A good father takes time to play
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He has strong integrity
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He is someone
that is truly dedicated
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He is not
afraid to show his love
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He is a caring provider
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And, he is a
kind spiritual leader.
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These are just a few ways
to describe a father's heart
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Hi, welcome to A Father's Heart.
My name is Xavier and I'll be
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your host today. And we're
talking about a topic today
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that most people don't
talk about or don't even know
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anything about it. It
is called Into the Womb
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A father's connection
starts from the very beginning
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from the very early
stages of the baby being formed
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And today, to talk about
that with me is Denry and Gordon
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Welcome guys,
how're you doing today?
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Doing well, doing well. Thanks
for having us once again man
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Hey, no problem. So most
people don't know and I learned
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about this while I was in
seminary that a connection
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a father has with a child
actually starts from the very
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beginning, from
the womb, inside.
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Most, most parents, most fathers
think that their connection
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is developed after the baby is
born and they're there, you know
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everything else but actually
what's called in-utero rejection
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happens from the womb. A
rejection from the father
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happens from the womb. What
do you guys know about that?
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We would like to say ok, yeah
it just starts you know from
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the first time you change the
diaper. That's the first time
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you bond but you are right cause
even Jeremiah talks about it
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before you were
formed, chapter 1, God knew us
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So there was some
interaction before the beginning
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Now that's God,
spiritual level, of course
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you know thousands of
years before we were even made
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He already had a plan for
us but I've read from articles
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when we were having our first
child one of the things they're
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saying for fathers to
talk to the child in the womb.
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The child always hears the
mother, even experiences the
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mother's emotions. But talk to
the child. When you talk to the
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child they hear this, you know
most men, most of us have this
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bass voice so you hear that
boom, boom whatever they hear
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in there and so they live for a
certain connection. They already
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start, there's a
difference between mom's voice
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and there's a
difference between yours
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So there's value and importance
in starting before birth
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Your rejection, it causes
a child to, according to some
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studies to grow
up to be alcoholic.
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It causes a lot of problems when
the child is not, the bond is
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begun in the womb with the
father. And so it leads to a
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whole lot of problems and that's
one reason for me I used to talk
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I had great pleasure in just
talking to my son and daughter
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I put my mouth on my wife's
tummy and just singing to them
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cause I wanted them to
be singers so I was singing
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I sang to them and we played
music, it's very important to
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for that connection to start.
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And I think that's a good topic
an area I need to search more
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because we're not familiar
with any in-utero rejection
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we're not familiar with, because
who studies that you know
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we know it's an egg, it's in
there and it grows into a baby
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but we're taught that fathers
play with the kids, don't really
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talk to the kids that much.
For me it was different you know
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my 4-year old, I never got the
pleasure of being there for the
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growth, for her first kick in
the womb, anything like that, I
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through series of circumstances
the divorce happened before
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I was able to be
there and I resented that.
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And my wife now, when we had
our baby I thought it was weird
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I'm like I'm talking to this
child who probably has no ears
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it's just a pile of ooze in the
womb but I kept thinking about
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you know, the bonding process
and as our child grew in the
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womb I started talking to
her more and when she started
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getting all reckless and then
you know it seems like the kids
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like to throw a party in
the womb at night, they're not
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asleep and they just want
to party on and kick and do all
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kinds of crazy,
keeping mom awake
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so I started talking to her
in the womb and pretty soon the
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kicking stopped. You know there
is something to it cause it goes
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along not with just your voice,
obviously your walk with God
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and so like you said, the
connection you're building
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you know the deep voice, it just
brings peace and then I've seen
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the after effect when she
came out of the womb, she smiled
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every time automatically
she knows my voice. It's like
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reminds me of where Jesus
says my sheep know my voice
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and they follow me. The child
gets to know the father's voice
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something beautiful that happens
You know for me personally
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and two sides, when I
was uh, my, our second child
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I even realized similar to what
you're saying about the movement
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when he started kicking and
even when he was almost 9 months
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when you can just see
every movement they make
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I would literally play this game
you know I would go on one side
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and talk and he would literally
move over to that side, even
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with my daughter too when she
was in the womb like they would
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move towards the voice. I'd go
on this side and they would move
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to the voice so there is that
bond and a connection. They even
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start playing with you
even before they come out
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It's a beautiful
bond. And it's real
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I would come home and soon
as I walk in the door my wife's
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there and I say hi and go
and hug her or something and the
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child would just be
moving happy that daddy is here
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Both of mine did this so I know
there's something that is very
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important with making that
connection early even when the
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child comes out so the child
recognizes the voice, recognizes
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that the father is there
so it's an important thing.
