Father & Man Redicovering God’s Purpose.
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Father - The Ultimate Revelation of God .
The fact behind all other fact
s is that God created the universe as a Father. He left His Father imprint on every aspect of creation.
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Family - Patria . Fatherhood of the heaven and Earth.
What a remarkable fact! All fatherhood in the universe did not begin on earth, nor did it begin with time or human history. It began in heaven. Ultimately it goes back to the Fatherhood of God. Eternally God is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; He is described as such in many parts of the Bible. The intimate, personal relationship between the Father and His Son existed before creation ever began.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
In God their is not only Fatherhood but also relationship.
God as a Father created the universe in love. In countless ways the universe He created is the expression and outworking of His Fatherly love.
All Creation Responds to the Father !!.
19 He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows its going down.
4 He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name.
8 Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word;
21 The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.
25 This great and wide sea, In which are innumerable teeming things, Living things both small and great.
26 There the ships sail about; There is that Leviathan Which You have made to play there.
27 These all wait for You, That You may give them their food in due season.
26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
6 “Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
Everything Created respond to the LOVE of the Father .
How Jesus Manifested the Father Jesus was sent by the Father to accomplish two purposes: the first negative, the second positive. The negative purpose was to pay the penalty for our sins, that we might be forgiven and reconciled to God. The positive purpose was to reveal God as our Father and to make us members of His family. In many sections of the Church, great emphasis has been placed on the first, “negative” purpose of Jesus’ coming: to atone for our sins and to reconcile us to God. It is right that this purpose be emphasized; it is the essential first step. But this emphasis should never be at the expense of the second purpose: to reveal God as Father and to make us members of His family.
6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
That name was Father. Jesus described God as Father six times in this prayer, and said, “I have manifested Your name.
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
We talk a great deal about the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, our Intercessor, our Mediator and so on. All this is wonderful, but it stops short of Jesus’ ultimate purpose: to bring us to the Father.
27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
The Benefits of Knowing the Father .
Identity -
Modern man has a real problem with identity. It is significant that one of the most successful books and television series in the United States in the 1970s was Roots, the story of an African-American looking for the place he had come from.
I am kunta-kunte NOTED . Our purpose is to estalished our identity. Especially the identity of the Kingdom.
Spend time .. On how we look.
“Who am I?” without knowing who his or her father is. Because relationships between parents and children have so broken down in the last two generations, our contemporary society is suffering an identity crisis. Multitudes are rootless; they have no sense of belonging.
2. Self - Worth.
They had too low a picture of themselves, which caused them many spiritual and emotional agonies.
1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
Once we really comprehend that we are the children of God, that God loves us intimately and personally, that He is interested in us, that He is never too busy for us and that He desires a direct and personal relationship with us, then we discover our self-worth.
3. Awarenss of a Home in Heaven.
22 So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
4. Total Security .
Picture a child held securely in his father’s arms with his little face pressed against his dad’s shoulder. There may be confusion and distress all around. The world may seem to be falling apart. But the child is at peace, unconcerned by what is taking place all around him. He is secure in his father’s arms.
32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
5. Motivation for Service.
3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
I am motivated less and less by personal ambition. I have discovered a sweeter, purer motive: simply to please my Father.
The revelation of God as our heavenly Father naturally leads us on to our next theme: How may human fathers represent the Fatherhood of God in their homes?
The Father as PRIEST !!!
In a certain sense God has committed to every father the responsibility to embody, as a person, the ultimate revelation of the Bible, fatherhood. To be a real father is the most perfect depiction of God that any man can achieve, because it is the ultimate revelation of God Himself. In fact, every father represents God to his family. That is not an option! The question is, Do you as a father represent God rightly or wrongly?
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Father.” The youth answered, “My father is the man I hate most in life.” Instead of his father being a recommendation, he was a barrier! We all know of fathers like this.
Picture of Father .
3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
God the father
Christ
The husband
The Wife .
In the same way that Christ represents God to the man, then, the man is responsible to represent Christ to his family. That is quite a job description for a father! There are, I believe, three main ministries of Christ in which the father should represent Him to his family: priest, prophet and king.
A father’s success as priest will determine his success as prophet and king. If he succeeds as priest, he will probably succeed in the other two ministries. But if he does not understand how to be the priest of his family,
One word Connect With Priesthood is Sacrifice.
