The Father's Role and Male Leadership: Upholding Biblical Family Structures Part 1

Biblical Talks with Elder Michael Tolliver Podcast

I want you to listen to a sermon on the family, but before I do that,

I want to talk about the family. This culture has devastated the family. Listen we study failing cultures throughout history, we often find that people of God withdrew from them. For example, when Christians abandon a community’s hub, taking their skills, resources, and moral influence with them, those neighborhoods deteriorate. When the Christian family leaves the public school system, moral values are systematically erased there, until they practically become illegal to teach. When Christian families vacate the media, spiritual perspective goes with them. When the Christian family, gets out of politics, a godly moral framework through which to define and interpret our laws goes with them.

God’s people have been called to penetrate society as both salt and light. Parents blessing their children is a powerful biblical concept that is being rediscovered in our day. The blessing was a key part of family life in the Old Testament. The blessing involved a father transferring the family inheritance to his son and telling him of the future God had for him ( Go back and read Gen 49)

The best thing we as fathers can do for our sons and daughters is to put our hand on them and bless them in the name of Jesus Christ. Listen to fathers there’s no way you can measure the impact that your blessing can have on your children.

Listen to me, blessing your children is especially important because we parents are so quick to curse our kids. I am not talking about using profanity on them. I’m talking about the kinds of discouraging comments that slip out of our mouths so quickly and easily like: you didn’t do that right. Why don’t you change this? How come you’re not better than Mark? I told you, you couldn’t do it. Our children hear how they fall short all the time. But do they also hear from their parents especially their father, blessing them?

We need to know the difference between encouraging our children and praising them. We praise our children a lot, but we don’t always encourage them. Praise focuses on what the child has accomplished. But encouragement is not related to what people achieve. It is tied to who they are. Encouragement says “ I want to affirm you as my child. You don’t have to do anything spectacular. We love you because of who you are. The Family has to get back to blessing the next generation, and the father must lead.

Sometimes in baseball, a batter will have to do a sacrifice bunt. A bunt is simply taking the bat and tipping the ball so that it goes up the first or third baseline. The primary reason for bunting is to move somebody else on the offensive team farther along around the bases. A bunt is made because the team has a better chance of hitting it short and moving the person along, than swinging for the fence and perhaps striking out.

Now, when the third base coach gives the sign to bunt, it may come at a time when the batter had plans to swing for the fence. He may have planned to improve his average. He may have plan

Welcome to Biblical Talks Podcast with Michael Tolliver, this podcast is dedicated to biblical teaching and having world views discussions from a biblical perspective. Here is today’s Podcast.

Each month, Elder Tolliver offers a spiritually encouraging book to help you in your walk with Christ for any size donation. Please go to biblicaltalks.com website to take advantage of this opportunity.

Thank you for listening to Biblical Talks. This Podcast is solely supported by listener donations. Please go to biblicaltalks.com to support this podcast and have a blessed day.

Support the Show.

Have a blessed day, and thanks for listening! Visit my website to learn more at https://www.biblicaltalks.com