How to be a Great Dad:
Be a Good Child of the Great Father
1 John 3:1-10 (NIV)
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
- Know Who You Are
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (v. 1)
I Am a Beloved Child of the Father
- I Owe My Existence to Another
- I Have a Good Father
- I Still Don’t Know How Much I Am Loved
The World Does Not Know Me
- You are not who the world says you are
- Don’t let the world tell you how to be
- Because the world does not know who Jesus is
- Focus on Your Future Self
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (v. 2)
I Must Live Now in Light of Who I Shall Be
- You Are Just Like Your Father
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child… (v. 10)
I Must Bear the Family Resemblance of God
- Stop sinning (vv. 4-6)
- Do what is right (vv. 7-10)