Thank you.
Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
It's wonderful to see everybody here this afternoon.
If we can go ahead and find our seats, we will get started.
Once you've found a seat, let's all grab a hymnal and turn to song number 379.
in the sheaves.
everybody. Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer. Lord, we love you and we
just thank you for everything you do. Thank you for allowing us to bring in the sheaves
this afternoon. We just ask that you help our efforts be fruitful and we just ask that
you bless this church and fill with your spirit. And since Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
The Comforter has come, song number 349.
So I'll sing that out together on the first.
Oh, spread the tidings round where
Thank you for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you did need another bulletin or you haven't gotten one,
you could just lift up your hand real quick.
One of our ushers could come by
and get you guys a bulletin.
On our front, we have our Bible memory passage, Matthew 28.
If you can quote the entire chapter to a non-fam member,
you can receive a prize.
On the inside, we have our service and soul winning times.
Down below our church stats,
please make sure you're turning those in in our maps.
On the right, we have the list of expecting ladies.
upcoming events. We have our choir practice that's beginning on Sundays at 2 p.m. Thank you. I think
we had a big crowd participate today so I'm really excited to get to hear all of those kiddos seeing
on our Easter service. That's what they're preparing for and practicing for and so
we're really looking forward to that. Thank you parents for allowing your children to participate
Also, Evangeles or Bannock is going to be preaching this Wednesday.
So please, please, please come to this Wednesday and it'll be exciting to have them back.
It'll be about a year from when they actually went out there.
So it'll be a great blessing to see them and encourage them.
Also, this upcoming Saturday is a soul-warning marathon in Hazel, and there will be some
food and fellowship, so if you'd like to go out, Brother Abanek has put in our group
chat the address and some details.
If you still aren't sure, you can message him.
Also, that's Sunday, so the next day, if you missed out.
It's our barbecue bash, all right?
And so it'll be catered by some good catering
and we'll have a good time.
Hopefully God willing, it'll be really nice weather
and we can eat outside.
But either way,
We'll be having a barbecue bash and we'll be having a lot of fun.
And it'll just be a great time of fellowship just to continue to encourage the urbanics.
They'll be here for those weekend services as well.
And we'll probably let him give another testimony on Sunday,
just since some people only come to our Sunday services.
Also, we have our spring recital.
That's going to be that Saturday.
There's a sign up sheet for tryouts.
If you can sign up for a time on that.
Mansfield Soaring Marathon will be coming up in April, April 19th, which is the day before Easter,
and we do have some special Easter flyers that we'll be putting out in a couple weeks,
and you can be handing those out for soul-winning.
On the back...
Just a note again, we had 22 salvations for our Spanish soul winning marathon.
So thank you to those who participated and continue to pray for that ministry.
Also, we have our prayer list down below. If you have an additional prayer request,
just please email us that and we'll try to update and or add you to our prayer list.
That's really all I have as far as announcements. We'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the week. It's Psalm 15.
Brother Dustin's gonna come lead us. Psalm number 15.
alright that was Psalm chapter 15 Psalm 15 so I'll sing it out together on the first
Great singing everybody. Now as the offering plates are being passed around go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 12
That's the book of Hebrews chapter number 12
Hebrews chapter 12, the Bible reads,
wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight
and the sin which doth so easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the race
that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith,
who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied
and faint in your minds.
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you, as unto children.
My Son despised not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked
of Him.
For whom the Lord loveth, ye chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth."
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons.
For what son is he whom the Father chastenedeth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and
not sons.
Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence.
Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits and live?"
For they, verily, for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure.
But he, for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Now note chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous.
Nevertheless afterward, it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths
for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be
Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness
springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold
his birthright."
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected.
For he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
For ye are not common to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor
unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice
of words, which voice they that heard and treated that the word should not be spoken
for they could not endure that which was commanded.
And if so much as a beast touched the mount,
it shall be stoned or thrust through with the dart.
And so terrible was the sight that Moses said,
I exceedingly fear and quake.
But ye are coming to Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.
for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape if we
turn away from him that speaketh from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth, but now he hath
promised, saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word,
yet once more, signifyeth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made,
Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
let us have grace whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear,
for our God is a consuming fire.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the word of God.
I thank you for the Spanish soul and a marathon
that was a success.
I thank you for this church,
and I ask you to bless Pastor Shelley
and help him to preach your word in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
I want to look back at verse number five,
and the Bible says,
which speaketh unto you as unto children,
my son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord.
And I kind of started in a series last Sunday night
about bad attitudes.
And one of the bad attitudes I want to address this evening
is taking a bad attitude about correction,
taking a bad attitude about
correction and the Bible has a lot to say on this particular subject so for this evening I'm not
going to be able to really go through any more bad attitudes that's just one attitude we need to
address and the reality is we all need correction and we need to make sure that when we are corrected
that we don't have a bad attitude about it we need to have an attitude that wants to accept
And the Bible tells us that we should not despise the Lord when He corrects us.
We should not despise the Lord's correcting, His chastening.
It says here in verse number five,
despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him.
God wants to correct us. God wants to chasten us.
It says in verse six, for whom the Lord loveth,
and scourgeeth every son whom he receiveth.
Now, we have fathers in our lives that chasing us
and scourge us in a literal and a physical way.
but God the Father is not going to come down from heaven
and physically scourge us or physically chastise us himself.
He may punish us in another way,
but it's likened unto scourging.
It's likened unto chastisement.
But we have to understand that God does still
even chastise and scourge physically us.
The Bible has commandments in the Old Testament when you would break laws, when you commit crimes,
that adults would be whipped or would be scourged for the crimes that they committed.
Now, we don't live in a biblical society, we don't have biblical laws,
and so they've outlawed a lot of these things, now they put you in a cage.
It's still a physical punishment for doing things that are wrong.
I argue that the scourging is a better punishment than jail.
I think that jail is a bad punishment.
I think in some ways it's a cruel and unusual punishment.
But God does chase in us and scourges.
Now God may chase in us and scourges in other ways.
and kind of a metaphorical way where, you know, he could take away things from us.
He could cause us to lose our job. God could cause us to become sick.
