Saturday, July 28, 2012

Who's your daddy?

What makes someone a father?

Some people grow up never knowing who their father is because not even their mother is sure.  Some people grow up knowing who their father is without ever actually knowing their father because he did not spend time with them.  Some people grow up knowing their father but wishing they did not because he does not treat them as a father should.  Some people grow up knowing their father as the best man they ever knew but he was taken away from them too soon.  Some people were begotten by one man but raised by another and are not sure which one is really their father.  All of these people need to know the answer to one question:  Who's your daddy?

The first question that must be answered to answer that question is: What is a father?

What makes someone a father?  Does begetting someone with a woman make them a father?  Does that even make them a man?

As in all things, knowing the answers to these questions begins with The Book of Truth (The Bible).  What does the Book of Truth say that makes someone your father?

The Book of Truth says a father is someone that provides for his children.  A father knows what his children need before they ask (Matthew 6:8).   A father feeds and clothes his children (Matthew 6:31-32).  A father only gives good things to his children (Matthew 7:9-11).  A father gives his children good and perfect gifts (James 1:17).

The Book of Truth says a father is someone that spanks his children when they need it (Hebrews 12:6-8).  A father spanks his children to drive disobedience out of them so they won't come to ruin (Hebrews 12:9-11).

The Book of Truth says a father is someone that lays up an inheritance for his children.  The inheritance belongs to the children (Matthew 21:38).  A father divides the inheritance among his children fairly  (Luke 12:13).  A father prepares for the welfare of his children instead of relying on his children to prepare for his welfare (2 Corinthians 12:14).

Who does a father count as his children?  Is only those that he begotten or is it also those that he has adopted?  Do adopted children have an inheritance?  Can a person be born into one family and then transferred to another family?

The Book of Truth says the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) can adopt us.  We can become children of the Father of Truth thru the Man of Truth (Yah'shua aka Jesus) (John 1:12).  The Father of Truth will give us the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) that brings about our adoption whereby we can call Him "daddy" (Romans 8:15).  The Father of Truth sent the Man of Truth so that we could be adopted into his family and call Him "daddy (Galatians 4:4-6).  The Father of Truth wants to call us His children because of His great love (1 John 3:1).

The Book of Truth says the adopted children also receive a part of the inheritance.  The Father of Truth is able to give the adopted children an inheritance (Acts 20:32).  The adopted children are joint heirs with the Man of Truth that was the only begotten son of the Father of Truth (Romans 8:17).  The adopted children are heirs because of the Man of Truth (Galatians 4:7).

The Book of Truth says that we can be born into one family and then transferred to another family.  The Father of Truth can take those that were no more related to Abraham than stones and bring them into the family that He promised Abraham (Matthew 3:9).  The Father of Truth can take those that descended from Abraham out of the family that He promised Abraham (Luke 13:28).  The Father of Truth can add those that he did not call His people to the family that He promised Abraham (Romans 9:26).  The Father of Truth can remove all but a remnant of those that He called His people from the family that He promised Abraham (Romans 9:27).

The truth is that there are really only two families in all the earth.  The truth is that only the Man of Truth was begotten by the Father of Truth as a free heir (John 1:18).  The truth is that the rest of us were born as slaves to the Father of Lies (John 8:33-35).  The truth is the rest of us were born into the family of the Father of the Lies (John 8:44).

The truth is that the Father of Truth has made a way for us to leave the family of the Father of Lies and come into His family where we were always meant to be.  Just as we became as slaves by being born the first time into the family of the Father of Lies in like manner we can only become free heirs by being born a second time into in the family of the Father of Truth (John 3:3). When we put out trust in the Man of Truth and come to live with him in the House of Truth, then there is a death in the family of the Father of Lies and a birth in the family of the Father of Truth.

The truth is we are all either children of the Father of Truth or children of the Father of Lies (1 John 3:10).  Who's your daddy?

You will become one of the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) when you come into the House of Truth.  You come into the House of Truth when you submit to the Man of Truth because you believe that his Father raised the only begotten Son from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).

Come into the House of Truth.

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