August 16, 2025 • 50 mins
Today's episode of Sunday Service by Pray.com features Tim Hatch.
The enemy is targeting the next generation, but God has called parents to fight for their children’s hearts and minds. In this powerful message, discover how to build a Christ-centered home, raise godly kids, and stand against the lies shaping our culture.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in
all the earth Psalm et nine, O, Lord, my God,
there is no other name above the name of Jesus.
Your name carries such weight that no other name can
compare to it. Jesus Christ is Lord. No devil in
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hell can stand against the name of Jesus. How excellent
is your name. When I pray in your name, it's
the same as if you said it, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
How beautiful is your name. In the name of Jesus,
Demons flee, the sick, are healed, and salvation comes to
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those in darkness. I will sing your praises and exalt
your name all the days of my life.
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Amen.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer for more
inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay
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You are listening to waters Church podcast.
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Waters Church is a multi site, multi generation community of
faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a
message from our pastor.
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I get acquired why the devil wants your kids? And
this message might ruffle some feathers today and I don't
have this bowloaded, and I did some recording for the
other locations.
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It was loaded.
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That's because nobody was in the audience, and so I
didn't want a lawsuit for our church, so I didn't
load it.
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But imagine, if you will, there's an arrow.
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This is the image that the Scripture gives us of children,
arrows in the hands of a warrior. And some of
you got to get a hold of this concept when
it comes to your child out raising and teaching and
elevating them into responsible and godly adults. Is We've got
an opportunity to pierce the darkness of the next generation
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with the children in our care today.
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Amen, And so take out your notes.
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We gave them to you on the way in Target
Acquired Part one.
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Why the devil wants.
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You kids, want you to, want you to fill the
blanks and follow along with us. I want you first
in all locations. Some of you you can't do this,
and I understand that, but I want you to.
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I want you to look at my children.
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And the reason why I want you to look at
my children is because my children are the tests of
whether or not I belong here and I mean not
in the church, but here teaching you God's word, because
there are scriptural requirements for pastors in One Timothy three,
in Titus chapter one, in First Peter chapter five, and
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particularly and in One Timothy three, one of the requirements
for a man to teach and feed God's people is
that his children are submissive, that they don't have the
reputation of being disobedient or rebellious, and that he manages
the pastor manages his house well, because it says if
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he can't manage his house well, how can he manage
the house of God. That's one of the requirements. That's
how you get to test if I.
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Am able to do this.
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Child, my children, by God's grace, thus far served the Lord.
My daughter, who was working for Chick fil A, serving
the Lord's chicken, gave it up and.
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Came to work for the church. I'm thankful for that.
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My son works for the church down here at Apollo Beach.
My daughter's up in North Attleborough working with kids and
all kinds of volunteer ministries up there. And my third
child is seeking the Lord and serving him and too
young to get involved right now. But we're thanking God
for the grace that has upon us. I don't say
that to brag, But I do say that to say this,
I'm qualified.
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To teach you about this. And if you listen to me.
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I believe that God will empower you to raise your
children to fear the Lord will into their adult ages. Amen, somebody,
And so we got to understand something about this deal,
this kid's deal. Here, here's the deal. We are at war.
We are at war for the minds and hearts of children,
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especially in this modern age in which we live. There's
a passage of scripture that talks about the believer's warfare.
It's found in Ephesian chapter six. It's on your notes,
also on the screen. This might be familiar to you.
It says, we wrestle not against flesh and blood. We'd
wrestle against what. We wrestle against rulers, authorities, what cosmic powers,
over what the present darkness, against the spiritual forces of
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evil in the heavenly realms. If you believe that there
is a spiritual warfare, not just the physical reality of
the faith, come on say, amen, we're fighting spiritual forces.
His demons are real spiritual forces in the evil realm.
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These are real things.
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Now, what's ironic about Ephesian Chapter six, verse twelve is
that it comes on the heels of Paul the Apostle
teaching that church about the codes of.
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Conduct for households.
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If you've got a Bible, you can go there and
you can.
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Look at it.
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Just back up to Ephesians chapter five, and it gives
us codes of conduct for the Christian home. It talks
about wives submitting to their husbands, husbands being the head
of the wife.
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That's from one Corinthian chapter eleven.
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There is an authority in the home, and it is
on the man's shoulders to bear that responsibility of authority
for the sake of his children and his wife. And
so men, you can't just sit idly back. You can't
just watch your wife go to church. You can't just
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get into football and all these things and build yourself
a wonderful career. You've got to lead your family in
the things of God. And your wife comes under that purpose,
and she supports you, and she submissed to you, and
you take ownership of your home. And then it says
the man should love his wife and lay down his
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life as Christ did, and sanctify his wife and purify
his wife wies by living an.
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Example for her so she can see.
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His godliness and follows suit. And let me just tell you,
every woman wants a godly man to set that example
for her home.
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That is a fact.
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And I'm telling you men, if you are a godly man.
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You will have a submissive wife.
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And then the children chapter six, verse one must obey
their parents, and the fathers must instruct their children.
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So all these codes.
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Of conduct Ephesians five, Ephesians six. And then on the
heels of that, Paul says, and by the way, we're
at war. Where at war the enemy is gonna do
everything in his power.
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Some you've got to get a hold of this. He's
gonna do everything in his power to subvert, to disorient, to.
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Distort the codes of conduct.
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For the Christian home.
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He's coming for your marriage, He's coming for your children,
because he knows if he can get your marriage and
your children, he can have a destructive influence of intergenerational
causation for decades to come. And I say all that
to say you this, we are at war, So write
this down.
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In your notes. The home is the primary target of
the devil.
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Our school systems fill children with a sense of confusion
like never before have I seen this. I was raised
in public school. I would never put my kids in
public school right now. Never they confuse children. Unfortunately, some
people can't afford it. So this is why we're doing
this series before back to the school season, so that
you are armed and you are ready to take ownership
of your children.
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But today's kids are.
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Going to schools and they are flooded with misinformation and
disinformation and malinformation and the devil's lies about gender, about sexuality,
about pride, about all these all these ideologies that are
destructive to the human condition.
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And then our politicians fill our.
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Children with a sense of entitlement that it's the government's
shop to take care.
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Of you from the cradle to the grave.
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And so kids want freestyff and they want someone to
take care of them. They're not told to take responsibility
for their lives. You can't have rights without responsibility, amen.
I mean you hear the calls, this is my right.
I want my rights, women's rights, children's rights, men's right.
Nobody's calling about men's rights. But you get the idea.
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Everybody wants their rights. Nobody's crying out about responsibility. You
can't have rights without responsibility, and so politicians they flood
their minds with a sense of entitlement. And then TikTok,
if you allow TikTok to raise your kids, and I
pray that you don't, will fill their minds with a confusion,
will fill young men with attention deficit disorder, will fill
young women with depression, anxiety, and frustration about their body image.
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And so the devil is doing all that he can
and every facet of our society to destroy the next generation.
And in case you think the sexual identity madness is
overthink again.
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In the state of North Carolina, this past week, by.
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God's grace, the legislature of that state overrode the veto
of the governor. The governor that state, he's a Democrat,
and he vetoed a law that the legislators.
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Tried to pass.
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The law defined two sexes as the only genders in
the state.
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But it went further than that.
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It protected girls from competing with boys in sports.
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But it went further than that.
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It protected young girls from being coerced to participate in
the pornographic industry. It also protected miners from surgical procedures
of gender transition, and protected state funds from being used
to pay for the gender transition of incarcerated prisoners, and
the governor of North Carolina vetoed that law. He didn't
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want it on the books. My friends, we are at.
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War, and if you want to be ignorant, be my guest.
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But you gotta fight for your children.
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And I intend on doing it for you.
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And I intend on calling all the husbands and wives
and all the educators and all the people.
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In this church.
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We are gonna fight for the next generation. And we're
gonna tell the devil to get back because we've got
authority in the name of Jesus. We're at war and
this is serious, and this is on my heart. Maybe
you've never heard the name Michelle T. But I want
to tell you who she is today. You might not
have heard of her, but she might have heard of
the organization she started in twenty fifteen. The organization she
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started is called Drag Queen Story Hour.
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Drag Queen Story.
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Hours spread across the country, spread around the world like
a wildfire.
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But let's back up to the story.
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She was raised, believe it or not, in Chelsea, Massachusetts,
North Attleborough, NORWA. And she left home when she was twenty.
She moved in with her then girlfriend, she identified as lesbian.
She found out that her girlfriend living girlfriend was making
a lot of money in sex work, so she got
involved as sex work her. So she was a prostitute
until they broke up in two thousand and four and
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she moved across the.
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Country to San Francisco.
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She got into a pride and queer oriented spoken word
group and she toured America in Canada for many years.
Long story short, Eventually she wrote a memoir. The memoir
became a book, the book became a movie. She went
around the country for a little while doing.
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A show called City Witches, and she.
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Even identified as a wish and she decided to find
witches throughout the cities of America. By the way, it's
amazing how oftentimes the sexual deviancy and occult practices go together.
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It's amazing to see that. In twenty fifteen, she struggled
to conceive.
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A child through IVF because she was married quote unquote
to a woman. Finally, she gave birth to her son,
and at the age of one, she brought him to
the library and she felt that the library that she
brought up to was two in her words, hetero normative.
