You know the Bible tells
us in the Book of Romans,
that when we received
Jesus that we received,
get it now, the
spirit of sonship.
The spirit of adoption,
by which we cry out,
Abba Father.
Daddy Father.
The Hebrew word Abba
is a very affectionate,
intimate term that
speaks of having
a relationship with our Father
in such a way that we
actually know him as Daddy.
Not just a sharp disciplinarian,
which is actually one of the
main functions of a father.
But beyond that, we
know him intimately
in the sense that we know
how much we love him,
and that we're safe in his love.
I want you to know
today, Father God
wants you and I to
know him as Daddy.
He wants us to feel safe
and secure in his love.
He wants you and I to understand
that we're the children, that
we're the sons and daughters
of his own loin.
Hear me when I say to
you, the most central
relationship in all
spheres of reality,
is the relationship between
the Father and the Son.
The Bible tells us
in John Chapter One,
in the beginning was the Word.
And the Word was with God.
And the Word, get
it now, was God.
And who is the Word?
The Word is Jesus.
John 1:14, the
Word became flesh.
We called him Jesus, Yeshua.
And so in the very beginning was
the Father and the Son.
Eternally together, the
Father, the Son and the Spirit.
The Son will never
stop needing a Father.
And the Father will
always have a Son.
And all other
relationships stem from
the relationship between
the Father and the Son,
and the Son and his Father.
The most central relationship
in all of reality
is the relationship between
the Father and the Son,
and the Son and his Father.
The Father will
always have a Son,
God will always have his Son.
And the Son, Jesus, will
always have need of a Father.
He'll always have need of Daddy.
When we look at Jesus's
life in the Gospel of John,
we see see that
Jesus's entire life
was focused on his
relationship with his Father.
Jesus said the Father
is looking for those
that will worship him
in spirit and in truth.
We'll always, get it now church,
we'll always need a Father.
We'll always need a Daddy.
Here's the problem.
The problem is as
we age in life,
we start to put up these
independent walls around us
to protect us from being hurt.
We begin to think that we need
to make it on the world alone.
And we develop a
spirit of independence
and unfortunately what
happens in this process
is we lose our
connection to our Father.
We lose a connection
from understanding
that we still need a Father.
Beyond that, that God himself
wants to be a Father to us.
We lose the heart of a child.
But Jesus said, unless
we become as children
again, we cannot see
the kingdom of God.
The Father wants to
bring to you and I today
the revelation that
he is our Father.
And this is what Jesus
came to bring us.
He came to die for our sins.
And to bring us
into a relationship
with Father God, that we
can know Father's love,
and know him as Daddy.
So I'm gonna continue now
where I picked up last week,
where I left off last week.
We're going to the
Book of Ephesians,
Chapter number One, beginning
in Verse number Three.
Again, continuing on from
where I Left off last week.
Very important, hear
the Word of God.
Ephesians One,
three through seven.
Blessed be the God and Father.
I said on last week's broadcast,
every one of Paul's letters
begins the same way.
Blessed be the God and Father
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He begins by saying
grace and peace to you,
Paul says, from God the Father,
and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Notice Paul is so
focused on the Father.
Is Jesus his savior? Yes.
Is Jesus Lord? Yes.
Does he owe his
life to Jesus? Yes.
But Paul sees beyond Jesus.
He sees to the Father,
who originated it all.
So in all of Paul's
letters, he always begins
by praising the Father.
Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Grace and peace
to you, Paul says,
over and over again,
in his epistles.
Grace and peace to you
from God our Father.
From God the Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ.
So let's continue on.
I'm just making the
point, stressing,
how centrally the Father
was in Paul's heart.
Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing
in the heavenly places.
So, if the origin
of all the blessings
stems from the Father,
why do so many Christians
never talk about the Father,
they only talk about Jesus?
But it's because of the
Father's love that Jesus came.
So this revelation,
beloved, is meant
to give us a spiritual tune-up
to get our identities
back and to
enter into a relationship
with the Godhead
in the way that we're called to.
Let's continue on.
Verse Four.
Just as he chose us in him.
Who chose us?
Who's the he there?
Once again, blessed
be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed
us with every spiritual
blessing, Paul said,
in the heavenly
places, get it now.
Just as he chose us in him.
Who's the he, and who's the him?
The he is the Father.
The Father chose us in him.
Who's the him?
He chose us in Jesus.
Jesus is the him.
So the Father is he,
and Jesus is the him.
Just as he chose
us in him, before
the foundation of
the world, that we
should be holy and
blameless before him.
Who's the him here?
The him here, beloved
one, get it now,
is the Father.
The Father chose us in Jesus.
That we could stand holy
and blameless before him.
In other words, the
Father sent Jesus
to die on the cross
for you and I.
Taking our sin
into his own body,
thereby removing our sin.
Because Jesus took
our sin into himself,
and then died in our place.
In other words, the death that
we should have had to die,
Jesus died because he
took our sin into himself.
And the wages of sin is death.
