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If you’ve been with us any length of time, you’d know that I don’t typically break from where we are in the particular book...
In order to walk through a Holiday specific sermon…(except Christmas, Easter)
Well - with today being Father’s Day, we’re going to focus in on Biblical Fatherhood today...
And then get back to the gospel of John next week...
With that said - we will begin to have a Father’s Day sermon and a Mother’s Day sermon every year...
To walk through what - Biblical Fatherhood and Biblical Motherhood look like...
SO - I am personally blessed to be able to say - I have the best Dad in the world!
BUT - even so - I understand that others in here - wouldn’t say that about their own dad...
We all come from differing backgrounds...
Each of us with a different upbringing...
AND SO - where some of us would think fondly about our dads...
Others in here - not so much.
There IS however - COMMON ground amongst all of us in here - REGARDLESS of where our earthly dad’s rank...
EACH of us - Each Christian man in this room - has a PERFECT Father in heaven that we can LOOK to - as our EXAMPLE!!
See - each of us is like a BOOK - being read by our children…or (if you don’t have kids), being read by the kids in this church...
If you don’t think that the KIDS pay attention…you are KIDDING yourself.
DADS - you are a LETTER - being read by your children…What are they learning?
And so TODAY - as we celebrate Fathers...
Let’s look at what makes a GREAT FATHER - a Biblical father...
And we’ll do that by looking to our Heavenly Father as our example...
The first thing we want to see today is this...
SLIDE: Biblical Fatherhood: Displays God to His Children
Biblical Fatherhood
Now - if we were going to look to God as our example of this…where would we turn?
And God said: let there be light
And God said: let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters
And God said: let there the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place and let the dry land appear…Earth and Seas
let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed
And God said: let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night.
The Sun and the moon
And God said: let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth
And God said: let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds - livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth
Let Us make man in our image, after our likeness.
“And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good!”
Creation displays GOD…
See - God CREATED in such a way that Creation itself - CONFRONTS us with who God is!
Creation displays our heavenly Father’s - KINDNESS…GOODNESS - - we just saw that!
But what else?
LOOK around this says - Let Creation TEACH you about God - the creator of ALL!
Creation also displays God’s power and divine nature
Creation also displays God’s authority
Here we see this constant borage of THE AUTHORITY of the Heavenly Father…!
Creation also displays God’s love and faithfulness!
*how high is the sky?
That’s how much He loves us.
Creation also displays God’s power
God’s power - on display - in creation
*Size of the sun - 1.3 million earths would fill up the sun.
And Creation displays God’s wisdom!
And so in the beginning, God created...
and creation points to all that God is.
God has written "God" across the universe, that it might speak of Him.
And so - If that’s TRUE…then how does this affect earthly fathers...
(IF)...
SLIDE: Creation is a mirror, placed to reflect our thoughts and our worship back to the Person whose image Creation enables us to see.
Creation is a mirror, placed to reflect our thoughts and our worship back to the God whose image creation enables us to see.
THEN - the question for me as a dad is this:
Does my life as a dad, reflect the thoughts and worship of my kids back to the God who created their dad?
God’s Creation displays His Kindness and Goodness
Does my life as a dad teach my kids about the kindness and goodness of God?
I often will catch myself - whether I’m getting in a bad mood - I will often start thinking about HOW my attitude is AFFECTING my kids.
AND so as a Christian dad - I HAVE to view life - EVEN the trials of life…as God’s GOODNESS towards me!
And we say - “well good luck with that!”
And you might say - well WHY do I have to do that?
BECAUSE - it’s TRUE!
This says - that BECAUSE i’m saved - because I have faith in Jesus, fully trust Him as my Savior...
THERE IS NO condemnation - from God - toward me!
REGARDLESS of my situation!
My faith in Jesus brings with it - ETERNAL SECURITY!
And THAT ASSURANCE of eternal security can help you - as a dad - get through the toughest of times!
It can allow you to get that phone call from the doctor, HEAR the phrase - STAGE 4...
And still allow you to say - Blessed Be the Name of the Lord!
Think of how that AFFECTS your kids!
They find out that daddy is really sick…and YET - Daddy isn’t ANGRY at God...
…he actually still praises God!
WOW - God must be awesome!
We mentioned it before - God’s creation displays God’s Authority!
THEREFORE - Dads -
Does my life as a dad display to my kids the authority of God?
Now this is really gonna be a 2-sided coin…for us dads...
It’s going to take us - DOING things that please God.
BUT ALSO...
TELLING our kids WHY we did those things...
Kids are KIDS - and they don’t always make the connection between WHAT we do and WHY we do things...
*Old Cleveland Municipal Stadium (walk-ways)
First thing - If we’re going to DO the things that please God...
then we need to know what pleases Him...
And we find out - HERE (Bible)
It’s going to take us - CHOOSING to read, study His word...
get to a bible study
Get under sound teaching of His word...
If we want our lives to REFLECT the authority of God to our kids…then we ourselves have to submit to His authority!
And we’re called to HELP each other with this - because it’s not easy
We also saw that God’s creation displays God’s love and faithfulness!
And so the question for us dads is -
Does my life as a dad display to my kids the love and faithfulness of God?
Listen - It’s one thing to love my kids...
It’s another thing to LOVE MY KIDS - with the Love of Christ!
Think of the LOVE of Christ!
**We often get excited when we make a WISE PURCHASE right?
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