THIS WEEK’S PROJECT

Family Builders

 

Malachi 4:5 (NKJV) Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

Malachi 4:6 (NKJV) And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

Because of the breakdown of the family for generations, men struggle with knowing what a father looks like. Jesus came to reveal the true and eternal father. (John 14:9). Let’s look at some father attributes Jesus walked in.

Fathers delegate to their children.

Training is not just telling someone how to do it and walking away. Training involves giving information and then checking to see how the person you instructed is doing. With children you will have to do it over and over. Paul entrusted things to his sons.

1 Corinthians 4:17 (NLT) That’s why I have sent Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of how I follow Christ Jesus, just as I teach in all the churches wherever I go.

Paul instructed Timothy, his son in the faith, things to do. He taught him and then checked up on him to see how he was doing.

Action

I remember when my kids were little and we taught them to brush their teeth. We instructed them on the how-to’s of teeth brushing. But we didn’t just do that one time. We checked up on them. They didn’t understand the importance of brushing. We would tell them to brush and then check the toothbrush to ensure it was wet.

But they would just get the brush wet and tell us they brushed. We figured out what they were doing so we would check the brush and then say, “Did you really brush or just get the brush wet?” That is called training. It is a series of instructions that you check up on to make sure the one you are training is getting it. Fathers delegate truth to their children by training them.