HE'S LIKE HIS FATHER

We looked at Jesus as the gift who keeps on giving. Jesus is, "the image of the invisible God..." He's just like his Father. Here's a list of some of the gifts God the Father, the Original Giver, has given:

• God Gives Salvation
  Ephesians 2:8-9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast.

• God Gives Eternal Life
  1John 5:11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

• God Gives The Holy Spirit
  Acts 5:32 We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
  Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
  2Corinthians 5:5 Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
  1John 4:13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

• God Gives Proof that Jesus is the Judge of the World
  Acts 17:31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”

• God Gives A Measure of Faith
  Romans 12:3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.

• God Gives Grace
  1Corinthians 3:10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds.
  2Corinthians 9:14 And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.

• God Gives Honor to the Parts that Lack Honor
  1Corinthians 12:24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

• God Gives New Birth
  1Peter 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

• God Gives Everything we need for Life and Godliness
  2Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

• God Gives His Very Great and Precious Promises
  2Peter 1:4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

• God Gives Wisdom
  2Peter 3:15 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.

• God Gives All Things
  Romans 8:32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?