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If you could describe the Bible in one word what would it be? Consider the description to be ‘FATHER’. Knowing this, what earthly voices do you listen to? Or, do you listen to the voice from heaven that declares that you are loved, that you are a Son of the Father, and that you have received an inheritance into His kingdom.
Message Notes 1/09/2024 - Rory Dyer
"Jesus answered,
“I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6
The only thing the disciples asked Jesus to do was to teach them how to pray:
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ 14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins."
Matthew 6:9-15
Insights into 'Our Father'
1/ He is Our Father - not our king, our Sovereign, or our Emmanuel, but Our Father.
2/ We don't pray alone to Our Father but together as part of our inheritance on a mission for Our Father.
3/ Even though we ‘art on earth’ and Our Father 'art in heaven’ every time we approach him our perspective changes as He pours His Spirit out on us.
4/ We are called to treat the Lord’s name as holy - hallowed be thy name.
5/ While Our Father is holy and always close to us, He is not our ‘buddy’.
6/ Your kingdom come: The Lord’s prayer begins with a relational context - with Our Father - but it ends with conflict between our earthly kingdom and God’s heavenly kingdom.
Who is the king of your life?
Your finances?
Your social media practices?
Your profession?
Your material possessions?
Your friendship circle?
Your habits?
Your time?
Our world is filled with generational problems due to absent or unknown fathers, illegitimate children, fathers who break promises and move on, fathers who are poor role models, who don’t care and much more.
Our Father offers us:
Opportunity, inheritance, discipline, care, provision and so much more.
When we go out into the world and baptise in the name of the Father we experience the compassionate, kind, generous, forgiving, everlasting, loving of Our Father.
When we are baptised in the name of the Father, irrespective of our history, we all become sons of God.
Our inheritance as His son is not gender insensitive, but culturally radical - with everyone being treated as the biblical first born son.
The Father came to win you back, to give you an inheritance as a child of God because Jesus redeemed you to give you access to The Father.
God gave us His Son - a voice from heaven, so:
Avoid listening to earthly voices from your past, your failures, your disappointments, your hurts, your doubts and your fears.
Instead, listen to the voice from heaven - "This is my Son with whom I am well pleased" and know that you are a son of the kingdom.
God took Biblical genealogy which led to the birth of Jesus.
He can fix any mess you find yourself in - just as He did with Jesus' genealogy.
God the Father is hovering over your mess to pull the Son out of it.
The earthly voices that you listen to:
Cripples you.
Breaks you down.
Questions your value.
Disregards your contribution.
Disrespects you.
Deserts or abandons you.
Criticizes your mental, physical or emotional state.
The Voice from heaven bellows: ‘Go Boytjie!’
You are God’s son and He loves you!
You are in poll position - placed FIRST with God when you believe in Him.
Be baptised in the name of the Father - Isaiah 9.
Col 1:12 - "Giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light."
“This is my Son, [identity] whom I love; [affection] with him I am well pleased [affirmation]”, Matthew 3:17.
We have access to God and we need to become whole in the Father as His sons [and daughters].
The Spirit of God testifies within your spirit and reminds you “I am the son of God”
Matthew 4: The first temptation of Sonship:
Don’t be tempted by the world.
Know that you are the son of God.
We are sons of God not survivors - we don’t have to turn stones into bread.
“Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God”, John 1:12.
Sonship is received - it cannot be achieved: By believing in Jesus we have direct access to the Father.
How much more could we want?
The destination of Christianity is not heaven, it is the Father.
He bypasses your biology, the brokenness of your life and takes you directly to the Father .
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:11
Anything spent in the kingdom of God is never in vain - what you sow you reap. As you sow into the church, so will you reap - abundantly more than you can imagine.
Call to action
“Go into all the world and preach the
gospel to all creation,” Mark 16:15
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