NOT Series #5 NOT Orphans

Series: “NOT”  Sermon #5:  “NOT Orphans”

John 14:18 “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”

Orphans:— (orphanos) fatherless bereft of parents, comfortless 

Acts 2:33  “Being therefore lifted high by and to the  right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promised [blessing which is the] Holy Spirit, He has made  this outpouring which you yourselves both  see and hear.” 

No one can effectively function in this life without the blessing.  BLESSED:– (barak) to endue with power for success, prosperity, fruitfulness and longevity. To empower to prosper.

“Kids have a hole in their soul in the shape of their dad. And if a father is unwilling or unable to fill that role, it can leave a wound that is not easily healed.” — Roland Warren. (CEO Care-Net)

Favourite Quotes From My Dad:

“Everything is going to be all right.”

“Our Gracious and Loving Heavenly Father.”

J. Karl Thomas

I may share a title with the father but I am nothing like God.  … He’s The Father … He Really is.

Most loving thing you can do is say sorry when you fall short.

Never a distraction or a nuisance.    Hey Pastor Karl!!! (My Kids!)

John 3:16-17 “For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (ever lasting) life.”

“For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound 

through Him.”

Ephesians 2:4-5 (AMPC) “But God—so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us, Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ;…

… [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation).

Matthew 7:11  “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”

1. How Much More Happy

Happy to welcome and embrace you!     Never grumpy or in a bad mood.

Mark 10:14-16 “But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, ‘Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. … And He took them up in His arms, laid His hands on them, and blessed them.”

2. How Much More Ready

Available to care for you!    Never too engaged to not be there for you.

Matthew 10:29-31 “You can buy two sparrows for only a copper coin, yet not even one sparrow falls from its nest without the knowledge of your Father. Aren’t you worth much more to God than many sparrows? So don’t worry. For your Father cares deeply about even the smallest detail of your life.”

3. How Much More Personal

John 5:17  “Everyday MY Father is a working…”  INTIMATE  (Sunday School Song “Father Up Above)

Do you know how hard it is to be 14 years old in 2021???

1 John 4:10  (NLT) “This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.”

You are the object of His obsession!

1 John 4:11 (NLT)  “Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.”

(GOD) “Would you help Me to share My love with the fatherless  and broken?” 

Love is messy!

Psalm 68:5-6 “A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, Is God in His holy habitation. God sets the solitary in families;”

Romans 5:5   “Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

NOT ORPHANS … We are blessed to be a blessing. 

We are loved to share the Love of Jesus to Others!!!

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