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time if you would take your hand.
And she'll say
Good singing this evening will open with a word of prayer. Dear Father, thank you for
this church and this opportunity that we have to sing praises out to you, Lord. Help us to sing
loud and sing with the understanding and that you'd fill us with your Holy Spirit as well, Lord.
For our next song, if you would, turn in your hymnals to hymn number 202.
My Redeemer
Him number 202 we'll go ahead and start there right on the first
His blood He purchased me.
On the cross He sealed my forehead,
Paid the debt and made me free.
I will tell the wondrous story
How I've lost and saved to say
In His boundless love and mercy.
I freely gave, seeing oh sea of my redeemer, with his blood he purchased me.
through some announcements. If you need a bulletin please raise your hand and an usher will bring
you one. We do have on the front our Bible memory verse of the week Galatians chapter number one
verse 14. Keep working on that chapter. On the inside you'll see our service times are listed
Sunday morning at 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening at 4 30 and our Wednesday evening Bible study through
Below that we have our soul winning times scheduled there as well as our nursing home ministry and
Below that you'll see our year-to-date
Statistics had some good salvations out today had a couple weird experiences to ran into a guy that told me he was God
So that was interesting. It's one of those situations where you're like alright. Have a good day. See you later
I don't know what he was expecting out of that one but yeah weird stuff.
Upcoming events April 13th that's next Sunday is the men's preaching night for the evening service
so still time to sign up for that. If you do sign up please indicate your sermon topic on the paper.
It doesn't have to be necessarily your sermon title but at least what you're going to be
preaching about please indicate that for me and then please remember that there's a potluck
right after that so if you could bring something to share next Sunday evening that'd be appreciated.
April 19th, that's our Easter soul-winning marathon coming up pretty soon and there's a sign-up sheet for that as well
We're meeting at Frederick Douglas Park at 9 a.m. For coffee and donuts, then we'll have soul-winning 10 through 12
Lunch at noon and our second round of soul-winning at 2 o'clock on that day
The next day is going to be Easter and that evening we're going to be taking the Lord's Supper.
Hopefully everyone had a chance to look at that document I sent for our musicians and ushers taking part in that.
And please, like I said, if you have any questions or need some clarification, let me know.
And I'll be happy to help you with that.
May 16th through the 18th is the King James Conference at Sher Foundation Baptist Church.
May 31st is the Durant Oklahoma Solonning Marathon with Steadfast.
June 28 is the Tinker Airshow Fellowship Day and then on the 29th Brother Ben
Naeem is preaching for us both Sunday morning and Sunday evening from Steadfast.
August 27th or the 31st Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship and
October 6th through the 11th the Bahamas
Mission trip below that there's a QR code for our visitors or people who want to update their information
And on the back is our prayer list. Please do keep all these in prayer
Remember that's what this list is for and if you have any requests do email us and we'd like to add that to our list for you
Below that is some information about giving if you'd like to do that
And that's going to be it for Announcements this evening.
We'll go and go to our third song.
All right, for our third song, if you would, take your hymnals
and turn to hymn number 361.
Did you think to pray?
Hymn number 361 in your hymnals.
In number 361, we'll go ahead and start there right on the first.
There you left your room this morning
Did you think to pray
In the name of Christ our Savior
Today
tonight today
Good singing this evening as the offering plates are being passed around.
Turn in your bibles to Psalm chapter 127, Psalm 127.
Good evening, Psalm 127, the Bible reads,
accept the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Accept the Lord keep the city, the watchman wakeeth but in vain.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows.
For so he giveth his beloved sleep, lo, children are in heritage of the Lord, and the fruit
of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them, they shall not be ashamed, but they
shall speak with the enemies in the gate."
that's power heads forward to prayer. Father in heaven, we thank you for the
salvation this afternoon and we ask that you look over our church, help us set aside
distractions of the week and help us to put some words and give our pastor coldness. Amen.
All right, we are in Psalm 127 this evening and
The title of my sermon this evening is this,
A Biblical View on Children.
A Biblical view on children.
There's a lot of propaganda and different ideas
about children out in the world.
And we wanna make sure that we approach
the idea of children from a biblical perspective.
And number one, very simply this evening,
children are a blessing.
Children are a blessing.
Look at Psalm 127, verse three.
The Bible says,
Low, children are in heritage of the Lord.
and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
So children are kind of like an inheritance
that God gives his people.
It's a gift from the Lord.
And it says that the fruit of the womb is his reward.
So the Bible speaks of having children
as something that is positive.
Yet today there's a lot of people
that wanna scoff and look down on having kids.
and it's kind of becoming popular in our day and age for people just to purposely not have
children whatsoever. I mean, I even had a family member who upon marrying his wife,
his condition on marrying her was that she had to basically sterilize herself before the wedding.
and it wasn't like they just had health issues or just couldn't have kids for whatever reason,
they just like said, hey, if we're going to get married, we're going to make sure that we don't
have kids. And this is a common mentality where people will speak very poorly of children.
They'll say, if you know, if you find out that someone has a lot of kids, they'll say that they're
sorry for you. Oh, that's too bad. Oh, that's awful. But the Bible says that this is a gift.
This is something that is a blessing. And we should not look at the idea of having kids
Now, of course, having kids is a burden, right?
And especially when they're young,
that's probably the most burdensome they're gonna be.
But the cool thing about having kids
is it's probably one of those investments
that as time goes on,
it probably becomes even more and more of a blessing
as they get older.
You know, especially if they grow up and walk in truth,
that's gonna be something that brings a lot of joy
to your heart.
But look at verse number four.
It says happy or I'm sorry as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so are children of the youth.
So the Bible kind of gives us a picture here of a mighty man.
You're thinking of a man that's going out to war and when you're going out
to war, do you want to have a little bit of ammunition or a lot?
You want to have a lot.
And so it's making this comparison here that having a lot of kids,
it's like a mighty man that has his quiver full of arrows.
It's a blessing.
It's something that's positive.
Verse five, it says happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.
They shall not be ashamed,
but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
You know, that's an important verse there
that it says happy is the man that has these things
because the world's constantly gonna wanna paint the picture
of a family that has lots of children
as never being happy.
right? They have no joy in their life. They have no rest. They're just super stressed out and
strung out and there's no blessing involved and there's nothing good about their lives.
But the Bible is saying here that you're actually going to be happy when you have your quiver full.
And it's interesting, like I used to be a part of the nursing home ministry at
Sher Foundation Baptist Church.
