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>>FRIENDS, ARE
YOU AFRAID OF HEIGHTS?
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IF SO, YOU MIGHT WANT
TO LOOK AWAY RIGHT NOW.
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ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS
ATTRACTIONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO
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BAY AREA IS THE
ICONIC GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE.
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WHILE THIS WORLD-FAMOUS BRIDGE
WAS NAMED AS ONE OF THE SEVEN
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WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD,
FEW PEOPLE KNOW THE STORY OF THE
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BRAVE MEN WHO WERE INVOLVED
IN ITS CONSTRUCTION AND - ALSO
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KNOWN AS THE
HALFWAY TO HELL CLUB .
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DESIGNED BY A GROUP OF VISIONARY
ENGINEERS AT 4200 FEET END TO
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END, THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
WAS, AT ONE TIME, THE LONGEST
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SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE WORLD.
DURING ITS CONSTRUCTION, FROM
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1933 TO 1937, THE GOLDEN
GATE BRIDGE HAD ONE OF THE BEST
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SAFETY CONSTRUCTION RECORDS
OF ANY PROJECT DURING THAT TIME.
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KEEP IN MIND, THEY WOULD FACTOR
IN AND CALCULATE THAT ONE MAN
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WOULD DIE FOR EVERY MILLION
DOLLARS THAT WAS SPENT, SO WITH
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A BUDGET OF 35 MILLION DOLLARS,
THEY KNEW THAT LOSS OF LIFE
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WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE.
THIS IS WHY THE CHIEF
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ENGINEER, JOSEPH P.
STRAUSS, WAS ABSOLUTELY ADAMANT
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ABOUT USING THE MOST RIGOROUS
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS THAT HAD EVER
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BEEN USED IN BRIDGE BUILDING.
HE HAD A LOCAL MANUFACTURER OF
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SAFETY EQUIPMENT DESIGN SPECIAL
HEADGEAR THAT HE INSISTED
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BE WORN ON EVERY JOB.
THIS BECAME THE PROTOTYPE FOR
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THE MODERN HARD HAT,
WORN FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.
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BUT THE SAFETY
PRECAUTIONS WENT EVEN FARTHER.
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STRAUSS PROVIDED A SPECIAL HAND
AND FACE CREAM TO PROTECT THEIR
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SKIN FROM THE COLD, BITING
WIND, AND GLARE-FREE GOGGLES TO
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PROTECT THEIR EYES. IN
ADDITION, THEY ALSO ATE A
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SPECIAL DIET TO HELP WARD
OFF DIZZINESS WHEN THEY WERE
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WORKING AT THOSE EPIC HEIGHTS.
BUT THE MOST CONSPICUOUS SAFETY
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PRECAUTION WAS A GIGANTIC
NET THAT WAS SUSPENDED FROM
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END TO END UNDER THE
ENTIRE CONSTRUCTION AREA OF
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THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE.
IN FACT, DURING CONSTRUCTION,
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THIS NET SAVED THE LIVES OF
19 MAN, WHO LATER BECAME KNOWN
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AS THE HALFWAY TO HELL CLUB .
NOW, YOU NEED TO KEEP IN MIND,
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THESE WERE SOME OF THE
MOST DANGEROUS CONSTRUCTION
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CONDITIONS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
THE WIND WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING.
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THEY WERE WALKING AROUND ON IRON
THAT SOMETIMES HAD ICE FROM THE
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FREEZING FOG. IN
PLACES, THEY WERE OVER 700
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FEET ABOVE THE ICY WATERS.
YET THE MEN, COMING FROM ALL
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WALKS OF LIFE, WERE WILLING TO
TAKE THESE RISKS BECAUSE IT WAS
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DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND
THEY WOULD GET PAID UP TO ELEVEN
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DOLLARS A DAY, WHICH
WAS A FORTUNE BACK THEN.
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ONE OF THE OTHER BENEFITS OF THE
NET WAS THEY DISCOVERED THAT THE
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MEN WERE MUCH MORE COURAGEOUS
- EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE WALKING
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HIGH ON THOSE SLIPPERY SURFACES,
BECAUSE THEY KNEW THERE WAS A
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MECHANISM TO PROTECT
THEM IF THEY SHOULD FALL.
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THIS GAVE THEM THE CONFIDENCE
AND THE COURAGE TO PRESS ON AND
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GET THE BRIDGE
BUILT IN RECORD TIME.
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YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, AS
CHRISTIANS, WE HAVE A GREAT WORK
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TO DO. THE BIBLE
TELLS US THAT WE GET
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TO PARTICIPATE WITH JESUS IN
BUILDING A BRIDGE THAT CONNECTS
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HEAVEN AND EARTH AND
THERE ARE DANGERS ALONG THE WAY.
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THE DEVIL WOULD LIKE TO PARALYZE
US WITH FEAR THAT WE MIGHT FALL
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OR MAKE A MISTAKE, BUT WE KNOW
THAT JESUS PROVIDED A SAFETY NET
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FOR US AND WE DON'T HAVE TO
BE AFRAID. WE CAN PRESS ON WITH
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CONFIDENCE BECAUSE IT PROMISES,
IN THE BOOK OF JUDE, VERSE 24,
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'HE IS ABLE TO
KEEP US FROM FALLING.'
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BUT SOMETIMES WE MAKE MISTAKES.
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STILL, DON'T BE DISCOURAGED,
FRIENDS, IF YOU READ IN 1 JOHN
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CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1, THE BIBLE
SAYS, 'IF WE FALL...IF WE SIN WE
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HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE
FATHER, JESUS CHRIST.' SO LET'S
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PRESS ON TOGETHER AND
BUILD THAT BRIDGE WITH CHRIST.
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>>WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF A SERIES
- ACTUALLY, FIRST TIME SINCE
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I'VE BEEN HERE - THAT IS
DEDICATED SOLELY TO THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS AND SO, TODAY,
WE'RE ACTUALLY ON THE SIXTH
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PRESENTATION BUT IT'S
COMMANDMENT NUMBER FIVE.
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AND WE'VE JUST TRANSFERRED FROM
THE FIRST TABLE OF STONES OVER
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TO THE SECOND TABLE OF STONES.
THE MESSAGE TITLE IS 'DEALING
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WITH HONOR IN THE FAMILY'
- HONOR WITHIN THE FAMILY.
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NOW, IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
YOU'VE GOT - I WAS GOING TO SAY
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SOMETHING REALLY SILLY
LIKE, 'THE LORD IS BRILLIANT.'
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BUT IT'S SORT OF OBVIOUS, ISN'T
IT? BUT IT IS BRILLIANT THE WAY
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THAT GOD DESIGNED
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
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ON THE FIRST TABLE YOU'VE GOT
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND
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GOD. IT'S THE
VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP.
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THE FIRST COMMANDMENT - IF YOU
GET THE FIRST COMMANDMENT RIGHT
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- 'THOU SHALL NOT HAVE ANY OTHER
LORDS BEFORE ME' - YOU WILL GET
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ALL THE OTHER COMMANDMENTS ON
THIS TABLE RIGHT BECAUSE IF GOD
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IS FIRST IN YOUR LIFE THEN
YOU'LL OBEY THE WAY THAT YOU
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WORSHIP HIM, THE DAY THAT
YOU WORSHIP HIM, THE TIME, THE
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METHOD, HIS NAME - THAT'LL ALL
BE REVERED IF YOU WORSHIP HIM
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SUPREMELY. NOW,
WHEN YOU GO TO THE SECOND
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TABLE, WHAT IS THE
FIRST COMMANDMENT THERE?
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'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER'.
NOW WE'RE DEALING WITH THE
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HORIZONTAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE
REMAINING SIX COMMANDMENTS HERE.
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IF YOU GET THIS ONE RIGHT - IF
THINGS ARE RIGHT IN THE FAMILY,
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ALL THE OTHER
COMMANDMENTS WOULD BE RIGHT.
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IF YOU'VE GOT GOOD PARENTS AND
THEY'RE TEACHING THEIR CHILDREN
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GOOD TRUTH, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
FIND IN SOCIETY THAT THERE ARE
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PROBLEMS WITH THE LYING AND
ADULTERY AND THE COVETING AND
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THE KILLING AND ALL THESE OTHER
THINGS. IT'S WHEN YOU DON'T GET
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THE FIRST ONE RIGHT THAT
YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ALL THE
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REST. THIS
COMMANDMENT, PROBABLY MORE
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THAN ANY OTHER, IS THE
FOUNDATION TO THE HEALTH AND
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SUCCESS OF ANY CULTURE BECAUSE
THE FAMILY IS THE MOST BASIC
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UNIT OF A SOCIETY. AND
WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS
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NOT JUST
CHILDREN OBEYING PARENTS.
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PARENTS
LIVING IN AN HONORABLE WAY AND
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IT'S THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE PARENTS, IT'S THE
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RELATIONSHIP OF THE CHILDREN AND
THE PARENTS AND THE PARENTS AND
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THE CHILDREN. IT'S
REALLY TALKING ABOUT HONOR
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WITHIN THE FAMILY -
REVERENCE AND RESPECT.
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AND SO, THAT'S OUR MESSAGE
TODAY - IT'S BASED UPON THIS
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COMMANDMENT. YOU CAN
FIND IT IN YOUR BIBLE,
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OF COURSE, IN
EXODUS 20, VERSE 12.
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MATTER OF FACT, IT'S SHORT
ENOUGH AND YOU SHOULD ALL KNOW
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IT BY HEART, WHY DON'T YOU
SAY IT WITH ME - AND THIS IS THE
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VERSION MOST OF US HAVE
REMEMBERED - ARE YOU READY?
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"HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR
MOTHER THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE
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LONG UPON THE LAND WHICH THE
LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU."
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HONOR YOUR
FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER.
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NOW, I JUST THINK IT'S WONDERFUL
THE WAY THE LORD ORCHESTRATED
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THINGS SO THAT IT JUST SO
HAPPENS THAT TODAY IS MOTHER'S
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DAY AND THIS IS
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
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I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU THAT I
BRILLIANTLY PLANNED THAT BUT I
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DIDN'T. I'M JUST
GLAD IT WORKED OUT THAT
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WAY. AND SO,
HOPEFULLY, THAT IN THE
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MESSAGE TODAY, EMBRACED IN THE
KERNEL OF THE MESSAGE TODAY, WE
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WILL FIND THAT, ALONG WITH
OUR FATHERS, OUR MOTHERS WILL BE
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HONORED AND ALL THAT THAT
INVOLVES. YOU KNOW, I WANT YOU
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TO KNOW THAT I TRY TO STAY
CURRENT IN WHAT I SHARE WITH YOU
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HERE. THE LATEST 'TIME' MAGAZINE
- NOW THE LATEST 'TIME' MAGAZINE
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IS MAY 20 - IT'S ON YOUR SCREEN
NOW - WHAT'S THE DATE TODAY?
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MAY 11TH. THIS IS
THE MAY 20TH MAGAZINE SO
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YOU CAN NEVER
ACCUSE ME OF BEING BEHIND.
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WE'RE ACTUALLY A WEEK AHEAD.
OF COURSE, I JUST DATED OUR
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MESSAGE FOR ALL FUTURE
GENERATIONS. I GOT THIS AT MY
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DOOR YESTERDAY AND I SAID, 'OH,
THIS IS PERFECT.' LOOK AT JUST
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THE HEADLINE - IT
SAYS, 'THE ME ME ME
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GENERATION -
MILLENIALS ARE LAZY, ENTITLED
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NARCISSISTS WHO STILL LIVE WITH
THEIR PARENTS - WHY THEY WILL
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SAVE US'. NOW I
DIDN'T READ THE ARTICLE YET.
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I WAS TOO BUSY GETTING READY
FOR THE SERMON. BUT I'VE GOT
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PROBLEMS WITH THE PREMISE OF
THE TITLE. HOW YOU COULD HAVE
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A SELFISH 'ME, ME, ME'
GENERATION THAT IS LAZY,
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SELF-CENTERED, LIVING AT HOME
AND THEY'RE GOING TO SAVE US.
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I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WOULD WORK
OUT. I THINK THEY MIGHT HAVE THE
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FIRST PART OF IT RIGHT - THAT
WE ARE LIVING IN A VERY SELFISH
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GENERATION. AND THAT,
OF COURSE, AFFECTS THE
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RELATIONSHIPS OF THE
CHILDREN AND THE PARENTS.
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YOU KNOW, IN EVERY CULTURE, FOR
THERE TO BE A STRONG SOCIETY,
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ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS
THEY NEED TO DO IS THEY NEED TO
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UNDERSTAND THAT THE AUTHORITY
FOR THE CHILDREN IS NOT THE
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STATE, IT'S THE PARENTS.
THIS IDEA THAT IT TAKES A
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VILLAGE AND THAT WE ALL
RAISE EACH OTHER'S CHILDREN -
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IT SOUNDS REALLY NICE BUT
NO. IN ORDER FOR A CULTURE TO BE
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HEALTHY WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
THAT A FAMILY UNIT - THE
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RESPONSIBILITY OF THOSE CHILDREN
BELONGS FIRST AND FOREMOST TO
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THOSE WHO BROUGHT THEM INTO
THE WORLD - I'M TALKING ABOUT
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BIOLOGICALLY. THEY
ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF
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THEIR PARENTS JUST AS
WE ARE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD.
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THAT RESPONSIBILITY
RESTS WITH THE PARENTS.
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THAT MUST BE RESPECTED BY THE
STATE - BY THE GOVERNMENT - THAT
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THE - AND TO SOME EXTENT, YOU
KNOW, WHEN CHILDREN ARE MINORS
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THEY'RE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF
THEIR PARENTS THERE STILL IS AN
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ELEMENT OF THAT RESPECT, BUT
MORE AND MORE WE'RE FINDING IT -
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THE GOVERNMENT'S ACTING LIKE
'WE'RE THE ONES WHO ARE GOING TO
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TELL YOU HOW TO
RAISE YOUR CHILDREN.'
