Now today is, y'all know this, it's Pentecost Sunday.
Don't know that? Where we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the formation of the church. So I want to talk about the Holy Spirit and the work of the Holy Spirit, but I want to emphasize a special work of the Holy Spirit.
I cannot emphasize to you how important what I'm about to share with you is. We talk about the fatherhood of God, how the Holy Spirit helps us experience the fatherhood of God. I don't do this a lot in worship, but as I was sitting there this morning, Spirit of God just put a burden on my heart for men and women in this church who've been hurt by fathers.
They have a hard time understanding the concept of fatherhood. There's a spirit of rejection, a spirit of, kind of an orphan spirit, and I don't do this, but I begin to cry. You say, cry, I thought all the gay pastors were in the United Methodist Church. Well, sometimes the spirit of God breaks you and you cry.
And I really feel like, I don't know, God wants to do a supernatural work to the Holy Spirit today. And I always hear this, this has been a big debate among preachers in Christianity. How can you talk about the fatherhood of God when there's so many people who've been hurt by fathers? In fact, a little over a year ago, the Archbishop of York in England, Stephen Cottrell said, calling God father, it's problematic. Maybe we shouldn't be calling God father in our churches.
That's wrong. I was talking to a man this week who is a pastor on staff at a very large church, and I knew that he had had some issues with his father. His father was not a great father.
He's been very open about that. And I said, you've had a radical conversion experience in your late teens, early 20s. I said, I have been told if you have a bad relationship with your father, it's a roadblock for you getting saved and calling God father. He said, Chad, for me, it was the opposite. He said, yeah, I did not have a great experience with my father, but when I found out that there was a father that would never let me down, a father who had never abandoned me, it didn't repel me, it drew me to that father.
There's something about the father heart of God that draws people. Now, I can't prove it, but I'm convinced David in the Old Testament did not have a good relationship with his father. David says something very interesting in Psalm 51 five. He says, behold, I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Wait a second, what's he talking about? In sin was I conceived? Was he a product of an affair? Was David a product of an illicit relationship? No, no, Chad, he's talking about original sin.
Well, is he? Because that concept's not discussed in the Old Testament. It's discussed in the New Testament, not the Old Testament. Was there something about David's conception that brought embarrassment to his father?
Because it's very interesting. David's brothers did not like him. Did you know that? You read the Bible. David's brothers could not stand him. Is that because when they saw David, they were reminded of their father's mistake years before? When it's time to send your sons to the army, Jesse sends all his sons to go to the army and fight except for one, David. When Samuel comes and says to Jesse, one of your sons is gonna be king.
Bring all your sons here. Jesse brought all the sons in except for one, David. I can't prove it, but I think David had a bad relationship with his father. And yet it's very interesting, in all those times as a shepherd being out by himself in the wilderness alone with God, I believe he caught a glimpse of the fatherhood of God because Psalm 68 five says God is a father to the fatherless. That's what David wrote. David had a security, a boldness that only comes with being unconditionally loved.
Where did he get that? Probably wasn't Jesse, maybe it was his father, God. In fact, this is so deep, have you noticed this? That when the army of Israel is standing here and the Philistines are there and Goliath goes back and forth every day and he blasphemes the God of Israel, all the soldiers stand there and they take it until young David comes on the scene. And he listens to him blaspheme and he says basically, you can't say that about my God. He loved me when nobody else loved me. He cared for me when nobody else cared for me. I'm gonna knock you in the head with a rock and I'm gonna chop your head off.
That's what I'm gonna do. So don't tell me because you've had a strange relationship with your father, God can't break through today. Now listen to me, Jesus, there's a whole long list of wonderful things that Jesus came to do. He came to planet Earth to do wonderful things. At the top of that list, Jesus Christ came to reveal the Father.
If you want to know what God, the Father, is like, Jesus is very clear. I came to reveal the character of the Father. John 14, six, I'm the way, the truth, the life. No man comes to the Father but by me.
You've read that before. So we always use that to prove the exclusivity of Jesus. He's the only way to heaven. We use that verse to talk about heaven and that's true but fundamentally Jesus says the Father is the destination and I'm the way to that destination. I've come to reveal the Father's heart. And he says this all throughout the Bible. In the Gospel of John, I and the Father are one. If you've seen me, you've seen the Father.
