["Pomp and Circumstance"]
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Good evening and welcome to Verity Baptist Church. Let's go ahead and find our seats this evening
Find a seat and find a hymnal close to you in terms of page number
449
So number 449
Dwelling in Beulah land that saw number 449 and let's go ahead and sing it out
on the first
Oh
The cloudless sky
Oh
For nine, let's sing it out on the second
The world
The castle
Oh
Me
Oh
On the last
Oh
I'm living
Yes
Man great team. Welcome to the Sunday evening service here at Verity Baptist Church
We'll have to see everyone here this evening bow our heads for a word of prayer
The heavenly Father Lord, we thank you for the opportunity to come to the Sunday evening service here at Verity Baptist Church Lord
We thank you for everything that you've done today
Pray that you bless the service bless the singing and the preaching will come Lord and we love you and Jesus and I pray
Amen
All right. Now it's time for favorites where if you're selected we will sing a stanza from the song that you pick
All right, go ahead Noah
Song number 405 on the second the banner of the cross
Five on the second
Oh
Sarah go ahead
121 on the third
Like a river glorious
Song number one
On the last
Oh
I
Brother Joe, what was it 409?
Oh
Matthew go ahead 30 on the last
Oh
Nothing but the blood some number 30 on the last
Oh
Yuri good
You have one but I saw number four saw number four
The way of the cross leads home
Oh
One more Madison go ahead saw number 81
So
Number 81 this will be the last song this evening. Let's sing it out on the first
Oh
See
Amen welcome back to the Sunday evening service here at ready Baptist Church
We're glad you're with us and I appreciate your faithfulness to the house of God
Unfortunately historically the mothers and Mother's Day Sunday night service and Father's Day Sunday night service tend to be lower services
but I appreciate you being here, of course and
praise the Lord for that if you'll take your bulletins, you'll see the
Well, you'll see the verse there Ephesians 6 for the Bible says and your father's provoked not your children to wrath
But bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and that's a good verse there
If you open up your bulletin
You'll see our service times Sunday morning service 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening service 6 p.m
And our Wednesday evening Bible study 7 p.m. And we encourage you to be back with us on Wednesday night for the Wednesday night Bible study
We have been going
Through the book of 2nd Corinthians for several months on Wednesday night verse by verse chapter by chapter. We're gonna finish that this
Wednesday night, so we're gonna be in the last chapter 2nd Corinthians
We encourage you to be here, of course for that and then we're gonna start a brand new book of the Bible
after that
So we'll be excited about that and then and then tonight. I'm also finishing the happily ever after
Series, so we're finishing two series and starting different things here in the future
If you look at the sowing time Saturday morning churchwide sowings our main sowing time at 10 a.m
And we have additional sowing times on Thursdays Fridays and Sundays at 2 p.m
If you're a soul winner, don't forget to add your salvations on the communication card so we can update the bulletin
Don't forget to turn in your maps if there's something
Wrong with the map let us know so that we can update that if you finish the map
You can just throw it away and we will count it as done
but if you did not finish it just clearly mark what was done what was not done and put it into the bin in the
foyer and we will
Recycle it through and make sure it gets done
And then if there's anything that just needs to be updated on the map or if there's a problem if you would just make a no
And put it in the bin then we can get that situated yesterday
Brother Nate and I and my wife and miss April were out
On a map and there was an area that showed no houses on the map just a field
But when we got there there was all these houses there, you know
Want to make make a note of that and put it back into the bin so that we can get that all updated as
They're building. They're building lots of houses around here so you could help us with that
We'd appreciate that if you're running late to the sorting time
Don't forget to call us or text us there at the number nine one six eight six eight nine zero eight zero
Let us know your plan on being there, but you're running late
That way we can have a partner in a map for you and all of those things
We of course are a family integrated church. Children and it's always welcome in the service
We don't separate children from their parents for any reason