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INSTEAD OF THE
PARENTS HAVING THAT DECISION.
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SOMETHING ELSE - I DON'T KNOW IF
YOU CAUGHT IT - IT SAID, 'HONOR
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YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER' -
THERE IS AN IMPLIED TRUTH THERE
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THAT A FAMILY, ACCORDING TO
GOD'S DESIGN, IS NOT A FATHER
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AND A FATHER OR A MOTHER AND A
MOTHER, BUT IT IS A FATHER AND A
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MOTHER. THAT'S GOD'S PLAN.
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AND IN THE SAME WAY, ON THE
FIRST TABLE OF STONES, GOD IS
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SAYING, 'LOOK, I'M
THE ONE WHO SAVED YOU.
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I MADE YOU AND SO I
WANT YOU TO WORSHIP ME'.
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AT THE FOUNDATION OF OUR
RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH OTHER IT
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BEGINS WITH HONORING YOUR
PARENTS BECAUSE PARENTS ARE A
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CHILD'S FIRST CONCEPT OF GOD.
THEY REALLY REPRESENT GOD TO THE
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CHILDREN. IF YOU
THINK ABOUT IT, GOD IS
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THE ONE WHO
CREATED US. HE SUSTAINS US.
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HE CARES FOR US. HE PROVIDES FOR
US. HE FORGIVES US. HE CLEANSES
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US. AND FOR A
CHILD, WHO IS GOD TO
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THAT CHILD AS
THEY'RE GROWING UP?
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I NEED TO ISSUE A DISCLAIMER
HERE, I REALIZE AS I TALK ABOUT
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THIS SUBJECT, THAT WE
LIVE WITH ALL KINDS OF STRANGE
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CIRCUMSTANCES AND SOME OF
YOU MAYBE HAVE BEEN ADOPTED.
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THIS IS AN
UNCOMFORTABLE SUBJECT.
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SOME OF YOU MAYBE GREW UP IN A
HOME WITH JUST A SINGLE PARENT.
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SOME OF YOU MAYBE ARE TEST TUBE
BABIES AND YOU'RE RAISED BY SOME
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CORPORATION, I DON'T KNOW.
WE'RE ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT
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PEOPLE OUT THERE AND
THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS.
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SO WHAT WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT HERE IS THE IDEAL.
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DOES EVERYONE APPRECIATE
THAT? THIS IS THE IDEAL -
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AND I KNOW ALL
OF US HAVE DIFFERENT
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DEVIATIONS OF THAT IDEAL IN OUR
FAMILIES AND SOME OF US WE WERE
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RAISED BY OUR MOTHER AND
OUR STEP-FATHER OR WHATEVER.
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BUT SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
IDEAL AND I UNDERSTAND THAT AND
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I JUST WANT YOU TO WINK AT
THE AREAS WHERE YOU REALIZE IT
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DOESN'T PERFECTLY
FIT YOUR SITUATION.
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BUT FOR THE NORMAL CHILD, THEIR
FIRST CONCEPT OF GOD IS THE
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PARENTS. MATTER OF
FACT, IT'S INTERESTING
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THE EVOLUTION THAT CHILDREN
GO THROUGH WHEN THEY'RE REAL
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LITTLE. THE PARENTS CAN DO
EVERYTHING. THEY LOOK AT THEIR
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PARENTS WITH WIDE-EYED WONDER
AND THEY THINK THEY'RE GOD. THEY
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FEAR THEM. THEY
RESPECT THEM. THEY LOVE THEM.
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THEY LOOK TO THEM. THEY
DON'T WANT TO BE AWAY FROM THEM.
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THEY GET A LITTLE OLDER, YOU
KNOW, THE KID'LL SAY, 'MY DAD'S
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THE STRONGEST DAD IN THE WORLD.'
THEN THEY GET A LITTLE OLDER -
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THEY GET TO BE ABOUT TWELVE
AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, THEY KNOW
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ALMOST EVERYTHING.' AND
THEN THEY GET TO BE ABOUT
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FOURTEEN AND THEY SAY,
'THEY DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH.'
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AND THEN THEY GRADUATE HIGH
SCHOOL AND START COLLEGE AND
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THEY THINK, 'THEY
DON'T KNOW ANYTHING.'
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AND THEN THEY GET TO
25 AND SOMETHING CHANGES.
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THEY CALL AND ASK
FOR OCCASIONAL ADVICE.
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AND THEN THEY GET TO BE ABOUT
30 AND THEY'VE GOT KIDS OF THEIR
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OWN AND THEIR RESPECT JUST
BEGINS TO SOAR AND THEY START TO
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UNDERSTAND. AND THEN
THEY GET TO BE ABOUT 60
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AND THEY THINK, 'YOU KNOW, I
WISH I COULD TALK TO THEM AGAIN
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AND I WOULD HAVE
ASKED THEM MORE QUESTIONS.'
00:13:08.32\00:13:11.72
BUT IT'S LIKE IT GOES FROM
THIS BELIEVING EVERYTHING TO
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BELIEVING NOTHING TO
BELIEVING EVERYTHING AGAIN.
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IT'S KIND OF STRANGE.
HAVEN'T YOU OBSERVED THAT?
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BUT THEY REPRESENT OUR FIRST
CONCEPT AND THAT'S WHY IT'S
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IMPORTANT FOR CHILDREN
TO HONOR THEIR PARENTS.
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IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR PARENTS
TO LIVE HONORABLE LIVES BECAUSE
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YOUR CHILD'S CONCEPT OF GOD IS
GOING TO LARGELY COME FROM YOUR
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INFLUENCE. AND IT'S
OFTEN TRUE - PEOPLE WHO
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HAVE FATHERS WHO ARE SORT
OF DISTANT AND DETACHED, THEIR
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CONCEPT OF GOD IS THAT
HE'S JUST REALLY NOT INTERESTED.
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PEOPLE WHO HAVE FATHERS THAT ARE
INDULGENT AND PERMISSIVE, THEY
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START THINKING THEIR HEAVENLY
FATHER - THAT ANYTHING GOES.
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AND SO YOU NEED THAT BALANCE
BECAUSE YOU ARE COMMUNICATING
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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF
GOD - BOTH FATHER AND MOTHER -
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TO YOUR CHILDREN.
NOW, JUST A FEW VERSES THAT
00:14:04.21\00:14:08.78
SHOULD HELP US REMEMBER THIS.
FOR ONE THING, A CHRISTIAN IS A
00:14:08.78\00:14:13.11
FOLLOWER OF CHRIST.
DID JESUS FOLLOW THIS
00:14:13.11\00:14:16.12
COMMANDMENT? YOU
REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS TWELVE
00:14:16.12\00:14:18.19
YEARS OLD AND HE WENT AND
HE - YOU COULD SAY HE RAN AWAY
00:14:18.19\00:14:21.86
FROM HOME BECAUSE THE PARENTS
LOST HIM FOR THREE DAYS - HE
00:14:21.86\00:14:24.99
DIDN'T REALLY
RUN AWAY FROM HOME.
00:14:24.99\00:14:26.43
THEY TOOK HIM TO CHURCH AND
THEN THEY LEFT AND HE STAYED.
00:14:26.43\00:14:30.77
AND THEY LOST TRACK OF HIM FOR
THREE DAYS AND THEN FINALLY THEY
00:14:30.77\00:14:32.90
FOUND JESUS AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT
THAT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN REALLY
00:14:32.90\00:14:37.27
DIFFICULT FOR MARY AND
JOSEPH TO EXPLAIN TO GOD.
00:14:37.27\00:14:40.61
'WE KNOW YOU GAVE US THE
MESSIAH - WE'VE MISPLACED HIM.
00:14:40.61\00:14:43.31
WE'VE MISPLACED THE SON OF
GOD.' HOW DO YOU GET OVER THAT?
00:14:43.31\00:14:49.15
AND AFTER THEY FOUND HIM AGAIN,
HE SAID, 'I MUST BE ABOUT MY
00:14:49.15\00:14:52.55
FATHER'S BUSINESS.' NOTE
WHAT IT SAYS IN LUKE 2:51,
00:14:52.55\00:14:56.52
"HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM" - WENT
TO NAZARETH - "AND WAS SUBJECT
00:14:56.52\00:15:00.50
TO THEM" - THE WORD 'SUBJECT'
MEANS HE WAS OBEDIENT TO THEM -
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JESUS OBEYED HIS FATHER AND
MOTHER. AND MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE
00:15:05.23\00:15:08.20
A MOMENT AND TALK ABOUT 'WHAT
DOES THE WORD 'HONOR' MEAN?
00:15:08.20\00:15:10.91
WHEN WE SAY HONOR OUR FATHER
AND MOTHER - TO HONOR - IN THE
00:15:10.91\00:15:14.54
HEBREW - TO HONOR MEANS 'TO MAKE
WEIGHTY; TO GIVE GRAVITY AND
00:15:14.54\00:15:19.95
IMPORTANCE TO THEIR BEING;
TO PROMOTE; TO GLORIFY; TO BOAST
00:15:19.95\00:15:24.15
ABOUT; TO REVERE'
- THAT'S THE HEBREW.
00:15:24.15\00:15:27.26
IN GREEK IT'S THE WORD 'TAMALHO'
AND IT MEANS 'TO PRIZE; TO
00:15:27.26\00:15:31.23
HONOR; TO
VALUE; ALSO TO REVERE'.
00:15:31.23\00:15:34.46
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER
- BY THE WAY, THAT COMMANDMENT -
00:15:34.46\00:15:36.63
WE READ IT CLEARLY IN HEBREW AND
CLEARLY IN GREEK - THERE'S NO
00:15:36.63\00:15:39.40
QUESTION ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS
BECAUSE WE'VE GOT IT COMING FROM
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THE WORDS OF JESUS AND
FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT EXAMPLE.
00:15:42.97\00:15:47.14
PROVERBS 10:1 - JUST A FEW
CHOICE MORSELS - PROVERBS 10:1,
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"THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON: A WISE
SON MAKES A GLAD FATHER, BUT A
00:15:53.58\00:15:58.22
FOOLISH SON IS THE GRIEF OF
HIS MOTHER." PROVERBS 15:20,
00:15:58.22\00:16:03.02
"A WISE SON MAKES A
FATHER GLAD, BUT A FOOLISH MAN
00:16:03.02\00:16:06.43
DESPISES HIS MOTHER."
PROVERBS 19:26, "HE WHO
00:16:06.43\00:16:11.07
MISTREATS HIS FATHER AND CHASES
AWAY HIS MOTHER IS A SON WHO
00:16:11.07\00:16:15.47
CAUSES SHAME AND BRINGS
REPROACH." ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE
00:16:15.47\00:16:19.34
THE PRINCIPLE ABOUT REVERING
AND HONORING AND RESPECTING YOUR
00:16:19.34\00:16:24.45
FATHER AND MOTHER IS A
PRETTY BASIC PRINCIPLE.
00:16:24.45\00:16:28.68
BUT THE FIRST CONCEPT OF
GOD COMES FROM THEM. BY THE WAY,
00:16:28.68\00:16:32.52
NOT ONLY WILL PARENTS
REPRESENT GOD TO YOUR CHILDREN,
00:16:32.52\00:16:36.99
BUT THEIR CONCEPT OF MARRIAGE
IS GOING TO COME FROM YOU.
00:16:36.99\00:16:41.13
NOT ONLY IS IT IMPORTANT THAT
CHILDREN HONOR THEIR PARENTS AND
00:16:41.13\00:16:45.20
THAT PARENTS LIVE HONORABLY, BUT
PARENTS MUST BE VERY CAREFUL TO
00:16:45.20\00:16:50.64
HONOR EACH OTHER BECAUSE IF A
FATHER DOES NOT HONOR HIS WIFE,
00:16:50.64\00:16:58.01
YOUR SON PROBABLY WILL NOT
HONOR HIS. IF A MOTHER DOES NOT
00:16:58.01\00:17:03.32
RESPECT HER HUSBAND, YOUR
DAUGHTER WILL PROBABLY NOT
00:17:03.32\00:17:07.96
RESPECT HER HUSBAND.
AND SO, THE MODEL THAT THE
00:17:07.96\00:17:13.09
PARENTS ESTABLISH FOR THOSE
CHILDREN - WHAT GOES AROUND WILL
00:17:13.09\00:17:17.40
COME AROUND.
HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF.
00:17:17.40\00:17:20.27
NOW SOME OF YOU MIGHT BE
THINKING, 'WELL PASTOR DOUG, I
00:17:20.27\00:17:21.94
GREW UP IN A FAMILY THAT WAS
SO DYSFUNCTIONAL - MY MOTHER AND
00:17:21.94\00:17:24.31
FATHER WERE NOT VERY HONORABLE -
THEY DIDN'T HONOR EACH OTHER AND
00:17:24.31\00:17:26.94
NOW IT'S CAUSING ME PROBLEMS.'
BY GOD'S GRACE YOU NEED TO BREAK
00:17:26.94\00:17:30.28
THE CYCLE FOR THE NEXT
GENERATION AND IT CAN HAPPEN.
00:17:30.28\00:17:34.55
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I'M
AMAZED AT WHEN I READ THE BIBLE
00:17:34.55\00:17:36.48
IS HOW SOME OF THESE
ROTTEN KINGS HAD GOOD KIDS.
00:17:36.48\00:17:41.22
AND HOW SOME OF THE
GOOD KINGS HAD ROTTEN KIDS.
00:17:41.22\00:17:45.69
AND SO YOU CAN'T ALWAYS SAY,
'WELL, I'M A VICTIM BECAUSE OF
00:17:45.69\00:17:49.16
THE WAY I GREW
UP. I CAN'T HELP IT.'
