Embracing Fatherhood – June 21, 2020
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
- 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
- Types of Fathers
- Biological Father
- Adopted Father
- Family Father
- Community Father
- Spiritual Father
- Heavenly Father
- Biological Father
- A responsible father fulfills his role
- Fatherhood 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
- 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…”
- William Jefferson Blythe II became William Jefferson Clinton
- Family Father
- Head of the family as father of the house.
- 1 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
- Community Father
- “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.”
- Spiritual Father
- Ephesians 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…”
- Becoming like Your Heavenly Father
- Availability
- Integrity
- Sacrifice
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