God could cause us to have our tires break. God could cause us to lose a relationship.
God can cause all kinds of punishments in our life as a result of our wrongdoing,
of our sin, of our rebellion. God wants to grab our attention.
And if you think about it, many of the ways that we relate to our children
are similar to the ways that God relates to us.
If you think about it, if your children do something wrong...
But they come to you and they tell you themselves and they're humble and repentant about it many times
You may even forgo punishing them because of their attitude because of how they approach the situation
Whereas when they won't confess they lie about it. They won't take ownership
Well, then the often the punishment is worse and I personally do punish my children worse if they lie to me about it
It's one thing to do wrong, it's another thing to lie about it.
And then it's another thing to not say sorry, and it's another thing to not get it right.
When we do wrong, we need to be quick to say, you know what, I did wrong,
I'm sorry, try to fix it, and you often receive the least amount of punishment
when that's your attitude. When your rebellious, stiff-necked,
argumentative,
denying what happened, often you'll get a worse punishment as a result.
And I believe that that's how God also operates with us.
The more that we're quick to say, I'm sorry, we're quick to ask for forgiveness,
the less that God will punish us.
But the reality is God loves us too much to not allow us to be punished.
Why? Because he wants us to have good behavior for ourselves, for those around us, those
who we affect, and even for his own pleasure in some ways. Now, it says that similarly
here in verse number seven through nine, it says, if ye endure chastening,
God dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the father chastened it not
But if you be without chastisement where of all our partakers then are you bastards and not sons?
Well, the Bible is promising is that if you're saved you cannot just sin without consequence. There will be consequence
God will take care of you. God will punish you. The only way you would get away with sin is because you're not even saved
So when you see people just getting away with sin
just in egregious ways and they're not being punished,
it's almost an evidence that person's not even a saved person.
And if you were a saved person and you're sinning
and you're like, I don't seem to be punished,
you know, that's a scary thing.
That's a scary question because you have to ask this question like is that person even saved?
And if they are well, maybe God's just waiting to drop the hammer
You know what?
You must not fear God at all to just sin be called out on it and be saved and not do anything about it because God will
Recompense God will punish. It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God is what the Bible says
And when you're saved your your promise of eternal life is the same as the promise as being punished when you disobey
It's the same.
The same God that promised you eternal life and salvation is the same God that's promising
you that when you're saved and you do wrong, He will punish you.
You know what?
That is a terrifying thing for me.
I'm not motivated to go and sin when I know it's guaranteed and locked in.
Now if you're not saved, you may not get punished in this life.
There's no guarantee you'll get punished in this life because if He misses you in this
life, He'll catch you in the next one.
But here's the reality, because you're saved,
he's not catching you in the next one.
So he's gonna catch you in this one.
And be sure your sins will find you out.
God is not mocked.
What's our man's soeth?
That shall he also reap, as what the Bible says.
And it's really clear for him the Lord loveth,
he chastenedeth and scourgedeth every son
and whom he receiveth.
Every son, also what did the Bible say?
Whereof all are partakers.
Do not think you get away with sin if you're saved.
If you are saved, God knows.
This is what me and my kids, we always say, all right?
When there's a controversy between the children
and one won't take ownership for their wrongdoing,
it's just like, God knows.
And boy, that's a scary thing if you think about it.
Because here's the thing, you may lie, you could lie, and everyone falls for it.
You could trick every person in your life.
You could convince your parents, you could convince online, you could convince a whole
bunch of people that you're lying, but you can't convince God.
God knows.
God knows what we do.
So you know what?
There is no reason to ever resist getting right with God.
God knows.
You know what? If you've done wrong, tonight, you need to get on your knees and you need to tell God,
I'm sorry, I did wrong. Please don't punish me as I deserve, because God will punish you.
God will make sure you receive a
recompense. The only way to really escape that is to beg for his mercy and to try to get right.
And look, I do believe that in many cases God does not punish us as we deserve.
But the people that are going to get the least amount of punishment are the ones that beg
for His mercy and get it right and turn and repent in their hearts and their minds.
They're a gracious and merciful person to other people.
They're very forgiving unto other people.
Well, then you know what?
You may not get punished that much the way that you deserve.
You're very nasty.
You have a lot of bitterness.
You're holding other people's feet to the fire.
And you are in sin and you're not taking ownership for it.
Boy, you should be terrified.
You should be really terrified of what God made due to you.
And you know, when we get corrected by God,
when we get called out,
when we recognize we're doing something wrong,
we better have the right attitude about it
and get right with God.
Many people have the wrong attitude when they are corrected.
They cannot handle correction.
They, as the Bible says, stiff their neck.
And the Bible uses physical descriptions of people
that respond poorly to correction.
I mean, what is a stiff neck?
It's just like, you know, it's just like,
you know, when you get caught and you do something wrong,
what is the natural reaction?
kind of like look down. You're shamed, you're humbled. What's a whore's forehead? It's one
that's not embarrassed. What is someone that's embarrassed? You know, they're hiding, they're
ashamed. What is a whore's like? Yeah, I'm a whore.
It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing that a whore just can literally just be open about a disgusting sin and not even care
Not even feel shame not even feel embarrassed not have any kind of change in their attitude or demeanor
People that are prideful and arrogant
Don't show any remorse any kind of contrition on their behalf
You know, this is a bad attitude or people even get mad when they are corrected
Jonah gets corrected by God
and then the Bible says he gets angry.
That was wrong.
It was wrong for Jonah to respond that way.
I'm not going to go through all the Bible
because there's too much Bible in this.
Go to Genesis and you'll see,
not literally, I'm just saying,
if you go to Genesis you'll see
Cain is rebuked by God
and then Cain has a bad attitude
about God's correction.
He says, send life at the door
and he's telling them,
hey, you should be a ruler over sin.
Don't let sin rule over your life,
but Cain has a bad attitude
and then kills his brother.
because he responded poorly to that correction.
God will correct us, but you know what?
He does it for our benefit.
He does it because he loves us even in our own parents.
They do it because they love us too.
Look at verse 9.
Furthermore, we have had fathers who are fresh which corrected us
and we gave them reverence.
