We welcome you now to a true church perspective with Pastor G. Craig Lewis.

Father God, amen.

There are five things our Father God did in the beginning that all fathers should do.

If you're going to learn from a father,

learn from Father God. Amen? Now let me tell you something and understand what I'm about to say.

It's okay to depend on God and love God when you don't have a father or when your father's not there. But don't try to replace a father that's there with God.

God's not going to let you do that because you have to honor your earthly authority father before you can honor him amen that's why we got these crazy Hebrew

Israelites and all this old others crazy stuff those are men that are angry with their father

their earthly father and they want to bypass that to get to the heavenly father because they don't

like their earthly father or they don't like earthly fatherhood father because they don't like their earthly father or they don't like

earthly fatherhood themselves because they don't take care of their children but either way

it's wrong because you have to honor the entire Bible not just the Old Testament laws of Moses.

You got to honor the whole Bible.

Amen.

And then you got to understand that as men and as fathers, it's going to get hard sometimes.

Has it ever gotten hard for a father in here? Amen. It's going to get hard, but you don't

abandon ship because the ship is rocking. Amen. And if you get mad enough at your father for doing

that, guess what you're going to do? The same thing. So we want to make sure that we're

honoring our fathers and we're not trying to replace our earthly father with a heavenly father. Amen?

Amen. My dad is not here, but I can't make my heavenly father who he was.

So what I do is I remember the things that he shared with me and the things that he did.

We were way more like than I knew why he was alive.

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