A FATHER WITH A LASTING LEGACY
© ojewole, Father’s Day Sermon June 16, 2013
Memory Verse: Proverbs 23:22 (NIV) 22 Listen to your father, who gave
you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Scriptures: Deuteronomy 6:4–9; Mark
12:28–31
Introduction
Proverbs 23:22
1. A Wholehearted Love for God
Deuteronomy 6:4–5; Joshua 24:15;
“God wanted to possess me, not merely my
possessions.”—James
C. Penney
Illustration:
“God, France, Margaret”
2. A Passionate Love for your family and
others
Ephesians 5:25; Mark 12:28–31 ; John
15:12–13 ;1 John 3:1; 1 Corinthians 13:3
"our
responsibility as Christians is to discover
the meaning of this
command and seek passionately to live it out in our daily lives."-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Illustration: Rick Ezell SHARED THIS STORY: Ira Gillett, missionary to East Africa
"The medicines may be the same but the hands are different.”
"To love is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your
heart will certainly be wrung and
possibly broken. If you want to make sure of
keeping it intact, you must give your
heart to no one, not even to an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies
and little luxuries.
Avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe
in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless
- it will change.
It will not be broken.
Instead, it will become
unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”-- C. S. Lewis
3. An impartation of Spiritual
Values to your Children
Deuteronomy 6:6–9; Proverbs
6:21–22; Proverbs 22:6; Joel 1:3;
Ephesians 6:4; Proverbs 23:13–14; Proverbs 23:24
“He
who opens a school, closes a prison.” —Victor Hugo
4. A Commitment to providing
for the family
1 Timothy 5:8
Conclusion: John
15:5
