Everlasting Father
The LORD’s Day
December 9, 2007
We Worship In Singing
We Worship In Prayer
We Worship In Hearing the Word of God
Everlasting Father
Isaiah 9.1-7
*Tithes and Offerings can be placed in the box at the rear of the sanctuary*
Please join us for bagels and coffee downstairs if you are visiting today.
This Week
Bible Reading Isaiah 9, Matthew 1-2, Luke 2
Monday Men’s Prayer Meeting 6:30am in the church basement
Wednesday &Thursday Bible Studies will resume next month
Next Lord’s Day
Morning Prayer- 10am in the church basement
Morning Worship- 10:30am(Sunday School for Children)
Spanish Service- 4pm
In Your Prayers For All of God’s People
Remember the men serving in the armed forces: Bradley, Julia Bujold’s grandson with Special Forces in Afghanistan, home on leave right now, Ken Brown, Pastor’s friend’s son finished his third tour of Iraq- His parents thank us for praying for him. Billy Knapp, Jr. in Iraq with the Marines (neighbor of the church and Pastor- Billy’s sister graduated from Good Shepherd). Stateside now being redeployed in April... Matthew Klaus, brother of Good Shepherd parent in Iraq as a firefighter for Haliburton. Pastor’s nephews’ and niece’s cousin Kim’s husband, Jay, in Iraq. Pray for them and the others away from their families. Praise God for keeping David Louis, Jake Morgan, Ken Brown and Tom Hindelang, Billy Knapp Jr. safe during their times in Iraq. Pray for peace. Katharina’s Family in the loss of her daughter... Remember Robert, her son-in-law and her grandsons, Norman, Raymond &Jonathan and their families. Kathy, Ziggy and Margot’s daughter-in-law, under the doctor’s care for fibromyalgia. Thank God for answers to prayer for her as well as Lucy, their daughter... God is she is recovering well. Pray for Eloise Brooks’ Family in their loss and sorrow... Remember Jean Louis on dialysis. Grace Martin, Edie Raevis’ daughter, recovering from surgery on her back and uindergoing Physical Therapy. Edie’s daughter’s mother-in-law, Millie Espisito remains in serious condition. Reginald Mooney, friend of Terri and John Garry, with a tumor in his kidney. Please remember Pastor’s friend Kim Richardson’s daughter, Kelly recovering from a mastectomy. Please remember this whole family in prayer..she has completed chemo therapy for now and is undergoing radiation. She is under the care of an oncologist. Leah May’s cousin, Joan, respiratory problems now home... Lucy Mancini under Orthopedic Specialist’s care and physical therapy for pain and injuries resulting from the accident. Pastor’s Dad, Larry Mancini, Sr. in an intermediary care facility, undergoing physical, occupational and speech therapy. There is a blog for him: www.papa2all.blogspot.com . His doctor is calling it a miracle. Stephen Huges, brother of a Good Shepherd Nursery School Mom, their parents home in Hewlett was destroyed in a fire.. Please remember Dr. And Mrs. Mucci in your prayers as well as Judy’s daughter Tatum. Alice Gordon’s family in the loss of her brother, Everette, Please remember his wife Monica and the whole family... Anka’s family in the loss of her dad. Joey Reda (Charlie and Diane Davison’s Grandson) experiencing some heart arrhythmia. Prudy’s Mom, Rose Ragusa, undergoing treatment- doing well. Jack Simon, a friend of Pastor’s, undergoing treatment for a lung problem...Pray for those children who will receive Christmas shoe boxes this December. Remember those who lost family and friends in the cyclone in Bangladesh... Leah May facing surgery. Please pray for healing.. Bart Moleta, Helen and Bob Pawson’s son-in-law, undergoing tests for a number of problems. Ralph Persad, Rianna’s brother’s funeral, this evening, at Grants in Coram. Frank Watson, a friend of Pastor’s from Bible College, lost his wife this past week due to kidney failure. The funeral is tomorrow morning in Indiana, burial on Wednesday in upstate NY.
Christmas Eve Service- 5pm, December 24th
Notes on Our Time in God’s Word This Morning...
Everlasting Father
Pastor’s messages are now available online:
http://thesundaymorningmessage.blogspot.com/
Church e-mail: bayshorenaz@rock.com
Church Phone: 631-969-1730
1314 Pine Acres Boulevard, Bay Shore, Long Island, NY 11706-5436
Isaiah 9.6-7
John 14.1-14
There are no perfect fathers on earth - just in heaven. I love my kids but I am limited in many ways. There are some things I am not able to do for them. There are many times I cannot be there for them. I don’t know everything that is going on in their lives. Our Father in heaven is perfect. He is not limited at all. He is always with us. He knows everything that is going on in our lives.
