WEBVTT 00:00.100 --> 00:01.700 the gift and the giver. 01:28.000 --> 01:33.920 And now at this time, please turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 16. 01:33.920 --> 01:37.000 If you do not have a Bible, there should be one in the seat in front of you, or raise 01:37.000 --> 01:39.740 your hand and one of the ushers will get you one. 01:39.740 --> 01:42.140 As is our custom, we will read the entire chapter. 01:42.140 --> 01:47.920 Please turn at this time to Luke chapter 16 and follow along silently as we read. 01:51.300 --> 01:57.180 Luke, chapter 16, the Bible reads, And he said also unto his disciples, There 01:57.180 --> 02:01.740 was a certain rich man which had a steward, and the same was accused unto him that he 02:01.740 --> 02:03.520 had wasted his goods. 02:03.520 --> 02:07.700 And he called him and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? 02:07.700 --> 02:11.380 account to thy stewardship, for thou mayest be no longer steward. 02:11.900 --> 02:15.820 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? 02:15.820 --> 02:18.340 For my lord taketh away from me the stewardship. 02:18.340 --> 02:19.420 I cannot dig. 02:19.420 --> 02:21.620 To beg I am ashamed. 02:21.620 --> 02:26.380 I am resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me 02:26.380 --> 02:28.080 into their houses. 02:28.080 --> 02:32.860 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much 02:32.860 --> 02:34.100 O is thou unto my Lord. 02:34.500 --> 02:36.740 And he said, and a hundred measures of oil. 02:36.740 --> 02:40.980 And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. 02:40.980 --> 02:44.100 Then he said he to another, And how much o'ers thou? 02:44.100 --> 02:46.500 And he said, and a hundred measures of wheat. 02:46.500 --> 02:50.100 And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. 02:50.100 --> 02:54.340 And the Lord commended the undressed steward, because he had done wisely. 02:54.500 --> 02:59.380 For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 02:59.380 --> 03:04.260 And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, 03:04.260 --> 03:09.300 that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 03:09.300 --> 03:14.100 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much, 03:14.100 --> 03:18.700 and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 03:18.900 --> 03:23.820 If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to 03:23.820 --> 03:25.420 your trust the true riches? 03:25.420 --> 03:30.620 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that 03:30.620 --> 03:32.220 which is your own? 03:32.220 --> 03:37.660 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or 03:37.660 --> 03:41.020 else he will hold to the one and despise the other. 03:41.020 --> 03:42.620 We cannot serve God and man. 03:43.000 --> 03:48.680 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him. 03:48.680 --> 03:54.520 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your 03:54.520 --> 03:55.520 hearts. 03:55.520 --> 03:59.520 For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 03:59.520 --> 04:02.280 The law and the prophets were until John. 04:02.280 --> 04:06.440 Since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. 04:06.800 --> 04:11.800 and it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of the law to fail. 04:11.800 --> 04:16.000 Whosoever putteth away his wife and marryeth another, comitteth adultery, 04:16.000 --> 04:20.800 and whosoever marryeth her that is put away from her husband, comitteth adultery. 04:20.800 --> 04:27.300 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day. 04:27.500 --> 04:33.460 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores, 04:33.460 --> 04:37.100 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. 04:37.100 --> 04:40.460 Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores. 04:40.460 --> 04:45.900 And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's 04:45.900 --> 04:46.260 bosom. 04:46.800 --> 04:52.640 The rich man also died and was buried, and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, 04:52.640 --> 04:57.680 and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, 04:57.680 --> 05:03.360 Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water 05:03.360 --> 05:09.040 and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, 05:09.700 --> 05:16.100 Remember that thou in thy lifetime receivest thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. 05:16.600 --> 05:21.940 But now he is comforted, and thou are tormented. And beside all this, 05:22.400 --> 05:28.240 between us and you there is a great guilt fixed, so that they which would pass from thence to you cannot. 05:28.720 --> 05:31.640 Neither can they pass to us that would come from thence. 05:32.400 --> 05:37.480 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father, that thou wouldst send him to my father's 05:37.480 --> 05:38.480 house. 05:38.480 --> 05:42.720 For I have five brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place 05:42.720 --> 05:44.600 of torment. 05:44.600 --> 05:48.120 Abraham said unto him, They have Moses and the prophets. 05:48.120 --> 05:50.000 Let them hear them. 05:50.000 --> 05:55.240 And he said, Nay, Father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 05:55.700 --> 06:03.140 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." 06:03.140 --> 06:07.140 And Brother Bill, would you bless the service for us? 06:24.100 --> 06:26.100 Amen. We're in Luke chapter 16. 06:26.900 --> 06:30.200 Telling my sermon this morning is Fathers, Fathers. 06:30.800 --> 06:36.700 And if you remember on Mother's Day, I preached one called Mother, or Mothers. 06:37.200 --> 06:44.300 And so I'm using the acronym for Fathers, but I'm not going to get super complicated this morning. 06:44.700 --> 06:45.700 But each letter... 06:46.400 --> 06:50.800 And the word Fathers is going to be a letter in my point. 06:50.800 --> 06:51.800 So. 06:53.600 --> 07:01.760 Anyway, so the first letter is going to stand for the word faithful and of course God is always faithful and 07:02.880 --> 07:07.560 He is the ultimate and the best example for a father 07:07.560 --> 07:14.560 He's always going to do that which is right and we can always use God the Father as an example to us as what a father 07:14.960 --> 07:17.860 Should be and this morning. I'm not going to 07:20.100 --> 07:24.380 I'm not going to use God for every single example, but of course God is the ultimate 07:24.380 --> 07:27.820 example in every point that I'm going to bring up. 07:27.820 --> 07:30.940 But I am going to go to some verses. 07:31.400 --> 07:34.840 for this specific point here. 07:34.840 --> 07:38.460 And so God is always faithful. 07:38.460 --> 07:42.140 God the Father is specifically always faithful. 07:42.140 --> 07:43.220 We're gonna turn to a lot of verses. 07:43.220 --> 07:44.780 We're gonna come back to Luke chapter 16, 07:44.780 --> 07:47.140 but I do wanna kinda highlight the fact 07:47.140 --> 07:50.600 that God is always faithful because this applies 07:50.600 --> 07:53.940 to all the points and of course you can put 07:53.940 --> 07:55.500 insert God into every single point. 07:55.500 --> 07:57.900 But if I did that with every point in the sermon, 07:57.900 --> 07:59.340 we'd be here for a long time. 07:59.400 --> 08:04.120 And I know that once this Panda Express smell wafts through here and you guys are all going 08:04.120 --> 08:07.360 to start looking and you know you're going to get hungry. 08:07.360 --> 08:09.920 And so I'm going to try to preach this sermon as fast as I can. 08:09.920 --> 08:12.520 But it is an important message. 08:12.520 --> 08:17.640 And I was listening to something, I don't know if it was a podcast or what it was, but 08:17.640 --> 08:23.400 it was something to the effect of that Father's Day is the least celebrated holiday of the 08:23.400 --> 08:24.720 year. 08:24.720 --> 08:25.720 And that kind of made me sad. 08:25.720 --> 08:27.280 It made me feel bad because... 08:27.400 --> 08:29.160 that shouldn't be the case. 08:29.160 --> 08:32.760 And I think that fathers should be lifted up, 08:32.760 --> 08:34.280 especially good fathers. 08:34.280 --> 08:37.800 And even if you have a father that's not the greatest 08:37.800 --> 08:41.720 in the world, you should still call your dad if you're able to 08:41.720 --> 08:43.640 and wish him Happy Father's Day. 08:43.640 --> 08:45.880 And fathers should be respected. 08:46.520 --> 08:47.160 Fathers should be... 08:48.900 --> 08:53.780 should be lifted up in our society especially if you have a father that did right by you and 08:54.740 --> 08:58.740 did well by you and raised you and took care of you. 08:59.000 --> 09:06.040 And we live in a society today that is always trying to downgrade fathers and, you know, 09:06.040 --> 09:11.720 trying to lift up the matriarchal, matriarchal, the feminist side of society. And, you know, 09:11.720 --> 09:17.000 you got two dads raising children that ought not to be, I'm talking about in a queer way. 09:17.720 --> 09:22.280 And, you know, all these lesbian adoptions and, you know, we have, 09:22.280 --> 09:26.920 America's trying to queer away our society. And we need to have strong men in this. 09:27.000 --> 09:32.060 world that are raising children right with both family members, you know, the 09:32.060 --> 09:36.080 mom and the dad. We need the nuclear family to be something that's the normal 09:36.080 --> 09:40.060 part of our society and people are pushing back against that kind of 09:40.060 --> 09:46.020 mentality right now. It's good to see even in sports that people are standing 09:46.020 --> 09:47.500 up against this garbage. 09:47.600 --> 09:54.000 And I was reading, or I was, you know, I read an article about how the San Francisco Giants, 09:54.000 --> 09:59.520 which of course San Francisco is the most queer, one of the most queer areas in the United States, 09:59.520 --> 10:01.360 but the baseball team... 10:01.800 --> 10:07.080 A lot of the players put Bible verses on their pride hats that they had to wear. 10:07.080 --> 10:10.840 I mean, people were just forcing this down people's throats for so long 10:10.840 --> 10:15.640 that the players put like the real rainbow verses on their hats. 10:15.640 --> 10:17.160 You know, they just wrote them on there. 10:17.160 --> 10:21.560 In the baseball league, they tried to, they threatened them. 10:21.560 --> 10:22.200 They didn't try to. 10:22.200 --> 10:27.080 They did threaten them basically with firing them if they did that again. 10:27.080 --> 10:29.720 And then, you know, we actually have a justice department. 10:29.800 --> 10:33.000 that threatened back and said, hey, you can't do that. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.960 They have the right to not have to wear these things. 10:35.960 --> 10:39.520 And they threatened the Major League Baseball League 10:39.520 --> 10:43.800 and said, hey, you can't force them to wear this stuff 10:43.800 --> 10:44.800 if they don't want to. 10:44.800 --> 10:47.520 You need to have an alternative kind of uniform. 10:47.520 --> 10:50.160 And so that is the good thing about, 10:50.160 --> 10:52.920 people are just down on everything with this regime 10:52.920 --> 10:53.760 that we have right now, 10:53.760 --> 10:56.560 but at least they're pushing back on some of this stuff. 10:56.700 --> 10:59.580 And that's a good thing. 10:59.580 --> 11:01.660 Before, there was a Chicago Bulls player, 11:01.660 --> 11:03.120 I think it was last year, the year before last, 11:03.120 --> 11:04.340 or something like that. 11:04.340 --> 11:08.500 They got fired because he didn't even say anything that crazy. 11:08.500 --> 11:11.740 And he got fired for just speaking out 11:11.740 --> 11:13.740 against Helmos a little bit. 11:13.740 --> 11:16.060 He didn't say anything nearly as radical as we would say. 11:16.060 --> 11:17.900 But anyway, let's move on. 11:17.900 --> 11:19.820 I don't want to talk about that too much today. 11:19.820 --> 11:20.200 But. 11:20.400 --> 11:26.960 So the first point of my sermon is F and that stands for faithful. God is always faithful. 11:26.960 --> 11:31.760 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 9 says, God is faithful. 11:32.500 --> 11:37.940 by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." 11:37.940 --> 11:42.180 I'm going to just kind of roll through these. 1 Corinthians 10 13 says, 11:42.180 --> 11:46.580 But God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you're able, 11:47.300 --> 11:53.780 but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it. 11:54.300 --> 11:56.940 2 Thessalonians 3 13 says, 11:56.940 --> 11:59.080 But the LORD is faithful 11:59.080 --> 12:00.740 who shall establish you 12:00.740 --> 12:02.740 and keep you from evil. 12:02.740 --> 12:04.840 1 Thessalonians 5 24 says, 12:04.840 --> 12:06.840 Faithful is he that calleth you, 12:06.840 --> 12:09.220 who also will do it. 12:09.220 --> 12:11.720 2 Timothy 2 13 says, 12:11.720 --> 12:13.220 If we believe not, 12:13.220 --> 12:15.220 yet he abideth faithful, 12:15.220 --> 12:17.620 he cannot deny himself. 12:17.620 --> 12:19.420 And Titus 1 2. 12:19.700 --> 12:23.700 says, in hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie, 12:23.700 --> 12:25.700 promise before the world began. 12:25.700 --> 12:27.700 So that word doesn't have faithful in it, but 12:27.700 --> 12:29.700 it is a faithful saying though, 12:29.700 --> 12:32.700 that God will keep his promise. 12:32.700 --> 12:34.700 When he says he's going to give you eternal life, 12:34.700 --> 12:35.700 that's what he means. 12:35.700 --> 12:37.700 He's not going to just take it away from you 12:37.700 --> 12:38.700 because you do something wrong. 12:38.700 --> 12:41.700 And this is what a lot of people believe in our society. 12:41.700 --> 12:43.700 They don't even understand the true gospel. 12:43.700 --> 12:45.700 That when you believe in Christ, 12:46.100 --> 12:49.020 He gives you everlasting life and that means it lasts forever. 12:49.020 --> 12:53.420 It's not that he's going to take it away because he did something wrong, which is what a lot of people believe. 