Don't say the name, but, please, you can text me, and you know I'll try to read, maybe 5 or 6 texts.
But please send me, you know, if it's a father figure not everyone has been having a father in their lives, but if he had a father figure someone that impacted you.
Can you please share an impression or something that are really touch your life can be one word, one sentence, and then I'll read it I'll not say your name, but please text it to me, and then, after my story I'll I'll read some of those.
So that's my phone number (414) 801-9123.
And that phone is available only for right now.
So I had a conversation most recently with an individual, and he asked, Who is your hero?
And.
You know, like he's a believer. So Jesus Christ, right?
And that's that's when it's our hero right?
And my second was David, and he's like, Yeah, I know, I know.
But can you tell me more about a someone that you can see?
Then my mind goes to somebody that may be following on other areas.
That's I want to grow, and then so sorry I missed missed one name, towards the end we were talking about how hard is in our generation that there is no thankfulness, and so all of a sudden a man came in my mind.
So in Albania in 1,994, right after Communism, in Communism everyone had the same income, you know.
The bread was, for everyone has this much bread, this much butter, so there was not too much rich and poor person.
They were about the same income level. And so this man, he was a accountant for a thousand 500 employees in a textile industry, and he was always giving, you know, end of the month give the salaries around, and then he will come back from his work, and he will carry this sec with money cash and he
will walk to this house, and over there he will set a table, and then people from work will come and get the money, and so he will work late, and people will come in that space.
Well, democracy came, and the country went to freedom, and the realization what freedom means is extreme freedom that I can do what I want, and you don't.
And I can step on your foot and and corruption started.
And so all the textile industry pretty much was destroyed.
And so these men now had to provide for his family and there's so many stories in that in my country that people sold their homes for better of their family, and things failed short story.
This man had a family, and they were in a small room, and there were 6 people sleeping in that room for 6 years.
They were staying in that room, and this man will get up every morning early morning, and will go in the main roads in the street, and that's location that other men go in there, and people come for different kind of work.
Some they will wanted to things from their home, so they will.
That will be their job for the day, or there will be a big truck with potatoes or flower, so this man will come home, and he was fully covered with flour, and it will get 2 to $5 per day, and and you wanted to ensure that his family had food, on the table, and then his kids
will go to attend the church, paid money for the bus. Those were the 2 things that this man did, and when I shared this story it was my dad.
And what I can see is that my dad is teaching me that he's a great provider.
It doesn't matter. The title, and it doesn't matter what what you do.
You take care, and you are provided for your family, so I can.
That was my story about my dad he's a provider, and I wanted to check my phone.
I'm sure there's lots of text messages.
So!
Going to read as much as I can here. Good work, ethic and regular devotion to God's people and the custom provider of safety and security.
Another, one said, humbleness, and others have been generous.
My late husband was a selfless father. He sacrificed his own dreams to do the best for his family, for his children.
Loving and godly my father had taught me. Excuse me!
Steadfastness.
And stability during the times of Duris, resulting in strengths for endurance, loving and godly.
Totally useful. Rhyme. First your work, then your play, then you will have a happy day.
Taught me a good work ethic, and has been very available to me.
He's found generous, and gave me his name, which begins with Wf.
My dad taught me the importance of laughter. It gave me a great outlook on life.
My father loved me, no matter how stupid I behaved.
Honesty, wisdom.
And I'll stop in there.
Aren't we blessed to have great figures, you know.
If you have a father on nearby, you please pad them on the shoulder.
Thank you. Thanks for doing that. So I was preparing for today.
Here's the topic.
It was blank.
It was blank and I've been in the Scripture, and I saw the story of David and Solomon Ebin through the David's story the most recently, and David he's in the bed, almost dying, and he's telling to Solomon what to do, next.
What something God has put in his heart to build a temple, and so great story to share right.
But something. It's something. God! What do you only tell?
Because I do not know your word has so many stories of men of God that and that has been set in an example, and I can share so much.
But through the journey also. When you read God's Word, I'm sure you and I, when we face God's Word, we have to see with ourselves.
Am I their right example? Am I the in the right standard with God's word?
And that is another big impact. And.
As a Timothy will say, Oh, Scripture is breathed out by God, and profitable for teaching, for a proof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the men of God may be complete equipped for every good work, and as we go to God's word it's like a tape.
measure. And that type measure is one inch is one inch is not one foot, and so if I'm going to that measurement, I need to check myself first, and then it took time, and that was part of my blank in there.