The Gospel of John is saturated over 100 times. God is referred to as the Father. In fact, the Gospel of John begins with a revelation of the Fatherhood of God, John 1.12, the blessing of being adopted as a child of God and then it ends with the Fatherhood of God. Jesus says I am now ascending to my Father and your Father, my God and your God. John begins and ends with this powerful revelation of the Fatherhood of God.
Let me stop right here because this is so very important. Jesus Christ came to give us a revelation of the Father. Are you with me on that? Having said that, you go through the Gospels of John and you go through Matthew, Mark and Luke and you begin to see the character of God. For example, a lady is brought in adultery and thrown to the feet of Jesus and you say the God of the universe was disgusted.
He says kill her, let's wipe her off the face of the earth. Jesus says no, let me reveal the Father. Sweetheart, I don't condemn you. But you're gonna have to leave this life of sin.
You can't go back and live like that. That's the Fatherhood of God. There's a beautiful passage in Mark chapter five if you wanna get a little glimpse of the character of God where a little girl has died.
Have you read this before? She has died, she's laying there dead. And in Mark five, it tells us what Jesus said when he walked into her bedroom and took her by the hand. He says it in Aramaic, kalitha kun, but if you really translate that, it's a term of endearment. Jesus Christ takes the hand of this little girl and literally he says something like this, honey, it's time to wake up. That's not this vicious mean angry God that some of y'all have in your brain. That's a different father than what I'm reading about in the Bible. And so that's what Jesus came to do. Jesus came to reveal the Father. Now I want you to look at Romans chapter eight because the Holy Spirit, so the second person of the Trinity, the Son came to reveal the Father. Paul says in Romans eight, the third person of the Trinity, who's he? The Holy Spirit.
He has a similar role as well. So look at this, Romans eight verse 12. So then brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. For if you're living according to the flesh, you'll die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live, for all those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you've received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry Abba, Father. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. So the second person of the Trinity came to reveal the Father, and then Paul says right here, the third person of the Trinity has a similar job. So is it just redundant, they're doing the same thing?
No. I want you to listen to me. Jesus Christ came to give a revelation of the Father. The Holy Spirit helps us to experience that revelation. Say it again, Jesus Christ came to reveal the Father, give us a revelation of the Father. The Holy Spirit comes to help us experience that revelation.
Do you know this? You can know in your brain all you want, he is God, he's Father, he's a good, good Father, I'll sing all those songs, I know that in my brain, but your heart never experiences that. And I think what God wants to do today is not only give you a fresh revelation of who the Father is, but for the Holy Spirit to come and help you to experience that revelation of the Father.
Are you with me on that? And when that happens, when not only do you start to understand in your brain that Christ-given revelation of who the Father is, when it goes from your brain and the Holy Spirit helps you to experience that in your heart, this passage says several things happened. When the Holy Spirit helps you to experience the revelation of the Fatherhood of God, you begin to live godly, holy lives.
Look at verse 12. So then, brothers, we're debtors, not to the flesh. What's a flesh? It's that base part of me that wants to do whatever I want to do, a part of you who wants to sleep with whoever you want to sleep.
Watch whatever you want to watch, do whatever you want to do. We're not debtors to the flesh, for if you live according to the flesh, you're gonna die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. So he says don't live by the flesh. Now look at verse 14.
For, F-O-R, do you see that? Verse 14 connects the idea, a for connects the idea in verse 14 to the idea in verses 12 and 13. Verse 12 and 13, live holy, godly lives. Verse 14, how? Because you are led by the Spirit of God and he reminds you, you are a son, you are a child of the most high God. When I begin to understand, not with just my brain, but in my soul, that he's my father, and he loves me, and he cares for me, he has adopted me, I am the apple of his eye. I'm a child of God.
When I begin to really experience that, it begins to change the way I live my life. Because see, I've always had this thing backwards. I get so mad at some of y'all when I hear about the affairs going on, and this going on, and I say well you know what, I'm gonna talk hell hot and you're gonna go to hell, you better be careful. Well maybe we have this thing all wrong. Maybe we need to start reminding ourselves, no, you're a prince or a princess of the most high God.
Princes don't live like that. You're a child of the most high God. How could you break the heart of this father who loves you and cares for you when you begin to understand who God really is, how much he loves you, when you begin to understand the father heart of God, you start to live the way the father wants you to live.
