Where Fatherhood Finds It's Name

Hi. This is Dave Olson.

I'm the senior leader of Hartman church located in Ankeny Iowa.

I hope the following message, challenges and courage's and

ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us.

You know, your relationship with your father is really a strong

indicator of the trajectory of your life.

That's why there is such a war on families and fathers and so I

ended up reaching out of this passage and I'm just going to

I'm going to use this as a jumping off point for our

service here. This morning, let's pray.

Father, we thank you for your word Lord.

I ask that your word would be like, fire this morning would be

like an arrow that would strike the Heart Lord that it wouldn't

Encourage and strengthen Lord, that it would Challenge and

correct. And father, I ask that you would

snap that line in the spirit God that would give us an indication

lorda. An example, Lord, your word

would be the Plumb line for every man in this room in Jesus

name. Amen, I'm going to talk on

fatherhood and of course, there are principles that will apply

to mothers and women and children and so forth, but I

really want to address. It's the father's this morning,

this being Father's Day and so we're going to look at Ephesians

Ephesians 3 · chapter mention

chapter 3. I want you to call your

attention to verse 1 and then we're going to jump to verse 14.

Listen to what it says. In verse 31 for this reason.

I Paul a prisoner of Jesus Christ on behalf of you Gentiles

and then depending on what the version you're reading all of a

sudden, there's a line or a colon, or he stops.

And he says this Assuming you have heard of the stewardship of

God's grace, that was given to me for you, on how the mystery

was made known to be my Revelation, and he goes into,

what is a parenthetical thought, there's a parentheses in the

flow of this book. So Paul and chapters one and

two, he's unpacking, theologically what we have from

Christ and then he's going to go into this prayer and just as he

launches into the prayer he decides, he has one more thing

he wants to talk about, and he's going to talk.

Talk about the call of God on his life and how God gave him

Grace to unpack, the mysteries of Christ, and then he jumps in

and verse 14. And listen.

What he says for this reason, I bow my knees before the father

said to you realize you recognize here in verse 1 and

verse 14, that he says the same thing twice.

He says, for this reason, I bow my knees before the father.

He starts to get into the subject, he's about to get into

verses 14 through the end of the chapter.

In verse 1 and he stops, and he gets into this parentheses, this

Rabbit Trail and then jumps back in at verse 14, one of the

reasons I bring that up is I want to give you scriptural

basis for your pastor going on rabbit Trails because this is

exactly what Paul did. Paul started to address,

something. He got on a little Rabbit Trail

and then he got back on track. So anytime you think Pastor you

get on rabbit Trails? Hey it's scriptural.

Amen. Verse 14 for this reason.

I bow my knees. He's before the father and

listen to what he says here. This is a powerful principle

especially for this hour in human history.

I bow my knees before the father from whom every family and if

you have there's a little reference there and every

virtually every translation you follow it to the bottom and it

will tell you, it can be translated every family or all

fatherhood. So it can read it this way.

I've kneel before the father from Whom all fatherhood in

heaven and on Earth derives, its name.

All Families derive, their name. Now in scripture, a name

represents identity. That's why often in Redemptive

history. As recorded in scripture, you'll

see people with the name change because their identity is

altered by an encounter. With God, saw the persecutor

became Paul the Apostle. Jacob, the conniving, you know,

the conniver became Israel, the prince with God and so there was

a change in the name and so when we talk about names, it

signifies identity. And so when it says I kneel

before the father from whom every family are all fatherhood

in heaven and on Earth derives its name it's saying that God is

God is the original father. He is the one from whom we

should get our definition of what fatherhood is and this is A

very important point because there's a war against family and

against fatherhood and against manhood itself going on in this

day and age. Fatherhood is not a biological

coincidence or an evolutionary coincidence.

All. That's just the way it happened.

It's not a political construct by some male patriarchal

conspiracy so that we can consolidate power.

Fatherhood is actually embedded in creation itself.

It is a part that is part of the created order, whether plant

life, or animal life or human life, and when we fail to

realize that and we begin to diminish, the role of both

fatherhood and masculinity, there are huge and terrible

repercussions that we're seeing across the landscape of our

nation. I was just reading yesterday and

it was the. I forget the official title but

it's the agency that license psychiatrists and psychologists

and they have this volume that they, they, you know, look at

all these different maladies so that you can turn to them and

you can find out what your malady is if you're struggling

with something and they've now they now look at masculinity as

largely negative that it's they call it toxic masculinity and

they look at masculinity as The problem and they trace it to all

these issues. And one of the things they'll

say is like, if you look at men in prison who are overtly

violent, it's because of toxic masculinity, I would propose to

you. The reason that there's a lot of

violence in prisons is because of the absence of healthy

masculinity and the formative years of those children.