We have we do have mother baby rooms and daddy rooms available for your convenience
If you have a child that's been distracting during the service or could use some privacy
I'm gonna encourage you to use those rooms as needed if you need to be baptized
Please let us know we'd love to baptize you and you can let us know on your communication card
Or you can meet with one of the staff guys
After the service right outside that door after the preaching while we're singing the last song
That would be great. If you look at the announcements and upcoming events, of course, we have the journey with Jesus series
That's a verse by verse study through the Gospel of Luke
We'll continue that next week happily ever after series as a series. We've been doing on the Christian home
We're gonna finish that tonight
So we will be done with that after tonight
Happy Father's Day, of course to all of the fathers in attendance. We had a great service this morning
We had 217 in church this morning and five baptisms and the kids choir did a good job
Everything was great. Praise the Lord for that young men's workshop is this Tuesday, June 21st at 10 a.m. And it is
Open for young men ages 8 to 17 years old and their dads are welcome to attend
That'll be this Tuesday at 10 a.m. If you've not yet signed up you can do that on your communication card
there is a baby shower for miss Rebecca Lunsford this Saturday, June 25th at 3 p.m. and
She is having a voice. She's registered at Amazon and Target
It is a potluck. So if you can bring it this to share, that'd be great
And if you'd like to attend you can sign up on your communication card ushers dinner and training
We have this open on Tuesday, June 28th at 7 p.m.
So if you've not yet signed up if you're an usher, we'd like you to be there
We'd like you to sign up
And we've got the red hot region conference coming up and we want to make sure that we've just got some training in
For the conference before it gets here
And if you maybe would like to consider being an usher then you can also come to this meeting as well
We do have some qualifications
Must be a man that attends all three services and it attends a soul winning time every week
But if you meet that then please let us know on your communication card
Then we've got the church picnic coming up Monday, July 4th at 3 p.m.
And the address is there for you in the park and if you are able to grill or if you can bring a grill
Please let us know
on your communication card and we've got sign-up sheets in the foyer for desserts and for
side dishes and we always have a great time at the
church picnic on the 4th of July we'll have fireworks at the end of the night like we did last year and
We're looking forward to all of that. Praise the Lord
And then we've got the red hot preaching conference coming up. Of course, July 14th through the 17th
We have people from all over the country and all over the world that come to this conference
And we want you to be excited about it be thinking about it
You should have one of these cards in your bulletin the volunteer opportunities and
There are some areas that you could help with the conference if you would consider
Volunteering you can write your name there and let us know the different areas
You can help us clean of course for the conference. We have services Thursday night Friday morning Friday night
We have Saturdays soul winning and and then we have services Sunday morning Sunday night. It's a big a
Big schedule there and every time that we use the auditorium and these facilities they need to be clean
So there's some opportunities there if you could help us with cleaning on Friday morning at 7 30 a.m
Or Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. Saturday morning at 7 30 a.m. Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. Sunday at 2 15
If that's something you could help us with and you can check that off
One thing that we could use volunteers for is to sit in the overflow section
And like I said last year at the opening night of the conference we have
564
people at that
opening evening service and
We can't fit 564 people in this auditorium
so the only way that works is that our church family sits in the overflow and
We hate we hate to ask you to sit in the overflow, but we are the ones that are hosting the conference
It's our church family want to be given to
Totality and what we don't want is for somebody to fly out from New York or to fly out from Texas or to fly out from
South Korea and they get here and they have to sit in the overflow. So we're asking if our church family would volunteer
We're not asking you to sit in the overflow the entire conference
But if you would pick one of these nights Thursday, July 14th at 6 p.m. Or Friday, July
15th at 6 p.m.
