Two of Our Deepest Needs

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In the Father, you are under God’s care and protection. In the Son, you are under God’s charge and authority.

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0:00.0	April 1, 2 of our deepest needs.
0:05.4	To the Church of the Thessalonians, in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Thessalonians
0:14.1	1, 1.
0:16.4	We as a Church are in a Father and in a Lord.
0:22.2	What does that mean?
0:24.5	The word Father implies primarily care and sustaining and protection and provision
0:32.2	and discipline, so to be in the Father would mean mainly to be in the care and under
0:39.8	the protection of God as our Heavenly Father.
0:44.3	The other designation is Lord.
0:47.0	We are in the Lord Jesus Christ.
0:50.8	The word Lord implies primarily authority and leadership and ownership, so to be in
0:58.5	the Lord means mainly to be in the charge under the authority, in the possession of Jesus
1:05.6	as our Supreme Lord.
1:08.4	So Paul greets the Thessalonian Church in such a way as to remind them that they are
1:15.3	a family in the care of a Father and they are servants in the charge of a Lord.
1:23.4	These two descriptions of God as our Father and Lord and thus of the Church as family
1:30.5	and servants correspond to two of our deepest needs.
1:36.2	Every single one of us has a need for rescue and help on one hand and the need for purpose
1:45.2	and meaning on the other.
1:48.8	One, we need a Heavenly Father to pity us and rescue us from sin and misery.
1:55.6	We need his help every step of the way because we are so weak and vulnerable.
2:01.1	Two, we also need a Heavenly Lord to guide us in life and tell us what is wise and give
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