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Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

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, 2014
ISBN: 9781577996101
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Is the reality and vitality of God’s fatherhood outside your experience? The wonderful news is that God isn’t like your father, no matter how good or bad he’s been. To call God “Father” isn’t an analogy; he’s not like a father—he is the one and only Father, of whom all earthly fathers and mothers are but poor reflections. In the face of Jesus you see him as he really is and he’s poured out his Spirit so that he’ll be your “Abba.” He’s come to open up your true destiny, the freedom of sonship.

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“True hope isn’t hanging on to see if God will triumph; it’s waiting in expectant faith to see the triumph of God revealed.” (source)

“And so embracing sonship is also waiting with eager expectancy for what God has promised—this is the New Testament meaning of hope. It’s not wishing for something that might possibly be; it’s waiting for that which must inevitably be—since, in one sense, it already is.” (source)

“our ‘chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever,’” (source)

“We can never be sure and settled in his love for us when we think our relationship with God is legalistic (i.e., we get what we earn) or when we think our Father’s affection for us is conditional (which drives legalism deep into us). We’re subject to a restless conscience and to the suspicion that God isn’t for us unless we earn his favor and keep ourselves in it.” (source)

“But his riches are ours only as the eyes of our hearts are enlightened and our spirits strengthened in faith. They’re ours only as we begin to comprehend the incomprehensible love of God for us. Then, and only then, do we begin to be filled with the fullness of God.” (source)

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