{"id":29042,"date":"2023-05-13T17:51:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T00:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/?p=29042"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:43:58","slug":"gods-forever-family-pastor-mark-driscoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/sermons\/gods-forever-family-pastor-mark-driscoll\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Forever Family","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-18bd0767 alignfull\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-c6970ddb\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-8d02ef71 gb-accordion\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-46e421aa gb-accordion__item\" data-transition=\"slide\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-d40320a9 gb-accordion__toggle\"><span class=\"gb-button-text\">Sermon Notes<\/span><span class=\"gb-icon\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\" ariahidden=\"true\" role=\"img\" class=\"gb-accordion__icon\"><path d=\"M207.029 381.476L12.686 187.132c-9.373-9.373-9.373-24.569 0-33.941l22.667-22.667c9.357-9.357 24.522-9.375 33.901-.04L224 284.505l154.745-154.021c9.379-9.335 24.544-9.317 33.901.04l22.667 22.667c9.373 9.373 9.373 24.569 0 33.941L240.971 381.476c-9.373 9.372-24.569 9.372-33.942 0z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\" ariahidden=\"true\" role=\"img\" class=\"gb-accordion__icon-open\"><path d=\"M240.971 130.524l194.343 194.343c9.373 9.373 9.373 24.569 0 33.941l-22.667 22.667c-9.357 9.357-24.522 9.375-33.901.04L224 227.495 69.255 381.516c-9.379 9.335-24.544 9.317-33.901-.04l-22.667-22.667c-9.373-9.373-9.373-24.569 0-33.941L207.03 130.525c9.372-9.373 24.568-9.373 33.941-.001z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/button>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-accordion__content\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f3e44ae0\">\n\n<p><strong><u>God\u2019s Forever Family&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Young gal rough past \u201cwhy does God need us?\u201d \u2013 no concept loving people, only using people&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\" start=\"1\">\n<li>Needs no one &amp; no thing&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wants us &amp; a family&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>God is a forever Family<\/u><\/strong><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke 1:35 \u201cthe angel answered her [Mary], &#8220;The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High [Father] will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy\u2014the Son of God [Jesus].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>God\u2019s Family was at the announcement of Mary\/Joseph\u2019s family&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jesus went from Heavenly to Earthly family&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\" start=\"1\">\n<li>Don\u2019t think physically<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do think emotionally, spiritually, relationally&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>God is a loving forever Family&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 John 4:8 God is love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 3:35 The Father loves the Son<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 14:31 I [Jesus] love the Father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galatians 5:22 the fruit of the&nbsp;Spirit&nbsp;is&nbsp;love&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>God wants a loving divine family<\/u><\/strong><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Job 38:4-7 \u201cWhere were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?&nbsp; Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements\u2014surely you know!&nbsp; Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Angels&nbsp; =Worshippers \/Messengers&nbsp;&nbsp;300X Bible, roughly 90% of the books&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cinnumerable angels\u201d, \u201ca thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+ \u201csons of God\u201d, \u201cthe gods\u201d,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\" start=\"1\">\n<li>No human body, gender, physical limitation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No divine attributes or qualities&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Satan attacked the divine family<\/u><\/strong><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revelation 12:7-9 Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, but he was defeated&#8230;And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world\u2014he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>NOW 2 families \u2013 God\u2019s &amp; Satan\u2019s @ war&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>God wants a loving forever human family&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Genesis 1:26-28<sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>Then God said,&nbsp;\u201cLet us make man<sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>in our image,&nbsp;after our likeness. And&nbsp;let them have dominion&#8230;so God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.<strong><sup>&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>And God blessed them. And God said to them,&nbsp;\u201cBe fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>God\u2019s family made men and women to make human families &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>We rejected God\u2019s love and His forever family<\/u><\/strong><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ephesians 2:3 \u201c&#8230;by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>God adopts sinners into His loving forever family<\/u><\/strong><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ephesians 1:4-6<sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>he&nbsp;chose us in him&nbsp;before the foundation of the world, that we should be&nbsp;holy and blameless before him. In love&nbsp;he predestined us<sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>for&nbsp;adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ,&nbsp;according to the purpose of his will,&nbsp;to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in&nbsp;the Beloved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>A good father is determined to make, love, and heal the family&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>God wants you to be part of a loving church family&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\" start=\"1\">\n<li>God has a BIG FAMILY \u2013 Universal Church<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God has little families \u2013 Local Churches&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Galatians 6:10 &#8230;as we have opportunity, let us&nbsp;do good to everyone, and especially to those who are&nbsp;of the household of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Early churches largely met in houses = extended family&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Timothy 5:1-2 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father,&nbsp;younger men as brothers,&nbsp;older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Church family made up of families&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Timothy 1:3-5 &#8230;I remember you&nbsp;constantly in my prayers night and day&#8230;I am reminded of&nbsp;your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and&nbsp;your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Physical mothers\/grandmothers&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 16:13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Spiritual mothers\/grandmothers&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>CLOSE&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TODAY we honor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. 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