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

0:45 Speaker 2: Soul with John Gifta Podcast. The third Sunday of June

0:50 Speaker 2: is generally considered as the Father's Day. Keeping that in mind,

0:54 Speaker 2: I just thought that all through this week we will

0:56 Speaker 2: look at various aspects that we can learn about knowing

1:00 Speaker 2: God as a father. See many times we do deep

1:04 Speaker 2: dives studying about the nature of God or studying about

1:07 Speaker 2: the various names of God. Like if you see all

1:10 Speaker 2: through the Old Testament, we see that his name is

1:13 Speaker 2: the l Shadai or hello Him, and all of these

1:16 Speaker 2: different names Yllo, Rai and all of those names, and

1:19 Speaker 2: we go into deep dives, study a lot and all

1:22 Speaker 2: of that. It's great, but I want to understand that

1:25 Speaker 2: as a New Testament believer, understanding what Jesus did on

1:28 Speaker 2: the cross for you and for me, the best name

1:31 Speaker 2: that we can study and go deep and have a

1:34 Speaker 2: greater definition of understanding is the name that is knowing

1:40 Speaker 2: God has a father. See, I want you to understand

1:43 Speaker 2: something very important here. Like we may say this like, oh, okay,

1:47 Speaker 2: you know what. God is an almighty God. He's all powerful,

1:51 Speaker 2: He's able to do this, He's able to do that.

1:53 Speaker 2: All that is great. We have different names, we have

1:55 Speaker 2: different revelations, different understandings. There's a place for all of that.

2:00 Speaker 2: But I really recommend you to really introspect how is

2:03 Speaker 2: your walk with God in terms of understanding him as

2:06 Speaker 2: your heavenly father. See, when Jesus came in, he said,

2:10 Speaker 2: you know, when you talk to God, he didn't say

2:13 Speaker 2: say oh God or something like that. He said, our father,

2:17 Speaker 2: what in heaven? See. The primary name or the relationship

2:22 Speaker 2: that God wants to have with you and me is

2:25 Speaker 2: to know that He is your father and you're his child.

2:30 Speaker 2: 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

2:38 Speaker 2: by sharing one of my favorite scriptures. If you look

2:40 Speaker 2: at Romans eight, verse fifteen, it says for we have

2:43 Speaker 2: not received a spirit of bondage again to fear, but

2:48 Speaker 2: have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry abah Father, say.

2:53 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand something very important here right that

2:56 Speaker 2: when we think about the word father, we think of

2:59 Speaker 2: like how street figure of a father is. Now, if

3:02 Speaker 2: you see, sometimes in certain denominations, people have a reverence

3:06 Speaker 2: for the name father, or they're really scared of their father,

3:09 Speaker 2: maybe because their father was extremely strict, or he was

3:13 Speaker 2: a disciplinarian, and maybe you may be having that kind

3:16 Speaker 2: of an image of a father, like or he's small father,

3:19 Speaker 2: or you know something like that, like, oh, he is

3:22 Speaker 2: 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

3:29 Speaker 2: work on the Christ, we've been adopted as his children.

3:33 Speaker 2: And the word is specifically used, that word called abbah

3:38 Speaker 2: aba father. Okay, if you see in the original translation

3:42 Speaker 2: that Jesus spoke at that time Aramic, if you see

3:45 Speaker 2: the word Abbah refers to not just father like father

3:50 Speaker 2: or not like that strict figure of father, but rather

3:53 Speaker 2: a figure of God as daddy. Now, if you see,

3:57 Speaker 2: for example, the message version, he uses the word like,

4:00 Speaker 2: you get what I'm saying, Like, God is not just

4:04 Speaker 2: a strict figure of a father, but God is also

4:07 Speaker 2: your personal daddy. God, he's your daddy, like the way

4:11 Speaker 2: a little kid approaches her dad, the way a little

4:15 Speaker 2: boy approaches his dad, like, hey daddy, how is your day?

4:19 Speaker 2: Hey daddy, what do you want me to do? Hey?

