Line By Line – Part 3

LINE BY LINE

Part 3

⁹ Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.  ¹⁰ Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  ¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.   ¹² And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.   ¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

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Psalms 68: ⁵ Father to the fatherless, defender of widows—this is God, whose dwelling is holy. ⁶ God places the lonely in families…

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John 5: ¹⁷ But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am I.” ¹⁸ So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. For he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.

Galatians 4: ⁵ God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. ⁶ And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.”

John 20: ¹⁷ “Don’t cling to me,” Jesus said, “for I haven’t yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father…

“If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all. For everything that Christ taught, everything that makes the New Testament new and better than the Old, everything that is distinctively Christian as opposed to merely Jewish, is summed up in the knowledge of the Fatherhood of God. Father is the Christian name for God.” – J.I. Packer

In Heaven –

Psalm 115:4-8,3 – ² Why let the nations say, “Where is their God?” ³ Our God is in the heavens, and he does as he wishes. ⁴ Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands. ⁵ They have mouths but cannot speak, and eyes but cannot see. ⁶ They have ears but cannot hear, and noses but cannot smell. ⁷ They have hands but cannot feel, and feet but cannot walk, and throats but cannot make a sound.

Isaiah 6: ¹In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. ² Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. ³ And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

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“These two things should ever occupy our minds and engage our hearts: The first without the second tends towards unholy familiarity; the second without the first produces coldness and dread. By combining them together, we are preserved from both evils.” – A.W. Pink

Luke 15: ²⁰ So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. ²¹ “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ ²² “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.  ²³ Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate.  ²⁴ For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.