? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise ? ? [music] ?
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our Scripture lesson
today taken from the book
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of Psalms.
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And we're going to
Psalm 127, verse number 1.
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A very familiar passage,
Psalm 127, verse number 1.
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Psalm 127, verse number 1.
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If you have it, let
me hear you say amen.
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Aud.: Amen.
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PB: A very familiar
passage today, "Except the LORD
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build the house."
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"Except the Lord build
the house, they labour in vain
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that build it: except the
LORD keep the city, the watchman
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waketh but in" what, everybody?
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Aud.: Vain.
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PB: But in what, everybody?
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Aud.: Vain.
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PB: "Except the Lord
build the house, they labour
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in vain that build it: except
the keep the city, the watchman
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waketh but in vain."
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9-1-1.
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We're under attack.
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Father God, bless us
now, as we open Your Word.
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I pray that, Lord, we
would gain and gather and glean
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from Your Word today.
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Hide me behind Your
cross, Lord, and before we even
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begin, we give You the praise
for what You're going to do.
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But more than just praise,
God, we worship You right
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now.
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And so we worship You
through the study of Your Word.
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In the name of Jesus we pray.
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Amen.
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9-1-1, we're under attack.
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"Except the Lord build
the house, they labor in vain
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that build it; except the
Lord keep the city, the watchman
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waketh but in vain."
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Anywhere you go in the
United States, when you dial
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the numbers
9-1-1, it's an emergency.
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Whether it's a car
accident, whether it's a home
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invasion, a burglary;
whether somebody is hurt,
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somebody is sick,
somebody is dying, someone's
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in danger.
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Whether it is an
attack on your home, attack on
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your health, or an
attack on your humanity,
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when you dial
9-1-1, it's an emergency
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and somebody or
something is being attacked.
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Now, from the early days in
a child's life, when they're
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first able to talk--I know
for our children--you teach
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them that if
something is wrong, if something
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or someone is being
attacked, when safety is being
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compromised or your
life may be in jeopardy, you
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are to dial 9-1-1.
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If a child doesn't even
know Mommy's number of Daddy's
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number or Grandpa or
Grandma's number, they're taught
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to dial 9-1-1.
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Well, today I've
come to tell this church.
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I've come to tell this community
and those even watching
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on Breath of Life.
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I've come to tell you
today, it's time to dial 9-1-1.
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This is not a terrorist attack.
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This is not a heart attack.
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This is not a panic attack
or a home invasion attack,
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but today this
is a family attack.
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And this family attack
has become a spiritual attack.
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Friends, today
it's an emergency.
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The family, the basic
social unit that God has set up,
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is under attack.
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And friends, this
attack didn't just start.
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This attack has been
going on for 6,000 years.
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It has been a calculated,
a premeditated, a deliberate
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plan, designed, intentional
attack, because after God
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created this earth in
six literal days, it was in
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the Garden of Eden in
the beginning that God
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instituted two things.
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He instituted the Sabbath
and He instituted the family.
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And of these two
God-ordained institutions,
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the devil hates both.
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The devil is
out to destroy both.
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Aud.: Amen.
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PB: But I believe, for
some reason in these last
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and evil days the devil has
made an all-out attack against
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the family.
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The devil is not holding back.
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He's made the family his
primary target because I believe
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the devil thinks that he
can get two for the price
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of one.
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Because, as goes the
home, so goes the church.
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And as goes the
church, so goes the world.
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If the family can be
destroyed, the church can
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be destroyed.
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If the church can be
destroyed, the gospel message
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of Jesus being
shared, including the message
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of the Sabbath,
will be destroyed.
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So he's trying to get
two for the price of one.
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: What is a family?
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One might say a
husband, wife, and children.
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What is a family?
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A family could be a
single person with children.
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What is a family?
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A family could just be a
single man or single woman
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living by themselves.
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But today, whether it
be a husband and wife,
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whether it be a
husband, wife and children,
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whether it be
somebody living by themselves,
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the family is being attacked.
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Now, the attack on
the family is nothing new.
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Satan began attacking the home
and the family in the Garden
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of Eden.
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He deceived the first
parents, Adam and Eve,
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and he used the same tactics
on the first children, Cain
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and Abel.
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Satan has not
changed his strategy.
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He's a liar from the beginning,
and he's a liar today.
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Doesn't anybody know
that Satan is a liar?
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His goal has always
been to divide and conquer.
