"Marvel Not That Ye Must Be Born Again" By Brother Parrish Lee January 3rd,
2016
Amen,
amen. You may be
seated everyone. Happy
two thousand and sixteen. May
this year blow two thousand and fifteen
out of the water. I
just want to make
sure that we are careful not to set our expectations too low. Because I heard, the Lord
says, “In My
Father’s house are many mansions.
If it
were not so, I would not have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am,
there ye may be also.”
(John 14:2-3) Amen,
amen. And, what a
wonderful morning to come and
serve the Lord, come to bless the Lord, come to worship the Lord. What a wonderful time it
is. I don’t know
who Brother Malcolm was talking
about up here, but Brother George preached half the message. Thank you very much, bro,
that means we don’t
have to be here so long. Giving
honor to God, who is the
head of our lives, and thank You, Lord, for bringing us through another
year. And, God, for
proving that You
never fail. And,
thank You, God, for
showing time and time and time and time and time and time and time
again that
there is only but one true, wise, and living God who makes a way out of
no way,
who does what no one else could do, and who makes sure that all who
believe
know that his Word is sure and never fails.
Thank You, Lord, this morning, for all that You’ve
done for us. Giving
honor to that same God who has proven
Himself both Lord and Savior, both a Comforter and a Counsellor, and
both a way
in the dark places, and Lord that does things that you didn’t think,
didn’t
know how He was going to make it happen, but He made it happen. Giving honor to that God,
this morning. And,
giving honor to those who have come, and
have gone on before us, from our founding pastor, and his family, and
the work
that they put forth, to our pastor, he and his family, and the work
that they
put forth. You come
to have an
understanding after being in the faith, and working with leadership for
a
little while, that the burden that they handle, it’s not the easiest
way
around. To labor,
and to pray, and to
call out to God. Thank
You, Lord, for
all those that You have sent before us.
And, for all those who have come to stand in the gap
and make up the
hedge. And, giving
honor to all of you,
who come and present yourselves before the Lord, and ask, “God, I need
Your
guidance, I need Your blessing, I need Your anointing, Your power, I
need
things from You, God. Please
provide my provision
and protection for me this day and for my life.
Amen.” Amen. Brother
Andy and I, as we talked,
we saw that there is a need to spend this first part of the year
talking about
being born again, and, of course, our Scripture theme for the month is
from the
Book of John: John 3:7
Marvel not that I
said unto thee, Ye must be born again. And,
to set the tone, we’re going
to read, and, as Pastor Ulysse taught us, we’d like to stand for this
part of
the message. Who,
incidentally texted
us, and said he’s planning on making it back up here soon. Yeah.
He said, “Happy New year.
Hope to
see you before three months has passed.”
So, if we could read together: John 3:1-10
There
was a man of the Pharisees, named
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and
said unto
him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man
can do
these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered
and said
unto him, Verily, verily, I say
unto thee, Except a man
be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus
saith unto
him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time
into
his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the
Spirit, he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh
is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said
unto thee,
Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou
hearest the
sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it
goeth: so is
every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered
and said unto
him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest
not these things? If
we could just bow our heads for
just a moment. Lord,
we do come before
You, and we’re bold about saying, “Thank You.”
Thank You for waking us up this morning, Lord. Thank You for putting us
on our feet! Thank
You for giving us our right mind, this
morning, Lord! Thank
You for the things
that we can’t even grasp or wrap our mind around that You do for us,
every
single day but, this morning, to bring us this far!
Thank You for letting us know Your name, this
morning, and to worship You in the beauty of holiness, God! Thank You for a time to
sing praises to You,
and let it meditate in our heart.