A number of years ago, on some of you have probably heard this

story, Hallmark cards there. They had one of their major

printing shops that was near a prison.

And so what they did is they thought, hey, let's let's do

something for these men that are incarcerated.

It's coming up on Mother's Day. We print a lot of cards.

Let's offer free cards to these prisoners and they gave many

many cards and they ran out, more men were wanting cards,

they wanted to write their mom. They wanted to give their

appreciation of their mother and so, The thought man this was a

win. This was a way that we can give

back to the community and to those who are hurting the most

and so Father's day was coming up and they did the same and

wouldn't, you know, it that only like two cards were asked for.

The Mother's Day cards, were they went through them quickly,

but the Father's Day cards, no one was interested because the

fact is incarcerated, men have as a Hallmark of their history,

a disruptive rocky relationship with their dads.

As men, we have a huge effect on our children.

Biologically, it is the male who determines the gender of the

children. It's the male sperm that

determines whether it's going to be a female or a male child, and

I would propose to you that first the physical, then the

spiritual that men also have a great effect on how their

children show up even in their gender identity.

And we need to realize this that this is something we need to

own. That our words carry weight.

And so our role as a father is a very, very important thing.

I came across something that I had posted on Facebook a while

back, this is a couple years ago on Father's Day I'm going to

read you some of it this morning.

Father, has not a human invention or some evolutionary

biological coincidence. Nor did his, the construct, to

some patriarchal conspiracy, an attempt by men to keep the power

fatherhood is foundational to reality.

It is embedded in the creation because it emanates from its

creator, The God Who reveals himself as father, You could

argue that the primary Revelation, the self revelation

of God, is primarily first and foremost, As a father, it is the

foundation of creation of healthy relationships, and if we

lose that, everything else goes down with it.

We need to realize that all of creation emanates from God.

Just as an artist's creation is an expression of themselves and

therefore gives us insight into their true identity.

So scripture tells us that all of creation Bears, witness to

him revealing his eternal power and it is divine nature,

fatherhood is one such expression revealing who he

really is. Thus the war on fatherhood and

family, whether conscious or unconscious.

Is a war against him. The war against masculinity, the

war against the very distinction between male and female.

The ideology that says that disconnects gender from sex,

you'll hear on the news you'll hear and talk.

When you read the, you know, read our periodicals today.

You'll hear that that is rooted in solid science.

It's a settled issue in science and I'm here to tell you that

never came out of the sight, out of science.

Where that came from the first person to write about gender,

and sex, being difference was a Marxist bisexual, she was a

lesbian. I'm a Marxist in France, by the

name of Simone de Beauvoir. I always have trouble with those

front de Beauvoir, those those French names, but she was, she

was a philosopher. She was, I think she was

actually an English or a literary Professor, but she was

a radical Marxist feminist. And the new Left, see what's

happened? We need to understand that this

ideology that comes against the home where it's really coming

from. Marxism, and the new Left cannot

tolerate the nuclear family, it cannot tolerate gender roles and

it cannot tolerate healthy, sexual boundaries.

Matter of fact, the founders of these movements you can you

know, names like Wilhelm Reich and you know, Simone de Beauvoir

is one of the feminist writers, she ended up losing her teaching

license, by the way because she came again, she was petitioning

for the removal of all. All age of consent laws.

And she was asking for the release from prison of

convicted, paedophiles. This is the ideology the

morality of these people. And so when people tell you,

it's settled science, don't buy it.

It didn't come out of science. It didn't science.

Is the result of observing Behavior data.

So you come to verifiable conclusions?

This came out of a Godless ideology and they were Marxist.

And they understood that, what this was, this was something

that was designed from the beginning.

They understood, they could not take over a nation without

dismantling, the nuclear family, because they understood that the

protection of the children from this ideology was Godly Parents.

That would raise them in understanding of gender roles.

And so, there is a war against the idea of a male being a, man,

and a female being a A woman in us having defined roles.

And now, let me just make a statement here if you struggle

with what was classically called, gender dysphoria.

If you have that feeling that man, I'd my what I feel and my

biology do not match. I feel like somebody that is

born in the wrong body. That is a very real psychic

psychological struggle. I'm not minimizing that that is

tragic. My heart breaks for you.

And I'm here to tell you, there is Help From Heaven.

