Happy Fathers Day

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Happy Fathers Day
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A few thoughts on the day...
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as
strong as the need for a fathers protection

• - Sigmund Freud

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so
ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old
man around...
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But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished
at how much he had learned in seven years.

• - Mark Twain

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By the time a man realized that maybe his father
was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is
wrong.

• --Charles Wadsworth

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The most important thing a father can do for his
children is to love their mother.-- Rev.
Theodore Hesburgh
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John 146

• I am the way the truth and the Life. No one comes
  to the Father but by me.
• -- Jesus

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He didnt tell me how to live he lived and let
me watch him do it.

• - Clarence B. Kelland

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Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one
can be very rough. --Wilhelm Busch
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A wise son makes a glad father.

• Proverbs 11

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One night a father overheard his son pray...

• Dear God, make me the kind of man my daddy is.

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Later that night the father prayed...

• Dear God, make me the kind of man my son thinks
  I am.

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God is our Father
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We are told to pray

• Our Father who art in Heaven...
• Hallowed be Your name.
• 10      Your kingdom come.
•     Your will be done
•      On earth as it is in heaven.
• 11      Give us this day our daily bread.
• 12     And forgive us our debts,
•      As we forgive our debtors.
• 13     And do not lead us into temptation,
•      But deliver us from the evil one.
•     For Yours is the kingdom and the power and
  the glory forever. Amen.
• The Lords PrayerMatthew 69-13

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Jesus taught that God was his father and our
father

• John 2017
• We can speak to God as a child to our parent.
• Matthew 1127
• Romans 815--For you did not receive the spirit
  of bondage again to fear, but you received the
  Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba,
  Father.
• Galatians 46And because you are sons, God has
  sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your
  hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!

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Jesus Explains the Father

• John 1625-33

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Our Father in Heaven cares for us

• Even the small stuff
• Matthew 628-32

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The Father is holy

• John 1523-26
• Luke 1819-God is Good
• Unlike the gods of the Greek and Roman myths who
  were short-tempered and immoralthe true God is
  just and righteous

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Jesus came to represent a purpose of Gods plan

• John 638-40
• The will of the Father was what was important to
  Jesus.

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Our Father is personal

• John 159-14
• Love of the Father is shown in the relationship
  of Jesus and the Father. The idea of us doing the
  will of the Father and obeying the commands of
  Jesus show we also are in a love relationship
  with the Father.

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Jesus showed the Fathers love as he sought out
people afflicted with the effects of sin.

• C. G. Montefiore says, The rabbis welcomed a
  sinner in his repentance. But to seek out the
  sinner ... was ... something new in the religious
  history of Israel.

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Jesus and the Father are ONE

• John 1030
• Those who would deny the divinity of Jesus just
  need to read the words of Christ.
• See also John 1722the prayer in the garden.

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So what are the implications for us?

• As a Father I do have a model.
• As a Child I have a model.
• As a Child of God I get to follow those models.