There are no ideal fathers on earth, but there is One in heaven
We should aim for perfection as II Corinthians 13.11 admonishes us to. When we fall short we should ask for forgiveness and seek to correct those places. Fathers need to strong but loving leaders in these days.
The LORD is a Father. From the beginning we see Him revealing the Nature of His Fatherhood.
Isaiah told us that when Jesus came He would be called Everlasting Father.
What does this name mean to us?
1. God is Our Father
Humanly Adam was a son of God Luke 3.38. Adam had no father on earth. His appearance came in the image of God as full grown man. God formed him out of the dust of the earth. He breathed into Adam’s nostrils and he became a living soul.
As far his human parentage Adam he had none so he was the son of God.
Spiritually- Since Adam’s sin that relationship with God had to be restored. Here is the reason for Jesus coming the first time- to take our sins, to take our place. We should have been crucified.
God is the Father of all in the sense He is the Creator. But our sins have separated us from Him. Before we come to Him we are spiritually children of the devil. The only way to become a true son or daughter of God (for eternity) is to be born again or born from above.
When a soul calls upon Jesus to save them from their sins, they become a child of God. John 1.11-13 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in his name, He gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
He adopts us. Romans 8.13 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory.
Emotionally There are a lot of children ( and adults included) without fathers today. There are a whole load of people out searching for “Daddy”. We have been created to have a relationship with a man who is our father. Mothers definitely play the predominant role but Dads... well they fill a role no other person can. This is why the widows and orphans are close to God’s heart.
Father God fills all our needs but few people relate to Him like that.
* The enemy steals the seed away.
* Some have had terrible examples of earthly fathers.
* Fathers abandoning children today, not being responsible for the lives they brought into the world. All my children are adults. I have others who look to me to be Dad to them. I am in a father role to some degree with my brother’s children. My hope, my desire is to point them all to our Father in heaven.
There is a great promise in Psalm 27.10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me. Gather, collect, bring up the rear, bring into association with - as with the time of death... “he was gathered to his fathers”.
Practically He will take care of us Matthew 6
The LORD has promise to take care of all our needs.
I didn’t realize how tight things were when I was growing up, especially when I was very young. Years later I asked and found out. My parents were content. We never went hungry- in fact we ate very well. They were thrifty so the dollar got stretched. Even under such circumstances we were well clothed and well fed and had a warm house. My dad practically took care of us. He did what he could. We knew he loved us. Now take life in God’s kingdom under His care. He is able to do immeasurably more than we could ever ask or imagine He is able to do anything. He is able to make grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. II Corinthians 9.8
God is all wise so He engages us in work. He gives us things to do in accomplishing His purposes. He does not let us sit idly by as He works. It is a joy and an adventure to work for Him.
2. He is the Everlasting Father
This was a war torn land and there were a lot of widows and orphans. Isaiah 9.1-5
What a wonderful promise to those without husband and father and mother. What a wonderful promise for those living in the land that had torn families part by war. War creates widows and orphans. He is the everlasting Father to them if they call upon His name. He is the Everlasting Father to those whose parents are still with them, to those who recently lost a parent, to those whose parents lived a full life and are gone now. He is the Everlasting Father to those who never knew their father He is the Everlasting Father!
The LORD has given the church the responsibility for looking after the orphans.
There are promises for the fatherless:
We already looked at one: Psalm 27.10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
There are more:
Psalm 10.14 But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
v.18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.
Psalm 68.5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Psalm 146.9 The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
His Word is eternal. Everlasting takes in His word which Jesus said, Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away.
3. He will take care of us
Perfectly. He can because He knows just what we need. This is not a spoiled or lopsided love. Day By day Hymn# 61- we’ll sing it at the end - listen to the words now.
Compassionately Jesus became a man by becoming a baby. He has fully entered our experience.
4. This is part of the Good News
I bring you glad tidings of good news which for be for all the people.
Everlasting Father is part of this good news. Father means head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan. We are part of God’s family.
We are members of His household. Ephesians 2.19 you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household,
I Timothy 3.15 God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. We are part of His family. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one, yet three persons. Not separate. So God is our Father in Heaven and Jesus is His Son. Yet Jesus is known as the Everlasting Father in part because He began the Christian family.
He is our spiritual Ancestor- Romans 8.29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Christ as the Everlasting Father means Christ lives in me. I share in His nature. I am growing to become like Him and reflect Him more and more.
God’s people
He is the author of our faith, the father of it.
He produces more and more offspring as time goes on. He regenerates people dead in their trespasses and sins and makes us alive.