I'm there. There's I'm not talking about

just disregarding these things, but what we've done is, we've

turned a corner in the western world and it didn't come out of

the scientific lab. It didn't come out of medical

institutions. It came out of Godless

philosophy that made the distinction between gender and

sex and scripture is very clear. God created them male and

female. Female.

And when there's a disconnect there, it's tragic and we need

to have tremendous compassion, and we need to help people.

We need to walk alongside them, and I have known people.

I was just sharing with some guys, back in the sound booth.

I have some dear friends. This woman was deep deeply

involved in the lesbian community and she her lover had

a family that her Lover's family were believers.

They were Pentecostal Christians, on fire for the

Lord. And they began to witness to her

and she was very resistant to the gospel because she wasn't

raised in a Godly home but here her lover was and she began to

cry out to God and ask God. God if this is true you need to

save me and she got radically saved but her heart was so

immersed in this relationship and she was asking Lord God

you've got to deliver me. If this is really your truth,

then I need to get out of this relationship and I can't extract

myself. And what ended up happening is

her lover was ended up dying in a tragic car wreck and she got

free, she married a minister and they've been in Ministry for

many years. Have a wonderful family

grandbabies, a phenomenal Ministry and God completely

delivered her of those. Those struggles in her life.

Now was a process there is help and there is healing but we

can't let go of the standard out of an unsanctified compassion

that ends up. Up giving credibility to Godless

philosophies, we've got to be so very careful and there's this

tension that we live in. There's it's one thing to deal

with the individual and it's another thing to deal with the

ideology and dealing with the ideology, we need to take a

strong stand. In dealing with the individual.

We need to have a very compassionate approach but take

the stand, it is not doing anybody a favor.

When we endorse their bondage, we're leaving them stuck in so

we want to be people that walk and great compassion and in the

power of God and we come trained to deliver people from those

types of bondages. And so it's very important.

So modern-day Marx's, we need to understand the new left.

Day Marxism that you can read their writings and they

understood. See they came up against a

dilemma after World War Two. The whole, the Frankfurt School

out of which critical race Theory, and critical theory and

general came and those are Marxist ideologies.

What happened was is they they realized that their philosophy

wasn't going to be able to turn Nations.

They realized that the prosperity of the West Wood and

insulate people from going along economic lines.

And so they had to find a new way to divide cultures.

And what they chose is race and sexuality and you can read their

writings. It was a very, it was a

strategic move, they were brilliant.

But diabolical and they understood in order to take over

a nation. We need to wipe out, gender

distinctions, we need to wipe out age of consent laws.

Do you know the night United Nations right now is proposing

to wipe out age of consent laws? Exposing little children to very

graphic sexual things is not some side issue.

It is Central to the philosophy of the new left in modern-day

Marxism. Because what they want to do is

divide people along their the sexual immoral, xand race.

And so, they have done a really good job of doing.

So, and we need to understand this thing, because we can end

up siding with these demonic ideologies and fueling the

problem. And so we need to understand, we

don't have the luxury of just saying, well, I don't agree with

that, but I don't know why we need to know why we need to

understand what's really going on.

If you're interested in, I can give you some books, that will

help unpack that much better than I could.

So we need to realize that a war against fatherhood and family,

whether unconsciously or consciously is a war against God

because he is the ultimate father and to say that, you

know, there's no there's no difference between Male and

female that it doesn't matter. Your biology is trumped by your

psychology. That is a demonic philosophy

that leaves people in torment and bondage.

And so fatherhood emanates from God.

He is the original. And this is what Paul is telling

us in Ephesians 3:15, all fatherhood derives its name, its

Ephesians 3:15

identity from him. We as fathers are intended to be

an expression of who he is. We are to flow from him.

God does not use the term father to relate with us.

He uses it with us as an expression of who he is.

The problem is, is that we start with our broken Earthly fathers

and view him through the lens of them.

And we need to understand this morning that scriptures clear.

He is the original He didn't use that term in regards to himself

so that he could relate with us. He is a father that is the

ultimate summation. You will never understand God.

Unless you understand his fatherhood.

We as fathers are intended to be an expression of him.

God does not use the term to relate with us.

He uses an expression of who he is.

Our human rules are reflections of the Divine.

Hints of the Eternal order faded expressions of the original that

is God, he is not taking on our role in an ill-fitting attempt

to relate with us. The essence of who he is, is a

father. We are the reflection, he is the

reality. We have been assigned these

roles as created Sons, but through the fall, these have

been Twisted distorting the real in the original through sin.

