Our Good Father | Pr Stephen Kong

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I don't. My message today is our good Father.

Not think to teachers, woman the footing.

And so I found out and realized that there are

not many religions in this world today that looks up

to their God as their father.

Now woman your fashion this year, don't you may or

your footing.

In fact, I think Christianity is the only, probably the

only major religion today that relates to our God as

our father.

No, just kind of way, like.

Fo not only do we relate, we actually call our

God our father, but.

The showman like you don't. Who are you?

How how amazing and how intimate that is?

See me that you seen? Way?

And so I want to remind us about God's love

towards us. No, we are like is in God is love?

Should I?

Amen? Amen? Saving me? God is love? Sure?

Should I?

And so I want to point to us to this

parable and a bible called able the political son.

Now we are like she ran found out just like

you can't uh the earth to a big.

It's found in Luke, chapter fifteen, verse eleven.

Show my Lucia for issue she eat it.

So I pray that you have your bibles with you,

your physical bibles.

Turning me now, Manney the same thing he found out

Lucia for eat you.

Oh my Bible is page nine and twenty. Easy, little

may be different than yours. Okay, So Luke chapter fifteen,

verse eleven, Lujiah for issue yeah the big Okay, I

wouldn't read the whole thing. I'll just give you a

summary of it.

No, but we like you do one and guys so so.

In this parable, there's a man who had two sons.

Took a pie you know, juice, took a nan ship

younger earth.

The younger son came to the father and say, give

me my inhabitants.

No showers, and you like she come to fourteenth shoed

that's hand.

Yeah, and the father in his you know, mercy, just

gave it to him.

That's the fourteen and me the change of k hack.

So this younger son took all of his possession inhabitants

and left the.

House, not took the showers and had you know, so

that's hand yea Julie Kila.

Yeah, he went to another land and squandered all of

his possessions Lina found Outjuly she learned young the teen

chin and one day of femine hit who.

Took a handy light out.

And he had nothing left.

Had your mailers?

And then he came to his sensors and said, in

my father's house they have plenty.

Had you just sing jellow just fourteen that yah are

your manual.

Basically, it says, my father's servants have morning and morning enough.

Just to show the fourteen that took the poor and

told you to go.

And then and finally he decides to go back to

the house. Yeah, okay, so I'm gonna fast awad and

read from verse twenty, it says, and he arose and

came to his father.

You should she lie.

But when he was still a far away, a great

way of his father saw him and had compassion and

ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

And you don't sing powow changed it.

And the son said to him, father, I have seen

against heaven and in your sight, and I'm no longer

worried to be called your son. But the father said

to his servant, bring out the best rope and put

it on him, and put a ring on his hand,

and sandals on his feet and bring the feathered calf

here and kill it and let us eat and be married.

For this son was dead and it's alive again. He

was lost and is found and they began to be merry.

Now you shut out, patron when you need the fourteen

tree firm foot pull. But shuk how the powers quite

nature like trying. But the that that has trying to

chin lights of my cage wan the should should yod

the time. And you quiet that she like that?

Okay, yeah, so this parable talks about the polical son,

not b you know she allong told, But today I

wanted to focus on the father. She ran down your

candle to the tan food because it shows how great

God's love is for us in wh So the story

starts off by the sun, the younger son going to

the father and he said, these.

Towards give me no height to.

Gay war like ship. Give me my portion gay war

the t I and you know that it's not ordering

to ask that at a young age.

That show she supporting guide that she went.

But yet the Father, in his mercy, allowed the Sun

to make his own choices.

Had you let's take lenmin like she runs like she

told that you think how many words are like that?

Also we got now.

That she sanctions show.

Right, we tell God God, I want it this way.

And God, in his mercy sometimes would allow us to

go to the challenges.

Cau like she into like she around man in guiding leader, to.

Allow us to learn from from from our experiences in

life like she around like she she she. But the

story goes on, and the sun comes into trouble hides

take you out, Cornanda, and he finally comes to your

censors and says he's gonna go back to the father

around you just.

Nally.

I want to point you one verse in verse nineteen,

he says, and I'm no longer worried to be called

your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.

Pay the power to gong Ba.

First of all, we can see a transformation that happened

in the sun.

