Good morning everyone it is a blessing to here, and another blessing to hear from all your letters, and I welcome all of you. We welcome all new visitors and return visitors, plus of course, our main congregation. We welcome everyone to The Church Ministries 79th Sunday service. We wish you all a Happy Fathers Day.
Some countries do not celebrate a Fathers Day, but to us, as Christians, we worship Our Father in Heaven everyday.
We have been expanding to sharing our work with so many other countries as an outreach and mission operation and we have been getting good responses. The Prayer Ministry is still very active, but I will soon have to ask for help and I have a few people in mind for assistance. You all know we have to move from our location and set up some where else, maybe closer to town, this way I would be around more people for more fellowship. What ever God has in store for us all, it will be a blessing to us all and I was broken hearted in the beginning and I still am to leave such a beautiful place and I know The Lord will take us to a better house, one to help us with Our Church, we have been looking for a warehouse with a kitchen and a bathroom so we can eventually have our own local congregation in Hilo, Hawaii.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Oh how we love and worship You. You have been so kind to this church and I thank you for all the blessings You have shared with us all. We thank the many new members from India and Africa and other countries throughout the world. In a way Lord, I had visions of a church, mission downtown, but, Lord You gave us something even better, a church which has expanded to missions. You are in control and I know in my heart You are healing me and I understand I still must go through many sufferings and I also know that You are the one who will save me and guide me through all of this spiritual conflict and I ask that You bless and anoint and heal everyone that hears this prayer. Father, we praise You, we honor You, we adore You and we cannot thank You enough that You chose us to be your children, sons, daughters, and Priests of this land to help others to the righteousness of Your heart and Your abundant love and grace. Father, we ask for The Holy Spirit to anoint this service so if anyone joins in at anytime or day will get that spiritual, divine “touch”. We bow down and we submit totally to You and Your teaching, leadership, compassion and affection for each and everyone of us. Thank you for sending Your Son, Jesus to our rescue, otherwise we would still be in our sins and we would die that awful spiritual death. We love The Trinity and we want to remain open to be more like YOU in spirit and in truth. Please direct us, guide us, and govern us to the truth and the love and the faith and understanding that is in Your heart. In Jesus name, Amen
As we go through the scriptures today I picked out a few of the Love between the Father and the Son because of the American Holiday of Father’s Day
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 1Cor. 8:6 KJV
And know ye, moreover, that He who was born of a woman was the Son of God, and He that was crucified was "the first-born of every creature,"and God the Word, who also created all things. For says the apostle, "There is one God, the Father, of whom are all things; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things." And again, "For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus; " and, "By Him were all things created that are in heaven, and on earth, visible and invisible; and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. "
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, Eph. 3:14-15 KJV
As we know the Father is the father of fathers and we are so full of joy that we are able to even call Him Father. We are all apart of the family of God and this can be at any time period for any soul past present and future. So that is why we call ourselves brothers and sisters because we all have the same Father, and we all know we must have continued fellowship with other parts of the family, we can not make it on our own, some of us think we can, but we can’t, we need that input, and knowledge and group love and compassion. I know it happens to me when I work so Late on Saturday night and I can not make it to my local Church, it to me is like a drain and my life needs to be replenished. When we don’t tap into the rest of the family of God we are cutting ourselves from the power and peace of God. So my brothers and sisters we do have to be in some sort of assembly and be able to care for one another, and share with one another.
