you
pain inside
songs of
praises
songs of praises
I will ever give
to thee
I
will ever give
to thee
on our front cover we have our verse of the week
it says
from the end of the earth will I cry unto thee
when my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock
that is higher than I
psalms chapter 61 verse 2
and our service times are 10 30 am
sunday morning for the preaching service
and sunday evening service is 3 30 pm
we're still going through the book of Genesis
we'll be in chapter 48
and so we're winding that
series down and then
thursday bible study is second Corinthians
chapter number 13
and that starts at 6 30 pm
and it's our last chapter
in the book so if you had any
suggestions for another
book to cover I'm all ears
otherwise I'll just pick one at
random so
our soul wanting times are listed below we have soul
wanting today at 1 pm
please see brother Sean Conlon
for details on
your maps or otherwise he's just going to post it
in the whatsapp group and if you're not
in the whatsapp group come see me or my wife
and we can let you in
also our
praise report down below you can see the salvation
totals for
this month and
year to date baptisms
and attendance from last
week let's see
we got the next thing coming up here is the
homeschool field trip that's going to be this
tuesday at 9 30 am
and if you hadn't
RSVP'd already you can still
go it's just the tickets have already been paid
for so you'd probably have to pay for them yourself
at this point and so
please be on time for that make sure you bring a
sack lunch if you have any other questions please
see miss Rachel Woods
and may 27th
is our soul wanting marathon in Bellingham
Washington and
then so that's going to run like a regular
soul wanting marathon it'll be on a Friday
and if you're going to go please
let brother Robert know
like to get a
lot of details on how many people are going
so we can order the food and things like
that and so see brother
Robert for any details we're going to be making a video
about it this afternoon
and so that's
going to be the day
before we have our sure foundation baptist
church north preaching and fellowship
meeting at the border
and that'll be
right at Blaine Washington like we did
last time at peace arch park
and so we have the
big room rented for the whole day there
they'll be preaching and fellowship
with our brethren from the
great north up there
and so it's going to be a great time if you're
planning on going to that please let me
know if you need any help
with hotels or anything like that just
let me know and I'll see what I can do to help you
June 1st through 4th
is our church camp and that all
the stuff about that's going to be posted
tomorrow so we're trying to figure
out who all is going can I just get a quick
show of hands of people that are planning on going
to the camping trip
okay let me keep them up
praise Jesus
alright cool
so we're going to have a great time
it's been a couple years since we've been able to go to camp
we also have a special speaker
pastor Jared Pazarski
will be preaching for us at the camp
and that'll be Friday night and Saturday morning
so I talked to
we're going to have a gun
shooting range also I think that it's
going to be Friday afternoon
but if you go there you can also just
there's going to be free time where you can just go kind of do whatever
you want
as far as you know hiking
or whatever there's quite a bit of things to do
out there it's a pretty rural area
there's also Crater Lake I think it's about 30
minutes away from the campsite so
you're welcome to go up there and check that out
and so
we're going to have a great time
all the food is going to be provided we're going to have meals
and things like that
church paying for all the food
and we will need some volunteers
to help with some things
but other than that
it's going to be a great time
it's free I mean it's not
free free because you have to pay for your gas
to get down there it's like four and a half hours away
that could be a hundred dollars these days
so anyway it could be more than that
good night anyway
so but if you need any help
just come talk to me and I'll see what I can do
okay and then on
June 10th we have our
the Northeast New IFB Conference
night that's going to be in New Jersey
it'll be at 6pm for food and
fellowship service begins at 7pm
I'll be preaching, Pastor Mez will be
preaching and there's going to be a Sony
marathon on Saturday we'll be doing
baptisms on Friday night or
maybe sometimes Saturday
June 18th is the men's shooting event
in Stevenson Washington, June 19th
is Father's Day and there will be a gift
for every dad in attendance and
then June 23rd
and June 26th
Pastor Steven Anderson will be
stopping here on Thursday night
to preach for us and
he'll be in Spokane on the 26th
to preach both services
so if you wanted to go up to Spokane
and see the other two services you're more than
welcome to do that so
like I said he's preaching both services up
there on the 26th which is Sunday
and he's preaching here Thursday night so
don't forget about that
I'll be preaching
down there on the 26th
so it's kind of like he's calling it the
the FWBC
mega conference and so
basically we're all just all the pastors
switching spots with Pastor Anderson while he goes
and preaches at our churches
we're going to be preaching down at his church so
so it's a pretty cool idea
looking forward to that and
so yeah make sure that you
mark the dates on those and again
if you want to go up to Spokane and
and go to those services too you're more than
welcome to do so it's still our church right
July 14th through the 17th
is the Red Hot Preaching Conference
so and then we're a
family integrated church and that's what I'm
preaching about this morning is why
we're a family integrated church
but children and infants are always welcomed
during the church services we have
available for your family, a mother baby room
and a dad baby room for your
convenience during the services please
utilize those rooms for training
and for nursing
and all that stuff that you would need to do
with your child and again I'll cover that
in more detail as I preach the sermon
this morning the gliders
or rockers are for pregnant
nursing mothers and elders only please
no men in the mother baby room during
the church services or moms
and the dad baby room during the church
services no unattended
children in the building at any
time so make sure you're watching your children
and please no food or drink
or not food or drink just food in the
assembly area please silence your cell
phones if you would at this time please
or place them on airplane mode
and then we always have escorts available
to walk ladies to
their car if they need and the
ushers are the men with the pins on their coats
that say usher
and our donations
our way to give is
we got a couple different things you can go on the website
or you can text give
the tithes and offerings so far for a month of May
listed at the bottom of the page
and we have one birthday coming up
this week and Mandy
Velasquez is turning
how old were she?
oh hi
are you going to be 13?
she's going to know everything now
everything she's a teenager
when I turned 13
I knew everything too so
I'm not trying to be a hater
it's just part of growing up isn't it
but anyway let's sing
happy birthday to Mandy
she's officially a teenager on the 18th
happy birthday
to me
happy birthday
to you
happy birthday
god bless
you
happy birthday
to you
don't forget to pray for the Velasquez family
as she turns to a teenager
alright that's all I got for announcements
please let's sing another song
we'll receive the offer
alright our next song is song number 298
more love to thee
song number 298
song number 298 in your blue hymn book
more love to thee
song number 298
more love to thee
let's sing it out on the first
more
love to thee
oh christ
more love to
thee
hear
thou the prayer
I make
on bended knee
this is my
earnestly
more
love oh christ
to thee
more love to thee
more love to
thee
unearthly
joy I
crave
sought peace
and rest
now
thee alone I see
give
what is best
this
all my prayers
shall be
more love
oh christ
to thee
more love to thee
more love
to thee
let sorrow
do its work
send grief
and pain
sweet are
thy messengers
sweet
their refrain
when they can
sing with me
more love
oh christ
to thee
more love to
thee
more love
to thee
then
shall my
latest breath
whisper
thy praise
this be
the parting
my heart
shall raise
this still
its birth
shall be
more love
oh christ to thee
more love
to thee
more love
to thee
amen
good seeing brother Ramon, could you bless the offering for us?
Thank you
All right, go ahead and turn your Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 8
Nehemiah chapter number 8, if you do not have a Bible, raise your hand and one of the ushers will bring you one
Nehemiah chapter 8
Nehemiah 8 the Bible reads
and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law
and Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood
which they had made for the purpose
and beside him stood
Mattathiah and Shema
and Aniah and Uriah
and Hilkiah and Messiah
on his right hand
and on his left hand Phidiah and Mishael
and Malchiah and Husham
and Hajbadanah
Zechariah and Meshulim
and Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people
for he was above all the people
and when he had opened it, all the people stood up
and Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God
and all the people answered, Amen, Amen
with lifting up their hands
and they bowed their heads and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground
also Jeshua and Beni
and Cherubiah and Jamun
Akub, Shabbathai
Hadidjah, Messiah
Kelita, Azariah
Jezabad
Hanan, Paliah
and the Levites caused the people to understand the law
and the people stood in their place
so they read the book and the law of God distinctly
and gave the sense and caused them to understand the reading
and Amaya, which is the Tershotha
and Ezra, the priest, the scribe and the Levites that taught the people
said unto all the people
this day is holy unto the Lord your God
mourn not nor weep
for all the people wept when they heard the words of the law
then he said unto them
go your way
eat the fat and drink the sweet
and send portions unto them
for whom nothing is prepared
for this day is holy unto our God
neither be ye sorry
for this day is holy unto our God
neither be ye sorry
for the joy of the Lord is your strength
so the Levites stilled all the people saying
hold your peace
for the day is holy
neither be ye grieved
and all the people went their way to eat and to drink
and to send portions
and to make great mirth
because they had understood the words that were declared unto them
and on the second day they were gathered together
the chief of the fathers of all the people
the priest and the Levites
unto Ezra the scribe
even to understand the words of the law
and they found written in the law
which the Lord had commanded by Moses
that the children of Israel should dwell in booths
in the feast of the seventh month
and that they should publish and proclaim
in all their cities and in Jerusalem
saying go forth unto the mount
and fetch olive branches
and pine branches and myrtle branches
and palm branches and branches of thick trees
to make booths as it is written
so the people went forth
and brought them and made themselves booths
every one upon the roof of his house
and in their courts
and in the courts of the house of God
and in the street of the water gate
and in the street of the gate of Ephraim
and all the congregation of them
that were come again out of the captivity
made booths and sat under the booths
for since the days of Jeshua
the son of Nun unto the day
had not the children of Israel done so
and there was a great
there was very great gladness
also day by day
from the first day unto the last day
he read in the book of the law of God
and they kept the feast seven days
and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly
according unto the manner
Brother Drew, will you pray for us?