So earthly minutes. Got to pin.

His starting words was give.

Me that's sure like gay war.

Do you see what he ended with, Make me one

of your higher servants like power going by here, we

can already see a transformation.

You can you got to pin.

And so when he goes back to the father, the

father is ready to receive him.

The show had a foret haler.

Not only was the father ready, but the father was

looking out for him.

You like sheow like in Yeta.

The Bible say he was a great way of still

very far from the house.

Now the singe Shanley hi you and her fourteen canton.

But the father saw him because fourteen you canty in friends.

The only way the father can see him from a

great way of is because the father was looking out No.

Fourteen canton, not juicing fteen her like she sho.

The father was eager and waiting for the son to

come home, for the fourteen to her like she like

she doesn't. That remind us about the love of God.

Ima.

Not only does God love us so much for her

face and the eye woman, he is always longing and

looking out for us.

That she can't go like she bows a woman.

There's three els for you love longing.

For us sand Ira like she wan just a can't

go woman.

So he was looking and he saw the son coming

back from afar.

Now you doue can't doubt change, And.

Instead of waiting for the son to alive, the father

goes to him.

Now she don't take Earth's light had deepens and she

out urginality.

And every time I read this, parable are reminded by

the deep love God has for his children.

So she leans shout out height the eye.

Then he would come running back to welcome us home.

I really so that is God's love for us.

And the eye his perfect love that one made the eye.

And so in the Bible you will find that they

are commonly three types of love.

That's the thing. Can't out your sands and put on

the eye.

One is called eros, errors, that one's called filial, feel

that one's called these are the worst ever more commonly

used to hearing and know not this word, ever is

not exactly used in the Bible, but you will find

figures of it as.

God's put on.

So ever says romantic love.

Now as take a long month, I philal or.

Philale, which we most most of us know as it's

called it's a bodily affection failure the gentleman, I and

agape is God's unconditional love, not I sacrificial and unconditional.

And the eye.

And so you will find this application of this word,

these words most commonly in the story of Jesus and Peter. No,

you know.

Years to her, Peter, I.

Won't go into it, but just give you a hit

if you're gon't read the story. Wh Jesus spoke to

Peter and re start Peter three times by asking a question,

do you love me? Yes?

She went, Peter sandsinye.

You will find that Jesus actually asked Peter do you

pay me?

Not just yes? So I won't Peter Naney your male

pet war.

And Peter, in his human love, could only answer yes, Lord,

I feel on you.

Now because Ty had to see Peter the road sure

should should one and God feeling your.

If you read the English in the Bible. In English,

you would just find the.

Word love inside England found me and like you.

Young. But if you actually study the road word of

it in Greek, you will see the difference.

Now, Rogan, that's she you hone guy?

Try to search it for like okay? So three times okay?

So two times Jesus asked Peter do you pay me?

And and Peter responses yes, I feel on you.

Do you want honey your ma? Do yoursener? Take a

bitter juice show feeling on just shown the I.

And finally the last time, Jesus rests in basking do

you feel on me?

Be cause yes, you just show full timehlight she show

your male that I like she.

And bit the response, yes, I feel you so interesting

that okay, and so God's love is perfect. I made

It's unconditionous, unchanging, and He's the same yesterday, today and

forever more that young and like us as human we

we tend to love you the conditions woman. Later, I

beat that we always ask this question, what is it in?

What is it for me? Woman? No?

Why whoy like she went a woman?

I know what do I gain from it?

Are your summer?

God's love is unconditional. God has already loved us, even

though we don't accept him.

I had to share the eye. Woman.

God made the first first move by loving us like.

That are you woman?

By sending Jesus to die on the cross for Romans.

Romans five verse eight says shut, but God demonstrates his

love towards us in that while we were still seen us,

Christ died for us.

The whole way. Woman's me.

So God already demonstrated his love.

Women share that how the I.

And so sometimes people were asking, but I thought, we

need to, you know, accept him in order to receive it. No, yes,

it's sure us love. It has already been given and

it's real shown to us. Not how I. All we

need to do is to accept and receive it. That

so that is our choice to.

Make national woman.

