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A Fathers Love Letter
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You are known!

• Many grow up in unloving homes and as a result
  they oft grow up feeling utterly unknown.
• Many due to unresolved hurt and pain do not feel
  that they are worthy of being in anyones
  presence.
• For sure, many do not feel worthy enough to be in
  Gods presence.
• Thus life for them is a life of loneliness and
  feelings of abandonment.

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Made in Gods Image.
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Jeremiah 14-5

• This is what God said
• Before I shaped you in the womb,
• I knew all about you.
• Before you saw the light of day,
• I had holy plans for you
• A prophet to the nations
• thats what I had in mind for you. (TMsg)

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Ephesians 111-12

• Its in Christ that we find out who we are and
  what we are living for. Long before we first
  heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his
  eye on us, had designs on us for glorious
  living, part of the overall purpose he is working
  out in everything and everyone. (TMsg)
• As the Israelites of old obtained an inheritance
  in the promised land, so those in Christ become
  partakes of that heavenly inheritance which he
  has secured for them.

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Mistaken Views of God
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What a Fathers Day!

• Dads so often are a distant second when it comes
  to comparing Mother Fathers Day.
• Next Sunday is Fathers Day.
• How many flowers will be sold?
• How many big dinners will there be?
• Mercy, dad is lucky to get a card.
• But the Fathers Day that I am here speaking of
  is a Fathers Day like none other.

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I John 31

• How great is the love the Father has lavished on
  us, that we should be called children of God! And
  that is what we are!

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Matthew 711

• If you, then, though you are evil, know how to
  give good gifts to your children, how much more
  will your Father in heaven give good gifts to
  those who ask him! 

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Becoming a Child of God
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I John 223
No one who denies the Son has any part with the
Father, but affirming the Son is an embrace of
the Father as well.
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Ephesians 320-21

• 20God can do anything, you knowfar more than you
  could ever imagine or guess or request in your
  wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us
  around but by working within us, his Spirit
  deeply and gently within us.
• Glory to God in the church!
• Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!
• Glory down all the generations!
• Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes! (v. 21)

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II Thessalonians 216-17

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• 16May Jesus himself and God our Father, who
  reached out in love and surprised you with gifts
  of unending help and confidence, 17put a fresh
  heart in you, invigorate your work, enliven your
  speech.

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Romans 831-32

• 31So, what do you think? With God on our side
  like this, how can we lose? 32If God didnt
  hesitate to put everything on the line for us,
  embracing our condition and exposing himself to
  the worst by sending his own Son, is there
  anything else he wouldnt gladly and freely do
  for us?

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Count on ittheres more joy in heaven over one
sinners rescued life than over ninety-nine good
people in no need of rescue.
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Revelation 213-4

• 3I heard a voice thunder from the Throne Look!
  Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making
  his home with men and women! Theyre his people,
  hes their God. 4Hell wipe every tear from their
  eyes. Death is gone for good tears gone, crying
  gone, pain gone all the first order of things
  gone.

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