Now, I'm not just the one saying that. One of my favorite quotes from Charles Spurgeon is this, I've shared it with you before, but I can't get away from it. He says this, while I regarded God as a tyrant, this mean, angry, vindictive God, I thought my sin was just a little trifle. But when I knew him to be my father, then I mourned that I could have ever kicked against him. When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin. But when I found God to be so kind and so good and so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think I could have ever rebelled against one who loved me so, who sought my good. Do you see what he's saying? You understand, not just here, but here, how much the father loves you, that father's heart.
You start living differently. Now, I know what some of y'all are saying, because I used to say the same thing. Well, if you tell people, if you remind people how much God loves you and how much grace there is and love and grace and grace and love and love, all my people will take advantage of that and they're gonna start living like hell.
I don't know that that's true. Look, when I was in college, I remember one time I was in college, I was broke, had no money, had a 1967 Mustang that was so rusted out, literally, I could drive down the interstate and I could see the interstate through the floorboards because they were all rusted out. I didn't have any money. And so it's time to go back to college and my dad said, look, take my credit card and go to the gas station and fill your car up with gas. You know what I could have done with that credit card? I just said, thank you, I got daddy's credit card. I wanna go buy whatever I wanna buy. I'll go take off to Mexico, have some drinks in Cancun.
I'm gonna go party like it's 1999 and I'm just gonna max this thing out. I could have done that, but why? I have a great relationship with my father.
Why would I wanna break that relationship over something stupid like that? Yes, God is a God of grace. Yes, his mercies are new every day, but we don't take advantage of that.
Why? Because we love him and we love his heart and how could we ever hurt the God who loves us like that? So when you begin to get a, not just a revelation, but you begin to experience God as Father, you start living differently.
Secondly, jot this down. When the Holy Spirit helps you experience the revelation of the fatherhood of God, it, now watch this, it destroys fear and anxiety. Here's what Paul says in verse 15. You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, okay? He contrasts being a slave to fear. I'm talking to people right now who are slaves to fear.
You're anxious, you're worried, you're scared about everything. Paul says that's not the spirit you were given. No, you've been given the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry, Abba Father.
You see what he's doing? He's saying the spirit of sonship, the spirit of the fatherhood of God, it breaks anxiety. Don't go see what Dr. Phil says and don't go see what this psychologist says about breaking fear and that psychologist. Go back to what Paul says. He says, once you understand the father heart of God, it begins to break the spirit of anxiety and fear. And he's not the only one that says this. Jesus Christ says the same thing several times in his teachings.
Let me give you one example. Matthew 6 25, he says, look, don't be anxious about your life, what you're gonna eat or drink about your body, what you're gonna put on is not life more than food and the body more than clothing. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns and yet who?
Your heavenly father feeds them. Verse 32, the Gentiles seek after all these things and your heavenly father knows you need them all. Do you see what Jesus is doing? He's saying to people who are worried and anxious, let me remind you of who your daddy is, it's the father. It's the father and once you understand the fatherhood of God, once you experience the fatherhood of God, unless Jesus is lying to us and I don't think he was much of a liar, Jesus Christ said, once you understand that, it breaks all anxiety.
I was reading exactly a very interesting study from a research institute this week and the study was really clear. It says, they're studying children and they said a child's self-confidence comes from his or her father. When you have daughters who have good, strong fathers, they are confident daughters. When you have young men who in those early formative years have good, strong relationship with their father, you can't get around it, it makes them confident. Jesus and Paul are saying the same thing right there.
When you have a good relationship with that heavenly father, that's where your confidence and your security comes in and you don't worry about things like you used to. You don't have a fear of provision because your father's gonna provide. Look, imagine a little four-year-old, room's shut, door's locked, parents are banging on the door, kid won't open the door, they finally break their door down and the kid is there with the little calculator and the mortgage and the mom and dad's bank statements and the little four-year-old kid is saying, I've been doing some calculation, mom and dad, I don't think we're gonna be able to make ends meet this month. You know how offensive that would be to a father? And the father's like, what is this I smell in the room? Well, I got a lot of food and milk and eggs that I've stored up under my bed in case we go broke and we don't have enough food and the kid lifts up the bed and there's all this food in there. Why are you doing that, kid?
