Fathers for the fatherless Leave it to Beaver Gone The family of yesteryear is abnormal Qualifiers to be a father Fatherless raising fatherless Where is my father Sent fathers Men who God sent to stand in ID: 254935
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Thank you Dad
Fathers for the fatherlessSlide2
Leave it to Beaver
Gone!! The family of yesteryear is abnormal.
Qualifiers to be a father.
Fatherless raising fatherless
Where is my father?Slide3
Sent fathers
Men who God sent to stand in.
Jim Sheridan, Steve Ervin, Gilbert Dougherty, Joe
Flach
, Mac Stone, each in their own time.Slide4
God the Father
New concept
Matt.6:9 ff The Lord’s Prayer “Our father who is in heaven...”
Grk
;
pater
- generator, nearest ancestor
Fathers give: place,
substance
forgiveness
protection
disciplineSlide5
Ask the Father
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
(Mat 7:7-11)Slide6
Ask the Father
Gifts from dad
Imperfect dads still try
“Give the gift that lasts!” (a diamond)
Love, security, identity.
Ask God for His gift of redemption.Slide7
Family Resemblance
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also
. From now on you do know him and have seen him." Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
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John
14:6-9)Slide8
Family Resemblance
The son looks like the Father
“the apple falls close to the tree”
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. Jesus
To know God, know the Son.Slide9
Love of the Father
And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son
.‘ Luke 15: 20 - 21Slide10
Love of the Father
Mercy & compassion on his children
Looking longingly for His children.
Grk
. Compassion – to have the bowels yearn
His heart yearns for His childrenSlide11
Fathers
Luke 15 Where is the mother in the story?
Psalm
68:5 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation
.
It is not about getting mothers out of the work place and back home, it is about getting fathers back to their children.Slide12
Thank you Dad
For being seen.
For providing a stand in.
For a stand in family.
“Father I pray that you would unite the children to the fathers. I pray that you would reveal yourself through your son, Jesus to us all. Amen”