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Welcome, everyone, to Father’s Day. Father’s Day complements Mother’s Day, helping to balance the recognition that we give to both parents. Much like Mother’s Day, much like Mother’s Day acknowledges Mother’s, Father’s Day acknowledges the role our fathers play in nurturing, supporting, and guiding their children. And as I shared on Mother’s Day, the ten Commandments are a guide for relationships.
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God, our relationship with God, our relationship with our parents, and our relationship with others. The first four commandments are about our relationship with God. The fifth commandment is about our relationship with our parents. Commandments six through ten are about our relationship with others. So the fifth commandment, also known as the transition commandment, is also known as the first commandment with a promise. And so let’s look at that. In Exodus 20, verse twelve, it says, honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. So one of the benefits we see here is that our days will be long extended if we honor our parents, our father, and our mother.
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In deuteronomy, it gives us a little more insight on the promised reward of honor and deuteronomy 516. It says, honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may be well with you in the land which the Lord your God has given you. God wants you to be well and have a great life, and we do that by honoring our parents. This is echoed again in Ephesians six, where the apostle Paul declares, in Ephesians six, one, three children, obey your parents in the Lord. For this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth. We see we are promised these two blessings by honoring our parents, and they are that we may live long on the earth and that it may be well with us. And so, as we honor our mothers and our fathers, we know that we can walk in this blessing from the Lord.
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So today we want to honor our fathers and say thank you for the example of your life to us. And with that in mind, I would like to focus today on honoring our heavenly Father. There are seven characteristics of our father God that we can always rely on. In fact, proverbs three, five, and six gives us some direction here about this. This is from the amplified translation. The classic translation. Amplified classic translation. Proverbs three, five, six says this lean on, trust in and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind, and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.
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In all your ways, know, recognize and acknowledge him and he will direct your and make straight and plane your paths. Let me say that one more time. And he will direct and make straight and plain your paths. This is a great promise for us. First, our Father God is always ready to give us insight and understanding. We will see why in a moment. Second, if you know, recognize and acknowledge him in all your ways, he will direct and make straight and in your past he will show the way by knowing, recognizing, acknowledging God our Father and these seven characteristics that we’re going to talk about today. We fulfill this verse and see the blessings of the Lord come to us.
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So let’s look at these seven qualities, these seven characteristics that we should know, acknowledge and recognize. Our Father God is number one, self existent. And that means this self existence is existing by his own nature or essence, independent of any other cause. God is he was he is he forever will be. John 526 in the amplified says this. For even as the father has life in himself and is self existent, so he is given to the son to have life in himself and be self existent. So we know that the Father and the son Jesus Christ are both self existent. They are one in that no one came before them.
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They will live forever. They are eternal beings. Now remember last week we talked about the word is life? And so Colossians 117 tells us this. And he himself existed before all things and in him all things consist. They cohere are held together by him. And so our father God, the self existent one, here’s the promise in that for you, knowing this and understanding this, he’s never going away. He will always be there for you. And I may say that several times today, but I want you to know this.
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God was there in the beginning. He’s here right now. He will be here forever and ever and ever for all eternity. He exists before all things and in him all things consist, are held together. There is nothing that is, that didn’t come from him. He existed before all and all things come from him now. Secondly, second, quality or characteristic I want you to think about today is this our father God is immutable. And that word immutable means not capable.
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Not capable or accepts, susceptible of change. I really can’t talk, folks. Not capable or susceptible of change. He is fixed, unalterable another way to say that he is steadfast. He is who he is. Malachi three six and the amplified says this, for I am the Lord. I do not change. You can believe me.
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What I say is what I mean, and I’m faithful to my word. Who I am is who I am. And I show up that way all the time. Hebrews 13 eight. And this is from the new King James version says this, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, and so is our father God. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Our father God is not flighty. He’s not tossed about like the waves of the sea.
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He is steadfast, he is sure. He is unchangeable. You can count on him. In Hebrews, the 6th chapter in verses 17 and 18. This is from the amplified. Accordingly, God also, in his desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise, the unchangeableness of his purpose and plan, intervened, mediated with an oath. This was so that bye two unchangeable things, his promise and his oath, in which it is impossible for God to ever prove false or deceive us. We who have fled to him for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before.
