Father! (Gen.18:19 / Prov.22:6 / 2 Tim.1:7)
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Today, we have an alarming Juvenile problem: Teenagers go on rampaging---pillaging schools, business properties, homes & even churches---causing millions of dollars worth of destruction!
A juvenile judge: “when I get off the bench I am going to write a book called “I hate my dad.” He was disgusted with the way parents neglected their primary duty at home!
A Probation Officer: “From the amount of vandalism that goes on in this town, you would think that the kids had no parents.”
A police chief: “There is a big difference between training children to be independent and just abandoning them.”
A father: “I pay for my boys’ clothes. I feed them. I give them allowance. What more do you expect of me?”
The role of the father as a leader, motivator, educator, mentor, coach, financial adviser, dream giver, wounded healer---gone with the wind!
For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
“Chosen” = Handpicked by God to take his place. A human counterpart of God. With all his flaws, God has chosen Abraham.
“Direct” = Command, order, tell. “Chosen” to enable us to “direct” through (1) Modeling, (2) Mentoring, (3) Motivating.
“Keep the way of the Lord” = Watch, observe, cling to. Through our modeling, mentoring and motivating, children are directed to cling to the way of the Lord.
Chosen to enable us to direct
“By doing what is right and just” = Doing things according to God’s standard.
“Chosen—>Direct—>Keep—>Do”: An ordinary father can train up extraordinary children when the father says “yes” to God.
Father = You are God’s chosen man, for God’s time, to even change history in an extraordinary way. The time is now!
Traditionally, Father’s role is very clear: Provider & Protector. Nowadays, father’s role is more complicated: Provider, Protector, Teacher, Motivator, Storyteller, Drama Actor & Visionary.
Demands more on nurturing, care-giving role —>strong Old Oak Tree in your backyard —> unshakable security!
“Come, come sit on my lap. What did you do today at school? Did anybody bully you? Did you make some friends?…Tell me....”
Engaging, talking, playing, holding, hugging > a cave man, escaping to work.
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
(1) FATHER’S LOVE: Father can be a stern and loving at the same time: Explain consequences, make correction, show caring > condemning.
Engaging, talking, playing, holding, hugging > a cave man, escaping to work.
Sacrifice: Time, rest, work....!
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
(2) FATHER’S POWER: with love—>bears all things. —> endures all things = Power and strength. How? by “laying down my life”= sacrifice: time, rest, work, money...
(3) FATHER’S INSTRUCTION OF SELF-CONTROL: Attitude, anger management, discipline, responsibility, spiritual maturity....
Just like Mother makes everything ready for the boat. Dad hoists the sail. And both parents help children to learn how to catch the wind!
University of Illinois’ research. Fridays, mid-night, calling 1,000 homes. “Where are the children at this time?”
Many parents are asking: (1) Why does all of this take place? (2) What should we do? (3) What am I going to do with my son/daughter?
(3)
We are reaping what we have sown = Philosophy of Behaviouralism: “Just let them do as they like.” “restraining will warp their personalities.”
Taking God out of the Classroom + Movies featuring sex & violence + computer games, internet, social media....
At the heart of the problem is the failure of father-figure in the home!
No God in Classroom—> running wild, bullying, fighting, shooting, alcohol, drug, sex, violence, terrorism. Internet, movies, computer games....
The role of the father as a leader, motivator, educator, mentor, coach, financial adviser, dream giver, wounded healer---gone with the wind!
A juvenile judge: “when I get off the bench I am going to write a book called “I hate my dad.” He was disgusted with the way parents neglected their primary duty at home!
A Probation Officer: “From the amount of vandalism that goes on in this town, you would think that the kids had no parents.”
People learn fatherhood from TV.
A police chief: “There is a big difference between training children to be independent and just abandoning them.”
A father: “I pay for my boys’ clothes. I feed them. I give them allowance. What more do you expect of me?”
Be an educator
Spend time: (1) Be a teacher (2) Be a life coach (3) Be a role model (4) Be a family activity planner (5) Be a disciplinarian (6) Be a Bible teacher (7) Be a pray-er with your family.
Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Colossians
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire.
A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die. Punish them with the rod and save them from death.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Blows and wounds scrub away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.
Ephesians 6