Amen, alright, well I'm preaching this morning
about why we are family integrated
why we are family integrated
Heavenly Father we thank you Lord so much
for this great day and pray that you would
just help me to preach this morning
and that you would fill me with your spirit
Lord and also with grace
and Lord I pray that
you would just watch over specially
this morning as I think about it brother Alex K
and his wife Mary
and I just pray that you would lift
brother Alex up
and I just pray that you would help
his wife and help her to feel better
Lord and I just pray that you would
just do a special thing for
brother Alex this morning and for his wife
Mary and Lord we ask that you
would just bless the services and everything done
in your house this morning in Jesus' name we pray, Amen
Alright, so why we're family integrated
in Christianity
a family integrated church
is one in which parents and children
attend church services together
and if you've been going
to this church for a while you already know that we're a family
integrated church but I've never preached
a full sermon about why we're
family integrated and I felt like
it would be something that needs to be
preached so from time to time it needs to be
preached about and maybe
you're new to this church or newer to this church
and you don't understand why we're family integrated
I'm going to give you three reasons
this morning why we're
family integrated so
we believe at this church that
parents and children should not be separated
and we don't have Sunday
school classes we don't have
we don't have children's church
here and like
most churches today do
have children's church
and bus ministries and things like that
but we believe
the church should be together
and that's what you see in the Bible
that's I mean you see that multiple times
throughout the Bible all
over and I'm going to go through some scripture this morning
about that but if I
just went through the
scripture on it it would be a very long
sermon so I don't want to do that this
morning but I do want to give
us three reasons why
we're family integrated so point number
one or reason number
one of why we're family
integrated is the pattern
in scripture is that the
congregation should be together the pattern
in scripture is
that the congregation should be together so
we're here in Nehemiah chapter 8 look down
at verse number 1 it says
all the people gathered
themselves together as one
man into the street that was
before the water gate and they
spake unto Ezra the scribe
to bring the book of the law
of Moses which the Lord had
commanded to Israel so
you see in Nehemiah there's
several verses where it's showing
that everybody here is together
but it says and all
the people were gathered together it wasn't
just the men it wasn't
just the men and the women but it was
all the people so that would
include their children do you think that they
believed in having big families back then
of course they did Jacob
had 12 sons
and daughters so I mean and that
was before this time but
you know obviously we believe
here in having
big families now we're not part
of the quiver full
movement
which is
is kind of there's this
I guess this stupid thing on
Netflix about some guy
that was just going around and
getting all these women
artificially inseminated so that he could have
like all these children or something
and they kind of attached
Pastor Anderson to
like belonging to that movement or whatever
but that's just not true we're not part
of that movement we do believe in big families
though as much as God will allow us to have
that's what we should do
and you don't see in scripture
where people should have birth control
or any of those things
but when you go to a
church like ours when you believe that
that belief you know
there's churches that actually preach about birth
control and say that women should
take it but and
some of these churches they'll look at you if you have
a bigger family and
and even at church they will
say things to people which is wrong
so
but when you're in a big
when you're in a church with many children
and it's family integrated it can get
complicated it can get
it can get hectic it can get
frustrating sometimes
but if we kind of allow
the rules of the church to
dictate what
we do and what we don't do
then family integration
works great but we don't want family
integration to fail because
it's not the
rules that are the failure it's the people that
fail to keep the rules about
being family integrated
that are the problem so
anyway I'm going to try to be really nice
today but some toes
might get a little bit stepped on today
and so
I'm just you know I didn't plan to
have anybody's
feelings hurt in particular this
morning but you know it's the word of God
the Bible says great peace have they that love thy law
and nothing shall offend them
so what is that talking about well it's talking
about the Bible should not offend you so if I'm
preaching the Bible you know don't get
offended today just
I'm not here to try to tear
people down I'm trying to build people up and
help them and some of the things I'm going to
talk about today will help you it'll help your
Christian life it'll help your life
outside of church it'll help your family
life so but
one of the things in scripture we see
is the pattern of
the whole family being together
in church services so
there was no there's no nothing in the
Bible that says that we're supposed to separate the
children from the parents or
from the church services okay
look at Deuteronomy chapter 31 verse number 12
Deuteronomy chapter 31 verse number 12
let's give you a few examples
this morning a couple examples in the Old Testament
I'm going to give you some examples
in the New Testament of the pattern
the pattern in scripture is that the
congregation should be together
Deuteronomy chapter 31 verse 12
says gather the people
together men and women
and what does it say? and children
and thy stranger
that is within thy gates
that they may hear that they may learn
and fear the Lord your God
and observe to do all the words
of this law so here you have
the Bible saying hey
men and women and children
gather together that they may
hear everybody was in here
listening should have heard the Bible
being read to them this morning and it
says that they may learn why are you
here why do we have a preaching service
at all so that people can learn the Bible
and also to
fear the Lord our God
we should be have a fear
of the Lord that's a healthy fear
you know and so if we're doing
that which is right and
and true and good
we don't have anything to fear but when
we're not doing what's right then
you know we should be fearing
and it says and observe to
do all the words of
this law so it's not just enough to hear
the Bible being read it's not just
enough to hear the preaching of God's
word but God expects you to
actually do what he
says in the law in
the Bible okay and
look what it says in verse 13 it says
that their children which
have not known anything
may hear and learn to
fear the Lord your God as long
as you live in the land whether
you go over Jordan to possess
it so God not only wants
to have the preaching affect
the people adults in the church but
also the children he specifically
mentions the children here
because if your children are
together with you in the services they're
going to hear the Bible being preached and
they're going to learn to fear God and
they're going to learn to be saved
they're going to learn what the Bible says
that you should do and you know
I think sometimes that the children listen
better than the adults do
and you know that shouldn't be the case
but it is the case and
a lot of times the children can
just tell you what you preached
without a problem but you ask somebody
else what was the services about today oh
I don't know that means people are distracted
we live in a distracted world
today where screen time
is a big deal and you know
if somebody locked your phone
up for a week how would you adjust to that
how would you
adjust to that setting
if you didn't have some sort of screen in your face
you'd probably go through detox
you'd go through a screen time
detox where you're just like
I don't have my phone
and maybe all of us would do that maybe I would do that too
but we do have to
put the phone down sometimes
and pay attention to our kids
and pay attention to our spouses
and pay attention to the word of God
while it's being preached
when it's preaching time
it should be quiet time
it should be a time where we're all
together attentive to the things
that God says let's turn to Matthew chapter 14
verse 19
Matthew chapter 14 verse number 19
in the New Testament there
the first book of the New Testament
Matthew 14 verse 19 says
he guided the multitude
to sit down in the grass
and took the five loaves and the two fishes
and looking up to heaven
he blessed and break and gave the loaves
to his disciples
and the disciples to the multitude
now who is this multitude
well it's going to tell us in just a minute
it says and they did all eat and were filled
and they took up the fragments
that remained 12 baskets full
and they that had eaten
were about 5,000 men
beside women
and children so it wasn't
just men that were there that
partook of the loaves
and of the fish
but it was also
women and children so
wouldn't you say that if there was women and children
there that there was
probably more children than there were
just men by themselves
because again they probably believed
in big families
and so most people probably had more than
one child policy
they had more than two and a half children
they had probably multiple children
but the point is
is that when the Bible is talking about the multitude
being set down together
and again that was
Jesus actually organized them in rows
and in groups
as they sat down to hear him preach
it was organized
religion how many times you have
people say I don't believe in
organized religion the tree is my
you know the tree is my brother
and you know when I'm catching fish
you know that's where two or three
people are gathered in the name of the Lord
then he's in the midst of them
and it's like you got you and your fish
or you and your hunting buddies
