The U.S. has the world’s HIGHEST RATE of children living in single homes at 23%. (Pewresearch)

Recognized by 72.2% of U.S. Population, Fatherlessness is the Most Significant Family or Social Problem in America (National Center for Fathering)

The Greater Risks of Fatherless Children
(National Fatherhood Initiative)
- 4x greater risk of poverty
- More likely to have behavioral problems
- 2x greater risk of infant mortality
- More likely for lower birthweight
- More likely to go to prison
- More likely to commit crime
- 7x more likely to come pregnant as a teen
- More likely to abuse drugs and alcohol
- 2x more likely to suffer obesity
- 2x more likely to drop out of school
- More likely to commit suicide
- More likely to have poor school performance
- More likely to live in poverty

Statistics of Fatherless Homes
■ 85% of youth who are currently
in prison
■ 7 out of 10 youth that are
housed in state-operated
correctional facilities
■ 39% of students in the U.S.
□ 24.7 million children in
the U.S.
□ 1 in every 3 children in
the U.S.
♦ Interesting
Correlation:
Revelation 12
◊ Some scholars believe Revelation 12 talks about a 1/3 of the angels fell and followed Satan in his original revolt against God.
■ 57% of Fatherless homes involve African American/Black communities
□ 31% are Hispanic
□ 20% are Caucasian/white
■ 75% of sexual abusers associate displaced anger with Father abandonment history
■ 75% of adolescents being treated for substance abuse
■ 85% of children who exhibit a behavioral disorder
■ 90% of youth who run away from home or become homeless
■ 63% of youth suicides
■ 40% of children in the U.S. are born to mothers who are not married
■ 279% more likely to deal drugs or carry fire arms for offensive purposes
■ 92% of parents imprisoned in the U.S. are fathers
■ 48% rate of pregnancy loss for single mothers versus 22% with fathers.
■ 43% of fathers do not see their role as important to their personal identity
■ 54% of fathers in the U.S. say parenting isn’t enjoyable all the time
■ 53% of Americans say mothers do a better job at parent than fathers.
□ Only 1% of Americans say that fathers are able to do better than mothers

World Leaders effected by Fatherlessness.

Dr. Pierre Rentchnick of Geneva University, wrote an article, which appeared in a periodical in 1975 titled, “Orphans lead the World”.

Dr. Rentchnick discovered political leaders who had the greatest influence eon the course of world history and found a common
denominator ===> almost a list of 300 of them ===> they were orphans.
- Alexander the Great
- Julius Caesar
- Charles V
- Louis XIV
- George Washington
- Napoleon
- Queen Victoria
- Hitler
- Stalin
- Lenin
- Fidel Castro

There is a father deficiency in America.

There is a fathering deficiency in the
Church.

America is in a state of emergency with a
fatherless epidemic!

WHAT IS THE ORPHAN SPIRIT?

What is an orphan?

Orphan ===> orphanos

Bereaved, fatherless, desolate

To be without a father or mother, parent

The orphan spirit is a demonic, anti-Christ Spirit.

Denying the son, Jesus is denying the Father, therefore, denying sonship.

Receiving Jesus, is receiving the Father, therefore, choosing sonship.

It is an anti-Holy Spirit.

The orphan spirit keeps you in bondage and fear. The orphan spirit is an anti-adoption spirit.

Adoption ===> huiothesia

- Adoption, as son into the divine family
- Hyios (son) + Tithemi (to place) = sonship (legally made a son)

The Holy Spirit is the spirit of adoption. Rejecting the spirit of adoption is rejecting sonship, heirship.

It is an anti Father God spirit.

Rejecting Jesus = rejecting the father = rejecting the Holy Spirit

Rejecting the Holy Spirit = Rejecting Jesus = Rejecting the Father

Rejecting the Father = Rejecting the Holy Spirit = Rejecting Jesus

Note: If you reject one person in the trinity, you reject them all.
□ There is no partial acceptance of God.
□ You accept all of Him or none of Him.


The orphan spirit rejects God’s word.

Satan operates in a constant state of rejection, because he himself rejected God.

When you reject God, you yourself will struggle with rejection because you have no adoption.

How do you reject God’s Word?
1) Rejecting His spoken word (voice).
2) Rejecting His Living word (Jesus).
3) Rejecting His written word (Bible and the Holy Spirit).
a) The words of scripture are inspired by the Holy Spirit.
i) 2 Timothy 3:16-17 - All


Rejecting God’s words is rejecting God the Father, God’s son Jesus and
the Holy Spirit.

