RESTORED Lesson Summary

RESTORED - Week 12 - Knowing God as Father (What is He really like?)

Summary

The lesson focuses on God's self-revelation rather than inherited assumptions about His personality.
God reveals Himself as compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loyal love, faithful, forgiving, and just.
Knowing God as Father requires replacing distorted images with the way God describes Himself.
The mercy seat imagery points toward a God who meets His people through mercy.
The lesson emphasizes that God's holiness does not contradict His tenderness or patience.
Believers are invited to relate to God based on His revealed character, not fear-driven imagination.