Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host,
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I want to thank you
for joining us today.
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This is message number
14 out of 25 Bible studies
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that correlate with
this Bible study guide
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entitled Sharing
God's Love Makes You Happier
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What The Bible Says.
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We're working together
with Brother Richard Bland
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of United Prison Ministries
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and developing
accompanying messages
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to his God given Bible studies.
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This study guide was developed
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to address the 25
most asked questions
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Brother Richard has received
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in his many
years of Bible study.
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And without a doubt,
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today's topic deals
with a heart wrenching,
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soul searching,
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and prayer
pleading question for sure,
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and that being of
successful parenting.
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I know it was for me,
I prayed for my children
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while they were yet in the womb.
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I pray that the Lord
would send the right person
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into their
lives to be wonderful,
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godly helpmates
once they were grown.
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And I still pray daily for
their protection from evil,
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and for them to be convicted
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and to be converted to
the truths of God's Word.
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Being a Christian mother,
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we know all too well
that the enemy is out to prey
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upon our children
and to steal them away
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from having an
eternal home in heaven.
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There are steps
that we all need to take
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in order to have
successful parenting skills.
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But before we
discover some of these steps
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with Pastor Kenny Shelton today,
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let's visit 3ABN
and listen to a song
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that is entitled
"Because of Who You Are"
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as sung by my
sister-in-law, Tammy Chance.
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You spoke the words
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And all the
worlds came into order
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You raised Your hands
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And planets
filled the empty skies
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You placed the woman and the man
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Inside the garden
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And though they fell
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They found
compassion in Your eyes
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Oh, Lord, I stand amazed
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At the wonder of it all
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Yet a greater wonder
brings me to my knees
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Lord, I praise You
because of who You are
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Not for all the mighty
deeds that You have done
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Lord, I worship You
because of who You are
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It's all the reason that
I need to voice my praise
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Because of who You are
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One holy night
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You sent Your
promise from a virgin
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And promise grew
till He revealed to us
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Your heart
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Enduring love displayed
throughout Your Crucifixion
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And through Your depth,
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You tore the
dark and grave apart
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Oh, Lord, I stand amazed
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At the wonder of it all
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Yet a greater wonder
brings me to my knees
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Lord, I praise You
because of who You are
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Not for all the mighty
deeds that You have done
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Lord, I worship You
because of who You are
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You're all the reason
that I need to voice my praise
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Lord, I praise You
because of who You are
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Not for all the mighty
deeds that You have done
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Lord, I worship You
because of who You are
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You're all the reason
that I need to voice my praise
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Because of who You are
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Because of who You are
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Because of who You are
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Thanks for
joining us once again here
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at Behold the Lamb Ministries,
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and we appreciate so
much coming into your home.
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Now, again we may be
through the television,
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may through be radio
or whatever it might be,
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but we thoroughly enjoy
spending this time with you
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as you write and tell
us, praise God for that.
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And we want to
continue to encourage you.
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You remember us in your
prayer and financial support
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that we may get this
message around the world
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and then Jesus can come.
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You won't want to miss
this, as you heard on those,
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my wife introduced this program,
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we're going to be talking
about successful parenting.
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You may wonder
where that's going to go.
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But, you know, we're
going to go into the Word of God
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because God has a lot to say
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about being a successful parent.
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And some of us look at
ourselves in the mirror
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and say, "Oh,
God, have mercy on me."
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And He will.
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But before we get
into, let's kneel, shall we?
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I'm going to kneel here
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if you'd like to
kneel and pray with me.
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Let's do it together.
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Loving Father in heaven,
we thank You for Your Word,
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we thank you for this privilege,
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this opportunity
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to be able to lift our
voice and praise adoration
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to find out what You have to say
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about this wonderful,
wonderful subject of parenting.
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Bless us now, we pray
with the power of thy Spirit.
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Bless every word,
everything that's said and done.
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May hearts and minds be open.
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Maybe we receive
that what You have for us,
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and we thank you in
advance, in Jesus' name, amen.
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Again, it's
important to have your Bible,
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I always
encourage you to do that.
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Get a pencil and paper
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'cause everything
that's said from the pulpit
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doesn't necessarily
mean that it's true.
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And so you have to check.
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The Bible says, "Study
to show thyself," what?
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"Approved unto God."
So that's what we do.
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You have to check it out
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because the sign out
front says a certain name,
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because, you know, we say,
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"Well, the Bible
said, the preacher said."
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What does the Bible say?
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I'm going to bring this up.
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I don't know if they
studied in another class
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or anything different,
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but these are things
that's going on in the world.
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I want to spend least
amount of time as I can,
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but I think it's
very important to realize
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that we're in the end of time.
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Does everybody agree?
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We feel like we're
in the end of time,
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Jesus is coming,
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things are
going to be happening,
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they are happening,
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just one thing after the other.
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So every day you open your eyes,
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something that big is happening.
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This is in the rotunda
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by the way of the
Illinois State Capitol.
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That's in Springfield.
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So this is, you
know, in the rotunda,
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something has been put there.
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There's now a satanic statute.
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Did anybody
read that in a paper?
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Now there's a
satanic statue, right,
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that's in the rotunda there.
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They're celebrating
both Santa and Satan.
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Kind of interesting, isn't it?
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Why are they doing these things?
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Think about it.
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Which if I say celebrating Santa
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and celebrating Satan.
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Boy, oh, boy, if
I don't say this,
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I'd be ashamed of myself later.
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They both have the same origin.
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Tomorrow you'll get this.
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No, you're not
going to get it now.
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Both have the same origin.
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Now again, a lie is a lie.
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Are you still with me now?
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And it comes from the what?
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Father of lies
in John what? 8:44,
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it comes from
the father of lies.
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You want what they
named this Satanic statue?
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Snaketivity?
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Do you have heard Snaketivity?
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It depicts a
hand holding an apple
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with a snake
wrapped around its arm.
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Think about it.
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The statue was
designed, and founded,
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and funded by
satanic temple of Chicago.
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That's kind of interesting,
there's a Christmas tree there,
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there's the
nativity scene there,
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there's a seven
branch candlestick
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that represent that
which was in the Old Testament,
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you know, sanctuary.
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Yeah, menorah, which is people
wouldn't understand that part,
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but they do now.
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This is good, but
Exodus, I think, 37,
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you can find that in.
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This is according
to the Dr. Dave Druker.
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He's a press
secretary of Illinois,
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secretary of state.
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So this coming
from a good source here.
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It sets on a four foot high base
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that reads.
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Now notice this,
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"Knowledge is
the greatest gift."
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Well, right in
there I have a problem
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because I think
Jesus is the greatest gift
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that was given to
mankind, don't you?
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So what's going on here?
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It's all about,
remember the attack on what?
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Religious freedom and what?
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And our speech,
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which is going on
for a long time now.
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According to this website,
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Satan's temple has
chapters all over the country.
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This deals with what?
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Our first amendment
issue, keep that in mind.
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It's interesting how we
want to enforce and we want to,
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you know, over
here, we'll do this,
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and over here, we'll do that.
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But a lot of things here,
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we don't have
freedom of speech anymore.
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You don't have
freedom of press anymore,
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you know, you have to be careful
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to everything you say,
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everybody is touchy,
everybody gets upset,
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words just kill
people, you know.
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And so we're not now,
we're losing this freedom
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to be able to present
Jesus Christ to the world,
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and we need to stand against it.
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But here, if you're
going to as they were,
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they say, "If you're going
to have Santa Claus in here,
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"which they say is
religious, it's really not,
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then we must have something
that represents the devil
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because that's
the way that we stand.
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There's another holiday display,
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this is from the Freedom
from Religion foundation.
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Freedom from what?
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Freedom from religious...
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It reads this,
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"Religion is but a
myth and superstition
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that hardens hearts
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and enslaves mind."
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Isn't that kind of interesting?
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When I read scripture,
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I see a lot of words
that's called free, don't you?
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I see.
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There's free, there's
freedom, there's freely,
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there's free will in
the Bible talks about there,
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there's a free man,
there's a free woman there.
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And you know what it says?
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Bible says, you
know, Jesus comes,
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He sets us free from something.
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John 8:32 simply says,
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"The truth shall set you free."
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So totally
everything that they put down,
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you can look in scripture
and find this not so, why?
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Because the enemy is behind it.
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We need to be aware of.
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This is one of the
issues that's going to hit hard
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because it's going to
deal with taking books
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that we want to give out,
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whether it be the
Bible or whatever,
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and somebody is
going to be offended
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if you hand them a Bible.
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They're offended.
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If you hand them
any other kind of book
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that talks about
Jesus, they're offended.
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And so nowadays if
anybody's offended,
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all of a sudden
there's an uproar,
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if it's just one person.
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Things are changed.
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So we need to be
careful, do work while we can.
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We go to our
successful parenting.
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This is lesson number 14.
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You know, I want to,
maybe just ask a question
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or let's think
about this together.
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You know, is there such a
thing as a successful parent?
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Yeah, and nobody's
standing up and shouting,
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so that's good news.
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You know, we'll check
you out if you said I am.
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Is there such thing
as a successful parent?
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And then what does it
take to be a successful parent?
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Is there really such a thing?
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Well, I'm sure
there's many, maybe just a few
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that would say,
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"Well, yeah, yeah,
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regardless of how
the children turn out,
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the moms and dads say,
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'Yeah, I was a
pretty good parent.' "
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Kind of interesting, huh?
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Would a parent be a good parent
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if they decide they're
going to give their children
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everything that they didn't have
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while they were growing up?
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Does that make a good parent?
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There are many of us
than on the other side
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that would have, say, "I
would like another chance."
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I sure would do
things differently.
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Have you heard that?
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If I had to do it over,
I'd sure do things differently.
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Well,
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since we can't really
do that, in that sense,
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are there things
that can be done?
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Even now in the
lateness of the hour,
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the lateness of the game,
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the lateness of the family,
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maturity of age and so on,
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is there something that
we can do that might help?
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Because some of us say,
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"Well, we just
need to look around,
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there's some good
parents, but, you know what?