She came up with the idea of having men dressed
as ugly women to read stories about gender transition and
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homosexuality to children ages three to eleven. That's a thing
that happens in public libraries across this country to this day,
with the exception of one state, Tennessee. Come on Tennessee, hallelujah.
They outlawed the practice a couple of years ago. But
you know what I think about this. I read her story,
I read about her life, and I think that we
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never would have heard about Michelle te or drag Queen
story hour if she had had a godly father. You
know what the catalyst of her life was. The catalyst
that she talks about. She found out when she was
a teenager that her stepfather, who she was living with
with her mother, had drilled a hole in the wall
of her bedroom to spy on her while she was
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growing up. She confronted him and he denied it for years,
and when he finally admitted it, her mother amazingly stayed
with him and she was done with them, and the
rest is history. I wonder what kind of world we
would have today. Just think about it if that Michelle
t that precious young girl had had a father who
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wasn't a pervert, but was a godly man who raised
her in the fear, in the admonition of the Lord
we are at war.
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Maybe you've never heard of the name doctor Spock. Maybe
you have.
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I'm not talking about the guy with the funny ears.
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On Star Trek.
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I'm talking about doctor Benjamin S.
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Fock. He was a pediatrician and.
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Then a psychoanalyst of children. Back in the nineteen sixties,
he wrote a best selling book on raising children.
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And in that book, that book.
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Sold hundreds of millions of copies and went around the world.
And in that book he told parents, stopped spanking, stop punishing,
stop saying no, your children know what's good. It's your
job to correct them, but to cultivate that in them
absolute nonsense.
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And it spread around this country.
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Parents stopped taking authority over their children. They decided to
befriend their children. They became permissive parents. They stepped out
of their god given role, and children ran wild. By
the way, doctor Spock's first wife went clinically insane. He
then married a woman forty three years younger than he.
She took control of his life. Basically. He once ran
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for president on a socialist ticket promising free abortions and
gay marriage across the country, and he himself admitted later
in life that he probably made a mistake emphasizing that
parents shouldn't say no too much, to the point that
he created a culture of permissive parenting that is probably destructive.
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And I would say that is the least of his problems.
But I think about his story too. He was raised
by a domineering probably a woman who went too far
in disciplining her children. His mother's practice of disciplining your
children was to lock them in a darkened closet, and
amazingly astonishing enough, one time she locked one of his
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siblings in that closet and forgot he was there and
left for New York.
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I wonder what would have happened. Are you hearing us if.
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Doctor Spock had had a God fearing, God honoring mother
in his life. My point is to show you that
we are talking about intergenerational consequences from parents who don't
live in their God given orientation, their God given deathiny,
their divine right to take authority in the home, to
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love and raise their children in the fear and the
instruction of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we have the
capacity in our church to change the culture by raising
godly kids.
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If you believe it, say amen.
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But we're gonna have to get some deconstruction into your
mind before we get into construction again. There's gonna be
a series of messages come to every single one. I
want you to write this down at the top of
your nose. Permissive parenting creates long term problems, creates long
term problems. We've been told that we need to listen
to children, we need to get in touch with their feelings,
we need to understand their truth. All these nonsensical things
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that are disabling parents, that are taking authority out of
the hands of parents, when the Bible says the exact opposite.
The Bible says, we do not leave children to their own.
Proverbs twenty nine, verse fifteen says, a child left to
himself brings shame to his mother. You can't let a
child determine their own future. This is the insanity of transgenderism.
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A child comes to their mother and says I'm a boy,
I'm a girl, and the parents are now instructed to
follow that.
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You know, we have one of our staff members.
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I won't tell you who it is, but he works
for us, and he showed me a picture of his,
you know, three year old son the other day, and
he had a cardboard box on his head, and he.
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Said, here's what he did. He came to us with
the cardboard box in.
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His head and he said, Daddy, I'm a mailbox.
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Now.
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What our staff member did not do was affirm his delusion,
because the child is three years old. Amen, you have
to understand the He said. You can't leave children to
determine their identity.
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That is your job. Parents.
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Prover seventeen twenty five says, a foolish son is a
grief to his father, and bitterness to him to her
who bore him.
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And then this idea that children naturally.
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Are good is also anathema to Holy scripture. Children are
not naturally good friends. They are not good people that
you need to protect in their goodness. They are evil people.
They are destructive people, they are selfish people. It's not
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a precious baby that is a diaper in a diaper.
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Come on, somebody, you.
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Need to correct, You need to train, you need to oppose,
You need to fight out the devil from that child.
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Proverbs twenty two to.
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Fifteen says folly is bound up where in the heart
of a child, every child born is filled with folly,
including this guy. I was foolish when I was a child.
By God's grace, I had a parent who wasn't afraid
to spank me. I had a father whose hand I
lived in great fear of. My father worked late. My
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mom was old school. She bare bottomed me friends bare bottom.
I knew I was in trouble by the way. I
knew I was in real trouble when my mom would
say the dreaded words, wait till your father gets home.
Then I knew I'd better straighten up. Man.
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I became a holy priest right in that moment, but.
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I could not undo the punishment that was coming my way.
This is the responsibility of parents, and I want to
give parents their.
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Birth right back.
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I want to give you your authority back. I want
you to hear with scripture, not culture, has to say
about who you are. Because parents listen to me, you
are worthy of honor, respect, and obedience. In the top
ten commandments, the first four. The first four are about
our relationship with God. No other gods, no graven images,
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don't take his name in vain, honor.
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The Sabbath, and.
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Then the second five are about our relationship to each other.
Don't murder, don't steal, don't lie, don't commit adultrey, don't
bear false witness, don't cove it.
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But the one right.
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In the middle, does anybody know the one right in
the middle of those two tables, honor your father and
mother is as if God's saying this, you get your
relationship with me right, and you get your relationship with
others right.
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But the thing that ties it together, the.
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Thing that holds those two axes together in culture, is
that you honor parents you create and a culture.
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It's about a culture of honor in respect. And Ephesian chapter.
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Six says, children obey your parents in the Lord and parents.
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You have to teach your children to obey you.
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If you refuse to discipline, you will lose them. I
think about David, who refused to discipline Absolom and created
a cultural rebellion.
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Against his father.
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I think of Eli, the priest, who refused to correct
his children who were sleeping with women in the temple
and taking the best offerings for themselves. And the Bible
says Eli and his two sons all died on the
same day I think about Isaac and Rebecca, who played
favorites with Jacob and Esau, and they created a civil
war between those two sons and the nations that came
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from them that lives until this day. Permissive parenting creates
long term problems in our society. Now we come here
to Psalm one twenty seven. Psalm one twenty seven is
an ascension psalm is that the back half of your
book of Psalms, the book the Psalms, by the way,
if anybody is interested in this, the Psalms were the
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hymn book of Israel. These were the song books of
the ancient nation, and they would sing the ascension Psalms
on the way to worship at the temple three times
a year as a nation. And what's interesting about Psalm
one twenty seven is that it's on the It comes
after Psalm one twenty six. If you've got your bibles open,
you can look with me at Sol one twenty six,
where it says this, This is that when the Lord
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restored the fortune design we were like those who dreamed.
Our mouth was filled to laughter. Are tongues with shots
of joy. What they're talking about in Sol one twenty
six is that they were coming back out of exile
in Babylon back to the land of Israel. They had
been cast off into the land of Babylon because of
rebellions to the Lord.
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Now a case.
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Could be made that the reason why Israel lost its land,
lost its freedom was because listen to me, parents fail
killed to discipline their children, to teach them what was
right by the way. Ephesian chapter six, verse four says, fathers,
don't provoke your children, but train them in the discipline
and the fear of the Lord. And you've got to
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teach your children about the Lord. You've got to teach
your children about Jesus. Look what it says in Judges
chapter two about the generation after Joshua says this there
is there was a generation that was gathered to their fathers,
and there arose another.
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Generation after them. Look at this line.
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Who did not know what did not know the Lord
and he did and they did not know what the
Lord had done for Israel.
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Ye okay, parents, listen to me very carefully.
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If God, if the Lord is important to you, I
am begging you to talk to your children about it.
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Amen.
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Whatever he's done, whatever you've learned, whatever trial he's brought
you through whatever optacle he's brought down in your life,
and especially if you're baptized and you're born again and
you love him. You've got to tell your children these things.
You can't just tell them about sports. You can't just
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tell them about industry. You can't just tell them about beauty.
You gotta tell them about what has the Lord done
for you. And Israel failed and the generation grew up
without knowing what God could do. When our children don't
know what God can do, they will run after what
the world offers them.
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So saw one.
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Twenty seven, they're coming back Asssion Salm, They're coming back
to worship. And here's the theme. I want you to
fill in the blanks here. The theme of Sawm one
twenty seven is this, if God is not at the
center of the family, it doesn't matter what society builds.
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That's the theme of his psalm.
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If God is not involved, If God's not in the
center of your home, your home is waiting for disaster
to happen. If God is not at the center of
your industry, industry will not survive intergenerationally. So here's how
this palm tells us. This verse one unless the Lord
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builds the what circle.
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The word house.
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And then it says, those who build a labor in
what vain circle the word vain. And then it says,
unless the Lord watches the city, the watchman watches in vain.
Three times in the first two verses of this text,
the word vanity shows up. Vain is the word for emptiness, worthlessness.
