I Took a DNA Test and God is My Father, Part 1

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I'm sure not thanking you for tuning in today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. I'm excited to bring you today's message I took a DNA test, and God is my father. You may be aware of all the attention ancestry DNA is getting these days will imagine the shock with my own husband, Benny and I took a DNA test and he found out that his dad is not his bio father Benny not is not a not, but there is a greater DNA test in.

I took a DNA test, and God is my father happy Father's Day.

Happy grandfather's day. Amen. And today we just want to honor our father God. Amen. Because not everyone can really call him father. So we are good to begin this morning in the Gospel of John. The third chapter, John, and three we get to be able to call God our father that we can say father and say it even more intimately than that.

Amen.

Well, we know the story well but will read the verses in John three, beginning with one there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. He was an important person. The same came to Jesus by night and set on him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God for no man can do these miracles that thou do with it except God be with him.

And Jesus answered and said on the him, verily, verily I say unto you, except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God and Nicodemus on him. How can a man be born when he is old Kenny enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born, and Jesus said, verily, verily I say unto you, except a man be born of water and of the spirit S he cannot enter into the kingdom of God not here is the key. This is the divine principle that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit S is spirit s Marvel not that I say unto you, you must be born again Nicodemus came to him and he was a ruler. He was a great man. He was part of the Sanhedrin Council and he said Rabbi, we know you are a teacher come from God.

Notice he spoke in the plural, he can say I know he said we know, but there was nobody with him became all alone and he came at night time.

He wanted to come under cover of night. He didn't really want anybody to know that he was coming to Jesus, but he had been apparently in conversations and discussions, where they talked about Jesus. He said we know they kept saying how is it that this man does these extraordinary miracles and these signs and wonders, surely it must be God's working with him and through him and in him amen. We know that you're a miracle worker. They had to accept the facts as they were Jesus was a mighty miracle worker and no one else had ever done. The miracles that Jesus did. The way he did them in the quantity did them. Amen. And some of the very unique so we know that God must be with you God himself has to be given you the ability to perform these things and apparently they had discussed this amongst themselves and the Council and so Jesus said to him, well I'm to tell you, you must be born again because if you want me to explain spiritual principles to you.

You have to be a spiritual person if I tried to explain it to you intellectually with your brain, you're going to miss it. And you know what Nicodemus illustrated it this wise man said well how can I get back in my mother's womb. I don't understand how I'm going to do that now that I'm old what you what you can do it if you're young you can't do it if you just been born. You can't get back in there. Amen. Once you're out you're out and there's no way to get back inside and so he just straight at what Jesus was saying okay you are speaking to me in a natural way. Your talk about natural birth but what you're missing is I'm talking about spiritual birth. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit capital. The spirit of God is spirit, so another words the spirit part of us that we were born as Paul said dead in trespasses and sins. Now comes alive through the new birth. Amen.

And this is unimpeachable on alterable. This is a divine principle that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit, and the difference between the two births determines a person's eternal destiny. You know you may not have gotten a good deal in your natural birth. Some of you may not know who your father is.

Or you may know who he is, but you never really had a relationship with him. Amen. And maybe you didn't get a good deal with your natural birth.

Some of you may have been adopted or put in foster homes and maybe you know you've always had that sort of missing part in your heart because you didn't understand why you work With your family. Amen.

But the thing is this. Even if you didn't get this great wonderful natural birth or family. If you know God as your father. If you have a relationship with God himself.

As your father, you're going to be blessed in this life. That relationship will bless your entire life no matter what happened in your past, no matter how you got here. What family you came to and through if you have God as your father, your good to be blessed in this life and your eternal destiny is heaven where I go any further. I like Benny to come up here for a minute. Come on up. Amen. He's going to be my illustrated sermon now can you see what the shirt says I took a DNA test and I am a child of God. I saw one online, but I wasn't able to find it.

It said I took a DNA test and my father is God same thing but I didn't want to emphasize the word father amen. So now I'm going to tell you there's a story behind this a story that is 59 years old. Some of you may have heard about it but a lot of you have been so I'm going to tell it this morning with Benny's permission to late already wrote it always is why tell my story because when you tell somebody a real story asked the whole point stick. Amen. So as I said, there's a story behind that and it's 59 years old in the making. How many of you would like to hear it. Well, it all began really with Sarah.

Sarah wanted to learn more about her ethnic heritage. There's a lot of buzz right now about ancestry.com right now there's a big sale on Father's Day. You can get it for $69. Amen.

And there are also some new TV shows when cable network The Learning Channel where they had shows about people that are searching for their parents, who are you are who you think you are something like that anyway, and people now when you get into their heritage even if they know their parents are in today want to see where did I come from.

In Europe, but where did I come from in Africa and they want to search and find their real ethnic groups. So it's a big thing right now going on. So Sarah was interested in this and also her cousin Lisa Cheryl's daughter Benny's sisters Cheryl and her daughter Lisa and she was also into searching out her heritage and had done so for several years.

