GOOD GOOD FATHER

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Never in history of our country and world is the need for fathers to rise up in the Lord’s calling to be Godly men

Never in the history of our country and world is the need for young men to rise up in the Lord’s calling to prepare to be real men of the Lord

Never in the history of our country and world is the need for the family (wives, moms, dads, the children - boys, girls and church family to rally around the fathers and men of the kingdom of God and for the future of our society.

Never before in history has their been such an evil attack on the family, on the future gender of the family, on the man, on the man as a father.

Hollywood and the film industry has launched the initial attack promoting the unnatural of the family and gender

Journalism and news has turned into activism and propaganda on our alphabet news outlets as they continually push the narrative for Gay Pride, Transgenderism and Drag Queen popularity

Now our schools are being targeted to promote this perversion in library books and some having children march the halls with gay pride parades

One teacher in Mass was just sited as was teaching kindergarden and first grade students that doctors actually guess weather a new born baby is a boy or girl, the teacher also goes on to say that the correct guess would be called cisgender and if guessed wrong then its transgender

The attorney general in Michigan just this week stated that “drag queens make everything better” that there should be a “drag queen for every school”

President Biden just this week signed an executive order for pride month (this month for fathers) banning critics of “conversion therapy” mainly Christian counselors, prohibiting them from counseling based on their religious beliefs to individuals experiencing un wanted same sex attraction or gender confusion

This evil attack is truly on God and His natural way and design for the family, get ready the church is next.

Just recently there has been rising attacks on Pro life centers, crisis pregnancy centers and churches. The Family Research Council just reported that attacks have ticked up to 51 this week by groups stating its “open season” on crisis pregnancy centers

I tell you all this today as I keep hearing from leaders saying where is the church? Where does the church stand in all this. Is the church allowing itself to just blend in.

The church is not to conform but to stand with the word of God, love those that are hurt and confused, that we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. That we all were born into sin and some kind of sin of every type, but have the opportunity to receive Christ and to follow Him and His word.

So today I bring to you a message of Good Good Father

Jesus brought the message teaching the goodness of His Father and also teaching God being our heavenly Father. As we receive the Son so we are children of the One true Father.

As Jesus was teaching in the regions of Judea and the Jordan crowds had gathered, the Pharisees were trying to trick Jesus with questions that were related to the family. One question they would ask was why God permitted Moses to give certificate of divorce and Jesus simply answered “because your hardness of hearts” He then stated

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Mark 10:5–6 (NASB95)

5 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

6 “But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

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Mark 10:7–8 (NASB95)

7 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother,

8 and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

As Jesus would go on teaching the crowds would start bringing their children to Jesus that He might touch them. The disciples ............

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Mark 10:13–14 (NASB95)

13 And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them.

14 But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Fathers and father figures of the church, it is our calling to always encourage the children to the kingdom of God, everything that His kingdom is about, the truth about His design for every living and breathing thing and His most prized creation ....human beings

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Mark 10:15–16 (NASB95)

15 “Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”

16 And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them.

Church we will not conform or allow God’s word to be watered down or perverted. His word is very capable of defending itself in these trying times of culture rebellion.

We can stand strong with the truth of His word and God will reveal Himself to us what a good good Father He is. we see this as this story in Mark continues.

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Mark 10:17–18 (NASB95)

17 As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

All this is in context and we must see how true His word is for the natural design of the family. The enemy continues his same assault her has always used on people, the one original lie, “has God really said?’

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One time we had a lesbian couple that was attending church here, it was like our first or second year.......... explaining

Israel and the Jewish people can share some seriousness of an attack on society and God’s chosen people.

Hanukkah is one of their celebrated holidays ...........explaining

How about the story in our Bible of Ester............see verse

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Esther 2:7 (NASB95)

7 He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful of form and face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

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Esther 4:14 (NASB95)

14 “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

Reports say 1 out of 3 have no father today Our God is the Father of the fatherless, He defends those who are fatherless, He comforts, He leads and teaches if we allow Him

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Psalm 68:5 (NASB95)

5 A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,

Is God in His holy habitation.

I miss my dad and when he was alive I learned so much. I also had so many father like figures to learn from. We all have these but all this influence and examples are still measured by one truth.... the word our Heavenly Father, His Holy Word the bible

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Psalm 103:13 (NASB95)

13 Just as a father has compassion on his children,

So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

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Malachi 4:6 (NASB95)

6 “He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”

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WORSHIP TEAM / CLOSE

Fathers we must remain strong according to God’s word, as the Great I Am song says it, “loving the world but hating the dark”

We cannot change a mind that has been corrupted and confused, we have to continue to love them, pray for them and be a Godly example before them. That includes “I cannot back down and conform my life to what God’s word says is not true”