Who's Your Daddy? (7 of 12)
Series: Living in the Light
Keith Krell
1 John 3: 4-10
In the hit movie, Remember the Titans, Denzel Washington plays football coach Herman Boone. Set in 1971, the tale follows the forced integration of previously all-white T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA. My favorite scene is when the bus of football players is about to leave for summer training camp. All of a sudden, arrogant, white, All-American Gerry Bertier starts giving Boone guff. Boone finally comes unglued and asks Bertier, ''Who's your daddy?'' He then continues to ask the question until Bertier quietly whispers, ''You are.'' Boone was making the point that if Bertier wanted to enjoy his final year of high school football he would have to submit his will to his Coach.
I must ask you: ''Who's your daddy?'' Let me tell you, it matters who your daddy is because there are only two daddies in this world: God and Satan. Tragically, believers can be confused on their parentage. As a result, we can all think and live as if we belong to the devil himself. I used this illustration fifteen years ago at my former church and a couple of staff members put two decals on my office door that read ''Who's your daddy?'' They were trying to suggest that I was their vocational daddy and they were my slaves. (Of course they were correct, but that's beside the point.) I couldn't get these decals off even with a razor blade without making a mess, so they remained on my office door for twelve years! Fortunately, the question ''Who's your daddy?'' served as a great reminder as to how I ought to live.
John, the beloved disciple, is going to inform us that all sin is insane. Yes, that's right; every time you and I sin we're actually behaving as crazy people. So John says: Out with the old, in with the new. John is going to tell us that sin is incompatible with the believer. Furthermore, he'll go on to argue that sin is impossible for the believer. If you want to know how I' ...
Series: Living in the Light
Keith Krell
1 John 3: 4-10
In the hit movie, Remember the Titans, Denzel Washington plays football coach Herman Boone. Set in 1971, the tale follows the forced integration of previously all-white T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA. My favorite scene is when the bus of football players is about to leave for summer training camp. All of a sudden, arrogant, white, All-American Gerry Bertier starts giving Boone guff. Boone finally comes unglued and asks Bertier, ''Who's your daddy?'' He then continues to ask the question until Bertier quietly whispers, ''You are.'' Boone was making the point that if Bertier wanted to enjoy his final year of high school football he would have to submit his will to his Coach.
I must ask you: ''Who's your daddy?'' Let me tell you, it matters who your daddy is because there are only two daddies in this world: God and Satan. Tragically, believers can be confused on their parentage. As a result, we can all think and live as if we belong to the devil himself. I used this illustration fifteen years ago at my former church and a couple of staff members put two decals on my office door that read ''Who's your daddy?'' They were trying to suggest that I was their vocational daddy and they were my slaves. (Of course they were correct, but that's beside the point.) I couldn't get these decals off even with a razor blade without making a mess, so they remained on my office door for twelve years! Fortunately, the question ''Who's your daddy?'' served as a great reminder as to how I ought to live.
John, the beloved disciple, is going to inform us that all sin is insane. Yes, that's right; every time you and I sin we're actually behaving as crazy people. So John says: Out with the old, in with the new. John is going to tell us that sin is incompatible with the believer. Furthermore, he'll go on to argue that sin is impossible for the believer. If you want to know how I' ...
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