Getting to the heart of the Father

I really enjoyed preaching this sermon. Got some wonderful compliments including some saying that I stepped on a few toes. Please enjoy, feel free to borrow the notes.



There was a time in church when we made it about a personal relationship with God. It was a time when it was about nothing but God. We loved God, we feared God, and we honored God. It was a time when God was the most important person in our life. But now it has become about programs, old versus new, traditional versus contemporary; that’s just in the church. What about personal lives? While I’m sure that there are some who don’t want me to go down that road, let’s just say that it use to be that anything that involved God or church was a priority in our lives. Now its about sports, clubs, hunting, and even using the line “its my only day off to do other things or spend it with my family.” Where and when did we make it about us instead of God?

I’m here to tell you that God is longing and calling for us to get back to that close personal relationship with Him.

Romans 8:14 – 17

Galatians 3:26 – 29

Galatians 4:1 – 7


There are three things I want you to note:

1) We’re not slaves or servants, but children – We are not part of some religious society that has us follow certain guide lines or make us dance to a certain beat. We are children of God.

2) He’s not just God, He’s Dad – A dad provides for his family, a dad protects his family, a dad teaches his family, a dad lays down the rules for his family, and a dad disciplines his family. All because he loves his family.

3) You were His first priority – He thought of you first and made sure you would have a way to spend your life with Him.

I didn’t come here to guilt you into anything; I came to share a message with you. Dad wants to be with you. He’s not some dead beat who ran away when things got tough. He wants to walk with you, talk with you, help you; He wants to have a relationship with you.

Finally, I believe we need to check our priorities. The truth is, if God is our top priority then why don’t we do the things He asks us to do? Why do we have to grumble and complain? We don’t like it when our children do it; imagine how Dad feels.