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Now enjoy this message. You know, now you understand me
as a pastor that I typically am not moved by, you know, US
holidays. So, you know, we don't
technically have to minister on the subject of a holiday.
We're not bound by those traditions.
And so sometimes if we're in a series, we just won't drive on.
We even do this at Christmas. We'll do this all during, you
know, the world's Easter holiday.
We call it Resurrection Sunday. You know, we're not subject to
those things. We just want to do what the
father says. Obviously, periodically through
the years, we do take time to minister along subjects.
And it's traditionally true that on Mother's Day we tend to talk
to mothers. On Father's Day we tend to talk
to fathers. We have even switched it up that
I've done Mother's Day. So from a from a man
perspective, talk to mothers and then my wife has ministered on
Father's Day from a female perspective to speak to fathers.
I think it's all good, but you know what I've never done?
I've never ministered on Father's Day where we just
focused on our Father ever. So we're going to do that today
because it's Father's Day. And if you're born of the
Spirit, if you've made Jesus the Lord of your life, then we need
to talk about our daddy because he's the one worthy.
That testimony that we just heard was so impactful that
Rachel just gave us because you know, Rachel represents many
that have been disappointed by a natural father.
And you understand this, let me just say it this way.
God says in His Scripture, God is not a man that He should lie.
So first of all, you cannot compare Father God with any
natural man, even the ones that are modeling it the best they
can. At the end of the day, they'll
still not measure up to your Father in heaven, period.
And as much as men should aspire and should model their Heavenly
Father, and women should aspire and model their Heavenly Father,
we still do not get it completely right.
And again, if you look to a human to try to see God, only
then you're going to get disappointed because eventually
humans tend to fail somewhere. But if you look at the
Scripture, then you see a Father that's without failure, perfect
in every way. Are you hearing me?
He's perfect in every way. And as a result of that, we
should just look at Scripture to remind ourselves about a Father
that is extremely deserving because many of us have no idea
of what he's done to be able to have you back in the family.
We have taken it for granted too many times.
We do not see things a lot of times because we're so absorbed
in our own sight that we do not see the working of our Heavenly
Father to draw us, to come to us, to have us back into the
family. And if we don't watch out, we'll
miss things. Amen.
So I want to say a few things concerning the attributes of our
Father. This is just kind of set stage a
little bit. Although I will not exhaust
this. There are so many other things,
things that we could continue to bring into light, and for the
sake of time, I'm obviously not going to be able to do all of
them, but I want to show a few things from Scripture that our
Heavenly Father does for us because He's just that awesome.
Amen. And you understand because Adam
fell from dominion, because Adam cut off the relationship with
God, and we were all born into sin and we have rebelled.
We've all been rebellious, I said.
We've all been rebellious, that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died in obedience to the Father.
Jesus said, I'm here because Dad sent me.
Are you hearing me? Dad so much wanted to re engage
humans, humanity, mankind that he said, Son, you're the only
one who can get them back in the family.
So I'm going to send you because I want them back in.
I want to give them the pathway to come back to me as their
father and to be back in the place that I originally designed
this part of my creation. Amen.
So the first thing we want to look at is that our father is a
rewarder. He is a rewarder.
It's an amazing thing. And again I'm not going to go
through multiple scriptures. I'm just going to hit a few
things because there's so much that we could go.
I mean, we could technically if I was a teacher, I could just
take one topic or one of these examples and preach it all day.
But I'm not here to do a 12 week series on this.
I'm here to give you an overview so that you yourself can get
into scripture and begin to look.
And I'm going to tell you right now, you're going to be glad
you're at Anchor Fate Church because the only thing that's
going to be released of this service is our podcast because
we are traveling to summer camp. We have no cameras in here.
Who's here is getting it? Amen.
So it's not going to be released other than on audio, but in
Matthew 66 it says this. But you, when you pray, go into
your room and when you shut your door, pray to your Father who is
in the secret place, and your Father who sees in secret will
what? Reward you openly.
He is a rewarder. In fact, Hebrews tells us that
he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
You have to believe that He is and that He's a rewarder.
So you understand our Father is a rewarder.
You, our Father's not stingy. Our Father's not trying to keep
things from Our Father is wanting to engage in a
conversation with us because he has so many things stored up for
us that He wants to release to us.
He is a rewarder. You could not have a father
greater than Father God who owns the planet.
And he is a rewarder. You understand He wants to give,
it's his nature. He loves to give.
He loves to lavish gifts on his children.
He is a rewarder. Your Father loves to reward you.
Amen. Another thing that our Father is
in Luke chapter 6 verse 36, He is merciful.
I said he's merciful. He's a merciful.
Father says therefore be merciful, just as your father is
merciful. Aren't you glad he's merciful?
He's been merciful to us. Amen.
When we got out of line, did some things we shouldn't have
done or we were living a particular way that we were
deserving to be eternally separated from him, but yet he's
merciful. He's really you understand, does
God keep his word? Yes, but he's merciful.
He has he has accomplished things through his word so that
when you are in situations that his word would rightly condemn
you or judge you, if you and act the word that he has that will
allow you to get up underneath his mercy, then he's merciful.
I said he's merciful and because he's merciful, it goes to the
next point that we can talk about our Father.
He's forgiving. In Matthew 614, he says if you
forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you man. He is quick to forgive.
In fact, first John tells us that if we confess our sins,
He's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and
cleanse us from all unrighteous. In fact, our Father removes our
sin as far as the East is from the West.
These are some awesome attributes.
What's super cool today is because we have no cameras, I
can go anywhere. So is he is a forgiving Father?
I mean he is so quick to forgive.
I mean He is not trying to hold on to your junk.
In essence, He is always trying to empower you with His Word
that allows you to walk into His mercy, be able to receive His
forgiveness, and then He can reward you as His child.
I mean, our God, our Father is so amazing.
I mean, He is always working it out for our benefit.
He's always working overtime for our benefit.