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Now I said two examples,
first example is more fun loving
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because that's me now after
God's grace came into my life
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you know, towards my pregnant
wife. But my story according to
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my mother's report it wasn't so.
And this is why I'm an advocate
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and a support for young men
and young ladies to wait until
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they're married so you can have
that home, that nest for your
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child. My situation we were
raised in a conservative home
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my grandmother was the founder
of a church and my mother became
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pregnant. They didn't talk
about sex in the home because
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it was just not a
topic to talk about.
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And so my mother
learned the hard way.
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By experiencing it.
She became pregnant.
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Now your mother's the founder of
a church how do you go and tell
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others, Oh I'm
pregnant at 19 years old.
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And so my mother, based on her
story and the stories of my aunt
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and everyone, she hid
the pregnancy a long time
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And then when I got a little
bit big she even sometimes tried
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I love my mother, I love
her, I love her. She tried to do
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things to kind of
abort, a natural abortion
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because of the shame when you're
in such a strict environment
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the shame that you get. Come on
a lot of times some churches or
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some cultures or whatever
you get pregnant out of wedlock
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you get disfellowshipped,
not even just that you gonna get
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scorned for the rest of your
life, your kid is going to be
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called names and so she was
afraid of that. And so because
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she was afraid of that,
even like, I was talking to
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psychologists, I had to talk
to a counselor about it cause
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I had some rejection
issues between my wife and I
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you know I was like Babe I like
a hug, why are you always needy
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she would say to me. Why are
you so needy? And we had marital
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counseling and the
psychologist would bring it out
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ask me these questions
like How was your childhood?
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From what you knew? I wasn't
born in, I explained based on
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the story that they told
me. Because of the rejection
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then dad wasn't
around, so there was no base
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there was no comforting voice
at night time. There was no one
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to say Oh little one is ok
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And so my wife and I, we
have, I have rejection issues.
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I always feel
like Oh I'm not wanted
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And so because of my
experience in the womb
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and then when she finally
told my grandmother after months
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it was like a relief for her
but yet at the same time she was
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like, ok what am I going to do?
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How am I going to
take care of this child?
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By myself and all. So
it's a stress that now I have
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from a situation that I
was not even involved in.
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I didn't even start because it
was not in a positive, spiritual
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loving, nurturing,
just like an egg you know
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chickens have eggs all the time
and birds have eggs but if the
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egg is in the nest it's
more likely to what? survive
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and become a bird. But if
the egg is in the refrigerator
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it's done before
it even had a chance
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And so some of
these kids unfortunately
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are done before they
have a chance. But thank God
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for Jesus Christ that even
a frozen egg like who I was
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He brought life out of that
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If your father and
mother forsake you the Lord will
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take care of you, yeah
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I think about that because I
don't, I can't even think about
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why anybody would
want to miss those moments
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Moments that you never get back
Yes you may go out and have sex
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with a bunch of women and
have kids by a bunch of women
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but you don't get to live
and cherish the first kick
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The first time you
hear the heart beat
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and now you're just
breeding for breeding's sake
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You're sending out
innocent lives for no reason
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and you know it does happen
and there's people that are
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born out of wedlock and that's
why again I agree with you
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Denry there's such an importance
behind being married and having
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sexual relations and there's
such an importance that the
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father, even though culturally,
societally may portray
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differently, there's an
importance as to the father
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what they play in the birth
process, in the creation process
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essentially. You know
we've been given a gift.