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Satan managed to
inject poison between spouses,
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poison between siblings,
and poison in all human
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relationships
because Satan is the ultimate
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home-wrecker.
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Satan knows and has
known from the very beginning
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what many of us are slow
to grasp: that the family
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is the key in God's program.
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Destroy the family, and
you will destroy the whole
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of society.
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Destroy the family, and teen
delinquency rates will rise.
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Destroy the family, and
crime will exponentially
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rise.
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Destroy the family,
and you destroy the church.
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The enemy is constantly
working to bring frustration
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and fear in the home.
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You see, if we're
real today, when home life
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is miserable parents are
unhappy, children grow up
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rebellious, and a Christian
family that is constantly
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feuding can't minister
to anybody else or actively
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serve God's church.
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So if the devil can succeed
in destroying a family, he can
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count on weakening
God's church as well.
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: In Ellen White
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I was reading "The
Seventh-Day Adventist Home,"
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page 32.
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She says, "One well-ordered
family, one well-disciplined
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family tells more in
behalf of Christianity than all
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the sermons that
can be preached."
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Which I then interpret as,
our church is only as strong
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as the families that attend.
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If we build Oakwood, strong
families, then we will build
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a strong church.
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Satan knows this,
and because he also knows
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he cannot single-handedly
carry out his campaign of attack
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and destruction of the family,
Satan has enlisted the help
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of our
contemporary postmodern society.
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But after all, the Bible
says, if you read carefully
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in 1 John 5:19, that the
whole world lies in the power
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of the evil one.
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Look at our world.
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Look at it.
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Divorce has been made easy.
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And I'm not here to
point the finger at anybody,
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but listen to the statistics.
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Divorce has been made easy.
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Two hundred fifty
dollars will get you a divorce.
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No questions asked,
just sign on the dotted line.
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In fact, you can now
pull up divorce papers
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on the Internet,
print them, sign them,
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get a notary to authenticate
them, and then send them
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to your city municipality.
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The divorce rate rose 700
percent in the 20th century.
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In fact, tax laws
penalize marriage.
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Greater than 50 percent of
all marriages end in divorce.
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And friends, that's not
just in the world only; that's
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even in the church.
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Sad to say, even among
the ministerial ranks, even
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among the ministerial
ranks in the church, divorce
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is rising in
unprecedented fashion.
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Somebody needs to dial 9-1-1.
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Because the
family is under attack.
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Government rewards
childbirth, welfare rewards
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childbirth outside of marriage.
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Six out of 10 children
live in a single-parent
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household.
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Dial 9-1-1, the
family is under attack.
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God's standard of one man
and one woman for one lifetime
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is being redefined.
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Same-sex marriage is
becoming just as accepted
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as heterosexual marriage.
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It's no longer Adam and
Eve, but now Adam and Steve.
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And if you speak about
it, if you preach about it,
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you're a part of the
problem and not the solution.
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Somebody dial 9-1-1.
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The family is under attack.
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Cohabitation has
gotten out of control.
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It has jumped 1,000
percent between 1970 and 2010.
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One-third of all
adults have cohabitated
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and they've also experienced
a higher divorce rate
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than those who haven't.
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And so it was, even
in the church, even in
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the church cohabitation.
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I asked somebody one
day, being real: Why must you
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cohabitate
before you get married?
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They said, I need to know
what Iím getting into before
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I get in it.
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I said, Well, what about faith?
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Trust?
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And love in God, and the person
you're thinking about marrying?
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He said, Preacher, I told
you that I need to know what
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I'm getting into
before I get in it.
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So I then said, So what
you're telling me is, you
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look for a wife
like you look for a car.
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They said, What are
you talking about, Pastor?
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I said, You know, when
you shop for a car, the first
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thing you do, you go to
as many car lots as possible.
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Then number two, you want
to know how that body looks.
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Then number three, you
want to test drive before you
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purchase.
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Then number four,
you're curious as to how much
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mileage it has, and how
many previous owners it has had.
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And then number five,
you want the most out of it,
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with the least possible cost.
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Help me, Holy Ghost!
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: So ladies, repeat
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after me.
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Say: You can't drive this!
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
Preach, Pastor Byrd.
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I'm doing the best I can!
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
Somebody dial 9-1-1!
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The family is under attack.
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Contemporary people don't
want to preach this stuff,
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this is old-time gospel today.
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Drug use, deviant
lifestyles, sexual
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promiscuity are
portrayed in positive, fun ways.
