The Mature Christian Knowing the Father

John 14, starting at verse 6. Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.

And from now on, you know him and have seen him. Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us. Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father.

So how can you say, show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. Or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.

Amen. Let's pray and then we'll dive into this glorious and very intimate text. Our Father in heaven, we need you today.

This word before us is so deep, so beautiful. And I ask, Father, that you let me trust that the Spirit of my Father will speak through me. And I especially ask, Father, give every single person in this room a revelation of the Father's love today.

Father, this is not easy for me to preach about, but I ask you, Lord, to reveal yourself. We've all had different fathers. Good fathers, bad fathers.

We've had fathers say things over us that have hurt us. And then we've had really beautiful blessings from our fathers. But our Father in heaven, I ask you to reveal your heart to us today.

Lord, teach us what the love of our Father in heaven feels like. Show us, Lord. We trust you.

Amen. If I were to ask everyone here, what does a mature Christian look like? I wonder what your answers would be. I know that many people would answer, well, a mature Christian reads their Bible and prays.

No. I think when I've talked to most people in most churches and I say, what does Christian maturity look like? I get that answer. A mature Christian reads their Bible a lot and prays a lot.

And trust me, I want you all to read your Bibles a lot, okay? And I want you all to pray a lot. That's wonderful. We ought to major on the Bible and prayer.

But is that the mark of a mature Christian in the Bible? Or others would say, well, a mature Christian is a pastor, right? Or some priest or some head honcho or someone who's super spiritual or something like that. But is that how the Bible paints the picture of a mature Christian? No. Right here, Christ starts to unfold for us what a mature Christian really looks like.

And he says two things that will blow our minds and that could change our lives forever. The first one is that the mature Christian knows the Father. Amen? And the second one is that the mature Christian is doing the works of Jesus.

And that's going to be our sermon next week, okay? That's too much to get to this weekend. But that's pretty remarkable. He calls us out to do the very same works that he did.

And even greater works. But the first thing he says right here is that if you're a mature Christian, you know the heart of the Father. You have had a revelation of the Father's love for you and you are walking in it.

And I think even what I just said right there could take a big mindset shift for many of us. No? Because a lot of us just think, I don't know, I've got to do a lot of good works and I've got to read my Bible a lot and I've got to pray a lot. But when Christ says, come on now, be mature, grow with me, the first thing he mentions is you need to know the Father.

You need to know the Father. Okay, so that's where we're headed. Amen? Hallelujah? This is a glorious text.

So, let's dive in and I don't know exactly where we're going, but we're at least going to get to these two big questions in verse 9 and verse 10, okay? Two major questions. In verse 9 he says, have I been with you so long? And in verse 10 he says, do you not believe that I'm in the Father and the Father in me? First, let's just follow the flow of the text for a minute, okay? You know, these are the red letters in your Bible. And what does that mean? That means that Jesus is speaking, no? There's a song by Crowder called Red Letters and it says, when I read those red letters and my walls came tumbling down.

And whenever I hear that song, I just remember me, 11 years ago, I remember the day when he came into my life and the walls came tumbling down and he started to free my soul. And it's all because of these letters in front of us. Amen? When you hear Jesus speak, open your ears.

What does he say in verse 6? I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. And all of us tend to take that as being about heaven, don't we? And we will preach to each other as we ought to.

The only way to heaven is Jesus. He's the way, he's the truth, he's the life. No one comes to the Father but by him, right? And that does mean no one will get to heaven unless you're going by Jesus.

But that's not all it means. Because look at verse 7. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. So Jesus is not only talking about the way to heaven here, he's also talking about how to know the Father.

Do you all see that? That's very important. So he's not just talking about how to get up into heaven, he's saying, I am the way for you to know the Father right now. Right now.

Verse 7. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. And from now on, you know him and have seen him. I love Christ's attitude right there.

We spoke of this last week. But Jesus speaks in such clear terms, doesn't he? Do you all remember, look back at verse 2. He says, if it were not so, I would have told you. Right? He has the attitude of this new character I've learned from my boy named Tomator, who says, if I'm lying, I'm dying.

