The Last Days Baptism of the Father’s Love

A. PARABLE OF Luke 15:25-32; Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and

THE ELDER drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one
of the servants and asked what these things meant. And he said to him,
BROTHER OF ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf,
THE PRODIGAL because he has received him back safe and sound.’ But he was angry

SON: and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, but he
answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I
never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat,
that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came,
who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the
fattened calf for him!’ And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me,
and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for
this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”
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 I. PRODIGAL SON: LAVISHLY
AND EXTRAVAGANTLY
WELCOMED, LOVED, AND
BLESSED BY THE FATHER
II. Elder Brother claim
1) All these years I have served you (he was
always with the Father)
2) I never disobeyed your command
3) Yet you never gave me a young goat, that
might celebrate with my friends.

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III.FATHER’S HEART:
SON, YOU ARE ALWAYS WITH ME, AND ALL THAT IS MINE IS YOURS.
FITTING TO CELEBRATE AND BE GLAD, FOR YOUR BROTHER WAS
DEAD, AND IS ALIVE; HE WAS LOST, AND IS FOUND

IV.Christ was baptized: This is my beloved son…

Matt 3:16-17 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the
water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of
God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice
from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
V.WE MISS THE HEART OF OUR FATHER DESPITE
BEING WITH HIM AND OBEYING HIS COMMANDS.
1)Father is sharing all His possessions with us
2)Father is well pleased with Jesus despite having not done anything
yet.
3)Sons: want to earn and deserve the wealth of Father, buying Dad’s
love through my performance: love is unmerited as well as blessings
are unmerited. We are not loved because of our performance and
accomplishments. We are simply unconditionally loved by Father.

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 VI. PROBLEM: WE DO NOT KNOW GOD WHO IS LOVE, THAT IS WHY WE
ARE NOT FILLED WITH GOD’S FULLNESS.
• Eph 3:16-19 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power
through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you,
being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the
breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

1) Prayer of Paul: our spirits be strengthen, for what?

2) Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith, we may have the strength to comprehend, what? God’s love.

3) It is through encountering the love of Christ that we are filled with the fullness of our Father.

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 B. WHO IS GOD
THE FATHER?

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 I. GOD IS LOVE:
1 JOHN 4:8 8 ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, BECAUSE
GOD IS LOVE.
II. Because God is love, He is loving us extravagantly and lavishly all the time. There is not a moment that God did not love us.
He is embracing us even when we are sinning and loving us even when we are at our darkest; even when we have not
known Him because God’s love is unconditional. God’s acceptance is not God’s approval. On the other hand, the devil
makes us feel and think that God is rejecting us because of our sins, our lack of performance, and good works.

III. God is light;

1 John 1:5-7 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in
him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do
not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Though God is loving us continually, we cannot relate to Him if we are believing the lies of the devil. Therefore, our fellowship
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with God is in the light.

 VI.WHO IS MAN?

• Gen 1:26a Then God said, “Let us make man in our

image, after our likeness.

IV.In God’s divine order, only the same species and origin can have a
relationship. God created man like Himself so that we can have
fellowship with God and ultimately come into divine union with God.
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D.What is the problem? God is continuously and
extravagantly and lavishly loving us up all the time; but we
cannot receive the extravagant love of God and His
blessings just like the elder brother of the prodigal son.
Why? We have strongholds in our hearts that hinder us
from receiving love.

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 E.HEAD AND HEART SEPARATION: EH PRAYER MINISTRY

I. Devil; separate our heart from out head and cause us to operate only from our head.
• Is. 61:1 Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon, because the LORD has anointed me to bring
good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

II. Thinking beings (human beings) yoked to the tree of knowledge of good and evil: brings death
1) Full of reason and logic; justification of the self

2) Full of legalism

3) Performance = knowledge + ability + skills: this is where we get our significance and IDENTITY - SELF; we are all out to establish our
identity which gives us purpose and meaning to our lives.

