UNDERSTANDING YOUR PURPOSE AS A REAL MAN, REAL HUSBAND AND REAL FATHER.
TEXT: PSALMS
82:5
INTRODUCTION
The greatest enemy of
man is ignorant of self.
Nothing is more
frustrating than not knowing who you are and what to do with what you have.
Every real man, husband
and father must understand their purpose in that light.
Without understanding,
life is an experiment, and frustration is the reward.
Our text denotes that
men are ignorant and blind to God’s principles and lack of the understanding of
the principles that regulate function and operation brings about frustration
and failure.
In the world today, we
have many men, many husbands but Real Fathers are very scarce.
WHAT
IS UNDERSTANDING?
It is the knowledge and
comprehension of the original purpose for a thing.
It also means the
knowledge of the principles by which the thing was designed to function.
The Purposes of Real
Man, Real Husband and Real Father
1.
HE IS THE SOURCE – GEN. 2:7
God the Father is the
source of ALL things. As the source, the REAL FATHER received breadth from God
and can only create or generate same in the children.
This was lost in Adam
but received back through the second Adam- Christ.
Therefore, a father
without Jesus has nothing good to give because he is still carrying the gene of
the Old Adam which has been corrupted.
2.
HE IS THE SUSTAINER, NURTURER AND PROTECTOR
God the Father
sustains, nurtures and protect what He created.
A Real Father sustains,
nourishes and protects that which comes out of him like Father in heaven.
God does not sustain
what He creates based on good behavior but on His goodness. Matt. 5:45
It is only the quality
of sustenance that is dependent on one’s relationship with Him.
So, a Real Father is
the one who produces something and then sustains it.
3.
HE IS A TEACHER/HE TEACHES – GEN. 2:15-17
God gave Adam all the
information that needed to be taught.
God the Father teaches
the father so that he can teach his wife, children and upcoming generations.
Adam received direct
instructions from God and not Eve.
God, therefore made Adam
responsible for teaching the woman and all that comes after him concerning what
the Father (God) said.
Abraham’s example:
Gen.
18:18-19
18 Seeing that
Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of
the earth shall be blessed in him?
19For 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.
The woman is a receiver
and incubator. She gives to her husband as she received from her husband who is
also her father.
If the Real Father does
not fail in this responsibility, then godly lives will be produced.
Real Father, as a
teacher would teach as he has received from the Heavenly Father. John 8:28
4.
HE DISCIPLINES – HEB. 12:5-10
Discipline is not
punishment. It takes teaching to the nest level.
It is one thing to
teach a child, but correction and further instruction helps shape a child’s
character.
Discipline, therefore,
is training.
Prov. 22:6
KJVTrain up a child in the way he
should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Real father don’t leave the
training of the children to the hands of the mothers though they have role to
play.
Gen. 2:18, And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will
make him an help meet for him.
So women are
to support in the discipline.
A Real father is given
the responsibility by God the Father to train and equip everything under his
care, including his wife and offspring.
God the Father
disciplines us, and fathers, like God, discipline their children.
When Real fathers train
their children, they teach by example. It is then that their children learn by
imitation.
5.
HE CARES – GEN. 2:15; 1 TIM. 5:8
KJVGenesis
2:15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it
KJV1 Timothy 5:8But if any provide
not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the
faith, and is worse than an infidel.
NLT 1 Timothy 5:8But those who
won't care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the
true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers.
To care for is to pay
close attention to needs and meet those needs.
The word “provide”
means to perceive before, foresee
2) to provide, think of beforehand
2a) to provide for one
2b) to take thought for, care for a thing
2) to provide, think of beforehand
2a) to provide for one
2b) to take thought for, care for a thing
In other words, to care means
that you calculate the next need of a person before they are aware they are
going to need it.
Real father must set
right priorities in other to be able to care for his family. Such a real father
thinks of his wife first, his children second, and his job third.
CONCLUSION