WEBVTT 09:05.800 --> 09:11.320 is going to be give me oil in my lamp. If you don't have one, we're going to take a 09:11.320 --> 09:15.320 second. You can lift your hand real quick. I want to make sure we get these passed out. 09:15.320 --> 09:15.960 Okay. So 09:44.400 --> 09:52.100 songs we tried to come up with some hand motions. So you can try and do the hand motions with 09:52.100 --> 10:00.900 me if you want. And any of you kiddos, I know a lot of times we normally sit when we sing, 10:00.900 --> 10:04.980 but you can stand for these songs so that way you can do the hand motions a little bit 10:04.980 --> 10:05.980 better. 10:05.980 --> 10:06.100 you 10:16.500 --> 10:20.100 Alright, we're gonna go ahead and sing, Give Me Oil in My Lamp. 10:20.700 --> 10:21.900 There on the first. 10:25.600 --> 10:26.600 On the first. 10:26.600 --> 10:31.600 Give me oil in my lamp, keep it burning. 10:31.600 --> 10:36.600 Give me oil in my lamp, I pray. 10:36.600 --> 10:41.600 Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning, burning, burning. 10:41.600 --> 10:45.600 Keep me burning till the break of day. 10:46.200 --> 10:55.080 Sing, oh, zanna sing, oh, zanna sing, oh, zanna to the king of kings 10:55.800 --> 11:03.360 sing, oh, zanna sing, oh, zanna sing, oh, zanna to the king 11:03.720 --> 11:09.720 Now we can do this faster i know, my musicians can play this song faster alright so let's give us a little bit more tempo 11:09.720 --> 11:14.160 On the second here we go hide your word in my 11:14.200 --> 11:23.280 heart keep me learning. Hide your word in my heart I pray. Hide your word in my 11:23.280 --> 11:30.600 heart keep me learning learning learning keep me learning till the break of day. 11:31.000 --> 11:40.000 Sing, Hosanna, sing, Hosanna, sing, Hosanna to the King of Kings. 11:40.000 --> 11:47.000 Sing, Hosanna, sing, Hosanna, sing, Hosanna to the King. 11:47.000 --> 11:51.000 Alright, we got it, we got even more tempo. I know we have a little more tempo in there, alright? 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 So we're gonna do this one even faster, alright? 11:53.700 --> 12:00.100 Here on the last, give me hope in my heart keep me yearning. 12:00.100 --> 12:04.420 Give me hope in my heart I pray. 12:04.420 --> 12:08.740 Give me hope in my heart keep me yearning, yearning, yearning. 12:08.740 --> 12:12.580 Keep me yearning till the break of day. 12:13.500 --> 12:22.300 Sing, O Zannah, sing, O Zannah, sing, O Zannah, to the King of Kings. 12:22.300 --> 12:30.300 Sing, O Zannah, sing, O Zannah, sing, O Zannah, to the King. 12:30.300 --> 12:32.300 Great singing. Let's go ahead and pray. 12:33.300 --> 12:36.660 Thank you, Father, so much for this opportunity to be gathered together. 12:36.660 --> 12:39.780 Thank you so much for all these children and for these families. 12:39.780 --> 12:41.820 I pray that you would bless the preaching this evening. 12:41.820 --> 12:43.860 Thank you so much for Pastor Russell to be here. 12:44.100 --> 12:46.780 I pray that you would bless his sermon and you bless our time. 12:47.180 --> 12:50.300 I pray that you would help us to have hope in our hearts 12:50.300 --> 12:53.460 and to have yearning for the word of God, that we can inspire our children 12:53.460 --> 12:57.180 to love you sincerely and to want to serve you with the rest of their lives. 12:57.180 --> 12:58.660 In Jesus name, we pray. Amen. 12:59.700 --> 13:03.300 So we're going to our next song. It's going to be Ho Ho Ho Hosanna. 13:04.740 --> 13:09.460 Now this one, we're going to actually sing it through a couple different times 13:09.460 --> 13:12.500 and we're going to try and speed it up and we're going to see 13:12.500 --> 13:15.700 if we can sing faster than the musicians can play. You know what I mean? All right? 13:16.500 --> 13:21.300 But we'll give them some time to warm up. All right? Down the first. 13:25.500 --> 13:31.200 Ho, ho, ho, ho, Xana, ha, ha, hallelujah. 13:31.200 --> 13:36.900 He, he, he, he saved me and I've got the joy of the Lord. 13:36.900 --> 13:42.400 Ho, ho, ho, ho, Xana, ha, ha, hallelujah. 13:42.400 --> 13:48.100 He, he, he, he saved me and I've got the joy of the Lord. 13:48.100 --> 13:49.300 Now here's the thing. 13:49.300 --> 13:51.300 I want you kids to stand up with me, all right? 13:51.300 --> 13:53.300 Because you're going to be able to do these motions better, right? 13:53.500 --> 13:54.340 guys stand up. 13:55.200 --> 13:56.580 We're going to speed it up, all right? 13:56.580 --> 13:57.060 Are we ready? 13:57.060 --> 13:58.560 Let's speed it up just a little bit. 13:58.560 --> 13:59.340 Let's try it again. 13:59.340 --> 14:00.340 Ready? 14:00.340 --> 14:03.060 Ho, ho, ho, Hosanna. 14:03.060 --> 14:05.420 Ha, ha, hallelujah. 14:05.420 --> 14:10.220 Hee, hee, hee, hee, save me, and I've got the joy of the Lord. 14:10.220 --> 14:12.540 Ho, ho, ho, Hosanna. 14:12.540 --> 14:14.940 Ha, ha, hallelujah. 14:14.940 --> 14:19.220 Hee, hee, hee, hee, save me, and I've got the joy of the Lord. 14:19.220 --> 14:21.180 All right, we're going to go even faster. 14:21.180 --> 14:22.180 You got to keep up. 14:22.600 --> 14:25.600 Alright, let's go! Are we ready? 14:26.600 --> 14:30.600 Ho ho ho, Hosanna! Ha ha, hallelujah! 14:30.600 --> 14:34.600 Hee hee hee hee, save me and I've got the joy of the Lord! 14:34.600 --> 14:38.600 Ho ho ho, Hosanna! Ha ha, hallelujah! 14:38.600 --> 14:42.400 Hee hee hee hee, save me and I've got the joy of the Lord! 14:42.700 --> 14:44.700 Alright, we're going really fast. Ready? 14:44.700 --> 14:48.200 Oh, that was in a hallelujah. 14:48.200 --> 14:50.200 He's a man, I've got the joy of the Lord. 14:50.200 --> 14:52.200 Alright, good job. 14:52.200 --> 14:54.200 Good job, alright. 14:54.200 --> 14:57.200 I'm going to go through our bullets in real quick. 14:57.200 --> 15:00.700 Again, if you didn't get one, sorry, if you could lift your hand up. 15:00.700 --> 15:03.200 If you still need one, we'll try to get you a bullet in. 15:04.000 --> 15:05.960 On the inside, we have our conference schedule. 15:05.960 --> 15:10.360 So again, tomorrow morning, we're going to be having our annual spelling bee. 15:10.360 --> 15:12.160 It's going to be here at 930. 15:12.160 --> 15:19.160 Just a reminder, there is unfortunately going to be a parade blocking entrance into this 15:19.160 --> 15:20.280 parking area. 15:20.700 --> 15:26.120 At around 10 a.m. So if you came late, you may not be able to get in 15:26.120 --> 15:28.900 So if you come before 930, you should be fine 15:29.160 --> 15:35.200 But just as a word or tip of advice that you wouldn't be able to access directly into our parking lot because they kind of like 15:35.200 --> 15:39.800 Block our whole square off obviously can still walk over but you may not be able to park your vehicle 15:40.260 --> 15:47.100 They should be done well before our spelling be in so you should be able to come and go as long as you arrive on 15:47.160 --> 15:48.700 time or you 15:48.700 --> 15:53.700 live inside the square or you leave appropriately. 15:54.200 --> 15:57.700 That's just a tip of advice, but we do have three different age groups. 15:57.700 --> 16:03.200 I did put the Spelling Bee Words list on our website, and it is going to be based on the 16:03.200 --> 16:05.980 King James Bible as far as the spelling words. 16:05.980 --> 16:11.060 I do have a secret list for those that have got them all memorized perfectly. 16:11.060 --> 16:12.900 Spelling Bee 9.30 a.m. 16:12.900 --> 16:16.500 We'll start with the youngest ages, and then we'll move up as we go through. 16:16.500 --> 16:20.860 It usually takes, just to give an idea, it's about an hour and a half to two hours is what 16:20.860 --> 16:22.180 typically ran for the full time. 16:22.200 --> 16:26.880 just to give people an awareness. Afterwards we're going to have a lunch 16:26.880 --> 16:31.640 and bounce houses at a park. The address is listed there in the bulletin. It's 16:31.640 --> 16:35.160 from noon to 3 p.m. So we'll be serving hot dogs. We'll have some bounce houses that 16:35.160 --> 16:38.880 we've rented for different ages and then we'll have some other activities. So if 16:38.880 --> 16:41.400 you can come out and participate we'd love for you to come out. 16:41.800 --> 16:47.620 Sunday morning, we'll have our typical schedule service times 10 30 a.m. Is going to be the English service 16:47.620 --> 16:50.200 We do have a Spanish service at 9 30. You're always welcome to attend 16:50.460 --> 16:55.940 We also have 2 p.m. Soul winning and then a 4 30 afternoon service and I'll be preaching both of those 16:56.400 --> 17:01.860 We have pastor Corbin Russell with us this evening. Thank you so much for coming out from straight paths Baptist Church and 17:02.880 --> 17:09.460 He's a good friend of ours. I've known him for a long time. And so it's great to have him out here. And so definitely 17:09.800 --> 17:13.160 thank Pastor Russell and consider their church. 17:13.160 --> 17:14.240 They're in Tucson. 17:14.240 --> 17:16.840 Pray for them if you ever like to visit them. 17:16.840 --> 17:20.000 On the right is some other just. 17:20.300 --> 17:25.880 General information about our church on the back. I just take a couple notes about some upcoming events 17:25.880 --> 17:28.380 We have a men's conference that we're hosting in two weeks 17:28.380 --> 17:32.860 So we decided we might as well just have as many conferences as possible all the time 17:32.860 --> 17:39.140 I guess but no, I just we are having a men's conference in a couple weeks and that Friday evening 17:39.140 --> 17:42.260 It's gonna be kind of a similar schedule to tonight 17:42.260 --> 17:47.980 We're gonna have like a evening service preaching with pastor Stephen Anderson coming out preaching for us. It is geared for men only 17:48.300 --> 17:48.600 you 17:48.900 --> 17:54.140 Anyone 18 and up is welcome to attend and then if you're 16 and older and have a chaperone then you're welcome to attend as well 17:54.140 --> 17:57.680 So but it is it is geared for the men 17:57.680 --> 18:04.140 And so obviously we want everyone to attend if possible if you are planning, please just at least register 18:04.500 --> 18:09.820 We can we have a sign-up sheet or you can register online and we want to make sure we're gonna try and have a gift 18:09.820 --> 18:12.680 And a dinner on that Friday night. We just want to make sure that we 18:13.360 --> 18:16.900 Accommodate everybody appropriately there will be Saturday activity 18:16.900 --> 18:21.460 as well. So we've typically had like a Mighty Men's competition. So we're still going to have 18:21.460 --> 18:25.860 that in the morning on Saturday and then we'll have like a group activity after that as well. 18:26.500 --> 18:32.200 Everyone's welcome to participate in those activities from the men's group. We have a fall swap October 25th 18:32.200 --> 18:34.500 We have our annual chili cook-off October 31st 18:35.260 --> 18:36.500 Faith award 18:36.500 --> 18:39.460 Baptist Church has a preaching boot camp in Phoenix, Arizona 18:39.460 --> 18:45.700 If anybody wants to go and learn how to preach better and just get better in general at preaching, that's a great opportunity 18:46.220 --> 18:51.460 We have a Trinidad missions trip November 30th through December 6th 18:51.460 --> 18:54.500 If you are interested if angels for or brother Marcel 18:54.500 --> 18:58.660 from our church is kind of helping spear lead this church and this opportunity. 