We have lots of people that do that here at this church. It's a great work.
It's a great way to learn preaching and get to do these things, minister to people.
But often when I would speak to people who are in the nursing home,
they would often talk about how they wish that they had more children because a
lot of the times, not every time,
but a lot of the times the reason people end up in that situation is either
because they didn't have kids. No one's left to take care of them.
or they had so few that they can't even financially do it, right?
No one's coming and visiting them. They're sad.
You know, at the end of people's lives,
they're thinking, I wish I would have had more kids, not I wish I would have had less.
And, you know, it's really sad and selfish when people make the conscious
purposeful decision to not have children.
You know, that's not a Christian attitude.
That's not something that we should be doing as Christians,
just deciding, well, we're just not gonna have kids
because we don't wanna deal with the struggle.
We don't wanna deal with the heartache.
It's like part of the whole reason of marriage
is that God is seeking a godly seed today.
He wants Christians to reproduce.
Let's look at that in Genesis chapter number one.
Genesis chapter number one.
And you know, it's really sad when false religions beat us out on this.
When false religions are having lots of children, having big families and Christians often aren't.
Genesis 1 verse 26.
The Bible says,
And God said,
Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness,
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle,
and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him,
male and female created he them.
And God blessed them,
and God said unto them,
Be fruitful,
and multiply,
and replenish the earth,
So here we have what I believe to be God's first commandment to man, to be fruitful and multiply.
You know, I've heard some people make a big deal about this saying that this isn't a commandment,
but this is an imperative statement in your Bible.
And you could, you know, people are like, oh, that's not the first commandment,
the first commandment was left there to be light.
Okay, the first commandment to man, how about that?
The first commandment to man here is to be fruitful and multiply and to replenish the earth.
God wants us to multiply. Go to, if you would, while I'm going to read some stuff for you
from an article here, but go to Psalm 128.
So, I looked up what the fertility rate is right now in 2025 and I found that in 2025
the fertility rate for women in the United States is 1.78.
So think about it, you got man, wife, that's two people.
And basically the average number of kids that a American woman is having in her life is less than two.
So that means that our population is replacing itself at a lower rate than exists right now.
You understand what I'm saying? We have a lower than two fertility rate,
which means that we as a nation are not even replacing our population.
Now, the population is growing every year, and that's because of this thing called the
Mexican border.
Okay, but it's not happening because of natural birds, because the fertility rate is literally
below replacement.
That is a problem for a nation.
You realize that our nation without all this craziness going on, like the people would
literally die off with a rate below two.
That's a serious problem that's not good.
Total fertility rate is the average number of births a woman would have over her lifetime
Based on current birth rates across all age groups
It's a synthetic measure meaning it doesn't track an actual group of women over time
But rather estimates this average by taking the sum of age specific birth rates
observed in a given year
So, in the United States, the total fertility rate is 1.787.
That means that on average, a woman would have 1.7 children if the birth rates from
that year persisted throughout her.
reproductive years, so that that is not good for our country to be having numbers this low,
and I'm sure that there's lots of causes to it. I'm not going to pretend to understand all the
causes. I'm sure some of its health, I'm sure some of its diet, I'm sure some of its exercise,
but you know what a lot of it is? Is people just deciding to not have kids?
people just deciding to not get married or people deciding to make sure that they
have lived their 20s out in full, have traveled the world, have gone to college,
have started their career, have saved up $200,000 and then they'll start trying
for kids. That's a bad idea too. That's not what God wants, okay? So let me read
this for you. The last time that the replacement rate was breaking even in
So, our fertility rate has been below 2 every single year since 2009.
The last time that the fertility rate was at 3 or higher was in 1964.
at 3.096. I mean, having three children is not that much.
Like that's not a big family.
That's never been a big family throughout history.
But America, for some reason,
the last time it was at that rate,
3.096 was 1964.
Here are some countries that are beating
the United States infertility rate right now.
New Zealand,
Sweden,
France,
Bahrain,
French Polynesia, Aruba, New Caledonia, who even knows what that is.
Antigua, Barbuda, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Seychelles, again, I don't even know what that is.
Panama, Oman, and Israel. Israel's beating us, folks. That is a shame.
that is just insane that there's all these other countries that are beating us
in fertility rate and part of it I just think that Americans need to renew their
mind with the word of God and look at families again as being a blessing look
at children again as being a blessing not something that you need to avoid not
something that you need to abort when you get pregnant not something that you
need to purposely prevent from having no you should realize that children are a
blessing
and we shouldn't sit here and teach the next generation of women to just put
themselves on birth control from age 14 to 35.
I mean, that's insane.
It's literally just destroying our country.
Psalm 128.
Look at Psalm 128 verse 1 it says blessed is everyone that fear the Lord that walketh in his ways
For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands
Happy shalt thou be and it shall be well with thee verse 3
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house thy children like all of plants
Round about thy table so when the Bible is talking about people that fear the Lord and it's kind of listing some blessings here
One of those is that your wife would be fruitful
and that your children would be around you
like all of plants.
The Bible is saying like when this happens
you should recognize that this is a blessing.
Not something that you should complain about or regret or discourage other people from having kids.
Like that's what a lot of older people are doing now.
They're discouraging the young generation from having kids.
They've got this boomer mentality of you got to make sure that you focus on your career first
and that you're financially independent first and you have to be able to afford to have kids.
No one can afford to have kids.
No matter what you have,
they'll just keep breaking it.
It's okay. It doesn't matter.
It's not about affording having kids.
It's about doing what God says,
being fruitful and multiplying
and actually trusting God to provide for you.
You know, not everything in life are you just going to have this clear trajectory where you could see how everything's going to work out.
Sometimes you just have to look at the Bible and just say, okay, God wants me to do this and I'm just ready to follow him and I'm just trusting him to take care of us.
And you know, when I first got married, I was not making that much money. It was difficult, right? We were in a one bedroom apartment. It was very hard.
We went to like the cheapest possible places ever, but here we are with four kids and we've never starved.
We've never been homeless.
You know what that is?
It's just God taking care of us.
God providing for us and yacht not to use finances
as an excuse to not have children.
Okay, you ought to trust the Lord
and realize that it is a blessing.
Go to Matthew chapter 18, Matthew 18.
But you know, the Bible says that I have no greater joy than to hear that my children
walk in truth.
That's kind of why I say that, yes, we should acknowledge and admit that children are also
a burden.
Like, I'm not going to sit here and pretend like that's not true.