How do you know if you are influenced by an
Orphan Spirit?

1. You are jealous of what others have.
2. You make decisions to please people instead of God.
3. You feel like you are bothering people when reaching out.
4. You worry what others think about you.
5. You seek approval from others.
6. You find value in what you do instead who you are.
7. You have a hard time being generous to others.
8. You are obsessive and attached to your belongings.
9. You aren’t authentic with others.
10. You don’t give trust to people.
11. You are offended that I would bring this up.
12. You find value in what you do instead of who you are.

Note: I have identified these, because they
have been and still are in me.

The world is bound in an orphan spirit.

The world (ways of the flesh) is opposed to Father God.

1 John 3:1 - See what kind of love the
Father has given to us, that we
should be called children of God; and
so we are. The reason why the world
does not know us is that it did not
know him

The Church is influenced by an orphan spirit.

The Issue:
-The Church has rejected the Holy Spirit, withholding adoption
to their nation.
-The nation has rejected Jesus, therefore, rejector God the Father.

America is in a current state of an orphan syndrome.

The Need:
-The Church to receive the Holy Spirit, receiving adoption.

-The Church presenting Jesus with the Holy Spirit, to adopt
the nation to be children of God the Father.

Principality Over Waco ===> Orphan

Lift up spirit of adoption! Holy Spirit!

Waco ===> “Hueco” ===> gap, hollow, empty

Fill the gap Father! Fill the emptiness Spirit of adoption!

EARTHLY FATHERS

WHAT IS A FATHER?
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

1. A male parent; one who has begotten a
child

2. One that originates or institutes

3 TYPES OF FATHERS
1. Biological Father: a man who provided the
seed for conception of the child.
2. Societal Father: a man who originates or
institutes something (a cause, an idea, a
belief, etc)
3. Spiritual Father: a man who leads others to
obey God.

What is the role of a Father?
To direct his children to know God the
Father, worship the son, Jesus and to be
led by the Holy Spirit.
In other words: to lead his child to obey
God.

Value ===> Trust

LEAN INTO AWKWARD

We build the trust, character and
relationships of tomorrow by engaging in
the tough conversations today.
Matthew 18:15-20, Matthew 5:24

WARNING! You withold spritiual growth
when you withhold forgiveness.

You will not grow this morning, if you
do not forgive your fathers
(biological, societal, and spiritual).

Value ===> Forgiveness

(How we act at our best).

We love mercy, so we show mercy.
Forgiveness is for you, not for them. There
is no spiritual growth without forgiveness.

Ephesians 4:32, Matthew 6:14-15,
Colossians 3:13

Waco Forgive ===> April 19, 1993
- Massacre and siege of Branch Dravidians
and federal agents
- Forgive any spiritual abuse
- Forgive any leadership abuse

My Journey of Forgiveness
- Staying in offense of what others are not being,
will keep you from being what you are meant to be.
-In other words: if you stay bitter towards your father,
you are withholding a child from your father, because
you yourself are not being a son, daughter.

What I learned about forgiving Fathers:
- Grew up with single mom
- Raised in Church
- Convicted by the Holy Spirit at
age 18 : It’s time for you to be a son.
- 20’s I learned to be a son
- 30’s I am learning to be a father

Note:
- Staying in offense of what others
are not being, will keep you from being
what you are meant to be.
- In other words: if you stay bitter
towards your father, you are
withholding a child form your father,
be a use you yourself are not being a
son, daughter.


We all have been provided a Father, God the
Father.

Note:
- God is the Father of all, but
not all are children of the Father.
- A decision must be made by
each child who they will follow.

(((GOD THE FATHER)))

THE TRINITY OF GOD

The Trinity

How we got the phrase, “Trinity”
“…[T]he word “Trinity” does
not appear in the New
Testament; it is a theological
expression, invented during
the second century to describe
the Godhead. (Knowing the
Doctrines of the Bible, Myer
Pearlman, Pg.70)
But, the planet Jupiter
existed before it was
named. The doctrine of
the Trinity was in the
Bible before it was
technically called the
Trinity.

History of the term “Trinity”

The first mention of God in
plurality is in Genesis 1:26
(ESV) - Then God said, “Let us
make man in our image, after
our likeness…”

The first Christian’s knew the
the separate person of God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
each had their own roles as
persons, but were one God.