or whatever that's not church
okay that is not church
and so
but people will say that I don't believe in organized religion
well Jesus organized some things
he organized people to sit down in rows
and it was distributed to them
you know in an orderly fashion
so and but the point
of me bringing the scripture up though
is that there was men
and women and children all there
together turn to Mark chapter 10
verse number 13
Mark chapter 10 verse number 13
the Bible says
in Mark chapter 10
verse number 13 it says
and they brought young children to him
that he should touch them and his
disciples rebuked those
that brought them
but when Jesus saw it
he was much displeased
and said unto them
suffer which is an
older word for allow
suffer the little children to come unto
me and forbid them not
so Jesus is saying hey you know the disciples
are like hey get those kids out of here
they cry they whine they
throw fits you know they're running all over the place
or whatever but when Jesus
saw that the disciples were doing this
he was much displeased
and you know in the Bible if you just do a study on
when God is displeased sometimes
bad things happen to people
when he's much displeased
and actually tonight you're going to see
where Joseph was displeased
with his dad over something that he did
and you know so when people are displeased
it's not just like a
proper word for you know
getting mad it's just they're
they are upset they're visibly
maybe upset and
probably giving you some frowny face looks
and stuff like that but Jesus said
forbid them not so
do you think that would include the church services
absolutely
and so but Jesus
says suffer the little children to come to me
and forbid them not for such is
the kingdom of heaven
you know in the kingdom of heaven there's going to be a lot of little children
up there there's going to be a lot of
children in God's kingdom
there's a lot of children that have died
innocently you know and right now
this country is raging with
with this whole
abortion being stricken down
thing with the Roe vs. Wade
stuff
you know and on one side you have the
baby murderers that want to
just be able to kill babies whenever they feel like it
and they're you know they're burning
Christian centers around
the country and they're throwing
a big giant hissy fit because
they're not getting their death style
they're not getting their way to
murder children
might be taken away from them or whatever
but you know it's not going to get taken away
nothing the government ever implements really
gets overthrown and
you know so if you're paying some kind of taxes
they're not going to take those taxes away they always
want that money right
but it says verily I say unto
whosoever shall not receive the kingdom
of God as a little child he
shall not enter therein
and he took them up in his arms
put his hands
upon them and blessed
them now I'm
not saying you should just let anybody pick up your
kids but if Jesus is picking up
your kids I have this fear
that sometimes if Jesus was here and
he picked up somebody's kids they might say that he might
be a pedophile
don't get too weird with the whole
pedophile thing not everybody
that you know likes kids
likes him in that way
so just keep that in mind we need
to have a balance in our life
we need to have a balance with the things that we believe
don't go too far over here or too
far over here don't go too far to the left
where you're just like don't care where your kids are
you don't watch them at all
but don't also go so far over here
that you're like everybody's a pedophile
they looked at my kids direction they're a pedophile
they're a pervert it's like we've had people
in this church that have done that before and I
never liked that
it's like how do you know they're a pedophile well they looked
at my kid
so if someone looks at a child they're a pedophile
I mean that's a really weird
thing and most of those people are bozos
that have left our church
so a big surprise
that anyway
he took them up in his arms
and he blessed them Jesus
wants the children to be part
of you know how many people have had a child
saved out so many before
are children easier to be
saved than adults yes they are
and why because they're
they haven't been tainted with the things of this world
they believe easy
because you know what to be saved is easy
and we believe at this church
easy believe-ism
that all it takes to be saved is to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ because you know why
that's what the Bible says
so you know people are like
what about repentance well I believe
in repentance as long as you define it
by the correct definition
and repentance unto salvation
is changing your mind about whatever it's taking you
to hell and believing put it on your faith
on the Lord Jesus Christ
it's not repenting of your sins
repenting of your sins comes later
when you're already saved
you can't turn over a new leaf to be saved
you can't just
you know you think you're going to just
stop sinning nobody can stop sinning
even Ray Comfort has not stopped sinning
even though he tries to act like he has
anyway turn to Ephesians
chapter 6 verses 1 I'm not preaching about
Ray Comfort this morning but good night
that guy is a bozo too
alright Ephesians
chapter 6 verse 1
now the apostle Paul is writing
the book of Ephesians
the church at Ephesus
and I would say that
in this passage
that he's talking to children
because he expects children
to be hearing
what he's saying in this letter
when the Bible gets read
if this chapter gets read
and Paul told Timothy
to give attendance to reading
that's why we read the whole chapter
so that people can get the context
before the preaching starts
but look at Ephesians 6
it says children
who's he talking to
talking to children right
children obey your parents in the Lord
for this is right
honor thy father and mother
which is the first commandment with promise
that it may be well with thee
and thou mayest live long
through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost
Paul is writing this
and he's talking specifically to children
if I was preaching
out of this chapter
and talking about children obeying their parents
and everybody was off in some classroom
and didn't hear that
how would that make sense?
so the parents are supposed to go
hey guess what I learned in church
you're supposed to obey me
well how about you allow your children
to sit in the service with you
that's what the Bible says
they can process it
you know if a child is saved
they can process the word of God
isn't that funny how there's people that are scholars
and whatnot that they're not even saved
and they want to try to interpret the scriptures
but a little child knows more than they do
I think the children at our church
probably have more biblical knowledge
than most adults in the pews at other churches
I really think that that's true
I'd like to put that to the test sometime
but I believe it's true
because the children in here are all paying attention
they're all paying attention to what's going on
in the services and look that verse
kids is for you
the apostle Paul specifically wanted you to know that
because you know it's a blessing
to obey your parents
and the Lord and the Bible says
it's right it's the right thing to do
to honor your father and mother
your father and mother not somebody else's father
and mother but obviously you should be nice to everybody
if you can be but it's talking about your parents
you know don't go start
start thinking that somebody else's parents
are better than your parents
because your parents are the ones that brought you up
they're the ones that fed you
and clothed you and continue to do so
and you know you should
if they're doing that for you
don't you think it'd be right
to obey what they say to do
like well my parents are unreasonable
well sometimes you think that
but that doesn't mean that's true
maybe your parents are a little more wise than you
because they've already been
that before and they probably have learned
from their mistakes
and they're probably going to teach you
how to stay away from the mistakes
that you made
like well my parents did it so I'm going to do it too
well that's a dumb way to think
don't start thinking
you're smarter than your parents because they're older
than you they're wiser than you
in most cases so
well in all cases they're older than you
but in most cases they're wiser than you
also even if they're not perfect
is anybody is any child in here perfect
I don't think
any children in here would raise their hand and say
I'm perfect I do everything right
so then why would you expect your parents to be perfect
and do everything right also
it's unrealistic
it's just like church is thinking that the pastor
has to do everything right and never make a mistake
it's just a weird way to think
Colossians chapter 3 turn to 1 John
chapter 2 verse 12
and while you're turning there I'm going to read for you
Colossians 3.20
Colossians 3.20 says
children obey your parents
in all things
for this is well pleasing unto
the Lord so not only are you supposed to obey your
parents in the Lord
because it's right but we're also
supposed to obey children are supposed to obey
their parents in all things
don't neglect the
laws of your father and the laws of your mother just because
they're not in the Bible doesn't mean you're not supposed to obey
them so and I think
that's why God put it in here
so it's not just saying you know we are
supposed to obey our parents in the Lord
you know if your parents tell you to go murder somebody
obviously that's not obeying them in the Lord because
that's wrong but
so as long as they're not I mean
how many parents in here have told their kids to go kill somebody
though zero
I would hope it's zero
but my point
is is that your parents are probably making
rules for what time you can go outside
what time you can come in what time is
is school starting for your home school
what time are you supposed to get dressed
what time are you supposed to do your chores
those are things that are going to help keep your life in order
how am I supposed to behave in church
well your parents are supposed to train you
to behave in church
so you're in 1 John chapter 2 look at verse