He wants you to be everything that He's always endeavored you
to be. He's not trying to withhold any
good thing from you, period. So again, you can't look at
natural fathers, you know, who would hold things out and pull
things or say they would do things and didn't do things.
Our Father's not that way. Our Father in heaven is loving,
caring, kind, generous. He's amazing and there's none
like him, I said. There's none like him.
And many people need to go to the Word to discover their
Father and quit trying to view their Father through their
natural Father. Are you hearing me through their
natural father? You know, for me and my
particular natural father, I didn't, you know, in one sense
think a whole lot about him. Because again, when you are
raised a certain way, you're not in other people's households.
And when you're not in other people's households, then the
reality is, is you tend to think, well, this must be normal
when you don't have anything else to compare to, right?
At the end of the day, sometimes it just seems to be normal.
And then you pick up behaviors and actions and things that are
modeling a natural father because they modeled them in
front of you. But when you get into scripture,
you'll begin to discover how well your parents did.
Now again, do not utilize this scripture in error.
Honor your mother and father well.
Are you honoring your Heavenly Father?
Because many will not honor their Heavenly Father at it at
the expense of of wrongly honoring their mother and father
in a way that's not actually honoring at all.
Because a parent that would keep their children from the Heavenly
Father is not honorable. Now, that doesn't mean you still
can't be nice. That doesn't mean you still
can't bless them because you understand, even the Bible has
provision that you bless your enemy.
And I'm just going to be honest with you.
For some of us, our parents, not me specifically, but our parents
can be actually our enemy in relationship to they try to keep
you from the Heavenly Father and the Bible's like, you know, go
ahead and bless your enemy because when you do this, even
though they're not deserving, you begin to show the traits of
your heavenly Father, which is greater than what we see in the
natural. Now, when I say this, my natural
father, in one sense, you know, I didn't think he was a bad dad
growing up, to be honest with you.
I mean, if I was looking at it from the surface, he provided
for us. He owned his own painting
company. There was always provision.
We live well. By no means were we wealthy.
But you know what? I didn't know the difference
between wealth or poverty, to be honest with you.
I had everything taken care of. I didn't consider myself
impoverished. I didn't consider myself, you
know, extremely wealthy. I mean, whatever need to take
place, it happened. My dad was always around.
He was always around. He would show up now when I was
younger, he didn't show up as often till later in the evening
because he had a tradition that when he got off at work at 3:30,
he would go to the bar and he would drink and he wouldn't show
up till later. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
Now when he lived in one place, he would usually bring all the
guys to the house and they would drink in the barn.
Then we moved into a smaller community where we lived in the
neighborhood and he wasn't bringing people out.
There was further away from work so he would stay in before he'd
come home because he was honestly just a selfish guy.
He was living life for him. Now, was he doing what he needed
to do for his family? Based upon what he knows, I
should provide, but outside of that, that's about it.
He did take me to work with him on Saturdays.
He loved me based upon what he knew, and I would go work and I
learned to trade as a result of that.
Those were awesome times to me, but I did not realize my dad
never appointed me to my Heavenly Father.
Not once. My mom did that.
My father did not do that there. I remember many times that it
would be late. My mom wanted him to come home.
Me, I didn't think nothing about it, but she would say, Earl
Wayne, will you call down to Larry's beverage and see if your
dad's left yet? The reason she would have me
call is because she had called enough herself.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So I would get on the phone and
ask if he was there. We didn't have cell phones back
then, people, OK. And so I would be called and
basically she would use me to try to get my dad to come home.
Now, for me, I didn't think it was a big deal.
I didn't think about that. But now as a believer in looking
back, I'm like, man, that's pretty tough that my dad didn't
care enough and was modeling God enough to want to come home and
invest in US. Now, my dad did some things with
me in sports, you know, he did some things with our team.
But as I got into high school, he never came to a meet.
He was obviously busy. My mom never did that either,
you know, But you know, to me it was just normal.
I look at some of y'all's parents and y'all are everywhere
that your kids are. And my, my parents didn't do
that. But you know what my father
said? He'll never leave me nor forsake
me in the word. And I, he's with me ever
present. I begin to realize when I put my
natural father up to my Heavenly Father, he was quite miserable.
And that's not a lack of honor, it's just he was not living up
to it because he was not born again.
He was not following God, He was following himself.
But yet I do not hate my father, nor do I hate God because I
allow God to tell me who he was himself, because my natural
father was not a candidate to introduce me to my Heavenly
Father. Are you hearing me?
So I don't care where it is. This is the thing about God.
You could be here today and your Mama didn't introduce you to
your Heavenly Father. Your Father didn't introduce you
to your Heavenly Father, none of your family.
But all of a sudden you're here and we are introducing you to
him. And you should begin to look at
Him for who He is and not for how you were raised.
Because here's the thing about our Heavenly Father, He will
take you out of your family tree.
When I realized that I'm like this is amazing that what was in
my natural family tree wasn't subject to me the minute I got
in Christ. That my heavenly Father had the
ability to remove me from a natural family tree, place me
into a spiritual family tree that now has the effects in my
natural body. Where in my natural family tree
I may be subject to sickness, disease called a hereditary.
But when I got over into the Kingdom, my Heavenly Father
threw me into a different one. That the spiritual family now
effects my natural body and I'm no longer subject to it because
my Heavenly Father is that good. And he's not only a dad, but
he's my healer as well. Wow, how amazing, I said.
How amazing. So he's a rewarder, He's
merciful, he's forgiving. You know what else he is?
He provides an anointing. And this is just something
that's big picture. I'll have to break it down a
little bit, but in Luke 2449, look what it says here.
Jesus says, behold, I send the promise of my who's our father
upon you, but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are
endued from with power from Ohio.
So our father gives us power. We say an anointing, but it's a
power. OK.
And in that power, what does it do?
It gives us a connection to the home country.
It gives us a language of the home country.
It gives us access to the gifts of his spirit.
