00:00Amen. All right. Well, children, I want to ask you a question. Do you have a, I don't
00:10know, like a name that you call your parents? Anything, like you call them, what you call
00:19your parents, or maybe even Dracula, like dad, mom, something like that.
00:28Okay, that works. If it's aunties and uncles. Kenzie, what do you call your parents?
00:37Mommy and daddy. Now, it would be weird if one day Kenzie came up to us and said,
00:45Father and mother, may I request the, you know, thou presence or whatever. That would
00:51be a little bit weird if you talk to us that way. Because, did you know that God, say
00:57God? God. Yes, God. Now, God is infinite. Say infinite. Infinite. You know what infinite
01:06means? Yeah. What does infinite mean? Infinity and beyond. Infinity and beyond. Yes, Ross
01:15light here. I like that. I really like that. Now, in a lot of ways, God is that way. He's
01:22to infinity and beyond. But did you know that God invites us to call him not Father, although
01:31we can't call him Father. But I want you to see a verse. Can you put the verse on the
01:36screen, please? Let's read the verse together, children and children of yesteryear. Join me
01:41again, saying, by God's spirit, he cried, Abba, Father. Romans 8.15. Here's what that verse
01:51is saying, children and children here. God's children all. Is that by the Spirit of God
01:58who raised Christ from the dead. Okay. Make sure you don't put that on the fourth spirit. You
02:02want to give it to Grandma? Okay. That's good. That's good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
02:09By the Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead, we are able to cry out to God and
02:16not just call him any other kind of, you know, generic name. It's not to infinity and beyond.
02:22But we cry out to God, Abba, Father. Did you know that Abba is one of the ways they would
02:31have said daddy in the Jewish and the Hebrew culture? So a lot of Jewish and Hebrew children
02:37in those days, and even up to now, you'll hear them saying Abba or some kind of form of Abba,
02:44which means daddy. And in many ways we can take from this lesson today that God, even if he's
02:51so big, even if he's so all powerful and strong, even if God is everywhere, bless you, even if
02:58God is everywhere and we may think, oh, God is there, but he's not here. No, he's everywhere
03:02and we can call him our Abba, Father, because he is just as close to us as he was close
03:10to
03:10all the children of God in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, even up to now. Don't
03:15ever forget that, that God is your Father by your faith in Jesus Christ. Let's fold our hands,
03:20bow our heads, and close our heads, and close our eyes, and pray with me, Father. We pray
03:25in thanks and praise to you, who are Abba, Father. Thank you that you are close to all of us
03:37by faith in Jesus. In his name we pray. Amen.