You know, if your parents spanked you,
you know you shouldn't do,
complain about it to other people.
You know the Bible says you should respect your parents because they punished you bad parents. Don't spank
Good parents do spank if you're gonna try and convince me. This is a bad parent because he disciplined his child
I'm not gonna agree with that. I
Don't agree with that. That is not what the Bible teaches the Bible teaches that you are disciplined by your parents
Because it's right
It's right. The reason why people are bad typically according to the Bible is because they were not punished.
The Bible says he that hated this son is the one that spares the rod.
He that spared this rod hated his son, but he that loved them chasing them at times is what the Bible says.
You know what? We should be disciplining our children, and when you're disciplining children, recognize that your parents love you.
Your parents discipline you because they love you.
I heard some communist preach that whenever you discipline your children you have to set
aside your natural affection.
That is satanic garbage, okay?
That is satanic evil garbage because the reason why it's hard for parents to discipline
their children is because they actually love them.
It's the natural affection that actually makes it difficult to punish them.
If you didn't even care about them, punishing them would be meaningless to you.
In fact, you may even enjoy it.
Okay, that would be making like the government
and the prison industrial complex,
you know, great or something.
No, no, no, having natural infections
would make discipline hard.
The person that loves you is willing to do it.
The person that hates you, just whatever.
Just, I don't really care.
You know, oh, Jeffrey Epstein's client list?
Nah.
That's wicked. That's evil to not punish evil doers. Okay, and if you love your children you'll punish them
You see them playing in the street, and you don't really care no punishment
If you care you'll bring them up and you'll whoop them because you know to whooping they'll survive the semi truck not gonna survive
You see them putting metal into the electrical outlet you smack their hand. That's way worse than being electrocuted to death
They go touch something hot or they try to touch something hot you smack their hand because you don't want them to hurt themselves
And injure themselves you're disciplining them for their own benefit and you know what God is going to constantly?
Discipline us and correct us for our benefit for our safety to protect us from evils and dangerous
God doesn't want you to become a drug addicted loser
God doesn't want you to get filled with STDs and be in empty, vain relationships.
God doesn't want you to suffer the horrors of divorce, so He's telling you, just like, don't do it.
You know, you'll never really appreciate the things that God's keeping you from until you go through them.
But let me tell you something. Being addicted to drugs is worse than you can imagine.
I don't even know. I've never done drugs. I never will do drugs.
But I'm just taking the bank, the people I've seen go through this and talk about it.
People that go through divorce, I've never been divorced,
never will be divorced, but let me tell you something,
I've seen what it's like.
I've seen how many times they had to file documents
with the government.
I've seen the ugliness, it is an ugly, ugly selfish sin.
You think like, oh man, someone told me not to be divorced.
That was mean.
No, no, you know what's mean?
What the judge will do to you.
You know what's mean is what your ex will do to you.
You know what's mean is what the court system and the government and police and everybody else is going to do to you.
That's going to be mean and when we get corrected on issues, instead of bristling instead of getting stiff necked,
instead of getting prideful, instead of rolling your eyes, we should receive correction.
Don't have a bad attitude about someone correcting you.
The Bible says in verse 11,
Now no chastening for the present seem to be joyous. I am not saying you need to enjoy punishment
No one enjoys punishment. In fact, that's the whole point if you enjoyed it. It wasn't punishment
If you liked it, it wasn't punishment
That's how you can tell as a parent if you punished your children if they didn't suffer in any way
It wasn't a punishment
It says no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, okay?
But grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yielded the peaceful fruit of righteousness under
them with your exercise thereby.
What is the goal of chastisement?
It's to cause better behavior.
We inflict temporary pain for permanent righteousness or alteration of behavior.
So we want to produce a good outcome.
metal objects in the electrical outlet.
You get your hands smacked temporarily
and then you learn, I'm never gonna do that.
That was a dumb move.
You don't have to be electrocuted
to realize it's a bad move.
You don't have to get hit by a car to realize it's bad.
You don't have to get divorced to realize that it's bad.
And you know what, when someone cracks you,
when someone chastises you, when someone tells you no,
you know what, the right response is to appreciate that later.
You won't appreciate it in the moment, nobody will,
nobody likes it, nobody wants it, it's not fun, it's grievous.
But you know what, afterwards we should realize,
hey, thank you mom and dad for spanking me.
Because you know what's worse than being spanked?
He's being beaten up in prison.
You know, it's worse than being whipped,
rotting in a cage, being in solitary confinement,
having a cop throw you on the ground
and shove his boot on your face,
having handcuffs wrapped around you
and being thrown into a tiny backseat of a police car,
getting mugshots and being an embarrassment in society.
You know, it's worse being addicted to all kinds of drugs and narcotics and having all
kinds of horrible relationship, drama, having bastard children, people ripping your heart
out emotionally.
Look, let me tell you something.
For some men, the worst thing that could ever be imagined is happening to them.
For so many men in our society, they married the wrong woman or made bad decisions,
and now that woman has taken them to court, has taken their kids away from them,
is taking their paycheck, is taking their alimony, and is now with another man.
And so many men are committing suicide because of the anxiety, the stress, the pressure.
You think that parents just disciplining you a little bit is mean? You don't even know what mean is.
Ask Asian cultures what it's like, okay?
You don't even know Americans are so spoiled
and many of them are brats
and we just don't understand our society,
but you know what, we should appreciate correction.
God corrects us.
Now, when you are punished,
don't have a pity party about it.
Receive the correction and move on with your life.
It says in verse 12,
wherefore lift up the hands
which hang down on the feeble knees
and make straight paths through your feet,
lest that which is lame be turned out of the way,
but let it rather be healed.
Saying, if you get punished,
if you get corrected,
if you get a little embarrassed,
don't just sit here and wallow in your own sorrow,
just fix it and move on.
fix it and move on.
Don't say, oh man, my parents are so mean,
or they're nicer to my brother,
or they're nicer to my sister,
they're punishing me a little too much
and having a bad attitude about it, just move on.
You know why you're getting punished more?
Because you're a worse kid.
Your parents did not just decide one day, you know what?
Let's just punish this other kid more for no reason.
