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wonderful seeing lesser of our service with the word of prayer. Dear God,
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for God for just allowing us to be in
your house this morning with God and we thank you so much for all those souls
that are here with God today.
And we do pray that you please just bless
every aspect of the service.
We do pray that you please just bless the singing
unto you, that it would be pleasing to your ears.
And most of all, the preaching of your word
that you would please just bless that.
Please be with our pastor,
fill him with your Holy Spirit,
with God, guide him through the scriptures,
and help us, we've got to be attentive
to the congregation of God,
to have open ears and open hearts.
We've got to receive your word with gladness now.
We pray now in these scenes.
In Jesus' name, amen.
You may be seated, song number 36, rise to rose.
Song number 36.
We'll see it on that first verse.
That's my sin
Great singing, welcome to First Works Baptist Church.
Just a few announcements here before we sing our next song,
which will be 246 if you want to get that ready.
Redeem song number 246.
If you did not get a bulletin, go ahead and raise your hand.
One of the ushers can get one for you.
Some important information on there.
Of course, we do welcome you to come back
to our Sunday evening service at 5 p.m.
and our Thursday night Bible study at seven o'clock.
We are currently going through the book of John.
on Thursday evening, so we'll be in chapter 10. Hope to see you then. We are a family integrated
church. If you haven't noticed already, the infants and children stay with their parents in the service.
But for your convenience, we do have mother baby rooms
located throughout the building.
And so if your child needs some diversion,
start throwing a fig, crying, get a little out of hand,
you can ask one of the ushers
where these rooms are located.
And you can go in there, there's speaker screens,
changing tables available there,
and you can come back in at your discretion.
You see the soul winning times
and teams listed there in the middle,
the list of expecting mothers,
and then the stats for salvations and baptisms
for the month of August.
and we are on our way to our 2,000 salvations
by the end of the year goal.
So we're excited about that.
This coming month in October,
we have a couple of mission strips coming up.
We have a cruise mission strip coming up,
Bahamas mission strip coming up,
and then another TJ mission strip.
So we're definitely gonna reach that goal sooner than later.
Being prayer over that.
On the right hand side is the upcoming church events.
One thing that's not on here that I do wanna mention
is today we're having our Spanish service.
at 1 p.m. I want to put out some more Spanish content out there and I do speak Spanish I know
you didn't know that you know but I could also preach in Spanish as well and so we'll see how
that goes I know it's shocking right but that'll be at 1 p.m. we welcome anybody to come to that
And so we're going to end up closing the back part right here in the auditorium, so most people are going to be sitting in these areas here.
And after the service, we are going to have some pollo loco, okay?
I'm not trying to be racist or anything like that. It just happens to be on the menu, amen.
But that'll be after the Spanish service.
And so we welcome you to come to that. We'll be singing Spanish hymns.
The preaching, of course, is in Spanish. It's going to be great. We're excited.
building at 10 a.m. Ladies, if you'd like to participate in that, you can see Ms.
Janelle Gonzalez. She runs that up and so keep that in mind. Homeschool field
trip to Legoland. It's coming up on Tuesday, October 14th. The expenses are
paid for. It's free. Of course, all of the events at our church are free and so
keep that in mind. The details for the field trip will be in the front there at
the guest center. So you can check that out on your way out. And then we have Ms.
coming up on Sunday, October 26th after the AM service.
And then we have Big Day also coming up in November,
which is our friend day.
And we wanna encourage you to invite your family,
friends, coworkers on that day.
We wanna break some record attendances there.
We're excited about that.
Please be in prayer that we get a lot of salvations,
a lot of baptisms on that day.
And so we're excited about that.
Please make sure you silence your phones during the preaching
so as to not be a distraction during the service.
That is it for our announcement.
redeemed. So number 246 redeemed. So number 246.
It's on number 246, we'll see it on that first verse.
Redeemed how I love to proclaim it,
redeemed by the blood of the Lamb,
redeemed through His infinite mercy,
His child and forever I am.
Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
Redeemed, his child and forever I am.
Redeemed and so happy in Jesus, no language my rapture can tell.
I know that the light of his presence with me does continually dwell.
His child and forever I am.
I think of my blessed redeemer.
I think of him all the day long.
I sing for I cannot be silent.
His love is the theme of my song.
Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed by the blood of.
His child and forever I am, I know I shall see in his beauty
The king in whose eye delight, Who lovingly guarded my footsteps
And giveth me song in the night, Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed by the
This child and forever I am.
Amen, wonderful singing at this time.
Our ushers will be receiving the offering
and please tune your Bibles to Genesis chapter one.
anywhere in Genesis chapter number one. Genesis chapter one. The Bible reads. In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form
and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. In the spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters and God said let there be light and there was light.
God saw the light that it was good and God divided the light from the darkness and God called the light day and the darkness
He called night and evening in the morning with the first day
And God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters
And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
Which were above the firmament and it was so and God called the firmament heaven and the evening in the morning with a second day
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let
the dry land appear.
And it was so.
And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters, called
he seas.
And God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth.
And it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree
yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind.
the evening in the morning with a third day. And God said let there be lights in
the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be
for signs and for seasons and for days and years and let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth and it was so. And God
made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to
rule the night. He made the stars also and God set them in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night
and to divide the light from the darkness and God saw that it was good.
God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and foul
that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought
forth abundantly after their kind, and every wing it foul after his kind, and God saw that
it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters and the seas,
and let foul multiply on the earth.
And the evening in the morning with a fifth day.
God said let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind
And it was so and God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth
After his kind and God saw that it was good and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness
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, and the image of God created him, male and female
created him.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the
earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over every living thing that move upon the earth.
God said behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which upon the face of all the earth and every tree in the
Witch is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you
It shall be for meat and every beast of the earth and every fowl of the air and everything that creepeth upon the earth
We're in there as life. I've given every green herb for meat and it was so
And God saw everything that he made and behold it was very good and the evening in the morning with the sixth day
Let's pray. Dear Lord God, thank you for all you bless us with and we ask again that you would
Please be with our pastor now strengthen him and fill him with your Holy Spirit
And yes that you would bless the message that he's prepared and Jesus name we pray amen
Amen
Okay, we're in Genesis chapter 1 this morning.
Look down at your Bibles at verse 27.
It says, 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
and subdue it.
And have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the fowl of the air
and over every living.
thing that moveth upon the earth.
And the time I started this morning is make more babies.
Make more babies.
As a pastor, I'm gonna come up and tell you as a church,
We need to make more babies.
Yes, you heard right.
Why?
Because the command here in Genesis chapter one
is to be fruitful and to multiply
and to replenish the earth.
And I'm gonna give you a couple statistics this morning
as to why this is important today in 2025.
Let me start off by saying that society in general
are against either having children,
having children at an early age
or just having too many children.
So, a lot of people fall within these three categories, right?