And,
God, as we worship You, as we cling to You, God, we say that You are
all and
our everything! We
present ourselves to
You, this morning, and we say, “Have Your way, Almighty God! Have Your way in our
lives, God!” Bless
us with the blessing that You desire
for us this morning, God! God,
whatever
spirit tries to say, “No,” God, we stand up and say, “Yes!” Bless us this morning,
God, may Your Word
permeate our lives! God,
fill us, let us
blow ourselves apart, God! God,
may our
eyes be refreshed, and our hearts renewed, and our minds re-awakened,
this morning,
God, as every day we say You are our provider, our protector. You are everything to us,
God! And, so, we
say thank You, as we submit
ourselves to You, this morning, in Jesus’ name, and everyone said, amen! Amen, amen, and amen. You
may be seated, Saints. John 3:7
Marvel not that I
said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Before
I got saved I had heard
this term, "Born Again". I
didn’t really know what it was. And,
every
now and then, you know, I would run into somebody, and I remember
somebody told
me, “Oh, born again? That’s
a Christian
thing, but it’s the top of the line Christians; those are the ones that
are
'Born Again' Christians. It
takes a lot
to get up there, and you really don’t have to worry about it, you know,
because
you have to give up a lot to be
born
again. When I was
in high school, there
actually was a song that was put out, and it was called, 'Born Again.’ It was really a melodic
song, and it was
okay, up until it got to that term, ‘Born again.’
I wasn’t a Christian, in fact, I was Muslim
at the time. I
worshipped a whole
different God; a whole different religion.
But, there was something about whenever I heard that
term, “Born again!” I
was like, “I don’t know what’s wrong with
it, but I know it’s not right, it doesn’t belong there.” I didn’t know what it was,
I just knew that
that didn’t belong there. Well,
today's
message isn't about a song. It’s
not
about somebody’s opinion. Today’s
message is simply about what the Word of God says about being born
again. So,
we see here, in John chapter
three, there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the
Jews. And, to
provide a little
background on the setting of the time, we’d have to say that, and we’ve
talked
about this before, how there was many religious sects at the time. There were many religious
divisions, at the
time, you could say. Kind
of akin to so
many churches going on now, believing something a little bit different
from the
next one, and a little bit different from the next one.
But, the spirit was the same, and everybody
thought that they were right, and everybody else was wrong! Kind of similar. But, I’m going to talk a
little bit about
some of the sets that were around at the time: Sect
number one that we’d like to
mention about, there was a sect called the Zealots. And,
really, they were a militant branch, and
they held to a few things in the Torah, the Torah being the Old
Testament, that
they had looked and read into, but they really were concerned with
takin Israel
back from Rome. And
that was a group of
people that were really concerned about that, and they were called the
Zealots. There’s
another religious group
called the Sadducees, and, of course, we’ve heard of the Sadducees. Well, they Sadducees were
kind of an affluent
people, kind of wealthy type of people, and they didn't really ascribe
to the
miracles, and the great wondrous things in the Bible, and, of course,
they
didn’t believe in the resurrection; they were affluent, and they didn’t
really
have any interest in losing their wealth for any reason whatsoever. That would take care of
the Sadducees. There
was another group called the
Essenes. The
Essenes. I learned
about this when we went down to the
Field Museum where they had the Dead Sea Scrolls.
They had the Dead Sea Scrolls, and you
learned about the Essenes. They
were
really an isolationist type of group, and they tried their best to hold
onto
the letter of the Law and the spirit of the Law, and they weren’t
really a
wealthy people, because they were trying to follow God as best they
could. And, being
isolationist and that type of
thing, they kind of died off around the time of the Romans’ squash of
Israel in
70 A.D. There
was another group of people
called the Herodians, and they believed in some of the things in the
Torah, but
they were really concerned about being with the in-groups, with the
politicians, with the societal groups.
They didn’t want to make any waves.
They really wanted to have some leadership roles in
society, as it
were. They believed
in some things in
the Torah, but that wasn’t the main thing; the main thing was that they
could
have some sort of position. The
Herodians. There
was another group, and they
weren’t really a religious faction, but they were still a group, and
they were
called the scribes. Scribes
back then
would have been exactly what it sounds like.