But we should realize that while they're a burden, again, it's like an investment that
over time gets sweeter and sweeter, is more and more of a blessing.
You know, I really enjoy that some of my older kids are starting to understand sermons.
And the other day, you know, I asked Bethany what my sermon was about and she said the wrath of God and she was right.
You know, that was great. And, you know, Bethany called upon the name of the Lord a few weeks ago, I believe that she's saved.
I'm trying to teach her about baptism. You know, that makes me happy.
And yes, there's challenges. Yes, there's hard times.
Yes, there's times where you write a sermon about children being a blessing and they really want to test your doctrine on that for some reason.
It just happens that way sometimes. But you know what? It is a blessing.
Kids are blessing. You should cherish them. You should thank God for those gifts and not sit here and
Discourage other people from having kids. That is a wicked attitude
So when it comes to a biblical view on children number one children are blessing number two children are a great example of faith
children are a great example of
faith Matthew chapter 18 verse 1
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus saying,
Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
And Jesus called a little child unto him,
and set him in the midst of them,
and said, Verily, I say unto you,
accept ye be converted,
and become as little children,
ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
I mean, what a beautiful story there that
the question is asked, who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
And man's wisdom would obviously think of some person of great stature or wealth or some, you know, fantastic preacher or something like that.
But Jesus just brings this little boy.
And I often wonder, like, what happened to this boy later the Bible doesn't talk about.
But, like, this boy was brought to the Lord Jesus Christ and was pointed at as an example of faith.
And he's saying, in fact, if you want to see the Kingdom of Heaven yourself,
you're gonna have to be converted and be like a child.
And of course we know that the reason for that
is that salvation is a free gift, right?
It's by faith alone.
And children, they're 100% reliant upon their parents.
Their parents take care of everything for them,
give everything that they need.
You know, kids aren't sitting here thinking about,
all right, we got the car payment,
we got insurance, we've got the mortgage,
all right, we got this type of income coming in,
where are we gonna cut our spending?
They're just existing and just believing
that mom and dad are gonna take care of them
He's taken care of by their parents.
That's what salvation is, is us trusting that, hey, Jesus paid it all.
He's got all the work that He did.
We are getting to heaven simply by His grace, by trusting in Him, believing in Him.
That is salvation.
Look at verse 4.
It says,
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same as greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
See, children are a great example of faith because most children are humble.
Most children are not going to sit here and think that oh, you know, I've done so much good in my life
And I've built that you know this business and I've done such great works and I've repented of all my sins
You know children really haven't done anything in life yet
And so they're great candidates for salvation because all they have to do is trust and
Oftentimes people who don't get saved. It's because they refuse to humble themselves and realize that it's nothing about them
That takes them to heaven
You know, we ran out into a, we ran into a lady today out soul winning who her answer of what does it take to get to heaven?
She said you have to repent of all your sins. And what is she saying? She's saying I have to stop doing X, Y and Z.
I have to make sure I'm living a good life, that I'm following the commandments, that I'm doing what God wants me to do.
And what she's ultimately trusting in for her salvation is herself.
Now, thank God this woman, she was humble enough to listen to the full gospel by brother
Jeremiah.
He preached the whole gospel.
He got her to repent of that belief and trust in Jesus Christ.
You know, thank God that she had that humility, but you know, people who don't have humility
are not going to get saved.
You have to have enough humility to realize hey, I was wrong about whatever I was trusting in before and now
I'm turning away from that belief and turning to trusting in Jesus Christ. That is like being a child being humbled
Go to first Samuel chapter number three
1 Samuel chapter 3, but not just in regards to salvation.
Children are just a good example of faith in general.
And we don't want to write off children from serving God.
We don't want to act like serving God is for adults only,
that's soul winnings for adults only,
that paying attention in church is for adults only.
We want to realize like, hey, Jesus said
this is a good example of faith, a child,
and we should include them in the house of God,
include them in the work of God.
Look at 1 Samuel chapter 3 verse 8.
At this time Samuel is a little boy and it says,
and the Lord called Samuel again the third time.
And he rose and went to Eli and said,
here am I for thou didst call me.
And Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child.
So notice, God in this story is willing to communicate
and have fellowship with a young child.
So it's not like kids can't start developing
You know, they have to wait until their teenagers or something like that.
I mean, here's God calling Samuel and Samuel is a little boy.
So I want to, you know, impart to the kids here that you should start serving God as
young as possible.
You should start caring about the things of God
and desiring to seek God's face as young as you possibly can in your life.
Because I'm telling you, God actually wants to have a relationship
with all people, even children.
God's calling out to him here. Look what it says in verse 9.
Therefore, Eli said unto Samuel,
Go lie down, and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Lord, for thy servant, Heareth.
So Samuel went and lay down in his place, and the Lord came and stood and called as at other times. Samuel, Samuel!
Then Samuel answered, Speak, for thy servant, Heareth. Then Eli called Samuel and said, Samuel, my son, and he answered, Hear, my.
And he said, what is the thing that the Lord have said unto thee?
I pray thee hide it not from me.
God do so to thee and more also if thou hide anything from me of all the things that he
said unto thee.
And notice verse 18, and Samuel told him every wit and hid nothing from him.
So not only is God speaking to a young child, but the young child is also speaking God's
word to other people.
And you know, you should not just ride off children and act like they can't do spiritual
things.
Look, I have seen children get children saved.
I've seen children become soul winners.
I've known of young teenagers who have read the Bible through cover to cover over 10 times
by the time that they're pre-teens.
Look we should encourage that stuff and not act like, oh no big deal, you gotta wait until
you get older.
No, serve God now.
The Bible teaches that childhood and youth are vanity.
It's completely meaningless.
What actually matters is serving God.
And you know, I got saved pretty young.
I got saved at 16, but I wish I would have gotten saved
when I was six.
I wish I would have started soul winning
when I was a little kid.
And you know, I look at my children
and I just hope someday they understand
how spiritually spoiled they are.
That all of my kids go out soul winning every week from the age of like three and up
You know, and I think that's part of why
Children who grow up in church get saved at a young age is because they're just hearing the gospel over and over and over again
It's going into their heart. There's they're starting to soak these things in so, you know
Encourage your children to participate in spiritual things
Try to get your children as young of an age as possible to actually sit in church
and pay attention to the preaching of God's word.
Obviously there's a time in a child's life
where that's going to be hard for them
to sit through a whole service.
I get that.
