How do you know God really loves you? He's really your father.

Things are going swimmingly. What are you going to say when things aren't going swimmingly?

When things are going drowningly?

We don't trust his heavenly fatherhood because things are going swimmingly.

The reason we trust his heavenly fatherhood is because he gave us everything he has

in his Son Jesus Christ and in the gift of his Holy Spirit.

It's an incredible privilege, isn't it? That is Christians we have been reconciled with

the Cosmic King, the Lord of Lords. But if you consider the great privilege it is

that we get to call the King of Kings Father. Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham and thank you for joining us

today for renewing your mind. This week we are featuring messages from Liganyr teaching

fellow, Sinclair Ferguson from his series, Sermon on the Mount.

No, though our earthly fathers don't always set the best example for us today.

Sinclair Ferguson is going to consider the great privilege it is for us as Christians to call

God our Father and also the practical implications for our Christian lives.

So here is Dr Sinclair Ferguson now.

Now we've come to this really interesting part of the Sermon on the Mount in the first half of

Matthew chapter 6 and in our last study we saw that from one point of view what Jesus is doing

here is holding up the Father's view of hypocrites to them. And this is I think the explanation

for these slightly cartoon-esque descriptions he gives. He wants us to know ourselves. That of course

was a central element in the Greek philosophy. Wasn't it know yourself? But what Jesus is teaching

is really you can never really know yourself until you know the Heavenly Father and begin to see

yourself the way the Heavenly Father sees you. John Calvin opens his great institutes of the Christian

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