They were people who could read, and write, and
record, and they were
intellectual, too. You
could say they
were the intellectual people of the day.
They were very affluent, and, usually, they had
positions of authority,
or they had positions of power, because they were affluent; they could
communicate real well. You
always wanted
to have a scribe around, if you wanted whatever dealings you were doing
to be
remembered. And,
you wanted to have a
scribe around, you could have some information come to you that might
be hidden
in books, because these were the people. If you wanted to be remembered
for
posterity, you didn’t have to have a selfie-stick back then, along with
your
phone, and take pictures, and have little captions underneath of it,
and post
on Facebook, and say, “This is us, and this is what we did,” you had to
have a
scribe. You had to
have a scribe, and he
had to write it down for you. And,
there was another religious
group, and they were called the Pharisees.
Now, the Pharisees were a conservative,
fundamentalist group of the day.
They tried to
keep themselves separate. They
were very diligent about holding to the
letter of the law, very diligent about it, but, from time to time, and
throughout their workings, they would have some sort of self-serving
maneuvering
with the Word. You
ever see somebody,
they might know some Scriptures, and every now and then, they’ll throw
one in
to justify what they got going on.
“Hey,
you now what? Hey,
hey, hey, I know I’m
wrong, but I’m better than that wrong, because the Scripture says,” and
they
just whip it out when it’s convenient for them.
You ever now people like that?
I
know some people like that, in fact, a time or two, I’ve been a people
like
that. Thank God
that brings conviction,
and says, “Knock it off! Repent;
get
that thing right.” Thank
God for
Him. Well,
Nicodemus was a Pharisee—one
of these Pharisetical, conservative, fundamentalist type of people. He was one of those, but,
he wasn’t just one
of those fundamentalist type of people.
He actually was—in there, he was one of their
rulers, and a ruler, at
that time, would have been a teacher.
He
was over the people who were the educated religious people who were
trying to
do their best with it. He
had achieved
some stature, and this is Nicodemus.
And
this Nicodemus, it says, a ruler of the Jews in verse one, the
same—according
to verse two—the same came to Jesus by night, and said unto Him,
“Rabbi, we
know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these
miracles
that thou doest, except God be with him.”
So, if he had position, and he was among the
Pharisetical group, it
would have been of some consequence for this teacher, this ruler, to
say that
this new kid on the block had some sort of a measure that was
comparable with
all of the things that this Pharisee, who had been raised and taught,
was
putting some sort of stamp of approval on.
So, he had to check this thing out.
And, so, what he said to Jesus actually put validity
on Him. It put
validity on the Lord Jesus: "No
man can do these miracles except God be with him", which is not just to
say, no man can do these miracles, but that God be with him, but it is
also to
say, “I need to provide audience to You, because God is with You. Not only do I see it, I
also must come and
present myself to listen.” In
other
words, “You are greater than me.”
So,
Nicodemus came to say this; it is something for someone who has studied
the
Torah! It is
something for a person who
has given his life over to the ways of Moses and Isaiah and Jeremiah,
and King
David—it is something for this person to come and say, “Now, I have to
give
credence to someone who is somewhat on that level.
I am over all these people, and I am Your
student.” This
Nicodemus is the one that
went to the Lord Jesus. And,
in going to
the Lord, it’s amazing how the Lord Jesus says to him right there in
verse
three: John 3:3
Jesus
answered and said unto him, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God. In
other words, “Nicodemus, you
won't be able to even see it if you are not born again.
So, that quells the difference between the
born-again Christians and the non-born again Christians. According to this, the only Christians are the born-again
Christians. According
to the Lord Jesus, there’s not no
great big different sects here and there, there’s only one! “The born again Christians. The ones who come to Me.” Well, what news this had to
be for Nicodemus. What
news this had to be for one of the top
flight religious people of the day to learn, “I’m doing all I can do. I’m doing my very best. And You’re telling me I
don’t have a chance
unless I’m born again. So,
Nicodemus says, in verse
number four: John 3:4
Nicodemus
saith unto him, How can a man be
born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's
womb, and
be born? Now,
what Nicodemus said here was
more than a description or term, or layout of procedure. It was more than that. What he actually is saying
is, “I’ve studied
the Law. I’ve known
the ways of the
Torah. And I don’t
know about this! I
haven't found it, so You tell me!