And us as a church, we want to be gracious with families
and not sit here and be super harsh,
especially if you yourself don't have kids,
have some grace to those situations.
But at the same time, we shouldn't be just like
enabling our kids with a crutch for as long as possible.
It's like, bro, your six-year-old should be sitting
through a service by now.
Your six-year-old should not need to be looking at a tablet all service.
Your six-year-old should not be needing to go to the bathroom every two minutes.
You know, there needs to be some training that's done.
And really what you're doing is you're not really showing your kid
that spirituality is important when you take them to church
and it's just a tablet every service.
It's just a game or a toy every service.
You want to, yes, help young kids as they're developing,
but as soon as possible get them involved in the things of God
God can commune with them as children.
God wants to have a relationship with them as kids.
They can do spiritual things as kids.
Go to 1 Samuel 17.
1 Samuel 17.
You know children should, I'm sorry, children can do great feats for the Lord as well.
Look what it says in verse 51 of 1st Samuel 17.
Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine
and took his sword and drew it out of the sheaf thereof
and slew him and cut off his head therewith.
And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead,
they fled.
So here you got David who is described as a stripling
or stripling, I'm not sure how you pronounce that.
But he's a young child basically.
He's like a teenager.
And David is going out and doing the work that a lot of the men refuse to do because you remember in this story
Goliath, he goes and challenges Israel for like 40 days,
constantly challenging someone to fight him and Saul didn't take him up on it.
The mighty men didn't take him up on it.
No one in the army took him up on it.
But then all of a sudden here's this teenage boy, David,
he's willing to actually come in the name of the Lord and he goes and he takes his head off.
Look at verse number 18 or I'm sorry, verse 54.
It says.
And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem.
but he put his armor in his tent.
When Saul saw David go forth against Thlistine,
he said unto Abner, the captain of the host,
Abner, whose son is this?
Notice youth, right?
So he is a youth.
He is probably a teenager, and yet he's going out
and cutting off the head of Goliath.
So, you know, we should encourage children, teenagers,
to go out and learn to do spiritual acts
as soon as possible.
Teach them to go soul-winning, you know
They can get a lot of people saved as children as teenagers and let me tell you something
Teenagers and children have a special weapon. It's called being innocent and being cute
Okay, and when someone opens the door and there's a child that wants to preach them the Bible
Most people are their hearts gonna be a little stirred by that they're gonna be like, okay
You know let's let's hear this kid out and oftentimes a child having the boldness to do that can get lots of people saved
I knock on the door, they're like,
who's this ugly dude, get away from me.
Okay, you men probably the same thing.
But it's like a little child comes up
and is like, hey, if you were to die today
or you're 100% sure you're going to heaven,
a lot of times people's heart just melts
and they're just ready to hear that.
And so you know what, take advantage
of this time of your life
and start practicing those boldness muscles
so that that could stay with you your whole life.
so that you could be a soul winner and do great works for God your whole life.
But I'm telling you, don't let your childhood be a waste.
Don't let your youth be a waste. Start doing great works for God.
Go to 2 Timothy chapter 3.
Now, of course, we want to keep things proper and in order.
I'm not saying, hey, let's start ordaining kids as pastors.
Okay, we're not going to have kids preaching sermons.
Kids are not welcome to participate
in the men's preaching night.
Okay, it's the men's preaching night.
We want men to be taking care of those things,
but I do want to encourage kids to start doing spiritual things
as much as possible, right?
I mean, just because in Israel nation times,
you have some examples of child kings.
That doesn't mean like, hey, this is the.
things should strive for.
Let's start having kid pastors.
No, that's too far,
but we do want to encourage kids to do spiritual things.
Look what it says in 2nd Timothy,
chapter number three, verse 14.
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of
Knowing of whom thou hast learned them verse 15 and that from a child thou hast known
The holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ
Jesus hey don't underestimate the things that your kids can learn from the scriptures the Bible talking to Timothy here is
saying from a child you
New the holy scriptures, you know Timothy it wasn't just like on the surface
He actually understood some of the Bible
You know this is why we want even kids to do the Bible memorization because kids can know the Bible good of Matthew chapter number 18 Matthew
chapter number 18
You know, this is something that I'm a little concerned about because myself, I consider
myself a first generation Christian.
I went to church like a handful of times as a child.
My parents were not saved when I was a child.
I got saved.
I got my mom saved.
My dad got saved watching Pastor Jimenez later in life.
So I'm a first generation Christian and what I've noticed amongst other first generation
Christians is that they're often very zealous, very fired up for the things of God, kind
you know, had to build Christianity in a sense themselves, right?
They had to learn why you go to church. They had to learn why you go soul-winning.
They had to learn why you read the Bible. And it was never something that was forced on first
generation Christians. It's always been their own decision. And anyone in here else is a first
generation Christian? Okay, a couple people. Now here's the thing. Second, third, fourth generation
Christians, ideally that's what we want, right? Because we want people to get saved and get their
But sometimes there's a tendency in people that just grew up around these things to not
really realize the gravity and the impact of the things of God and to realize how important
they are and to take serving God for granted.
And often times I've seen second-generation Christians that are just lukewarm, they don't
care, and it's just because it seems like they never made Christianity their own.
Like they never internalized these things, and they as a child, maybe they went to church,
but it was just mom and dad dragging them to church.
They weren't in it in their heart.
And so I'm talking to you kids, you need to learn to have a relationship with God yourself.
You need to learn how to go soul winning and want to go soul winning and want to read the Bible and want to pay
Attention in church because you know what being zealous. It's not something that your parents can hand to you
I'm sure your parents want to hand that to you
I'm sure if we could all push a button
We'd want all of our kids to be as zealous as us more zealous than us
But I've just noticed that oftentimes it doesn't happen
Oftentimes the second generation is just kind of lukewarm and doesn't care about the things of God and you know
I don't know how to make you care. You have to have that desire on your own
But I'm just telling you you need to think about these things and pray and try to have a relationship with God yourself
number three
Children are to be protected.
A biblical view on children realize that children are to be protected.
Matthew 18, verse 5.
And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name, receive with me.
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned
in the depth of the sea.
For it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."
So Jesus, he recognizes children as being precious, innocent, not deserving of harm
or offense, and he does not want harm to come upon them.
He's saying woe unto anyone that would offend one of these children.
And because Jesus has that attitude, Jesus loves the little children like the song says,
And we need to protect children in general.
Now, this word that he uses, offend.
There's a couple different definitions for this word.