It allows us to rise to another level of, of spiritual insight
or, or, or access. We could say, you understand
what I'm saying. I mean, it is so much that our
Father does again as a reward and he's like, listen, I'm going
to equip you and empower you with my own spirit that has
never lost a conflict. My spirit's never lost a
conflict. So again, when he says, when
Jesus said, now listen, I'll never leave you nor forsake you.
Our Father never is not leaving us as an orphan.
In essence, he's saying, listen, I'm not asking you to accept
Jesus as your Lord so that you know where you're going to go
when you die. No, I'm going to empower you
while you're down on the planet. I'm going to put an A King's
anointing on you. I'm going to give you my
authority. I'm going to give you my power.
I'm going to give you access into my spirit.
I'm going to cause you to be able to rise above all things.
I'm going to allow you to represent me while you're in the
planet. What an awesome dad.
Our father's not. I mean, if it was so bad for
you, our dad would snatch you out the minute you became born
again. But our dad is so awesome.
He's like, I'm going to put me in you.
I'm going to put me in you. In fact, we know the Scripture
says greater is he who is in than he.
You understand when you became a child of our heavenly Father, he
gave you a force that conquers the devil.
So you understand, our Father in heaven is not wringing his hands
going, Oh my God, what are we going to do with my child down
there? In essence, he's saying Jesus,
let tell the Holy Ghost to let them know who they are, that
I've empowered them, I've anointed them, I've given them
the greater one. They are no longer slaves to
that lifestyle anymore. I've caused them to rise above
this thing. I have given them my Kingdom.
Wow. We tend to treat our Father like
it's a one day event instead of he's right here talking to me
every day, spending time with me, cares about me and has given
me an anointing. You know what else he does?
He's a provider. He man, he's full of provision.
We see this in Matthew 6. You know verse 31.
I mean your dad provides everything.
The problem is we don't know how to go about getting his
provision. That's the only reason why we
failed to see his provision. It says it's therefore do not
what do not worry saying what will we eat, what will we drink
or what we wear and that says you don't worry about the cares
of life. So if you wake up and go man,
what are we going to do? How are we going to that's not
how you function towards your heavenly Father.
Your father says don't worry like your natural parents
stressing fretting about everything how they going to
come up. I he said I have AI don't have a
care in the world. You understand I got it all
planned out for you. All I need you to do is the next
verse. Which would be verse 33.
We'll skip that, but let's go on.
For after all these things, the Gentiles seek for your what?
Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
So you understand. It's not like the Lord doesn't
know what you need. Your daddy already knows what
you need even before you ask. But verse 33, but seek first the
Kingdom of God, not second, not last.
You know how it is in the natural.
A lot of times we as children, we go to our parents last.
It's like our last option, you understand?
And that may be fine in the natural, but when it comes to
our heavenly Father, he's not laugh, He's not saying, well, I
want you to figure it out. No, he wants you to come to him.
He wants you to seek him because he's like, I know how to
accomplish this. I'm going to let you
participate, but I'm going to speak to you on what to do and
when you do it. Know this Dad will always bring
that to pass in your life. Whatever I tell you, Dad's going
to do whatever I tell you. And you understand, we've been
conditioned so much in the natural by our parents and
natural fathers that they will promise us things and then later
on give us an excuse of why they cannot accomplish it.
But this does not happen with the Father in heaven.
The minute the Father says it's this way, the only reason you do
not get it is because you quit believing.
You abandoned your faith. You focus on the wrong thing
instead of keeping your heart set on your daddy.
Because your Daddy has never failed to accomplish what He
says. Never.
But we are to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness,
and all these things will be what added to you.
That's why Luke chapter 12 verse 32 says it this way.
Do not fear little flock for your father, for your Father,
for your Father's good pleasure. For it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom, Hallelujah.
And that is not when you go to heaven.
Kingdom is not heaven. I said Kingdom is not heaven.
Kingdom is right here on the
earth. It's the government influence of
God. It's the King's dominion and it
functions right here in the earth.
Why? Because Psalms tells us 24/7 the
earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
He owns the earth. The earth is the Lord's.
He's never lost planet earth. The systems are different
because the Adam who had dominion according to Genesis
126 of the earth gave it over to the devil when he ate the fruit
in the garden he was commanded not to eat.
Jesus Christ has come as the last Adam to take back what the
devil received from the first Adam, and now he's distributing
it to us. And your Father has chosen
gladly to give you his Kingdom while you remain in the planet.
How do we know this is true? We'll look at Matthew chapter 6,
verse 9. As they're asking him about
prayer. He says this.
Our Father, Whose father? Whose father?
It's our father.
It's not Jesus's fault. It's your daddy, our Father.
Where is he? That's where he currently is
residing. Holy or hallowed be your name.
Now look what it says next. Your Kingdom your will be on as
it is. So Kingdom cannot be heaven
because Kingdom is separated from heaven.
Here your Kingdom come where on the earth and in heaven.
So Kingdom can function in both earth realm and heaven realm.
So the problem is religion has taught Saints that Kingdom is
heaven, but Kingdom is not heaven.
Kingdom can function right here on the earth.
Do you understand? Jesus is the king now.
He's not waiting to get a throne.
He's on the throne. Oh, you're the one.
He's not waiting to get a throne.
He's on the throne. He is seated at the right hand
of the Father. He has conquered death, hell in
the grave. The enemy is under his feet.
And Jesus says, listen, I want the Kingdom to manifest on this
earth just like it does in heaven.
Because in heaven when rebellion came, it was kicked out.
Which means you have authority to get rid of all rebellion
associated with your life. Oh my goodness, verse 11 says,
give us this day Our Daily Bread and forgive us of our debts as
we forgive our debtors and do not lead us into temptation, but
deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the
power and the glory. What?
Forever? Amen.
His Kingdom is forever. His Kingdom is forever.
And are we in his Kingdom now? We're in his Kingdom now.