III. Devil’s main ministry:

1) Is to wound us so our hearts will be separated from our minds

2) Our heart will shut down and become a heart of stone!

3) The devil
SAMPLE is destroying
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4) Till we have forgotten who we are as sons and daughters of God! True identity!
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II. Thinking beings (human beings) yoked to the tree of knowledge of good and evil: brings death
1) Full of reason and logic; justification of the self

2) Full of legalism

3) Performance = knowledge + ability + skills: this is where we get our significance and
IDENTITY - SELF; we are all out to establish our identity which gives us purpose and
meaning to our lives.

III. Devil’s main ministry:

1) Is to wound us so our hearts will be separated from our minds

2) Our heart will shut down and become a heart of stone!

3) The devil is destroying the image of God in us. LBTQ, gender identity, ego & pride…
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4) Till we have forgotten who we are as sons and daughters of God! True identity!
F. ORPHAN HEART: ABANDONMENT

I. Mother wounds:
1) Loving mother, non-judgmental, listener, accommodating, kind
2) Lack nurture: 2 months – breast fed then relegated to a yaya
3) Baby lacks nurture and care and his needs are not met: feeling of
abandonment

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 F. ORPHAN HEART: ABANDONMENT

II. Bitter Roots:

1) Judgment: Mom does not love me

2) Expectancies: No one love me

3) Inner Vow: I need to take care of myself.

4) Bitter Fruit: All my life, I have been struggling to be loved through my performance and
accomplishments. I needed to be somebody rich and significant for people to respect and honor
me.

5) Independent as much as possible

III. Nurture establishes basic trust: (love establishes faith / trust in God) – If we are not nurtured, we cannot trust other, so
we depend on ourselves alone to survive. We say we trust God but in reality do not really trust Him because we still
depend on ourself and our strength.

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III.Consequences: Bitter root expectancies…
1) Seeker of the TRUTH: I became a student Activist, a communist, a
new ager, then a Christian seeking the kingdom of God, closure of the
motels.
2) Distrust of Dad’s goodness; viewed as manipulative, selfish, and
using me
3) Miss out his heart for me: He had many good intentions for me which
I missed out and viewed with suspicion
4) Lost out on many business opportunities: I turned him down to prove
I am right and him wrong. But in the long run, he was proven right.
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G.TRAUMA: SLAP BY DAD

I. Father wounds: Chess game – touch move; slap then berated; peed in
my pants and ask to stand in the corner

II. What did that little boy tell himself:

1) Bitter root judgment of Dad:
a. Dad is not fair and just
b. Dad is abusive, cruel, and heartless
c. Dad does not love me
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2)Bitter root expectancies:

1) I hated my Dad, calling him names behind his back
a. Dad is to be feared, he is not a safe place to confide in
b. I need to look good because of the shame I have gone through
c. I have to do better in order not to be scolded, shamed, and to please Dad –
performance orientation

3)Inner vows:
a. I will prove Dad wrong
b. I will be better than Dad
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 IV.Dishonor my Dad:
• Ex 20:12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in
the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
1) It is the not abuse or trauma that mold us, but the bitter root judgments we
make about our abuser / parents. We judge them unfairly. Our judgment is not
the truth but a lie we believe and worst of all, it is engraved in our hearts. This
is what we call a stronghold.
2) To pull down the stronghold:
a. We need to repent for our bitterroot judgment, expectancies, and inner vows.
b. Need to release forgiveness to our “abuser”
c. Renounce the lies, expectancies, and inner vowers; then resurrect the truth
d. If possible, reconcile with the other party
H.Pre-teen: discovered the pornography of Dad – masturbation
I. Addictions is seeing comfort in illegitimate ways: satisfying a legitimate need
illegitimately.
II. Because of the disconnected head form the heart, the pain of abandonment, the pain
of the being verbally abused and the shame and degradation that came with it; I sought
comfort in the the wrong places. Pornography and masturbation is a sense of false love
and fleeting pleasure.
III. Confession many times but to no avail: all my classmates were into it; it must be
normal. I stop going to confession.
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 H.Pre-teen: discovered the pornography of Dad – masturbation
IV. Progressed to womanizing: going to bars, strip shows, then when I was married –
mistress for 9 years
V. Our heart is seeking love, a safe place, and comfort but does not know better and
many find it in addictions.
VI.Even our sexual preferences and aberrations are molded by our bitter root judgments.
VII.How do we overcome addictions? We overcome through the love of God. (discuss
this later)