Pick one of those nights that you could sit in the overflow. We would appreciate that
Some of you say I don't even like those other preachers
So I'll just sit in the overflow both nights and that's fine, too
If that's how you feel about it, but if you could pick one of those nights, we would appreciate it. We also have the volunteers
We need some ladies to help on a Sunday night after the Sunday night service. We have the Baskin Robbins ice cream
So my wife would use some help with some ladies
To dish out the ice cream you can sign up for that as well
If you look at the back, of course
These are some of the areas where our normal church family serves orchestra safety team and ushers
But we've got multiple services. So we just want to know who's gonna be available
when so if you're an usher if you're in the safety team or if you're on the in the
orchestra if you could let us know when you're planning on being there and that way we can make sure that we are
Having everything we need so please take a moment to fill the card out look at it
And when we're done with the announcements when we're done singing, we'll receive the offering you can drop it in the offering plate
There was no choir practice or orchestra today due to Father's Day upcoming cleaning crew. You can check for your name there
Please don't forget to turn your cell phones off replace them on silent during the service
They're not distractions to anybody if you look at the back of the bulletin birthdays and anniversaries for the month of June
We had Ezekiel Nello Tesco's birthday is today June 19th
And then tomorrow June 20th is miss Ava Rodari's birthday and miss melody Gonzalez's birthday
I don't know how we ended up with two staff wives having the same birthday, but that's
Quite a coincidence there and then I'm brother Evan Smith has a birthday on June 24th
Praise report money matters all those things are there
For you to look at and I do want to say that we did miss you guys for the last nine days when we were
When we were gone, I will say this
that we went to
Church Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night
But we went to three different churches because we were traveling even in between the services
and we went to what we would call old IFB churches and
Honestly, you know we we picked based off the area where we were gonna be and brother Oliver helped us with this
we we picked the best church we could find in that area and
We looked at the website and and we kind of went with the people that seem a little more fundamental
When they're saying on the website, we're independent fundamental King James only Baptist, you know, we're kind of looking for that
so
We but but I will tell you
None of those churches were like this church
But but we but we were how I was happy with what we saw
In some of these churches it actually was a little bit of a relief
that there are some good to there are good churches out there and
Pastors preached good sermons and and they talked about soul winning and
You know one guy my kids were kind of laughing because they're like one guy even preached against the sodomites, you know
So not exactly like we do but you know, they they did so praise God for that
so I think it's good sometimes when you first of all
I always think it's good when you're on vacation to go to church and don't take a vacation from God
But it's good to go to other churches and it makes you be
Thankful for your church and we are thankful for you. We missed you and we are glad to be back
So I think that's it for all of the announcements. So let's go ahead and take our song books tonight
And we're gonna sing page number
396 as we prepare to receive the offering tonight
This is a song about soul winning solo time the harvest will be over sing it out on the first
For the forest
Oh
396 let's sing it out on the second
Oh
On the last
Oh
Amen good singing while the guys come up and help us with the offering at this time
And let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Heavenly father lord, we do. Thank you for allowing us together together tonight lord
We pray that you bless the offering
We pray that you bless the gift and the giver and we ask that you'd meet with us as we open up your board
And study the bible together in jesus name we pray. Amen
So
Let's open up to deuteronomy chapter number six
In deuteronomy six if you need a bow, just raise your hand and i'm not sure why bring your bible
in deuteronomy chapter number six
If you need to keep your hand up
Deuteronomy six we'll read the entire chapter as our custom
Deuteronomy chapter number six speaking of verse number one
Now these are the commandments the statutes and the judgments which the lord your god commanded to teach you
That you might do them in the land whether you go to possess it
That thou mightest fear the lord thy god
To keep all the statutes and his commandments which I command thee thou and thy son and thy son son
all the days of thy life
And that thy days may be prolonged
Here therefore o israel and observe to do it. They may be well with thee and they may increase mightily
The lord god of thy fathers have promised thee in the land that floweth with milk and honey
Here o israel the lord our god is one lord
And I shall love the lord thy god with all thine heart with all thy soul with all thy might
And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart
And I shall teach them diligently into thy children and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house
When thou walkest by the way
And when thou liest down and when thou risest up