Because it’s not matching up with anything
else that I have learned to this point!” John 3:5
Jesus
answered, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the
Spirit, he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Now,
the Lord tells him so
plainly. I love
this; I love this! The
Lord tells him so plainly. When
the Lord was born, there was a star up in
the sky for all to see. Only
the ones
that were really looking, found it, but all could see, if they knew how
to
look. And, when he
was born, the angels ministered
to the shepherds, and they went in to see the birth.
When he was born, prophesies were fulfilled,
when the Lord was born. What
a wonderful
time that was, on that day, when Christ was born. But,
here, the Lord tells him, except you’re
born of the water and of the Spirt, you cannot see, enter into the
Kingdom of
God. Where are the
fireworks? Where are
the angels? Where
was the earthquake
shaking up to let people know that the Lord told him plainly? Where is everything? Well, to mention that, we
have to go to
something that Apostle Paul said: Hebrews 6:13-14
For
when
God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he
sware by
himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I
will
multiply thee. Because
He could swear by no
greater God Almighty swore by Himself. That's enough to make us want to
go to
Genesis and see where this thing happened. Genesis 22:16-17
And
said,
By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this
thing,
and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will
bless
thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the
heaven,
and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess
the
gate of his enemies; And
there it is. Greater
than fireworks. Greater
than an earthquake. Greater
than a tsunami. Greater
than a solar flare that could reach to
the end of the solar system. What’s
greater than all those things? A
promise
from Almighty God. Angels
would have
lessened this thing. Stars
in the Heaven
don’t compare to a promise of Almighty God.
And Almighty God promised him.
Promised him; told him, “I swear, I’m going to bless
you, Abraham. I
swear it!” If
we were to go right back to
that, when it came out of the Lord’s mouth, that is firework enough. In other words, the Lord
said it, we believe
it, that settles it. But
this born again thing had been
in wait for a very long time. Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. So,
since the very beginning,
since the very beginning, the manifestation to be a Son has been on
hold, waiting
for this moment. The
manifestation, the
revelation, the clarity, the appearing of the sons of God, when is it
going to
happen? Right here,
right now. So,
since the beginning, they have been waiting,
we have been waiting, everybody, all creation has been waiting for the
manifestation of the sons of God. John 3:7
Marvel not that I
said unto thee, Ye must be born again. So,
the Lord Jesus told Nicodemus
not to marvel at this. Not
to
marvel. It’s not
one of those things
where you wonder, kind of go back and forth in your mind, and think
maybe or
kind of, what’s the big picture of the whole thing?
No, no, no, don’t marvel at it; this is what
it is, the entrance to Heaven itself. So,
He tells him something else in verse
number ten: John 3:10
Jesus
answered and said unto him, Art
thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Are
you not a master, a ruler, a
teacher of Israel and you don't know this? In other words, the entire,
the entire Torah pointed to this. All those things of God
have been pointing to
this. Are you not
one well educated in
the ways of God? And
this you don’t know! Nicodemus,
Nicodemus. This is
the clarity that we have been waiting
for. And, you know,
if you go outside
the Word, you get a thousand different definitions.
If you take your Bible, put it away, and say,
“What’s it mean to be born again?”