00:17:49.16\00:17:53.07
I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY PITIFUL
- I'M RELUCTANT TO EVEN REFER TO
00:17:53.07\00:17:58.17
WHAT WE'VE HEARD IN THE NEWS
THIS WEEK ABOUT THAT HORRIFIC
00:17:58.17\00:18:01.91
STORY ABOUT THOSE LADIES THAT
WERE BASICALLY HELD - IMPRISONED
00:18:01.91\00:18:06.31
- YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING
ABOUT? - BY THIS MAN. YOU KNOW,
00:18:06.31\00:18:10.42
HE'S STILL, TECHNICALLY, A
SUSPECT BUT THE EVIDENCE SEEMS
00:18:10.42\00:18:14.62
PRETTY OVERWHELMING
THAT HE BASICALLY IMPRISONED
00:18:14.62\00:18:17.16
THESE THREE WOMEN AND
ABUSED THEM FOR OVER NINE YEARS.
00:18:17.16\00:18:21.46
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HIS RESPONSE
IS? 'I WAS MISTREATED AS A
00:18:21.46\00:18:24.67
CHILD.' WELL, YOU
KNOW, YOU CAN'T USE THAT.
00:18:24.67\00:18:30.71
AND IT MIGHT GIVE YOU SOME
EXCUSE, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE
00:18:30.71\00:18:34.04
- AT LEAST IT DIDN'T USED
TO BE A VALID CLAIM IN COURT.
00:18:34.04\00:18:39.55
SO MAYBE YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE
RIGHT KIND OF MOTHER AND FATHER.
00:18:39.55\00:18:43.08
YOU NEED TO BREAK
THE CYCLE. AND YOU CAN.
00:18:43.08\00:18:46.12
I'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN.
YOU'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN.
00:18:46.12\00:18:47.69
EXAMPLES IN THE WORD
- BUT WE REPRESENT GOD.
00:18:47.69\00:18:51.86
SO CHILDREN NEED TO HONOR THEIR
PARENTS BECAUSE THE LORD - I'VE
00:18:51.86\00:18:56.50
OFTEN TOLD OUR KIDS WHEN, YOU
KNOW, THEY SOMETIMES DISAGREE
00:18:56.50\00:19:00.57
WITH SOME MANDATE
THAT COMES FROM MOM OR DAD.
00:19:00.57\00:19:03.10
I SAY, 'LOOK, GOD MADE US YOUR
PARENTS SO YOU TAKE IT UP WITH
00:19:03.10\00:19:05.07
HIM.' AND SO I JUST PASS
THE BUCK. I SAID, 'HE PUT US IN
00:19:05.07\00:19:09.84
CHARGE. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO
GO TALK TO THE LORD ABOUT THAT.
00:19:09.84\00:19:12.78
THIS IS THE WAY IT IS.'
AND SO SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE
00:19:12.78\00:19:15.62
TO LAY DOWN THE LAW. OH,
YOU KNOW, I SAW THIS AND NOW
00:19:15.62\00:19:18.22
IS PROBABLY AS GOOD A TIME
AS ANY TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU.
00:19:18.22\00:19:21.22
I SAW A LIST IN PREPARING FOR
THIS SERMON - THINGS THAT WE -
00:19:21.22\00:19:25.69
YOU MIGHT RAISE YOUR HAND -
THINGS THAT WE TYPICALLY HAVE
00:19:25.69\00:19:28.30
HEARD FATHERS SAY AND THEN I'VE
GOT THINGS WE TYPICALLY HAVE
00:19:28.30\00:19:30.70
HEARD MOTHERS SAY. HOW
MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD
00:19:30.70\00:19:33.50
YOUR FATHER SAY - HOW MANY OF
YOU HAVE HEARD YOUR FATHER SAY,
00:19:33.50\00:19:36.60
'ASK YOUR MOTHER'?
'I DON'T KNOW. I'M BUSY.
00:19:36.60\00:19:41.61
ASK YOUR
MOTHER.' 'CLOSE THE DOOR.
00:19:41.61\00:19:44.71
WERE YOU BORN IN A BARN?'
DID ANYONE HEAR THAT GROWING UP?
00:19:44.71\00:19:49.38
FATHER OR MOTHER
COULD HAVE SAID THAT ONE.
00:19:49.38\00:19:51.59
'DON'T WORRY, IT'S
ONLY A LITTLE BLOOD.'
00:19:51.59\00:19:55.79
YOU COME IN WITH AN OWIE, YOU
KNOW, MOM IS KISSING IT AND PUT
00:19:55.79\00:19:58.39
A BAND-AID ON IT. YOU
SHOW IT TO YOUR DAD AND
00:19:58.39\00:20:00.70
HE'LL GO, 'AW, IT'S JUST BLOOD.'
I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I HURT
00:20:00.70\00:20:04.90
MYSELF AND I STARTED TO BLEED
I WAS THINKING, 'I'M LEAKING!
00:20:04.90\00:20:08.10
WHAT IS - WHAT'S HAPPENING?'
AND, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER MY
00:20:08.10\00:20:12.07
UNCLE USED TO SAY - HE'D TAKE
IT THE OTHER WAY, HE'D GO, 'WOW,
00:20:12.07\00:20:16.58
LOOK AT ALL THE BLOOD.
THAT'S REALLY SOMETHING.'
00:20:16.58\00:20:22.08
AND YOU DIDN'T GET A LOT
OF SYMPATHY FROM THE FATHERS,
00:20:22.08\00:20:24.95
RIGHT? 'A LITTLE DIRT NEVER
HURT ANYONE, JUST WIPE IT OFF.'
00:20:24.95\00:20:29.92
'KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL.'
'THIS IS GOING TO HURT ME A LOT
00:20:29.92\00:20:34.46
MORE THAN IT'S
GOING TO HURT YOU.'
00:20:34.46\00:20:38.30
I NEVER DID UNDERSTAND THAT.
'DO I LOOK LIKE I'M MADE OF
00:20:38.30\00:20:42.10
MONEY?' ANY OF
YOU EVER HEARD THAT?
00:20:42.10\00:20:46.61
YOU EVER HEAR DAD
SAY, 'NO, WE'RE NOT LOST.'
00:20:46.61\00:20:51.41
AND THEN ALONG WITH THAT ONE YOU
WOULD HEAR, 'NO, WE'RE NOT THERE
00:20:51.41\00:20:53.82
YET.' 'DON'T MAKE
ME STOP THIS CAR AND
00:20:53.82\00:21:01.69
COME BACK THERE!' 'AS
LONG AS YOU LIVE UNDER MY
00:21:01.69\00:21:05.39
ROOF YOU LIVE BY MY RULES' OR
'I'M THE KING OF THIS CASTLE.'
00:21:05.39\00:21:10.50
SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.
ANY OF YOU EVER HEAR THAT
00:21:10.50\00:21:12.30
GROWING UP? 'I'LL
TELL YOU WHY, BECAUSE I
00:21:12.30\00:21:15.77
SAID SO.' AND, YOU
KNOW, WHENEVER I HEARD
00:21:15.77\00:21:20.34
THAT I THOUGHT - THAT USED TO
MAKE ME SO MAD AND THEN I HEARD
00:21:20.34\00:21:23.91
MYSELF SAY IT.
THAT'S WHAT'S REALLY SAD.
00:21:23.91\00:21:30.45
'NO I'M NOT SLEEPING, I
WAS WATCHING THAT SHOW.'
00:21:30.45\00:21:35.32
'AM I TALKING TO
HEAR MY OWN VOICE?'
00:21:35.32\00:21:38.43
'TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.'
'WHAT DID I JUST FINISH TELLING
00:21:38.43\00:21:41.16
YOU?' 'WHAT PART
OF 'NO' DON'T YOU
00:21:41.16\00:21:43.26
UNDERSTAND?' 'SON, IF
YOU'RE GOING TO BE DUMB
00:21:43.26\00:21:47.17
YOU HAVE TO BE TOUGH.'
YOU NEVER HEARD THAT ONE.
00:21:47.17\00:21:51.54
'KEEP THAT UP AND I'LL GIVE
YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT.'
00:21:51.54\00:21:55.24
HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD THAT ONE?
00:21:55.24\00:22:00.35
'I BROUGHT YOU INTO THIS WORLD
AND I CAN TAKE YOU OUT ALSO.'
00:22:00.35\00:22:06.79
'I CAN MAKE ANOTHER ONE OF YOU.'
THINGS MOM TAUGHT US: 'IF YOU'RE
00:22:06.79\00:22:14.03
OUT THERE MOWING THE GRASS
WITHOUT YOUR SHOES ON AND YOU
00:22:14.03\00:22:16.06
CUT OFF YOUR TOES,
DON'T COME RUNNING TO ME.'
00:22:16.06\00:22:20.57
OF COURSE, IT'S PRETTY HARD
TO RUN TO MOM WITHOUT YOUR TOES.
00:22:20.57\00:22:24.47
'IF YOU FALL OFF THAT SWING AND
BREAK YOUR NECK, YOU CAN'T GO TO
00:22:24.47\00:22:26.31
THE STORE WITH ME.' 'IF
EVERY ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS
00:22:26.31\00:22:30.48
JUMPED OFF THE
BRIDGE WOULD YOU DO IT TOO?'
00:22:30.48\00:22:33.98
'IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR
VEGETABLES YOU'LL NEVER GROW
00:22:33.98\00:22:35.35
UP.' WHAT I USED
TO HEAR IS 'YOU HAVE
00:22:35.35\00:22:37.89
TO EAT ALL YOUR VEGETABLES
BECAUSE THE KIDS IN AFRICA WERE
00:22:37.89\00:22:39.92
STARVING.' HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD
THAT ONE? AND I USED TO THINK,
00:22:39.92\00:22:43.66
'WELL, MOM, COULD WE PACK
IT UP AND SEND IT TO THEM?
00:22:43.66\00:22:46.76
IF THEY'RE HUNGRY, WHY DON'T...'
'IF YOU KEEP CROSSING YOUR EYES
00:22:46.76\00:22:52.83
THAT WAY THEY'RE
GOING TO GET STUCK.'
00:22:52.83\00:22:56.97
'IF YOU DON'T PASS THE SPELLING
TEST YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GET A
00:22:56.97\00:22:58.74
GOOD JOB.' 'MAKE
SURE AND ALWAYS PUT ON
00:22:58.74\00:23:02.14
CLEAN UNDERWEAR BECAUSE
YOU COULD HAVE A CAR ACCIDENT.'
00:23:02.14\00:23:06.01
DID ANY OF YOU EVER HEAR THAT?
'WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? ANSWER
00:23:06.01\00:23:13.25
ME! DON'T TALK BACK TO ME.'
'WHEN YOU GET TO MY AGE YOU'LL
00:23:13.25\00:23:17.76
UNDERSTAND.' 'I'LL
EXPLAIN WHEN YOU GET
00:23:17.76\00:23:19.73
OLDER.' 'JUST WAIT
'TIL YOUR FATHER GETS
00:23:19.73\00:23:22.50
HOME' OR 'YOU'RE GOING
TO GET IT WHEN I GET HOME!'
00:23:22.50\00:23:29.10
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE ONE
THAT WE'VE PROBABLY ALL HEARD IS
00:23:29.10\00:23:31.44
'SOMEDAY YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE
KIDS AND THEY'LL BE JUST LIKE
00:23:31.44\00:23:33.41
YOU.' THINGS THAT
WE HEARD OUR MOTHERS
00:23:33.41\00:23:37.71
AND OUR FATHERS SAY.
IT BRINGS BACK MEMORIES.
00:23:37.71\00:23:42.08
YOU KNOW, THE
COMMAND IS FOR PARENTS ALSO.
00:23:42.08\00:23:49.42
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER IS
NOT JUST A COMMAND FOR CHILDREN.
00:23:49.42\00:23:51.73
THIS IS A COMMAND FOR PARENTS,
OF COURSE, TO BE HONORABLE AND
00:23:51.73\00:23:55.03
NOT TO PROVOKE THEM.
EPHESIANS 6:4, "AND YOU,
00:23:55.03\00:23:58.70
FATHERS, DO NOT PROVOKE YOUR
CHILDREN TO WRATH, BUT BRING
00:23:58.70\00:24:02.34
THEM UP IN THE TRAINING
AND ADMONITION OF THE LORD."
00:24:02.34\00:24:06.14
I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ TO YOU
ALL THE VERSES THAT TALK ABOUT
00:24:06.14\00:24:08.18
TEACHING THE WORD OF GOD TO YOUR
CHILDREN - HERE A LITTLE, THERE
00:24:08.18\00:24:12.28
A LITTLE - PUT IT ON THE
DOORPOSTS - PUT IT IN YOUR HOUSE
00:24:12.28\00:24:17.42
WHEN YOU LAY
DOWN, WHEN YOU RISE UP.
00:24:17.42\00:24:19.22
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS
IF YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO
00:24:19.22\00:24:22.06
GROW UP AND BE HONORABLE AND
SERVE GOD, YOU MUST BE HONORABLE
00:24:22.06\00:24:25.69
AND HAVE FAMILY WORSHIP.
THE WHOLE IDEA OF HONORING YOUR
00:24:25.69\00:24:29.60
FATHER AND MOTHER IS LEARNED
THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD AND IT'S
00:24:29.60\00:24:32.93
IMPLYING THAT YOU'RE TEACHING
THE WORD OF GOD IN YOUR FAMILY.
00:24:32.93\00:24:36.91
THE BIBLE SAYS THESE WORDS
SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO THE CHILDREN
00:24:36.91\00:24:39.04
AND YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN.
THE BIBLE SAYS GRANDPARENTS AND
00:24:39.04\00:24:44.25
PARENTS TEACH
THEM TO THE CHILDREN.
00:24:44.25\00:24:48.22
AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU SHOULD
HONOR YOUR PARENTS AND YOUR
00:24:48.22\00:24:54.22
PARENTS ARE LIKE GOD FOR
THE CHILDREN, THEN HOW ABOUT
00:24:54.22\00:24:58.19
GRANDPARENTS? THAT'S
EVEN MORE SO, YOU WOULD
00:24:58.19\00:25:01.40
THINK, BECAUSE THE BIBLE TALKS
ABOUT HONORING YOUR ELDERS AS
00:25:01.40\00:25:04.53
WELL. COLOSSIANS
3:21, "FATHERS, DO
00:25:04.53\00:25:07.90
NOT PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN,
LEST THEY BECOME DISCOURAGED."