213 A.D. - Tertullian, the first
person to use the Latin Trinitas
□ in a writing labeled
Against Praxeus, written
in A.D. 213 to explain
and defend the Trinity
against a heretical
teaching the God is one
person with three
expressions.

325 A.D. - Council of Nicea
□ A group of church
bishops and leaders
gathered, by the order of
the Roman Emperor
Caesar Flavius
Constantine, to define
the nature of God for
Christianity and
eliminate confusion and
controversy within the
church and confirmed
the trinity as official
church doctrine.

Father, Son-Jesus, Holy Spirit
They testify of each other
■ Father testified of the Son -
Matt 3:17
■ The Son testified of the
Father - John 5:19
■ The Son testified of the Spirit -
John 14:26
■ The Spirit testifies of the Son -
John 15:26

They operate with in unity:
□ John 17
■ The Father loves and send the
Son
■ The Son leaves and returns to
the Father
■ The Father and the Son send
the Spirit
■ The Spirit intercedes with the
Father

The Father creates; the son redeems,
and the Holy Spirit sanctifies; and yet
in each operations the Three are
present.

Two Doctrinal Errors ===> Heresies
1. Tri-theism
i. The three persons are three
separate gods
2. Sabelliniasm/Modalism (first)
i. SabellianiSm - The three
persons are three expressions
of one person
ii. Modalism - God is one God that
has three modes
3. Trinity
i. God is three persons, and the
three persons is one God.

Trinity in Scripture
- Jesus being baptized - Matthew
3:16-17
- Great Commission, Baptize People -
Matthew 28:19

- Jesus Promises Holy Spirit
■ John 14:16 (ESV) - And I will ask
the Father, and he will give you
another Helper to be with you
forever.

- Paul’s Letters
■ 2 Corinthians 13:14 (ESV) - The
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the love of God [Father]
and the fellowship of the Holy
Spirit be with you all.

- Peter’s Letter
Hebrews 9:14 (ESV) - how much more will
the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish
to God, purify our conscience from dead works
to serve the living God.

- Ephesians 2:8 (ESV) - For through him
[Jesus] we both have access in one
Spirit to the Father.

Jesus gives access to the Father.
- Ephesians 2:18 (ESV) - For through
him we both have access in one Spirit
to the Father.
- John 14:6 (BSB) - Jesus answered, “I
am the way and the truth and the
life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me.


The Holy Spirit is the presence of the
Father.

Jesus is the revealer of the Father.

John 14:9-11 (ESV) - Jesus said to
him, “Have I been with you so long,
and you still do not know me, Philip?
Whoever has seen me has seen the
Father. How can you say, ‘Show us
the Father’? Do you not believe that I
am in the Father and the Father is in
me? The words that I say to you I do
not speak on my own authority, but
the Father who dwells in me does his
works. Believe me that I am in the
Father and the Father is in me, or
else believe on account of the works
themselves.

“Anytime Jesus does something, the Father
wills it, Jesus does it and the Spirit
empowers it.”

GOD THE FATHER

Usage of God as Father in the Bible:
- 2x - Father of the Nation of Israel
- 15x - Father of certain individuals
- Note - Does not include when God is
displayed as a Father through imagery.
- 65x - Jesus called God Father in the
Synoptic Gospels
- Synoptic Gospels : cohesive accounts
of Jesus in Matthew, Mark and Luke
- 100x - Jesus refers to God as Father in the
book of John.
- 40x - God the Father is referred in
Epistles/Paul Letters

God is not a man

God is not a physical and sexual human.

God does not have a gender.

God is not a man.

Numbers 23:19 (ESV) - God is not
man, that he should lie, or a son of
man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it? Or
has he spoken, and will he not fulfill
it?

God is a spirit.

John 4:24 (ESV) - God is spirit, and
those who worship him must worship
in spirit and truth.

Abba, Father
- Word Study

- Note

Galatians 4:6 (ESV) - And because you are sons,
God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts,
crying, “Abba! Father!”

Mark 14:36 (ESV) - And he said, “Abba, Father, all
things are possible for you. Remove this cup from
me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

■ There is no evidence in pre-
Christian Jewish literature that
Jews addressed God as “Abba.”

■ Jesus initiated this revelation of
God as Father.

□ How fitting for the son of
God to introduce God as
the Father!