Right? But Jesus right here is saying, if it were not so, I would have told you. He's saying, I am a faithful witness. Listen to what I say.

Wake up. Listen to my words. And then look at verse 4. He says, and where I go, you know.

And the way you know, he's being very clear with us, very direct with us. And then look at verse 7. And from now on, you know him and have seen him. Verse 7 is about revelation.

Amen? He's talking about knowing the Father and seeing the Father. And it speaks in Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 17 about the spirit of wisdom and revelation. One of the works of the Holy Spirit is to open up our eyes so that we know and we see.

And right here, Christ is saying, you know him, you have seen him. Let's just camp out in verse 7 for a minute and ask, what does it feel like to be able to say, I know the Father and I have seen the Father? The first thing it means to know the Father is that you walk in confidence that your Father loves you. Amen? And I want to even propose to you that you can feel the Father's love.

He says, you have known him, right? What does that feel like? You can walk through your day and say, I am his son. He is my father. I am his daughter.

He is my father. And there's just this warm feeling of confidence and warmth in you that you know the Father. What does this say? From now on, you know him and have seen him.

I'm just struggling here because I want you all so badly to know this, so I'll just pause as others are coming in, okay? Think about this, brothers and sisters. I don't want to give you any examples right here. I just want to talk about the purity of these words.

Verse 7. From now on, you know him and you have seen him. What does it feel like to know him? It feels like a warm confidence of the Father's love. And that can go with you throughout the day.

Has anyone ever felt that? I know him. He's my dad. He's my Abba.

He's my father. And I feel his love. And I'm not telling you that I feel that perfectly.

And I know that no one here probably walks in that perfectly. But I am telling you that Jesus says right here, if you are a Christian, if you know me, then you feel that warm confidence of the Father's love. You've seen him somehow.

You've known him somehow. And then he says, you've seen him. There's another way that we can tell if someone walks in the Father's love.

And it's this. That person will walk in mercy to everyone. Okay? If you really know the Father's love, then you know a love that is merciful to everyone.

Let me illustrate that for you. There have been pastors falling in the Christian church about once per week in the last few, last two years, right? Have you all been following the news? Big name pastors all throughout the country falling, I'd say once a week, maybe once every two weeks, right? And these are major people, people like Steve Lawson and Mike Bickle. And many of us in this room, we've followed these people.

We've listened to their ministries and everything. And what's happened as they've fallen is that there has been born online a cancel culture where people are now making ministries out of canceling everyone. And out of saying, you're done for.

You need the law. You need justice. And part of that is right.

If these men have committed great crimes, they ought to be locked up. Amen? If they've done really horrible things, they ought to be out of pastoral ministry altogether. But now there's a culture in the Christian church of we hate them.

We despise them. Kick them out. And then there's no mercy.

You all follow me? But if we as the church of God have really come to know the Father's love, we ought to say mercy for everyone. Even when it's hard. Okay.

So we say mercy for those who have been hurt, healing for those who have been hurt and justice for those who've been hurt. And then even for criminals, we say, lock them up, but mercy, lock them up, but pursue healing. Amen? And we need to look at the entire world around us and say, mercy for all, because that's the revelation of the Father's love.

Do you remember what Christ says about the Father in the Gospels? He says, My Father makes his light to shine on the good and on the evil alike. Amen? He says he makes his rain to come down on the good and on the evil. And he says, you know, how many times would my father forgive someone who sinned? Seven times, seven times, 70 times? How many times should we forgive over and over again? And I'm just pausing right here on verse seven, because I want you all to get this.

If you've had a revelation of the Father's love, first you can feel it and you can walk in it and you can be confident of it, but then it oozes out of you. Amen? To the place where people can look at your life and actually say, I feel the Father's love oozing out of her. I feel the Father's love oozing out of him.

And I'm just pausing there. That's so important. There are so many of us as Christians that we say, I'm going to love you until you leave me the sixth time.

I'm going to love you until you sin the 13th time. And at that point, I can't take it anymore. You're out of here.

Right? But the Father's love is not like that. The Father says, I'm just going to keep loving and keep loving. And I'm not just going to give my love to him.