But I don't want this message to be just for fathers.
This is a message for each of us, the influence of a godly man, woman and.
So!
Before we go back to the passage. In the Deuteronomy, which is about God's speaking to Moses, and they have already gotten 10 commandments, and God is still reminding them about what he's about, and what He's asking to Israel, and it's very important that we lay the
groundwork in here. Think about who was Israel, a chosen nation, and they were got out from Egypt to the Promised Land.
And I want to bring it in for us, because that was Israel.
What about you and I that are Gentiles? And oh, goodness!
I want to tell a story in here.
So this is a cup, and it's a coffee cup or some use it for tea. And back in Albania.
There. So there is a word that can be invocabulary, and he's a you port.
Too much coffee in my cup, and you'll see.
Very often with my mom, she will always pour. That's kind of Albanian style.
And so the word goes right.
The third term, and if you want, you can use it as your password.
Just put an exclamation mark in the end. Another tea in the end.
But when you go to the book of Ephesians for you and I, it's a great book.
Ephesians, we were God's enemy, and now his creation for good work, and we we were, I mean, we can read the other passage.
We were blind, but now we can see, we can see.
We work from dark to the lights. There is this change in transformation that has happened in our life, like Israel, happened that they were left from slavery.
And now they are with God and liberty to to worship God.
And this is the reality for us, because it's happened, and I believe has happened in each of you that moment that you encountered Jesus in your life.
Paul encountered Jesus in his life, and from he said, soul, soul, why are you prosecuting me?
And that was an encounter for pull, soul! And then God changes life, transmission into Pole.
Jacob Jacob was another person, that God changed him and called him Israel.
In that crucial moment, and then Jacob was saying he wasn't saying, I want your blessings.
He was fighting for God's blessings, and we are blessed in Christ.
We are really blessing Christ. So this is the foundation for you and I that we are blessed in Christ, because in Him we have the, in Him we have the spiritual blessing in Christ, and they, if I can just skin really quick, it's good, I put something in Ephesians.
In him we have obtained inheritance him you are still with the Holy Spirit in him you are made alive, you are live together with Christ, and ye raised up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ, Jesus, for you that do not know Christ, just so you know this is the gospel this is the good.
News. The reality is that we are sinners. The reality is that with our scene we are destined to death.
The reality is that we cannot approach to God with our own strength.
No one can approach to God with their own strength. But God had found a solution for you and I, and that is only Jesus our Lord and Savior, and he had to take your place in my place.
So you and I can have relationships with God, and it's very important to consider, for whoever does not know Jesus to think, who is this Jesus?
Take your time and understand. Who is this Jesus? Because once you are seeking him, you are going to encounter a transformation.
So let's go back to the passage.
So first I mentioned who we are and who we belong to.
And so Israelis are Gath chosen nation, and they belong to him.
And so it's important, this relationship that God has with them.
And so.
If we go to Deuteronomy, chapter 5, verse 29, God is saying to Moses about Israel that they had such a heart in them, they will fear me, and always keep all my commandments.
They might be well with them and with their children forever.
That they had such a heart in them that they will fear me, and always keep my commandment.
You know God is not about a God of you have to do this, and is a must.
He? He's asking the heart. He's not asking for robots.
The AI intelligence that does everything, what we say and what we like to see but it's about the heart condition that he wants us to seek.
But it's amazing that if you and I and Israelites they will have a heart in them that will fear God always keep all these commandments.
Look at the results, the consequences. It's going to be well with them and with their children forever.
Legacy that we can pass on. It's going to be well, and it's going to be well to your children.
It's a legacy, and the word legacy. The first meaning is, Okay, mom, dad, make sure if my name is on that paper in there, it's a house, or whatever you have that you have been building in your life.
Reaches that you can share. But this is beyond, you know.
God did not only promise a land to Israel, but there was promises that went beyond just material things, and it goes to a legacy that continues, and the legacy that can pass on.
Passing on things of lasting value to those who will leave on for after us a legacy which will involve living intentionally, and that will aim to build into the next generation for their success.
And so Joshua Moneye, the book of the law, shall not depart from your mouth.
But you shall meditate on day, night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous, and they will.
You will have success.
And it does not affect negatively, but is positively it will be well, and you will be prospering.
So!
The legacy will pass on.
All right, so.