18:59.940 --> 19:03.860 We do lots of soul winning in our different areas and Shreveport's one that we've kind of 19:03.860 --> 19:08.180 been doing annually. That's going to be December 12th and it's about three hours from here. 19:08.180 --> 19:13.780 It's in Louisiana and honestly it's been a very fruitful area to go soul winning in and so if you 19:13.780 --> 19:17.940 want to participate and then we have a Philippines missions trip that we're going to be doing in 19:17.940 --> 19:21.420 in 2027, it's February 12th through the 20th. 19:21.420 --> 19:22.500 We'll be partnering with. 19:22.500 --> 19:25.860 Soul Winning Baptist Church with Pastor Stuckey. We'll be visiting his church, 19:26.500 --> 19:30.420 going soul winning with them in Manila. And then also we'll be visiting our church plant, 19:31.300 --> 19:37.540 Steadfast Baptist Church Philippines with Evangelist Urbanic. And so it'll be a action packed 19:37.540 --> 19:42.340 week of missions. We're going to have a lot of schools lined up through the efforts of Soul 19:42.340 --> 19:47.460 Winning Baptist Church. They do a great opportunity. They have a great job and a great team lining up a 19:47.460 --> 19:50.340 lot of opportunities to preach in school. So if that's something you'd like to do. 19:50.500 --> 19:53.780 this is kind of a sure bet as far as a missions trip. 19:53.780 --> 19:55.280 You never know if you get these opportunities, 19:55.280 --> 19:56.540 but for the most part, 19:56.540 --> 19:58.720 the Philippines is your safest bet 19:58.720 --> 20:00.880 at getting an opportunity to preach in schools. 20:00.880 --> 20:03.560 Often they're saying that they don't even have enough people 20:03.560 --> 20:05.740 to reach all the classrooms they would like to, 20:05.740 --> 20:08.280 or sometimes there's missed opportunities. 20:08.280 --> 20:11.520 And so it's a great opportunity to preach to a lot of kids, 20:11.520 --> 20:12.360 if you'd like, 20:12.360 --> 20:13.960 obviously just the soul winning there in general 20:13.960 --> 20:16.400 is a very receptive soul winning. 20:16.400 --> 20:18.080 There's just so many people. 20:18.080 --> 20:18.500 It's high. 20:18.500 --> 20:22.860 densely populated and so I'd encourage you if you'd like to ever consider that. 20:23.900 --> 20:29.180 Those are just a couple things that we wanted to highlight for this week. 20:29.180 --> 20:32.860 I appreciate everybody for coming out to our event. 20:32.860 --> 20:37.740 Again, if you have any questions, you could always ask one of our ushers in one of these red jackets. 20:37.740 --> 20:45.820 We did have a welcome area in our fellowship room, and I don't know if everybody was aware of that or if our visitors... 20:45.820 --> 20:51.820 If you are visiting with our church, if you're not a member of our church, we want to give you a gift as well as some other... 20:51.900 --> 20:54.000 things from the welcome table. 20:54.000 --> 20:56.400 The kids should be able to get like a sucker 20:56.400 --> 20:57.240 and stuff like that. 20:57.240 --> 20:59.140 And so we do have something for everyone, 20:59.140 --> 21:00.860 but our visitors, we do have extra gifts 21:00.860 --> 21:01.700 that we'd like to give you. 21:01.700 --> 21:03.460 So if you didn't check in, 21:03.460 --> 21:05.420 you can still check in for another service 21:05.420 --> 21:07.140 or see somebody after the service 21:07.140 --> 21:08.300 and we'd love to get that to you. 21:08.300 --> 21:11.800 So with that, I'm gonna go to our third song. 21:12.200 --> 21:16.880 That we're gonna sing this evening and it's gonna be I'm in the Lord's army 21:16.880 --> 21:22.960 All right now this one. I know you kids got to stand up for all right because I don't know how you're gonna march in your chair 21:22.960 --> 21:25.000 All right, so you kids stand up with me 21:26.200 --> 21:28.540 Because we're in the Lord's army all right 21:34.800 --> 21:44.160 I may never march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot the artillery. 21:44.160 --> 21:51.280 I may never zoom over the enemy, but I'm in the Lord's army. 21:51.280 --> 21:52.960 Yes, sir! 21:52.960 --> 21:55.840 I'm in the Lord's army. 21:55.840 --> 21:57.440 Yes, sir! 21:57.440 --> 22:00.240 I'm in the Lord's army. 22:00.240 --> 22:01.520 Yes, sir! 22:01.900 --> 22:10.900 I may never march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot the artillery. 22:10.900 --> 22:17.900 I may never zoom over the enemy, but I'm in the Lord's army. 22:17.900 --> 22:22.900 Yes sir! I think we could do this one again, but with some more tempo again, alright? 22:22.900 --> 22:27.900 You guys gotta give me some pep here, alright? I gotta get some energy. 22:28.500 --> 22:30.340 Here on the first, ready? 22:30.340 --> 22:38.580 I may never march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot the artillery. 22:38.580 --> 22:45.060 I may never zoom over the enemy, but I'm in the Lord's army. 22:45.060 --> 22:45.780 Yes, sir! 22:46.580 --> 22:49.060 I'm in the Lord's army. 22:49.060 --> 22:49.860 Yes, sir! 22:50.580 --> 22:53.060 I'm in the Lord's army. 22:53.060 --> 22:53.860 Yes, sir! 22:54.600 --> 23:02.600 I may never march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot the artillery. 23:02.600 --> 23:09.100 I may never zoom over the enemy, but I'm in the Lord's army. 23:09.100 --> 23:10.600 Yes sir! 23:10.600 --> 23:12.600 Great job kids, great job! 23:15.900 --> 23:20.560 Alright, I want you guys to turn in your Bibles to 2 Kings chapter number 5 23:21.560 --> 23:24.040 2 Kings chapter number 5 and 23:24.600 --> 23:31.780 We'll read the entire chapter and then we'll have pastor Russell come up and preach for us 2 Kings chapter number 5 25:10.400 --> 25:16.920 Second, second Kings chapter number five. The Bible says now name and captain of the host of the king of Syria 25:17.180 --> 25:24.200 Was a great man with his master and honorable because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria 25:24.740 --> 25:28.560 He was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper 25:29.300 --> 25:36.300 And the Syrians had gone out by companies and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid, 25:36.300 --> 25:39.300 and she waited on Naaman's wife. 25:39.300 --> 25:47.300 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my Lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria, for he would recover him of his leprosy. 25:47.300 --> 25:53.300 And one went in and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel. 25:53.800 --> 25:59.320 And the king of Syria said, Go to go and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. 26:00.040 --> 26:06.280 And he departed and took with him 10 talents of silver and 6000 pieces of gold and 10 changes of 26:06.280 --> 26:11.560 raiment. And he brought the letter to the king of Israel saying, Now when this letter is come unto 26:11.560 --> 26:17.240 thee, behold, I have therewith sent name and my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of 26:17.240 --> 26:18.040 his leprosy. 26:19.000 --> 26:24.600 And it came to pass when the king of Israel had read the letter that he rent his clothes and said, 26:24.600 --> 26:31.080 Am I God to kill and to make alive that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? 26:31.960 --> 26:36.360 Wherefore consider I pray you and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me. 26:37.000 --> 26:42.360 And it was so when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes 26:42.360 --> 26:45.880 that he sent to the king saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? 26:46.400 --> 26:50.960 Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel." 26:51.520 --> 26:56.640 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 26:57.440 --> 27:00.160 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, 27:00.160 --> 27:06.080 Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. 27:06.720 --> 27:10.000 But Naaman was wroth, and went away and said, Behold! 27:10.400 --> 27:15.840 I thought he will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God 27:15.840 --> 27:18.880 and strike his hand over the place and recover the leper. 27:19.440 --> 27:25.280 Are not Abana and Farpar rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? 27:25.280 --> 27:30.000 May I not wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. 27:30.960 --> 27:34.240 And his servants came near and spake unto him and said, My father, 27:34.700 --> 27:39.500 If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? 27:39.500 --> 27:43.260 How much rather than, when he sayeth to thee, Wash and be clean? 27:44.140 --> 27:49.740 Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in Jordan according to the saying of the man of God. 27:49.740 --> 27:54.540 And his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 27:55.900 --> 27:59.100 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, 27:59.100 --> 28:01.100 and came and stood before him. 28:01.100 --> 28:04.820 And he said, behold, now I know that there is no God 28:04.820 --> 28:07.300 in all the earth, but in Israel. 28:07.300 --> 28:11.420 Now therefore I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant. 28:11.420 --> 28:14.380 But he said, as the Lord liveth before whom I stand, 28:14.380 --> 28:15.860 I will receive none. 28:15.860 --> 28:18.300 And he urged him to take it, but he refused. 28:18.600 --> 28:24.920 And Naaman said, shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules burden of earth, 28:24.920 --> 28:30.600 for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, 28:30.600 --> 28:34.600 but unto the Lord. In this thing the Lord pardoned thy servant. 28:34.900 --> 28:40.420 that when my master goeth into the house of Reman to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, 28:40.420 --> 28:45.860 and I bow myself in the house of Reman, when I bow down myself in the house of Reman, 28:45.860 --> 28:50.900 the Lord pardoned thy servant in this thing. And he said unto him, Go in peace. 28:50.900 --> 28:56.740 So he departed from him a little way. But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God said, 28:57.500 --> 29:03.660 Behold, my master hath spared Naaman the Syrian in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. 29:04.460 --> 29:08.460 But as the Lord liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat of him. 29:09.100 --> 29:13.580 So Gehazi followed after Naaman, and when Naaman saw him running after him, 29:13.580 --> 29:19.660 he lighted down from off the chariot to meet him and said, Is all well? And he said, All is well. 29:20.100 --> 29:25.140 My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from Mount Ephraim 29:25.140 --> 29:30.020 two young men of the sons of the prophets. Give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver 29:30.020 --> 29:35.860 and two changes of garment. And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, 29:35.860 --> 29:40.420 and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of garments, 29:40.420 --> 29:43.780 and laid them upon two of his servants, and they bare them before him. 29:44.400 --> 29:49.120 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand and bestowed them in the house, 29:49.120 --> 29:54.080 and he let them in go and they departed. But he went in and stood before his master. 29:54.080 --> 30:00.800 And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no wither. 30:00.800 --> 30:07.120 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? 30:07.600 --> 30:16.600 Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men servants, and maid servants? 30:16.600 --> 30:21.600 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed, forever. 30:21.800 --> 30:27.080 and he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. Let us pray. Dear Heavenly Father, 30:27.080 --> 30:30.520 I want to thank you for this day. Thank you for this conference. I thank you for all the children 30:30.520 --> 30:34.840 gathered here together. I ask you to please bless Pastor Russell now. Please fill him with your 30:34.840 --> 30:39.240 Holy Spirit. Help him to preach the word of God to us and please help us to walk out as better 30:39.240 --> 30:43.640 Christians. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Well, it's great to be here with all of you tonight. 30:43.640 --> 30:47.640 I appreciate everyone rounding up the kiddos and dragging them down here on a Friday night. 30:47.640 --> 30:48.920 I know that's not always easy. 30:49.500 --> 30:52.640 And I want to preach tonight on the little maid. 30:52.640 --> 30:55.280 Obviously, in 2 Kings chapter number 5, 30:55.280 --> 30:57.520 we have a very familiar story with Naaman 30:57.520 --> 30:59.540 being healed of his leprosy. 30:59.540 --> 31:01.280 And that's usually what we focus on 31:01.280 --> 31:02.480 when we preach on the sermon. 