12:53.420 --> 12:59.580 So even if we suck, basically, he will always do what he says he will do. 12:59.580 --> 13:01.580 We can always count on him. 13:01.580 --> 13:07.180 As fathers and men in general, we should strive to have these same qualities that God has 13:07.180 --> 13:14.100 and live our lives and in our character where we lack, set our minds to fix the deficiencies that we have. 13:14.100 --> 13:16.060 we have in our lives. 13:16.060 --> 13:17.860 So I'm going to read a lot of verses today. 13:17.860 --> 13:19.700 We're going to go through a lot of verses today. 13:19.800 --> 13:26.680 But we're gonna find things that we lack in these verses men and this isn't just for fathers obviously 13:26.680 --> 13:28.680 This is this is where I want to put my focus today 13:28.840 --> 13:35.120 But all men should hear these things and apply them and ladies can apply a lot of these things, too 13:35.120 --> 13:41.120 This isn't just for fathers like I said we can all apply the word of God to ourselves this morning 13:41.120 --> 13:44.960 We can all find something don't just tune out and say well, I'm not a dad so this doesn't matter 13:45.160 --> 13:47.720 No, but are you a son? Can you apply these? 13:47.800 --> 13:53.880 things to you yourself as a child or daughter you can apply these things to your life and 13:53.880 --> 13:58.400 these things are just general there's a lot of things are just general practices that 13:58.400 --> 14:03.520 Christians should follow so let's look back at Luke chapter 16 where you already are it 14:03.520 --> 14:09.640 says in verse 10 he that is faithful and that which is least is faithful also in much. 14:10.000 --> 14:14.700 And he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 14:14.700 --> 14:19.360 So Jesus is teaching this principle that, hey, if you have a little bit and you're just 14:19.360 --> 14:25.000 faithful in that one thing that you're doing, it doesn't matter what it is, then you'll 14:25.000 --> 14:27.240 also be faithful in much. 14:27.240 --> 14:32.080 If you're given a little bit of responsibility at work, man, then your boss can say, hey, 14:32.080 --> 14:35.120 he's really good at just sweeping the floor, he does a good job. 14:35.120 --> 14:38.000 You're a key person to maybe be promoted. 14:38.000 --> 14:39.760 and doing something else. 14:39.760 --> 14:41.720 If your boss sees that you're a hard worker 14:41.720 --> 14:43.640 and just doing the little things good, 14:43.640 --> 14:46.160 he's gonna give you some more responsibility 14:46.160 --> 14:49.260 and make sure those things are key 14:49.260 --> 14:51.260 and prime things to be promoted for. 14:51.400 --> 14:56.280 But if you're like, this is beneath me, how dare they put me as the dishwasher? 14:56.280 --> 15:02.280 Well, if you do a good job doing the dishwasher, maybe they're going to say, hey, this guy 15:02.280 --> 15:03.840 is a great worker. 15:03.840 --> 15:07.440 Maybe he could be the next manager at some point. 15:07.440 --> 15:08.640 Bosses look at the things that you do. 15:08.640 --> 15:10.520 They look at the practices you do. 15:10.520 --> 15:14.960 They look at the people that walk by a piece of paper and don't pick it up. 15:15.600 --> 15:18.320 And then they walk by the person that picks up the piece of paper. 15:18.320 --> 15:20.920 It doesn't matter who it is. 15:20.920 --> 15:24.160 I was doing a job interview one time. 15:24.160 --> 15:27.760 And I believe this principle is true, 15:27.760 --> 15:32.340 that the person that picks up the piece of paper is the manager. 15:32.340 --> 15:34.800 And I was doing a job interview with a manager. 15:34.800 --> 15:36.400 It was the manager of a store. 15:36.600 --> 15:42.500 And I was during the interview there was a piece of paper laying on the ground and during the interview 15:42.500 --> 15:48.160 He just stopped talking to me and just bent over and picked up a piece of paper and put it in his pocket. I 15:48.720 --> 15:50.720 Was like he's that's why he's the manager 15:51.080 --> 15:55.600 Because he's faithful and that which is little he's also faithful now 15:55.600 --> 16:02.660 Which is much and so men we should have the character to do that which is little and God's gonna give you more 16:03.200 --> 16:06.960 He's going to give you more if you're faithful in giving. 16:06.960 --> 16:09.820 He's going to give you more if you're faithful in church. 16:09.820 --> 16:12.780 He's going to give you blessings if you're faithful in Bible reading. 16:12.780 --> 16:13.780 He's going to give you knowledge. 16:13.780 --> 16:18.440 If you're faithful in prayer, He's going to give you the desires of your heart. 16:18.440 --> 16:22.520 But if you're not faithful in anything, then how can you expect that God is going to bless 16:22.520 --> 16:24.320 you with anything? 16:24.320 --> 16:27.760 If He knows you're just not going to be faithful doing anything, then why would He give you 16:27.760 --> 16:28.760 more? 16:28.760 --> 16:30.080 That's the principle that Jesus is applying here. 16:30.600 --> 16:36.460 It says, if therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous man-men who will commit 16:36.460 --> 16:40.840 to your trust the true riches. 16:40.840 --> 16:42.760 He's just talking about just regular money. 16:42.760 --> 16:47.560 Well then why would he trust you with things that matter, things that are spiritual? 16:47.560 --> 16:51.040 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you 16:51.040 --> 16:52.240 that which is your own? 16:53.300 --> 17:02.300 No servant can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. 17:02.300 --> 17:04.300 He cannot serve God and mammon. 17:04.300 --> 17:14.300 And what's the real point that he's bringing up is that you have to, you know, when you're serving the Lord, you know, your main focus should be to serve the Lord. 17:14.800 --> 17:19.320 all these things shall be added unto you seek ye first to the kingdom of God and 17:19.320 --> 17:24.360 his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you you know he 17:24.360 --> 17:31.000 doesn't want you to just focus only on the things that you know of making money 17:31.000 --> 17:33.480 or a lot of people are like well serve God when I've made enough money to be 17:33.480 --> 17:36.400 able to serve God that's not what the bottom that's not the principles of the 17:36.400 --> 17:37.100 Bible 17:37.200 --> 17:43.200 No, serve him now while you can and then he's going to add these things unto you. 17:43.200 --> 17:44.200 Seek ye first the kingdom of God. 17:44.200 --> 17:48.160 I mean, I didn't turn to that verse, I was just quoting the verse, but turn to Proverbs 17:48.160 --> 17:50.400 chapter 28 verse 20. 17:50.400 --> 17:55.600 So look, God doesn't want us to sit there and just obsess over money and how can I make 17:55.600 --> 17:56.600 more money? 17:56.600 --> 17:58.520 Of course he wants us to support our families. 17:58.520 --> 18:00.980 Of course he wants us to be promoted. 18:00.980 --> 18:03.600 But not at the sake of your family though. 18:04.200 --> 18:06.400 Not at the sake of your church life though. 18:06.400 --> 18:10.000 Not at the sake of not being able to serve God. 18:10.000 --> 18:12.800 If you think that he wants you to make money over serving God, you're crazy. 18:12.800 --> 18:15.200 That's not what the Bible teaches at all. 18:15.200 --> 18:18.400 So, look at Proverbs chapter 28, verse 20. 18:18.400 --> 18:19.200 It says, 18:19.200 --> 18:23.520 A faithful man shall abound with blessings. 18:24.100 --> 18:30.060 And faithful means, and obviously faithful can mean you're just full of faith, but faithful 18:30.060 --> 18:35.860 also means, and I believe that in this context it's talking about someone who's just good 18:35.860 --> 18:37.540 with the things he has. 18:37.540 --> 18:42.060 You're doing well with the things that you have, the responsibilities that you have, 18:42.060 --> 18:50.700 and so a faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he that maketh haste to be rich shall 18:50.700 --> 18:51.700 not be innocent. 18:52.200 --> 18:53.860 So making haste to be rich. 18:53.860 --> 18:54.860 What was that? 18:54.860 --> 19:01.740 Just worrying about being rich, trying to make money no matter what, trying to put money 19:01.740 --> 19:07.220 first before putting God first is always a bad idea. 19:07.220 --> 19:11.340 Look at Luke chapter 12, Luke chapter 12, verse number 42. 19:11.340 --> 19:13.460 Luke chapter 12, verse number 42. 19:13.460 --> 19:15.460 The Bible says, and the Lord said... 19:15.900 --> 19:23.100 Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall make ruler over his household 19:23.100 --> 19:26.940 to give them their portion of meat in due season?" 19:26.940 --> 19:27.940 So he's talking about what? 19:27.940 --> 19:28.940 A steward. 19:28.940 --> 19:32.420 A steward is someone who takes care of other people's stuff. 19:32.420 --> 19:33.900 It's basically what it is. 19:33.900 --> 19:38.340 And a lot of times it's talking about maybe their property, their money, or whatever it 19:38.340 --> 19:42.380 is, someone who takes care of things that don't belong to them, they belong to somebody 19:42.380 --> 19:42.820 else. 19:43.200 --> 19:51.020 It says, blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing. 19:51.020 --> 19:53.060 So when God comes back and He sees us. 19:53.400 --> 20:00.200 Working and doing that which he asked us to do taking care of his vineyard because Jesus has gone on that long journey 20:00.480 --> 20:06.600 He's waiting to come back and what's he wants to do? He wants us to you know expand the kingdom of heaven 20:06.840 --> 20:09.360 he wants us to take that talent that he's given us and 20:10.080 --> 20:12.360 Produce more he wants us to produce fruit 20:13.100 --> 20:16.700 And that is not how great we live our life or whatever. 20:16.700 --> 20:17.800 It's not what that's talking about. 20:17.800 --> 20:21.400 It's talking about bringing forth more salvations, right? 20:21.400 --> 20:25.520 And it says, of a truth I say unto you 20:25.520 --> 20:27.500 that he will make him ruler. 20:27.600 --> 20:30.000 of all that he hath. 20:30.000 --> 20:33.280 So when you're doing well, you're being a good steward 20:33.280 --> 20:35.600 of the things that God's given you to do, 20:35.600 --> 20:38.640 he's gonna make us rulers over all that he hath. 20:38.640 --> 20:40.780 But the person that's not doing those things, 20:40.780 --> 20:43.180 they're not gonna get those blessings 20:43.180 --> 20:44.400 like the other person. 20:44.400 --> 20:46.240 There is a difference in blessings. 20:46.240 --> 20:48.100 We don't all get the same blessing. 20:48.100 --> 20:49.760 That's called communism, folks. 20:49.760 --> 20:53.340 And communism has been proven to be a failure 20:53.340 --> 20:55.560 over and over and over again. 20:55.600 --> 20:57.600 It does not work. 20:57.600 --> 21:02.640 First Corinthians 4, chapter 1. 21:02.640 --> 21:09.760 The Bible says, First Corinthians 4, chapter 1, says, Let a man so account of us as of 21:09.760 --> 21:15.480 the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 21:15.480 --> 21:21.320 Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful. 21:21.800 --> 21:26.580 So, stewards are supposed to be faithful in that which they're stewarding over, that which 21:26.580 --> 21:30.060 they're given responsibility over. 21:30.060 --> 21:32.900 And so Paul is talking about being a steward of the mysteries of God. 21:32.900 --> 21:38.460 He's supposed to teach people what God is imparting onto him, that wisdom. 21:38.460 --> 21:45.660 And so, as dads, we're supposed to, as fathers, we're supposed to impart wisdom unto our children, 21:45.660 --> 21:47.580 wisdom onto our family. 21:47.580 --> 21:49.580 But we're also supposed to be faithful to take care of 21:49.800 --> 21:55.460 of that family. Look, God put you in the position that He put you in as a dad, as a father, 21:55.460 --> 21:58.800 so that you would be a good steward of the family that He has provided you with. 21:59.500 --> 22:04.300 And whatever he's providing you with a wife, he's providing you with children. 22:04.300 --> 22:07.680 He expects you to be a good steward of those things. 22:07.680 --> 22:12.640 And to not ruin your marriage, and to not ruin your children, and to raise them the 22:12.640 --> 22:14.640 way that he wants you to raise them. 22:14.640 --> 22:18.920 He's expecting some good fruit as a return. 22:19.500 --> 22:21.900 for the great family that He's given you. 22:21.900 --> 22:23.500 Not for you to ruin them, 22:23.500 --> 22:25.220 not for you to not take them to church, 22:25.220 --> 22:28.180 not for you to not teach them the ways of the Lord, 22:28.180 --> 22:31.540 but to be a good steward of those things. 22:31.540 --> 22:34.060 Because we're supposed to not just be good stewards 22:34.060 --> 22:35.880 of the resources that we have, 22:35.880 --> 22:38.640 but also of the blessings that we get, 22:38.640 --> 22:40.420 and we're supposed to give spiritual blessings 22:40.420 --> 22:42.580 unto the families that we've been given. 22:43.100 --> 22:47.400 And even if you're not a father, do you have influences around you? 22:47.400 --> 22:51.800 Well, we're supposed to be good stewards of the influences that we have been given also. 22:51.800 --> 22:55.200 And to be a bad steward of that is not great. 22:55.200 --> 22:59.200 It says, moreover, it's required of stewards that a man be found faithful. 22:59.200 --> 23:04.800 If you're not faithful, again, in those little things, why would God give you more than that? 23:04.800 --> 23:07.100 1 John chapter 1 verse 9. 23:07.100 --> 23:09.100 1 John chapter 1 verse 9. 23:09.200 --> 23:12.640 And this is my longest point by the way, so don't get too worried. 23:12.640 --> 23:16.380 Alright, 1 John chapter 1 verse 9. 23:16.380 --> 23:21.600 Because there's a lot of fathers out there today that just aren't faithful with the things that God's given them. 23:21.600 --> 23:27.200 Maybe they do well for a while with the blessings that they get, they do well with the wife that they have, 23:27.200 --> 23:29.300 they do well with the children they have for a while. 