I've heard. That's the biggest fear. You know we can say the biggest fear is is dying. But I heard that the biggest fear is the fear of public speaking, and.
So if you imagine it's better to choose to be in the coffin that would Beit speaking up here.
So going back to that.
There was a man his name was.
Noble. If you guys know about the name. Noble Alfred Noble, have you heard about the Nobel Prize?
About the piece that people that make a difference in this world.
Well, somehow, Alfred Nobel, in 1,888.
He was a successful entrepreneur. He had, I think, lots of patents, 70 plus patents, and he was a scientist, and he made he really the side of dynamites.
He made dynamite that that blooms the kind of business boom.
And so it did happen. It did happen that his brother died by a mistake.
The newspaper thought that he died, and so he wakes up in the morning.
And he's like, Okay, what's the news of the day?
The merchant of death is dead. His name is in there. Dr.
Alfred Noble.
Oh, goodness!
What other people are thinking about me, he said. The merchant of death is dead, and another newspaper, Le Figaro French, and he's translating there a man who cannot very easily pass for a benefactor of humanity died yesterday.
In Canada.
And so this was a turning point for him, because, he said, what people are thinking about me, and what's what I need to do to change, because I don't want to let a legacy that I am known as a merchant of death, and so.
He did that all the founding he created on a foundation, and it was about the that, you know, even though dynamites are bad.
He said, that they can be used for peace, so no one touched this country because there's a powerful, you know.
I don't fully understand all the reasonings, but short story.
It did happen that the journey has been continued, that whoever has been impacting into our society has been recognized and got a Nobel Prize, and has changed now to when we think about Noel Price, you think about someone that is peaceful.
It's not about the Merchant of death. And so he wanted to leave a legacy.
And so what is the legacy? And God ones that they can have a heart for Israel?
That will fear me, and always keep my commandments. Keep God first.
And this is God's desire.
Okay, so when we look at the verse one, is saying, now this is the commandment, and these are the statues and the judgments which the Lord your God has commended to teach you, that you may observe them in a land which you are crowing, over to possess that you may fear the Lord your God to
keep all his statues and his commandments, which I command you, and your son, and your grandson, and all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
The days may be prolonged, really fearing God, loving God, obeying to him it's going to have a result of a prolonged life.
You are going to have not only a well life that you are going to make, you might be even financially well, but it's prolonged life.
But therefore, hero Israel, and be careful, verse 3. To observe it.
The word here is Shema, and God has already spoke about all these before he's saying, here, not listen, hear it!
Don't listen to her, to speak just here to understand, and the word here is being repeated many times.
You're going to hear it in the passage, because we are forgetful.
We are forgetful. Isn't that amazing that we do it once a week, coming here to remember our Lord Jesus Christ?
Because I believe I know myself. I'm a forgetful person.
But then it's continuing, or Israel may be careful to observe it.
That might be well with you, that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord God of your father says, promise you a land flowing with milk and honey. Prosperity will come.
When we seek God, when we fear God, and we want to leave that legacy moving forward.
Problems. 9, 10 and 11, says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of Holy One is understanding for buying me.
Your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.
Progress. 22 forces by humility and the fear of the Lord are riches in honor and life.
Spill over blessings from generation, through generations. I'm sure I'm not the right person to speak about it, but I'm sure the people that are ahead of me many years on their shoulders, and they've seen Howawatosa bible chapel we were in a hundred years
anniversary. We saw amazing stories of a generation to generation.
Mr. Gas is there, and we have the Queen family continuing.
Are we have the Schrodinger's family. We have Joel.
I was it's Ok. If I can share Memorial Day.
Joel sent me a message, and he's like, Hey, we have this event to spend with my brothers, and we want to bring Josiah to spend time with Jonathan, and it was very unique moment, because that was the day that 2 years ago.
Your dad passed on Memorial Day, and in the end of activity that we had together your brothers and yourself, Joel, were sharing about your dad, and what you guys shared is that he was a teacher.
For humble men. A legacy that is being carried was before was set, and is continuing such amazing to be with humble men and women of God and walking together isn't.
What a legacy are we leaving behind!
Verse 2. So the second point will be.
Influence of a godly man, and woman loves God with all these, and her being, and that were only verse 5 and 6.
It says, well, let's read. Verse 4 is important.
Hero, Israel, again, the Lord our God, the Lord is one important, that that is a repetition, because is still God speaking, and He's one, because we can easily listen to somebody else.
