January 14, 2025 • 40 mins
We point to one thing that changes a family’s future: the man you become in Christ, lived out in front of your kids when life gets hard. Through fires and loss, we show how formation, not perfection, builds a legacy your children can follow.
• Wildfires and a family update in Southern California
• Romans 8:28–29 and how suffering shapes character
• The story of David and Goliath as a model for parental formation
• “Whose son are you?” and the imprint of a parent
• Practical habits that build legacy: prayer, confession, presence, service, celebration
• Encouragement for single parents and grandparents
• Restoration for estranged families and breaking bitterness
• Prayer over families for healing and courage
• Resources, coaching, and community to equip fathers
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
What kind of father do you want to be?
What kind of man do you want tobecome for your family and for
yourself?
If you've ever wondered how tostep into the fullness of your
role as a father, husband, andman of God, then you're in the
right place.
Here at the Father Difference,our mission is to inspire and
equip men to be the best fathersthey can be.
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It's a powerful mission.
And today, we're going toexplore exactly how you can take
steps toward that calling.
Whether you're a father, a son,a husband, grandfather, single
dad, stepfather, or just lookingto grow, I believe God has
something powerful for you intoday's message.
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And now your host, a husband,father, grandfather, author, and
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former NFL player, Pastor EdMcGlass.
SPEAKER_01 (01:17):
Hey, well, welcome.
We're uh welcome from SouthernCalifornia.
And it's been a crazy been crazydays out here.
And welcome guys showing up.
I I got my son Lucas Tandy onthe, you know, on Instagram.
Welcome there, Lucas.
And many of you starting to joinfrom all over the place.
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It's good to be here.
We've if you've been tuning inat all to the news, uh, you know
about the devastating fires thatwe've had here in Southern
California.
And on today's show, I'm goingto talk to you about uh the
single thing that creates thebiggest difference that you can
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do as a father and create alegacy for 2025.
What is the single mostimportant thing that you do that
will make the biggest differencewith your children?
Because so goes you, so goesthem.
So we're going to talk aboutthat in a few minutes.
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Just a little update.
Uh, thank you for the wellwishes.
And many of you have beenreaching out to our family.
My son, my oldest son, Edward,who lived up in Los Angeles a
week ago.
His house burned down, and as amatter of fact, this whole
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neighborhood is gone.
And uh up there, it's just justtragic for so many people.
And he has since uh relocatedback down here to closer to us,
which is a joy for us with ourgrandkids, but he's having to
rebuild his whole life.
And although his business isstrong and intact and
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everything, and it was it waspretty crazy, you know, for our
family over the last week,really emotional, and just
supporting one another.
And you know, the best of who weare in Christ happens when
tragedy strikes around theworld.
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Matter of fact, there was a anews agency on the line.
I was listening to them today,and they were they were
registering the number one groupof people who have been helping
out during this fire here in LosAngeles, and and where are they
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from and you know what's theirbackground?
And guess what?
The number one group, not evenclose second, is the people of
Christ and the religiouscommunity here around in
Southern California, but alsojust around the world.
And, you know, it's justsomething about you know these
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hard times that God triggers hispeople and calls us into action
to reach out and love and to bethere.
And so I'm so grateful for allof you that have contacted me,
contacted my son, Edward, andour family, and it's we're
really excited about if there'ssomething to be excited about,
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is that through all these kindsof things, God you know, God
does things.
And it's something that's hisHe's the only one to turn ashes
into something of His glory.
You know, the Bible says in inRomans 8.28, for all things work
together for good to those wholove God and are called
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according to his purpose.
And in a good is not a typicalgood that you think about that
the world would say is good, buthe works something, the good is
actually in verse 29, for thosewhom he foreknew, he has
conformed us, he's conforming usinto the image of his son.
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And so when we go through hardtimes, when we go through times
when we are marginalized andpressed to the edges of our
life, and we suffer and we loseand we deal with things,
somehow, in the midst of allthose things, God is shaping
more of the image of his soninside of us.
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We're becoming more like Jesus,more compassionate, more loving,
more tender, more giving, moregenerous with people.
And that that's really thegreatest, greatest part of our
legacy, even in family, is whenthe heat's on and we come
together as a family.
And I've I've watched thathappen with our family.
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And when hard times come, andthey come to every single
family, and it's not that we dogood and follow God, and so
nothing ever happens.
Well, it happens on both therighteous and and those that
aren't following Christ in theirlife.
The good times come, but alsothe hard times.
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And so be praying for ourneighbors here in Los Angeles.
They, you know, they've lost awhole section of Los Angeles
that won't be a town again,probably for I don't know how
many years, many, three to fiveyears.
And then all the peopledisplaced by no jobs, and in all
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in all of the workers and thethe gardeners and the and the
and the people cleaning housesand the construction workers.
And though I think there's gonnabe a boon in construction it in
California, by the way, it ittakes forever to get your
permits.
So it's gonna be a tough timefor all of them.
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So be praying and and for allthat.
And so I want to shift a littlebit and just share that one
thing that could make thebiggest difference for you in
your life.
And it's from a story in theBible.
I didn't want to make slides forthis entire section of
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scripture, but if you got yourBible, and I want you to turn to
1 Samuel chapter 17, and uh, andso this is a story about David
and Goliath and how God used aboy and a father in an
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extraordinary way to change thecourse of history for the the
people of Israel.
And you know, I love this storybecause it speaks so much to
family and it speaks so much toreally what is the legacy that
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you're building.
And so if you think about yourown story in your life, whether
you're a mom or a dad, andyou're thinking about what
you're you want your children tobecome.
Because that's what reallymatters, you know, is I'm I'm a
grandpa now.
I got 14 grandkids.
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And what's in my heart is morethan anything is what can I do
to come alongside my kids tohelp them be the best moms and
dads they can be.