And gentlemen, I want to tell you unless you deal with your

own father issues, you will replicate those in the and the

Next Generation to the degree that we don't settle Our Father

issues. And the fact is every one of us

has them because every one of us has a father who has fallen,

there are no perfect dads. And so, the enemy will

strategize to wound us and no one can wound us like a dad.

And even if you had a Godly father, like I did, my dad is a

great man. We are, we have a great

relationship, we talk at least daily.

And a lot of times, multiple times a day, I was out at Team

Challenge the other day. I preached I got done in this

young man. Stood up, came right to me.

See you look just like your dad. I take that as a compliment.

I love my dad. But there were things my dad did

that wounded? Me and my dad is mad at.

He's a man of God. So there were times where he

realized some things he did he drove an hour and a half to see

me and he said I need to talk to you pulled up in my driveway and

said, you know, I was thinking about this and I don't know why

I did that. Would you forgive me?

That's a good dad. But here's the problem that if

we don't understand and we don't face those issues, if we don't

begin to deal with those in release them through forgiveness

and even redeem those things we end up replicating them in the

Next Generation. And father, wounds are a, the

really, the Taproot of a lot of our problems today.

There was an interesting study that went on what it was is in

South Africa. There were a lot of endangered

species and South Africa, was one of the primary places people

point to as a real win and preserving these dying species

of animals. And so what they did is they

would start these animal reserves and they would try to

put all these endangered species on these reserves.

And one of these animal reserves, had a plethora of

Infants too many. So what they want to do is

they're going to move these elephants to some of them to a

new animal reserve but they realized man these big the the

adult male elephants are just too big to move.

So what they did is they gathered up a lot of the small

elephants and they said we'll just they'll just grow up on the

reservation. Well, a few years into this,

they begin to find that. There were these crime scenes

that were showing up all over the animal preservation.

It was dead rhinos. And they knew it wasn't poachers

because they're valuable tusk was still intact and they would

see these bloated, dead rhinos with big holes punctured in

their sides and they couldn't figure out what was happening.

So they began to mount cameras all over this.

Preserve to Fig find out who was the perpetrator of these murders

and they found out catch this. It was a gang of young

adolescent, elephants. They would pick on these rhinos

and they would pick on other animals to their work.

As they began to grow, they would they would go up and they

would kick them. They would roll them or

sometimes they would they would knock them over and sit on them

and all these kind of crazy things they were just like

bullies. And there were certain male

elephants that would write they even had names.

They named each one of them and they would rise to the surface

is kind of the gang leader and some of them they actually had

to kill because they would start to attack humans and so forth

and it was Out of outside of the realm of normal elephant

behavior that, they'd seen on these other preservation sites.

And what they realized is they weren't raised in families, they

were raised by one another. And so finally they decide we're

going to have to figure out a way to get some older elephants,

some male, mature, male elephants.

And so they got these huge trucks had never done this

before and they move these huge bull elephants and what happened

is, these bull elephants began to kind of push these young ones

around and bring them into line and they stopped their murderous

Rampages. It's an amazing thing.

Now, it's the it's a picture even embedded in creation of the

effect that a father is to have on young men that to harness

that potential. So that it's not destructive.

And the violence we see in the inner city today.

The violence we see, among young people, is not the result of

toxic Mac masculinity. It's a result of the lack of

healthy masculinity. Being there to raise them up and

to bring them into their potential.

I just heard another story the other day.

There was, I don't remember where the school was now, but

there was a lot of violence on the campus.

And they were trying to figure out how we going to stop this

because some of these kids were just beating each other up.

The kids were scared to go to school.

Even the teachers were worried and a group of fathers that we

had, kids went to that high school, they said we're going to

start the dad Patrol. And they signed up and

volunteered. And they would between classes,

they just alternated shifts and the dad would stepdads would

stand in the hallway. They would high-five the kids,

they get to know them by name and the violence stopped.

And the news media picked up on this and they went and asked the

kids, they said what's going on? What is there a change?

He said, oh yeah, but we used to be scared to come to school, but

now that these dads are here, it's feels safe here.

And one of the reporters asked this young woman, they said,

well, how How is it that these dads are able to to stop these?

You know, these kids from acting out.

And she said if you ever heard of the look, when the dad's just

give the look but there was something calming about these

dad's being in that environment. And I'm telling you our role as

fathers, even though we often don't understand it.

We need to, we need to get a vision for this that we are

voice our presence carries weight.