23:29.300 --> 23:36.900 But look, there's always the danger of falling away, of not giving God your best. 23:37.100 --> 23:43.220 It's easy to slowly get backslidden and to slowly get away from the things of God prone to wander God 23:43.220 --> 23:45.280 I feel it that's that come thou fount song 23:45.400 --> 23:51.340 You know everybody feels that tug to go back to the things that they used to be in but like you can't ever go back 23:51.420 --> 23:55.640 You know that saying you can never go back home. It's it's kind of true 23:55.900 --> 24:02.160 You can never go back to Egypt Egypt will not receive you the way that you think that they will 24:02.900 --> 24:07.900 And it's like, do you think Moses could have really went back to Egypt and been the prince of Egypt again? 24:07.900 --> 24:12.900 There's just no way. I mean, he killed an Egyptian. They were never going to look at him the same again. 24:12.900 --> 24:16.700 And then he forsook all Egypt's gods. 24:16.900 --> 24:20.580 If Moses would have just said, you know what, I'm just going to take my family and we're 24:20.580 --> 24:21.580 going to just stay here. 24:21.580 --> 24:25.660 You know, bye Aaron, have fun, have fun doing whatever you want to do. 24:25.660 --> 24:26.660 It would have never worked. 24:26.660 --> 24:30.340 He would have been mocked and ridiculed and that's exactly what the world would do to 24:30.340 --> 24:32.420 you if you do that. 24:32.420 --> 24:35.700 And God will make sure that you're ridiculed and mocked. 24:35.700 --> 24:41.700 Anyway, 1 John 1, 9 says, if we confess our sins, He is faithful. 24:42.400 --> 24:44.400 and just to forgive us our sins. 24:44.400 --> 24:47.100 Because God is the only one that can forgive sins, amen? 24:47.100 --> 24:50.640 And it says, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 24:50.640 --> 24:54.100 So look, we have, when we sin, and we will sin. 24:54.500 --> 24:57.860 We have an advocate, Jesus Christ the righteous. 24:57.860 --> 25:00.820 He's the only propitiation for our sins. 25:00.820 --> 25:03.360 Mary cannot forgive us of sins. 25:03.360 --> 25:06.420 Mary was just a human vessel that God used 25:06.420 --> 25:09.320 to bring forth the Lord Jesus Christ. 25:09.320 --> 25:11.820 She was not sinless, she never was. 25:11.820 --> 25:14.620 She was not a perpetual virgin, she never was. 25:14.620 --> 25:17.100 Oh, she was a virgin, but she wasn't a virgin 25:17.100 --> 25:18.340 after Jesus was born. 25:18.340 --> 25:20.140 She did have other children with Joseph. 25:20.140 --> 25:22.180 The Catholic Church is lying about that. 25:22.180 --> 25:22.500 And it's. 25:22.500 --> 25:24.620 It's just a stupid doctrine. 25:24.620 --> 25:27.740 The Bible says multiple times that he had brothers and sisters 25:27.740 --> 25:29.420 that were waiting outside of his church services 25:29.420 --> 25:30.500 when he was holding them. 25:30.500 --> 25:32.340 I mean, the Catholic Church will say, 25:32.340 --> 25:35.100 oh, those were just his cousins. 25:35.100 --> 25:37.380 Well, have you ever called your cousins your brothers 25:37.380 --> 25:38.460 or sisters before? 25:38.460 --> 25:40.620 Because I haven't. 25:40.620 --> 25:43.020 And what are they called in Spanish? 25:43.020 --> 25:44.420 Primos or something like that? 25:44.420 --> 25:45.300 Yeah. 25:45.300 --> 25:46.980 This is my primo. 25:46.980 --> 25:47.980 No. 25:48.000 --> 25:49.760 Or is Carnot brother? 25:49.760 --> 25:50.720 Is that what it? 25:50.720 --> 25:51.480 Yeah. 25:51.480 --> 25:53.480 Yeah, see, I know a little bit of Spanish. 25:53.480 --> 25:54.880 Just enough to get me in trouble. 25:54.880 --> 25:57.840 But I got that right, at least. 25:57.840 --> 25:59.440 I probably didn't say it right, though. 25:59.440 --> 26:01.200 She's going to correct me after the service. 26:01.200 --> 26:04.480 But primo, you say it like a white guy. 26:04.480 --> 26:05.400 Well, I am white. 26:05.400 --> 26:06.960 But anyway. 26:07.700 --> 26:13.060 But here's the thing, look, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and 26:13.060 --> 26:17.700 cleanse us all right righteousness, but now let's turn over to Matthew chapter 18. Matthew chapter 18. 26:18.580 --> 26:28.420 So look, as dads, we have to show our children what forgiveness is like too. We have to show our wives 26:28.900 --> 26:30.780 what forgiveness is like too. 26:30.780 --> 26:33.320 Because in the family structure, 26:33.320 --> 26:36.100 we represent God the Father to our children. 26:36.100 --> 26:39.020 And so we have to show them what God is like, 26:39.020 --> 26:42.020 even though, you know, because we're made in the image 26:42.020 --> 26:45.060 and likeness of God, man is, okay? 26:45.060 --> 26:48.560 And so we have to show our children what God is like, 26:48.560 --> 26:51.380 because why would they want to get saved 26:51.380 --> 26:53.780 if we never show them what God's like? 26:53.780 --> 26:55.800 If we never show them the way God is? 26:56.000 --> 26:59.200 Because that is why God made the family structure the way he did 27:00.160 --> 27:02.580 So look at Matthew chapter 18 verse 21 27:03.560 --> 27:08.140 So God's faithful to forgive us our sins. He's forgiven us a great debt if you're safe today 27:08.420 --> 27:11.960 He forgave you for a lot of sins. You're still doing it today 27:12.120 --> 27:17.740 You'll still do it tomorrow and until Jesus Christ comes we're still going to sin and yeah 27:17.780 --> 27:22.400 He's forgiven us of all of our sins, but we still sin in the flesh, okay? 27:23.000 --> 27:29.640 And so he still, you know, we're grace, we're sinned to the bound, grace did much more bound. 27:29.640 --> 27:35.240 So we're given grace for those things. Look, I understand that. But it doesn't take away 27:35.240 --> 27:40.600 from the fact that we still sin in the flesh on a daily basis. Look at Matthew 18, 21, it says, 27:40.600 --> 27:47.400 Then came Peter to him and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Tell seven times. 27:47.700 --> 27:50.060 And a lot of people will be like, yeah, well, 27:50.060 --> 27:51.980 I've already forgiven them all these times, 27:51.980 --> 27:53.980 and they did it again. 27:53.980 --> 27:55.180 Look what it says. 27:55.180 --> 27:58.820 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee until seven times, 27:58.820 --> 28:01.340 but until seventy times seven. 28:01.340 --> 28:03.780 So is there a threshold? 28:03.780 --> 28:06.820 I think Jesus is just using hyperbole here a little bit. 28:06.820 --> 28:09.480 I think he's just throwing out a number, 28:09.480 --> 28:12.900 because it's just however many times they sin against you, 28:12.900 --> 28:13.700 and they actually. 28:14.200 --> 28:20.280 tell you they're sorry, you should forgive them. It says, Therefore is the king of heaven likened 28:20.280 --> 28:25.080 unto a certain king which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, 28:26.440 --> 28:31.720 one was brought unto him which owed him ten thousand talents. And ten thousand talents is a 28:31.720 --> 28:39.000 lot of dough. But for as much as he had not to pay, his Lord commanded him to be sold in his wife 28:39.000 --> 28:41.480 and children all that he had and payment to be made. 28:41.800 --> 28:48.520 So basically this is a debt that he couldn't pay. He had nowhere near enough money to pay this debt. 28:48.520 --> 28:54.120 And that's what represents our sin debt. We could never pay that sin debt. We could never do enough 28:54.120 --> 29:01.160 good works to earn it. Nothing. So when we're sinners, we needed Jesus to pay our sin debt. 29:01.600 --> 29:03.680 He is the only one that was able to pay it for us 29:03.680 --> 29:09.100 It says the servant therefore fell down and worshiped him saying Lord have patience with me 29:09.100 --> 29:15.060 And I will pay thee all then the Lord of that servant was moved with compassion and loosed him and forgave him the debt 29:15.060 --> 29:17.060 That's what God does for us when we get saved 29:17.300 --> 29:21.120 But the same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants 29:21.220 --> 29:28.540 Which owed him a hundred pence and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat saying pay me that thou oweest 29:29.400 --> 29:34.980 So this is like the equivalent of a Christian not forgiving someone that asked them for 29:34.980 --> 29:36.240 forgiveness. 29:36.240 --> 29:42.060 Because doesn't that person in the story here say, hey, forgive me, and then the person 29:42.060 --> 29:44.020 doesn't forgive them? 29:44.020 --> 29:45.580 Let's look at it again real quick. 29:45.580 --> 29:50.060 It says, but the same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants which owed 29:50.060 --> 29:52.000 him a hundred pence. 29:52.000 --> 29:55.800 Which that's not even comparable to talents upon talents, right? 29:55.800 --> 29:59.440 And he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. 29:59.440 --> 30:03.380 And the fellow servant fell down at his feet and besought him, saying, Have patience with 30:03.380 --> 30:04.920 me and I will pay thee all. 30:04.920 --> 30:08.120 Isn't he saying, Hey, forgive me too? 30:08.120 --> 30:09.120 Right? 30:09.120 --> 30:15.240 And he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. 30:15.240 --> 30:20.240 So when his fellow servant saw what was done, they were very sorry and came and told unto 30:20.240 --> 30:21.720 their lord all that was done. 30:22.200 --> 30:27.960 Then his Lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave 30:27.960 --> 30:30.760 thee all that debt, because thou desirest me. 30:30.760 --> 30:35.360 Shouldest not thou have had compassion on thy fellow servant, even as I had pity on 30:35.360 --> 30:36.360 thee? 30:36.360 --> 30:40.680 And his Lord was wrath, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all 30:40.680 --> 30:41.560 that was due him. 30:42.100 --> 30:49.140 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not 30:49.140 --> 30:51.860 everyone his brother their trespasses." 30:51.860 --> 30:55.940 Now, but in this situation though. 30:56.800 --> 31:03.360 You don't have to forgive people necessarily that are just doing you dirty all the time and they never ask you to forgive them 31:03.360 --> 31:08.440 If because this guy's repentant to just like the the first guy in the story 31:08.720 --> 31:14.800 He's forgiven a great debt, but he falls down on his knees. He worships this this Lord 31:14.920 --> 31:18.600 He tell he says forgive me, you know, he does all the all the right things 31:18.600 --> 31:24.800 He you know in the story he's saved this guy's goes and gets saved and then the next guy's safe 31:24.800 --> 31:31.220 believed also, he just does a minor infraction, comparatively speaking, and then this guy 31:31.220 --> 31:33.140 will not forgive that guy. 31:33.140 --> 31:37.060 And he even asks him, please forgive me, I'll pay you what you owe, and he locks him into 31:37.060 --> 31:38.060 prison. 31:38.060 --> 31:43.900 This is the equivalent to not being forgiven to someone that does something wrong to you. 31:43.900 --> 31:46.060 It's a minor offense. 31:46.060 --> 31:47.060 And he did ask him. 31:47.600 --> 31:49.600 to forgive him and the person wouldn't. 31:49.600 --> 31:53.600 And so these things will anger God to no end. 31:54.600 --> 31:57.600 And He will punish us for those things. 31:57.600 --> 32:01.600 But when we're dealing with our children and we're just not forgiving towards them for things that they do, 32:01.600 --> 32:08.600 when we blow up on our wife over something that's really small and won't forgive her, 32:08.600 --> 32:10.600 that's wrong. 32:10.600 --> 32:14.600 We have to show as dads and as fathers and as husbands 32:14.900 --> 32:18.340 And as men, that we can be forgiving like God is. 32:18.340 --> 32:22.740 And if He'll forgive all those sins that we've committed, past, present, and future, 32:22.740 --> 32:26.980 we can't forgive someone for a very slight thing that they've done to us. 32:26.980 --> 32:31.940 When someone asks us to forgive them, and you hold things in your heart against that person, 32:31.940 --> 32:35.860 when they've already asked you to forgive them, when they've already apologized, 32:35.860 --> 32:39.140 that's wicked, that's wrong. That's what Jesus is saying here. 32:39.400 --> 32:44.200 And as men were held to this standard, as Christians were held to this standard. 32:44.200 --> 32:48.360 But yet there are so many people out there that refuse to forgive over things that are 32:48.360 --> 32:50.440 minor infractions. 32:50.440 --> 32:57.320 But here's the thing, we should be faithful to forgive men their sins when they ask. 32:57.320 --> 33:02.800 But here's the thing, if they're not repentant, you are not required to forgive them of those 33:02.800 --> 33:03.120 things. 33:03.600 --> 33:10.600 If someone just kills your family or whatever in a drunk driving accident, you can forgive them if you want, but do you have to forgive them? 33:10.600 --> 33:13.600 If they're just like, oh yeah, I don't care, I'll do it again. 33:13.600 --> 33:18.600 I mean, does that make sense to forgive that person if they said they're going to do it again? 33:18.600 --> 33:20.600 No, that's weird. 33:20.600 --> 33:25.600 I mean, yeah, well I'm just going to go kill another family tomorrow, so who cares? 33:25.600 --> 33:28.400 That's weird, why would you forgive that person? 33:28.500 --> 33:31.220 I mean, if it makes you feel better, then go ahead. 33:31.220 --> 33:33.900 But I just think that's strange. 33:33.900 --> 33:36.180 But I'm just saying you don't have to. 33:36.180 --> 33:40.340 Because look what it says again. 33:40.340 --> 33:43.020 It says, so likewise. 33:43.020 --> 33:44.000 Let's see, hold on. 33:49.500 --> 33:50.500 What was that? 33:50.500 --> 33:51.500 35, so likewise. 33:51.500 --> 33:52.500 Yeah, so likewise. 33:52.500 --> 33:57.120 So my heavenly father do also unto you, if you from your hearts forgive not every one 33:57.120 --> 33:59.260 his brother their trespasses. 33:59.260 --> 34:03.180 But in the story, that guy asks him to forgive him. 34:03.180 --> 34:04.180 He's sorry. 34:04.180 --> 34:08.860 He, you know, but if the guy would say, I'm never going to pay you back, scumbag. 34:08.860 --> 34:10.180 How do you like that? 34:10.180 --> 34:11.680 How do you like them apples? 