30/07/2020
Let's take time to learn something about Fatherhood today..
A FATHER AS TEACHER
Whatever we find in the first two chapters of Genesis is verified throughout Scripture and lays a foundation for understanding fatherhood, marriage, family, and culture. God gave Adam the information that needed to be taught. Essentially, God the Father teaches each father so that he can teach his wife,
children, and upcoming generations.
The Father Receives the Instructions It is important to remember that the biblical record in Genesis gives no evidence that Eve received the instructions concerning the garden or the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil directly from God; only Adam received direct instructions from Him. (See Genesis 2:15-17.) God the Father, therefore, made Adam responsible for teaching the woman and everyone else who came after him what He had said. This pattern is repeated with each new family.
This is clearly seen in God’s interactions with Abraham. God told him,
Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him. (Genesis 18:17–19) The commands of God were taught by Abraham to his household and the generations after him. If a man takes the responsibility to become the teacher and instructor in his home, he attracts God’s favor and blessing. Why? Because the father functioning as teacher fulfills God’s purpose for his life. Since the father is the source, everyone who comes out of him must look to him for instruction.
God teaches the father to teach the future generations.
Look again at Adam and Eve in Genesis 1–3. Eve was taken out of Adam. She was designed and fashioned to be a receiver, but she received from the wrong source when she listened to Satan, who came to her in the form of a serpent in order to deceive her. The male is a giver, and the female is a receiver and an incubator. The woman does not initiate; she responds. She gives to her children as she has received from her husband, who is also her father. The man gives seed to the woman, and she gives back to the man a child. She takes what a man gives her, multiplies it, and gives it back. What incubators do is give life to the seed.
The Father Instructs and the Mother Commands..
Solomon said, “My son, hear the instruction of thy father [original information], and forsake not the law of thy mother [commands of the original information]” (Proverbs 1:8 kjv). There is a difference between an instruction and a command or law. Instruction is the giving or receiving of original information for direction and function. A command or law is a repetition and enforcement of instruction. In a godly context, an instruction is the truth that a father has learned from the Father. He imparts that instruction to his wife. As a mother, she repeats what she has heard as a command.
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