00:25:07.90\00:25:11.21
THERE'S A BALANCE BETWEEN
DISCIPLINING YOUR CHILDREN AND
00:25:11.21\00:25:14.44
NAGGING AND BADGERING THEM
SO THAT THEY'RE EXASPERATED.
00:25:14.44\00:25:18.21
YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GUIDE
THEM - TELL THEM WHAT'S RIGHT,
00:25:18.21\00:25:20.32
TELL THEM WHAT'S WRONG -
AND WHEN THEY DO SOMETHING RIGHT
00:25:20.32\00:25:22.32
TELL THEM, ENCOURAGE THEM, THANK
THEM. IF YOU'RE NOT APPRECIATIVE
00:25:22.32\00:25:26.72
IN THE HOME THEY WON'T
BE WHEN THEY LEAVE THE HOME.
00:25:26.72\00:25:30.09
AND SO, CHILDREN WILL MUCH MORE
DO WHAT THEY SEE THAN WHAT THEY
00:25:30.09\00:25:34.46
HEAR. SO THESE
THINGS MUST BE MODELED.
00:25:34.46\00:25:37.63
I HEARD ABOUT A YOUNG BOY THAT
WAS TALKING TO HIS FATHER AND HE
00:25:37.63\00:25:39.60
SAID, 'DAD, IS IT ALWAYS
TRUE THAT PARENTS KNOW MORE THAN
00:25:39.60\00:25:43.54
THEIR CHILDREN?' HE
SAID, 'YES SON, IT'S ALWAYS
00:25:43.54\00:25:45.81
TRUE.' HE SAID,
'DADS ALWAYS KNOW MORE
00:25:45.81\00:25:48.48
THAN THEIR SONS?' HE
SAID, 'YES SON, DADS ALWAYS
00:25:48.48\00:25:52.48
KNOW MORE THAN THEIR SONS.'
THERE WAS QUIET AND HE SAID,
00:25:52.48\00:25:55.15
'WHO INVENTED THE TELEPHONE?'
HE SAID, 'WELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM
00:25:55.15\00:25:59.22
BELL.' 'SO HOW
COME HIS FATHER DIDN'T
00:25:59.22\00:26:01.52
INVENT IT?' EVIDENTLY
HE KNEW SOMETHING MORE
00:26:01.52\00:26:07.00
THAN HIS FATHER
IS THE IMPLICATION.
00:26:07.00\00:26:10.17
OH, BY THE WAY, HERE'S THAT
VERSE - DEUTERONOMY 4:9, "ONLY
00:26:10.17\00:26:15.47
TAKE HEED TO YOURSELF, AND
DILIGENTLY KEEP YOURSELF, LEST
00:26:15.47\00:26:19.11
YOU FORGET THE THINGS YOUR EYES
HAVE SEEN, AND LEST THEY DEPART
00:26:19.11\00:26:21.71
FROM YOUR HEART ALL
THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.
00:26:21.71\00:26:24.21
AND TEACH THEM TO YOUR CHILDREN
AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN."
00:26:24.21\00:26:29.15
SO THERE'S A RESPONSIBILITY FOR
A FAMILY BY WORD AND BY EXAMPLE.
00:26:29.15\00:26:34.89
NOW, THIS COMMAND - AND I'VE
STRUGGLED WITH HOW TO SHARE THIS
00:26:34.89\00:26:37.83
PART OF THE WORD WITH YOU - THIS
NEXT COMMAND I'M GOING TO SHARE
00:26:37.83\00:26:41.63
WITH YOU IS DIFFICULT BUT IT'S
IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE GOD WANTED
00:26:41.63\00:26:49.27
TO EMPHASIZE HOW IMPORTANT
IT IS NOT TO BE DISRESPECTFUL TO
00:26:49.27\00:26:55.54
PARENTS. DEUTERONOMY
21 - DEUTERONOMY 21 -
00:26:55.54\00:27:00.05
TALKING ABOUT A REBELLIOUS
CHILD. LISTEN TO THIS - YOU KIDS
00:27:00.05\00:27:04.92
LISTEN TO THIS.
DEUTERONOMY 21:18, "IF A MAN HAS
00:27:04.92\00:27:11.79
A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON
WHO WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF
00:27:11.79\00:27:15.96
HIS FATHER OR THE VOICE OF HIS
MOTHER, AND WHO, WHEN THEY HAVE
00:27:15.96\00:27:20.47
CHASTENED HIM, WILL NOT HEED
THEM, THEN HIS FATHER AND HIS
00:27:20.47\00:27:24.94
MOTHER SHALL TAKE HOLD OF HIM
AND BRING HIM OUT TO THE ELDERS
00:27:24.94\00:27:28.91
OF HIS CITY, TO
THE GATE OF HIS CITY.
00:27:28.91\00:27:31.51
AND THEY SHALL SAY TO THE ELDERS
OF HIS CITY," - THAT'S WHERE
00:27:31.51\00:27:33.65
JUDGMENT WAS - THEY'D GO
BRING THEIR VARIOUS CASES TO THE
00:27:33.65\00:27:36.15
ELDERS OF THE CITY - THE GATE OF
THE CITY - "'THIS SON OF OURS IS
00:27:36.15\00:27:39.69
STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS; HE
WILL NOT OBEY OUR VOICE; HE IS A
00:27:39.69\00:27:44.26
GLUTTON AND A DRUNKARD.'
THEN ALL THE MEN OF HIS CITY
00:27:44.26\00:27:48.23
SHALL STONE HIM TO DEATH WITH
STONES; SO YOU SHALL PUT AWAY
00:27:48.23\00:27:52.33
THE EVIL FROM AMONG YOU, AND
ALL ISRAEL SHALL HEAR AND FEAR."
00:27:52.33\00:27:58.17
NOW THERE'S NO RECORD IN THE
BIBLE THAT ANY SON WAS STONED -
00:27:58.17\00:28:01.11
OR DAUGHTER - BECAUSE OF
THAT KIND OF INSUBORDINATION.
00:28:01.11\00:28:04.11
BUT JUST THE FACT THAT THERE'S
A LAW IN THERE THAT A PARENT -
00:28:04.11\00:28:09.72
MOTHER OR FATHER - A FATHER
WOULD PRINCIPALLY BRING IT
00:28:09.72\00:28:12.55
BEFORE THE ELDERS - COULD BRING
A CASE - A CHARGE AGAINST THEIR
00:28:12.55\00:28:16.12
SON. AND YOU KNOW WHAT
THE CHARGE WAS? REBELLIOUS,
00:28:16.12\00:28:20.56
INSOLENT, DRUNKARD,
GLUTTON, DISOBEDIENT -
00:28:20.56\00:28:24.73
JUST THAT WE HAVE GOT A SLOB FOR
A CHILD THAT JUST WILL NOT OBEY.
00:28:24.73\00:28:28.44
AND WHAT WAS THE PENALTY? DEATH.
00:28:28.44\00:28:32.47
YOU KNOW, I THINK THE REASON
THAT'S IN THE BIBLE IS BECAUSE
00:28:32.47\00:28:34.31
GOD IS SAYING, 'DON'T YOU EVEN
THINK ABOUT BEING DISRESPECTFUL
00:28:34.31\00:28:38.81
TO YOUR PARENTS BECAUSE
THEY HOLD THE DEATH SENTENCE
00:28:38.81\00:28:41.95
POSSIBILITY IN THEIR HANDS.
NOW, LOOK AT HOW THINGS HAVE
00:28:41.95\00:28:46.49
CHANGED. AGAIN, DON'T
MISUNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING.
00:28:46.49\00:28:50.26
DO YOU ALL
UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:28:50.26\00:28:51.56
WHEN THEY LIVED UNDER A
THEOCRACY - I'M NOT SUGGESTING
00:28:51.56\00:28:54.00
THAT WE PRACTICE THAT -
SOMEONE'S GOING TO RUN OUT AND
00:28:54.00\00:28:56.80
CALL AN ATTORNEY. I'M
NOT SUGGESTING THAT WE
00:28:56.80\00:28:59.43
PRACTICE THAT.
THEY WERE LIVING UNDER A
00:28:59.43\00:29:02.34
THEOCRACY WHEN GOD
GAVE THEM THIS LAW.
00:29:02.34\00:29:05.04
MOSES WAS THERE. THEY
WERE IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:29:05.04\00:29:07.41
THE PILLAR OF FIRE
WAS HOVERING ABOVE THEM.
00:29:07.41\00:29:09.58
THEY SAW THE PRESENCE OF
GOD. FOR A CHILD TO DISOBEY THE
00:29:09.58\00:29:13.11
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD RIGHT THERE
IN THE VERY VISIBLE PRESENCE OF
00:29:13.11\00:29:15.78
GOD WAS ESPECIALLY DEADLY.
SO I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT WE
00:29:15.78\00:29:20.86
PRACTICE THIS, BUT I JUST
THOUGHT THAT IT MIGHT BE WORTH
00:29:20.86\00:29:23.59
REMEMBERING. KIDS
HEARD THIS READ TO THEM.
00:29:23.59\00:29:29.46
THEY TREMBLED AT THE
THOUGHT THAT THEIR PARENTS WERE
00:29:29.46\00:29:34.84
AUTHORIZED BY GOD WITH
LIFE AND DEATH POWER, RIGHT?
00:29:34.84\00:29:42.31
YOU'D OBEY YOUR PARENTS WHEN
THEY SAID 'CLEAN YOUR ROOM.'
00:29:42.31\00:29:46.05
THE KIDS SAY,
'OH, CLEAN MY ROOM.
00:29:46.05\00:29:47.25
CLEAN MY ROOM.' DAD
PUT HIS HANDS ON HIS HIPS
00:29:47.25\00:29:49.75
AND HE'D SAY, 'SHALL WE GO
TO THE GATE AND SEE THE JUDGES?'
00:29:49.75\00:29:54.79
YOU'D CLEAN YOUR
ROOM, WOULDN'T YOU?
00:29:54.79\00:29:58.93
BUT TODAY, KIDS GET MAD AT THEIR
PARENTS AND THEY PICK UP THE
00:29:58.93\00:30:01.96
PHONE AND THEY CALL
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES.
00:30:01.96\00:30:06.74
AND I AGREE THAT IT'S TERRIBLE
WHEN PARENTS ABUSE THEIR
00:30:06.74\00:30:10.44
CHILDREN, AND WE KNOW THAT
THERE'S PLENTY OF THAT, BUT SOME
00:30:10.44\00:30:13.94
CASES IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND,
WHERE KIDS ARE MANIPULATING THE
00:30:13.94\00:30:16.95
SYSTEM AND THEY ARE THREATENING
THEIR PARENTS. THEY'RE SAYING,
00:30:16.95\00:30:21.82
'YOU YELL AT ME I'M GOING TO
CALL AND SAY THAT YOU BEAT ME.
00:30:21.82\00:30:26.12
AND THIS BRUISE I GOT PLAYING
BASKETBALL, I'M GOING TO SAY YOU
00:30:26.12\00:30:29.16
HIT ME.' AND KIDS
HAVE HAD THEIR PARENTS
00:30:29.16\00:30:33.03
ARRESTED OR
THEY'VE BEEN TAKEN AWAY.
00:30:33.03\00:30:36.40
I KNOW CASES, AS A PASTOR WE'VE
DEALT WITH FAMILIES WHERE KIDS
00:30:36.40\00:30:38.53
HAVE FALSELY ACCUSED THEIR
PARENTS BECAUSE THEY WERE MAD
00:30:38.53\00:30:42.04
AND HAD A TANTRUM AND THE
CHILDREN WERE TAKEN OUT OF THE
00:30:42.04\00:30:44.44
FAMILY'S HOME AND THEY FINALLY
CONFESSED 'I MADE THE WHOLE
00:30:44.44\00:30:46.57
THING UP.' THINGS HAVE CHANGED
FROM WHERE THE AUTHORITY USED TO
00:30:46.57\00:30:51.71
REST WITH THE PARENTS TO WHERE
IT'S MOVED TO THE CHILD AND THE
00:30:51.71\00:30:54.95
STATE. HONOR YOUR
FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER.
00:30:54.95\00:30:59.39
PROVERBS 28:24 - JUST TO
REINFORCE THAT POINT - "WHOEVER
00:30:59.39\00:31:03.59
ROBS HIS FATHER OR HIS
MOTHER, AND SAYS, 'IT IS NO
00:31:03.59\00:31:06.36
TRANSGRESSION,' THE SAME
IS COMPANION TO A DESTROYER."
00:31:06.36\00:31:11.07
IT'S SAYING THIS PERSON
IS A DESTROYER - THEY HONOR -
00:31:11.07\00:31:14.17
DISHONOR THEIR
FATHER AND MOTHER.
00:31:14.17\00:31:15.90
PROVERBS 15:5, "A FOOL DESPISES
HIS FATHER'S INSTRUCTION, BUT HE
00:31:15.90\00:31:21.68
WHO RECEIVES
CORRECTION IS PRUDENT."
00:31:21.68\00:31:24.21
OH, WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN,
YOU KNOW, I CAN THINK OF SO MANY
00:31:24.21\00:31:27.02
TIMES MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER
SAID, 'DO THIS' OR 'DON'T DO
00:31:27.02\00:31:29.28
THAT' - JUST GAVE ME SOME
PRACTICAL ADVICE AND I THOUGHT,
00:31:29.28\00:31:32.02
'OH, WHAT DO THEY KNOW?'
AND YOU GET A LITTLE OLDER AND
00:31:32.02\00:31:35.92
YOU THINK, 'IT'S TOO BAD I
HAD TO LEARN THE HARD WAY, THOSE
00:31:35.92\00:31:39.36
THINGS.' SOMETIMES
YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU SAY
00:31:39.36\00:31:41.80
SOMETHING TO YOUR KIDS, YOU
SAY, 'TRUST ME.' 'BUT WHY? WHY?'