I'm also going to give my love to him. I'm going to give my love to the unlovely. I'm going to give my love to the really difficult ones.

I'm going to give my love to the demon possessed. I'm going to give my love to the ones who can't stop bugging me. I'm going to give my love to the ones who've never talked to me.

Do you see what I'm getting at? And Jesus right here, John 14, after he's walked with them for three years, he says, if you know me, if you are a Christian, if you are a follower of Jesus, then you know the Father's heart. Amen? Do you all see that? Verse 8, Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father. And it is sufficient for us.

Whoa. Did you all see what just happened there? I tried to butter you all up. Okay.

So you realize if you're a Christian, you know the Father's love, right? And we ought to be walking in it. And it's this wide mercy. And then what's the next thing we hear from one of Jesus' disciples? Lord, I have no idea what you're talking about.

And I think a few things are going on with Philip right here. And first of all, I think Jesus was speaking in the spirit and Philip was thinking in the flesh. Amen? Jesus was talking about a father who they couldn't see, right? Saying, you've walked with me, you know the Father.

And Philip says, well, where is he? Are you talking about Joseph? Like, is he behind that door? Does he live down the street? Show us the Father, Lord. We have a little more time, right? Before you go up to Jerusalem to die. So where is he? I think that's a good guess that Philip is just, he's thinking in the flesh.

He's thinking, when are we going to meet him? Right? But then Philip also has another sort of disease right here. And it's called discontentment. Amen? He says, Lord, show us the Father and that would be sufficient for us.

Right? So what's Philip saying to Jesus? All that you've said, Lord, for the last three and a half years, it's not enough. Okay? All the times that you have come to demonstrate the Father and show me the Father's love, it's not enough. And you know, there's a deep lesson right here about contentment.

Do you know that discontentment shows itself through trying to be content? I don't know if that makes sense to you all. So I'll say, if I just had one more car, I would be content. If I just had a hundred more dollars in my bank account each month, then I would certainly be content.

Right? If I just had a little bit more, I'd totally be content. Right? But the fact is, in Proverbs it says, the leech has two daughters, and their names are Give and Give. Discontentment just breeds discontentment.

Right? And here, Philip is a lot like all of us, and I'm including myself a thousand percent. Jesus has spoken to us for three years, and we say, Lord, it's not really enough. Right? But you know what Jesus says to us? He says, actually, it is enough.

And you're living beneath your revelation. Amen? Actually, I've given you a hundred and twenty things to go work on in your beautiful Christian life, and you're still saying, it's not enough. I need more Bible studies.

Right? He's saying, I've given you the cross, the resurrection, Pentecost, the Holy Spirit, the gifts, all that you need, and you're saying, I need more teaching. Right? It's not a good place to be in. My voice is cracking.

It's so bad. But all of us can be there. Verse eight is so amazing.

Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and that would be sufficient, that would be enough. But you know how Jesus reacts here? He doesn't give him more revelation. And I love that.

He actually refuses to give him more revelation. He doesn't say, okay, Philip, I'll stop you with the revelation of the Father's love right now. Okay, Philip, I'll just make my Father come down in a mighty vision and just show you exactly who He is right now.

No, let's go on and look at what he says. Verse nine. Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known me, Philip? Wow.

So he actually makes Philip pause and say, how long have I been with you? And then he doesn't say, and you have not known the Father. He says, and you have not known me. So what would that translate to in our lives? Have you actually been a Christian three years, and you haven't known that Christ came to reveal the heart of the Father? Amen? And let's all make it really personal.

Just ask yourself right now, how many years have you been a Christian? I would say for me, it's 11. And you, not all of us know the date and the time, not all of us know the exact date, but you do want to have some idea. When was I born again? When did Jesus come in? Because He speaks to us in those terms, doesn't He? And right here He says, Philip, it's been about three and a half years, and you still don't know me.

I want to just show you a few other texts on Christian maturity, okay? Have you all got your thumbs ready to flip? I want you to see something. That today, Jesus is calling you to be a more mature Christian, okay? And some are going to hear me say that and get really angry at me, and that's okay, that's why I'm the pastor, I can take it, okay? But today, right now, Jesus is calling you to grow up, okay? The thought in verse 9 is for everyone in this room. Have you been a Christian for so long, and yet you have not known me? Would you apply that to your hearts, brothers and sisters? How many years has it been? And have you been growing as you ought to grow? Let me show you a few texts.