There are many gods out there. And for today's society we have so much access to the information and social media that is just bombarding us.
And it's verse 5, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.
When people ask, Jesus will he the greatest commandment? He said the same thing?
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength, with all your might, and then love your neighbor.
So in order for us to be an influence for somebody else, we need to make sure where we stand with the Lord.
We need to make sure. Am I giving enough to the Lord?
Is my heart in tune with God. I'm telling you I fail a lot.
But isn't her God our Father, full of mercy?
And.
This is the number one. We should love the lower with all our being, with all our hearts.
And but we are not perfect, and that's what makes us human.
But we have to always check about the where we are in standard within, because we cannot hide from the Lord and I'm responsible to train my children at home.
But how I can pass on to somebody else with I don't have what I don't have, so I need to make sure I really take it seriously.
The time I spend with the Lord, in order to pass along about speaking about the Lord.
It's not only about the children, it's about your sister and brother that is on your left and right is about your neighbor is about the other people that you encounter into your path.
And so verse 7 says, you shall teach them diligently about your children and shuttle of them when you see it on your house, when you walk by them, and when you lay down, and when you rise up.
There's something I did. Ok.
Okay, so an influence of a godly men and women is intentional into leading and verse 7 is saying, intention into leading.
You have to have a mindset. I have to have a mindset to pass on, and that goes even in character, and and communicating with the kids we have to make sure that this is guiding our lives.
God's Word, and is a standard, and I'm sure I fell a lot to spend time more with my kids.
But the verse 7 is saying, and you shall teach them diligently.
Be intentional into teaching the next generation. I am so thankful of what was a Bible chapel that is intentional into doing that.
But Sunday school is amazing. Thank you, Mr. Neil, for a leading it and for supporting all the teachers in all the materials that they need, and providing a safe environment in here, and thank you for the youth group.
With Sella, that is, being carried by the next leaders into the youth, and they are loving our kids.
Thank you to each of you that is in this room because intentionally, you are paying attention about the kids.
What's going on with them, and if you're seeing something that is not right to point it out to the parents, so then we can do a better job.
Thank you for doing that, but we are going to see later that Waatosa Bible Chapel is my support.
Group is not the main priority of the Wauato Survival Chapel to raise my kids.
And I'm talking to myself. In years we are talking.
This is my job, to raise my kids and to have the great body of Christ to support.
And so let's stand up. I mean, this is a father's day.
It's not about just let's say father's son and father's day. It's about challenging ourselves because we are doing a good job.
But there is, the fight is not done.
The the journey is not finished. We have way more work ahead of us.
So how we talk with our kids. Well, we talk where we go through different circumstances.
Ireland, we, full of circumstances. I'm sure you will.
Each of you has lots of stories to share, and those circumstances when you bring God, when well, first of all, gospel is is the problem solver of any problem that we have.
You will say what for? God left Lord Jesus left His glory and came down and became a man to understand us.
So he could take us and be with the Father. And so it's important that as we speak with each other, with our kids, with another brother or sister that is going through a situation to spend time to understand to spend time how they are feeling, you might be wrong, they are in a wrongdoing.
But it's Ok to understand and listen to every ear, because you know what I was a protocol, son or daughter.
And I know how it feels, and then bring Christ in the midst of the conversation, because he's going to help you to see when we turn our eye into a sea from being.
I to really bend our eye into a sea, and then we can be able to see and to move forward.
And there are other ways, how we can always communicate, and by doing also by example.
Let's go to the next point in here. Verse 8.
This was very a good picture story. You shall bind them as a sign.
Into your hands, and they shall be as strong as between your eyes.
You shall ride them on the door puls, and your house, and on your gates.
All right. So here's a learning past for me.
I didn't know that. So the Jewish are still doing a tradition.
I'm sure someone in here might be a better teacher about this for me, as I just scheme really quick about this.
But they use continue using this teflon, and he's a leather but there are 2 leather boxes, inside of the letter boxes.
They are some scrolls, there are 4 scrolls into those leather boxes, and so the one box get wrapped up.
If you see the picture on the upper left, or even here the key, this wrap up in the head is right in the forehead, and then there is one right in the arm in here, and then you have this wrap in here because you don't want that box to fell off.
And this continues even today in a Jewish tradition.
So what is in there inside the roll on the box one of the boxes is called.