00:31:41.80\00:31:44.87
YOU CAN'T ALWAYS
EXPLAIN IT. 'TRUST ME.
00:31:44.87\00:31:47.37
THERE ARE GOOD
REASONS FOR THESE THINGS.'
00:31:47.37\00:31:50.14
HONOR YOUR
FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER.
00:31:50.14\00:31:53.04
NOW, THEY EVEN HAD A TIME OF
- NOT ONLY WAS THERE PUNISHMENT
00:31:53.04\00:31:58.31
FOR A REBELLIOUS CHILD, BUT WHEN
THEY ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND,
00:31:58.31\00:32:02.15
THEY HAD SIX OF THE TRIBES
THAT STOOD ON A MOUNTAIN IN THE
00:32:02.15\00:32:05.09
MIDDLE OF THE PROMISED LAND
CALLED MOUNT GERIZIM AND SIX OF
00:32:05.09\00:32:08.66
THE TRIBES STOOD ON MOUNT NEBO
ON THE OPPOSITE OF A VALLEY AND
00:32:08.66\00:32:14.10
THEY WOULD PRONOUNCE BLESSINGS
AND CURSINGS THAT WOULD ECHO
00:32:14.10\00:32:17.60
ACROSS THE VALLEY THAT WOULD
BASICALLY SAY, 'THIS IS THE LAW
00:32:17.60\00:32:20.27
OF OUR LAND.' AND CURSING WAS
PRONOUNCED UPON THE DISOBEDIENT.
00:32:20.27\00:32:26.44
PROVERBS 20:20, "WHOEVER CURSES
HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER, HIS
00:32:26.44\00:32:31.18
LAMP WILL BE PUT
OUT IN DEEP DARKNESS."
00:32:31.18\00:32:34.72
YOU THINK, IN THE BIBLE, SOME
EXAMPLES OF LIKE ABSALOM THAT
00:32:34.72\00:32:37.45
REBELLED AGAINST HIS
FATHER. HOW DID IT END FOR HIM?
00:32:37.45\00:32:41.49
IN A NAMELESS PIT HE WAS
BURIED - PIERCED THROUGH.
00:32:41.49\00:32:48.03
PROVERBS 30:17, "THE EYE THAT
MOCKS HIS FATHER, AND SCORNS
00:32:48.03\00:32:52.13
OBEDIENCE TO HIS MOTHER, THE
RAVENS OF THE VALLEY WILL PICK
00:32:52.13\00:32:56.14
IT OUT, AND THE
YOUNG EAGLES WILL EAT IT."
00:32:56.14\00:32:58.91
AND THEN THEY WERE TO PRONOUNCE
THIS CURSE - DEUTERONOMY 27:16,
00:32:58.91\00:33:03.41
"CURSED IS THE ONE WHO TREATS
HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER WITH
00:33:03.41\00:33:06.75
CONTEMPT. AND ALL
THE PEOPLE WILL SAY,
00:33:06.75\00:33:09.75
'AMEN!'" THAT
WAS A CURSE THAT THEY
00:33:09.75\00:33:12.49
WOULD ALTOGETHER SAY AS A NATION
- CURSED IS THE ONE WHO TREATS
00:33:12.49\00:33:17.59
HIS FATHER OR
MOTHER CONTEMPTUOUSLY.
00:33:17.59\00:33:20.00
NOW, THIS IS PROBABLY A GOOD
PLACE TO MENTION SOME OF THE
00:33:20.00\00:33:23.10
COMMANDMENTS ARE STATED IN THE
NEGATIVE - THOU SHALT NOT, THOU
00:33:23.10\00:33:26.97
SHALT NOT, THOU SHALT NOT - THIS
COMMANDMENT IS ACTUALLY STATED
00:33:26.97\00:33:29.74
IN THE POSITIVE. 'THOU
SHALL HONOR YOUR FATHER
00:33:29.74\00:33:34.14
AND YOUR MOTHER THAT YOUR
DAYS MAY BE LONG UPON THE LAND.'
00:33:34.14\00:33:37.61
IT'S A POSITIVE COMMAND WHEN
YOU THINK ABOUT IT, BUT YOU READ
00:33:37.61\00:33:41.52
THROUGH THE REST OF THE
SCRIPTURE AND IT SAYS THERE ARE
00:33:41.52\00:33:43.28
SOME VERY NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
FOR THOSE WHO DISOBEY.
00:33:43.28\00:33:48.19
AS GOES THE HOME, SO GOES THE
NATION. IF WE DON'T HAVE RESPECT
00:33:48.19\00:33:52.26
FOR AUTHORITY WITH PARENTS,
THOSE CHILDREN TYPICALLY DO NOT
00:33:52.26\00:33:56.06
RESPECT AUTHORITY
WHEN THEY LEAVE HOME.
00:33:56.06\00:33:58.33
AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE THEM
AT MY FINGERTIPS BUT THERE'S AN
00:33:58.33\00:34:01.17
ABUNDANCE OF SURVEYS AND
EVIDENCE - YOU GO THROUGH A
00:34:01.17\00:34:03.74
PRISON AND YOU DO AN INTERVIEW
AND YOU'LL FIND OUT THAT A LOT
00:34:03.74\00:34:06.47
OF PEOPLE - IN MEN'S OR WOMEN'S
PRISONS - THERE WAS NOT RESPECT
00:34:06.47\00:34:10.88
IN THE HOME. THEY
TRANSFERRED THAT LACK OF
00:34:10.88\00:34:13.58
RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY, ONCE THEY
LEFT HOME, TO THE SOCIETY AND
00:34:13.58\00:34:17.72
THEY OFTEN
ENDED UP INCARCERATED.
00:34:17.72\00:34:23.06
YOU HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER
00:34:23.06\00:34:26.09
BY NOT STAYING A CHILD FOREVER.
YOU HONOR THEM BY GROWING UP.
00:34:26.09\00:34:32.23
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS
IS TO, BASICALLY, TRAIN YOUR
00:34:32.23\00:34:38.11
CHILDREN FOR INDEPENDENCE.
FROM THE TIME THEY'RE BORN THEY
00:34:38.11\00:34:42.41
ARE UTTERLY DEPENDENT AND YOUR
RESPONSIBILITY IS TO TEACH THEM
00:34:42.41\00:34:47.32
TO BE INDEPENDENT, RESPONSIBLE,
GOOD, HONEST, RESPECTFUL - AND,
00:34:47.32\00:34:55.52
YOU KNOW, IF - THERE NEEDS
TO BE RESPECT IN THE FAMILY.
00:34:55.52\00:34:59.89
WHEN KIDS GROW UP AND THEY
SEE MOM AND DAD YELLING AT EACH
00:34:59.89\00:35:04.97
OTHER BUT THEY GO OUT IN PUBLIC
AND THEY'RE NICE, THEY'LL GROW
00:35:04.97\00:35:09.94
UP THINKING THAT YELLING IS THE
WAY THAT YOU HANDLE THINGS IN
00:35:09.94\00:35:13.54
YOUR FAMILIES AND IN
YOUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS.
00:35:13.54\00:35:16.98
JUST WHATEVER THEY SEE IN THE
FAMILY ENDS UP BEING REPRODUCED.
00:35:16.98\00:35:21.25
THAT'S WHY IT'S SO
IMPORTANT TO HAVE THIS MODEL.
00:35:21.25\00:35:23.25
WE'RE TO TRAIN
THEM FOR INDEPENDENCE.
00:35:23.25\00:35:25.42
YOU'RE NOT HONORING YOUR PARENTS
BY STAYING AT HOME WHEN YOU'RE
00:35:25.42\00:35:29.86
25, NOT GOING TO SCHOOL,
AND YOU DON'T HAVE A JOB.
00:35:29.86\00:35:33.40
PARENTS, YOU ARE NOT HONORING
GOD OR HELPING YOUR CHILDREN BY
00:35:33.40\00:35:37.63
LETTING THEM DO THAT.
THERE COMES A TIME WHERE THE
00:35:37.63\00:35:40.94
BEST THING IN THE WORLD YOU CAN
DO FOR YOUR KIDS IS TO PRACTICE
00:35:40.94\00:35:43.51
SOME TOUGH LOVE AND
SAY, 'PRAISE THE LORD!
00:35:43.51\00:35:47.11
YOU'RE HEALTHY. YOU'RE EDUCATED.
THERE'S THE DOOR. SEIZE THE DAY!
00:35:47.11\00:35:54.52
YOU'RE GOING TO
HAVE AN EXCITING LIFE.
00:35:54.52\00:35:56.72
SEND ME A POSTCARD WHEN
YOU GET A JOB. KEEP IN TOUCH.'
00:35:56.72\00:36:02.62
BUT YOU ALL KNOW
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
00:36:02.62\00:36:07.23
SOMETIMES PEOPLE
DON'T UNDERSTAND.
00:36:07.23\00:36:08.96
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS IN
GENESIS, 'A MAN WILL LEAVE HIS
00:36:08.96\00:36:14.07
FATHER AND MOTHER AND
CLEAVE UNTO HIS WIFE.'
00:36:14.07\00:36:16.77
AND SOME OF YOU ARE THINKING,
'WELL, I DON'T HAVE A WIFE OR A
00:36:16.77\00:36:18.27
HUSBAND YET SO I'M
JUST STAYING AT HOME.'
00:36:18.27\00:36:19.84
OH NO, NO - YOU'RE PROBABLY
NOT GOING TO GET ONE EITHER IF
00:36:19.84\00:36:21.98
YOU'RE 45 AND STILL
LIVING WITH MOM AND DAD.
00:36:21.98\00:36:25.25
YOU'VE GOT TO GET OUT AND GET
A JOB AND GET YOUR OWN LIFE AND
00:36:25.25\00:36:27.78
YOU'LL PROBABLY BE MORE
ATTRACTIVE TO THE OPPOSITE SEX.
00:36:27.78\00:36:31.82
AND YOU'VE GOT TO - FOLKS
ARE THINKING, 'YOU KNOW, I CAN'T
00:36:31.82\00:36:34.26
COMPETE, HE'S STILL BRAGGING
ABOUT MOM'S COOKING AND HE'S 30
00:36:34.26\00:36:36.96
YEARS OLD AND HE'S LIVING AT
HOME AND HOW CAN I EVER COMPETE
00:36:36.96\00:36:39.83
WITH THAT?' IF YOU
WANT TO BE ON THE MARKET
00:36:39.83\00:36:41.96
AND HAVE YOUR OWN HOME, THERE
COMES A TIME WHEN YOU'VE GOT TO
00:36:41.96\00:36:44.50
LEAVE THE NEST. AND YOU KNOW
YOU EVEN SEE THIS IN NATURE.
00:36:44.50\00:36:48.54
WHEN THE LITTLE EAGLE IS
YOUNG - EAGLES ARE INTERESTING
00:36:48.54\00:36:51.77
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY MATE
FOR LIFE - THEY'RE VERY DEVOTED
00:36:51.77\00:36:53.48
COMPANIONS. THE
MOTHER AND THE FATHER BOTH
00:36:53.48\00:36:56.18
CARE FOR THE CHICK - THEY WORK
TOGETHER - AND THEY MAKE THEIR
00:36:56.18\00:37:01.18
NEST REAL FLUFFY
WHEN THEY'RE BABIES.
00:37:01.18\00:37:04.65
IT KEEPS THE EGGS FROM CRACKING
BECAUSE THE NEST IS MADE OUT OF
00:37:04.65\00:37:06.55
STICKS AND ROCKS AND ALL KINDS
OF THINGS - BONES - BUT THEY'VE
00:37:06.55\00:37:10.26
GOT A LOT OF DOWN AND FLUFF AND
AS THE CHICKS GET OLDER - PRETTY
00:37:10.26\00:37:14.76
SOON THEY GET BIG AND THEY'RE
CROWDING EACH OTHER IN THE
00:37:14.76\00:37:17.47
LITTLE NEST AND THEY'RE
STRETCHING THEIR WINGS AND
00:37:17.47\00:37:19.43
THEY'RE FLAPPING AND THEY
GET WHERE THE PARENTS KNOW, YOU
00:37:19.43\00:37:21.47
KNOW, THEY CAN FLY BUT THEY'RE
COMFORTABLE BECAUSE WE'RE
00:37:21.47\00:37:24.31
BRINGING THEM FOOD EVERY DAY.
SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE PARENTS
00:37:24.31\00:37:27.94
START DOING? THEY
START BRINGING LESS FOOD.
00:37:27.94\00:37:32.21
AND THEY START GETTING HUNGRY.
AND THEN THE PARENTS START TO
00:37:32.21\00:37:36.05
SCRATCH UP ALL THE DOWN AND THEY
THROW ALL THE SOFT STUFF OUT OF
00:37:36.05\00:37:39.12
THE NEST SO THEY'RE NOT ONLY
HUNGRY, THEY'RE UNCOMFORTABLE.
00:37:39.12\00:37:42.92
THEY'VE GOT ALL THESE BONES AND
SHARP STICKS AND ROCKS IN THERE
00:37:42.92\00:37:45.36
AND THEY'RE
GOING, 'WHAT'S HAPPENED?
00:37:45.36\00:37:46.56
DON'T YOU LOVE ME ANYMORE?'
AND THEY'RE BASICALLY SAYING,
00:37:46.56\00:37:49.46
'YOU'VE GOT WINGS.
YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN TO FLY.
00:37:49.46\00:37:52.33
THE TIME COMES WHEN
YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE THE LEAP.
00:37:52.33\00:37:54.77
AND, YES, THERE'S RISK AND
DANGER OUT THERE, BUT YOU JUST
00:37:54.77\00:37:57.44
CAN'T STAY AT HOME.'