And that we have a huge part in raising the Next Generation,

both male and female. When when dad's you know and on

Mother's Day we can talk about the role of a mom and that the

essential nature of having moms involved.

But I'm telling you a dad in both the the little girl and

that little boy's life. It's the dad who begins to shape

their identity even more so than a mom Fatherhood emanates from

father, God. And as we begin to understand

who he is and model ourself after him and get healed of our

own father issues by coming into relationship with the ultimate

father, then we can even begin to heal our past, he'll you know

backwards in the generations, I had to go through that, my dad

and I had to bury the hatchet. There were some things I had to

apologize for the he had to apologize for.

There were awkward conversations we had to have but I'm so

grateful now for his His influence in my life.

And only then can we begin to have the influence?

We need to have into the future but if we don't settle the past,

the past is going to cast a dark shadow over the future.

And so, our father issues are a huge issue.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the Revival of 25 years ago

that has literally wrapped the globe and a move of God was

called The Father's blessing out of Toronto and it happened on

Father's Day in bra. And and Brownsville assembly in

Pensacola Florida. It was a move of God having to

do with the father heart of God and it was necessary before the

Great Harvest could be brought in because if we would have had

a great harvest without fathers healed of their father wounds,

we would end up with a dysfunctional Revival.

And so, we need to understand that fatherhood emanates from

him. When we are trying to Define

fatherhood, we must not begin with man as the example.

When we do, we reduce the concept of a father to the frail

attempts of human fathers to be dads.

We then superimpose their failures and deficiencies upon

our heavenly father. This drives us to the faulty

presuppositions that God will fail us like our Earthly.

Father, did I know for me? When I got saved I had some

issues in regards. As to my father, that kept me

from really receiving the Father's Love and I had an

encounter with the Lord one night when I was still in Teen

Challenge. I was sitting in my little my

little bedroom in the Lord spoke to me and said go ask.

John it was another student. John Godfrey said go asked John

if he has a devotional I took that is so weird.

I went into his room said you got a devotional.

Yeah I just put it in my suitcase here I walked out like

okay, sat down, open it up and boom.

There was this article about fatherhood and the Lord began to

minister to me and all of a sudden the Lord took me back to

an episode in my young adolescent years I was I was

probably, I don't know, it probably was more like when I

was 14 years old and I was just starting to Rebel.

My dad didn't know, I was already using drugs.

I was already going out and doing a lot of things I

shouldn't do. He didn't realize it yet, but he

could tell there's something going on.

And I remember my dad coming into my room and we lived in

this parsonage. The church my dad pastured, it

was the parsonage. You had to be careful walking in

the upstairs because it would shake the light and the

downstairs. It was a pretty rough.

Ruff ruff house. And so the, our bedroom was this

kind of attic room that it had these.

You know, slanted walls and I was sitting at this drafting

board. I was drawing and my dad came,

and he said, what you doing? I said drawn, I'm like, what are

you doing? That's what I'm thinking, you

know, why are you in my room? And he said, oh, you know, just

he's talking, small talk, and I'm thinking, what's going on

here? This doesn't usually happen.

Why is he invading my space is what I was thinking.

And he was just talking and and just small talk and I was

responding you know, and I think in this is awkward and all said

my dad walked over and I was in a dormer it was a little slanted

roof, you know. And so he had to kind of

crouched down and get inside the Dormer and he went, he said,

Dave, I up, I love you. He put his arm around me and

kind of stared at the Dormer wall.

And I'm looking one way he's looking at the other and here I

am real stiff and he's I love you.

Okay, and then he said, well, I'll talk to you later.

Walked out. And add a 14 year old kid.

I'm thinking that was weird. What was that about?

Because my heart was already hard.

But now as a 19 year old kid that had been radically

encountered by the Lord. After a lot of pain in my life,

I was processing this father, when the Lord began to talk to

me and all of a sudden I went into this encounter and I was

back in that room and I saw my dad doing that and it broke me

in half. I began to weep because I

realized how awkward that was for my dad for him to come in

there. And tell this rebellious 14 year

old kid that was not going to Kate the affection.

He had to go in there and kind of bend down in a dormer and

stare at the wall to this kid. That's all stiff.

I love you, and I didn't reciprocate, but I knew where

that was really coming from that.

My dad really did love me. I had bought into a lie that my

dad didn't love me that, he loved my sister, and but he

didn't love me. And I, there was this wound that

was there. And all of a sudden, I just

began to weep because I realized how hard that was for my dad.

How awkward that? Was for my dad and that it came

from a tender place that he really did love me.