31:02.480 --> 31:04.860 But we have to remember that the whole reason 31:04.860 --> 31:08.320 that story came about was because of a little girl, 31:08.320 --> 31:09.920 or as the Bible would call her, a little maid. 31:09.920 --> 31:12.160 Of course, we're preaching to the kids tonight. 31:12.160 --> 31:14.560 But obviously, everything I'm preaching tonight 31:14.560 --> 31:16.460 could be just as easily applied to adults. 31:16.460 --> 31:17.300 So I hope. 31:17.400 --> 31:20.000 that will all sit up a little bit and listen. 31:20.000 --> 31:22.200 And really, I think one of the best lessons 31:22.200 --> 31:24.200 that we can learn from the little maid 31:24.200 --> 31:27.480 is that even in the most difficult situation 31:27.480 --> 31:31.180 you might find yourself in, you still need to obey God. 31:31.180 --> 31:34.040 A lot of times people, as they grow older 31:34.040 --> 31:37.780 and find themselves going through things in life, 31:37.780 --> 31:39.980 finding themselves in more difficult situations, 31:39.980 --> 31:43.260 or maybe life doesn't turn out the way that they wanted, 31:43.260 --> 31:44.960 or they're going through some hardship, 31:45.100 --> 31:49.100 sometimes they can use that as an excuse to disobey God. 31:49.100 --> 31:53.900 And quite frankly, there's never a reason to disobey God. 31:53.900 --> 31:56.500 Now, I'd assume that every kid here tonight, 31:56.500 --> 31:58.500 you know, they're not going to be able to relate too much 31:58.500 --> 32:00.300 with the little maid because, as we're about to see, 32:00.300 --> 32:02.800 the little maid had it pretty rough. 32:02.800 --> 32:04.700 And if you're in this church tonight, 32:04.700 --> 32:06.900 as a young person, as a child, 32:06.900 --> 32:08.200 you know, one thing I can tell you 32:08.200 --> 32:10.100 is that you have parents that love you. 32:10.400 --> 32:15.400 that care about you, that want you to grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 32:15.400 --> 32:19.400 The fact that your pastor is even putting on the conference like this 32:19.400 --> 32:23.400 and inviting a guest preacher out and doing all the things that he's been doing 32:23.400 --> 32:27.400 tells me that you have a pastor that loves the children and the people of this church. 32:27.400 --> 32:32.400 So you're pretty, you know, you're off to a good start in life as a child in this church 32:32.400 --> 32:35.400 with godly parents and a godly pastor. 32:35.500 --> 32:42.780 But nevertheless, you know, so we still need to be reminded that obedience is not something that we do when it's convenient 32:43.020 --> 32:46.420 That when it's easy, it's something that we do because we love God 32:46.420 --> 32:49.820 And if you look there in second Kings chapter number five verse one 32:49.820 --> 32:55.060 It says now name and captive the host king of Syria was a great man with his master and honorable 32:55.600 --> 33:01.620 Because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria. He also was a mighty man in valor 33:02.400 --> 33:09.600 But he was a leper. So it says that the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria. So what we see here 33:09.600 --> 33:15.520 where the little maid is, is that it's during a time of war, right? And we, you know, we can get 33:15.520 --> 33:19.920 that from some of the other chapters here in 2 Kings chapter 6 verse 8, the king of Syria 33:19.920 --> 33:21.760 of war against Israel. 33:21.760 --> 33:24.800 So these two nations are at war with one another. 33:24.800 --> 33:26.680 And also we can learn that. 33:27.200 --> 33:30.560 The Little Maid finds herself not only in a time of war... 33:30.800 --> 33:35.300 but also in a time of spiritual wickedness, even in our own homeland. 33:35.300 --> 33:37.900 I'll just read to you from 2 Kings chapter number 3 in verse 1. 33:37.900 --> 33:38.700 It says, 33:38.700 --> 33:41.700 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel and Samaria 33:41.700 --> 33:44.900 on the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and reigned twelve years. 33:44.900 --> 33:47.700 And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord, 33:47.700 --> 33:50.000 but not like his father and like his mother, 33:50.000 --> 33:52.800 for he put away the image of Baal and his father had made. 33:52.800 --> 33:55.300 Nevertheless, he cleaned on the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, 33:55.300 --> 33:57.000 which made Israel to sin. 33:57.000 --> 33:58.700 So this is the situation. 33:58.800 --> 34:03.600 the state of the nation where the little maid finds herself. 34:03.600 --> 34:08.700 She's being taken captive in a time of war, taken to a strange land, 34:08.700 --> 34:12.000 and even before that, you know, she's living in a wicked nation 34:12.000 --> 34:16.200 where there's just a lot of ungodliness, a lot of idolatry taking place. 34:16.200 --> 34:20.400 And yet despite all of that, we see that she has some great attributes 34:20.400 --> 34:22.600 because I believe she is somebody that understood 34:22.600 --> 34:26.400 that there's, it's always the right time to obey God. 34:26.700 --> 34:28.700 that we don't just look at our circumstance and say, 34:28.700 --> 34:31.200 well, I'll obey God if mom and dad have me in a good church. 34:31.200 --> 34:34.400 I'll obey God if my pastor does nice things for me. 34:34.400 --> 34:39.000 I'll obey God, you know, as long as I like the way things are going. 34:39.000 --> 34:41.200 No, we always obey God, no matter what. 34:42.900 --> 34:46.000 One thing to consider here, it says there in 2 Kings 5 verse 2, 34:46.000 --> 34:52.700 and the Syrians had gone out by companies and brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid, 34:52.700 --> 34:55.800 and she waited on Naaman's wife. 34:55.800 --> 35:01.000 So this little maid here is literally a captive in Syria. 35:01.000 --> 35:02.700 Now, think about that. 35:02.700 --> 35:06.000 You know, this is the situation she finds, and hopefully I'm not going to give you the kids' nightmares, 35:06.000 --> 35:10.700 but, you know, she's literally been taken captive by the enemy and hauled out. 35:11.400 --> 35:15.400 So, you know, it would be kind of like if someone came in here tonight 35:15.400 --> 35:21.400 and just abducted you kids and just took off and drove to some other place and you never saw mom and dad again. 35:21.400 --> 35:25.400 I mean, that's the situation that she found herself in. 35:25.400 --> 35:32.400 And she's separated from her family, and she's serving the guy who likely, you know, 35:32.400 --> 35:35.400 is the one responsible for her being held captive. 35:36.300 --> 35:40.700 Because it was unto Naaman that the Lord had granted deliverance. 35:40.700 --> 35:43.800 So obviously he's a great man, an honorable man, valor. 35:43.800 --> 35:48.100 You know, he is in part responsible for the little maid 35:48.100 --> 35:53.700 literally being held captive in a foreign land separated from her parents, 35:53.700 --> 35:55.200 or perhaps even worse. 35:56.600 --> 35:59.560 Now it would be really easy for the little maid to make an excuse and say, 35:59.560 --> 36:03.320 well I don't feel like serving God, God did this to me, God allowed this to happen. 36:03.960 --> 36:09.400 But that was not her attitude. She decided that even in that worst circumstance, 36:09.400 --> 36:14.760 separated from her family, in an ungodly nation, that she was going to serve God. 36:17.800 --> 36:24.360 Now, I want to just look at some of the characteristics of the little maid, because I think the little 36:24.360 --> 36:29.840 maid here, we don't know her name, but we do know some things about her. 36:29.840 --> 36:34.880 And there's actually quite a bit we can learn from just her brief part in this story that 36:34.880 --> 36:38.400 I think are great characteristics for kids to have. 36:38.400 --> 36:44.360 And hopefully every child in this room can have the same kind of character. 36:45.000 --> 36:47.400 that the little maid has. 36:47.400 --> 36:51.200 So again, Naaman has taken her captive, 36:51.200 --> 36:53.700 and yet, in spite of that, 36:53.700 --> 36:56.500 she still has respect towards him. 36:56.500 --> 36:59.400 She still addresses the guy 36:59.400 --> 37:01.400 who was leading the army 37:01.400 --> 37:03.600 that raided her homeland 37:03.600 --> 37:04.900 and took her captive. 37:04.900 --> 37:06.500 I mean, think about that. 37:06.500 --> 37:09.100 She still uses respectful terms 37:09.100 --> 37:11.700 in addressing the guy who took her captive. 37:13.100 --> 37:20.600 And the point I want to make is, now, you know, that how much more should children be respectful to those that love them? 37:20.600 --> 37:25.600 Now again, we don't know what, how Naaman treated the little maid. 37:25.600 --> 37:30.600 You know, we can assume that he was decent to her, that he was kind to her, that he took care of her. 37:30.600 --> 37:35.600 But, you know, it's still, it's still the guy who took her captive. 37:36.300 --> 37:42.700 And yet she still manages to think about his well-being, his welfare, and addresses him respectfully. 37:42.700 --> 37:48.380 How much more so should children respect those that love them and care for them? 37:48.380 --> 37:49.880 Right. 37:49.880 --> 37:53.700 And, you know, this is a command of God. 37:53.700 --> 38:00.700 Obviously, when we're preaching to kids, you know, there's really just a few verses perhaps that we would think of to turn to that say, 38:00.700 --> 38:03.340 the Bible is addressing children here directly. 38:04.500 --> 38:10.340 And of course we might think of Ephesians chapter 6 where the Bible tells children specifically to obey their parents. 38:10.340 --> 38:17.060 This is a command of God to honor your elders, to honor those that are older than you. 38:17.060 --> 38:22.180 This is an attribute that the little maid had that every child and every adult, 38:22.180 --> 38:26.260 I know I'm preaching a little bit to the kids but you know we could all learn from this, 38:26.260 --> 38:31.540 is to respect our elders and to address them with respect and to... 38:32.300 --> 38:38.300 Honor them. This is a command of God. I've got a lot of verses, so I'm just going to read through these very quickly. 38:38.300 --> 38:46.300 The Bible says in Leviticus 19, the Bible commands us, God commands us to honor the aged. It says in Leviticus 19 verse 32, 38:46.300 --> 38:54.300 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man and fear thy God, I am the Lord. 38:54.300 --> 38:56.900 Rise up before the hoary head. 38:56.900 --> 38:59.400 You know, the guy with the white hair, the old man. 38:59.600 --> 39:02.400 and honor the face of the old man. 39:02.400 --> 39:05.200 1 Timothy chapter number five verses one through two, 39:05.200 --> 39:08.480 rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father, 39:08.480 --> 39:09.940 the younger men as brethren. 39:09.940 --> 39:11.980 The Bible says in 1 Peter chapter five, 39:11.980 --> 39:15.320 likewise you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder, 39:15.320 --> 39:17.160 ye all of you be subject one to another 39:17.160 --> 39:18.720 and be clothed with humility. 39:18.720 --> 39:21.520 So one of the great things about the little maid 39:21.520 --> 39:22.920 is that she is somebody. 39:23.200 --> 39:28.320 who addresses him with respect. And if you look at verse uh 2 Kings chapter 5 verse 3 it says, 39:28.320 --> 39:34.000 and she said unto her mistress, would God my Lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria. 39:35.520 --> 39:40.080 So she's calling him Lord. She's calling he is my boss. This would be like you know calling 39:40.080 --> 39:45.200 somebody sir right. She's using respectful terms even when she's not in his presence. 39:47.200 --> 39:48.800 How much more so should children 39:49.300 --> 39:56.180 respect and obey those that love them and care for them that are their own parents. 39:56.180 --> 40:02.980 The Bible commands very strongly that children are to honor their parents. 40:02.980 --> 40:04.860 The Bible says in Exodus chapter 20 verse 12, 40:04.860 --> 40:10.780 honor thy father and mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 40:10.780 --> 40:13.540 And of course, this is the fifth commandment. 