According to the bibilical pattern, only a priest may offer a sacrifice. So the father, as priest, has the sacred duty of offering sacrifices on behalf of his family.
Remeber Job Family ..
The following are four main ways in which a father may offer sacrifice on behalf of his family:
1. Offering thanksgiving .
15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
27 “So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.”
Invoking the name of God on your family .
I would say to husbands and fathers: Take much more time thanking God for your family, because in so doing you create an atmosphere around them that makes it easy for them to succeed.
2. Making intercession
At the end of each week Job got up early in the morning and offered sacrifices on behalf of all his children, saying, “It may be that they have failed and are not right with God. I will make a sacrifice on their behalf.” When Job offered a sacrifice for his children.
12 Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.
So Job’s intercession did pay! In fact, it shows how urgent it was for him to pray for his family. That godly man had no idea that a disaster was coming in which all his children would be carried off in one moment. After the disaster it would have been too late to pray. But Job had prayed already.
Job need tobe study .
Our sacrifice at this point in history, of course, is the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Intercession for our children, then, involves claiming the benefits of Christ’s death on their behalf.
3. Making the way for salvation .
In the ordinances of the Passover, we see a tremendous example of a father’s ministry as priest. It was through the sacrifice of the Passover lamb,
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.
23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
Who was responsible to select the lamb? The father of every family.
Who was responsible to slay the lamb? The father.
Who was responsible to sprinkle its blood on the doorposts of the house? The father. In other words, the father had a God-appointed ministry as priest on behalf of his family. to see God provision of Salvation for his family .
Joseph & Jesus .
4. Exercising Faith for His Children.
22 And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
23 Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
Father took his child to the discplies .
What impresses me about this story is that the boy could not believe for himself, but that the Lord held the father accountable to believe for his son. This, I believe, is a principle: God holds fathers accountable to have faith for their children.
.. The Centurium Father
God need to restored PRAYING FATHERS .
The Father as PROPHET .
The Father as PROPHET .
The difference between the roles of priest and prophet is this: As priest you represent your family to God; as prophet you represent God to your family.
How !!.
Representing God by Example.
A father can represent God or Miss- represent God to his Family.
Is the father loving, accessible, compassionate, strong? It is easy for a child to picture God this way if that is how his daddy is. But if the father is bitter, angry, critical or just absentee and irresponsible, that child begins life with a negative idea about God.
The love of a mother is beautiful and irreplaceable, but it is not enough. There is a different quality to the love of a father. Even to an infant it imparts a sense of strength, of security, of being important, of being valuable.
When this kind of love is lacking in a child’s life, the result is a deep inner wound, probably best described as rejection—a sense of being unimportant and unwanted. This was the ultimate wound that killed Jesus on the cross: rejection by His Father.
but he did it for us
34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Inner wound of Rejection.
The symptoms of this wound may be either passive or active. On the passive side the symptoms may take any or all of the following forms: depression, cynicism, lack of motivation, hopelessness and, ultimately, suicidal tendencies. On the active side they may take the form of frustration, anger, rejection of authority, violence, criminality and, ultimately, murder.
6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”
24 He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; Yes, he will give delight to your soul.
counsel. In a house where children are not disciplined, there can be very little peace.
You must guard againt Rebelliouness and Discouragement ..
21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
As a father, you must maintain discipline on the one hand, but not discourage your child on the other hand with unfair or excessive demands.
2. Represnting God through Teaching.
as prophet to your family: instructing them in the ways and Word of God. if you cannot discipline you cannot teach them.
That is why there are so many untaught children in contemporary culture. If you maintain discipline, on the other hand, you can also teach.
4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
say, “I want to be a man like my dad. He doesn’t go to church and he doesn’t read the Bible, so I don’t have to, either.” That is one reason the women in some congregations outnumber the men two to one!
The problem is, boys get the impression that Christianity is something for women.
Women who have the task of instructing their sons, then, need to make sure there is a male spiritual leader somewhere in their boys’ lives.
18 Therefore you shall lay up these My words in your [minds and] hearts and in your [entire] being, and bind them for a sign upon your hands and as forehead bands between your eyes.
It must be conspicuousin your life.
19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Whaoo , I need to be more Intentional. For Faith to Worth anything it must be part of your life. Teach them to Pray , Read the word & Fast.
Never keep children out of your spiritual life. Bring them into it. If you are going on vacation, pray together about where you will go and what you will do. If a child has a problem at school, do not just supply the correct answer. Instead say, “Let’s pray together about it.”
