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John had a very special relationship to Jesus. He often referred to himself as the apostle whom Jesus loved. When John wrote this letter, love was the main thing he wanted to write about; it was the main thing he wanted the church to understand. That’s because it’s the most important part of our relationship to God and it’s the theme of our message today.
God never intended to be your religion, it was His heart from the beginning to draw you into a relationship with Him. The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to Him. God loves us as a father loves his own son. He has given us the spirit of adoption by which we call Him, “Abba, father!”
My wife’s dad was a chiropractor and when she got to be old enough, he gave her an opportunity to be a receptionist at his clinic. A patient would come in and say, “I’m here to see Dr. Dunn.” She would then go back to one of the treatment rooms, stick her head in and say, “Your next appointment is here, Daddy.” That’s how she saw him, so that’s what she called him.
How do you see God? What kind of relationship do you have with Him? There is a church in Mexico where the people walk there on their knees on an annual pilgrimage. The pastor has taught them that God is so ominous, so enthroned on high in the glory of majesty, that they must completely humble themselves by coming on this pilgrimage on their knees, some of them crawling for miles.
God shows us a different relationship. He wants us to relate to Him as our Father. God most certainly does sit enthroned on high in the glory of majesty and He is the judge of all the earth, but He has invited you to such an intimate relationship that you can call Him “Abba, Father.”
My earliest memories of a pastor is from when I was only four or five years old. I don’t remember his name, or even the name of the church, but I do remember my brother and me playfully wrestling with him on the steps of the platform. He represented the heart of God to me and I saw Him as loving, gracious, approachable and kind.
You see Jesus having a special relationship to children also. In the Gospels, you read that children came up to Him that He might lay His hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
On the triumphant entry Jesus came into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey and cleansed the temple. Afterward, when the chief priests and the scribes saw all the wonderful things that He had done and the children who were calling out to Him, saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant, and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes, and have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babes you have prepared praise for yourself?
Jesus had a special place in His heart for children, could it be because that’s the type of relationship God wants to have with us?

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