Fathers Day SermonSermon preached at House of Praise Home ChurchKuils RiverTitle: In The Presence Of God Fathers day sermon 2009 Scripture reading: Genesis 2:7-9 (New International Version) 7 the LORD God formed the man [a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Fathers day sermon 2009 The Bible is very clearly saying that God formed a man. Never again did He create anybody else. Then the Bible says that the Lord God planted a garden in Eden. Eden is a place. We have to get the beginning right. God created a man, not a woman. Most of the troubles in the world happen because we get the beginning wrong. Whenever God is speaking and looking for
somebody to speak to, He’s looking for the man.
God created the man. That’s why the Bible says that
Fathers day sermon 2009 Whenever God want to do something in the earth, He’s going to look for that man He has created. God created man in such a form that Adam had everything in him. This was the first man ever. The Bible says that the Lord not only placed him in Eden and gave him the garden. Here’s the crux of the matter: God blessed Adam with His presence In other words, Adam was in Eden and he had fellowship with God. God established a garden and He placed this man in the garden. God blessed him with His presence day after day. In Hebrew the word ‘Eden’ has a few dots on it. In means ‘a spot’, an ’open door’. It says that God has placed Adam in a spot. In Eden. In the garden. Through that open door He could come and have fellowship with mankind. With Adam. The reason why the world is in turmoil today, is because of this one basic thing: man has lost the presence of God. We see it in our newspapers, it irks us. We almost want to do something about it. Whenever man is out of the presence of God, he commit the ugliest of things. He does not operate in the way the “Manufacturer” has designed him to. He’s operating out of what he was planned to do. Thus: He is not walking in his purpose. He has missed the presence of God. We see it all around us, all over the world. Fathers day sermon 2009
Fathers day sermon 2009
… It is because man is out of the presence of God. God has planned for Adam, and blessed him and showered him day after day with His presence. God is Spirit. The Bible says God came down every day and He had fellowship with Adam. If we read further on – when God was looking for them, He came in the cool of the day. Now that was not the only time when God came down. He had this open door where He could speak to man, where He could have fellowship with man. God created all the animals. The Bible specifically says that He brought them to Adam. Adam named them all. This means: The man God created – God created him with substance. Fathers day sermon 2009 Within mankind there is the ability to produce. This is what God is looking from man. He is always looking from man, that He has placed within the man. He wants nothing else! All he wants from you and I is that which He has placed within you and I. That is what He wants to talk about! I imagine when Adam named all the animals, the Lord would come and have fellowship with Adam. Most probably Adam would say one morning: You know Lord, I think this one gorilla is a bit out of sorts here… I think the trees are branching out a bit… Fathers day sermon 2009 Man is a cultivator. He should take care of the garden. Today he should not only take care of the garden, but also of his family. Man will always bring out the best in you. Their job is to bring out the best in their children, their families, their household. You can see this when you are at your work. You are always trying to bring out the best. You are cultivating, you are taking care. That is what God ordained us to be. Fathers day sermon 2009 I like what Billy Graham says: “A good father is one of the most unsung heroes, unpraised and unnoticed, yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. God intended for fathers to do more than just bring home the bacon. From a biblical standpoint, the father is to be a provider, protector, a priest, a guide, a teacher and a disciplinarian.” - I tend to agree with him. This is one of the greatest evangelists ever. What does “father” means? Father basically means to nourish, to support, or founder. We know that Father God was there in the beginning. Everything came through Him, Amen. Fathers day sermon 2009 That is what we ought to be. We ought to be a carbon copy of the Father in heaven in the earth today. Now speaking about the presence of God, I would like to add this: Adam had this presence. We must understand that because in the presence of God, he never has to sing a short chorus, a fast chorus… he was just in the presence of God. It’s like our kids here – they’re all around you, having fellowship. You must understand – there was no thing like church back then. God created this man and within this man Adam – out of him Adam had all the genes to produce. And he was going to produce… As the Bible says: The Lord took outof Adam. His wife came out of him We’re not putting the ladies down. We bless them and thank the Lord for them. The thing we have in the world is that the women push for equal rights. They don’t have to fight for that! Fathers day sermon 2009 God created us like that: equally. We should be a blessing to one another. Now they are “pushing