34:11.680 --> 34:14.980 Then you can understand where the guy would be like, okay, well go to prison then. 34:14.980 --> 34:15.340 Have fun. 34:15.900 --> 34:17.900 But that's not how the story goes. 34:17.900 --> 34:22.500 It's because he is doing the same thing, 34:22.500 --> 34:25.820 but in the same position, he doesn't forgive the person. 34:25.820 --> 34:29.540 And so as dads and fathers, we must show our children 34:29.540 --> 34:30.260 forgiveness. 34:30.260 --> 34:32.860 You can't just be a strict disciplinarian 34:32.860 --> 34:34.940 and never give grace to your children. 34:34.940 --> 34:37.180 Because doesn't God give grace to us? 34:37.180 --> 34:39.820 Does God always punish you according to the things 34:39.820 --> 34:40.900 that you do? 34:40.900 --> 34:41.580 He doesn't. 34:42.100 --> 34:43.780 And actually, He gives us mercy. 34:43.780 --> 34:47.860 He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 34:47.860 --> 34:49.380 Do you ever give mercy to your kids? 34:49.380 --> 34:51.340 You probably should. 34:51.340 --> 34:56.020 Because if you don't, then maybe you're not going to get mercy in the same situation. 34:56.020 --> 34:59.340 So we need to be like a benevolent father. 34:59.340 --> 35:02.300 Isn't God a benevolent dictator in our life? 35:02.700 --> 35:04.900 He does dictate that we do stuff. 35:04.900 --> 35:07.260 He tells us he commands us to do stuff. 35:07.260 --> 35:09.060 Yes, commandments, not suggestions. 35:09.060 --> 35:11.180 He commands us to do things. 35:11.180 --> 35:13.460 Just like you command your children, take out the trash, 35:13.460 --> 35:15.580 son. 35:15.580 --> 35:17.220 Do the dishes, daughter, or whatever 35:17.220 --> 35:19.540 you have your children to do. 35:19.540 --> 35:22.060 Nobody just has no rules. 35:22.060 --> 35:25.860 This is not like even in warfare, there's rules. 35:27.100 --> 35:34.020 This is not anarchy nobody has a house of anarchy. That's just I've refused to believe that's true of anybody in our church 35:34.020 --> 35:36.100 I hope it's not true. Please don't tell me if it's true 35:37.700 --> 35:43.020 Your mom you just mouth off to your mom and dad and that you can cuss your mom and dad out or something 35:43.260 --> 35:49.400 That'd be weird. I've been I remember the first time I ever heard somebody cuss their parents out in front of me when I was 10 35:49.400 --> 35:52.680 years old and then I had this friend named Brad and 35:54.900 --> 35:59.460 His dad was a truck driver, so he slept during the day when he came home from his shift or 35:59.460 --> 36:04.620 whatever and he had gotten this airplane and he put a little gas, it was like a gas powered 36:04.620 --> 36:08.780 airplane and he would like, he was trying to start it and he just couldn't get it started 36:08.780 --> 36:09.780 or whatever. 36:09.780 --> 36:12.260 And he was doing it in the house, I don't know why he would be doing it in the house. 36:12.260 --> 36:15.860 He couldn't start it outside so he brought it in the house, his dad's sleeping. 36:15.860 --> 36:20.300 And his mom was like, don't do that in the house Bradley, don't do that in the house. 36:20.800 --> 36:22.460 And he was just like, it's not working anyway. 36:22.460 --> 36:24.760 And then, brrr, like it just started in the house, 36:24.760 --> 36:26.480 like really loud. 36:26.480 --> 36:28.640 His dad comes charging out, and he's all mad. 36:28.640 --> 36:32.320 But then he just starts using the F word at his mom 36:32.320 --> 36:35.280 or whatever, 10 years old. 36:35.280 --> 36:36.580 I just was horrified. 36:36.580 --> 36:41.160 I would never do that, ever in a million years. 36:41.160 --> 36:43.920 No way. 36:43.920 --> 36:46.400 I'd be part of the wall if I ever did that, I'm sure. 36:47.300 --> 36:48.800 My kids would never do that. 36:48.800 --> 36:50.900 It just wouldn't happen. 36:50.900 --> 36:56.500 But don't, I mean, there has to be rules in your life. 36:56.500 --> 36:58.540 But there also has to be grace. 36:58.540 --> 37:02.300 You know, you have to have rules and command your children 37:02.300 --> 37:04.820 and command your house. 37:04.820 --> 37:07.300 But you also have to have grace when people make mistakes. 37:07.300 --> 37:09.260 Because if you're not giving grace, 37:09.260 --> 37:10.460 you're not going to get grace. 37:10.460 --> 37:12.000 That's what this passage is teaching. 37:12.500 --> 37:16.480 So as dads we have to have a balance. They can't always be grace 37:17.060 --> 37:21.100 They can't always be mercy. There has to be some rules, but you know 37:22.020 --> 37:28.660 Some people though that you know, they'll be like well don't ever bring a pest and don't ever throw the past in people's faces 37:29.620 --> 37:34.940 You know, it's just wicked. You know, you should be thrown out for that. Well, how about if that person's never repented though? 37:36.220 --> 37:37.500 Why would you? 37:37.600 --> 37:39.520 Be afraid to throw something in someone's face 37:39.520 --> 37:41.640 that they never repented of. 37:41.640 --> 37:43.760 I don't understand that. 37:43.760 --> 37:46.480 Or when someone gives you a half-ass apology for something 37:46.480 --> 37:48.200 and they don't really mean it. 37:48.200 --> 37:49.920 How about that? 37:49.920 --> 37:51.280 Sometimes people do that. 37:51.280 --> 37:53.640 Sometimes you can tell that someone doesn't really mean it. 37:53.640 --> 37:55.600 It's kind of like forced apologies. 37:55.600 --> 37:59.440 I'm not really a big proponent of forced apologies. 37:59.440 --> 38:01.680 You apologize to your sister right now. 38:02.400 --> 38:04.920 And they're like, they're rolling their eyes. 38:04.920 --> 38:06.880 Sorry. 38:06.880 --> 38:09.600 I mean, is that a real apology? 38:09.600 --> 38:12.480 It's a forced apology that means nothing. 38:12.480 --> 38:14.440 And sometimes, like, even in church life, 38:14.440 --> 38:16.440 they'll be like, well, you need to apologize to that person. 38:16.440 --> 38:17.600 You need to make that person apologize. 38:17.600 --> 38:18.100 Like. 38:18.900 --> 38:20.900 If they're not apologizing out of their heart, 38:20.900 --> 38:23.220 why would I make somebody apologize? 38:23.220 --> 38:24.780 I just, I think that's, I've always just thought 38:24.780 --> 38:25.820 that was weird. 38:25.820 --> 38:27.600 Maybe it's proper or whatever. 38:27.600 --> 38:30.080 But if someone doesn't want to apologize, 38:30.080 --> 38:31.580 that's on them. 38:31.580 --> 38:34.180 I can't make somebody apologize. 38:34.180 --> 38:37.660 I just have never, I've never forced people to apologize 38:37.660 --> 38:38.500 that I can remember. 38:38.500 --> 38:40.100 Maybe I shouldn't say never 38:40.100 --> 38:41.740 because I don't remember that time. 38:41.740 --> 38:45.540 Well, I don't, I'm not into the fake apology game. 38:45.900 --> 38:49.860 But, you know, or sometimes people just tell half-truths 38:49.860 --> 38:51.740 and downplay what they did. 38:51.740 --> 38:54.140 Sometimes when you confront somebody on something they did, 38:54.140 --> 38:57.620 they don't want to admit the full thing that they did. 38:57.620 --> 38:58.900 And they downplay it. 38:58.900 --> 39:00.860 Is that really an apology? 39:00.860 --> 39:01.460 It's not. 39:01.460 --> 39:02.380 It's fake. 39:02.380 --> 39:03.700 It's not true. 39:03.700 --> 39:06.740 And, or, here's another thing that people do. 39:06.740 --> 39:10.100 They'll apologize for something, but then when you don't give them 39:10.100 --> 39:12.140 the response that they want, 39:12.140 --> 39:12.200 you 39:12.300 --> 39:15.220 then they take that apology back. 39:15.220 --> 39:16.740 Is that a real apology? 39:18.740 --> 39:21.000 Because if you're apologizing to someone, 39:21.000 --> 39:23.200 you're actually sorry for what you did. 39:24.500 --> 39:27.160 I'm sorry that I slapped you in the face. 39:27.160 --> 39:29.540 They're like, well, don't ever do that again! 39:29.540 --> 39:30.380 Or I'll slap you back. 39:30.380 --> 39:33.140 You're like, well, fine then, I'll slap you right now. 39:33.140 --> 39:34.500 That's not an apology. 39:35.460 --> 39:37.900 You have to actually be sorry for what you did. 39:38.300 --> 39:41.660 If you're not sorry for what you did, that's not a real apology. 39:41.660 --> 39:44.260 If the person responds in a way that you don't like, 39:44.260 --> 39:47.260 you still should, you know, if you really were sorry, 39:47.260 --> 39:50.540 then you stick with the apology that you had. 39:50.540 --> 39:51.860 Right? 39:51.860 --> 39:54.580 Are you tracking what I'm saying here? 39:54.580 --> 39:55.500 I mean, good night. 39:58.220 --> 40:01.300 Newsflash, that is not an apology 40:01.300 --> 40:04.300 if you immediately take it back when you don't get the response you want. 40:04.900 --> 40:09.060 So, if your apology is based on their response to it, 40:09.060 --> 40:12.500 it's not genuine, it's spurious, it's fake, 40:12.500 --> 40:14.700 like a fake diamond or whatever. 40:14.700 --> 40:16.000 It's just not true. 40:16.000 --> 40:19.280 And yesterday we blew up this false Bible version, 40:19.280 --> 40:21.980 which I'm sure people are gonna get triggered about. 40:21.980 --> 40:24.140 So every year I think Pastor Shelley does this Bible. 40:24.400 --> 40:28.140 Version burning or something where he burns all these false Bible versions that he gets 40:29.120 --> 40:33.400 Yesterday we blew up. What was that a reviled reviled substandard perversion of 40:33.920 --> 40:39.000 The Bible and we put about we taped some tannerite to it. It was like a big 40:40.000 --> 40:44.940 Like one I got for somebody's wedding. Anyway, we have this big bottle of tannerite with it 40:45.600 --> 40:49.600 And it took us forever to shoot it because we were pretty far away from it. 40:49.600 --> 40:52.600 I couldn't even barely see it out of my scope. 40:52.600 --> 40:55.600 And when we hit it, it just exploded. 40:55.600 --> 40:59.600 But people would be really mad about that because they think it's the actual Bible. 40:59.600 --> 41:03.600 But it's not. It's like having a fake dad. 41:03.600 --> 41:07.600 It's like having a bad stepdad or something. 41:07.600 --> 41:12.200 You know, a real dad's going to give you real words of truth. 41:12.900 --> 41:15.600 You know, they're going to send you to a good church. 41:15.600 --> 41:17.860 They're going to teach you right things from the Bible. 41:17.860 --> 41:19.860 They're going to give you sound wisdom. 41:19.860 --> 41:21.300 But a false Bible version is going 41:21.300 --> 41:22.900 to give you the wrong things. 41:22.900 --> 41:24.360 It's going to give you wrong words. 41:24.360 --> 41:26.460 It's going to send you to the wrong type of church. 41:26.460 --> 41:30.780 You know, because how many non-denom font centers are using 41:30.780 --> 41:32.620 the King James Bible today? 41:32.620 --> 41:34.220 Zero. 41:34.220 --> 41:36.100 I mean, I would venture to say zero. 41:36.100 --> 41:38.540 And if there is one, it's the exception to the rule. 41:39.000 --> 41:43.920 But most of them are using the Bible flavor of the month club, 41:43.920 --> 41:46.800 or they're using whatever version teaches whatever doctrine 41:46.800 --> 41:48.080 they're trying to use. 41:48.080 --> 41:51.240 And it's just false. 41:51.240 --> 41:55.120 So when you use the King James, you're 41:55.120 --> 41:57.080 going to get the right doctrine. 41:57.080 --> 41:59.420 You're going to get the right truth. 41:59.420 --> 42:03.240 The things that a false Bible version teaches you 42:03.240 --> 42:06.520 are like a bad father, preaching things that aren't quite right. 42:07.000 --> 42:12.000 And teaching things and sending you to wrong churches, 42:12.000 --> 42:16.000 you know, is kind of worthless, like a bad father. 42:16.400 --> 42:20.340 You know, we need a Bible that we can trust, like that old battleship King James that you 42:20.340 --> 42:25.020 got sitting in your hands that's over 400 years old that you can still understand by 42:25.020 --> 42:26.020 the way. 42:26.020 --> 42:30.540 It's kind of like, you know, when dads, you know, how people say, nice dad joke or whatever. 42:30.540 --> 42:32.680 Because it's kind of out of fashion. 42:32.680 --> 42:35.020 It's kind of out of style or whatever. 42:35.020 --> 42:37.760 But they're still kind of funny anyway, you know? 42:37.760 --> 42:42.620 And sometimes dads don't have the lingo of the current modern times. 42:42.620 --> 42:44.400 You know, a lot of times I don't understand. 42:44.400 --> 42:48.560 all this no cap and all this other language that people, 42:48.560 --> 42:52.960 like no cap, like why not just say, I don't know, 42:52.960 --> 42:56.560 I'm definitely a dad or whatever, a grandpa or whatever. 42:56.560 --> 42:58.340 But the King James has some words 42:58.340 --> 43:01.480 that people don't normally use anymore too. 43:01.480 --> 43:05.520 But when you go to a dad, you're gonna sometimes get words 43:05.520 --> 43:08.120 that you're not used to hearing. 43:08.120 --> 43:10.200 But you can still understand them. 43:10.600 --> 43:14.560 And a good dad's going to tell you right things with right words. 43:14.560 --> 43:17.720 And maybe you don't really, you're not used to hearing those words. 43:17.720 --> 43:20.760 You're used to hearing the modern lingo or whatever. 43:20.760 --> 43:23.400 Like the modern Bible versions are going to tell you. 43:23.400 --> 43:26.320 Like the message Bible is going to tell you. 43:26.320 --> 43:29.480 But when you get the King James, you're going to get the right words. 43:29.480 --> 43:33.480 And that King James is going to probably lead you to the right churches. 43:33.480 --> 43:38.400 When you type in King James only, you're generally going to find a good type of church. 43:38.700 --> 43:39.760 an opportunity to 43:39.760 --> 43:39.800 understand the 43:40.420 --> 43:39.800 situation in general. 43:41.060 --> 43:39.800 This is a small 43:41.500 --> 43:39.800 community that is 43:42.100 --> 43:39.800 having a hard time 43:42.540 --> 43:39.800 together. 