There's a whole book about it called Ecclesiastes. Solomon wrote
it later in life, and he said, look, I built
all these towers, I wrote all these poems, I had
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all these wisdom, I chased all these pleasures, and it's
all vanity without the Lord. Life without the Lord is empty.
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This is what Psalm seven I say.
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And now now the question is is it talking about
the physical structure house or is it talking about the
internal home in which the structure that dwells in the structure.
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And the answer to that question is both.
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We need the Lord to build our homes physically. We
need the Lord to build our home spiritually.
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Amen. But I pray that you all have a beautiful home.
But a beautiful home with an infighting family is hell
on earth.
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A family that is at odds with each other, A
family that can't get along with each other, family that
attacks each other and vilifies each other. It doesn't matter
how beautiful your home is. If your home is not
filled with the faith and the purpose and the plan
and the peace of God, no beautiful home can undo
the hate and animosity of interrelation, interrelational challenges.
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So point number one in your nose. Write this down.
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The home without the Lord will be hollow. The home
without the Lord will be hollow.
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What I'm trying to tell you is it's not going
to bring joy to your life.
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Now, You've got to fill your home with the Lord.
Let me say that again so I know, so I
know you're getting it, so that I know you're awaken.
If you agree, say amen. You've got to fill your
home with the Lord. Parents, this is on you. You
can't just fill your home with sports. You can't just
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fill your home with Netflix. You gotta fill your home
with Jesus. Put things on the wall that talk about Jesus.
Put things on magnets on refrigerator that focus.
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Your minds and your attention on the Lord and his word.
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Have a Bible somewhere on the coffee table. Let's get
back to old school religions.
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Somebody come. Have a Bible out so that the.
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Kids can see it, and it's sitting there and it's
not dusty on some bend somewhere in a room that
you never enter. Have the Bible as a centerpiece of
your home, so that your children know. This is important
to my parents.
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And by the way, bring them to church. Oh no,
you don't do that thing.
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Please don't tell me you're one of those parents that
ask permission to bring your kids to church.
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And some parents will say to me, and I'll still
get an email every time I say this stuff, I'll
still get an email. I've had people leave the church
over this.
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I've had a Google review, a nafty one star Google
review because I said this. You absolutely have the right
to expect the children who live with you in your
home to go to church with you without excuse. That's
some parents will tell me, well, I don't want them
to resent the church, so I don't force them. You
don't do that with anything else that's important to your children.
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Do you do that with school? The school bus is
coming out of the street.
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Well, I don't want them to resent the school, so
I give them a choice as to whether or not
they want to beat delinquents, or they want to know stuff.
Do you do that with homework? Do you do that
with cleaning up their room? You don't give children a choice.
You make the choice for them. Children don't know what
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choice to make. They never know what choice to make.
If they ever do, know what choice to make, raise
your hand and shot, hallelujah. You've just witnessed a miracle.
A kids, You not even today. My child, my youngest,
and I love him to death. Well, let me just
tell you something. I have to beg him to do
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fun stuff.
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Fun. The other day I said, let's go do this.
I don't want to.
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He wanted to be on his video game. He wanted
to play with his thumbs for hours.
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I said, no, you're coming. No no choice.
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Everybody say that after me, no choice.
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Get get good at saying no choice.
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By the way, next week, I have seven statements every
child needs to hear from their parents. Come next week.
Seven statements. One of them is no choice. No it's not,
but tell you you got no choice. And they dragged him,
kicking and screaming to go have fun with dad. That's
because these video games are so addictive, scientifically designed to
be addictive, and I brought him home by the way.
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On the way home, I realized that he had fun
with Dad, and I pointed out to him that I
was right and it was gonna be fun.
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Your parents.
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You got to you gotta learn how to do that
when you when you're right, and you're proven right, you
gotta rub it in their face as much as you.
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I told you. Listen to me. I know what I'm doing.
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This is why Joshua says that Joshua twenty four verse fifteen,
how's for me and my house?
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We?
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Yeah, circle we though, because Joshua is speaking for his house.
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Hello, I'm speaking for my house. We will serve the Lord.
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Now, if you don't want to go to church, if
you don't want to go with us to church, kids.
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You got a choice.
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Find yourself a roommate and move in with them, Find
yourself an apartment and find yourself alternative accommodations.
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It's a free country. Go wherever you please.
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But in our South, we go to church and it's
non negotiable. And I'm telling you something that will pay dividends.
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You might have to.
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You might have to drag him, kicking and screaming to church.
But I guarantee you they will thank you eventually. You know,
the hard part about parenting is that is that waiting game.
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That really is the hard part of parenting.
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The waiting game from making them do what you know
they should do to getting a thank you for making
them do what you.
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Knew that that they should do.
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Sometimes that takes thirty years. Come on, somebody, some of.
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Your like, I still haven't seen it. Thank you, Just
wait for it.
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But you've gotta speak for your home.
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Number two. Write this down.
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The city without godly homes will be helpless. The city
without godly homes will be helpless. Now I want you
to think about this. What is a city. A city
is not tall buildings. Here's the simple definition of a city.
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A city is a group of homes.
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This all city is a group of families, a group
of you know, dociles, and the godliness of those homes
in that city will determine the values of that city.
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That's why we have blue states in red states.
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That's why we have blue areas and red areas even
in those states, because the value systems of those homes
the majority, determine the value systems of those areas.
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So you've got to understand.
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This is how God shapes society through the home. And
what we do in this church is we preach the gospel.
We bring people to Jesus so that Jesus, not us,
Jesus and the Holy Spirit can change them. And if
they're changed by God's grace, their home gets changed, and
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then their neighborhood gets impacted, and then their town gets impacted,
their state gets impacted, and we change a nation.
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How by changing the home.
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The scriptures clear, if you've got a city without godliness,
godly homes, you got a city that's just waiting for destruction.
Unless the Lord watches over the city. The washermen stays
awake in vain. Now, let's take a look at verse two.
It says, in vain, you rise early and go to
late rest, go late to rest, eating the bread of
anxious toil.
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God wants you to sleep. God wants you to rest.
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What he's talking about here is the anxious ambition of
secular parenting. The anxious ambition of secular parenting is that
I really hope and pray that my kids get good
grades so that they can go to a good college,
so they can get into a good company, so that
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they can make a good salary, and they can be
well off and do better than me in life. That's
the secular ambition. Let me just tell you something. There's
nothing wrong with any of those things except if you
put that on the throne of your home. And God
has nothing to do with it. So that you chase listen,
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look what he said. You get up early, you go
to bed late. You're tired all the time. Why because
you're work, work, and working for the secular dream, the
societal dream, the American dream, and is all in vain
without the Lord Fris. Listen to me very carefully. The
reason why God brings you to church, the reason why
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God wants you in the house, is that you are
equipped to raise your children faithfully and strongly in God's word,
and you can shape culture through those children.
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That God has put in your hands.
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So just to summarize verse one and verse two.
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And again this is deconstruction.
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But to summarize verse one and verse two, I want
you to look at this, put this on your nose.
The secular blueprint for society is families without faith, cities
without safety, and workers without rest. Families without faith, cities
without safety, and workers without rest, and by the way,
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we've got those things right now, because America wants to
play a dangerous game. America wants safety, but that America doesn't.
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Want the Lord.
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Friends, you can't have both ways. You don't get safety
without the Lord. And in nineteen sixty three, our country
decided it was smarter than God, and the Supreme Court
of the United States decided that prayer and scripture should
be taken out of public schools.
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Believe it or not, these were.
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Institutions in our educational processes. I'll back up even further
to the sixteen hundreds when public education was started in
Rehope with Massachusetts under a law that the legislature of
Massachusetts pass called that old the.
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Looter Satan Act.
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It was. It was a law pass to publicly educate
children in the Bible because the Pilgrims and the Puritans
knew that children needed guidance.
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What I'm trying to tell you is the reason we even.
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Have public education is because Christians wanted to teach their
children about Jesus. So you fast forward the Church, the Bible,
the scriptures, prayer has always had always been a part
of our society in public schools, and an evil wicked
atheist named Madeline Murray O'Hare in Baltimore decided to take
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her school's district to court because she didn't want her
son praying in public schools.
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And she won. She went all the way to the
Supreme Court. She won.
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The Bible was removed, prayer was removed. And what did
we get in exchange? What's filling our schools today?
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Violence?
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Do you know that there were two hundred and thirty
four school shootings last year alone?
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Thirty nine kids died, two hundred and thirty four. There's
so many school shoots they don't even talk about.
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It on the news anymore. It's just part of the culture.
What else is in our schools? Sexual deviancy. We've replaced
the Christian faith with the LGBTQIA faith. That's all that
we've done. What else is in schools anxiety?
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Depression?
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And here's another thing, over medication. We can't we can't
take his notes, so we just drugged them up, We
anesthetize them, we put downers in them, and then we
put uppers in them when they're depressed. And they're on
more drugs now than ever before. So we exchange God
for medication. Violence, and sexual deviancy, and every Christian should
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be demanding their money back. That was a terrible exchange.
We need to we need to raise kids to understand
the battle is real and the enemy is trying with
every power in his arsenal to undermine parental authority and
godly homes, and we can fight back in Jesus name.
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So this brings me to point number three.
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Society will change, society will survive through godly children.
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Now, the interesting thing about Psalm one.
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Twenty seven is that most commentators think it's actually two
psalms that were squished together by some later you know,
biblical editor.