And listen to what I found on the dictionary here.
It says, to irritate, annoy, or anger,
cause resentful displeasure in,
to affect disagreeably,
to violate, or transgress,
to hurt,
or cause pain to, or to cause to fall into sinful ways.
You know, I would say woe unto the person that does any of those things to a child.
Hurting a child in any way, harming a child in any way,
offending them in a sexual way, causing them to fall into a sinful way.
You know, Jesus says woe unto the person that would do any of those things.
And we need to make sure that we are protecting children,
that we're having policies in place
that are conducive to kids being safe,
not conducive to an environment where predators can thrive.
And you know, unfortunately a lot of Baptist churches,
I'm sure a lot of them mean well,
but the environment in a lot of Baptist churches
is just like a breeding ground for predators to thrive.
And not just Baptist churches, the Catholic Church, a lot of churches, we need to make
sure that we're having an environment where children are protected.
And I'm not going to, we're going to talk about this soon, but of course we're family
integrated for one of those reasons.
But go to Deuteronomy chapter six, Deuteronomy chapter six.
What are some ways that people are harming kids today?
Wow, it comes through the public school.
Kids are definitely being harmed today in the public school and we need to be careful of these things.
You got ideas hurting them like the Big Bang theory and evolution, right?
Causing children to offend by turning them out of the way of Christianity and what the Bible teaches
and teaching kids all this nonsense that everything in the universe was created by nothing in a Big Bang.
And here's the thing, children are simple.
Children will believe anything they hear.
So when a child hears, oh, you know,
everything started from this tiny little dot
that exploded into everything, kids just accept that.
They hear it in elementary school and in middle school and in high school
and then they get to college and they're now that super prideful
Entitled atheist that would make fun of or mock the Bible mock Christians
And it's because they were offended as children with lies
Let me tell you lying to children is offending children
And that is what the public school is doing en masse today is lying to kids
Teaching them the critical race theory.
Taking little kids that are innocent,
that having done anything wrong,
and telling them,
you're bad because you were born white.
And you should feel guilty
about what maybe some of your ancestors did.
Maybe they weren't even your ancestors.
You don't even know these people teaching this idea,
or just saying like,
all white people are bad because their ancestors
were slaveholders in the South.
What if that's not even true?
Like, okay, my great-great-grandfather came over from Norway in the 1880s after the Civil War.
So what you gonna do with that? Where's my slave-owning ancestors? Oh, yeah, didn't happen.
But even if it did, even if I had slave-owning ancestors, you know what percentage of that is my fault?
0.00. Why would we sit here and make people feel bad for being a color that they were born that God created them to be?
It's like, I thought that we were done with the whole racist thing in the United States.
Like, I thought slavery was done.
Alright, we've had it back, black president.
But here we are in 2025 and public school is instructing children in the ideas of racism.
Telling you you're bad. You should feel bad because you were born white. That's a bunch of trash
And why do we even allow this stuff? I mean it just blows my mind like thankfully my kids are not in public school
I don't plan on ever putting them in public school. I believe in homeschool
But it's like if your kids are in the public school, why are you allowing this stuff?
Why are parents not just en masse going to these parent teacher council meetings and demanding that this crap ends?
Because it's wicked
It is evil to teach children these things.
Then you've got things even worse.
Gender dysphoria.
Now you've got little children that are foolish, that don't know anything, and if a girl likes
playing with army toys, or a boy likes playing with toys that are usually used for girls,
all of a sudden now you've got teachers telling the kids, oh you're probably the wrong gender.
You're probably you need to get a transition and you got places like the state of Washington where they passed laws where you are allowed as a child to get transitioned without the government notifying your parents.
You could run away from home, go to a clinic and the state of Washington will harbor you and it would it is not legal for them to tell on that kid to the parents.
They have to keep that little run away and it's just like kids are literally ruining their lives.
because a lot of these kids are being brainwashed from their youth.
With this communist crap, and I'm telling you, the public school today is offending children.
And you should, if at all costs, get your kids out of the public school.
It is a dangerous place, it is a harmful place, and let me tell you, even in a conservative
area.
Don't think that. Oh, it's okay. I'm in Oklahoma. Okay. I was educated in Idaho an extremely conservative place
And you know every single morning on the announcements
There was an LGBT club that was shoved in our face every day
And a bunch of faggots doing little dances and plays on the announcements every single day in Idaho
You know what? It's no different here. The public schools are trash in Oklahoma as well
And you should do everything you can to homeschool them. Why?
Deuteronomy 6 verse 6 says this
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart.
And notice this phrase, thou shalt teach them, diligently unto thy children, and shall
talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when
thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
God says it is your responsibility to teach your children.
Where did we get this idea?
When did this happen in our country?
Where we all just collectively decided,
oh, it's actually the government's job
to teach our children that's communism, folks.
That's ridiculous.
Kids do not belong to the government.
Kids do not belong to public schools.
God gave you those children.
And he expects you to raise them.
And look, I am as pro-education as it comes.
I love reading.
I love knowledge.
I want your kids to be as smart as possible and I would not be recommending homeschool
if I thought it would be damaging someone's education.
I don't believe in unschooling.
I believe in giving them the best education you possibly can, but let me tell you right
now that is not found in the public schools today.
You will not give your kids a good education in the public schools.
If they get out of the public school unscathed, it's in spite of it, not because of it.
and they probably have damage that you don't know about,
you should avoid it.
And let me tell you this,
private schools are not safe either.
And there's been some stuff recently in the news
that has blown my mind.
Let's see if I can find this article
if I brought it up here.
Yeah, so this happened literally super close to where I live.
This is terrifying.
Here's the article.
Former Yukon private school principal, arrested once for child pornography, is back in jail, facing more charges.
This article was posted April 5th, so yesterday.
Yukon, Oklahoma.
A former private school principal, arrested last month,
for allegedly having explicit photos of minors,
including one of his students, on his phone,
is back in jail again this week facing additional charges
and a much higher bond.
So last month, this guy was already arrested
for having pornographic pictures of one of his students
on his phone.
Now, I believe this is the covenant,
it's called like the Covenant School
or the Yukon Covenant School, isn't this a Christian school?
Does anyone know?
This is a Christian school, right?
So, he got off on bond last month, now he's back in jail with a higher bond, says investigators
say they've uncovered new evidence, leading them to arrest him on suspicion of clandestine
photography.