You can go one into a tree. But once you take a DNA test that you ramp up your searching because now you get all of this information about the percentage of your heritage based on your blood and also you'll start getting information about other people who also took a DNA test that you're close to and said they give you all of these hints that you can start searching so Lisa had already done. One a while back, and so then Sarah decided to do one. So when the results for Sarah's came back in she and Lee said their online and they're going back and forth discussing.

You know their DNA matches are, but it wasn't long before Lisa started getting suspicious because she detected things worth adding up the way they should be because Sarah had DNA matches. Lisa didn't have an Lisa had some that Sarah didn't have and so that.Lisa suspicious and she told Sarah.

I don't think were full cousins since there comes that Benny and I tell the yeah Lisa says she doesn't think that were full cousins, something's wrong and we said all really but we just laughed it off like it was nothing to however Lisa and Sarah, You know going back and forth and then they came up with a super super sale, but you had to buy several kits to get the good price for kits so they decided Lisa bought one for her mother, Cheryl Sarah bought one for me and Danny and so while this is fun. I wanted to do it because really I've been helping to try to trace mother Hardy grannies lineage back and I keep getting stuck because you know she came over here in 1905 and I'm trying to find more information about if I possibly could about Lithuania and what happened there. So I was all for it.

Yeah, this will be great. I'll go find where I maybe about grinning.

So we took the DNA test and when the results came in. A few weeks later Benny was faced with the jolting reality. He and Cheryl were only half siblings and all of their DNA matches were only on their mother's side, they had no DNA matches on their father's side. Another words, Mr. Elton Knox his matches only Cheryl had been.

He had none of them though.

All indications were that Mr. Elton not to raise Benny was not his biological father.

The man that he knew for 59 years to be his father was, not his father. Both of his parents are deceased, and so most of their generation is also deceased, so there was really no one to give us any information no one could solve the mystery and answer the big question though is Benny's biological father.

Now Cheryl is 10 years older than Benny and she was racking her brain for memories and ideas to try to figure out well if my dad not your dad. Then who is your dad, but she really couldn't come up with anything and she and her mother were very close, especially towards the end of her mother's life.

Her mother came to live with her washer was still working for Joyce Myers in St. Louis. Her mother came from Louisiana to live with Cheryl today were very close. Towards the end of her mom's life. But as close as they were her mom never divulged any information about Benny's dad. She took that secret to her great now Benny you all know he's pretty easy-going. He just kinda lasted everything so he was taking it in stride. But this growing curiosity in him was making him want to find out because folks. It is made in every one of us will want to know where we came from. We want to know who our parents are.

We want to know who we came from. Answer this curiosity and another one of his attributes is nosy about everything and so he just had to start digging and so he began spending how worse on the computer you get up in the morning before he went to work. Be on the computer he come home on the computer.

After dinner on the computer till late at night sometimes hours searching all these branches of the family tree trying to figure out who could be his father said what he did this he looked at all the close DNA matches that he did have that Cheryl didn't have that he had starting with the closest ones and looking at their trees.

Twice he thought he found he was father is. But when he really examined the men's ages and the timeline of their lives. They did not match Benny's timeline of his birth, so two times he got excited and that's not the right one.

But he went ahead and emailed one of the men asked in the man's son because the man is elderly but his son. He emailed him and said I think that someone in your line is. My father and explain the situation chewing and the man answered him back and said instead of you looking at my father's father's line. Look at my father's mother's line and Benny did and when he did it lead him to another branch that he wasn't looking at and he began to think now I know who my dad is pretty certain he had found the right man for over here.

There was a line that hooked up to this man going down here with somebody with the last name of Knox so he says if I'm not, why is this DNA match in my longing. It was confusing him and sending him a curveball because if he's not in knots. There should be a Knox in the line. Amen. So this was bugging him a lot and so one morning while he was praying before we got to the computer. He was praying by himself and he was praying and all this is still in his mind it going round and round. Always thinking about and so it's like the Lord's rock in his spirit, the name of a family on his tree that he had not really paid a lot of attention to. And when that name came up in his spirit, he went and got on the computer and he began to trace that particular tree and he was able to see that not only did it match the tree. The man told him to look at but it led him back that he could find a match with the knots and he realized that knots has nothing to do with the Knox family that I was raised in whose Cheryl's dad. This is a no other knots that happen to marry into this family so that cleared up that mystery. He is now 99% sure. Now I have found my biological father and he thought to himself, you know, I'm to find out what I can about. Of course, was the first in your thinking where is he and is he still alive that we found out the man had died in 2009 so that means there's no chance of meeting the man and the man's wife had also passed away course you would want to note do anything to hurt her feelings. He wouldn't say anything, but she's going to all the principals are dead, but now he's going a little bit further, looking because you know when you start tracing these things.

It'll give you hints that you can pull up you can pull up any public paperwork that one line like insurance policies and such and he came across an insurance policy in his father's name. His father was on their talk about now. The biological father and in their course the man's address was listed with the manlift boy, you might say a red flag was popped up. Why, because that address where the man was living is the same address that's on Benny's birth certificate. Five doors down. Another words, when Benny was born.

