Jesus’ Father, Our Father, Our Fathers
Eph. 1:2-3
I. Jesus’ Father: Unique, ‘one of a kind,’ oneness & equality with Father (Unparalleled, unexampled)
John 1:14; 5:18; 10:29-33 “It is the eternal sonship that is in view and to this sonship there is no approximation in the adoptive sonship that belongs to redeemed men.” John Murray ***Matt. 3:17-John 17:1
II. Our Father (Matt. 6:9; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:5; Mal. 1:10) “To make one’s own; God’s taking the sinful children of men into His own family ***Rom. 8:32; James 1:17; Matt. 6:32---Doxology, adoration, hearts aroused and enflamed (worshipper, devotionalist, adorer) vv 3-14 is one sentence in the Grk (over 200 words) “In its opening doxology blessings cascade down upon the reader.” Sinclair Ferguson
III. Our Fathers (Eph. 6:4; Ps. 78; Job 1:5; Prov. 4:1; Heb. 12---Exodus 20:12 “to prize, revere, value”
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