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That's not true.
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The reason why they think is two psalms squished into
one is because the first the first two verses seem
to have nothing to do with last three verses.
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But that's not true.
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He's talking about the home, he's talking about the city,
and then he talks about children. Because here's how you
help the home and you empower the city by raising
godly kids. We have water sharch to listen to me.
Every location. We have the future of our communities in
our buildings being taught about Jesus. Right now, it's not
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babysitting waters kids is not babysitting waters kids is teaching
and raising the next generation to fear the Lord Jesus Christ.
So three points under this litter a. Children are God's long.
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Term plan to save society. Long term plan.
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I want you to back up with me again, back
to verse three. The children are a heritage from the Lord.
And then this word the root of the womb. Now,
any botanist.
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Will tell you this.
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It takes a long time to go from planting the
seed of a tree to harvesting the fruit of that tree.
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It takes a long time.
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If you want to do it with an apple seed,
it takes about five years. If you want to do
it with the avocado seed, it takes up to fifteen
years from planting to get a an avocado off that tree.
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It takes a long time. Right, This is the view.
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That the Scripture is giving us about children. You can't
change society with the law. You can't change society with
a president. You can't change the society with the congressman.
You change society through how you raise the children and
investing in them relentlessly for years and decades to shape
them so that they.
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Can shape society.
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Now there's one there's one problem with this, and I
know this from experience.
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Lasting. Yeah, you know when when.
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You bring back the little pregnancy test and you both
get so excited.
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Yeah, you should live that up because that's the.
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Last bit of energy that you're gonna have for the next.
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Thirty five years of your life. All Right, they drain you.
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And I remember, and I'm talking to parents, and I
know all occasions we.
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Have young parents. You have young parents all over this church.
I'm so glad.
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I'm so thankful for the young people that are getting married,
that are having babies. I'm thankful for the people with
two babies that are having a third baby, for the
people with three babies that.
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Are having a fourth baby.
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We gotta out breathe the pagans in Jesus' name. But
I understand, because I talk to you in the hallways.
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I understand. You all look exhausted.
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You got bags under your eyes, You're frustrated, you don't
know where you are half the time.
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I kidd it, I've been there.
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I remember when my two olders were tiny children, and
me and my wife we're feeling like so exhausted. I
remember the days when a trip to CBS was the
highlight of my week to pick up my wife's stuff.
I literally, I'll go, I'll go anything to get out
of this house.
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Come on with somebody. And you go through that for year.
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After year after year after and it feels like it'll
never end.
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And I want to tell you something.
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I'm about to see the light at the end of
this tunnel.
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And it ends, and it ends gloriously. It does.
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It gets better, but you got to put the work in.
You got to put the work in. What I'm trying
to tell you is you're not gonna see that fruit tomorrow.
You're not gonna see the joy of Christian parenting in
a week. God is not a microwave. God is a
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Southern barbecue. Come on, somebody. He takes his time roasting
and cooking that meat into perfect tenderness, and.
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He wants to do that. He doesn't want to roast
your children. He wants to raise your children.
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What I see in the Bible is that whenever God
wanted to save society, he used a family. The First
family had problems, Cain killed Abel. What does God do?
He raises up a substitute. He gives Eve another son
that son's name. Anybody know Seth means what substitute. And
then if you look at the genealogy of the Book
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of Genesis, some of you have never put this together,
but all the righteous saviors of mankind come from Seth.
All you got to do is go about four chapters later, no,
two chapters later to the book, to the sixth chapter.
There's a son of Seth named Noah. Noah saves humanity,
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but he doesn't just save himself, does he? He saves
his sons and his wife and their wives.
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Yeah.
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And then the world is populated again, and they decide
to get together and build a tower to the heavens.
They build the house without the Lord.
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Are you hearing this?
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God comes down and confuses their language and scatters their efforts,
and the project is abandoned. And then God raises it
very next chapter, very next chapter, God raises up a
family through the man named Abraham. Says, I'm gonna bless
your seed. Your seed will change the world, but we
gotta say, we gotta wait a long time. By the way,
another son of Abraham's named David. David gets a covenant
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with God. A promise from God says, your son will
never fail to sit on my throne. David thought you
were talking about Solomon, but we know he was actually
talking about Jesus, the true son of David. And Jesus
came into this world and was under the care of
a father, an adopted father, and a mother for thirty
years of his life. What I'm trying to tell you
is when God wants to save society, he uses a family.
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And if you want to get your country on the
right track, it starts here with us raising children in
the fear and the instruction of Jesus Christ. But we
got to put the work in. We got to exhaust ourselves.
We gotta get frustrated. Sometimes things gotta get hated. Sometimes,
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let me just give you a letter. B Children must
be sharpened for life's battles. They can't just live with you.
You gotta sharpen those suckers. Come on, somebody, let me
just grab me these arrows that I borrowed from somebody
who hunts in this church.
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These arrows are a picture.
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Look what it says in verse four, like arrows in
the hand of a warrior underlying warrior. By the way,
I've been talking about this all sermon long.
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We are at war. Your children are the arrows in
your hand. Are you getting this?
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But now in modern decide we're a throwaway culture.
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In moderns, if these arrows.
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Get damaged or if they get dull, you go to
Walmart and you pick up a set of three for
nine bucks. These arrows are replaceable. But in the ancient world,
you had to sharpen your arrows. You'd go fetch them
and you'd sharpen them up again so that they were
ready to pierce again.
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And let me just say something about all your children.
Are you ready? Your children are irreplaceable. They're irreplaceable.
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Your microwave goes, you can get a new one, your
car breaks down.
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You can get a new one. It's really easy.
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But your children are the most valuable commodity that you
will ever have under your care, and you've got.
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To sharpen them.
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You gotta do the work to let me say like
this a lot of times. In order to sharpen something,
you got to create friction.
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Yeah, nobody wants friction. I don't want to make them upset.
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Upset them, upset them.
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For their good I can't wait to next week.
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You're gonna love these seven sentences. Rub them the wrong way.
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Parents, because you're.
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Believing that God from your progenity, you're gonna pull back
the bow and release them into decades of human history
that you will never see. But God will be pleased
because you raise them in His name. Let her see finally, shape.
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Sharpened children will shape the culture. Sharpened children will shape
the culture. Let me show you how this works out
and saw one twenty seven, verse five.
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Check this out. Blessed is the man who fills his
quiver with children.
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Blessed is the man and the woman who have a
bunch of kids. Let me just say I didn't say
this earlier, but I said in the other message. Uh,
some of you parents, listen to me. You're on the
verge of divorce. You've even thrown that word around.
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You got to stop.
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Your kids need you both to grow up, set aside
your own ambitions, and agree to work together for their sake.
That's like dramming on a topic. That's like dropping an
atomic bomb on their future. It is not about your happiness,
It is not about your wants and dreams. You are
no longer living for you. You are living for your
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kids to know the Lord. This is blessed as the
man who's quiver is filled with kids. Now, the word
blessed here is not the word barack. There's two words
for blessed in Hebrew, barack and a sar. Barack and
a sar. And every time it talks about God's blessing
someone it used the word baraq. But in this case
the word is not barack, it's a sar. And God
is never the subject of the blessing of Asar.
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That God is never the subject.
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Why because the word a sar is a positive envy word.
It's a positive end. There is good envy, uh. That
is that you look at somebody's life and you say, wow,
that's really good for you.
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That's the word here.
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Blessed is the man Asar is the man that other
people will look at your world, look at your family,
look at your home, and they will say, wow, I'm
envious to that. And it's a good envy because it's
a godly it's.
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A godliness that the envy.
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Blessed is the man who fills his house with godly children.
And then it says this, he will not be put
to shame when he speaks with his enemies. Where in
the gate can I tell you that in the ancient world.
The gate was not just the doors of the city. No, no, no,
we know this from other scriptures. The gate was the
center of political justice. It was the center of civic government.
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The governor would station himself at the gate and hear
the complaints and the cases of the people. Notice the
big picture here, you put your house, fill it with
godly children, and later in life.
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Your enemies, your enemies will.
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Not put you to shame in your political atmosphere. Children
sharpened by godly parents will shape the culture of a nation.
Sermon and sentence, win the home, win the war, Raise
your children in the Lord, and you won't just survive
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the culture, you'll shape it. And I am believing that
for our church. I am believing that for every location.
I'm believing that for every parent, and I want you
to hear me. Every parent in the house, every public
educator in the house, we thank God for you. We
thank God for the Christian educators, We thank God for
the preschool teachers, We thank God for anybody in any
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way who is godly and involved in shaping the next generation.
Can we just give them a hand and thank God
for them. You matter more than you realize. But we
need to take this responsibility seriously.
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We need to let God change us and shape us,
not culture.
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We need to raise our children to love the Lord Jesus,
and it can be done.
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I want you to bow your heads and close your eyes.
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At every location, We're gonna ask you in this moment
to say yes to Jesus.
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I believe in every location.
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There's somebody you need the Lord Jesus.
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You're not walking with the Lord. You're not walking right.
You know it. Today is the day to surrender your life, to.
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Seek for the forgiveness of your sins.
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And to receive Jesus. Father.
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I pray that every person at every location that needs
you will come to Jesus in this moment in Jesus' name.
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Thank you for listening to this message from Waters Church.