It's just like, oh man, you know, you're having kids,
I'm just trying to like not have kids and have fun
and live my life.
Or it's just like, yeah, I want to have kids,
but I want to have kids later on in life.
I want to enjoy what I'm doing.
And when I have time, when I'm ready to settle down,
you know, I'll start having kids.
Or people are for having kids,
they're for having children, just not too many though.
You know we currently have six children and I'm trying to catch up to some of you guys out there
You know, but I'm we have six children and you know what when we go out in public people are just we're people just staring at us
Oh, there's just like six
Six and we're thinking our minds like oh you don't even know we're trying to have more though
like this is not enough okay but this is the attitude that people have they
often look at having children as a scourge as a curse and one of the reasons
for that is because of the fact that they despise having children
society has been groomed into not liking children
hating children, a nation that despises children.
The Bible says, you don't have to turn there.
Luke 23 verse 27 says,
and there followed him a great company of people
and of women, which also be welled and lamented him.
But Jesus turned to them and said,
daughters of Jerusalem, not for me,
but weep for yourselves and for your children.
For behold, the days are coming in which they shall say,
Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bear,
and the paps which never gave suck.
And quite frankly, we see this a lot on social media,
where you have women in their late 30s, early 40s,
rejoicing over the fact that they don't have children,
boasting over the fact that they don't have children.
encouraging others not to have children.
What are they saying?
They're saying, blessed are the barren
and the wombs that never bear,
the paps which never gave suck.
And let me just say this,
that is an evil and wicked attitude to have.
This is the first commandment that God gave
in Genesis chapter one.
And I'm gonna explain some more of this this morning.
Now, first and foremost, let me start off by saying,
number one,
When it comes to making more babies,
we should make more babies because it prevents a society's decline.
We should make more babies because it prevents a society's decline.
Let me say this, you should not be offended at me saying make more babies.
This is not just a Christian principle.
This is humanity's principle.
In order for the continuity of mankind to continue to go forward, we need to make more
babies.
God created us to make children, to make babies.
That's exactly what God's will is.
So don't be offended by this.
And quite frankly, if you are offended, I'm going to preach in any ways, okay?
And I'm going to look you straight in the eyes as I do so.
is the fact that California's birth rates
have been declining over the last decade or so.
Substantially, actually.
And in fact, they are at a record new low in California,
which is very sad.
And there's a lot of things that contribute to this slowdown in the population growth
in California.
Back in 1992, there was approximately 600,000 births in California, but as of 2021, that
dropped to approximately 400,000 births in California.
The fertility rate also, of course, has been in decline significantly.
By 2020, it had fallen to about 1.52, which is well below the replacement level.
And so, you know, a lot of Republicans and conservatives, they're like, oh, I'm against
immigration, brother.
Okay, then start making babies.
Because the only solution to you know if you really want to get rid of all the
Immigrants and the illegals well then you're gonna have to do something about it start making babies yourself
So either put up or shut up. Okay, you know, you're like, oh man, okay
Then what's the solution to for the replacement right here in California if you want to get all these immigrants out?
Because immigration is the only thing that's keeping it going unfortunately, okay?
And so you're just like, raw, raw, you know, ice,
I wanna work for ice, I wanna get all these immigrants out.
Okay, but are you getting married?
Are you having children?
Are you part of the solution?
Not a part of the problem?
Cause you know, you seem to be a part of the problem
if you're asking people to leave,
but you're not doing anything
about the population here in California.
Oh, it got real quiet there, huh?
Yeah, before you turn in your ICE application,
you might wanna think about that.
You might wanna get a marriage license
before you turn in your ICE application.
So it's very important here. You know, I thought this was a sunny morning sermon it is
The birth rate per thousand women
Ages 15 to 44 in 2022 was 52.8, and of course that has dropped substantially as well.
Let me give you some more statistics here.
Adolescent birth rate has dropped as well, and when I refer to adolescents referring
to ages 15 to 19, the rate dropped from 31.6 live births per thousand in 2010 to about
I'm sorry to about 10.1 per thousand by 2020 so it's about a 68% decline now
obviously to a certain degree that's good because that means that a lot of
younger people ages 15 to 19 aren't fornicating right which is a good thing
but unfortunately these same teenagers and you know transmitting into the
second bracket they don't get married
They wait until later and so they also end up becoming a part of the problem of the decline in birth rates as well
Okay, now, what's the reason why there's a decline in birth rates in, California?
Well, obviously as I mentioned there's a delay in childbearing
You know people are postponing having children because of their career because of housing because of costs
And they're just like well, you know, I kind of want to wait. I want to travel a little more
I want to do this that and the other and so they wait till later on which is perfectly fine to a certain degree
But the point is is that if you start having children later
You might have less children later right and so delays in childbearing
Decades long trends of fertility decline also plays a factor in that.
In other words, people practicing birth control, which I'll get to in just a bit, obviously
can destroy a woman's body.
And so when it destroys a woman's body and they come to their senses wanting to have children
What ends up happening is that they destroy their body. They can't have children or it's delayed longer
And so decades long of fertility decline because of birth control, etc
I mentioned this by high cost of living housing child care things of that nature play a role in the birth
decline in California and so the point that I'm making here is that you know
I'm all let me just say this in the United States in general though the birth
rate has gone up a little bit okay now believe it or not it's like though the
one that's the state that's declining the most is not California believe it or
not it's Utah which is kind of crazy if you think about it because Utah is like
Mormon country right and there but the reason but the thing is like they're
Cause it's just like maybe like 20 years ago,
they were having like 15 kids or 12 kids.
Now they're having like eight or something, right?
And so they obviously have the highest one.
But in general, over the last, since 2023,
there's been a 10% increase in childbirths, okay?
So it's gone up 10%.
But unfortunately that's not enough for the replacement.
birth rates here in the United States of America now if we wanted to meet that
that that number it would have to remain that 10% increase for the next 10
years or so okay now in every society there's always an ebb and flow of birth
rates and such because of cultural shifts maybe because of housing and cost of
living so on and so forth but let me just say this is that it should never
change for the Christian
Obviously, people out there, if they don't have the Bible, they don't have God,
they're not grounded in biblical principles, then of course, you know,
they're going to allow themselves to be persuaded by the culture, persuaded by society.
They have an ebb and flow of what they believe, but it should not be so with God's people.
You know, our principles are timeless.
We should hold to what the Bible actually says about this.
And what does the Bible say?
Well, the Bible clearly tells us be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
Now, people often think, yeah, but that's like a Christian view, right?
No, actually, this command was given to humanity.
Now, obviously, we could adopt it as Christian values,
but in general, any society will tell you
that you've got to have babies in order for a society to survive.
OK?
And so it tells us there in Genesis 1, 28,
be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
It also says in Genesis 9, 1,
and God blessed no one his sons and said unto them,
be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
Verse seven, verse tells us,
and you be fruitful and multiply,
bring forth abundantly in the earth
and multiply therein.
