Father’s Day is approaching and we have a great opportunity to redeem ourselves from this feast. I see three ways we can do this:
(3) share the gospel by talking about God’s fatherhood.
- We’ll address every point in an article.
- Today we address the third point.
- Bringing a text that you can read and share with your friends to evangelize them.
- Consider having lunch/dinner with your family to testify of Christ.
Norman Fried, in writing about the value of fatherhood, recognizes that feelings about Father’s Day are varied.
For some of us, [Father’s Day] is an anxious day, because we remember the man who couldn’t be there when we needed him, or the man who isn’t there now when we need him most. The day fosters feelings of gratitude to honor the times when we had our father by our side. There are some of us who have never met our own father; others who have not yet separated from him have never had to learn to say goodbye. Regardless of our individual history, we all remember each year on this day how important parenthood is; how lives are formed and paths forged, under the direction and direction of an older and wiser man.
It doesn’t matter what your relationship with your father is; whether it’s a constant and loving relationship, cold and distant, or even if you haven’t even had contact with your father: his presence or absence has had one of the greatest influences on the person you are today. Today, whatever the word means to you, I would like to introduce you to the Father of Fatherhood: God [Ephesians 3:14-15].
God, being the Creator of all things, has chosen almost unimaginable paths for us to reveal ourselves to humanity, imagine that you are a painter and that in each of your works you reveal a characteristic of your character and personality, God did this, alone used all of his creation. For example, to reveal his greatness to man, God created the universe to be colossal in size (then you just multiply that size by infinity, and perhaps get closer to the size of God). or, to reveal His beauty, He created all things with incomparable perfection, not as works of art made of paint or stone, but with subatomic molecules, isotopes, grains of sand, oceans, mountains, planets, stars, galaxies, matter black; absolutely everything, whether concrete as the human body or abstract as joy. Everything that God has done, he has done very well, to reveal himself in his works.
In the same way, he created fatherhood. At first, God used the family to reveal himself to the world. He used the patriarchs (Greek: patér, pai arche, first) to demonstrate through them the kind of relationship he intended for his people. God’s purpose was for the relationship between a father and his son to represent his relationship with all those whom he calls his son.
God the Father has always lived in full communion with God the Son, the one who was incarnating himself at a certain point in history, but who nevertheless already existed before all matter existed [Jn 1:1-3; 8:58].
Is Jesus called by the Bible? [John 3:16], that is, the one Son. The big question few people ask themselves is: if Jesus is the only son, then God is not the father of all human beings?The obvious answer is that God is not the father of all human beings. Human beings, as well as animals, plants, and all who are on earth, are only a creature of God, made only in their image and likeness. Despite the famous saying “I am also a child of God”, nowhere does the Bible imply that every human being is a child of God. . Christ is the only Son.
Jesus, despite all the censorship that surrounds him today, said shocking things about human beings. An example can be found in John 8:42-44:
If God were, in fact, your father, you would surely love me; because I come from God and here I am; because I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me. [?] You’re the devil, who’s your father?
Now, to say that every human being is not a child of God is good, but that every human being is the son of the devil?
It turns out that everything God created was very good, but Adam had the opportunity to choose between a life of obedience to God and an eternal life with full joy in the presence of the Father, or disobedience and death accordingly. from whom we all descend, we chose disobedience and, in doing so, ended their disobedience [Romans 5:19]. We were all born morally depraved. Unable to love God or desire to have a relationship with Him, we can love a god we have created in our imagination, but the One True God is abhorrent to us [Romans 1:30]. We are all evil, because even Our good deeds are done for selfish reasons.
One of the most wonderful things about God’s fatherhood is that he is the adoptive Father. Despite our depravity, God decided to redeem himself from the human beings he would later call children. But since God is a good God, how could He forgive disobedient beings like us? If a judge releases a criminal after asking for forgiveness, is that judge a good judge or a bad judge? Obviously, he is a bad judge. For God to redeem us, someone would have to pay our debt, which is literally endless. His only begotten Son, Jesus, took human form and paid the debt that was against us. All the punishment that fell to us fell on Jesus. All who receive Christ have the right to be called children of God [John 1:12]. These are born of God [John 1:13]. We receive the spirit of adoption, by which we can call him Father [Romans 8:15]. Through this adoption, we can inherit everything that children are entitled to [Romans 8:17; Matthew 7:11], the most important inheritance being: eternal life in full communion with God? Our father.
If God is your Father, do it today. If you still have no right to be called a son of God, give yourself completely to the lordship of the One Son. Remember that life is like a fog and that tomorrow may be too late.
With fear,
Alan Cristie