadows and figures of speech, what we call mysteries.
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So in between Genesis and Malachi, there is a conversation of God being a father, but
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it's wrapped up in mysteries.
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It's wrapped up in what we call parables.
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And a parable must be taught.
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Now nobody gives meaning to a parable.
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The one who speaks the parable is the one who gives meaning to it.
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So you can now come and say, oh, I think what Pastor Victor was meaning by this parable
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is no, no, no, he is the one that spoke the parable.
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So he is the one you can go to for the meaning of what he said.
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And in scriptures there is meaning for what has been concealed, rightly explained in mysteries.
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Here it means something that requires explanation, right?
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Do we have time to look at where it is?
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Let's do this briefly and then we go.
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Isaiah 53 verse 10.
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Isaiah 53 verse 10.
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You mean there is a place in the Old Testament that prophesied about God being the father,
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yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.
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Who is it?
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Who is the him here?
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In the context, previous texts have confirmed who is speaking here.
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Now let's look at Isaiah 7 verse 14 before we come back here.
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Isaiah 7 verse 14, the same book, Isaiah 7 verse 14.
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Isaiah 7 verse 14, therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign, behold, the virgin will
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conceive and bear a son and shall call his name while Emmanuel.
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Talking about Jesus.
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Chapter 9 verse 17, also confirming that the conversation here is about Jesus.
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Chapter 9 verse 17.
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Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young, nor have mercy on their fatherless
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and widows.
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For everyone, my reading is right, please.
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I got this text wrong.
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Is it what?
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Chapter 6, 9 verse 6.
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Okay, 9 verse 6.
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Yes.
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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon
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his shoulders, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
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Father, Prince of Peace, and we will see all along the previous scriptures pointing to
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Jesus Christ.
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Now let's move to chapter 53 verse 10.
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It is, yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.
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He put him, he has put him to grief.
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When you make his soul an offering for sin, does it talk about the death, the burial,
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and resurrection of Jesus Christ?
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Is it talking about the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ?
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Yet it pleased the Lord to do what?
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To bruise him, he has put him into grief, when you make his soul an offering for what?
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Sin.
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Means Jesus offered for sin, sacrificed for sin.
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He shall be, he shall what?
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He shall see what?
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He shall see his what?
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On the land that sit.
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Who shall see his seat?
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He shall see his seat.
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He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
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In Texas, he shall see his seat.
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The word seat is translated from a Hebrew word, zera, seat.
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And it's oftentimes used for descendants.
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It's used for descendants.
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So he shall see his sons.
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He shall see his descendants, meaning that there will be sons, meaning that there will
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be family, meaning that there will be a community.
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He shall see his seat, and seat normally is used to refer to descendants.
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Prolong his days mean a rock, and is a word that means to lengthen something.
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His days have been prolonged at the word of resurrection, which means that it is eternal.
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We'll explain that much more better next time.
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So in the resurrection of Jesus, there shall be a family or a people.
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It means there will be descendants or children or sons.
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His days will prolong.
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The text carries in it the promise of a resurrection, and what will come forth is a seat, right?
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It carries a promise of the resurrection, the death, the burial, the resurrection of
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Jesus Christ, and then the promise of a seat that will be bathed out of this that will
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happen.
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So when Christ died and he rose again, there was a bath.
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Amen?
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In Isaiah 53, verse 10, we see the promise of the new creation, the promise of sons in
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Jesus Christ.
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The promise of sons in Jesus Christ.
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So we're going to double more into sonship next time, but I want you to know when you
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leave this place that you're not a second-class son.
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Amen?
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It's a common salvation, common spirit, one body, one spirit.
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So the spirit in you is not a counterfeit spirit.
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The spirit in you is not the prototype of another.
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It's not different from the spirit that is in your pastor.
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The spirit in you is the same spirit that raised Jesus from the death, the same spirit
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that men are healed of diseases, the same spirit that yokes are broken, the same spirit
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by which we cast out devils, the same spirit by which we give revelational knowledge and
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prophetic words, the same spirit by which we teach the world, the same spirit by which
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we do every work in this kingdom, same quality, the same person, the same individual, the
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same work he is doing in me, the same work he's doing in you.
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Our result must be same.
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We must allow him to be expressed through us and we see him manifested.
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You see, all the things we see in the eyewitnesses in the book of Acts is for every son.
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Hallelujah.
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And you are a son.
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You are a son.
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So when Pastor says we heal the sick, I heal the sick, you heal the sick.
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You appreciate the gospel.
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You win souls for Christ by the spirit.
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Amen.
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You give a word by the spirit.
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Amen.
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You give a prophetic word by the spirit.
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You teach the word by the spirit.
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You heal by the spirit because you are a son.
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The spirit lives in you.
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He's your father.
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And we will see next time that God giving to his children, there is no partiality.
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There is no finding fault in his giving to his children.
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Oh, I think Izzy was naughty this week.
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So she will not manifest a gift of healing this week.
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He gives without finding fault.
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Your father can find fault in his giving to you, but God is not in that class of father.
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There is no kind of father like Abba Father, the God that created you and regenerated you
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in Christ.
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So be confident to come to him in the most weakest, in the most rebellious, in the most
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unlikely manner you can ever think of.
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He wants to relate with you as a father and a son.
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And speaking to somebody right here, God wants to reason with you as a loving father and
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as a son.
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We will see in the nature of this father that he does not, he does not, if I start, I will
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not stop, but let me just say he does not find fault.
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He does not punish the way our Adulterate Fathers punish.
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Close your eyes and say, Father, thank you for being my father.
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Help me to understand your fatherhood in the course of my life, in the course of my days,
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in the course of my activities.
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Let me understand and experience your fatherhood and let my life be governed by your fatherhood,
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by my understanding of you being my father, my source, my originator, my provider, my
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everything.
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