Now obviously for Noah, that was really important, right?
He just got off the ark, the whole world is destroyed and God just kind of lays that
responsibility on him like, hey, I need you to kind of repopulate the entire world and
so obviously he blesses the womb of his wife, he blesses the womb of his son's wives and
they're able to replenish the earth thereafter.
Being fruitful and multiplying and replenishing the earth
requires generations on our part.
What do I mean by that?
Well, we as individuals, as couples, we can't multiply.
That's impossible for us to multiply.
So what do you mean by that?
Well, all we can do is add to the population,
which is exactly what being fruitful means.
So when the Bible commands us and says,
be fruitful and multiply, that being fruitful means
that husbands and wives need to just have children
as much as they possibly can.
Without stopping,
impeding it in any way, hindering it in any way,
we need to allow the natural course of things
to take place within a marriage to just have children.
That's what it means to be fruitful.
But let's just be honest.
If a couple is fruitful,
there's only so many kids they can have, right?
I mean, think about this.
Myself, my wife and I, we have six children.
And Lord willing, we'll have more.
She comes from a family of eight, okay, and obviously there's like an anomaly out there like I remember years ago
we went to Mexico and
You know we're out doing some soul winning in Mexico and we met a guy with like 20 kids
Okay, and he was just like yeah, I got 20
You know it's just kind of like a low number for him or something and like 20 kids good night
That talk about a fruitful womb now. That's not everyone right that's only in Mexico, you know, maybe some places in America
But that man was fruitful his wife was fruitful, and it was just one wife by the way just just to clarify that
Yes, one wife one womb 20 children, but that's not very common. Okay
My wife and I we have six, but let's just say for example
The Lord blesses us with like nine children, which hopefully he does. I would love to have nine children
I'd like to have more than that
but you know just you know women stop giving birth stop being fruitful their
wounds stop being fruitful around the age of 40 or so right so let's just say my
wife and I kept having children until my wife reached that age it would be
approximately nine children now that's not multiplication right
Nine children is not a multiplicity of children. It's just an addition of children. It's just nine kids
It's a lot of kids, but it's not enough. So how do we obey the command?
Obviously, we know how to obey the command to be fruitful, but how do we obey the command to multiply? That's the question
Well, this is how you multiply. We have to teach our children to have a lot of kids
So, it's not just a matter of us having children.
We need to make sure we transfer those same values and principles to our children to also
have children.
So, think about this.
Let's say our nine children, let's just say my nine children, we only have nine.
Let's just say they have five each.
That's 45 grandchildren.
But let's just say that my nine children have seven children. That's 63. That's a substantial increase from 45, right?
But let's just give this crazy example.
And I don't even think it's that far fetched.
But here's the thing.
Let's say my children get married at an early age.
And I know this is going to shock you,
but how about 19 or 20 years of age?
Which I think would be great.
I would have gotten married at 19 or 20 if it was my choice.
I got married when I was 29, not by choice.
If it was up to me, I would have gotten married a lot
earlier than that.
So I got married at 29, but let's just say, you know, my son Bruce, you know, Kyla, Isaias, they
have
11 children, okay?
Let's say they get married at the age of 20 or so and let's just estimate how many children because you know the natural
Birth rate for anybody will be like approximately every two years or so, right? You have you give birth
Let's just say that all nine had eleven kids.
How many is that?
Ninety-nine children, grandchildren.
Almost a hundred grandchildren.
Now at that point, now it's become multiplication.
So when the Bible tells us to be fruitful and to multiply,
it's commanding us to be fruitful to have children,
but it's obviously implying that we need to teach our children
to have children in order to multiply that.
Oh, 99 grandkids, that sounds like a nightmare.
Yeah, if you're not biblically based,
if you have been infiltrated by feminism, of course.
You know, if you have any semblance of feminism, of worldliness, of godlessness, philosophies
of this world, this is going to be unattractive to you because you don't know what the Bible
actually says.
But you know for any Bible-believing Christian who reads the Word of God, you actually see,
oh man, you know, not only am I supposed to be fruitful, but I'm also supposed to multiply
and what's the result of that, that we replenish the earth, okay?
That is God's will my friends God's will is not for you to just live selfishly throughout your 20s
And have all kinds of fun in your 30s
And you know maybe own a couple cats into your 40s or something and you've just lived a fulfilled life
No, God wants you to leave a legacy behind
God wants you to have children and let me just say this because you know I might be getting some looks this morning
But you know you need to hear this obviously if that's the case
Let me just say this is that you know at the end of the day every time my wife and I go out with our bunches of kids
I promise you 99% of the time
99.9% of the time when people see us. This is what they always say. I wish I would have had more
always we literally just got that yesterday my wife gets that like at least
once a week where we run into people and they're just like are these all yours
and she's like yeah and then my wife says and his too you know they're both
of ours
And then this is what they'll say.
They don't say like, oh man, I'm believable.
I can't believe you would just do so.
Now obviously, when we're in public
and we're walking together, this is typically how it goes.
They'll walk by us.
They'll count all our kids.
And then they look at my wife and then they look at me like.
Because they're thinking like, this Mexican dude,
I can't believe he did this to her.
Believe it.
But in general if we stop to have a conversation with these people they often say like I have to I have three
They're growing up already they're living their own lives, and I'll be honest with you. I wish I would have had more
I wish I would have had more there's always a sense of regret
Okay, now there's a thing called like an empty nest syndrome
How do you know what I'm talking about right where often what takes place is that you know a woman gets older and
Her children grow up. They end up leaving the house
They get married or whatever and they have a sense of emptiness because you know all the birds have left the nest
Well, I personally believe that God's model of being fruitful and multiplying actually
fills that void in in a natural way, because what happens is when a woman has many children
And then those children grow up to have a lot of children
that grandmother or grandfather have grandchildren now
to essentially help raise and teach and love and care for.
That is the natural course of things.
So a way to avoid the empty nest feeling
is making sure you have a lot of kids,
but also making sure that you instill within your kids
to have a lot of kids as well.
Okay, oh, but that's so much work. We have anything worth doing it cause it takes work and
So being fruitful multiplying. This is the will of God for our lives. Go with me if you would
Turn to Psalm 127 if you would Psalm 127
Leviticus 26 verse 9 says for I will have respect unto you and make you fruitful the Bible says
and multiply you and establish my covenant with you.
And in fact, in the book of Exodus,
we have a perfect example of this, do we not?
We have the children of Israel living in Egypt as slaves,
but because of the fact that they're fruitful,
because of the fact that they're multiplying,
they actually become a threat to the Egyptian empire.
They become a threat to Pharaoh.
They become a threat.
And Pharaoh recognizes this.
He's like, oh man, they're increasing.
They're having a lot of kids.
And so what does he do?
He wants to essentially enslave them.
He wants to destroy them.
He wants to afflict them.
