Bible Readings:
Luke 15:11 – 322
1 John 3:1 – 24
Sermon Outline:
1 John 3:1 (NKJV)
1Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
I The Father of the Holy Trinity
Acts 17:28 (NKJV)
28for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
Colossians 1:16–17 (NKJV)
16For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
17And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
II The Father of Jesus the Messiah
III The Father of believers in Jesus
Matthew 5:48 (NKJV)
48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
1 John 5:1 (NKJV)
1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.