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. None of my children or grandchildren call me Mr. Lepin. In our house, I'm either dad or I'm

G daddy. Now, that's an entitlement extended only to those who are a part of our family.

Well, in the same way, only God's children can call Him Father. And today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Begg takes a closer look at what an immense privilege and blessing it is to be one

who can address God so intimately.

Let's turn in our Bibles again to Ephesians, Chapter 4.

From the second half of the 20th century on, if not from before, in fact from before, but at least from there,

what we have witnessed is a vast increased secularization of our culture. But in the context of that, at the same time and parallel

to it, we discover an increased interest in spirituality. So we construct spiritualities that fit us, tailor-made to our own hopes

and aspirations, according to our own intuition, about the meaning of life. And part of the framework of that, at least as I encounter it, is that in the embracing

of the idea of the multi and the many, there is a wholesale rejection of the idea of the

one. So that the idea of there is one, God, and Father of all. People say,

well, that cannot be the case. Why not? Well, because we know that there are so many different

possibilities and so on. And the role of the Psalmist and the role of the prophet is to say to them,

come on now, you know better than that. You know that there is only one true and living God.

Why would you chase after all of these substitute gods? Why would you try and bow down before them? Choose this day whom you will serve. Do you want

to serve the gods of our fathers on the other side, or do you want to serve the living

and the true God? Fast forward into the New Testament, and what is Paul doing? He's doing

the exact same thing. He's calling the people of his day

to the one true and living God. Now, to declare with Paul that there is one true and living God,

face up to this, we must, is to reject the cultural spirituality of our time.

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