SO PART OF THAT HONOR
00:37:57.44\00:37:59.61
RELATIONSHIP OF PARENT AND CHILD
IS THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE
00:37:59.61\00:38:04.01
SUPPOSED TO ULTIMATELY PREPARE
THEM FOR THE TIME WHEN THEY
00:38:04.01\00:38:07.82
LAUNCH. THERE NEEDS
TO BE A LAUNCH TIME.
00:38:07.82\00:38:12.55
AND I SAY THIS BECAUSE - AND I'M
NOT SPEAKING TO ANYONE SPECIFIC
00:38:12.55\00:38:16.02
HERE - BUT I PROBABLY
AM WITHOUT KNOWING IT.
00:38:16.02\00:38:20.50
IT BREAKS MY HEART WHEN I SEE
THAT KIDS ARE STILL IN THE NEST,
00:38:20.50\00:38:25.53
THEIR WINGS ARE FULLY DEVELOPED
AND YEARS GO BY AND MOM AND DAD
00:38:25.53\00:38:28.74
ARE STILL BRINGING THEM THEIR
FOOD AND TAKING CARE OF THEM.
00:38:28.74\00:38:32.64
YOU'RE NOT HELPING THEM AND,
CHILDREN, YOU ARE NOT HONORING
00:38:32.64\00:38:35.61
YOUR PARENTS WHEN YOU
DON'T GET THAT INDEPENDENCE.
00:38:35.61\00:38:40.52
SAY AMEN. HELP ME OUT
OF THIS CONUNDRUM. OKAY.
00:38:40.52\00:38:47.59
CHILDREN SHOULD HONOR - SHOULD
CHILDREN - THAT'S MY QUESTION -
00:38:47.59\00:38:50.73
SHOULD CHILDREN HONOR
A DISHONORABLE PARENT?
00:38:50.73\00:38:55.16
NOW, WHENEVER YOU TALK ABOUT THE
SUBJECT OF HONORING YOUR MOTHER
00:38:55.16\00:38:57.67
AND FATHER, SOMEONE WILL
INVARIABLY SAY, 'WELL, THAT'S
00:38:57.67\00:39:01.40
EASY FOR YOU TO SAY.
YOU DON'T KNOW MY FATHER.
00:39:01.40\00:39:05.41
YOU DON'T KNOW MY
MOTHER. THEY ARE IMPOSSIBLE.
00:39:05.41\00:39:09.01
THEY - THE WAY THEY
TREATED ME GROWING UP.
00:39:09.01\00:39:11.05
I WAS MISTREATED.' HOW DO
YOU DEAL WITH THOSE SITUATIONS?
00:39:11.05\00:39:14.48
OR THERE MAY BE AREAS WHERE
YOU SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I DO TRY TO
00:39:14.48\00:39:17.79
HONOR THEM BUT THERE ARE DAYS
WHEN I JUST, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T
00:39:17.79\00:39:21.09
SPEAK PEACEABLY TO THEM
BECAUSE THEY'RE SO UNREASONABLE.
00:39:21.09\00:39:24.19
AND EVEN AFTER I'M AN ADULT THEY
KEEP MEDDLING IN MY LIFE AND
00:39:24.19\00:39:27.30
TELLING ME WHAT TO DO'
OR 'I CAN'T TALK TO THEM.
00:39:27.30\00:39:29.40
EVERY TIME WE TALK, WE
FIGHT AND WHAT DO YOU DO?'
00:39:29.40\00:39:32.47
AND YOU CAN FILL IN THE BLANK -
WHATEVER YOUR SITUATION IS - OR
00:39:32.47\00:39:35.60
YOU, NO DOUBT, KNOW SITUATIONS.
YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE HONORABLE
00:39:35.60\00:39:41.48
TO THEIR POSITION AS
YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR FATHER.
00:39:41.48\00:39:45.78
YOU NEED TO
RESPECT THEM FOR THAT.
00:39:45.78\00:39:47.48
IF YOU CANNOT COMMUNICATE
PEACEABLY - MAYBE YOU'RE A
00:39:47.48\00:39:50.19
CHRISTIAN AND THEY'RE NOT - IF
THEY DO NOT ASK YOU TO VIOLATE
00:39:50.19\00:39:53.82
SOME COMMAND OR
PRINCIPLE, RESPECT THEM.
00:39:53.82\00:39:57.19
IF YOUR PARENTS SAY,
'LET'S GO ROB A BANK TOGETHER.'
00:39:57.19\00:40:00.50
YOU SAY 'NO.' YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:40:00.50\00:40:03.37
AND SO, OBVIOUSLY, IF YOUR
PARENTS ARE ASKING YOU TO DO
00:40:03.37\00:40:05.37
SOMETHING THAT'S A VIOLATION OF
GOD'S WORD OR HIS WILL, YOU HAVE
00:40:05.37\00:40:08.47
TO RESPECTFULLY SAY,
'I'M SORRY, I CAN'T DO THAT.'
00:40:08.47\00:40:11.64
AND IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS GETTING
ALONG, WRITE LETTERS IF YOU
00:40:11.64\00:40:15.11
CAN'T TALK PEACEFULLY.
WRITE A NOTE. IT'S HARD TO ARGUE
00:40:15.11\00:40:17.81
WITH A NOTE. WRITE A NOTE AND
SAY - YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT A LOT
00:40:17.81\00:40:21.22
OF PEOPLE I'VE COUNSELED WITH
AND THEY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I WANT
00:40:21.22\00:40:23.28
TO HONOR MY PARENTS BUT WHENEVER
I TALK TO THEM THEY START TO
00:40:23.28\00:40:26.05
BADGER ME AND PUT ME
DOWN AND IT'S JUST PAINFUL.'
00:40:26.05\00:40:30.59
AND I SAY, 'WELL ALRIGHT,
THEN SAY - WRITE THEM A NOTE.
00:40:30.59\00:40:33.50
TELL THEM YOU LOVE THEM
AND RESPECT THEM AND JUST DO IT
00:40:33.50\00:40:35.13
THROUGH THE MAIL.' IT
JUST CREATES ONE LITTLE LAYER
00:40:35.13\00:40:37.87
OF SEPARATION WHERE YOU
CAN SHOW, 'I RESPECT YOU.
00:40:37.87\00:40:39.93
I WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU
BUT WHEN WE TALK IT JUST ISN'T'
00:40:39.93\00:40:44.41
- YOU KNOW. AND
THERE MAY COME A TIME -
00:40:44.41\00:40:46.24
THERE ARE CASES WHERE YOU NEED
TO CUT OFF COMMUNICATION BECAUSE
00:40:46.24\00:40:50.85
IT IS SO TOXIC. BUT IT
DOESN'T MEAN YOU DO IT IN
00:40:50.85\00:40:54.62
A DISRESPECTFUL WAY.
YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:40:54.62\00:40:57.45
THERE WAS ONE OF THE KINGS IN
THE BIBLE THAT HAD TO MAKE HIS
00:40:57.45\00:40:59.85
MOTHER - HE HAD TO BASICALLY
FIRE HER FROM BEING QUEEN
00:40:59.85\00:41:03.43
BECAUSE SHE WAS WORSHIPING
PAGAN IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE.
00:41:03.43\00:41:07.00
AND SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU
HAVE TO BREAK THAT OFF BUT AS
00:41:07.00\00:41:10.40
FAR AS POSSIBLE - EVEN
THE PARENTS WHO ARE SOMETIMES
00:41:10.40\00:41:13.94
DIFFICULT - RESPECT THEM, HONOR
THEM. THEY'RE YOUR PARENTS,
00:41:13.94\00:41:17.51
AMEN? THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT
YOU NEED TO - ONCE YOU BECOME AN
00:41:17.51\00:41:23.28
ADULT IT'S NICE TO LISTEN TO
THEIR ADVICE - YOU DON'T ALWAYS
00:41:23.28\00:41:26.68
HAVE TO FOLLOW IT.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO MEDDLE IN
00:41:26.68\00:41:29.95
YOUR LIVES, BUT BE
RESPECTFUL. REMEMBER THEM.
00:41:29.95\00:41:32.95
WRITE THEM AN OCCASIONAL
NOTE. MAKE A PHONE CALL.
00:41:32.95\00:41:36.89
I HEARD ABOUT A WOMAN WHO CALLED
HER RABBI - AND SHE TURNED 60 -
00:41:36.89\00:41:40.20
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS
TIME TO MAKE OUT HER WILL.
00:41:40.20\00:41:42.80
SHE SAYS, 'THERE'S TWO THINGS
I WANT YOU TO HELP ME WITH.'
00:41:42.80\00:41:45.53
SHE SAID, 'I WANT TO
MAKE SURE THAT I'M CREMATED.
00:41:45.53\00:41:48.07
IT'S MORE AFFORDABLE.' AND
SHE SAID,' THEN I'D LIKE YOU
00:41:48.07\00:41:51.41
TO TAKE MY ASHES AND THEN COULD
YOU SPRINKLE THEM ALL AROUND
00:41:51.41\00:41:53.84
MACY'S?' HE SAID,
'WELL, I GOT THE FIRST
00:41:53.84\00:41:57.51
PART BUT HELP ME
UNDERSTAND THE SECOND PART.'
00:41:57.51\00:42:00.58
SHE SAID, 'YEAH, I JUST WANT TO
BE SURE MY DAUGHTERS WILL COME
00:42:00.58\00:42:02.72
AND SEE ME AT
LEAST TWICE A WEEK.'
00:42:02.72\00:42:09.02
SOME KIDS NEVER
VISIT THEIR PARENTS.
00:42:09.02\00:42:13.40
YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT
IN THE BIBLE, WITH ALL THAT'S
00:42:13.40\00:42:16.43
BEING SAID THESE DAYS ABOUT THE
ROLE OF WOMEN, THE BIBLE - OLD
00:42:16.43\00:42:21.67
TESTAMENT/NEW TESTAMENT -
THERE WERE A LOT OF NATIONS AND
00:42:21.67\00:42:25.44
COUNTRIES AND EMPIRES THAT
BASICALLY WOMEN WERE TREATED AS
00:42:25.44\00:42:27.71
PROPERTY AND SLAVES AND ANIMALS.
BUT IN THE BIBLE GOD DOESN'T
00:42:27.71\00:42:31.08
SAY JUST HONOR YOUR FATHERS,
HE SAYS, 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND
00:42:31.08\00:42:33.52
YOUR MOTHER.' AND
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT IT
00:42:33.52\00:42:35.35
ISN'T ALWAYS FATHER AND MOTHER?
IF YOU LOOK IN LEVITICUS 19:3,
00:42:35.35\00:42:40.66
ONE TIME MOSES SAID, "EVERY ONE
OF YOU SHALL REVERE HIS MOTHER
00:42:40.66\00:42:44.99
AND HIS FATHER," -
HE SWAPPED THEM AROUND.
00:42:44.99\00:42:49.23
PART OF THE REASON FOR THAT
MIGHT BE - WHO IS THE PRIMARY
00:42:49.23\00:42:52.30
SUPPLIER OF NURTURE AND GUIDANCE
IN THE BEGINNING OF THE LIFE?
00:42:52.30\00:42:57.01
IT'S THE MOTHER. OH, BY
THE WAY, IT GOES ON TO SAY,
00:42:57.01\00:43:00.51
"...REVERE HIS MOTHER
AND HIS FATHER, AND KEEP MY
00:43:00.51\00:43:04.21
SABBATHS; I AM THE LORD YOUR
GOD." AND PART OF THAT IS - I'M
00:43:04.21\00:43:09.52
WONDERING IF HE'S
SAYING, 'WORSHIP WITH THEM.'
00:43:09.52\00:43:12.55
SPEND TIME WORSHIPING TOGETHER.
SO, HOW LONG SHOULD YOU HONOR
00:43:12.55\00:43:18.36
YOUR PARENTS? DO
YOU EVER OUTGROW THAT?
00:43:18.36\00:43:22.76
NO, AS LONG AS THEY'RE YOUR
PARENTS YOU WANT TO HONOR THEM.
00:43:22.76\00:43:27.47
YOU KNOW, WE'RE LIVING IN A
CULTURE TODAY WHERE, AS PARENTS
00:43:27.47\00:43:31.14
AGE, AND SOMETIMES - WE WERE
VISITING JUST BEFORE THE SERVICE
00:43:31.14\00:43:35.31
TODAY WITH A COUPLE OF OUR
ELDERS THAT ARE HELPING TAKE
00:43:35.31\00:43:38.81
CARE OF THEIR PARENTS.
AS PEOPLE GET OLDER THEY
00:43:38.81\00:43:41.58
USUALLY BECOME WEAKER.
THEY BECOME MORE NEEDY.
00:43:41.58\00:43:43.85
SOMETIMES THERE'S THE
FINAL SICKNESS. IT COULD BE
00:43:43.85\00:43:46.89
PARKINSON'S. IT COULD BE
DEMENTIA. AND WHEN YOU WERE
00:43:46.89\00:43:53.06
YOUNG AND YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO
CONTROL YOURSELF AND YOU DIDN'T
00:43:53.06\00:43:59.90
HAVE YOUR TEETH AND YOU
MAYBE DIDN'T HAVE HAIR - IT'S
00:43:59.90\00:44:04.04
INTERESTING, WE KIND OF LEAVE
THE LIFE THE WAY WE ENTERED -
00:44:04.04\00:44:07.94
AND YOU HAD TROUBLE WALKING
WERE YOUR PARENTS THERE FOR YOU?
00:44:07.94\00:44:13.35
SO SHOULD WE BE THERE FOR
OUR PARENTS DURING THAT TIME?
00:44:13.35\00:44:17.19
NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S
NEVER A SITUATION WHERE YOU WANT
00:44:17.19\00:44:20.09
TO PROVIDE SOME KIND OF
ASSISTED LIVING CIRCUMSTANCES.
00:44:20.09\00:44:23.39
I'M NOT TRYING TO
CONDEMN ANYONE FOR DOING THAT.
