The Model Father

1. The Model Father Luke 15:12-32

2. Father’s Day Quotes Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver

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

4. Father’s Day Quotes Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.  Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound.  Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together.  Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.  ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby

5. Father’s Day Quotes My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."  "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply.  "We're raising boys."  ~Harmon Killebrew He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence BudingtonKelland

6. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. ~Proverbs 22:6 And you father, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord ~Ephesians 6:4

7. As one searches the pages of God’s Word for examples of Good fathers one comes up lacking for a good example. Many Godly men from Samuel to David failed to produce Godly children. This Father’s Day let’s look at the one father to whom we know can give us good and trustworthy guidance, Our Heavenly Father.

8. The Model Father • Our Father Receives the Repentant • Confession was necessary (1 John 1:9) • Reconciliation was immediate

9. The Model Father • Our Father Receives the Repentant • Our Father Uplifts the Lowly • Remembrance and Reprimand were unnecessary • Rejoicing and Restoration are inexplicable • 3 Truths about our Heavenly Father • Our Father in heaven doesn’t bring our sin back once we confess it. • If you have confessed your sin to the father forget about it because he already has. • Consequence may linger from sin, but the father has no need to reprimand the repentant.

10. The Model Father • Our Father Receives the Repentant • Our Father Uplifts the Lowly • Our Father Corrects the Wayward • Jealousy has no place in God’s Family • Unforgiveness has no place in God’s Family • Callousness has no place in God’s Family

11. The Model Father • Our Father Receives the Repentant • Our Father Uplifts the Lowly • Our Father Corrects the Wayward • Our Father Desires Closeness to His Children • Works alone do not bring closeness • “these many years I have been serving you” • Obedience alone does not bring closeness • “I never transgressed your commandments” • Brokeness of the heart brings closeness • “Father I have sinned”

12. The Model Father • Our Father Receives the Repentant • Our Father Uplifts the Lowly • Our Father Corrects the Wayward • Our Father Desires Closeness to His Children

13. The Model Father • Our Father Receives the Repentant • Our Father Uplifts the Lowly • Our Father Corrects the Wayward • Our Father Desires Closeness to His Children

14. “Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.” Luke 15:10 • Our Father in Heaven is waiting to receive you today in repentance, to lift you up. He wants to be close to you. Are you willing today to let go of your unrepentance and turn to him. You may have come here this morning running from God and trying to hide in your sins, but this morning he is telling you to stop running and repent and turn to Him. Stop fighting it, Stop resisting His love and turn your life to Him today. He wants to be close to you today.