But the Bible says that the more he afflicted them,
the more they grew.
And I believe that's referring to the increase in children
that they began to have.
Pharaoh eventually comes up with a plot to destroy the children to kill all the male children
And of course he does not succeed the midwives hid the children God ends up blessing them for that
You know the here is a very good illustration of the world and Christians, right?
Christians are the ones who are supposed to be bearing children being lively
Increasing in affliction whereas the world is obviously the picture of Egypt here are killing children
Practicing infanticide, practicing abortion and these two should never mix.
So number one we need to make babies because it prevents a society's decline now
I personally don't think that
California will end up declining you know because obviously there's Christians in California
Some Christians at least believe in having a lot of children and if not
There's seems to be somewhat of a cultural shift where it is trending for people to have children and hopefully that continues on for the next 10 20 years
But point number two, and I've made this point already,
but let's just re-emphasize it.
Point number two of having babies is,
we need to have babies because it's a sign
of God's blessing.
You see, a lot of people think, well,
there's this narrative out there that says,
no, children are a burden.
They're a burden, and this is why we don't
want to have children, and you know what?
They're right.
Children are a burden.
Of course they are.
It's another life.
You ever changed the diaper before?
You know how much they eat, you know how loud they are?
I mean, just look at the service right now.
It's pretty loud in here because of children.
Yes, they are a burden, of course.
Thank you for, you know, thank you Sherlock
for pointing that out.
That's not a hard thing to understand.
Of course they're a burden, but you know what?
The blessing that they are far outweighs the burden.
And anybody who has many children can tell you,
you know, I have no regrets.
I love my children.
And you know, often I get this like,
Oh, you know, why are you having so many children?
Why not just like two or three?
You know, how are you gonna love your other children
if you're having so many children?
And their idea is that the more children you have,
like there's only so much love,
you can disperse into your children or something like that.
I mean, you've heard something like that.
It's like, if you have more children,
you're just not gonna be able to pay attention to them all.
You're not gonna be able to like, you know,
care for them and what about the money
and what about this, that and the other?
But I've learned,
In my personal experience, the more children I have,
the more God increases my love for all of my children.
Like when I first had Bruce, man, I love Bruce
and I still love Bruce.
But then when Kyla came along,
it was like my love increased even more for Bruce.
And then when Isaiah came,
my love increased even more for Kyla and for Bruce.
So how do you explain that?
I don't, it's just, that's just how it is.
You have to just do it in order to see it.
You don't love your children less, you actually love your children more.
Look at Psalm 127 verse 1, it says,
Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that built it.
Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh 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 giveeth his beloved sleep.
And I want you to notice this, lo, children are in heritage of the Lord.
And the fruit of the womb, I want you to notice this, is his reward.
What does that mean?
It means God rewards you with children.
That's what the Bible is teaching here.
It's not a curse.
It's not a burden the way the world says it's a burden.
According to the Bible, it's a reward.
Now, please don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
Because I know there's people in our church
and in other churches that cannot have children, okay?
God has not blessed you with children.
You're incapable of having children.
This sermon is obviously not for you.
And, let me just say this is that people who cannot have children are a hundred percent
behind what I'm saying, because of the fact that they probably know people that can have
children and choose not to have children.
And they're probably thinking like, man, these people are trying not to have kids, I'm over
here trying to have kids, and they're like stopping themselves from bearing children.
It's a wicked thing.
According to the Bible, the fruit of the womb is his reward, the Bible says.
Go to Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter number seven.
Deuteronomy chapter number seven.
I'm going to read to you from Psalm 113 verse nine says,
He maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyful mother of children.
Praise ye the Lord.
What am I saying?
Make more babies!
Oh man, that's kind of inappropriate for a Sunday morning sermon, not when the Bible's
being preached.
This is the mandate of the Word of God, this is what the Bible actually teaches, and you
know what?
I have to undo a lot of bad philosophies in churches from yesteryear in fundamental Baptist
churches where pastors and pastors' wives are constantly promoting birth control, they're
constantly promoting only two and no more, and all this nonsense, just completely going
against what the Bible actually says.
My body, my choice, all this feminism that has infiltrated local New Testament churches.
You know what?
Feminism hates children.
Feminism revels in killing children.
Feminism revels in not having children, not being married.
They revel in going against the pattern of God.
Well, God actually says and again if this bothers you if you're like flinching a little bit because of what I'm saying
It's just an indicator that you've been influenced by feminism
You know, I'm not surprised when women flinch when I say this but I am surprised when men flinch when I say this
You know, so you better not flinch as I'm preaching this men
Why because it's a shame if a man flinches over feminism. What is that? What are you doing in a Baptist church anyways?
You're like, oh, man, I'm just so offended by this.
You walked into a fundamental Baptist church.
You should expect to hear the word of God being
thundered forth, and I'm actually being nice this morning.
You should hear other sermons on feminism.
Sometimes I run out of people who do agree with me.
He make it the barren women to keep house, the Bible says.
This is obviously a sign of God's blessing.
You know, there's various ways that we can tell if God is
blessing our lives.
One sure way that a couple can tell is that God is
Now, are there instances where we lose our children?
Of course.
Is that because of God?
No, it's because we live in a corruptible body.
We live in a sinful world where things are corruptible, they come to decay, and certain
evils come upon us.
It's not because God is punishing us, it's just the corruptible world that we live in.
It's the consequences of being a human being, right?
God's way of showing you that he's with you,
that he's blessing you, that he's blessing a church,
is that he gives them children.
You know, we need to increase the pregnancy list
there on the bulletin.
We need to make sure, and thank God,
we do have women on the bulletin who are pregnant,
you know, and I don't know how many it is right now.
It's like four or something like that.
But look, folks, I know of churches
that run well over a thousand people in their church
and they have about four.
You say, well, I thought you said four is a lot.
Four is a lot for a church, our size.
But what if you have a church that's like 1300, 1500,
2000 and they only have four?
Then you got a problem.
Obviously it's not being promoted and I promise you,
people are practicing birth control in that church.
And make no mistake about it,
I'm gonna get into it in just a bit.
Birth control is murder, it's abortion.
Look at Deuteronomy 7 verse 12 wherefore shall come to pass if you harken to these judgments and keep to and do them
That the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he swear unto thy fathers
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee.
He will also bless the fruit of thy womb.
So he's using this in conjunction with loving his people,
blessing his people.
He's going to multiply them, cause the womb to be fruitful.
It says, in the fruit of thy land, thy corn, thy wine,
and thy oil, the increase of thy kind.
The flocks of thy sheep in the land which ye swear unto thy fathers to give thee, thou
shall be blessed above all people.
There shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle."
The Bible says.
Go to Deuteronomy chapter 30.
Deuteronomy chapter 30.
Deuteronomy 7 clearly tells us that God's love,
his blessing is equated with being multiplied
and blessing the fruit of the womb.
Deuteronomy 28, you're going to chapter 30.