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The
proliferation of the Internet
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and television-watching
are bursting at the seams,
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promoting pornography.
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Which is a multi-billion-dollar
industry that is systematically
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destroying our
families and our homes.
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All but 2 percent of
American homes have at least one
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television, and most homes
have at least two televisions.
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Fifty percent of our children
between the ages of 6 to 17
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have a TV in their rooms.
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Television's influence
is subtle and reinforced
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by the repetition of
images and stereotypes.
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It is a known fact
that the more you hear
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something, the more you
begin to believe that something.
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Repetition--you hear me
say it all the time--deepens
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the impression.
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The values that television
teaches are repeated at such
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a rate that a local church
could never counter them no
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matter how numerous
or effective our programs
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and ministries.
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Somebody dial 9-1-1;
the family is under attack!
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Some secular commentators
have now begun to claim
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that the traditional
nuclear family is no longer even
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realistic.
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In fact, an article
published online by Salon
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Magazine said that the
ideal American family, a father
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and a mother bound to
each other by legal marriage,
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raising children
bound to them by biology,
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is a stubborn relic.
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A stubborn relic.
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A national symbol
that is yet to be returned
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as threadbare and
someone is now unrealistic.
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Dial 9-1-1.
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The family is under attack.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
The sanctity of life
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is being traded for
sensual gratification.
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The sanctity of
marriage is being traded
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for a redefinition of marriage.
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The celibacy of
singleness is being traded
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for the multiplicity
and assortment of a partner.
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We are seeing the Christian
values of selflessness being
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traded for the
consumer value of selfishness.
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We're seeing Christian
parents, including some
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Seventh-Day Adventist
parents, quietly allowing
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their children's sports
teams to pull the entire
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family away from
worship, fellowship and ministry
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at church in pursuit
of little league dreams.
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We've traded
Sabbath school for soccer.
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We've traded vacation
Bible school for volleyball.
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We've changed and traded
Pathfinders for play dates.
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We've traded
Adventurers for Angry Birds.
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We've traded church school
for charter school, public
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school, and other private
schools that may be good,
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but they do not teach
our Adventist core values.
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A Kansas pastor was
criticized back in '96 because
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he prayed before the
Kansas house of representatives.
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He said, we've lost
out spiritual equilibrium
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and reversed our values.
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He said, we've ridiculed
the absolute truth of God's Word
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and called it pluralism.
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We've worshiped other gods
and called it multiculturalism.
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We've endorsed perversion
and called it an alternative
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lifestyle.
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We've exploited the poor
and called it the lottery.
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We've rewarded
laziness and we call it welfare.
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We've killed our unborn
and we call it a choice.
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We've shot abortionists
and called it justifiable.
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We've neglected to
discipline our children and we
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call it building self-esteem.
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We have abused power and
we've called it politics.
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We've coveted our
neighbor's possessions
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and we call it ambition.
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We have polluted the air
with pornography and profanity
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and we've called it
freedom of expression.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
He said, we've ridiculed
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the time-honored values
of our forefathers and we
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call it enlightenment.
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Somebody at Oakwood,
dial 9-1-1; our families
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are under attack.
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But even though we're
under attack, my mind goes back
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to the verse that says "Greater
is he that is in me than
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he that is in the world."
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Which means, God is
still on the throne.
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God still sits
high but looks down low.
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It's time to reclaim
our families for Jesus.
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: It's time to regain
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our marriages that have
been lost or are being lost
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to divorce court.
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It's time to
understand single folks that,
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if you're single, it's okay.
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You're not an outcast
because you're single.
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You're not being
punished because you're single.
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You are not cursed
because you're single.
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You just need to wait
until your change comes,
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and understand that you
must wait till your change comes
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because it's better
to be happily unmarried
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than to be unhappily married.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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It's time to rescue our children
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that are in trouble.
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It's time to
recover everything the devil
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has stolen from us.
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It's time to get
our families back.
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If there is a problem
under the almighty hand of God,
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let the people of God fix it.
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But somebody
says, how do we fix it?
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How do we fix such a
huge cultural problem?
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How do we fix such a
growing church problem?
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How do we stop a
tsunami of godless values from
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destroying our world,
our nation, our church,
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our community and our homes?
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The answer lies in the words
of the psalmist in Psalm 127:1.
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"Except the Lord build
the house, they labor in vain
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that builds it.