it”. The people that are going that route, are forgetting the order. Women came from men. They were in them. Man has lost his place. He has no clue what God had created him for. Fathers day sermon 2009 You can go to any church – you’ll see more women that men. I just thank the Lord for House of Praise where the men and the women come to church! In the presence of God we have to live ourselves out. When we come into the presence of God, we need to be free. We need to go just beyond ourselves. We are in our Father’s presence… we should rock with the flock, jam with the lamb. Man has lost the presence of God. When men come into the church, they are stiff. You have to be like when your kids are with you in the house: running and bubbling, because He is Abba Father, He is God Almighty. And that is what’s wrong in the world. Men has lost their presence of God. Scripture reading: Colossians 1:15-23 (New International Version) The Supremacy of Christ Fathers day sermon 2009 15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Fathers day sermon 2009 We started out in Genesis, and then the Fall came. The Bible says God has reconciled everything in the earth and in heaven in Jesus Christ. Jew and Gentile. In other words – He has brought us back into the presence of God. We have all the reason to dance and to jive!! People are acting like they are acting, because they are out of the presence of God. fathers day sermon Fatherhood is God’s way of building and sustaining the human family, as a husband. The Bible says that we are the foundations of a house. Another word for husband is householder. It means he holds everything together. That is what a foundation does. The other thing about a foundation is that you don’t see it. In most families you won’t see the father operating and say “I did this or that for my kids”. No, you just see the family blossoming. The house is growing and doing well. Because the foundation is strong enough and it is keeping everything together. We need to put our foundation on the rock of Jesus Christ. How can we hold everything together if we are outside the presence of God? You cannot! One see people scraping, trying to make ends meet. They like what you have. They want what you and I have, but they are outside of the presence of God. It is because we are in the presence of God that we as fathers can keep it together. Fathers day sermon 2009 When the storms come, says Jesus, not if… the storms will come! When the storms come, the world system crash. Foundations are tumbling… because people are living outside the presence of God. Get in line with God’s plan for you, so you can live out what God has placed within you. There are great things that He has placed within you in order for you to lead and guide your family. We need to be protectors, as Billy Graham says. Fathers need to teach kids, especially boys to be a protector. To protect your family. God has built that within you already. That’s instinct. It’s in your ‘make-up’. Fathers day sermon 2009 The reason why wee see so many rape cases out in society, is because man is outside of the presence of God. That which he is supposed to protect, he now destroys. He’s out of his element. We need to teach the young men, that when you take out a lady, you need to protect her. Her virginity too. That they should not give in to their desires. But that they must live up to that which God has placed within them. The opposite is happening out in the world. Unless people come back into the presence of God and see really how God has fashioned and moulded the man, and what he ought to be, we’re fighting a losing battle. This is why we as the church must be role models, men. We need to stand up and be counted in the areas where we work. For too long good men has stayed silent. You cannot just focus on ‘me and my household’. We start out on that foundation, but when I move out of my house, whatever is visible, whatever I see, there I need to bring order. Why - because I have the presence of God. I walk in the presence of God and where I put my foot where I work, I need to bring that order. THE PRESENCE OF GOD BRINGS ORDER Fathers day sermon 2009 Am I my brother’s keeper? He might not know everything, but we know better. Because we know better, we need to discipline them. They will respect you later. We need to discipline inside, as well as outside our homes. The Bible says that the women folk have to honor their men. But the men have to give up their lives, as Christ gave up his life for the Church. Do you know what that means? We need to die for you! And all you ladies have to do, is to honor us. When we praise God, He inhabits our praises. When you tell your man how great he is, encourages him, thank him for what he does, you’re on the right track. If you bring him down, you’re bringing yourself down. Fathers day sermon 2009 Let’s round this off today… the reason why the ladies speak, is because the men are silent. It is your job first, man, to praise God. You have to lead your family and the society. Whoever is under your care, God has designed you to bring out the best in them. We need to have fellowship, have to interact with God to find wisdom to be able to produce. God made us that way. Amen. Fathers day sermon 2009 You can also study
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