You
can get everything from, “Oh, that’s when you have a certain kind of
ice
cream.” “That’s
when you have a
surgery. “That’s
when you lose a lot of
weight.” “That’s
when you get a new
job.” All that
stuff is being born
again, but, when you open the Word, you see being born again is being
born of
the water and of the Spirit in accordance with what the Lord Jesus said. Point 2: Babes Have to Be
Taught. A
couple of things about babies: One
is, babes have to be taught. When
you’re born again, you have to be
taught, like any other babe. When
you’re
born, you have to be taught; when you’re born again, you have to be
taught. So, one
thing about babies is
everything is new to them. Everything
is
new to them. They
have to learn how to
eat, they have to learn what to eat, they have to learn how to walk,
how to
talk... And,
babies, yes, they make
mistakes. And true
to form, true to
form, they also have learn to be potty-trained.
Babes have to learn to be potty-trained.
Why do you bring that up?
Because, when Christian babes start out, yes, we
have to learn how to
walk and talk. We
have to learn how to
eat; we have to learn what to eat, and, yes, spiritually speaking, we
have to
learn how to be potty-trained. Amen.
Thank God for
His perfect example. For
His perfect example. John 13:15
For I
have given you an example, that ye
should do as I have done to you. The
perfect example. Babes
have to be taught. Point 3: We Are Commissioned
to Grow and Not Stay Babes. We
are commissioned to grow, and
not to stay babes. A
Scripture for this
one is: Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up
in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding
therein
with thanksgiving. Rooted
means you are centered and
grounded in Christ. And
built up in
Christ, and built up in Christ; adding things into our lives. We are commissioned to
grow, and not to stay
babes; commissioned to grow, and not to stay babes.
Mark 16:16-17 He that believeth
and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be
damned. And
these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast
out
devils; they shall speak with new tongues; Somebody
might say, “Oh, Brother
Parrish, I haven’t gotten to that place yet.
I don’t cast devils out; I don’t speak with new
tongues, I don’t have
that stuff going on in my life, and I would have to say, “I beg your
pardon! All of us
that I know of that are living for
the Lord, cast the devil out every morning.
‘Get out, devil!
You come into my
mind; get out! You
don’t have any place
here!’ And,
throughout the day, we cast
him out. ‘Get out,
devil! Shut up!
Get thee behind me!
I savor the
things of God, and you do not.’” And,
as
far as speaking with new tongues, thank you so much, Sister Zena, you
already
preached that one for me. Yes,
He
changes how you talk. He
changes what
you say. When you
come up with
something, and it’s about to come to your mouth, that you know ain’t
right, it
stops, right in your mouth. You
say,
“Mmmmblmmm. I can’t
say that. I can’t
say that. I might
want to say that, but I can’t say
that. I’m born
again; sometimes I’ve got
to be reminded I’m born again.” Sometimes
I’ve got to be reminded I’m born again, that I’m not of the world. God is my Father. Sometimes I’ve got to
shake myself and say,
“Yeah, that’s the spirit that I am of.”
Yeah, they shall speak with new tongues.
Before you got saved, how much did you bless God? How much did you read, and
say, “I can’t wait
to talk a little more about it,” before you got saved.
And after you got saved, “Hey, anybody having
a Bible study? I
have a couple of
questions.” You
find that coming in your
speech. Mark 16:18
They
shall take up serpents; and if they
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on
the
sick, and they shall recover. They
shall take up serpents. No,
we’re not talking about one of those churches
in West Virginia where you get excited and a box comes from underneath
the pew. We’re not
talking about lifting up a cobra
and lifting up a diamondback—no, no, not those kind of snakes. If you want to pick up one
of those kind of
snakes, you’re on your own! But,
some of
us know that, yeah, I take up serpents, and I didn’t know it was a
serpent at
the time, but, sometimes a serpent walks right over to our table when
we’re
trying to have lunch. Walks
right into a
conversation, whether it’s wearing pant or a dress, it’ll walk right up
there,
and, yeah, sometimes you have to say, “Mmmph, no, uh-huh, we’re not
talking
about that. We’re
not going there. If
you’re going to continue that, you’re
going to have to continue that without me because, I am not that, I am
born
again.” And,
if they shall drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.
