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Father’s Day
Happy Father’s day.
The stereotype with going to church on mothers day and fathers day is that on mother’s day, mothers get built up, and on fathers day, fathers get beat up.
Well, that is not happening today.
We get beat up enough by the world.
I think many of us tend to beat ourselves up a good bit as well.
The Word of God is meant to convict us and transform our hearts and minds.
Sometimes it hurts, any kind of cutting away of the old to make room for the new is going to hurt.
His Word is meant to make us the men, husbands and fathers that God intends.
You may be a biological father, a father to be, a step-father, an adoptive father, a brother, an uncle, a grandfather called on to fill that role again, or a woman filling the role of mother and father this morning.
For as many women as I have prayed with and for, I have prayed with and for as many men.
Husbands who feel alone, fathers who see themselves as failures, men of God silently hurting and experiencing the crushing effects this world can have on all of us at times.
We need some building up in the truth of God’s Word, we need some sharpening, we must seek our answers from the Father of all children.
Men of God, you are needed today perhaps more than any other time in our history.
I read a statistic some time back that stated roughly 84% of prison inmates are from homes that did not have a good male role model.
Another poll showed that the majority of men spend an average of 15 minutes per week with their younger children.
It all starts at home?
Remember, in your Jerusalem.
In today’s cultural wars we must stand as watchman over our families following and declaring the LORD.
We must be present in their lives.
We are going to look at Joshua 24:15 this morning.
This is an awesome verse for all Christians but pertinent to fathers today.
So many today want the promises of God without submitting to the service of God.
We must all make compromises at times.
One place there is no room for compromise is our faith, in our relationship with Abba Father.
Joshua is saying that if serving YHVH as bad or undesirable, then make a choice, cause you are going to be serving someone or something.
“Well, I serve the LORD, most of the time.”
Who are you serving when you are not serving the LORD?
When we make those compromises, we are refusing to serve the LORD.
If we are not serving the LORD, then we are serving one of three things: we are serving ourselves, we are serving this world, or we are serving the enemy.
We cannot compromise brothers.
Every moment, every circumstance, every decision is one to serve the LORD or to refuse the LORD.
Notice that second question Joshua poses?
“Or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live?”
Many of us have a hard time with the direction this country has taken.
Many feel as though they do not recognize the land that we live in anymore.
We had a president in my lifetime state that “This is no longer a Christian nation.”
A lot of Christians were infuriated and offended by this comment.
I wasn’t.
I actually chuckled a little and said “Dude, what proceeds out of mans mouth yours included, does not dictate how big my God is!
I was brought back to this verse.
The hard truth is that people, including Christians, are in fact serving idols, ideologies, politicians, and certain organizations.
Actively pursuing sin, living in sin and proud to do so.
Our circumstance or where we live should not define the decisions that we make.
If this is in fact no longer a Christian nation, then the harvest is indeed plentiful and you and I have a lot of work to do for Jesus Christ!
I have said this before but it is worth repeating.
They can take down all the statues and monuments they want to, God does not live in them.
When you are alive in Christ, Holy Spirit is alive in you.
Wherever you go, there God will also be!
No man, woman, or group has the power to change that.
Joshua was not disrespectful or disagreeable for the sake of disagreeing.
Joshua was not concerned with the politics or the cultural differences, or the different opinions.
Those things have always existed and will until Jesus returns.
We choose in each moment who we will stand with.
We choose in the moment who we are going to represent.
Joshua stood with the one true God!
The choice to follow God rests with the individual.
God does not make us choose to put him first.
God is not going to make all of our decisions for us either, but He will never leave us with an option outside of His sovereign boundaries.
The choices may not be crystal clear every time, but the ungodly choices are pretty well defined.
The secular world has no problem declaring where they stand.
As fathers, as men of God, we cannot be ambiguous about following Jesus Christ.
Here is the big thing.
Joshua says “as for me and my house...” Fathers, men of God, we must cover our wives and our children.
To properly cover our wives and children, you must allow God to cover you.
If how we speak and behave as an earthly fathers does not line up with scripture, if it does not look and sound like Jesus Christ, what kind of correlation will our children make between us and our heavenly father?
We are to reflect Jesus Christ.
It is our duty.
We must be the example of Christ first in our homes.
No matter what you do, our children are going to make mistakes along the way.
How many novels could you fill with the mistakes you've made?
How far did you wander?
We must allow them to make mistakes.
We must allow them to experience successes that are theirs.
We were not meant to live vicariously through our children or to control their every step.
Sometimes our children will get into places where we can’t reach them, help them, or protect them?
The parable of the prodigal son is one of the most popular in scripture.
The story begins in Luke 15:11.
It is a beautiful story of God’s love and grace for His children.
It is also a reminder to fathers today how we are to treat our own children.
One of the mans sons asked for his inheritance while his dad was still alive.
His dad gave it to him.
The son takes off, blows his inheritance, is left with nothing, and has to take a job working with pigs.
That is significant in that this was a rock bottom for this son.
He was Jewish.
To even be near a pig was dirty, filthy, and broke Rabbinical law.
Scripture goes further, this son was so hungry he wanted to eat the food that the pigs were eating.
Rock bottom.
He had nothing.
Broken financially, physically, and spiritually.
He tried it the world’s way and he lost.
Many of us have been in one or more of those places in our lives.
In the muck and the mire.
When the choices we make bring us to a place of desperation.
God did not go anywhere, we did.
God did not choose for us, we did.
God is a gentleman, if we say “I got this,” God is going to let us have it.
It does not mean he does not love us, it means he lets us make the choice.
That is a picture of God when his children wander and return to Him.
This wayward son had brought disgrace to his family and village and, according to Deuteronomy 21:18–21, he should have been stoned to death.
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