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:35-36 KJV
The Father loveth the Son. But what is the meaning of this reason? Does he regard all others with hatred? The answer is easy, that he does not speak of the common love with which God regards men whom he has created, or his other works, but of that peculiar love which, beginning with the Son, flows from him to all the creatures. For that love with which, embracing the Son, he embraces us also in him, leads him to communicate all his benefits to us by his hand. He who believeth in the Son. This was added, not only to inform us that we ought to ask all good things from Christ, but likewise to make us, acquainted with the manner in which they are enjoyed. He shows that enjoyment consists in faith; and not without reason, since by means of it we possess Christ, who brings along with him both righteousness and life, which is the fruit of righteousness. When faith in Christ is declared to be the cause of life, we learn from it that life is to be found in Christ alone, and that in no other way do we become partakers of it than by the grace of Christ himself. But all are not agreed as to the way in which the life of Christ comes to us. Some understand it this way "as by believing we receive the Spirit, who regenerates us in order to justification, by that very regeneration we obtain salvation." For my own part, though I acknowledge it to be true, that we are renewed by faith, so that the Spirit of Christ governs us, yet I say that we ought first to take into consideration the free forgiveness of sins, through which we are accepted by God. Again, I say that on this all our confidence of salvation is founded, and in this it consists; because justification before God cannot be reckoned to us in any other way than when he does not impute to us our sins. But he who believeth not in the Son. As he held out life in Christ, by the sweetness of which he might draw us, so now he judges to eternal death all who do not believe in Christ. And, in this way, he magnifies the kindness of God, when he warns us, that there is no other way of escaping death, unless Christ delivers us; for this sentence depends on the fact, that we are all accursed in Adam. Now if it be the office of Christ to save what was lost, they who reject the salvation offered in him are justly suffered to remain in death. We have just now said that this belongs peculiarly to those who reject the gospel which has been revealed to them; for though all mankind are involved in the same destruction, yet a heavier and double vengeance awaits those who refuse to have the Son of God as their deliverer. Does anyone think about it is unjust that those who are otherwise spiritual and holy should perish, because they do not believe; but that is the way it is, and that is the truth, without Christ we are nothing, and doomed with out Him, Plus the fact it is foolishness to imagine that there is any holiness in men, unless it have been given to them by Christ. To see life is here put for "enjoying life." But to express more clearly that no hope remains for us, unless we are delivered by Christ, he says that the wrath of God abideth on unbelievers. Though we are not dissatisfied with the view given by, that John the Baptist he used the word abideth, in order to inform us that, from the womb we were appointed to death, because we are all born the children of wrath,( Eph. 2:3) At least, we willingly admit a reference of this sort, provided we hold the true and simple meaning to be what we have stated, that death hangs over all unbelievers, and keeps them oppressed and overwhelmed in such a manner that they can never escape unless the door of Christ is open for them. The point is already the confused or uneducated and unsaved person are naturally condemned, until now by their unbelief they draw down on themselves a new death. And it is for this purpose that the power of binding was given to the ministers of the gospel; for it is a just vengeance on the stubbornness of men, that they who shake off the beneficial yoke of God should bind themselves with the chains of death. Why don’t people wake up?
Once you were dead, doomed forever because of your many sins. You used to live just like the rest of the world, full of sin, obeying Satan, the mighty prince of the power of the air. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God. All of us used to live that way, following the passions and desires of our evil nature. We were born with an evil nature, and we were under God's anger just like everyone else. Eph. 2:1-3 NLT
But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so very much, that even while we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God's special favor that you have been saved!) For he raised us from the dead along with Christ, and we are seated with him in the heavenly realms--all because we are one with Christ Jesus. And so God can always point to us as examples of the incredible wealth of his favor and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us through Christ Jesus. Eph. 2:4-7 NLT
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Eph. 2:8-10 KJV
The Father dearly loves the Son and discloses to (shows) Him everything that He Himself does. And He will disclose to Him (let Him see) greater things yet than these, so that you may marvel and be full of wonder and astonishment. John 5:20 AMP
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. John 5:20 KJV
For the Father loveth the Son. Every body sees how fantastic the description of this passage which is given by the Father is. "God," they say, "loves himself in the Son." But this statement applies beautifully to Christ as clothed with flesh, that he is beloved by the Father. What is more, we know that it is by this excellent title that he is distinguished both from angels and from men, This is my beloved Son, ( Matt. 3:17) For we know that Christ was chosen, that the whole love of God might dwell in him, and might flow from him to us as from a full fountain. Christ is loved by the Father, as he is the Head of the Church. He shows that this love is the cause why the Father does all things by his hand. For when he says that the Father sheweth him all things must be understood to indicate communication, as if he had said, "As the Father has given to me his heart, so he has poured out his power on me, that the Divine glory may shine in my works, and what is more that men may seek nothing Divine but what they find in me." And, in fact, out of Christ it will be in vain to seek the power of God. So the use of words and the way they are put together have a special meaning, which some of us just pass it by.
