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God Is a Family

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God Is a Family

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Discover how God is a family and we are part of that family. Learn four attributes of that God family.

Sermon Notes

Notes:

 

How would we respond if someone questioned whether God is a family?  That is a special revelation to us and God’s people know what their destiny is.

 

  1. We are of the God kind.

 

Gen. 1:21-26 → We get the pattern that all animals are created alike, we are also created according to God’s kind and image.

 

Gen. 5:3

 

Gen. 1:

 

God wanted to have a relationship with humans right from the beginning.

 

Trinitarians believe that

 

Sabbath was right from the beginning of the Bible, God rested on the Sabbath day.  So many look at the Bible in their own worldview.

 

Rom. 6:23 → Wages of sin is death.  People believe in an immortal soul, though.  Paul says that no homosexuals will be in the Kingdom.

 

Psalms 17:15 → God is reproducing HImself.  When we are resurrected, we will really be like God.

 

I John 3:2 → We will be like God at that time.

 

  1. The Bible is full of family references.

 

The brother relationship we have with Christ.

 

Rom. 8:29 → We are Christ’s brothers and sisters, we will be like him.

 

Bible also used the father/son relationship.  God has a plan and a destiny for us.  People try to throw in the Holy Spirit as a separate being.

 

Matt. 3:17 → God speaking of Jesus.  Not only is Jesus the son, but so are we.  God is also our Father.

 

  1. A family shares a family name.

 

Eph. 3:14 → God is placing that family name.

 

Gen. 1:1 → In the beginning, God created the earth.

 

God is Elohim which is a uni-plural name.  God can have multiple members, God the Father and God the son.  We all that name.

 

Rev. 3:12 → How we will get God’s name and a new address, Jerusalem.

 

We are to be the bride of Christ.  We will be given the name of God.

 

Eph. 5:22 → We will be the bride of Christ, we will be the groomsmen.  Husband is head of the wife and Christ is head of the church.

 

Husbands ought to love their own wife as their own body.

 

The very marriage institution here on Earth shows us the eternal institution.  We are formed in family.  

 

Satan wants to break of the family through divorce or redefine the family.

 

Eze. 16:4-14→ Israel nation started out as nothing, without God they would have perished.  God describes how He wanted things to be with Israel, but they ran away and didn’t want to be part of it.

 

Eze. 16:60 → He will remember the covenant with them.  The is shows the love He has for us.  

 

  1. Parents will leave an inheritance for their kids.

 

Parents will leave physical things as well as their values.

 

Psalms 8:4 → We are going to receive an inheritance from our father.

 

Heb. 2:8

 

Isa. 9:7 → There will no end.  God’s Kingdom will continue to expand.

 

God’s government started with God and Jesus Christ, then will grow with first fruits, then with those in the Great White Throne Judgment.  

 

We want our children to have everything.

 

Rev. 20:4 → We are in a royal family.  The king passes on his rulership to His son.


Angels were not made in the image of God.  God did not create us to become like angels, but be like Him.  We are lower than the angels now, but that will not be like that in the future.