Our Father
(Mt6:9, 18:18-20)
God is our Father.
He gives birth to His children in His blood (1Pe1:23), and
Nurtures them all inside one sheep pen (Ac20:28).
Faith is believing Him, and
The life of this faith is experiencing this fact.
The concept of "we or "our includes
A sense of likeness and of community:
"Our country, "our people, "our company, "our house, "our church, "our Lord Jesus Christ etc.
Consequently, it allows one to even sacrifice his life for it.
"Our Father in heaven?
We who are born on earth and will return to the dust of the earth, and
He who is in heaven have
Nothing in common in terms of our essence and conditions.
However, for God to be our Father,
His dispensation of having the sense of likeness and of community with us began
By making man a living being (Ge2:7).
Then, through one man's sin
All men died, becoming one in the fate of death (Rm5:12; 1Co15:21).
God sent Moses who once was a prince of Egypt
To lead the people of Israel out of Egypt and into the desert where
They would eat the same manna and drink the same water from the rock ”
Making a model of community.
In the sanctuary which God commanded them to build was
Jehovah, the name of the Lord God who brought them out of Egypt (2Ch6:5).
Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,
He would give birth to the souls of men for
He came as the Son of God, the Son of Man (Mt16:16, 20:28):
While "the Son of God refers to His essence of holiness, indicating the sense of difference from men.
"The Son of Man refers to His duty of coming as man, the sense of likeness with men.
As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Became the Mediator between God and man, fulfilling the Father's will from the beginning (1Ti2:5);
2) Condemned the devil the divider (1Jn3:8); and
3) Tasted death for Adam's sin sharing in humanity, and sprinkled His blood giving birth to His children (Ge2:17; He2:9, 14-18; 1Pe1:23).
Jesus rose and ascended to the heavenly throne, and
He is the Father of all souls.
The Holy Spirit comes to those who
Received His name Yeshua (Jn1:12) and
Lets them call Him, "our Father (Rm8:14-16) for:
1) His blood is in them ” the sense of likeness; and
2) He was tempted like them ” the sense of community (He4:15).
The church gathered in His name (Mt18:18-20) has
The sense of community of
Christ Jesus in heaven and the brothers on earth.
Thus when one member is suffering the others feel the same suffering, and
When one member is in sorrow, the others are also in the same sorrow (Eph5:30).
Together they loose on earth and
It is loosed in heaven.
Our Father in heaven!
Our Father!
The more we call, the more our hearts fill up with tears.
Let us always call on You, Father, and
Be one with one another.
Take hold of us, our Father! Amen.