Turn to Hebrews, in chapter 5. Hebrews, chapter 5. No, it's not a coffee company. Hebrews, chapter 5, verse 12, okay? Hebrews 5, verse 12, it says, for though by this time you ought to be teachers. Whoa, do you all see that verse? Everybody there? Okay.

Verse 12, though by this time you ought to be teachers. So the writer of Hebrews, who I believe is Paul, is willing to look out at a congregation, just like us right here, and say to every single one of them, men and women, and probably some children in their midst, and Paul looks at them and says, at this point, you all should be teachers. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that convicting? And he says, some of you have been with me 3 years, 1 year, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, it's time for you to grow.

At this time, you should be teachers. Like, you shouldn't even just have one pastor in the church, or a few elders. You should all be able to teach.

And now I'm going to start to offend everybody. Let's keep going here. But you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God.

You still need baby food. You still need Christianity 101. And then he says, and you have come to need milk, and not solid food.

So that can be sort of embarrassing, right? You should be teachers, you should be eating steak and potatoes, but you're still drinking skim milk. Right? Verse 13, for everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. Now I was talking to Caden and Logan about this just yesterday, right? It was such an amazing discussion, and they're saying, what does it mean to just drink milk? Well, one thing it means is if you just stay at basic Christianity, right? Jesus loves me, I repent of my sins, I'm into heaven.

That's just milk. That's really good, and I'm really glad for you, but that's milk. And now you're being called to come up higher.

You ought to be a teacher. You ought to be serving in the church. You ought to be looking into the more difficult doctrines.

And then what does he say in verse 14? But solid food, so that's meat and potatoes, right? Belongs to those who are of full age, that is those who by reason of use have their senses exercised or trained to discern both good and evil. What a beautiful verse. I'd ask everybody here to circle that and take that home.

You want to move from the place of, I'm just drinking milk, I just want to know I'm forgiven, I just want to know I'm going to heaven, to what? Verse 14. Your senses have been trained to discern good and evil. You all still with me? What are our senses? Sight? Smell? Taste? Hearing? Feeling? Touch? Amen? Those are our senses.

He's talking about literal senses, okay? I hear many Christians say, don't trust your emotions and don't trust your senses, right? Some part of that is true, yes, we need knowledge, we have to walk by faith, but here the mature Christian is able to feel what's good and what's evil, okay? That's a high calling. That's walking up into this place of good solid food, amen? So what would that look like? The mature Christian, you can turn on a show for three minutes and they can say, that's clean, let's watch it. Or they can say, that's dirty, get it away from me.

Right? That's the mature Christian and it's very easy to spot and you just know it because your senses have been trained, okay? The mature Christian can feel the presence of God, amen? And you can say, there's a good presence in the room, there's something good happening, God is moving, I want that encounter, I feel him, I feel his anointing. The mature Christian can start to taste and see these things and actually sense them with his emotions and his senses. The mature Christian can also sense when evil walks into the room or when you step into a room and you just go, something's wrong here.

The mature Christian can also sense when someone is lying, okay? And has this ever happened to you? Someone says, I'm a Christian and you're watching them and they look really good, they're out doing a lot of works for the Lord, but you just sniff something. My wife calls it the smell test. You can just smell something is weird, something is off.

They look like they're working for the Lord, but it smells bad, okay? Maybe they forgot their deodorant, I don't know. But you're smelling spiritual things, right? Your senses are trained to discern these things. Someone can say, I'm a pastor, I'm a priest, I'm a pope, and yet you can discern legalism in their life, amen? Have you ever felt that? Someone can say, I'm a pastor, and you're like, yeah, but you're bound, and you're preaching law and legalism, something's wrong.

So what am I trying to do today, brothers and sisters? I'm actually giving you the words of Jesus. Have you been a Christian so long and yet you haven't matured? And what is verse 14 talking about? I believe it's talking about the Father's heart. The Father's heart is for you to be able to sense these things.