In case we run out of food. I don't know about you, as a father of a four-year-old, I would be offended if my four-year-old couldn't trust me enough to make the payment to provide food, it would offend me. I wonder sometimes if the heart of God is broken when he sees his children worried about everything in the world and they're stored up and they're worried and they're stressed out because they don't understand that God is the God who's gonna provide. Good word, God. Good word. Now, okay, you do your part. You remember this thing, there's this great quote, God feeds the sparrows but he doesn't throw the worms into their nest, okay? So you gotta do your part, I understand that.
You gotta go to work and all that kind of stuff. But who's your source? That boss, that boss ain't your source.
The father's your source. And so when you begin to understand the fatherhood of God, according to that verse right there, it breaks the spirit of fear. David again, going back to David.
Everybody else is running scared of Goliath. Why was this one young shepherd boy not afraid? I believe because he had a revelation of the fatherhood of God and it gave him confidence. When the Holy Spirit helps you to experience, experience the revelation of the fatherhood of God, here's what happens as well.
You begin to love him deeply. There is a love that is built up that some of y'all don't have when you begin to experience this revelation of the father. I want to say it again, Jesus Christ came to reveal the father, he did that. Some of you have that revelation in your brain. Now the Holy Spirit says that's great, but I want you now to experience this.
And when you begin to experience it, let's go back through it. Number one, you live holy lives. Number two, it destroys fear. Number three, it helps you to begin to love the father deeply. Look at verse 15, for you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you've received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry Abba Father, the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Holy Spirit manifests that revelation, you experience that revelation and you cry out, what does it say, what do you cry out? Abba, that's a term of closeness and affection. Now, let me correct something right here because I've heard this before, maybe I preach it before, I don't know, I've heard people say before and Abba is Aramaic because Abba is not an English word, it's not a Greek word, it's an Aramaic word and it's shared in the Hebrew as well. I've heard Abba is what infants say, it means dada.
That's not true, okay? It's not as formal as father and it's not as infantile as dada, it's somewhere in the middle, it basically means dad. When I, because I knew I was gonna be preaching this when I was in Israel a couple of weeks ago, I listened to little kids walking around the city and how they'd address their father and I'd see 10-year-old kids not saying dada, they'd say Abba, they're 10-year-old kids.
In fact, Dawn and I have got a good friend, she lives in Israel, she's got a 30-year-old kid and she said, you know, his father's had some medical illness issues and so we told our 30-year-old son, go check on Abba. She wasn't saying go check on dada, no, no, it was check on, check on your dad. But this is still a term of endearment that I can say to God, you're my dad, my heavenly dad.
As a follower of Jesus Christ, if you don't have that kind of love relationship with your dad, you're still going to heaven, Jesus loves you, God loves you, but there's always gonna be breakdowns in your walk with Jesus, in your walk with others, something will break down if you don't have that experience of the love of your heavenly dad, something will always be missing. Henry Blackaby was a pastor and he said, I had a church member in my church who's always suffering from chronic difficulties in his marriage, in his family, in his work and he was always having difficulties at church, never got along with anybody and said he finally blew up at a church business meeting, yelled at everybody, resigned and stormed out of the church. Later that week, Henry Blackaby visited this man in his home, didn't berate him, didn't fuss at him, what's wrong with you, maybe you need to get on medication, maybe you're a bipolar, here's what he says. He said, I met with that guy and I asked him one question, quote, can you describe your relationship with God by sincerely saying I love you with all my heart? He said the strangest look came over this man's face and he said, nobody's ever asked me that before. He said, no, I can't describe my relationship with God that way, I obey him, I serve him, I worship him, I fear him but I cannot say I love him with all my heart. He had a harsh, angry father when he was young and he grew up to view God the father just like that and because of his inability to love the father or receive the father's love, everything else in his life was out of order. So I gotta ask you a question right now. Can you describe your relationship with God by sincerely saying I love you with all my heart?
Now I mean that. Because I love you but I couldn't worship some of the gods y'all worship. Some of the god you worship, he's mean, he's angry, he's perpetually in a bad mood, he's capricious, he's happy one day, he's sad the next, you mess up, he's sending you to hell today, no, you're back in heaven, no, you're going to hell, no, you're back, I couldn't worship a god like that. Can you honestly say I love that father with all my heart? Because I'm going to tell you, if you don't have that Abba relationship with God, trust me, everything else is going to start breaking down.
