I told Shane and keeps stealing my thunder. I keep wanting to introduce myself to you as Mike Whitney to all of the, with the visitors here for the first time. Um, but he keeps stealing my thunder. So it’s dan coke passed the Restoration City Church on behalf of Restoration City Church was so thankful, uh, for you guys. For Sword Church. We love you guys. We pray for you guys and we thank you for all that you do for us, um, as well. And I’m happy to be here with you this morning. It is a privilege. It is exciting for me to get another opportunity to share the word with you. I did some time. Was it last fall? May be last winter or so. And I think, um, Mike has determined that he needs at least nine months, you know, separation between when I come back again. You know, I, I guess that’s how difficult it is, um, in our friendship or whatever. So, but I’m going to take this opportunity this morning and with it being Father’s Day, Happy Father’s Day with it being Father’s Day, I want to deliver a message to you um, regarding the heart of our father, our our heavenly father, God, our father towards us, his Children. And there’s something about the heart of the father that we don’t always seem to grasp. And for whatever reason it is, we we tend to only think of God and maybe one of two different ways, but God wants to be revealed to us as father. And that’s the prayer that jesus taught us to pray, to refer to him as our heavenly father and to know him as a father. And sometimes that’s difficult because maybe, um, we haven’t necessarily seen fatherhood go well for us. Uh, maybe as a father, you might be struggling with some, some challenges yourself with trying to be a good father. Uh, maybe there’s some guilt, maybe there’s a sense of there’s some missed opportunities that I didn’t take advantage of as a father. I mean there’s a number of different things that kind of come into our thinking about fatherhood and we can project those onto our heavenly father. And I’m so thankful for the word of God because God comes in through his word and he wants to reset that thinking he wants us to have the proper perspective of who he is as a father and from there learn how to father well. And so that’s so important for us today because we all need that. And when I think of a father, um, I think of the strength of a father and little kids. Sometimes when they’re drawing pictures of their father, they tend to emphasize that what his father do and they also want to think of father as being strong and that’s important because there is a strength that fathers are, ought to exude. But that’s not the only thing we ought to exude. I’m a father. Um and I, my wife is here with three of our little ones. Um we have five total, but a father ought to also show great affection. There ought to be a display of strength and that strength isn’t necessarily, you know, a test of who can push the most weight, but the strength of character, the commitment to principle, the commitment to things that are right to do things well, the commitment to toe the line and not give up when times of heart, that type of strength. But then with the calling to be a father, there ought to be a deep sense of affection, knowing how to affirm to love to speak tenderly um to, to those whom God has entrusted to our care and influence. And that’s what we see, our heavenly father constantly doing. His love for us, being displayed through his strength and through his great affection towards us. And so today we’re going to talk about the love of the father and I’ve entitled this teaching being perfected by perfect love. And I’m going to read to you from 1st John Chapter four, verses 15 through 21. First John Chapter 4: verses 15 through 21. And so this is our main passage for this morning. I may r…