You ever want to try to unhear something? Every now and then,
sometimes I’ll watch a
religious program, or watch even a goofy sitcom—I can’t even watch
those things
no more, they turn my flesh, it starts to peel.
But, sometimes you hear something said, and you want
to unhear it. But,
thank God that we have a Spirit of
Christ in us, and we could say, “Yeah, you know what?
My ears might have drunk of that, but it’s
not going to hurt me any, because I’m casting it out. I’m
casting it out; it’s not settling
here. It’s not
going down into my heart;
I’m casting it out. They
shall lay hands on the sick,
and they shall recover. I’ve
actually
been praying more, and more, and more, and more, and more about this
particular
Scripture right here. I
asked the
Lord—we had some sick people in our church, and all souls belong to God. Sometimes it’s time for
God to take
them. Sometimes
he’ll take them like he
took Elijah (2 Kings 2:11), sometimes He’ll take them like He took
Enoch
(Genesis 5:24, Hebrews 11:5), and sometimes he’ll take them like He
took Moses
(Deuteronomy 34:5-6), and sometimes He’ll take them like He took David
(1
Chronicles 29:26-28). God
takes them. But,
when somebody is sick, we should be able
to lay hands on them, and see them recover.
I asked the Lord, “Lord, sometimes we’ve seen people
healed, and
sometimes we have not. And
I can’t point
the finger at anybody. That
Scripture
belongs to me. We
need to be able to
know why? What’s
the difference?” The
Lord gave me a Scripture; I was talking
with Brother Jesse and Brother Chris last night, the Lord gave me a
Scripture
from the Book of Isaiah chapter fifty-nine: Isaiah 59:1-2 Behold, the
LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear
heavy, that
it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your
God,
and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. Our
iniquities get in the way, so
God can’t her my prayers when my sins and iniquities are in the way,
and His
arm can’t reach to save when I have my sins and iniquities in the way. Amen.
Amen. I
actually want to see more
souls saved for the glory of the Lord God, and see more souls touched
and
healed, yes, many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Bible
says that
God delivers them out of every one, every one.
Mark 16:19-20 So then after the
Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on
the right
hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord
working
with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. With
signs following. If
you’re born again, the signs must
follow. The signs
of the Lord saving,
must follow. Point
4: Born Again Lets Us Know the Level of Change That Was
Coming. In
other words, we’re going to be
something we weren't before. Romans 8:15-18
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. The Spirit itself
beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if
children, then
heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we
suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the
sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which
shall
be revealed in us. Whereby,
whereby, the scripture
says, we cry Abba Father, or, accurately, Father Father. And the fact that we cry, or
we exclaim, or we
entreat, and even shriek, sometimes, "Father" is even to say “Lord
help me. God be
merciful to me. Oh,
Rock of my salvation, to you do I turn. Savior,
guide me, lead me, Lord Jesus, You are
everything to me, and without You I’d be nothing at all. Lord, my Comfort, be with
me, and I with
Thee.” These are
the cries that we cry
out as heirs of the promise. And,
this is the Spirit that we
have received. Not
the Spirit of Samson
to slay a thousand with a jawbone. Not
even the spirit of James and John, who said, “Lord, shall we call down
fire,
and wipe them all out this town?” and the Lord turned to them, and
said, “You
know not what Spirit ye are of.” God might use us to fulfill
anything in God. He
might use you to witness to millions.
He might use you to just walk into a hospital
room when just one person is there, and you and the other person are
the only
to that see the healing of God. God
will
use us to do many things, but the things that is going to permeate, the
thing
that is going to be paramount over everything in that is God alone gets
the
glory. And, our
spirit has to agree with
His Spirit. Our
spirit has to agree with
His Spirit. Praise
God. Point 5: Children of the Father
Alone Are Heirs The
only heirs there are, are the
ones who are children of the Father. Romans 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God,
and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we
may be
also glorified together.
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