For more information or to visit one of our local assemblies,
please visit Waterschurch dot org. God bless and have a
great day.
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God's promise remain true. Follow me, April, and I will
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O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in
all the earth Psalm et nine, O, Lord, my God,
there is no other name above the name of Jesus.
Your name carries such weight that no other name can
compare to it. Jesus Christ is Lord. No devil in
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hell can stand against the name of Jesus. How excellent
is your name. When I pray in your name, it's
the same as if you said it, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
How beautiful is your name. In the name of Jesus,
Demons flee, the sick, are healed, and salvation comes to
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those in darkness. I will sing your praises and exalt
your name all the days of my life.
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Amen.
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I get acquired why the devil wants your kids? And
this message might ruffle some feathers today and I don't
have this bowloaded, and I did some recording for the
other locations.
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It was loaded.
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That's because nobody was in the audience, and so I
didn't want a lawsuit for our church, so I didn't
load it.
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But imagine, if you will, there's an arrow.
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This is the image that the Scripture gives us of children,
arrows in the hands of a warrior. And some of
you got to get a hold of this concept when
it comes to your child out raising and teaching and
elevating them into responsible and godly adults. Is We've got
an opportunity to pierce the darkness of the next generation
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with the children in our care today.
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Amen, And so take out your notes.
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We gave them to you on the way in Target
Acquired Part one.
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Why the devil wants.
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You kids, want you to, want you to fill the
blanks and follow along with us. I want you first
in all locations. Some of you you can't do this,
and I understand that, but I want you to.
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I want you to look at my children.
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And the reason why I want you to look at
my children is because my children are the tests of
whether or not I belong here and I mean not
in the church, but here teaching you God's word, because
there are scriptural requirements for pastors in One Timothy three,
in Titus chapter one, in First Peter chapter five, and
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particularly and in One Timothy three, one of the requirements
for a man to teach and feed God's people is
that his children are submissive, that they don't have the
reputation of being disobedient or rebellious, and that he manages
the pastor manages his house well, because it says if
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he can't manage his house well, how can he manage
the house of God. That's one of the requirements. That's
how you get to test if I.
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Am able to do this.
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Child, my children, by God's grace, thus far served the Lord.
My daughter, who was working for Chick fil A, serving
the Lord's chicken, gave it up and.
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Came to work for the church. I'm thankful for that.
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My son works for the church down here at Apollo Beach.
My daughter's up in North Attleborough working with kids and
all kinds of volunteer ministries up there. And my third
child is seeking the Lord and serving him and too
young to get involved right now. But we're thanking God
for the grace that has upon us. I don't say
that to brag, But I do say that to say this,
I'm qualified.
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To teach you about this. And if you listen to me.
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I believe that God will empower you to raise your
children to fear the Lord will into their adult ages. Amen, somebody,
And so we got to understand something about this deal,
this kid's deal. Here, here's the deal. We are at war.
We are at war for the minds and hearts of children,
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especially in this modern age in which we live. There's
a passage of scripture that talks about the believer's warfare.
It's found in Ephesian chapter six. It's on your notes,
also on the screen. This might be familiar to you.
It says, we wrestle not against flesh and blood. We'd
wrestle against what. We wrestle against rulers, authorities, what cosmic powers,
over what the present darkness, against the spiritual forces of
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evil in the heavenly realms. If you believe that there
is a spiritual warfare, not just the physical reality of
the faith, come on say, amen, we're fighting spiritual forces.
His demons are real spiritual forces in the evil realm.
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These are real things.
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Now, what's ironic about Ephesian Chapter six, verse twelve is
that it comes on the heels of Paul the Apostle
teaching that church about the codes of.
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Conduct for households.
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If you've got a Bible, you can go there and
you can.
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Look at it.
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Just back up to Ephesians chapter five, and it gives
us codes of conduct for the Christian home. It talks
about wives submitting to their husbands, husbands being the head
of the wife.
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That's from one Corinthian chapter eleven.
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There is an authority in the home, and it is
on the man's shoulders to bear that responsibility of authority
for the sake of his children and his wife. And
so men, you can't just sit idly back. You can't
just watch your wife go to church. You can't just
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get into football and all these things and build yourself
a wonderful career. You've got to lead your family in
the things of God. And your wife comes under that purpose,
and she supports you, and she submissed to you, and
you take ownership of your home. And then it says
the man should love his wife and lay down his
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life as Christ did, and sanctify his wife and purify
his wife wies by living an.
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Example for her so she can see.
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His godliness and follows suit. And let me just tell you,
every woman wants a godly man to set that example
for her home.
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That is a fact.
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And I'm telling you men, if you are a godly man.
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You will have a submissive wife.
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And then the children chapter six, verse one must obey
their parents, and the fathers must instruct their children.
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So all these codes.
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Of conduct Ephesians five, Ephesians six. And then on the
heels of that, Paul says, and by the way, we're
at war. Where at war the enemy is gonna do
everything in his power.
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Some you've got to get a hold of this. He's
gonna do everything in his power to subvert, to disorient, to.
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Distort the codes of conduct.
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For the Christian home.
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He's coming for your marriage, He's coming for your children,
because he knows if he can get your marriage and
your children, he can have a destructive influence of intergenerational
causation for decades to come. And I say all that
to say you this, we are at war, So write
this down.
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In your notes. The home is the primary target of
the devil.
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Our school systems fill children with a sense of confusion
like never before have I seen this. I was raised
in public school. I would never put my kids in
public school right now. Never they confuse children. Unfortunately, some
people can't afford it. So this is why we're doing
this series before back to the school season, so that
you are armed and you are ready to take ownership
of your children.
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But today's kids are.
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Going to schools and they are flooded with misinformation and
disinformation and malinformation and the devil's lies about gender, about sexuality,
about pride, about all these all these ideologies that are
destructive to the human condition.
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And then our politicians fill our.
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Children with a sense of entitlement that it's the government's
shop to take care.
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Of you from the cradle to the grave.
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And so kids want freestyff and they want someone to
take care of them. They're not told to take responsibility
for their lives. You can't have rights without responsibility, amen.
I mean you hear the calls, this is my right.
I want my rights, women's rights, children's rights, men's right.
Nobody's calling about men's rights. But you get the idea.
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Everybody wants their rights. Nobody's crying out about responsibility. You
can't have rights without responsibility, and so politicians they flood
their minds with a sense of entitlement. And then TikTok,
if you allow TikTok to raise your kids, and I
pray that you don't, will fill their minds with a confusion,
will fill young men with attention deficit disorder, will fill
young women with depression, anxiety, and frustration about their body image.
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And so the devil is doing all that he can
and every facet of our society to destroy the next generation.
And in case you think the sexual identity madness is
overthink again.
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In the state of North Carolina, this past week, by.
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God's grace, the legislature of that state overrode the veto
of the governor. The governor that state, he's a Democrat,
and he vetoed a law that the legislators.
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Tried to pass.
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The law defined two sexes as the only genders in
the state.
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But it went further than that.
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It protected girls from competing with boys in sports.
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But it went further than that.
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It protected young girls from being coerced to participate in
the pornographic industry. It also protected miners from surgical procedures
of gender transition, and protected state funds from being used
to pay for the gender transition of incarcerated prisoners, and
the governor of North Carolina vetoed that law. He didn't
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want it on the books. My friends, we are at.
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War, and if you want to be ignorant, be my guest.
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But you gotta fight for your children.
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And I intend on doing it for you.
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And I intend on calling all the husbands and wives
and all the educators and all the people.
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In this church.
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We are gonna fight for the next generation. And we're
gonna tell the devil to get back because we've got
authority in the name of Jesus. We're at war and
this is serious, and this is on my heart. Maybe
you've never heard the name Michelle T. But I want
to tell you who she is today. You might not
have heard of her, but she might have heard of
the organization she started in twenty fifteen. The organization she
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started is called Drag Queen Story Hour.
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Drag Queen Story.
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Hours spread across the country, spread around the world like
a wildfire.
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But let's back up to the story.
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She was raised, believe it or not, in Chelsea, Massachusetts,
North Attleborough, NORWA. And she left home when she was twenty.
She moved in with her then girlfriend, she identified as lesbian.
She found out that her girlfriend living girlfriend was making
a lot of money in sex work, so she got
involved as sex work her. So she was a prostitute
until they broke up in two thousand and four and
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she moved across the.
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Country to San Francisco.
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She got into a pride and queer oriented spoken word
group and she toured America in Canada for many years.
Long story short, Eventually she wrote a memoir. The memoir
became a book, the book became a movie. She went
around the country for a little while doing.
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A show called City Witches, and she.
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Even identified as a wish and she decided to find
witches throughout the cities of America. By the way, it's
amazing how oftentimes the sexual deviancy and occult practices go together.
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It's amazing to see that. In twenty fifteen, she struggled
to conceive.
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A child through IVF because she was married quote unquote
to a woman. Finally, she gave birth to her son,
and at the age of one, she brought him to
the library and she felt that the library that she
brought up to was two in her words, hetero normative.
She came up with the idea of having men dressed
as ugly women to read stories about gender transition and
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homosexuality to children ages three to eleven. That's a thing
that happens in public libraries across this country to this day,
with the exception of one state, Tennessee. Come on Tennessee, hallelujah.