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What may seem like good
traits of one good parent
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doesn't seem like
that to another parent.
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We have different definitions
of what is a good parent.
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I would say, just
to throw something out
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for us to think about,
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a good parent, a
good parent would,
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a good parent
would want their children
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to stay out of trouble.
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Let's start it simple.
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A good parent
would want your children
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to do, what?
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Stay out of trouble.
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Don't get into trouble,
you try to help them with that.
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A good parent would
say, "Oh, son/daughter,
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I'd like for you
to do well in school."
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That may be good
parent, wouldn't it be?
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And then maybe as a
parent, good parent,
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we might say, "You
know, we'd like for us
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to have a good
home life together."
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Be a happy home together.
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If all of us work together,
it's going to be good."
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Bet could there be more?
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Could there possibly more
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than just the
semi simple things?
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You know, what
are a few qualities
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of a good parent?
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Well, we could just say today
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that we're
getting into the word.
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A good parent would be caring.
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A good parent cares
about their children,
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they care about other people.
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Maybe another
attribute would be affectionate.
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And some of us have
a more difficult time
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with being affectionate
than other people do.
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A lot of people can show love
real quick, and really easy,
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and say, "I love you."
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And other people have a
difficult time with that.
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But we need to be
affectionate to our children.
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We need to be able to
say to them, "I love you."
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And you need to
say it more than once.
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My dad to me was a
good Christian man,
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but way he was
raised was different.
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I never once
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ever, ever heard
him say, "I love you."
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Never once.
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My mom said to him one time,
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"Honey, why don't you?" Mom did.
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She said, "Honey, why
don't you tell the boys."
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It's before Tammy came along.
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Why don't you tell the
boys that you love them?"
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And I happen to
be standing close by,
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and there's
little guy like this,
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he reached over and
rub my head like this,
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and He said,
"Well, they know I do."
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It takes maybe more than that.
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And I did, I know, I
never questioned that.
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Even though it
may be different from,
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so I never questioned.
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I knew he did. You know why?
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By the way he treated me
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was always fair, always just,
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always good.
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But a good
parent, what do we say
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would be able to
communicate with their children.
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This is one of
the biggest problems
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we have maybe in the world today
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is to be able to
communicate with grownups,
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with each other,
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rather than
communicate with a child
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who is growing,
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you know, mentally, physically,
spiritually in every which way,
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and they're changing every day.
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It's kind of hard,
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sometimes
difficult to communicate,
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but we need to.
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Maybe we could
help by being a positive
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as a parent role model.
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If we're not a good role model,
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then how are our
children going to turn out?
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They become of
alike what they behold,
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what they see, what they hear,
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what's going on in the home
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is the way they
think they need to,
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you know, deal
with their issues.
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And that starts at
certainly at very young age.
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And we need to be
supportive, would we say that?
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You want to be
supportive of your child.
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Even if they're
doing the wrong thing,
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you want to
support where you can,
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and you want to
try to correct that.
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Absolutely.
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But you don't support them
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in doing the wrong
thing over and over.
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There has to be
a change somewhere
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take place.
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I do know this
that there's no parent.
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And if I'm wrong,
somebody tell me that's here.
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There's no parent
that can be available
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to their children 24/7.
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Hello.
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That'd be almost
impossible, you know, 24/7.
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But it's
important to make time count
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with him every day.
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Now let's get this
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before we get into some
passage and think about.
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It's important
that we spend time
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with them every day,
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but notice this,
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it must be without distractions.
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Is it all right
if the pastor say,
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"I get aggravated."
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Oh, come on,
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you get
aggravated, don't you sometime,
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little upset?
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You know, when
you call, come in,
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you know,
family's going to go out
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and they're
going to have a meal.
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You already know what
I'm getting ready to say.
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They go out and have a meal.
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There's four of them,
maybe they and the kids, right?
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Mom and dad's on
their phone, right?
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Mom's on hers,
dad's on his, right?
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And the two kids are own theirs.
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They never look at each other,
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they never say
anything to each other,
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they're busy
talking to everybody else
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evidently
wishing they were there
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rather than where they are at.
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It's the way it
seems, doesn't it?
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But that's not valuable time.
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That is not the time
we're talking about here,
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it has to be
without distraction.
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A small, maybe little time,
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whatever limit
might, you might put on it,
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that would be
without the TV being on,
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that would be without them
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sitting in the
front of computer,
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and you trying to talk to them
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when their mind
is on the computer
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and what's going on there
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or again, the cell
phone, whatever it might be.
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Have a real conversation.
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And part of our conversation
as parents is to learn
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and I've had a hard time
to learn, learn to listen.
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Listen to them,
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be consistent
with them in your love
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and in your discipline.
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Be consistent.
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I often said with my dad, I
was one of those sassy mouth,
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I had to have a whip
in just about every day
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that I lived on this earth,
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and that was up
until my teenage years
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because I had a quick mouth,
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and so that cost me.
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But I was...
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My dad was always
consistent in his discipline.
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He never lost his temper,
never screamed, never hollered,
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he just did what he said
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he was going to do
if I did something.
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The consistency was wonderful
because as my earthly father,
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it helped me to realize
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my Heavenly Father
is even more consistent
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in dealing with me.
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That helped me,
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and I never one
time ever thought
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that I was being mistreated
because I was corrected.
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I simply got what I asked for.
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I didn't seem like I
asked for it that often,
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but I did.
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Good parents.
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Now our young people
don't like to hear it,
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I didn't like to
hear it when I was young,
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good parents will
always set boundaries.
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Children are not adults,
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and they don't need to
be in every conversation
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that mom and dad have.
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Is somebody still with me?
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Half of you will
leave, that's all right,
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because we need to hear.
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They are not, they are not.
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Don't care how smart they are,
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they do not have the experience,
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they do not have
that which, you know,
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you've gone through
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to try to help
make decisions in life.
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And yes, sometimes,
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you know, you've
got to talk with them
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and got to say here.
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A lot of times we say,
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this is what mom
and I have decided
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we're going to do.
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A good parent will
help their children
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as we were taught
to learn independence
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and responsibility.
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You will not raise
up children to be lazy
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and not carry their own weight.
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Are you still with me?
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They need a job.
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Somebody not with me, I
don't like to hear that.
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They need a job.
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I won't keep
doing it or somebody,
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they need a job,
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and that starts
at a very early age.
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Listen carefully of
what they are capable of.
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And as a parent, you should know
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what they're capable of.
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A two-year-old, three-year-olds
capable of doing something
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to start with.
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Pick up your toys.
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I don't want to pick my toys.
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You will pick up those toys.
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And if they refuse
to do, I help them,
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to help them pick it up.
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It's going to be done.
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And apparently, we must
learn not to say something
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unless you're
willing to back it up.
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My dad often told my mom
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that 'cause she would
threaten the time or two.
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Dad said, "Never do that."
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She said, "Why
don't you tell him?"
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He said,
"Because when I tell them,
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then I'm going to back it up."
00:21:32.59\00:21:34.72
I don't give them three or
four ways to get out of it.
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So when I speak,
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and it's going to
have to brought to a head.
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And he's going to certainly show
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that he was in
charge which parents are.
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Be good parent.
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But here's an issue.
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And again, our
time's going to run away
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with us here, but I
thought it's so interesting.
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Let's think it
through the child health
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and development experts.
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Are you still there?
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Including the
American Academy of Pediatrics,
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have all said this,
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have come out against
using corporal punishment.
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You know, no little
tap, no little spank,
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don't raise your voice,
00:22:12.76\00:22:14.10
don't do anything
that may be, listen.
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They said this,
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"Extensive research has shown,"
00:22:20.60\00:22:24.84
extensive, what?
00:22:24.87\00:22:26.34
Research has shown.
00:22:26.37\00:22:28.14
They say that
punishment is not only harmful
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for kids' development as well
as parent-child relationship,
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but it's also...
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Listen to this, not
effective in the long-term.
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My dad hadn't did.
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Mom did what they did,
I'd be in jail still yet.
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This is what the
professionals are saying.
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Now we're not looking
00:22:52.30\00:22:53.64
at what the
professionals are saying,
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in these
studies, we have always...
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This is the 14th one.
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We've always went back and said,
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"What does the Bible say?"
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If you're going to
go along with the world,
00:23:00.84\00:23:02.21
teachings of the world,
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look, and I
might repeat it again
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after a while,
but I still repeat it.
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The world is in a mess,
our children are in a mess.
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It's getting worse and worse.
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Five-year-olds are
shooting each other.
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There's disobedience
on every side of spectrum
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that you can think
about, nothing is going right,
00:23:16.93\00:23:19.69
and still yet
they had the boldness
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to stand up and say,
00:23:21.36\00:23:22.70
this is a way
that should be done.
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Well, evidently,
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something's wrong.
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I say, you know, go
back to the Word of God.
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I'm not talking about abuse,
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I'm not talking
about overdoing it,
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I'm talking about the
way the Bible says to do it.
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Does the Bible
say anything about it?
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You have your Bibles,
00:23:38.21\00:23:39.55
turn with me
quickly in Proverbs.
00:23:39.58\00:23:40.92
If you don't care,
I'm going to run through
00:23:40.95\00:23:42.28
just a few passages.
00:23:42.32\00:23:43.82
If we don't get any
farther than this, it's okay.
00:23:43.85\00:23:47.29
I want to say
just to begin with here
00:23:47.32\00:23:49.32
because in Proverbs
Chapter 12, we'll start with.
00:23:49.36\00:23:52.56
Are you going to be with me?
00:23:52.59\00:23:54.33
If you can't look them up,
00:23:54.36\00:23:55.70
you jot them down
because I think it's important.
00:23:55.73\00:23:58.17
I think I'm in Proverbs 20,
00:23:58.20\00:23:59.53
so that means I need to
turn back a page or two.
00:23:59.57\00:24:03.81
Okay, Proverbs Chapter 12.
00:24:03.84\00:24:05.31
Our first one,
notice this, verse 15.
00:24:05.34\00:24:07.74
Notice how we're
going to set this up
00:24:07.78\00:24:09.44
as a foundation, notice.
