When my oldest son was six years old I was coaching his soccer team. One evening before practice he and I were kicking a ball and he was trying to score on me. he would shout “daddy, daddy,” and I would throw the ball to him and he would shoot. Soon we were joined by another player names Spencer. I would throw a ball to him and let him try and shoot. They would take turns shooting. All of a sudden Spencer started calling out, “Daddy, daddy,” to me and then shooting. But I knew he was not my child, though he called out to me, “daddy, daddy,” he was not one of mine! Many call out to God that he is their “Father,” and claim we are all God’s children. But is this what the Bible teaches?

“Are we not all God’s children?” Some ask and believe, “we all are God’s children.” And the Scripture answers that, note the two categories, “By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.”-{1 John 3:10}. There are two distinctive categories, the children of God and the children of the devil and John shows what the evidence is that separates them! Jesus said, “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.  You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.  But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.”-{John 8:43-45}. So “NO,” we are Not all God’s children. He created us all, but we are not all His children apart from being born into this new Family and even this is His Gracious, kind act towards us through and only through the merits of Christ. Jesus says, “And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”-{John 6:65}. So we come to Him, because of Him, and in the gift of repentance and faith into His family we enter in having been declared right by Him we stand not in condemnation but in Grace, in the full favorable acceptance of God because of the Lord Jesus and His sacrifice on our behalf to satisfy the righteous and holy perfect demands of God. {Read Rom 5:1-2}. God the Father has initiated our salvation and has made us His children and our response is to “PRAISE, BLESS, “Speak well of Him” {Read Eph 1:3-15 and see all He, His Son and Holy Spirit have done for us!}  

God undertook for us when we were rebels, spiritually dead in sin, enslaved and He set us free. The depths of love God the Father has gone to show us His love is seen on the cross of His Beloved Son, and now we are no longer spiritual strangers, alienated by our sin to God,but sons and daughters of God, by His doing!”But as many as received Him,{The LORD Jesus} to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,“-{John 1:12}. Receive Him as what? Who He is! LORD, speaks of Sovereign Master! He is Savior to deliver, rescue us from the danger of sin, satan, and self! It is to submit to His authority through turning to Him, acknowledging His right to rule us, acknowledging what He says about us, our sin is true! And in turning to Him away from self as Master to submit to God as Master and His Son as SAVIOR to rescue, deliver save us from the wrath of God, satan’s power, sin’s slavery. From a child of the devil to a child of God as your Father! “See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are.“- {1 John 3:1}.

So now as His children, sons and daughters we come to His Word to learn something of His Person, character and the Holy Spirit helps us understand and know Him, as our Heavenly Father.

So “NO,”- we are not ALL children of God according to the Scripture. There are TWO  types of children, two types of “Father’s” and the difference is manifested in doing right by God’s requirements and loving others, by His power,… which the children of the devil are incapable of! It is not perfection, but there is a new inward desire, Power and direction of the life to do the Will of The Father…by those who are His children, by His doing “who has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…”For God is working IN YOU, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him. “- {Phil 2:13 NLT; 1 Peter 1:3}.

“By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one  who does not love his brother. For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.  We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.”- {1 John 3:10-18}. 

 So, “NO,” we are not ALL children of God according to the Scripture. There are TWO  types of children, two types of “Father’s”  whose child are You?

So now as His children, sons and daughters we come to His Word and learn by His Spirit of His Person, character and the Holy Spirit helps us understand and know God as our Loving heavenly Father. And we can use the beautiful tender affectionate words, “Abba, Father,” the tender and trusting words a child first spoke and  then it was used by all children to their father and spoke of tender, affectionate trust of a child to their father!

We have a NEW POSITION – His Child.-{1 John 3:1-2}

We have a NEW POWER – to Live as His Child.-{Phil 2:13 NLT}

We have a NEW PURSUIT – To PLEASE HIM– {Col 1:9; 2 Cor 5:9}

For we are His and He is ours!

“SEE WHAT GREAT LOVE THE FATHER HAS LAVISHED UPON US THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD!- AND SUCH WE ARE!”