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Introduction
Mark Twain was credited with this statement:
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” -Mark Twain
Father’s Day Phone Calls
Back in the day of long -distance calls...
Too Late
“O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!” (2 Sam.
18:33b).
The sun and wind of the centuries have failed to dry the tears or still the anguish of this exceedingly sorrowful cry.
Who was this distraught person?
A neurotic parent?
No, a king—King David!
David was the first king in history to be selected according to ability rather than birth.
He was courageous.
His character crowned him king.
He was considerate and in many ways magnanimous.
Twice he spared the life of his enemy Saul.
In spite of his sins, the people of Judah loved him.
David was a good ruler, a fine soldier, and a wise statesman.
He did not fail as king.
He failed as father.
He was too involved in royal responsibilities to relate adequately to his family.
While young Absalom was on reconnaissance with his father’s troops, his long hair became entangled in the limbs of a tree, making him an easy prey for the enemy.
The king was crushed by the news of his son’s death because he realized the accident could have been avoided.
David’s anguish was increased by the knowledge that he had not been a worthy example.
This is a continuing and familiar pattern of busy fathers.
They have a way of coming too late to the needs of their children.
Independence Day
Do You Share the Dream?
Dr. George McLeod of
The Illinois Bell Telephone Co. reports that the volume of long-distance calls made on Father’s Day was larger than the number on Mother’s Day.
The company found that most of the calls on Father’s Day were “collect calls.”
Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc., 1996).
Too Late
“O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!” ().
The sun and wind of the centuries have failed to dry the tears or still the anguish of this exceedingly sorrowful cry.
Who was this distraught person?
A neurotic parent?
No, a king—King David!
David was the first king in history to be selected according to ability rather than birth.
He was courageous.
Twice he spared the life of his enemy Saul.
In spite of his sins, the people of Judah loved him.
David was a good ruler, a fine soldier, and a wise statesman.
He did not fail as king.
He failed as father.
He was too involved in royal responsibilities to relate adequately to his family.
While young Absalom was on reconnaissance with his father’s troops, his long hair became entangled in the limbs of a tree, making him an easy prey for the enemy.
The king was crushed by the news of his son’s death because he realized the accident could have been avoided.
David’s anguish was increased by the knowledge that he had not been a worthy example.
This is a continuing and familiar pattern of busy fathers.
They have a way of coming too late to the needs of their children.
G. Curtis Jones, 1000 Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1986).
Today I want this message to encourage Fathers to understand through God’s power you can be everything that God created you to be.
Through God’s power you can be everything your family needs you to be.
BUT without God’s power you cannot be what you want to be.
In the Gospel of Luke chapter five, we have the story of four men of faith that wanted to make a difference, who did not quit, who believed more than anyone else in the room that Jesus is a difference maker.
Do you believe today that Jesus is a difference maker?
Do you believe that more than anyone in this room?
have you quit on God? Have you moved on?
Not these men!
What made these men, “Men of Faith?
They were men of Action.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
-Harold S. Geneen
The Bible’s purpose is not to put more Christian on a pew, BUT to move them off of it.
The Bible is a book of action.
-WSC
Today the church is in need of men of action.
We need men to bring people to Jesus!
They were men of Determination ()
Ministry is messy and is not easy … determination is a needed.
When there seems to be no way, find a way!
The missing element is determination.
Ministry is not easy
Don’t let the crowd stop you.
Don’t let the crowd discourage you, Don’t follow the crowd.
Be determined to live above the crowd.
Don’t let the crown stop you.
At all cost, live with a determination to bring people to Jesus.
The determination of Peter
Acts 5:17-
They were men of Faith ()
Faith is seen, not said.
Faith is a action, not a reaction.
(Miracles verse no miracle)(Pharisees verse the four men).
Faith is spiritual, not physical.
(Jesus looks at the Spiritual (Sin) rather than the physical (Paralyzed).
Have you ever been paralyzed spiritually.
(Cannot talk to God, cannot walk with God.
cannot serve God.
You feel helpless to the church and the work of God.
Satan has spiritually paralyzed you.
Jesus will heal you and use you.
You are useable for his kingdom just as you are!
There are people out there who are spiritually paralyzed because of their past, their sin, their lifestyle.
AND they need someone to bring them to Jesus.
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