And I can be the best grandpa,uh not grandma, grandpa that I
can be, and in what I model andwho I am.
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That it's probably the mostimportant thing that can happen
for you in their life.
It's not just about playing withthem, it's not just about being
there, it's all those things.
But underneath all of it, andI'll sort of let the cat out of
the bag, so to speak, it's theman, or for your mom watching,
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or the woman that you become inChrist determines the legacy of
how your children start theirstory.
And and so let me let me sharethis.
I have been talking a lot to myolder son Edward in the midst of
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this, and a number of times inour conversation, he said he
said uh this line to me.
He said, Dad, I I watched youfor years go through hard times.
And it's really been it's reallybeen an anchor for me.
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Because I watched how you gotup, no matter what you lost, no
matter what happened.
And if you get involved inchurch work, you're gonna go
through this with people andchurches and etc.
And and that's just someaningful to me.
Because sometimes we forget asparents, the the life that we
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live really does matter.
It's not just about getting themin the right schools, getting
them in the right programs.
It's not just about you know,making sure and teaching them
the Bible so that they, which isall important stuff.
But at the end of the day, it'sthe it in the in the core of who
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your children are, what's beingformed in them is the person
that they see, the person theyfollow.
And when you're a present lovingdad, or if you're a mom here
watching a present loving mom,what your kids get from watching
you handle hard times inpossible circumstances,
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something transfers into themthat's incredibly profound and
shaping how they see themselvesand how one day they're gonna go
through those same thingsbecause those memories will come
up.
And so they're watching you andhow you you handle those things.
And my grandkids are arewatching me, and they they're
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not sure exactly what's going onwith the fires and and
everything else.
But they want to know is itokay, Papa?
Is everything okay?
Are we gonna be okay?
And how we we we feed our soulsand how we live our life before
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our children is is hasincredible ability to imprint on
them a whole way of facing andwalking through hard times.
And we sometimes don't think wedo that good of a job.
I mean, just showing up is youknow, kind of half the battle
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and being there and loving them,but what them watching you pray
and them watching you grieve,and them watching you cry, and
then watching you celebrate, andthem watching you give, and
they're they're watchingconstantly and learning about
how to handle hard times whenthey come, and sometimes the
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impossible circumstances thatthat come.
That's why Paul wrote to Timothythat God's not given us a spirit
of fear that leads again toslavery, uh slavery.
And you know, Timothy struggledin some ways, but he said he's
given us love, joy, peace, andself-control.
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And he said, God has given ussupernatural abilities in him to
be able to weather every singlestorm.
And you might be in a stormright now.
You might, your family might beshook and you're wondering, you
know, oh well, what do I do?
How do I handle this?
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How do I, you know, garnersupport?
How do I uh connect them?
Or or maybe you're watching andyou've just lost your house in
LA and you've you know you gonethrough some horrible situation
in this past year, uh, or youknow, your family's been blown
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apart, and you're wondering how,well, can I really make a
difference?
And part of the enemy's strategyagainst you is to get you to
believe that you're eternallybroken, and who would want to
follow you?
Who would want to listen to you,especially your kids?
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Well, I got to tell you, man,you are a living movie screen
that they get to watch a trailerevery single day that comes out
of your life.
Don't ever forget that.
And how you do that is reallypowerful.
So I'm I want to share, justkind of read you a story you've
probably heard before.
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1 Samuel chapter 17.
And so you got this giant thatsome think was you know over
nine feet, when they they givethe measurement about you know
how how big he was.
And and he was taunting thepeople of Israel, name was
Goliath, and he had you knowother brothers as well.
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And David was going back andforth.
He was a young teenager goingback and forth to take care of
the, you know, you know, to dothe kind of family business.
He got the, he was a low man ina totem pole, and he got to
guard the sheep.
We'll see later in the story.
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He, you know, he had to fightoff bears and lions by himself.
He had to learn how to connectto God on his own because he was
alone.
And the his brothers disdainedhim.
And, you know, they, you know,he was the little brother who
didn't get any respect.
And so there he is, you know,he's coming up to the front
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lines.
His older brother thinks he'strying to garner attention to
himself.
And so every time Goliath cameout at verse 24, all the men
fled and were afraid.
And the men of Israel said, Haveyou seen this man that has come
up?
Surely he has come up to defyIsrael and the king.
And so they're they're nowseeing this young boy, David,
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show up.
And he begins to listen to whateveryone's saying and how
they're completely defeated byhow powerful uh Goliath seems,
this imposing figure on thebattlefield.
In verse 26, and David said tothe men who stood by him, What
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should be done for the man whokills the Philistine?
He's just a young guy, man.
He's been fighting lions andbears, and he goes, What should
be done?
And takes away the approach fromIsrael.
Now, this is a teenager talking.
This is a teenager who God hasbeen forming in him, the king
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that he will one day be.
And so he for who is this?
And then this uncircumcisedPhilistine that he should defy
the armies of the living God.
Who is this guy?
So they they're scared of thisguy because they're they're
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going, I can't possibly defeathim.
And David is going, Well, howcome you guys are letting this
guy defy the armies of theliving God?
He knew who his God was.
And so, you know, in the midstof this, the the the enemy wants
to throw every kind of doubtyour way and everything in you
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to get you to feel as thoughyou're all alone and you're
completely defeatable.
And what what difference can youpossibly make?
And what did David do?
No, he asks, I mean, I mean,what's the payday?
Now, Elab, the oldest brother,disdains him.
He hears this and says, and hewas his anger was kindled
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against David and said, Why haveyou come down?
And with whom have you leftthose sheep in a wilderness?
So basically, you left your job.
Why are you here?
You're just a kid.
You don't know what you'retalking about.
I know your presumption and evilin your heart.
