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Happy Father’s Day!
This morning brings all kinds of emotions.
Those of us who didn’t have the greatest fathers in the world, maybe we didn’t even know our father
Perhaps, the word father means some sort of abuse
Perhaps you had the greatest father in the world, but now they aren’t here anymore.
They have passed on - We miss them
Maybe the word dad, is reserved for another man who wasn’t your physical father, but nobody would ever know it.
He has helped shape your life, he has loved you and made you feel as if you are his.
It’s a sinful world, with broken relationships, so days like this can be a great blessing or a great pain.
I say, let’s see the blessing in it.
For one thing, we have a Heavenly Father who is beyond anything that we could ever expect to have as a dad.
Matthew 9
He has the best of thoughts for us as his children, even when we are wayward and on our own.
He has made promises to us, that unlike many father’s, he would never leave us.
We would never feel like orphans again
We would be provided for
We would be safe in his hands
He would love us with an undying love.
My brothers and sisters today, we are each a part of a family, the children in the family of God.
Children who have a great and loving Father.
So Happy Father’s Day.
With Father’s and men in mind, let’s turn over to
Here we have a Father who is hurt.
God’s people are doing whatever they want, whenever and however they want to do it.
And we see here that God is pretty serious about what he expects from his people and the punishment that refusal to do it brings.
Here we see that father’s heart that has been crushed.
Every Father at sometime has asked these questions, either in the middle of the situation or to themselves.
Maybe even to God.
What have I done?
What did I do that made this happen?
Did I not love you enough?
Was I not there enough?
What could I have done better?
Where did things go so wrong?
This is a father who really wants to know the answer.
I cannot say that all men are as sincere as he is.
Some say things, but they really don’t want to know the answers.
This father, wants to know.
For you see, this Father was a righteous father.
The guilt was not with him
The problem was not the time that he spent away from home
It wasn’t the long hours of the job, or the hobbies, or the money that he drank away.
It was simply that there was an enemy who had led his children’s hearts astray.
So brothers, You know the deal.
The Enemy and the Brokenness of Sin has Touched each of us
We want to be Loving, unselfish husbands.
We want to lead our wives through the Love of Christ.
We want to be the greatest dads.
We want to love unconditionally
We want to give our children a spiritual legacy and lead them into worshiping the Lord
But we are flawed.
Our marriages are marked with failures.
Our children aren’t in church, they could care less about the things of the Lord
Even in our own lives we sense the spiritual joy of serving God winding down.
That zeal for the Lord is no longer there.
God’s heart is the heart of every father.
’ve already said, He was the only one who could ask these questions knowing that he had not failed his children in any way.
There are too many of us asking ourselves, what have I done?
Why wasn’t I there?
Why didn’t I do that?
And the enemy is beating men up today.
There is a loss in the American family relations
We are trying to buy bigger and better things to make amends, but that’s what is needed.
The apologizing is a great place to start, but what is it that changes the situation.
Because before we know it, we are right back in the same predictament.
The Apostle Paul said it himself - There is this battle raging inside of me.
The Old man and the Spirit man.
And He talks about how so many times the old man seems to continue to win.
The things I know and want to do, I end up not doing and the things I don’t want
Anybody here recognize that battle in themselves?
Ladies?
You can join in today.
Even when we look at God’s accounting of what he has done and how he has done it for them, we are reminded of the effects of sin in our lives.
Many of us would say, Pastor, I’ve done good things for my kids.
I’ve been there for them.
I’ve supplied their needs, I’ve led them to Jesus
But even in that, do you notice there’s a weakness?
That no matter what we try to do, our weaknesses and failures of being a broken man still affect us?
And have you ever discovered this little gem of a fact? - You are never going to be able to please everyone.
That’s also a situation brought on by the brokenness of man.
So I’ll tell you what I’ve learned in my 30 years of being a pastor of all of you.
- Stop trying to please people and please the one who matters - Father’s, men (women) let’s please God today.
So as we’ve been saying church family, outside of the presence of God and the Holy Spirit in our lives, we are still sinful people.
And the charges that the Lord brings against us, just like here with Israel, are founded and true.
There’s no way out of them.
So Brothers, You know the deal
Our Excuses Fall on Dead Ears with the Lord
Look at verses 6 and 7
Man they try everything.
The present their case and they are found to be a fault
Then they go to the big excuse.
And comeon, everyone we’ve been there.
Then what do you expect of me?
It doesn’t matter what we do, we can’t make you happy.
How many of us have said in our marriages, and life situations - “How much more do you want from me.” I’ve given my all
But is that true?
Probably not
Oh we extend ourselves a little more when the problem gets a little more serious
I know in the situations of my life, I’ll put more into something until it wears me out and then I’m done.
I’ll just allow things to go back to the way their were and if we’re all honest - Just complain about it
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