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's not afraid to show his love
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He's a caring provider
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And, he's 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's topic is Mrs. Dad
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Mom will never be dad.
Often times in society we have
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single mother homes and we put
a lot of influence and burden
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on the moms to become fathers
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But what role does
the father play in that?
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And with me to talk about
that today is Gordon and Denry
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Welcome guys.
How're you doing? Thank you
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Doing good. Glad to be back man
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Awesome, so what do
you guys think, Mrs. Dad?
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Mrs. Dad. What is the role
of mom and dad, missing father
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essentially. How does that play
out? I mean can the mom partake
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or become a father? You know
we have a lot to be thankful for
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for mothers. Especially
mothers who don't have a husband
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or the father of the
child is not in the child's life
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and they try to balance now, you
know, not just the check book
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but balance the meals, balance
the car repair, balance all
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these things, all these roles if
if you want to give them roles
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and take care of the child.
Some times it seems impossible
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but some of them do a good job
trying to balance, this juggling
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act you know. So just want
to you know, the mothers we're
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grateful for them, for
those who do. Now the opposite
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sometimes you have mothers
who feel like they have to be so
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independent of the fathers. They
want nothing to do with father
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And that's a little bit
difficult, problematic today
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God has given specific roles and
I still firmly believe in roles
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although that might not be
the political correct thing, but
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God has given fathers a specific
role and given mothers specific
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role and the role of the
father cannot be replaced
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Unfortunately some mothers
through circumstances are forced
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into being fathers because let's
face it, the men are absent.
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For whatever reason so that
mother's placed in that role
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And so she has to do the best
that she can but what I have
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found out is that a lot of times
especially if there's a boy
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that she's raising,
it's quite difficult.
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So the role of the
father is important in the home
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Cause you really
can't replace them.
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It's what we face today though.
Why can't a mother become
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a priest in the home? Why can't
a mother fulfill the God-given
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duty of the father if
the father's missing though
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I mean isn't what we're there
for. God can do anything right?
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Yeah. Right. But she can't
fulfill the role of the father
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she may substitute but she will
never be, she'll never be able
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to fulfill that role cause that
is not how God has designed it
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No one can fulfill the role
of the father, but the father
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in heaven. So no one can
fulfill the father's role but
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the earthly father and there's
no way we could do it, so men
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have to realize that so they
need to be a part, they need to
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stay in the home. I
have a few tools here
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just for a demonstration. If
there's a nail that needs to be
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hammered in, you know I could
try to use the back of this
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I mean it may get the job done
depends on the texture of the
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wood or, but it'll take longer
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and actually I'm doing
more damage to the screw driver
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than if I had a hammer. Put
the hammer in there, boom, boom
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it's in. Now the reverse. If I
need something to be screwed in
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I can probably try to
use the back of the hammer
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and try to maneuver it in, but
it will be difficult, it will be
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harder, I mean sometimes
it depends on if it's a corner
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imagine like if it's in a corner
this will block, you know it
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will be almost impossible.
But if I have a screw driver
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Kerr go right it. And so
similar like he said the role
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it's not that a woman is
not able to stand in the gap
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but God made us with certain
created roles, you know, certain
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roles, duties. Even our bodies
are designed for certain things
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in certain ways so that we can
fulfill those roles and if those
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roles are not met,
there's void there's empty spots
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in the child's life and only
the father could fill that role
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and only the mother could fill
the role, cause you don't want
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to reverse that. Only a
mother can fulfill her role and
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only the father
could fulfill his role
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I was thinking about, say,
football. I'm not big in playing
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football and stuff like that.
You are, ok, that's alright
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But think about this. You have
a boy and the mother's trying
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to play football with that son
you think that son is going to
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go hard as he
would with the father?
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No, the son is going to hold
back. And he wouldn't get the
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full treatment that he
would need, the full, you know
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the full tackle or whatever
from the mother. So really
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she can't fill the role.
The mother is the nourisher
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she nourishes. But the father
is there to make sure that
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everything fits together.
That's his role and really can't
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I'm not going to disagree with
you, I see where you're going
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But some mothers will probably
disagree with you on that one
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I have experienced some
mothers and have even interacted
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my wife sometimes when
she's out there with the boys
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you hear her even more
than me, Man up, you know
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run that ball
fast, what are you doing?
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Let me show you how to tackle,
let me show you how to get
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this done right. So I can see
that, but now let me give you
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a personal example when I
was going through puberty.
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I was going through
puberty. I had questions
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The only person I could
talk to for real was my mother
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and it was very difficult as
a boy discussing these things
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with your mother. You know what
sometimes she tried, the lady
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tried. You know what she
had to resort to? A book.