So, you know, when you stand upto do the right thing, to be the
father that God has called youto be in a land of so many crazy
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stuff, you're gonna you're gonnahave people pushing back.
You're gonna have family peoplethat are gonna push back against
you, just like David did.
And David said, What have I donenow?
Speaking like a brother, right?
And and was it not a word?
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And he turned away from him toanother and spoke to them.
And when David's when the wordsthat David spoke were heard,
they repeated them before Sauland he sent for him.
So David said, Well, what shouldbe done for this guy?
I mean, why are we just you knowdealing with this uncircumcised
field scene that's taunting thepeople of the living God?
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And David, you know, his wordsnow make it before the king.
And the reason why, he is theonly one in all of Israel.
They're all afraid.
But David had the gift of faithon him.
And Saul said to David, You arenot able to go against the
Philistine and fight with himfor you are but a youth, you're
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a kid.
And he has been a man of warfrom his youth.
But David said to Saul, yourservant used to keep sheep for
his father.
And when a lion came or a bear,I uh and took out a lamb from
the flock, I went after him,struck him, delivered it out of
his mouth, and if you and if herose against me, I caught him by
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his beard.
Talking about a lion, and struckit and killed him.
Your servant has struck downboth the lions and the bears,
and the uncircumcised Philistinewould be like one of them.
For he has defied the armies ofa living God.
And David said, The Lord whodelivered me from the paw of the
lion and from the paw of thebear will deliver me from the
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hand of this Philistine.
And so and Saul said to David,Go and the Lord be with you.
I don't know how much hebelieved it or not, but David
went and took it and faced off.
He grabbed five smooth stones.
He took his staff in his handand five tooth snow from a brook
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and put him in a shepherd'spouch and his sling in his hand,
and he ran down the hill towardsa Philistine.
The Philistine, of course,mocked him, Am I a dog?
And you've come to me with thesword and the spirit, David says
to him, but I come to you in thename of the Lord, the God of the
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armies of Israel in whom you'vedefied.
In this day the Lord will, and Iwill strike you down, and I will
cut off your head.
And I will give the dead bodiesof the hosts of the Philistines
this day into the hands of thebird into the birds of the air
and the wild beasts of theearth, and it in all the earth
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they may know that there's a godin Israel, and all this assembly
may know that the Lord saves notby the sword or the spear, for
the whole battle is the Lord's,and he will give you into our
hand.
So David's secret was not evenin his own ability as a hunter.
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His secret was he understoodthat if God's with him, he can't
be defeated.
And here he goes and he grabs asling.
And I'll kind of summarize thisand kind of bring you to the
kind of the punchline of thestory.
And he and he grabs a sling,runs down, puts in a rock, whips
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it around, hits him between theeyes, stuns him, runs over,
pulls out his 17-pound sword andwhacked off his head and killed
him.
Held up his head, kind of like Iimagine him, like a brave heart
moment, probably both hands,because he's a young guy, this
big giant and his big head.
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And what Saul was asking Abnerwas, I want to meet the father
who raised the son like this.
I want to meet the father whoweighs the son like this.
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And Abner says, As your soullives, O king, I do not know.
And the king found out, and assoon as David returned from
striking down the Philistine,Abner took him and brought him
before Saul with the head of thePhilistine in his hand.
And Saul said, Whose son areyou, O young man?
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And David answered, I am the sonof your servant Jesse the
Bethlehemite.
And so here's my big kahunamoment and question for you.
So when King Saul was, you know,watch David go out in the power
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of the Lord, his response is, Iwant to meet the father who
raised his son like this.
And I remember that event many,many years ago.
I was sitting in the front row.
I remember saying to the Lord inprayer, God, I I want to be that
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kind of father.
I want to be the kind of fatherthat when people see my sons and
daughters, they ask thequestion, Whose son are you?
Edward, Lucas, Josh, Jessica,Mary.
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Because they see the way theylive.
And I think in all the thingsthat God is in the midst of
doing, there's probably nothingmore profound than the Lord
re-establishing and lifting upyour hands if you're a father to
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be that kind of father too.
And I remember my prayer kneesat that altar that day.
And I confessed, I said, Lord,I'm not that kind of father.
I've made so much of my lifeabout myself, about this jersey.
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If if you notice that I amsporting my Rams jersey from
playing with them, and we didwin and beat the Vikings.
It's quite quite a game for theRam family.
But my name was was more aboutthis jersey than it was about
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being the father of my sons anddaughters.
Matter of fact, we have one ofmy sons is actually here in the
feed, Lucas James attendeeMcGlassen.
He's he's an extraordinary man.
He's all my sons have startedout being so much of a better
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father than than I was andstarted to be.
And that's that's the legacy.
When we talk about legacy, ityou know, the world defines
legacy as is money and propertyand things.
But in the in the realm offamily, is the legacy is the is
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the deposit of what God thatthat you have allowed God to put
in your life that you yearn for,that you become for the sake so
your sons and your daughtershave a roadmap when the heat
gets on.
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So I remember my prayer father,I'm not that kind of dad.
Make me into the that kind offather.
That my sons, that people wouldsee my sons and daughters and
and say, Who's your dad?
Or maybe if they knew my them,they go, I see your dad in you.
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And I and I really believe thatthis year in 2025, there's going
to be so many things that Ithink God is writing in the
church and all of us.
We cry out for revival, youknow, in the church, and and
then the Lord uh allows us herein Southern California to go
through a horrible uh, you know,earth-shaking fire.
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Well, guess what?
All those people that have beendisplaced got a lot of
questions, and who better tohelp them answer those questions
than somebody who loves Jesus?
So, what kind of dad are you?
What kind of mom are you?
What is that legacy?