00:44:23.39\00:44:25.09
SOMETIMES PARENTS ASK FOR THAT
AND THEY PREFER THAT AND THEY'RE
00:44:25.09\00:44:28.46
HAPPIER IN A SITUATION AS
OPPOSED TO BEING LEFT AT HOME
00:44:28.46\00:44:31.47
WHILE THE CHILD GOES AND
WORKS. IT MAY NOT BE SAFE.
00:44:31.47\00:44:34.20
I'M JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW,
HOSPITALS ALMOST EVERY WEEK HAVE
00:44:34.20\00:44:40.08
OLD CITIZENS THAT ARE DROPPED AT
THE EMERGENCY ROOM BY CHILDREN
00:44:40.08\00:44:44.38
THAT DON'T WANT TO TAKE CARE
OF THEM ANYMORE - THEY'RE JUST
00:44:44.38\00:44:46.78
DUMPED THERE. IT'S A
PARENT-DUMPING PROBLEM.
00:44:46.78\00:44:51.99
AND THEY SAY, 'LOOK, WE CAN'T
AFFORD TO TAKE CARE OF THEM' OR
00:44:51.99\00:44:53.99
'WE DON'T HAVE THE INSURANCE'
OR 'WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME' AND
00:44:53.99\00:44:56.36
THEN LATE AT NIGHT THEY'LL BRING
THEM INTO SOME EMERGENCY ROOM,
00:44:56.36\00:45:00.23
SET THEM DOWN AND LEAVE. AND
THEN THE STATE HAS TO TRY AND
00:45:00.23\00:45:04.57
FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH THESE
PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T JUST,
00:45:04.57\00:45:06.50
YOU KNOW, KICK THEM OUT IN
THE GUTTER. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT
00:45:06.50\00:45:10.11
THEY DID IN THE BIBLE.
YOU NOTICE THAT SOME OF THE
00:45:10.11\00:45:12.64
CULTURES THAT THRIVE THE MOST
HAVE THE MOST HONOR FOR PARENTS.
00:45:12.64\00:45:18.68
'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER
THAT YOUR DAYS WILL BE LONG UPON
00:45:18.68\00:45:22.18
THE LAND.' THIS
IS A COMMANDMENT THAT
00:45:22.18\00:45:24.02
ACTUALLY HAS A PROMISE
IN IT, DID YOU NOTICE THAT?
00:45:24.02\00:45:28.29
IT TELLS US THAT YOUR DAYS
WILL BE LONG UPON THE LAND.
00:45:28.29\00:45:33.09
IT SAYS IT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT
WAYS. YOU LOOK IN DEUTERONOMY 5
00:45:33.09\00:45:37.60
- WHERE THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS ARE GIVEN THERE -
00:45:37.60\00:45:39.37
IT'S DIFFERENT THAN YOU
FIND IN EXODUS CHAPTER 20.
00:45:39.37\00:45:42.04
"HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR
MOTHER, AS THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS
00:45:42.04\00:45:45.64
COMMANDED YOU, THAT YOUR DAYS
MAY BE LONG, AND THAT IT MAY BE
00:45:45.64\00:45:48.91
WELL WITH YOU IN THE LAND WHICH
THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING
00:45:48.91\00:45:52.15
YOU." WHY DOES GOD
PROMISE A BLESSING?
00:45:52.15\00:45:55.02
BY THE WAY, THAT WAS IN
OUR SCRIPTURE READING ALSO -
00:45:55.02\00:45:57.69
EPHESIANS 6:1, "CHILDREN, OBEY
YOUR PARENTS IN THE LORD," - BY
00:45:57.69\00:46:01.49
THE WAY, IF YOUR PARENTS EVER
TELL YOU TO DISOBEY, GOD DOESN'T
00:46:01.49\00:46:05.09
SAY 'OBEY THEM OUT OF THE LORD'
- OBEY THEM IN THE LORD - SO IF
00:46:05.09\00:46:08.56
YOUR PARENTS SHOULD EVER ASK
YOU TO, YOU KNOW, BECOME A BANK
00:46:08.56\00:46:12.97
ROBBER OR SHOPLIFT OR SOMETHING,
YOU DON'T HAVE TO OBEY THAT.
00:46:12.97\00:46:15.80
OBEY THEM IN THE
LORD THAT IS RIGHT.
00:46:15.80\00:46:17.97
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER,
WHICH IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
00:46:17.97\00:46:20.11
WITH PROMISE - THAT
IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU.
00:46:20.11\00:46:23.75
THAT YOU MAY LIVE
LONG UPON THE EARTH.
00:46:23.75\00:46:26.85
LONG LIFE IS PROMISED
IN THIS COMMANDMENT. WHY?
00:46:26.85\00:46:31.55
A COUPLE REASONS. ONE
IS THAT GOD'LL BLESS YOU
00:46:31.55\00:46:32.79
FOR IT. THE OTHER
IS YOUR PARENTS HAVE
00:46:32.79\00:46:35.22
LEARNED THINGS TO HELP
YOU STAY OUT OF TROUBLE.
00:46:35.22\00:46:39.63
YOUR PARENTS - WHEN YOUR MOTHER
AND YOUR FATHER SAY, 'HERE ARE
00:46:39.63\00:46:42.16
THE CAR KEYS,
DO NOT DRIVE FAST.'
00:46:42.16\00:46:45.03
YOU HONOR THEM, YOUR DAYS
WILL BE LONG UPON THE LAND.
00:46:45.03\00:46:48.87
YOU DISHONOR THEM,
THEY MAY NOT BE AS LONG.
00:46:48.87\00:46:53.04
WHEN YOU DISOBEY - THEY'RE
GIVING YOU ADVICE ALL THE TIME
00:46:53.04\00:46:55.68
TO TRY AND KEEP YOU ALIVE.
AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT IN THE
00:46:55.68\00:47:00.62
COUNTRIES THAT HAVE THE LONGEST
LIFE EXPECTANCY, THEY HAVE THE
00:47:00.62\00:47:05.85
BEST REGARD FOR THEIR ELDERS.
YOU KNOW WHAT COUNTRY HAS THE
00:47:05.85\00:47:08.16
LONGEST LIFE
EXPECTANCY? JAPAN(ESE).
00:47:08.16\00:47:12.33
DO THEY HONOR
THEIR ELDERS THERE?
00:47:12.33\00:47:14.93
IT WAS AMAZING WHEN THEY HAD
THAT TREMENDOUS EARTHQUAKE A FEW
00:47:14.93\00:47:17.40
YEARS AGO, TO SEE THE WONDERFUL
TENDER CARE THAT PEOPLE TOOK FOR
00:47:17.40\00:47:22.20
THE ELDERS THAT WERE
DISPLACED BY ALL OF THIS.
00:47:22.20\00:47:25.04
AND THEY WERE SO CONSCIENTIOUS
AND SO CAREFUL TO - BECAUSE THEY
00:47:25.04\00:47:30.01
HAVE - THEY'RE TRAINED FROM
INFANCY TO HAVE HIGH REGARD FOR
00:47:30.01\00:47:34.02
THEIR ELDERS. THEY
EVEN TAKE IT TOO FAR IN
00:47:34.02\00:47:36.25
SOME CULTURES - THEY'VE GOT
ANCESTOR WORSHIP - BUT THEY'RE
00:47:36.25\00:47:38.99
VERY CAREFUL TO
RESPECT THEIR ELDERS.
00:47:38.99\00:47:41.66
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER
THAT YOUR DAYS MIGHT BE LONG.
00:47:41.66\00:47:45.59
YOU KNOW, THERE'S SIN IN
THE WORLD TODAY AND THE REASON
00:47:45.59\00:47:49.73
THERE'S SIN IN THE WORLD TODAY
IS BECAUSE OUR FIRST PARENTS
00:47:49.73\00:47:53.34
DID NOT HONOR THEIR
FATHER. ADAM AND EVE - WHEN THEY
00:47:53.34\00:47:58.04
DISOBEYED GOD, THEY DISOBEYED
THEIR HEAVENLY FATHER - LOOK AT
00:47:58.04\00:48:01.71
ALL THE TROUBLE IT CAUSED.
DEATH ENTERED THE WORLD FROM
00:48:01.71\00:48:04.88
DISOBEYING A PARENT.
AND PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE OFTEN
00:48:04.88\00:48:09.62
SHORTENED - ONE, BY THE
CURSES THAT GOD SENDS, THE OTHER
00:48:09.62\00:48:12.89
THROUGH
PRACTICALLY NOT LISTENING
00:48:12.89\00:48:14.49
TO THE GOOD INFORMATION
AND ADVICE OUR PARENTS GIVE US.
00:48:14.49\00:48:17.19
BUT HE PROMISED YOUR
DAYS WILL BE LONG IN THE LAND.
00:48:17.19\00:48:19.96
HE WAS BRINGING THEM
INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:48:19.96\00:48:21.70
HE SAID, 'IF YOU WANT TO
LIVE AND HAVE A LONG LIFE AND A
00:48:21.70\00:48:24.00
PEACEFUL LIFE, HONOR YOUR
PARENTS AND I'LL DO THAT FOR
00:48:24.00\00:48:27.37
YOU.' YOU KNOW,
THIS IS A WONDERFUL
00:48:27.37\00:48:29.67
COMMANDMENT THAT
HAS A PROMISE IN IT.
00:48:29.67\00:48:33.24
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
LEARNED TO BE FAITHFUL.
00:48:33.24\00:48:35.01
THERE'S A STORY IN THE BIBLE
- I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ THE
00:48:35.01\00:48:37.68
WHOLE THING - BUT YOU LOOK
IN YOUR BIBLES IN THE BOOK OF
00:48:37.68\00:48:39.65
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 35. IT
TALKS ABOUT THE BABYLONIANS
00:48:39.65\00:48:45.69
HAD SURROUNDED JERUSALEM.
THEY WERE ABOUT TO DESTROY THE
00:48:45.69\00:48:49.09
CITY - JUDGMENT WAS COMING.
JEREMIAH WAS TOLD BY THE LORD,
00:48:49.09\00:48:53.16
'I WANT YOU TO
CALL THE RECHABITES.
00:48:53.16\00:48:57.00
BRING THEM INTO THE TEMPLE.'
AND SO THIS FAMILY - THIS TRIBE
00:48:57.00\00:49:01.10
OF RECHAB - WHO WAS THE SON
OF JONADAB, WHO WAS A FRIEND OF
00:49:01.10\00:49:05.07
JEHU - THAT'S ANOTHER HISTORY
- THEY WERE BROUGHT INTO THE
00:49:05.07\00:49:08.84
TEMPLE AND JEREMIAH HAD SOME
WINE POURED INTO PITCHERS AND
00:49:08.84\00:49:14.05
SET CUPS DOWN IN FRONT OF THE
LEADERS OF THE RECHABITES WHO
00:49:14.05\00:49:16.85
WERE THERE IN THE CITY.
HE SAID, 'HAVE A DRINK.'
00:49:16.85\00:49:20.82
AND THEY SAID,
'NO, WE'LL NOT DRINK.'
00:49:20.82\00:49:23.36
AND HE SAID, 'WHY NOT?
HAVE SOMETHING TO DRINK.
00:49:23.36\00:49:25.06
THUS SAYETH THE LORD.' AND
THEY SAID, 'NO, BECAUSE OUR
00:49:25.06\00:49:28.03
FATHER, RECHAB, HE COMMANDED US
NEVER TO BUILD A HOUSE, NEVER TO
00:49:28.03\00:49:37.54
DRINK ANYTHING FROM THE VINE
AND TO LIVE IN TENTS AND HE SAID
00:49:37.54\00:49:42.98
WE'D HAVE LONG LIVES IF
WE FOLLOWED HIS ADVICE.'
00:49:42.98\00:49:46.08
AND FOR SEVERAL GENERATIONS
THEY HAD FOLLOWED THEIR FATHER'S
00:49:46.08\00:49:48.75
ADVICE AND NONE OF THE
RECHABITES EVER DRANK WINE.
00:49:48.75\00:49:53.76
AND JEREMIAH SAID, 'THUS
SAYS THE LORD: 'BECAUSE THE
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RECHABITES HAVE NOT DISOBEYED
THE LORD, THAT WHEN JERUSALEM IS
00:49:56.69\00:50:01.56
DESTROYED, I'M GOING TO PRESERVE
THEM BECAUSE THEY OBEYED THEIR
00:50:01.56\00:50:05.40
FATHER AND THEIR MOTHER.''
AND HE SAID, 'THEY WILL NEVER
00:50:05.40\00:50:09.27
FAIL TO HAVE A PERSON TO STAND
BEFORE ME BECAUSE THEY'VE SHOWN
00:50:09.27\00:50:12.27
RESPECT FOR
THEIR ELDERS THIS WAY.'
00:50:12.27\00:50:15.28
AND SO, BEFORE JERUSALEM WAS
DESTROYED, GOD MADE JEREMIAH ACT
00:50:15.28\00:50:19.31
OUT THIS WHOLE SCENARIO AND
BASICALLY TEST THEM AND THEY
00:50:19.31\00:50:21.88
WOULD NOT DRINK WINE - EVEN
THOUGH THERE FATHER WAS LONG
00:50:21.88\00:50:23.99
DEAD. THEY SAID,
'BECAUSE HE COMMANDED
00:50:23.99\00:50:25.89
US AND WE'VE NOT
DONE IT FOR GENERATIONS.
00:50:25.89\00:50:27.72
AND HE SAID 'DON'T BUILD A
HOUSE' AND THE ONLY REASON WE'RE
00:50:27.72\00:50:29.69
IN THE CITY NOW IS BECAUSE
NEBUCHADNEZZAR SURROUNDED THE
00:50:29.69\00:50:31.66
CITY' AND SAID 'BUT WE LIVE IN
TENTS AS OUR FATHER COMMANDED.'