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Only God is the creator and yet
He chose to impart part of His
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ability with us by allowing
us to reproduce, procreate
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and be able to bring it to
this world a life, human life
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That is not
something to be taken lightly
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And in-utero rejection, when you
reject your child from the womb
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as you said you know,
it just sends a shock wave
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that may not be seen then but
it will be seen in the future
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Psychologists are studying that
a lot more now, a lot more than
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they were before because there's
traits and inhabits and things
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that they do that they
don't know where it comes from
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they don't know what they do to
cope. There's just little things
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that unconsciously they're
doing that they have no idea
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as to why and the answer is,
in the very beginning, the very
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beginning because we play
such a vital role in the growth
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process and in their cognitive
development from the womb
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that's why I don't agree
with abortion, it's life.
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It's life. There's life.
And we're murdering these kids
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simply because we don't
want to take responsibility
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and we reject them
and either let them grow
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or just reject them
and have them killed
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I don't think we get the
magnitude and the, like I said
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the only thing I can
refer to is Jeremiah 1
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God had to let Jeremiah know
this thing you and I started
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in the womb. For me it
started before the womb
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but you didn't start to
get a life until like you said
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in the womb. It started
there. And sometimes rejection
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if the father is not
there or whatever, but I can
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only imagine the environment
where a woman is being
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in a domestic violence situation
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and she's
pregnant with your child
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and you are abusing her
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and if you don't mind me getting
graphic, dragging her outside
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you know, kicking
her, all these situations
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and the child is in there
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sometimes we create
monsters because of this
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because of the environment just
as the mother feeds the child
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while the child is in the womb
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and the child
gets the nourishment
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if the environment also affects
the child. I had a client
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where the
environment did affect the child
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he became very, he
always had anger and rage
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even as a child and
all this come to find out
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in the background, his
mother was abused by the father
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while she was pregnant with him
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So even in this
environment in the womb
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all he knew was violence
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So if we're not cautious of how
we take care of ministering to
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to these children
while they're in the womb
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we could make the next
monster, the next serial killer
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before they even get a chance
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but Thank God, once
again, for Jesus Christ
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for He can take a
monster out of the womb
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and make that monster into His
servant, into a fisher of men
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into someone who tastes grace
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Look at how many things have
happened, the great things in
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the Bible. I think about
David who said he was shaped in
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iniquity. He knew from the
womb he was shaped in iniquity
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yet he was called a
man after God's own heart.
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Yes. I think about
Jesus and the way He was born
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what if, essentially His
step father, what if Joseph
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had rejected Him even though
He had the connection with
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God the Father,
what would have happened?
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You know a lot of times, the
rejection again sends a ripple
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effect you know through the
ages, through birth, through
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all the way up until adulthood
they just don't act right
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and they don't know why. And
I remember again in the seminary
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particular professor who taught
with his wife, she's the one
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that talked about it. She's
the one that felt the rejection
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and she explained how she felt
it obviously not in the womb
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but she felt it as an adult.
And she couldn't explain as to
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why she was reacting to
certain things the way she was
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Certain trigger
points were making her angry
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And she found out through
asking the parents, asking
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and asking and she found out
why Why she was acting the way
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she was because she was rejected
from the womb. You know there's
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a lot of things that go
into play psychologically
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and spiritually
because God never rejects us
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even though the
world may but He never does
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He formed us just the way we are
there's people out there that
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might be you know have different
things as far as deformities
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but He formed us and sometimes
we look too much to the exterior
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and not focus on the internal.
And, as a father, I focus a lot
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on my daughters
wellbeing from inside out.
