An important part of God is God the Father. God the Father is the part of God that was most active in the Old Testament. He is looked at as the part of God who is the protector and the punisher.

He is talked about in the Bible as a protector, by saying He takes care of Christians, widows, and orphans. He also is looked at as a guide in our lives in what we should do and who we should be, and is the one who provides for us.

Psalms 68:5 - A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.

Isaiah 63:16 - Doubtless thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.

Mark 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

James 1:17 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

God as our Father can also be looked as one who has authority over us though. It is said that He will chastise (purify or whiten) those that willfully disobey Him, usually through punishment of some kind. The Bible asks Christians to be submissive to that and to be patient with it as a real child would with his or her own loving father, who unlike God, is imperfect and often more selfish in his correction. There will be more on this subject, Lord willing, at a later time.

Hebrews 12:7 and 9 - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? ...Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Both of these are signs that God the Father was the one active in the Old Testament. Though the Holy Spirit sometimes filled people as it does now and Jesus Christ visited, God the Father both protected and punished the Israelites in the Bible.

As our heavenly Father, God says we are not to call men "father" as a religious title, as that title religiously is reserved for God.

Matthew 23:9 - And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Finally, God the Father is used to explain the relationship between Him and Jesus Christ. While Jesus Christ is said to be God, the Bible explains their relationship as parent and child, as Jesus Christ has humbled Himself in human form. This was because Jesus Christ was to be an example to us, yet still be God.

John 17:5 - And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

1 Corinthians 13: - Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;