Well, I don't know the name of the box, but there are 2 roles inside there and it's called Kadesh and Kadesh holds 2 passages.
Exodus 13, one to 10, and nexus is 11 to 16, and the first one is duty of a Jewish to remember is the duty of a Jewish person to remember to remember what that they were in slavery.
And now they are free, that there is a there was a redemption from Egyptian bandage.
The next one was duty of every Jew to edit his children.
That's the second role.
The next role is Shama and Shama also is the word.
Here and and that verse in there is Deuteronomy, 6, from verse 4 to 9, and he's talking about the unity of God to the command to love and fear God.
And the next thing is Vaugh, higher, higher, higher. I'm sorry for the way I'm expressing that is there running 1113 to 21, and he's talking about God's assurance to us that He will reward to us if we follow and observe the torah.
Isn't that an amazing picture? That's the Jewish people that are doing today.
They are putting very graphic into their heads, into their arm.
Why, in their arms, isn't that when we have actions to remind us that when we do actions, why we are doing, and also in our head to start thinking about it.
Now, do we need to do this practical for you and I today?
I don't think so. We need to, but I think it's a great reminder, isn't it?
Here it is!
Getting together here at our Woot of the Bible Chapel, is a a great place where God's word is open.
The gods were truth being spoken. I've been, you know.
Someone encouraged me. You know, in my days that I have been some dark days like you all have had dark days, and I come with my family near, and someone said, Just thank you for just being present. In here.
Thank you for being present in here. It's a good place and safe zone and safe place to be.
But the legacy that we leave is very important, and you younger men and women, you are the next generation.
The stronghold of God's Word. You are the next generation to teach others.
Don't look at yourself that you are not good enough, because through view and through I and through each of us, God can use us.
But what we need to do is we need to humble ourselves.
We need to go. Let God working through us.
And I don't know how much more time we have, but I'm going to conclude it with.
Going to conclude it with just let the an example of Paul and Timothy I'm just going to read the passage, and that God's Word speak through that is, at Philippians.
Chapter 2.
And as we are reading, think about the legacy that Paul is living, the unity that poll heads.
So. Philippians. Chapter 2.
And it goes with. Paul, is talking to Philippians, and he's in prison.
He's not in a situation that is a great circumstance, right?
But he had great joy, and he had this desire to encourage the body of Christ, and and he's talking about unity.
That is very important. And then he's saying verse 5.
Let this mind being new, which was also in Christ. And then he goes, there you go!
The humbness of Christ that he had to humble himself to the point of death.
But then God raised him and put him in a position that every knee will bow down.
But then he's going to continue reading. We're going to read from verse 12 to verse 24, and I want to encourage each of you to continue fighting the good fight continue for unity.
Continue to leave a legacy that you are doing. Amazing. But there is still more to do right. And so let's look at these comparison between Poll Philippians, and pay attention to Timothy, too.
Therefore my below it, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless children of God without fold in the needs of a crooked and perverse generation.
Among whom you shine, the light lights in the Lord, in the Word.
I'm sorry. Holding fast the word of life so that I'm Mary Jo in the day of Christ, that I have not run vain or labored in vain.
Yes, and if I'm being poured out as a drink, offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, and led and rejoice with you all for the same reason, you also be glad you enjoy with me, I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you.
Surely that I also may be encouraged when I know your state, for I have no one like mind minded who will sincerely care for your state, for all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus.
But you know he's proven character. That as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel, therefore I hope to send him at once, and as soon as I see how it goes with me, but I trust in the Lord that I myself shall also.
Come shortly, we can call them prayer, and then Job and father.
Thank you for calling, allowing us to call you Abba.
Father, and thank you for your word, and thank you that you speak to us, and you want us to hear to you, and many times we wonder.
I wonder but you are still gracious, always with open arm as a father, and accepting us back because you know that you love us.
You care for us, and you have shown your love through us by giving your Son Jesus.
Love that is shown in action by giving, and you gave your son Jesus your only son.
We don't fully understand your love, but we can say today, thank you for loving us.
God bless each men and women in this room that they desire you.
In their heart they seek you in their heart that we all collectively honor you with the life that you have given to us, help us to be the best managers of what you are given in our hands by doing so.
Your name be glorified. Help us as we celebrate to the Father's day today, and the Father's figures, and bless each woman and men in this room, and we are really blessed by you, and we pray in Jesus name.