43:43.060 --> 43:39.800 It is in this 43:43.660 --> 43:39.800 community that it 43:44.100 --> 43:39.800 is not like that. 43:44.660 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:44.860 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:45.340 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:45.660 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:46.120 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:46.500 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:47.000 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:47.340 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:47.800 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:48.220 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:48.660 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:49.020 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:49.440 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:49.580 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:50.100 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:50.200 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:50.720 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:51.000 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:51.460 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:51.660 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:52.100 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:52.300 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:52.700 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:52.860 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:53.260 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:53.340 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:53.660 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:53.780 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:54.100 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:54.240 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:54.500 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:54.700 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:54.880 --> 43:39.800 It is a high 43:55.060 --> 43:39.800 community. 43:39.900 --> 43:45.140 Definitely if you type in King James only new IFV, you're going to find the right type 43:45.140 --> 43:48.740 of church or old IFV type of church. 43:48.740 --> 43:51.260 And you know, it's a jungle out there, I understand that. 43:51.260 --> 43:58.460 But we need fathers to be like the King James and direct their families in the way that 43:58.460 --> 44:01.140 they should go with right words. 44:01.140 --> 44:07.460 And you know, they're battle torn and battle worn, but they're going to give you the straight 44:07.460 --> 44:07.900 up. 44:07.900 --> 44:12.060 words, not the new lingo, but it's still understandable. 44:12.060 --> 44:14.060 You're still gonna get the right stuff. 44:14.060 --> 44:16.340 I mean, my grampy used to say all kinds of, you know, 44:16.340 --> 44:20.500 things, idioms, that are out of style now, you know? 44:21.500 --> 44:24.700 But those words still pass on from time to, you know, 44:24.700 --> 44:28.060 from time immemorial, and I don't know, 44:28.060 --> 44:30.340 I was trying to think of some of the things. 44:30.340 --> 44:32.020 Here's one thing he'd say. 44:32.020 --> 44:34.140 I'm busier than a long-tailed cat 44:34.140 --> 44:35.900 in a room full of rocking chairs. 44:36.300 --> 44:38.300 I like that one, I think that's pretty funny. 44:38.300 --> 44:41.300 But I don't say it very often, it's kind of a dad joke or whatever. 44:41.300 --> 44:45.300 But it gets the point across, if there's a long-tailed cat... 44:45.400 --> 44:48.900 there's a room full of rocking chairs, those rocking chairs are going to roll over that cat's tail 44:48.900 --> 44:52.100 so the cat's always busy trying to avoid the rocking chairs. I get that. 44:52.100 --> 44:56.400 But people are like, oh, I don't get that. Cat's tails aren't that long. Okay, whatever. 44:56.400 --> 45:00.700 But those things are faithfully passed on. 45:00.700 --> 45:05.200 The drop in the bucket and all these sayings or whatever. 45:05.200 --> 45:10.100 And it's good to get back to the faithful things that the Bible teaches. 45:10.100 --> 45:12.400 And it's good to get good advice. 45:12.600 --> 45:15.800 from a good dad that's going to teach you the right things. 45:15.800 --> 45:19.300 So, A, a man of action. 45:19.300 --> 45:21.900 You should be a man of action, not just words. 45:21.900 --> 45:26.700 And God is a man of war, and he's a man of action. 45:26.700 --> 45:29.700 And he is going to do things. 45:29.900 --> 45:32.460 not just say that he's going to do things. 45:32.460 --> 45:36.100 So we should be men that do things 45:36.100 --> 45:38.400 and not just say we're going to do things, 45:38.400 --> 45:40.600 not just talk about doing things, 45:40.600 --> 45:43.500 we should actually do the things that we say we're going to do. 45:43.500 --> 45:46.300 And I realize that sometimes we struggle in these areas, 45:46.300 --> 45:53.500 but turn to James chapter 1, James chapter 1, verse number 21. 45:53.500 --> 45:56.300 James chapter 1, verse number 21. 45:56.300 --> 45:57.600 The Bible says, 45:57.600 --> 45:57.700 you 46:00.100 --> 46:07.860 Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness 46:07.860 --> 46:13.460 the engrafted word which is able to save your souls." 46:13.460 --> 46:16.060 So talking about the Bible here. 46:16.060 --> 46:22.700 So lay apart all this stuff and receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able 46:22.700 --> 46:24.460 to save your souls. 46:24.460 --> 46:27.380 So in other words, start paying attention to what the Bible says. 46:28.200 --> 46:34.140 Alright, and then it says but be doers of the word and not hearers only 46:35.160 --> 46:40.280 deceiving your own selves so if you if you just hear what the Bible says and 46:40.920 --> 46:48.140 Don't do it, then you're just deceiving yourself. Oh, yeah, I heard a great message in church. Well. Did you apply it? Oh, yeah 46:48.140 --> 46:50.240 I listened to this sermon. Did you apply it? 46:50.960 --> 46:55.160 Do you remember anything that was said in it? Do you remember what you read the Bible today? 46:56.000 --> 47:01.840 It says, if any man, or if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto 47:01.840 --> 47:04.240 a man beholding his natural face in a glass. 47:04.240 --> 47:07.160 It's like looking into a mirror, basically. 47:07.160 --> 47:12.320 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightaway forgetteth what manner of 47:12.320 --> 47:13.880 man he was. 47:13.880 --> 47:16.520 So you look in the mirror, and you forget what you look like. 47:17.100 --> 47:19.300 It's kind of what it's saying, right? 47:19.300 --> 47:23.020 It says, but whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty 47:23.020 --> 47:26.940 and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer 47:26.940 --> 47:31.700 but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 47:31.700 --> 47:33.260 So what is God saying? 47:33.260 --> 47:36.740 Don't just listen and not do. 47:37.100 --> 47:38.700 But listen and do. 47:38.700 --> 47:41.400 You've got to take the things that you learn from the Bible 47:41.400 --> 47:43.300 and put those things into practice. 47:43.300 --> 47:46.700 And as a father, it's very important that we do these things. 47:46.700 --> 47:50.700 That's why it's important for us to have things 47:50.700 --> 47:52.300 that we're taught from in the Bible 47:52.300 --> 47:54.200 and apply those things in our homes. 47:54.200 --> 47:57.300 Apply those things with our family 47:57.300 --> 47:59.500 and our children and our spouse. 47:59.500 --> 48:02.100 We need to apply these things and not just... 48:02.600 --> 48:05.720 hear them and talk about them and write them on Facebook 48:05.720 --> 48:09.680 and you know post them on Facebook or whatever but we actually 48:09.680 --> 48:16.280 do these things and in Proverbs chapter 14 verse 23 it says 48:16.280 --> 48:21.960 in all labor there is profit but the talk of the lips tendeth only to 48:21.960 --> 48:22.680 penury 48:22.680 --> 48:27.600 so in other words talk is cheap you can say you're gonna do something 48:27.600 --> 48:29.920 but do you actually do what you say you're gonna do 48:30.600 --> 48:35.600 James, let's see, John chapter 3 verse 18 says, 48:36.600 --> 48:39.600 My little children, let us not love in word, 48:39.600 --> 48:42.600 neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 48:42.600 --> 48:50.600 So let me ask you this, do your children learn love from others or do they learn it from you? 48:51.600 --> 48:52.600 Do they... 48:52.800 --> 48:56.200 learn from your example at all in your life, 48:56.200 --> 48:58.600 or are they learning it from other people? 48:58.600 --> 49:01.500 We should be an example to our children 49:01.500 --> 49:04.500 that we don't just say we're gonna do something, 49:04.500 --> 49:06.740 but that we do it also. 49:06.740 --> 49:09.540 Do your children, can your children count on you 49:09.540 --> 49:12.540 to do what you say you're gonna do? 49:13.500 --> 49:14.580 Matthew five. 49:14.700 --> 49:20.000 Verse 16 says, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and 49:20.000 --> 49:22.100 glorify your Father which is in heaven. 49:22.100 --> 49:26.960 Because didn't Abraham, I mean we know Abraham had faith because we could see the things 49:26.960 --> 49:30.040 in the Bible that he actually did to benefit. 49:30.040 --> 49:35.140 I mean even though he was going to sacrifice his only son, you know, God was testing him 49:35.140 --> 49:36.540 to see whether he would do it or not. 49:37.200 --> 49:45.040 And he was never going to let Abraham do that, but he was testing him to see how much will you actually do for me? 49:46.160 --> 49:49.920 Whatever I ask and that was the test for him, but 49:50.600 --> 49:55.880 You know we need to be willing to do the things that we say we're going to do and our children should be able to trust 49:56.400 --> 50:01.920 that we're men of action, that we're actually going to do the things that we say we're going to do. 50:01.920 --> 50:06.000 So it says, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, 50:06.000 --> 50:10.480 actually see them, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 50:11.120 --> 50:14.640 So if we're lights of the world, the Bible says you're the light of the world, 50:14.640 --> 50:19.120 a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. So are you lit? 50:20.300 --> 50:26.160 Are you lit? Can people see your good works? Can they see the type of Christian that you are? 50:26.280 --> 50:32.600 Can your children see that or is it just a show that you put on at church that you're not really the person that you say 50:32.600 --> 50:33.480 you are? 50:33.480 --> 50:35.280 so T 50:35.280 --> 50:37.080 teaches his children and 50:37.080 --> 50:44.980 Sets the example teaches his children and sets the example look at Deuteronomy chapter 11 Deuteronomy chapter 11. I got a rifle through these things here 50:45.700 --> 50:49.460 While you're turning there I'm going to read Ephesians chapter 6 verse 1. Ephesians 6 verse 50:49.460 --> 50:50.460 1 says, 50:50.460 --> 50:54.820 Children, obey your parents and the Lord for this is right. Honor thy father and mother, 50:54.820 --> 50:58.020 which is the first commandment with promise. 50:58.020 --> 51:02.140 So the Bible teaches very clearly that we get 51:02.600 --> 51:06.880 You know our children are supposed to honor their father and mother 51:06.880 --> 51:11.380 It's a commandment that has promise attached to it to get a long life 51:11.380 --> 51:16.000 And it says that it may be well with thee that thou mayest live long on the earth 51:16.000 --> 51:21.780 And he fathers provoked not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord 51:22.100 --> 51:24.100 so just 51:24.100 --> 51:29.400 Punishment just discipline is not all that we're supposed to do with our children 51:29.900 --> 51:32.500 Come home, wait till your father comes home. 51:32.500 --> 51:33.900 You're really gonna get it. 51:33.900 --> 51:35.740 I mean, that should not be the only interactions 51:35.740 --> 51:37.380 that we have with our children. 51:37.380 --> 51:38.820 We should love our children. 51:38.820 --> 51:40.580 They should know we love them. 51:40.580 --> 51:43.260 Do your children know that you love them, dads? 51:43.260 --> 51:45.620 Or are you just gruff with all your kids all the time? 51:45.620 --> 51:49.420 There's no tenderness, there's no delicacy with them at all. 51:49.420 --> 51:51.320 They should know that you love them. 51:51.320 --> 51:53.060 That should be abundantly clear. 51:54.200 --> 51:56.600 Deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 18 says, 51:56.600 --> 52:00.800 Therefore shall you lay up these words, these my words, 52:00.800 --> 52:03.160 excuse me, in your heart and in your soul, 52:03.160 --> 52:05.600 and bind them for a sign upon your hand 52:05.600 --> 52:09.160 that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 52:09.160 --> 52:11.520 And ye shall teach them your children, 52:11.520 --> 52:14.080 speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, 52:14.080 --> 52:16.000 and when thou walkest by the way, 52:16.000 --> 52:19.360 and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up, 52:19.360 --> 52:22.200 and thou shalt write them upon the doorpost of thine house. 52:22.200 --> 52:27.640 and upon thy gates, that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, 52:27.640 --> 52:32.760 and the land which the LORD swear unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven 52:32.760 --> 52:33.760 upon the earth. 52:33.760 --> 52:39.320 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you to do them, 52:39.320 --> 52:45.120 to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him, then will 52:45.120 --> 52:50.120 the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and he shall possess greater 52:50.200 --> 52:54.600 nations and mightier than yourselves, every place wherein the soles of your feet shall 52:54.600 --> 53:00.020 tread shall be yours. From the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river and the river 53:00.020 --> 53:04.700 Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea, shall be your coast. There shall no man be able 53:04.700 --> 53:11.200 to stand before you, for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of 53:11.200 --> 53:14.200 you upon all the land that shall be your coast. 