How Father God Embraces You -- Hebrews 12:5-11 - Rick Soto
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You’re listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, go to ranchchurch.com. God is a good Father, and he disciplines the ones he loves. Continuing in Hebrews 12, Pastor Rick Soto brings a message he calls How Father God Embraces You, from verses 5 through 11. The letter was written to believers who had suffered for doing what was right, some losing homes and livelihoods for standing up for Jesus, and the author reminds them that hardship is not a sign God has left them but evidence that he is treating them as his own children. Rick asks the church to set aside the cultural filter that hears discipline as harshness. Discipline is God’s yes and God’s no, given for our good, so that we may share in his holiness, and holiness turns out to be the path to real happiness. Through the contrast of Jacob and Esau, he shows that being left without discipline is the true cause for concern. From Proverbs he draws a portrait of the Father who teaches, warns, speaks with urgency, disciplines, celebrates, and enjoys his children. He then names what it means to have God as Father: power and authority, guidance, his presence in our loneliness, mercy, transformation, oneness, and adoption as sons and daughters. The message closes with an invitation to come out of an orphan spirit and let God embrace you as Father, as the prayer team invites the church forward. Scriptures: Hebrews 12:5-11; Hebrews 10:32-34; Proverbs 3:11-12; Exodus 4:22-23; Deuteronomy 8:5; Psalm 68:5; Psalm 103:13; Isaiah 64:8; John 14-17; Romans 8:14-15; Ephesians 1:5
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