Good Good Father

Pastor Sam welcoming you to victory today. I'm going to share with you a message that I preach recently.

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Listen to the word of the Lord, and I will be off father undo you and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty Jesus came in the world.

He shocked the religionist of his day by calling God his father. He said the father had sent me.

He said the father and I are one.

No one knows the father only the son now in the Old Testament, God was known by many names to his ancient people.

Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 he said my name is Elohim the plural of magic Misty.

He talked about being L. Shaddai, the all sufficient God, the God who is more than enough. He said you can call me Yahweh. That's the unspeakable holy name of God you can call me at the lanai that means master. He identified himself as Jehovah Gyro or as they would say in Hebrew, Jehovah gearing all he was saying is that I am the God who sees your needs and I will provide for the Jehovah said could move the Lord our righteousness.

Job look at is the God who sanctifies us, Jehovah, mixing our banner. Our side of conquest Jehovah raw for our healer, Joel Rowley, our shepherd Jehovah shalom are pleased and Jehovah show mom the God who chooses to dwell among his people, but nobody ever called God his father until Jesus came on the same and said when you pray, pray like this are father who art in heaven. It was in the name of the father that Jesus performed miracles, Jesus healed the multitudes without medicine and made no charge for the services he made the lame to walk, because the deaf to hear the dog to speak.

Jesus turned water into wine. He walked on the water. Jesus performed miracles and he was anointed by the Holy Spirit. Bible says in acts 1038 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil before chapter the book of Luke verse one is is a Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit.

Verse 14 says there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. He returned in the power of the Holy Spirit. Verse 18 is in the synagogue and he says the spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to heal the sick and the set the captives free. But he said I've done all these things in the name of the father and after almost every miracle he performed. He lifted his eyes toward heaven, and he said something like this.

Thank you father for hearing me when I pray I know you always hear me, he preach the good news in the name of the father. He brought hope to the hopeless. He helped the helpless everywhere he went he rescued the perishing because he preached this good news. How many of you received the good news of the golf it's good news because it means that we have eternal life. It's good news because it means that we have passed from death on the life it's good news because our names have been written back down in the labs book of life. Hallelujah. Only God can do that.

But then he would say something like this only say what I hear my father say and not only do what I see that he does Jesus Christ went to the cross. But before he was crucified between two thieves. He said therefore.my father love me because I lay down my life that I might take it a gentleman take it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down in our power to take it again.

This commandment have I received of my father, first John chapter 4 numbers about this last week. It says in this was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him hearing his love, not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. The Bible says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, but it also says in Galatians 4 that in the fullness of the time, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them the right of the law that we might receive the adoption of son and because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his son into your heart. Crying alba father you're no longer a servant but a son, and it was son been an heir of God through Jesus Christ and you and I can say about father. He is our father. Could you save me now look at this again just for a moment, now every time I think about God the father.

I have to think about my earthly father and I had a wonderful earthly father.

He's gone home to be with the Lord now and I'm missing but I can tell you that he was a good father he loved me he loved all of his children. He loved my mother.

He was a good provider. My dad was a good listener.

He was a disciplinarian.

Sometimes we wonder why God reprocessed the word of God says that only a father who loves his children will discipline them or reprove them and sometimes God has to correct a statement, but he still loves us but with all that said, I know that my father was human and he made mistakes my heavenly father never makes mistakes and he never fails, somebody amen. And God said what you're thinking about it. Think about the spirit that I put in your heart when you became you know, unlike some people I had to wait for 17 years to become a father and when God finally made that happen for me. It changed my life forever.

I had a love in my heart for our daughter like none other. I had never loved anybody or anything. The way that I loved her, and over the years as I saw her grow. I was her protector. I was your friend I was your confidant I can remember the first time a little boy broke her heart. She had little boyfriend and they were about eight years old and she really liked him. He said he really liked her but he decided one Sunday he would stick with another little girl in church and are and she came home with big tears running down her cheeks and she said daddy. He doesn't like me anymore. He likes Susie know what I thought first thing I'm little break his legs. Now isn't that something here I am in my 40s and I'm going to break at eight-year-old legs because he rejected my daughter. I loved her that much. I realize I know I'm over exaggerating a little bit. I did you break his legs, but I I had such a love for her that I wanted to protect her. I didn't want her to cry. I didn't want her to feel bad over the years I've seen her.