In fact, your parents wake up every day hoping
they don't have to punish any of their kids ever again.
I mean, you're just sitting here like,
I hope I never have to do it ever again.
But then you do it and they're like, ah.
And the reason why you're being punished
is because of what you did.
Stop being bad.
And I even have had a bad attitude about correction
plenty of times in my life.
There's plenty of times where, you know,
maybe you get caught and your brother doesn't get caught,
right, or whatever, and then you kind of,
then you're just kind of like mad about,
this isn't fair, and this isn't right.
But you know what?
If you got caught, you're fortunate
because now you have an opportunity
to become a better person.
The person that doesn't get caught
is actually gonna become more of a rotten person anyways.
You know,
Chastisement is a blessing according to the Bible.
Let me shock you, go to Psalm 141 for a moment.
Let me go to Psalm 141 for a moment
and explain to you what the Bible teaches.
Don't let the world gaslight you on this narrative.
Let me tell you something, physical punishment is a good thing.
Physical chastisement is praised in the Bible.
Physical chastisement is desired in the Bible.
And, you know, as children, you should be thankful that your parents spank you if they do.
If your parents spank you, that's a good thing.
It's not a bad thing.
Look at Psalm 141 and look at verse 5.
Let the righteous smite me.
It shall be a kindness.
What is the attitude of the psalmist?
Hey, I'm glad when I get hit,
I'm glad when I get smitten
because it's actually a blessing unto me.
Now again, in some ways this is metaphoric.
Some ways it's not.
If someone were to commit an actual crime
and they were to be punished by society,
that could actually still be a kindness.
Now we in church, we're not gonna hit each other,
we're not gonna physically discipline each other.
We have church discipline, it's not like that.
I don't have a paddle, okay guys?
Don't worry.
But let me tell you something,
you know you'd be better off getting a whooping
than having God deal with you in many cases.
And a lot of times, you know, adult punishment, it's more of a verbal correction.
It's more of, hey, you're doing this wrong.
You know, instead of having a bad attitude about verbal correction, you need to appreciate it and say, hey, thank you for correcting me.
We need to be a church. We need to be a group of people that is willing to be corrected.
Because if you're being corrected, there was something wrong.
Obviously none of us just want to face unwarranted criticism and sometimes that happens when people just say things and it's not really true
But generally speaking when people give you correction, it's usually pretty warranted because most of the time
It's hard to offer criticism or offer offer some kind of correction to somebody
But you know you go soul-winning and you do something weird do something wrong and someone offers you correction
You should be like thank you
In fact, let me tell you something.
When I went to preaching class at Faith Ward Baptist Church,
you know what I wanted the most out of it?
Was correction.
That was the thing I wanted the most.
If I preached a sermon in that class,
you know what I did not want?
Praise. I wanted correction.
I don't want to know what I did good.
I want to know what I did wrong so I can become better.
Because if I only hear, good job, then I won't get better.
You know what makes someone better?
Correction.
I've gotten a lot of professional lessons
in all kinds of sports, specifically in golf,
tons and tons of instruction over my life.
You know what they did not do at that lesson
is tell me what I was doing right.
You know they're telling me what I'm doing wrong.
And that was why I was paying them.
The whole point of paying the professional
was to say, what am I doing wrong?
How do I do it better?
Like, what is the technique, what is the form, what is the reps, how can I improve?
That is the whole point.
It is a kindness, it is a blessing for someone to correct you.
Yet, many people have this bad attitude where they're already arrived.
They're already the best Christian, they're already the best worker, they're already the smartest person,
they're the best at business, they're the best husband, they're the best soul winner, they're the best man,
they know everything, they've learned every conspiracy theory and you cannot correct these people.
You don't want to be around these people though.
You know I want to be around people that want to learn, that want to grow, that are ready
to improve, those are the type of people that I want to be around and that's the type of
good people that the Bible describes.
We should be ready for correction.
I'm always ready to be corrected specifically from this book.
If I do something wrong, chapter and verse.
Now again, I get a lot of criticism from people and it's not warranted, it's not accurate.
If you want to correct me, and it's according to this,
I'm ready to change right now.
That should be our attitude.
Our attitude should be like whatever this says.
That's why I challenge a lot of fan members and friends.
People have criticized me as a pastor, or a church,
or a ministry.
I'm always like, okay, show me in the Bible
where I'm wrong and I'll fix it.
Well, you know
Yeah, you know why you know why you don't want to say something in the Bible because you don't know what this is saying and
You're wrong because you know what if we play that game then it's like all right my turn I
Got some verses for you. Let's go to there
Right, but the godly person is ready to say hey, this is the truth. Whatever it says. Let's do it and
We should have that attitude we should say you know what let the righteous smite me
You know why do some people like hard preaching?
This verse most people don't like hard preaching though because they realize when they come you might get smitten
You might get hit a little bit. You might it might hit you where it hurts in the heart
You know some people don't realize how much they're used to hard preaching
You have like visitors come or you have new people you bring your family member
But you're just kind of used to passers-by's preaching and then you bring your mom and you're like, oh man, you know
Then everything is just like, you know, because other people can't handle it as much sometimes, right?
You bring that friend, you bring that co-worker, you bring whoever, and you're just thinking like, whoa, that's a little bit spicy, right?
But for us, we like that. I want to go to a church where the pastor is ready to correct me where I need to be corrected.
Now again, I need it. You need it. We all need encouraging sermons. We all need encouraging verses. Sometimes we're down on our luck.
Sometimes we're having a bad, you know, time in our lives.
We need someone to come alongside and bear one another's burdens.
The Bible provides us a lot of comfort, a lot of peace, a lot of grace, and we want to balance that, but you know what?
We also need a lot of correction. And we should be willing to be corrected. We should have an attitude that says,
you know what? I'm ready to be corrected. Now what I'm saying so far, I'm sure all of you agree.
It's when we start talking about things that are corrective. That's when you start disagreeing, okay?
And you know what submission is?
Submission is not agreeing. Submission is doing something that you don't agree with.
It's really easy when we have a position of submission where we're supposed to submit
to either a boss or our parents or if you're a wife, your husband, if you're children,
your parents.
It's really, really easy to do what they say when you agree.