Yeah. But just because we don't receive it does not

mean that God does not love us woman type woman,

because as I told you, God has already loved us

ie woman while we were still seeing us. Now woman

and help amen. That's how good God is, not just

that's the love that He has for us, that woman

that I and as humans, because we love, we naturally

know how to give good things.

Now women just a littleman.

I a woman?

Yes, get Hew, don't she right? Just as our three

fathers gentlemen that take the phone.

So let me point to your scripture and found matt

Chapter seven.

You can't, Matthew.

Matthew seven seven to eleven. Mattie, when she down, I

think I don't have this like many to find it.

Matthew seven seven to eleven. Okay, if you're there, say

yeah you find out? Sure yet okay, okay, coming okay, Matthew.

Chapter seven, verse seven to eleven says us and he

will be given to you seek, and you will fine.

Knock and he will be open to you. For everyone

who receives, who asks receives, and he who seeks fine,

and to him who knocks it will be open. Or

what man is there among you, who, if his son

asks for bread, will give him a stone, or if

he asked for a fish, will give him a serpent.

If you, then, being evil, know how to go 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?

My wife, when did she downe that dear? Sure that

chat you're gaining? Man shints out to coleman, you get

him a kaimen even if teach the U shint out

the command that you get a kaimen. Don't show your

being fine gate, that's show you find it. That's sun

even straight and sound sounds. How don't she get her

congo sheep? How don't she get chill remmer?

So we can see our father in heaven gives us

good things and and and even earth. If I don't

know how to do the same thing, now to.

No woman, choun the wulner don't way by, How don't

your commentulner?

I want to say to us sometimes even good things

need the right time for us to receive it.

Well, show the how don't she do it? Kind of okay?

You woman?

Have you ever asked your father for a handful when

you were young and your father said, wait.

Now you're man. Food things need your girl, So I

give you a turn.

By the way, when I was growing up, I'm a twin, right,

so I wish for in my brother.

No, just a your eager talk about the girl mad

so majel she.

So when I was growing up, don't tell her father

we need two separate phones? No, just otherwise how to

text different girl?

Put on the nation seem.

No wonder my father never gave a separate phone. That's

the way. Thank god we didn't like the singer turn Hi.

How to younger nation?

I want to say say to us today, the media

is just it's just corrupting a lot of us.

So that made just that lies She just a uh

oh random, I see Indian.

There's a time for everything, even good things.

How don't see the put on this in.

So friendyn when we ask for my heavenly father and

he says, wait, there's a good reason for it.

In the town, like she showing the t and food.

She saw the hold gmac.

Because I want to say to us, God knows what's

best for us.

The tree how amen, Amen?

And so God is love and he loves us. Hi woman,

But here's my next point. Love will involved discipline, chesting,

correction and rebuilt girty and fat man. Not many of

us would like that forwardsman, pushy, but just push. But

how many of us know it's important? Yoder turned with

me to Proverbs chapter three, verse eleven to twelve. Found out, Ye,

let's look what the Bible says about this thing. To

her sure, Proverb three eleven says, my son, do not

despise is the chestening of the Lord, nor detest his correction.

For whom the Lord loves, he corrects, just as a

father the son in whom he delights.

She did well, Ernie Booker, she can yeah, yeah book

her fan ye find in wait yeah happy fourteen to

base she either earth and.

So because God loves us, and because even our earthly

father loves us, they will discipline us.

Not in way woman, high woman form, however, like she

that she gent woman, they will lead us in the

pub That is right, tiling woman, she does function although it's.

Not always pleasant shoeful because sometimes we think love for

it is always always pleasant all the time. Juice her,

who are chances it's like a bit of roses house true,

for that's what you get when you watch too much drama.

Now she can't hie thought this year you not.

But even as parents would discipline and disciple their their

young young child.

Say four for its like.

There will be the tough times you're put on. So

this year our team is called disciple first, nat teach,

and we are a team of discipleship, like a man

to tea. So I want to say to us discipleship

it's not just in the desire, but in the discipline.

No mental patient you take.

That means not all the times we will do things

that we just want, but sometimes we do things that

we need to do that you.

Shooting, y'all told the sting there.

Will be times that we need to hear what we

need to hear, not what we want to hear.

Many thing she leans that's roman bit down.

There is a difference.