number 12 it says
I write unto you little children
because your sins are forgiven
for his name's sake
so now obviously I believe that John's
calling other people in the congregation
little children but he also says
I write unto you fathers
I write unto you children
but taking this at face value
it says I write unto you children because your sins
are forgiven so I believe
that it can be applied to
actual little children in the church
because there's a lot of testimonies
and some even in this church
of people that were saved at a very early age
so little children can be saved
so why wouldn't the Bible apply
to the little children
see we're supposed to be together
so that everybody can learn together
at the same time
and we're supposed to be together
because the Bible says it
turn to Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 6
it's the pattern that we see
in the scriptures I've showed you verses from the
Old Testament I've showed you verses
from the New Testament and I'm going to show you
that it's our responsibility
to teach the children
it's the parents' responsibility
to train the children
and so there's churches that have
ministries that are just geared for
children and you know
I believe that the reason why a lot of
teenagers leave the church after they're
18 or whatever
is because they've been stuck in some class
where it's fun fun fun
until the daddy takes the T-bird away
when they have to actually go into the services
and be in big boy or big
girl church and to them
it's boring
you know why it's boring
it's boring because we don't have
cookies and kool-aid in this room
we don't have we're not singing in some way
ran out of space god has repaired the place
we're not singing all the fun father Abraham
songs in here and stuff like that
you know those songs have their place
but if we're
gearing church services
towards Joyce Meyer's ministries
or we're gearing it towards some
fun center why are we gearing things
to prepare our children to go
to a fun center when we're in independent
Baptist Church
that doesn't make sense
and you're like well it should be at their level
children could apparently the
apostle Paul thought that children obeying their
parents of the Lord was at their level
right so we should
be you know our children
some of your children are probably at a
higher level than you
because I've mentioned this before you know
when you get saved you're zero
and then you start to grow as a
Christian or not grow as a Christian but if you grow
as a Christian you know you have
your age is dependent upon how
you do in
your Christian walk
if you never go to church if you never read the
Bible you never go to soul when you never do any of the things
that God tells you to do but your children are
doing that then they're older than you are in the Lord
think about that
so Deuteronomy 6
says that these words which I command
thee this day shall be
in thine heart
so the commandments of God the things that God wants
us to do they should be in our heart right
as adults
and it says and thou shalt
that means the commandment right
and thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children
we're supposed to teach as parents
we're supposed to be teaching our children the commandments
of the Lord not only just
teaching them but diligently
teaching them
and it says and shalt talk of them
when thou sittest in thine house and when thou
walkest by the way
and when thou liest down
and when thou risest up pretty much all the time
right isn't that what it's saying
when you first wake up
when you're walking around doing stuff
when you're lying down to sleep
you know when you're sitting
in your house all these different things
and it says and thou shalt bind them
for a sign upon thine hand that they
shall be as and they shall be
as frontlets between thine eyes
and thou shalt write them upon the post of
thy house and on thy gates
so scripture
and the bible should be a very
big part of your life
and the big part should be is that you're
also teaching those things
diligently to your children
and so part of that teaching
is bringing them into the house of
God so they can see
and understand how it is
when all of our services are together
with all the people just like
the bible patterns for us
so here's something else
to consider it's not just
the preaching it's not just
the bible reading that they're getting out of the services
and think about this Moses
was you know
sent down the river in a basket
and Pharaoh's daughter
swooped him up but then
he was nursed by his mother
and you know how did Moses
get all the teachings that he got how did he know
the things he knew well
any age where you
hear the bible can
have an effect on the rest of your life
any age
in the womb
I mean reading the bible
to your wife if she's pregnant
you know that word of
God can penetrate into
babies hear things in the womb
did you know that? that's why they
kick when they're listening to music
or whatever or they kick for certain
reasons they can hear what's
going on and so
that the word of God is very powerful
it's sharper than any two edge sword
it pierces to the
dividedness under of soul and spirit
and the joints and the marrow
and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart
it's so powerful it can divide the soul
and the spirit so
can it penetrate into
the mind of a child? absolutely it can
and so
at church we pray together don't we?
on Thursday nights we have a prayer
time where we just
we have all of our prayer requests are sent in
and we pray together as a church
and you know
when we are sitting together
we're hearing the preaching we're hearing
the prayers we should
be following along you know
if we're family integrated and we're
as one man
the bible says in
Nehemiah chapter 8 verse 1 it says they're as
one man and so it's talking about
we're one isn't that what God
wants us to be is in unity
so what are you doing in your
prayer time? what are you doing in the time
that you're congregationally praying together
are you thinking about what you're having for lunch
are you just closing
your eyes and bow in your head and not praying along with
that person not saying amen in your mind or whatever
in your heart we should be
praying together
if we're going to be integrated together let's
participate together
let's listen to the preaching
let's listen to the preaching together
when we're singing
we should be singing the psalms
hymns and spiritual songs
together that's
it's congregational singing that's what we
believe in this church we don't have people coming up
and doing solos
and you know having the canned music playing
in the background and you know it's
a karaoke show or something like that
and look I know that people really sing out
to the Lord when they do those special
specials and stuff like that but a lot of time
they're being all breathy
and trying to
to sing eloquently so that you'll say
wow what a beautiful voice that person has
but when everybody's
screeching together it still
sounds good doesn't it
the Bible says we're supposed to sing out and
we're supposed to sing together
and the Bible says we're supposed to sing a new song
so I like it
when we sing new songs it might sound bad
at first but you know when we learn the song
it's not a new song anymore we all sing it together
and it sounds really good
I appreciate that effort that's going into
learning new songs but we're supposed to do
that stuff together
and you know what we're supposed to proselytize
together also what does that mean well it means
to go out and go to soul winning
we're supposed to go out together
so you're not supposed to go out by yourself
we go out two by two
but the whole church should be going at some point
we should be in unity
in the fact that we are
soul winning proselytizing
witnessing whatever you want to call it
so you know number one
we're family integrated
because the pattern of the Bible
shows that
it doesn't have small groups
it doesn't have small groups meeting
at other people's houses and somebody that's not qualified
teaching the word of God
so number two
the reason why we're family integrated
is so everyone can learn
from the preaching of the word of God
so that everyone
can learn from the preaching
of the word of God
excuse me Nehemiah chapter 8
verse number 2
so the pastor of the church
is the most qualified person
to prepare
people unto perfection
and when I say perfection
I mean this, I mean completion
nobody in here
walks on water, nobody in here can
raise people from the dead, nobody in here
can speak in other tongues unless
you speak Spanish and English or some other language
you know where
nobody in here can heal people
in their hospital rooms
by putting their hand upon them
or whatever, those sign gifts are done away
after the first generation
but
perfection is actually when
you're the complete package
when you're a well-rounded
Christian that can
is basically
obviously not perfect, not sinless
but they are perfect in the way that they are
complete
all the tires are inflated to the same level
the oil's changed
everything's good, the car's running
in good order
because if you have one flat tire
and you try to drive on the freeway, what's going to happen?
it's going to derail the whole car
so we have to have a balanced Christian life
and that's what perfection is talking about
but the pastor is the most qualified person
to do that, that's why the pastor
is ordained
and sent out
or ordained and
to the church because
that person is the one that God says
that person's qualified
now there's also other types of
preachers that are qualified
to preach and there's
obviously we have evangelists that
are leading churches
but what I'm saying is that
everyone can learn from the preaching
of the person that's supposed to be the
leader of that church
but what do you see at
churches with Sunday schools
well the newest person
the newest member is recruited to be the Sunday school teacher
they've never
they don't even know them
and they're like, yeah, I teach these kids
and it's like, well how do you know
that person's qualified to teach?
well we got books that tell them what to say
does someone stand over
that person's shoulder and listen
to everything that they say?