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand and they shall be as front lines between thine eyes
And I shall write them upon the post of thine house and on thine gates and it shall be
When the lord of thy god shall have brought thee into the land which he swore to thy fathers to abraham to isaac and to jacob
To give thee that great and goodly cities which thou buildest not
And houses full of all good things which thou fillest not and wells digged which thou dig is not
Vineyards and olive trees which thou plant is not when thou shalt have eaten be full
Then beware lest thou forget the lord which brought thee forth out of the land of egypt from the house of bondage
Thou shall fear the lord of thy god and serve him and shall swear by his name
He shall not go after other gods of the gods of the people which are around about you
The lord of thy god is a jealous god among you
Let the anger of the lord of thy god be killed against thee and destroy thee from the face of the earth
He shall not tempt the lord of your god as he tempted him in mesa
He shall diligently keep the commandments of the lord of your god and his testimonies and his statutes which he hath commanded thee
And that shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the lord that they may be well with thee
And that thou and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the lord swears to thy fathers
To cast out all thine enemies before thee as the lord of the spoken
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come saying
What mean the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which the lord our god hath commanded you
Then thou shalt say unto thy son
We were pharaohs bondmen in egypt and the lord brought us out of egypt with a mighty hand
And the lord showed signs and wonders great and sore upon egypt upon pharaoh and upon all his household before our eyes
And he brought us out from thence that he might bring us in to give us the land which he swore to our fathers
And the lord commanded us to do all these statutes to fear the lord our god for our good always
To him that preserve us alive as it is this day
And it shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these commandments before the lord our god as he hath commanded us
Let's pray family father. Thank you for this evening god
I thank you for your word lord for our church and for everyone that's here god
As he please give us tender hearts of the message lord as he please be the pastor to strengthen him
And from your spirit, we love you in jude's name pray. Amen
Amen
All right. Well tonight we are concluding this series that we've been in called happily ever after
And this has been a little bit of a unique series in the same in the sense of the length of the series
Of course, we've been going through the series called happily ever after we've been learning about the christian home
and we've been
Learning about principles from the word of god for the christian home
And we kind of divided the series into two sections one section dealt with marriage and then another section
uh
Small section dealt with finances and then the last final section dealt with with uh children and this is the 18th sermon
Um in this series, uh, i've preached
It's taken us about 14 weeks to get through this series and like I said, that's kind of unique for us
Usually when I preach a sermon series
When I preach through a book of the bible
We just take as long as it takes to get through it when I preach a sermon series
Generally, I will preach about six weeks
This has been 18 weeks
And the reason for that is because this sermon series is going to really be the foundation for all of the future
Pre-marital counseling for all of the future people that get married, uh in in in this church
So I wanted to be super thorough. So i've uh over the last 18 sermons i've given you everything that I know
About marriage and the family and and all of that. I hope it's been a help to you
I I know as i've as i've traveled the country and i've talked to people
This is the series that people keep bringing up to me this happily ever after series. And if you remember we started
Uh 18 sermons ago with a sermon called the institution of marriage and then I did a sermon called
Are you ready for marriage that was geared towards the singles and I did a part one and part two
I did a sermon called leadership and submission in marriage. That was part one and part two
I did a sermon called love and reverence in marriage
Uh, then I did a sermon called what the bible teaches about divorce and remarriage
I did a sermon called conflict resolution in marriage part one and two I did a sermon called boundaries to protect your marriage
I did a sermon called money and marriage. I did a sermon called the single income family and then on mother's day
We transitioned to focusing on the kids. I preached a sermon on mother's day called what every mother must do
Then I did a sermon called what the bible teaches about having children
I did another sermon called what every parent must do and then I did a sermon called being part of a family integrated church
And then of course this morning I preached a sermon called what every father must do and tonight we are going to end
this series with a very specific sermon a very
Important sermon in my opinion, but a very specific sermon and it is entitled biblical reasons to homeschool
biblical reasons to homeschool
And let me just start off by saying this. I realize that not everybody
Did homeschooling to when they were raising their children for those of you that have raised your children and