Because you agree you know it is not easy to do it when you don't agree when your boss asks you to do something
To work that you don't want to do or you don't like that's when you see if you're really submissive
When God asks you to do something that you don't really want to do or you don't really like that's where we see if you are
Submissive okay, and that's how we have to test ourselves and when God's offering us correction. We need to do it even if we don't like it
Look at the rest of verse five and let him reprove me. It shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head
My preaching has never hurt anybody physically
You know what? I can get up and scream and yell and you're gonna be sound in that little chair
I'm not gonna come over there. I'm not gonna literally hit you in the head. I haven't thrown any Bibles in anybody
You're safe
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but word shall
Never hurt me.
And you know what should not hurt you?
The truth.
The truth should help you, right?
Hey, I want this guy to approve me.
I want this guy.
It's not going to break my head.
For yet, my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Hey, I'm gonna pray for them, they're gonna pray for me.
You know, if someone tells me something I need to hear,
it's not gonna hurt me, it's a blessing.
In fact, we should want it.
We should desire correction.
We should have an attitude that's ready for correction.
But there are many people that if they're corrected,
they get a bad attitude, they get offended,
they get upset, they're disgruntled.
You know what, that's a bad attitude.
Go over to Proverbs chapter 13,
go to Proverbs chapter 13.
So, I'm just kind of proving this point for a moment in my sermon, but we need to have
a good attitude about correction.
Some people act like being smitten is like abuse.
The Bible says it's kindness.
The world's vocabulary, abuse.
The Bible's wording, kindness.
It's kind.
Parents that smite their children are kind.
They are hateful people, but society would want you to believe that it's hateful to smite your children or to punish them
You know why because the world's run by Satan
And you know what Satan wants rebellious spoiled brats, and you know it causes rebellious spoiled brats people that aren't punished
Smiting what does the rod of correction do it'll drive the foolishness out of your child
Leaving them to themselves
brings your mother to shame.
Now some people are so thick-headed
and so strong-willed,
you can't smite it out of them.
But you know what?
You will never fix them if you don't.
And so we have to offer that correction.
The Bible says in Proverbs 13 verse 1,
Why, son, heareth
his father's instruction,
but a scorner, heareth not rebuke.
What is the bad attitude?
You will not receive correction.
Look children if your parents tell you that you're wrong. You're wrong. I
Mean I'll just
When kids get older they argue about everything and the most pedantic little things
You'll just say like hey it takes 30 minutes to get a church. No, it doesn't
Yes, it does. No, it doesn't
It's like yes, it does and they're like no, I think it takes an hour. You're wrong
They'll argue with you about math. You'd be like, hey, this is the this is you know
What is two times eight and they're like 20? No, it's 16. No, that's 20
You're wrong. You're a child. You don't know but they'll just argue. They're stubborn
There's their stiff neck sometimes and I just don't know why but children will often argue and think of their smart and think that they know
Things know what just do what dad says
Many times we're foolish. We don't really understand and when we argue with our parents it shows that we're ignorant
U.S. Children when your dad says something do it when your mom says something do it just accept their correction
accept what they're saying
You know in some ways it sounds counterintuitive, but it's like even when they're wrong they're right
And that should be your attitude.
Hey, I'm just going to submit even if I thought you were wrong
because many times when you think they're wrong, you're still wrong.
There's been plenty of times where I thought I was right about something
and I was challenged from the Bible or a preacher
and then I ended up realizing later that I was actually wrong.
Did you realize that you can think that someone's wrong and you're still wrong?
Anything you disagree with me on, you're still wrong.
It was a joke. Okay. I'm just I'm just saying like obviously people are gonna think that they're right about everything
We all think that we're right about everything we think
But did you know none of us are right about everything?
Not including me
Who in here would say I've changed my opinion on something this year?
Yeah, wow, we all learned something right so at every state you keep realizing you're wrong about something
Just realize you could be wrong about something in the future, too
We're constantly wrong about things.
We have bad ideas.
We need to constantly be challenged.
And the person that won't be challenged becomes a scornor.
They make fun of everything.
They make fun of correction.
They talk badly about church.
They talk badly about their parents.
They talk badly about authority.
And really, they're just mocking God.
When we fear God, we're going to receive the correction in our lives.
We should not be someone that scoffs at correction.
We should just receive it and say thank you
and move on with our life.
And look, even if someone gives you correction
you don't really agree with, just say thank you
and move on with your life.
And if it makes sense and it's biblical, do it.
We should change and adapt.
Proverbs 15, look at verse 12.
Proverbs chapter 15 and look at verse number 12.
Why do people not like correction?
Why?
It's because they love sin.
It's why.
They like their sin, they like the pleasure the sin is giving them, and they don't want to change.
That's why they don't like correction. Verse 10,
correction is grievous unto him that forsake it the way,
and he that hateeth reproof shall die.
Hell and destruction are before the Lord, how much more than the hearts of the children of men.
A scorner loveth not one that reproofeth him. Neither will he go unto wise.
Notice the Bible is saying that it's a kindness to be smitten.
And then this guy, he hates the guy that corrects him.
Because he has a bad attitude, he has a bad heart.
So let me tell you something, when you don't like correction,
it shows that you're a bad person.
In fact, when I was doing the preaching class
with Pastor Anderson, he didn't say this up front.
This is a private thing.
But he was saying, when he would correct somebody,
if they didn't receive it well the first time,
he noted that person would want nothing to do with him,
would never put them in leadership.
Just one time, you didn't even know that.
You don't even know that as soon as you said something and you kind of just bristle or roll your eyes or do whatever
He just marked you and he's just like not gonna ever put this person in leadership
And let me tell you something. That's the right move and you don't even realize how many people are doing that subconsciously
You don't know how many times your boss is doing that subconsciously
He comes and gives you feedback and you don't receive it
Well, he may never give you feedback again because he's looking to fire you as soon as he can
You need to take correction well when someone gives you a correction you need to have a good face a brave face on
Accept the correction say thank you implement it and move on with your life
Don't be these type of people that just say like yeah, I don't know about that. Well. I don't like that idea
Well, here's why I think you're wrong about that
Yeah
You know what you should just say thank you for your perspective. Hey, you know if you need to ask a clarifying question
That's fine. If you don't understand the correction. It's fine to clarify the correction, but you know what receive the correction
Say hey, I appreciate that. I want to get better. Thank you
I do you have any other correction do you have anything else you would like for me to do because I enjoyed that
You know what if you desire to be good you'll want as much correction as possible if you desire to be bad
You want no one to ever tell you anything
We just know where your heart is based on your correction.
