Rebel to Redeemed…Sharing HIS Kind of Love
The Lord God is the ultimate Father. He is the Alpha and Omega and creator of the world. Time and time again he refers to himself as our father, our loving and heavenly father. Jesus Christ refers to God as his father and he {Jesus} is God’s son. When referring to the trinity, we are told we have the Father […]
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Joseph is the earthly father of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. The name Joseph means may God add or give increase. Imagine his confusion when Mary, his betrothed, tells him she is expecting. An angel appears to him, telling him not to put her away. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a […]
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Zacharias and Elisabeth are an older couple, who are childless. Their season of childbearing had passed by. We do learn something about their character. “And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.” {Luke 1:6} Elisabeth is from a priestly family and Zechariah is a priest, who has received the highest […]
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The name Jehonadab means God is willing. Jehonadab is first mentioned when he joined hands with Jehu in destroying the wicked family of Ahab. {2 Kings 10:15-16} He partnered to destroy and suppress the worship of Baal throughout Samaria. He is referred to as the son of Rechab. His sons became known as the Rekabites. Jeremiah says, ““Go to the […]
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Today, we are going to visit with two kings no one would want to be the child of. Ahaz means one that takes or has held. He was the son of Jotham and father of Hezekiah. He was the 12th king of Judah and reigned for 16 years. “Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned […]
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Samuel was the son of Hannah and Elkanah and raised by Eli. He served God his whole life The name Samuel means heard, asked of God, and appointed by God. Sadly, Samuel , the great prophet was an equal failure as Eli when it came to fatherhood. “When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders.” {1 Samuel 8:1} […]
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We first meet Eli when Hannah prays for a child. He believe her to be drunk because of her fervent prayers. When Samuel is weaned, Hannah takes him to Eli at the temple. From there, Eli serves as his teacher and a father figure. However, Eli also has sons of his own. The name Eli means “jehovah is high or my god”. […]
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Moses had two sons during his years of exile. He married Zipporah, the daughter of Reuel or Jethro. While there they had two sons: Gershom—meaning a sojourner there Eliezer—meaning help of my God “After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro received her 3 and her two sons. One son was named Gershom,[a] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in […]
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Job was a man who greatly loved God and his family. The name Job means persecuted or hated. “In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job.” {Job 1:1} “The country he lived in was the land of Uz, in the eastern part of Arabia, which lay towards Chaldea, near Euphrates, probably not far from Ur of […]
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While living in Egypt, Joseph took a wife and had two sons. His sons were Manasseh which means to forget and Ephraim, meaning fruitful. The most we learn about Joseph as a father, is when he takes them to visit his own father Israel {Jacob}. “The time drawing nigh that Israel must die… Joseph, hearing of his father’s sickness, goes […]
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Judah was one of the sons of Jacob and is the line from which the Messiah descends. But, what do we know about him as a father? “here Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua {means cry for help}. He married her and made love to her.” {Genesis 38:2} She had three sons: Er—means watchman Onan—means pain, force […]
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Jacob is the son of Isaac and Rebekah and has a twin brother, Esau. “Jacob is an outstanding illustration of the presence and conflict of the two natures within a believer. Similar to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, Jacob is good and bad; he rises and falls, yet in spite of his failures was a […]
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Isaac was the favored and long promised son of Abraham and his wife, Sarah. The name Isaac means laughter. “Isaac is one of the few cases in the Bible in which God selected a name for a child and announced it before he was born.” {All the Men of the Bible} He marries Rebekah, but like his parents they wait […]
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Abraham was ten generations from Noah, through the line of Shem. We meet Abraham when he is Abram. The name Abram means exalted father and Abraham the father of many. He is 75 and living in Harran, the land of Ur with his father, Terah, and brothers, Nahor and Haran. God tells Abram ““I will make you into a great […]
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We are all familiar with the story of Noah and the Ark. Noah was the 6x great-grandson of Seth and 7x great-grandson of Adam. The name Noah means rest or repose. Noah was 500 years old when he became a father. “After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.” {Genesis 5:32} The name Shem means […]
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Over the past years we have studied Mothers, Daughters and Sons in the Bible. This year, we are studying Fathers in the Bible. Where better to start than with the first father, Adam. Adam, the first person and man on earth, was formed and crated by God the Father. He breathed life into Adam. Adam was a necessary complement to […]
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