00:24:09.48\00:24:12.01
"The way of a fool."
00:24:12.05\00:24:14.25
Now if I said.
00:24:14.28\00:24:16.08
I better not say this.
00:24:16.12\00:24:17.75
No, I'm just saying,
00:24:17.79\00:24:19.12
you know, if I said
there's only fools in here,
00:24:19.15\00:24:21.12
would anybody get mad?
00:24:21.16\00:24:23.09
Well, we got one hand
up. Levi said, "He's mad."
00:24:23.12\00:24:26.59
Well, since
Levi's four years old,
00:24:26.63\00:24:28.20
he'll have to get over.
00:24:28.23\00:24:29.76
Now Josh, raised his
hand, I'd have to rethink it.
00:24:29.80\00:24:33.67
Notice it said, "The way
of a fool is right," where?
00:24:33.70\00:24:38.01
"In his own eyes,
but he that hearkeneth
00:24:38.04\00:24:40.98
unto counsel is wise."
00:24:41.01\00:24:43.65
So we need counsel
sometimes, don't we?
00:24:43.68\00:24:45.38
We need to work at it together.
00:24:45.41\00:24:46.92
We need to get the
counsel from the Word of God,
00:24:46.95\00:24:48.62
not necessarily
from the professionals
00:24:48.65\00:24:52.02
even though
they're not always wrong,
00:24:52.05\00:24:53.39
and there are some good ones.
00:24:53.42\00:24:54.76
I'm not trying
to condemn everyone,
00:24:54.79\00:24:56.12
I'm just simply saying
something has went wrong
00:24:56.16\00:24:58.63
because we've
turned away from God's way,
00:24:58.66\00:25:00.46
and we're doing the
way of the world now,
00:25:00.50\00:25:02.36
and it's a mess.
00:25:02.40\00:25:05.90
These passages will
just be in Proverbs,
00:25:05.93\00:25:07.97
so we'll just turn them.
00:25:08.00\00:25:09.34
I tried to make it easy
for myself and for you too.
00:25:09.37\00:25:11.44
So we just kind of
turned the page here,
00:25:11.47\00:25:13.11
a couple of pages.
00:25:13.14\00:25:14.48
Next verse is Proverbs 17:24,
00:25:14.51\00:25:18.18
Proverbs 17:24.
00:25:18.21\00:25:20.98
If I can find it myself.
00:25:26.76\00:25:28.69
Okay.
00:25:28.72\00:25:30.06
I'm going to read
verse 25 instead, okay?
00:25:30.09\00:25:33.29
Are we there?
00:25:33.33\00:25:34.66
Proverbs 17:25, it says,
"A foolish son is," what?
00:25:34.70\00:25:39.13
"Is a grief of his
father and bitterness to her
00:25:39.17\00:25:42.60
that bare him."
00:25:42.64\00:25:44.24
Of what kind of son?
00:25:44.27\00:25:46.01
A foolish son is grief.
00:25:46.04\00:25:48.21
So it's talking
about parent relation.
00:25:48.24\00:25:49.81
And remember, the children
may turn out because of what?
00:25:49.84\00:25:52.05
We didn't do the right things.
00:25:52.08\00:25:54.35
So we're not just
blaming the children here
00:25:54.38\00:25:55.75
because we didn't
do the right things,
00:25:55.78\00:25:57.95
follow the counsel of God.
00:25:57.99\00:25:59.42
They will say, "We've
got a mess on our hands,
00:25:59.45\00:26:01.36
and it becomes a grief."
00:26:01.39\00:26:02.96
And you know it
00:26:02.99\00:26:04.33
if your children
have went haywire.
00:26:04.36\00:26:06.49
It's a real grief.
00:26:06.53\00:26:10.20
Even if they
haven't went haywire,
00:26:10.23\00:26:12.10
and they've lost
their first love,
00:26:12.13\00:26:13.47
which is Christ,
00:26:13.50\00:26:14.84
and they still went
haywire, they're still a mess.
00:26:14.87\00:26:17.51
And that really hurts.
00:26:17.54\00:26:18.87
Proverbs 20:20,
00:26:22.34\00:26:24.25
here's what the Bible
says, notice, Proverbs 20:20.
00:26:24.28\00:26:28.68
"Whoso curseth his
father or his mother,
00:26:28.72\00:26:32.72
his lamp shall be put
out in obscure darkness."
00:26:32.75\00:26:36.49
Wow.
00:26:36.52\00:26:38.79
Son and daughter that turns up
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.53
on their father
and their mother,
00:26:40.56\00:26:43.16
God said, your lamp,
00:26:43.20\00:26:44.53
your little fire is
going to be put out.
00:26:44.57\00:26:46.53
My dad used to say, "I'm
going to put you on fire."
00:26:46.57\00:26:48.30
Proverbs 22:15,
00:26:51.81\00:26:54.34
the Bible says,
00:26:54.38\00:26:57.18
"Foolishness..."
00:26:57.21\00:26:58.55
Are we there?
00:26:58.58\00:26:59.91
Proverbs 22:15,
00:26:59.95\00:27:01.28
"Foolishness is bound
in the heart of a child,
00:27:01.32\00:27:03.65
but the rod of correction
shall drive it far from him."
00:27:03.69\00:27:08.72
What does the Bible say?
00:27:08.76\00:27:10.09
See, we have people
who will just look and say,
00:27:10.13\00:27:12.06
"Oh, this is just all wrong."
00:27:12.09\00:27:13.90
Don't talk to me about that.
00:27:13.93\00:27:16.67
I'm not trying to
be militant about it,
00:27:16.70\00:27:18.47
I'm just saying, Brother
Mark, if you come to me and say,
00:27:18.50\00:27:20.04
well, I know what it says
here, but I may just say no.
00:27:20.07\00:27:24.27
The Bible said,
"Who are we to say,"
00:27:24.31\00:27:26.27
well, that's wrong.
00:27:26.31\00:27:28.11
The Bible talking about
here in a controlled way,
00:27:28.14\00:27:30.31
the way that a
Christian should handle it,
00:27:30.35\00:27:32.01
here it says,
00:27:32.05\00:27:34.28
"Foolishness is bound
in the heart of a child."
00:27:34.32\00:27:36.62
That's true.
00:27:36.65\00:27:37.99
They can't help,
but we're all there,
00:27:38.02\00:27:39.35
some of us still are.
00:27:39.39\00:27:41.02
There's too much foolishness.
00:27:41.06\00:27:42.92
But it says the foolishness,
rather the wrong doing,
00:27:42.96\00:27:45.79
doing their own thing
when they want to do it,
00:27:45.83\00:27:47.80
it says right here,
00:27:47.83\00:27:49.16
but here you have
the rod of correction
00:27:49.20\00:27:51.33
shall drive it far from him.
00:27:51.37\00:27:55.60
And that written in
the original language
00:27:55.64\00:27:57.11
means a stick.
00:27:57.14\00:27:58.47
It also means a
branch for correcting.
00:27:58.51\00:28:00.78
Are you still there?
00:28:00.81\00:28:02.14
That's exactly what it says.
00:28:02.18\00:28:03.71
See, everybody will
say, "Oh, that's me."
00:28:03.75\00:28:05.81
If you were raised in a home
where you never got a whipping,
00:28:05.85\00:28:08.25
you never got corrected at all,
00:28:08.28\00:28:09.65
you probably end
up being in spoil.
00:28:09.68\00:28:12.02
I almost said, spoiled
brat, I wished I had enough.
00:28:12.05\00:28:13.96
I don't know if
any of this that child
00:28:18.39\00:28:19.89
that has ever been raised
that doesn't need correcting.
00:28:19.93\00:28:22.06
I've heard people say,
"I never need to whip him.
00:28:22.10\00:28:23.90
I never..."
00:28:23.93\00:28:25.27
No, you know what?
00:28:25.30\00:28:26.63
You never do it if you
get your own way all the time.
00:28:26.67\00:28:28.67
It's when you get in
trouble and I get in trouble
00:28:28.70\00:28:30.77
is when it goes against, right?
00:28:30.81\00:28:32.14
Something I want.
00:28:32.17\00:28:35.38
Nobody has any trouble
with, somebody not there.
00:28:35.41\00:28:38.41
Not having trouble.
00:28:38.45\00:28:39.78
We don't have
trouble with anything
00:28:39.81\00:28:41.15
about as long as
we always get our way.
00:28:41.18\00:28:43.15
And I'm good with...
00:28:43.18\00:28:44.52
As long as I'm
getting my way, I'm good.
00:28:44.55\00:28:46.02
It's when you cross
me, and I don't get my way.
00:28:46.05\00:28:48.39
Then that's going to show
00:28:48.42\00:28:49.76
what kind of character you have.
00:28:49.79\00:28:52.96
The Bible says,
00:28:52.99\00:28:55.73
"Little stick might help out."
00:28:55.76\00:28:58.33
You say, "Well, I don't
know if that's enough or not."
00:28:58.37\00:29:00.24
Well, surely it is.
00:29:00.27\00:29:02.00
But still yet,
Proverbs 23:13, 14.
00:29:02.04\00:29:04.67
Are you there?
00:29:04.71\00:29:06.04
It's just the
same page or next one.
00:29:06.07\00:29:07.41
Proverbs what?
00:29:07.44\00:29:08.78
Twenty three, good, 13, 14.
00:29:08.81\00:29:11.01
It says this,
00:29:11.05\00:29:12.38
"Withhold not
correction from the child,
00:29:12.41\00:29:15.48
for if thou..."
00:29:15.52\00:29:16.85
Oh, my, this is the word
00:29:16.89\00:29:18.22
that people will rise up against
00:29:18.25\00:29:19.59
and throw you in jail.
00:29:19.62\00:29:20.96
"If thou beatest him with
the rod, he shall not die.
00:29:20.99\00:29:24.36
Thou shalt beat
him with the rod,
00:29:24.39\00:29:26.23
and shalt deliver
his soul from hell."
00:29:26.26\00:29:29.66
Now that's pretty...
00:29:29.70\00:29:31.13
Ain't that pretty clear?
