Real
Fathers Love Jesus and Teach their Children the Word!
Kelly
Durant 6/11/02 Re 6-29-15 Deuteronomy 11:19
2. In
English there is a phrase that appears on bumper stickers, it says, “Real Men
Love Jesus”! The truth is a man that does not love Jesus is a man that will not
be a good husband or father! Even the men here who come to this church, and who
are Christian may be lacking in knowledge on how to be a real father. With no
spirituality a man is a brute beast!
Speaking
for myself, I grew up without a father, my parents divorced when I was 1 yr.
old, so I grew up like many of you, and like 50% of the people in this country,
without any an idea of what a father is supposed to be! If you never had a
father, I understand you, but we can learn new things because it is a new day
and young men can learn what a father should be like.
Women
too need to learn how to choose the right men for mates who will be good
fathers and they should inspire their man to love the Lord! I had to learn how to be a father from God’s
word and other Christian books on the subject! I spent hours of study on the matter, and that
is what it takes!
3. And
I must say I have not a perfect dad for my 5 kids either! I have learned from
my mistakes! But the main thing I learned, and if you remember only one thing
today I want it to be this verse. It is the most important task of a father…
Deu.11: 19 And ye shall teach them (the law, or God’s word) your children,
speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the
way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Having
kids does not make a man a father! A real father according to God is one who knows the
Bible, one who teaches those precepts to his children, and one who lives by its
standards! (Repeat)
My
question is, do you fathers here today do that? The Bible talks a lot about the
evil character of men in the last days. Basically the sins of the past cultures
are the same sins of today but the problem with that is those sins of the
fathers, could be placing their souls and the souls of their children in danger
of not inheriting salvation.
4. There
are men that think it is okay to abandon their wives & children or think it
is okay to live as they so desire wasting money on sins disregarding God, being
abusive to those in their homes. But as
we can read that Jesus had some harsh words to those that keep kids from the
faith and teaching sins to their children by their bad examples!
Matt
18:6 (read) But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in
me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and
that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
He
said basically that they would go to hell forever! Jesus states here that
suicide for that man or father would be better for him than to mislead a child
away from God!
5. The
word speaks a lot about how the men should be the spiritual leaders but a leader
is not being a macho dictator slave driver that shouts out commands! We are
talking about being a leader as Jesus was a leader, a man with a character imitating
that of Jesus, having love for his family, wife and children, giving his life
for them sacrificing his time, talent, and income.
Christ
loved us and gave his life for us, and if we as men are to follow His footsteps
then we must also live and obey all of what he taught and teach others the
same! There is a culture problem with the world today. People are conditioned
to believe that all there is to being a Dad is to bring the money home. They
get home late, they watch TV, or they play sports with their friends and rarely
if ever, on an intimate level, communicate with their children or wives! If men
do not become spiritual such as the Israelite men, or as many Native Americans, and
previous generations of Christians were, they are doomed to reap the consequences
of criminal carnal activity.
Very
few hours in the work week do men (fathers) ever spend time with their
children! They don’t play much with them or talk to them, or teach them the
Bible, or even discipline them for that matter! The male in today’s world has
been emasculated and are as knights without armor.
6. And
some children here really know how to manipulate the mother and get away with
what they want while the father is off working or in another world and he does
not even see how disrespectful, sneaky, and problematic his kids really are!
Children
need a father involved in their lives and they need a man to discipline and
control, but if they don’t get that correction early from their fathers, they
will get it later from the police as they go behind bars!
A
child that will not submit to a parent will certainly never submit to God!
Don’t think that just because you come to church and believe in God, and think
that because you are from a culture that believes in family values that it
can’t happen to you! Even good fathers sometimes have to watch their kids
become like the prodigal son when he demanded his share of the money and left
home.
7. Never
say, oh, my son is pain in the rear! Just correct them! The word makes it clear
that it is a curse to have the children dominating the parents. Is.3:12 (read)
12 As for my people,
children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they
which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Do
you realize how many young people have trouble with the law mostly because they
do not have a father involved to correct and love them? Not always is it the parents fault, some
children seem to be born tremendous in character, but I do know from observation
and experience that children who are left to their own devices will bring their
parents to shame.
Prov
29:15 (read) 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself
bringeth his mother to shame. It says mother there but it also applies to the
fathers who share the same home with the mothers! So what is a Christian
father? He is a man who sets the example!
8. Do
these things here on this list! A father…
1)
Loves and lays down his life for his family to meet their spiritual
and
physical needs, A man that is failing in being a spiritual leader is truly a
failure because his children will grow up ignorant of the word, morality, and
sin and will fall into the devil’s vices and traps or rapid destruction!
2)
He prays with is family and intimately communicates, he is not proud but he
listens to the needs of those in his care
3)
He teaches his wife and his children the Word of God. To teach doesn’t mean to
only pass along information; it means to teach by living as an example, and to
correct with love when it is necessary
One
more time we will repeat the verse we started off with, Deu. 11:19
Pray
for the men to love Jesus and be real fathers!
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