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Or she had to ask male friends
my step father crept in around
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that time but he was
still in the, I don't know,
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this is my son I don't want
to talk about his private parts
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and all that, ugh, he
felt uncomfortable just like me
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But if I had my dad there and
he was active I'm sure, hey dad
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there's things
changing, what's going on?
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These things are important
because, for example, I know
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somebody that when they
were growing up their dad wasn't
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really there and they were
going through a bad situation
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you know, abuse. Not sexual
but physical and psychological
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And this person, they
wanted their dad to rescue them
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And she called and got answers
and everything but her dad just
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told her that your mother needs
to deal with it, you need to
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live with your
mother cause you're a girl.
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And to me, she wasn't asking to
just say rescue me or relocate
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me, she was just saying
protect me. There are roles that
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you know, mothers, single
mothers, I tip my hat to them
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I myself know one because I
have an ex-wife. She's raising
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our daughter but I'm there.
There's roles that, you know
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she recognizes that I'm married
and I have my own family but
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at the same time my wife
now recognizes that I still have
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a role to play for my daughter
and I'm there. That's the
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critical thing you know.
We, a lot of times, we discard
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we discard things, we discard
our children just because
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if she's a girl she lives with
her mom that's all she needs
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No she needs her father. If
the child is a boy, that's ok
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I'm just going to give him
enough or talk to him over the
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phone and give him coaching. No
you need to be there physically
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And the mothers that are out
there are doing tremendous jobs
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Yes they are. But it's not fair
to them to take the part that
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we play upon themselves
24/7 we need to step up and also
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be there and alleviate
some of the stress even though
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we might not be with them, it's
not fair to her or the child
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So we need to as men, I
believe and I know in my heart
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that we need to work on
being there for our children
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no matter what the circumstance
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The protective role, I
mean you're alluding to that
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the whole thing of
protecting, the husband, the man
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is protecting the
child or the home environment
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Personal experience, someone
that I know, single mother
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again we take our
hats off to them, we cannot
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we can't downplay that. But
because the father wasn't there
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cause the father was in a
different state, living in a
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different state, that
child, that girl child
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was vulnerable to sexual abuse
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and it scarred her
for most of her life
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into her adult life, because
the mother had to depend on
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some folks that she knew
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in the church, a man in
the church to take care of
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so when she's at work, checking
on the girls, making sure that
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they're ok. But instead of just
checking in as a good person
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he was no good and then how
things happened to that young
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lady that has scarred her for
life. So the role of the man is
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important. That's why
I'm passionate about us men
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staying in the home. To protect
little girls, protect your boys
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And then you know, we
try, society is very, as a good
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friend of mine would say,
like to stereotype the roles
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men have to have tools
and all these things you know.
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What about us men
teaching our boys how to cry?
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What it is to share your emotion
Back in the days men died and
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and still now it's statistically
known, men die at a younger age
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compared to their wives because
men used to hold everything in
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We still do. Don't talk
about it Don't cry about it
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We look at Christ. Now he didn't
go around bawling as you say
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in the island, bawling.
He shed tears now and then
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and He was still able to
conduct Himself as a man, right?
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But He shared His emotion.
He shared it with His disciples
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Hey I'm about to leave, I'm
broken hearted, can you pray
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little longer. He
was tender with children
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Come here, sit on my lap. Let
me tell you how much I love you
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WE try to make it that men are
supposed to be this macho thing
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And so when you even see
these un-biblical marriages
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You know what I'm talking about
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same sex marriages. You have
two females. You usually have
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one female that's trying
to be the super macho man
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which is not what she's designed
to be and which is not even the
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image that God
created the man to be.
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And so you have those extremes
because of the world's view
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that the woman is the only one
that's supposed to have emotions
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the only one that's
supposed to cry but that's not
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we need to teach our men
and even our daughters, you know
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how to gauge their emotions.
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But I do think, I hear what
you're saying but I do think
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that that's the reason why God
has created it where there's a
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husband and a wife in the
home because the emotional,
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that nourishment part we
can't really do a good job.
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we can try but men we need a
woman to really teach our boys
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how to be gentle, how to be soft
you need a man on the other side
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teaching boys how to be hard and
teaching girls how to stand up
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for what they want. This balance
needs to be in the home and
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I believe that's why God
said it's not good for man to be
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alone I'm going to make a
fitting mate put them together
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and in that
environment you have a child
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And so both parties have a role
in the development of this child
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Unfortunately through sin we're
doing all kinds of stuff now
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But if there's a home
and a man is not in the home
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for whatever reason that man
needs to play an important role
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in the child's life
even though he's not at home.
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Go over, spend time,
whatever you need to do
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You need to be involved
in helping that young man or
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that young lady to
become all that they can be
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What's crazy about all this
is as a result of this lack of
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parent or father in the
home we have things like people
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literally going out and changing
their body, change their sexes
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men trying to become women
and women trying to become men
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and it's not anymore about
dress up, it's literally they're
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trying to physically change and
I'm just, you know, this is so
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the lack of father and along
with other things but a lot of
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because the devil
seeks to destroy families.