00:29:31.17\00:29:33.64
We're talking
about getting control,
00:29:33.67\00:29:35.40
not abusive,
00:29:35.44\00:29:36.77
not to leave mark,
00:29:36.81\00:29:38.14
but it's talking about
here, you have to realize.
00:29:38.17\00:29:39.57
The wages of sin is what?
00:29:39.61\00:29:41.58
Wages of sin is death.
00:29:41.61\00:29:43.04
The wages of disobedience,
00:29:43.08\00:29:44.58
you say too, there may be
a just a little bit of pain.
00:29:44.61\00:29:47.98
I'd like to rather have
00:29:48.02\00:29:49.35
that little bit
of correcting now
00:29:49.38\00:29:50.75
than to go on and live your life
00:29:50.79\00:29:52.12
and end up in hell.
00:29:52.15\00:29:53.49
Are you still with me?
00:29:53.52\00:29:54.86
This is what
Jesus is saying here.
00:29:54.89\00:29:56.22
There needs to
be some chastising.
00:29:56.26\00:29:58.29
He corrects us here,
00:29:58.33\00:30:00.03
but will
deliver that individual.
00:30:00.06\00:30:01.93
If we say that's wrong,
00:30:01.96\00:30:03.30
they're
determined to keep doing it,
00:30:03.33\00:30:04.80
then there has to be in that.
00:30:04.83\00:30:06.17
You got to bend
the twig while you can.
00:30:06.20\00:30:08.40
When that twig gets too big,
00:30:08.44\00:30:09.77
I bet, you can't bend that twig.
00:30:09.80\00:30:11.14
They've got their own mind.
00:30:11.17\00:30:12.51
They may try to fool
you thinking they've bent,
00:30:12.54\00:30:14.18
but they've not.
00:30:14.21\00:30:15.54
The way you bend a twig is
00:30:15.58\00:30:16.91
where you've
been a little sapling.
00:30:16.95\00:30:18.28
You get a little
crooked like sapling,
00:30:18.31\00:30:19.65
or little tree,
it's all been over there,
00:30:19.68\00:30:21.02
you straighten it up.
00:30:21.05\00:30:22.38
You know, there's a lot
of trees planted by the road,
00:30:22.42\00:30:23.75
they'll have a little
boards in too before that?
00:30:23.79\00:30:25.15
What are they doing?
00:30:25.19\00:30:26.52
They're straightening it
out because it's crooked.
00:30:26.55\00:30:28.59
And if you let it go,
it'll get worse than that.
00:30:28.62\00:30:31.43
So you can't let it go.
00:30:31.46\00:30:33.03
Man, being a good parent,
what it's talking about here.
00:30:33.06\00:30:38.30
You say, "Well,
maybe that's enough."
00:30:38.33\00:30:39.80
Well, maybe it's not enough.
00:30:39.83\00:30:42.47
And if we just
really think about this,
00:30:42.50\00:30:44.94
just cross the page,
same chapter right there,
00:30:44.97\00:30:47.41
verse 24 and 25.
00:30:47.44\00:30:51.05
Notice what it says,
00:30:51.08\00:30:52.55
"The father of the
righteous shall greatly rejoice:
00:30:52.58\00:30:56.42
he that begetteth a wise
child shall have joy of him."
00:30:56.45\00:31:00.66
Wow.
00:31:00.69\00:31:02.96
"Thy father and thy
mother shall be glad,
00:31:02.99\00:31:06.19
and she shall bare
thee shall rejoice."
00:31:06.23\00:31:11.43
See, nothing brings
more happiness to mom and dad
00:31:11.47\00:31:13.44
for the children to do well.
00:31:13.47\00:31:15.60
You want them to do well,
00:31:15.64\00:31:17.24
you're not trying to
take anything away from them,
00:31:17.27\00:31:19.57
anything that's good from them.
00:31:19.61\00:31:22.18
Proverbs 29:15,
00:31:22.21\00:31:23.58
I might just keep
going, I don't know.
00:31:23.61\00:31:26.08
There's another one here.
00:31:26.11\00:31:27.45
Proverbs 29:15, 16 or 17.
00:31:27.48\00:31:32.42
It says, "The rod and
reproof giveth wisdom,
00:31:32.45\00:31:36.62
but a child left to himself
bringeth his mother to shame."
00:31:36.66\00:31:39.73
Are you still there?
00:31:39.76\00:31:41.86
Verse 17, "Correct thy
son, he shall give thee rest,
00:31:41.90\00:31:45.47
yea, he shall give thee
the delight unto thy soul.
00:31:45.50\00:31:48.14
Proverbs 30:5.
00:31:52.57\00:31:54.54
Notice, "Every
word of God is," what?
00:31:54.58\00:31:57.55
Things we just read
here, what does the Bible say?
00:31:57.58\00:32:00.15
"Every word of
God," in Proverbs 30:5,
00:32:00.18\00:32:03.52
"Every word of God is pure.
00:32:03.55\00:32:06.62
He is a shield unto them
that put their trust in Him."
00:32:06.65\00:32:11.63
So even though they
say, "These may be personal,
00:32:11.66\00:32:14.56
our personal thoughts toward,
well, we shouldn't do this,
00:32:14.60\00:32:17.47
and we shouldn't count,
00:32:17.50\00:32:18.83
and we should
put them in a corner,
00:32:18.87\00:32:20.20
we should do everything.
00:32:20.24\00:32:21.57
That's not...
00:32:21.60\00:32:22.94
I never, I've
never found that in here.
00:32:22.97\00:32:24.31
It might work in some cases,
00:32:24.34\00:32:25.67
it wouldn't have worked with me.
00:32:25.71\00:32:29.01
We have to know our child,
we have to be willing to work.
00:32:29.04\00:32:30.91
And that's not popular today,
00:32:30.95\00:32:33.11
get yourself in
trouble for that.
00:32:33.15\00:32:37.09
All of a
sudden, one time my son,
00:32:37.12\00:32:40.56
it was years ago that,
00:32:40.59\00:32:41.92
you know, when you
got a whipping at school,
00:32:41.96\00:32:44.59
you got a whip
when you got home.
00:32:44.63\00:32:46.83
Say nowadays, you say,
00:32:46.86\00:32:48.20
"Well, who
you're going to trust?"
00:32:48.23\00:32:49.56
The teacher, oh, don't know.
00:32:49.60\00:32:50.93
Well, then you
trust the teacher,
00:32:50.97\00:32:52.30
you knew who they were.
00:32:52.33\00:32:53.67
So got home, Jeremy
brought a little note with him.
00:32:53.70\00:32:55.54
He's about seven or eight.
00:32:55.57\00:32:57.31
He said, "Well, I got
a whipping at school."
00:32:57.34\00:32:59.64
I said, "Well, oh, Jay,
00:32:59.67\00:33:01.64
you know, I'm
going to work most time,
00:33:01.68\00:33:03.01
and last thing you want
to do when you come home was
00:33:03.04\00:33:04.91
have some confrontation,
00:33:04.95\00:33:06.48
you know, you'd like for
it to be nice and quiet."
00:33:06.51\00:33:08.02
I said, "Jay, you
know what that means?"
00:33:08.05\00:33:10.59
"Yeah, I do but.
00:33:10.62\00:33:12.69
Well, but, but..."
00:33:12.72\00:33:14.06
"And I said, "Well, but what?"
00:33:14.09\00:33:16.42
He said, "Well, one
of my classmates told me
00:33:16.46\00:33:17.99
you can't do that anymore."
00:33:18.03\00:33:20.76
Oh man, all of a sudden
I felt the hair on my neck
00:33:20.80\00:33:25.13
starts to stand up.
00:33:25.17\00:33:26.50
Obviously, I've got
some on my arms now stand,
00:33:26.53\00:33:28.30
and said, "He's challenging."
00:33:28.34\00:33:30.61
And so I thought,
"Well, okay," I said,
00:33:30.64\00:33:31.97
"Well, what are you
talking about Jeremy?"
00:33:32.01\00:33:34.94
"Well, they told me
that you can't anymore
00:33:34.98\00:33:36.58
because that's a form of abuse,
00:33:36.61\00:33:38.71
and all I have to
do is call the police,
00:33:38.75\00:33:40.65
and they'll come and get you,
00:33:40.68\00:33:42.02
and put you in jail
if you do it, so now..."
00:33:42.05\00:33:44.25
I said, "So now,
here's the phone.
00:33:44.29\00:33:47.52
I suggest that you
call the police right now.
00:33:47.56\00:33:50.06
And I'm going to beat
you until they get here."
00:33:50.09\00:33:53.03
Okay, nobody's getting.
00:33:53.06\00:33:54.80
Now I wasn't going to do it,
but you follow what I'm saying?
00:33:54.83\00:33:56.77
He was bold.
00:33:56.80\00:33:58.13
He was going to
challenge the laws,
00:33:58.17\00:33:59.80
and I simply said,
"No, you go ahead."
00:33:59.83\00:34:01.80
I did, I gave...
00:34:01.84\00:34:03.17
That time when you
still had the phone you did.
00:34:03.20\00:34:05.21
I said, "Dial
the number yourself,
00:34:05.24\00:34:07.61
Jeremy, and I'm
going to start in on you.
00:34:07.64\00:34:11.08
And they'll have to pull
me off when they get here."
00:34:11.11\00:34:14.38
And I said, "Now, what
do you think about it?"
00:34:14.42\00:34:17.19
He said, "Oh, no,
dad, I don't want that.
00:34:17.22\00:34:19.75
I'm not calling anybody."
00:34:19.79\00:34:21.12
I said, "Good idea,
00:34:21.16\00:34:22.49
now let's get your
spanking get over with."
00:34:22.52\00:34:24.13
Yeah, well, I know
it's too difficult to some
00:34:24.16\00:34:25.59
if you're not raised that way,
00:34:25.63\00:34:26.96
but I'm telling
you got to do what...
00:34:27.00\00:34:28.33
You can't be challenged
00:34:28.36\00:34:31.00
and not do anything about it.