53:14.500 --> 53:17.880 That you shall tread upon as he has said unto you 53:18.760 --> 53:19.700 Excuse me 53:20.600 --> 53:25.400 Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a curse, a blessing if you obey the commandments 53:25.400 --> 53:29.260 of the Lord your God, which I command you this day, and a curse if you will not obey 53:29.260 --> 53:31.120 the commandments of the Lord your God. 53:31.120 --> 53:36.020 But turn aside out of the way which I command you this day to go after other gods which 53:36.020 --> 53:41.480 you have not known, and it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into 53:41.480 --> 53:44.120 the land whither thou goest to possess it, thou shalt 53:44.600 --> 53:46.960 put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim 53:46.960 --> 53:49.040 and the curse upon Mount Ebal. 53:49.040 --> 53:50.120 And why did I read all that? 53:50.120 --> 53:53.040 Because look, you can go two different ways. 53:53.040 --> 53:57.480 You can either bless and teach your children, 53:57.480 --> 53:58.240 the next generation. 53:58.240 --> 54:01.840 It's so important that we teach the next generation. 54:01.840 --> 54:05.080 I was talking about how my wife has 54:05.080 --> 54:10.880 five generations of women in her family that are saved. 54:10.880 --> 54:12.080 Her grandma, her mom. 54:12.500 --> 54:17.500 and my wife, Ms. Sherry, and Nia, and now Emmy, 54:18.060 --> 54:20.220 all saved, five generations. 54:20.220 --> 54:21.460 That's a blessing. 54:21.460 --> 54:25.260 And that comes from teaching, and obviously, 54:26.100 --> 54:28.700 it started with my wife getting saved, 54:28.700 --> 54:33.100 but then her mom got saved, and then her grandma got saved, 54:33.100 --> 54:35.900 and then of course, we... 54:36.400 --> 54:42.800 trained our children and got them saved. And then I was able to baptize Emmy when I was down at 54:42.800 --> 54:51.440 Steadfast because she ended up getting saved. So, and that's an example. What? That we should just 54:51.440 --> 54:57.920 reach the next generation. It's so important. And the things that we do as fathers has great effect 54:58.560 --> 55:01.920 on our families and it can have great effect on the extended families. 55:02.500 --> 55:06.340 I know that there's other families in our church where these things are happening too. 55:06.340 --> 55:12.900 That's a great thing. Look, we all, a lot of us, we probably have just nothing but heathens in our family. 55:12.900 --> 55:17.620 I can think of that situation too, but keep working at it. 55:17.620 --> 55:22.900 Miss Amy had a lady that she's been friends with for, I think since she was a kid, 55:22.900 --> 55:29.060 whose name was on our prayer list for years, literally years. 55:29.060 --> 55:30.060 And... 55:30.100 --> 55:42.100 Sometimes my wife's like, well, I don't know if they just want to keep, we want to keep this person on our prayer list, you know, they haven't said anything to me, but in our policies kind of like, well, if they want that off the prayer list, then they need to come and talk to me. 55:42.100 --> 55:47.100 So if you want something off the prayer list, you need to talk to my wife. She's just going to keep it on there, and assume you want it on there. 55:47.100 --> 55:51.100 But anyway, Miss Amy got her friend saved after all these years. 55:51.300 --> 55:52.740 And why keep her on the prayer list? 55:52.740 --> 55:54.900 Because people do get saved eventually. 55:54.900 --> 55:56.820 You know, you keep praying for that person, 55:56.820 --> 55:58.660 you keep working on that person, 55:58.660 --> 56:02.220 don't give up on them because people do get saved. 56:02.220 --> 56:04.940 You know, and generationally, 56:04.940 --> 56:08.140 I mean, who knows what that's gonna change for that person. 56:08.140 --> 56:10.580 It's obviously changes her life for all eternity, 56:10.580 --> 56:13.580 but what about the exponential growth 56:13.580 --> 56:16.000 of maybe how that's gonna affect the rest of her family? 56:16.100 --> 56:18.780 It's so important that we stay in church. 56:18.780 --> 56:23.300 I mean, what if Amy and Brother Eli just left and just 56:23.300 --> 56:24.300 went back to the world? 56:24.300 --> 56:26.140 Do you think she would have ever got saved? 56:26.140 --> 56:27.420 Probably not. 56:27.420 --> 56:30.360 Because the impact that we have as Christians 56:30.360 --> 56:33.340 is way bigger than you actually realize sometimes. 56:33.340 --> 56:36.740 Because sometimes we just start getting focused on ourselves 56:36.740 --> 56:39.020 and the things of our lives. 56:39.020 --> 56:41.220 But think about the lives that we impact. 56:41.900 --> 56:44.900 And we forget about those things sometimes because we're selfish. 56:44.900 --> 56:47.900 But dads, it's not just about you. 56:47.900 --> 56:50.900 It's about your children. It's about your wife. 56:50.900 --> 56:53.900 It's about your extended family. It's about people that you influence in your life. 56:53.900 --> 56:56.900 And look, it's so important to teach our children these things 56:56.900 --> 56:59.900 because they are the next generation. 56:59.900 --> 57:03.900 And look, you know, the kingdom of God can rise up in another family, 57:03.900 --> 57:05.900 but why not make it yours? 57:06.200 --> 57:07.740 Why not make it your mission? 57:07.740 --> 57:10.660 At least, hey, if you can't get anybody else saved in your family, well at least make 57:10.660 --> 57:11.860 sure your kids are saved. 57:14.200 --> 57:18.200 That's important. It's one of the most important things you can do in your whole life. 57:19.200 --> 57:21.200 And children, honor your mother and father. 57:22.200 --> 57:26.200 And dads, give your children love. Train them up in the way they should go. 57:27.200 --> 57:29.200 Look at Psalm chapter 78. 57:30.200 --> 57:31.200 Psalm chapter 78. 57:38.100 --> 57:43.460 Psalm chapter 78 verse 6 actually verse 8 or verse 5 I'm sorry. 57:47.300 --> 57:59.300 It's a great song, I wish I could read the whole thing, but verse 6 says that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who should rise and declare them 57:59.700 --> 58:05.300 to their children, that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, 58:05.300 --> 58:11.700 but keep His commandments, and might not be as their fathers a stubborn and rebellious generation, 58:11.700 --> 58:18.580 a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God. 58:18.580 --> 58:23.780 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 58:23.780 --> 58:27.300 They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in His law. 58:27.700 --> 58:31.960 and forget his works and his wonders that he had showed them. 58:31.960 --> 58:37.320 Dads, let's never let this be said about us and our house. 58:37.320 --> 58:43.800 It's so important, so important to not turn back like E-Frame. 58:43.800 --> 58:45.220 They were ready to go to war. 58:45.220 --> 58:47.220 They had all their weapons ready and out to choose. 58:47.220 --> 58:48.260 And what did they do? 58:48.260 --> 58:49.180 They turned back. 58:50.200 --> 58:53.880 We should never turn back, we should always just be going forward. 58:53.880 --> 58:58.760 And hey, if you're stalling out, you're having trouble, hey, just go out of duty. 58:58.760 --> 59:02.840 Ephraim could have just at least showed up to the battle, but they didn't even do that. 59:02.840 --> 59:04.600 They turned back and went away from the war. 59:06.120 --> 59:12.280 And you know, but still, at least do something for your family, care about your family. 59:17.200 --> 59:21.200 And look, God chastens his children. 59:21.200 --> 59:27.440 He chastens his children and if we be without, the Bible says in Hebrews 12, 8, but if you 59:27.440 --> 59:34.820 be without chastisement where of all our partakers, all, I mean I'm not a Calvinist, so I believe 59:34.820 --> 59:40.200 all means all, all our partakers, then are you bastards and not sons. 59:40.200 --> 59:44.080 So look, every safe person in this whole world from... 59:44.600 --> 59:50.040 Adam and Eve to the last people to get saved are going to receive chastening by the Lord 59:50.720 --> 59:52.720 just what what the Bible says and 59:54.120 --> 59:59.240 I'm not dispensationalist, so I don't think that just includes one generation or another 01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:01.680 everybody 01:00:01.680 --> 01:00:07.780 So look we got to make sure that our children are not bastards spiritually 01:00:08.700 --> 01:00:11.140 and try to save me as we can. 01:00:11.140 --> 01:00:14.180 H, hearkens unto the voice of the Lord. 01:00:14.180 --> 01:00:17.580 I brought this up on Thursday a little bit, 01:00:17.580 --> 01:00:21.940 but turn to Deuteronomy chapter 28. 01:00:21.940 --> 01:00:23.340 Deuteronomy chapter 28. 01:00:27.500 --> 01:00:31.500 Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 1 and 2. 01:00:35.900 --> 01:00:39.160 Father hearkens unto the voice of the Lord. 01:00:39.160 --> 01:00:40.820 Deuteronomy 28 verse 1. 01:00:40.820 --> 01:00:43.420 The Bible says, and it shall come to pass, 01:00:43.420 --> 01:00:46.780 if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice 01:00:46.780 --> 01:00:51.220 of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do 01:00:51.220 --> 01:00:55.180 all his commandments which I command thee this day. 01:00:55.180 --> 01:00:57.540 So what I was saying is that there, 01:00:57.540 --> 01:01:00.340 you know, I was talking about how hearkens in the dictionary 01:01:00.340 --> 01:01:02.660 just means mainly to listen. 01:01:02.660 --> 01:01:03.600 And I was like. 01:01:03.900 --> 01:01:06.500 going back and forth with AI a little bit. 01:01:06.500 --> 01:01:08.460 And they would say, nope, it just means to listen. 01:01:08.460 --> 01:01:09.260 That's all. 01:01:09.260 --> 01:01:11.380 But when you look at it in the Bible, 01:01:11.380 --> 01:01:13.860 well, Brother Bill was sending me some stuff in it. 01:01:13.860 --> 01:01:16.780 There's two different spellings for the word hearkens. 01:01:16.780 --> 01:01:19.340 And hearkens, a lot of times in the Bible, 01:01:19.340 --> 01:01:21.180 means to listen and to obey. 01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:28.520 And in 1 Samuel it is definitely what was being implied in that passage. 01:01:28.520 --> 01:01:30.400 But notice how it says though, it says, 01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:34.960 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, 01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:38.360 to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 01:01:38.360 --> 01:01:42.520 So it definitely has that intention there. 01:01:42.520 --> 01:01:45.000 So let's see. 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:45.500 What's good of? 01:01:45.900 --> 01:01:50.700 Go to 1st Samuel chapter 15 verse 22 because I really don't have time to go all these verses so 01:01:51.900 --> 01:01:53.900 I haven't even been preaching for an hour yet so don't even cry 01:01:57.500 --> 01:02:01.740 Exodus or I mean excuse me 1st Samuel chapter 15 01:02:08.200 --> 01:02:10.200 Verse 26 01:02:13.300 --> 01:02:18.300 So as in Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee, for thou hast rejected the 01:02:18.300 --> 01:02:19.300 word of the Lord. 01:02:19.300 --> 01:02:20.740 Well, that's not the right verse. 01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:33.000 Okay, well 01:02:35.800 --> 01:02:37.400 What verse am I looking for? 01:02:39.800 --> 01:02:40.800 Thank you. 01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:41.800 Thank you. 01:02:41.800 --> 01:02:44.800 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings. 01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:49.240 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying 01:02:49.240 --> 01:02:50.360 the voice of the Lord? 01:02:50.360 --> 01:02:57.800 Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams. 01:02:57.800 --> 01:02:59.920 So what is he doing? 01:02:59.920 --> 01:03:04.080 is comparing these ideas and obey. 01:03:04.900 --> 01:03:11.380 is better than sacrifice, to hearken than the fat of ram. So it's better to hearken, to listen and 01:03:11.380 --> 01:03:16.900 do what God says than to offer some money in the offering platter to, you know, give some animal as 01:03:16.900 --> 01:03:25.300 a sacrifice. And so God wants us to listen and do what he says, not to just listen to the, you know, 01:03:25.300 --> 01:03:29.940 it goes back to not just being a hearer of the word, but a doer. 01:03:30.600 --> 01:03:38.600 Also, and so in Isaiah 48 18 it says oh that thou hast hearkened to my commandments 01:03:39.100 --> 01:03:44.920 Then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea 01:03:45.120 --> 01:03:49.420 Jeremiah 7 23 says but this thing commanded I them saying obey my voice 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:52.480 And I will be your God and you shall be my people and walk 01:03:53.800 --> 01:04:01.560 in all the ways that I have commanded you that it may be well unto you. John chapter 10 verse 27 01:04:01.560 --> 01:04:09.080 says, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. Isn't that hearkening and doing what I say? 01:04:09.300 --> 01:04:11.600 Luke chapter 11 verse 28 says, 01:04:11.600 --> 01:04:16.740 but he said, yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God 01:04:16.740 --> 01:04:20.340 and keep it. Isn't that hearkening? 01:04:20.340 --> 01:04:21.460 It is. 01:04:21.460 --> 01:04:25.860 So, look, in the New Testament, God still expects us to follow Him 01:04:25.860 --> 01:04:27.300 and do what He says. 01:04:27.500 --> 01:04:34.820 Alright, and so as a man of God, as a father, we should be harkening unto the voice of God 01:04:34.820 --> 01:04:37.660 and doing what he says, following him closely. 01:04:37.660 --> 01:04:42.140 When you say you're going to follow somebody, it should be close so that you don't lose 01:04:42.140 --> 01:04:43.140 them. 01:04:43.140 --> 01:04:49.300 Alright, and would God say to you, well done my good and faithful servant? 01:04:49.300 --> 01:04:51.980 Or would he say, what's your name again? 