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You know, God's promise in 2Corinthians 6, verse 18, I will
be a father to you, and you willbe my sons and daughters, says
the Lord God Almighty.
So God's plan all along is tofather you as a mom or as a dad,
so that you have a deposit fromhim of blessing in your life
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that becomes that blessing foryour children.
And so tonight it's a more of ashorter kind of show.
Is I wanted to focus on thisjust one thing.
And so, what what's your legacylike with your kids?
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Are you poured out for theirsake?
What are those things that Godis doing in your own life for
their sake?
Because their whole future canbe reshaped by the way you
follow the Lord.
Now, here's the great news.
You don't gotta be a perfectdad.
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You just gotta be perfect andgoing to the one who has all the
resources.
All you gotta do is is, youknow, and so what does that
mean?
What does that look like?
Is that when you're weak, youpray and your kids watch you
pray.
When you sin, you confess andyou teach them how to go to God
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with their sin.
When you hurt them, you ask.
For forgiveness.
So you model forgiveness.
That's all legacy-buildingstuff.
All those tools that yourchildren need are right in your
family.
You don't need to get a betterfamily.
You might be a single dad.
All that you need is in yourinteraction with your children.
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You might be a single mom.
All that you need is in yourinteraction with your children,
with you and Jesus, and the wayyou're responding.
And the more you lean into himand allow him to father you
through the season of your life,he'll put tools in your hands to
really deposit into yourchildren.
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And more really is caught thantaught.
And it's not about, son, here'sthe six great things you got to
learn in your life.
That hasn't worked with my kids.
They are watching what I do anddoing what I do.
And sometimes they're doing thethings that they shouldn't be
doing because they watch me dothat.
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So you learn really you learn alesson about how important it is
to readjust your tracks so thatthey can find their way to the
Lord.
And uh and so I want to pray forthem before we go.
And I want to pray for you.
Maybe you got things you can putin to the thing, or you can
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watch this if you come on later.
But the single greatest legacyfor 2025 is become the man or
woman that God has called you tobe, the father or the mother,
the grandpa or the grandma thatGod has called you to be.
Living that life in Christ as ason or daughter in front of your
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children so that gives them aroadmap when they struggle, when
they get shook.
Because that's the mostimportant thing for you to frame
in.
We're going to be talking aboutthis in the next weeks, more
practical things, but tonight Ijust wanted you just to think
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about your relationship withJesus, your time in the Word
every day, your time in prayer,your time modeling forgiveness,
your time doing all those thingswith your kids, just living your
life and not quitting andtrusting the Lord to take care
of those things.
It'll have a monumentaldifference in your kids.
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And uh when my son Edward wastelling me how he watched me,
and it gave him great courage,even right now, to go through
what he's going through.
I forgot that he was what Ididn't really think he was
watching me as a young boy whenI was going through stuff.
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They're always watching.
That's why there's probablynothing more powerful on earth,
there is nothing more powerfulon earth for your children's
identity and who they seethemselves to be than Christ and
you, my friend, as a dad, as amom, living that legacy out in
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front of them, so that when theheat comes on them in their own
life and they go through thingsthat are too big for them, they
know exactly who to turn to withall their heart.
So we preach less at them and welive more in front of them.
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And you watch what God will dothis year.
I uh my one of the promises Isense the Lord uh gave me for
this year is that He's gonnarestore families that have been
separated.
Maybe you've been separated inyour family, he's gonna restore
them, he's gonna break the powerof bitterness and gonna restore
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you with your kids.
Maybe that they've gone, youknow, they haven't talked to you
in a long time.
And matter of fact, we do somecoaching, you know, in our
ministry to help people do that.
And that's part of what we do atthe Father Difference.
And we'd love to help you.
But before we kind of getoffline tonight, I want to pray
with you.
So, Father, I I thank you for myfriends that are watching.
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And we we first we we rememberwhat's going on in Los Angeles
tonight, even with the firestill burning.
You're the one, Lord, who canshut this crazy wind down and
bring more water.
And Lord, pour your spirit outon all these people in such a
profound way that what'sremembered from this fire is not
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the destruction, but the revivalof your church and just hundreds
of thousands of people coming toChrist, coming to the love and
the resource, Lord.
And I pray for my friends,families as they're watching
that you just as a subtlereminder that you just want to
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encourage them to stay in thegame and to live their life out
loud in front of their childrenso they have something to
follow.
And I pray for their familiesthat you would heal them.
I pray that for theirrelationships, Lord, that they
would be restored.
And Father, I pray that everychild that's connected to a
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parent who watches this, Lord,would be restored completely to
their fathers, to theirgrandfathers, to their moms, to
their grandmothers in 2025.
Heal your family, Lord, heal,make fathers great again and
make grandfathers great again,father, in the name of Jesus.
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And all God's people said, Amen.
So grateful that you're with me.
Uh we're gonna be uh continuingon in our series.
I'm looking forward to being younext week.
And if you need some coaching,you can go to my website at the
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Remember, my friend, it's nevertoo late for God to do a miracle
and to heal the most brokenfamilies in the world.
So thank you.
Bless you, all you guys, Lisa,Mr.
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Hey, well, welcome.
We're uh welcome from SouthernCalifornia.
And it's been a crazy been crazydays out here.
And welcome guys showing up.
I I got my son Lucas Tandy onthe, you know, on Instagram.
Welcome there, Lucas.
And many of you starting to joinfrom all over the place.
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It's good to be here.
We've if you've been tuning inat all to the news, uh, you know
about the devastating fires thatwe've had here in Southern
California.
And on today's show, I'm goingto talk to you about uh the
single thing that creates thebiggest difference that you can
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do as a father and create alegacy for 2025.
What is the single mostimportant thing that you do that
will make the biggest differencewith your children?
Because so goes you, so goesthem.
