June 16 MCAS New River Sermon Father's Day

“22 Then came the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. 24 The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

25 Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father’s name speak for me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.

“31 Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

33 “We are not stoning you for any of these,” replied the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”

34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are gods’? 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken— 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? 37 Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. 38 But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” 39 Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

40 Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. Here he stayed 41 and many people came to him. They said, “Though John never performed a miraculous sign, all that John said about this man was true.” 42 And in that place many believed in Jesus.”

An attention-getter

2. Introduction

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1. Some thoughts that relate the attention-getter or to the main idea of the message.

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3. Point 1- Jesus’ sheep know His voice

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1. Introduce your point and explain what the Bible text says regarding that point.

‌2. Use an illustration to further clarify it.

‌3. Provide an application-—“Here’s how this idea relates to our lives.”

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4. Point 2 (e.g. “God shows no favoritism”)

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1. Explanation

‌2. Illustration

‌3. Application

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5. Point 3 (e.g. “God is love”)

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1. Explanation

‌2. Illustration

‌3. Application

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6. Point 4 (e.g. “God is concerned with the condition of our hearts.”)

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1. Explanation

‌2. Illustration

‌3. Application

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7. Conclusion

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1. Summarize what you’ve taught.

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2. Present a call to action—what should your congregation do, now that they’ve learned these truths from God’s Word?

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Rules to remember when two vessels meet

When two power vessels are approaching head on,both vessels should alter course to starboard to pass port-side to port-side.

DAD OVER THE YEARS

4 YEARS: My Daddy can do anything.

8 YEARS: Dad doesn't know

12 YEARS: Oh, well, naturally Father doesn't understand.

14 YEARS: Father? Hopelessly old-fashioned

21 YEARS: Oh, that man is out of date; what would you expect.

25 YEARS: He comes up with a good idea now and then.

30 YEARS: Must find out what Dad thinks about it.

35 YEARS: A little patience--let's get Dad's input first

50 YEARS: What would Dad have thought about that?

60 YEARS:I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more.

E. Orphans of the Living:

We think of orphans only as the little girls and lads,

Who haven't any mothers and who haven't any dads.

They are grouped with other children and in groups they're put to bed.

With some stranger paid to listen while their little prayers are said.

All the grownups look with pity on such lonely children small,

And declare to be an orphan is the saddest fate of all.

But sometimes I look about me and with sorrow hang my head

As I gaze on something sadder than the orphans of the dead.

For more pitiful and tragic as the long days come and go,

Are the orphans of the parents they're not allowed to know.

They're the orphans of the living, left alone to romp and play,

From their fathers and their mothers by ambition shut away.

They have fathers who are busy and so weighted down with cares,

That they haven't time to listen to a little child's affairs.

They have mothers who imagine, life could give them, if it would

Something richer, something better than the joys of motherhood.

So their children learn from strangers, and by strangers' hands are fed,

And the nurse, for so much money, nightly tucks them into bed.

Lord, I would not grow so busy that I cannot drop my task,

To answer every question which that child of mine may ask.

Let me never serve ambition here so selfishly, I pray,

That I cannot stop to listen to the things my children say.

For whatever cares beset them, let them know I'm standing by.

I don't want to make them orphans till the day I come to die.

Edgar A. Guest