I also realized that not everybody is able to do homeschooling
And this sermon is not meant to be an indictment
On those of you who did not homeschool your children or who are not able to homeschool your children
There are situations where maybe it's not possible to homeschool your children
We've had ladies in our church that were
Single mothers and they had to go to work and they were not able to homeschool their children and in those situations
We obviously want to come alongside those ladies and be a blessing and help them in any way that we can
There's a lady in our church right now who would love to homeschool her children
Her husband does not go to church and he will not allow her
to and
What she does is she volunteers at the school that her kids are in and she's the teacher's aide
In the classroom where her daughter is and she literally spends all day with her daughter in school. And so I I understand that there are not
There are sometimes not the ability to homeschool and we get that and i'm not preaching this to attack anybody in that
situation I will say this that I believe if you are able to
Homeschooling is the best option for educating
For an education of your children and what this sermon really is is an explanation
of our biblical position at verity baptist church on education
And on homeschooling like I said, not everybody in our church homeschools and when they don't or they're not able to
We don't look down on them. They are not second-class citizens. We love them and we love all of your children
Uh in in in whatever form of education you have them in but I will say this our church is primarily a homeschooling
Church we have a homeschool group in our church with I don't know 70 or 80 kids in it
and uh, I would say the the vast majority of
families in our church homeschool and
Much of that reason is for the reasons i'm going to explain tonight. So i'd like to give you
these thoughts biblical reasons to homeschool i'd like to give you three reasons why
We believe the bible teaches that you should homeschool your children if you're able to homeschool your children if you have that ability
To be able to homeschool your kids now
You're there in deuteronomy chapter number six and i'd like you to if you're able to if you're able to take notes
I'd like you to maybe write on on the back of your course of the week
There's a place for you to write down some notes and i'd like you to maybe write some of these things down
In deuteronomy chapter six and verse five. The bible says this and thou I want you to notice that this is god speaking
to the children of israel
He says thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might
And these words which I command thee this day. You say what words is he referring to?
He's referring to the commandments of god and specifically the words
To love the lord thy god with all thine heart with all thy soul with all thy might
He says in these words, which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart
I would like you to notice verse number seven. The bible says and thou shalt teach them
And thou shalt teach them diligently
Unto thy children the bible says and thou shalt teach them
Diligently unto thy children if you don't mind writing in your bible or underlining in your bible
I'd like you to underline that little phrase found there in verse number seven thou shalt teach them
You say what is the biblical reasons for homeschooling the reason that you promote homeschooling at verity baptist church number one
The biblical reason for homeschooling is to educate your children
the bible teaches that parents
Are the ones given the responsibility of educating their children of educating their kids
Here we find an example in deuteronomy 6 7 when the bible says thou shalt teach them
Diligently unto thy children notice he goes on to say and shall talk of them
When thou sit is in thine house and when thou walk is by the way and when thou lies down and when thou
Rises up the bible says thou shalt teach them and I realize that when you preach this and it's becoming less
and less of this as time progresses, but
When you talk about education, sometimes these things seem very foreign to people
And because of covid and and all sorts of different things, maybe that's changing a little bit
But sometimes you tell people about homeschooling and they they act like that
that's crazy and the reason for that is because we've all lived in a country or in a society in a world culture where
School systems is all we've ever known this concept of sending your children to school
So to not do that and to keep your children at home and educate them at home seems foreign
To most people but I would just remind you that the school system is a relatively
new system in comparison to all of world history
And when god put adam and eve in a garden and he gave him children there was no
Garden of eden elementary school for them to send their children to there there was no
Schooling system when god is speaking to the children of israel
There's no wilderness junior high school for them to send their kids to
And throughout human history, it's been understood that the responsibility of educating children
falls on the parents parents are the ones given the responsibility of educating their children and god says hey
Thou shalt teach them who's going to teach them not a professional educator at a public school system
But he says thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house
When thou walkest by the way when thou liest down and when thou rises up and i'd like you to keep your place there
