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00:11 >>FRIENDS, ARE YOU AFRAID OF HEIGHTS? 00:13 IF SO, YOU MIGHT WANT TO LOOK AWAY RIGHT NOW. 00:15 ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ATTRACTIONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO 00:18 BAY AREA IS THE ICONIC GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. 00:22 WHILE THIS WORLD-FAMOUS BRIDGE WAS NAMED AS ONE OF THE SEVEN 00:25 WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD, FEW PEOPLE KNOW THE STORY OF THE 00:28 BRAVE MEN WHO WERE INVOLVED IN ITS CONSTRUCTION AND - ALSO 00:31 KNOWN AS THE HALFWAY TO HELL CLUB . 00:34 DESIGNED BY A GROUP OF VISIONARY ENGINEERS AT 4200 FEET END TO 00:38 END, THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE WAS, AT ONE TIME, THE LONGEST 00:42 SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE WORLD. DURING ITS CONSTRUCTION, FROM 00:45 1933 TO 1937, THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE HAD ONE OF THE BEST 00:50 SAFETY CONSTRUCTION RECORDS OF ANY PROJECT DURING THAT TIME. 00:54 KEEP IN MIND, THEY WOULD FACTOR IN AND CALCULATE THAT ONE MAN 00:57 WOULD DIE FOR EVERY MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS SPENT, SO WITH 01:00 A BUDGET OF 35 MILLION DOLLARS, THEY KNEW THAT LOSS OF LIFE 01:04 WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE. THIS IS WHY THE CHIEF 01:06 ENGINEER, JOSEPH P. STRAUSS, WAS ABSOLUTELY ADAMANT 01:10 ABOUT USING THE MOST RIGOROUS SAFETY PRECAUTIONS THAT HAD EVER 01:13 BEEN USED IN BRIDGE BUILDING. HE HAD A LOCAL MANUFACTURER OF 01:16 SAFETY EQUIPMENT DESIGN SPECIAL HEADGEAR THAT HE INSISTED 01:19 BE WORN ON EVERY JOB. THIS BECAME THE PROTOTYPE FOR 01:23 THE MODERN HARD HAT, WORN FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. 01:26 BUT THE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WENT EVEN FARTHER. 01:28 STRAUSS PROVIDED A SPECIAL HAND AND FACE CREAM TO PROTECT THEIR 01:32 SKIN FROM THE COLD, BITING WIND, AND GLARE-FREE GOGGLES TO 01:35 PROTECT THEIR EYES. IN ADDITION, THEY ALSO ATE A 01:38 SPECIAL DIET TO HELP WARD OFF DIZZINESS WHEN THEY WERE 01:41 WORKING AT THOSE EPIC HEIGHTS. BUT THE MOST CONSPICUOUS SAFETY 01:44 PRECAUTION WAS A GIGANTIC NET THAT WAS SUSPENDED FROM 01:48 END TO END UNDER THE ENTIRE CONSTRUCTION AREA OF 01:51 THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. IN FACT, DURING CONSTRUCTION, 01:55 THIS NET SAVED THE LIVES OF 19 MAN, WHO LATER BECAME KNOWN 01:59 AS THE HALFWAY TO HELL CLUB . NOW, YOU NEED TO KEEP IN MIND, 02:04 THESE WERE SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS CONSTRUCTION 02:06 CONDITIONS YOU CAN IMAGINE. THE WIND WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING. 02:10 THEY WERE WALKING AROUND ON IRON THAT SOMETIMES HAD ICE FROM THE 02:14 FREEZING FOG. IN PLACES, THEY WERE OVER 700 02:17 FEET ABOVE THE ICY WATERS. YET THE MEN, COMING FROM ALL 02:21 WALKS OF LIFE, WERE WILLING TO TAKE THESE RISKS BECAUSE IT WAS 02:25 DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THEY WOULD GET PAID UP TO ELEVEN 02:28 DOLLARS A DAY, WHICH WAS A FORTUNE BACK THEN. 02:31 ONE OF THE OTHER BENEFITS OF THE NET WAS THEY DISCOVERED THAT THE 02:35 MEN WERE MUCH MORE COURAGEOUS - EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE WALKING 02:38 HIGH ON THOSE SLIPPERY SURFACES, BECAUSE THEY KNEW THERE WAS A 02:41 MECHANISM TO PROTECT THEM IF THEY SHOULD FALL. 02:44 THIS GAVE THEM THE CONFIDENCE AND THE COURAGE TO PRESS ON AND 02:47 GET THE BRIDGE BUILT IN RECORD TIME. 02:49 YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, AS CHRISTIANS, WE HAVE A GREAT WORK 02:51 TO DO. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT WE GET 02:53 TO PARTICIPATE WITH JESUS IN BUILDING A BRIDGE THAT CONNECTS 02:57 HEAVEN AND EARTH AND THERE ARE DANGERS ALONG THE WAY. 03:01 THE DEVIL WOULD LIKE TO PARALYZE US WITH FEAR THAT WE MIGHT FALL 03:04 OR MAKE A MISTAKE, BUT WE KNOW THAT JESUS PROVIDED A SAFETY NET 03:08 FOR US AND WE DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID. WE CAN PRESS ON WITH 03:11 CONFIDENCE BECAUSE IT PROMISES, IN THE BOOK OF JUDE, VERSE 24, 03:15 'HE IS ABLE TO KEEP US FROM FALLING.' 03:17 BUT SOMETIMES WE MAKE MISTAKES. 03:19 STILL, DON'T BE DISCOURAGED, FRIENDS, IF YOU READ IN 1 JOHN 03:22 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'IF WE FALL...IF WE SIN WE 03:26 HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST.' SO LET'S 03:30 PRESS ON TOGETHER AND BUILD THAT BRIDGE WITH CHRIST. 03:41 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM . 03:47 (MUSIC) 04:02 >>WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF A SERIES - ACTUALLY, FIRST TIME SINCE 04:04 I'VE BEEN HERE - THAT IS DEDICATED SOLELY TO THE TEN 04:08 COMMANDMENTS AND SO, TODAY, WE'RE ACTUALLY ON THE SIXTH 04:11 PRESENTATION BUT IT'S COMMANDMENT NUMBER FIVE. 04:15 AND WE'VE JUST TRANSFERRED FROM THE FIRST TABLE OF STONES OVER 04:19 TO THE SECOND TABLE OF STONES. THE MESSAGE TITLE IS 'DEALING 04:23 WITH HONOR IN THE FAMILY' - HONOR WITHIN THE FAMILY. 04:27 NOW, IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS YOU'VE GOT - I WAS GOING TO SAY 04:33 SOMETHING REALLY SILLY LIKE, 'THE LORD IS BRILLIANT.' 04:35 BUT IT'S SORT OF OBVIOUS, ISN'T IT? BUT IT IS BRILLIANT THE WAY 04:39 THAT GOD DESIGNED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 04:41 ON THE FIRST TABLE YOU'VE GOT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND 04:46 GOD. IT'S THE VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP. 04:50 THE FIRST COMMANDMENT - IF YOU GET THE FIRST COMMANDMENT RIGHT 04:54 - 'THOU SHALL NOT HAVE ANY OTHER LORDS BEFORE ME' - YOU WILL GET 04:58 ALL THE OTHER COMMANDMENTS ON THIS TABLE RIGHT BECAUSE IF GOD 05:03 IS FIRST IN YOUR LIFE THEN YOU'LL OBEY THE WAY THAT YOU 05:06 WORSHIP HIM, THE DAY THAT YOU WORSHIP HIM, THE TIME, THE 05:10 METHOD, HIS NAME - THAT'LL ALL BE REVERED IF YOU WORSHIP HIM 05:14 SUPREMELY. NOW, WHEN YOU GO TO THE SECOND 05:16 TABLE, WHAT IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT THERE? 05:21 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER'. NOW WE'RE DEALING WITH THE 05:23 HORIZONTAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE REMAINING SIX COMMANDMENTS HERE. 05:27 IF YOU GET THIS ONE RIGHT - IF THINGS ARE RIGHT IN THE FAMILY, 05:34 ALL THE OTHER COMMANDMENTS WOULD BE RIGHT. 05:38 IF YOU'VE GOT GOOD PARENTS AND THEY'RE TEACHING THEIR CHILDREN 05:40 GOOD TRUTH, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIND IN SOCIETY THAT THERE ARE 05:44 PROBLEMS WITH THE LYING AND ADULTERY AND THE COVETING AND 05:47 THE KILLING AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS. IT'S WHEN YOU DON'T GET 05:50 THE FIRST ONE RIGHT THAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ALL THE 05:52 REST. THIS COMMANDMENT, PROBABLY MORE 05:56 THAN ANY OTHER, IS THE FOUNDATION TO THE HEALTH AND 06:00 SUCCESS OF ANY CULTURE BECAUSE THE FAMILY IS THE MOST BASIC 06:05 UNIT OF A SOCIETY. AND WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS 06:11 NOT JUST CHILDREN OBEYING PARENTS. 