Our dad is the king of the Kingdom that will globally take
over the planet. It's in the earth right now, and
now that it's in, it cannot get out.
No matter what weapon the devil tries to form to get rid of
God's Kingdom influence in the earth, they will all fail.
They will never be able to take the Kingdom out.
I said they'll never be able to take the Kingdom out, for the
Bible tells us that a child will be born, a son will be given,
and the government shall rest on his shoulders.
Daniel said there's going to be a rock made without hands.
Who is that rock? What's his name?
He is the chief cornerstone, and it will crush every other
government, and it will grow to a mountain and fill the whole
earth. Once it's in, and it's in now,
it cannot be removed, cannot be removed.
It is not removed during the tribulation period.
It is in full operation, demonstrating more power during
that time to a generation of people on the planet that will
still harden their heart and reject the king, but it will not
leave the Earth. I said it will not leave the
earth. So our father is so amazing
because he is all authority. You know, through the years,
you've heard the little joke. You know my dad beat up your
daddy. Well, you understand if your
dad's my daddy, we win all the time.
Nothing can come against us. Nothing can come against us to
defeat us because our father is an undefeated father.
He reigns supreme. I said he reigns supreme.
There's nothing you're going through that your dad cannot get
you out of, and he's not bailing you out.
It is part of the privilege of being his child.
Are you hearing me? It is the privilege of being his
child. He has made a way in every
circumstance you could ever face.
And your father will say this is the way out, this is the
pathway, son or daughter, believe me, and we'll get to
victory every time period. That's our father.
I said that's our father. He says this is Second
Corinthians chapter 6, verse 18. He said, I will be a father to
you and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord
Almighty, aren't you glad you have a heavenly father?
Now listen, you have to understand that our father never
takes off his crown. Our father never.
And I do not want him to pull the crown off.
I do not want him to pull the crown off 'cause that keeps my
father in absolute power, final authority.
I do not want him to pull off the crown and compromise his
word from my feelings, 'cause the minute he does that, he'll
become defeated. Because the integrity and
character of my father is that he always keeps his word.
So you got to understand the father is sitting on the throne.
He does not take his crown off to come play with you and allow
you to do things that are contrary to his word.
He is such a loving father. He says, I'll keep this on so
that nothing can hinder you as you do what your daddy says.
close with your dad. There's just life.
There's life if you'll do what I say, life.
If you'll stay with me, life if you'll do what I go where I say
to go, life. If anything comes against you,
just do what dad says, life. And you want Dad to have that?
Amen. I am so glad that my father is
in supreme authority, so much so that nothing can harm me.
Wow. Galatians chapter 4, verse six.
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his
son into your hearts. Crying out, ABBA Father, that
just means Daddy God, he's your daddy, right?
So Father God is our daddy. Now again, our Father is not
like natural dads. Because my natural dad may not
keep his word or may allow me to get away with something, but not
my heavenly Father, not him at all.
He's better than that. And here's what's so awesome
about him. Because I'm a child of God.
OK, 'cause when he says sons, that's not gender.
God has sent forth the spirit of his Son.
Now who's his son? Jesus Christ, That's Jesus the
King. So he's put in me royalty.
In essence, He's brought me into his royal bloodline and we he's
given me the spirit of Jesus Christ the King, the King that's
above every king He's the king of and I'm one of those kings.
So when I come into the household, I don't come in as a
servant, a beggar, you know, you know the child, you know that is
out on the fringe and just lucky to be in the house.
You know, the one you know that everyone despises.
No, he sits me on the throne with Jesus.
I'm in a position where my dad exalts me in Christ, gives me
position, gives me authority, gives me power that I can really
in essence just look to my left because Jesus is seated at the
right hand of the Father. Just look to my left and say,
hey, Dad. Wow, I remind myself, Dad loves
me. Dad has a word for me to
overcome anything. Dad cares for me more than
anything. Now, when I say that, I'm not
saying more than you, because if you're his child, he loves you
equally as much, right? Because he's not a respecter
person. But we do have different
assignments and whatever that assignment is given to us by our
dad, we can accomplish it because our father is just that
good. Look what it says in Romans
chapter 8 again, he's our daddy God.
Romans 814 to 17. It says, for as many are led by
the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out,
ABBA, Father, the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
that we are children of God. And if children then heirs,
heirs of God and join heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him
that we may also be glorified together.
Now notice in this passage of Scripture there are conditions
that demonstrate our sonship number one, we must be born
again. That qualifies us.
Now I love this. Why?
Because this next verse here go back one to 1514 and 15.
It talks about how we receive a spirit of adoption.
Now you understand Jesus said unless a man's born again, he
shall not see the Kingdom. Now born again is a better
translation is born from above. That would be more accurate.
OK. And So what that means is our
old spirit man that was dead separated from God is pulled out
of our skin suit and he puts a brand new spirit in US and it's
in Christ, it's in the King is royalty.
It's royalty at conception. It's made righteous.
It's perfect. It is.
It has the ability to never sin. Are you hearing me?
It doesn't even want to sin. It has access to hear God
because it can hear the Holy Ghost that tells it you're a
child of God. But you understand as a babe in
Christ, I don't know all that I need to know about who I am.
I don't understand all that there is to know about my family
tree and the the privileges that are associated with my royal
family. So when he says adoption, that
word adoption is literally meaning placement.
So you understand, we're brought into the Kingdom because we're
born of the Kingdom by birthright.
The adoption is position. What assignment does the Father
have for you? And you know what, God is way
too creative for all for all of us to have the same assignment.
I mean, how boring would that be?
He's just not boring. And in fact, there's so much to
do in our Father's Kingdom. We act like the only thing that
there's to do in the Father's Kingdom is to go win the lost.
You understand? There'll come a day when there
is no more loss to win. What are we going to do with the
Father then, when there's a new heaven and a new earth?