John 14 passage- read it this week. It is a wonderful commentary on the Everlasting Father
**********************************************************John 14.1-14
There are no perfect fathers on earth - just in heaven. I love my kids but I am limited in many ways. There are some things I am not able to do for them. There are many times I cannot be there for them. I don’t know everything that is going on in their lives. Our Father in heaven is perfect. He is not limited at all. He is always with us. He knows everything that is going on in our lives.
There are no ideal fathers on earth, but there is One in heaven
We should aim for perfection as II Corinthians 13.11 admonishes us to. When we fall short we should ask for forgiveness and seek to correct those places. Fathers need to strong but loving leaders in these days.
The LORD is a Father. From the beginning we see Him revealing the Nature of His Fatherhood.
Isaiah told us that when Jesus came He would be called Everlasting Father.
What does this name mean to us?
1. God is Our Father
Humanly Adam was a son of God Luke 3.38. Adam had no father on earth. His appearance came in the image of God as full grown man. God formed him out of the dust of the earth. He breathed into Adam’s nostrils and he became a living soul.
As far his human parentage Adam he had none so he was the son of God.
Spiritually- Since Adam’s sin that relationship with God had to be restored. Here is the reason for Jesus coming the first time- to take our sins, to take our place. We should have been crucified.
God is the Father of all in the sense He is the Creator. But our sins have separated us from Him. Before we come to Him we are spiritually children of the devil. The only way to become a true son or daughter of God (for eternity) is to be born again or born from above.
When a soul calls upon Jesus to save them from their sins, they become a child of God. John 1.11-13 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in his name, He gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
He adopts us. Romans 8.13 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory.
Emotionally There are a lot of children ( and adults included) without fathers today. There are a whole load of people out searching for “Daddy”. We have been created to have a relationship with a man who is our father. Mothers definitely play the predominant role but Dads... well they fill a role no other person can. This is why the widows and orphans are close to God’s heart.
Father God fills all our needs but few people relate to Him like that.
* The enemy steals the seed away.
* Some have had terrible examples of earthly fathers.
* Fathers abandoning children today, not being responsible for the lives they brought into the world. All my children are adults. I have others who look to me to be Dad to them. I am in a father role to some degree with my brother’s children. My hope, my desire is to point them all to our Father in heaven.
There is a great promise in Psalm 27.10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me. Gather, collect, bring up the rear, bring into association with - as with the time of death... “he was gathered to his fathers”.
Practically He will take care of us Matthew 6
The LORD has promise to take care of all our needs.
I didn’t realize how tight things were when I was growing up, especially when I was very young. Years later I asked and found out. My parents were content. We never went hungry- in fact we ate very well. They were thrifty so the dollar got stretched. Even under such circumstances we were well clothed and well fed and had a warm house. My dad practically took care of us. He did what he could. We knew he loved us. Now take life in God’s kingdom under His care. He is able to do immeasurably more than we could ever ask or imagine He is able to do anything. He is able to make grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. II Corinthians 9.8
God is all wise so He engages us in work. He gives us things to do in accomplishing His purposes. He does not let us sit idly by as He works. It is a joy and an adventure to work for Him.
2. He is the Everlasting Father
This was a war torn land and there were a lot of widows and orphans. Isaiah 9.1-5
What a wonderful promise to those without husband and father and mother. What a wonderful promise for those living in the land that had torn families part by war. War creates widows and orphans. He is the everlasting Father to them if they call upon His name. He is the Everlasting Father to those whose parents are still with them, to those who recently lost a parent, to those whose parents lived a full life and are gone now. He is the Everlasting Father to those who never knew their father He is the Everlasting Father!
The LORD has given the church the responsibility for looking after the orphans.
There are promises for the fatherless:
We already looked at one: Psalm 27.10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
There are more:
Psalm 10.14 But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
v.18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.
Psalm 68.5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Psalm 146.9 The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
His Word is eternal. Everlasting takes in His word which Jesus said, Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away.
3. He will take care of us
Perfectly. He can because He knows just what we need. This is not a spoiled or lopsided love. Day By day Hymn# 61- we’ll sing it at the end - listen to the words now.
Compassionately Jesus became a man by becoming a baby. He has fully entered our experience.
4. This is part of the Good News
I bring you glad tidings of good news which for be for all the people.
Everlasting Father is part of this good news. Father means head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan. We are part of God’s family.
We are members of His household. Ephesians 2.19 you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household,
I Timothy 3.15 God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. We are part of His family. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one, yet three persons. Not separate. So God is our Father in Heaven and Jesus is His Son. Yet Jesus is known as the Everlasting Father in part because He began the Christian family.
He is our spiritual Ancestor- Romans 8.29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Christ as the Everlasting Father means Christ lives in me. I share in His nature. I am growing to become like Him and reflect Him more and more.
God’s people
He is the author of our faith, the father of it.