06:13 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PARENTS LIVING IN AN HONORABLE WAY AND 06:19 IT'S THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PARENTS, IT'S THE 06:22 RELATIONSHIP OF THE CHILDREN AND THE PARENTS AND THE PARENTS AND 06:26 THE CHILDREN. IT'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT HONOR 06:28 WITHIN THE FAMILY - REVERENCE AND RESPECT. 06:31 AND SO, THAT'S OUR MESSAGE TODAY - IT'S BASED UPON THIS 06:35 COMMANDMENT. YOU CAN FIND IT IN YOUR BIBLE, 06:36 OF COURSE, IN EXODUS 20, VERSE 12. 06:41 MATTER OF FACT, IT'S SHORT ENOUGH AND YOU SHOULD ALL KNOW 06:43 IT BY HEART, WHY DON'T YOU SAY IT WITH ME - AND THIS IS THE 06:46 VERSION MOST OF US HAVE REMEMBERED - ARE YOU READY? 06:49 "HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE 06:53 LONG UPON THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU." 06:58 HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER. 07:00 NOW, I JUST THINK IT'S WONDERFUL THE WAY THE LORD ORCHESTRATED 07:03 THINGS SO THAT IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT TODAY IS MOTHER'S 07:06 DAY AND THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 07:10 I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU THAT I BRILLIANTLY PLANNED THAT BUT I 07:13 DIDN'T. I'M JUST GLAD IT WORKED OUT THAT 07:15 WAY. AND SO, HOPEFULLY, THAT IN THE 07:18 MESSAGE TODAY, EMBRACED IN THE KERNEL OF THE MESSAGE TODAY, WE 07:23 WILL FIND THAT, ALONG WITH OUR FATHERS, OUR MOTHERS WILL BE 07:27 HONORED AND ALL THAT THAT INVOLVES. YOU KNOW, I WANT YOU 07:33 TO KNOW THAT I TRY TO STAY CURRENT IN WHAT I SHARE WITH YOU 07:37 HERE. THE LATEST 'TIME' MAGAZINE - NOW THE LATEST 'TIME' MAGAZINE 07:43 IS MAY 20 - IT'S ON YOUR SCREEN NOW - WHAT'S THE DATE TODAY? 07:48 MAY 11TH. THIS IS THE MAY 20TH MAGAZINE SO 07:51 YOU CAN NEVER ACCUSE ME OF BEING BEHIND. 07:54 WE'RE ACTUALLY A WEEK AHEAD. OF COURSE, I JUST DATED OUR 07:57 MESSAGE FOR ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS. I GOT THIS AT MY 08:00 DOOR YESTERDAY AND I SAID, 'OH, THIS IS PERFECT.' LOOK AT JUST 08:04 THE HEADLINE - IT SAYS, 'THE ME ME ME 08:07 GENERATION - MILLENIALS ARE LAZY, ENTITLED 08:11 NARCISSISTS WHO STILL LIVE WITH THEIR PARENTS - WHY THEY WILL 08:15 SAVE US'. NOW I DIDN'T READ THE ARTICLE YET. 08:20 I WAS TOO BUSY GETTING READY FOR THE SERMON. BUT I'VE GOT 08:24 PROBLEMS WITH THE PREMISE OF THE TITLE. HOW YOU COULD HAVE 08:28 A SELFISH 'ME, ME, ME' GENERATION THAT IS LAZY, 08:33 SELF-CENTERED, LIVING AT HOME AND THEY'RE GOING TO SAVE US. 08:41 I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WOULD WORK OUT. I THINK THEY MIGHT HAVE THE 08:45 FIRST PART OF IT RIGHT - THAT WE ARE LIVING IN A VERY SELFISH 08:51 GENERATION. AND THAT, OF COURSE, AFFECTS THE 08:55 RELATIONSHIPS OF THE CHILDREN AND THE PARENTS. 08:59 YOU KNOW, IN EVERY CULTURE, FOR THERE TO BE A STRONG SOCIETY, 09:04 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THEY NEED TO DO IS THEY NEED TO 09:06 UNDERSTAND THAT THE AUTHORITY FOR THE CHILDREN IS NOT THE 09:13 STATE, IT'S THE PARENTS. THIS IDEA THAT IT TAKES A 09:18 VILLAGE AND THAT WE ALL RAISE EACH OTHER'S CHILDREN - 09:21 IT SOUNDS REALLY NICE BUT NO. IN ORDER FOR A CULTURE TO BE 09:25 HEALTHY WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT A FAMILY UNIT - THE 09:30 RESPONSIBILITY OF THOSE CHILDREN BELONGS FIRST AND FOREMOST TO 09:35 THOSE WHO BROUGHT THEM INTO THE WORLD - I'M TALKING ABOUT 09:38 BIOLOGICALLY. THEY ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF 09:42 THEIR PARENTS JUST AS WE ARE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. 