and in most cases, no, that's not happening
there might be two teachers
per class, maybe they get
helped out for a little while
but I was a Sunday school superintendent one time
at one time in my Christian life
I was a Sunday school superintendent
I did the bus ministry
I preached in junior church
I did door knocking to get recruits
for the bus ministry
and I'm not like knocking people
that have children's ministries
I'm just saying that I don't think that's the most biblical model
and what you had is
a lot of women teaching classes
now at a certain point at this church that I was
a Sunday school superintendent
at a certain point they would stop letting the women
teach the young boys when they
kind of became 12 or 13 or whatever
and that's a normal thing
and usually then the two
a couple will teach the teens
or pre-teens or whatever
but most of the time
most people are not more qualified
to teach than the pastor
so when we're all together
everybody's getting the same teaching
from the same qualified person
and everybody's learning the same thing
together
and that's important
look at Nehemiah chapter 8 verse 2 it says
and Ezra the priest
brought the law before the congregation
both of men and women
and all that could hear
with understanding
and say hey take the kids over here
to my wife
so that she can teach them
he said hey all the people
all the men and women
and all that could hear with understanding
upon the first day of the seventh month
and he read therein
so he's reading the Bible to them
before the street that was before the Watergate
from the morning until midday
that's a long church service
I don't know how long in the morning
but sometimes our church services
can go a little long too
I believe there was children there
still going through this long church service
we just live in a day
where people need a commercial break
every 15 minutes
and unfortunately we're trained that way
so that's why preachers only preach
for 15-20 minutes
at most churches because
that's all people want to pay attention for
and they get their build up sermon
where they're just feeling great
when they walk out the door
and they just go and live their life however they please
but it says in verse 3
so he read before the men
and the women and those that could
understand and the ears
of all the people were attentive
unto the book of the law
so when we're all together
and the pastor is preaching
then people should be attentive
to what the Bible is saying
people should be engaged in the service and paying attention
and it says
in his left hand
I hope I got all those words
somewhat correct brother Eli
you'll fact check me later
alright I'm just kidding
brother CJ
did a good job reading those this morning
alright Nehemiah chapter 8 verse 5
it says
and when he opened it
all the people stood up
and Ezra blessed the Lord
the great God and all the people
answered Amen Amen
with lifting up their hands
and they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord
with their faces to the ground
see when all the people are gathered together
for the church services
for the preaching it should be something they're engaged in
when you hear people say Amen Amen
well that means that they're agreeing
with what the preaching says
that's why people say Amen
like Amen that's right that's true
is basically what that means
and it says
and Joshua
and Bani
and Cherubiah
and Jamon
and Aqab
and Shabbathei
whatever sorry now I'm messing them up
Hodijah, Massiah
Kelita, Azariah
Jazabad
Hanan, Pella Ayah
and the Levites caused the people
to understand the law
so these are the people that were qualified
to teach the Bible
to teach the Word of God because we're talking about
thousands of people not a hundred people
we're talking about all this
he's reading the Bible and then these people
these priests are going around and teaching
what
how to understand what the Bible is saying
and so the Bible says and the people
stood in their place and so they
read in the book of the law
of God distinctly
and gave the sense that means they
help people understand what
the scriptures are saying and it says
and caused them to understand
the reading so it's
important for you to be in the services
under the person
who's qualified to preach
the messages now obviously we have men
in our church that are very good at preaching
but you know
they're not the pastors of the church
the pastor of the church should be the one mainly teaching
or the evangelist is in charge
or whatever whoever the leader is in that church
should be doing the lion's share
of the preaching and we're not going to
split off into small groups where
all of our men are preaching to
different age groups and stuff like that
that's not what we're doing here
we want everybody to be together like they were
in the Bible and to hear
the preaching the preaching is
going to help your life
now look at Ezra 7
verse 6
Ezra 7 verse 6 is one book behind
Nehemiah
you look at Ezra 7 verse 6
and you're like well how do you know Ezra was qualified?
well he was a priest
number one
and obviously we don't have the position
of priest in the New Testament because
that stuff's been done away in Christ
as far as having a Levitical
priesthood but now everybody
is kings and priests according
to the word of God that's saved
but it says
in Ezra 7 verse 6 it says
this Ezra went up from Babylon
and he was a ready scribe
in the law of Moses
which the Lord God of Israel
had given
and the king granted him all his requests
according to the hand of the Lord his God
upon him so the Bible says
he was a ready scribe in the law
that means he understood the Bible
he knew the Bible
and so why is he up teaching the people?
because he's the one that's qualified to do it
he's a ready scribe
he's ready to go, he understands the Bible
and he's going to bring forth the best message
out of anybody that's there
turn to Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11
Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11
see
when we're together as one
group to hear the preaching
that's what the Bible intends
for us and you see these examples
in the scriptures
and I can show you lots of them but I'm not going to show you
too many of them, anyway
Ephesians 4 verse 11 says
and he gave some apostles
and some prophets
and some evangelists
and some pastors and teachers
so when you give somebody something isn't that a gift?
it is a gift isn't it
it says for the perfecting of the saints
isn't that what I said that the pastors
are there to help perfect
people to make them perfect
as far as complete
so why am I here? well I'm here to help
perfect the saints
why is an evangelist here?
to help perfect the saints, why were prophets
and apostles there to help perfect the saints
why are there teachers of the Bible
so they can help perfect the saints
to help us get better, to help us be more
balanced and more well rounded and know the Bible
and preach the whole council of God
and not just the
warm fuzzy feeling scriptures that you like
but everything
and so that's the problem
with Christianity today is that they don't want to preach
the hairy things of the Bible
the things that are rough, the things that are hard
they just want to preach the sweet
favor, the
sweetness and light
all that stuff and that stuff has its place
it does
but that's not the only thing we should preach
to be perfect you have to understand the whole
you know you have to get the whole Bible
right? that's why we say
hey read the Bible
anyway it says for the perfecting of the saints
for the work of the ministry
for the edifying of the body
of Christ now the body of Christ
is not just one person is it?
and the body of Christ is the
church but it's the church
so this body right here is a
church, a body
part of the body of Christ
we don't believe in the universal church here
we're all churches including
Benny Hinn's and Ray Comfort
I don't even know if he goes to church and all these
other churches are all together as one church
no we congregate together
we're a body of Christ here in Vancouver
Washington and we're
you know when the pastors
get up and priests are supposed to be perfecting
and edifying the body of Christ
and it says
we all come in
the unity of the
faith and of the knowledge of the son
of God unto a perfect man
unto the measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ so we're all
supposed to be building up together
and in unity
in one body and it says
that we henceforth be no more
children tossed to and fro
and
carried about with every wind of
doctrine by the slight of men
and the cunning craftiness
whereby they lie in wait to deceive
and you know what a family integrated church
does? it cuts out
a lot of that
people these slight of men that are
lying in wait to deceive
that's what happens
and so if I don't give opportunity
to people that are seeking an
opportunity then we're going to
cut a lot of that out of our church
we're not going to have these cunning
crafty false prophets
coming in and teaching in a
sunday school class because we don't have sunday school class
but
will they still creep in? of course they'll still creep
in but we want to limit the fact
that they can do that we don't want it to have
just be some free for all where anybody can
teach the bible here anybody can
break your kids into a room where nobody else is watching
we don't want that
why? because they lie in wait to
deceive
you know when you talk about people lying in wait
they're planning and plotting
beforehand to do it it's not like
oh I just believe some weird doctrine
and then I start teaching it to people
no they lie in wait to deceive
they're cunning
they're crafty and it's the slight of men
you know you think about magic being the slight of hand
you know you don't
you don't see what they did but you know it's not
real magic you know what I'm talking about
well they the slight of men
is to do the same thing
appear to be teaching the truth
but yet behind that is
some kind of craft to get you to believe
something that's not true
so it says but speaking the truth in love
may grow up into him
in all things which is the head even
Christ and from
the whole body fitly
joined together and compacted
so the whole body is supposed to
be here for the preaching of
God's word and it says
by that which
every joint supply according to the effectual
working and the measure of every
part notice that point
every part
so if you have half the church in a
Sunday school class or in some
being taught by some other person that's not every
part being edified by the pastor
you understand that
it says make an increase of
the body of the edifying of itself
in love so look
you know people
should not choose churches based upon
their Sunday school classes
they shouldn't choose their churches
based on what the children's program is
but I'll tell you what I've seen a lot of people
come to churches and think that exact
thing I've had a lot of people men
come and say well you know what as long as my
wife likes the church then I'll go there
men you need to get up and raise your families
and lead your wife
in the right way
the wife should not be choosing where the family
goes to church it should be the husband
period
it shouldn't be your children choosing
what church you go to based upon
what kind of kids program they have
we do a lot of nice things
for the kids here we do a lot of nice things
for everybody here we do family
integrated stuff but we also do specific
field trips for children
for the homeschooled children
it's not like the kids here don't have fun
but you know what what if I was to tell you
that having fun isn't
the only thing a kid should do
that's why we have a generation
of brats out there in the world
the brats that won't even go to church
and they just mock the things of the Bible
because they're ruling their parents
home
children should not be your oppressors
you oppress them
no I'm just kidding
you rule that house
moms
don't let your children rule over you
you rule over them
you know what don't pull this
wait until your father gets home stuff
hey you can correct
your children without the husband being there
what if I was to tell you that was
true too
now obviously sometimes
it calls for
the stronger hand
the hand
being applied to the seat of
correction or the tool
the implement that used to spank
but anyway the Bible says that
every part should be fitly joined together
so that's why we have the children
and the adults together
so that the pastor can teach
or the evangelist or whoever it is is up
teaching the Bible to them
it's under that one person
everybody hears the same thing
and that also is helpful
because do you want your kids
you really want me to just bring in a bunch of Sunday school teachers
and let your kids go into classes with them
I think that's why a lot of people come
to churches like ours
but number three
the reason why we're family integrated
is to protect the children
to protect the children
so talking about protecting them
from false teachers that's a truth
but also we want to protect
them against perverts
and a lot of times the false teachers are the perverts
as a matter of fact
I mean there's a whole church called
the Roman Catholic Church
and they've done very wickedly
they've done a lot of really wicked things
you know and
we don't want people creeping into
this church so that they can
do something to our children
so safety
you know is paramount
to our children and so why would you want
to go to a church where your children aren't protected
you know who they're most protected by
you
nobody loves your kids like you do
so if it's your children
you're going to protect them right
so you're going to want to keep them away from
perverts and freaks
I don't care what all these
modern day churches are saying
we should just love these little
pedophiles and give them a second chance
and you've got pastors that are protecting
perverts in their churches
don't protect perverts
we don't protect
perverts here we would expose them
look at Jude 1
the only chapter in Jude, Jude 1
verse number 4
we're family integrated because the pattern in the Bible
says to be that way
we're family integrated so that everybody can hear
and be together and learn the word of God
through the preaching
and we're also family integrated because
we want to protect the children
Jude 1 4 says
for there are certain men
crept in unawares
what does that mean?
