If we want to be a righteous man, we need the Spirit of Christ living in our hearts. Surrendering our will to God so we can live a spiritual life, a godly life.
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If a man wants to be righteous, or a man can truly only be righteous if he puts on the righteousness of Christ through surrendering his life to him. You know, otherwise, we just make a mess of things.
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Our self -righteousness, you know, really, it stinks. Isaiah chapter 64, verse 6, it says, All our righteous acts are like filthy rags.
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We need the spirit of Jesus to make us righteous. And otherwise, we just walk in the flesh.
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For the flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit, and the spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other so that you are not to do whatever you want.
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To be truly righteous. We need Jesus. Amen? Amen.
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Take time for your family. Take time for your family. This was mentioned by more people than anything else. Take time for your family.
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Daddies. Don't make your kids compete. For time with you. With all these other things. With friends and work. And all these other things. Don't make your time. Your kids compete. For time with them.
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A great dad is a Christ centered leader. Ephesians 6. Verse 4. It says. Fathers do not exasperate. Or provoke. Your children. Instead bring them up. In the training. And instruction of the Lord.
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To be a Christ -centered leader in a home, this makes all the difference. Bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. That's what great dads do.
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A great dad, our next point is a great dad is a patient dad. Proverbs 22, verse 6 says, Train up a child in the way he should go. And that takes patience. That takes patience.
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Be there for your kids. Be there for your kids. Lead them by example. Don't tell your kids not to do something and then turn around and do that very same thing. And then not give an explanation of why this conflicts with your advice to them.
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Your actions speak a lot louder than your words so give them an explanation as to why not to do what you're asking them not to do. Explain the consequences behind certain actions.
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Encourage them and cheer them on. You know, it's so easy to point out to our kids, when they've messed something up, when they didn't do what they were supposed to do, when they did it wrong. It's so easy to point that out. I guess it's so hard to tell them when they've done something right.
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A great dad models masculinity well for his kids. And that's something that has been played down. It has been played down so much. The masculinity of men has been played down so much in our secular world by Froot Loops and Hollywood and all that stuff that it's, it's, it's, it's an insult. It's an insult to men. It's an insult to, to God's design and, and how he, how he ordered it.
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A masculine man, he, he protects his family. He loves his family. He shows his love. He tells his family he loves them. And he's a romantic husband to his wife.
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Give room for kids to be kids. Now, now I know how kids are raised looks different in every single home. Each parent makes a decision on how they raise their kids. That's your right. They're your children and that's your right.
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Don't compare your kids to other kids. Don't compare one kid to another sibling. Don't compare one kid to his cousin or anyone else. Don't compare kids to others. God has made us all very uniquely different. Every one of us, we're all very uniquely different.
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Treat them appropriate for the stage of life that they are in. This is a challenging one. It was really super challenging for me.
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Be loving and compassionate. Be loving and compassionate. Now, this is something that a lot of us older, and I'm not that old, but, but some, a lot of us, that wasn't modeled very well for us. That was not modeled very well for us at all. We grew up with what was called tough love. And it wasn't even tough love, but that's the word that was placed there to, to, to make it okay.
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Do your best to provide for your for your family be a good provider as as a as a father as a husband as a dad be be a good provider for them and and then last one be be honest be an be an honest dad if if you if you told your kids you're you were going to do something if you if you promise something then do your very very best to follow through with with what you've what you've committed to be an honest dad model that honesty to them as well.
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If we as dads and i'm talking about us as dads that are here right now i'm not talking about whoever did what in the past i'm talking about us as dads if we make great choices for our kids going forward our children will be blessed by that our children will be blessed by that.
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There's a lot of weight put on um our responsibility as a dad there's a lot of weight put on it and so sometimes our life can get pretty overwhelming you know the part where we provide for our family can get really stressful sometimes sometimes we have to put in some extra work to get that seed in the ground by due date or whatever sometimes we have to put some overtime to get that construction project completed or to get that load delivered wherever it needs to go and so sometimes it it gets overwhelming with work and then we got all this other stuff to think about you know the the responsibility of the family and everything and that can get really overwhelming at times.
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We as dads we we do a lot of times act really tough you know, it looks like, you know, it's a real bad storm around us, and, you know, we're not freaking out. That's what it looks like. And sometimes you wives, you ask, like, why are you worried about it? You know, we're doing everything we can to keep it together. Everything. Inside, we're, it's a mess. We don't know what to do. And so we're trying to keep it together as best as we can, because we're the leader of the house, and we want to model that. We don't want to, if we freak out, then the whole family is going to freak out. And so we're trying to stay calm. And so we're doing everything we can. But sometimes we just, we really just want to cry. That's how it feels inside sometimes, with all the pressure around us.
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If you do make a decision like that, that those decisions, they do have consequences. And they will follow one day. And so please don't make those decisions. Don't make decisions like that. Instead, maybe just talk to your family. It's like, hey, there's times when I'm just overwhelmed. And so if I could have a little room to just kind of alone time, that would be great. Maybe you wives, you children, you can learn to read that on your husband, on your dad. Today, he just needs a little cheering on. And he just, let's not make it extra stressful.
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