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The Revelation of the Father | Guest Pastor Greg Simas

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The Father says, "This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased" before Jesus heals anyone.

1. RLCSAC Sermon Podcast features Pastor Greg Simas preaching on "the revelation of the father" for Father's Day at Real Life Church in Sacramento. 2. Greg Simas speaks as a pastor from Convergence Church in Fremont, California, and Michelle introduces the message from Real Life Church. 3. The episode asks why Christians can know Jesus and the Holy Spirit while missing the Father. 4. Simas says he was saved at 16, baptized in the Holy Spirit at 19, and called into full-time ministry at that 19-year prayer retreat. 5. He says Bible college covered Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology, but he never found a class on who the Father is. 6. He argues that the cross was meant to bring people to the Father, not only to secure salvation. 7. He connects that claim to John 14:6, where Jesus says, "No one comes to the Father except through me." 8. He says fatherlessness is the number one problem in the United States and says the same pattern appears in the church. 9. He describes his own pattern as faithfulness without fullness, which left him feeling he was never doing enough. 10. He tells the church to stop trying to live for God and begin to live from God. 11. He uses Matthew 3:17 to say Jesus received the words "This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased" before any public ministry. 12. He uses Matthew 4 to show that Satan attacked Jesus' sonship with the words "if you are the son of God." 13. He says Jesus ministered from approval, not to earn approval, and that this order matters for believers. 14. He reads Romans 8 to emphasize "there is now" no condemnation and to connect adoption with crying "Abba father." 15. He says the Spirit's cry is to bring believers into the revelation that God is "dad" and to convince them of complete love and acceptance. 16. He describes three ways he once pictured the Father: distant, managerial, and finally compassionate and near. 17. He uses chairs and verses like John 1, John 17:5, John 14:3, John 14:20, and Ephesians 2:6 to argue that believers are seated with Christ. 18. The tone is teaching-heavy, testimonial, and reflective, with chair illustrations, Scripture chains, and direct audience prompts. 19. Listeners who want Scripture-based identity teaching and fatherhood themes. 20. Listeners looking for a short worship set or casual chat.

As heard by us

A direct sermon on sonship, approval, and identity under pressure.

The sermon keeps one line in view: Jesus is named beloved and well pleased before any public ministry begins, and that order matters for the listener.

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You need a reminder that approval comes before ministry.

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