So then, Jesus died
because our sin was in him.
he died for you and I.
And now that Jesus took
our sin in his own body,
and died in our
behalf, you and I now
are without sin, and
Paul continues here.
And we stand before the Father
as a result of what
Jesus did for us,
as a result of him dying for us,
now we stand before
the Father, get it now,
holy and blameless in love.
So the Father loves you.
And because he
loves you, he sent
Jesus to died in your place,
thereby removing your sin.
So that sin would
not be a barrier.
Because sin separates
us from the Father.
So the Father,
because he loves you,
sent his son to take
your sin in himself.
Then die the death that
you should have had to die.
So that you now can
stand before the Father,
get it now, sinless,
holy and blameless
before him in love.
Now, hear me when I say this.
When Jesus died in your
place, for the Father.
Because the Father wanted
to bring you to himself.
The Father wanted to
remove the sin factor,
so the Father could
lavish his love on you.
So he sent Jesus
to remove your sin.
When Jesus died on the
cross 2,000 years ago,
for you he removed your sin,
get it now, he removed sin.
His death was the
penalty for sin.
Get it now, past, present
and future.
In other words, a lot of times
people come to
Jesus and they think
that Jesus forgives
them for all the sin
that they committed
before they came to Jesus.
But I want you to
know, when Jesus
died on the cross
for you all your sins
were future sins, 'cause you
had not yet even been born.
You see Jesus died for
the sins of the elect,
past, present and future.
You now and forever
stand before the Father,
get it now, holy and
blameless in love.
Because Jesus has
taken your sin away.
With that being said, 
- I want to go back to
the Book of Ephesians,
Chapter One and pick up.
I'm gonna start
from the beginning.
Verse Three, just to
put it all in context.
Hear the Word of God.
Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing
in the heavenly
places in Christ.
Just as he, the
Father, chose us in him
before the foundation
of the world,
get it now, why
did he choose us?
For what purpose did
the Father choose us?
Get it church, hear it.
That we should be
holy and blameless
before him in love.
Jesus took away our
sin so we could stand
before the Father,
who sent Jesus for us,
holy and blameless in love.
Now, notice the next
verse, Verse Five,
He, who's he here?
It's the Father.
He predestined us
to adoption as sons
through Jesus Christ to himself.
Who's the himself? The Father.
According to the kind
intention of his will.
So the Father
predestined his elect,
remember Jesus said in John 10,
he said to those that
were not believing,
he said you believe not
because you're not my sheep.
Jesus said, I know my sheep.
My Father has given them to me.
They hear my voice,
and none of them
shall ever perish for
no one can pluck them,
Jesus said, out of
the Father's hand.
This is the same thing I was
sharing with you last week,
beloved church, when
I was sharing from
John Chapter Six when
Jesus was speaking to
those that didn't believe.
And he said, don't
grumble among yourself,
no one comes to me unless
the Father draws them.
Jesus said, all
the Father gives me
will come to me.
So the Father sent Jesus
to die for his own.
And in dying for you,
that belong to him,
Jesus has taken away your sin,
past, present and future.
So that you now,
beloved child of God,
forever stand before the Father,
holy and blameless in love.
Now, does this mean
that experientially
there are not sin issues
that we're still working out?
No, there are still things
that we're overcoming.
And the Father will
still discipline us.
Daddy will still
discipline his children,
and correct his children.
But not because
he's mad at them,
and not because it's wrath.
But because he loves them
and every father
disciplines his child.
The sin though, the barrier
that separates man from God,
has been removed by
Daddy, through Jesus.
For the sake of Daddy's elect.
So once again, he
predestined us.
Now, I know some
that are listening
may not like this
word predestined.
So if you don't like
the word predestined,
what you need to do,
just go to Ephesians
Chapter One, Verse
Five, and you can just
take a pen and you
can cross the word
predestined out of your Bible.
Okay.
So, it's not a question
of whether you like
the word or not, it's
in the Scripture.
So if we're gonna
receive the word of God,
we need to receive
what God tells us here.
What Father tells us.
That he predestined
us to himself
to be his children
through Jesus Christ.
Now, I want you to notice
also in Verse number Five,
he predestined us
to adoption it says,
get it now, as sons.
Now, I want to just
speak to this word son.
Because when we think of a son,
we think of a male.
We think of, you
know, the male gender.
But when the Scripture
uses the word son here,
it's not speaking of
sonship in terms of gender.
Sons refer to daughters too.
We find in the Book
of First Corinthians
that the Lord has called us
to himself to be, listen now,
his sons and daughters.
And so, you that
are female today,
I want you to know,
this applies to you.
You may think of
yourself as a daughter,
rather than a son, but
when the Scripture says
that we've been predestined
to the Father as sons,
he's speaking to you daughter.
He's speaking to you,
beautiful daughter.
You're in the Son.
As a daughter.
So again, son is a general word
and it includes
both his daughters
and his sons.
