Embracing Fatherhood – June 21, 2020

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Preached by Pastor Kunle Oladebo

1 Corinthians 4:14 – 17

Embracing Fatherhood

Daystar Chapel, Fort McMurray

June 21, 2020.

Pastor Kunle Oladebo

1 Corinthians 4:14 – 17 

1. Introduction 
   • Fathers assume responsibility for their children 
   • Fathers should do things that the children should imitate “Fatherhood by example” 
   • Everyone needs a father
   • The best fatherhood is patterned on divine fatherhood
   • “A child is not likely to find a father in God, unless he finds something of God in his father” – Glenn Wheeler
   • Level of success can depend on fatherhood
2. Types of Fathers 
   • žBiological Father
   • žAdopted Father 
   • žFamily Father
   • Community Father
   • Spiritual Father
   • Heavenly Father
3. Biological Father 
   • A responsible father fulfills his role
   • žFatherhood means “alive and available” (MIA – Missing in action)
   • Provoke your father’s blessings
   • “meet my need with your meat and I will meet your future with my blessing” – PKO
4. Adopted Father 
   • Esther 2:7 (CEB) “Mordecai had been a father to Hadassah (that is, Esther), though she was really his cousin, because she had neither father nor mother…”
   • žWilliam Jefferson Blythe II became William Jefferson Clinton
5. Family Father 
   • Head of the family as father of the house. 
   • ž1 Peter 3:6 (AMP) “just as Sarah obeyed Abraham [following him and having regard for him as head of their house], calling him lord. And you have become her daughters if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear [that is, being respectful toward your husband but not giving in to intimidation, nor allowing yourself to be led into sin, nor to be harmed].”
   • Point 3
6. Community Father 
   • ž“It takes a village to raise a child”
   • Community elders are mentors & peace makers 
   • Lamentations 5:14 (CJB) “The old men have deserted the city gate, the young men have given up their music.” 
7. Spiritual Father 
   • žEphesians 6:1 (AMPC) “Children, obey your parents in the Lord [as His representatives], for this is just and right” 
   • 2 Kings 2:12 “And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof…”
8. Becoming like Your Heavenly Father 
   • Availability
   • Integrity
   • Sacrifice