Father's Day
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Father’s Day
Father’s Day
Story of neighbor’s yard.
Story of neighbor’s yard.
Father’s Day Flower - The official flower on Father’s Day is the dandelion, because the more it is trampled upon, the better it grows.
Story of neighbor’s yard.
Three Problems
Three Problems
Western Culture has denied and undermined the importance of fatherhood (World)
Fathers have abrogated their responsibility (Self)
Our enemy wants to take us down (Satan)
Chicken and egg - related?
Patriarchy
- a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- a society, community, or country based on this social organization.
- a social system in which power is held by men, through cultural norms and customs that favor men and withhold opportunity from women
— Culture
Disrespecting fathers has become common and the subject of countless sitcoms
Positive role models hard to find
Rebelling and over-correcting against patriarchy
Culture rebelling and over-correcting against patriarchy
- a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- a society, community, or country based on this social organization.
The enemy’s attack on the family and God’s intended model
- a social system in which power is held by men, through cultural norms and customs that favor men and withhold opportunity from women
Our “throwaway society”
our “throwaway society”
If something is broken, fix it, down throw out the baby with the bathwater!
Patriarchy
Patriarchy
— Fathers have abrogated their responsibility
- a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
Fathers have abrogated their responsibility
- a society, community, or country based on this social organization.
Shamed by the modern society
criticized for their mistakes, which can be many
countless examples of bad fathers (so does that mean we all give up?)
criticized for their mistakes, which can be many
Individualistic and selfish society (way easier not be be responsible for anything, let alone our families)
Absence of good examples & models of honoring fathers
Failure to feel fulfilled honored
— Satan wants to devour God’s people, and why not start by destroying families and relationships (He came to steal, kill and destroy)
Chicken and egg - related?
- a social system in which power is held by men, through cultural norms and customs that favor men and withhold opportunity from women
How are we to recapture God’s plan for the family and in particular the father? Look to his word. The perfect picture of a father as Jesus prayed to His Father in the Lord’s prayer.
The Lord’s Prayer as a Model
The Lord’s Prayer as a Model
Father’s Day Flower - The official flower on Father’s Day is the dandelion, because the more it is trampled upon, the better it grows.
And he said to them, “When you pray, say:
“Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread,
and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.”
a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
a society, community, or country based on this social organization.
a social system in which power is held by men, through cultural norms and customs that favor men and withhold opportunity from women:
Western Culture has denied and undermined the importance of fatherhood
Fathers have abrogated their responsibility
Chicken and egg - related?
Chicken and egg - related?
Chicken and egg - related?
(ESV)
(ESV)
Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Keys for Our Fathers
Keys for Our Fathers
Deserving of Respect/Honor (hallowed)
“Father, hallowed be your name.
The official flower on Father’s Day is the dandelion, because the more it is trampled upon, the better it grows.
Honor your father and mother
(ESV)
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- despite what our culture says, they do deserve respect
Your kingdom come.
(ESV)
“ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
(ESV)
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
Disrespecting fathers has become common and the subject of countless sitcoms
Positive role models hard to find
Culture rebelling and over-correcting against patriarchy
Disrespecting fathers has become common and the subject of countless sitcoms
The enemy’s attack on the family and God’s intended model
Positive role models hard to find
our “throwaway society”
If something is broken, fix it, down throw out the baby with the bathwater!
Patriarchy
Patriarchy
- a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- a society, community, or country based on this social organization.
- a social system in which power is held by men, through cultural norms and customs that favor men and withhold opportunity from women
Take our names from our fathers
Patriarchy
Patriarchy
Give us each day our daily bread,
a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
a society, community, or country based on this social organization.
and forgive us our sins,
Tan, P. L. (1996). Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (p. 433). Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc.
Created to be different than women
2. Charged with leading in the home (Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven)
2. Charged with leading in the home (Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven)
Take our names from our fathers
a social system in which power is held by men, through cultural norms and customs that favor men and withhold opportunity from women:
Head of the family & Head of the church
Patriarchy
Complimentarian vs. Egalitarian
a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
Mutual Submission
2. Head of the Household (Your will be done)
a society, community, or country based on this social organization.
a social system in which power is held by men, through cultural norms and customs that favor men and withhold opportunity from women:
a. (ESV)
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Mutual Submission
b. (ESV)
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
Take our names from our fathers
Head of the family & Head of the church
Complimentarian vs. Egalitarian
Mutual Submission
Mutual Submission, not lording it over others (as the world does)
Mutual Submission, not lording it over others (as the world does)
Eph 5:21-22, 25 (ESV)
Eph 5:21-22, 25 (ESV)
submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
(ESV)
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
And lead us not into temptation.”
3. Responsible to Provide (Give us this day our daily bread)
Providing daily bread (putting food on the table; hunter/gatherer)
Not setting up for a lifetime
Responding to needs
(ESV)
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
4. To be understanding, merciful, forgiving (forgive us our sins)
(ESV)
as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
(ESV)
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
(ESV)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(ESV)
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.
(ESV)
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
5. To model godly character (as we forgive others)
5. Fallible yet not hypocritical
Fallible yet not hypocritical
modeling humility and forgiveness
Mercy and Justice
(ESV)
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, (Ex 34:6-7a)
keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Jesus perfectly modeled His Father’s attitude on forgiveness
Jesus perfectly modeled His Father’s attitude on forgiveness
Luke 23:34 (ESV)
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
(ESV)
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
6. Provide Protection (lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil)
Establishing boundaries
Setting expectations
Justice
Intervening when needed
Praying
(ESV)
Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
(ESV)
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
We are stewards of those God has given (as was Jesus)
John 17:12-18 (ESV)
7:12-18 (ESV)
While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’ ”) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.” These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.” And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
We are stewards of those God has given
(ESV)
Fathers - Step up
Be honorable
I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
Be about God’s business
Be providing
Be forgiving
Be a good example
Be protecting & nurturing