You to be able to walk through life sensing what's good and what's evil. Not legalistically, but lovingly having your senses trained to discern these things. Look at just a few more verses.

Verse 1 of chapter 6. Therefore leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ. Whoa. He's going deep.

He's saying, we're going to leave those things behind, okay? You have to go deeper. He says, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and faith toward God. So what's he saying right here? He's saying, this is Christianity 101.

These are the basics, and we need to move on from these things. Let me ask you, brothers and sisters, have you moved on from these things? Do you know what repentance from dead works is? But we're going to go higher. Do you know what faith toward God means? But we're going to go higher.

The doctrine of baptisms, do you know what that means? I preached seven sermons on it last year, but we're going to go higher. Okay, if you don't know what it means, go listen to the seven sermons. What does he say next? Of laying on of hands.

Do you know why that's important? But we're going to go higher. What else? Resurrection from the dead and eternal judgment. Can you confidently say there's heaven and there's hell? And people go to heaven and people go to hell, and you teach your brothers why you go to heaven or why you go to hell.

But we have to move beyond that. See, those are just basic principles, just 101 Christianity, and he wants us to move past that. Amen? I'm going to show you one other text.

Turn to 1 John 2. And we're not really going to get to the end of this sermon. That's okay. 1 John 2. I just want to show you all today that the God of the Bible demands that you become mature.

And I want to say that in the right way. I'm not demanding that you become mature. But Jesus is demanding you become mature.

And I'm trying to call us up as Christians today to greater maturity. We need this. Look at 1 John 2. And here John sets out three categories of Christians.

Look at verse 12. Okay, so that's stage one of Christianity. Okay? If you're a little child in the faith, then what do you know? Your sins are forgiven for Jesus.

And that's great, and all of us ought to be there. But that's just stage one. Then what is he saying? I write to you fathers, that's the most mature group, because you have known Him who is from the beginning.

So what would be true of a spiritual father or a spiritual mother? What would be true of the one who's in this third stage of maturity? You know the Father. Amen? You know the one who is from the beginning. You have this confident knowledge of this God whom you serve.

That's true Christian maturity. Then what does he say? I write to you young men, this is the second stage of Christian maturity, because you have overcome the wicked one. Pause right there.

Second stage is that you have an overcoming spirit, and you know how to overcome Satan. You've overcome his works, his darkness, his demons. Now ask yourself, are you at the first stage, or the second stage, or the third stage? Let me just make those clear one more time.

First stage is, I know I'm forgiven. Amen? Second stage is, I have an overcoming spirit. I know how to overcome darkness.

A lot of us might be hanging out right there. We don't really yet know how to deal with Satan in our lives. We don't really yet know how to cast out demons.

We don't really yet know how to pray for healing. We might be hanging out at that second stage of maturity, and that's okay. But then the third stage is, you know Him who is from the beginning.

You're hanging out in the realm of intimacy with God the Father. Amen? And now look, John says it again. Verse 13, I write to you little children, because you have known the Father.

Well that's interesting. Now he goes to the first stage, the most immature stage, and he actually says, the minute you became a Christian, you did know something about the Father. So is everybody getting that? In fact, the minute you're a Christian, you know the Father.

And the last lesson of the Christian life is, knowing the Father more deeply. He's actually trying to tell us, you start there, and you've got to return there. And you have to mature there into a knowledge of the Father.

This is such a beautiful passage. Then he says, verse 14, I have written to you fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. He repeats what he said about the third stage.

And then he says, I have written to you young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. Wow. I know that was probably a lot for everybody.

But I want you to go home and ask yourself, which of these stages are you at? Is it, my sins are forgiven, and I know a little something about the Father? Or the second stage is, I'm an overcomer. I can overcome the evil and the devil and the demons in my life. Or are you heading into the third stage of, I really know the Father.

I really know the one who is from the beginning. I really walk in His love. Amen? Stick with me for a few more minutes here.

I know we've gone deep, but I believe the Lord is calling us to go deep today. Go back to John 14 now. John 14, verse 8, Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.

Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, show us the Father? So he's again driving this point home. How is it that after three and a half years, you don't know the Father? And we'll end with this point.