See, most people have no concept of what it means to engage their
heavenly Father because there are assignments that are
eternal, and it's beyond the reconciliation of the lost or
the ministry of reconciliation. In fact, our duty to our Father
and our assignment is way bigger than just telling people about
Jesus. It includes it, but it's not
limited to it. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And so we see here, there's this adoption and in that we're
crying out saying, Dad, what do you want me to do?
I'll never forget just in the natural, when I would go to work
for my father, we'd go to these, you know, neighborhoods.
He worked for a particular builder and they would, you
know, construct whole neighborhoods.
And he was this contracted painter.
And so, you know, we would go in and have to sand.
I had to sand shell shelves or doors or whatever the case may
be, you know, paint stuff. He never let me caught because I
wasn't any good at it. But, you know, I did quite a few
other things. And as a result of that, you
know, you'd go to this new house, you know, you'd set it up
and it was always exciting, right?
There was something new to do. There was a what, what are we
doing next, dad? And you know what, just a house.
Sometimes he would do some different types of things.
In fact, my father now I, I don't know that I was actually
alive during this time. If I was, I was still just a
bait. But he actually won the contract
to paint the University of Florida's Florida field the
swamp. At one time.
We had pictures of him painting that.
And I'm like, wow, that's kind of neat, you know, However,
there would be different. And it was always kind of what's
the new assignment? What do I do today?
You know what? What are you asking me to do?
And you know what? I was always pleased.
You know what? My dad actually rewarded me.
Now, he did take me to the bar and he should not have done
that. I understand that.
OK, I learned how to play pool there in the bar.
OK, shouldn't have done that. He should not have done that,
right? But he did provide for me after
a long day work You who's and I could throw down some U hoos.
The good news is it didn't mess with my mind and I had such a
metabolism. It didn't mess with my body
either. I could throw down some U hoos.
I mean, I could line them up with the best of them, right?
And so, you know, you shake that thing and pop that top man.
It was in a glass bottle. This before they had them in
cans. Cans are no good.
Anyway, I'm just excited of all the assignments that are going
to be associated with my life and your life.
Your father is not boring. He wants you to work with him.
Notice it says that we are heirs and Co heirs with Christ.
There are assignments that we are to do and I love talking to
dad on a daily basis. What's the assignment today?
Where do you want us to go today?
How are we going to accomplish this?
Where are we going to go next? What do you want us to do?
How do you want us to influence? What do you want to say?
Amen. Because I love going to work
with my natural dad even more so to be able to go to work with my
natural, with my heavenly Father.
In fact, Jesus said, don't you know, my Father's always working
and I'm working too. I don't know if you think that
he's just laying around. You think he's just sitting on a
throne and that they are, you know, bringing him bonbons.
You know, the cherifems and the Seraphim's are, you know,
feeding him grapes, you know, and he's just, you know,
everybody's just doing. No, he's working.
He's aware of everything going on.
He's, he's personally invested in all of his creation.
You understand, he's so detailed about your life.
We know that our father knows every hair on our head, or lack
thereof. And right, He knows these
things. He knows our detail.
He is concerned about us. I mean, he's amazing and man, I
just want to honor my dad. This is why the fear of the
Lord's a big deal, because it's not.
He said. He didn't give us a spirit of
fear leading to bondage. I'm not afraid of my dad.
I'm not afraid of Him, my Heavenly Father.
I'm not afraid He's going to beat me, beat me down, knock me
down, keep telling me how I can't arrive and make it.
I have No Fear of that 'cause every time I get in His
presence, He tells me how awesome I am.
He tells me how much He cares about me.
Why? Because again, as I'm following
His word, how could he not? He loves His own word.
He gets excited when his kids are doing His word right and so
man, he loves to I love to be in his presence.
He loves to talk to me. He loves to tell me about the
great things that I can do with him for him and accomplish first
John chapter 3 verse one through three.
I don't want to get too far ahead.
He says this. Behold what manner of love the
Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of
God. Therefore the world does not
know us, because it did not know Him.
Hallelujah, you said, beloved. Now we are children of God, and
it has not yet been revealed what we will be, but we will
know when we when He is revealed.
We shall be like Him, for He shall, for we shall see Him as
He is. And everyone who has this hope?
In Him purifies himself just as He is pure, So what manner of
love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called
children of God. This really amazing statement.
The reason why this statement is true or as amazing is because
the love God had for us was this.
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the
earth. Then he said let us make man in
our image according to our likeness and let them that's
both male and FEMA have dominion over the fish of the sea, the
birds of the sky, over all the cattle, over all the earth, and
over every creepy thing that creeps on the earth.
He made both male and female to have dominion on the planet.
That's his will, that's his purpose, that's his intent and
he says Adam, demonstrate your love towards me by keeping my
word, because that's how you I know you love me.
If you love me, you'll keep my word.
I provided every tree bearing fruit for you to eat, but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat for
the day you eat your you will surely die.
When Adam ate the fruit, sin enter the world.
We were cut off from our heavenly Father.
All humanity was we were all born into sin.
But our father says this, I want to call them children of God.
So in order to do this I'm going to have to send my son.
And so while we were yet sinners, Christ that what manner
of love the Father has given to us that he had such a desire for
us to be his children. He said there's only one way to
redeem them back. I have to pay the price for
death. Death has to be paid in full.
Has to be. It has to be paid in full.
So I'm going to have to send my son.
I'll have to send my son in the flesh and he'll have to be
perfect. I said he'll have to be perfect.
He can't blow it. He's going to have to do exactly
what I said. He cannot be like the first
Adam. He's going to have to do exactly
what I said. Are you hearing me?
Matthew 548 says it this way. Therefore you are to be come on,
say the word. Go ahead and say it.
Say it just as your Father in heaven is.
Now we struggle with this word perfect, right?
Because we think of perfection. But if we actually look at this
word and what it means, it literally means this.
