Are You Aquainted With God?

ARE YOU ACQUAINTED WITH GOD??

Ephesians 3: 14-19

Tonight Spiritually speaking, there are two kinds of Families here on Earth...

The Family of God and the family of satan.

And Every person no matter what their backgrounds are....belong to one of these families...AMEN...

Tonight Which Family do you belong to??

Who is your Father?? God or satan????

There’s only one way out from the family of satan and that’s to be born again into the family of God....

John 3:3 Jesus Said

Verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God......

So There it is.... as plain as it gets...

You have to receive Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and be born again in order to belong to the family of God,

And Call God your Heavenly Father....

Then once your born again, you will begin to grow spiritually as you get closer, and begin to develop your personal relationship with God...

And the number one way for us to get closer to the Father is through His Word..

We can’t understand God by our feelings

We understand Him by what His word says.

There’s lots of people that want to get acquainted with God through experiences..

And really you can learn some things about God through different experiences in life, But still the number one way to get to know Him is through The Word...

In God’s Word we find how the Father’s nature is always about His love for us

and In the Gospels, Jesus always presented God as a loving Father....

John 3:16 says:

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life....

John 16:27 says:

For the Father himself Loveth You,

because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God...

You gotta know that it was difficult for the Jews to understand what Jesus Christ was saying when He talked about a Father of Love....

See the Jews had only known God as a God of Law and justice..and that is one side of God...BUT...

Jesus Christ was presenting the Fatherhood side of God..He was presenting the very nature of the Father,...The Bible says:

in 1st John....

God is Love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him...

In the book of Matthew chap 6 it says;

Be not ye therefore like unto them....

(Which it’s talking about the gentiles)

For Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him...

AND Do not be like the world.....

And further it says...

Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet Your heavenly Father feedeth them.

Are ye not much better than they???

This is the perfect example of how our Heavenly Father..Takes care of us....

We need not worry about tomorrow..

God’s gonna take care of us...

We don’t have to worry about next week

God’s gonna provide every need for us..

Just about the time we think we can’t make it ....God shows us that He’s right there..

And in our reading it said....

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ....

Don’t you just love to get beyond the vail and have that discussion with your Heavenly Father????

And VS. 15 said:

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named...

This word family shows us that God isn’t made up of some harsh religion....that’s cold and clammy...AMEN

Once we are borned again...

We are a part of the Family of God...

Religion is something that’s harsh and cold..

But Christianity is a real and intimate relationship with our

Father in Heaven....AMEN

There’s so many Christians that have such a difficult time comprehending God as a Father who loves and cares for them...

God ain’t standing there with a hammer waiting for you to mess up..and then beat you over the head with it....

He’s right there waiting for you to ask Him to forgive you for the wrongs you’ve done

against Him....

He ain’t waiting for you to make a mistake

and there to give you your punishment...

It’s not like that....

God is Love....

I Thank God for His love, and understanding...and Jesus was sent to reveal this love to us....

Turn with me to the Book of Matthew...

6:31-33...Jesus Tells us more about the Father’s Love for us...

A lot of people are thinking that they should read that last line as,... these things shall be taken away from you...

They think that if they put God first,

they won’t ever have anything...

But guess what???

Jesus said the things you need will be added to you as you.....WHAT???