40:13.540 --> 40:16.740 And when it's on the list of ten, you know, that's a pretty big deal. 40:17.400 --> 40:20.000 You know, there's a lot of commandments in the Bible, kids. 40:20.000 --> 40:21.700 A lot of them, right? 40:21.700 --> 40:24.200 But not all of them make the top 10. 40:24.200 --> 40:27.100 And right smack dab in the middle of the top 10 40:27.100 --> 40:30.200 is honor thy father and mother. 40:30.200 --> 40:33.700 And the Bible tells us that this is the first commandment with promise, 40:33.700 --> 40:38.500 meaning if you obey this commandment, it's going to be good for you. 40:38.500 --> 40:44.900 You know, it's good for kids to honor and love and respect their parents. 40:45.700 --> 40:49.700 And you know, it would seem like everyone understands that. 40:49.700 --> 40:55.700 But I'm here to tell you today that unfortunately, this is something that is going more and more by the wayside. 40:58.600 --> 41:04.440 where children are being emboldened in thinking that they don't owe their parents anything. 41:05.720 --> 41:11.160 They'll think, oh well my mom and dad did this or my mom and dad did that or they didn't do this or 41:11.160 --> 41:15.080 whatever. They'll make up, you know, they'll feel like they got shortchanged by their parents somehow 41:15.080 --> 41:19.960 or mistreated by their parents somehow and then they think that for some reason the command of 41:19.960 --> 41:22.040 God never applies to them anymore. 41:22.600 --> 41:25.560 Look, I don't care what your parents are doing. 41:25.560 --> 41:28.920 I don't care how they treat you, what they do or don't do. 41:28.920 --> 41:30.520 You are supposed to honor your parents. 41:30.520 --> 41:34.120 I mean, is there an asterisk there in Exodus chapter 20? 41:34.120 --> 41:37.000 Is there a clause somewhere in the Word of God 41:37.000 --> 41:40.600 that I haven't seen where if your parents aren't perfect 41:40.600 --> 41:43.240 in every way, that somehow that excuses children 41:43.240 --> 41:44.920 from not honoring them? 41:44.920 --> 41:45.720 It's not in there. 41:46.520 --> 41:47.800 It's the command of God. 41:48.500 --> 41:50.580 Well, you know, they were just mean and they didn't do that. 41:50.580 --> 41:53.380 Okay, well, you know, the little maid, a little girl, 41:53.380 --> 41:56.180 had enough sense in the land of Syria 41:56.180 --> 41:58.980 when she was serving the guy that took her captive, 41:59.860 --> 42:01.220 and perhaps even orphaned her. 42:01.220 --> 42:02.900 Who knows what happens to her parents? 42:03.620 --> 42:05.460 We're not really even sure how he's treating her. 42:05.460 --> 42:09.140 She's still addressing him as Lord, still addressing him as Master. 42:09.600 --> 42:12.100 still treating him with respect, still honoring him. 42:12.100 --> 42:18.600 How much more should little children love and respect and obey their parents and honor them? 42:18.600 --> 42:20.300 The Bible says it explicitly. 42:20.300 --> 42:22.600 I just read it in Ephesians chapter 6, 42:22.600 --> 42:27.200 children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. 42:27.200 --> 42:27.900 This is right. 42:27.900 --> 42:30.300 You know, so doing the opposite is what? 42:31.100 --> 42:35.300 Wrong. Thank you. Someone's with me, right? A little trivia for you there on the... 42:35.300 --> 42:40.300 You know, give that man a gift card or something, right? Whoever that was. 42:40.300 --> 42:44.800 They know the difference between right and wrong, right? This is right. 42:44.800 --> 42:50.100 Meaning if you're not doing this, you're wrong. And there's no yeah, but about it. 42:50.100 --> 42:55.400 There's no excuse. There's no clause where you could say, well, you know, I get a pass when it comes to honoring my parents 42:55.400 --> 42:57.600 because X, Y, Z. No, it's not there. 42:58.800 --> 43:02.960 You're supposed to obey your parents. This is right. Honor thy father and thy mother, 43:02.960 --> 43:06.880 which is the first commandment with promise that it may be well with thee, 43:06.880 --> 43:12.640 and thou mayest live long on the earth. You kids want to live a nice long life, honor your parents. 43:13.440 --> 43:19.680 You want to be blessed in life, love and honor your parents, obey them. That's a promise from God. 43:20.320 --> 43:24.080 And I love that Ephesians 6 directly addresses the children. 43:25.000 --> 43:28.040 Paul writes right to the kids and says, children. 43:28.040 --> 43:29.800 And he says, now that I've got your attention, 43:29.800 --> 43:31.400 here's what I want you to do. 43:31.400 --> 43:33.720 Obey your parents. 43:33.720 --> 43:36.360 Kids don't have a whole lot of responsibility in life, 43:36.360 --> 43:40.160 but that's really just the one they need to focus on anyway. 43:40.160 --> 43:43.160 You learn to obey your parents, they'll give you plenty to do. 43:43.160 --> 43:44.960 But you need to be obeying your parents. 43:44.960 --> 43:46.500 It's a command of God. 43:47.100 --> 43:53.100 Bible says in Proverbs 23, hearken unto thy father that beget thee and despise not thy mother when she is old. 43:55.100 --> 43:58.100 We are to honor our parents, we are supposed to honor our elders. 43:59.100 --> 44:06.100 And today, you know, a lot of people just want to blow off their parents, disrespect their parents, dishonor their parents. 44:06.100 --> 44:12.100 They want to be rude to the, you know, older people. They think that they know it all, they got it all figured out. 44:13.100 --> 44:15.000 And they don't realize that... 44:15.400 --> 44:21.560 Age bestows wisdom and the elder should be treated with dignity. 44:21.560 --> 44:26.600 We should be respecting our elders and they should be treated with dignity. 44:26.600 --> 44:28.680 The Bible says in Proverbs 16 verse 31, 44:28.680 --> 44:33.320 the hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness. 44:35.800 --> 44:37.880 The Bible says in Deuteronomy 32, 44:37.880 --> 44:41.000 remember the days of old and consider the years of many generations. 44:41.000 --> 44:44.760 Ask thy father and he will show thee thy elders and they will tell you. 44:44.760 --> 44:46.600 You know why you should obey your parents, kids? 44:46.600 --> 44:47.800 Because they know more than you. 44:49.000 --> 44:49.880 They know more than you. 44:50.440 --> 44:53.480 Just by virtue of having outlived you, right? 44:53.480 --> 44:54.600 Lived longer than you. 44:57.480 --> 44:58.600 They know more. 44:58.600 --> 44:59.960 They've experienced more. 44:59.960 --> 45:01.160 They know what life is about. 45:01.700 --> 45:05.300 And look, with little kids, this isn't so much a problem. 45:05.300 --> 45:08.260 With little kids, they're not really thinking, 45:08.260 --> 45:10.980 I've got the old man figured out. 45:10.980 --> 45:14.580 They're not really thinking, I would do things differently. 45:14.580 --> 45:17.620 They're just more concerned with getting their tablet 45:17.620 --> 45:22.420 time or their cookie or getting to go outside or whatever. 45:22.420 --> 45:24.740 But we all know a certain demographic 45:24.740 --> 45:27.260 where that mentality is present, where they're like, well, 45:27.260 --> 45:28.740 I think I'm smarter than my parents. 45:29.500 --> 45:32.460 They're called teenagers. 45:32.460 --> 45:34.580 You know, I remember a fridge magnet I saw years ago, 45:34.580 --> 45:38.580 hire a teenager while they still know everything. 45:38.580 --> 45:41.100 Because after that ends, all of a sudden you get in your 20s 45:41.100 --> 45:43.900 and it kind of dawns on you, I don't know everything. 45:43.900 --> 45:46.500 Well, let me just dispel you of that notion early on. 45:46.500 --> 45:47.700 You don't know everything. 45:47.700 --> 45:49.540 In fact, none of us does. 45:49.540 --> 45:50.980 But one thing I can guarantee you 45:50.980 --> 45:53.700 is those that have been around longer have lived life 45:53.700 --> 45:56.260 and have more experience, no more than you. 45:57.200 --> 46:02.200 You know, sometimes I think teenagers think that their parents have always only been their parents. 46:03.200 --> 46:07.200 They don't realize, you know, we were kids once, we were teenagers once, we were young people once, 46:07.200 --> 46:12.200 we were single once, we were newlywed once, we had a first child, but, you know, we've been through it. 46:13.200 --> 46:14.200 We know what we're talking about. 46:15.200 --> 46:17.200 Listen to your parents, obey your elders. 46:18.200 --> 46:23.200 The little maid managed to, and she wasn't in the most ideal circumstances. 46:25.000 --> 46:36.400 She wasn't having some kind of an excuse so she could dismiss herself from keeping God's command to obey their parents. 46:36.400 --> 46:42.900 And look, the Bible warns that there are consequences for not obeying your parents. 46:42.900 --> 46:46.000 It's not like God is saying, well, this is a good option. 46:46.000 --> 46:48.500 This is what I would prefer. 46:48.500 --> 46:50.500 You know, this is God's best for you. 46:51.200 --> 46:58.560 No, there are consequences when children do not obey and honor their parents. 46:58.560 --> 47:05.440 Not just for the children that are so bold to disobey their parents, but even a nation. 47:06.700 --> 47:14.700 When you start to have a nation that's filled with children and young people that disobey, disrespect their parents, 47:14.700 --> 47:23.700 do not treat their elders with the dignity and respect that they deserve, there's consequences for that. 47:23.700 --> 47:25.700 In fact, it's a sign of judgment. 47:25.700 --> 47:27.700 The Bible says in Isaiah chapter 3 verse 5, 47:27.700 --> 47:29.940 The people should be oppressed, every one by another. 47:30.500 --> 47:36.500 and everyone by his neighbor and the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and the 47:36.500 --> 47:42.340 base against the honorable." I love how those are, you know, that last part there's some synonyms 47:42.340 --> 47:47.780 there, right? He's saying the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and the base 47:47.780 --> 47:52.900 against the honorable. Now, no disrespect to you kids, but you know sometimes you can be a little 47:52.900 --> 47:55.900 You can be a little crude, you can be a little crass. 47:57.300 --> 48:00.700 You know, a child left unto himself bringeth his mother to shame. 48:00.700 --> 48:04.700 Because kids, if they're just kind of left, they'll get up to some stuff. 48:04.700 --> 48:08.100 And you know, as parents, if we let it go, we might even be a little embarrassed, right? 48:08.100 --> 48:09.900 They give you a little base. 48:12.600 --> 48:24.040 And that's what the Bible's warning us about is that if we just let children do whatever they want or kids aren't learning to behave themselves and to honor their parents, you know, that is a judgment upon a nation. 48:28.500 --> 48:34.100 Of course, Lamentations is a book that's just all about the judgment of God, but moaning it. 48:34.100 --> 48:38.100 The Bible says in Lamentations 5 verse 12, princes are hanged by their hand. 48:38.740 --> 48:43.860 The faces of the elders were not honored. Like, God notices this stuff. 48:44.400 --> 48:47.440 It seems to me like this is something that God pays attention to. 48:47.440 --> 48:49.680 How does a nation treat their elders? 48:49.680 --> 48:52.120 How does the youth treat those that are older than them? 48:52.120 --> 48:54.440 How do children treat their parents? 48:54.440 --> 48:55.240 Do they honor them? 48:55.240 --> 48:56.960 Do they obey them or not? 48:56.960 --> 48:59.520 It says a lot about a nation. 48:59.520 --> 49:01.300 It says a lot about an individual. 49:03.700 --> 49:13.700 Of course, in Romans chapter 1, it says, talking about reprobates, it says, you know, describing these people, 49:13.700 --> 49:17.700 that God has given up to a reprobate mind that they are backbiteers, haters of God, 49:17.700 --> 49:24.700 despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, and disobedient to parents. 49:24.700 --> 49:30.700 Think about that. I mean, the worst scum of the earth. I mean, they're all of these things. 