00:50:31.66\00:50:35.73
AND GOD SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU OBEY
YOUR FATHER, I'M GOING TO BLESS
00:50:35.73\00:50:38.30
YOU. I WISH MY PEOPLE WOULD OBEY
00:50:38.30\00:50:40.10
THEIR FATHER.' AND
SO, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND
00:50:40.10\00:50:44.27
MOTHER, FIRST AND
FOREMOST, IS TALKING ABOUT GOD.
00:50:44.27\00:50:49.11
YOU KNOW GOD IS PORTRAYED AS
OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN AND HE ALSO
00:50:49.11\00:50:50.98
SOMETIMES USES THE
VERBIAGE OF A MOTHER.
00:50:50.98\00:50:53.45
HE SAYS, 'AS A HEN PROTECTS
ITS CHICKENS UNDER ITS WINGS, SO
00:50:53.45\00:50:56.69
I'VE LOVED YOU.' AND 'CAN A
WOMAN FORGET HER NURSING CHILD?
00:50:56.69\00:51:00.79
HOW CAN I FORGET YOU?' SO
GOD LOVES US WITH THE LOVE OF
00:51:00.79\00:51:03.66
A FATHER AND A MOTHER AND IF YOU
WANT YOUR DAYS TO BE LONG - I
00:51:03.66\00:51:07.30
DON'T MEAN JUST LONG IN THIS
WORLD - IF YOU WANT YOUR DAYS TO
00:51:07.30\00:51:09.30
BE LONG IN THE EARTH MADE NEW,
WE NEED TO LEARN TO HONOR OUR
00:51:09.30\00:51:14.14
FATHER IN HEAVEN, AMEN?
IF PARENTS HONOR GOD AND LIVE
00:51:14.14\00:51:20.88
HONORABLY AND IF CHILDREN ARE
RESOLVED TO HONOR THEIR PARENTS
00:51:20.88\00:51:26.55
- IN OUR RELATIONSHIPS AND
IN OUR FAMILY - EVERY ONE OF THE
00:51:26.55\00:51:30.29
OTHER COMMANDMENTS IN OUR
RELATIONSHIPS WITH MEN WILL BE A
00:51:30.29\00:51:34.96
LOT EASIER. THEY'LL
SORT OF BE AUTOMATIC AT
00:51:34.96\00:51:36.69
THAT POINT. IT ALL
BEGINS IN THE FAMILY,
00:51:36.69\00:51:38.83
RIGHT? HAPPY, HAPPY HOME.
00:51:38.83\00:51:46.10
>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
00:51:46.10\00:51:54.68
>>HI, MY NAME IS DIAMOND GARCIA
AND I'M FROM THE BEAUTIFUL
00:51:54.68\00:51:56.95
ISLANDS OF HAWAII.
I WAS RAISED IN A VERY
00:51:56.95\00:52:00.92
DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
- LIKE MOST FAMILIES.
00:52:00.92\00:52:04.02
BEING IN THAT ENVIRONMENT,
I WOULD LIE, CHEAT, STEAL, ROB
00:52:04.02\00:52:07.92
HOUSES, CHEAT IN SCHOOL AND
TESTS AND LYING TO TEACHERS AND
00:52:07.92\00:52:12.03
GETTING INTO FIGHTS
AND ALL KINDS OF STUFF.
00:52:12.03\00:52:16.16
ONE DAY I WAS ASKED TO TAKE THIS
LITTLE BOX OF SOMETHING AND I
00:52:16.16\00:52:19.73
HAD TO WALK DOWN THE ROAD
AND GIVE IT TO SOMEONE AND THEY
00:52:19.73\00:52:22.57
WOULD GIVE ME MONEY
AND I WOULD WALK BACK HOME.
00:52:22.57\00:52:24.27
AND I LATER
REALIZED I WAS DEALING DRUGS.
00:52:24.27\00:52:28.64
GROWING UP IN THAT ENVIRONMENT,
I THOUGHT THAT, YOU KNOW, BEING
00:52:28.64\00:52:31.48
AN ADULT WAS A LIFE OF DRINKING
AND SMOKING AND PARTYING AND
00:52:31.48\00:52:34.68
THAT'S JUST WHAT ADULTS DID.
WHEN I LOOKED AT MY FAMILY AND
00:52:34.68\00:52:39.69
SAW THE ROAD THAT THEY WERE
GOING DOWN - GETTING ARRESTED,
00:52:39.69\00:52:42.69
GETTING BEATEN UP, COMING HOME
DRUNK AND PUKING ALL OVER THE
00:52:42.69\00:52:46.29
FLOOR - I JUST
DIDN'T WANT THAT FOR MYSELF.
00:52:46.29\00:52:50.70
GROWING UP, I HAD A GRANDMA WHO
WAS BAPTIZED AS A CHRISTIAN IN
00:52:50.70\00:52:54.14
HER TWENTIES, BUT SHE WASN'T
A REAL PRACTICING CHRISTIAN AND
00:52:54.14\00:52:57.91
SO, ONE DAY I WAS AT HER HOUSE
AND THERE WAS A BOX OF VARIOUS
00:52:57.91\00:53:00.81
BOOKS AND I WENT TO THE BOTTOM
OF THAT BOX AND FOUND A BOOK
00:53:00.81\00:53:03.91
CALLED THE GREAT CONTROVERSY AND
I PICKED IT UP AND I SAID, 'THIS
00:53:03.91\00:53:07.75
IS INTERESTING.' AND I OPENED TO
THE FIRST PAGE OF THAT BOOK AND
00:53:07.75\00:53:11.29
IT SAID, 'IF THOU HADST KNOWN' -
I HAD NO CLUE WHAT IT MEANT AND
00:53:11.29\00:53:16.06
SO I SAID, 'YOU
KNOW WHAT? FORGET THIS.'
00:53:16.06\00:53:17.59
I PUT THE BOOK DOWN. I
JUST WALKED AWAY - DID MY
00:53:17.59\00:53:20.03
THING, BUT THEN SOMETHING TOLD
ME, 'YOU KNOW, DIAMOND, GO BACK
00:53:20.03\00:53:22.60
TO THAT BOOK.' AND SO I WENT
BACK TO THE BOOK, PICKED IT UP,
00:53:22.60\00:53:26.43
WENT TO THE LAST TWO
CHAPTERS AND I READ IT.
00:53:26.43\00:53:30.71
AND I SAID TO MY GRANDMOTHER, I
SAID, 'WHAT CHURCH IS THIS FROM?
00:53:30.71\00:53:33.98
I WANT TO GO TO THAT CHURCH.' SO
SHE BROUGHT ME DOWN TO THE LOCAL
00:53:33.98\00:53:37.01
CHURCH AND THEN I WALK IN FROM
THE BACK DOOR AND THE PIANO'S
00:53:37.01\00:53:40.22
OFF KEY, PEOPLE ARE OFF KEY -
IT'S LIKE, MAN, THIS IS REALLY
00:53:40.22\00:53:43.42
KIND OF - I
DON'T WANT TO BE HERE.
00:53:43.42\00:53:47.22
AND I GOT TO THE FRONT OF
THE CHURCH AND I SAT DOWN.
00:53:47.22\00:53:49.09
I WAS LISTENING TO THE SERMON
AND THE WHOLE SERVICE - IT WAS
00:53:49.09\00:53:51.56
SO BORING TO ME - BUT THEN
SOMEONE GIVES ME THIS SET OF
00:53:51.56\00:53:55.33
DVDS AND IT WAS
CALLED THE PROPHECY CODE .
00:53:55.33\00:54:00.20
IT WAS THROUGH WATCHING DOUG
BATCHELOR EXPLAIN THE TRUTHS
00:54:00.20\00:54:03.51
FOUND IN THE BIBLE, THAT REALLY
BROUGHT ME TO CHRIST AND BROUGHT
00:54:03.51\00:54:06.54
ME TO REALIZE
THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:54:06.54\00:54:08.18
THERE IS A LIFE
BETTER THAN MY FAMILY'S LIFE.
00:54:08.18\00:54:12.68
MY SECOND WEEK AT CHURCH, ON
SABBATH, THERE WAS ONE PERSON
00:54:12.68\00:54:15.58
THERE. HE
BASICALLY TOLD ME, 'HEY
00:54:15.58\00:54:17.82
DIAMOND, DO YOU
WANT TO MAKE SOME MONEY?'
00:54:17.82\00:54:19.92
AND I SAID, 'SURE,' I
SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU DO?'
00:54:19.92\00:54:21.92
HE SAYS, 'WELL, I'M A COLPORTER.
WE GO DOOR TO DOOR AND WE SELL
00:54:21.92\00:54:25.29
CHRISTIAN BOOKS.' I
SAID, 'OH, OKAY, WELL THAT
00:54:25.29\00:54:28.16
SOUNDS INTERESTING. I
DO WANT TO MAKE SOME MONEY
00:54:28.16\00:54:30.20
TOO.' AND SO HE SAID, 'OKAY,
WHY DON'T YOU COME WITH ME?'
00:54:30.20\00:54:34.00
WE DROVE OUT TO THE
NEIGHBORHOOD, PARKED THE CAR,
00:54:34.00\00:54:37.07
AND THAT NIGHT WAS JUST RAINING
- IT WAS POURING AND POURING -
00:54:37.07\00:54:39.87
IT COULD NOT STOP RAINING.
00:54:39.87\00:54:41.84
HE PRAYED - HE SAID, 'GOD,
THIS IS DIAMOND'S FIRST NIGHT.
00:54:41.84\00:54:44.01
IF IT'S YOUR WILL, STOP THE RAIN
SO WE CAN GO KNOCKING ON DOORS.'
00:54:44.01\00:54:47.75
AND AS SOON AS HE SAID,
'AMEN', THE RAIN JUST STOPPED.
00:54:47.75\00:54:50.79
I WAS JUST THINKING IN MY HEAD,
'IS THIS GUY A PROPHET OR WHAT?'
00:54:50.79\00:54:54.36
I MEAN, HE JUST PRAYED
AND ASKED GOD AND IT HAPPENED.
00:54:54.36\00:54:58.63
AND SO I WAS SO - I WAS SO
HAPPY, I GRABBED THE BOOKS AND
00:54:58.63\00:55:01.20
WENT TO THE FIRST DOOR AND THE
FIRST DOOR I WENT TO, THE PERSON
00:55:01.20\00:55:03.60
GAVE ME FIFTY BUCKS.
THAT NIGHT WAS ACTUALLY A BIG
00:55:03.60\00:55:06.57
NIGHT FOR ME BECAUSE IT WAS
WHERE I SAW GOD'S POWER WORK IN
00:55:06.57\00:55:10.71
STOPPING THE RAIN AND
PEOPLE ACTUALLY GIVING
00:55:10.71\00:55:13.07
ME LOTS OF MONEY. I
THEN BECAME A COLPORTER OR
00:55:13.07\00:55:15.71
CANVASSER AND I SAVED MONEY TO
PAY FOR MY WAY THROUGH ACADEMY.
00:55:15.71\00:55:19.31
AND WHEN MY CHURCH BEGAN TO
SEE HOW GOD WAS USING ME, THEY
00:55:19.31\00:55:23.49
IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED THAT IT
WAS GOD'S SPIRIT MOVING AND THEY
00:55:23.49\00:55:26.32
PUT ME, YOU KNOW, PREACHING AND
TEACHING AND SHARING MY FAITH.
00:55:26.32\00:55:29.96
AND I'VE BEEN ENGAGED IN
MINISTRY FOR THE PAST SIX TO
00:55:29.96\00:55:32.26
SEVEN YEARS NOW AND GOD HAS
TAKEN ME ALL OVER THE WORLD ON
00:55:32.26\00:55:35.16
MULTIPLE CONTINENTS, SHARING MY
TESTIMONY HOW GOD HAS BROUGHT ME
00:55:35.16\00:55:38.13
OUT OF DARKNESS
INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT.
00:55:38.13\00:55:41.80
SUCH A TOTAL CONTRAST AS TO HOW
I WAS BEFORE AND NOW, YOU KNOW,
00:55:41.80\00:55:44.67
IT'S A TOTAL CONTRAST. MY
NAME IS DIAMOND AND AMAZING
00:55:44.67\00:55:49.14
FACTS HAS HELPED TO
CHANGE MY LIFE. (MUSIC)
00:55:49.14\00:56:01.86
>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE
00:56:01.86\00:56:03.96
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
00:56:03.96\00:56:07.76
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE
SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK.
00:56:07.76\00:56:10.93
NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY.
00:56:10.93\00:56:15.10
WHAT HAPPENED?
WHY DID GOD CREATE
00:56:15.10\00:56:17.57
A DAY OF REST?
DOES IT REALLY MATTER
00:56:17.57\00:56:20.01
WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? WHO
WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
00:56:20.01\00:56:23.75
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S
LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED.
00:56:23.75\00:56:27.28
VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. (MUSIC)
00:56:27.28\00:56:37.26
>>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN
IN 1965 WITH A GOD-INSPIRED
00:56:37.26\00:56:42.06
CONCEPT. >>HELLO,
THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
00:56:42.06\00:56:44.80
THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
00:56:44.80\00:56:48.37
>>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
00:56:48.37\00:56:52.11
SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
00:56:52.11\00:56:56.01
TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
00:56:56.01\00:57:00.08
THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
00:57:00.08\00:57:03.55
BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
00:57:03.55\00:57:06.86
IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
00:57:06.86\00:57:11.19
GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
00:57:11.19\00:57:14.30
EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:14.30\00:57:18.40
IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
00:57:18.40\00:57:22.34
MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
00:57:22.34\00:57:25.87
PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
00:57:25.87\00:57:29.91
MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:29.91\00:57:32.85
FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
00:57:32.85\00:57:37.29
BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
00:57:37.29\00:57:41.32
TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
00:57:41.32\00:57:44.93
WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
00:57:44.93\00:57:47.86
EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE -
THE MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S
00:57:47.86\00:57:51.80
CHURCH SEE A
RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
00:57:51.80\00:57:55.20
AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S
MESSAGE, OUR MISSION.
00:57:55.20\00:58:04.35
(MUSIC)
00:58:04.35\00:58:19.36