So we're going to talk aboutthat in a few minutes.
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Just a little update.
Uh, thank you for the wellwishes.
And many of you have beenreaching out to our family.
My son, my oldest son, Edward,who lived up in Los Angeles a
week ago.
His house burned down, and as amatter of fact, this whole
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neighborhood is gone.
And uh up there, it's just justtragic for so many people.
And he has since uh relocatedback down here to closer to us,
which is a joy for us with ourgrandkids, but he's having to
rebuild his whole life.
And although his business isstrong and intact and
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everything, and it was it waspretty crazy, you know, for our
family over the last week,really emotional, and just
supporting one another.
And you know, the best of who weare in Christ happens when
tragedy strikes around theworld.
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Matter of fact, there was a anews agency on the line.
I was listening to them today,and they were they were
registering the number one groupof people who have been helping
out during this fire here in LosAngeles, and and where are they
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from and you know what's theirbackground?
And guess what?
The number one group, not evenclose second, is the people of
Christ and the religiouscommunity here around in
Southern California, but alsojust around the world.
And, you know, it's justsomething about you know these
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hard times that God triggers hispeople and calls us into action
to reach out and love and to bethere.
And so I'm so grateful for allof you that have contacted me,
contacted my son, Edward, andour family, and it's we're
really excited about if there'ssomething to be excited about,
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is that through all these kindsof things, God you know, God
does things.
And it's something that's hisHe's the only one to turn ashes
into something of His glory.
You know, the Bible says in inRomans 8.28, for all things work
together for good to those wholove God and are called
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according to his purpose.
And in a good is not a typicalgood that you think about that
the world would say is good, buthe works something, the good is
actually in verse 29, for thosewhom he foreknew, he has
conformed us, he's conforming usinto the image of his son.
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And so when we go through hardtimes, when we go through times
when we are marginalized andpressed to the edges of our
life, and we suffer and we loseand we deal with things,
somehow, in the midst of allthose things, God is shaping
more of the image of his soninside of us.
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We're becoming more like Jesus,more compassionate, more loving,
more tender, more giving, moregenerous with people.
And that that's really thegreatest, greatest part of our
legacy, even in family, is whenthe heat's on and we come
together as a family.
And I've I've watched thathappen with our family.
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And when hard times come, andthey come to every single
family, and it's not that we dogood and follow God, and so
nothing ever happens.
Well, it happens on both therighteous and and those that
aren't following Christ in theirlife.
The good times come, but alsothe hard times.
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And so be praying for ourneighbors here in Los Angeles.
They, you know, they've lost awhole section of Los Angeles
that won't be a town again,probably for I don't know how
many years, many, three to fiveyears.
And then all the peopledisplaced by no jobs, and in all
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in all of the workers and thethe gardeners and the and the
and the people cleaning housesand the construction workers.
And though I think there's gonnabe a boon in construction it in
California, by the way, it ittakes forever to get your
permits.
So it's gonna be a tough timefor all of them.
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So be praying and and for allthat.
And so I want to shift a littlebit and just share that one
thing that could make thebiggest difference for you in
your life.
And it's from a story in theBible.
I didn't want to make slides forthis entire section of
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scripture, but if you got yourBible, and I want you to turn to
1 Samuel chapter 17, and uh, andso this is a story about David
and Goliath and how God used aboy and a father in an
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extraordinary way to change thecourse of history for the the
people of Israel.
And you know, I love this storybecause it speaks so much to
family and it speaks so much toreally what is the legacy that
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you're building.
And so if you think about yourown story in your life, whether
you're a mom or a dad, andyou're thinking about what
you're you want your children tobecome.
Because that's what reallymatters, you know, is I'm I'm a
grandpa now.
I got 14 grandkids.
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And what's in my heart is morethan anything is what can I do
to come alongside my kids tohelp them be the best moms and
dads they can be.
And I can be the best grandpa,uh not grandma, grandpa that I
can be, and in what I model andwho I am.
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That it's probably the mostimportant thing that can happen
for you in their life.
It's not just about playing withthem, it's not just about being
there, it's all those things.
But underneath all of it, andI'll sort of let the cat out of
the bag, so to speak, it's theman, or for your mom watching,
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or the woman that you become inChrist determines the legacy of
how your children start theirstory.
And and so let me let me sharethis.
I have been talking a lot to myolder son Edward in the midst of
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this, and a number of times inour conversation, he said he
said uh this line to me.
He said, Dad, I I watched youfor years go through hard times.
And it's really been it's reallybeen an anchor for me.
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Because I watched how you gotup, no matter what you lost, no
matter what happened.
And if you get involved inchurch work, you're gonna go
through this with people andchurches and etc.
And and that's just someaningful to me.
Because sometimes we forget asparents, the the life that we
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live really does matter.
It's not just about getting themin the right schools, getting
them in the right programs.
It's not just about you know,making sure and teaching them
the Bible so that they, which isall important stuff.
But at the end of the day, it'sthe it in the in the core of who
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your children are, what's beingformed in them is the person
that they see, the person theyfollow.
And when you're a present lovingdad, or if you're a mom here
watching a present loving mom,what your kids get from watching
you handle hard times inpossible circumstances,
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something transfers into themthat's incredibly profound and
shaping how they see themselvesand how one day they're gonna go
through those same thingsbecause those memories will come
up.
And so they're watching you andhow you you handle those things.
And my grandkids are arewatching me, and they they're
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not sure exactly what's going onwith the fires and and
everything else.
But they want to know is itokay, Papa?
Is everything okay?
Are we gonna be okay?
And how we we we feed our soulsand how we live our life before
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our children is is hasincredible ability to imprint on
them a whole way of facing andwalking through hard times.
And we sometimes don't think wedo that good of a job.
