Render to God and Caesar: Priorities of Faithful Fathers

And he takes care of the problem that everybody in this room has. For all have fallen short and all have sinned. But a beautiful God sent a beautiful son to be the propitiation, to be the atonement, to be what pays for sin. His blood for us to have it received by faith. And what did Joshua say? Have faith. Serve the Lord. Have faith. Be where you are right now in this phase of life wherever god has you and be faithful to god and serve him. [01:02:51] (51 seconds)  #FaithAndAtonement

Give to god what is his. If you haven't done it yet, if Jesus is not lord of your life, then your first thing is to give your heart solely to him. So, you will worship, so you will serve, so you will honor and live for. And so this morning, I pray you hear it all. I wanna encourage us not to come in giving lip service, not to be a hypocrite. We come in to seek and serve Jesus Christ and then we go seek that which is lost. [01:14:33] (37 seconds)  #HeartNotLipService

Paul didn't say money was great gain. He said, great gain is in being godly and being content with what you have. Jesus, his answer to those religious Pharisees, those Herodians that come, hey, you you gonna pay the tax? Well, no. We better pay something. You gonna pay the tax to Caesar? And Jesus goes, we gonna give Caesar what is Caesar's. But you're give god what is his. See, because it's not a call to just be faithful to government. It's a call really to be faithful to the lord. [01:10:13] (44 seconds)  #GiveGodWhatIsHis

He says, Paul says, godliness and contentment is great gain. Desiring god and being holy and being content with what god has blessed you with is great gain. That's the great gain. Not your bank account, not the things you have at your house. Great gain is godliness and being content with what you have for we brought nothing into this world and we could take nothing out of this world. So, when I visited baby Amos, he didn't have a bunch of stuff that he brought from the womb with him. [01:08:18] (33 seconds)  #GodlinessAndContentment

It's easy for us to say what Southside has done the past thirty years. There's some beautiful points, but hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me. You can't live in those past memories. That's right. That those past times do not negate a present time responsibility to serve the lord. In your own life, you can't look back to that one time when you got saved was how great and awesome you were at worshiping the lord and what the great mighty things you done. You don't live back then. [00:56:12] (33 seconds)  #PresentFaithfulService

The enemy is looking for one open door, one open window to come in and attack and pull apart if he can. And so so so we'll get to it little deeper and then we're gonna get into the Matthew 22 text. It's so important because you are a picture of what Jesus does for the church. Jesus so loving the church that he died and gave himself up for the church. So, hear me. What is it that you, dads, need to die to today? [00:32:00] (34 seconds)  #CloseTheOpenDoor

What hobby needs to go to the altar and just stay there? What what focus have you put in in in your life as priority over your kids or or over the spiritual discernment or direction for your wife? Hear me. If you've opened the door, then you should be looking to the lord this morning and go, I repent. I want my family back because I want my family to love and seek you. [00:32:34] (30 seconds)  #PrioritizeFamilyFaith

So, as we're commending you to go, give to Caesar what is Caesar's? Give to the lord what is his. Stop trying to find loopholes. Stop trying to serve other gods in your lives. God has been beautifully bountiful and blessing to you in your life. Then then give him your time. Give him your the opportunities to serve and give him whatever that tithe is that god has has put onto your heart to to give. [01:11:55] (32 seconds)  #GiveGodYourAll