you don't know that they crept in
there's people that just want to creep into churches
so they can do damage
it says who were before of old
ordained to this condemnation
ungodly men
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness
and denying the only Lord God
and our Lord Jesus Christ
what is this talking about?
this is talking about wolves creeping into our church
these wolves in sheep's clothing
and they're ordained to this condemnation
that means they're reprobates
they're ungodly men
they creep in unawares
what are they trying to do?
they're trying to get money
get status
they're trying to get an opportunity
to shine so that people will follow them
and they're trying to molest and hurt people
and that's what a lot of these
charlatans do
is they pick churches because they know the church
is going to be forgiving
well you know I made this mistake
I molested my daughter
give me another chance
and the pastor
is bombarded with this
everybody deserves
grace, everybody deserves to be forgiven
you know what?
these pastors that are protecting
these pedophiles in our churches
need to quit
and get a man of God in there
that's ready to throw these perverts out
look at 2 Peter
chapter 1
excuse me, 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 1
2 Peter chapter 2 verse 1
so know this
that the family integration will
stop, it won't completely
stop, but it'll stop
people from being able to creep in to gain
access to our children
it might not 100% stop
it, because listen parents
it's up to you to protect your children
you know, we should
you know, suspect no one
but trust no one either
letting people have your children over
for slumber parties and stuff like that
I will never say that that's right
because how do you know what's going on?
how do you know what their parents are like?
do you know that their parents have the same convictions that you do?
do you know that their parents
listen, if you love your children
you're not going to let them out of your sight
when it comes to trusting other people
do you trust somebody else that you don't know
more than you trust yourself to watch your own kids?
you don't
a lot of people
turn their kids over to people they don't even know
I mean
churches do this all the time
they think because everybody's from church
that they always have the best intentions
but the Bible says that there's ungodly men
that creep in unaware
and so we should be aware
of this fact
this church by all means should know
that people will try to creep in unaware
we've seen other churches
where people creep in unaware
and they were there from the beginning
they were pillars of the faith
and then it turns out that they were bad
the whole time
we've seen it happen a lot of times
so let that be a lesson to you
that you can't trust everybody with your children
look at 2 Peter 2 verse 1
it says
so we've got to protect them
from the false prophets, our children
from the false prophets and not have classes
just designed for
children with people that you don't know
what they're creeping in to do
but also in verse 2 it says
and many shall follow their pernicious ways
by reason of whom the way
of truth shall be evil
spoken of
what does that mean?
these fakers
when they get exposed
to God or whatever happens
these fakers
are the reason why people
speak evil of the truth
well I don't want to send
my kids to this church because the pedophile
was able to
molest all these kids
and then the way of the truth is evil
spoken of because of that
and then there's people like
John MacArthur
who picks the mother
out of his church
doesn't want to go back to
her pervert husband that was molesting
her kids and instead
they said well you need to have grace
and take him back
no you don't, you need to get away from him
and get your kids far away
from them so look
they say grace to you
but then they allow some pervert
to just stay in their church for years and years
and years
if that's grace then
it's wrong grace
they believe
they say that they believe you have to repent of all your sins
and make Jesus the Lord of your life
and all that stuff but then they're going to let
so is that guy
repenting of all of his sins?
no he's living in them
we can't allow people like that
you know if we love flowers
we're going to hate the weeds
if we love children we're going to hate pedophiles
we're going to hate false
prophets
that's what the Bible teaches
so it says
and through covetousness shall they with feigned words
that means fake
make merchandise of you
whose judgment now of a long time lingereth
not and their damnation slumbereth not
some of these people that creep in
their agenda is to make money off of you
to make merchandise of you
and saying they're covetous
are they covetous just for money?
no they're covetous for strange flesh
for women that don't belong to them
and some of them are fruitcakes
and it says
for if God spared not the angels of sin
but cast them down to hell and delivered them under the
chains of darkness to be reserved under judgment
and spared not the old world but saved Noah
the eighth person a preacher of righteousness
bringing in the flood upon
the world of the ungodly
see you're like
well we just have to forgive him did God forgive
them? no he flooded
the world of the ungodly killed every single
man woman and child and
beast upon the earth that did not
get into that arc that was not
saved and it says
in turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
into ashes condemned them
with an overthrow so what did he do
to the San Francisco
of 4,000
or you know 3,500 years ago or whatever
it was probably 4,000 years ago what did
God do? well he barbecued
them he turned them into ashes
and condemned them with an overthrow
making them an ensample
unto those that should after
live ungodly here's the example
of what's coming to you perverts and freaks
and child molesters and homos
it's
fire it's brimstone
and the Bible says that it was hell fire
that was rained down upon them so they
already got it they got a taste of what's
to come they were literally
taken out by God through
fireballs and then people message me
and say you preach hate
you should have your tax exempt status
taken away from you because you're preaching
you're preaching political sermons
there's a separation
between church and state and you should be
preaching about that I'm gonna get your
tax exempt status taken away well you
know what if I can't preach the way I want
then so be it I don't even care
take it away
but I'm not up here
endorsing a candidate for office
but you know what John the Baptist
preached against Herod who was
the king of Israel at that time you
know what it did it cost him his life
but what he was doing was right
so don't give me that church and state
separation garbage
all throughout the books of kings
and chronicles you see prophets
getting in and just ripping
face on these on these kings
of Israel
and specifically sent to Samaria
specifically sent to Judah to
rip face and they would go up and
tell the kings right to their faces
so don't give me that
you know what if the bible says something's a
death penalty that's what it means
you're like well this is a new world that we're living in
unfortunately it is
unfortunately the rainbow people
have taken over
and everything that they say goes
you know what I'm not gonna stand for it
I'm not gonna stand for it I'm not gonna
just allow these people to come
in and pervert our children
you'll never see a flag
of a rainbow representing these
queers hanging outside this
church building folks it's never
gonna happen
and I'm not gonna allow them to have access
to our children
so why are we family integrated
well we want to keep those freaks out of here
we want to keep those
perverts out of here and you know what
once you pervert a child and you hurt a
child you know Jesus said it's better
for you to hang yourself with a rope
and throw yourself into the sea with a millstone
attached to your head
Jesus said that yeah
Jesus said that
oh he's just loving he never
judges well he said if you
if you harm a child you know
that believes in me if you just hurt
a child if you offend
a child what do they call
their child offenders
but pastors are like oh just
let them in the church
don't tell anybody else though
oh you should forgive them no
no get them out of here
so we want to protect
our children at this church
and even these people
the Bible is talking about Sodom and Gomorrah for a reason
because these queers will sneak into our churches
and molest kids and you know what it's not just
queers and molest kids I understand that
but if 40% of the molestations
are coming from 3% of the population
that's a huge staggering number
so they're doing the lion's share
of it they're doing 40% of it
and they're 3% of the
population
go figure that
so we should keep these filthy people
away from us and away from our churches
it says in verse 7 and
delivered just lot
vexed with the filthy
conversation or lifestyle of the wicked
he was in Sodom and Gomorrah
and he had to see this filth all the time
and the Bible says that
he was vexed by it
you know what I'm not going to put
our congregation with our
children and let them be vexed by
some pervert by some transvestite
sitting in our services are you kidding me
that's all people be looking at
be like what is that weirdo
people would have to shield their
kids eyes from being able to see these
freaks
do you want that
well you preach about it too much
it's taking over our society folks
it has to be preached against
and when it comes to protecting our children
and I'm preaching about family integration
why we're family integrated this has to be brought up
because we're not letting
these freaks and weirdos in here
so
you know it says for that righteous man
verse 8
dwelling among them so lot was
saved he was a righteous man
in seeing and hearing
vexed his righteous soul
from day to day with their unlawful deeds
and I'm not going to put this upon our people
to where they have to see
and hear these
unlawful things happening these
wicked people and these perverts
I don't want you to have to see that
I don't want you to have to hear that I've said before
this is our safe space this is the
Christian safe space church
and we should be free from all the freakery
and the weirdos and the faggotry
that's outside of these walls
it's bad enough you have to have them serve
your dinner when you go out to eat
it's bad enough you have to deal with
them at any location you go to for
anything at a hotel
and there you go you're having to deal with this
but you know what in here you're not going to have to
deal with it
Romans chapter 1 verse 28 says
and even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge God gave them over to a
reprobate mind to do those things which are not
convenient look we don't want people
that have a reprobate mind that we know have a reprobate
mind in this building
around our kids you know
what and they will subtly pervert
people why are there a rainbow