49:31.200 --> 49:35.440 And I'm not saying that any kid who back talks mom or dad or sasses them is a reprobate. 49:37.280 --> 49:41.680 But I am saying that if that's you tonight, if you're a child who disobeys or disrespects 49:41.680 --> 49:47.520 your parents, disobeys or disrespects your elders, you have something in common with a reprobate. 49:50.600 --> 49:55.000 The Bible warns us in 2 Timothy chapter number 3 about the last days, 49:55.000 --> 49:59.700 that knowing this else in the last days, perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves, 49:59.700 --> 50:06.500 covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. 50:06.500 --> 50:08.600 So there it is again. 50:08.600 --> 50:14.300 It seems to me like God puts an emphasis on children obeying their parents. 50:14.600 --> 50:18.000 And when it's not happening, God notices. 50:18.000 --> 50:25.200 And God's saying this is a bad thing when children are disobeying and dishonoring their parents. 50:25.200 --> 50:29.000 Well, you don't know my mom and dad. You don't know what they were like. 50:29.000 --> 50:32.300 You don't know what they do or what they don't do, how they treated me. 50:32.300 --> 50:34.400 Shut up. 50:34.400 --> 50:39.500 Show me that in the Word of God. It's not there. 50:40.600 --> 50:44.760 You know, and a lot of times when I preach sermons like this, I think about maybe using some of my own 50:46.280 --> 50:50.920 personal examples from my life because you know I didn't grow up in a Baptist church, 50:50.920 --> 50:54.280 I didn't grow up in our church, I didn't grow up in a Christian home. 50:55.160 --> 50:58.920 And sometimes I think you know maybe if I related some of the things that happened to me or the 50:58.920 --> 51:03.400 things that I went through as a child that maybe that would help illustrate, but you know I've 51:03.400 --> 51:05.000 I've chosen not to do that. 51:05.300 --> 51:09.300 simply because even in their death, I still want to honor my parents. 51:09.300 --> 51:12.800 And because I already understand, you know, they weren't perfect people. 51:12.800 --> 51:15.300 I'm not perfect. None of your parents are perfect. 51:15.300 --> 51:17.800 You know, why spill the beans on them? 51:17.800 --> 51:20.300 You know, why criticize them? 51:20.300 --> 51:22.800 You know, why point out their mistakes? 51:22.800 --> 51:26.300 Where is that in the Bible? It's not there. 51:26.300 --> 51:28.800 I'll tell you what is there. 51:28.800 --> 51:30.300 Honor your mother and father. 51:30.400 --> 51:34.120 honor your father and mother, obey your parents, that's what's there. 51:34.120 --> 51:37.840 Obey the, you know, rise up before the hoary head 51:37.840 --> 51:43.200 and honor the face of the ancient, that's what's there. 51:43.200 --> 51:45.480 And I love this about the little maid. 51:45.480 --> 51:51.840 This great story that we read about this miraculous deliverance of Naaman 51:51.840 --> 51:57.200 from his leprosy is all prompted by this little girl, a maid, 51:57.800 --> 52:02.600 held captive in a foreign land, just doing what's right. 52:02.600 --> 52:12.100 Just loving God, obeying God, being respectful, and just speaking up for the Lord. 52:12.100 --> 52:19.700 In 2 Kings chapter 5 verse 3, the next thing we see about her is that she speaks up, unprompted. 52:19.700 --> 52:25.300 No one asks her opinion on this. And obviously, she's hearing about it, and she said unto her mistress, 52:26.000 --> 52:28.000 And we're assuming, you know, Naaman's wife here. 52:29.120 --> 52:31.440 You know, in the privacy, when it's appropriate, she says, 52:32.320 --> 52:36.240 would God my Lord were with the prophet in Samaria? 52:37.920 --> 52:40.640 Now, it seems to me like she has some kind of affinity. 52:40.640 --> 52:43.760 She has some kind of respect for Naaman. 52:44.640 --> 52:45.840 She has a care for him. 52:46.480 --> 52:48.480 You know, and I, you know, I love that there, 52:48.480 --> 52:51.280 that it ends, that statement ends with an exclamation point. 52:52.700 --> 52:56.860 You know, she's being bold. She speaks up with unprompted. 52:56.860 --> 53:01.260 And she speaks well of God and of the man of God. 53:01.260 --> 53:02.300 That's what she does. 53:04.600 --> 53:10.400 She says, were God my Lord, excuse, would God my Lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria? 53:10.400 --> 53:15.600 You know, if you had my God, if you had, you know, the prophet that I know of the Lord God of Israel, 53:15.600 --> 53:18.000 things could go better for Naaman. 53:18.000 --> 53:20.600 She's speaking well of them. 53:20.600 --> 53:25.200 You know, children should speak well of their elders. They should speak well of their parents. 53:25.200 --> 53:28.800 And I'll say this, they should speak well of their pastors. 53:30.200 --> 53:35.800 You know, one thing I've noticed in the time that I've been a pastor, 53:35.800 --> 53:39.160 I've had people come and go and it hasn't always been, you know, 53:39.160 --> 53:44.120 it's, you know, some of the partings have been, you know, good. 53:44.120 --> 53:48.520 But sometimes there's been people that have left the church and you kind of see it coming. 53:48.520 --> 53:54.360 And one of the things I've noticed is the children's attitude towards me changes. 53:54.360 --> 53:56.440 They start to glare during the service. 53:57.700 --> 54:02.260 I've seen this. They're a little tight-lipped when it's time to say hello. 54:04.500 --> 54:08.900 They're not as free with themselves. They're not as polite. They're not as... Some changes. 54:11.060 --> 54:14.020 And sometimes I wonder, I think, where did that come from? 54:15.700 --> 54:18.340 And the only answer I have is like they must have heard it at home. 54:19.940 --> 54:24.100 You know, you parents better be careful about how you talk about your pastor in front of your kids. 54:25.700 --> 54:26.700 You should be careful. 54:26.700 --> 54:31.020 You know, when the pastor rips face or steps on your toes on Sunday morning, don't go out 54:31.020 --> 54:34.020 in the car and start grumbling and moaning and complaining on the ride home when your 54:34.020 --> 54:37.220 kids, you know, you shouldn't be doing that at all. 54:37.220 --> 54:39.420 But don't do that in front of your kids. 54:42.900 --> 54:50.800 Well, mom and dad can disrespect the pastor. If he really is everything that they're saying he is, or whatever, why should I respect him? 54:53.700 --> 54:59.580 I love that she speaks well of God and of the man of God. 54:59.580 --> 55:05.300 You know, God has given us pastors for a very specific reason. 55:05.300 --> 55:10.380 To you know, for the perfecting of the saints as it says in Ephesians, the work of the ministry 55:10.380 --> 55:13.260 and the edifying of the body of Christ. 55:13.260 --> 55:15.780 That's what a pastor is there for. 55:15.780 --> 55:17.060 To benefit other people. 55:17.700 --> 55:22.900 to perfect the saints for the work of the ministry to edify the body of Christ. That's his work. 55:25.300 --> 55:27.500 But that's not all a good pastor does. 55:30.200 --> 55:34.160 You know, a good pastor is someone that loves his people, 55:34.160 --> 55:37.480 cares about the members of his flock. 55:37.480 --> 55:41.640 And I know enough about your pastor that I could say that's true here. 55:41.640 --> 55:45.160 And I'm sure you all know that. I'm sure that's not news to people here. 55:45.160 --> 55:49.440 You know, I believe that Pastor Shelley loves the people in this church. 55:49.440 --> 55:51.840 Why else would he be doing this? 55:52.900 --> 56:00.100 You know, sometimes you see these pastors are going through things and you hear about everything they're doing to make the ministry work. 56:00.100 --> 56:05.820 When they, you know, it could be so easy to just walk away and do something else and not have all things. 56:05.820 --> 56:06.940 Oh, well, why did you do that? 56:06.940 --> 56:14.820 I'll tell you why they do that, because God will give you pastors, according to Jeremiah, according to mine heart. 56:14.820 --> 56:18.820 And God loves people and the pastors that are doing the job. 56:19.200 --> 56:22.200 write our pastors that love the people. 56:23.700 --> 56:28.200 Sometimes people ask me, you know, about Tucson, the church there, and they'll say, 56:28.200 --> 56:32.200 well, have you ever thought about maybe going somewhere else? And I say, no, I'd never leave. 56:33.200 --> 56:35.200 Why? Because I love those people. 56:36.200 --> 56:41.200 You know, those people have been loyal to me, loyal to my pastor friends. I'm going to do the same for them. 56:43.700 --> 56:46.100 And I love that the little maid here... 56:47.300 --> 56:50.980 She speaks well of the man of God and of the Lord. 56:53.600 --> 56:55.600 I'm going to move on from that point here. 56:57.400 --> 57:02.800 But let me just, you know, before I do that, I do want to just kind of park it here because this is an important, 57:04.200 --> 57:13.000 an important point that we should be careful how we treat our parents, treat our elders and treat our pastors. 57:14.800 --> 57:20.600 Because God has some strong warnings, just as he does about, hey, if you disobey your parents, 57:21.100 --> 57:26.780 It's a curse on a nation. If you want it to be well with you and you want your days to be live long, 57:26.780 --> 57:30.220 you want to live long on the earth, you got to obey your parents. There's some strong warnings 57:30.220 --> 57:36.060 about disrespecting or dishonoring even your pastor. The Bible says in Luke 10, 57:36.060 --> 57:39.980 He that heareth, you heareth me, and he that despiseth you, despiseth me. 57:41.580 --> 57:47.260 And he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. And look, I know that's not just specific to pastors, but 57:48.200 --> 57:53.000 If a pastor is getting up and preaching God's word and you despise it, who are you really despising? 57:53.800 --> 57:58.760 You're despising God. Of course, we know Psalm 105, 57:58.760 --> 58:01.560 touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm. 58:03.960 --> 58:06.840 And there's so many passages we could turn to where people 58:08.120 --> 58:12.520 are made examples of when they mistreat the man of God. 58:13.300 --> 58:16.900 You say, well, this is kind of self-serving. You're a pastor. Maybe that's why you're preaching. 58:16.900 --> 58:18.100 No, this is just what the Bible says. 58:20.660 --> 58:23.780 You know, and we're, we're, I'm preaching this morning about the little, 58:23.780 --> 58:28.100 this evening about the little maid and her character and how it's something to be emulated. 58:28.100 --> 58:31.700 And one of the things she does is she speaks well of the man of God specifically. 58:31.700 --> 58:32.200 Yeah. 58:33.380 --> 58:37.220 Would to God, my Lord, we're with the prophet that is in Samaria. 58:38.420 --> 58:40.660 I know a guy, the prophet, the preacher. 58:41.300 --> 58:43.300 Elisha, he could straighten things out. 58:46.400 --> 58:49.600 And she's in a really difficult circumstance. 58:49.600 --> 58:51.100 And she doesn't get bitter and angry. 58:51.100 --> 58:55.900 She continues to honor and respect her elders and honor the man of God. 58:55.900 --> 59:00.200 And look, there's so many examples of people who failed at this. 59:00.200 --> 59:05.600 Miriam and Aaron against Moses, you know, she gets struck with leprosy. 59:05.600 --> 59:08.300 You know, speaking of leprosy, Miriam. 59:08.900 --> 59:15.700 Korah's rebellion, they rise up against Moses and Aaron, and the ground literally opens up beneath their feet. 59:15.700 --> 59:19.900 I mean, that's such a, what an amazing thing when you think about it. 59:19.900 --> 59:24.300 I mean, the ground just opening up and they go down alive into the pit. 59:24.300 --> 59:28.900 And what did they do? They spanked against Moses and Aaron, the man of God. That's all they did. 59:29.900 --> 59:33.140 And, you know, they didn't even stay all that much, but, you know, they raised the rebellion, 59:33.140 --> 59:37.960 and God just says, well, here, let me show you what I think about people who rise up 59:37.960 --> 59:41.980 against the man of God, who rise up against God's anointed. 