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Except the Lord keep
the city, the watchman
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waketh but in vain."
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I like the way the
Good News Bible puts it.
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It says, "If the Lord
does not build the house,
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the work of the
builders is useless.
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If the Lord does not
protect the city, it is useless
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for the
sentries to stand guard."
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Now, this text is often
used at our church openings,
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church dedications, renovations.
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It's applicable, however,
here because if you study
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the context of the
verse, David writes this psalm
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to Solomon, giving him
some godly advice on starting
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a family.
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David mentions two things.
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In verse 1, that God
can do for any family.
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David says, God
can build your family.
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Except the Lord build
the house, they labor in vain
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that build it.
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Now, David in the
text, is not talking about
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consecrating or constructing
a house or a building per
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se; David's talking
about building a family
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and if anybody ought to know
about building a family, David
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ought to know what to
do and what not to do.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
00:20:06.36\00:20:08.36
[Aud. reaction]
PB: In the text, David
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is acknowledging God as
the master home builder.
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And if we're going to
stop the satanic attacks
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on the family,
we've got to God be God.
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Let God build our homes.
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Let God build our families.
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If you want a home that will
last and survive, then you'd
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better let God be
the master home builder.
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God invented the family.
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God instituted the family.
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God created the family.
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And if God created the
family, God knows what's best
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for the family, God knows
what will work and won't work.
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God is the
creator; we are creation.
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God is shepherd; we are sheep.
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We've got to let
God build the house.
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Now, any builder will tell
you on any house you've got
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to have good walls.
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You've got to have a good roof.
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But a builder will tell you
that if you don't have a good
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foundation, the house will
shift, the house will move,
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and ultimately
the house will fall.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
00:21:15.73\00:21:17.73
[Aud. reaction]
PB: That's why Jesus
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told us that the wise man
built his house upon the rock;
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the foolish man built
his house upon the what,
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everybody?
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Aud.: Sand.
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PB: The rains came
down; the floods came up.
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The wise man's house stood;
the foolish man's house fell.
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Today, you'd better
build your house on a solid
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foundation.
00:21:40.63\00:21:41.63
You'd better build your
house upon the solid rock,
00:21:41.63\00:21:44.73
on Christ the solid rock
I stand, all other ground
00:21:44.73\00:21:48.93
is sinking sand.
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If you're married with
children, build on the rock.
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If you're single and by
yourself, build on the rock.
00:21:53.83\00:21:57.66
[Aud. reaction]
PB: Verse 1 continues.
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"Except the Lord keep
the city, the watchman waketh
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but in vain."
00:22:09.26\00:22:11.96
Which means not only number
one, can God build our home,
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but number two, God
will protect our home.
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What is a city?
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A city is a group of families
who live close together.
00:22:22.70\00:22:24.90
The word "watch" means to
protect, to guard, to secure
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and save.
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David then is saying,
not only will God build
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your home, but God will protect.
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God will guard.
00:22:37.80\00:22:39.63
God will save and
secure your family.
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The family needs
protection in our world today.
00:22:44.10\00:22:47.36
The world we live
in, friends, we know
00:22:47.36\00:22:49.50
it's not safe.
00:22:49.50\00:22:50.56
There are burglars out
there, prowlers out there,
00:22:50.56\00:22:54.40
robbers out there, intruders
out there, criminals out there,
00:22:54.40\00:22:59.36
thieves out there.
00:22:59.36\00:23:00.70
The world we live in is not
safe, and we need protection
00:23:00.70\00:23:04.73
from evil, satanic forces.
00:23:04.73\00:23:06.70
The devil and his demons
want nothing more but to break
00:23:06.70\00:23:10.06
up and destroy our families.
00:23:10.06\00:23:11.83
But, if we let God build
the house, if we let God protect
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the house, then no
weapon formed against you
00:23:16.53\00:23:19.26
is going to prosper.
00:23:19.26\00:23:20.26
It won't work.
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If God be for us,
who can be against us?
00:23:21.70\00:23:26.26
Unless the Lord builds
your home, everything you
00:23:26.26\00:23:29.00
do is going to be in vain.
00:23:29.00\00:23:31.00
Unless the Lord builds
your home, you're going
00:23:32.16\00:23:34.16
to experience
turmoil, trouble and trial.
00:23:34.16\00:23:37.53
Unless the Lord
builds your home, your plans
00:23:37.53\00:23:41.26
are going to fail.
00:23:41.26\00:23:42.26
But today, let God be God.
