"Make Room For Daddy!” ( Father’s Day Sermon)

The program was a real hit with the public because with all the problems this family had Daddy was the main figure of the show with the solutions for the problems his family faced.

“Make Room for Daddy” is an American sitcom that ran:

• From 1953 to 1957 on ABC

• From 1957 to 1964 on CBS.

Today in America we need to MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY because in many cases today in American DAD IS BEING PUSHED aside for these heroes in Hollywood and in the sports world.

Illus: There was a time when children would spend play time pretending to be like their MOMS and DADS. They would dress up in their parent's clothes, and try to imitate their voices.

But today many of our children want to become like a basketball star or some actor. They wear the same brand tennis shoes, jerseys, hair styles, etc., as their favorite sport's hero, or actor.

They want to talk, dress, and live like those sport's heroes, or actors.

Today dad has been replaced in many cases as the role model to the children.

Today is Father's Day. This is a special day we set aside a month after Mother's day to recognize the important role that Fathers have in families.

Even though fathers play a major role in the lives of the family.

Illus: In June of 1998, Vice President Al Gore made a speech before Father’s day. Being the politician he was, he thought it might be a good time to make a speech on the American family because every politician wants to be known as being concerned about the family. That’s good!!!

However, during the speech he said something he probably would not say if he could do it again, because what he said was so outlandish that people all over the nation were shocked in what he said about today’s dad.

In this family speech he announced that some research had been completed and he wanted to make it known that the researcher had discovered a father has a special role to play in the family.

They had to do research to discover that!

All they had to do is read the Word of God.

Most of the things in the scripture that deals with the family Dad had a very special role in the family as the head of the home.

However, one of the main reasons America is suffering morally and domestically is because society is not making room for Dad but pushing him aside.

Anyone who reads the Bible has discovered a long time ago that dads were intended to have a major role in the family from the beginning of time.

Again, the sitcom MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY emphasized this family looked to dad for wisdom and solutions.

Since Dad has been pushed aside the children of our nation have been brainwashed by this evil crowd and have come to the conclusion even after only living on this earth for only

10 or 13 years that they are already smarter than their parents who have been living here for many decades.

In fact the adult male of today often seems to be so degraded that we have some men who have come to the conclusion that the only reason God placed them here on earth is to be sperm donors.

In China, John Stuart Mill so appropriately said, "A state which dwarfs its men will soon find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”

Illus: It is the same in a marriage. If a wife is always putting her husband down, to him and to others, she should not be surprised that he lives up to her expectations.

Men have A UN1QUE ROLE in the home. If men do not function in that capacity, the nation, family, and church suffer greatly.

Let us look at some things in the scriptures.

First, let us look at...

I. THE BLESSED MAN.

Psalm 112 brings out the blessings of a man of God!

Look at Psalm 112:1. We read, "Praise ye the LORD. Blessed (happy) is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.”

Notice in this chapter that God is speaking to the man.

Now that is not to say the things in this chapter are not applicable to the women and children of this congregation, because they are.

However…

• There are chapters in this Bible that talk to the women.

• There are passages through which God speaks to the children.

• But, in Psalm 112 God addresses men. He says, "...Blessed (happy) is the man that feareth the Lord...”

God wants to bless the men of this congregation, but there is something men have to offer Him before He can bless them.