flags hanging from almost every church in Portland
because they've infiltrated them
and taken them over
it's like you know when countries
fight against other countries and they win the battle
or they win the war what do they do
they go and they put their flag where they
dominated that place right
and that's what they've done
they've staked their flag
everywhere in the world
and there's not very
many people preaching against it
unfortunately
so why
why are we family integrated
well
number one that's the pattern you see
in scripture
and number two
it's
the preaching of God's word
together it's because
everybody should be able to hear the preaching
and the teaching of God's word together
and number three it's because
we want to protect the children
we want to protect them from false teachers
we want to protect them from perverts
and you know we don't have
these types of people
in our churches because we don't want
them to harm our children or the families
of our church let me tell you something
all homos are pedophiles
all
homos are pedophiles
and even if they haven't done
something they are capable of
doing something they go
both ways too don't just think that they just love
oh I just love these
people or they just love only men only
no they go both ways
and so
don't again be
over the top with suspecting every person
of being one of these weirdos but
don't be lax either be somewhere in the middle
be vigilant with your children
the best person to watch them
is you because nobody loves your children
like you
so I'm gonna before we close I'm gonna
give some tips
for family integrated church
so the Bible says in Proverbs chapter 22
verse 6 train up a child
in the way he should go and when he
is old he will not depart from it
so we're supposed to train our children
to live in this world
to cook and clean to work
education
but also we're supposed to train them to behave
in church
so I'm gonna give you some do's and don'ts
of things that we should do
or not do in a family integrated
church
parents number one
parents should be training their children at home
to sit through the services what did I say
at home
people should be training their children
at home to sit through the services
the best time is at
family devotional time
you're like well I don't have a family devotional time
well maybe you should change that
so you can train them to
sit through the services
I remember when we would pray with our kids at night
or we'd read the Bible with them they always try to act
up they always try to move around
and fidget and this and that but that's where you train them
no sit still and be quiet
and listen to the Bible
sit still and be quiet and pray
you know and so the majority
of child training should be done at
home if you don't have a Bible
devotional time then
start doing one start a family
devotional time and just
read the Bible to your children read it
and then let them when they
learn how to read read it also
you go around the table and
take turns and you know
the other kids will mock the other ones that can't say things
right and that will make you better
number two use the baby rooms
the baby rooms
use those for the purpose
of training your children to sit
quietly through church
okay
number three parents should not
train the children or calm
down their children in the
church services
this is what the baby rooms are for
please
use them
so in here is not
where you train it's in the baby rooms
okay that's why we have them
we have mother baby rooms they're not nurseries
they're a place where you take your own children
in and train them
so
number four in a
transitional phase
you may be training your children to sit through the
services please minimize the distraction
obviously you know
we want you to train your children
but if you get up seventeen times
and go back and forth to the mother baby room
and out of the services that's distracting to people
allowing your children to
scream through the
services is distracting
to other people
okay number five
parents should promptly and quickly
remove their children from the
service as soon as they make
distractive noises
that means screeching that means
crying and you know because
we want to be good neighbors
right so when they're
screaming in the services
people stop listening to what I'm saying and they
start listening to what they're screeching about
so be considerate
of other people trying to listen
in the auditorium this is the auditorium
right here this is where you know
the screaming stops okay
number six parents
with babies or young children
who are more likely to go in and out of the
services should sit near
and exit so
that you can take them out quickly
so if you're sitting up here in the
front row you know
and you're constantly having to come
back and forth it's distracting because you have
to walk past everybody to
take them out multiple times I'm talking
about when you have to take them out multiple times
so number seven
if you're coming out of the baby room
more than two or three times per service
your child may not be ready
to sit through the whole service
to minimize distractions consider
staying in there for the whole
service so if you already
know they can't make it through the service
then you know more without
you coming back more than two or three times
then they're probably not ready
to sit through the whole service okay
I told you people are going to get offended here
but just listen
to what I'm saying because it's for
the betterment of the whole congregation
number eight don't expect a
zero to two year old
to sit through a whole church
service don't place
unrealistic expectations on
yourself or your children
okay don't
it's unrealistic to think
that they're going to be in subjection in
every single way shape and form
and you know they're going to sit there
and you know write notes as you are
at that age it's not going to happen
so don't
put these expectations on yourself
or on your children
because they're just not going to be able to do it
it's normal
for small children to not be able to sit
through the service it's normal
so just act
accordingly you know it's
weird that people would think that their
kid is going to be able to do that that's just not
going to happen number nine
begin to actively
train a three year old to transition
from the baby rooms in the Sunday evening
services not on the Sunday morning
services when we have most of our guests
so let me read that one again
begin to actively train
a three year old to transition
from the baby room into
the Sunday evening services that's the
best time to do that type
of training not on
Sunday mornings when we have
the most amount of
guests number ten
children that are four years old should be
expected to sit quietly in the services
unless there's a legitimate
medical reason why they can't
so if four years
and up they should already be well
trained and ready to sit through the services
you know if your eleven or twelve
year old is having to go back into the mother baby room
because they can't sit in the services there's something
wrong with your training and you need to fix it
ok
I'm not trying to be mean it's just
you know but look at all the kids that are in here
being quiet and probably because I'm
preaching about this right now parents are like
pinching them or whatever
when everybody saw that pop
on the YouTube feed they're like get over here
right now
you know it's true anyway
number eleven
it is appropriate for children one
to two to play quietly
in the baby room
you should not allow
children of any age to be screaming
or yelling loudly in these
rooms for long periods of time
let me repeat this one
it is appropriate for children one
and two to play quietly in the baby room
that's not
jumping all over the furniture
throwing stuff
yelling and screaming
that means that you know you gotta
have your children in some sort of
subjection and
you know letting them scream
for twenty thirty minutes at a time
is not acceptable and at that time you're distracting
the people that are in the room
so nobody can hear what's going on
you know and if your child is screaming
just listen they're not going to die
if you put your hand on their mouth
and stop them from screaming did you know that
they can still breathe through their nose
you might get a little snot on your hands
or whatever but you should
not just allow your kid to carte blanche
scream at the top of their lungs
through a whole church service
ok it's not
acceptable it needs to be
fixed ok
so number thirteen new families
to the family
integrated model should be
given some grace and patience
now just because a family says
well I've been listening to the preacher for this and this time whatever
when a new family comes in here
you know and their kids maybe
are nine ten eleven twelve and they've been in
sunday school and they come from a church
where they had classes for them
they're not going to be plug and play
to a church like ours so we need to give them
a little bit of patience to train their
children and
you know get used to sitting through
the services I remember when me and my wife
we actually went to a church that had a nursery
and we were expected to bring
our kid out of the nursery
at three years old I believe
two years old
and we trained them
in the sunday evening service to sit through the services
now I know
people disagree with me on this but
this is what we did
you know we brought things for our children
to quietly do
while they were in the church service
and if you don't want to do that that's fine
but to expect a
two year old to just sit there and listen
to the preaching the whole time for an hour
or whatever it's just not
realistic so
but I'm not you know we would just bring
like stuff for them to color with the erasable
markers or you know whatever it was
it wasn't something that could permanently damage
the things inside the church
so don't you know bring
top ramen noodles crunched
up unless you want to clean
it up afterwards you know
it seems like when people bring snacks into
the auditorium when they're not supposed to it's always
crackers things that crumble
and get all over the floor
you know I really I'm not
happy about that when it happens I realize you
want to just kind of fend them off or whatever
but at least
clean up after yourself at least
clean up after your children so
and
when me and my wife started
doing that we just figured a way
to where we could get them to chill
sometimes they would fall asleep in the pew
again you can't expect them to
take in everything if they take in something
that's great they take in some of the
preaching that's great and they're gonna build that's gonna
build upon them as they get older
but I mean
just train your children
at home
to be able to sit through church services
train them here in the mothering room
that's what the training they're
to use for your training also
but just keep these rules in
mind now
number 14 parents should not be holding
long conversations in the baby
rooms or be sitting
