God Has No Second-Class Children

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• I’m going to suggest to you tonight quite briefly three main purposes of God, clearly revealed in Scripture, which are His will. The purposes that He is working out in the earth right now. We’ll begin with Matthew 6:10. This is really the supreme statement of God’s purpose in the earth at this time. It’s part of what we call the Lord’s Prayer.
• Just the first two verses. The strange thing is, I preached on this through central Europe. In Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany. And in every place, I intended to tell them what the will of God was. And in every place, I was arrested by the opening words. This is the Lord’s Prayer: Our Father in heaven.
• And I said to those dear people: I hope you understand you have a Father. You’re not abandoned, you’re not left to yourself, you’re not of just a little worth. If you believe in Jesus, you’re a member of the best family on earth. You never need to be downcast you never need to feel inferior. In one place, in Czechoslovakia, when I began to say that the women in the front row began to weep.
• I said, Well, I know what their problem is. And I can’t just go on preaching and leave them weeping, when I have the answer to their problem. So I began to speak about people who feel rejected, unworthy. They don’t have any sense of self worth. I said your problem is, if you’re a child of God you don’t know who you really are.
• Because you have a Father – you may have no earthly father, but you have a Father in heaven who loves you, is all powerful and is planning the best for you right now. You belong to the best family on earth. And I said in each of those places How many of you really feel abandoned, unwanted, worthless? And in every one of those places a majority of the people stood to their feet.