Title [Our Father in Heaven]
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[Our Father in Heaven]Isaiah 42:1-7 2007.5.13. Mother's Day Grand Worship
1) Today is Mother's Day. Last Children's Sunday, I gave a message to look at God with the hearts of children. Today's Word tells us to become parents toward our children with the heart of God, the true Father, and tells our children to honor their parents as we obey God.
2) In all things in the world, each has a place to be protected. Tools needed to work should be in the prepared place, and cutlery and bowls for eating are on the table. There is a place for each person to protect. The president's office is the place where he should be, and the working person is the place where the machine runs. Among friends, it is the person who trusts with the Bungu Yushin.
3) It is the same at home and with family members. There is a place for husband and wife, and the place for parents and children is different. As a parent, a father must be in his father's place. This means that it is beautiful for the father, that is, the parents to keep his position in the family well. Guys, am I a beautiful parent? Are you the owner of a fragrant home? Today, we want to be taught by the Word whether we are keeping the Father's place with the same heart as God.
1. Parents should stand in a position to treat their children with kindness and compassion.
1) God is our heavenly Father. We are his children. That God has embraced us with compassion and mercy, but he does not quench a smoldering wick, nor breaks a bruised reed. This is Isaiah 42.
2) We are weak beings who cannot stand in the world unless we receive mercy from God the Father. It is because of God's mercy that we can stand before God. Among mammals, humans, who are primates, have the longest period of parental dependence. Other animals become independent from their mothers immediately after birth, or within a month, a year, or at most 2-3 years. However, a person is raised under the shadow of his parents for at least 20, at most 30 years. This fact shows that it is not easy for a person to adapt to society and lead an independent life.
3) So our parents sometimes cannot raise their children as independent personalities, but they put them under their shadows and think of them as substitutes or surrogate satisfaction of the parents who fulfill their unfulfilled dreams. Children get a lot of stress there. Our parents should think so. A child is a person of God in the image of God. I took on this for a while, but I am not doing this to fulfill my surrogate satisfaction or my unfulfilled dreams. The same is true of children's studies, work, marriage or family success. It is the compassion and mercy of parents to help them stand in front of God as upright believers and members of society.
2. Parents should set an example for their children.
1) Parents pass on life and life to their children through teaching. Its teaching has praise and encouragement, admonition and censure. It can be taught with words, and it can be shown with actions. Teaching is a personal interaction. When teaching a child, the character of the parents must be conveyed correctly. The most important element of personal teaching is that the sincerity of his life is passed on to his child through his actions. In Korean, it is said that children who did not listen to words even after a hundred times followed their parents because their parents acted first. As the Apostle Paul boldly said to the church in Corinth, “Imitate you,” parents are absolute models for children.
2) It is strange that children not only genetically resemble their parents' constitution, but also follow their parents' behavior, speaking habits, and behavior. So ecologists have studied this problem with animal behavior. As a result, they found that the cubs followed their mothers for the first time in the world. So do children. Growing up in a violent environment can be violent, and if parents don't set an example, their children are deeply affected.
3) There are statistics that people who become addicted to alcohol when they grow up are children from families who have problems with alcohol when they are young. Children grow up watching their fathers drink and come into the house, shouting and fighting and beating their mothers. Then the hatred of the children for their father grows. And when I grow up, I promise not to live like my father. However, as this child grows up, at some point, he starts drinking alcohol. And, like his father, he gradually becomes addicted to alcohol and becomes a drunkard. It is reported that the children have a desire not to become like their father, but the image of the father, which he has seen and learned since childhood, is imprinted on him and unconsciously dragged to it. About 62% of people who are addicted to alcohol are said to have imprinted their parents. It's a scary fact. The personal inheritance that children inherit from their parents, we call it the character that parents set an example for themselves.
3. Parents should be in a position to bless their children and pave the way.
1) Hebrews 11:21 “By faith Jacob, when he died, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped on the head of his staff. By faith Joseph, on his deathbed, spoke of the departure of the children of Israel.”
When Jacob was 130 years old, he met his son Joseph, who had died in Egypt. How happy are you to meet your son who died? Jacob, who went down to Egypt, prays for him when he stands before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And they each pray for their sons. This is Jacob's prayer for blessing Joseph. “Joseph is a lush branch, a lush branch by a spring. The branch has crossed the wall. Joseph's bow is firm and strong, and his arm is mighty, by the hand of the Almighty of Jacob. From him comes the shepherd, the rock of Israel. It is from the God of your father, who will help you, and from the Almighty, he will bless you.”
The blessing of Jacob's children is a gift from God and the authority of parents.
3) Everyone, are we parents? Then, first of all, please show your children that we obey and respect our parents. It is impossible, according to the imprinting behavioral psychologist, to want my children to obey and respect me while not obeying my parents. And since I am a parent, I ask that you be a person of faith like Jacob who always blesses my children, prays for God's blessings to overflow, and opens the way.
4. Parents should be in a position to prepare themselves for the future.
1) Parents lived longer than their children. So you have a lot to say and a lot to tell your child. So, what is the most precious thing parents can give their children? It is to show that we have prepared a day in front of our lives at a certain time, at the end. Just as our work in the world cannot last forever, so does my position as a parent to my children. We are parents as much as we are given time. And we face the time before God called the end. Being wise means preparing your time before God.
3) Parents these days have a heavy burden of preparing for old age. The times make it impossible to depend on children for old age, and the price of old age rises and the cost of retirement is snowballing. Everyone, I hope you save well from now on so that your retirement is not difficult. However, the more urgent condition of old age than the material we need to prepare is to welcome the future life with peace. Our place becomes a beautiful place when parents prepare well for this and walk with joy and gratitude as they enjoy the rest of their time with Christ the Lord. Don't forget. Preparing well for the time of old age by faith is more urgent than solid preparation with materials.
Conclusion.
1) We are parents. I am the father. These are the first words to confess to the fathers of freshmen entering the “Father School”. Do you not regret the years of not being able to fulfill your father's mission or keep your place as a father because you are too busy and because of various things? 2) Today is Mother's Day. Through the Word, we made a commitment to treat our children as parents. Our place is a place of mercy and mercy. It is a place of faith that sets an example for children. It is a place where the father's authority to bless his children is revived. They are parents who, by faith, teach their children how to prepare them well for the future time.
3) Everyone, I am the father. I am the mother. This is God's great blessing given to us, so we pray that it will come true for us as we believe and act.