How many times are you being corrected and you enjoy it,
you like it, or you're asking for it?
Or you've been asking for correction in your life.
Or you're the type of person that if someone offers you a correction,
it'll change your relationship with them.
Proverbs 22, look at Proverbs 22, verse number 10.
and contention shall go out,
yea, strife and reproach shall cease."
It's like, cast out the guy sharing screenshots
from your group and then no more screenshots
are being shared.
It's weird how that works.
Hey, you cast out disgruntled people
and then everybody's all happy and reunified.
You know, people are like, ah, it's a cult
and y'all just, y'all just do whatever
past is how he says.
Yeah, because they actually like what I say.
Why would I want to keep people in here
that don't want to do the church's program?
It's like, here's the King James, now he's in IV.
Why would we want that person?
Hey, we do soul-winning by preaching his faith alone.
Well, I think it's faith that works.
You can't go soul-winning with us.
Why would I want that?
You know, what is the point of a church
if we don't agree on doctrine?
At what point are you a church anymore?
And as opposed to a social club?
Or just a YMCA or something or just mean in fact those places still have rules those places. They'll have standards
They still have I mean these clubs social clubs. They'll have a dress code
In fact, their dress code is in many cases more strict than the dress code here
You go and join the YMCA they have rules they have all kinds of policies and procedures you try to bring alcohol in there
You try to come in drunk. They'll throw you out. Oh, it's a cult
You go to a restaurant.
You go to a restaurant that serves alcohol.
They'll throw you out if you drink too much.
They'll cut you off.
They'll say, you're done, buddy.
Get out of here.
You cause problems, they'll throw you out.
Look, churches are gonna have rules and standards as well.
It makes sense.
It's logical.
It's reasonable.
And you know, we just don't want Scorner.
What's a Scorner?
Someone that hates the church.
Someone that's gonna say like,
why don't I like Pastor Shelley?
Then why are you here?
I don't like Brother Furr, okay, then leave.
Hey, in fact, if you just don't like the people here,
you can leave whenever you would like.
Because I want to be around people that like the church,
that aren't like sitting here just like,
ah, I just can't stand everybody.
I can't stand being here.
I just can't stand the preacher.
Then leave.
No one is forcing you to be here.
No one, I promise you that.
And notice when we get rid of that person,
strive and reproach are gonna cease.
We won't have as many problems.
We need to get rid of problem people.
Proverbs 22, it's pretty close.
Verse 15, foolishness is bound on the heart of a child,
but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Notice again, correction is what brings us peace.
It brings us more wisdom, more knowledge.
It just makes things better.
But I'll tell you people that have a bad attitude
and cannot be corrected ruin it for everyone.
I worked for a software company.
And we had a woman that worked for us.
She was what was known as a product manager.
It's a glorified position of nothingness, okay?
But product managers don't have any technical skills
and they essentially are supposed to be good at communicating.
They're supposed to communicate the product wishes
from the client, the customer, to the developers.
They're good at working with people. Okay, they have people skills
All right, because you talk to developers and developers aren't supposed to have the the people skills, right?
They have the long neckbeards. They show up late. They're in gym shorts. They're kind of awkward
They play Dungeons and Dragons. Sometimes they're trying to catch a Pokemon go in the middle of the stuff
Someone walks in with a problem and they start talking in, you know, all kinds of code language
Person doesn't know what's going on. There's a product manager supposed to be the in-between, right?
Now, what do you think would be important for that role?
Wouldn't it be someone that's easy to be entreated?
Gracious, able to communicate? Well, we have this woman that worked for us in this position, the most toxic
individual
unwilling to be corrected about anything,
nagged everybody,
and was just, just, you know, for lack of a better word, a female dog, all right?
You can believe in that whatever you want, all right?
And this woman just made it miserable for everybody.
Now, I'm a type of person that...
Even if I don't like you and even if you're kind of a net negative on the team
I just try to make up the hedge and just keep going because you're on my team and I'm willing to carry your burdens
So you are like that. I'm not gonna get in trouble with work
I'm just gonna make it work, and I'm just gonna keep moving on, but I'm not everybody
There's plenty of other people there that are like,
I don't want to work with you.
So you know what?
They all complained to the manager.
They're like, this person's toxic.
This person won't be corrected.
This person's whatever.
So you know what they did?
They fired her because if you went to her and you said,
hey, I don't like your attitude,
she would be like, eh, I don't care.
Or she would be mean, she would be rude,
she'd be condescending.
She would talk to me and she would just use only pronouns.
I don't know why women do this,
but they only use pronouns
and you don't understand what they just said.
So you're like, who's the he?
Who's the they?
What's the things?
Hey, can you get the thing from the guy
with the stuff over by the thing?
And it's like, are you talking about Carl and the printer?
Yeah, of course you knew I was talking about that.
Why don't you just get it?
Well, sorry, you know.
I was just trying to make sure I understand.
But let me tell you something about the real world, ladies.
You can get fired.
If you go work for Subway, they can fire you.
You go work for the software company, they can fire you.
But you know what I've noticed
that some women just don't get.
We just don't fire you as our wife or the house worker.
But how come if you went to the real world
where you could get fired, you talk nice to the boss,
you talk nice to your coworkers,
but then in the home, you can be rude and mean
and condescending because you know you can't get fired?
You know, that's a bad attitude.
And you don't like correction.
You know what? Wives should be willing to be corrected.
And what is it, the Bible said, go to Proverbs 21,
you're pretty much right there.
Look at verse 19.
It is better to dwell on the wilderness
than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Now in the real world, they just say, you're fired by
and they don't have to deal with it.
But when you're married, ugh, you know what men do?
They hide, they go to the man cave.