Therefore, you shall be mature just as your Father in heaven is
mature, because when you are completely functioning in the
maturity of the Word, then you'll be perfect in all your
ways. Because here's the thing about
the maturity of our Father. This is how mature he is.
He's so mature, He never violates his own word.
Now again, let's go back to the garden.
He's seated on the throne. He has his crown.
He comes off the throne with his crown down into the garden to
spend time with his son Adam in the cool of the day.
He gives his son instruction, right?
He gives him power, dominion. He's able to take to have
authority over the whole globe and how it functions and they
are in complete relationship him, Adam and Eve on the earth.
But the minute Adam eats a fruit has never made a mistake, never
blown it, never disobeyed God ever.
The father does not take off his crown and say, son, let's just
act like it didn't happen. I'm going to just pretend it
didn't happen. He doesn't do that.
No, he says, I'm bound to my word, and you have disobeyed.
Now, what position are you in now?
Right when he says, where are you?
What position are you in now? And so he takes a step back and
he says, well, there's only one way to redeem.
I'll have to send my own son, Jesus, the Word of God, in the
flesh, and He'll have to be perfect in all his ways like I
am. He's going to empty himself of
His heavenly glory. He's going to put on a skin
suit, and He's going to have to obey me as the first Adam was
supposed to. He'll have to do that if I am
going to be able to call them children of God.
Wow, what love the Father has bestowed on us that he can look
to his own son and say I'm going to need you to go pay that
price. I mean it's just very difficult.
I mean just the Bible says by mere creation, we know there's a
father. The details just in creational
and this is in a creation that is on an earth that has fallen
and is under the influence of the devil.
I mean, when I've gone to someplace, I'm like, if man who
is lost can think of these things, what's it going to be
like in the new earth? I mean, it's got to, it's going
to have to be amazing how it will will translate out.
But we need to be perfect as our heavenly Father.
Maturity. Which brings us to Hebrews
chapter 12. Because he's our father #1 He's
a rewarder, He's forgiving, He's merciful, He's anointed us, He's
brought every provision to us. He'll never leave us nor forsake
us. Our Father always has an answer.
If we'll just seek Him, He will gladly give us the Kingdom here
on the earth, function in it, flow in it.
We are not limited to what we see.
We can receive from our Father by faith all the resources of
the Kingdom of God has made at our disposal because we are
children of the King. And so in Hebrews chapter 12,
you have to understand that our heavenly Father because we even
though we have come out of sin, Adam was still given
instructions. And in Hebrews chapter 12 verse
five verse through 11, it says this.
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you
as to sons. Are you a child of God?
Come on, y'all doing all right, let's almost start running
through the crowd here in a second.
I mean, it, it is kind of amazing that we're talking about
our dad and, and I don't get a better response, which really
tells me that you lack the understanding of how awesome
your dad really is, that you really think that you're kind of
doing this without him. And if you are, you're seriously
lacking because he wants to be intricately involved in every
aspect of your life. Now, listen, he's not getting
hung up on. I wish you'd asked me what to
wear today. I mean, he's not technically
getting hung up on that. Are you understanding me?
OK, but what? They're.
But what? You do need to converse with
him. He definitely wants to carry on
a conversation. And he has greater plans for
you. In fact, his plans for you are
way more exciting than you could ever imagine.
The problem is, is we've looked at this world and we've kind of
decided how we want to go and we've never really asked Dad,
what do you want? This is why I exhorted the
parents in the beginning. When you're youth go and they're
in an environment and they hear from God about a direction, do
not squelch it with your idea of how they should live life on the
earth. Don't do it, I mean help
cultivate their sensitivity and ability to hear the father
'cause they're leaving you one day and you want them to know
the voice of their dad. Cause the reality is you may
have given birth to them, but you sure did not die for them.
And again, even if you did die for them, it does nothing for
them but prolong their life because you can't pay for their
sin. Anyway, he goes on and says, my
son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord.
One translation says the the discipline of the Lord, which
another way to say this, because the minute we say discipline, we
immediately go to correction. And the reason why we go to
correction is because all of us have blown, right?
I can't even tell you how many times I've had a meeting in my
office and the minute someone comes to my office and they're
like, oh, I feel like I'm in the principal's office.
I said, well, I'm not the principal, that's Kimberly
Evans. So if I can take you there if
you want to go number one. The second thing is, man, I feel
like I'm in trouble. Why are you?
Because I didn't call you in my office Because you were.
Now, why is it that we feel like we need to be, we're being
corrected all the time. Well, it's because we made so
many mistakes. But you understand, our father
does not lead with correction. He always leads with
instruction. I've told our staff for years,
listen, you may do something wrong.
And if I've never communicated to you about something and all
of a sudden I get in the room, hear about or whatever and that
hits me, wow, we probably shouldn't do that.
And I come to you and say, hey, this situation, we're going to
need to kind of change how we do it.
That is not correcting you. You had no context to make a
different informed to say I can't tell you how many times a
staff has said, well, if I only would have known.
This is why I'm talking to you. Obviously, if you had known, you
wouldn't have done it. I'm not correcting you.
I'm just realizing, wow, I didn't give that instruction.
And at the end of the day, they did it based upon what they
knew. It seemed right to them.
But now that I've evaluated it, that's probably not how we want
to go. So I need to instruct you now
that we're going to make a course correction now that you
know the new instruction by all right that what you did was
incorrect, but it wasn't incorrect when you did it
because you thought it was the right thing to do with the
tithe. And our Father has always given
us instruction. He's trying to communicate.
And that's why those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are
sons of God. Why 'cause He's leading us.
He's like, let me give you some instruction on how to handle
this. Let me give you some instruction
on what to do next. Let me give you some
instruction. Now, if we do not do the
instruction, then guess what happens?
Now we're going to be corrected. Now, why is this important?
Because I'm going to tell you right now, did Jesus ever blow
it? But this, these verses apply to
Jesus, and I'm going to prove that here in a second.
My son, do not despise the chasing or instruction of the
Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him.
