Continuing in Acts, Morning Praise

June 9, 2013

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1 Timothy 1:1-2 Read aloud to illustrate the father-son-like relationship between Paul and Timothy, and to encourage fathers to extend grace, mercy, and peace to their children

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;
2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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This was Father's Day at First B, and the message centered on a short passage from 1 Timothy where Paul addresses Timothy as his "true child in the faith." The preacher drew a line between what Paul offered Timothy and what fathers are called to offer their own children. It was a brief, direct word aimed at the fathers in the room and at everyone who knows God as a heavenly Father.

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Paul opens 1 Timothy by identifying himself as an apostle writing to Timothy, and the preacher pointed out that Paul and Timothy were not actually father and son. What they had was a relationship that looked and felt like one, and Paul's letter reflects that kind of care.

The specific things Paul wished for Timothy were grace, mercy, and peace. The preacher read those words slowly and let them sit. These were not abstract theology, they were the actual things one person was offering another across a letter.

The application was plain: fathers in the room should think about offering those same things to their own children. The preacher acknowledged that on a hectic Sunday morning, when everyone is rushing to get out the door, that is genuinely hard to do. He did not pretend otherwise.

He then widened the circle. Whether someone in the room is a father or not, God as a heavenly Father wants to offer those same things to His children. Grace, mercy, and peace are not only things fathers give downward. They are things we all receive from above.

The service itself carried some extra texture that morning. The sanctuary was decorated for Vacation Bible School, which was starting the next day, and nineteen women from the church were preparing to take that same VBS curriculum to Kenya in August. The preacher named both of those things as reasons for prayer and gratitude, woven in around the Father's Day word.

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Paul describes his relationship with Timothy as that of a father and child in the faith. Who has played that kind of spiritual parent role in your life, and what did that relationship mean to you?
The opening prayer asked God for 'clean hands' and forgiveness before coming into His presence. What does it look like practically for you to prepare your heart before worship?

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0:23 So welcome to the carnival.

0:26 Just joking. No. Come on in, and we'll get started. And, look around. This is obviously not normal for, for first b, the decorations, but our ladies definitely definitely spent a lot of time yesterday getting ready for vacation Bible school for all the kids of community and did a, a ton of work.

0:50 So, yeah, look around and thank you to the to the ladies for for helping out yesterday. So let's stand and, and let's start.

3:09 And when from death we're free we'll sing on we'll sing on and when from death we're free

3:51 Alright. Amen. We love that. We love doing that song. It's an oldie but a goodie but just great great words.

4:02 So, let's keep let's keep let's keep worshiping. Let's actually, let's pray real quick. Lord, we, just wanna come before you, this morning on Father's Day, and we just bow before you and and, we just pray for clean hands, Lord, that you would clean our hands and that you would obviously forgive us of our of our sins as we come before you in your presence, Lord. And, we just thank you for what you've done. Your blood has paid, paid our debt, and we thank you for that.

4:40 Pray that you would, be with this service and, that you would, be present here in, in this place. Name in your name, we pray. Amen.

5:59 Jesus, in your name we pray. Come and fill our hearts today. Lord, give us strength to live for you and glorify your name.

7:13 You can be seated.

7:17 Good morning. Welcome to First Baptist Church. It's wonderful to see so many smiling and a little bit sunburned faces out there. We've got just a few announcements to keep you up to date on what's happening this week. This is an exciting week here at First B.

7:36 Vacation Bible School starts tomorrow. That's the that's the carnival. So, a big thank you to all the the folks that gave of both time and and money to make this happen. I know our kids are excited and lots of others are too. So, tomorrow, VBS starts and yes, please please pray for all the mostly ladies but ladies and men that are that are helping out this week with VBS because the leaders need prayer, that's for sure.

8:10 Monday night this week is going to be a little different. We're meeting at Philbox Park same time, 06:15. That's that's over by the bottom of Snow King at the the climbing wall there. So be excited to be out in the sunshine again tomorrow evening. The, this VBS that you see here is is going to Africa in a couple of months.

8:38 There are 19 ladies that are that are headed there in August. So please be in prayer for them. Look for ways that you can help and support those ladies get there, but one of the things that they'll be doing among others is is doing VBS for the Togony Baptist Academy in the the Togony Baptist Church there outside of Lumuru, Kenya. Tonight, there is no solid rock. It's Father's Day, so take that opportunity to spend some time together as a as a family.

9:14 And I I did want to honor honor fathers here this morning. It is Father's Day. If if you haven't figured that out already that Albertsons is probably sold out of Father's Day cards, so you probably need to make one on your own. I wanted to read from from first Timothy. Paul and Timothy were not actually father son, but they certainly had a father son like relationship.

9:40 And this is what Paul writes to Timothy. He says, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by command of God and our savior, and of Christ Jesus our hope. To Timothy, my true child in the faith. And this is what he's he's, he wants to give Timothy essentially. He says, grace, mercy, and peace from God the father and Christ Jesus our lord.

10:01 So my encouragement to those of us out here that are fathers, is to offer those things to our children. And on a crazy Sunday morning where we're all trying to get ready fast, that that actually difficult to do. Grace, mercy, and peace from God our father and Christ Jesus our lord. But as fathers today, let's think about extending those things to our children. And as children of God, with a relationship with our our heavenly father, he wants to offer us those things.

10:39 So be encouraged whether you're a a father or not. Could we have the father stand up? If you're no. No. Yes.

10:56 The men of this church are a, a blessing to me and and I'm sure to your family as well. How about everybody stand up and, welcome somebody new? Look for, look for an unfamiliar face and and introduce yourself.

12:41 Let no one caught in sin remain inside is exalted the king is exalted on high I will praise exalted forever exalted and I

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