4:21 Speaker 2: Like you know that kind of intimate, close proximity relationship

4:27 Speaker 2: that a little kid or a little child has with

4:30 Speaker 2: his or her daddy. That's the way God wants you

4:34 Speaker 2: to have the relationship with him, not from a strict

4:37 Speaker 2: figure of father, but rather from a very intimate close

4:41 Speaker 2: relationship as your old daddy. See. Now, sometimes what happens

4:46 Speaker 2: is people have maybe bad experiences. Maybe you could be

4:50 Speaker 2: someone like John. Maybe that works well for people who

4:53 Speaker 2: had good relationships with their father, maybe they had a

4:56 Speaker 2: good father growing up. But maybe you are watching or

5:00 Speaker 2: saying John, I didn't have a good relationship with my father,

5:04 Speaker 2: or I had an abusive father, or my father didn't

5:07 Speaker 2: take care of me, or my father didn't show that

5:09 Speaker 2: real love, or my father was very abusive, or my

5:12 Speaker 2: father was not even there for me, or whatever it is.

5:15 Speaker 2: You may have a negative experience of a father. But

5:20 Speaker 2: I wanted to listen, don't cling on to how your

5:23 Speaker 2: earthly father was, to try to understand how your avenly

5:26 Speaker 2: father is. Try to get to that place. If your

5:30 Speaker 2: earthly father was great, praise God for that. You can

5:33 Speaker 2: look at that and say, if my earthly father was

5:35 Speaker 2: so good, how much more good my heavenly father is.

5:38 Speaker 2: Or if my earthly father was there by my side,

5:41 Speaker 2: how much more my heavenly father is by my side?

5:44 Speaker 2: You can be happy. That will actually help you to

5:47 Speaker 2: understand the love of your evenly father better. But if

5:51 Speaker 2: your earthly father was abusive, not there for you, was

5:55 Speaker 2: always you know, a negative influence over your life, or

5:58 Speaker 2: always trying to sabbatize God's plan away life, and you

6:02 Speaker 2: have negative influences or negative understanding or negative experience with

6:08 Speaker 2: your earthly father, I want you to bifurcate the two.

6:12 Speaker 2: I want you to get to that place because the

6:13 Speaker 2: Bible says, if you see in Psalm twenty seven, verse ten,

6:17 Speaker 2: he says, even when your father and mother forsake you,

6:20 Speaker 2: the Lord will take you up. See. Sometimes even your

6:23 Speaker 2: earthly father, maybe he was a good man, but he

6:26 Speaker 2: could not show that love the way the heavenly Father

6:29 Speaker 2: should show unconditional love. Or maybe he had his own bondages,

6:33 Speaker 2: bandages or even certain things baggages that he has been carrying,

6:38 Speaker 2: or maybe there are things that he went through, or

6:40 Speaker 2: maybe that is who he is as an individual in

6:43 Speaker 2: terms of the way his approach through life is. Or

6:46 Speaker 2: maybe you know it was unfair, like he was always abusive,

6:51 Speaker 2: or he always went on the wrong side of things

6:54 Speaker 2: and things like that. But I wanted to understand no

6:56 Speaker 2: matter how your earthly father is and how your pedience

7:00 Speaker 2: with your earthly father as beIN today is a day

7:03 Speaker 2: you can say, God, help me not to have an

7:06 Speaker 2: idea of you or a view of you based on

7:09 Speaker 2: how my earthly father was. Help me to have my

7:12 Speaker 2: own relationship with you, my own revelation of who you

7:15 Speaker 2: are as my own daddy guard. And today when you

7:19 Speaker 2: have that idea that, like the Bible says in Romans eight,

7:22 Speaker 2: verse fifteen, or when you look at scriptures like Galatians four,

7:26 Speaker 2: 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

7:33 Speaker 2: into your hearts, crying a father. And even if you

7:37 Speaker 2: see Second Corinthians six eighteen, God is saying I will

7:40 Speaker 2: be a father unto you. So today I want you

7:43 Speaker 2: to have these scriptures grounded in your heart that you

7:46 Speaker 2: don't just think of God as like all the big

7:49 Speaker 2: names that we look at. And there's a place for

7:51 Speaker 2: all of that, but come back to that place where

7:53 Speaker 2: you know that by default mode, God is your daddy guard.

7:57 Speaker 2: God is your papa. God is one that you can approach,

8:01 Speaker 2: talk to him freely, and just know that if your

8:04 Speaker 2: earthly father was good, your heavenly Father is so much

8:08 Speaker 2: times good or better or the best. And if your

8:12 Speaker 2: earthly father wasn't the best, it's okay. God will give

8:16 Speaker 2: you the grace to have your own relationship with Him

8:19 Speaker 2: so that you understand the true love of an heavenly good,

8:23 Speaker 2: good Father. I really challenge you to share this with

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