They go to the bar, they go hang out with the dudes,
they go to poker night, they get addicted to video games,
they do anything else because you know what,
they don't want to be around a contentious and an angry woman.
What is contention?
It's fighting, it's arguing,
it's the exact opposite of being willing to receive correction.
Look, if you as a husband just say,
hey honey, do this differently,
she just said, yes sir, no problem, done.
You would like to hang out with that person, but if you say hey, I don't like this
You're sleeping on the couch tonight
You know okay, well how many times does he want to correct you now?
He won't want to correct you now see here's the thing if you go to your boss
And he says that to you he says like hey you need to fix this and you're like well
You're as if you can get that report. He's like so you're not gonna do the report, right? Bye. You're fired
But then how come wise don't treat their husband like they would a secular boss
Isn't that a shit isn't it kind of weird?
I mean, your husband is willing to live with you
for the rest of your life, pays all your bills,
takes care of you.
When you have your time of the month,
they have to be there and deal with that.
Your boss doesn't care, and yet many women
will treat their boss way better than their husband.
This doesn't make sense, and they'll literally drive
their husband to the wilderness,
and then they'll complain about having a bad marriage.
You know you have a bed marriage because you can't be corrected
Because you're angry because you're contentious because you have a bad attitude a bad spirit and you say out
You just you're so misogynistic, you know men are in charge. Well, look, I have to pay all your bills
You know how to pay your bills? I have to go to work and you know how I keep a job
I have to do everything that my boss says
We're not in a different boat than you.
We're in the same boat.
But the problem is I have to go to submit some guy
that doesn't even like me,
that didn't give me a bunch of money
and isn't promised to be my boss for life.
I have to actually keep him happy
and make him money and do whatever he says.
Whereas you have to obey the husband that loves you
and bought you an engagement ring
and is doing good under you.
You know what's not fair?
You have a better boss.
Let's just be honest you have a better boss and you know what in order for us to keep that job and pay your bills
We have to do everything that we're told so why wouldn't you do everything that you're told?
And you know why there's a lot of problems in marriages because whys will just not be corrected
And you know what you make your house a toxic environment like that woman did but because he can't be fired
You know what, it just keeps being unresolved.
Here's some things that would be interesting.
Let me ask you this, wives.
How would you feel if your husband corrected you
about your appearance?
Would you say that's a kindness?
Or would you become angry and contentious
if they corrected you on your appearance?
What if they corrected you on how you cleaned the house
or the lack thereof?
How would that go?
It's really quiet in here, I don't know.
How would you feel if your husband
corrected you on your cooking?
That was burnt.
That didn't have, that had too much salt in it.
You didn't cook this long enough.
This needs a different sauce.
I mean, is that really unreasonable?
I mean, if you went to the restaurant
and they burned it, do you tend it back?
I mean, if they give you the wrong order, if they do it,
not the way you were expecting.
I mean, in fact, you go to a restaurant,
they'll say, cut in your steak,
make sure it's cooked exactly how you want,
because we want to get, we'll get you a new one.
Hey, you're not completely satisfied?
We'll make another one.
What would you say if I'm not completely satisfied
with the meal you just made me?
How would that go at the kitchen table?
I'm just saying some things out, I mean,
do you like correction?
What if your husband corrected you on your parenting?
Would you be willing to do that?
But you know, the wives that say,
hey, I'm willing for my husband to correct me on my appearance.
I'm willing for my husband to correct me on my cleaning.
I'm willing for my husband to correct me on my cooking.
I'm willing for my husband to correct my appearance.
You know what they will?
They'll be better looking.
They'll have a cleaner house.
Their food will be better prepared
and they'll become a better parent.
Why would you not want that?
And if you won't take correction from your husband,
who will ever correct you?
And how will you ever become a better wife?
How would you ever become a better person?
You know what?
Me going to preaching class,
I wanna know how I can do better.
And look, I'm not a wife, I'll never be a wife.
But if I was a wife, you know what I would want?
I would want my husband to help me
in every one of these areas.
I would want him to constantly tell me
how I can improve in these areas.
You don't need to be a jerk about it.
It should be mixed in with lots of compliments
and lots of grace, but I'm just saying
we should also be willing to receive some correction,
shouldn't we?
How about correction on your schooling?
I mean, isn't your children's education important?
Wouldn't you be mad if you felt like teachers
or principals or schools weren't doing a good job
in your education?
And yet, should women be willing to accept correction
on their schooling?
How about correction on your behavior?
Did you know that at workplace they have behavior standards?
You can't just act however you want.
Your emotions are not always right at the workplace.
But how come they're magically right in your home?
It shouldn't always be the case either.
The Bible is telling us to correct our behavior and our attitudes constantly.
It's telling us to be content.
Sometimes husbands need to tell their wives to be content.
Sometimes husbands need to tell their wives to be joyful.
Sometimes husbands need to tell their wives to,
you know what, have a good attitude about correction.
Sometimes husbands need to tell their wives
all kinds of things.
There are a lot of relationships out there.
You say like, hey, we never fight.
Well, you probably never say any of those things.
You know why I look quiet in here?
It's because we all know, hey, that's kind of spicy.
You think you like hard preaching.
You don't even know.
Hey, children, same way, your parents tell you not talk that way, don't talk that way.
Your parents say you don't know something, don't pretend like you do.
Your parents are smarter than you, we need to accept what they say.
Go to Proverbs 3, go to Proverbs 3, and you know what, we as God's children need to act
the same way.
Hey, we're the bride of Christ and we are the children of God, so in the same way when
God corrects us, even if we don't understand it, even if we don't like it, even if we don't
We just do it and you know what? We're happy about it. We're ready to change. We want to be good children
We want to be good Christians and we should love love love correction
Please change your attitude about look people that are really really smart and really successful in life love correction
Just a fact
They love to learn how to get better.
And a lot of rich businessmen, you know what they will do?
They'll have meetups.
They'll get together.
They'll have little conferences, and they'll critique each other on their businesses, on
their plans, and they'll try to learn from each other how to get better.
Pros that are really good at their sport, they'll go play with other pros, and they'll
learn their technique, they'll learn how they practice, they'll learn their form, and they
get really, really good.