3 communicating both ways.
The most effective communication between a father and child usually takes place in a nonreligious setting. If children associate their fathers’ instruction with something stiff, formal and religious, in the end they tend to resent both the faith and the instruction.
Our parent never listen to us .
4. Saving your Family in the Last Days
The Soul ( Mind )of young men and women are beeing targetted by the devil .
26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Crime , Ganges , Violent … We are in the days of Noah .
We need Daddy with propehtic Gift like Noah to dicsren the time .
The days in which we live call for fathers with a prophetic spirit like Noah—fathers who will be sensitive to intimations of danger facing their families and who will take protective action on their behalf..
The Father as KING
The Father as KING
As priest he represents his family to God. As prophet he represents God to his family. Finally, as king, he governs his family on behalf of God.
4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect.
5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)
He is expected to exercise authority and to have his children respectful, obedient and under his control.
Manage- = To Stand out in front of . To rule , to protect and to control .
If a man cannot achieve successful leadership at home, in other words, he cannot expect to succeed as a leader in God’s church.
In a New Testament church there were three main elements:
1. The pastor or shepherd (usually plural—also called “elders”)
2. Deacons or helpers
3. The congregation or flock These correspond to the three main elements in the home:
1. The father, who has the responsibility of pastor or shepherd
2. The wife, who was created to help her husband just as a deacon helps the pastor
3. The children, who are the congregation or flock
Walking in Abraham’s Steps
We turn now to Abraham as a picture of a father who accepted and fulfilled his responsibility to rule or be king of his family.
Abram - exalted father ..,father of multitude .
17 And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
19 For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
Direct
Command .
A father has the right, I believe, to determine some of the basic rules of the household: what time they will eat together, what time the younger children must come in, the kind of entertainment the children are permitted, the use of the television and so on. This is not merely the father’s privilege; it is his duty.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,
12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised.
Order in the heavenly family .
Bring you homeinto alignement !!!.
17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
49 For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
50 And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
Discipline in the Home.
If you want to raise your children successfully, you must combine love with discipline. The way to produce unhappy, frustrated children, on the other hand, is to spoil them—to give them all they ask for, to do everything they want, to succumb to every demand.
22 So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
The Pictures of Two Fathers.
The Pictures of Two Fathers.
Lot & Abrahm
— What kind of example have I been setting for my family? Am I giving them eternal purposes and eternal standards to live by? Or am I compromising my standards and commitments for the sake of material prosperity and worldly success?
— What vision am I imparting to my family? Am I inculcating eternal values that will direct them into lives of service for Jesus Christ? Or am I concerned primarily with worldly success—a career, material comfort, financial independence, status in the community?
When Fathers FAIL !!!
When Fathers FAIL !!!
Lot & Eli.
If faithful fatherhood produces a blessed and prosperous nation, what will happen to a nation whose fathers fail in their primary obligations?
41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
42 Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
46 And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
47 “Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,
48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
50 a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young.
51 And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.
52 “They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.
53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you.
54 The sensitive and very refined man among you will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,
The Hebrew words here indicate that Moses is speaking to men. The word beget refers primarily to the father’s part in procreating children. So this verse is addressed primarily (but not exclusively) to fathers.
The New American Standard Bible translates Deuteronomy 28:41 more literally: “You shall have [beget] sons and daughters, but they will not be yours. . . .” This, too, is being fulfilled today. In countless broken families the children no longer belong to their parents. Parents and children are estranged from one another. This again is the outworking of a curse.
satanic captivity—to drugs, illicit sex, the occult and various types of cults. Those who are enslaved by these things are in captivity just as surely as if an invading alien army had marched into the country and carried them off as prisoners. Why have millions of children gone into captivity? We see the answer in Deuteronomy 28: persistent rejection of God’s righteous requirements, especially in home and family.
7 “For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, And people should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
rejected, but knowledge of the way and word of the Lord. As a result God no longer accepts them as priests—and even vows to forget their children.
How many of these are forgotten by God—ignored by God—because they have no fathers to intercede for them?
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
6 And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
delinquent fathers and unparented children.
All Summed Up in One Word God’s requirements may all be summed up in a single word of fathomless meaning: love. This love is manifested in three main dimensions:
1. The intimate love between a husband and his wife
2. The protective love of parents for their children
3. The reaching out love of believers toward those who have no one else to love them—the orphans and widows