Lesson 2 – Day 1

The Father’s Headship

Every organization has a leader and an organizational structure.  Man did not invent leadership, God did.  In Ephesians 3:14-15 we read,

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.”

All creation, including humans and angels, are one family under the fatherhood of God the Father.  God created the concept of leadership first in heaven, then duplicated it for man and beast in the earth.  It is of no human invention.

God created the angels and gave them a hierarchy and levels rulership.  Angels are so bound by this, that when one third of the angels rebelled, sinned and fell, they kept the same levels of rulership that God ordained when He made them.  Now, it’s under Satan’s authority. Notice in Ephesians 6:12,

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

See this leadership in the following two verses,

1. Ephesians 4:6, “one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.”  God the Father is head over everything.  Both Jesus His Son and the Holy Spirit are subordinate to the Father.
2. Galatians 4:6, “Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”.  When we realize that the Spirit of Jesus enters our hearts through salvation in Him, we have a real desire to cry out to God, calling Him Father, and plead our case before Him. 

The words, “Abba, Father” have a unique history.  The word for father in Biblical Hebrew is pronounced “ah-v.”  The letter “Beit” can be translated either as a “b” or a “v”. Early Translators did not have a good understanding of the letter “Beit”, and made it here a “b” rather than a “v.”  An easy mistake to make, but it changes the relationship of both words to each other.  Reading it now, it reads, “Father! (in Hebrew), Father! (in Greek)”.

This original concept was possibly to include both Jews and Gentiles in the concept of crying out to God the Father!  The idea is that whatever language you use, cry out to your heavenly Father!

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Our Prayer for today,

I thank You Father God, for showing and encouraging me, to call and cry out to You as my perfect and merciful Father.

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