So, you know, taking pictures of kids without their knowledge, without knowing what's going
on, the principle of a Christian private school is doing this type of sick stuff.
been arrested. You know, a couple months ago there was a public school Yukon teacher that was arrested for inappropriate texting with a minor, some
sodomite. Now it's the principle of this Christian school. Canadian County Sheriff's Office deputies first arrested Kevin Cobbs on March 25th. I hope every inmate in prison knows his name.
How disgusting, what a reprobate.
You think your kids are safe.
You think, oh, it's great.
I'm going to send my kids off to a Christian school
because the public schools are bad.
Hey, I understand that mentality,
but that doesn't mean that the Christian schools are safe either.
This is terrifying that a principal would engage in that.
I mean, just think of how you would feel.
It's like you send your child to school
and you find out the principal's taking pictures of boys
inappropriately, clandestinely.
That's disgusting.
Then it says this.
As news 4 reported, at the time of his arrest,
Cobbs was working as a high school principal
and boys basketball coach at Southwest Covenant,
a private Christian school in Yukon.
You know, when we go Christmas caroling,
I believe that this is the church that we go
and meet up at right there or the school.
As investigators searched deeper onto his phone, they found it an additional folder with more explicit pictures of minors.
One of the minors was one of his own students at Southwest Covenant.
Deputies booked Cobbs into the Canadian County Jail later that day.
On March 25th, on possession of child pornography charges, Cobbs posted his $25,000 bond and left the jail last week.
Southwest Covenant fired cobs last week so you know what happens this guy he gets
fired he's probably gonna go to trial who knows what type of punishment he's
gonna get but you know we as a nation and as a state need to stop allowing this
stuff from happening and anyone caught on child pornography charges you know
taking pictures of kids child molestation any of that stuff offending
children you should be executed immediately
Being fired is not enough, this person can never be trusted around kids again.
It's not enough to have a sex offender registry so you can look at your phone and see all the disgusting pedophiles that live by you.
They need to be in the dirt. They need to be buried. We need to preach this stuff so that fags are scared again.
That they're going back in the closet again and realize that we see them for who they are.
that offends a child, let me help you with something.
They're faggots.
Oh, it's a straight man and he offended a little girl.
No, no, no, there's straight and there's crooked.
And anything outside of two consenting adults
of the opposite gender is crooked.
And if you're an adult and you lust after little girls,
you're faggot.
And if you're an adult and you lust after little boys
and take pictures of them, you're a faggot
and you should be shot in the head.
It's disgusting. We need to stop tolerating this in our society.
It should never even get to the point where we have to find out about a Christian principle
taking pictures of little boys. You know, this is absolutely intolerable in our nation.
It says this on Thursday, deputies arrested cops, again,
looking him into the Canadian County Jail on an additional charge of buying, procuring,
or possessing child pornography. So that's his extra charge.
procuring, or possessing child pornography, and a charge of using photographic, electronic,
or video equipment in a clandestine matter.
So there's your really safe Christian schools want to avoid going to the public school.
There's a really expensive, reputable school in a nice town, I mean, Yukon, Oklahoma is
a great town, seems real safe.
It's not safe enough. It's not safe enough to trust someone with your children.
Your children are too precious. They're too valuable. God loves them. God gave them to you.
You are the person that could protect them more than anyone else.
You are the person that's going to be willing to do anything to protect your child more than anyone else.
That is a responsibility that God gave to us.
Go to Proverbs chapter number 13. Proverbs chapter number 13.
Another way that children can be offended
that we need to be on the lookout for
is bad friends and bad relatives.
Proverbs 13, verse 20, the Bible says,
he that walketh with wise men shall be wise,
but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
You know, a lot of times kids end up going down the wrong path,
getting violated, going down a path of sin
because they were around wicked friends.
or wicked relatives and you know us as parents we ought to be able to
control the influences in our children's lives
to the best of our ability and don't have this mentality that it's like
well i have to give my kids to uncle so-and-so because he's family
you don't have to do that you don't have to give your kids
And you know what, even with family,
you should be very careful who you give your children to.
I'm not saying that you can't have relationships
in your life where you do trust people that much.
You know, I would trust my kids with my parents.
I would trust my kids with Jasmine's parents.
But you know what, I'm just not gonna drop my kids off
at the uncle's house or the cousin's house
or just some random person's house
that I don't know super, super well
because hey, things happen.
It only takes one image being shown to your child
to change them for the rest of their life.
It only takes one bad friend to get them to make a stupid decision and drink that booze
or take that drug to mess them up for the rest of their lives.
It only takes one whore.
To mess up your teenage son for the rest of his life only takes one whore monger to violate your precious daughter for the rest of
Her life, you know what you ought to make sure that bad friends and bad family are not being an influence on them
And obviously it goes without saying that if someone is a sodomite in your family
You need to cut that person off from your children period
I've heard of many preachers, many liberal preachers, saying, oh yeah, you know, involve
them, show them the love of Christ, but if they start kissing each other, then tell them
that's too far.
No, no, no.
If there's sodomites in your family, cut them off yesterday.
If there's sodomites in your family, I don't care if it's your dad, your mom, your brother,
do not let them around your children.
They are predators.
They are pedophiles.
They'll do it through their words, through their actions, or through physically God forbid,
but they will do it if they can.
Go to Matthew chapter number 19, Matthew chapter number 19.
And so, you know, that's Jesus' mentality towards children.
He loves kids.
He loves them.
They're precious.
He wants us to protect them.
That's why he says, hey, if someone offends a child, they should have a millstone tied
Jesus does not believe in a three strikes and you're out when it comes to child predators.
You do it once, you should be executed.
That's Jesus' view on the matter.
Number four, biblical views on children.
Children are to be welcomed in the house of God.
Matthew 19, verse 13,
then were there brought unto him little children,
that he should put his hands on them and pray,
and the disciples rebuked them.
But Jesus said, suffer little children
and forbid them not to come unto me,
for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
So Jesus wants the children to come unto him.
One of the reasons why we believe so strongly in the family integrated church model is because,
hey, the kids went up to Jesus, Jesus received them, he wanted them to be a part of his ministry,
to hear his preaching, to be around him. We want the same thing. We want kids to be in real church
and obviously we know that babies aren't going to understand, but you know what?
As a child, they're absorbing a lot.
They're learning what a real church looks like.
They're learning what real hymns sound like.
They're learning what real preaching sounds like.
And just that alone being instilled into their heart
at a young age is gonna stick with them
on top of them growing and maturing
and learning the word of God.