09:44 THAT RESPONSIBILITY RESTS WITH THE PARENTS. 09:48 THAT MUST BE RESPECTED BY THE STATE - BY THE GOVERNMENT - THAT 09:52 THE - AND TO SOME EXTENT, YOU KNOW, WHEN CHILDREN ARE MINORS 09:56 THEY'RE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR PARENTS THERE STILL IS AN 09:59 ELEMENT OF THAT RESPECT, BUT MORE AND MORE WE'RE FINDING IT - 10:02 THE GOVERNMENT'S ACTING LIKE 'WE'RE THE ONES WHO ARE GOING TO 10:05 TELL YOU HOW TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN.' 10:08 INSTEAD OF THE PARENTS HAVING THAT DECISION. 10:11 SOMETHING ELSE - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAUGHT IT - IT SAID, 'HONOR 10:15 YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER' - THERE IS AN IMPLIED TRUTH THERE 10:19 THAT A FAMILY, ACCORDING TO GOD'S DESIGN, IS NOT A FATHER 10:23 AND A FATHER OR A MOTHER AND A MOTHER, BUT IT IS A FATHER AND A 10:28 MOTHER. THAT'S GOD'S PLAN. 10:32 AND IN THE SAME WAY, ON THE FIRST TABLE OF STONES, GOD IS 10:35 SAYING, 'LOOK, I'M THE ONE WHO SAVED YOU. 10:38 I MADE YOU AND SO I WANT YOU TO WORSHIP ME'. 10:40 AT THE FOUNDATION OF OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH OTHER IT 10:43 BEGINS WITH HONORING YOUR PARENTS BECAUSE PARENTS ARE A 10:49 CHILD'S FIRST CONCEPT OF GOD. THEY REALLY REPRESENT GOD TO THE 10:55 CHILDREN. IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, GOD IS 10:59 THE ONE WHO CREATED US. HE SUSTAINS US. 11:02 HE CARES FOR US. HE PROVIDES FOR US. HE FORGIVES US. HE CLEANSES 11:06 US. AND FOR A CHILD, WHO IS GOD TO 11:09 THAT CHILD AS THEY'RE GROWING UP? 11:11 I NEED TO ISSUE A DISCLAIMER HERE, I REALIZE AS I TALK ABOUT 11:15 THIS SUBJECT, THAT WE LIVE WITH ALL KINDS OF STRANGE 11:17 CIRCUMSTANCES AND SOME OF YOU MAYBE HAVE BEEN ADOPTED. 11:21 THIS IS AN UNCOMFORTABLE SUBJECT. 11:23 SOME OF YOU MAYBE GREW UP IN A HOME WITH JUST A SINGLE PARENT. 11:26 SOME OF YOU MAYBE ARE TEST TUBE BABIES AND YOU'RE RAISED BY SOME 11:30 CORPORATION, I DON'T KNOW. WE'RE ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT 11:32 PEOPLE OUT THERE AND THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS. 11:34 SO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS THE IDEAL. 11:37 DOES EVERYONE APPRECIATE THAT? THIS IS THE IDEAL - 11:40 AND I KNOW ALL OF US HAVE DIFFERENT 11:41 DEVIATIONS OF THAT IDEAL IN OUR FAMILIES AND SOME OF US WE WERE 11:46 RAISED BY OUR MOTHER AND OUR STEP-FATHER OR WHATEVER. 11:51 BUT SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE IDEAL AND I UNDERSTAND THAT AND 11:54 I JUST WANT YOU TO WINK AT THE AREAS WHERE YOU REALIZE IT 11:57 DOESN'T PERFECTLY FIT YOUR SITUATION. 11:59 BUT FOR THE NORMAL CHILD, THEIR FIRST CONCEPT OF GOD IS THE 12:04 PARENTS. MATTER OF FACT, IT'S INTERESTING 12:08 THE EVOLUTION THAT CHILDREN GO THROUGH WHEN THEY'RE REAL 12:12 LITTLE. THE PARENTS CAN DO EVERYTHING. THEY LOOK AT THEIR 12:18 PARENTS WITH WIDE-EYED WONDER AND THEY THINK THEY'RE GOD. THEY 12:20 FEAR THEM. THEY RESPECT THEM. THEY LOVE THEM. 12:22 THEY LOOK TO THEM. THEY DON'T WANT TO BE AWAY FROM THEM. 12:25 THEY GET A LITTLE OLDER, YOU KNOW, THE KID'LL SAY, 'MY DAD'S 12:28 THE STRONGEST DAD IN THE WORLD.' THEN THEY GET A LITTLE OLDER - 12:30 THEY GET TO BE ABOUT TWELVE AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, THEY KNOW 12:31 ALMOST EVERYTHING.' AND THEN THEY GET TO BE ABOUT 12:35 FOURTEEN AND THEY SAY, 'THEY DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH.' 12:39 AND THEN THEY GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL AND START COLLEGE AND 12:41 THEY THINK, 'THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING.' 12:45 AND THEN THEY GET TO 25 AND SOMETHING CHANGES. 