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6/16/2012 recording date. audio/video is 7 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. Father’s Day Message This is Christina Farris coming live from Turtle30cshell wishing you a Happy Father’s Day. Father’s Day is special for we celebrate the life of our Dad as well as our Heavenly Father. Good Father’s are nurturer’s by trait. Yet Father’s can also be abusive and mean spirited which is never respect by their children. Our Heavenly Father is a Father of love. Everyone’s Dad can take a lesson in love for his family in scripture. Ephesians 5:25-6:4 KJV (25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (28) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. (29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: (30) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. (32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (33) Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. (1) Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. (2) Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) (3) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. (4) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. When I was a teenager my dad and I would spend many hours fishing. One of the last fishing trips we took, dad decide to get some cattails for mom’s flower display. Well the boat was close enough to the cattails to be cut, but only one minor problem when sitting in a little boat you have to be careful not to tip that boat over when leaning over the side. As the boat began to tip, I began to think the boat would flip. I keep saying Dad you going to flip the boat. Never had it happen before. We always came home high and dry. Except for that day. The boat pitched my Father right into the water. And fortunately he was a good swimmer. He came up out of the water and climbed back into the boat after making sure his wallet and Bible was still intact. That day left me with a memory I never forget. After all the years of fishing and some days catching and other days coming home empty handed, I finally had a whale of a story to tell. To this day, me and my father smile about that day. However he did bring home those cattails but no fish. Some days are like that out on the water in life. Sometimes you have a story to share and other times it just someone accidentally capsizing the boat in life. Our Heavenly Father desires to keep our boat afloat and often test us. The biggest test of mankind is when he put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden. Man made a choice. A choice to sin or not to sin. Man came along and cause the boat of life to be capsized to a place called earth. There the devil would do his best to trip all humanity. All of us falling short of the glory of God. Man and woman would become one flesh for the purpose of reproduction as well as unity within the marriage. Children would have attributes of both the Father and mother. Children being told to honor there Father and mother. As a child we do our best to obey our parents. Yet some circumstance alter our goaled in life. It is still sin. Children of God often disrespect Him without meaning too. Children of God often fail, but the mercy of God is ever so complete. My earthly Father not a perfect man, but a man of love tries his best to obey God and the law. The law is for all of us, our respect for God and our earthly Father is a requirement in life. However we often fail. Both God our Father and earthly Father’s correct us when we do wrong. Yet our earth Father can not prevent the judgment or invoke the mercy of God in our life. That is something we has individuals must do by calling on the name of Jesus and asking for forgiveness of our sin. Much like Mother’s day message this is about Father’s obeying the instructions of God to show mercy as our Heavenly Father shows mercy and grace. To raise their children with the word of God. To demonstrate the love of God and not to provoke their children to wrath/anger. God our Father loves us and desires us to live in obedience to Him. However earthly father’s are either good or bad. Each father being who they desire to be based on either scripture, law or illegal activity. A Father involved in sin is not a good Father. A father that makes a mistake is a good father, with faults, most people are raise with father’s with faults because they are human. However not everyone can understand a Heavenly Father because of an abusive Fathers, it does not change the fact our Heavenly Father loves us. He loves us as His own. He does always stop bad things from happening because it is a part of life, however He does enable us to overcome upon faith. Faith in Jesus causes us to be adopted by our Heavenly Father. Until we accept Christ as Lord, we are children of unrighteousness meaning no faith. That is why it important to teach our children about who God is. To teach them the love of God and His mercy. If you do not teach them to follow Jesus, the world will teach your children to follow the devil. To hate, to do evil, to lust after money and more. Dear Heavenly Father may your mercy and grace be beyond measure upon our earthly Fathers, we ask your protection on children that do and do not know you. May your grace and mercy be found when the law of our land does not intercede in abuse. Help us to protect the family unit. In Jesus precious name, Amen. |