It's happy when we've done something wrong, Danny, like she

talked her.

We want to help somebody. You want to hear somebody

say to us.

It's okay now made like lint.

How are you well? Can I say to you there's

a time for that. It's a time for.

Restoration, say you phony.

But what we need to hear so much is to

hear that what we have done is not okay and

there's a better way to do it.

So and she's singing, don't don't our.

Parents do that to us as well? The will and

see me discipleship younger, because oftentimes many things that we

do is because we need to and because it's good

for us. So discipline is not what the we like.

So you take.

What we needed.

So woman, she out.

Ask any success to athlete or any successful person, and

they will tell you discipline brought them a long way.

Now you won't rent her, you don't you?

In fact, doing your devotion in the morning is part

of a discipline.

It out like you.

Yes, I don't know how my parents have done it

for over decades.

We'll put it out of mohammadm like like she that

she didn't.

I suppose they had discipline, don't you think so? And

some days it can be boring, farmine, Although I pray

your devotion will not be boring all the time, gentle,

But how many of us know that sometimes in the

boring break juice and miracles happen in the mundanane.

Because now your farm, and that's how.

Revivals happened, not just fashion. There they keep praying and believing,

keep praying again and again and again. It's a troun

for your chunk. For then we keep doing the same thing.

It's a trunk for that on the shitting. That's where

the break tews happened to port you in fashion. And

so even as you continue to discipping our bodies.

Like she teach you the lie, she runs the deal toll,

the sing.

God in his infinite love and wisdom, is shaping us c.

Take a face hound mao. She sing the take iron

like she shorts our woman.

He's shaping us to be the person he wants us to.

That short woman, a young woman, to me the young shuit, just.

Like how the scripture tells us that you know, we

are like clay in a potter's.

Hand Jehuleman nation, like a like a young.

Isaiah sixty four, verse eight sies. But now, oh Lord,

you are our father. We are the clay, and you

are a potter, and all we are the work of

your head. No show down the Year Ran Woman, The

Woman s Woman show the Heavy Alvers. Watch a video

of how the butter Most clay.

You can't go to the shipping or this share like

she like she sorts out the knee everything.

I watched the video of how Potter Most. I'm really

amazed by it.

It's like you can't take the shipping the shore in time.

Even a slight movement in the hand can change the

shape of the bowl or the pot show.

He don't like eating knee.

You're pinching and when it comes to the shop ages

it's not easy.

Firmly that.

That can be painful. But after that you see a

good result.

Be cause you can't take your.

And we are like that in the hands of our

heavenly father. The show to you can, I say to you,

God will bring us to experiences that will prepare us

for the destiny and the call in which He has.

Found payoman so sanction gay woman, Let's.

Take a mean thing because God loves us and he

knows what's best for us. Woman, so all we need

to do is trust in him. Think amen, amen, But yeah,

you're still not perfect. Consu made that there will be

days that we will maybe feel maybe maybe you'll fall

should I want to remind us is still very gracious

and mercyful.

Woman.

I say the two of it, grace and mercy. And

how many of you know that we need both women women.

I always look at it that this grace and mercy

is two sides of the same coin.

No eth and how you take a lending nurse you got, Yeah, Grace.

On one side is receiving what you do not deserve.

Ju Mercy on the other side is not receiving what

you deserve.

Nu in guiot that.

What's the difference grace is you're seeing what you deserve

what you do not deserve. Young yok So God has

given us unmerited favor.

Nation.

He has given us his love that we do not deserve.

Tire you woman who paid.

I. At the same time he's he has given us mercy,

which is not not giving us what we deserve.

Judentleman in guys showed out, may do you know what

we deserve? Just a woman in guidman, we deserve punishment

and death because of our sin in down the Father.

But mercy posts us in a place whereby we do

not receive the punishment.

She bounds a woman like she may.

Fast, although we actually deserve it. In guide the daughter,

Why because God has already taken the place on our BEHALFI.

Man in wait, yes, way woman, and she dances far.

When Jesus died on the cross that year. Women's so

even though we may fall, God is still rich in

his grace and mercy.

Position hides woman, honey and me, you and I.

We are saved by great true faith.

Woman nurse into saying that she paid her children and.

