What is a Father

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What is a Father?

• Kingdom Living

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Which is the Father?
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Which is the Father?
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Which is the Father?
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Which is the Father?
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Where is the Father?
Cottage Prayer Meeting 1950s
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George Ginder Joes Grandfather
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Albert Pike Joes Grandfather
January, 1958
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Norman Bassett Susies Father
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Ronald Ginder Joes Father
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Three Biblical Patterns of Fatherhood

• Biological
• Way of Life
• Spiritual

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Biological
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Genesis 41-2

• Adam?? lay with his wife Eve, and she became
  pregnant and gave birth to Cain.?? She said,
  With the help of the Lord I have brought forth??
  a man. Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.
  
• Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
• NIV

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Genesis 41-2

• The human knew Havva his wife, she became
  pregnant and bore Kayin. She said
• ?Kaniti / I-have-gotten a man, as has Yhwh!
• ?She continued bearinghis brother, Hevel.
• Now Hevel became a shepherd of flocks, and Kayin
  became a worker of the soil.
• Fox, E. (1995). Vol. 1 The Five Books of Moses,
  The Schocken Bible

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Way of Life
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Genesis 420-21

• 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal he was the father of
  those who live in tents and raise livestock. 21
  His brothers name was Jubal he was the father
  of all who play the harp and flute.
• NIV

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1 Kings 511

• Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord,
  as his father David had done.
• NIV

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Spiritual
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Galatians 36-7

• 6 Consider Abraham He believed God, and it was
  credited to him as righteousness.?? 7
  Understand, then, that those who believe are
  children of Abraham.
• NIV

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1 Corinthians 415-17

• 15 Even though you have ten thousand guardians in
  Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in
  Christ Jesus I became your father through the
  gospel. 16 Therefore I urge you to imitate me. 17
  For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my
  son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He
  will remind you of my way of life in Christ
  Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere
  in every church. NIV

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John 112-13

• 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who
  believed in his name, he gave the right to become
  children of God 13 children born not of natural
  descent,?? nor of human decision or a husbands
  will, but born of God.
• NIV

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What is a Father?

• Biology blood
• Way of Life habits, ways, and thinking
• Spiritual our Perspective on God and the
  purpose of life

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Did You Choose Your Father?

• Biological
• Way of Life
• Spiritual
• Fathers who are absent What to do?
• Sins of the Fathers What to do?

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Fathers!

• More than biology, but biology is important.
• More than habits, ways, and thinking but these
  things are vital.
• Spiritual Fathers connect their children with
  God, His purposes, and His ways with an eternal
  perspective.