Father's Day Sermon, June 2014. Where are the biblical examples of great fathers? Audio available at https://soundcloud.com/larry-nardi/ernie-p-fatherhood-of-god-6-15-14?in=larry-nardi/sets/guest-speakers-sermons

1. THE FATHER’S GLORY
Ernie Prabhakar
June 15, 2014KingsWay Community Church

2. FATHERHOOD

3. GLORY
A distinguished quality or
asset
“Best Attributes”
That secures praise or
renown
“Celebrated”

7. GOD HIMSELF
Described as Father
“Our Father who art in heaven…”
“The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”
Our Model of Fatherhood
The one good father in the Bible
The only truly good father

8. THE STANDARD
What we expect of our “Fathers”
And often must forgive
How we “Father” others
Family
Church
Work

9. 1. AFFIRM

10. Matthew 3:16-17 (NCV)
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he came up
out of the water. Then heaven opened, and
he saw God’s Spirit coming down on him
like a dove. And a voice from heaven said,
“This is my Son, whom I love, and I am
very pleased with him.”

14. GOD
Easy to Please
Impossible to Satisfy

15. 2. MODEL

16. John 5:19-20 (NCV)
But Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, the Son
can do nothing alone. The Son does only
what he sees the Father doing, because the
Son does whatever the Father does. The
Father loves the Son and shows the Son all
the things he himself does. But the Father
will show the Son even greater things than
this so that you can all be amazed.”

19. 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NCV)
But he said to me, “My grace is enough for
you. When you are weak, my power is made
perfect in you.” So I am very happy to brag
about my weaknesses. Then Christ’s
power can live in me.

20. 3. PROVISION

21. Luke 11:9-13 (NCV)
So I tell you, ask, and God will give to you.
Search, and you will find. Knock, and the
door will open for you. Yes, everyone who
asks will receive. The one who searches will
find. And everyone who knocks will have the
door opened.

22. If your children ask for a fish, which of you
would give them a snake instead? Or, if your
children ask for an egg, would you give them
a scorpion? Even though you are bad, you
know how to give good things to your
children. How much more your heavenly
Father will give the Holy Spirit to those
who ask him!”

23. GOD GIVES US GOOD
THINGS

24. John 6:32-40 (NCV)
Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, it was not
Moses who gave you bread from heaven; it
is my Father who is giving you the true
bread from heaven. God’s bread is the One
who comes down from heaven and gives life
to the world.”
The people said, “Sir, give us this bread
always.”

25. Then Jesus said, “I am the bread that gives
life. Whoever comes to me will never be
hungry, and whoever believes in me will
never be thirsty. But as I told you before,
you have seen me and still don’t believe.
The Father gives me the people who are
mine. Every one of them will come to me,
and I will always accept them.

26. GOD GIVES US
PEOPLE

27. I came down from heaven to do what God
wants me to do, not what I want to do.
Here is what the One who sent me wants
me to do: I must not lose even one whom
God gave me, but I must raise them all on
the last day. Those who see the Son and
believe in him have eternal life, and I will
raise them on the last day. This is what my
Father wants.”

28. GOD GIVES US
WORK

31. “Have you not seen?
All your entreaties have been
Granted in what He ordaineth”
– Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

32. 4. SEND

33. John 3:16-17 (NCV)
“God loved the world so much that he gave
his one and only Son so that whoever
believes in him may not be lost, but have
eternal life. God did not send his Son into
the world to judge the world guilty, but to
save the world through him.”

34. CHILDREN
In the East
Children are kept.
In the West
Children are released.
In Heaven
God’s son was sent.

37. Colossians 1:24-25 (NLT)
I am glad when I suffer for you in my body,
for I am participating in the sufferings of
Christ that continue for his body, the
church. God has given me the
responsibility of serving his church by
proclaiming his entire message to you.

38. OUR FATHER
Affirms
Models
Provides
Sends

39. 1 Peter 1:13-17 (NCV)
So prepare your minds for service and have
self-control. All your hope should be for the
gift of grace that will be yours when Jesus
Christ is shown to you. Now that you are
obedient children of God do not live as you
did in the past. You did not understand, so
you did the evil things you wanted.

40. But be holy in all you do, just as God, the
One who called you, is holy. It is written in
the Scriptures: “You must be holy,
because I am holy.”
You pray to God and call him Father, and
he judges each person’s work equally. So
while you are here on earth, you should live
with respect for God.

41. HOLINESS
I fear I make too many mistakes to
be a good father.
I hope I make enough mistakes to
become a great father.

42. RESPONSE