00:23:42.26\00:23:43.80
Acknowledge who God is,
that God is the master builder.
00:23:43.80\00:23:49.40
Let God build your house.
00:23:49.40\00:23:52.30
But how else do we stop
the attack on the family?
00:23:52.30\00:23:56.73
In addition to letting
God, acknowledging who God is,
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number two, you've got
to read the building manual.
00:24:00.43\00:24:02.76
[Aud. reaction]
PB: You can't just know
00:24:02.76\00:24:06.83
the builder, but you've
got to read the building
00:24:06.83\00:24:10.56
manual.
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The B-I-B-L-E.
00:24:11.56\00:24:13.73
Yes, that's the book for me.
00:24:13.73\00:24:15.96
I stand alone
on the Word of God.
00:24:15.96\00:24:19.16
The B-I-B-L-E.
00:24:19.16\00:24:20.13
There is a famine, listen
to me, in the land, and it's
00:24:20.13\00:24:23.56
not for bread and water.
00:24:23.56\00:24:25.93
But there's a
famine for the Word of God.
00:24:25.93\00:24:28.50
Let me tell you.
00:24:28.50\00:24:29.80
Let me be real.
00:24:29.80\00:24:30.80
Twenty-first century,
people don't know the Bible like
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they used to.
00:24:33.60\00:24:36.46
That's Christians,
that's Seventh-Day Adventists.
00:24:36.46\00:24:40.30
Amen light.
00:24:40.30\00:24:41.30
Aud.: Amen.
00:24:41.30\00:24:42.30
PB: That's everybody.
00:24:42.30\00:24:43.30
We've got to return to
Bible study, and that's not just
00:24:43.30\00:24:49.63
for new members.
00:24:49.63\00:24:51.56
That's old members too.
00:24:51.56\00:24:53.63
We've got to get back to
the days where we have family
00:24:53.63\00:24:56.63
worship.
00:24:56.63\00:24:57.63
Where we read
the Bible together.
00:24:57.63\00:25:00.16
If you have a large
family, have family worship
00:25:00.16\00:25:03.56
and read the Bible.
00:25:03.56\00:25:05.13
If you have a small family,
have small-family worship
00:25:05.13\00:25:08.20
and read the Bible.
00:25:08.20\00:25:09.20
If you just have you,
yourself and I in your
00:25:09.20\00:25:12.70
house, have family worship
by yourself, and read the Bible.
00:25:12.70\00:25:17.76
Somebody asked me one
time, Well, you're talking
00:25:17.76\00:25:19.76
about having
family worship by myself.
00:25:19.76\00:25:21.76
Hw do I have
family worship by myself?
00:25:21.76\00:25:23.76
I say, easy.
00:25:23.76\00:25:25.73
Put a CD in, have
praise and worship.
00:25:25.73\00:25:30.03
Y'all don't know
what I'm talking about.
00:25:30.03\00:25:32.76
Twenty years ago, when I
started in this conference,
00:25:32.76\00:25:35.76
I pastored a church
that had two members.
00:25:35.76\00:25:37.76
And I would go to
prayer meetings sometimes,
00:25:37.76\00:25:40.56
and it would be
me, myself and I.
00:25:40.56\00:25:43.86
I did not shut the
door, turn off the lights
00:25:43.86\00:25:46.50
of the church.
00:25:46.50\00:25:47.50
I cut on every
light in that church.
00:25:47.50\00:25:49.50
I opened up every
door in that church.
00:25:49.50\00:25:52.36
I took out--back
then we had boomboxes.
00:25:52.36\00:25:54.56
Anybody remember those?
00:25:54.56\00:25:55.63
I put a cassette
tape in my boombox.
00:25:55.63\00:25:58.43
I turned it up as loud
as I could, and I would have
00:25:58.43\00:26:02.70
praise and worship in
that church by myself.
00:26:02.70\00:26:05.86
I would read a passage
of Scripture by myself.
00:26:05.86\00:26:09.90
I would then have a closing
song--put another tape in.
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.93
Y'all don't
hear what I'm saying.
00:26:12.93\00:26:14.93
[Aud. reaction] PB:
And then me and Jesus
00:26:14.93\00:26:16.93
would have a benediction.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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PB: We've got to return to
Bible study, and that's not
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just for new members.
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That's old members, too.
00:28:25.93\00:28:26.93
We've got to get
back to the days where we
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have family worship.
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