I mean, just showing up is youknow, kind of half the battle
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and being there and loving them,but what them watching you pray
and them watching you grieve,and them watching you cry, and
then watching you celebrate, andthem watching you give, and
they're they're watchingconstantly and learning about
how to handle hard times whenthey come, and sometimes the
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impossible circumstances thatthat come.
That's why Paul wrote to Timothythat God's not given us a spirit
of fear that leads again toslavery, uh slavery.
And you know, Timothy struggledin some ways, but he said he's
given us love, joy, peace, andself-control.
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And he said, God has given ussupernatural abilities in him to
be able to weather every singlestorm.
And you might be in a stormright now.
You might, your family might beshook and you're wondering, you
know, oh well, what do I do?
How do I handle this?
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How do I, you know, garnersupport?
How do I uh connect them?
Or or maybe you're watching andyou've just lost your house in
LA and you've you know you gonethrough some horrible situation
in this past year, uh, or youknow, your family's been blown
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apart, and you're wondering how,well, can I really make a
difference?
And part of the enemy's strategyagainst you is to get you to
believe that you're eternallybroken, and who would want to
follow you?
Who would want to listen to you,especially your kids?
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Well, I got to tell you, man,you are a living movie screen
that they get to watch a trailerevery single day that comes out
of your life.
Don't ever forget that.
And how you do that is reallypowerful.
So I'm I want to share, justkind of read you a story you've
probably heard before.
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1 Samuel chapter 17.
And so you got this giant thatsome think was you know over
nine feet, when they they givethe measurement about you know
how how big he was.
And and he was taunting thepeople of Israel, name was
Goliath, and he had you knowother brothers as well.
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And David was going back andforth.
He was a young teenager goingback and forth to take care of
the, you know, you know, to dothe kind of family business.
He got the, he was a low man ina totem pole, and he got to
guard the sheep.
We'll see later in the story.
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He, you know, he had to fightoff bears and lions by himself.
He had to learn how to connectto God on his own because he was
alone.
And the his brothers disdainedhim.
And, you know, they, you know,he was the little brother who
didn't get any respect.
And so there he is, you know,he's coming up to the front
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lines.
His older brother thinks he'strying to garner attention to
himself.
And so every time Goliath cameout at verse 24, all the men
fled and were afraid.
And the men of Israel said, Haveyou seen this man that has come
up?
Surely he has come up to defyIsrael and the king.
And so they're they're nowseeing this young boy, David,
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show up.
And he begins to listen to whateveryone's saying and how
they're completely defeated byhow powerful uh Goliath seems,
this imposing figure on thebattlefield.
In verse 26, and David said tothe men who stood by him, What
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should be done for the man whokills the Philistine?
He's just a young guy, man.
He's been fighting lions andbears, and he goes, What should
be done?
And takes away the approach fromIsrael.
Now, this is a teenager talking.
This is a teenager who God hasbeen forming in him, the king
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that he will one day be.
And so he for who is this?
And then this uncircumcisedPhilistine that he should defy
the armies of the living God.
Who is this guy?
So they they're scared of thisguy because they're they're
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going, I can't possibly defeathim.
And David is going, Well, howcome you guys are letting this
guy defy the armies of theliving God?
He knew who his God was.
And so, you know, in the midstof this, the the the enemy wants
to throw every kind of doubtyour way and everything in you
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to get you to feel as thoughyou're all alone and you're
completely defeatable.
And what what difference can youpossibly make?
And what did David do?
No, he asks, I mean, I mean,what's the payday?
Now, Elab, the oldest brother,disdains him.
He hears this and says, and hewas his anger was kindled
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against David and said, Why haveyou come down?
And with whom have you leftthose sheep in a wilderness?
So basically, you left your job.
Why are you here?
You're just a kid.
You don't know what you'retalking about.
I know your presumption and evilin your heart.
So, you know, when you stand upto do the right thing, to be the
father that God has called youto be in a land of so many crazy
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stuff, you're gonna you're gonnahave people pushing back.
You're gonna have family peoplethat are gonna push back against
you, just like David did.
And David said, What have I donenow?
Speaking like a brother, right?
And and was it not a word?
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And he turned away from him toanother and spoke to them.
And when David's when the wordsthat David spoke were heard,
they repeated them before Sauland he sent for him.
So David said, Well, what shouldbe done for this guy?
I mean, why are we just you knowdealing with this uncircumcised
field scene that's taunting thepeople of the living God?
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And David, you know, his wordsnow make it before the king.
And the reason why, he is theonly one in all of Israel.
They're all afraid.
But David had the gift of faithon him.
And Saul said to David, You arenot able to go against the
Philistine and fight with himfor you are but a youth, you're
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a kid.
And he has been a man of warfrom his youth.
But David said to Saul, yourservant used to keep sheep for
his father.
And when a lion came or a bear,I uh and took out a lamb from
the flock, I went after him,struck him, delivered it out of
his mouth, and if you and if herose against me, I caught him by
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his beard.
Talking about a lion, and struckit and killed him.
Your servant has struck downboth the lions and the bears,
and the uncircumcised Philistinewould be like one of them.
For he has defied the armies ofa living God.
And David said, The Lord whodelivered me from the paw of the
lion and from the paw of thebear will deliver me from the
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hand of this Philistine.
And so and Saul said to David,Go and the Lord be with you.
I don't know how much hebelieved it or not, but David
went and took it and faced off.
He grabbed five smooth stones.
He took his staff in his handand five tooth snow from a brook
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and put him in a shepherd'spouch and his sling in his hand,
and he ran down the hill towardsa Philistine.
The Philistine, of course,mocked him, Am I a dog?
And you've come to me with thesword and the spirit, David says
to him, but I come to you in thename of the Lord, the God of the
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armies of Israel in whom you'vedefied.
