Fathers Who Fail

Rev Kelsey Griffin

(Isaiah 3:5, 12)

Isaiah 3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the
child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people,
they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the
sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against
him.

Malachi 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their
fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

God’s judgment is upon men who fail to be spiritual leaders.

Why do children rebel?

C: Cause E: Effect

C: Father does not fulfill his promises.

E: Child’s spirit is wounded.

C: Father does not admit when he is wrong.

E: Child loses confidence in his father’s leadership.

C: Father refuses to ask forgiveness.

E: Child reacts to his father’s pride.

C: Father has not learned to have the right priorities in life.

E: Child feels his father is too busy for them.

C: Father is too strict in his discipline.

E: Child’s spirit is broken.

C: Father gives too much freedom to the child.

E: Child sees freedom as a form of rejection.

C: Father neglects his parents.

E: Child does not honor the counsel of grand parents.

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C: Father puts his parents in a nursing home for convenience.
E: Child is taught to reject the elderly.

C: Father does not love his wife.

E: Child learns to take up the offenses of his mother.

C: Father neglects the reading and living by the Bible.

E: Child rejects the authority of God and Scripture.

C: Father sacrifices his family for a better retirement.

E: Child develops a temporal value system.

C: Father disciplines the child in anger.

E: Child has seeds of bitterness.

C: Father delegates the education of the child to others.

E: Child ceases to respect his father as a teacher.

C: Father does not teach the child how to please him.

E: Child feels frustrated and rejected.

C: Father focuses on the outward beauty of others.

E: Child feels inferior and rejects himself.

C: Father is impatient with the child.

E: Child seeks approval of his friends.

C: Father has inconsistent standards.

E: Child despises his father.

C: Father only warns the child of the consequences of sin.

E: Child is challenged to successfully avoid the consequences.

C: Father allows his wife to assume the spiritual responsibility.

E: Child regards religion as childish when older.

C: Father has no personal convictions.

E: Child learns to accept situation ethics and excuses in excess what the father allows in moderation.

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