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God The Father

  • Rev. Ronald Stelzer
  • February 27, 2023
God the Father

Jesus instructed his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount: “This is how you should pray: Our Father in heaven . . .” (Matthew 6:9 AAT) Jesus’ last words on the cross were, “Father, into Thy hands I entrust my spirit.” (Luke 23:46) Before his ascension Jesus, claiming “all authority in heaven and earth,” commissioned his disciples to “make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:19) Throughout God’s Word, God is often called “Father” and never called “Mother.”

Changing HIS Name

Today the inclusive, diverse, and equitous Woke transgender movement even includes God as a target for a transgender and non-binary upgrade. Some liberal clergy denominations are busy updating their liturgies, proposing and using more modern appellations for God, such as “Our Father and Mother” and even changing His pronouns.

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God Created Man in His Own Image

Certainly, God is bigger and more complex than our pea-sized brains can fathom, being the Holy Trinity — three persons in one essence. Jesus has both a divine and human nature, and he once appealed to Jerusalem “as a hen gathers her chicks” (Matthew 23:37, Luke 13:34) And the Bible clearly asserts that the original male and female both were created “in the image of God” after the Holy One said to Himself/Themselves, “Let US make man in OUR image. . . So God created man in HIS own image . . .male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:26-27)

Eternal Word of God

The problem is today man and woman feel free to recreate God and His eternal Word into their own various images according to their unbridled imaginations. The assumption is that the Bible is a work of humankind and passing culture rather than the eternal Word of God: “Forever, O LORD, your Word is firmly fixed in the heavens.” (Psalm 119:89) We end up with an idol that doesn’t really exist. In the process anything (and everything) goes.

Let God be God, and get used to it (Him). “Contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” (Jude 3)

About The Author

Pastor: Rev. Ronald Stelzer is a 3rd generation minister in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and 2nd generation teacher and coach in Lutheran schools. He was raised in a six-child family in Kansas and Indiana, graduated from St. Paul’s Lutheran School and Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne, Davidson College in North Carolina and Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and Fort Wayne. He and wife Margaret of 35 years have six grown children and six grandchildren. He has served two years in sports ministry with Athletes in Action, a year in youth missions with Ongoing Ambassadors for Christ, four years as chaplain/teacher/coach at his high school alma mater, and 35 years as pastor of Our Savior, where he helped found and lead Our savior New American School 28 years ago.

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Our Savior Lutheran Church is true to its name, focused on Jesus Christ and to historic Lutheran commitments to Christ alone, the Bible alone, Grace alone and Faith alone. Its concern for Christian education not only involves a Sunday school, Confirmation, Youth Ministry, and Bible Classes, but also led to its founding of Our Savior New American School.

This church belongs to our Savior, who paid for it with His blood, and who has commanded us, His people to: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all people, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded.”

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