Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Is God your heavenly Father, or is the devil your father?

When we do not abide in truth- we do not have a heavenly Father, but rather a devil for a father.

They thought God was their heavenly Father. They believed the same heavenly Father of Abraham was their heavenly ancestor. They laid claim to Jesus' Father, as being their Father and yet they did NOT believe in truth.

Joh 8:41  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Joh 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Joh 8:45  And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Joh 8:46  Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
Joh 8:47  He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

They believed and they were wrong.  They believed and they rejected the truth.  They were raised to believe. Their entire lives from infancy to adulthood was spent learning of God and yet all their learning meant nothing because it was based upon the lies they wanted to believe, not truth.

The letter of the law DOES NOT SAVE ANYONE!  They lost sight of this! Even with all the animal sacrifices of their religion going on daily they lost sight of the needed sacrifice, they lost sight of the LOVE in all the rituals, the love of one for another. The love of God for them- they lost sight of this.

Jesus was revealing God the FATHER to them, He was revealing Him in person to everyone and they didn't even recognize this because to them God the Father was not about love, He was about rituals and sacrifice.  God was for people who would love- Him and others.  But this was lost sight of along the way.

Jesus wanted all to know this LOVE.
Jesus came to reveal all this LOVE.

The people claiming to know God didn't even recognize God's Son, they didn't recognize God's love.

Today people claim to know God, but how many of them wouldn't really recognize God's son, God's love? Would you, would I?

How many of us have the devil as our Father and not God even though we believe God is our Heavenly Father. 

Lusts, murder, no truth, lies, are you familiar with any of these? The men Jesus was talking to- were they murderers? Liars? Consumed by their lusts? Not in their own minds. They were not guilty of anything they followed their laws to the letter. How many of us today follow the letter of the law, and consider ourselves to be upstanding, honest, hardworking, caring, truthful people, just like they believed of themselves?  We need LOVE in all, we need CHRIST in all! 

We need HIS righteousness! We need HIS love. May we KNOW YOU HEAVENLY FATHER! You are our all in all!

May we not be deceived by our own selves. Open our eyes, our hearts all to YOU and YOUR LOVE as YOU revealed to us in Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our LORD now and forever!!!!!!!

Please, Father, please!

Thank you!

Amen.

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