01:04:53.300 --> 01:04:57.280 You know, because on that day he's going to say, well done, well done, O good and faithful 01:04:57.280 --> 01:04:58.280 servant, right? 01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:00.560 You know, I'm going to give you ten cities or whatever. 01:05:00.560 --> 01:05:04.220 What is he going to say, like, what's his name? 01:05:04.220 --> 01:05:05.220 Pull the records up. 01:05:05.220 --> 01:05:07.020 Gabriel, pull the records up. 01:05:07.020 --> 01:05:08.560 Who is this guy? 01:05:08.560 --> 01:05:13.760 You know, I mean, we want to be someone, obviously, that God is well pleased with. 01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:16.320 Of course he's not going to forget your name. 01:05:16.320 --> 01:05:17.440 That's a dumb joke. 01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:21.400 But we definitely want to be someone 01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:23.680 that hearkens unto the voice of the Lord. 01:05:23.680 --> 01:05:26.600 And as dads, it's very important because how are we 01:05:26.600 --> 01:05:28.920 going to impart any wisdom to our children 01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:32.000 if we don't even know what the Bible says? 01:05:32.000 --> 01:05:34.960 How can our wives ask us at home about something 01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:37.000 that was preached at church if 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:37.200 you 01:05:37.500 --> 01:05:43.280 You don't even know the Bible if you're tuned out at church if you don't know if you don't read and know what the Bible says 01:05:44.460 --> 01:05:46.460 Or if maybe I'm saying something wrong 01:05:47.040 --> 01:05:49.040 You know that happens 01:05:49.120 --> 01:05:50.760 Unfortunately, I'm not perfect 01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:52.020 but 01:05:52.020 --> 01:05:57.540 And then you're like well now this is what you know he's wrong about that interpretation or whatever and look 01:05:57.540 --> 01:06:02.040 I'm not the king of your castle. You're the king of your castle and if you don't agree with something I say 01:06:02.600 --> 01:06:04.440 or you have a different position that you take, 01:06:04.440 --> 01:06:07.240 it's up to you to tell your family what, you know. 01:06:07.240 --> 01:06:10.600 Obviously, you know, respectfully, 01:06:10.600 --> 01:06:13.000 but if I'm wrong about something 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:14.600 or you don't agree with something I say, 01:06:14.600 --> 01:06:15.880 that's up to you. 01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:18.120 Obviously, salvation is a pretty important doctrine. 01:06:18.120 --> 01:06:19.400 If you believe something different on salvation, 01:06:19.400 --> 01:06:20.760 just leave, you know. 01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:23.000 If you don't believe in internal security, just go. 01:06:23.800 --> 01:06:26.360 If you think that you can lose your salvation, 01:06:26.360 --> 01:06:28.080 yeah, please find another church. 01:06:28.080 --> 01:06:30.840 I mean, that's not something that's negotiable here. 01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:33.320 But if we're having a different opinion 01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:37.000 on who the two witnesses are, then that's dumb. 01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:38.800 It's a dumb thing to fight about, 01:06:38.800 --> 01:06:40.260 because I'm right about that anyway. 01:06:40.260 --> 01:06:43.680 So I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong. 01:06:43.680 --> 01:06:45.200 So anyway. 01:06:46.200 --> 01:06:47.200 I am joking. 01:06:47.200 --> 01:06:53.800 So alright, E, be an example to others. 01:06:53.800 --> 01:06:58.280 First Timothy 412, First Timothy 412 while you're getting there, I'm going to read 01:06:58.280 --> 01:06:59.960 First Peter 5.3. 01:06:59.960 --> 01:07:05.880 First Peter 5.3 says, neither is being lords over God's heritage but being in samples 01:07:05.880 --> 01:07:06.880 to the flock. 01:07:06.880 --> 01:07:11.920 Of course, Peter's a pastor, not all the men here are pastors, but you're pastors of your 01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:12.700 own home. 01:07:13.000 --> 01:07:14.720 Don't you lead your own home? 01:07:14.720 --> 01:07:19.120 If your children are your flock, you know, then even if you only have one child, it's 01:07:19.120 --> 01:07:20.680 still one sheep, right? 01:07:20.680 --> 01:07:22.780 You're still leading your household. 01:07:22.780 --> 01:07:27.800 And so, you know, you should be an example or an example to your family. 01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:29.520 You know, who are they looking up to? 01:07:29.520 --> 01:07:33.760 If you're not the one that they're looking up to in the house, then, you know, dad's 01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:36.000 got to fix that. 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:37.000 First... 01:07:37.400 --> 01:07:39.500 I had to turn to 1st Timothy 412, it says, 01:07:39.500 --> 01:07:41.200 Let no man despise thy youth, 01:07:41.200 --> 01:07:43.400 but be thou an example of the believers 01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:45.100 in word and conversation, 01:07:45.100 --> 01:07:47.100 in charity and spirit and faith. 01:07:47.300 --> 01:07:53.260 So, even if you're a young dad, people should not be able to despise you. 01:07:53.260 --> 01:07:55.940 Hey, get that word in you. 01:07:55.940 --> 01:08:00.820 Understand the Bible and you can teach these things to your children even as a young man. 01:08:00.820 --> 01:08:05.780 Titus 2.7 says, In all things, show in thyself a pattern of good works. 01:08:05.780 --> 01:08:07.980 Oh, how do you set the example? 01:08:07.980 --> 01:08:10.580 Well, show yourself a pattern of good works. 01:08:10.580 --> 01:08:12.460 You know, if you're a young man... 01:08:12.800 --> 01:08:16.680 You know this whole thing of I'm tired. I'm too tired look. I'm tired 01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:20.880 I'm 51 years old. I am tired, but 01:08:21.640 --> 01:08:25.600 If you're like 23, and you're like I'm tired to just shut up 01:08:27.800 --> 01:08:33.240 I'm tired and my back hurts, my knees hurt, my hips hurt, everything hurts. 01:08:33.240 --> 01:08:36.920 When you get older, then you can start, like I remember when I was like 30 and I was like 01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:38.440 I'm starting to get old. 01:08:38.440 --> 01:08:42.680 Dude, give me 30 again please. 01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:44.280 Give me 40. 01:08:44.900 --> 01:08:52.580 Give me 45. I mean, give me 42. I mean, the older you get, the worse you hurt. 01:08:52.580 --> 01:08:56.020 So if you're like 27, you're like, oh man, I'm starting to get old. No, you're not. 01:08:56.980 --> 01:09:02.020 You're in the prime of your life. You're not tired. You can work circles around everybody still. 01:09:02.660 --> 01:09:04.400 So quit saying that. 01:09:04.700 --> 01:09:08.400 But anyway, Philippians 3.17 says, 01:09:08.400 --> 01:09:10.540 Brethren, be followers together of me 01:09:10.540 --> 01:09:14.500 and mark them which walk so as you have us for and in sample. 01:09:14.500 --> 01:09:16.380 So this is a good kind of marking. 01:09:16.380 --> 01:09:18.780 So find someone that's a good example 01:09:18.780 --> 01:09:20.620 and make a pattern after them. 01:09:20.620 --> 01:09:25.980 Look, follow a good man of God as they follow Christ. 01:09:25.980 --> 01:09:29.220 So we should be able to have examples that we look up 01:09:29.220 --> 01:09:30.300 to in our daily lives. 01:09:31.100 --> 01:09:35.260 1 Corinthians 11, 1 says, Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ. 01:09:35.260 --> 01:09:36.980 That's what Paul said. 01:09:36.980 --> 01:09:43.020 John 13, 15 says, For I have given you an example that you should do as I have done 01:09:43.020 --> 01:09:44.020 to you. 01:09:44.020 --> 01:09:46.740 That's Jesus after he washed the disciples' feet. 01:09:46.740 --> 01:09:54.460 1 Peter 2, 21 says, For even hereunto were ye called, because Christ also suffered for 01:09:54.460 --> 01:09:54.960 for us. 01:09:55.200 --> 01:09:59.200 Leaving us an example that you should follow his steps. 01:09:59.200 --> 01:10:03.200 Who's the most important person that we should have our children look up to? 01:10:03.200 --> 01:10:08.200 Jesus Christ, of course. That we should follow in his steps. 01:10:08.200 --> 01:10:11.200 That's not what saves us, obviously. 01:10:11.200 --> 01:10:17.200 But look, dads should be a good example in the home to their children, to their wife. 01:10:17.200 --> 01:10:20.000 And obviously, when we fail... 01:10:20.200 --> 01:10:24.040 Jesus is actually the one that everybody should look up to. 01:10:24.040 --> 01:10:27.080 The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 12, 01:10:27.080 --> 01:10:29.800 1, wherefore, seeing we are encompassed about with so great 01:10:29.800 --> 01:10:31.760 a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside 01:10:31.760 --> 01:10:35.480 every weight in the sin which doth easily beset us, 01:10:35.480 --> 01:10:38.760 and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. 01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:40.700 Look, we're in it for the long haul. 01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:43.200 You're running the distance race. 01:10:43.200 --> 01:10:46.840 This is what Paul liked to just use these sports analogies. 01:10:46.840 --> 01:10:49.640 And nobody in here probably runs necessarily on a daily basis. 01:10:49.640 --> 01:10:52.960 Does anybody actually run on a daily basis? 01:10:52.960 --> 01:10:53.680 Mikey? 01:10:53.680 --> 01:10:54.520 Mikey. 01:10:54.520 --> 01:10:55.840 That's it. 01:10:55.840 --> 01:10:57.160 He tried to get Ramon doing it. 01:10:57.160 --> 01:10:58.320 And Ron's like, OK, I'm done. 01:10:58.320 --> 01:10:59.400 No mas, no mas. 01:10:59.400 --> 01:11:01.560 I don't know if he's still running or not. 01:11:01.560 --> 01:11:03.120 Is he still running or training? 01:11:03.120 --> 01:11:03.620 No? 01:11:03.620 --> 01:11:04.320 I don't know. 01:11:04.320 --> 01:11:05.240 OK. 01:11:05.240 --> 01:11:06.160 Did he run that race? 01:11:07.200 --> 01:11:09.360 Oh he did, okay, so he did do it, alright. 01:11:09.360 --> 01:11:10.360 Amen. 01:11:10.360 --> 01:11:15.640 But running isn't something that a lot of people do, but there are people that do it. 01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:17.840 I see people running all the time, they're jogging. 01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:19.960 But they're jogging. 01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:20.960 You know why? 01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:25.640 Because running is not a, if you're running a race, like a marathon, you're not sprinting 01:11:25.640 --> 01:11:26.640 at full speed. 01:11:26.640 --> 01:11:32.080 And look, this life, as a Christian, there are times when you're going to run faster 01:11:32.080 --> 01:11:32.760 than others. 01:11:33.500 --> 01:11:39.500 But it's not a sprint because if you try to do a sprint for your whole life, you're going to crash and burn. 01:11:39.500 --> 01:11:43.500 That's why he says run the race with patience. 01:11:43.500 --> 01:11:49.500 Patience, the race is set before us and looking unto your dad, is that what it says? 01:11:49.500 --> 01:11:53.500 No, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. 01:11:53.500 --> 01:12:00.500 Ultimately, yes, children, you should be an example to your wife and your children, but... 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:04.680 Don't let them make you an idol in your home. 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:08.800 You know, we're the heads of our house and we should be examples, but make sure that 01:12:08.800 --> 01:12:10.960 your children are looking unto Jesus. 01:12:10.960 --> 01:12:13.640 Make sure that your wife is looking unto Jesus. 01:12:13.640 --> 01:12:18.980 And make sure that you are looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. 01:12:18.980 --> 01:12:19.800 Because we fail. 01:12:20.200 --> 01:12:26.040 Children fail wives fail men fail pastors fail deacons fail 01:12:26.560 --> 01:12:32.020 Evangelists fail church people fail you know we're not the people that should be put up on pedestals 01:12:32.020 --> 01:12:34.620 It's Jesus Christ that should be put on a pedestal right 01:12:35.240 --> 01:12:39.220 Because he's the author and finisher of our faith. I'm not the author and finisher of your faith 01:12:39.900 --> 01:12:44.300 None of our pastor, my pastor friends, are the author and finisher of your faith. 01:12:44.300 --> 01:12:49.020 They might, somebody might have got you saved, but Jesus Christ is the one that actually 01:12:49.020 --> 01:12:51.060 saves us, right? 01:12:51.060 --> 01:12:55.940 So he's the one that we should rely on. 01:12:55.940 --> 01:13:02.140 So alright, speaking of reliability, reliable. 01:13:02.140 --> 01:13:04.000 chapter 25 verse 13 says 01:13:04.400 --> 01:13:11.640 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him, 01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:15.800 for he refresheth the soul of his masters." 01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:19.400 Look, as dads we should be reliable. 01:13:19.400 --> 01:13:20.760 You know, there's a lot of people... 01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:25.260 in this world that don't have a reliable father, their dad leaves the home, 01:13:25.260 --> 01:13:28.800 or maybe mom left the home and said he wasn't reliable. I mean these things 01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:29.500 happen 01:13:29.500 --> 01:13:32.620 in our country unfortunately, but we should be 01:13:32.620 --> 01:13:36.820 something, our kids should be able to rely on us. They should know 01:13:36.820 --> 01:13:39.940 they're gonna go out and work and bring home money 01:13:39.940 --> 01:13:43.100 and put food on the table and clothes. 