59:41.980 --> 59:44.020 They go alive down to the pit. 59:44.020 --> 59:46.060 The earth will just swallow them up. 59:46.060 --> 59:50.260 Now, obviously, you know, I don't expect God to do that exact miracle today. 59:50.260 --> 59:53.660 I think He's just, you know, He's did it once to just show us this is what I think of people 59:53.660 --> 59:54.420 that are like that. 59:55.500 --> 59:58.500 God might do something else. 59:58.500 --> 01:00:09.500 You know, the law has all kinds of penalties for when these law, when these commandments are not followed. 01:00:09.500 --> 01:00:14.200 You think about going back to obeying your parents. 01:00:15.500 --> 01:00:25.700 There's some really strong warnings in the Word of God about what should happen when people don't obey their mother and father. 01:00:27.500 --> 01:00:28.900 And it's pretty heavy. 01:00:30.900 --> 01:00:33.400 The Bible says in Exodus chapter 21 verse 15, 01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:36.900 He that smiteth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:40.900 And he that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 01:00:41.800 --> 01:00:43.300 These are strong warnings. 01:00:44.700 --> 01:00:49.800 Everyone that Kurt, again Leviticus, it's repeated, curse mom and dad, be put to death. 01:00:49.800 --> 01:00:57.840 Curse, Deuteronomy 21, the stubborn rebellious son who will not obey, 01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:01.340 you know, was to be taken before the elders and stoned. 01:01:01.340 --> 01:01:05.540 You know what, I'm not trying to scare anyone. 01:01:05.540 --> 01:01:10.140 I'm just trying to show you this evening, this is how God feels about obeying your parents. 01:01:12.100 --> 01:01:14.440 You say, well, that's Old Testament. 01:01:14.440 --> 01:01:18.220 Yeah, but the problem with that is that Jesus quoted that. 01:01:18.220 --> 01:01:26.100 He said, for God commanded saying, he that cursed the father or mother, let him die the death. 01:01:26.100 --> 01:01:30.760 There's so many Proverbs on dishonoring your parents, disrespecting them. 01:01:30.760 --> 01:01:34.560 The eye that mocketh at his father and despised the bay as mother, the ravens of the valley 01:01:34.560 --> 01:01:36.880 should pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it. 01:01:38.600 --> 01:01:39.600 What's it talking about? 01:01:39.600 --> 01:01:41.700 It's saying, hey, you kids better listen to your parents 01:01:41.700 --> 01:01:43.300 because they know better than you. 01:01:43.300 --> 01:01:46.040 And when they warn you not to hang out with that crowd, 01:01:46.040 --> 01:01:49.800 not to go with those kids, not to jump in that car 01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:54.580 and go do whatever, you should probably listen to them. 01:01:54.580 --> 01:01:56.680 Because you can start running with a crowd. 01:01:56.680 --> 01:02:00.640 You might find yourself dying an untimely death. 01:02:00.640 --> 01:02:02.980 Isn't that kind of what it's painting there? 01:02:02.980 --> 01:02:03.980 You mock your father. 01:02:03.980 --> 01:02:05.580 You despise to obey your mother. 01:02:06.300 --> 01:02:12.540 And it's talking about birds in the valley eating you, your corpse, right? 01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:20.520 Whosoever curseth his father or mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. 01:02:20.520 --> 01:02:24.240 He that wastes at his father and chases away at his mother is a son that causeth shame 01:02:24.240 --> 01:02:26.440 and bringeth reproach. 01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:32.440 A fool despiseth his father's instruction, but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. 01:02:32.440 --> 01:02:37.560 A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish man despiseth his mother. 01:02:37.900 --> 01:02:44.620 whoso robbeth his father or mother, and saith it is no transgression, the same as the company of a companion of a destroyer." 01:02:44.620 --> 01:02:53.540 And the Bible warns us in Proverbs chapter 30 that there is a generation that curseth their father and doth not bless their mother. 01:02:53.540 --> 01:03:01.740 And look, I don't think, you know, that last one there about the generation cursing their father and not blessing their mother. 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:04.560 I don't think it's talking about, hey, there's just one generation. 01:03:04.560 --> 01:03:08.000 I believe what it's describing is something that's cyclical. 01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:12.000 And that's what you see in the Bible, is you see the nation of Israel getting away from God, 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:15.520 getting backslidden, getting rebellious, and it gets worse and worse and worse, 01:03:15.520 --> 01:03:19.840 and then eventually they come back around. And I just think that's kind of human nature. 01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:24.160 We just kind of go through these cycles where we just kind of go into degeneracy. 01:03:24.700 --> 01:03:28.780 where we just kind of go into children becoming worse, nations becoming worse, 01:03:28.780 --> 01:03:34.060 and it gets to the point where there's a generation that curses their father and does not bless their mother. 01:03:35.260 --> 01:03:37.340 That's how you know things are getting bad in a nation. 01:03:38.700 --> 01:03:43.500 When children don't even have enough respect to just not curse their father and to not 01:03:43.500 --> 01:03:46.940 and to continue to bless their mother, they take them for granted. 01:03:51.500 --> 01:03:53.500 Well, not the little maid. 01:03:53.500 --> 01:03:58.500 You know, she was someone that was respectful and loved God 01:04:00.500 --> 01:04:08.500 and even cared about the very person who likely was the one that took her captive. 01:04:11.500 --> 01:04:14.500 And really what I want to get across to the kids tonight is this. 01:04:16.700 --> 01:04:22.460 Even as a child, you know, the Bible says that a child is known by his doings, whether his works be pure. 01:04:22.460 --> 01:04:26.860 You know, you kids have a reputation, whether you realize that or not. 01:04:26.860 --> 01:04:32.700 And let me tell you something, just from the few minutes, you know, the few short while that I've been here, 01:04:32.700 --> 01:04:37.180 you know, I love it here. I think these kids are great. 01:04:37.180 --> 01:04:43.100 It's great to see kids coming in and singing and running around and playing and quoting Bible verses. 01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:46.400 That's a good reputation to have. 01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:48.400 Amen. 01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:50.400 And you have one. We all will. 01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:52.400 And children are no exception. 01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:54.400 You'll notice this in the story. 01:04:54.400 --> 01:04:56.400 Once she makes this statement there 01:04:56.400 --> 01:04:58.400 in 2 Kings 5, verse 3, 01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:00.400 she says, 01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:02.400 As she said unto the mistress, Would the God my Lord 01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:04.400 were with the prophet that is in Samaria, for he would 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:06.400 recover him of his leprosy. 01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:08.400 Someone hears that and then 01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:10.100 repeats it to the king. 01:05:10.900 --> 01:05:12.580 Look at 2 Kings 5 verse 4, 01:05:12.580 --> 01:05:14.740 and one went in and told his Lord, saying, 01:05:14.740 --> 01:05:18.100 Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel. 01:05:20.820 --> 01:05:22.900 Now, we don't know who this is exactly. 01:05:22.900 --> 01:05:24.340 I'm assuming it's just another servant, 01:05:25.300 --> 01:05:27.860 someone who, you know, serves in Naaman and serves the king, 01:05:28.420 --> 01:05:30.340 kind of intermediary, whatever. 01:05:30.340 --> 01:05:34.580 But he just hears the little maid, what she says and says, ah, 01:05:34.580 --> 01:05:35.780 and he goes and tells the king. 01:05:37.140 --> 01:05:38.420 And no one questions her. 01:05:39.600 --> 01:05:42.400 No one's questioning whether she's telling the truth. 01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:45.600 No one's trying to, you know, figure out what she means by that. 01:05:45.600 --> 01:05:49.200 They just assume that she's speaking the truth. 01:05:49.200 --> 01:05:53.100 And what this tells me is that the little maid had a good reputation. 01:05:53.100 --> 01:05:58.500 So much so that when someone else brings him her message secondhand, 01:05:58.500 --> 01:06:02.000 he says, well, if it's from the little maid, it must be true. 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:03.000 I mean, think about that. 01:06:04.300 --> 01:06:08.460 They just hear, well the little maid that's from the line of Israel, she said this. 01:06:08.460 --> 01:06:11.500 And what's the king, what did the king do? He says in verse 5, and the king said, 01:06:11.500 --> 01:06:16.780 go, go to, go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel, and he departed and took him 10,000 silver, 01:06:16.780 --> 01:06:19.820 and 6,000 pieces of silver, and 10 changes of raiment. 01:06:19.820 --> 01:06:26.060 He just hears second hand what the little maid said, and says, well then go. 01:06:26.060 --> 01:06:28.600 Well if we know enough about the little maid, 01:06:29.100 --> 01:06:33.100 We know that she loves God, that she's respectful. 01:06:34.600 --> 01:06:36.600 She must be telling the truth. 01:06:37.600 --> 01:06:41.600 What this shows me is that children have a reputation. 01:06:42.600 --> 01:06:45.100 You kids are known by your doings. 01:06:45.600 --> 01:06:48.600 You're known by the way you listen to your parents. 01:06:48.600 --> 01:06:51.100 You're known by the way you treat your elders. 01:06:51.100 --> 01:06:52.600 Or don't treat them. 01:06:53.100 --> 01:06:56.500 You know, people are making judgements. 01:06:57.200 --> 01:07:01.360 about even children's behavior all the time. 01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:08.560 And I'm just saying tonight, you know, you kids need to keep obeying God no matter what. 01:07:08.560 --> 01:07:15.440 Don't make excuses. Don't try to cop out. Don't try to find a way to wiggle out of the word of God 01:07:15.440 --> 01:07:19.920 and give yourself an excuse for not obeying God. 01:07:19.920 --> 01:07:23.920 And if you do, you know what you're going to have? A bad reputation. 01:07:25.700 --> 01:07:30.400 Children that curse their father and don't bless their mother have a bad reputation. 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:31.400 Yes. 01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:34.900 They're bad people. 01:07:34.900 --> 01:07:39.400 I hold people like that in very low esteem. 01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:44.400 Don't turn out like that, kids. Obey your parents. 01:07:47.400 --> 01:07:50.400 And kids can have a reputation, you know, even besides that. 01:07:51.900 --> 01:07:52.900 Children have your reputation. 01:07:52.900 --> 01:07:55.400 Let's talk about some of the poor character traits, right? 01:07:55.400 --> 01:07:57.900 Because what we don't see the little maid doing is complaining. 01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:01.400 Now let me ask you something. Do you think the little maid had something to complain about? 01:08:02.900 --> 01:08:06.900 I mean, do you think that there's anyone that we could kind of give a pass to maybe, you know, 01:08:06.900 --> 01:08:13.400 complaining a little would be the little girl, you know, who was taken captive by a foreign nation 01:08:13.400 --> 01:08:14.900 and taken to another land? 01:08:15.100 --> 01:08:18.100 separated from her family. 