And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Matthew 23:9
What is Jesus telling us when He says “call not man your father on earth?” We celebrate Father’s Day every year because Daddy’s are a special gift given to us by God. Jesus is not saying that we cannot call your Dad Daddy. No, you keep calling him Daddy.
But, Jesus is pointing us to an even greater special gift. You see, God created everything in the universe and God created you and your parents and brothers and sisters and me and Pastor ________. Whenever we repent of our sins and put our faith in Jesus Christ alone, we are adopted into Jesus’ family.
Do you know what that makes God to us? That makes Him our Daddy! This is what Jesus is saying when He says, “For you have one Father, who is in heaven.” When we are adopted through our faith into God’s family, He becomes a Daddy to us and we then get all of the benefits of being a child of God!
Let us pray . . .
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Perhaps make it personal and have the one who is giving the children’s sermon hold up a picture of his father at the beginning.
Hello Tony,
I read “A Father’s Day Sermon On the Fifth Commandment”. I’ve been working with children’s nministry for many years. One particular time always stands out for me. I believe it’s because of the impact this activity had on a group of girls who were not getting along. What I did was blow up a picture of Jesus face. I think I used one of Him wearing the crown of thorns. I stapled it to a rather large “cork” bulletin board. I then drew a target/bulls eye on a bigger separate sheet of paper. I stapled it over the face of Jesus. I gave each girl a blank sheet of paper and some markers and asked them to draw a picture of someone who they were mad at or someone who had hurt them because of gossip. Then each girl had the opportunity to staple their picture on the target and shoot darts at it. Some shot at it, some stabbed at it, others weren’t so dramatic. Before I removed the target, we discussed how hurtful gossip is, etc. When I removed the target and they saw the face of Jesus mauled, punctured, and stabbed, I almost had to walk around and pick up jaws that had hit the floor. I then let them tell me to describe what they saw and why they were so shocked/surprised? They were able to tell me that not only were they hurting others and thenmselves, but the One they never thought they were hurting was Jesus. SOme girls cried remorsefully for gossiping, others were apologizing to girls within the group. I has no idea that they were doing this to eachother.
This activity can be used the same with children to parents, or parents to children. What do you think?
Rebecca Espinoza
I love the picture of Jesus and the message of hurting Him when we gossip etc. powerful. thank you
Terry,
Thanks again for sharing this. I can really see Dr. Moore rubbing off on you – which is good thing!