Our Heavenly Father (Father's Day Sermon)

On this Father’s day in this sermon I want to do something different. I will be preaching on THE FATHER OF ALL FATHERS…WHICH IS GOD THE FATHER.

I will be preaching from Jeremiah 33-3 as my text verse.

Look at Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Notice the words “Call upon me”.

This makes me think of the age in which many use their TELEPHONE to call upon family and friend when in need.

Today we have become dependent on our telephones.

Everywhere you look these days we see young and old using their telephones.

Illus: We see people today that live a life of poverty, but they all have a cell phone.

Using these cell phones appears to be the most popular way of communicating these days.

We all understand the importance of communication

• The telephone has been around for over a hundred years.

• The first telephone call was made by Thomas Watson who said, “Come here, I need you”.

• Alexander Graham Bell introduced the Bell Telephone to us in 1876.

Before the invention of the telephone, if something happened, you had to wait for someone to tell you about it or find out for yourself.

With the telephone network, everything changed.

Before the invention of the telephone the most significant change was that you had to rely on word of mouth in emergencies.

Illus: If someone had to deliver a message in town, they had to go there themselves and deliver it.

This caused many problems!!!

After the invention of instant communication, everything changed.

We all know the importance of communication.

But the most important communication we need to recognize today is that God wants US TO CALL HIM!

His telephone number is Jer. 33:3. He tells us “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”

When we meet someone that is special in our life, we give him or her telephone number because we want to stay in touch with them.

God the Father wants us to stay in touch with Him at all times.

Today telephones are something the young and old recognize to be important to us daily.

Telephones are so important to some folks if their telephones go on the blink, they act like the world has come to an end.

Let me illustrate…

Illus: An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report two problems.

1. She said sometime when her friends called her the telephone would not ring right away.

2. When her phone did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the phone rang.

The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly lady.

He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber's house.

The phone didn't ring right away, but the dog moaned loudly when the telephone began to ring.

Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found the problem.

Here is how he filled out his report of the problem.

1. The elderly lady had tied the dog to the telephone system's ground wire to a steel chain and collar.

2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.

3. When the telephone rang, the dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the phone number was called.

4. After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate on the ground.

5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to ring.

Some strange things have happened on the telephone, but it would be difficult to survive without our telephones.

In this text, Jeremiah 33:3 is in prison under false charges. God visits Jeremiah in his hour of need.

Let’s look at FOUR things in this verse.

I. THE PERSON

Look at Jer. 33:3, we read, “Call unto ME…"

God says, “CALL UNTO ME,” because you would be surprised how many do not know this is something that they should do.

When trouble comes into their life, they call on everyone but God the Father, and after they have no one else to call, they call upon the Lord.

Listen, when trouble comes, the first one we should call upon should be the Lord.

But it is amazing what people will do when they find themselves in trouble.

For example:

(1) Some will call on the preacher, as if he is a mediator between God and man.

Many call on the minister because they think the minister has a special relationship with the Lord that lay people do not have.

This may shock you, but as a minister of the gospel, I have no more influence with God than you do if you are living a godly life.