12:49 THEY CALL AND ASK FOR OCCASIONAL ADVICE. 12:54 AND THEN THEY GET TO BE ABOUT 30 AND THEY'VE GOT KIDS OF THEIR 12:56 OWN AND THEIR RESPECT JUST BEGINS TO SOAR AND THEY START TO 13:01 UNDERSTAND. AND THEN THEY GET TO BE ABOUT 60 13:05 AND THEY THINK, 'YOU KNOW, I WISH I COULD TALK TO THEM AGAIN 13:08 AND I WOULD HAVE ASKED THEM MORE QUESTIONS.' 13:11 BUT IT'S LIKE IT GOES FROM THIS BELIEVING EVERYTHING TO 13:13 BELIEVING NOTHING TO BELIEVING EVERYTHING AGAIN. 13:16 IT'S KIND OF STRANGE. HAVEN'T YOU OBSERVED THAT? 13:20 BUT THEY REPRESENT OUR FIRST CONCEPT AND THAT'S WHY IT'S 13:24 IMPORTANT FOR CHILDREN TO HONOR THEIR PARENTS. 13:25 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR PARENTS TO LIVE HONORABLE LIVES BECAUSE 13:31 YOUR CHILD'S CONCEPT OF GOD IS GOING TO LARGELY COME FROM YOUR 13:36 INFLUENCE. AND IT'S OFTEN TRUE - PEOPLE WHO 13:40 HAVE FATHERS WHO ARE SORT OF DISTANT AND DETACHED, THEIR 13:45 CONCEPT OF GOD IS THAT HE'S JUST REALLY NOT INTERESTED. 13:48 PEOPLE WHO HAVE FATHERS THAT ARE INDULGENT AND PERMISSIVE, THEY 13:52 START THINKING THEIR HEAVENLY FATHER - THAT ANYTHING GOES. 13:55 AND SO YOU NEED THAT BALANCE BECAUSE YOU ARE COMMUNICATING 14:00 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD - BOTH FATHER AND MOTHER - 14:04 TO YOUR CHILDREN. NOW, JUST A FEW VERSES THAT 14:08 SHOULD HELP US REMEMBER THIS. FOR ONE THING, A CHRISTIAN IS A 14:13 FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. DID JESUS FOLLOW THIS 14:16 COMMANDMENT? YOU REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS TWELVE 14:18 YEARS OLD AND HE WENT AND HE - YOU COULD SAY HE RAN AWAY 14:21 FROM HOME BECAUSE THE PARENTS LOST HIM FOR THREE DAYS - HE 14:24 DIDN'T REALLY RUN AWAY FROM HOME. 14:26 THEY TOOK HIM TO CHURCH AND THEN THEY LEFT AND HE STAYED. 14:30 AND THEY LOST TRACK OF HIM FOR THREE DAYS AND THEN FINALLY THEY 14:32 FOUND JESUS AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN REALLY 14:37 DIFFICULT FOR MARY AND JOSEPH TO EXPLAIN TO GOD. 14:40 'WE KNOW YOU GAVE US THE MESSIAH - WE'VE MISPLACED HIM. 14:43 WE'VE MISPLACED THE SON OF GOD.' HOW DO YOU GET OVER THAT? 14:49 AND AFTER THEY FOUND HIM AGAIN, HE SAID, 'I MUST BE ABOUT MY 14:52 FATHER'S BUSINESS.' NOTE WHAT IT SAYS IN LUKE 2:51, 14:56 "HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM" - WENT TO NAZARETH - "AND WAS SUBJECT 15:00 TO THEM" - THE WORD 'SUBJECT' MEANS HE WAS OBEDIENT TO THEM - 15:05 JESUS OBEYED HIS FATHER AND MOTHER. AND MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE 15:08 A MOMENT AND TALK ABOUT 'WHAT DOES THE WORD 'HONOR' MEAN? 15:10 WHEN WE SAY HONOR OUR FATHER AND MOTHER - TO HONOR - IN THE 15:14 HEBREW - TO HONOR MEANS 'TO MAKE WEIGHTY; TO GIVE GRAVITY AND 15:19 IMPORTANCE TO THEIR BEING; TO PROMOTE; TO GLORIFY; TO BOAST 15:24 ABOUT; TO REVERE' - THAT'S THE HEBREW. 15:27 IN GREEK IT'S THE WORD 'TAMALHO' AND IT MEANS 'TO PRIZE; TO 15:31 HONOR; TO VALUE; ALSO TO REVERE'. 