Father's Day 2023
Sunday Father's Day Sermon
We were so honored to be in the House of the Lord on Sunday, Father’s Day with all our family and friends with us. Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers! We hope you a blessed day. We were so honored to have the group Family Ties and the Ladies Choir (most of the ladies in attendance sings in honor of Father’s Day) came up to sing.
I was honored yesterday and thankful for my dad…the way he raised me to know the Lord, and what he taught me. My dad was a hard worker and always tried to provide for the family. He is such an inspiration to me. Do you love your dads and your parents today? Aren’t you thankful? The bible teaches us if you want to live a long life and see good days: honor your father and mother. I believe in that.
DADS ON EARTH MAY CORRECT CHILDREN FOR THEIR OWN PLEASURE
There are in our time as fathers, we may have moments of being a little selfish, such as when we tell our children, “Sit down over there, I want to watch TV”. etc. We correct our children as fathers for our own pleasure. God never does that. Each time God chastens us, it is for our own good. He loves us that much that he would chasten us when we need it. He helps us when we are in trouble.
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
I was thinking about the children of Israel…God’s elect, the one he chose in the beginning of time to be his chosen few. They got into a situation with Pharaoh. Most of us have heard about Moses and how his mother took him as a child and hid him in the flags of the river so he wouldn’t be destroyed. Pharaoh’s daughter found him and took him to raise him in the house of Pharaoh. When Moses was grown, he chose to suffer with the people of God rather than have the pleasures of sin for a season.
God had a plan whether you realize it or not. Nothing catches God by surprise. Even the things in our life, the things we suffer or go through, God already knew it.
NOTHING CATCHES GOD BY SURPRISE
When the children of Israel were put in Egypt’s bondage. God told Moses to go and tell Pharaoh, “Let my children go”. And he said, “He won’t because I am going to harden his heart.”
God told Moses all that. He let him know upfront there was a purpose behind what he was doing. When God was ready to get the children of Egypt bondage, they were headed straight for a wilderness. And, God knew that from the beginning. God told Moses to go and talk to Pharaoh. He told Moses to tell him, “Let my people go so they can go and serve me in the wilderness”.
What about that? Now, hind sight is 20/20. We can read in the bible all the things that went on in the wilderness but that didn’t catch God by surprise. He knew it before they ever got there. But yet he still had a plan for them to go and be in the wilderness for 40 years. But he always gave them everything they needed.
I think about how the children of Israel were there in the wilderness, and they needed food to eat. They got angry with Moses and said, “Things were better for us in Egypt. And you brought us out here to die. They started chiding with Moses. They didn’t have any water …they didn’t have anything to eat.
GOD SUPPLIED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WITH THEIR NEEDS
Moses went and talked to God. God loved his children so much that he sent “man’-na” from the sea...the quail from the sea. He told Moses at one point to strike the rock with the rod, and the water would come forth. The children of Israel would have something to drink.
In your life, it doesn’t matter what you are going through. I can say that because I have seen the experience of a loved one with cancer. I know what that is like. I have seen the experience with those laying on their death bed about ready to cross over and all they want to know is if their hearts are right with God. Are we ready today…are we ready? God wants you to be free. It doesn’t matter what is in your life…what you are going through. Whom the Son hath made free is free indeed.
THERE IS FREEDOM IN THE LORD
There is freedom! I looked at the flags on the rostrum and what they stand for. I think they are beautiful there! I talked about the folks that fought and died and gave their lives for the red, white and blue. I honor them today as well.
Father's Day in Heaven
How many fathers left this country to go and fight in a foreign country never to come home to their children. How many people do we have to honor today? Lord, we thank you.
But it is not going to catch God by surprise. God knows what he is doing, and he knows what is going on. Our deal is we have to be in the will of the Lord. We have to be willing to do his will.
1 Peter 2:21, For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 WHO DID NO SIN, NEITHER WAS GUILE FOUND IN HIS MOUTH: KJV
Our job today is to live for Jesus Christ…to know the Lord. I hope the Lord will bless you. I hope something has been said to encourage you, and help you feel like traveling on.
WHAT ARE YOUR NEEDS?
What is your situation today…what are your needs? Do you let it be known to the Lord? Do you go to him and talk to him and tell him what your needs are? Have you been on your knees this morning talking to the Lord telling him what you have need of? There is nobody else that can give you what he can give you. There is no salvation in any other than what the Lord can do for you.
GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD.
He is an awesome God, and he is a loving Father. He loved us as his children so much that he was willing to give up his Son, Jesus Christ to come here and die in a cold-hearted world. He was hung on a cross, was spat on, was mocked, tied to a whipping post and was beaten unrecognizable.
Jesus didn’t need that for himself. I know once he got here, the only way he was to get back was through his own blood…I get that. But before he came here, he didn’t need that. He had what he needed. He was with his Father. He was in that heavenly home.
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