They outlawed the practice a couple of years ago. But
you know what I think about this. I read her story,
I read about her life, and I think that we
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never would have heard about Michelle te or drag Queen
story hour if she had had a godly father. You
know what the catalyst of her life was. The catalyst
that she talks about. She found out when she was
a teenager that her stepfather, who she was living with
with her mother, had drilled a hole in the wall
of her bedroom to spy on her while she was
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growing up. She confronted him and he denied it for years,
and when he finally admitted it, her mother amazingly stayed
with him and she was done with them, and the
rest is history. I wonder what kind of world we
would have today. Just think about it if that Michelle
t that precious young girl had had a father who
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wasn't a pervert, but was a godly man who raised
her in the fear, in the admonition of the Lord
we are at war.
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Maybe you've never heard of the name doctor Spock. Maybe
you have.
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I'm not talking about the guy with the funny ears.
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On Star Trek.
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I'm talking about doctor Benjamin S.
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Fock. He was a pediatrician and.
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Then a psychoanalyst of children. Back in the nineteen sixties,
he wrote a best selling book on raising children.
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And in that book, that book.
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Sold hundreds of millions of copies and went around the world.
And in that book he told parents, stopped spanking, stop punishing,
stop saying no, your children know what's good. It's your
job to correct them, but to cultivate that in them
absolute nonsense.
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And it spread around this country.
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Parents stopped taking authority over their children. They decided to
befriend their children. They became permissive parents. They stepped out
of their god given role, and children ran wild. By
the way, doctor Spock's first wife went clinically insane. He
then married a woman forty three years younger than he.
She took control of his life. Basically. He once ran
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for president on a socialist ticket promising free abortions and
gay marriage across the country, and he himself admitted later
in life that he probably made a mistake emphasizing that
parents shouldn't say no too much, to the point that
he created a culture of permissive parenting that is probably destructive.
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And I would say that is the least of his problems.
But I think about his story too. He was raised
by a domineering probably a woman who went too far
in disciplining her children. His mother's practice of disciplining your
children was to lock them in a darkened closet, and
amazingly astonishing enough, one time she locked one of his
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siblings in that closet and forgot he was there and
left for New York.
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I wonder what would have happened. Are you hearing us if.
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Doctor Spock had had a God fearing, God honoring mother
in his life. My point is to show you that
we are talking about intergenerational consequences from parents who don't
live in their God given orientation, their God given deathiny,
their divine right to take authority in the home, to
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love and raise their children in the fear and the
instruction of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we have the
capacity in our church to change the culture by raising
godly kids.
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If you believe it, say amen.
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But we're gonna have to get some deconstruction into your
mind before we get into construction again. There's gonna be
a series of messages come to every single one. I
want you to write this down at the top of
your nose. Permissive parenting creates long term problems, creates long
term problems. We've been told that we need to listen
to children, we need to get in touch with their feelings,
we need to understand their truth. All these nonsensical things
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that are disabling parents, that are taking authority out of
the hands of parents, when the Bible says the exact opposite.
The Bible says, we do not leave children to their own.
Proverbs twenty nine, verse fifteen says, a child left to
himself brings shame to his mother. You can't let a
child determine their own future. This is the insanity of transgenderism.
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A child comes to their mother and says I'm a boy,
I'm a girl, and the parents are now instructed to
follow that.
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You know, we have one of our staff members.
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I won't tell you who it is, but he works
for us, and he showed me a picture of his,
you know, three year old son the other day, and
he had a cardboard box on his head, and he.
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Said, here's what he did. He came to us with
the cardboard box in.
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His head and he said, Daddy, I'm a mailbox.
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Now.
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What our staff member did not do was affirm his delusion,
because the child is three years old. Amen, you have
to understand the He said. You can't leave children to
determine their identity.
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That is your job. Parents.
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Prover seventeen twenty five says, a foolish son is a
grief to his father, and bitterness to him to her
who bore him.
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And then this idea that children naturally.
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Are good is also anathema to Holy scripture. Children are
not naturally good friends. They are not good people that
you need to protect in their goodness. They are evil people.
They are destructive people, they are selfish people. It's not
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a precious baby that is a diaper in a diaper.
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Come on, somebody, you.
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Need to correct, You need to train, you need to oppose,
You need to fight out the devil from that child.
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Proverbs twenty two to.
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Fifteen says folly is bound up where in the heart
of a child, every child born is filled with folly,
including this guy. I was foolish when I was a child.
By God's grace, I had a parent who wasn't afraid
to spank me. I had a father whose hand I
lived in great fear of. My father worked late. My
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mom was old school. She bare bottomed me friends bare bottom.
I knew I was in trouble by the way. I
knew I was in real trouble when my mom would
say the dreaded words, wait till your father gets home.
Then I knew I'd better straighten up. Man.
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I became a holy priest right in that moment, but.
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I could not undo the punishment that was coming my way.
This is the responsibility of parents, and I want to
give parents their.
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Birth right back.
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I want to give you your authority back. I want
you to hear with scripture, not culture, has to say
about who you are. Because parents listen to me, you
are worthy of honor, respect, and obedience. In the top
ten commandments, the first four. The first four are about
our relationship with God. No other gods, no graven images,
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don't take his name in vain, honor.
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The Sabbath, and.
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Then the second five are about our relationship to each other.
Don't murder, don't steal, don't lie, don't commit adultrey, don't
bear false witness, don't cove it.
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But the one right.
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In the middle, does anybody know the one right in
the middle of those two tables, honor your father and
mother is as if God's saying this, you get your
relationship with me right, and you get your relationship with
others right.
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But the thing that ties it together, the.
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Thing that holds those two axes together in culture, is
that you honor parents you create and a culture.
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It's about a culture of honor in respect. And Ephesian chapter.
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Six says, children obey your parents in the Lord and parents.
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You have to teach your children to obey you.
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If you refuse to discipline, you will lose them. I
think about David, who refused to discipline Absolom and created
a cultural rebellion.
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Against his father.
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I think of Eli, the priest, who refused to correct
his children who were sleeping with women in the temple
and taking the best offerings for themselves. And the Bible
says Eli and his two sons all died on the
same day I think about Isaac and Rebecca, who played
favorites with Jacob and Esau, and they created a civil
war between those two sons and the nations that came
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from them that lives until this day. Permissive parenting creates
long term problems in our society. Now we come here
to Psalm one twenty seven. Psalm one twenty seven is
an ascension psalm is that the back half of your
book of Psalms, the book the Psalms, by the way,
if anybody is interested in this, the Psalms were the
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hymn book of Israel. These were the song books of
the ancient nation, and they would sing the ascension Psalms
on the way to worship at the temple three times
a year as a nation. And what's interesting about Psalm
one twenty seven is that it's on the It comes
after Psalm one twenty six. If you've got your bibles open,
you can look with me at Sol one twenty six,
where it says this, This is that when the Lord
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restored the fortune design we were like those who dreamed.
Our mouth was filled to laughter. Are tongues with shots
of joy. What they're talking about in Sol one twenty
six is that they were coming back out of exile
in Babylon back to the land of Israel. They had
been cast off into the land of Babylon because of
rebellions to the Lord.
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Now a case.
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Could be made that the reason why Israel lost its land,
lost its freedom was because listen to me, parents fail
killed to discipline their children, to teach them what was
right by the way. Ephesian chapter six, verse four says, fathers,
don't provoke your children, but train them in the discipline
and the fear of the Lord. And you've got to
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teach your children about the Lord. You've got to teach
your children about Jesus. Look what it says in Judges
chapter two about the generation after Joshua says this there
is there was a generation that was gathered to their fathers,
and there arose another.
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Generation after them. Look at this line.
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Who did not know what did not know the Lord
and he did and they did not know what the
Lord had done for Israel.
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Ye okay, parents, listen to me very carefully.
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If God, if the Lord is important to you, I
am begging you to talk to your children about it.
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Amen.
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Whatever he's done, whatever you've learned, whatever trial he's brought
you through whatever optacle he's brought down in your life,
and especially if you're baptized and you're born again and
you love him. You've got to tell your children these things.
You can't just tell them about sports. You can't just
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tell them about industry. You can't just tell them about beauty.
You gotta tell them about what has the Lord done
for you. And Israel failed and the generation grew up
without knowing what God could do. When our children don't
know what God can do, they will run after what
the world offers them.
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So saw one.
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Twenty seven, they're coming back Asssion Salm, They're coming back
to worship. And here's the theme. I want you to
fill in the blanks here. The theme of Sawm one
twenty seven is this, if God is not at the
center of the family, it doesn't matter what society builds.
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That's the theme of his psalm.
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If God is not involved, If God's not in the
center of your home, your home is waiting for disaster
to happen. If God is not at the center of
your industry, industry will not survive intergenerationally. So here's how
this palm tells us. This verse one unless the Lord
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builds the what circle.
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The word house.
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And then it says, those who build a labor in
what vain circle the word vain. And then it says,
unless the Lord watches the city, the watchman watches in vain.
Three times in the first two verses of this text,
the word vanity shows up. Vain is the word for emptiness, worthlessness.
There's a whole book about it called Ecclesiastes. Solomon wrote
it later in life, and he said, look, I built
all these towers, I wrote all these poems, I had
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all these wisdom, I chased all these pleasures, and it's
all vanity without the Lord. Life without the Lord is empty.
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This is what Psalm seven I say.
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And now now the question is is it talking about
the physical structure house or is it talking about the
internal home in which the structure that dwells in the structure.