He produces more and more offspring as time goes on. He regenerates people dead in their trespasses and sins and makes us alive.
John 14 passage- read it this week. It is a wonderful commentary on the Everlasting Father
Let’s close with a benediction from Paul, the apostle
for us this morning
Ephesians 3.14-21
Day by Day #61
for us this morning
Ephesians 3.14-21
Day by Day #61
The LORD’s Day
December 9, 2007
We Worship In Singing
We Worship In Prayer
We Worship In Hearing the Word of God
Everlasting Father
Isaiah 9.1-7
*Tithes and Offerings can be placed in the box at the rear of the sanctuary*
Please join us for bagels and coffee downstairs if you are visiting today.
This Week
Bible Reading Isaiah 9, Matthew 1-2, Luke 2
Monday Men’s Prayer Meeting 6:30am in the church basement
Wednesday &Thursday Bible Studies will resume next month
Next Lord’s Day
Morning Prayer- 10am in the church basement
Morning Worship- 10:30am(Sunday School for Children)
Spanish Service- 4pm
In Your Prayers For All of God’s People
Remember the men serving in the armed forces: Bradley, Julia Bujold’s grandson with Special Forces in Afghanistan, home on leave right now, Ken Brown, Pastor’s friend’s son finished his third tour of Iraq- His parents thank us for praying for him. Billy Knapp, Jr. in Iraq with the Marines (neighbor of the church and Pastor- Billy’s sister graduated from Good Shepherd). Stateside now being redeployed in April... Matthew Klaus, brother of Good Shepherd parent in Iraq as a firefighter for Haliburton. Pastor’s nephews’ and niece’s cousin Kim’s husband, Jay, in Iraq. Pray for them and the others away from their families. Praise God for keeping David Louis, Jake Morgan, Ken Brown and Tom Hindelang, Billy Knapp Jr. safe during their times in Iraq. Pray for peace. Katharina’s Family in the loss of her daughter... Remember Robert, her son-in-law and her grandsons, Norman, Raymond &Jonathan and their families. Kathy, Ziggy and Margot’s daughter-in-law, under the doctor’s care for fibromyalgia. Thank God for answers to prayer for her as well as Lucy, their daughter... God is she is recovering well. Pray for Eloise Brooks’ Family in their loss and sorrow... Remember Jean Louis on dialysis. Grace Martin, Edie Raevis’ daughter, recovering from surgery on her back and uindergoing Physical Therapy. Edie’s daughter’s mother-in-law, Millie Espisito remains in serious condition. Reginald Mooney, friend of Terri and John Garry, with a tumor in his kidney. Please remember Pastor’s friend Kim Richardson’s daughter, Kelly recovering from a mastectomy. Please remember this whole family in prayer..she has completed chemo therapy for now and is undergoing radiation. She is under the care of an oncologist. Leah May’s cousin, Joan, respiratory problems now home... Lucy Mancini under Orthopedic Specialist’s care and physical therapy for pain and injuries resulting from the accident. Pastor’s Dad, Larry Mancini, Sr. in an intermediary care facility, undergoing physical, occupational and speech therapy. There is a blog for him: www.papa2all.blogspot.com . His doctor is calling it a miracle. Stephen Huges, brother of a Good Shepherd Nursery School Mom, their parents home in Hewlett was destroyed in a fire.. Please remember Dr. And Mrs. Mucci in your prayers as well as Judy’s daughter Tatum. Alice Gordon’s family in the loss of her brother, Everette, Please remember his wife Monica and the whole family... Anka’s family in the loss of her dad. Joey Reda (Charlie and Diane Davison’s Grandson) experiencing some heart arrhythmia. Prudy’s Mom, Rose Ragusa, undergoing treatment- doing well. Jack Simon, a friend of Pastor’s, undergoing treatment for a lung problem...Pray for those children who will receive Christmas shoe boxes this December. Remember those who lost family and friends in the cyclone in Bangladesh... Leah May facing surgery. Please pray for healing.. Bart Moleta, Helen and Bob Pawson’s son-in-law, undergoing tests for a number of problems. Ralph Persad, Rianna’s brother’s funeral, this evening, at Grants in Coram. Frank Watson, a friend of Pastor’s from Bible College, lost his wife this past week due to kidney failure. The funeral is tomorrow morning in Indiana, burial on Wednesday in upstate NY.
Christmas Eve Service- 5pm, December 24th
Notes on Our Time in God’s Word This Morning...
Everlasting Father
Isaiah 9.1-7, John 14
Pastor’s messages are now available online:
http://thesundaymorningmessage.blogspot.com/
Church e-mail: bayshorenaz@rock.com
Church Phone: 631-969-1730
1314 Pine Acres Boulevard, Bay Shore, Long Island, NY 11706-5436
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