Fathers, Sons, & The Saviour | Luke 3:21-4:2 | First Baptist Church of Kamloops

God the father looks at God the son, and he says, I am pleased with you. Notice that. He takes pleasure in him. Those are the first words that he says, and he makes that pleasure in his son known to all those who are around. He essentially is present. He communicates his presence. He makes his presence felt by sending his spirit to rest upon Christ. [00:23:01] (27 seconds)  #FatherPleased

We see this over and over again, the outsized influence that dads have. The entire created order declares and exhibits the glory of God. This is what Psalm 19 tells us. The heavens declare his handiwork, and therefore, that being true, the whole creation displays his majesty, his power, and his might. And that means that everything reflects him in some way, and what God reveals to us is that he is father, which means we cannot subtract fatherhood from the equation and walk away unscathed. [00:32:58] (35 seconds)  #FatherhoodMatters

A man who assumes responsibility, a man who takes personal responsibility for those around him is learning what it is to be a man. He's learning how to be a man. A boy who is taking responsibility is learning manhood. And incidentally, culture that encourages men to run away from responsibility, a boy whose parents make excuses for him rather than instructing him how to take responsibility [00:34:28] (32 seconds)  #ResponsibilityIsManhood

for his own actions and his own decisions, and further than that, how to take responsibility for others, parents who make excuses, and society who makes excuses. They are teaching boys to run away from masculinity, and they are tearing down the fabric of our civilization. [00:35:00] (16 seconds)  #FathersBuildCivilization

If you want to be a good dad, there is no other father that you can imitate better than God the father. There is no other example greater or more perfect than his example. And when we see how he interacts with the son, it's quite clear he takes pleasure in his son. He expresses solidarity with his son. He also gives generously to his son. In this particular text, it says that he gives him the Holy Spirit. It says the Holy Spirit descends upon him in bodily form. The father, as he is relating to his son, is always generous in giving to his son. [00:25:21] (38 seconds)  #FatherAbsenceHurts

Take a look at this genealogy. I am not gonna go through every single one of these names, but as a whole, when you look at this, you have the story of sinful Adam, the whole human race, every family that has come from God starting with Adam and all the way down, yes, even to Joseph, Jesus' adopted father, every family, every father has failed in some measure in his responsibility as a father. And that failure is reflected in the failures of the sons who have come after. [00:12:47] (41 seconds)  #FatherhoodIsCrucial

So that we see here fatherhood is crucial, that fatherhood cannot be ignored, that the role of the father in the raising of his children cannot be set aside, that they have inescapably, irreversibly, and undeniably an outsized, a determining influence on their sons and their daughters. [00:13:29] (22 seconds)  #GodsFatherhoodReflected

We do not call God father because we are projecting our notions of male based fatherhood onto him. We call him father because traces of his fatherhood, of his masculinity, have been bestowed upon us. [00:30:29] (41 seconds)  #FatherhoodEssential

Taking it even as family, every family is named, every father is named in accordance with the heavenly father, which means the fatherhood is essential to every family. And even especially in families where fatherhoods are absent in any number of ways, we see by their absence just exactly how crucial it is to have a dad. [00:32:14] (25 seconds)  #CultureOfSacrificialMasculinity

But when a culture encourages masculinity, which is to say when a society or a church encourages the boys in that church to think about more than themselves, to think about those around them, and to assume responsibility for those around them even to the point of sacrifice. This is a church that is serious about pursuing the blessing of God Because this is what we see in God the father, and this is what we see in God the son. [00:35:22] (29 seconds)  #JesusFromScandal

And so what Luke is doing here is he's saying to Theophilus, this Jesus, he is the son of God. And in the same way that you Romans like to trace your lineage back as far as you possibly can go, we're gonna trace Christ's lineage back all the way to God himself. Jesus is a descendant of God. Now what that means for you and me is that Jesus, whatever we expect of him, whatever great purpose God the father has for his life, because he is traced back to God, [00:08:06] (33 seconds)  #VoiceOfTheFather

they they owe their status to their family lineage. In Roman society, your lineage, who your parents were, who your grandparents were, who your great grandparents were, this determined to a large degree your status within society, and it set you up as some as an individual from whom great things could be expected. If you had a poor [00:06:39] (24 seconds)

lineage, if you had a no name lineage, nobody had any expectations from you. If you if you were descended from the the Julian family or the Claudius family, wow. These are families that can trace their lineage all the way back to Romulus himself, the founder [00:07:04] (16 seconds)

And so what Luke is doing here is he's saying to Theophilus, this Jesus, he is the son of God. And in the same way that you Romans like to trace your lineage back as far as you possibly can go, we're gonna trace Christ's lineage back all the way to God himself. Jesus is a descendant of God. Now what that means for you and me is that Jesus, whatever we expect of him, whatever great purpose God the father has for his life, because he is traced back to God, [00:08:06] (33 seconds)

We have a lot of fathers that are supposed to be raising their sons to be men, but what we actually see in this genealogy is a failure of fathers to do what God has called them to do in terms of raising up their sons. And yet what we also see in this text is that despite all the dysfunction, despite all the failures of all these fathers across 77 generations, we still have for all of us. [00:03:53] (45 seconds)