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And the answer to that question is both.
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We need the Lord to build our homes physically. We
need the Lord to build our home spiritually.
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Amen. But I pray that you all have a beautiful home.
But a beautiful home with an infighting family is hell
on earth.
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A family that is at odds with each other, A
family that can't get along with each other, family that
attacks each other and vilifies each other. It doesn't matter
how beautiful your home is. If your home is not
filled with the faith and the purpose and the plan
and the peace of God, no beautiful home can undo
the hate and animosity of interrelation, interrelational challenges.
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So point number one in your nose. Write this down.
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The home without the Lord will be hollow. The home
without the Lord will be hollow.
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What I'm trying to tell you is it's not going
to bring joy to your life.
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Now, You've got to fill your home with the Lord.
Let me say that again so I know, so I
know you're getting it, so that I know you're awaken.
If you agree, say amen. You've got to fill your
home with the Lord. Parents, this is on you. You
can't just fill your home with sports. You can't just
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fill your home with Netflix. You gotta fill your home
with Jesus. Put things on the wall that talk about Jesus.
Put things on magnets on refrigerator that focus.
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Your minds and your attention on the Lord and his word.
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Have a Bible somewhere on the coffee table. Let's get
back to old school religions.
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Somebody come. Have a Bible out so that the.
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Kids can see it, and it's sitting there and it's
not dusty on some bend somewhere in a room that
you never enter. Have the Bible as a centerpiece of
your home, so that your children know. This is important
to my parents.
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And by the way, bring them to church. Oh no,
you don't do that thing.
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Please don't tell me you're one of those parents that
ask permission to bring your kids to church.
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And some parents will say to me, and I'll still
get an email every time I say this stuff, I'll
still get an email. I've had people leave the church
over this.
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I've had a Google review, a nafty one star Google
review because I said this. You absolutely have the right
to expect the children who live with you in your
home to go to church with you without excuse. That's
some parents will tell me, well, I don't want them
to resent the church, so I don't force them. You
don't do that with anything else that's important to your children.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Do you do that with school? The school bus is
coming out of the street.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Well, I don't want them to resent the school, so
I give them a choice as to whether or not
they want to beat delinquents, or they want to know stuff.
Do you do that with homework? Do you do that
with cleaning up their room? You don't give children a choice.
You make the choice for them. Children don't know what
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choice to make. They never know what choice to make.
If they ever do, know what choice to make, raise
your hand and shot, hallelujah. You've just witnessed a miracle.
A kids, You not even today. My child, my youngest,
and I love him to death. Well, let me just
tell you something. I have to beg him to do
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fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Fun. The other day I said, let's go do this.
I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
He wanted to be on his video game. He wanted
to play with his thumbs for hours.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I said, no, you're coming. No no choice.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Everybody say that after me, no choice.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Get get good at saying no choice.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
By the way, next week, I have seven statements every
child needs to hear from their parents. Come next week.
Seven statements. One of them is no choice. No it's not,
but tell you you got no choice. And they dragged him,
kicking and screaming to go have fun with dad. That's
because these video games are so addictive, scientifically designed to
be addictive, and I brought him home by the way.
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On the way home, I realized that he had fun
with Dad, and I pointed out to him that I
was right and it was gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Your parents.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
You got to you gotta learn how to do that
when you when you're right, and you're proven right, you
gotta rub it in their face as much as you.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I told you. Listen to me. I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
This is why Joshua says that Joshua twenty four verse fifteen,
how's for me and my house?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
We?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Yeah, circle we though, because Joshua is speaking for his house.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Hello, I'm speaking for my house. We will serve the Lord.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Now, if you don't want to go to church, if
you don't want to go with us to church, kids.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
You got a choice.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Find yourself a roommate and move in with them, Find
yourself an apartment and find yourself alternative accommodations.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
It's a free country. Go wherever you please.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
But in our South, we go to church and it's
non negotiable. And I'm telling you something that will pay dividends.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You might have to.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
You might have to drag him, kicking and screaming to church.
But I guarantee you they will thank you eventually. You know,
the hard part about parenting is that is that waiting game.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
That really is the hard part of parenting.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
The waiting game from making them do what you know
they should do to getting a thank you for making
them do what you.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Knew that that they should do.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Sometimes that takes thirty years. Come on, somebody, some of.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Your like, I still haven't seen it. Thank you, Just
wait for it.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
But you've gotta speak for your home.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Number two. Write this down.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
The city without godly homes will be helpless. The city
without godly homes will be helpless. Now I want you
to think about this. What is a city. A city
is not tall buildings. Here's the simple definition of a city.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
A city is a group of homes.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
This all city is a group of families, a group
of you know, dociles, and the godliness of those homes
in that city will determine the values of that city.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
That's why we have blue states in red states.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
That's why we have blue areas and red areas even
in those states, because the value systems of those homes
the majority, determine the value systems of those areas.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So you've got to understand.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
This is how God shapes society through the home. And
what we do in this church is we preach the gospel.
We bring people to Jesus so that Jesus, not us,
Jesus and the Holy Spirit can change them. And if
they're changed by God's grace, their home gets changed, and
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then their neighborhood gets impacted, and then their town gets impacted,
their state gets impacted, and we change a nation.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
How by changing the home.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
The scriptures clear, if you've got a city without godliness,
godly homes, you got a city that's just waiting for destruction.
Unless the Lord watches over the city. The washermen stays
awake in vain. Now, let's take a look at verse two.
It says, in vain, you rise early and go to
late rest, go late to rest, eating the bread of
anxious toil.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
God wants you to sleep. God wants you to rest.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
What he's talking about here is the anxious ambition of
secular parenting. The anxious ambition of secular parenting is that
I really hope and pray that my kids get good
grades so that they can go to a good college,
so they can get into a good company, so that
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they can make a good salary, and they can be
well off and do better than me in life. That's
the secular ambition. Let me just tell you something. There's
nothing wrong with any of those things except if you
put that on the throne of your home. And God
has nothing to do with it. So that you chase listen,
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look what he said. You get up early, you go
to bed late. You're tired all the time. Why because
you're work, work, and working for the secular dream, the
societal dream, the American dream, and is all in vain
without the Lord Fris. Listen to me very carefully. The
reason why God brings you to church, the reason why
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God wants you in the house, is that you are
equipped to raise your children faithfully and strongly in God's word,
and you can shape culture through those children.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
That God has put in your hands.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
So just to summarize verse one and verse two.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
And again this is deconstruction.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But to summarize verse one and verse two, I want
you to look at this, put this on your nose.
The secular blueprint for society is families without faith, cities
without safety, and workers without rest. Families without faith, cities
without safety, and workers without rest, and by the way,
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we've got those things right now, because America wants to
play a dangerous game. America wants safety, but that America doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Want the Lord.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Friends, you can't have both ways. You don't get safety
without the Lord. And in nineteen sixty three, our country
decided it was smarter than God, and the Supreme Court
of the United States decided that prayer and scripture should
be taken out of public schools.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Believe it or not, these were.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Institutions in our educational processes. I'll back up even further
to the sixteen hundreds when public education was started in
Rehope with Massachusetts under a law that the legislature of
Massachusetts pass called that old the.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Looter Satan Act.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
It was. It was a law pass to publicly educate
children in the Bible because the Pilgrims and the Puritans
knew that children needed guidance.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
What I'm trying to tell you is the reason we even.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Have public education is because Christians wanted to teach their
children about Jesus. So you fast forward the Church, the Bible,
the scriptures, prayer has always had always been a part
of our society in public schools, and an evil wicked
atheist named Madeline Murray O'Hare in Baltimore decided to take
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her school's district to court because she didn't want her
son praying in public schools.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
And she won. She went all the way to the
Supreme Court. She won.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
The Bible was removed, prayer was removed. And what did
we get in exchange? What's filling our schools today?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Violence?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Do you know that there were two hundred and thirty
four school shootings last year alone?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Thirty nine kids died, two hundred and thirty four. There's
so many school shoots they don't even talk about.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
It on the news anymore. It's just part of the culture.
What else is in our schools? Sexual deviancy. We've replaced
the Christian faith with the LGBTQIA faith. That's all that
we've done. What else is in schools anxiety?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Depression?
Speaker 4 (35:54):
And here's another thing, over medication. We can't we can't
take his notes, so we just drugged them up, We
anesthetize them, we put downers in them, and then we
put uppers in them when they're depressed. And they're on
more drugs now than ever before. So we exchange God
for medication. Violence, and sexual deviancy, and every Christian should
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be demanding their money back. That was a terrible exchange.
We need to we need to raise kids to understand
the battle is real and the enemy is trying with
every power in his arsenal to undermine parental authority and
godly homes, and we can fight back in Jesus name.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
So this brings me to point number three.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Society will change, society will survive through godly children.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Now, the interesting thing about Psalm one.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Twenty seven is that most commentators think it's actually two
psalms that were squished together by some later you know,
biblical editor.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's not true.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
The reason why they think is two psalms squished into
one is because the first the first two verses seem
to have nothing to do with last three verses.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
But that's not true.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
He's talking about the home, he's talking about the city,
and then he talks about children. Because here's how you
help the home and you empower the city by raising
godly kids. We have water sharch to listen to me.