Deuteronomy 28 verse 3 says,
blessed thou shalt thou be in the city
and blessed shall thou be in the field,
blessed shall be the fruit of thy body
and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle,
the increase of thy kind and the flocks of thy sheep.
Look at Deuteronomy chapter 30.
And verse nine it says,
And the Lord thy God will make the plenteous
in every work of thine hand,
in the fruit of thy body,
and in the fruit of thy cattle,
in the fruit of thy land for good,
for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good
as he rejoiced over thy fathers.
Over and over again,
God equates the blessing of God,
his love for us,
with blessing us with more children.
Now look folks,
one of the ways that,
let me give you a couple ways that a church grows.
A church grows very little by evangelism,
meaning that when we go out and preach the gospel,
we're gonna see a very small percentage of increase
in church attendance because of that.
Why?
Because when we go out and preach the gospel,
the intention of going out there and preaching the gospel
is to get them saved, not necessary to get them into church.
Now we wanted to get into church,
but rarely will a church grow throughout these two decades
because as a result of soul winning.
Another way a church grows is just people inviting
other people to church, right?
Another way is through social media and we're seeing that now
But a sure way to grow organically is by just having more children
Now here's the thing if we get people to come to our church because of soul winning because of social media
Because you invited a family or friend to friend there or whatever, you know
It's likely that they might stay but it's also likely that they may not stay
They might hear a sermon from me on sodomites or the Jews or something.
They might be hardcore Zionists or something.
And they just get offended at what I say and they just never come back.
And you know what?
That's the price you pay for preaching the Word of God.
But let me say this, if you have children, those children can't go anywhere.
You know, you raise them in the nurture, the admonition of the Lord, you raise them with
this kind of preaching, they end up developing an appetite for godly preaching and they end
You know, my kids are right here on the front row
listening to the preaching of God's word.
They love the preaching of God's word.
And so do your children.
I mean, this is the environment,
the atmosphere that we wanna raise them in.
So a church grows organically by having children.
And the reason I say that is because
there are churches out there that are getting older,
but they're not replacing themselves.
Why?
Well, number one, they're not soul-winning.
So that's that's hard enough as it is because a small percentage of
Sowning visitors come to church because of sowning. So if you're not doing any at all
You're probably not gonna get anybody in church who comes because of evangelism or the pastor doesn't emphasize the importance of inviting friends and family
But if they're not having children that means they're growing old, you know, what's gonna happen to that church is gonna die off
And I've been to churches where it's all gray heads,
no offense to the gray heads in our church.
We want gray heads in our church,
we will eventually become gray heads in our church.
I'm not trying to look at anybody, but I just did.
But folks, there needs to be a replacement rate though.
You know we want to raise godly children in our church to take up the baton after us
We don't want first works Baptist church to become a liberal church in the next generation
We don't want first works Baptist church to be pre-trib
Zionists we don't want them to create a fund for Israel or anything like that
We need to make sure we teach them right we want to make sure they don't practice just lifestyle evangelism
We want them to actually go out there and preach the gospel
So we have to transfer over a godly faith to them in order to keep this thing going
But you know what? There's a lot of churches that die out
Because they don't have the element of just having children
That's a fact
and so
We need to recognize that having children is a blessing that's God's reward for us
That's God's reward for a church. That's God's blessing to a woman. The Bible says in Psalm 128 verse 3
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house
Thy children listen to this like olive plants around about
Thy table and you know what I was having dinner with my kids and my wife last night and man. It was noisy
it was a mess, it was very loud, but good night, it was awesome. It was great. It's like having my
little olive plants surrounding the wild olive tree, you know, around the table, this was an
indication to me that God has blessed my life.
His hand is on me, his hand is on my wife,
because he's given us six beautiful children,
a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house.
Don't be duped by the social media influencers out there.
They try to assert, oh, it's just,
it's better to just travel to Thailand,
travel all around the world before you settle down.
Go sow your wild oats and fornicate
and live a promiscuous life,
and then when you're ready, settle down.
That's wicked in God's eyes.
We need to make sure we try to settle down early
Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth amen
You know I started serving God at the age of 2021
When I was 21 years old, that's when I got saved.
And I gave my 20s to the Lord.
I wasn't out there partying, drinking, smoking,
running with those that do, being a fornicator
or a hormonger, I wanted to serve the Lord.
And thank God that I gave my vitality,
I'm gonna be 40 years old this year,
thank God that I gave my vitality, my 20s to the Lord.
You know, I would have preferred giving more of that in my marriage, but you know, I still got some vitality left
Well, you know my encouragement to you young people is get married early. Amen
Get married or oh man, that's so wrong though. If you get married or you know me people used to get married early back in the day
I mean 20 was like late for them
You know back in the day people used to get married 18 19 years old or whatever sometimes even sooner than that
point that I'm making is that we need to reform the minds of the new generation to recognize the importance of getting married
You know what? It starts with us teaching our daughters that God's will for their lives is to be wives and
mommies
And does that offend you? Let me say it again to be mommies and wives
That's what the Bible teaches. Give them a doll
Teach him how to cook, you know my daughter Kyla makes breakfast for me. She makes my coffee. She makes my breakfast, you know charity
My second to youngest, you know, she walks around now, you know with the little dolly under her under her dress
And what are you doing? I'm giving him minkies
She's she's breastfeeding her baby. Oh, that's just so weird. Oh, yeah
Maybe I should give her cats and tell her that she'll never get married or whatever and teach her how to take care of cats for the rest of her life
You're weird.
I want my daughters to grow up to desire to have children, to have godly marriages, to
marry a godly man who loves the Lord, who evangelizes, who loves the King James Bible
and says, ask for me in my house, we shall serve the Lord.
I want my sons to marry godly women who also have that same vision, who want to stay in
church for the rest, who want to remain independent fundamental Baptist for the rest of their
You know what Lord willing if that happens it's an indicator that God has blessed me God has blessed my wife
And now we can become now we can multiply and replenish the earth
Having children is a sign of God's blessing, but let me say this is that it's also another way to transmit Christianity to the next generation
Obviously the greatest way is just by preaching the gospel to the unsaved getting unsafe people to come to church
Giving the gospel to them training them in the ways of the Lord, but another great way to transmit Christianity is by having children
You see, you know, when we disciple people in church,
we could only spend so much time with them.
Whereas our children are with us 24-7.
They become who we are.
That's good and that's bad sometimes, right?
But it's good because of the fact
that we can essentially transmit biblical ideologies,
biblical doctrines, we can mold them
in the ways of the Lord.
Oh, you mean you can brainwash them?
Yes.
Yup.
Next question.
Yeah, I want to clean their minds from the filth of this world
I want to protect their minds from all the tranny propaganda
All the nonsense the sodomy propaganda all the feminism propaganda all the nonsense is out there to discontrate the word of God
I want to protect them from that. So yeah, I am brainwashing that I
Take full responsibility go to Genesis chapter 18 if you would Genesis chapter 18 and let me say this God expects for us to transmit our
Christianity our faith to our children
That's an expectation that God has for us.
