Father’s Day 2007

Introduction:

Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

I.       Job was the High Priest of his family as a father

A.    Job took his responsibilities as a father very serious

B.    Job was always praying for his family

1.     Job here in verse 5 asks if his sons may have sin

a)     He was always making sure that his family were doing right (what a father)

C.    He took them before God continually

1.     Some parents today worry sick about their children and are at their wits end.

2.     They carry the burden

a)     And what a load it is

b)     They lose sleep over the children and it starts a problem between the husband and wife

3.     When what we should be doing is taking them before God the same way Job did as a father

II.     Job rose up early

A.    As a father he made his family his first priority

B.    Job know he could not be the perfect father he hope to be

1.     None of us can

2.     But Job knows that God could take care of his family.

3.     And in verse 5 God tells us that Job did this continually

III.    Job never stop thinking about the spiritual side of his family

A.    He had everything and still he kept his family before God

B.    His children got along together

C.    Job was a rich man, one of the riches in his time.

1.     Being rich he still did his duties to keep his family together and made sure they were on the right Spirit track

D.    With all that we know about Job, he still took care of his family spiritually

1.     God tells us in Exodus 13:8, And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt

2.     We are to talk about what God has done and in doing this our families will remember God and praise Him for who He is

Conclusion:

Today is Fathers day, and today I hope to challenge you as fathers to take on the responsibility that God wants us to do

And Job is a good example

Do the same things Job did, love his family so much that he keep them before God continually

It is easy for us to pray and go to church when we are having problems

But when thing are doing good we do not pray anymore, we stop coming to church excedra, excedra

Proverbs 30:8-9,8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: 9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

Deuteronomy 8:11-14,11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

Today is the first day of the rest of you life, what will you do with it fathers?

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