3. Wanted A Father For My Son

4. Fathers Wanted
If you were to look for a father for your child, what qualities would you be looking for?

5. Fathers Wanted
highly educated
good job
good looking
smart
funny

6. Righteous Marriage Purity Matt 1:19
“Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man
and did not want to expose her to public disgrace,
he had in mind to divorce her quietly.”
Purity
Matt 1:25
“and took Mary home as his wife. But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son.”

7. Thoughtful & Temperate
Emotions under control
Matt 1:19
“Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man
and did not want to expose her to public disgrace,
he had in mind to divorce her quietly.”
Consider his actions with a sound mind
Matt 2:22 “But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee.”

8. Statistics 63% of youth suicides 90% of all homeless and runaway
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders
80% of rapists
71% of all high school dropouts
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions
85% of all youths sitting in prisons

9. Statistics 5 times more likely to commit suicide
32 times more likely to run away
20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
14 times more likely to commit rape (boys)
9 times more likely to drop out of high school
10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances
9 times more likely to end up in a state- operated institution
20 times more likely to end up in prison

10. Present to provide & protect
Consistently present
Livelihood
Spiritual leadership
Spiritual discernment
human law
religious law & godly traditions

11. Obedient to God Immediate obedience without questioning
Matt 1:24 -  When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.
Matt 2: When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.“ So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
Trusting without definite plan
Exercised good judgment when no direct revelation

12. Sacrificial Subject to public disgrace
Running from place to place as fugitives
Yielding his rights
right in conception
right in naming his child
right in choosing where to live

13. Joseph’s Blessings “fulfilling” scriptures
Matt 2:15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."
Matt 2:23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."

14. Who will love His children?
Righteous
Temperate
Present
Obedient
Sacrificial