I Believe in God the Father
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
9/30/2018 AM
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Text:
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Romans 8;
Lord's Day 9
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Psalters: |
374, 145, 85, 347 |
- The idea.
- Fatherhood has always been in God – it did not begin in His being a Father to those He has chosen unto salvation.
- Fatherhood is a part of the essence of His being God – in the relationship of the First Person to the Second.
- Also, the Triune God is Father of the Mediator.
- To reveal His Fatherhood outside of Himself God created the heavens and the earth as the setting for this revelation.
- God made the heavens and the earth after the pattern of the heavenly.
- This sonship is the sonship of redemption, having been bought from the power of sin.
- There are four steps God took in making some sinful human to be His adopted children.
- First, He predestinated us unto the adoption of Christ by Jesus to Himself according to the riches of His. (Eph. 1:5).
- Then, in the fulness of time God sent His Son to redeem us, that we might receive the adoption of sons (Gal. 4:4,5).
- Then God’s Son gave His Spirit (the Spirit of adoption) to testify with our spirits that we are God’s children (Rom. 8:14-16).
- Our adoption is to be fully realized when we are glorified in heaven (Romans 8:23).
- The Father gives great promises to His children.
- He promises that His children are heirs of an inheritance of eternal glory in us (Rom. 8:17,18; I Peter 1:4).
- He promises that along the way to glory He will provide them with all the things needed for both body and soul (Phil. 4:19).
- God as Father promises to make whatever evils (bad things) He sends turn out to my advantage.
- How can we be sure and possess this great comfort?
- We can rely on our Father, in every circumstance of life, so entirely that we have no doubt.
- Because our Father is able and willing.