00:34:31.03\00:34:34.37
But it's interesting
what this futile things
00:34:34.40\00:34:36.00
we read there quickly as we did,
00:34:36.04\00:34:37.37
you know, studying,
00:34:37.41\00:34:38.74
you can find
where the professionals
00:34:38.77\00:34:40.21
ever mentioned the importance
of what the Bible says.
00:34:40.24\00:34:43.68
You'll never find that.
00:34:43.71\00:34:47.02
And man's plan has failed.
00:34:47.05\00:34:50.19
The thinking of
modern man today dealing
00:34:50.22\00:34:52.42
with children has failed.
00:34:52.45\00:34:56.86
And it started with
Dr. Spock long time ago.
00:34:56.89\00:35:00.13
That's my own two cents,
I only pull it if I want to.
00:35:00.16\00:35:06.00
We have almost
abandoned God's way
00:35:06.03\00:35:09.54
of parent and
child relationship.
00:35:09.57\00:35:13.48
The Bible predicts
even the environment
00:35:13.51\00:35:15.61
that we're talking about,
and tells us in the end time,
00:35:15.64\00:35:18.51
notice Ephesians
6:1, jot it down,
00:35:18.55\00:35:21.38
we gonna move quick as we
can, only got 20 minutes left.
00:35:21.42\00:35:24.45
And tells us,
Ephesians 6:1 says,
00:35:24.49\00:35:26.45
notice this, here's
what the Bible said,
00:35:26.49\00:35:28.82
"Children, obey your parents."
00:35:28.86\00:35:31.36
Did you get it?
00:35:31.39\00:35:32.73
Now we have people say,
00:35:32.76\00:35:34.10
"Well, no,
parents don't deserve."
00:35:34.13\00:35:35.46
A child has no business
saying that to begin with.
00:35:35.50\00:35:37.53
We realized one another,
00:35:37.57\00:35:38.90
we need have
respect for each other,
00:35:38.93\00:35:40.27
it needs to be that way.
00:35:40.30\00:35:41.64
"Children obey your parents,"
notice this, "in the Lord."
00:35:41.67\00:35:46.74
You got godly parents, I mean,
there comes a time you say,
00:35:46.78\00:35:48.71
"Man, I can't.
00:35:48.74\00:35:50.08
You get old, I
can't do that anymore."
00:35:50.11\00:35:51.85
I can't do those
things because it's ungodly.
00:35:51.88\00:35:54.22
In the Lord,
you have to do that.
00:35:54.25\00:35:56.35
In the very
beginning, God said in His law,
00:35:56.38\00:35:59.05
Ten Commandments law,
Exodus 20:12, what does he say?
00:35:59.09\00:36:02.92
"Honor thy
father and thy," what?
00:36:02.96\00:36:05.13
"Honor thy father and thy mother
00:36:05.16\00:36:06.70
that your days may
be long upon the land,
00:36:06.73\00:36:09.20
which the Lord thy God
has given thee," right?
00:36:09.23\00:36:12.03
The first
commandment would promise,
00:36:12.07\00:36:13.54
God said, "When
children obey their parents,
00:36:13.57\00:36:15.90
their life will be longer."
00:36:15.94\00:36:17.74
Many lives are cut
short for young people
00:36:17.77\00:36:19.94
because they disobeyed.
00:36:19.97\00:36:21.48
Mom and dad said, "Don't
get near the railroad track,
00:36:21.51\00:36:23.98
and they did."
00:36:24.01\00:36:25.35
Mom and dad said,
"Don't take these drugs."
00:36:25.38\00:36:26.88
They did.
00:36:26.92\00:36:28.25
Mom and dad said,
"Don't play with the guns."
00:36:28.28\00:36:29.88
They did.
00:36:29.92\00:36:31.99
Over and over and over,
00:36:32.02\00:36:33.89
honor your
mother and your father.
00:36:33.92\00:36:38.66
Referring to the last days,
00:36:38.69\00:36:40.03
the Bible is
clear in 2 Timothy 3:2,
00:36:40.06\00:36:42.70
what does it say about the
way the man is going to be,
00:36:42.73\00:36:45.50
the children's going to be?
00:36:45.53\00:36:47.60
In the last days 2 Timothy 3:2,
it says, "For men shall be,"
00:36:47.64\00:36:51.61
what?
00:36:51.64\00:36:53.07
"Lovers," as it notices,
00:36:53.11\00:36:54.44
and we'll get down
to the nitty-gritty
00:36:54.48\00:36:55.81
because of our time.
00:36:55.84\00:36:57.18
But it said that
children will be what?
00:36:57.21\00:36:58.55
Men will be...
00:36:58.58\00:36:59.91
They'll be
disobedient to parents,
00:36:59.95\00:37:02.58
they're going to be
unthankful, and unholy.
00:37:02.62\00:37:06.09
Now do you see that today?
00:37:06.12\00:37:07.46
Children today
are unthankful, many.
00:37:07.49\00:37:09.36
There are some
that we know there,
00:37:09.39\00:37:10.73
I don't target.
00:37:10.76\00:37:12.09
Praise God for the good.
00:37:12.13\00:37:13.46
But most of them are unthankful,
00:37:13.50\00:37:14.83
ungodly, they're unholy.
00:37:14.86\00:37:18.20
They're disobedient to parents,
00:37:18.23\00:37:20.24
they think they can
stand in your face and tell you
00:37:20.27\00:37:22.10
what you're supposed to do.
00:37:22.14\00:37:24.31
That should never be,
00:37:24.34\00:37:25.67
that should never
come out of their mouth.
00:37:25.71\00:37:29.64
There's ways in
which it should be done,
00:37:29.68\00:37:32.01
we understand that.
00:37:32.05\00:37:33.95
Because you know why?
00:37:33.98\00:37:35.32
Because children are a gift.
00:37:35.35\00:37:37.19
They are blessing from the Lord.
00:37:37.22\00:37:38.55
I'll give you a quick example.
00:37:38.59\00:37:39.92
You remember back,
00:37:39.95\00:37:41.29
and we go back to
Genesis Chapter 33,
00:37:41.32\00:37:43.59
Genesis 33:5,
00:37:43.63\00:37:45.89
this is where
Jacob met his brother
00:37:45.93\00:37:47.86
after they had been
separated for a while.
00:37:47.90\00:37:50.07
Was Jacob afraid of Esau?
00:37:50.10\00:37:53.57
He did not want
to meet his brother
00:37:53.60\00:37:56.00
because he knew that
his brother was going...
00:37:56.04\00:37:57.64
He knew in his mind
he was going to kill him.
00:37:57.67\00:38:00.14
And so what did he do?
00:38:00.18\00:38:01.51
Well, during this
time they were separated,
00:38:01.54\00:38:02.88
here God had blessed Jacob,
00:38:02.91\00:38:04.91
and Jacob had a lot
of women and children
00:38:04.95\00:38:07.52
that were there.
00:38:07.55\00:38:08.88
And so when it came
time, when God said,
00:38:08.92\00:38:10.75
"You need to make this
right with your brother,
00:38:10.79\00:38:12.49
you need to get it right,"
00:38:12.52\00:38:14.02
then all of a
sudden, what did Jacob say?
00:38:14.06\00:38:15.39
Well, I've got it,
00:38:15.42\00:38:16.76
you know, he's pretty smart man.
00:38:16.79\00:38:18.13
I've got a plan here, right?
00:38:18.16\00:38:19.49
But when my brother
comes in way and distance here,
00:38:19.53\00:38:21.03
I'm going to put all the women
and all the children in front.
00:38:21.06\00:38:23.83
Sound like a
real man, didn't he?
00:38:23.87\00:38:26.63
He had a plan, the
reason in his mind,
00:38:26.67\00:38:30.47
I'm going to put the women
and children all out there,
00:38:30.51\00:38:32.24
and he see all of those
00:38:32.27\00:38:33.61
and realize may
be they're with me,
00:38:33.64\00:38:35.58
and maybe he'll
decide not to kill me.
00:38:35.61\00:38:39.65
Interesting thought.
00:38:39.68\00:38:41.32
And interesting when
Esau rode up with his...
00:38:41.35\00:38:44.45
How many did he
have? Maybe 300 or 400?
00:38:44.49\00:38:46.76
I mean he had some warriors.
00:38:46.79\00:38:48.12
Man, now they're easy prey.
00:38:48.16\00:38:49.89
As soon as Esau
rode up there, he looked,
00:38:49.92\00:38:51.79
and he's seen all of
those little children
00:38:51.83\00:38:53.53
and all the women right there,
and he said, scripture says,
00:38:53.56\00:38:58.93
"Jacob, who are
all of these with you?
00:38:58.97\00:39:01.47
Who are these?"
00:39:01.50\00:39:03.20
He took note.
00:39:03.24\00:39:05.51
Who are these?
00:39:05.54\00:39:07.98
What did Jacob say?
00:39:08.01\00:39:09.34
Do you remember that?
00:39:09.38\00:39:10.71
Jacob said, "The children
which God has so graciously
00:39:10.75\00:39:15.75
given thy servant."
00:39:15.78\00:39:17.49
You notice what he says?
00:39:17.52\00:39:19.09
He's so graciously given.
00:39:19.12\00:39:21.22
He's saying,
"Look, these children
00:39:21.26\00:39:22.62
that God gave me are a gift."
00:39:22.66\00:39:25.09
Our children are what?
00:39:25.13\00:39:26.63
They're gift from God.
00:39:26.66\00:39:28.80
This helps us
to understand that.
00:39:28.83\00:39:30.93
They are a gift of God.
00:39:30.97\00:39:32.30
Esau was serving,
and story goes on.
00:39:32.33\00:39:34.54
It take time to read
all of that if you can.
00:39:34.57\00:39:37.74
But right then and there,
00:39:37.77\00:39:39.11
he say, "Oh, he's
got women and children.
00:39:39.14\00:39:41.28
And these
children are a gift of God,
00:39:41.31\00:39:42.98
and they need
the man in the home,
00:39:43.01\00:39:45.78
they need the head."