He just didn't know how to show it.

And in that moment, something broke open.

It was like a flood gate, and I was able to receive the Heavenly

Father's Love. Tony these father wounds, we

have a tendency being humanoids that we evaluate God through our

Human Experience rather than evaluating our Human Experience

through. God and God lovingly came down

and reminded me and took me into that encounter.

And some of you guys this morning, some of you ladies this

morning have father wounds, and I'm telling you that God wants

to touch that and remove that there are no Perfect father's, I

remember a number of years ago as a pastor, you end up in

situations where you're with families at the end of their

life and and there was a dad laying on a hospital bed.

And I knew some of the history of this family, having haven't

counseled some of the family. And so now I'm in this room and,

and the dad had a rocky relationship with the Lord and

had, they were pretty sure he was going to go to heaven, but

it would things were up in the air and I watched the family

lean over. And I watched one of the kids

say to their dad whisper. I love you.

Dad, you were a good dad. Now you got to understand, I

knew the backstory, okay, I knew that was a generous evaluation

of what really went on. And it broke me.

It brought me to tears. Because I saw the look on that

Dad's face all of a sudden this aged elderly, man, this little

child like look came on his face, like he just drank it in.

It's almost he, I mean, he was at death's door, he almost sat

up. He was just drinking that in.

He just like a little child. He needed to hear that from his

children and it was just such a vivid picture to me that this

was a man who wanted to be a good dad, but didn't know how.

and this man because I had talked to some of the family had

hurt some of his children by the things he did but yet who he

really wanted to be was a good dad and I'm telling you if we

can understand that that broken father's produce broken sons who

grow up to be broken fathers, who produce broken sons and what

God wants to do is he wants to stop that - Legacy and if Will

yield ourselves to him, God God, I'm telling you, God can turn a

whole family line in one generation.

One generation that thing can turn my dad, my dad's dad, my

dad, led him to the Lord at the end of his life.

He was a very immoral man Drinker very sexually immoral.

The whole family was dysfunctional on my mom's side,

same thing, just a lot of dysfunction, but Mom and Dad met

Jesus. And it's like that flow it.

There's a beautiful picture in a in the book of Exodus where they

come to the River, Jordan to cross the River Jordan, remember

where the River Jordan stopped flowing and they marched across.

Do you realize? It says it stopped flowing at a

town called Adam. God wants to stop that.

Add Dynamic flow of the Fall, that brings all that garbage

with it and he wants to stop that flow.

So it's no longer flowing in our family line.

As I was praying this morning, just asking the Lord what he

wants to do this morning. I saw a picture and it was, It

was like this landscape and I knew it was inheritance, it was

family histories and all of a sudden off the landscape lifted,

all this valuable stuff that had been hidden in the weeds.

It's like it was separated. And you could see the value that

laid in the fields that were hidden under, all the other

stuff that was in those fields. And the Lord reminded me of a

story was kind of a strange illustration, but it was of a

young boy. All I want to say his name was

Charles Hall. His mother and father went to

the Bible School, founded by Charles Finney Oberlin College.

It may not have been founded by him but he was the president of

Oberlin College. They went to that school and

ended up in as missionaries in Jamaica and they ended up having

to come back because they couldn't sustain it financially.

And so as a young boy, he began to ask God about wealth and he

wanted to learn, he wanted to do something to create wealth so

that he could fund missions. And one day in class, in science

class, the teacher showed them, a little piece of aluminum, a

little tiny block of aluminum and talked about how valuable

this was. And he said, the person who

learns to extract aluminum out of the soil will be a very, very

wealthy person. And so, he said his life towards

doing that at that time, aluminum was among the crown

jewels. There was a block of aluminum

among the crown. Jewels, matter of fact Napoleon,

he would feed his guests on plates of silver and gold, but

the guest of honor, 8 on a plate of you hurt your honor aluminum

because it was so valuable. Matter of fact, the Pinnacle of

the Washington Monument was made of aluminum because they could

only get just tiny little elements.

It's one of Most plentiful elements in the Earth, but it

was so hard to extract out, and so he began to study that and he

would when he come up, he tries something to didn't work.

He, he just began to Worship the Lord and he kept trying and one

day he learned through electrolysis to separate

aluminum from the soil. And he started a company that

eventually became known as Alcoa.

And he became a very, very wealthy person and funded

missions and a lot of other things.

And as I was laying in bed this morning in the Lord showed me

that picture, he reminded me of that story and it's like we put

it this way honor. Is the way in which you extract

the wealth out of the previous generation.

