God The Father | The Father Who Brings Us Home
About this series:
‘The First Person is commonly called "Father" because he is the initiator and source of heaven's love. In biblical times, a father was seen as the source of life in a family (as the begetter) and also as the source of provision and leadership to sustain and give identity to the family…Some Christians mistakenly imagine that the name “Father” refers to some kind of “inner biology” within the Godhead…Father is the preeminent title for the First Person primarily because it teaches us that he is the source of all the Trinity’s purposes’ (Ryken & Lefebvre).
The truth that God is our Father and we are his children is one of the most precious things we can ever contemplate. J. I. Packer wrote: ‘To be right with God the judge is a great thing. But to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater…Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers; higher than justification…adoption is the apex of redemptive grace and privilege’.
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