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The title of my sermon is experiencing the Father's Heart.

And all of us, we know the love of God. We all are familiar with pretty much every scripture that talks about God's love, right? For God's to

love the world, he what? He gave his only begotten son. We understand the sacrifice. We understand

the love. We understand that God is a father.

But I want to read this quote to you that I just think beautifully articulates something that is

not often recognized in our Christian walk. And it's by J.I. Packer. He says this. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child and having God as his father.

If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship, his prayers, his whole outlook on life,

it means that he does not understand Christianity very well.

I just want to stop there for a moment and say,

if in your Christian walk, looking and hearing about the Father, it's kind of like something you skim past.

If it's something that is just, oh yeah, I know God is our Father, I would challenge you to think about your relationship with God.

Because if you are not so overly aware of the fact that you're God's child,

then you're missing a major part of your Christian walk.

You're missing a major part of the reality of your relationship with God. Everything that we do,

everything that is distinctly Christian in nature comes from the fact that we are the children

of God. Amen? Everything in the Christian faith is based off this, and I know this can seem like

an elementary topic in a church setting.

It can seem like this is basic Christianity. But if you don't get this, then you don't

understand anything about Christianity. You know how you can know something so well? I mean,

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