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 Jezebel and Ahab Spirits
I. 3 Jezebels: My Dad, my wife, and one of my manager
1) Cower to submission: repeated verbal abuse, degradation, humiliation

2) Fear of getting Dad angry, we are always avoiding Dad, being very careful with our words
and actions.

3) We are blamed; it is our fault – till we believed Dad’s narrative and lies.

4) Reaction: non-confrontation, pacify the abuser, tell myself to forgive and forget, it also my
fault for not meeting the expectations of Dad.

5) Mom modeled submission, quietness, and non-confrontation; this became the model for
me. Though I judged my Mom from not protecting me from Dad.

6) I feared hurting people by calling them on their faults and confronting them on their abuses.

7) I felt the need to take the blame and the abuse. I did not have to communication skills to
discuss with the abusers.
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II. I had to lose P1.4B in order to realize that I was an Ahab
1) Jezebel:
a. Intimidates: spirit that bully us into submission through anger, verbal abuse, force, coercion, blaming, false
accusation, emotional drama – crying, etc.
b. Manipulate us.
c. Dominates us into submission
d. Control our behavior

2)Ahab:
a. Cower in fear: loss of relationship, loved one, benefit you are getting
b. Give up authority, submit,
c. Program: please people to pacify Jezebel – got from my Mom
d. Cannot say NO
e. Fear of offending the other person and preferring to be a martyr

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III. I learn to set boundaries:

1)Love’s minimum requirement of each other: honor and respect
2)Need to be firm with your boundaries: in the event of abuse, tell the
other person you will listen when he can talk to you with respect and
walk away for now.
3)Mirroring: This is how I felt when…
4)Taking from the heart and expressing our feelings to the abuser.
Most of the time the abuser is totally unaware of his words and
actions.
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J. What do we do now? To become love!
• Matt 22:37 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And
he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first
commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as
yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the
Prophets.”
• Gal 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
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J. What do we do now? To become love!
• Rom 13:8-10 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who
loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit
adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any
other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor
as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of
the law.
• Ezekiel 36:26-27 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within
you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of
flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and
be careful to obey my rules.
I. Become LOVE and we will fulfill the law! We will do no wrong to others
because of our love for them!

1)Heart is open to receive all and Vulnerable to others

2)Sensitive to others and we can meet each other’s heart
3)Uninhibited and Spontaneous; making us authentic and real
4)No judgments, therefore we are accepting

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I. Become LOVE and we will fulfill the law! We will do no wrong to others
because of our love for them!
5) No filters: we desire the rawness of truth and reality
6)We are edifying of others
7)We honor and respect everyone
8)Humble and lowly of heart; no self in love because self is a
hindrance to love.

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II. Problem: we cannot give what we have not received
1)God has already made us and created us in his image and
likeness: Love, Light, and Life
2)But the devil has inflicted wounds on us and has destroyed our
identity as sons and daughters of God
3)Our need: healing and restoration of our hearts in order to be
able to receive LOVE. As we receive Love (who is God Himself),
we become Love.