- An intimate term // how children
address their father: father or daddy

- Mark 14:36 (ESV) - And he said, “Abba,
Father, all things are possible for you.
Remove this cut form me. Yet not what I
will, but what you will.”

- Romans 8:15-16 - For you did not receive

- Galatians 4:6 (ESV) - And because you are
sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into
our hearts, trying, “Abba! Father!”

WHO is God the Father?

He is God.

He is 1 of 3 Persons of the trinity.

He is the sender of His son Jesus.

He is the sender of His Spirit.

He is one with the son, Jesus and the
Holy Spirit.

WHAT does God the Father do?

He operates in perfect unity with the Son,
Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

He is the co-creator of all creation.

He is the sender of His son, Jesus.

He is the sender of His Holy Spirit.

He is the giver of glory to His son,
Jesus.

WHERE is God the Father?

He is seated on the throne in the throne
room, in Heaven.

He is seated next to His son, Jesus,
whom is seated on His right.

WHEN did God become Father?

God never became Father.

The Father has always been God, the
son, Jesus has always been God. The
Holy Spirit has always been God.

God never became. He always has
been.

God is the alpha and the omega //
the beginning and the end.

Revelation 1:8 (ESV) - “I am the
Alpha and the Omega,” says
the Lord God,"who is and who
was and who is to come, the
Almighty

Revelation 22:13 (ESV) - I am
the Alpha and the Omega, the
first and the last, the beginning
and the end.

WHY is God the Father?

God the Father identified Himself in the
Old Testament.

Jesus named Him in the New Testament.

Matthew 6:9 (ESV) - Pray then like
this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed
be your name.

HOW Does God Father you?

Through His Spirit

Matthew 14:26 (ESV) - But the
Helper, the Holy Spirit, who the
Father will send in my name,
he will teach you al things and
bring to your remembrance all
that I have said to you.

Through His Son

Ephesians 1:2 (ESV) - Blessed
be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us in Christ with every
spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places.

ATTRIBUTES OF GOD THE FATHER

Father of Truth.

John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, “I am
the way, and the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except
through me.

Father of Jesus = Father of the truth

Provider

Of Natural Needs

Of Spiritual Needs

Ephesians 1:3 (ESV) - Blessed
be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us in Christ with every
spiritual blessing in the
Heavenly places.

John 14:15-21 (ESV)
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another
Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees
him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you
and will be in you.
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but
you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that
day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and
I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them,
he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my
Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

The Father of the Fatherless.

Psalm 68:5 - A father to
the fatherless, a
defender of widow, is
God in his holy dwelling.

Giver

James 1:17.- Every good gift and
every perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of
lights, with whom there is no
variation or shadow due to change.

Protector

Psalm 68:5 - Father of the fatherless
and protector of widows is God in his
holy habitation.

Disciplinary

Proverbs 3:11-12 (ESV) - My son, do
not despise the Lord’s discipline or
be weary of his reproof, for the Lord
reproves him whom he loves, as a
father the son in whom he delights.

God disciplines those whom he
loves.

1 Corinthians 11:32 (ESV) - But when
we are judged by the Lord, we are
disciplined so that we may not be
condemned along with the world

God disciplines us to protect
us, save us.

Psalm 94:12 (ESV) - Blessed is the
man whom you discipline, O Lord,
and whom you teach out of your law.

Blessings follow discipline by God.

Loving

1 John 3:1 (ESV) - See what kind of
love the Father has given to us, that
we should be called children of God;
and so we are.

John 3:16 (ESV) - “For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should
not perish but have eternal life.

John 14:21 (ESV) - Whoever has my
commandments and keeps them, he
it is who loves me. And he who loves
me will be loved by my Father, and I
will love him and manifest myself to
him.”

Creative

Isaiah 64:8 - But now, O Lord, you are
our Father; we are the clay, and you
are our potter; we are all the work of
your hand.

Compassionate

Psalm 103:13 - As a father shows
compassion to his children, so the
Lord shows compassion to those who
fear Him.