15:34 HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER - BY THE WAY, THAT COMMANDMENT - 15:36 WE READ IT CLEARLY IN HEBREW AND CLEARLY IN GREEK - THERE'S NO 15:39 QUESTION ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS BECAUSE WE'VE GOT IT COMING FROM 15:42 THE WORDS OF JESUS AND FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT EXAMPLE. 15:47 PROVERBS 10:1 - JUST A FEW CHOICE MORSELS - PROVERBS 10:1, 15:53 "THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON: A WISE SON MAKES A GLAD FATHER, BUT A 15:58 FOOLISH SON IS THE GRIEF OF HIS MOTHER." PROVERBS 15:20, 16:03 "A WISE SON MAKES A FATHER GLAD, BUT A FOOLISH MAN 16:06 DESPISES HIS MOTHER." PROVERBS 19:26, "HE WHO 16:11 MISTREATS HIS FATHER AND CHASES AWAY HIS MOTHER IS A SON WHO 16:15 CAUSES SHAME AND BRINGS REPROACH." ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE 16:19 THE PRINCIPLE ABOUT REVERING AND HONORING AND RESPECTING YOUR 16:24 FATHER AND MOTHER IS A PRETTY BASIC PRINCIPLE. 16:28 BUT THE FIRST CONCEPT OF GOD COMES FROM THEM. BY THE WAY, 16:32 NOT ONLY WILL PARENTS REPRESENT GOD TO YOUR CHILDREN, 16:36 BUT THEIR CONCEPT OF MARRIAGE IS GOING TO COME FROM YOU. 16:41 NOT ONLY IS IT IMPORTANT THAT CHILDREN HONOR THEIR PARENTS AND 16:45 THAT PARENTS LIVE HONORABLY, BUT PARENTS MUST BE VERY CAREFUL TO 16:50 HONOR EACH OTHER BECAUSE IF A FATHER DOES NOT HONOR HIS WIFE, 16:58 YOUR SON PROBABLY WILL NOT HONOR HIS. IF A MOTHER DOES NOT 17:03 RESPECT HER HUSBAND, YOUR DAUGHTER WILL PROBABLY NOT 17:07 RESPECT HER HUSBAND. AND SO, THE MODEL THAT THE 17:13 PARENTS ESTABLISH FOR THOSE CHILDREN - WHAT GOES AROUND WILL 17:17 COME AROUND. HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF. 17:20 NOW SOME OF YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WELL PASTOR DOUG, I 17:21 GREW UP IN A FAMILY THAT WAS SO DYSFUNCTIONAL - MY MOTHER AND 17:24 FATHER WERE NOT VERY HONORABLE - THEY DIDN'T HONOR EACH OTHER AND 17:26 NOW IT'S CAUSING ME PROBLEMS.' BY GOD'S GRACE YOU NEED TO BREAK 17:30 THE CYCLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION AND IT CAN HAPPEN. 17:34 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I'M AMAZED AT WHEN I READ THE BIBLE 17:36 IS HOW SOME OF THESE ROTTEN KINGS HAD GOOD KIDS. 17:41 AND HOW SOME OF THE GOOD KINGS HAD ROTTEN KIDS. 17:45 AND SO YOU CAN'T ALWAYS SAY, 'WELL, I'M A VICTIM BECAUSE OF 17:49 THE WAY I GREW UP. I CAN'T HELP IT.' 17:53 I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY PITIFUL - I'M RELUCTANT TO EVEN REFER TO 17:58 WHAT WE'VE HEARD IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK ABOUT THAT HORRIFIC 18:01 STORY ABOUT THOSE LADIES THAT WERE BASICALLY HELD - IMPRISONED 18:06 - YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? - BY THIS MAN. YOU KNOW, 18:10 HE'S STILL, TECHNICALLY, A SUSPECT BUT THE EVIDENCE SEEMS 18:14 PRETTY OVERWHELMING THAT HE BASICALLY IMPRISONED 18:17 THESE THREE WOMEN AND ABUSED THEM FOR OVER NINE YEARS. 18:21 AND YOU KNOW WHAT HIS RESPONSE IS? 'I WAS MISTREATED AS A 18:24 CHILD.' WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T USE THAT. 18:30 AND IT MIGHT GIVE YOU SOME EXCUSE, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE 18:34 - AT LEAST IT DIDN'T USED TO BE A VALID CLAIM IN COURT. 18:39 SO MAYBE YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT KIND OF MOTHER AND FATHER. 