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III. Fruit to Root: Identify our bad fruits – for another lesson
1) Some of the Bad Fruit: 3) 5 Rs
a. Head: reason and logic, legalism… 3) Release forgiveness to the
b. Performance Orientation offender / abuser
c. Jezebel & Ahab
4) Repent for our bitter root
d. Dishonoring our parents
judgments, expectancies, inner
e. Bitterness
vows
f. Abandonment
5) Renounce the lies
g. Cannot Trust anyone – basic trust
6) Resurrect the truth
2) Ask the Lord to expose the Bitter Roots:
a. Bitter root judgments 7) Reconcile with the offender

b. Bitter root expectancies

c. Inner vows
K. God is Love:
• 1 John 4:7-12: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and
whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not
love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was
made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that
we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that
he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if
God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen
God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

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K. God is Love:
1)Love cannot be known intellectually, even if we memorize 1 Cor 11. Love has to be
experienced and encountered
2)Love is a relationship and not a theology
3)Love is from God alone…He is the source of all love
4)Purpose of love is to live / abide in God and to love one another
5)God loved us by paying for ALL our sins that the devil will have no legal rights to
accuse us, making us acceptable to the Father; overcoming our fear and shame
so we can be joint back to Him.
6)The love of God in us overflows towards our love for one another
7)As we love others; God abides in us and love is perfected in us
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I. Father’s Love:
1) Heals our pain and breaks the bondages of sin, inequity, addictions, habitual sins and hidden
sins.
2) Overcomes our rejection and shame (because God accepts us even if we are in sin) by making
us acceptable in the beloved. Love is non-judgmental. We become authentic and real when we
share and connect with our hearts to other and to God. “We worship God in spirit and truth and
our fellowship is in the light.”
3) Father’s love sanctifies us and makes us pure and holy. Not by our own efforts but by God’s
grace or unmerited favor.
4) Comforts us in our needs and ends our addiction
5) Father’s Love and Light illuminates and exposes the lies we believe in, then resurrects the
truth; strongholds are pulled down and demolished
6) Father’s Love Strengthens us and gives us the courage to do what is right
7) Causes us to surrender completely to our Father, because we can trust (FAITH) Him completely
with our lives and knowing that all His intentions and works are for our good.
I. Father’s Love:
1) Heals our pain and breaks the bondages of sin, inequity, addictions, habitual sins and hidden
sins.

2) Overcomes our rejection and shame (because God accepts us even if we are in sin) by making
us acceptable in the beloved. Love is non-judgmental. We become authentic and real when we
share and connect with our hearts to other and to God. “We worship God in spirit and truth and
our fellowship is in the light.”

3) Father’s love sanctifies us and makes us pure and holy. Not by our own efforts but by God’s
grace or unmerited favor.

4) Comforts us in our needs and ends our addiction

5) Father’s Love and Light illuminates and exposes the lies we believe in, then resurrects the
truth; strongholds are pulled down and demolished

6) Father’s Love Strengthens us and gives us the courage to do what is right

7) Causes us to surrender completely to our Father, because we can trust (FAITH) Him completely
with our lives and knowing that all His intentions and works are for our good.
L. Father and Son – sonship

I. God needs sons and daughters who are in His image and likeness, His character and divine nature to rule in
His kingdom

II. Father’s Love builds the character of God in our lives for us to become His beloved sons and daughters.

III. Sons are not made theologically but through relationship and love; a continuing moment by moment
experience of our Father’s love, care, guidance, provision, discipline, nurture, belongingness, security… we
conclude that we are His sons.
• Our Father, our Lord Jesus, and the Holy Spirit sanctifies us and cleanses out heart, mind, imagination, and
desires in order that we can become in God’s image and likeness leading to Divine Union with God.

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M. Desire of love: to know the beloved and be known fully

I. Are we able to share and be transparent with our secret issues, hidden sins, pain and
hurt, deepest & darkest, sexual aberrations, most intimate self with God and others
without shame or fear of rejection?

II. Are we able to talk about each other’s issues and grow deeper in love with each other,
more respectful and honoring, and becoming one with each other as we resolve our
issues and come into agreement with each other.

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N. Becoming a Community of Love: Economy of God

I. Loving one another: respect, honor, caring, edifying, supporting, blessing,

II. Security is not money, power, fame but our love for one another

III.In the NT Ekklesia, the believers sold their possessions and gave the
proceeds to the apostles and lived in common because their security was
their love for one another.

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