Because again, if you don't follow the instruction, he's
going to rebuke you. For whom the Lord what?
For whom he what? For whom he what?
So if you never correct your child in the natural, you're
saying I don't love you. How in the world can you be a
natural parent and never correct your children and act like
you're giving them free expression, like you're a better
parent for whom the Lord loves? He chastens or instructs,
corrects and scourges every son whom he receives.
I don't even have time to get into that scripture.
If you can look it up for yourself.
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons.
For what son is there whom a father does not chase him?
And, and this is like, what question?
Like surely this is not the case on the planet.
But you know what? This is the case on the planet.
There's so many fatherless homes, there's so many fathers
who have neglected their responsibility.
But you know what? He's the Father to the
fatherless. And let me tell you something,
He will not neglect His responsibility, which means you
cannot have a relationship with a Heavenly Father, 'cause we
love the attributes of all the giving He does, the rewards, the
forgiveness, the mercy. But you know what?
He also brings instruction. And if you want to be called a
child of God, you need to say teach me, Lord, teach me, give
me instruction. I love it.
I love that you love me, that you want to instruct me.
But if you are without chasing our instruction of which all
have have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not
sons. So I'm I'm just amazed at Saints
that say Happy Father's Day, call God the Father their
father, but yet don't do not want to be in a congregation
where instruction is communicated.
And when instructions communicated, instruction always
brings boundaries, and boundaries are what keeps you
healthy. They are not prisons.
They are what they are, guardrails that keep you from
falling into death, guardrails that keep you.
And let me just again for the analogy, just so you'll
understand the, the all the things of the devil are way out
here and we're stuck in this little bitty box with God.
This is all we can do and everybody else gets to do
whatever they want to do. And that's how the devil has
sold this thing that you're really free if you're out here.
But you understand, if you're following the devil, you're in
bondage, you're the one stuck on the platform, You're the one
that stuck on this little podium.
Everybody else is out here free flowing, moving has way more at
their disposal. But if you God has put a balance
boundary around the deaf life is like, I don't want you to fall
into this pit. You understand the devil's going
into a pit. He's not going into a whole
planet system. He doesn't get the universe and
then we're stuck on a little planet Earth and everything else
that was, you know, rebellious to God gets everything else.
No, he gets stuck in a, in, in a, in a lake of fire in a lake.
You get confined, you're in confinement.
When I follow the father, I'm not confined.
His creation becomes at my disposal.
So furthermore, we have human fathers who corrected us and we
paid them respect. Now we're in a generation today
that this, this scripture doesn't apply to most people,
unfortunately. OK, he says, shall we not much
more readily be in subject to the Father of what are you a
spirit? I said, Are you a spirit?
So when he says Father of spirits and it is plural, that
means then the Father is identifying that your spirit is
like his spirit and that we should allow him to instruct us
and correct us. Because in instructing us and
correcting us, what will we receive in return will live for
they in they indeed for a few days chasing us has seen best of
them. But he for our for whose profit
this is not this is not some kind of fatherless life.
Let me tell you who's the boss. That is never his position when
he's instructing you or correcting you for that matter.
That's not his position. His position is I want you to be
the best you. I know I created you.
I know what's in you. I know your potential.
I know what you can do. So that's his thought.
Every time he says, hey, let's go this direction.
Listen, if you follow this, we'll come out.
This is for whose prophet? Our prophet that we may be
partakers of His Holiness. Now, no chastening seems to be
what? Well, sure, nobody wants to be
told. Doesn't seem joyful for the
present, but painful nevertheless.
Afterward it yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those
who have been. What?
Aren't you glad he wants to train us?
I said. Aren't you glad he wants to
train us? So though our Father, he's our
heavenly Father, He's awesome and I thank you that he is the
best. In fact, some dads here today, I
know that not only are they fathers in their home and
they're raising their children, but they also do additional
things like they'll coach their kids and stuff.
You know, they'll be involved in that.
And why do they do that? They do it for what purpose?
We do it for the to try to pull out the best of that individual.
Again, why do we place certain demands on our children in the
home? Why?
Because we want them to be able to function at a high level.
And unfortunately, in many homes, we are doing no
instruction. Our children, you know, a lot of
children today are running their own homes.
They're dictating what they're doing.
And then when all of a sudden the parents like, hey, you're
not going to do that or I need you to do something else, then
all of a sudden they kick back. And then parents abandoned it
because, you know, it was painful for their child, which,
you know, if we actually go up a few verses, he'll say, now
you've not resisted sin to the point of shedding blood.
So what you consider a little pain is nothing compared to the
pain Jesus went through in order to purchase you.
And he did that through obedience.
Amen. So we need to understand that
our Father is coaching us to pull out the best of our lives.
And I'm thankful for that. Father, what do I, what do I
need to do? Just point it out.
Show me. What can I do different?
How can I improve here? What do I need to do?
You know me, you know me. You know what's best for me, and
you're a rewarder. You're so merciful.
You're quick to forgive because again, when you instruct me or
if you correct me, it doesn't feel good.
I hate that it happened. I don't want to be a
disappointment to you, but at the end of the day, I'm going to
yield to you. I'm going to yield your
instruction. I'm going to ask you to forgive
me where I blew it. You're going to forgive me and
act like it never happened, and then you're going to guide me
the whole way to victory. That's my daddy, and that's why
I'm not afraid to boldly come before the throne of grace
because he's not there to beat me down.
He's there to raise me up and he's going to give me
instructions so that I can become the greatest person I
could ever be. With that, I close with first
Peter, chapter one. First Peter, chapter one.
He's our Father as as next word as as next word as as.
Isn't that interesting? So our Father expects us to
obey. Yet you know, across our nation
we water down the gospel of people who can never get it
right. Let's just ask Jesus to come in
our heart and save us. That way when we die, we go to
heaven because we're going to be such a disappointment to God the
whole time we're here. Yet the scripture talks about a
generation of children that actually know how to obey on the
planet. That it doesn't have to kick in
when you get to heaven, that it can kick in down here.
