Father’s Day Recognition: Malachi 4:5-6

Godly Parents And Virtuous Children Luke 1:5-25

Godly Parents 5-6

¬ Faithful Priests: who stand before God for the sake of their Children:

They Pray For Their Children: Who battle for the Spiritual welfare of their children: They ask God to save them, bless them, mature them. Fulfill His word for them:

They Teach Their Children The Word of God: Deuteronomy 6:6-7

They Stand in the Gap: Job 1:1-5

¬ Parents who are Righteousness by Faith and Practice: 6

Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, as for the proud one,His soul is not right within him;But the righteous will live by his faith.

Romans 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.” NASU

Romans 4:5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

¬ Parents who Model Godliness and How to do Life: 6

Micah 6:6-8 Do Justice, Love Kindness and Walk Humbly with Your God

Zacharias Is Given A Word: A word for His posterity!

• A Long Forgotten Prayer Answered! Verse 13
• A Medically Impossible Birth Promised! Verse 13
• A Son of the Kingdom! Verse 14-17

Virtuous Children: 13-17

¬ A Child of Purpose: His Name is John. Virtue of Godly Purpoe

¬ Children whose life brings Great Joy, by their presence and by their lifestyle of word and deed. Virtue of Love

¬ Children Great in the Sight of God. Virtue of Integrity

1 Samuel 16:6-12

¬ Children Who will not be Conformed to the World: Virtue of Sobriety

Romans 12:1-2

Daniel 1:8 – Daniel refused the Kings Food and Wine

Ephesians 5:1 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine , for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

¬ Children Who Find Their Total Dependency on the Spirit! Nothing Else! Virtue of Obedience

Luke 1:41 He leapt in His Mother’s Womb

¬ Children Who Possess Ministries…..

• That Turn People Back to the Lord their God! (Hearts touched!) 16

• That Go Before Jesus in the Power of Elijah to Point to Him: 17

John 1:6 There came a man sent from God, whose name was John 7 he came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through Him. 8 He was not the Light but he came to testify about the Light.

John 1:35 Again the next day Joun was standing with two of his disciples, 36 and he looked at Jesus as He walked and said, “Behold the Lamb of God”!

• To Turn Hearts of Children and Fathers Toward One another! Families Touched 17

Malachi 4:6 “He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”

• Turn Disobedient to the Attitude of the Righteous!
Attitudes Changed!

• To Make Ready a People Prepared for the Lord:

John 3:22-35

– John Knew What God’s Purposes Were For His Life!
– John Knew His Place!
– John Knew His Lord!

Become A Remarkable Family of God’s Kingdom!

Back to the Malachi: The Curse Reversed:

The Father sent the Son to bring us home. The Son obeyed, so we could be adopted. The Spirit cries out in us, “Abba, Father.”