Fatherhood of God

Acts 17:28“For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.” 

With Father’s Day coming this next Sunday, I thought it appropriate to find a message on our Heavenly Father. By knowing and understanding our position as a child of God, we translate the concept of the family unit relationship and love. One article points out that “the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man” was a religious cliché promoted for many years. However, continuing hostilities between and inside most nations now make the idea of universal brotherhood in this present world almost farcical.

Malachi 2:10“Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?” 

Good News though. The fact is, however, that God truly is the Father of all men and women, in the sense that He created them all. That was the rhetorical question posed to Israel in the last book of the Old Testament. In the New Testament the apostle Paul confirmed the same great truth to the pagan Gentiles. “[Creator, Father God] has made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth,” and “we are the offspring of God” Acts 17:26, 29. The author clarifies that the sad fact is, however, that most men and women have actually become “children of the wicked one”Matthew 13:38because of sin. Bu5 the gospel truth is that we can become spiritual children of the heavenly Father by being “born again” through faith in Christ. This is not just redemption, forgiveness, reconciliation and salvation; it includes adoption into the family of God. We then truly “become the sons and daughters of God,” as assured to all those who “believe on his name” John 1:12.

 

Matthew 6:9“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.”

Bottom line: Now we believers can all rejoice in the wonderful truth that we have the same heavenly Father. We have been “renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, . . . but Christ is all, and in all”

Colossians 3:10-11.

Blessings