on their phones
listen in this service
people should be paying attention so
why wouldn't you be paying attention back there
not taking
naps in the
baby room that's not
nap time back there you don't turn off all the lights
and turn off the monitor and they're all asleep
I
know it's happened but I don't
even know who did it I don't want to know
I just want it to stop you go
back there you don't come to church to take
a nap you go to church to listen to the
preaching and sing together and pray together
and fellowship after the services
and before the services not during
the preaching set the
example to the other parents
and set the example to your
children show some respect
as you should have
in the services
now and maybe
you would behave if you would behave
your children would behave
so if you're setting a bad example
on your children why would they
be any different if you're not following the rules
if you're not following along with the preaching
if you're not singing along
with the hymns and stuff
so preaching time is not fellowship time
we have plenty
of fellowship time at this church don't we
I mean we have before the service
after the service
and you know we have
a lot of time we do a lot of fellowshipping here
so but why
breach into the preaching time
to do that or
the bible reading time or the
announcement time
children
number 15 children after
sitting in a long service should
be allowed to play without
being too reckless or rambunctious
we want children to play
but within reason of course
they shouldn't be playing
tag or football or baseball
in here we do have some
expensive equipment around here and also
if a kid runs into the back of somebody's
some adults legs they're not gonna
some adults are gonna go down
and not be able to get back up
so we should be training
our children not to run in church
we're not running
we're not
playing baseball but you know
I do want kids to be able to play
okay I think that it'd
be weird to just you know have
kids be here all day and they never play
I don't agree with that
so but we're not running a museum
or a library here I understand that
you know but
everything should be done decently in order
you know during the church services that's not the time
to do those things
number 17
dads help the moms and
give them chance to sit through the services
you know sometimes
you know people are perpetually pregnant
and perpetually training children
and sometimes you know maybe dad you could
and I'm not trying to meddle here
you take this for what it is it's just
good advice allow your wife to listen
to some of the preaching sometimes too
so
take your kids maybe take
them after the service or whatever just
help your wives I know
that several men do this at our church and I'm thankful
for that but remember
your wives need to hear the preaching too
alright so these are the ones
for everyone I'm almost done here
these are for everyone
be part of the service
and part of the
after service
so again psalms, hymns
spiritual songs learn
we learn these songs together
you know these new songs I think
that's great but we should
all be singing together
you know song time isn't your time
to go you know
shoot the breeze with your friend in the back room
or the time that you
get coffee
and when it's preaching time it's paying
attention time taking notes
turning to the bible passages you know how I
learn the bible by turning in
the passages if you just
sit there and listen I'm glad that you're listening
but you know when you let your fingers
do the walking through the book you're gonna
know where to go
you'll know instantly what part of the bible you have to
go to maybe it'll take you time to find it
you know but just practice
doing that you know we're gonna have camp coming
up here soon where we do sword
drills and stuff like that well how
practice are you adults at actually
turning to the bible and knowing where to go
pray along and
read
pray along and do the reading along
when people are reading the bible
when people are praying pray with them you know
we're supposed to be doing all this stuff together
and fellowship don't don't do all
the stuff here then just leave instantly
you know fellowship with people
whether it's before the service or after the service
but we should spend some time you know
with the people of God and
and you know being friendly and
getting that fellowship time in and
have a regular soul winning time that you go to
go soul winning on a
regular basis you should be
going at least once a week number 19
be on time
be on time for the services
set the example once again
so are you tardy to work every single time
you go to work
do you show up late for work
every single time
so
if you don't show up for work late every
single time why would you show up for
church late every single time
and again
that is a distraction to some
people you know and if you're gonna be
still late you're like pastor Thompson I don't care what
you say I'm gonna be late every time anyway well that's fine
I still want you to come
but I'm just saying why not set
the example why not change something in your life
that you're lacking in
and if you're holding if you're on time to everything
else but church what is that saying to God
is it saying to God that
I care about the things of God more
than I care about everything else
it's not saying that it's saying
it's okay to be nonchalant
and not serious when it comes to church
because it's just an extracurricular activity
or is the business of the
house of God important to you
and look
I don't want to beat people up because the same
people are late all the time
okay but why
not change that why not say
you know what I do want to be a better example
and I do want to be
engaged in services because when you're late you're missing
things you know we don't start
the service at ten thirty so
everybody can show up when the preaching time starts
you know the whole service
is important the singing
the prayer the announcements
everything it's
all important and the
preaching is important so
be here for the whole thing
you're like well I'm not coming back okay well
that's your prerogative don't come back
but you know the same thing is going to get preached
in any church that's worth its
weight in gold
there are always people are all you know there's people
that travel from two and a half three hours away
and they're early for the services what's
your problem when you live in town
what's your problem when you live in you live
in Vancouver and you're late to every service
how is that possible
it's because you're not making God's
house a priority you're not making the
preaching or the
the Bible reading and the prayers
and the song service is important
you know the Bible says we're supposed to
sing unto the Lord
we're supposed to sing make a
loud a joyful loud noise to
the Lord right we're supposed to be engaged
in the services so be
here on time
and again if you were on if you were tardy
for your job every time would you still have a job
would your boss think that you
were serious about your job
if you were late every day
no they wouldn't so your boss
is God actually it's more
important than your secular job it's more
important than anything else so be on time
for church
and let's see number 20
the last one
when the service starts we should be ready
to engage the services
don't wait till the
song service starts to go get your coffee
don't wait till the song service
starts to use the bathroom
you know
ten minutes early you should be over
there letting your kids go to the bathroom
because here's another thing that's distracting when you
let your kids jump up and go to the bathroom
every five minutes during the service it
doesn't distract me because I get in the zone
but it distracts other people
and it's rude
you know I mean I'm not saying don't ever
let your kids go to the bathroom that's not what I'm saying
hopefully you get the spirit of what I'm
saying
get the spirit of what I'm saying that
you know we should love our neighbors as ourself
well and then people
put in hard time to
have you learn these songs people put in
hard time you know all these things are
done for your edification and if
you're just like skipping out on everything
besides what you want
that's what a child does
a child wants to skip
stuff that you know they don't want to eat their vegetables
they put the peas
in a line all the way around their plate
to make it look like they ate something
don't they
isn't that what kids do they don't want to eat their vegetables
you're like just take three bites
here just sing three songs
just
pray a lot hey men be ready to
pray when you're called upon
you know I mean these things are just
things that you know we should
get and learn and
you know say you're lacking in some of
these areas look I really am not
trying to beat you up I'm trying to
help you I'm trying to
tear you down a little bit so you can be built up
because we can always do better
every one of us right let's have a
word of prayer heavenly father we thank you lord so much
for a family integrated
church lord and for the model that we have
lord and lord
it's so important to hear the preaching of your
word for everybody to learn together
and lord it's the pattern you
showed us in the bible and lord
we want to protect our children lord we
also want to make sure that we're following the
rules and maybe the rules weren't
clear-cut from before but I pray lord that
people would take heed to the things
that were said today and if they need to
make changes lord they'd make changes and not
be upset about things that were
said not feel offended
lord you know that my heart
is not to hurt our people
I want to help them and I pray lord that you
help them to see that in Jesus name we pray
amen
alright our last name is
number 258
great is thy faithfulness
song number 258
in your blue hymn books
great is thy faithfulness
song 258
great is thy faithfulness
let's sing it out on the first
great is thy
faithfulness
oh god my
father
there is no
shadow of turning
with thee
now
changes not
thy compassion
they fail not
as thou
hast been thou
forever will
be
great is thy
faithfulness
great is thy faithfulness
morning
by morning
new mercies
I see
all I have
needed thy hand
hath provided
great
is thy faithfulness
lord
unto me
summer
and winter
and springtime
and harvest
sun moon and
stars in their
courses above
join with
all nature
and manifold
witness
thy great
faithfulness
mercy and
love
great is thy faithfulness
great is
thy faithfulness
morning
by morning
new mercies
I see
all I have
needed thy hand
hath provided
great
is thy faithfulness
lord
unto me
pardon
for sin
and a peace that
endureth
thy no near
presence to
cheer and to
guide
strength for today
and bright hope
for tomorrow
blessings
all mine
with ten thousand
beside
great is thy
faithfulness
great is thy
faithfulness
morning by morning
new mercies
I see
all I have
needed thy
hand hath provided
great
is thy faithfulness
lord
unto me
amen
help us to train our children