18:43 YOU NEED TO BREAK THE CYCLE. AND YOU CAN. 18:46 I'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN. YOU'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN. 18:47 EXAMPLES IN THE WORD - BUT WE REPRESENT GOD. 18:51 SO CHILDREN NEED TO HONOR THEIR PARENTS BECAUSE THE LORD - I'VE 18:56 OFTEN TOLD OUR KIDS WHEN, YOU KNOW, THEY SOMETIMES DISAGREE 19:00 WITH SOME MANDATE THAT COMES FROM MOM OR DAD. 19:03 I SAY, 'LOOK, GOD MADE US YOUR PARENTS SO YOU TAKE IT UP WITH 19:05 HIM.' AND SO I JUST PASS THE BUCK. I SAID, 'HE PUT US IN 19:09 CHARGE. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO TALK TO THE LORD ABOUT THAT. 19:12 THIS IS THE WAY IT IS.' AND SO SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE 19:15 TO LAY DOWN THE LAW. OH, YOU KNOW, I SAW THIS AND NOW 19:18 IS PROBABLY AS GOOD A TIME AS ANY TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU. 19:21 I SAW A LIST IN PREPARING FOR THIS SERMON - THINGS THAT WE - 19:25 YOU MIGHT RAISE YOUR HAND - THINGS THAT WE TYPICALLY HAVE 19:28 HEARD FATHERS SAY AND THEN I'VE GOT THINGS WE TYPICALLY HAVE 19:30 HEARD MOTHERS SAY. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD 19:33 YOUR FATHER SAY - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD YOUR FATHER SAY, 19:36 'ASK YOUR MOTHER'? 'I DON'T KNOW. I'M BUSY. 19:41 ASK YOUR MOTHER.' 'CLOSE THE DOOR. 19:44 WERE YOU BORN IN A BARN?' DID ANYONE HEAR THAT GROWING UP? 19:49 FATHER OR MOTHER COULD HAVE SAID THAT ONE. 19:51 'DON'T WORRY, IT'S ONLY A LITTLE BLOOD.' 19:55 YOU COME IN WITH AN OWIE, YOU KNOW, MOM IS KISSING IT AND PUT 19:58 A BAND-AID ON IT. YOU SHOW IT TO YOUR DAD AND 20:00 HE'LL GO, 'AW, IT'S JUST BLOOD.' I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I HURT 20:04 MYSELF AND I STARTED TO BLEED I WAS THINKING, 'I'M LEAKING! 20:08 WHAT IS - WHAT'S HAPPENING?' AND, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER MY 20:12 UNCLE USED TO SAY - HE'D TAKE IT THE OTHER WAY, HE'D GO, 'WOW, 20:16 LOOK AT ALL THE BLOOD. THAT'S REALLY SOMETHING.' 20:22 AND YOU DIDN'T GET A LOT OF SYMPATHY FROM THE FATHERS, 20:24 RIGHT? 'A LITTLE DIRT NEVER HURT ANYONE, JUST WIPE IT OFF.' 20:29 'KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL.' 'THIS IS GOING TO HURT ME A LOT 20:34 MORE THAN IT'S GOING TO HURT YOU.' 20:38 I NEVER DID UNDERSTAND THAT. 'DO I LOOK LIKE I'M MADE OF 20:42 MONEY?' ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD THAT? 20:46 YOU EVER HEAR DAD SAY, 'NO, WE'RE NOT LOST.' 20:51 AND THEN ALONG WITH THAT ONE YOU WOULD HEAR, 'NO, WE'RE NOT THERE 20:53 YET.' 'DON'T MAKE ME STOP THIS CAR AND 21:01 COME BACK THERE!' 'AS LONG AS YOU LIVE UNDER MY 21:05 ROOF YOU LIVE BY MY RULES' OR 'I'M THE KING OF THIS CASTLE.' 21:10 SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT. ANY OF YOU EVER HEAR THAT 21:12 GROWING UP? 'I'LL TELL YOU WHY, BECAUSE I 21:15 SAID SO.' AND, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER I HEARD 21:20 THAT I THOUGHT - THAT USED TO MAKE ME SO MAD AND THEN I HEARD 21:23 MYSELF SAY IT. THAT'S WHAT'S REALLY SAD. 21:30 'NO I'M NOT SLEEPING, I WAS WATCHING THAT SHOW.' 21:35 'AM I TALKING TO HEAR MY OWN VOICE?' 21:38 'TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.' 'WHAT DID I JUST FINISH TELLING 21:41 YOU?' 'WHAT PART OF 'NO' DON'T YOU 21:43 UNDERSTAND?' 'SON, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE DUMB 21:47 YOU HAVE TO BE TOUGH.' YOU NEVER HEARD THAT ONE. 21:51 'KEEP THAT UP AND I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT.' 21:55 HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD THAT ONE? 22:00 'I BROUGHT YOU INTO THIS WORLD AND I CAN TAKE YOU OUT ALSO.' 22:06 'I CAN MAKE ANOTHER ONE OF YOU.' THINGS MOM TAUGHT US: 'IF YOU'RE 22:14 OUT THERE MOWING THE GRASS WITHOUT YOUR SHOES ON AND YOU 22:16 CUT OFF YOUR TOES, DON'T COME RUNNING TO ME.' 22:20 OF COURSE, IT'S PRETTY HARD TO RUN TO MOM WITHOUT YOUR TOES. 22:24 'IF YOU FALL OFF THAT SWING AND BREAK YOUR NECK, YOU CAN'T GO TO 22:26 THE STORE WITH ME.' 