There is riches in every family, in your history.

I don't, it doesn't matter in this sense.

How broken your father? And your forefathers were God by

Design, put great wealth in the generations.

But we've got to extract that. We've got to have eyes to see

and only as we begin to see him as the real father.

That can we can relate right to our Earthly fathers.

And God wants to extract some of those riches.

I think I may have talked about this recently, but I can't help

myself. When I think about this

principle, it's in the last will and testament of King.

David second, Samuel chapter 23. And David.

It's his last will and testament.

Now, David has lived a phenomenal life.

I mean, what God has done with him is epic. and so David is at

the end of his life and he's going to write it says this is

the last words of David it's possibly him writing it himself

or at somebody writing what he's dictating but he's saying this

is the last words of David And he goes on to say the anointed

one, I am the Oracle of God, I speak God's words.

God has blessed me. He says, is not my household

right with God. That's a big statement.

When you were see his history, this was a man who knew

forgiveness and Redemption. And now, he's an old guy.

He's ready to step over and Eternity.

There's no false humility here. He's just owning and he's

saying, I'm the guy God put his hand on in my generation and

He's just glorying in all that God did with him, but what

breaks me and what just struck me?

So strong reading that a while back was, he says these, this is

the last words of David, the son of Jesse comma the king of

Israel, And it's so struck me that David at the end of his

life when he had reached the Pinnacle, he's so revered even

today. He's so revered by his people

that he had achieved this enormous success.

And while he's standing on that platform, he says wait a minute.

I'm David you know who I am the king?

The Oracle, wait a minute. I want to introduce you to

somebody and he pulls this broken man named Jesse next to

him and says, hey, I'm the product of this guy and in so

doing, he redeemed, his history and wiped the shame from his

dad's name. This was the man who didn't want

to own him in front of the Prophet, but David owns him in

front of the world. And that is redemption.

We need eyes to see as we look over the landscape of our past

are the history. The Legacy that has been left To

Us by our forefathers. And even if there's just just

broken landscape, I'm telling you.

They're there is treasure there. And honor is the way by which

you extracted, and when we really get healed, we begin to

have compassion on the broken father, that fathered us.

And when we give Mercy, all of a sudden, something is released

from that history that we can then begin to walk in and give

to the Future. But we've got to see it

bitterness will cause you to be blinded to the treasures in your

family history but gratitude and honor is the way to lift that

out. I'm gonna ask the worship team

to come forward as I read through the rest of this when we

try to find fatherhood weakness, not begin.

With man as the example, when we do, we reduce the concept of a

father to the frail, human attempts of human fathers to be

dads. We then superimpose our

failures, our deficiencies upon our heavenly father.

This drives us to faulty presuppositions that God will

fail us like our Earthly. Fathers did Earthly fatherhood

was intended to Aid us in our relationship with our heavenly

father showing us the way to him.

How to relate with God as a father, how to see ourselves as

sons and Men of God exaggerate. But now due to the fall,

fatherhood is all too often become the primary hindrance

when we start with God, however, we then have the proper lens

through which, to interpret what true fatherhood is and it equips

us to face the hardships of life.

When we start with God, he redeems the phrase and even the

relationship. We are then able to extend grace

to the broken Sons. Our fathers were God's

revelation of himself. As father is the first step in

redeeming us from the fall. He wants to redeem this idea,

this concept and elevate it once again.

Dad's you pave the way for your kids to relate with God, your

example, your relationship with them and with God serve as a

temperate template pressed into the moldable clay of their young

minds. This holy stewardship must be

recognized for what it is but you can't give what you don't

have. We like Jesus need to hear the

father speak. You are my son in whom.

I'm well, pleased. If the Son of God himself Need

the sinless Son of God. Had a perfect father needed to

hear that from his father. In order to launch into

Ministry. How much more do you?

And I, with our broken, pasts need to hear that and receive it

and get it in a so that we become like John the Beloved

John. When he wrote his gospel he said

five times and the one whom Jesus loved and the one whom

Jesus loved you. He was talking about he's

talking about himself and that was an arrogance.

He was Not saying yeah, when you look at the disciples, I'm

really the one who he loved wasn't saying that Peter didn't

get offended. When he wrote 20 red, John's

gospel. What John was saying?

Is that when I look in the mirror, I can't help.

But sees the guy that's been impacted by God's love.

The man who was a son of Thunder.

A bar brawl, would would empty the bar and a fight became the

Apostle of love, John the Beloved and that the turn.

