Love Like Your Father Loves • June 15, 2025
June 15, 2025

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MY NOTES

Love Like Your Father Loves

Pray for your pastors, their, wives and their families.
Pray for our church staff. They all pray for you!

This is a Father’s Day message, directed to dads, but meant for everyone.

IF more men were being the best husbands, dads and role models they could possibly be – the world would be a better place.

Whether you have children or not – you are a role model and an influence on others.

  • ‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭23‬‬
    Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,

If you are a dad, then be a GREAT DAD!

MY NOTES

How? Start with the greatest commandment:

  • ‭‭Mark‬ ‭12‬:‭30‬‬
    Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

  • ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭22‬:‭37‬‬
    Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

  • ‭‭Luke‬ ‭10‬:‭27‬‬
    He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

MY NOTES

How?

  1. Read your Bible and
  2. Go to Church!
  3. Tell the people around you that you love them, and
  4. Tell the people you’re closest to that you’re proud of them
  5. Pray

Be the Man God made you to be. Work to be the best version of you, and you’ll get on track to being a great dad.

The old saying “God won’t give you more than you can handle” isn’t accurate…YES HE WILL!!!
He will give you more than you can handle just to prove you need Him!

MY NOTES

The Bible is full of stories about people who were facing more than they could handle, and when they cried out to God…He answered.

“Parent fail” = a parenting mistake, a regrettable incident while raising a child.
“Parent fail” is not to be confused with being a failure as a parent.

The Bible is full of stories about strong men of faith, yet limited offering their practical examples as dads who parented well. There are many “how not to parent” examples.

  • ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭13‬:‭24‬‬
    Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

  • ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭13‬:‭24‬‬
    A refusal to correct is a refusal to love; love your children by disciplining them.

MY NOTES

Father God is our perfect example and the greatest Dad there ever was, is, or will be.

  • ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭3‬:‭13‬-‭17‬‬
    Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

“This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
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We should embrace this, because this is a model we can follow.**

MY NOTES

YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN LOVES YOU!!!

  • ‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬‬
    For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

  • ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭2‬:‭9‬‬
    That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”

  • ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭64‬:‭4‬‬
    Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

MY NOTES

  • ‭‭Luke‬ ‭15‬:‭11‬-‭32‬‬
    Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate. “Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. ‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’ “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’ “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

  • ‭‭Luke‬ ‭10‬:‭27‬‬
    He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

MY NOTES

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