1. Knowing God: Understanding His Father’s Love
John 14: 1-10

3. 2 Peter 3:9
“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”

4. 1 Timothy 2:3-6
“This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.”

5. “And I will establis h my covenant between me and you and your offsprin g after you througho ut their generati ons for an everlast ing covenant , to be God to you and to your offsprin g after you.”
Genesis 17:7

6. John 1: 11-13
“He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”

8. 1 John 3:1
"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are."

9. Galatians 4: 4-7
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.”

11. 5 Characteristics of a “child of God”
They love Jesus (John 8:42).
They believe that Jesus is the Savior (1 John 5:1).
They love God’s children (1 John 3:10, 5:1).
They are controlled by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9, 14).
They obey God (1 John 2:29, 3:7-9).

12. 2 Peter 3:9
“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”

13. John 14: 1-10
‘“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.’ 5 Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way? Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ”

14. John 14: 1-10
‘“ If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.’ 8 Philip said to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.’ 9 Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.’”