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Because the exterior will change
God forbid, accidents and things
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of that nature but internally
I really dedicate a lot of time
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to my new born when she was
in the womb, dedicated a lot of
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time talking to her even though
it didn't quite make sense
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because it's a baby or not even,
as a fetus or whatever you want
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to call it. It's a baby,
it's a child but it's a life
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And I talked, and I spoke
and I just didn't make any sense
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until after she was born you
see that connection developing
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the beauty of it, it's like,
I remember I was singing a song
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about God's greatness to
her she was falling asleep and I
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started crying because there's
such beauty, God's creation
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not because she's my daughter
but because this is a life
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this is a life, from an egg,
from nothing, from molecules
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into a human being with
arms and legs. How can anybody
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have the heart to
reject a child from the womb?
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It just does not
compute in my head.
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It maybe because they were
rejected. What I hear you say is
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that we should, you start the
process, you finish the process.
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Havin a child is not just
start it and then that's it
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and again that's why
it's important to be married
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in a marital relationship
so you can conceive in that
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relationship not like what
you were saying with you mom
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Unfortunately that's where
we need to educate our young men
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This is serious because it
messes up an entire generation
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So if you're gonna start
the process start it right
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get married, do it right so
you're there. You can come home
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you can touch the stomach and
all that stuff and talk to the
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child. And so you can be
there when the child is born
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the entire process so the
child I mean I enjoyed the fact
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that I was there
from the beginning
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and I'll be there to
the end by God's grace
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And my daughter, we had a song
I would come and I would sing
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Butterfly Kisses to her in
the womb. It was the most joyful
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time in life. My son you know
I had a song that I would sing
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to him so I would run home
from work just to get there
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to spend that quality
time when my wife was pregnant
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and after the birth. It
was important to me and I think
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it should be important to
every man out there to be there
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from the beginning so
that that child is whole
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And even how you talk to
the mother in the process
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Oh yes. You know I remember
my wife, she said rub this oil
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coconut oil or whatever it was
for my stretch marks and I was
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like, you can do it
yourself it's all good, like
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I don't want to touch the
baby but you know what, wait
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that touch, not only are
you bonding with your wife but
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you're bonding with her, it's
like, dare I say something like
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an example of God's
Trinity. Spiritual. Bonding
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Three. So when people
have quadruplets and everything
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but I'm just using my example
that bonding time with your wife
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affects your child because they
know, they feel. What they can't
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they feel. Whatever
the mother feels, they feel
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If the mother's
stressed, they're stressed
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It's an amazing thing what God
has given us the privilege to
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doing like Gordon, like you
said we've been talking about
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there's such an importance
to waiting until you get married
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because you cannot
throw this in the garbage can
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like a lot of parents
do to their kids, literally
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not theoretically, literally.
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We have to really hone in on
the fact that sex is for married
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people and the process of
birth is a God given gift.
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WE have no right, no
right. We have the right to die
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for our sin but God not
only redeemed us through Jesus
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but He's given us the ability
to partake in the creation
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process by procreating.
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Not only is sex a gift
between a husband and his wife
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but it's also holy
between a husband and his wife
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You know Paul talks in
Corinthians that our parts
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belong to Christ and when
we connect them to an harlot or
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someone who's not our
spouse it's an offense to Him
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So if you want your child
to be blessed in a holy home
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do God's plan. Not Plan
B, not Plan C or nothing else
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God's plan because God
knows what He's talking about
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so you won't have
these rejection issues
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so you don't have these
dramas so you don't have these
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all these things if you do
it the way God has designed it
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now when the child comes
in, the picture it's a blessing
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there's a
special, unique blessing
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You know I came from, like I
said, my background, most people
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from my background were from
you know either extra marital
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affairs,
unfortunately or single parents.