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matt. 3:17 KJV
He will show him greater works than these. By these words he means that the miracle, which he had performed in curing the man, was not the greatest of the works enjoined on him by the Father; for he had only given in it a slight taste of that grace of which he is properly both minister and Author; namely, to restore life to the world. That you may wonder. By adding these words, he indirectly charges them with lack of gratitude in looking down on such a memorable a demonstration of the power of God. God knows the Father will show greater works then just healing the sick man, Jesus will raise from the dead and eventually judge humanity.
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people--blind, lame, or paralyzed--lay on the porches. One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him, "Would you like to get well?" "I can't, sir," the sick man said, "for I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get there, someone else always gets in ahead of me." Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your sleeping mat, and walk!" Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up the mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath day. So the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured, "You can't work on the Sabbath! It's illegal to carry that sleeping mat!" He replied, "The man who healed me said to me, `Pick up your sleeping mat and walk.' "Who said such a thing as that?" they demanded. The man didn't know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, "Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you." Then the man went to find the Jewish leaders and told them it was Jesus who had healed him. So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules. But Jesus replied, "My Father never stops working, so why should I?" So the Jewish leaders tried all the more to kill him. In addition to disobeying the Sabbath rules, he had spoken of God as his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.
Jesus replied, "I assure you, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and tells him everything he is doing, and the Son will do far greater things than healing this man. You will be astonished at what he does. He will even raise from the dead anyone he wants to, just as the Father does. And the Father leaves all judgment to his Son, so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. But if you refuse to honor the Son, then you are certainly not honoring the Father who sent him. "I assure you, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life. "And I assure you that the time is coming, in fact it is here, when the dead will hear my voice--the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen will live. The Father has life in himself, and he has granted his Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge all mankind because he is the Son of Man. Don't be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God's Son, and they will rise again. Those who have done good will rise to eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to judgment. But I do nothing without consulting the Father. I judge as I am told. And my judgment is absolutely just, because it is according to the will of God who sent me; it is not merely my own. John 5:1-30 NLT
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. John 10:17 KJV
On this account the Father loveth me. There is, indeed, another and a higher reason why the Father loveth the Son; for it was not in vain that a voice was heard from heaven, ( Matt.17:5) But as he was made man on our account, and as the Father delighted in him, in order that he might reconcile us to himself, we need not wonder if he declares it to be the reason why the Father loveth him, that our salvation is dearer to him than his own life. This is a wonderful praise of the goodness of God to us, and ought justly to arouse our whole souls into joyful admiration, that not only does God extend to us the love which is due to the only-begotten Son, but he refers it to us as the final cause. And indeed there was no necessity that Christ should take upon him our flesh, in which he was beloved, but that it might be the pledge of the mercy of his Father in redeeming us. That I may take it again. As the disciples might be deeply grieved on account of what they had heard about the death of Christ, and as their faith might even be greatly shaken, he comforts them by the hope of his resurrection, which would speedily take place; as if he said, that he would not die on the condition of being swallowed up by death, but in order that he might soon rise again as a conqueror. And even at the present day, we ought to contemplate the death of Christ, so as to remember, at the same time, the glory of his resurrection. Thus, we know that he is life, because, in his contest with death, he obtained a splendid victory, and achieved a gracious triumph.
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. Matt. 17:5 KJV
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. John 17:24 KJV
This is an amazing prayer and piece of scripture there has been many a sermon written just on this scripture alone, we are all amazed what comes out of our Lord and the pure Love for the Father and his people, all the way to the end of the chapter, in this verse this is His last petition for them and he says Father 7 times and with different formats like Holy Father, and O’Father, and Righteous Father, you can tell the love between them and for His people this is a typical example for our Fathers day, when the Son is sharing His glory with His elect , and when He starts out “I will” only Christ can utilize this phrase for the elect as He is also the Elect, and when He mentions the foundation of the world He is talking life eternal in scripture the foundation of the world and as time began is the same and began together, Jesus was the eternal delight of the Father and the Love truly shows through He is trying to explain to future believers that the Love of God will be in them and live in them eternally and in them drawing the entire world to Himself. It is probably the most meaningful prayer and the scope of Love between the Father and Himself.
Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust. Matt. 12:18-21 KJV
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. Isa. 42:1-4 KJV
These both sections of verses that are taken from one another, they all point to Christ. We see the personality of Our Lord with love, gentleness, encouragement, justice and truth. When you feel down and out, hurt, broken, and like I do many times. We have Our Father to help us pick up the pieces. I am so glad that I can depend on God the Father. You see, God is not like an earthly father, as some earthly fathers they just do not care about there children. God will not step on you or toss you aside or desert you as if you were something as a wounded sheep. God, will pick you up. Gods love and compassion through us can compare to our lives together and sympathize with one another and show sensitivity to others, that is why some of us go through such different sufferings in different situations so we can continue to spread the love of God with the goodness we have in our heart with honesty and care.
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. Matt. 17:5 KJV
As Jesus is meeting with Moses and Elijah, Jesus is transfigured into His face, which shown like the sun and his clothes became a white that cannot be compared. Peter, James and John felt blessed to see this moment and then God spoke again and you can tell God really loved His Son.
Jesus is more than a great person, and our Lord and Savior, He is part of The Father and the love between both of them cannot be compared. Jesus is The Son Of God and God is very well pleased and they have a harmony that will not be equaled. When you know the truth of both of them and their relationship, all you want to do is praise and worship Them, and when you fully understand the love they have for each other, you want to be more like them or to be more like Jesus. Look at the love they share and Our Father in heaven loves us just the same. We know God does not show partiality, but God loves us, his children, His sons and daughters and or the elect. We have a Father that does not want to hurt us, only to love us.
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Eph. 1:4-7 KJV
There are so many variations to the history of Fathers day, but we at the church will spread it all out, Sonora Louise Smart wanted a special day to honor her father, which later her name became Mrs. John Bruce Dodd. When she became an adult she got the idea in 1909 listening to a sermon on Mothers day, her father William Jackson Smart, was a civil war veteran, and took care of the six children, one a newborn in which his wife died giving childbirth in 1898. He was a kind and selfless man, and raised the children on a rural farm in eastern Washington State, and though the history, Sonora held a deep love and honor for her father. At that time in 1909 in June, she went up to a preacher and she wanted him to preach a special service and on June 5th which was her fathers birthday, the minister was not ready, but on the 19th he did a special service for fathers, The First recognized Fathers day was on June 19th 1910 in Spokane, Washington. By 1916 President Woodrow Wilson approved of the idea, and in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge put it into effect as the third Sunday in June. By 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June would be a celebration for all fathers, as “Fathers Day”. There were also a lot of other facts, but this is the best through all the study we came up with, some say that William’s first name was Henry, other information related says that, Fathers Day started in a church in West Virginia in 1908, Others say the president of the Lions Club in Chicago was an addition to establishing Father’s Day, he gave speeches around the U.S. spreading the need for Fathers day, Some other references called Sonora, Mrs. Bruce John Dodd. Also the flower as early as 1912, for Fathers Day, was a white lilac. What we do know now is the traditions; you wear a red rose if your father is alive, and a white one if your father has passed away.
Dear Father,
In our closing prayer, we wanted to tell the world of your love and care for us. At times we do not understand we are Heaven bound and this Earth is just a blink of an eye. We may not experience joy and peace here on Earth because we still must be disciplined. We know You are molding us for our future and we may not smile or feel at complete peace and rest until we reach Heaven, we know we must endure to the end and always be thankful, because the trials in our lives could be worse. We thank You for our sufferings, they maybe very painful, but we have to remain strong to be able to be called your children. We know You will show us everything when the battle is over and we can sit by You and listen to the stream and the waterfall and notice Your creations of this mansion You have for us. You will explain everything to us, why this and why that, maybe when we become a full spirit we will already know the answers. We have to apologize now for our fleshy reactions and we are constantly doing our best to keep our inner selves and our fleshy attitudes to be more like You want us to be while we are here in this cold planet. We do cherish You, Your Son and The Holy Spirit. You have given us everything we need, which is Your Son Jesus, we are at that point that we do not need anything else except The Fathers love and the guidance of The Holy Spirit. In Jesus Name, Amen. And Amen.