And the goal is that hopefully they won't grow up
and seek for Joel Osteen.
and Andy Stanley, and all these weird pastors that are out there, you know, I can't imagine
just like being raised in this type of church and then growing up and visiting one of these
liberal churches, it would be a shock to these kids.
To most of the kids that grow up in the new IFB, my prayer is that they're going to visit
maybe their friends liberal church when they're in college someday and realize, wow, that's
terrible, I'm staying in an independent fundamental Baptist church.
But you know what happens often in these other churches
is that there's all these kids programs
and church is kind of a joke for the kids.
It's a playtime, it's a babysitting time,
it's a watch movies.
I remember of the very few times I did visit church
as a child, I went to the kids church
and there's just like the whole wall
is just lined with X-boxes
and there's just like stations of kids playing X-boxes
and there's basketball and there's all the stuff going on
and that was church.
And is it any wonder where a child is being raised in that environment from being very
young to being 18 years old, now we're just expecting them to put on a suit and tie and
sit up in church and pay attention to the word of God and have the character to have
daily devotions, reading their Bible and praying and going soul winning.
It's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen and the old IFB and other churches are very misguided in trying to reach the youth.
What's the point of reaching all this youth if you don't win them to fundamentalism?
If you don't win them to keeping the torch when we actually pass it along some day,
we don't want to just reach children and then when they take over everything becomes a fun church.
Look at the state of churches in our countries.
You know, millennials are in the past right now.
Millennials have took over and a lot of churches are just a complete joke.
It's a complete fraud and it's because I think largely in part to the kid church movement.
We want kids in the real church service.
because they're gonna grow up, they're gonna like it,
they're gonna keep liking it when they grow up,
that's what we want for our kids.
Go to, if you would, Nehemiah, chapter number eight.
Now, of course, there's obviously challenges
with a family-integrated church.
There's gonna be times where the kids are crying,
where the kids are loud, and hey, that's fine.
I'll do my best to be loud and preach over it.
It doesn't bother me.
Obviously, if it gets extreme,
We have mother baby room.
We want you to be able to take the
kid out of the service.
We encourage that if it gets too bad.
But at the same time,
you know I expect everyone in here
to be mature and not freak out
when they hear baby crying.
You know this isn't some,
you know few people high steeple
Methodist church where you hear
a baby cry and everyone's like.
Ugh, what is that thing over there?
It's like, it's babies, man, it's all good, you know?
We're gonna deal with it, we want the kids here,
keep them safe, they're with their parents.
We want to encourage that.
Nehemiah chapter eight, verse two.
It says in Ezra, the priest brought the law before the congregation, both of men and women
and all that could hear with understanding upon the first day of the seventh month.
So if you notice, all the people are involved here, men, women and those that can understand
and you know what, kids could start understanding at a pretty young age.
Like I told you, my eldest is six years old and we ask her all the time, what was the
And I was preaching that one sermon, God's not playing games.
I said, what was the sermon about?
She said, the wrath of God, the anger of God.
I was like, that's right.
That's exactly what it was about.
Now, could she understand every doctrine?
Could she show you every verse?
No, but she's starting to understand some things.
And kids can start understanding at a young age,
but we need to actually give them the opportunity
to learn by them being in church.
We're not giving them opportunity
when all it is is a movie day.
a play day, a candy day, an ice cream day.
No, bring them to church, real church.
And it's so funny how so many people all the time ask,
oh, what's your kids program like?
And it's like the kids program is show up,
hear God's word being preached, sing hymns, pray, go home.
Just like the program is for everyone else.
That's the program.
The kids program is called the New Testament Local Church.
The kids program is called soul winning, it's called preaching, it's called fellowship.
The kids are actually involved here and you know what, I believe that we're going to raise
some spiritually mature children.
That's what we're aiming for, God willing with God's help, with God's grace, that's
the goal but I think that this is a better plan than the alternative.
Just keep them children for as long as possible, don't challenge them with hard preaching, feed
them a bunch of candy and junk and then just pray that somehow they're going to be super
mature.
Okay, this is the right thing to do. That's what Nehemiah did go to Nehemiah chapter number
12 Nehemiah 12 Ezra excuse me Ezra did that go to Nehemiah 12
EMI chapter number 12 verse 43 it says also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced
For God had made them rejoice with great joy the wives also noticed and the children rejoiced
So that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off. So this is the dedication of the wall
and everyone's rejoicing, the adults, the women,
even the children are rejoicing at the dedication of the wall.
You know what that tells me is that the children
to some extent understood what was happening
and they understood some of the significance at least
of this event and so they were rejoicing.
And I think another great thing about involving the kids
in the day-to-day activities of the church
is that when we do have big events,
when we have things like baptisms,
Ordinations, conferences, guest preachers, you know, Easter, all these big days, these
big days, these big events could really make a lasting impact on them.
People who grew up in church, you probably remember big days like that.
It probably has made a deep impression on you.
And why?
Well, because kids can understand more than we think.
And by joining them in these events, it could be a great spiritual blessing to them.
Go to Joshua number eight or Joshua chapter number eight
Joshua chapter number eight and look at verse number 34 when you get there
Noso says in afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according
to all that is written in the book of the law.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the congregation
of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers that were conversant among
them.
the children, everybody in the congregation was being exposed to both the blessings in God's Word
and the cursings. You know, I've heard this mentality from a guy named Stephen Crowder.
He said like, the book of Revelation is inappropriate to read to children.
Says what Bible verse? I mean, here they're getting the cursings. They're getting the blessings.
Again, this is mentality of just keeping kids, kids for forever. We want to show them the truth
And the Bible teaches that every word of God is pure.
There's nothing you could read to a child in the Bible that's going to defile them.
And if there's things in the Bible that kids can't understand, well, they'll understand
when they get older.
If I preach a sermon about due benevolence, kids don't know what that is, folks!
knowing, do benevolence, it's going all over their head.
And that's good, right?
But we're not gonna be ashamed to preach the word of God.
There's nothing rated R in the word of God.
There's nothing that we should shy away from
or not be able to speak about in their presence.
God presents everything in the Bible in a very pure way.
To where if we just stick to what the Bible says,
anyone who's too young to understand those things,
it's not gonna defile them.
It's not gonna hurt them in any way.
And when they get older, they'll start
to understand those things.
doesn't get real graphic, does it?
The Bible doesn't really get graphic
about anything in that nature, and that's good.
We wanna keep it that way, but we shouldn't sit here
and think like, oh, we gotta watch out
certain chapters of the Bible kids can't listen to.
