BIG THOUGHT: Few people have a more profound impact on a person’s life than a father.
1. A Godly Father’s Foundation: with God.
a. A godly father is deeply in his relationship with God.
1 Samuel 13:14 (ESV) – But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after His own heart and appointed hi leader of His people, because you have not kept the LORD’s command.
Psalm 23:1a (ESV) – The LORD is my shepherd;
b. A godly father’s life is filled with and .
Psalm 63:1 (ESV) – “O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”
c. A godly father’s life demonstrates and .
Psalm 51:10-12 (ESV) – “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.”
2. A Godly Father still faces and their .
a. Our sins can deeply our families.
Deuteronomy 17:14, 17 (ESV) – When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”… He shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, not shall he acquire excessive silver and gold.”
b. Godly fathers must strive for and faithfulness.
c. is an essential aspect of fatherhood.
Proverbs 13:24 (ESV) – “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”
3. A Godly father and demonstrates .
2 Samuel 18:33 (ESV) – “The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, ‘O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!’”
a. Godly fathers love our children and just as God loves us.
b. Godly fathers for their children’s future, not just but also and emotionally.
c. A godly father’s goal: To our children to fulfill God’s purposes in their lives.
4. A Godly father’s greatest is an example of a life of .
a. A godly father on the faith.
1 Kings 2:1-4 (ESV) – When David’s time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and keeping His statutes, His commandments, His rules, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn, that the LORD may establish His word that He spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before Me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’”
b. A godly father by example.