This is not like, whoa, let's just let them decide.
Folks, if I let my kids decide their lives,
they would have ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I don't know what's best for them all the time.
It's my job as a father my wife's job as the mother to raise up our children to train them up in the way
This should go so that when they are old they will not depart from it
That's our responsibility and you know what God honors the parents when they seek to endeavor
To fulfill that in their children's lives look at Genesis 18 and verse 17
And the Lord said shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?
And let me just give some context here.
God is about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.
So it's one of these two birds with one stone.
He's traveling to the world to go meet Abraham.
But he's originally going to go and just destroy
Sodom and Gomorrah.
But Abraham's on the way.
So he goes, and he just stops by and talks to Abraham.
Let's him know that the prophecy is going to be fulfilled.
So he's about to leave.
And then he says, and you think we should tell Abraham what we're going to do, you know?
The thing we should do, which if I was Abraham, I would have loved to have known.
Verse 18, I want you to notice, seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.
And I want you to notice verse 19, very important, for I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him.
and they shall keep the way of the Lord
to do justice and judgment
that the Lord may bring upon Abraham
that which he hath spoken of him.
Powerful.
And in its context, he's saying we should tell Abraham
that we're gonna destroy Sodom and Gomorrah
so that Abraham tells his children
about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
and in turn they will do justice and judgment
in the future, right?
That's why he's saying that.
But the point that I'm making here is that God had faith in Abraham, that Abraham would
raise up his children in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord, showing us that God
has an expectation of parents when it comes to this, right?
He wants us to teach our children.
And here's a great way to start folks, bring them to church, bring them to church consistently.
Don't be inconsistent in yourself and your Bible reading don't be inconsistent in your church attendance
Don't be inconsistent in your church disciplines. You know, we're not you know
God doesn't expect for you to be perfect, but he does expect for you to be consistent
Okay, and so that's important here
That it's a manner in which we can transmit Christianity to the next generation
You know, we don't want to just make babies just to make babies although that's not a bad idea
But you know, there's a purpose behind it and that is so that we can pass on our faith to the next generation
I don't want my legacy to just end with me. I want it to continue through my children
Okay, you know, I want my son to preach like I do to believe like I do. I want my daughters to marry someone like me
You know
By the way, if you if you don't you're like, I'm not me. Well, what does that say if you look I?
Think it'd be a great idea from my daughters to marry someone like me. Why not?
You know and in fact because I'm her father. I'm their father that I'm like the man in their life
So they're gonna look to a man who's like their father. Oh
Man, I just think that's kind of weird well because you just haven't read the Bible
And we've been so just inoculated with the world's philosophies.
You know, you're leaning into your own understanding.
You know, we need to acknowledge the Lord in all manners of life.
And the Bible has everything that pertains to life and godliness.
Why not address the Bible?
Turn with you if you would.
Let's see here.
Go to Genesis.
You're in Genesis.
Go to Genesis 28.
The title of the sermon is Make More Babies.
Make more babies because it prevents a society's decline make more babies because of the fact that it's a sign of God's blessing
We should make more babies because it's a way that we can transmit Christianity to the next generation
Now let's get into it. We should make more babies because the alternative is sinful
Let me repeat that again. We should make more babies because the alternative is sinful
Now, what do I mean by the alternative?
Well, the natural course of things,
the way God made our bodies,
is that when we get married,
the byproduct of that, in general, is just babies.
You don't have to do anything outside
of what is in marriage to make that happen.
It just naturally happens, okay?
And in fact, it's so natural
that you have to do unnatural things to stop it.
Things that are not in the Bible you have to practice in order to stop it now. What am I referring to?
Well, one would be obviously contraceptives, right?
There's the morning after pill, which is essentially an abortion pill
But then there's also abortion
Literally when the you know that they rip they rip the child out of the mother's room, which is extremely wicked and evil
It's murder that morning after pills is murder
Committing literal abortion is murder, but also birth control is murder
Let me explain to you why in case you don't know okay because of the fact that we as Christians
And if you don't hold to this then you know then just you're just gonna have to read it in the Bible
We believe that life begins at conception
That's not like a cute cliche or anything like that
That's literally in the Bible before I formed the in the belly
I knew thee and ordained thee to be a prophet into the nations
Meaning that children exist as soon as it goes into the egg, boom, that's life right there, according to the Bible itself.
Before they're even formed in the belly. They're in the belly, but before they're even formed in there, it's considered life according to the Bible.
No, it's considered, you know, an organism.
It's not really anything, it's not really living or whatever.
You know, it's funny, these same people want to say that,
oh, that's not really life, that's just like a,
it's just like an organism.
And, but yet, when they find a little organism on Mars,
it's life!
Funny how that works, huh?
No, it's life according to the Bible.
John the Baptist leapt in his mother's womb
in the presence of Jesus Christ.
The Bible consistently calls babies who are in the womb
children.
She's great with child the Bible says.
And so life begins at conception.
So the reason birth control is evil and wicked and murder is
because of the fact that it creates a hostile environment in
the uterus for the child.
And once the baby is ready to go into the walls of the uterus the uterus has been made hostile to that baby and it kills the baby
That's exactly how it works
So a woman who practices birth control is essentially killing their children every time
Life begins in her body understand and that's evil. It's wicked. It's not biblical
And so we see practices of infanticide throughout the Bible.
We see the pagans practice infanticide.
We see that the heathens practice infanticide.
We see pharaoh killing children.
We know that Herod sought to kill baby Jesus,
and so he killed children from two and under.
That's consistently in the Bible.
Look at Genesis 28. So we have the subject of birth control
So let me just say this is that no Christian should practice birth control and it's crazy
I even have to say that but it is something that needs to be stated
I went to a fundamental Baptist church where the pastor and his wife were pro birth control
Where the wife literally went to my wife and try to convince her to use birth control, I
Mean I about lost it
And she would go around to all the women
and try to encourage them to get on birth control.
It's a wicked, it's evil, and it's godless.
You cannot hold the position that life begins at conception
and not believe that birth control is not murder.
It's obviously murder.
You have to understand that.
So there's that, but then people will say,
Christians will often say,
well, I don't practice birth control.
I just practice natural.
You know planning right like we don't kill our children
But we just practice it naturally meaning that they don't come together
During the when the wife is fertile and what they're doing is that they're essentially
Impeding having children for other reasons now. I may not be murder, but let me ask you. What's the reason why though?
Why stop having kids? Why not have kids at all and every single reason you come up with is gonna be a selfish reason
money
We want more time to ourselves and you know what the sad thing about that is is that you know
It's possible that God can also close the womb
So often when a woman practices birth control
Later on they regret it, but the body's been so destroyed that the womb is essentially closed thereafter
Now obviously God can perform miracles and he's done it before when
You know, there's a case where a woman is on birth control
for a certain period of time, then she regrets it,
she gets off of it for a while,
and then God opens her womb,
she's allowed to have children thereafter, praise God.