00:39:45.81\00:39:48.22
Genesis Chapter 18 deals
with the promise of the birth
00:39:48.25\00:39:52.12
of Isaac to Abraham.
00:39:52.15\00:39:54.06
You know that story well,
00:39:54.09\00:39:55.42
so we won't go
into that part of it.
00:39:55.46\00:39:56.99
But notice in Genesis
18, we're talking about here,
00:39:57.03\00:40:00.96
Genesis 18:19.
00:40:01.00\00:40:04.90
Talking about the
birth of Isaac to Abraham,
00:40:04.93\00:40:07.17
it says here, "For I know
him," God's talking about him.
00:40:07.20\00:40:10.17
Why is he going
to get the promise?
00:40:10.21\00:40:11.67
And why this, he
said, "For I know him
00:40:11.71\00:40:13.68
that he will
command his children
00:40:13.71\00:40:15.84
and his household after him,
00:40:15.88\00:40:18.28
and they shall keep
the way of the Lord,
00:40:18.31\00:40:20.12
and to do justice and judgment."
00:40:20.15\00:40:22.38
Man, how wonderful
that is, praise God.
00:40:22.42\00:40:24.75
Notice, to be a
successful parent,
00:40:24.79\00:40:28.32
we must consider the
Book of Deuteronomy Chapter 6.
00:40:28.36\00:40:31.56
You turn with me, if you will.
I'll just read that with you.
00:40:31.59\00:40:34.06
In the Book of Deuteronomy,
00:40:34.10\00:40:37.10
Deuteronomy 6:5-9,
00:40:37.13\00:40:41.04
Deuteronomy 6:5-9.
00:40:41.07\00:40:47.08
The Bible says, notice this,
00:40:47.11\00:40:49.14
"And thou shall love the
Lord thy God with," what?
00:40:49.18\00:40:52.28
"All thine heart,
with all thy soul,
00:40:52.31\00:40:54.62
and with all thy might.
00:40:54.65\00:40:57.39
And these words which
I command thee this day,
00:40:57.42\00:40:59.82
shall be in thine heart."
00:40:59.85\00:41:01.59
Now notice what we are to do?
00:41:01.62\00:41:02.96
He's talking about
well successful parenting.
00:41:02.99\00:41:05.09
Well, there's a way to
be a successful parent here.
00:41:05.13\00:41:08.20
And the Lord is telling,
00:41:08.23\00:41:09.56
this is the way
that has to be done.
00:41:09.60\00:41:11.23
First of all,
you love the Lord God
00:41:11.27\00:41:12.60
with all your heart.
00:41:12.63\00:41:13.97
If you're going
to be a good parent,
00:41:14.00\00:41:15.34
we must love God
with all of our heart.
00:41:15.37\00:41:17.87
We can say,
"Well, we've done good,
00:41:17.91\00:41:19.24
and we've taken
care, and we've done that."
00:41:19.27\00:41:20.61
You got to have the
love of Christ in your heart.
00:41:20.64\00:41:22.88
Notice this, then it says,
00:41:22.91\00:41:24.68
"Thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children,
00:41:24.71\00:41:27.98
thou sittest in thine house,
when thou walkest by the way,
00:41:28.02\00:41:32.55
and when thou liest
down, and went thou risest up."
00:41:32.59\00:41:36.26
Did we get that?
00:41:36.29\00:41:38.69
We're to teach them, right?
00:41:38.73\00:41:40.30
We're to teach
them the way of God,
00:41:40.33\00:41:41.76
we're to teach
them the law of God.
00:41:41.80\00:41:44.17
We have to deal,
00:41:44.20\00:41:45.53
right, supremely with
God and our fellow man.
00:41:45.57\00:41:48.34
Wherever you go,
you teach your children,
00:41:48.37\00:41:50.61
right, in the morning,
right at noon, and at night.
00:41:50.64\00:41:53.78
Think about it.
00:41:53.81\00:41:55.14
A lot of families are
destroyed and they're messed up
00:41:55.18\00:41:56.88
because we didn't do that.
00:41:56.91\00:41:59.31
And we can't figure
out what went wrong.
00:41:59.35\00:42:00.85
But we didn't raise them,
00:42:00.88\00:42:02.22
and the Bible talks about
the admonition of the Lord.
00:42:02.25\00:42:06.05
Manuscript 43
written in 1907 says this,
00:42:06.09\00:42:09.79
"This obedience works
out for us the divine will,
00:42:09.82\00:42:13.86
bring into our lives."
00:42:13.90\00:42:15.60
Notice this,
"righteousness and perfection
00:42:15.63\00:42:18.17
that was seen in
the life of Christ."
00:42:18.20\00:42:22.04
Ain't that beautiful?
00:42:22.07\00:42:23.41
When you teach the children
the right thing, what happens?
00:42:23.44\00:42:26.37
We're teaching
them to be obedient
00:42:26.41\00:42:28.04
and to love God supremely.
00:42:28.08\00:42:30.88
This brings the
righteousness and perfection
00:42:30.91\00:42:34.45
of Jesus Christ into the life.
00:42:34.48\00:42:37.49
This is what we need as parents,
00:42:37.52\00:42:38.92
this is what the
children also need.
00:42:38.95\00:42:42.16
In Deuteronomy Chapter
6, we find the word, "love."
00:42:42.19\00:42:46.49
Over and over, He
said the word love.
00:42:46.53\00:42:49.40
And it has meaning to
me, at least for the parents,
00:42:49.43\00:42:52.00
and for the children to love.
00:42:52.03\00:42:54.87
To love the Lord.
00:42:54.90\00:42:57.24
Do you notice there
was the first principle.
00:42:57.27\00:42:58.91
Once again, it was
the first principle
00:42:58.94\00:43:00.74
given to them is to love.
00:43:00.78\00:43:03.91
That means to have a desire for,
00:43:03.95\00:43:06.05
that means to
have affection for,
00:43:06.08\00:43:08.38
that needs to be inclined.
00:43:08.42\00:43:10.99
You teach them, and
the children become what?
00:43:11.02\00:43:13.49
Inclined to love the Lord.
00:43:13.52\00:43:15.79
When they're
inclined to love the Lord,
00:43:15.82\00:43:17.23
they're inclined
to love their parents,
00:43:17.26\00:43:19.29
love their
parents, love the Lord.
00:43:19.33\00:43:21.30
And so they're inclined,
00:43:21.33\00:43:22.66
that's going to be their desire,
00:43:22.70\00:43:24.03
that's going to be
their first principle.
00:43:24.07\00:43:26.67
Our relationship
with God is based on what?
00:43:26.70\00:43:30.14
See this is what
the world is lacking,
00:43:30.17\00:43:31.77
successful parenting.
00:43:31.81\00:43:33.41
Think about love,
00:43:33.44\00:43:34.78
relationship to
God is based on love.
00:43:34.81\00:43:37.85
You read that in 1 John 4:19.
00:43:37.88\00:43:41.52
Love is the foundation,
love is the basis for.
00:43:41.55\00:43:45.22
He came seeking
us, isn't that right?
00:43:45.25\00:43:47.46
We're to love.
00:43:47.49\00:43:48.82
And sometimes we
don't show that love.
00:43:48.86\00:43:51.06
Children pick up on
that rather quickly.
00:43:51.09\00:43:52.69
They're not
showing love in return,
00:43:52.73\00:43:54.30
they're not showing respect.
00:43:54.33\00:43:56.77
The Bible is
clear, Jesus was clear.
00:43:56.80\00:43:59.00
When He was on earth, He
said, "We need to love, right,
00:43:59.03\00:44:02.37
on these two, love
God and our fellow man.
00:44:02.40\00:44:05.87
Think about it.
00:44:05.91\00:44:07.24
On these two hang all
the law and the testament,
00:44:07.28\00:44:09.21
Matthew 22:40,
that's our duty as a parent,
00:44:09.24\00:44:14.08
that's the duty of a child.
00:44:14.12\00:44:16.85
That means we're
on the same page.
00:44:16.89\00:44:18.52
That means the
home is going well.
00:44:18.55\00:44:21.76
That's hard to be a
Christian and have unbelievers
00:44:21.79\00:44:24.29
in there living with you
'cause the older they get
00:44:24.33\00:44:26.76
because they always
want to do other things,
00:44:26.80\00:44:28.40
and go here and do
this, and do all that.
00:44:28.43\00:44:30.07
And we're left in a bind
of whether we agree with them
00:44:30.10\00:44:32.20
or we don't rather than
00:44:32.23\00:44:33.57
set rules up
that we need to sit,
00:44:33.60\00:44:35.67
which is what set up
00:44:35.70\00:44:37.07
because it's
what the Bible says.
00:44:37.11\00:44:39.04
This is very, very important.
00:44:39.07\00:44:44.61
If we put God first,
00:44:44.65\00:44:47.68
it becomes easy to be obedient,
00:44:47.72\00:44:50.49
obedient to God,
obedient to our parents,
00:44:50.52\00:44:52.55
obedient to.
00:44:52.59\00:44:54.02
I mean, that's
what John 14:15 says,
00:44:54.06\00:44:56.73
"If you love Me, keep..."
00:44:56.76\00:44:59.06
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
00:44:59.09\00:45:01.60
John, was it 15:10 goes on.
00:45:01.63\00:45:04.70
Jesus said, "If you
keep," did you get it?
00:45:04.73\00:45:07.24
"If you keep My commandments,
00:45:07.27\00:45:09.24
then you shall
abide in My love."
00:45:09.27\00:45:11.34
So we say, "Well, we love
Him, we love Him, we love Him,
00:45:11.37\00:45:13.24
but if we're not
keeping the commandment,
00:45:13.27\00:45:14.61
we're not abiding in His love."
00:45:14.64\00:45:16.54
This is a condition.
00:45:16.58\00:45:17.91
Did you get it?
00:45:17.95\00:45:19.71
"If you keep My commandments,
then you abide in My love."
00:45:19.75\00:45:25.35
Then He goes on to say,
00:45:25.39\00:45:26.72
"Even as I have kept
My Father's commandments,
00:45:26.76\00:45:29.42
and abide in His love."