This man was Benny's neighbor when Benny was born the neighbors of the knots is was this family and didn't know it could be a coincidence, but really so Benny found out that the man had married. Of course, and he had three daughters, which means that Benny would have three more half-sisters and so he debated for a while. Should I contact these women and disrupt their lives with this astonishing information. What should I do, and for a while how many thinks he should tell them anything your hand. Okay, put your hands down. How many thinks no don't.don't contact, don't tell him okay only a couple that time. Well, after a while, he just decided he couldn't take it anymore so he may contact with them and told that you know what he believed. And of course they were full of unbelief a lot in the beginning but the one thing that even got them to even think about considering what he was telling them to even say I'll even listen to your story is because of that address on that birth certificate of Benny's in their father's insurance policy and not only that there father's oldest child daughter who is one year over them. Benny that addresses on her birth certificate because they were neighbors that got her thinking okay I'll listen to your story. The other two. They were like we didn't really hear anything from them so Benny said I am 99% sure that your dad is my dad.

But if we want to be 100% sure that you need to take a DNA test.

Would you be willing to do that. So she said she would be willing and Sarah center one. So she took the DNA test and it came back and he confirmed what Benny already knew that Benny knots is not a Knox and that that woman's father is Benny's biological father. So now he knew for certain who his father was and it's a process. It's a big process now to maybe develop a relationship with these three women. Amen.

And they were reticent at first, which you can understand. They were shocked. Apparently their parents had a good marriage. They were married for 53 years so you know things happen. People make mistakes, don't think, boy, I know you're also not their client you're thinking about it, but you know the older sister she began to talk a little bit about Benny and then the younger daughter started talking little bit and send in pictures and when we began to see the pictures and they begin to tell things about their father. It turns out that Benny and their father had so many similarities in their ways. They shared similar hobbies. They share similar elegies. You all know that Benny is an expert builder he can build anything you write to fix almost anything with his hands. Their father was the same way. The man who raised Benny was not like that Benny would be all by himself down in the basement build and stuff and his father wasn't into that and of course Benny is a big fisherman and all of that so was this man, and so they begin to see so many similarities and then we begin to look at pictures and you know I always thought to myself as Benny look like I could see a little bit of his mom and in my client, but when I would see pictures of Mr. knots that I never got to me that he would already past when we were married we could and figured I could see sure look like her dad really, but I couldn't see what Benny did and I was wondering we really look like in now I know why, but when I saw pictures of his father. Then I realized the great similarities the resemblance. Amen.

Even before the DNA was confirmed. I already just by looking at the pictures I look at the ears. I just see the profile I could see.

Amen.

And what a strong resemblance. There was now so you may think that this story is wildly unusual, but I'm telling you it's not, I guarantee you this same story is over and over across this whole nation. I bet you today on Father's Day. There's all a lot of stuff going on because with these sales and they had more silver Mother's Day and a lot of people are probably just now getting their DNA results back the bar for Mother's Day. And now there get the results back in there that is not who they thought there amen. It's not unusual this thing is being repeated across the country.

I'm sure the same scenario is played out thousands of time because with the advancement of DNA who would ever thought that the day would come that you would be able to find out who your biological father was to DNA. Now we know that for this, that if a woman said that man is the father of my child and he said no I'm not. They could take what they called a paternity test because they knew who the man was that they were checking that she's claiming but if you don't know your father is out there somewhere, and in millions of people. There's no way you gotta find them first district take a DNA test but now with many people and more and more people taking DNA test. That means that the DNA database is getting lots and lots and lots of more people on it, so more and more people will be coming up on their euro in their and that means in the years to come out of the juvenile you will get a notice you got, and you'll be fine out the stories replayed over and amen I hope you're enjoying this unique message.

I took a DNA test, and God is my father the current rage is DNA testing to services like ancestry DNA. It's actually rewarding to tracer ethnic roots back to Europe or Africa or Asia, but many have been unexpectedly shocked to learn their father is not their bio father. This happened to my husband Benny. He found out that Benny knots is not a knots since all the players involved are deceased. There are many questions that cannot be answered but the good news is he has been united with his three new sisters, he never knew existed.

But there is even better news. Benny took a spiritual DNA test, and God is his father.

Many today do not know who their bio fathers are others who do no have no relationship or a strained relationship with their fathers. The feeling of rejection is a heavy load on the heart. Jesus was rejected by his own people, and most did not accept that he is the son of God. But as early as age 12. Jesus knew who his father is and he was eager to be about his business.

He said if you don't believe me when I say God is my father believe the works I do.

If you are born again of the incorruptible seed of God's word, the attributes of your heavenly father are evident in you and God calls you, his beloved son or daughter. I took a DNA test, and God is my father is available on CD for love gift for the radio ministry of $10 or more request K205 mailto sound the faith PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 or go online to our east door@soundthefaith.org where you can also purchase one MP3s. Recently we have had to cut several radio stations because the finance don't let the station be cut help us today with a generous love gift for radio to receive the CD request SK 205 with your minimum love gift of $10 mailed to PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 two next time that Sharon not saying