But there's also instances
where maybe someone does not wanna have children,
they don't go down the birth control route,
they use the natural planning,
but then actually God does close the womb thereafter.
Why?
Because he's saying, well, if you didn't wanna have children
before, why should I give you children now?
That's a possibility as well.
And I wouldn't roll the dice on that if I were you.
And let me just show you what God thinks of you, me, or anybody else not having children,
intentionally stopping to have children.
Look at Genesis 28, verse 7.
Some explicit verses here on a Sunday morning.
And Ur, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord and the Lord slew him.
So you know, just meditate on that for a little bit.
The Bible says that God killed Ur.
going into thy brother's wife and marry her
and raise up seed to thy brother.
So Judah, the father, tells Onan,
hey, you need to make sure that you raise up seed
into your brother.
You need to make sure that you raise up seed
so that they're not, you know,
without a legacy or whatever it may be.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his.
And it came to pass when he went into his brother's wife.
I want you to notice is that he spilled it on the ground and I'm not going to be
explicit tonight this morning you know what that means if you're of age he
spilled it on the ground less that he should give seed to his brother so this
is onan intentionally not having children he wants the physical
relationship without the responsibility and what does he do he spills it on the
ground according to the Bible
Verse 10 says in the thing which he did displeased the Lord
Wherefore he slew him also the Bible says go to Hosea chapter 1 Hosea chapter 1
What do we see here? We see that God does not approve of someone intentionally
He said well will God kill me if I intentionally stop having children. I don't know. Do you I mean do you want to risk it though?
I can't tell you well, you know, I've done that I haven't been killed all right
I'm just I'm just reading the story that obviously got put in the Bible for a reason and
For anything it should just cause you to think that God does not approve of this act
He does not he's does not approve of people
Stopping themselves from having children. He wants people to take responsibility
He wants people to be fruitful and to multiply and so forth to have children and let me just say this, you know
There is a natural spacing of children in the Bible and even today
which is approximately you know two years or so okay now there's some
anomalies out there where it's just like people women are just fertile like
every year and even if they have children their breastfeeding or whatnot
but you know there is a natural spacing of approximately two years that God has
put into place look at Hosea chapter 1 verse 6 referring to Gomer
It says she conceived again and
buried daughter and God said
into him, call her name
Laura Hama.
If I were no more, I have mercy upon the house of Israel,
KATHRYN
but I will utterly take them away."
Verse seven says,
But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah,
and will save them by the Lord their God,
and will not save them by bow, nor by sword,
nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.
Verse eight,
Now when she had weaned Lower Hama,
she conceived and bear a son.
So according to the Bible,
we see here that when a woman is breastfeeding,
that is essentially a natural way.
Biblical way to impede birth getting pregnant, right?
Because it tells us here that when lower Hama is wean meaning she's you know
The baby is taken off of the breast no longer being breastfed
She was able to conceive and then bear a son this sometimes is approximately a two-year gap or so again
It varies with everyone but approximately that's how it is with most people the point is the fact that you know
We should just do it the natural way is what I'm saying, okay
Now we have people in our church that can just literally probably have babies like every single year
Okay, and they are an anomaly in some instances. They just have very fruitful wounds
But in general, it's about every two years or so the point that I'm making is that we should abstain from any family planning
It should be God planning
Not family planning like well, you know, I'm done
You know, I'm done. I'm sorry
Where's that? Where's I'm done in the body the only thing that I see that I'm done is like it is finished by Jesus Christ
There is no I'm done is just you just keep having until
The Lord closes the womb that's how it's supposed to go
And can we pull up a bunch of reasons why we shouldn't have kids of course
But none of them all of them pale in comparison to the commandments of God that tells to have kids
And we need to obey God's command to do it now look folks, you know
When I say we shouldn't do anything to impede it. I'm also referring to the fact that you should be a healthy person
Because sometimes health plays a role in not having children as well.
Being overweight or being underweight, not eating a healthy diet, not having enough protein,
not eating enough red meat, not eating enough fat can often play a role in not being able
to bear children.
And so obviously we need to pray for God to open the womb.
We obviously need to do our part in a spiritual manner, but we also need to do the physical
So that's important. God can often close the womb of those who intentionally closed them in the past.
He's done that to people and it is a thing.
Here's my last point. Go to Hosea chapter 9 if you would.
Let me read you one last verse here in
Hosea's day obviously the nation have become very wicked they became haters of children
And so God was going to curse them with the same verse 11 of Hosea 9 says as for Ephraim
Their glory shall fly away like a bird from the birth and from the womb and from the conception
Though they bring up their children yet will I bereave them?
that there shall not be a man left, yea, woe also to them when I depart from them.
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place, but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Give them, O Lord, what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb, and dry breast.
All their wickedness is in Gilgal.
For there I hated them, for the wickedness of their doings,
I will drive them out of my house,
I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up,
they shall bear no fruit, though they bring forth fruit,
yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb."
What is the point here?
The point is, God's punishment upon a nation
who hates his principles, hates the Bible,
and hates children, is that God just bereaves them of children.
He doesn't allow them to have children.
And folks, point to the most Godless nations in Europe,
for example, and let's look at their birth rates.
Nations, they hate God, they hate the Bible,
they hate all these things.
They often have very low birth rates.
And unfortunately, America is kind of
on that streak as well.
Now, hopefully there is a cultural change
that's taking place.
Hopefully there's some sort of revival that it takes place, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter because we could have revival here at our church
Churches local New Testament churches can catch the vision to start having children making more babies
Not viewing them as a burden not viewing them as something as an afterthought to your success view them as success
Now it's like well once I'm done being successful, then I'll have children. No have children and be successful. How about that?
And here's my last point, and I'm done.
More babies equals more hands to honor the hoary head.
And this is something that people don't really
take into account, okay?
You wanna know why there's so many people
just being put into old folks' homes?
Cause there's not enough children to take care of them.
You know, they had one child, two children or whatever,
and you know, they moved away far away,
and so now people don't have people to take care of them.
The natural course of things the way the Bible institutes it is that when our parent when our parents get old
The responsibility falls upon us to take care of them
That should be our responsibility, right?
And I'm not saying that they need to you know intermingle into our you know our relationship with our spouse
But it does fall upon us to honor them and take care of them when they're older if they're incapable of taking care of themselves
That's what the Bible teaches that we should honor our parents by providing for them financially by providing them for them physically
You know, I think of my father-in-law
Who you know him and his wife had eight children and my father-in-law has been essentially
You know it capacitated for the last 13 years or so
But the man is just never alone
He has people around the clock always taking care of him and they're all his children
His wife takes care of him his children take care of them
He's never without somebody there his grandchildren are there to take care of him
And you know it's because he preached this all the time
And you know, I might be talking to someone who may have put someone in the old folks' home.
