Is God Your Father ?

(John 5:17) "But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." One of the greatest truths that is taught in the New Testament is the truth that God can be "our Father." The world thinks that God is our Father from birth, but that is not taught in scripture. The only way that one can become a child of God is to be "born again" into the family of God. Until then, one is still guilty of his/her sin and therefore not in the family of God. (Rom. 9:8) "That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." Jesus called God "My Father," and by doing so he made himself equal with God, for he is the "only begotten of the Father," (John 1: 14), (meaning that he is the only Son of God's loins), but everyone that is born again by the Holy Spirit (Jn. 3:6), can be "adopted" into the family of Jesus Christ and The Father. (Rom. 8:15) "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." Thank God that we who are saved can now through Jesus Christ go directly into The Father's presence because we are now "sons of God" (Rom. 8:14). Oh that we would truly realize both the power and the privilege of this great relationship with God.