01:08:18.100 --> 01:08:20.600 I mean, if we heard the little maid complain, we might say, 01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:23.300 well, you know, don't hold it against her. 01:08:23.300 --> 01:08:26.300 You know, she was trafficked. 01:08:26.300 --> 01:08:29.200 That's what happened. 01:08:29.200 --> 01:08:30.500 But she doesn't do that. 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:33.000 You know, she keeps loving God. 01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:35.800 She cares even about Naaman, her master enough to say, 01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:37.700 hey, there is a solution here. 01:08:37.700 --> 01:08:43.400 She has a good enough reputation that when someone just overhears her saying what she said, 01:08:43.400 --> 01:08:45.100 they immediately run to the king and he says, 01:08:45.100 --> 01:08:47.200 well, if the little maid said it, then let's do something about it. 01:08:47.200 --> 01:08:48.000 It must be right. 01:08:50.200 --> 01:08:57.200 Children can have a bad reputation if they have poor character traits. 01:08:57.200 --> 01:09:07.200 Here's a big one, being ungrateful or having, you know, being someone who, you know, expresses ingratitude for the good things that they've given, been given. 01:09:07.200 --> 01:09:12.200 And again, this is an attribute of a reprobate. 01:09:12.200 --> 01:09:16.200 When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful. 01:09:18.200 --> 01:09:24.200 Men shall be lovers of their own selves, unthankful, the Bible warns us. 01:09:24.200 --> 01:09:30.200 Being unthankful is a very serious character flaw. 01:09:30.200 --> 01:09:34.200 You know, and you children should be thankful. 01:09:34.200 --> 01:09:38.200 You know, if you're growing up in this church, you should thank God for that. 01:09:38.200 --> 01:09:43.200 If you can say, pastor, Jonathan Shelley is my pastor, you should be thankful for that. 01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:47.500 You should thank your parents that they take you to this church. 01:09:47.500 --> 01:09:49.760 Not, you know, on Sunday morning, hey, it's time to go to church. 01:09:49.760 --> 01:09:56.340 Oh, God, do we have to? 01:09:56.340 --> 01:09:59.500 And even if you do feel that way, you should still be grateful. 01:09:59.500 --> 01:10:03.340 You should be thankful that your parents are taking you to a place like this, 01:10:03.340 --> 01:10:08.260 teaching you the word of God, showing you the good and right way. 01:10:08.260 --> 01:10:09.260 Not everyone has that. 01:10:10.500 --> 01:10:13.300 Not everyone got that growing up. 01:10:13.300 --> 01:10:16.580 Don't take it for granted. 01:10:16.580 --> 01:10:17.860 Be grateful for that. 01:10:17.860 --> 01:10:21.180 How about this one complaining and murmuring? 01:10:21.180 --> 01:10:24.480 Kids never do this, right? 01:10:24.480 --> 01:10:25.460 They never complain. 01:10:25.460 --> 01:10:27.860 They never murmur when they're told to do something. 01:10:30.400 --> 01:10:34.400 Well, if they're like any other kid, they probably have bouts with this. 01:10:34.400 --> 01:10:38.400 It's probably something we have to work on with children, don't we? 01:10:38.400 --> 01:10:43.400 You tell them to do the smallest thing sometimes, and it's just like, 01:10:43.400 --> 01:10:47.400 you told them to just push a boulder up a hill. 01:10:47.400 --> 01:10:48.400 You know? 01:10:48.400 --> 01:10:53.400 It's like, oh, you might as well just told them to chew a cactus or something. 01:10:53.400 --> 01:10:54.400 You know? 01:10:54.400 --> 01:10:55.400 Take out the trash. 01:10:55.400 --> 01:10:56.400 Ugh! 01:10:58.500 --> 01:11:03.500 Or how about this? This is one that, you know, they think they're not complaining. 01:11:03.500 --> 01:11:07.500 They're doing it, but it's the way that they're doing it. Right? 01:11:07.500 --> 01:11:11.500 I'll take out the trash. 01:11:14.500 --> 01:11:18.500 If I told you there was ice cream out of the curb, you'd probably go a lot faster. 01:11:18.500 --> 01:11:22.500 If I told you, hey, the ice cream truck's on the curb, it's boom! 01:11:22.500 --> 01:11:24.500 You're moving a lot quicker. 01:11:24.500 --> 01:11:29.500 But, oh, you tell them to take out the trash or do whatever outside, all of a sudden it's like 01:11:29.500 --> 01:11:34.500 they've got lead in their shoes all of a sudden. 01:11:34.500 --> 01:11:36.500 That's complaining in my book. 01:11:36.500 --> 01:11:40.500 You might not be saying it with your words, but you're showing an attitude. 01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:47.080 Well, that's not complaining, I was just sighing. 01:11:47.080 --> 01:11:48.080 That's complaining. 01:11:48.080 --> 01:11:52.500 You know, it's funny because, you know, especially when they get to be teenagers, kids, they 01:11:52.500 --> 01:11:54.960 – teenagers, they want to be adults. 01:11:54.960 --> 01:11:56.680 They want to be treated like an adult. 01:11:56.680 --> 01:12:00.720 But you know what, you know, any – well, I can't say this isn't true of some adults, 01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:04.920 but you know, most adults, if they're smart, don't go to work and when their boss tells 01:12:04.920 --> 01:12:07.500 them to do something and go, UGH! 01:12:11.100 --> 01:12:12.100 Hey, go fix that. 01:12:16.700 --> 01:12:21.300 I'd like to say in this day and age that's a good way to get fired, but you know that seems to be more and more difficult. 01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:28.000 But I guarantee you that boss doesn't think very highly of that employee. 01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:32.000 When he's just, oh, do I, oh, I guess if I have to. 01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:34.000 Well, we are paying you. 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:36.000 It is your job. 01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:40.000 It's literally in your job description. 01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:42.000 Well, I want to be treated like an adult. 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:44.000 Well, then act like one. 01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:48.000 And don't go, oh, every time they ask you to do something. 01:12:48.500 --> 01:12:57.500 Because that, you know, I don't know why some of these kids are in such a rush to grow up and be treated like adults because if you don't like working, guess what adulthood is? 01:12:57.500 --> 01:13:03.500 You just think, oh, it's just fun and adults just have all this freedom and liberty to do whatever they want. 01:13:03.500 --> 01:13:08.500 Yeah, they do. And guess what they end up doing with all that freedom and liberty? Working. 01:13:08.500 --> 01:13:13.400 Right. I know it sounds crazy. It sounds insane. 01:13:13.700 --> 01:13:15.060 But that's what adults choose to do. 01:13:15.060 --> 01:13:16.500 It's like, well, it's time to get a job 01:13:16.500 --> 01:13:19.820 and take on responsibility and take care of other people 01:13:19.820 --> 01:13:22.220 and raise other little people 01:13:22.220 --> 01:13:24.540 and go through all the pain that that involves 01:13:24.540 --> 01:13:26.340 and all the hardship that comes along with that 01:13:26.340 --> 01:13:28.500 and taking on everything that, 01:13:29.500 --> 01:13:31.540 all the responsibility and everything like that. 01:13:31.540 --> 01:13:33.900 That's what adults end up doing is that stuff 01:13:33.900 --> 01:13:35.600 that you're already complaining about. 01:13:38.200 --> 01:13:39.440 Oh, go do some yard work. 01:13:39.540 --> 01:13:41.240 Oh. 01:13:41.340 --> 01:13:44.240 That's welcome to being an adult. 01:13:44.340 --> 01:13:45.980 And if you want to be treated like a grown up 01:13:46.080 --> 01:13:48.440 and treated like an adult, I know these little, 01:13:48.540 --> 01:13:50.340 you know, some of the little kids here are like, no, thank 01:13:50.440 --> 01:13:51.620 you. 01:13:51.720 --> 01:13:53.180 But there are some older ones, right? 01:13:53.280 --> 01:13:54.380 As they get into those teen years, 01:13:54.480 --> 01:13:57.320 they just really want to be thought of as an adult. 01:13:57.420 --> 01:13:58.860 Well, stop complaining. 01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:00.620 Stop murmuring. 01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:01.520 Here's an idea. 01:14:01.620 --> 01:14:03.120 Do it before you're even asked. 01:14:05.500 --> 01:14:07.840 Your parents will probably fall over. 01:14:07.840 --> 01:14:13.840 Mom, dad, you know, they'll say, 01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:14.840 you take out the trash. 01:14:14.840 --> 01:14:15.840 Already did. 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:21.600 Go clean up your room. We already did. 01:14:24.400 --> 01:14:25.400 Who are you? 01:14:27.400 --> 01:14:30.400 You know, who are you and what have you done with my child? 01:14:31.400 --> 01:14:35.400 You know, you're not my child, you're someone wearing a clever plastic suit. 01:14:35.400 --> 01:14:37.400 That looks like my child. 01:14:41.400 --> 01:14:43.400 I mean that's what it means to be an adult anyway. 01:14:44.400 --> 01:14:46.400 At least it's supposed to. 01:14:47.400 --> 01:14:50.400 Don't murmur, don't be complaining, don't be unthankful. 01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:54.000 God hates complaining. 01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:56.000 He hates it. 01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:58.000 It's irritating. 01:14:58.000 --> 01:15:02.000 The Bible commands us in Philippians chapter number 2, 01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:06.000 do all things without murmurings and disputings. 01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:08.000 Murmuring, complaining, and how about arguing? 01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:10.000 You know, arguing with your parents. 01:15:10.000 --> 01:15:12.000 That's a bad idea. 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:14.000 You're going to lose. 01:15:17.900 --> 01:15:22.900 Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmur it, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 01:15:22.900 --> 01:15:27.900 When the people complained it displeased the Lord, and the Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled. 01:15:27.900 --> 01:15:32.900 God hates complaining, God hates murmuring, God hates arguing. 01:15:32.900 --> 01:15:35.900 Quit doing these things. 01:15:35.900 --> 01:15:38.900 Don't be a child that has that reputation. 01:15:38.900 --> 01:15:40.900 I mean, don't be an adult, but you know, we're kind of directing it to kids. 01:15:41.500 --> 01:15:45.500 Be somebody has a good reputation even as a child. 01:15:45.500 --> 01:15:46.700 And obviously, you know, it's not that hard. 01:15:46.700 --> 01:15:48.300 Just do the opposite. 01:15:48.300 --> 01:15:52.700 Instead of complaining, be thankful. 01:15:52.700 --> 01:15:56.400 Instead of, you know, being unthankful or having ingratitude, 01:15:56.400 --> 01:15:59.600 have some contentment. 01:15:59.600 --> 01:16:02.300 You know, this is big with kids. 01:16:02.300 --> 01:16:04.900 Oh, but so-and-so's parents let them. 01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:11.240 Oh, I went over to so-and-so's house, and they had this game system. 01:16:11.240 --> 01:16:14.660 Why can't we have that? 01:16:14.660 --> 01:16:17.760 Shut up and roll those dice again. 01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:18.800 What's wrong with the board game? 01:16:18.800 --> 01:16:23.480 Look, I'm not against that you want to have some system, whatever. 