We obtained mercy because Christ took our place on the cross.

Now into like she in waited, woman that she dances

you take away to a woman sh me.

So it's a very simple message. But I pray that

you will just see.

The heart of the Father, see your face, because it

was can't ten food.

Lamentations, Chapter three, verse twenty two to twenty three says.

Yelly me, I got sandy shut out.

He says, the steadfast love of the Lord never sees ars.

His mercies never come to an end. They are new

every morning.

Great is your faithfulness, women, But just tell me and

she truly yeah, bands she ented me puts puts seeing

that need.

Isn't it amazingience. She me God remains the same yesterday, today,

and forever.

More invasion sees that young that's younger.

His love never sees us eyes.

She don't you.

That means he will never stop loving us.

She changed, are you woman, no.

Matter how much we tend to be better against him?

A woman and young like she? Just like she put

on the two.

So back to the story of the pat of the

particle son the lund that even though we can go

far away from him, share, God is calling us home.

And when we turned back to him, his love is

still the same. If it means the same, You're in

the ship and great, this is mercy knew. Every morning

Singer friends, you and I need God needs God's mercy.

Every morning, your money her, you know, she And because

sin is not only doing what is wrong, but even

not doing what's right.

Way in between put the and in fans for Siner

in guy.

She told, every day I thank God, thank God for

your mercy and me because sin is missing the mark.

And so every night at least when I go to bed,

before I go to bed, I pray.

Not straight out.

And this is what I often say, just in the

way short, Lord, forgive me for the for the wrong

that I've done, She.

Waiter was so fan sordera.

She show me what for the things that I should

not have done, but I did hire and I here

we'll put out like she so forgive me for the

things I should have done but did not do.

Her sooner yeh like she show me what nice work,

but like I attend me she told her.

So every day were living on the mercies of God.

He Roman, and God is good, Sander. He loves you

on the eye omn, and.

His faithfulness is great.

How does thing.

Some hundred and fevors thirteen STI It says, as a

father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has

compassion on those who fear.

Him fourteen year Hawaii and meaning way tard.

So even our earthly fathers have compassion on.

Us, Soman of fourteen on the phone earlier, like woman.

Yes, they're human, and sometimes they will also lose their temper.

Now taut like she used.

I can remember many times that I argued forting my father.

Fourteen held.

Yeah, you know, I think the life was unfair after.

The semi face.

But as I go older down, like she help, I'm

learning how to appreciate and honor my father more every day,

No God like she like she, I try to spend

as much time as I can be him.

Now she think now that she heard?

How she didn't because I never know the times that

the Lord were calling home. Wait turn, wait, so back

to the scripture, the father's compassion.

Over his children waiting one fourteen to man and me

earn you.

So the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.

Yeah, thing wad hard.

So I thought to myself, God is so loving, and

what should be our response or our responsibility to him?

Now that number that I womantist to run, It is

as simple as this fear God thing waiter. And so

by saying fear God is not saying that we are

scared afraid of him.

The thing you because you just feel because you.

Because even as earthly fathers don't want the children to

be scared of their father in that sense.

Right wait, no, real she woman, she hype had hama.

Parents don't want the children to come home and and

and they would think that every little.

Action that they do gets colded woman like she, Ye

see the heighten the scene where you hide, partaman.

It's very hard to live like that, hor So that's

not how God wants us to live with him.

The machine.

But to put it simply, to fear God is to

care about what he thinks, not think.

Wait, Hannah just s her like she tes who her shank.

Actually to fear God actually means to have deep reverence

and honor for him that you think.

Wait, Hannah just said she how the wrong time.

But to make it simpler for us is to give

a care about what God thinks.

Now that Madilli, she tied wh side who the city.

So before you make any big decisions in your life,

ask the Lord.

And yall like you how chosen.

And seek his face? That she had a min I

thought about it. Why does the summons asked us to

seek his face? What do you die?

You shipping the how you shure your men?

Because just by the face expression you can tell whether

someone is happy or not.

Can runny and Cornerstan.

So when you see God's face, you will know whether

he is pleased or not. With that decision.

Where we're interner gretting Ada sire.

So God does not want us to be afraid of

him in the sense, but to fear him.

Consumers be all my life your high partwer you.

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