And that thing was when he received the love God, when he

when John would look at himself, he couldn't help it.

There he is. Again, there's the one whom

Jesus loved and until you see yourself that way, you will

never be able to be the father or the mother that you were

intended to be. We need to be infected impacted

by the love of God, so that we don't feel like we're failures

and we're not measuring up, but we know the one who knows Us

best loves us most, and he's the one who defines us.

Fathers were meant to Define their children and the ultimate

father wants to Define you. He wants to heal you of your

father. Was, I'm going to ask you to

stand this morning. Paul says this later on, in that

passage, when he begins that prayer, he said, I pray that the

power of the spirit would come upon you.

Not for Ministry says, so that you would grasp the immensity

The height depth, width and breadth of the love of God for

you and the for the Saints in Christ.

And then he says this strange phrase and that you would know

this love that surpasses knowledge.

How can you know something you can't that is beyond knowledge.

What he's saying is you need an encounter with the love of God,

that is beyond your ability to think yourself into There's

something we need from God, will never be able to study our self

into it comes by encountering him.

The father who loves us while we were yet, sinners Christ died

for us while we were yet. Sinners, the father said, I'm

going to send someone to rescue my sons and daughters.

And when that becomes your identity, then you have it to

give dads. I want to do two things this

morning. If you're here this morning and

you've never been reconciled to Jesus, you're saying I need to

get right with God or maybe it was something you did.

But you've wandered and you're saying, I want to recommit to

Jesus this morning, I want to be reconciled to the father.

If that's you, I want you to raise your hand.

We want to pray for you this morning.

You need to get right with the Lord.

Listen God brought you here this morning for this very thing,

this is a Divine appointment. So if that's you don't Don't

don't hesitate just raise your hand.

We want to pray for you this morning.

If you need to get right with the Lord, raise your hand High

until I acknowledge it. You know, you need to get right

with the Lord. Listen, I know there are people

here this morning that you need him.

You need a fresh surrender if that's you, just raise your

hand. The second thing I want to do

this morning as I want to pray for the dads I want to pray for

the men. I'm going to ask every male in

this room to come up front. I want you to stand in the

solitary right now. I want to pray a father's

blessing over you, and we're going to just present ourselves

to God. We're going to ask him to visit

us so that we can become the men.

I'm telling you what this nation needs.

What the church needs. Are men who become fathers.

Listen, you may be on the years where you're going to be

producing biological children. It's time to begin to produce

some spiritual children. There's a generation of young

men that need to hear from another man.

You have what it takes. So now ladies I want you to get

behind these men and just put your hands out towards them,

once you to bless the men, come behind them and just begin to

pray. And guys, listen, everyone of us

have felt like, we're not up to the call.

Every one of us has had doubts about our ability to do what's

going to take, but it's not about us doing, it's about him

doing it through us. Bruce over said, where are you

at? Where's Bruce is right here.

One time. Bruce and I were consoling.

A young, man. And the Lord told me scoop him

up in your arms and give him a father's hug.

And I remember telling the Lord, Lord, he's only like eight years

younger than me. This is awkward have Bruce to

it. Bruce has a few years older me

he could be more of a father figure and the Lord rebuked me

and he said I'm not talking about you releasing.

I'm talking about me, fathering him through you.

Now grab that guy and I grabbed him and just tell him and he

wept and gave him a father's blessing.

We want to receive the father's blessing this morning so at six

down to the roots of our identity and then we want God to

get strengthened us to give it away.

Some of you I'm telling you God's going to turn the legacy

of your family's. What the enemy meant for bad.

You are the kinsman redeemer. You hear me?

You are the kinsman redeemer. The enemy brought shame into

your family line, failure. Going to look back on the past

generation. Say God, I forgive them.

Lord, I bless them and we're going to turn this thing.

So, Lord we ask right now. God for a father's blessing.

Lord we need you. Father is Men We Stand before

you as the broken sons that we are.

But Lord, were your son's? And Lord were asking that you

would Open the Eyes of our understanding, open our ears

that we could hear. You are my son and who, I am.

Well, pleased. Lord by your spirit shed.

The love of God abroad in our hearts and Lord.

I'm asking God for special Grace, for those who have been

especially wounded Lord, those who are never able to hear from

their father, a father's affirmation, Lord.

I'm asking God that you would reach in and touch them this

morning. Lord that they would begin to

receive from you, what they shouldn't receive from their dad

so that they can turn and bless their fathers in Jesus name.

Amen. Amen.

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