00:45:29.46\00:45:31.83
He set the example for us.
00:45:31.86\00:45:33.70
Look, what a smooth
relationship they had.
00:45:33.73\00:45:36.23
How smooth it can
be for us in the home?
00:45:36.26\00:45:40.50
Love God with all your heart.
00:45:40.54\00:45:43.07
That means your feelings,
that means your emotions,
00:45:43.10\00:45:47.84
that means your motives,
that means your affections,
00:45:47.88\00:45:52.05
everything, our wills.
00:45:52.08\00:45:55.02
Our will is turned over.
00:45:55.05\00:45:56.65
So it's easy to be
obedient or to do nice things
00:45:56.69\00:45:59.39
to the people that you love.
00:45:59.42\00:46:01.66
If you love, it's easy
to try to bring happiness
00:46:01.69\00:46:04.69
to the other.
00:46:04.73\00:46:06.96
Responsibility of
parents is overwhelming
00:46:07.00\00:46:10.37
to try to be a
successful parent.
00:46:10.40\00:46:13.17
But being a successful
parent, to me at least,
00:46:13.20\00:46:15.47
means there's
some duty involved.
00:46:15.50\00:46:17.91
Did you get that duty?
00:46:17.94\00:46:20.08
That the duty is to
keep the Word of God
00:46:20.11\00:46:22.21
ever before their little
eyes and their little ears.
00:46:22.24\00:46:24.31
That's the duty. Why?
00:46:24.35\00:46:26.92
Because one day we
must give an account to God
00:46:26.95\00:46:30.05
for these gifts, these
children He's blessed us with.
00:46:30.09\00:46:36.39
We have to.
00:46:36.42\00:46:37.93
Jeremiah 13:17, 20.
00:46:37.96\00:46:41.90
He's talking about,
you know what it says?
00:46:41.93\00:46:43.43
"Where is that, what?"
00:46:43.47\00:46:45.80
One of these days,
God's going to say to you,
00:46:45.83\00:46:47.57
"Kenny, where is
that beautiful flock?"
00:46:47.60\00:46:49.54
Where's that flock
that I've given you?
00:46:49.57\00:46:52.17
He's going to say
it to every parent.
00:46:52.21\00:46:54.81
We have to give an answer.
00:46:54.84\00:46:56.58
Where is that flock?
00:46:56.61\00:46:58.05
People say, "Well, I read that,
00:46:58.08\00:46:59.41
He's talking about
the flocks and the herds.
00:46:59.45\00:47:01.08
Jesus used many times
in His prayer with sheep.
00:47:01.12\00:47:04.99
And in this passage
here of Jeremiah 13:17, 20,
00:47:05.02\00:47:09.42
he's talking about that,
00:47:09.46\00:47:10.79
he's talking
about the Lord's flock.
00:47:10.83\00:47:13.90
That flock that I've given you,
00:47:13.93\00:47:15.40
every parent's going
to have to give an account
00:47:15.43\00:47:18.30
by this figure that
we're looking at here,
00:47:18.33\00:47:20.70
God shows His
love for His children.
00:47:20.74\00:47:25.67
And this question goes deeper.
00:47:25.71\00:47:28.04
This question goes
deeper because there's a duty.
00:47:28.08\00:47:30.95
It's directing at ministries.
00:47:30.98\00:47:33.52
It's the duty of the minister.
00:47:33.55\00:47:36.08
It's the duty of every teacher.
00:47:36.12\00:47:38.29
It's the duty of every parent
00:47:38.32\00:47:41.32
to give an account
00:47:41.36\00:47:45.76
because we are guardians.
00:47:45.79\00:47:48.90
How many of us, I wonder,
can give a faithful account?
00:47:48.93\00:47:53.54
Think about it.
00:47:53.57\00:47:54.90
A faithful account.
00:47:54.94\00:47:56.30
As long as I say, "I wonder
have I done my best for Jesus?"
00:47:56.34\00:48:00.08
If you're still
worried about that word,
00:48:00.11\00:48:01.58
and whatever, and flock
that we're talking about here,
00:48:01.61\00:48:04.25
not just the
regular animals themselves.
00:48:04.28\00:48:06.61
Read Zachariah
10:3, you read that.
00:48:06.65\00:48:10.79
Read John Chapter 10.
00:48:10.82\00:48:12.15
I'm going fast 'cause
you just have to jot it down,
00:48:12.19\00:48:13.82
read it.
00:48:13.86\00:48:15.19
John 10:1-6, Jesus said.
00:48:15.22\00:48:17.96
I'm talking about the
Good Shepherd in this.
00:48:17.99\00:48:20.13
Jesus said, "His sheep hear
His voice, and they follow."
00:48:20.16\00:48:24.27
He was using what? Sheep again.
00:48:24.30\00:48:26.60
So God says to us
today, where's that flock?
00:48:26.63\00:48:29.74
You think you're getting out.
00:48:29.77\00:48:31.11
They've grown up,
they went out on their own,
00:48:31.14\00:48:32.47
well that
everything is released.
00:48:32.51\00:48:33.84
We are not released
from that because that's
00:48:33.88\00:48:35.54
when they're
tender, when they're young,
00:48:35.58\00:48:37.05
that we must be able to
set and get that twig straight.
00:48:37.08\00:48:39.75
We know that.
00:48:39.78\00:48:41.12
If we don't, we'll lose them.
00:48:41.15\00:48:44.95
One church says
that, one of them.
00:48:44.99\00:48:47.92
It will get John all
upset, but one church mentions,
00:48:47.96\00:48:50.43
if I have their child
00:48:50.46\00:48:51.79
until they're
three years of old,
00:48:51.83\00:48:53.16
there'll be nothing but.
00:48:53.19\00:48:57.20
Yeah, when they get
up to three years of age,
00:48:57.23\00:48:59.03
their first three years of life,
00:48:59.07\00:49:00.60
and we know that is
the most important years.
00:49:00.64\00:49:04.04
That's where they
learn to do everything
00:49:04.07\00:49:05.51
by the time they're three.
00:49:05.54\00:49:06.88
Look what they have
learned in three years,
00:49:06.91\00:49:08.24
and look what we've done?
00:49:08.28\00:49:09.61
We've lost.
00:49:09.64\00:49:12.01
Tremendous amount of babies,
00:49:12.05\00:49:13.65
when the day it's
born in first three years,
00:49:13.68\00:49:15.72
what they've learned to do?
00:49:15.75\00:49:17.45
Communicate, and to
talk, and move forward,
00:49:17.49\00:49:19.82
and to think, and try
to outsmart mom and dad.
00:49:19.85\00:49:24.93
They think they're
smart enough to do it.
00:49:24.96\00:49:26.29
A lot of times they do it,
00:49:26.33\00:49:27.66
a lot of time we laugh at
it when they're disobedient
00:49:27.70\00:49:29.03
rather than correcting them.
00:49:29.06\00:49:32.50
The Book of Psalms...
00:49:32.53\00:49:33.87
127:3 says this,
00:49:38.74\00:49:42.38
"Lo, children are an
heritage of the Lord:
00:49:42.41\00:49:46.78
and the fruit of
the womb is his reward."
00:49:46.82\00:49:49.92
So what are children?
00:49:49.95\00:49:51.62
It's a reward,
children are gift from God.
00:49:51.65\00:49:54.62
They're worth
spending some time on,
00:49:54.66\00:49:56.22
and we're not spending time
because we're so busy doing.
00:49:56.26\00:49:59.83
And I have to
say, I was too 'cause,
00:49:59.86\00:50:01.50
you know, younger
and working all the time.
00:50:01.53\00:50:04.20
It could be a lot more time,
00:50:04.23\00:50:05.57
lot more changes
that need to take place.
00:50:05.60\00:50:07.94
But then it
seemed like you have to,
00:50:07.97\00:50:09.30
you know, you win breads,
00:50:09.34\00:50:10.67
you go out and
you work and you do.
00:50:10.71\00:50:12.71
That's why it's so
important to have a good wife
00:50:12.74\00:50:15.21
and a good woman
at home to be able
00:50:15.24\00:50:16.61
to take care of those children,
00:50:16.64\00:50:17.98
raise them in the
admonition of the Lord.
00:50:18.01\00:50:21.72
Today, we need to...
00:50:21.75\00:50:23.08
As parents search our
hearts, examine our habits,
00:50:23.12\00:50:26.76
examine our
practices, that what we do,
00:50:26.79\00:50:31.19
have we been that example?
00:50:31.23\00:50:33.16
Have we been?
00:50:33.19\00:50:35.46
The Bible says that and God says
00:50:35.50\00:50:37.77
that children are the heritage,
00:50:37.80\00:50:39.27
that means
they're the possession,
00:50:39.30\00:50:41.94
they're the state of the Lord,
00:50:41.97\00:50:44.94
and we must give an
account for the management
00:50:44.97\00:50:47.84
of His property.
00:50:47.88\00:50:49.21
You realize, they're
not even your children,
00:50:49.24\00:50:50.85
they're not my children,
00:50:50.88\00:50:52.21
I have to give
an account for what?
00:50:52.25\00:50:54.68
How I managed them
because they're gift
00:50:54.72\00:50:56.92
that's given to us.
00:50:56.95\00:50:59.55
They belong to God.
00:50:59.59\00:51:02.59
This makes the
education to me at least
00:51:02.62\00:51:04.69
and the training
of these children,
00:51:04.73\00:51:07.10
the highest service
that we can render to God.
00:51:07.13\00:51:11.00
And, you know, if
we've neglected this,
00:51:11.03\00:51:12.73
there's still hope.
00:51:12.77\00:51:14.10
I want to encourage you.
00:51:14.14\00:51:15.47
We ran out of time,
three or four minutes left.
00:51:15.50\00:51:17.84
There's still hope.
00:51:17.87\00:51:20.48
You remember the woman, quickly,
00:51:20.51\00:51:21.84
do you remember the woman
in the Bible that lost a coin,
00:51:21.88\00:51:26.01
lost that coin.
00:51:26.05\00:51:28.12
It was just lost.
