(This sermon continues the sermon begun on Father's Day, June 15, 2008)
Those whom the Father has adopted by faith in Jesus Christ are His Sons, and He is our Father.
Though in our own strength we can never achieve the obedience and perfections expected of a son, yet the Father has clothed us with the perfection of His Son the Lord Jesus, and we are accepted in the Beloved.
God our Father acts towards us always as a real father toward His sons. He graciously provides for us what is good for us, and within His will, what we desire.
What a shame that believers don't call upon the Father as Jesus instructed us. He knows how to give good gifts to them that ask Him! It must grieve the Father when we fail to cry out to Him as a son ought to his father.
The Father will not give us hurtful things, even if we feel they would be best for us. Unlike earthly fathers, God the Father is not limited in His resources or power to provide for us, nor is He ignorant of what is truly best for us. We think we know best, but the Father knows best, not the sons.
In our society, too many fathers fail to discipline their sons, and sorrow and wickedness are the results.
But God our Father disciplines us because we are His sons and He loves us. That discipline is to make us partakers of His holiness and receive the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
The Devil would convince us that the pleasures of this world are most desirable, but the Father disciplines us to our true profit, even if we don't believe it now.
The Lord's Table displays the Father's love for us, especially in our trials and disciplines in this world. He spared not His own Son for us, hallelujah!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...