Look at how Jesus teaches the lesson in verse 10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? We all look at the Trinity and we say, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, three persons, one God. And that's wonderful.

But here Jesus says, I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. It's not just about three persons and one God. But I want you to learn about the intimacy that subsists between the Father and the Son.

So the way Jesus is going to work this out and teach us is to say this. Did you not know that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? So what he's saying is, when I walked before you on this earth, I didn't walk alone. In fact, the Father was in me the whole time, and I was walking in the Father the whole time.

Do you all see that? He points us to a relationship of intimacy between the Son and between the Father. That's so beautiful. So beautiful.

And just, let me just say this. I want to say this right, and I know that this has been too much for everybody, but I'm going to keep pushing for a minute. So that we really get this, okay? Verse 10, he says, the words that I speak to you, I do not speak on my own authority.

So you look at Jesus walking through this earth, and the words that he spoke weren't his words. Amen? The words that he spoke were the Father's words. Isn't that incredible? And then what does he say? But the Father who dwells in me does the works.

So Jesus is saying, you look at me on this earth, the words I spoke weren't mine, they were the Father's. And the words I did, the works I did, they weren't mine, they were the Father's. And now in a few verses he's going to turn to us, and he's going to say, you, when you speak, you speak the Father's words.

You, when you work, you do the Father's works. So what he's teaching us is not to look for the Father in heaven, not to look for some abstract Father, but to start to look for the Father within. Amen? Everybody still following? Now listen, in Matthew chapter 10, Jesus says, the Spirit of your Father speaks through you.

So we start to learn, who is speaking in me? It's the Spirit of my Father who's speaking, who's actually making these words come out of me. And then in Philippians chapter 2 and verse 19, we hear, you ought to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works both to will and to do of his good pleasure. What does that mean? God is doing the works in you.

So if you really start to get this, what you'll learn is that the Father is speaking through you, and the Father is working through you. You no longer are speaking in your Christian life, the Father is speaking. You no longer are working in your Christian life, the Father is working.

Amen? I was just trying to get to that difficult lesson. I know it's a lot to get. But that is where we head in Christian maturity.

I want to call you all today, not just to stay at the place where you say, my sins are forgiven. Not just to stay at the place where you say, I have power over the devil. But I want to call you today up to this third level of Christian maturity, where you say, when I speak, the Father speaks.

When I work, the Father works. Amen? Okay. And let's just end with a few prayers, okay? You can take this home on how to get a greater revelation of the Father's love in your life.

You can write these three prayers down if you like, and then I'm going to pray them for all of us right now. The first way to get a greater revelation of the Father's love is work through all that's happened with your earthly father. Amen? And you bring that to the Lord, and you say, my father hurt me in this way, but I give it to you, Lord.

And you say, my father blessed me in this way, and I give that to you, Lord. And some of the greatest things I've learned about the Father have been through my actual dad and through my actual grandpa. And I take those things to the Lord in prayer.

The second thing we do to get a greater revelation of the Father's love is you rebuke demons who are against you feeling that love. Amen? You realize that Satan and his demons want to accuse you, and they want you not to feel the Father's love at all. Even as I've been preaching this sermon, demons and Satan might want to get in there and make you feel, no, you're not loved by the Father.

No, you're accused by the Father. No, you're condemned. You're not loved.

And so we have to learn how to rebuke them and say, I rebuke you in Jesus' name, my father loves me. I rebuke you in Jesus' name, my father loves me. And then finally, we simply ask the Holy Spirit, the spirit of wisdom and revelation, for a greater revelation of the Father's love.

And we say, Holy Spirit, teach me how much the Father loves me. Teach me how much the Father loves me. I'm just going to pray that for all of us now, and then we'll sing.

Let's pray. Father, would you teach us to know your love? Father, would you teach us to rebuke the demons who get in the way of your love? Holy Spirit, would you give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation? Oh, just to know how the Father loves us. Just to know that we belong.

Just to know that we're confident in your love. Lord, teach us to rise up into this maturity, into this place of belonging, into this place of the Father's heart. Thank you, Jesus.

We praise your name. Amen.