Every location. We have the future of our communities in
our buildings being taught about Jesus. Right now, it's not
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babysitting waters kids is not babysitting waters kids is teaching
and raising the next generation to fear the Lord Jesus Christ.
So three points under this litter a. Children are God's long.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Term plan to save society. Long term plan.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
I want you to back up with me again, back
to verse three. The children are a heritage from the Lord.
And then this word the root of the womb. Now,
any botanist.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Will tell you this.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
It takes a long time to go from planting the
seed of a tree to harvesting the fruit of that tree.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
It takes a long time.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
If you want to do it with an apple seed,
it takes about five years. If you want to do
it with the avocado seed, it takes up to fifteen
years from planting to get a an avocado off that tree.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
It takes a long time. Right, This is the view.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
That the Scripture is giving us about children. You can't
change society with the law. You can't change society with
a president. You can't change the society with the congressman.
You change society through how you raise the children and
investing in them relentlessly for years and decades to shape
them so that they.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Can shape society.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Now there's one there's one problem with this, and I
know this from experience.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Lasting. Yeah, you know when when.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
You bring back the little pregnancy test and you both
get so excited.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, you should live that up because that's the.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Last bit of energy that you're gonna have for the next.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Thirty five years of your life. All Right, they drain you.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
And I remember, and I'm talking to parents, and I
know all occasions we.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Have young parents. You have young parents all over this church.
I'm so glad.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I'm so thankful for the young people that are getting married,
that are having babies. I'm thankful for the people with
two babies that are having a third baby, for the
people with three babies that.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Are having a fourth baby.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
We gotta out breathe the pagans in Jesus' name. But
I understand, because I talk to you in the hallways.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I understand. You all look exhausted.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
You got bags under your eyes, You're frustrated, you don't
know where you are half the time.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
I kidd it, I've been there.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
I remember when my two olders were tiny children, and
me and my wife we're feeling like so exhausted. I
remember the days when a trip to CBS was the
highlight of my week to pick up my wife's stuff.
I literally, I'll go, I'll go anything to get out
of this house.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Come on with somebody. And you go through that for year.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
After year after year after and it feels like it'll
never end.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
And I want to tell you something.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
I'm about to see the light at the end of
this tunnel.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
And it ends, and it ends gloriously. It does.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
It gets better, but you got to put the work in.
You got to put the work in. What I'm trying
to tell you is you're not gonna see that fruit tomorrow.
You're not gonna see the joy of Christian parenting in
a week. God is not a microwave. God is a
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Southern barbecue. Come on, somebody. He takes his time roasting
and cooking that meat into perfect tenderness, and.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
He wants to do that. He doesn't want to roast
your children. He wants to raise your children.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
What I see in the Bible is that whenever God
wanted to save society, he used a family. The First
family had problems, Cain killed Abel. What does God do?
He raises up a substitute. He gives Eve another son
that son's name. Anybody know Seth means what substitute. And
then if you look at the genealogy of the Book
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of Genesis, some of you have never put this together,
but all the righteous saviors of mankind come from Seth.
All you got to do is go about four chapters later, no,
two chapters later to the book, to the sixth chapter.
There's a son of Seth named Noah. Noah saves humanity,
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but he doesn't just save himself, does he? He saves
his sons and his wife and their wives.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
And then the world is populated again, and they decide
to get together and build a tower to the heavens.
They build the house without the Lord.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Are you hearing this?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
God comes down and confuses their language and scatters their efforts,
and the project is abandoned. And then God raises it
very next chapter, very next chapter, God raises up a
family through the man named Abraham. Says, I'm gonna bless
your seed. Your seed will change the world, but we
gotta say, we gotta wait a long time. By the way,
another son of Abraham's named David. David gets a covenant
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with God. A promise from God says, your son will
never fail to sit on my throne. David thought you
were talking about Solomon, but we know he was actually
talking about Jesus, the true son of David. And Jesus
came into this world and was under the care of
a father, an adopted father, and a mother for thirty
years of his life. What I'm trying to tell you
is when God wants to save society, he uses a family.
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And if you want to get your country on the
right track, it starts here with us raising children in
the fear and the instruction of Jesus Christ. But we
got to put the work in. We got to exhaust ourselves.
We gotta get frustrated. Sometimes things gotta get hated. Sometimes,
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let me just give you a letter. B Children must
be sharpened for life's battles. They can't just live with you.
You gotta sharpen those suckers. Come on, somebody, let me
just grab me these arrows that I borrowed from somebody
who hunts in this church.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
These arrows are a picture.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
Look what it says in verse four, like arrows in
the hand of a warrior underlying warrior. By the way,
I've been talking about this all sermon long.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
We are at war. Your children are the arrows in
your hand. Are you getting this?
Speaker 4 (43:54):
But now in modern decide we're a throwaway culture.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
In moderns, if these arrows.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Get damaged or if they get dull, you go to
Walmart and you pick up a set of three for
nine bucks. These arrows are replaceable. But in the ancient world,
you had to sharpen your arrows. You'd go fetch them
and you'd sharpen them up again so that they were
ready to pierce again.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
And let me just say something about all your children.
Are you ready? Your children are irreplaceable. They're irreplaceable.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Your microwave goes, you can get a new one, your
car breaks down.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
You can get a new one. It's really easy.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
But your children are the most valuable commodity that you
will ever have under your care, and you've got.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
To sharpen them.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
You gotta do the work to let me say like
this a lot of times. In order to sharpen something,
you got to create friction.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Yeah, nobody wants friction. I don't want to make them upset.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Upset them, upset them.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
For their good I can't wait to next week.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
You're gonna love these seven sentences. Rub them the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
Parents, because you're.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
Believing that God from your progenity, you're gonna pull back
the bow and release them into decades of human history
that you will never see. But God will be pleased
because you raise them in His name. Let her see finally, shape.
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Sharpened children will shape the culture. Sharpened children will shape
the culture. Let me show you how this works out
and saw one twenty seven, verse five.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Check this out. Blessed is the man who fills his
quiver with children.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
Blessed is the man and the woman who have a
bunch of kids. Let me just say I didn't say
this earlier, but I said in the other message. Uh,
some of you parents, listen to me. You're on the
verge of divorce. You've even thrown that word around.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
You got to stop.
Speaker 4 (46:00):
Your kids need you both to grow up, set aside
your own ambitions, and agree to work together for their sake.
That's like dramming on a topic. That's like dropping an
atomic bomb on their future. It is not about your happiness,
It is not about your wants and dreams. You are
no longer living for you. You are living for your
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kids to know the Lord. This is blessed as the
man who's quiver is filled with kids. Now, the word
blessed here is not the word barack. There's two words
for blessed in Hebrew, barack and a sar. Barack and
a sar. And every time it talks about God's blessing
someone it used the word baraq. But in this case
the word is not barack, it's a sar. And God
is never the subject of the blessing of Asar.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
That God is never the subject.
Speaker 4 (46:46):
Why because the word a sar is a positive envy word.
It's a positive end. There is good envy, uh. That
is that you look at somebody's life and you say, wow,
that's really good for you.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
That's the word here.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
Blessed is the man Asar is the man that other
people will look at your world, look at your family,
look at your home, and they will say, wow, I'm
envious to that. And it's a good envy because it's
a godly it's.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
A godliness that the envy.
Speaker 4 (47:15):
Blessed is the man who fills his house with godly children.
And then it says this, he will not be put
to shame when he speaks with his enemies. Where in
the gate can I tell you that in the ancient world.
The gate was not just the doors of the city. No, no, no,
we know this from other scriptures. The gate was the
center of political justice. It was the center of civic government.
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The governor would station himself at the gate and hear
the complaints and the cases of the people. Notice the
big picture here, you put your house, fill it with
godly children, and later in life.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Your enemies, your enemies will.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
Not put you to shame in your political atmosphere. Children
sharpened by godly parents will shape the culture of a nation.
Sermon and sentence, win the home, win the war, Raise
your children in the Lord, and you won't just survive
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the culture, you'll shape it. And I am believing that
for our church. I am believing that for every location.
I'm believing that for every parent, and I want you
to hear me. Every parent in the house, every public
educator in the house, we thank God for you. We
thank God for the Christian educators, We thank God for
the preschool teachers, We thank God for anybody in any
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way who is godly and involved in shaping the next generation.
Can we just give them a hand and thank God
for them. You matter more than you realize. But we
need to take this responsibility seriously.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
We need to let God change us and shape us,
not culture.
Speaker 4 (48:58):
We need to raise our children to love the Lord Jesus,
and it can be done.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
I want you to bow your heads and close your eyes.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
At every location, We're gonna ask you in this moment
to say yes to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
I believe in every location.
Speaker 4 (49:13):
There's somebody you need the Lord Jesus.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
You're not walking with the Lord. You're not walking right.
You know it. Today is the day to surrender your life, to.
Speaker 4 (49:27):
Seek for the forgiveness of your sins.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
And to receive Jesus. Father.
Speaker 4 (49:30):
I pray that every person at every location that needs
you will come to Jesus in this moment in Jesus' name.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Thank you for listening to this message from Waters Church.
For more information or to visit one of our local assemblies,
please visit Waterschurch dot org. God bless and have a
great day.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
You will be like God.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Human unity with God was severed, and through it all
God's promise remain true. Follow me, April, and I will
make you great.
Speaker 4 (50:16):
This is the Chosen People.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Listen to the Chosen People at the Chosen.
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