Rewarder

The Narrative of God the Father

Outline

1. God the Father wants to be with you.
2. God must make you righteous.
3. God give us son, Jesus for you.
4. The son Jesus must go back to God
the Father & God the Father sends
His Holy Spirit to fill you.
5. The Holy Spirit makes you like God.
6. God wants you to bring others to
Him.
7. God the Father plans to come down
to establish your new home with the
return of His son Jesus for all
eternity,
1. God the Father wants to be with you.
a. John 17:3 (ESV) - And this is eternal
life, that they know you, the only
true God, and Jesus Christ whom you
have sent.
i. “Know” ===> ginosko ===> to
know deeply and intimately
ii. Luke 1:34 (ESV) - And Mary [a
virgin] said to the angel, ”How
will this be since I do not know
(ginosko) a man?”
2. So, HE must make you righteous.
a. 2 Corinthians 5:21 - For our sake he
made him to be sin who knew no sin,
so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.
b. What is righteous? ===> to be in right
standing with God.
3. Therefore, He must give up His son, Jesus,
for you.
4. His Son must go back up to Him, so HE may
fill you with His Spirit.
a. John 16:7 - Nevertheless, I tell you
the truth: it is to your advantage that
I go away, for if I do not go away, the
Helper will not come to you. But if I
go, I will send him to you.
5. His Spirit makes you like Him.
6. He wants you to bring others to Him.
a. 2 Peter 3:9 (ESV) - The Lord is not
slow to fulfill his promise as some
count slowness, but is patient toward
you, not wishing that any should
perish, but that all should reach
repentance.
7. He plans to come down and establish your
new home, to be with you for eternity.
that where I am you may be also.

THE FATHER OF LIES

him. When he lies, he speaks out of his
own character, for he is a liar and the
father of lies. 45 But because I tell the
truth, you do not believe me. 46 Which one
of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth,
why do you not believe me? 47 Whoever is
of God hears the words of God. The reason
why you do not hear them is that you are
not of God.”

The Devil is the father of lies.

There are two Fathers:
- God the Father
- Father of Lies

There are two groups of Children:
- Children of the devil
- Children of God

Notes: You know who’s child you are based
upon who’s will you fulfill.

There is no in between.

Everyone chooses who their Father
is, whether subconsciously or
consciously.

Matthew 12:30 (ESV) - Whoever is
not with me is against me, and
whoever does not gather with me
scatters.

1 John 3:10 (ESV) - By this it is
evident who are the children of God,
and who are the children of the devil

Sons of the Devil

Make straight paths crooked

Elymas the Magician

Acts 13:6-10 (ESV) - 6 When
they had gone through the
whole island as far as Paphos,
they came upon a
certain magician, a Jewish false
prophet named Bar-Jesus. 7 He
was with the proconsul, Sergius
Paulus, a man of intelligence,
who summoned Barnabas and
Saul and sought to hear the
word of God. 8 But Elymas
the magician (for that is the
meaning of his name) opposed
them, seeking to turn the
proconsul away from the
him 10 and said, “You son of
the devil, you enemy of all
righteousness, full of all deceit
and villainy, will you not
stop making crooked the
straight paths of the Lord?

Practice sin.

Do not practice righteousness and do
not love their brothers.

1 John 3:8 (ESV) - Whoever makes a
practice of sinning is of the devil, for
the devil has been sinning from the
beginning. The reason the Son of God
appeared was to destroy the works
of the devil.

Practice ===> poieo ===> to make do

Root Word ===>
prasso ===> to regularly
practice, routine, habit

Do the will of Satan.

John 8:44 - You are of your father the
devil, and your will is to do your
father's desires.

Sons of God

Receive the son of God, Jesus.

Galatians 3:26 - For you
are all sons of God
through faith in Christ
Jesus.

Obey God

1 Peter 1:14-15 (ESV) -
14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to
the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as
he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all
your conduct,

Are Led by the Holy Spirit

Romans 8:14 - For all
who are being led by the
Spirit of God, these are
sons of God.

Are peacemakers

Matthew 5:9 - Blessed
are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called sons
of God.

Do the will of God the Father.

Hear the Word of God

John 8:47 Whoever is of God hears the
words of God. The reason why you do not
hear them is that you are not of God.”

Be Good Soil

Luke 8:15 - But the seed in the good
soil, these are the ones who have
heard the word in an honest and
good heart, and hold it fast, and bear
fruit with perseverance.

God the provider has provided the
seed within you, to birth sonship.

How do you choose God as your Father?
1. Receive His Son, Jesus ===> as your
salvation, making you right with the Father
2. Receive His Holy Spirit ===> to fill you in
order to adopt you and lead you
3. Receive God as your Father ===> release and
forgive your earthly Fathers

Waco Choose Your Perfect Heavenly Father!

You have a father in God.

1. Receive His Son, Jesus
2. Receive His Holy Spirit
3. Receive God as your Father

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