And I thought Lord, if I could take that pain for her I would do that cannot tell you something 750 years before Christ was even born in Bethlehem's major our father said I'm willing to reject my son willing to allow him to suffer so that sons and daughters can be born into the kingdom of God, willing to allow him to pay the ultimate price just so that I can have many sons and daughters and don't ever deny God the right to work in your life, because he always has your best interest at heart. In fact, the word of God says that if he gave his son Jesus house shall he also not with him freely give us all things Peter said according to his divine power is given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. He said that he would not reject us, but that he would give to us the very desires of our heart. Years ago somebody told me there's a day coming in your life when you will have everything you want. I said really everything I want. He said that's right when he said the only problem is this your heart has to be right before God and you have to delight the Lord in your ways and what he said to me, basically. Was this you can have everything that you want when you get to the place that God is all you will and God said when you get to that place with me. I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing when you get to that place with me. I will supply every spiritual, emotional, physical, financial and material me that you have in your life.

No wonder Paul said but my God shall supply all according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

This morning I don't know what you need, but I could tell you that if God had to take up the streets of gold would sell the walls of Jasper and the gates of pearl and mortgage. The mansions of heaven and put all the angels own half-price ship.

Whatever God have to do. He would do it for his children and God said, you are sons and daughters, Sarah thought Lord Almighty. It's time for you to know who you are. You are a child of God and as such you are a precious treasure here is site big man turned the somebodies that you going to blow that whistle retired copyright governor still got his whistle you gave me one, but my granddaughter took a little with Quintin, but I want you to turn to somebody say make you don't know who I am and then tell them I am a child of God.

Now go ahead and give God praise you. Glory to God. God is my provider.

God is my provider if even the evil Jesus said, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly father give good things to them that asking Jesus said, little flock, it is the father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Every good and every perfect gift is from above, become of them from the father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning everything that you need. God has and he's willing to give it to you. Jesus said in John 15 abide in me, and if you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask what you will and it shall be done for you by my father in heaven. Jesus also said Doug about the Holy Spirit. He said I will pray the father will give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever, even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive a call to see if they're not even know that you know imported well it's with you, and shall be in you, so that everything that you need to make you holy happy and healthy. God will give it to you because you are a child of God is a muscle. I'm going through a tough time with God now I'll tell you where is his words always be standing right by his word.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Having no extra knowledge of what happens it happens because we live in a world that is cursed because of the sin of Adam. The world has been cursed. Everything about you could get in your car. This afternoon go drive to see somebody in the next thing you know a crazy person that's drunk could run a stop light and hit you broadside in it. You know what I talk about letters as they make as it happened last Sunday and so I'm telling you we live in a world that is cursed the things that we even break even the air we breathe these things can sometimes work against us because there are carcinogens in our food and in our air and in the soil doesn't mean that you should pray over your meal and ask the Lord to sanctify. That's what the Bible says it's just you're going too far. When you ask God to take the calories of the banana split, but have everything around us is cursed and that's why bad things happen, but when they happen. Listen to what the word of the Lord says God says that he's near to those whose hearts are breaking God will move in close to you.

In fact, you'll never be closer to God child of God, that when you're hurting and when you're going through the valley of the shadow of death, and when you're experiencing some trial. The Bible says in first Corinthians 1013 there is no temp Tatian network dictatorship doesn't just mean the temptation to sin. What it means is a trial which he's talking about vicissitudes he's talking about challenges in life. He said there's no difficulty like that is taken you but such as is common to man were all in the same boat were all tested world drive but he said God will also provide a way with that temptation with that difficult for you to overcome.

You will either find that God strengthens your bank or God will make a way to escape, but God will always bring you through your difficulties. He promised to make all grace abound toward us that we always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. God said it is work now and him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, there is a power work and get you child of God that will cause you always got trial through Jesus Christ because you are more than a conqueror going always provide for you even even if he has to use the devil to do it during the depression. There was a godly woman had several children. She was a widow and she ran out of groceries. Anybody here ever been there run out of food. You just don't know what you're going to do because you don't have money to buy food. And nowadays I'm so glad tell you that we have a food pantry and a clothes closet and there were many other churches that are doing that and the government has program so we live in a country where where where there's a safety net. But back then in the depression. Everybody was in trouble she brought out a food run out of groceries, run out of money and she was a praying woman and she went out on her porch depression. She didn't care word. She was like Daniel, she prayed all God, I want you to provide for my family and Lord, this is what we needed.

She gave God her grocery list. She said Lord I made a gallon of milk I need a dozen eggs and she went home and told God what you need to make breakfast lunch and dinner and she said no God in order for me to feed my children this week. This is how much I think this is the quantity that I made all there was an atheist next door and he was tired of hearing her paren he went down to the grocery store and bought everything on her list. Put it on the porch so the next morning when she came out to pray there was. She went through it like a kid at Christmas. All Lord I thank you for the gallon of milk. Lord I thank you for bacon and eggs. Lord I thank you because you gave me some roast beef. Thank you Lord just like I asked you if you gave me some onions and potatoes it and she went down the list and the man came out of his house and walked around her porch and said hey stop play I want to tell you the one that bought the groceries and I don't even believe in God. She never stopped.