In deuteronomy if you would that's our uh, a text that we're going to be looking at a lot at tonight
So keep your finger there, but go with me if you would to the book of proverbs proverbs chapter 22
If you open up your bible just right in the center
Right, uh in the center, you'll more than likely fall in the book of songs right after songs
You have the book of proverbs proverbs chapter 22
I'm, not sure if maybe one of the us or somebody could help me out if we just put the ac down just a little
Bit just a little bit. I realize I keep you guys, uh cold sometimes and I hope that I don't keep you too cold
But i'd rather you be cold and awake then warm and and a little too comfortable proverbs 22
Look down at verse number six
When you ask the bible the question whose responsibility is it to train and educate children
The bible is clear that it's your job mom
It's your job that thou shalt teach them proverbs 22 verse 6. You know these verses
Well, the bible says train up a child in the way he should go
And when he is old he will not depart from it here. This is a verse written to parents
It is the parents job to train up a child
We we saw this concept this morning and the idea of fathers instructing their children
But I want you to notice that this is a concept that's found in scripture both for father and mother go to proverbs chapter one
If you would we'll just run some verses real quickly proverbs chapter one
Look at verse eight proverbs chapter one and verse eight. The bible says my son
Notice these words hear the instruction of thy father
So whose job is it to instruct a father is supposed to be giving instruction hear the instruction of thy father
Notice and forsake not the law of thy mother
So both father and mother are to be instructing are to be commanding are to be giving law forsake not the uh
Hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother go to proverbs chapter two
Look at verse one proverbs 2 1 my son if thou will receive my words and hide my
Commandments with thee notice we are supposed to give our children words and commandments go to proverbs chapter 3
Look at verse 1 my son forget not my law
But let thine heart keep my commandments go to proverbs chapter 4. Look at verse 20 my son
attend to my words incline thine ear unto my
Sayings notice proverbs chapter 5 and verse 1 my son attend unto my wisdom
Embow thine ear to my
Understanding go to proverbs chapter 6 look at verse 20 my son keep thy father's commandments
And forsake not the law of thy mother proverbs chapter 7 in verse 1
The bible says my son keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee go to proverbs 31 look at verse 1
Proverbs 31 in verse 1 and I just want you to notice that as you run these verses and we're just looking at them quickly
Notice the bible keeps bringing up a father speaking to his son saying forget not my law keep my commandments attend to my words
Hear my sayings attend unto my wisdom hear my understanding
He he says keep thy father's commandments for forsake not the law of thy mother and I just want you to notice
You don't find a verse that says
uh forsake not the commandments of the teacher
forsake not the commandments of the educator
I mean notice proverbs 31 and verse 1 the words of king lemio the prophecy
That his third grade teacher taught him. Is that what it says?
The prophecy that his mother taught him
See the bible is clear that it is parents who are given the responsibility
of educating their children
Parents are to train up children
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old
He will not depart from it now. Keep your place right there in proverbs
We're going to come back to it, but go back to deuteronomy chapter 6 if you would deuteronomy chapter 6
You say why what are the biblical reasons for homeschooling?
Well number one you should homeschool to educate your children
I mean that should be obvious the reason that we have our children in any sort of program in order to educate
is so that they can uh be
Intelligent and have the knowledge that they need to have
uh to live and to be able to be the adults that can provide for themselves and be
Productive members of society parents are the ones that are given the responsibility of educating their children
But let me just say this as well
If your goal is to educate your children if your goal is to make sure your children are prepared and equipped
For life, which that should definitely be a goal when it comes to educating kids
Then realize that it is the responsibility of parents
God has given that responsibility to a mother and to a father to educate their children
But also realize this that the public school system is a failure
As an institution of education
It is a complete failure
And you say well, you know, how can how can you say that and how can you say that so?
Authoritatively well, uh, it doesn't take much to just look at it
And and realize that but let's just say this biblically from the bible the foundation of education is a fear of god
A foundation of education is the fear of the lord
The bible says see in deuteronomy chapter 6 and verse 5 when he in verse 7
He says thou shall teach them diligently unto thy children
But before we even get there in verse 5 he says and thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thine heart
He says look love the lord thy god with all thine heart with all thy soul with all thy might and then he says
And teach them diligently unto thy children. You say why does he connect those thoughts? Here's why because the foundation