00:51:28.15\00:51:29.48
What did she do?
00:51:29.52\00:51:30.89
Think about this spiritually.
00:51:30.92\00:51:32.25
We got a son or daughter,
they're lost, they went out,
00:51:32.29\00:51:34.59
they're out,
they're out in the world.
00:51:34.62\00:51:36.06
This woman lost the coin.
00:51:36.09\00:51:37.83
What did she do?
00:51:37.86\00:51:39.79
She searched until she found it.
00:51:39.83\00:51:42.30
She did what?
00:51:42.33\00:51:43.67
She searched until
she found that lost coin.
00:51:43.70\00:51:46.77
Sometime we
don't, our son, daughter,
00:51:46.80\00:51:48.14
they go out in the world,
00:51:48.17\00:51:49.50
and we leave them out
there by themselves struggling
00:51:49.54\00:51:50.91
and we're not there.
00:51:50.94\00:51:52.27
God have mercy on us.
00:51:52.31\00:51:53.64
We're to search for
them until we can find them.
00:51:53.68\00:51:56.64
That's what she did.
00:51:56.68\00:51:58.85
That means we have to
work for our households.
00:51:58.88\00:52:02.25
That means
there's a work to be done.
00:52:02.28\00:52:04.52
And then we can say with joy,
one day we can sing with joy.
00:52:04.55\00:52:08.16
It's Isaiah 8:18 comes to mind,
00:52:08.19\00:52:10.66
it says, "Behold,
I and the children
00:52:10.69\00:52:13.73
whom the Lord hath given me."
00:52:13.76\00:52:15.86
Now what does it say here?
00:52:15.90\00:52:17.23
"Behold, I and the children."
00:52:17.27\00:52:20.60
God answers the prayers
of last days of the mother,
00:52:20.64\00:52:22.80
the praying mother.
00:52:22.84\00:52:24.17
One day if we
search and we keep looking
00:52:24.21\00:52:26.07
for that lost coin,
that little piece of silver
00:52:26.11\00:52:28.48
as it were, one
day we'll be saying,
00:52:28.51\00:52:30.28
"Oh, I and the children."
00:52:30.31\00:52:33.62
How wonderful that'd be.
00:52:33.65\00:52:36.28
Wherever we are
at, wherever we may be,
00:52:36.32\00:52:38.99
I'll tell you right
now, there's a lost coin.
00:52:39.02\00:52:41.79
There's a lost
coin that's around us.
00:52:41.82\00:52:44.29
There's a piece of
silver that needs to be found.
00:52:44.33\00:52:48.96
Finding, just looking
and finding that last coin,
00:52:49.00\00:52:51.77
what do we do?
00:52:51.80\00:52:53.13
We quickly present
Christ to them again
00:52:53.17\00:52:55.50
as a sin pardoning savior.
00:52:55.54\00:52:57.21
We tell of His love
that He has for them.
00:52:57.24\00:53:00.44
The value of a soul.
00:53:00.48\00:53:01.91
Who can estimate the
value of one individual?
00:53:01.94\00:53:05.08
If you want to know,
00:53:05.11\00:53:06.45
I'll tell you
quickly as we close today,
00:53:06.48\00:53:07.82
you've got to go to Gethsemane.
00:53:07.85\00:53:09.55
If you want to know
the value of a soul,
00:53:09.58\00:53:11.25
one soul that Christ
would have done what He did,
00:53:11.29\00:53:13.56
just one person.
00:53:13.59\00:53:14.92
Go to, go over His last hours,
00:53:14.96\00:53:17.13
see those sweat as
it were great drops
00:53:17.16\00:53:19.36
of blood coming out of Him.
00:53:19.39\00:53:21.66
Look at Christ
hanging on the cross.
00:53:21.70\00:53:23.67
Look at His body that was marred
00:53:23.70\00:53:25.93
more than any man.
00:53:25.97\00:53:28.07
His vision, the Bible said
was marred more than a man.
00:53:28.10\00:53:30.24
His mama couldn't recognize Him,
00:53:30.27\00:53:31.74
they beat Him to a pulp,
00:53:31.77\00:53:33.14
hear Him to cry
out in the end result,
00:53:33.17\00:53:34.74
"My God, my God, why
have You forsaken Me?"
00:53:34.78\00:53:40.28
Why have You forsaken Me?
00:53:40.32\00:53:42.32
All He did this
for my redemption,
00:53:42.35\00:53:44.39
for your redemption.
00:53:44.42\00:53:48.96
For just one, He
laid down his life.
00:53:48.99\00:53:52.29
Keep this in mind, my friend,
00:53:52.33\00:53:53.66
and you will see and
you'll better understand
00:53:53.70\00:53:55.73
and I will too, the value
of one soul, one individual.
00:53:55.76\00:54:00.54
No human being
would ever be saved,
00:54:00.57\00:54:03.30
whatever been saved,
00:54:03.34\00:54:04.67
if Christ had not
made personal effort.
00:54:04.71\00:54:06.74
He's looking for that lost coin.
00:54:06.78\00:54:08.34
He's looking
for that lost sheep,
00:54:08.38\00:54:09.98
and that was me.
00:54:10.01\00:54:11.35
By personal effort,
and aid of the Holy Spirit,
00:54:11.38\00:54:14.18
souls can be rescued
from the bondage of sin.
00:54:14.22\00:54:17.65
Our children can be rescued.
00:54:17.69\00:54:20.32
Proverbs 22:6,
as we close, says,
00:54:20.36\00:54:22.52
"Train up a child
in the way he's," what?
00:54:22.56\00:54:24.76
"He should go,
and when he is old,
00:54:24.79\00:54:26.76
he shall not depart from it."
00:54:26.80\00:54:30.00
Friend, we have that opportunity
00:54:30.03\00:54:31.37
and privilege
today, behold, Jesus.
00:54:31.40\00:54:33.20
If you've made all kinds
00:54:33.23\00:54:34.57
of mistakes
raising your children,
00:54:34.60\00:54:35.94
don't give up.
00:54:35.97\00:54:37.31
Pray for them,
put them on the altar,
00:54:37.34\00:54:38.67
pray for them daily,
seek for them, work for them.
00:54:38.71\00:54:40.84
And God said,
00:54:40.88\00:54:42.21
"One of these days,
they're going to say,
00:54:42.24\00:54:43.58
'I and my
children stand together."
00:54:43.61\00:54:45.65
Let's have a quick
prayer shall we before we close.
00:54:45.68\00:54:49.02
Loving Father in heaven,
00:54:49.05\00:54:50.39
we thank You for
Your precious Word,
00:54:50.42\00:54:51.75
thank You for the
promises that You have given.
00:54:51.79\00:54:53.62
All they bring to light
and happiness to our soul
00:54:53.66\00:54:55.79
that You're
always there with us,
00:54:55.82\00:54:57.16
You'll never leave
us, never forsake us,
00:54:57.19\00:54:58.56
and the answer to prayer
of bringing our children home.
00:54:58.59\00:55:00.73
In Jesus' name, amen.
00:55:00.76\00:55:03.26
Thank you for joining
us. We'll see you next time.
00:55:03.30\00:55:07.17
Hello and welcome back, friends.
00:55:07.20\00:55:09.10
God's Word is so full of hope,
direction, and encouragement.
00:55:09.14\00:55:12.77
And I am the one,
00:55:12.81\00:55:14.14
I'm so very thankful
for all the many promises
00:55:14.18\00:55:17.28
in His words that we
may claim for our children.
00:55:17.31\00:55:20.82
Ultimately, though,
the choice of heaven
00:55:20.85\00:55:23.32
or hell belongs to them.
00:55:23.35\00:55:24.99
It is their choice.
00:55:25.02\00:55:26.55
But as parents,
00:55:26.59\00:55:27.92
successful parenting
skills will begin first
00:55:27.96\00:55:30.73
by
strengthening our relationship
00:55:30.76\00:55:33.83
with our Heavenly Father,
00:55:33.86\00:55:35.56
and then living
out that saving love
00:55:35.60\00:55:38.03
of Christ as a living
example to our children.
00:55:38.07\00:55:41.97
Successful parenting is
training them up in the way
00:55:42.00\00:55:45.31
that they should go
back to reflecting the image
00:55:45.34\00:55:48.51
of God in their lives
as they see that same image
00:55:48.54\00:55:52.61
in the lives of their parents.
00:55:52.65\00:55:54.72
Successful parenting is
loving our children enough
00:55:54.75\00:55:57.85
to guard and
direct their minds away
00:55:57.89\00:56:00.06
from the enticements of
the world to the principles
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of godly living in
love, and listen in patience,
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and love, and in patient.
00:56:08.30\00:56:10.33
Successful parenting
is holding on as tight
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as you possibly can
to your Savior's hand,
00:56:13.80\00:56:17.24
and drawing from
history, and His wisdom.
00:56:17.27\00:56:21.04
To be a
successful parent is a job
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that we are totally
inadequate to do on our own.
00:56:23.98\00:56:28.98
Successful parenting is knowing
00:56:29.02\00:56:31.25
that we are but
children ourselves
00:56:31.29\00:56:33.36
in the school of Christ.
00:56:33.39\00:56:34.92
And as children,
we make mistakes.
00:56:34.96\00:56:37.99
And as children,
00:56:38.03\00:56:39.76
we need to seek
forgiveness and direction
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from our Heavenly Father,
00:56:42.50\00:56:44.10
and then impart
the same forgiveness
00:56:44.13\00:56:46.23
and direction to our children
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as heaven's representatives
here on this earth.
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We want heaven to be
a big family reunion.
00:56:52.27\00:56:56.14
Therefore, we must
take what little time.
00:56:56.18\00:56:59.41
It's such little time,
it goes so fast that we have
00:56:59.45\00:57:03.32
with our children,
and devote that time,
00:57:03.35\00:57:06.42
the time that is
needed in preparing them
00:57:06.45\00:57:09.32
to be a good
Christ like citizen here
00:57:09.36\00:57:12.29
on this earth, and
then heavenly citizens
00:57:12.33\00:57:15.86
and the earth made new.
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