Obviously, that's not God's will.
We should leave it open for our parents to come live with us,
and so we can take care of them if that's what they need.
I've offered to my parents on multiple occasions.
I said, hey, you can always come and move with me.
You don't have to pay anything.
I'll pay for all your food.
I'll pay for your room and even fun money.
Because look, they changed my diapers.
They took care of me when I was a child.
They gave me a childhood.
They kept me happy as a child.
They disciplined me as a child.
The least I can do is return that.
Favor return that honor and I've always left that door open for my parents
I you know my dad currently is in Guatemala. He's with his family
You know his his sisters and brothers and I've told them I said you let me know you can always come down here to move in
I have a room for you, you know
I'll you know, I'll provide for you
Financially, you don't have to worry about a single thing for the rest of your life. I want to provide that for my family for my parents
Why because it's the right thing to do
No, my parents are just like they're too independent. They're just like no, I'll take care of myself
I don't want to be and I'm like you're not a burden my kids will love to see you every single day
You know, it'll take time away from them, you know bothering me and they can bother you for a little bit
You know, I'm just kidding, you know, my kids will love it
I would love it and they're just like we appreciate it, but no and you know what obviously I can't change that
Point that I'm making here is that we should always leave the door open to take care of our parents
And for us as parents, let this be a motivation to you to have more children because you will
also get old.
You will become an old person, Lord willing, you know, and you will need someone to take
care of you maybe one day.
Because let me say this, you know, my parents don't not all their kids leave that door open. Let me just put it that way
Now thankfully one of their kids is a fundamental Baptist who has these biblical convictions who leaves that door open
But not all their kids do none of them do actually
Okay, it takes the baby of the family to do it
But you know what the possibilities are increased once you have more children you have more people to take care of you in the long run
That's the insurance right there
Okay, it's important folks.
What's the point that I'm making this morning?
Well, I'm just trying to encourage you
to just make more babies.
We're going into the Thanksgiving season,
the Christmas season, the end of the year.
We need to keep this in mind,
not have an attitude that despises children,
the selfish attitude that I just wanna live my life now
and I'll think about it later on.
How do you even know that you have later on?
Post not thyself of tomorrow
for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
That's what the Bible teaches.
The Bible doesn't even promise you tomorrow.
The Bible doesn't promise you five years from now.
Every good decision that you want to make
in five years, make it now.
Even if you don't reach the climax of that decision today,
at least start putting in the steps now
to make those decisions.
Get married now.
Have children now.
Serve God now.
Do those things now.
Change your mind about this now.
Because quite frankly you may not be promised tomorrow. That's the honest truth
Young men start preparing to have children or to get married first. Actually. Sorry to have to get married then have children
I got that little mix up there
You know start saving up money start maturing put away the video games
Put away the frivolous frivolous behavior
Christian is good. He's doing he's doing well. I'm proud of Christian sometimes, but you know put away the frivolous behavior grow up
Get a job
Learn how to provide for your family young ladies learn how to cook
Learn how to be godly and modest and love the Lord and not chase men and
Not chase the Instagram influencer
Chase the Lord
Wait for his time get married
Bear children guide the house and be not given over to Satan reject feminism. It produces lesbians
And if you're saved, you won't be a lesbian,
but man, you'll be kind of like one, though.
The last thing we need in our society
is Christians who are like lesbians.
I got a couple more minutes.
You know, we need to reject feminism.
It's easy for guys to reject feminism
unless you just grew up a feminist.
But you know, it needs to be just completely pulled out
of women in our society today.
You know where they just train them to just hate children to hate men
They're like, oh hate man, you know a man made you you weren't made in a tube
You're not a science experiment a man made you
God is a man
your savior is a man and
I'm not saying, you know, I'm obviously against the mantle sphere as well because that moving is gay
They're just like oh man, we hate women and we don't want to get married and have kids because you're gay
Because you you act like a homo is that what it is you hate women so much that you just is it because you've been rejected so much
This is your villain story
You just you've been rejected so much in high school and throughout life that all of a sudden now women are just evil
You know, it's not that they're evil is just that you have no muscle no ambition
You got no Riz, don't blame it on women.
Now obviously there's wicked women out there
and the reason why you hate women
is because you hate the women online who are godless.
But guess what, not all of them are like that.
You don't need to be a passport bro either.
They're like all the women in the West are just godless.
We need to go to the Philippines.
I need a melon bride.
I need to go somewhere where I can pay someone to marry me.
Why don't you just be a godly person?
Why don't you pray and you know the the Bible says that a prudent woman is of the wife is of the Lord
That's what the Bible says
We need to reject both of these ideologies of feminism and the man is fear that seeks to promote godlessness
Wickedness and is seeking to destroy the nucleus of the family and marriage. That's what we need to do
Okay, so young men grow up desire to get married pray it down
Live a godly life ladies prepare to be a godly wife
Okay, you know not a feminist not a witch not a lesbian
Not what they need you know remove any semblance of being a dyke
Just be a beautiful godly woman who loves the Lord who reads the Bible who's modest
Alright, I'm done. I'm done. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word and we're thankful for the mandate Lord of having children and
Lord as pastors, we have such a huge responsibility
To stop the onslaught of feminism and this movement of hating women as well
Lord help us to do so help us to be a church that is a light that
Uplifts the family unit that upholds godly marriages the desires to have children
to raise them up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord.
May you bless this as we go on our way, Lord.
We love you. We thank you. Pray the things in Jesus' name. Amen.
Song number 145 is our last song.
Song number 145.
Song number 145, it is well with my soul.
See it on that first verse.
When peace, like a river, attended my way, when sorrows, like sea, billed.
With my soul, it is well, with my soul, with my soul, with my soul, though Satan shows
I said
and we're going to sing song number 100 and 19 so the storm passes by song number 119 okay we
don't need that song all right we have a baptism here tell us your name tell us your name tell
it have you trusted Jesus as your savior okay upon your public profession i'm gonna baptize you
and the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit go to cross your arms over your
Congratulations, buddy.
Watch your step, all right?
Watch your step.
Go.
See it there.
Okay, tell us your name.
Kessler.
Kessler, have you trusted Jesus as your savior?
Okay, upon your public profession and I'll baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Going across your arms over your chest, bear it in the likeness of his death, raise to walk in the name of Jesus Christ.
Congratulations.
All right, let's pray and we'll be dismissed.
Father, we thank you again for this day.
Thank you for all those who came and for the baptisms.
Help us not soon forget the message we heard today.
It might be a hard pill for some to swallow, Lord,
but it's still in the Bible.
And so help our minds to be renewed
to accept the biblical truths.
And may you bless our Spanish service to follow.
We love you, we thank you.
Pray the things in Jesus' name.
Amen, you are dismissed.