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Happy Fathers Day!
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Snapshots of
Successful Fathers
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SUC.CESS.FUL adj. 1 Of persons, obtaining what
one desires or intends especially having reached
a high degree of worldly prosperity
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How would define being successful?
Ones definition of success would depend upon his
vantage point
Successful hunt successful school year
successful shopping trip
How would you define success as a father?
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Would again depend on ones vantage point
Many would claim success if child(ren)
established successful business, graduated
college, made lots of money
Others would maintain successful if child(ren)
had happy marriages
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Others would see selves as successful if
child(ren) made it to adulthood without getting
into trouble
From standpoint of Christian father, how define
being successful?
Have some Biblical snapshots of successful fathers
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Can study the qualities of faithful Biblical
fathers and apply their principles of success to
our lives
How can 21st century fathers be successful at
fatherhood?
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Like Enoch
Walk With God
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Three great things are said of Enoch
He Walked With God
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And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah And Enoch walked with God after he
begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters And all the days of Enoch
were three hundred sixty and five years And
Enoch walked with God and he was not for God
took him. Genesis 521-24
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Three great things are said of Enoch
He Walked With God
He Pleased God
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By faith Enoch was translated that he should not
see death and was not found, because God had
translated him for before his translation he had
this testimony, that he pleased God.
Hebrews 115
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Three great things are said of Enoch
He Walked With God
He Pleased God
He Preached For God
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And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied
of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with
ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment
upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds which they
have ungodly committed, and of all their hard
speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him. Jude 14, 15
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Fathers, do your children see you walking with
God daily?
Enochs children were blessed to know that their
father was the recipient of Gods favor
Do you walk with God?
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Like Noah
Move With Fear
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By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not
seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to
the saving of his house by the which he
condemned the world, and became heir of the
righteousness which is by faith. Hebrews
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Like Enoch, Noah was a preacher for God
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For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but
cast them down to hell, and delivered them into
chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the
eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world of the
ungodly II Peter 24, 5
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Like Enoch, Noah was a preacher for God
Of all that were alive in his day, only Noah
found grace in Gods eyes
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And God saw that the wickedness of man was great
in the earth, and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on
the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And
the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth both man, and
beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of
the air for it repenteth me
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that I have made them. But Noah found grace in
the eyes of the Lord. Genesis 65-8
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Like Enoch, Noah was a preacher for God
Of all that were alive in his day, only Noah
found grace in Gods eyes
Noah had more respect for God and family than he
did for the scoffers of his day
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Fathers, do your children know that you respect
God and His word?
Are you seen by God as Noah was in his day?
Must have been a reason beyond just the fact that
he was their father that caused his sons to obey
his preaching
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Like Abraham
Be Known of God
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And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that
thing which I do Seeing that Abraham shall
surely become a great and mighty nation, and all
the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
For I know him, that he will command his children
and his household after him, and they shall keep
the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment
that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which
he hath spoken of him. Genesis 1817-19
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Does God have that kind of assurance in you as a
father?
On at least three occasions Abraham was described
as a father
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And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal
of the righteousness of the faith which he had
yet being uncircumcised that he might be the
father of all them that believe, though they be
not circumcised that righteousness might be
imputed unto them also Romans 411
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Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by
grace to the end the promise might be sure to
all the seed not to that only which is of the
law, but to that also which is of the faith of
Abraham who is the father of us all.
Romans 416
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Who against hope believed in hope, that he might
become the father of many nations, according to
that which was spoken, So shall thy seed
be. Romans 418
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Does God have that kind of assurance in you as a
father?
On at least three occasions Abraham was described
as a father
His faithfulness as a father to Isaac served him
well as the father of all the faithful
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Father, are you bringing up your children to know
the Lord and to be known by Him?
The part you play in their lives might well make
the difference between heaven and hell for them
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Like Joshua
Serve The Lord
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The mention of his name invokes images of a
faithful spy, a successful general, a loyal
leader of a tremendous mass of people, and a man
who prompted God to lengthen a day to affect the
outcome of a battle for his people
But, Joshua was foremost a faithful family man
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord,
choose you this day whom ye will serve whether
the gods which your fathers served that were on
the other side of the flood, or the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land ye dwell but as for me
and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 2415
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His determination to have a God-fearing family is
inspiring
Any life withdrawn from service to God becomes
meaningless
As a father, choose you this day Whom your
family will serve, and lead it in that faithful
service to God
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Like Zacharias
Be Righteous Before God
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There was in the days of Herod, the king of
Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the
course of Abia and his wife was of the daughters
of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they
were both righteous before God, walking in all
the commandments and ordinances of the Lord
blameless. Luke 15, 6
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Little else is known of this man
To have God call him righteous is sufficient
Highly commended by God even before he became a
father
Young man, are you making preparations even now
for being the kind of father God would one day
have you to be?
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Like Joseph
Be a Just Man
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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise
When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph,
before they came together, she was found with
child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband,
being a just man, and not willing to make her a
public example, was minded to put her away
privily. Matthew 118, 19
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God chose a just man to serve as the earthly
father of His own Son
Joseph was also one who was merciful,
compassionate, mindful of worship
responsibilities and a follower of heavenly
commands
Could God have chosen you to fill this position?
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Are You A
Successful Father?
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Successful fathers walk with God
Successful fathers move with fear
Successful fathers are known of God
Successful fathers serve the Lord
Successful fathers are righteous before God
Successful fathers are just men
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-from an outline by Neil Richey