She said I thank you God for giving me what I may use it… Go what I've written types, God will supply your knee. You believe that saving our father is our provider but father has given to us, something that money cannot buy. He's given to us eternal life, Jesus.

They did like this. John 1028 are given to them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my I have in my possession eternal life. I don't get it when I die, I got it right. How many of you have eternal life right now you know if something were to happen right now in your heart stop beating.

Where would you go I would go into the arms of God. Absent from the body present with the Lord.

I would live with the Lord forever in eternity in a place where every step is a thrill in every moment is a Jubilee in every home is imagined. Every person is a holiness man and woman blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection going to a place where God solves every problem that comes doing I'm going to a place that God has prepared and I have eternal life right now how many of you have somebody that has gone on to be with the Lord limits again.

Somebody you knew they love God and the other no I look around his congregation and obvious seeing some people that were faithful they love God they serve God. They prayed in this altar, they would fast when we fasted, they would read their Bible. They would come home Wednesday night. They were involved in ministry they serve the Lord and God called him home. I miss them but there is a much better place. My daddy used to say it like this. He says son have an eight second best to nothing and that's a man, it was still a spinal meningitis, cancer and leukemia. He knew what it was to be healed, but when he was in his last days he told me said.ever think that heaven is second best at anything going to a place.

The Lord is prepare force, but we miss them right.

But the truth is that we were never intended to stay on this earth forever, the way we are. We were born in sin. David said I was shaping exam and iniquity in sin did my mother conceive me these bodies of ours are corruptible, but we are going to have bodies that are incorruptible. There Solomon weakness but they will be raised in power. There's only dishonor but raise the glory soma natural body but raised a spiritual body. And while I'm enjoying the journey and I love being your pastor and I love living in Richmond Virginia. I gotta tell you where I'm going is better than where I'll be. Jesus said let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in late for in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would've told you can't go to prepare a place for you to find a place for you. He said will come again and receive you and myself that while I am there may be also calendar on Jesus.

One of these days I'll bet you I need to see him face-to-face. I've never single as much as I love you and as long as I've served. I've never seen him and I don't think it's really that important, so much that will auto roll did have blue eyes or brown eyes. You have dark skin that was her first. You have long hair shortly here.

Who gives a whole week a man.

The truth is he came and that's all it matters that matter. Please beautiful or ugly.

Didn't matter what he looked like in this place. It didn't matter what is the color of his skin.

I don't think it matters how tall he was or how Shorty was whether he was theater fat doesn't matter to me at all that matters is that God sent his son. This was a kindness to get beside that was was while they found me for some people think Jesus had a flattop world buzz, blue eyes, and some people think Jesus had natural and that he was a black man. Some people think that Jesus was draped in the flag and he was the all about the establishment. Some people think they're so religious that KC outside of their religion. They think Jesus had to be my religion. He was a Baptist, Jesus was a Methodist Jesus was an Episcopalian. Jesus was a Presbyterian. I won't tell you.

Jesus wasn't in a denomination. He was the way the truth and the life. He was the word of God and man. We made all the denominations, not Jesus got somebody was the very son of God, fully God and fully man, but he died on that cross so that you and I could have a term applied cannot just combine a report to you God and God had hallelujah glory to God. One of these days on those seeking Wendy's as close as I retain my filter woke up on the lowest time in my life. When we lost a son, and I was all alone in church praying we had a large group of people that prayed every morning. Up until that time and I don't know people are fickle people say well I don't know what to say so I'm just not come around or I don't know, I might say the wrong thing and I was expecting the church be full that morning, 6 o'clock I come in on only one there I got on my knees to pray and I'm more complaining than I am praying and I'm criticizing God nothing God allow know that you didn't do this with your great and mighty and you could've stopped it.

So you must be complicit with the devil and I don't understand what's going on here and in my pain and perplexity. I could hear walking up behind me hallelujah I was. I was just frozen in place, but I could feel all blessed. Gotta feel it right. I could feel him lay his hand on my shoulder. I didn't turn around look, but he was in the house tops.

McCann said to my spirit. Everything is gonna be all right six-month from that time we adopted the most beautiful brown not baby girl you ever saw Robin going over Jesus.

Ever since then.

I'm going to see my son as soon as I passed through the gates of hell that God is still God hallelujah is still a good good father call somebody began with a special prayer for you. I pray today that God will bless you and encourage you and that what you've heard today will stay with you and you will be able to walk out your thank you so much for being a part of victory today for more information. I want you to go for a website that's victory tab.border policy or at 804-744-8881.

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