by Pastor Ian Toh
1. We find our identity in the Father's love
Who you are is more important, your soul is secure in the father's love. Whether you feel it or not
Our presence is a testimony of our living God
Enemy effort is all spent on deconstructing families
Your belief will lead to your behaviour
It is only in God's love can we establish that secure environment
What weighs on your heart, God cares also
Who are you is an identity question?
It is best answered by the thing we most identify with and that's our identity.
We do not let our occupation, our status defines us.
2. We find our community in the father's love
1 John 3:1-2
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
- Before space came into being, community already existed - God the Father, God the son, God the Holy Spirit
It sounds correct, alone hears only own voice, see God through their prayers, when we gather in community we see multifold wisdom, togetherness... We must be planted in as one community.
John 3:16
For God so loves the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
then comes 1 John 3:16
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
When our lives becomes praise, it becomes intimate....
Intellectual knowledge stays in the head.
Until it becomes personal knowledge there is no breakthrough
The father's love is expressed in community
3. We find strength in the Father's love
Ephesians 6:4
Fathers,[a] do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
God has been gracious and gentle with us. Do we want to parent with the father's love?
Jesus is the secret portal to the Father.
When we turn our eyes upon Jesus, the world grows strangely dim.
And the vision for the Father starts to radiates in our hearts
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