GOD

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GODWhose Father Is He?

• One God and Father of all, who is above all, and
  through all, and in you all. Ephesians 46

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Introduction

• Many claim that GOD is their Father.
• How can we validate such a claim?
• Because they believe in God?
• Because they are religious?
• Because they pray to God?
• Because they do things in Gods name?
• Because they give Him credit?
• Because He is the God of all men?

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The God of all men?

• Is there a sense in which this is true?
• He is our Creator.
• Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our
  likeness let them have dominion over the fish of
  the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the
  cattle, over all the earth and over every
  creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God
  created man in His own image in the image of God
  He created him male and female He created them.
  Genesis 126,27

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Born Againthe Spiritual Birth

• First, one must be in Gods family.
• Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you,
  unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he
  cannot enter the kingdom of God. John 35
• Having been born again, not of corruptible seed
  but incorruptible, through the word of God which
  lives and abides forever. 1 Peter 123

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Two Possibilities

• Jesus said He was from above and not of this
  world.
• Those who rejected His will were from beneath
  and were of this world.
• And He said to them, You are from beneath I am
  from above. You are of this world I am not of
  this world. Therefore I said to you that you will
  die in your sins for if you do not believe that
  I am He, you will die in your sins. John
  823,24

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Father of Believers

• He is the Father of those who have true Bible
  FAITH.

• And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal
  of the righteousness of the faith which he had
  while still uncircumcised, that he might be the
  father of all those who believe, though they are
  uncircumcised, that righteousness might be
  imputed to them also. Romans 411

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Two Choices

• Will of God.
• Lusts of men.

• Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the
  flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind,
  for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased
  from sin, that he no longer should live the rest
  of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men,
  but for the will of God. 1 Peter 41,2

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Two Choices

• It is impossible to combine the two alternatives
  presented to us.
• No one can serve two masters for either he will
  hate the one and love the other, or else he will
  be loyal to the one and despise the other. You
  cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 624

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Two Choices

• It is impossible to combine the two alternatives
  presented to us.
• Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know
  that friendship with the world is enmity with
  God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of
  the world makes himself an enemy of God. James
  44

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Two Hearts

• The rebellious heart.
• The Devil is the ruler of this world.Now is
  the judgment of this world now the ruler of this
  world will be cast out. John 1231

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Two Hearts

• The rebellious heart.
• Description of those under His influence.You
  are of your father the devil, and the desires of
  your father you want to do. He was a murderer
  from the beginning, and does not stand in the
  truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
  speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources,
  for he is a liar and the father of it. John
  844

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Two Hearts

• The rebellious heart.
• Shares the devils basic disposition.And even
  as they did not like to retain God in their
  knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind,
  to do those things which are not fitting.
  Romans 128

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Two Hearts

• The receptive heart.
• Jesus had a loving receptiveness to Gods
  will.I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I
  judge and My judgment is righteous, because I do
  not seek My own will but the will of the Father
  who sent Me. John 530

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Two Hearts

• The receptive heart.
• Those who have God as their Father have this same
  attitude.For this is the love of God, that we
  keep His commandments. And His commandments are
  not burdensome. 1 John 53

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Differences Between the Two Possibilities

• The basic thing that distinguishes the person
  whose Father is above
• He is honestly willing to obey everything he can
  learn in order to obey Gods will.
• Ones attitude toward obedience determines the
  following

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Differences Between the Two Possibilities

• How much truth we are trying to understand.
• Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is
  truth. John 1717
• And with all unrighteous deception among those
  who perish, because they did not receive the love
  of the truth, that they might be saved. And for
  this reason God will send them strong delusion,
  that they should believe the lie, that they all
  may be condemned who did not believe the truth
  but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thess.
  210-12

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Differences Between the Two Possibilities

• Whether we are drawn toward the likeness of God,
  or the likeness of the devil!
• And this is the condemnation, that the light has
  come into the world, and men loved darkness
  rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
  For everyone practicing evil hates the light and
  does not come to the light, lest his deeds should
  be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to
  the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen,
  that they have been done in God. John 319-21
• NO ONE IS STANDING STILL!

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Concluding Thoughts

• Our basic disposition about obeying God has us
  headed in one direction or the other.
• Determine to obey ALL of Gods will.
• While we still have life, it is not too late to
  change direction.
• Romans 616-18

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Be Transformed!

• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which
  is your reasonable service. And do not be
  conformed to this world, but be transformed by
  the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
  what is that good and acceptable and perfect will
  of God. Romans 121,2

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Who Is Your Father?
God or the Devil