Abba God: The Best Father
Learning to be a father? You can’t really learn what is important from prenatal classes. Learn it from the Scriptures, through seeing how your heavenly Father, Abba God, is like.
“Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him! A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.” (Psalms 68:4-5 WEB)
Abba God is a true hero—a father to orphans and a defender of the widows. He who has perfect power protects those who are weak and vulnerable.
““Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:7-11 WEB)
Abba God is good to His children. He knows when to give them good things that they ask for.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.” (James 1:17 WEB)
Abba God definitely does not give evil things. There is no evil in Him at all—He is fully good.
“and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.” (Hebrews 12:5-11 WEB)
Abba God disciplines us out of love, so that we will profit from it. When emerge from the chastening process, we become partakers of His holiness, meaning we are set apart from every form of death (sickness, poverty, strife, depression, anger, addictions, etc).
“Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.” (Ephesians 5:1-2 WEB)
When we know that our God is good and He is love, we can imitate our Abba God as beloved children. We too can walk in love, towards our children, our spouse, and our fellow men. All this is made possible by having a good opinion of Abba God, which keeps us in a state of faith!
See God’s heart of love for you when you look at Jesus who is His exact representation. Through every one of the thirty seven recorded miracles that Jesus did, we can see Abba God’s heart of love and grace for us: https://bit.ly/messiahs-miracles
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Why will we Weep in Heaven?
“for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”” (Revelation 7:17 WEB)
The context of the verse above is that all believers have just been caught up to meet Jesus in the air (aka the Rapture), and taken into Heaven before God’s throne.
Why will we be weeping at such a joyous occasion? It’s Heaven and it’s a place of perfect peace and joy, isn’t it?
I believe it’s because believers will be crying for those unbelieving loved ones who have been left behind on earth.
Unbelievers will have to go through the 7-year Tribulation period. It will be a terrible time.
For unbelievers, they will face horrifying judgments from God, and believers will face fiery persecution from the Antichrist.
At that time, only those on earth who refuse to accept the Mark of the Beast and endure in their faith to the end of the Tribulation will be saved.
Salvation during the Tribulation won’t work like it does in this church age.
Right now, a person is saved instantly the moment he/she has faith in Jesus as Lord.
But during the Tribulation, because the Holy Spirit won’t be indwelling anyone on earth (He is the Restrainer who has been taken out of the way), salvation is only given to those who endure in their faith all the way to the end of the Tribulation upon Jesus’ return, or upon death, without taking the Mark of the Beast.
““Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.” (Matthew 24:9-13 NKJV)
This is the true meaning of the passage above. It’s not for this church age, but it’s for the Tribulation period.
You can’t endure to the end to be saved in this church age. You are saved simply by believing in your heart that Jesus is Lord and confessing it with your mouth.
There are many interesting questions one can raise about the Tribulation and beyond:
1. What is the Mark of the Beast?
2. Who is the Antichrist and what is his name?
3. What will happen for believers after the Great Tribulation?
You’ll find the answers to these questions, and much more precious revelations of the end times in my book “Sandcastles Don’t Last Forever”.
You can’t afford to be ignorant about the truths in this book because it concerns your eternal rewards!
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[MERRY CHRISTMAS]
Let us all remember,
In our gift giving and our merriment,
With our family & friends & loved ones,
The real and true meaning of Christmas,
The birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
*Oh Christmas Tree - Aretha Franklin
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This Christmas morning, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. On this joyous day, let’s rejoice the birth of Christ 🎄✨
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