One God and Father of All (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Do you call God “Father”? Not everyone can! So what distinguishes those who can call the Lord of all creation by such an intimate name? On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg searches Scripture for the answer and considers what it means to know God in this way.
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| 0:00.0 | You call it. |
| 0:03.0 | You call Do you call God Father? |
| 0:27.0 | Not everyone can. |
| 0:29.0 | So what distinguishes the person who can call the Lord of all creation by such an intimate term from those who can't? |
| 0:37.0 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Beggs searches the |
| 0:39.9 | Bible for the answer and considers what it means to know God as your heavenly father. |
| 0:52.1 | I invite you to turn again to Ephesians 4. |
| 0:55.0 | And our focus now today is on verse 6, one God and Father of All, who is over all and through |
| 1:03.5 | all and in all. |
| 1:07.4 | To you, our Father, we come in Jesus' name, and ask him for the help of the Holy Spirit |
| 1:12.5 | now, that we might understand and believe the Bible and live in the light of its truth, |
| 1:18.3 | for Jesus' sake. Amen. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, Paul's statement, which begins in verse 4 and runs to the end of verse six, has been our |
| 1:29.8 | focus now for some time. We have been purposefully delayed in this. As Paul has issued an |
| 1:37.3 | exhortation to the believers, to whom he writes, first in Ephesus, and now to all who |
| 1:42.5 | are the recipients of this letter in reading it, |
| 1:45.8 | he's urged them to be eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. |
| 1:51.0 | They're going to have to rely on the Spirit of God to enable them to be humble and gentle |
| 1:56.6 | and patient. How much we need that, don't we? And then he says, this unity in the spirit is |
| 2:03.7 | built on a kind of sevenfold foundation, and we've come now to the last aspect of it. |
| 2:10.9 | This unity, we've tried to say in each of our studies, is not a natural unity. In other words, he's not describing here |
| 2:20.3 | a unity that is on the basis of opinion, or of shared interests, or of mutual feelings, |
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