01:16:23.480 --> 01:16:25.240 But sometimes that's what kids do. 01:16:25.240 --> 01:16:28.480 They'll go to some other kid's house, and they'll see everything 01:16:28.480 --> 01:16:29.960 that their parents have. 01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:32.280 And they come back, and they kind of look around, and it's like, 01:16:32.280 --> 01:16:33.500 well, why don't we have that? 01:16:34.700 --> 01:16:37.300 Well, tell your friend's parents to buy us one. 01:16:37.300 --> 01:16:42.100 Daddy would love a PlayStation 5 too. 01:16:42.100 --> 01:16:45.900 Actually, that's one of the reasons we definitely will never have one, 01:16:45.900 --> 01:16:47.100 because I'd never get anything done. 01:16:47.100 --> 01:16:50.300 You think, you know, if we got a system like that, 01:16:50.300 --> 01:16:51.400 you really think you're going to get to play it? 01:16:56.800 --> 01:17:01.480 But that's a form of complaining, not being grateful for the things that you have. 01:17:04.520 --> 01:17:12.360 Comparing what your parents are giving you to what some other parents are having, or giving their kids. 01:17:14.900 --> 01:17:19.300 You know, we, for a while when we first moved down to Tucson, we kind of lived in a neighborhood 01:17:19.300 --> 01:17:22.180 that we really didn't want to just let the kids just go run around and play. 01:17:24.420 --> 01:17:27.300 You know, it wasn't that bad, but it was, you know, we were still kind of nervous about it. 01:17:27.300 --> 01:17:33.300 So finally we packed up, we moved south of town, in this little town where all the law 01:17:33.300 --> 01:17:37.700 enforcement lives there, you know, so it's just really safe and we just leave the garage door open, 01:17:37.700 --> 01:17:40.340 the kids just kind of come and go and they made all these neighborhood friends. 01:17:41.300 --> 01:17:42.300 just kind of overnight. 01:17:42.300 --> 01:17:44.100 They kind of were going over these kids' houses. 01:17:44.100 --> 01:17:47.140 And it was such a reality check for my kids. 01:17:47.140 --> 01:17:48.340 You know, they're going over there saying, 01:17:48.340 --> 01:17:49.860 oh, they have this and they have that. 01:17:49.860 --> 01:17:51.780 And then they come back one day and it's like, 01:17:51.780 --> 01:17:53.620 so-and-so's parents are getting divorced. 01:17:55.620 --> 01:17:58.980 The so-and-so's cussed their mom out. 01:18:00.500 --> 01:18:02.580 So-and-so talked back to them, 01:18:02.580 --> 01:18:04.020 and they come back and they're just aghast. 01:18:05.860 --> 01:18:06.900 And they're shocked by it. 01:18:08.200 --> 01:18:13.200 And it was really encouraging for me as a dad to see my children. 01:18:13.200 --> 01:18:19.840 Maybe dad can't give them the big vacation and all the bells and whistles that all the 01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:23.680 other kids in the neighborhood are getting, but at least mom and dad are together. 01:18:23.680 --> 01:18:27.800 At least we're not at each other's throats. 01:18:27.800 --> 01:18:32.600 And children should learn to just be grateful for the things that they have. 01:18:32.600 --> 01:18:34.600 Look, and if your parents... 01:18:34.800 --> 01:18:37.200 are taking you to church, teaching the word of God, 01:18:37.200 --> 01:18:39.540 putting a roof over your head, clothes on your back, 01:18:39.540 --> 01:18:43.320 and food in your belly, you have much to be grateful for. 01:18:43.320 --> 01:18:45.780 Who cares if they don't haul you off to Six Flags 01:18:45.780 --> 01:18:47.320 or Disney World every other year? 01:18:47.320 --> 01:18:49.460 Who cares if they don't give you the latest 01:18:49.460 --> 01:18:51.620 and greatest gaming system every other year? 01:18:51.620 --> 01:18:53.560 Who cares? 01:18:53.560 --> 01:18:54.460 All that stuff's vain. 01:18:54.460 --> 01:18:56.160 None of that stuff matters anyway. 01:18:56.900 --> 01:19:02.500 And I guarantee you there's probably lots of boys and girls out there that would give all of that up 01:19:02.500 --> 01:19:06.740 if it just meant mom and dad were together again. They would give all of that up if it just meant 01:19:06.740 --> 01:19:10.820 that there was some peace in their home and some security and some and some stability in their home. 01:19:11.620 --> 01:19:17.140 And look if you kids have that and you're looking around I'm you know if you're here I'm assuming 01:19:17.140 --> 01:19:20.180 you do. That's a pretty good sign that you do. 01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:22.760 You better be grateful for that. 01:19:22.760 --> 01:19:24.040 You better not murmur about that. 01:19:24.040 --> 01:19:25.480 You better not complain about that. 01:19:25.480 --> 01:19:27.640 You better be thanking God that you have it. 01:19:30.100 --> 01:19:33.300 Because I'll tell you what, there's this little girl that we don't even know her name. 01:19:33.300 --> 01:19:35.300 She's just a little maid. 01:19:35.300 --> 01:19:36.800 And she didn't have that. 01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:39.800 She had all that taken away, but do you see her complaining? 01:19:39.800 --> 01:19:41.800 Do you see her murmuring? 01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:43.300 Do you see her being unthankful? 01:19:43.300 --> 01:19:45.300 No, you see her honoring God, 01:19:45.300 --> 01:19:49.800 caring about her master, respecting her elders. 01:19:49.800 --> 01:19:51.300 She has a good reputation. 01:19:51.300 --> 01:19:54.800 Here we are, all these thousands of years later, preaching about her, talking about her, thinking about her. 01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:56.200 She's in the Word of God. 01:19:56.400 --> 01:19:58.960 for all eternity. She's got a great reputation. 01:20:05.500 --> 01:20:07.660 The Bible says in 1st Lesson 1, chapter 5, 01:20:07.660 --> 01:20:13.500 in everything give thanks for this is the will of God and Christ Jesus concerning you. 01:20:13.500 --> 01:20:18.460 And I love that that verse starts in everything, not for everything. 01:20:18.460 --> 01:20:20.460 In everything. 01:20:20.460 --> 01:20:23.420 Well, you know, you don't know my situation, you don't know what I'm going through. 01:20:23.420 --> 01:20:26.700 Well, in everything give thanks. 01:20:26.700 --> 01:20:29.020 Well, I'm going through this and this is going on. 01:20:29.020 --> 01:20:31.660 My mom and dad are this, my mom and dad are that. 01:20:31.900 --> 01:20:34.700 You know, it's tough at school, whatever, you know, whatever. 01:20:34.700 --> 01:20:36.900 Well, in everything, give thanks. 01:20:36.900 --> 01:20:41.020 I don't care what the situation is, you have something to be grateful for. 01:20:43.500 --> 01:20:49.500 You know, we go through problems in life, we have difficulties, but how about being, at least we're alive, at least we're around to experience them. 01:20:50.500 --> 01:20:52.500 You know, that, that, at least that's something, you know. 01:20:54.500 --> 01:21:01.500 And there's always something to give God, give thanks for, and this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 01:21:03.500 --> 01:21:07.500 You know, you little kids, you children, God has a will for you. 01:21:08.300 --> 01:21:14.300 Obey God, respect your elders, be thankful in everything. 01:21:14.300 --> 01:21:17.300 Honor your mother and father. This is the will of God for you. 01:21:17.300 --> 01:21:19.300 It's the will of God for all of us. 01:21:19.300 --> 01:21:23.300 And if you do those things, you know, you're going to have a good reputation. 01:21:23.300 --> 01:21:28.300 And there is no excuse to disobey God. 01:21:28.300 --> 01:21:33.200 And look, even if we had parents that were, you know... 01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:39.800 not believers, ungodly, and even maybe, you know, made some major mistakes. 01:21:39.800 --> 01:21:44.000 No, we should still honor and respect our parents. 01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:46.600 I don't care what the situation is. 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:49.280 We need to keep obeying God. 01:21:49.280 --> 01:21:51.960 You know, we don't know how the little maid was treated. 01:21:51.960 --> 01:21:52.840 It doesn't tell us. 01:21:54.600 --> 01:21:56.600 I mean, was it hostility? 01:21:56.600 --> 01:21:57.800 Was she treated poorly? 01:21:57.800 --> 01:21:58.600 Or she's getting carried? 01:21:58.600 --> 01:22:00.000 The Bible, we can't really say for sure. 01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:03.900 I mean, I kind of assume that she was well taken care of. 01:22:03.900 --> 01:22:07.700 But it doesn't really matter, does it? 01:22:07.700 --> 01:22:10.600 Because the little maid in that strange land, 01:22:10.600 --> 01:22:14.300 in the house of her captor, 01:22:14.300 --> 01:22:16.900 held herself accountable for God above all. 01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:22.800 And that's what we all need to do. You know, you kids need to learn to hold yourselves accountable to God. 01:22:23.800 --> 01:22:29.800 You know, we shall all give an account of ourselves before God. We're all going to stand before God. 01:22:30.800 --> 01:22:37.800 And you know, that is probably going to include even how we behaved as children, how we treated our parents. Did we honor them? 01:22:38.800 --> 01:22:43.800 There is an accountability there. And you know, the good news for kids is that 01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:48.960 It's pretty basic, you know, obey your parents, right? 01:22:48.960 --> 01:22:51.760 If you could just figure out that one thing as a child, 01:22:51.760 --> 01:22:53.360 it's going to go really well for you. 01:22:56.100 --> 01:22:57.460 Let's go ahead and close in a word of prayer. 01:22:57.460 --> 01:22:59.700 Dear Lord, again, thank you for the children that are here today. 01:22:59.700 --> 01:23:01.460 Lord, thank you for their parents that have brought them. 01:23:02.180 --> 01:23:08.020 And Lord, I pray you help us all to look to the little maid and seek to learn from her example, 01:23:08.020 --> 01:23:13.460 Lord, of somebody who even in a very trying and difficult situation decided that she would 01:23:14.020 --> 01:23:19.940 obey God, honor God, and that she would speak well of the man of God and of Lord God of Israel 01:23:20.740 --> 01:23:22.420 and was used in a great way. 01:23:22.900 --> 01:23:27.400 And Lord, I pray you help us to all just learn from her, Lord, to do likewise, 01:23:27.400 --> 01:23:32.500 help us to love, honor, and obey our parents. 01:23:32.500 --> 01:23:36.600 And Lord, help us to just love you with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. 01:23:36.600 --> 01:23:40.500 Yes, he sings in Christ's name, amen. 01:23:40.500 --> 01:23:41.900 Amen. 01:23:41.900 --> 01:23:43.300 Thank you so much for that sermon. 01:23:44.100 --> 01:23:47.600 And we're going to go to our fourth song of the evening. 01:23:47.600 --> 01:23:51.300 It's going to be My God is So Great. 01:23:52.700 --> 01:23:54.300 My God is so great. 01:23:54.300 --> 01:23:58.800 So if you have that handout, My God is so great. 01:23:59.000 --> 01:24:01.800 Thank you so much, Pastor Russell, for coming and preaching for us. 01:24:02.600 --> 01:24:04.800 Don't complain about it. All right. 01:24:07.900 --> 01:24:10.100 All right. I want you kids to stand up with me on this one. All right. 01:24:10.500 --> 01:24:13.500 My God is so great. 01:24:17.700 --> 01:24:18.700 There in the first, 01:24:18.700 --> 01:24:23.700 My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, 01:24:23.700 --> 01:24:27.700 There's nothing my God cannot do. 01:24:27.700 --> 01:24:32.700 My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, 01:24:32.700 --> 01:24:36.700 There's nothing my God cannot do. 01:24:36.700 --> 01:24:41.700 He made the trees, He made the seas, 01:24:41.700 --> 01:24:45.400 He made the elephants too. 01:24:46.100 --> 01:24:54.480 My God is so big, so strong and so mighty. There's nothing my God cannot do. 01:24:55.060 --> 01:25:03.560 My God is so great, so strong and so mighty. There's nothing my God cannot do. 01:25:04.220 --> 01:25:12.480 My God is so great, so strong and so mighty. There's nothing my God cannot do. 01:25:13.300 --> 01:25:22.300 The mountains are his, the valleys are his, the stars are his handiwork too. 01:25:22.300 --> 01:25:30.300 My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do. 01:25:30.300 --> 01:25:33.300 Alright, you guys are dismissed. God bless, see you on Sunday.