The guys that are not very good and fail and flop, they already arrived, no one can show
Don't be this person when you go to work be ready to learn
Be ready to grow and even if you have a new guy in the job
Hey, you could still learn things from the new guy learn things from the boss
We should just always just be ready to learn. We should want to go to church to be corrected
We should want to go to the job to be corrected
We should go to our spouse and be ready to be corrected and let me play the flip verse here for a moment
You know it's okay for you men to be corrected by your wives
Just like I I would love for my boss or me as a boss to be I can be corrected by my employees
I can be corrected by my church members
And you know what as a husband you shouldn't get mad if your wife offers you advice like honey that that
Jacket doesn't look good with those pants. You know why she said that because it doesn't look good together
Honey, do you look weird?
You look sloppy.
Honey, you need to get a haircut.
Honey, you need to brush your teeth.
Honey, your breath smells bad.
She's going to give you all kinds of different advice.
Honey, maybe you should try to get up a little earlier
to get to work on time.
Honey, look, I'll be honest with you.
My wife makes me a way better person than I really am.
And she offers me all kinds of good advice all the time.
Sometimes her advice is wrong, but most of the time it's right.
And she offers me a lot of good advice.
And we should be ready to receive correction from our wives.
Our wives will help us be better men.
And you know what, ladies?
Your husband will help you to become a better wife.
We should just be ready for correction.
The next time someone offers you correction, don't get mad about it.
Receive the correction.
Embrace the correction and often when you have a bad attitude. They'll stop offering correction and really all you're doing is hurting yourself
If you have a good out if someone offers your correction and the next time you receive it really well
They'll be ready to offer you more and it just gives you an opportunity to get better and better and better
Look, what if husbands and wives were ready to just say hey do this better and it's just like yeah
You do this better and he's like you do this better
You know what you'll just constantly get better and better and better and better and better if you say like I can't I can't tell her anything
And then he would never listen to what I have to say.
They'll just get worse and worse and worse.
We need to be willing to accept each other's correction.
We need to be willing to accept and hear other people's advice in our life.
It will make us a better person.
Proverbs 3 verse 11,
I want to go to one more verse,
go to Proverbs chapter 17, we'll end.
Go to Proverbs chapter 17.
Look, just be ready to be corrected.
Please don't have a bad attitude about it.
And in fact, you should probably be looking
for more ways to be corrected in your life, not less.
And if you didn't like something I said, change.
You're being corrected.
Change your attitude.
Don't have a bad attitude about correction.
When you go soul winning,
look for an opportunity to get better.
When you come to church,
Listen to the sermon for something you can improve.
Not why, you know, I really hope my wife
listened to the sermon tonight.
I hope you listen to the sermon tonight.
I hope my husband listened to the sermon tonight.
I hope you listen to the sermon.
You children, I hope you listen.
I hope you are paying attention.
I hope you're applying things.
Whatever is there to apply to you. You know what allow the Holy Spirit to guide you in all truth
Have a better attitude have a better spirit, and you know what just be a happy person
You know a punishment is not the worst thing that can happen in fact. What was the attitude the guy? He was happy and
What happens is you get punished you're gonna be in a little low spot for a moment
Maybe a little embarrassed. Maybe you don't like it, but then you don't want to just stay in that you need to make yourself happy again
and it'll heal you.
Did you remember what it said in Hebrews
about how you let it heal you
when you receive that correction?
Okay.
Your attitude will determine a lot of these things
and just being happy heals things.
Look at Proverbs 17, verse 22.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine,
but a broken spirit dryeth the bones.
When you get corrected, don't get bitter,
don't get a bad attitude about it,
don't stay dry, don't stay cold.
Just say, you know what?
I'm so glad I got corrected.
I must have people in my life that love me.
Because you know who corrects you?
People that love you.
You know why your husband offers you correction?
Because he loves you.
You know why your wife offers you correction?
Because he loves you.
Children, you know why your parents offer you correction?
Because they love you.
You know why your pastor offers you a lot of correction?
It's because he loves you.
If you go to a church and he's like,
he's never correcting me.
He doesn't love you.
If you go to a church and they don't preach hard, it's because they don't love you.
If they're not trying to challenge you, it's because they don't love you.
If your boss will never give you instruction or correction, he doesn't love you.
He doesn't like you.
And you know what?
God does love us.
That's why this book is full of correction.
God loves you so much to correct you on every page virtually.
and the Holy Spirit will constantly reprove us and He wants to do that.
But you know, when we recognize what someone did for us,
we need to just have a merry heart, be happy about it,
because that'll heal it.
That'll heal whatever embarrassment, shame, discomfort you have from being corrected.
You know, in some cases, and in most cases, and in all cases,
we're not going to like correction in the moment,
but we should just want the correction anyways.
So we can become better Christians we can be better people and the people that embrace this sermon and take correction for the rest of
Life will end up being successful happy and having a good life and the people that don't like what I said
We come scorners and hateful and bitter ugly nasty lives
fact
Fact if you don't like correction you have a miserable life if you embrace correction you'll have a great future ahead of you
Let us be people that embrace correction just goes in prayer. Thank you for the father so much for
The word of God so that we can be constantly improved by your correction
Please help us to have the right attitude. I pray as
Husbands and as fathers that we willing to be corrected
By our wives when needed
We'd be corrected by the Word of God,
we'd be corrected by church and preaching.
I pray that when we go to work
that we could have a good attitude
that we would appreciate the correction
we receive from our bosses
and from those in charge of us.
I pray that you would help wives
to have a attitude that desires correction
and becoming a better wife.
that they would not allow themselves to become too emotional
and too adversarial and angry and contentious
and just having a bad spirit,
but rather they'd be willing to become better wives and mothers.
I pray that you'd help the children in this room
to recognize the importance of correction.
They would listen to their father and their mother's advice,
and they would not scorn.
And I pray that you just help us as a Christian people
to be an example of receiving correction.
We thank you for all that you give us
and just let me pray, amen.
All right, in closing, let's go to song number 412.
Song number 412.
Onward, Christian soldiers.
Song number 412.
Thank you very much.
Great singing everybody, you are all dismissed.