Role of the Spiritual Father
Today’s Focus: The Results and Consequences of
Consistency and Inconsistency
Scripture: John 5:19; Ephesians 6:4
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Why is the world the way it is? Simply, a lack of fathers. When there is a
lack of fathers there is a lack of discipline and order in the lives of
children. Now we left off the last
message with John 5:19 where Jesus says whatever I see the Father do, I
do. This is the model, to be one with
the Father. In our society today many
fathers can care less what their sons are doing. They just let the children grow to be what
they want to be. Many fathers allow the children to go uncheck just as long as
they are not aggravating him. Now what
is so bad about this is when you mix religion in it. So now we have a child that see the father
pay no attention to them, let them do whatever they want, yell, scream and fuss
all the time when he gets aggravated but on Sunday he is the pastor or deacon
of the church screaming hallelujah and praise the Lord. The children see a Sunday man and a Monday
through Saturday man. The children can
pick up on this inconsistency and know that the way their father is living is
wrong. Hence you have children that grow
up and say “I do not want to be like my father”. This is a very devastating mindset to have
because even though the child has a biological father, the child feels
fatherless making them an orphan mentally in a house with a father. Now I am specifically not dealing with
mothers because most times it is the fathers that are lacking and for the sake
of this series we are looking at spiritual fathers.
Now that we know the mindset of the children
is an orphan even though they are living under their father’s roof, what is the
mindset of the father? He is an orphan
too! A father like this is only
concerned about his own interests and he has learned how to run, hide, and
shift blame (remember Adam in the Garden).
His premier motivation is to possess, acquire and control. Sounds just like the culture of the orphan.
So now we have an orphan trying to father a orphan. That will not work. There is really not a
focus on the spiritual growth of the children to bring them into adulthood, the
father has handed that down to the pastor and the school system. Huh?
Yes, where do you think the term “youth pastor” even came from? I have not found anywhere in scripture where
God said ordain a “youth pastor”. But I
do know that the scripture clearly says:
Ephesians 6:4: AND YE FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT
YOUR CHILDREN TO WRATH: BUT BRING THEM UP IN THE NURTURE AND ADMONITION OF THE
LORD.
So whose responsibility is it to bring and
rear the children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? THE FATHERS.
Now this means the fathers must be spiritually lead and be mature to do
this. This means we cannot live by the “do as I say, not as I do rule” this breeds hypocrisy. But we must live by the rule “do as I say and
as I do” just like Jesus was lead by the Father. This relationship and maturation is a
hands-on experience and one that God will not allow you to delegate your
responsibility to another. What is a shame
is that the father who chose not to step up will send their children to a
church house. Please pay
attention. Because they lack spiritual
maturity and discernment, they will drop the children off at the church and
then go back home. Never mind that they
are teaching damnable heresies in the church.
Never mind if they are teaching that homosexuality is ok because God
loves everybody and everything. God designed
the maturation process of natural children AS WELL AS HIS CHILDREN to grow
through fathers. This is why spiritual fathers are the answer for the world
today because they put on display the exact representation of the Father so
that the sons can mature. This way of
living promotes the “do as I say and do” culture because the spiritual father
is connected and has been matured by the Father and the counsel and ways being
demonstrated are the same ways and nature demonstrated by the Father. When there is consistency then there is
credibility and then there is growth and maturation. This is the desire for the spiritual father
to be an example unto the sons.
In the next message we will look at
generational blessings of the fathers.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