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And so God put it in my heart
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I need you even though you're
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the youngest I need
you to set this new legacy
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to establish this
legacy of holiness
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I want you to
marry this young lady
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not have sex with
her until you're married
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and we waited
until we were married
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and then we got married and
years later we had a beautiful
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child. And now we have three
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They know who their father is
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I pick up the phone right now,
I talk to the boys, I talk to
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my daughter. Yes, of course,
your daddy wants to talk to you
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They know my voice.
They know who their mother is
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There's no rejection issue, why?
Because we're invested in them
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We know this is an investment,
not for life, for eternity
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And remember in the
holiness the body is the temple
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I mean that child
is in a holy place
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That's how serious this thing
is that child is in a holy place
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and so you don't desecrate
the temple by having sex
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out of wedlock. That's
why we need to understand
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when we get it out to all
men out there and not only that
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Because some people say,
well I got married but then
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look what happened. He just
left. You gotta be careful who
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you get married to. Mercy.
Remember what happened to Saul
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See we haven't been
delicate lately with holy things
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We need to be
delicate with holy things
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And sex is a holy thing
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And that's only
between a husband and his wife
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not a husband and a wife
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or girlfriend or anything but
a husband and I'm specifically
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saying a male
husband and his female wife
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Yes. It's a holy thing
and God blesses, blesses it
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Remember with Saul, when Saul
went ahead and made a sacrifice
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that only a
priest was supposed to do
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He was rejected. I mean we
look at David's record and David
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did a lot of things
but when Saul did that
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was like a slap in God's face
00:25:49.41\00:25:53.31
because that was a holy thing
only a priest was supposed to do
00:25:53.92\00:25:58.42
and so when you, as a man or
a woman say, you know, I'm gonna
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take something that is
holy because I have feelings and
00:26:02.06\00:26:06.93
I have emotions and I have wants
and I'm gonna get satisfaction
00:26:06.96\00:26:13.23
from this, you know
you're desecrating a holy thing
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and God is not mocked
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It's interesting that
we're talking about this because
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all three of us didn't come
to this conclusion because we
00:26:23.88\00:26:27.72
we followed straight in
the paths of our lives you know
00:26:27.75\00:26:30.02
we all come from
crazy backgrounds
00:26:30.05\00:26:34.26
and just picked up the phone
accepting the call to ministry
00:26:34.29\00:26:37.06
and we learned what we have
today through bumps and bruises
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and really being
submissive to God
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What do you think Gordon?
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I think submission to God is
an important part of the whole
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process, cause if we submit
to God, God is going to lead and
00:26:51.87\00:26:54.88
He's going to direct your life.
00:26:54.91\00:26:56.38
If you're not submissive
to God then you're going to be
00:26:56.41\00:27:00.15
doing, you're going to do your
own thing and you're gonna make
00:27:00.18\00:27:03.08
all kinds of mistakes. We make
mistakes when we're submitted
00:27:03.12\00:27:06.86
to God, we still make mistakes
cause we live in a sinful world
00:27:06.89\00:27:10.73
and we are sinful. The
Bible says no one is without sin
00:27:10.76\00:27:15.86
but understanding and
recognizing that when you're
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submitted to God, God is
going to direct your path
00:27:18.77\00:27:23.04
And I think that's
the important thing
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and you're gonna
make right decisions.
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Thank you guys and man,
again we ran out of time
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but we'll talk
about this some more, so
00:27:29.78\00:27:32.78
for the viewers out
there, I know it's tough
00:27:32.81\00:27:37.22
if you have any
questions, please send it in
00:27:37.25\00:27:39.95
to AFH@3ABN.ORG
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AFH@3ABN.ORG
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Now, what I want to
leave you with is this
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Even though the ideal
thing is to be married
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to have sex and have kids
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for those of you that have made
error or whatever the reason
00:27:55.54\00:27:59.11
might be, please do
not dismiss your kids
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the connection starts from birth
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If you're man
enough to go and have sex
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be man enough to be in
it from beginning to end
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Thank you
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