01:13:43.200 --> 01:13:48.520 on their back and we should be able that your kids should know, hey dad's coming home tonight, 01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:53.240 he's not going to be off at some girlfriend's house or something or someplace else. 01:13:53.240 --> 01:13:55.520 Hey, dad's going to be home. 01:13:55.520 --> 01:14:00.680 Mom's you know, mom should be able to count on dad coming home, these types of things. 01:14:00.680 --> 01:14:02.480 And your boss should be able to rely on you to be. 01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:09.040 work. The Bible says in Proverbs 11 and 13, a tale bearer reveals secrets, but he 01:14:09.040 --> 01:14:14.580 that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter. You know we're we should be 01:14:14.580 --> 01:14:18.260 able to be relied on for our kids to be able to tell us and talk to us about things. 01:14:18.260 --> 01:14:23.400 A lot of kids feel like they can't talk to their parents and you should be able 01:14:23.400 --> 01:14:26.820 to your children should be able to confide in you and come and talk to you about 01:14:26.820 --> 01:14:30.400 stuff. A lot of times kids are just like I don't want to talk to my parents you know. 01:14:30.500 --> 01:14:35.500 But you should be able to talk, your children should be able to confide in you and talk to you about stuff. 01:14:35.500 --> 01:14:38.000 Psalm chapter 15 verse 4 says, 01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:41.000 In whose eyes a vile person is condemned, 01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:44.000 contend, but he honneth them that fear the Lord, 01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:48.000 he that swear to his own hurt, and changeth not. 01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:50.400 So this Psalm, 01:14:50.800 --> 01:14:55.920 is saying that when you say you're going to do something, you do it and you don't change. 01:14:55.920 --> 01:15:00.200 You tell your kids, hey I'm going to do this with you, you go do it with them. 01:15:00.200 --> 01:15:03.920 Hey, you come soloing with me and I'll go buy you an ice cream or whatever it is. 01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:08.040 Whatever you say you're going to do for your kids, you should do it because they get really 01:15:08.040 --> 01:15:10.920 let down when you say, dad, but dad you said. 01:15:10.920 --> 01:15:14.040 Hey, do everything in your power to make that come to pass. 01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:18.800 And when you break promises to your kids or when you don't do what you say you're going to do, 01:15:18.800 --> 01:15:20.360 you better apologize to them. 01:15:20.360 --> 01:15:25.920 Because those things can affect them and mess with their minds and mess with their hearts. 01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:27.500 The Bible says in Matthew 5.37, 01:15:27.500 --> 01:15:32.320 But let your communication be yea, yea, nay, nay, 01:15:32.320 --> 01:15:35.700 for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. 01:15:35.700 --> 01:15:41.000 Proverbs 20 verse 6 shows us the rarity of reliability. 01:15:41.300 --> 01:15:43.900 And look, men, we should not be like this. 01:15:43.900 --> 01:15:46.420 But it says, most men will proclaim everyone 01:15:46.420 --> 01:15:49.900 his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find. 01:15:49.900 --> 01:15:52.220 That just tells you that there's not a lot of faithful men 01:15:52.220 --> 01:15:54.060 out there that keep their words and do what they 01:15:54.060 --> 01:15:55.220 said they were going to do. 01:15:55.220 --> 01:15:57.920 Proverbs 25 verse 19 says, confidence 01:15:57.920 --> 01:16:01.220 in an unfaithful man in time of trouble 01:16:01.220 --> 01:16:05.420 is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint. 01:16:05.420 --> 01:16:05.920 It's just. 01:16:06.600 --> 01:16:09.940 is not a very good experience. 01:16:09.940 --> 01:16:10.940 If you've had a broken tooth, 01:16:10.940 --> 01:16:12.240 you know exactly what I was talking about, 01:16:12.240 --> 01:16:14.840 or if you had a dislocated rib 01:16:14.840 --> 01:16:18.640 or some kind of bone at a joint, it's just painful. 01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:20.980 And so when someone's just an unfaithful person, 01:16:20.980 --> 01:16:24.720 you can't count on them, it's just super annoying, right? 01:16:24.720 --> 01:16:27.780 So the last thing, and we'll be done here, 01:16:27.780 --> 01:16:30.020 is the food all here? Yes, it is. 01:16:31.400 --> 01:16:35.560 The Bible commands us to be strong and courageous. 01:16:35.560 --> 01:16:39.200 So the S for fathers is be strong. 01:16:39.200 --> 01:16:41.880 So 1 Kings 2.22 says, 01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:43.920 I go the way of the whole earth. 01:16:43.920 --> 01:16:45.960 This is David speaking to his son, Solomon. 01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:50.520 Be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man. 01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:53.640 You know, as fathers today, we need to be manly. 01:16:54.000 --> 01:16:57.500 Don't wear skinny jeans and don't let your kids wear skinny jeans, okay? 01:16:57.500 --> 01:16:59.500 This is a bad idea from the get-go. 01:17:00.500 --> 01:17:03.000 Be manly. Don't wear pink shirts. 01:17:03.500 --> 01:17:07.500 I mean, I don't care what breast cancer awareness thing you're doing. 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:10.000 Don't wear pink shirts. It's gay. 01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:11.000 Alright? 01:17:13.400 --> 01:17:14.400 Be manly. 01:17:14.400 --> 01:17:15.400 Alright? 01:17:15.400 --> 01:17:24.320 1 Corinthians 16, 13, watch ye stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 01:17:24.320 --> 01:17:26.520 This is the Apostle Paul. 01:17:26.520 --> 01:17:28.200 Do you think the Apostle Paul was a weenie? 01:17:28.200 --> 01:17:29.600 No, he wasn't. 01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:32.800 He wasn't, he was not wearing a pink shirt when he preached this. 01:17:32.800 --> 01:17:35.360 Okay, I guarantee you he wasn't. 01:17:35.360 --> 01:17:40.040 And he's the one that said that, you know, effeminate or not going to be in the kingdom 01:17:40.040 --> 01:17:40.480 of heaven. 01:17:41.100 --> 01:17:43.300 So look, we're not supposed to be effeminate. 01:17:43.300 --> 01:17:46.220 The preachers that you see on TV, they're all soft 01:17:46.220 --> 01:17:52.660 and wearing flowery type clothes and acting all weak and soft. 01:17:52.660 --> 01:17:54.860 That's not what you see in the Bible of prophets 01:17:54.860 --> 01:17:56.460 and teachers and preachers. 01:17:56.460 --> 01:18:00.140 So there's nothing wrong with wearing Wranglers and Kerharts 01:18:00.140 --> 01:18:01.420 and you know. 01:18:04.400 --> 01:18:06.320 shooting guns and 01:18:06.320 --> 01:18:08.320 all those types of things 01:18:08.480 --> 01:18:10.480 There's nothing wrong with being able to protect your home 01:18:11.040 --> 01:18:16.440 Joshua 1 9 says have I not commanded thee be strong and have a good courage be not afraid 01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:20.580 Neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest 01:18:21.400 --> 01:18:27.480 2 Timothy 2.1 says, Thou therefore my son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 01:18:27.480 --> 01:18:32.040 Ephesians 6.10 says, Finally my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of 01:18:32.040 --> 01:18:33.040 his might. 01:18:33.040 --> 01:18:38.120 Isaiah 40 verse 31 says, But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, 01:18:38.120 --> 01:18:43.120 they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall 01:18:43.120 --> 01:18:44.840 walk and not faint. 01:18:45.500 --> 01:18:52.100 In Psalm 27, 14, wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thy heart. 01:18:52.100 --> 01:18:55.460 Wait I say on the Lord. 01:18:55.460 --> 01:19:03.020 Proverbs 24, 5, a wise man is strong, yea a man of knowledge increaseth strength. 01:19:03.020 --> 01:19:09.340 The glory of God, Proverbs 29, the glory of young men is their strength and the beauty 01:19:09.340 --> 01:19:11.860 of old men is their gray head. 01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:17.320 And then the last verse here, Romans 15, one says, 01:19:17.320 --> 01:19:20.560 we then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities 01:19:20.560 --> 01:19:23.080 of the weak and not to please ourselves. 01:19:23.080 --> 01:19:24.880 And that's a good verse there. 01:19:24.880 --> 01:19:27.720 Look, men ought to be the ones that are strong. 01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:29.720 Women shouldn't be doing all the work around here 01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:30.840 all the time. 01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:33.080 Men can, you know, I mean, when you see a woman walking in 01:19:33.080 --> 01:19:35.200 with a big heavy load of stuff, grab that stuff 01:19:35.200 --> 01:19:36.960 out of their hand and help them. 01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:39.200 You know, help your wife with stuff. 01:19:39.200 --> 01:19:40.280 Pick something up. 01:19:40.700 --> 01:19:42.700 She shouldn't be having to carry every single thing 01:19:42.700 --> 01:19:45.700 and do all the heavy lifting and all that kind of stuff. 01:19:45.700 --> 01:19:47.700 You know, chivalry shouldn't be completely dead. 01:19:47.700 --> 01:19:49.700 Just because there's feminists out there doesn't mean 01:19:49.700 --> 01:19:52.700 you have to be, you know, act like your wife is one of them. 01:19:55.700 --> 01:19:59.700 And look, this is a good point about being strong 01:19:59.700 --> 01:20:03.700 because there's so many weak men out there today. 01:20:03.700 --> 01:20:06.200 And we need to show ourselves strong for our family. 01:20:06.500 --> 01:20:11.140 I'm not just talking about strength as in yourself being strong and fit. 01:20:11.140 --> 01:20:15.700 Of course that's important to be able to be strong and manly and all that. 01:20:15.700 --> 01:20:22.400 And David said that the Lord teaches his hands to war and his fingers to fight. 01:20:22.400 --> 01:20:23.900 It's good to be able to protect yourself. 01:20:23.900 --> 01:20:25.900 Yeah, get some guns. 01:20:25.900 --> 01:20:26.900 That's the great equalizer. 01:20:26.900 --> 01:20:34.340 If you're not tough, if you're 5'5 and skinny as a twig, hey, you know, Glock 9. 01:20:34.500 --> 01:20:43.740 is a great equalizer isn't it? But be strong spiritually. Be strong in the Lord. You know 01:20:43.740 --> 01:20:51.460 and God will be with you and be strong for your family spiritually because that's what 01:20:51.460 --> 01:20:57.300 really matters the most is that you are a rock spiritually for your house, for your 01:20:57.300 --> 01:21:00.660 wife, for your kids. They can rely on you. 01:21:00.900 --> 01:21:03.500 and you can set the example for them, 01:21:03.500 --> 01:21:06.160 and you're faithful for them, 01:21:06.160 --> 01:21:09.160 and you, you know, all these things 01:21:12.300 --> 01:21:16.460 that you, all these acronyms that I went through. 01:21:16.460 --> 01:21:18.140 I mean, a lot of scripture I went through. 01:21:18.140 --> 01:21:22.300 But, you know, it's, you know, God loves faithful men 01:21:22.300 --> 01:21:23.840 that are going to lead their families 01:21:23.840 --> 01:21:25.200 in the way that they should go. 01:21:25.300 --> 01:21:31.300 And if you're lacking in any of these areas, then just get better at them. 01:21:31.300 --> 01:21:37.300 Think about the things that were said, and hey, if you're lacking, just do better in that area. 01:21:37.300 --> 01:21:39.300 Just purpose in your heart. 01:21:39.300 --> 01:21:45.300 Daniel purposed in his heart that he wasn't going to eat the king's meat or drink the wine that was provided for him. 01:21:45.300 --> 01:21:47.300 And he found a way to get better. 01:21:47.600 --> 01:21:51.840 You know, he said, hey, let me just eat pulse for 10 days. 01:21:51.840 --> 01:21:57.120 And God blessed him for the fact that he wasn't going to do that, which is wrong. 01:21:57.120 --> 01:21:59.600 And so we can get better. 01:21:59.600 --> 01:22:03.720 And obviously we all have things that we can improve on, yours truly included. 01:22:03.720 --> 01:22:04.720 I'm not perfect. 01:22:04.720 --> 01:22:07.760 I know none of the men in here are. 01:22:07.760 --> 01:22:08.920 Nobody is. 01:22:08.920 --> 01:22:14.240 But we can still work to get better as dads, work to get better, you know, as men. 01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:17.400 And look, we need strong men in this world. 01:22:17.400 --> 01:22:19.240 We need strong men in our churches. 01:22:19.240 --> 01:22:20.000 And... 01:22:20.400 --> 01:22:27.780 We definitely need strong families for the Lord. Let's pray. Lord, thank you so much for the blessings of strong men. Lord, 01:22:27.780 --> 01:22:31.920 would you bless our men in our church? Not only just the fathers, but also 01:22:32.360 --> 01:22:37.640 the young men, the young single men. I pray that you bless them and then help them to 01:22:38.200 --> 01:22:44.440 find wives that are suitable for them and also for the young men that are growing up, the young children, and 01:22:45.000 --> 01:22:47.900 help them to have good examples to look up to. 01:22:48.400 --> 01:22:55.120 Help them to be examples of other young children in this church and to not be given to mischief 01:22:55.680 --> 01:23:02.160 and that they would be able to be examples, good examples to their friends here at Church Lord. 01:23:02.160 --> 01:23:04.300 Help us to 01:23:04.500 --> 01:23:08.520 Get some people saved today out soulening, help us and bless the food that we're about 01:23:08.520 --> 01:23:10.060 to partake in. 01:23:10.060 --> 01:23:14.380 And thank you for being such a great father to us and being an example and thank you for 01:23:14.380 --> 01:23:17.460 giving us your son Jesus to take away our sins. 01:23:17.460 --> 01:23:18.340 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:23:26.100 --> 01:23:28.000 Alright, close with the song.