No, we could all hear all of it.
It's all pure, it's all good.
Matthew chapter number 19.
But you know, we should also think about this.
I love this thing that Pastor Jimenez always says,
is that we're not raising children, we're raising adults.
And that's the mentality that we should have as a church is that, hey, our goal is to produce
God fearing, zealous, serious Christian adults.
So our mentality, our programs, the way of running things should be aimed towards that
goal.
Whereas again, I think that a lot of these kids programs it's thinking of children as children and the goal is just kind of to keep them children just to kind of keep them docile during the service, but we want them to grow to adults.
So we're going to keep them having the word of God.
Number five this evening, children should be reached with the gospel.
Matthew 19 verse 14.
But Jesus said suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Hey children are naturally receptive to the gospel. We should reach children with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
They are so easy to get saved. We should do that.
And here I think that this is the best strategy on how to reach kids is first, reach your kids.
reach your kids with the gospel and train them to become soul winners.
This is the best way to reach children. You know, every church kind of has different demographics,
but when I was attending Sure Foundation Baptist Church around 2017,
there was like an army of children soul winners and it was great because whenever we go out in public and
there's kids playing around at the park
it's a lot easier and it looks a lot better
to send a pack of kids to the kids
than like six foot eight pastor Thompson like,
hey kid, you were dying today.
It's like, that could be a little intimidating, right?
But when you got an army of kids,
it's great to send them.
And you know what?
We ought to have discretion as soul winners in dealing with children.
I want to get kids saved.
I'm four people preaching the gospel to kids, but the best way to preach to kids is when
their parents are there.
Okay?
If you knock a door and a little kid opens the door, like eight, nine, ten years old,
my first question to that kid is going to be, hey, are your parents home?
And if they say no, I'm going to leave.
That's what I'm gonna do because I'm gonna treat people the way that I want to be treated and I teach my kids not to answer the door
But if they did I would not be happy if an adult was speaking with my little child alone
It's not a good look. It's not a good idea
But here's the thing what's great is if the parents are home and that you're knocking the door
Hey, is mom or dad home?
Then you could start preaching the gospel to parents and if the parents let you you could then start preaching to the kids
Or if you're in a public place where adults are around
And especially if you could even ask the parents,
that's even better, but at least be in a public place
or something like that.
If you're gonna be preaching to kids,
you know, you need to be sensitive of how things look.
Avoid the appearance of evil.
We live in a twisted time where unfortunately
there's a bunch of sodomites and a bunch of predators.
And I do not recommend going to some dark apartment
of a dark corner of an apartment
and just having a conversation with a six year old.
I don't recommend that whatsoever.
I don't think it looks good.
And if I get a call about someone doing that,
I'm probably gonna be like,
hey, I'm sorry, I will ask that person to stop, okay?
Because I don't like that at all.
I wanna get kids saved, but here's the,
again, here's the best way to do it.
Let's reach our kids,
and let's teach our kids to preach the gospel.
or you go and talk to their parents and ask for permission or you go in a very
public place where there's tons of people and everything's above approach
and preach them the gospel there that's the best way to preach to kids. Don't
take kids off into some dark corner by yourself that's not appropriate.
Obviously you don't mean harm. Obviously you're never gonna do anything to kids
but just realize that we live in a crazy time and if I saw that if you saw that
about your kids how would you feel?
Now what does piss me off
when here we are out in the open
and I knock on some door
and Mom and Dad talk to me
and Mom and Dad doesn't want their kid
to hear the Bible being preached.
That does piss me off.
And there's nothing we can do about that unfortunately.
But you know, at least we did our job.
We showed up. We asked.
We're ready to preach to them.
That's what we should do.
Go to Psalm 78.
Psalm 78 verse 4 it says we will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation
to come the praises of the Lord.
and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done.
Verse five, for he established a testimony in Jacob
and appointed a law on Israel, which he commanded our fathers,
that they should make them known to their children.
Verse six, that the generation to come might know them,
even the children which should be born, who should arise,
notice and declare them to their children.
So the Bible here is kind of describing this generational handoff.
of preaching God's words, showing His wonderful works so that the next generation which should be
born are going to arise and they're going to declare it to their kids, right? And so we want
to keep passing these things off. And in our church, we have a lot of young kids. You know,
in the next five to 10 years, we're going to have a lot of kids coming to the age of being able to
be soul winners. And we should start thinking and investing and planning for that time right now.
You know, this is why I try to take my kids out soul winning as much as possible.
It's not because it's easy, because it's hard.
It's a burden.
Kids are kids, right?
So them just like standing by a door for 15 minutes doing nothing while you preach can
be difficult, but we want to train them so that when they are of that age where they're
getting saved, where they can learn to preach the gospel, we could use them as a tool to
and even other adults saved, we need to start thinking about those things now and taking it
seriously. You know, I would love to have, like Sure Foundation did, just an army of young kids
ready to preach the gospel. That is a great tool. And that makes me feel a lot more comfortable
than asking Brother Cameron to go preach to a six-year-old or asking me to preach to a six-year-old.
You know what I mean? Like all the parents in here know what I'm saying is right right now.
We don't want to be appearing to be weird with kids. It's not good.
We need to prepare for it.
So number one, this evening, children are a blessing.
Number two, children are a great example of faith.
Number three, children need to be protected.
Number four, children are to be welcomed at church.
Number five, children should be reached with the gospel.
Every once in a while, we need to make sure
that we're renewing our mind,
not just getting our philosophy about parenting,
child rearing, or just view on children from the world,
or from backslidden churches that don't use the Bible.
You know, everything tonight was right from the word of God.
We need to make sure that we have a biblical view on children and pray that they grow up
and become assets in the house of God.
Let's have a word of prayer.
Lord, we thank you for our church and we thank you for the blessing of children.
I pray that we would treasure the blessings that you've given us, that we would steward
them well, that we would do our responsibility of teaching them, training them, warning them
of the pitfalls of sin, keeping them safe where we can.
And we pray that you would show us lots of mercy and grace to make up for any of our
errors or mistakes as parents.
And I pray that the kids in here would grow up to love you, to want to serve you with
all of their heart, to become soul winners and to be assets in our church.
We love you and Jesus.
All right, at this time, we'll go ahead and sing one last song to conclude the service.
If you would take your hymnals and turn to hymn number six.
Beneath the cross of Jesus.
We'll go ahead and start there right on the first.
Beneath the cross of G.