Is It Hard for You to See GOD as Father? Understanding Abba Father | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching | Father's Day Sermon

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0:43 Speaker 2: With John Gears the thefedition of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta Podcast. The third Sunday of June is generally considered as the Father's Day. Keeping that in mind, I just thought that all through this week we will look at various aspects that we can learn about knowing God as a father. See many times we do deep dives studying about the nature of God or studying about the various names of God. Like if you see all through the Old Testament, we see that his name is the l Shadai or hello Him, and all of these different names Yllo, Rai and all of those names, and we go into deep dives, study a lot and all of that.

1:22 Speaker 2: It's great, but I want to understand that as a New Testament believer, understanding what Jesus did on the cross for you and for me, the best name that we can study and go deep and have a greater definition of understanding is the name that is knowing God has a father. See, I want you to understand something very important here. Like we may say this like, oh, okay, you know what. God is an almighty God. He's all powerful, He's able to do this, He's able to do that. All that is great. We have different names, we have different revelations, different understandings.

1:58 Speaker 2: There's a place for all of that. But I really recommend you to really introspect how is your walk with God in terms of understanding him as your heavenly father. See, when Jesus came in, he said, you know, when you talk to God, he didn't say say oh God or something like that. He said, our father, what in heaven? See. The primary name or the relationship that God wants to have with you and me is to know that He is your father and you're his child. He's our heavenly father, and we are his own children.

2:35 Speaker 2: And so once you established that, I want to start by sharing one of my favorite scriptures. If you look at Romans eight, verse fifteen, it says for we have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear, but have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry abah Father, say. I wanted to understand something very important here right that when we think about the word father, we think of like how street figure of a father is. Now, if you see, sometimes in certain denominations, people have a reverence for the name father, or they're really scared of their father, maybe because their father was extremely strict, or he was a disciplinarian, and maybe you may be having that kind of an image of a father, like or he's small father, or you know something like that, like, oh, he is very strict and he's my father that I look up to.

3:25 Speaker 2: But I wanted to understand here, when Jesus finished a work on the Christ, we've been adopted as his children. And the word is specifically used, that word called abbah aba father. Okay, if you see in the original translation that Jesus spoke at that time Aramic, if you see the word Abbah refers to not just father like father or not like that strict figure of father, but rather a figure of God as daddy. Now, if you see, for example, the message version, he uses the word like, you get what I'm saying, Like, God is not just a strict figure of a father, but God is also your personal daddy.

4:08 Speaker 2: God, he's your daddy, like the way a little kid approaches her dad, the way a little boy approaches his dad, like, hey daddy, how is your day? Hey daddy, what do you want me to do? Hey? Like you know that kind of intimate, close proximity relationship that a little kid or a little child has with his or her daddy. That's the way God wants you to have the relationship with him, not from a strict figure of father, but rather from a very intimate close relationship as your old daddy. See. Now, sometimes what happens is people have maybe bad experiences.

4:49 Speaker 2: Maybe you could be someone like John. Maybe that works well for people who had good relationships with their father, maybe they had a good father growing up. But maybe you are watching or saying John, I didn't have a good relationship with my father, or I had an abusive father, or my father didn't take care of me, or my father didn't show that real love, or my father was very abusive, or my father was not even there for me, or whatever it is. You may have a negative experience of a father. But I wanted to listen, don't cling on to how your earthly father was, to try to understand how your avenly father is.

5:27 Speaker 2: Try to get to that place. If your earthly father was great, praise God for that. You can look at that and say, if my earthly father was so good, how much more good my heavenly father is. Or if my earthly father was there by my side, how much more my heavenly father is by my side? You can be happy. That will actually help you to understand the love of your evenly father better. But if your earthly father was abusive, not there for you, was always you know, a negative influence over your life, or always trying to sabbatize God's plan away life, and you have negative influences or negative understanding or negative experience with your earthly father, I want you to bifurcate the two.

6:12 Speaker 2: I want you to get to that place because the Bible says, if you see in Psalm twenty seven, verse ten, he says, even when your father and mother forsake you, the Lord will take you up. See. Sometimes even your earthly father, maybe he was a good man, but he could not show that love the way the heavenly Father should show unconditional love. Or maybe he had his own bondages, bandages or even certain things baggages that he has been carrying, or maybe there are things that he went through, or maybe that is who he is as an individual in terms of the way his approach through life is.

6:46 Speaker 2: Or maybe you know it was unfair, like he was always abusive, or he always went on the wrong side of things and things like that. But I wanted to understand no matter how your earthly father is and how your pedience with your earthly father as beIN today is a day you can say, God, help me not to have an idea of you or a view of you based on how my earthly father was. Help me to have my own relationship with you, my own revelation of who you are as my own daddy guard. And today when you have that idea that, like the Bible says in Romans eight, verse fifteen, or when you look at scriptures like Galatians four, verse six, which says that we are the sons of God.

7:30 Speaker 2: For God has said, for the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying a father. And even if you see Second Corinthians six eighteen, God is saying I will be a father unto you. So today I want you to have these scriptures grounded in your heart that you don't just think of God as like all the big names that we look at. And there's a place for all of that, but come back to that place where you know that by default mode, God is your daddy guard. God is your papa. God is one that you can approach, talk to him freely, and just know that if your earthly father was good, your heavenly Father is so much times good or better or the best.

8:11 Speaker 2: And if your earthly father wasn't the best, it's okay. God will give you the grace to have your own relationship with Him so that you understand the true love of an heavenly good, good Father. I really challenge you to share this with someone who needs to hear this word and leave a comment if you're checking this out on YouTube or Facebook, and I will see you back very soon.

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