And I got to say something as well. In verse 15 it says, you know, God, the Holy Spirit has given us adoption as sons. Notice that, he didn't say daughters. About half y'all here are sons, half y'all here are daughters. So why does it just say God has given us the spirit of adoption as sons? Look, Paul's not being gender insensitive, he's not skipping women, actually he's doing the complete opposite. Paul is writing to a traditional culture where the boys in the family got the inheritance. The boys in the family got the blessings. And what the apostle Paul is saying to the church made up of men and women, in God's eyes, there are no second-class citizens. It's like all of y'all are sons, all y'all, men and women, are getting the inheritance of the father because you're all like sons in our culture.
Does that make sense? Can you say you love him with all your heart? So, I'm going to say it again. Jesus did a wonderful job revealing the character of God. If y'all know what God is like, just look at Jesus. He came to reveal the father. He came to give that revelation.
Y'all got that in your brain. Now, the Holy Spirit is here to help you to experience that revelation. And listen to me, when you start to experience that, you live holy lives. When you experience that, you're just not afraid anymore. You know what peer pressure's rooted in? I want to make sure everybody likes me, I want to please everybody, and so I'll compromise my values, I'll compromise my morals to make sure I fit in. When your confidence is in God, you're like, I don't care who likes me or who not, I just want to make sure he likes me.
That's all I'm into. And so some of y'all are dealing with the fear of people. The spirit of adoption breaks that. So it helps you live holy lives. It destroys fear. It helps you to love him deeply.
And let me give you one more. When the Holy Spirit helps you to experience the revelation of the fatherhood of God, here's the best way I can phrase it, it makes you homesick. I'm going to say it again. About 90%, I'm going to say this right now, I want you to listen to me, about 90% of our church has a revelation of the fatherhood of God. You've read your Bible enough to know. You got revelation. Only about 10% of you have experienced that. And when you experience this revelation, suddenly this world is not your home.
Here's what Paul was, I love this, I wish I could stay here all day looking for 17. And if children then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. You know what he's talking about when he says glorified with him? He's talking about the glory that Jesus has. You're going to go to heaven to be with Jesus. Verse 18, for I consider that the sufferings of this present age are not worth comparing with the glory that's going to be revealed in us.
What's he talking about? He's talking about heaven. Verse 23, and not only the creation, but we ourselves who have the first fruits of the spirit groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, that is, the redemption of our bodies. See, we're going to spend eternity in heaven in the presence of God. Now, would you listen to me? If you think God is this mean, angry, grumpy, capricious God, when I say to you, you're going to go to heaven and be with God forever, there's a part of you that says, I don't know if I'm going to have a good time there in the presence of a mean God like that.
But Paul says right there, no, no, no, no, no. When you get a revelation of the fatherhood of God, you can't wait to go home to be with him. Let me think about this. When you were a little kid, I hope everybody had at least one person like this, when you were a little kid, was there some older family member that you just loved being around? Maybe it was probably a grandma or grandpa, maybe it was an aunt or uncle.
I want you to think about it in your mind. Just some family member, maybe you lived a distance away or whatever, that you just loved to be around. That just made you happy. How did you feel as a little kid when mom or dad said, we're going to go visit grandma? Or you're like, man, she's so mean. Sometimes she slaps me for no reason. I think she's in a bad mood. Or you're like, grandma, she gives me candy. And she tells me how great I am. And I heard somebody say one time, why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well?
Because they have a common enemy. And so, you know, mom and dad say, I can't have snacks before supper, but grandpa always gives me some, Werther's, original, whatever, whatever. You know what I'm saying? Is there somebody when you're a little kid that you're like, I just can't wait to see him. So Paul's saying right there, when you get a glimpse of the Father's heart, and you begin to experience him, you just can't wait to go be with him one day.
I'm gonna say it again. It is possible to be born again, going to heaven, have a revelation of the fatherhood of God, and never experience the fatherhood of God. You're going to heaven. I'm not saying you're going to hell.
I'm just saying, you can live your life as a Christian with a revelation of the fatherhood of God, and never experience the fatherhood of God. Good example of this is a guy I've told you about before. I really like this guy, Derek Prince. Derek Prince was one of the greatest Christian leaders of the 20th century. He was a Bible teacher. He was an author. He really, his ministry has impacted millions of people.
Brilliant man. He graduated from Cambridge University. He was British, raised in India.
