Bible Readings:
Matthew 5:38-48
Luke 6:27-36
Exodus 33:12-34:9
Sermon Outline:
Matthew 5:48 (NKJV)
48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Luke 6:36 (NKJV)
36Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
I The character of our Father
II The call to family likeness
III Born, redeemed and adopted into God’s family
IV Becoming more like our Father in heaven
You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and
love your enemies.
Corrie Ten Boom (A Dutch Christian woman whose father
and sister were killed by the Nazis because they hid Jews in their
home. Corrie herself survived the concentration camp.)
If a man says he is a Christian but has no love he is simply deluding
himself.
Geoffrey Thomas