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Let me say this again. Your father God can be trusted. You can trust him with all your heart. What he has declared is true, what he has promised. We already possess it. It is ours that is given to us. We take it by faith. The third thing we want to know today about our father God is this.
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Our father God is eternal, forever. It is perpetuity of time, never ending, without end, he is forever. Psalm 90, verse two. This is from the amplified. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed and given birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. Revelation one eight from the amplified. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord God, he who is and who was and who is to come. The Almighty, the ruler of all.
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Scripture tells us our father God knew us before time began there in Ephesians. Paul talks about that. Read it in chapter one there. And he talks about where we are in chapter two in Christ. But scripture tells us that Father God knew us before time began. He has always been with us. He will always be with us. He is our beginning and our ending.
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For every season of life and for all eternity, he is there with you always. One Timothy 117 from the amplified. Now to the king of eternity, incorruptible and immortal, invisible, the only goddess. Be honor and glory forever and ever to the ages of ages. So be it. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
David [00:12:37]:
He is the king of eternity. Our father God is eternal, everlasting forever. The fourth thing I want to share with you today is this, our father God is omnipresent. And so starting with this one, we’ve got three omnis we’re going to look at. Number one, he is omnipresent. This is the fourth quality, characteristic. And that word omnipresent means presence in every place at the same time. He is unbounded.
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He’s not bound by time, not bound by place. He’s not bound by anything. He is a universal presence. I don’t care where you go, God is there. His presence is there whether you realize it or not, whether you sense it or not. God is there. He is omnipresent. Jeremiah 23, 23 and 24.
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And this is from the good news translation, I am a goddess of who is everywhere and not in one place only. No one can hide where I cannot see them. Do you not know that I am everywhere in heaven and on earth? Wow, that’s a great translation. Plainly put, God is everywhere. You can’t hide from him. He can see everything. Psalm 137 712. I love the way the psalmist puts this here.
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Where can I go from your spirit or where can I flee in your presence? If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, surely the darkness shall fall on me, even the night shall be light about me. Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to you. It doesn’t matter where we are, God is there. He is with us, our father, God is everywhere.
David [00:15:12]:
He is all around us and he lives within us. Think about that. His presence is everywhere. I don’t know if you’ve ever looked at it like this, but I want you to imagine this with me. We’ve got a clear jar of waters sitting here and we can see the jar is full of water. And we take a sponge and we drop that dry sponge into that jar of water. Now the water surrounds the sponge. Now when we take the sponge out of the water jar and squeeze the sponge, what happens? Water flows from, from the sponge.
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It has been saturated with water. That is a great metaphor, a great way to look at God’s presence. God’s presence is all around us, but yet there we are in the midst of his presence. And if we’ve accepted Christ as our lord and savior, not only is he all around us, he’s within us. And just like that sponge, we’re oozing and dripping. The presence of God, whether we realize it or not, we take the presence everywhere with us. Everywhere we go, he is all around us. He is with us.
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He is always there. What a great promise. I don’t care what you’re going through today. I don’t know what you’re facing, but I know this. God is there with you. He is for you. He loves you. He believes in you.
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He cares about you. God is with you. The fifth quality I want us to look at today, the fifth characteristic is this, our father God is omniscient. Not only is he everywhere, he’s all knowing, infinitely knowing. He knows everything about everything and about anything. He is all seeing. He has universal knowledge. Psalm 139, one four.
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The writer says this, o Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought far off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue. But behold, o Lord, you know it all together. God knows you. He knows all of us.
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He knows all of us in intimately. He knows us better than we know ourselves. In fact, Hebrews 413 from the amplified says this, and not a creature exists that is concealed from his sight. But all things are open and exposed and revealed to the eyes of him, with whom we have to give an account. God knows everything about us. He sees it all. He is there. He has the answer.
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He knows all and knows all about everything there is to know. That’s why we should bring everything to him. The apostle James said this. James wanted verse five. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. God wants you to know. God wants you to have the answer. God wants you to have his wisdom.
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All his children have to do is ask. And our father God will liberally give us the insight, the revelation, the understanding that we need. We ask and we listen, and then we receive, and then do what we hear. Go, walk out the wisdom that we receive. God wants us to know and be filled with his wisdom. He is all knowing the 6th characteristic. The 6th characteristic we want to talk about today is this. Our father God is omnipotent.