And in that part of India, it was highly demonic. And he felt, and I'm not sure, but he felt that in his time in India, some type of demonic entity attached himself to Derek Prince. He said because he started every single day with a sense of foreboding.
Something bad's gonna happen today. He said now I'd get up and get going, and that sense of foreboding would kind of go away, but it was always at the back of my mind. He said after I got saved, that sense of foreboding was still there.
I'd get up in the morning and I'd just like, something's not gonna go well today. And I would go about my business as a believer, and it would kind of go away, but it was always there in the background. He said when I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it diminished it, but it did not go away.
Wake up every day with a sense of foreboding. He said in 1996, he was 80 years old. He was having his daily devotions with his wife, and he said I felt like a hand on top of my head, very oppressive hand, so like a Jewish skullcap, but this was a very dark foreboding on my head. He said I'm in the middle of my devotions with my wife, I'm 80 years old, I'm a Christian leader, I've written books, and I just felt this thing on my head, and I sensed it, it's that sense of foreboding I have felt all my life.
And here's what he said. He said for a few moments, there was a conflict between these two forces. Then the power at work in my body prevailed, and the hand with the skullcap was forcibly taken away, and it vanished. Immediately, without any mental process of reasoning, I knew that for the first time in my life, I could now really call God my Father. I used the phrase our Father for more than 50 years.
Doctrinally, I was clear about this truth. I'd even preached a series of three messages on knowing God as Father, but what I received that moment was a direct personal revelation. The day that demonic skullcap was pulled away, the foreboding vanished, and it never returned again. And from that morning on, it became completely natural for me to address God as Father, or my Father. I experienced what it truly means to have God as my Father. And I was listening to his testimony just this past week, and according to his testimony, when that doom departed, and I got a revelation of who the Father was, he said, number one, a sense of foreboding was gone, i.e.
verse 15, you've not be given a spirit of fear, but a spirit of sonship. He said the second thing that happened is it revolutionized my prayer life. After that revelation of the fatherhood of God, my prayer life was radically changed. And then he said, in his own testimony this week, I was listening to it, he said, for the first time in my life, planet earth no longer felt like my home. Heaven felt like my real home. I began to want to go to heaven to the point that when Derek died, they just put two words on his tombstone, gone home.
Gone home. And so, beloved, I'm praying that today you'll experience a Holy Spirit experience of the fatherhood of God. Praying in a few moments, you notice that my English words can only do so much, this is, now, I've done all I can do, this is now the Holy Spirit's job. I'm praying the Holy Spirit, I'm praying the Holy Spirit will reveal for you as a follower of Jesus Christ.
The fatherhood of God in such a way that the way you view the father coming into this place this morning will be totally different the way you leave today. And I'm only praying that this is gonna experience, this is gonna change the way you view the father. I pray that this experience will change the way you view yourself, because there's some of you, you've got a spirit of rejection. It started when you were young, you've carried that all your life, and it's a spirit that is crippling you. The father wants to come in and break whatever was done to you in the past, and say, I don't care about that, you're now my child, and just draw you to himself. Some of y'all have an orphan spirit, you've felt an abandon.
That demonic spirit has got to be broken today. Jesus came to give you a revelation of the father, the spirit of God right now wants you to experience that revelation. So I want you to stand with me right now. A lot of y'all have had great relationship with your father, you might be like Derek Prince, grew up in a Christian family, great experience, daddy's a good daddy, it's not his fault, but you've just never been able to experience that.
So here's what I want us to do. I think this is a holy moment right now. Spirit of God's in this place. Can you sense his presence here?
Sometimes he's a fire, sometimes he's a wind, sometimes he's just a dove. The general presence of the Holy Spirit is here right now. And in a moment, if you want to have a fresh experience of the revelation of the fatherhood of God, here's what we're gonna do. In a moment, I'm gonna call you forward and we're gonna sing to the father for a few moments, okay? And then I'm gonna pray that the Holy Spirit will make Romans eight real. He'll fall on us and give us a fresh revelation of who God is. The revelation will go from our brain to the experience in our heart. And then here's what I want you to do. Y'all take the Bible literally.
See, I ain't gonna do all the work and they're not gonna do all the work. When the Spirit of God begins to give you that fresh revelation of the father heart of God, how much he loves you, I want you to, here's the word in Greek means to shout out, cry out, speak out, Abba, Abba. I take that, it says right there when the Spirit comes and he starts to give you that experience, begin to cry out, Abba, Father, Father, Father.
