Wow, we could just say Amen and go home after that.

Well, I want to acknowledge our fathers today, just, I know Pastor Thomas did during worship but I want to say to

you men if you are a father today God bless you may the Lord bless you as you

fulfill your role as a father I I have been praying. I pray that this message today

will encourage you and bless you and your role, your influential role as a

father. And so I just add my encouragement and blessing to you today.

If you haven't been blessed already with a card or breakfast in bed or something like that,

well, I think you ought to go out to lunch today on Pastor Jeff.

So, just to send him the bill and take it as a Father's Day gift from us.

Thank you.

Well, I want to speak to you this morning on the subject or the

title of this message is the influence of a father and if you brought your Bibles and want to follow along there, turn to Malachai Chapter 4 and put a mark there and then also look in Luke Chapter 1 one and if you don't have your Bible

it'll come up on the PowerPoint you can read along with me. While you're turning

there let me just tell you a story, a quick story.

One of the great things about being here is I get a chance to be with, we have three married children.

Two of our married children live here in this area and are a part of Gateway Church.

My son, oldest son Todd, is our administrative pastor,

and he was here before we got here.

His daughter, we have three grandchildren, and Todd has two of our three grandchildren. his daughter,

is just a sweetheart.

And not long ago, Pastor Brady told this story,

Olivia is the same age as Pastor Brady's daughter, Callie, and they had gone,

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