In this day the Lord will, and Iwill strike you down, and I will
cut off your head.
And I will give the dead bodiesof the hosts of the Philistines
this day into the hands of thebird into the birds of the air
and the wild beasts of theearth, and it in all the earth
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they may know that there's a godin Israel, and all this assembly
may know that the Lord saves notby the sword or the spear, for
the whole battle is the Lord's,and he will give you into our
hand.
So David's secret was not evenin his own ability as a hunter.
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His secret was he understoodthat if God's with him, he can't
be defeated.
And here he goes and he grabs asling.
And I'll kind of summarize thisand kind of bring you to the
kind of the punchline of thestory.
And he and he grabs a sling,runs down, puts in a rock, whips
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it around, hits him between theeyes, stuns him, runs over,
pulls out his 17-pound sword andwhacked off his head and killed
him.
Held up his head, kind of like Iimagine him, like a brave heart
moment, probably both hands,because he's a young guy, this
big giant and his big head.
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And what Saul was asking Abnerwas, I want to meet the father
who raised the son like this.
I want to meet the father whoweighs the son like this.
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And Abner says, As your soullives, O king, I do not know.
And the king found out, and assoon as David returned from
striking down the Philistine,Abner took him and brought him
before Saul with the head of thePhilistine in his hand.
And Saul said, Whose son areyou, O young man?
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And David answered, I am the sonof your servant Jesse the
Bethlehemite.
And so here's my big kahunamoment and question for you.
So when King Saul was, you know,watch David go out in the power
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of the Lord, his response is, Iwant to meet the father who
raised his son like this.
And I remember that event many,many years ago.
I was sitting in the front row.
I remember saying to the Lord inprayer, God, I I want to be that
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kind of father.
I want to be the kind of fatherthat when people see my sons and
daughters, they ask thequestion, Whose son are you?
Edward, Lucas, Josh, Jessica,Mary.
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Because they see the way theylive.
And I think in all the thingsthat God is in the midst of
doing, there's probably nothingmore profound than the Lord
re-establishing and lifting upyour hands if you're a father to
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be that kind of father too.
And I remember my prayer kneesat that altar that day.
And I confessed, I said, Lord,I'm not that kind of father.
I've made so much of my lifeabout myself, about this jersey.
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If if you notice that I amsporting my Rams jersey from
playing with them, and we didwin and beat the Vikings.
It's quite quite a game for theRam family.
But my name was was more aboutthis jersey than it was about
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being the father of my sons anddaughters.
Matter of fact, we have one ofmy sons is actually here in the
feed, Lucas James attendeeMcGlassen.
He's he's an extraordinary man.
He's all my sons have startedout being so much of a better
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father than than I was andstarted to be.
And that's that's the legacy.
When we talk about legacy, ityou know, the world defines
legacy as is money and propertyand things.
But in the in the realm offamily, is the legacy is the is
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the deposit of what God thatthat you have allowed God to put
in your life that you yearn for,that you become for the sake so
your sons and your daughtershave a roadmap when the heat
gets on.
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So I remember my prayer father,I'm not that kind of dad.
Make me into the that kind offather.
That my sons, that people wouldsee my sons and daughters and
and say, Who's your dad?
Or maybe if they knew my them,they go, I see your dad in you.
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And I and I really believe thatthis year in 2025, there's going
to be so many things that Ithink God is writing in the
church and all of us.
We cry out for revival, youknow, in the church, and and
then the Lord uh allows us herein Southern California to go
through a horrible uh, you know,earth-shaking fire.
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Well, guess what?
All those people that have beendisplaced got a lot of
questions, and who better tohelp them answer those questions
than somebody who loves Jesus?
So, what kind of dad are you?
What kind of mom are you?
What is that legacy?
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You know, God's promise in 2Corinthians 6, verse 18, I will
be a father to you, and you willbe my sons and daughters, says
the Lord God Almighty.
So God's plan all along is tofather you as a mom or as a dad,
so that you have a deposit fromhim of blessing in your life
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that becomes that blessing foryour children.
And so tonight it's a more of ashorter kind of show.
Is I wanted to focus on thisjust one thing.
And so, what what's your legacylike with your kids?
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Are you poured out for theirsake?
What are those things that Godis doing in your own life for
their sake?
Because their whole future canbe reshaped by the way you
follow the Lord.
Now, here's the great news.
You don't gotta be a perfectdad.
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You just gotta be perfect andgoing to the one who has all the
resources.
All you gotta do is is, youknow, and so what does that
mean?
What does that look like?
Is that when you're weak, youpray and your kids watch you
pray.
When you sin, you confess andyou teach them how to go to God
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with their sin.
When you hurt them, you ask.
For forgiveness.
So you model forgiveness.
That's all legacy-buildingstuff.
All those tools that yourchildren need are right in your
family.
You don't need to get a betterfamily.
You might be a single dad.
All that you need is in yourinteraction with your children.
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You might be a single mom.
All that you need is in yourinteraction with your children,
with you and Jesus, and the wayyou're responding.
And the more you lean into himand allow him to father you
through the season of your life,he'll put tools in your hands to
really deposit into yourchildren.
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And more really is caught thantaught.
And it's not about, son, here'sthe six great things you got to
learn in your life.
That hasn't worked with my kids.
They are watching what I do anddoing what I do.
And sometimes they're doing thethings that they shouldn't be
doing because they watch me dothat.
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So you learn really you learn alesson about how important it is
to readjust your tracks so thatthey can find their way to the
Lord.
And uh and so I want to pray forthem before we go.
And I want to pray for you.
Maybe you got things you can putin to the thing, or you can
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watch this if you come on later.
But the single greatest legacyfor 2025 is become the man or
woman that God has called you tobe, the father or the mother,
the grandpa or the grandma thatGod has called you to be.
