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Thank you Dad

Thank you Dad. 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.

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Thank you Dad

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  1. Thank you Dad Fathers for the fatherless

  2. Leave it to Beaver • Gone!! The family of yesteryear is abnormal. • Qualifiers to be a father. • Fatherless raising fatherless • Where is my father?

  3. Sent fathers • Men who God sent to stand in. • Jim Sheridan, Steve Ervin, Gilbert Dougherty, Joe Flach, Mac Stone, each in their own time.

  4. 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 • discipline

  5. 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)

  6. 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.

  7. 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'? • (John 14:6-9)

  8. 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.

  9. 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 - 21

  10. 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 children

  11. 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.

  12. 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”

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