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And the lack of fathers in
the home and let's just say
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for whatever reason, whatever
circumstance we don't condone
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babies outside of marriage and
anything like that, but reality
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is that we see that and those
fathers are still missing too
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So because of all that we have
our children changing physically
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changing their sex
into some thing else.
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To fit it. God made a
mistake, no He did not
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We made the mistake in
not being there for you
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You know we have so many
different things that are
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happening to our children
because we just cannot get
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our act together and the homes
are being broken up and fathers
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are going missing and fathers
are not being there and children
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are doing all kinds of things
to find the identity that can
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only be found in Jesus Christ
through the model of father
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and mother. You know we have
a real epidemic in our society
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and we have men
engaging in homosexual marriages
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and one trying to be the female
and I'm not saying these are bad
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people, they're not bad
people they're just misguided
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They're still children of God.
But us who are no better than
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they are, because we're all
sinners, we need to do something
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about standing together,
not in sin but in recognition
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of the One that takes away the
sin and empowers us to be the
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fathers that we need to
be. Because we're losing it
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We're losing it psychologically
physically, molecularly
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we're losing it. I think
we talked about this already
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Growing up because the father,
my dad, of course he was in
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and out working I found myself
playing around with my mom's
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high heeled shoes and I
wore them going around the house
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I had no idea why I'm doing
that. Thank God I had a balance
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But what is happening when
you have these two men trying to
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one trying to be a mother
and one trying to be a father
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however they're doing it,
and you have a child involved
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I do believe there's some
misguided feelings and some
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misguided situations
that happen in their lives
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I have friends, the father
was out busy most of the time
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traveling, preaching,
doing all kinds, so the mother
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was that person in the
home spent most of the time
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both of those young men
they have altered life styles
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totally altered lifestyles. Some
times I wonder is it because
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the father wasn't a
permanent figure in the home?
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Could it be? I don't know. But
I do know men play a strong role
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in the home as God placed,
God put us there for that reason
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to be that strong person.
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When Adam and Eve ate the
fruit I don't think we realized
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the
repercussions of what sin did
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and a lot of babies are born
genetically modified because
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of sin, ok. Whether that's
emotionally mentally physically
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Right? Physically. There are
unfortunately some individuals
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who are born with dual sex,
whether it's shown outside or
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inside and a lot
of it could be mental
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Now if you don't
have someone guiding you
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whether what extreme that could
be, guiding you'd say, hey son
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I see with some heels on, okay
we laugh at that but you'd look
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better in some sneakers.
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Oh you are supposed
to be wearing sneakers.
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You see what I'm saying. But you
see how we do it, a lot of times
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because we have this stereotype
that you know macho is what we
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see back in wrestling and
all that, we see man all this
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just steroid men, always muscles
right? And so we always go
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to extreme but we forget even
as men to treat our children
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with delicacy. The perfect
man is someone who stays grace
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and so instead of what we always
say, as soon as we see them
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a boy putting on a dress or
whatever, boy what're you doing
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callin him names,
loony, such as all these names
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we should, in love, just
like how Christ dealt with us
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Hey I see what you're doin there
let me show you a better way
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Let me show you a
better way, look at how I dress
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you like daddy's suit?
Model that. So now the child is
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learnin. Hmm. So instead of the
scorn because now when you scorn
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them they'll go down and find
someone who can relate with them
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Oh, he's wearin you know strange
excuse me, I have this and now
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you don't know his standards
I'm just using an example
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but you don't know his standards
and so now somebody else
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is influencing your
child. But if we do it in grace
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we can be such tremendous
guidance to some of these
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young men and young ladies who
have been misguided because of
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sin. I want to take it
back to what you said you know
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number one, we can't
treat our children with delicacy
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they're not food. I remember
you said delicacy, I was laughin
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I said
delicacy? I meant delicate
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Even though you feel
like you're so cute, hahahaha
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when they're babies, when
they get teenagers, get out
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Be a little softie. But you know
we do need to treat our kids
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delicately as men, even as men
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And we've got to remember
that mom will never be dad
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not that they don't strive to
be the best father they can be
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as mothers but in
reality you can't.
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We need to be there. Even
if your parents are together
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even if you don't go separate,
whatever the case may be fathers
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need to be present not
just physically but emotionally
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psychologically, spiritually,
because that's one thing again
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it's just spiritually, what
does it do spiritually for these
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children, I mean what does
it look like from the Biblical
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perspective? It tears them
down A view of God, of course
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has been marred because they're
not seeing that father in the
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home, or they're just seeing
the mom. It does tear them down
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But I wanna talk about something
real quick. I notice now that
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there's a new thing they do
in the hospital when the babies
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are born and I think it's great
is that they actually have the
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dad will take his shirt
off and put that child on
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dad's chest and I think
that's a wonderful bonding thing
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and do the same thing to the
mother. It shows that somehow
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in society we realize that
there's some importance in that
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initial bond. My son, when
he was born he was home you know
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his place was on daddy's
chest and when my daughter came
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I figured where should she
be so her place was in my arms
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and that to me they found
comfort, they were comfortable
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there and not only
that but I prayed with them.
