JULY 2015

E-Sermon
THE CHURCH NEEDS FATHERS!
Joseph the Bible says was a father to
Pharoah (Genesis 45:8)
Fathers as we know play a vital role in
families as well as in our communities. Just
because you are an absentee father as a
result of divorce does not mean you cannot
be a father to your children. Being a father
is NOT limited to only your biological
children. My focus in writing this is to talk
about fathers in the Body of Christ.
An indication that fathering was a problem
goes way back to Pauls comment in
scripture:
1 Corinthians 4:15 - For though ye have
ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have
ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I
have begotten you through the gospel.
Too many in the Church want to be
teachers! Everyone feels that they are in a
position to tell others how to live, how to
pray, how to walk in faith, how to become
prosperous etc.
Its not that a teacher cannot be a father,
but there seems to be a big divide between
the two.
In the natural you know that your biological
children are prepared by society to move
away from the parents as they get older
and become self sufficient.
Well, this has become a problem within the
Church in that believers feel that as they
get more knowledgable about the word that
they dont need any one else to tell them
what and how to do things according to the
word.
Some children think they know better than
the parents and now want to tell them
things. Fathering in the Church perhaps
needs a fresh understanding and application
so that we can be better kingdom people.

Can you imagine that! Being a father in

the kingdom of God is NOT related to
age!!
Job played a fatherly role to the poor
(Job 29:16)
Eliakim was a father to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem and the house of Judah
(Isaiah 22:20-21)
The Apostle Paul refered to Timothy as
his child or son (1 Corinthians 4:17;
1Timothy 1:2,18)
I am Not talking about spiritual
fathers. The Bible does NOT say that
we must be spiritual fathers! Some
pastors or people in ministry called
someone their spiritual father, but it is
only because that man opens doors for
them! That spiritual father hardly sees
them except when they in need. Some
men become spiritual fathers only
because
that
son/daughter
sows
financially into their life!
Real fathers speak the truth to their
children because they want them to
grow up and be successful! Spiritual
fathers pamper the sons, too scared to
rectify their wrongs so as not to offend.
But fathers also need to know how to
be a son! I am a father over our church
members, but when I sit under Pastor
Andy Lamb (my father), I am a son
listening to instruction and rebuke. A
teacher can teach you how to pray but
never do so themselves. A father
teaches his child to pray and has to
show them how . Therefore a father is
accountable to the sons/daughters
Pastor Tony Sands
Mobile: 072 5577 437

(this is a short version of sermon)