We've been predestined as
sons, in Verse number Five,
through Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the kind
intention of his will,
to the praise of the
glory of his grace,
which he freely bestowed
on us, get it now,
in the Beloved.
Who's the Beloved?
The Beloved is the Son.
The Beloved is Jesus.
And it says in him, who's
the him in Verse Seven?
The in him is Jesus.
In him, we have redemption
through his blood,
the forgiveness
of our trespasses,
according to the
riches of his grace.
And so from the very beginning,
the whole plan of God
was to adopt you and I
to himself through Jesus.
That he would become our Father.
That Father God would
become our Father.
He adopted us in his
only begotten Son,
in Jesus.
So that we're now in Jesus.
And even as Jesus
knows God as Father,
now that you and I are adopted
to the Father in Jesus,
the call of God on
our life is that
you and I would
know him as Father.
This is the aim, beloved church,
of the Gospel.
The final call of the
Gospel is that you and I
would come to know
God as our Daddy
and as our Father.
And knowing this, beloved,
our hearts should melt
and be humbled, become
child-like again.
That we would
begin to cry out as
the Book of Romans
tells us, Abba Daddy.
We begin to call out
to God as our Father.
I want to encourage you
to humble your heart.
To begin to call out to
God like a child would.
God, thank you for
being my Daddy.
Thank you God for
being my Father.
Thank you for being my Daddy.
Help me to soften
my heart, Abba.
Help me to begin to relate
to you like a child again.
Help me know you as Daddy.
Help me to know you as Abba God.
This beloved one, is the
goal of Father for your life.
And if you and I can move
out of self-dependence,
and out of pride, into this
posture of being a child,
so that we can begin
to know God as Daddy.
Trust in his love.
See God for who he is.
He is the glorious,
Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end.
If we can see God in his glory,
and understand that we're the
children of his own loins,
then we would know that
he's, his DNA is in us.
I'm telling you, that will solve
every identity
issue that you have.
I'm gonna pick up
on this further,
but let me say this to you.
When you look in the Scriptures,
and you see how
people are identified.
You look, for example,
at the genealogies
throughout the Word of God,
everybody is known
by their Father.
In other words, even in
the Gospel of Matthew,
the Gospel of Luke when
we see the genealogies,
what we read is so
and so, get it now,
is the son of so and so.
And so and so is the
son of so and so.
I'm gonna show you this
again in the weeks ahead,
we'll actually go there.
But the question
is, why is a person
not just referred to as,
you know, who they are?
In other words, if your name is
Jill or if your name is Ken,
and your last name is Wallace,
why does the Scripture
not just refer to you
as Jill Wallace or Ken Wallace,
instead of saying Jill
the son of so and so,
or the daughter of
so and so, of course,
I spoke about the gender issue.
Or Ken, the son of so and so.
In the Scripture, people
are always identified
by who their father is.
Why?
Because we can only
find our identity,
beloved one, when we
know who our Father is.
And when you and I come
to know God as our Father,
we're gonna, beloved
one, discover who we are.
So, with this being said,
understanding how imperative,
and how we need to
begin to focus on this.
How we need to shift
our prayer language.
How we need to make
this an intense
focus of our prayer life
and our walk with God.
That we begin to
call out to God,
God reveal yourself
to me as Abba.
Father, let me know your love.
This can only come, by the way,
through revelation.
I can't reveal God
to you as Father.
God can use me.
But only the Holy
Spirit, only Jesus,
can reveal God to you as Father.
In fact, Jesus said this.
He said no one knows the
Son except the Father.
And then Jesus said, get it now,
Jesus said, and no
one knows the Father
except the Son,
and whomever the Son
chooses to reveal him to.
And so, Jesus is the way.
We should be saying
Father reveal
yourself to me through Jesus.
Jesus, reveal Father to me.
And if you'll make this a focus
in your life that
you'll work at.
In other words, you
need to work at this.
Sometimes this revelation
will come in an instant.
I know that even
as I'm preaching
through the course
of this series,
knowing Father as God.
Knowing who Father is.
I know that many of
you are going to be
encountered by Father, by
Jesus through the Holy Spirit.
And the Father's gonna
reveal his love to you.
You're gonna know God as Father.
It's gonna happen
just like that.
But for others of you, what's
gonna happen beloved one,
is that it's gonna
happen little by little.
Either way it's the same.
What makes a difference is
that you get the revelation.
So I want to encourage you.
Don't just let this be a
series of sermons to you.
I want you to focus on this.
I want you to pray about this.
I want you to begin to call
out to God as your Daddy.
I want you to begin
to cry out to him
from the depths of your heart,
saying Father God, please
reveal your love to me.
Father let me know
you as my Daddy.
Jesus reveal the
love of Father to me.
Church, when we get this,
beloved child of God,
when you get this
I'm telling you,
it will change
everything for you.
All your relationships
will change.
I look forward to being
with you next week.
I encourage you to get
this entire series.
In Jesus name, God bless you.
And I love you.
Shalom.