I mean, there is a, a generation of his children that are well
able to obey and love it and love it, love it, love it.
I mean, I, I've been in those services where all of a sudden
something saying you're like, man, wow, I'm going to have to
fix that now, right? I mean, it's one of those where
you feel like you got your toes stepped on, right?
They ripped your heart out, threw it back in, You know,
you're like, you're devastated. You came to yourself.
You're like, man, that's me. I got to fix that.
And yet God's like, I got it fixed.
I already got it fixed. I just need you to follow me.
I got it fixed. And then those moments were like
man, praise God, I'm going to obey you because as obedient
children, not conforming yourself to the former lusts as
in your aren't you glad we're not ignorant, but as he who
called you is what what is he you also be in in in all your
conduct. Woo.
This is Jesus said, listen, don't you know me and the father
are one. He said, if you've seen me,
you've seen you know what we can say on the planet if you've seen
me now again, I understand if someone examines US 24/7, the
rest of our lives, we're probably going to emanate
something that's not exactly like our Father.
But you understand we can arrive to a place of maturity in him
like our our King Jesus that the majority of people when they
come across us, if they've seen you, then they basically have
seen the Father because as he's holy, you're holy cause
obedience demonstrates your Father in heaven.
He said, because it is written be holy for I am what I'm holy.
And if you call on the Father who without partiality judges
according to each one's work. Conduct yourself throughout the
time of your stay here. I love this throughout the time
of your stay here. So what do you think God's
expectation for us here, our time here is that we'll be
obedient. I have three children myself and
you know what, it seemed as if the the furthest, the youngest
one did a lot of learning from the two previous because we give
instruction across the board, right?
Here's the instruction. You know, it didn't take long
for my youngest to say, well, I'm not going to do that because
I see the consequence that happened to the oldest or the
middle child because Dad will do what he says.
And if you act like that, you're going to get this and wisdom
showed up right. Have you noticed that some
children you don't have to correct as much because they
learn by watching others being corrected.
Some you have to correct more because you know, God love them.
It's part of their personality if they can ever get over to the
Lord. But you know, until that process
comes, you're like constantly bringing some instruction.
Amen. But he's telling us that we
while our stays here is that we can function like him that our
Father models so clearly in his word who he is that we but by
faith can model it in the earth as well.
You know what, you will have arrived to where people say,
man, if I didn't know any better, it's as if you're like
God. And that's a humbling thought
process because I am the model, my father in my husband
relationship, in my parenting relationship, in my employee
relationship, in my community relationship, in my pastoral or
Apostolic relationship. There's a lot to have to model
in front a lot. However, it's possible and I
don't want to settle and say, well, I can't do it.
Well, that's what rebellion says.
He says I can. He literally says I can.
And you know why he says I can. Look at verse 18.
Knowing that you are not redeemed with corruptible things
like silver or gold from your aimless conduct received by
traditions from your. This is why love my dad, love my
dad, but the traditions I learned from him are not the
traditions I'm keeping. And you know very well in my
life, one tradition I chose to break from my father, and that
was the the tradition of dying the same age as the previous
father. My dad met the goal.
He died the same age as his own dad because he always said I'll
die the same age as my dad and did.
And that was 51. I'd have been dead three years
ago. I broke that tradition.
I'm like, I'm done with it. No, I got a different daddy.
I got different bloodline. In fact, it promises me long
life. 51 is not long people to you young.
You may think I'm old, but I am not all right.
And I just want to, you know, help all of y'all.
You think it's old till you get there.
And I started living eternal life.
When I started living in eternal life, I realized, man, I'm going
to be around forever. So again, I don't care if I'm
120, I'm still just the pup, right?
I just got to work my body so that I don't look like I'm old.
I can function, right? All right, so I've been
redeemed, guys. You've been redeemed.
Your daddy redeemed you. So the expectation to be holy
like my daddy is easy because I've been redeemed not with
corruptible things, but with the precious blood of Jesus.
How much more do I honor my father on a Father's Day then to
make up my mind? Dad, I am not going to be a
disappointment to you while I'm in the earth.
As you do, I'll do as you say, I'll say as you instruct, I'll
move, and as you correct, I'll get it right.
Because you paid for me that while I was in rebellion and
should have never been in your family, you came after me.
You made a way from me. You didn't force me back though.
He didn't come run me down and drag me home.
He didn't throw me in the house. He didn't feed my flesh.
My father didn't love me like that.
He didn't say, well, I'm going to give to you anyway.
Now he blessed me in certain ways to let him know I'm there
along the way. He was like, that ain't no good.
But I, I tell you, if you'll come home, if you'll come to me,
it'll be different. And he provided a way.
Ultimately, he'll let me go my own direction.
But man, I'm glad that I saw that the blood of Jesus and the
love that my dad have for me to make away is worth me not only
coming home, but staying home and following His voice.
Because in the natural I have to admit their days, I'd like to
hear my natural dad's voice just one more time and been nice.
There've been some situations in my life that I desired that I
had a natural father who knew the word that I could have
called and said dad. Now, thanks be to God, he gave
me some spiritual natural men that I do that with now, and I'm
thankful for that because I've found that my my family is those
who do the will of the Father right.
But I aspire that my children will always my grandchildren and
my great grandchildren. And should the Lord tarry my
great, great grandchildren, because I'm young, I could
probably go to a great, great, great grandchild, maybe even
more than that. I could probably get another
grade in there. I mean, I'm holding out, man,
for the transforming. I mean, I'm not cutting this
thing short for nothing. I mean, I don't want to get in a
casket one bit. I want to be transformed in the
moment of the twinkling of an eye.
I just decided, let's hold on. Let's just believe God that it
comes in my lifetime, right Next, you know, if I go to 120
years, I mean, that's 66 years from now.
I can do that. I can do that, right?
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