Y'all with me on that? You're just kinda staring at me, okay? If you wanna worship the father, if you need a fresh encounter with the father, if you need an experience of the fatherhood of God, would you come right now and let's just stand down here. We're not gonna be crazy with this, we're not gonna prolong this, but would you come and let's just lift up hands, lift up voices, and let's just start singing this song right now. Let's just start singing this to the father, let's do this again. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
How we need you, Lord. You're a good, good Father. It's who you are, it's who you are, it's who you are, and I'm loved by you. It's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am.
You're a good, good Father. It's who you are, it's who you are, it's who you are, and I'm loved by you. It's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am. You are perfect in all of Your ways. You are perfect in all of Your ways. You are perfect in all of Your ways. You are all You are. You are perfect in all of Your ways. You are perfect in all of Your ways You are perfect in all of Your ways You are Your good, good Father It's who You are, it's who You are It's who You are And I'm loved by You, it's who I am It's who I am, it's who I am In the name of Jesus Christ I cancel everything that was done by a Father to wound your heart I cancel abuse, neglect, criticism Physical, sexual, emotional damage done to you by a Father I now cancel that in the name of Jesus I proclaim that the Spirit of God is in this place And where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty, there is freedom You are now free from that mess done to you in the past in the name of Jesus I proclaim it right now, you're free in the name of Jesus And now I speak the Holy Spirit to come upon us right now, Holy Spirit Come and give us a fresh experience of the Father's heart right now Just right now, receive this, you're not to say anything right now You just receive this right now, Holy Ghost come right now, right now Reveal the Father's heart right now, the love of the Father right now The compassion of the Father right now, the acceptance of the Father right now The love of the Father right now, the sacrifice of the Father through the Son right now The kindness of the Father right now, receive that right now in the name of Jesus may it go from your brain to your spirit right now experience them the Father's heart right now spirit of God come right now oh he is your father he is your father he is your father now beloved Romans 8 says when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you experience the father heart of God you begin to cry Abba Dad Dad Abba Abba you're my daddy you're my daddy Abba Abba do it right now open your mouth and just start crying out Abba Abba Daddy Daddy Father Abba Abba Abba Abba right now just open your mouth and start crying out Abba father Abba father are you I love you I love you Abba Abba Abba Abba Abba open your mouth Abba Abba Abba you're my father you won't reject me you don't hate me you ain't disappointed in me I'm your child right now Abba Abba Abba open your mouth and say Abba Romans 15 say they will think Abba they will contemplate Abba no no no the Spirit of God come they will try out Abba Abba Abba I said Abba Abba Abba Abba, Abba, Abba.
Satan is lied to you. He says he's a mad father, angry father, vindictive father, vicious father. No, no, he's a good, good father. Quietly, gently sing that right now to God. You're a good, good father. Sing that right now to Him.
Sing it to Him. You're a good, good father. It's who You are. It's who You are. It's who You are.
I'm loved by You. It's who I am. It's who I am. It's who I am.
You're a good, good father. It's who You are. It's who You are. It's who You are.
And I'm loved by You. It's who I am. It's who I am. It's who I am.
Hey, listen, listen, listen. Some of y'all have been carrying these father wounds for decades. It's going to take you more than two minutes and 33 seconds to break out of this stuff. Some of y'all had a bad view of God for years.
It's going to take more than two minutes to get rid of that. So the Spirit of God right now is doing an internal work in your heart. If you need to go, you go.
Whenever you're ready to leave, you can leave. But I'm going to ask those of you who are asking the Spirit of God to give you a fresh experience of the fatherhood of God. Would you just stay down here and worship the Father for a few more moments and don't just run out? The Spirit of God is still moving right now.
Those of you who need to go, you can go and just be quiet as you're leaving. But right now, the Spirit of God is giving fresh manifestations of the fatherhood of God right now in your heart. And so let's continue to sing that to the Lord. Let's continue to let the Holy Spirit minister to you right now, down front. Let's see some strongholds broken. Wouldn't it be great if generational curses that have gone on for the last 10 generations were broken right now in the name of Jesus? And there's a Spirit of the Father beginning to infiltrate your whole family. Maybe you've got sons or daughters you need to be praying for, grandkids you need to be praying for. You pray right now as this team continues just to lead us.
