The Sensible Father

1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 “For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.”

Whether you are a father, want to be a father, have a father, or had a horrible father and wish you had a better one, there is an important component to this message that I want us all to understand at the outset…And it’s this...

There is a Kingdom, and there is a glory that alone belongs to our Father in Heaven, and every Christian man is called to walk worthy of this Kingdom and glory.

We are to understand fatherhood primarily through our knowledge of God, not our experiences or opinions.

Fatherhood (And I speak to Christian men) is a matter of living a continual life of repentance and faith in Christ. If you are not prepared to repent often in light of what you come to know about Him from Scripture, about your soul’s needs, about sin, and about your children, then you will fail, fumble, and falter.

But what we need in this culture, our community, and in our churches, is men who walk worthy. Who care about worthy.

We live in a “We are worthy” culture. That needs to be rejected wholesale, and in it’s place we need men and fathers who embrace a mentality of “Measure up to the glory and standard of our Father’s Kingdom.”