Living that life in Christ as ason or daughter in front of your
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children so that gives them aroadmap when they struggle, when
they get shook.
Because that's the mostimportant thing for you to frame
in.
We're going to be talking aboutthis in the next weeks, more
practical things, but tonight Ijust wanted you just to think
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about your relationship withJesus, your time in the Word
every day, your time in prayer,your time modeling forgiveness,
your time doing all those thingswith your kids, just living your
life and not quitting andtrusting the Lord to take care
of those things.
It'll have a monumentaldifference in your kids.
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And uh when my son Edward wastelling me how he watched me,
and it gave him great courage,even right now, to go through
what he's going through.
I forgot that he was what Ididn't really think he was
watching me as a young boy whenI was going through stuff.
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They're always watching.
That's why there's probablynothing more powerful on earth,
there is nothing more powerfulon earth for your children's
identity and who they seethemselves to be than Christ and
you, my friend, as a dad, as amom, living that legacy out in
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front of them, so that when theheat comes on them in their own
life and they go through thingsthat are too big for them, they
know exactly who to turn to withall their heart.
So we preach less at them and welive more in front of them.
(33:38):
And you watch what God will dothis year.
I uh my one of the promises Isense the Lord uh gave me for
this year is that He's gonnarestore families that have been
separated.
Maybe you've been separated inyour family, he's gonna restore
them, he's gonna break the powerof bitterness and gonna restore
(33:59):
you with your kids.
Maybe that they've gone, youknow, they haven't talked to you
in a long time.
And matter of fact, we do somecoaching, you know, in our
ministry to help people do that.
And that's part of what we do atthe Father Difference.
And we'd love to help you.
But before we kind of getoffline tonight, I want to pray
with you.
So, Father, I I thank you for myfriends that are watching.
(34:22):
And we we first we we rememberwhat's going on in Los Angeles
tonight, even with the firestill burning.
You're the one, Lord, who canshut this crazy wind down and
bring more water.
And Lord, pour your spirit outon all these people in such a
profound way that what'sremembered from this fire is not
(34:46):
the destruction, but the revivalof your church and just hundreds
of thousands of people coming toChrist, coming to the love and
the resource, Lord.
And I pray for my friends,families as they're watching
that you just as a subtlereminder that you just want to
(35:10):
encourage them to stay in thegame and to live their life out
loud in front of their childrenso they have something to
follow.
And I pray for their familiesthat you would heal them.
I pray that for theirrelationships, Lord, that they
would be restored.
And Father, I pray that everychild that's connected to a
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parent who watches this, Lord,would be restored completely to
their fathers, to theirgrandfathers, to their moms, to
their grandmothers in 2025.
Heal your family, Lord, heal,make fathers great again and
make grandfathers great again,father, in the name of Jesus.
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And all God's people said, Amen.
So grateful that you're with me.
Uh we're gonna be uh continuingon in our series.
I'm looking forward to being younext week.
And if you need some coaching,you can go to my website at the
Father Difference, and uh wehave a number of things that
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there.
There's a coaching program thatyou can be a part of.
We have a daily devotional, afree book.
We got a lot of resources foryou, and uh but we're here to
help you, to serve you, to dowhatever it takes to help you
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become the husband, father, mom,wife that God has called you to
be.
Remember, my friend, it's nevertoo late for God to do a miracle
and to heal the most brokenfamilies in the world.
So thank you.
Bless you, all you guys, Lisa,Mr.
King, Christine, uh, Lucas, Joy,bless you.
(37:03):
They're on Instagram, some of alot of the other uh services on
Rumble.
Welcome if you're watching onRumble, on Facebook, welcome on
Facebook.
And so grateful that you guystune in each week.
It's a joy in my life to be ableto share my heart with you
tonight.
God bless you.
(37:24):
The Lord loves you.
Amen.
SPEAKER_00 (37:28):
Dear friends, imagine a world where every
father feels equipped to leadwith faith, love, and purpose.
A world where families thriveand communities grow stronger
because of devoted,Christ-centered fathers.
SPEAKER_01 (37:43):
You know, beloved, that is the vision that God's
put in my heart for every singlefamily.
You know, he is on the move, Ibelieve.
He promises in Malachi thatbefore the great and coming day
of the Lord, he's gonna dosomething profound.
He's gonna turn the hearts offathers back towards their
(38:05):
children.
So the hearts of their childrenwill turn back to their father.
That's what God is doing.
I meet dads daily who want tolearn to be better fathers.
Yet many have never been shownhow.
Too many families are beingfractured through bitterness,
and with parents andgrandparents even being
(38:25):
canceled.
That's why we're launching anonline community to quit men to
be the fathers that God hascalled them to be.
It's more than a program, it's apart of a movement that God is
already doing to reshapefatherhood.
It's a sacred calling rooted inthe teachings of Christ.
(38:48):
And we're calling this theFatherhood Academy, where men
will embark on a journey ofhealing and spiritual
restoration that helps themtransform their family
relationship.
And to make this vision areality, would you consider
partnering with us financiallyas we continue to reach and
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disciple every man, dad, andgrandpa that comes our way?
Your donation will help create aripple across the neighborhoods,
communities, you know, andultimately our nation.
Anchoring each child here's avision in the unwavering love
and guidance of a devoted dad.
(39:34):
Your end-of-the-year gift rightnow, whether it's a one-time
donation or an ongoing pledgemonthly, will make a huge
difference.
Together we can equip fathers tobuild hope-filled futures for
their children and theirgrandchildren.
Remember, my friend, the Fatherloves you.
(39:58):
And he sent his son to let youknow.
Pray it for you.
SPEAKER_00 (40:02):
Pastor Ed.
Click the link to donate today.
Thank you for believing in thismission and joining us on this
transformative journey.
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