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He is all powerful, almighty. It means possessing unlimited power, all potential. God has all power, all potential. Jeremiah 30 217 they amplified alas, Lord God, behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard or too wonderful for you. Ha ha. Think about it. Nothing too hard or too wonderful.
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You, as much as the enemy, wants to keep from you all that God has from you, he can’t. There’s nothing he can do to keep anything God has for you from you unless you allow him to. Luke 137 in the amplified says this for with God nothing is impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment. You can trust this word your father God has spoken through his word to us, and we can take his word and trust it and know it and believe it and have faith and confidence in it. For no word from God is without power or impossible fulfillment. God is with us. God is with us. Matthew 1926 says this, but Jesus looked at them and said, with men this is impossible, but all things are possible with God.
David [00:22:01]:
There it is again. All things are possible with Goddess. I don’t know what you’re believing for praying for today, but know this, God has a way. God can make a way. All things are possible and God is with you and for you, working in you and through you, and all things are possible with God. All power of every kind is his energy, potential, creativity, strength, force. I mean the list could go on and on and on. All power is his and that power he uses for us, he uses with us.
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He works it through us and in us. Know this, your father God, is for you. He loves you unconditionally. He has, he is and ever will be working for you by his unlimited power. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you, Lord, for your power.
David [00:23:16]:
The 7th thing I want to share with you today is this to celebrate our Father God is our father God is sovereignty. That means he is supreme in power, possessing supreme dominion, superior to all others, one who possesses the highest authority, absolute power. First chronicles 20 911 Twelve says this from the amplified. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty for all that is in the heavens and the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and yours. It is to be exalted as head over all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you reign over all in your hands are power and might have in your hands it is to make great and to give strength to all. Our Father God is sovereign.
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Colossians 116 from the amplified tells us this. For it was in him that all things were created in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, authorities, all things were created and exist through him and by his service, his intervention and in and for him. So you were created for him, you exist for him. He is sovereign over all of this. We are here in the earth, representing here ruling and reigning in the earth, earth as kings and priests, as a part of the kingdom of God. All power and all authority is his. And this is why Jesus could say after his resurrection in Matthew 20 818 through 20. This comes from the amplified translation also, Jesus approached and breaking the silence, said to them, all authority, all power of rule in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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Go then, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all the days, perpetually, uniformly, and on every occasion to the very close and consummation of the age. Amen. So let it be in Jesus name. See what happened here. Our Father God gave Jesus all power and authority. Then Jesus delegated that power and authority to us and said, go and make disciples of all nations, teaching them to observe all things I’ve commanded you and do that in my name and in the name of the Father and the Holy Spirit. This is a fulfillment of what Jesus told his disciples would happen in John 14.
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Whatever you ask of my father in my name, the Father will do it for you and you’ll go out and do greater works than I’ve done. Paul talks about this in Ephesians chapter one and chapter two. He said, Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father and all power and authority and dominion is under his feet. He’s over all of it. And then Paul tells us that in Christ, since we are in Christ, we are seated with him in heavenly places at the right hand of the Father. Think about that. Wow. Whether you realize it or not, that sovereignty is a part of your inheritance and the power and authority that comes with it has been delegated to you in the name of Jesus.
David [00:27:37]:
So let me summarize here. Our father God is self existent. He is immutable, eternal. He is omnipresent everywhere. He is omniscient all knowing. He is omnipotent all powerful, and he is sovereign through our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, our father God has made all of us, all of this, all of who he is available to us. We are his children, created in his image for such a time as this. Let’s bow our heads in prayer.
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Father God, I pray that your kingdom come and that your will be done here in the earth through us as it is in heaven. Father God, we love you. We honor you today and throughout all eternity. What a privilege and honor we have to be your children and to serve you and represent you here in the earth. And may we do it well. In Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
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And amen. Remember, your father, God loves you. He loves you. He knows you well, and he is for you. God bless you. I pray that you have a blessed Father’s day. I pray that you go and celebrate, and I pray that you have a great week that’s coming. We’ll see you here next Sunday.
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Pastor Conia is coming with a closing word and thought. God bless you and be with you all of this week. Amen.
