Matthew 6:9
“Therefore, you should pray like this:
Our Father in heaven, Your name be honored as holy.
One of the most incredible truths revealed in the Bible is that God wants us to know Him as our Heavenly Father! God is our “father” because we all have our ultimate origin in Him (see Ephesians 3:14-15). But even more than this, He wants us to know Him and experience Him as a compassionate, loving Heavenly Father who desires to find us, heal us, restore us and transform us into people who think and act as His beloved children.
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We first develop our view of God through our earthly fathers. Sadly, many people have had fathers who did not form a positive picture of Father God. Before we move on we want to consider two false views of God that do not represent the One True God revealed through Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 3:14-15
…. I bow my knees before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,…
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God…
Everything begins with God. “In the beginning God…” is the first words we hear in the Bible. In the beginning, God is active. In the beginning, God moves, speaks, creates. In the beginning of everything else, God has always been.
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The One True God has revealed the truth of His existence to us in creation, or nature. He has revealed His goodness in the message of the Bible. He has revealed His glory to us in the person of Jesus Christ. To understand who the One True God is, we must understand that He is first our loving and gracious Heavenly Father.
Jeremiah 10:10
But YHWH is the true God;
He is the living God and eternal King.
The MilktoMeat curriculum is designed to give you both the “diet” and “exercise” you need to grow spiritually mature. Today we will discuss the first of three Core Exercises: Hearing God’s Word, Seeing His Glory.
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Today, we talk about some of the “practical” things the Message of the Bible Does for us. Simply put, the Scriptures guide us in the hopeful way of true life.
Psalms 119:114
You are my shelter and my shield;
I put my hope in Your word.
2 Timothy 3:14–17
“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the Sacred Writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the person dedicated to God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”