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Turning the Hearts of the Fathers

Turning the Hearts of the Fathers. A survey of biblical history. Jesus Modeled the Father and Son Relationship.

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Turning the Hearts of the Fathers

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  1. Turning the Hearts of the Fathers A survey of biblical history.

  2. Jesus Modeled the Father and Son Relationship • Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, Verily, I say unto you, “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son, likewise. • For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth….” • (John 5:19-20)

  3. John 17: A Son’s Tender Request • V1, “Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:” • V5, “And now, O Father…” • V11, “Holy Father…” • V21, “…as thou, Father, art in me…” • V24, “Father…” • V25, “O righteous Father…”

  4. Matthew 6: Our Father has time to hear our requests • “Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” • (V9)

  5. Luke 2 Jesus shared His Father’s vision for saving people. • V 49, “Did you not know that I must be about my Father’s business?”

  6. The Father’s Public Praise of His Son • “This is my beloved son, in Whom I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:17) • “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.” (Matthew 17:5)

  7. Historic Context of schooling during the time of Jesus • History records that the idea of a Hebrew public school system was first formally promoted by Shimon ben Shetah around 37 BC, less than one generation before Jesus was born. • We can know for certain that Jesus was Home Educated, not educated in one of those schools (From Nazareth, the carpenter’s son).

  8. Start of Hebrew Public Schools • “Prior to that time, from Ezra [445 B.C.] to the Hasmonian period [142 BC-37 BC], a father taught his son the covenant law, for that act of teaching was itself a covenant stipulation: “And you shall impress them upon your children.” Now the Pharisees, controlling as they did the internal affairs of the land, created a system of public schools. “All children must go to school,” stipulated Shimon ben Shetah. A later Pharisee, Joshua ben Gamala, spelled out this general rule by specifying that each district and each town should have a free school for children. The covenat and its oral traditions could be transmitted most effectively only in schools .” (Emphasis added) • ChiamPotak, Wanderings: ChiamPotak’s History of the Jews.

  9. Dark days for Father/Son relationships before Jesus Came. • The Jewish people knew it was their Covenant Responsibility to nurture a close relationship with their children and to personally teach them the Scriptures and the power of God. • During that time though, they had delegated that responsibility to the “professionals.”

  10. The Prophet’s Final Warning • The Last word from the prophets, of old was given by Malachi: • “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: • And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Malachi 4:5,6)

  11. John the Baptist’s Ministry • Thus, John was sent to “turn the hearts of the fathers to their children.” • The Angel said, “And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the Just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” (Luke 1:17).

  12. A father’s instructions: “My Son” • Proverbs chapters 1-7 “My son” 15 times • Proverbs chapter 23: My son, 3 times • Proverbs chapter 24: Myson 2 times • Proverbs chapter 31: My son 1 time • Holding my grandson, Ryley, “My son.”

  13. Deuteronomy 6:4-7 • 4Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.5Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. • This verse describes a relationship—Discipleship

  14. Abraham/Isaac…the Ancient Model • Genesis 21:8 “And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.”

  15. Because Abraham was FaithfulGod was able to use him. • “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.” (Genesis 18:19) • Abraham was “The Father” for thousands of years for God’s people.

  16. Isaac Shared His Father’s FaithGenesis 22:6-8 • 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. • 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? • 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

  17. In the Beginning…Training and Relationships • Did the Creator want men and women to remain ignorant of the knowledge of good and evil or was there some other reason why He forbid them to eat of it? • Clue: “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.”

  18. The Goal of History - RelationshipRevelation 21 • As in the past, so in the future: • Relationship is the key: God wants to dwell with His people. • In the Heavenly City, Jerusalem, brought down from Heaven, The Heavenly Father and the Son, will finally dwell with their people: • V 22,23 “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it…for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” • The Father and the Son dwelling with their people forever—the Final Feast.

  19. Application • If a father does not care about his relationship with his son, he does not understand his role as a father which is to draw his children to the Heavenly Father. • If a father makes no time to develop his relationship with his children, he does not understand how to be godly. • If a father is cold and harsh towards his children, he does not know how to be like the Heavenly Father.

  20. Anger and coldness destroy relationships. • “And you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4)

  21. My Hall of Shame (not fame)God’s Grace • My experience with my oldest son…A tender moment…How He came to Christ. • Repentance and forgiveness is the walk of a father: • He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:8) • One step at a time. What direction are you going?

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