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I prayed for them and I was
there, so that spiritual role
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was of vital
importance from the inception.
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Let me address something
also. I mentioned it earlier.
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That you have mothers who
disconnect the child from their
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fathers because their
relationship was broken
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so the child gets punished
because of whatever happened
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in that relationship.
And then you have mothers who
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tell the child, your dad is
no good. All these kind of names
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all these lies. And so the child
at times grows up hating the
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father and sometimes these
fathers they want to play a role
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in their child's life but they
have been given restraint orders
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their privileges have been
taken away, all these things
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and they can't get involved
so now the child grows up
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20 something
years old and mad at dad
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for no reason at all, because
why? The mother was upset
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about whatever happened in the
relationship and instead of just
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dealing with that between her
and the father she puts all that
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all that on the child and now
the child lives with that guilt
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and that anger for the rest of
her life and now the cycle just
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gonna repeat over
and over and over again.
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But even so I still feel, and
I know that happens, but that
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father needs to do everything
possible. But sometimes they
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can't. There's a court system
Sometimes I've dealt with some
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guys, one guy and he tried, he
tried everything yes he does get
00:24:11.58\00:24:17.22
once but what he really
wants to do, everything he does
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she'll undo at home. Yes, that's
the difficult part. She really
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hates him. And so that's
what I'm saying, a lot of times
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whatever happened between
you whatever's broken, whatever
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it was your choice. This child
had nothing to do with that
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That needs to be between you
and your husband, you can hate
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each other but give the man
the privilege to raise his child
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to be part of the child's
life, that's all I'm saying.
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And I agree with you but there
are some men that just give up
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after a while. So you know what
Forget it, I'm not gonna fight.
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But I'm gonna say, fight. Fight
until the end because the child
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needs you and I believe
it's time for men to stand up
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Yes. It is. Stand up and
say my child is important to me
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so I'm going to do everything
that I possibly can to be in
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the child's life. It's time for
men to stand up and stop making
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excuses that they can't
be in their child's life.
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I heard a story about a young
man, recently said, his father
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relocated, relocated so he can
be there in the area even though
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the mother and him,
the relationship was broken
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he relocated (that's a powerful
father) so he could be there
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he gave up his job, I mean
that is what I'm talkin about
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whoever he is, I give a
dab to him. He relocated
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so he could be, a lot of fathers
uh, that's that's your business
00:25:46.37\00:25:50.08
you move on with your
life, I'll send you a letter now
00:25:50.11\00:25:52.11
and then. It's crazy because
as I think about it you know
00:25:52.15\00:25:56.28
when mom tries to be dad
that's just not gonna happen
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No. And right now I would
hate to see if God gave up on us
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the way we give up on our
children. I would hate to see
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that day. That would be a dark
day. Mercy. You know even Jesus
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Himself on the cross felt
the distance from the Father
00:26:14.87\00:26:18.34
even though His Father hadn't
given up on Him. But the sin
00:26:18.37\00:26:22.08
that we ourselves put on His
shoulders, He felt it so deeply
00:26:22.11\00:26:26.75
that He felt a disconnect from
the Father and I'm telling you
00:26:26.78\00:26:30.69
I'm telling you there's no
suffering like that if our Maker
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if our perfect creator suffered
separation from the Father
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imagine what our children would
feel a separation from their
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fathers. There is no excuse.
Look even if you have the worst
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wife or the worst ex-wife in
the world and I know guys like
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this, they fight, fight,
fight the kids grow up and they
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won't know and the thing is,
the sad part is that the mothers
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that do do that the kids
end up hating them. Exactly.
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And that's the bad part.
So creating this atmosphere
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number one needs to be a
father's job to, you know, help
00:27:09.62\00:27:13.26
the kids even though the
mother maybe against them,
00:27:13.29\00:27:15.30
help the kids to see
that mom is just misguided.
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We still need to love her and
respect her, she's your mother
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So understand that. So with
that guys, we ran out of time so
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We need to do a Part 2
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Fathers out there, again
the mom will be a great mom but
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she cannot play the role of dad.
You're still not without excuse
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step up, be there even if
you can't get along with her
00:27:48.40\00:27:51.73
even if you're married and do
get along, doesn't matter what
00:27:51.77\00:27:54.70
the cause or circumstance,
be there for your children
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Please. Their life depends
on it Thank you for watching.
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