What is a Father?
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Dad - The name you call when you feel an injustice has occurred.
Dad, your less favored offspring is acting according to their less favored nature!
Dad - The name you call when you encounter anything with more than 4 legs or less than two!
Dad! Ahhhhhhhhhh!
Dad - The name you call when you need a trip update. And the update you got 5 minutes ago isn’t cutting it anymore!
Dad, are we there yet?
Dad - the name you call when you’re stuck!
Dad, I’m broke down and I need help!
Dad - The name you call when something explodes.
DAD!
1. A source.
a. Life 1 Corinthians 8:6; Romans 6:23
yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
b. Identity Genesis 1:27; Ephesians 4:22-24
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
c. Provision. 1 Timothy 5:8; Deuteronomy 8:1–6
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
2. An example.
a. Training for life Ephesians 6:4; Hebrews 12:7–11
And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
b. Testimony. 1 Corinthians 10:1–11; Philippians 2:5–11
Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
3. An object of devotion.
a. Who we serve. Philippians 2:19–22; Ephesians 6:1
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged when I know your state. For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus. But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
b. Who we imitate. Philippians 3:17; Ephesians 5:1
Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
c. Who we desire to please! Philippians 3:13–14; Genesis 27:38
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
And Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me—me also, O my father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.