'IF EVERY ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS 22:30 JUMPED OFF THE BRIDGE WOULD YOU DO IT TOO?' 22:33 'IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR VEGETABLES YOU'LL NEVER GROW 22:35 UP.' WHAT I USED TO HEAR IS 'YOU HAVE 22:37 TO EAT ALL YOUR VEGETABLES BECAUSE THE KIDS IN AFRICA WERE 22:39 STARVING.' HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD THAT ONE? AND I USED TO THINK, 22:43 'WELL, MOM, COULD WE PACK IT UP AND SEND IT TO THEM? 22:46 IF THEY'RE HUNGRY, WHY DON'T...' 'IF YOU KEEP CROSSING YOUR EYES 22:52 THAT WAY THEY'RE GOING TO GET STUCK.' 22:56 'IF YOU DON'T PASS THE SPELLING TEST YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GET A 22:58 GOOD JOB.' 'MAKE SURE AND ALWAYS PUT ON 23:02 CLEAN UNDERWEAR BECAUSE YOU COULD HAVE A CAR ACCIDENT.' 23:06 DID ANY OF YOU EVER HEAR THAT? 'WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? ANSWER 23:13 ME! DON'T TALK BACK TO ME.' 'WHEN YOU GET TO MY AGE YOU'LL 23:17 UNDERSTAND.' 'I'LL EXPLAIN WHEN YOU GET 23:19 OLDER.' 'JUST WAIT 'TIL YOUR FATHER GETS 23:22 HOME' OR 'YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT WHEN I GET HOME!' 23:29 AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE ONE THAT WE'VE PROBABLY ALL HEARD IS 23:31 'SOMEDAY YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE KIDS AND THEY'LL BE JUST LIKE 23:33 YOU.' THINGS THAT WE HEARD OUR MOTHERS 23:37 AND OUR FATHERS SAY. IT BRINGS BACK MEMORIES. 23:42 YOU KNOW, THE COMMAND IS FOR PARENTS ALSO. 23:49 HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER IS NOT JUST A COMMAND FOR CHILDREN. 23:51 THIS IS A COMMAND FOR PARENTS, OF COURSE, TO BE HONORABLE AND 23:55 NOT TO PROVOKE THEM. EPHESIANS 6:4, "AND YOU, 23:58 FATHERS, DO NOT PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN TO WRATH, BUT BRING 24:02 THEM UP IN THE TRAINING AND ADMONITION OF THE LORD." 24:06 I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ TO YOU ALL THE VERSES THAT TALK ABOUT 24:08 TEACHING THE WORD OF GOD TO YOUR CHILDREN - HERE A LITTLE, THERE 24:12 A LITTLE - PUT IT ON THE DOORPOSTS - PUT IT IN YOUR HOUSE 24:17 WHEN YOU LAY DOWN, WHEN YOU RISE UP. 24:19 ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IF YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO 24:22 GROW UP AND BE HONORABLE AND SERVE GOD, YOU MUST BE HONORABLE 24:25 AND HAVE FAMILY WORSHIP. THE WHOLE IDEA OF HONORING YOUR 24:29 FATHER AND MOTHER IS LEARNED THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD AND IT'S 24:32 IMPLYING THAT YOU'RE TEACHING THE WORD OF GOD IN YOUR FAMILY. 24:36 THE BIBLE SAYS THESE WORDS SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO THE CHILDREN 24:39 AND YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN. THE BIBLE SAYS GRANDPARENTS AND 24:44 PARENTS TEACH THEM TO THE CHILDREN. 24:48 AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU SHOULD HONOR YOUR PARENTS AND YOUR 24:54 PARENTS ARE LIKE GOD FOR THE CHILDREN, THEN HOW ABOUT 24:58 GRANDPARENTS? THAT'S EVEN MORE SO, YOU WOULD 25:01 THINK, BECAUSE THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT HONORING YOUR ELDERS AS 25:04 WELL. COLOSSIANS 3:21, "FATHERS, DO 25:07 NOT PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN, LEST THEY BECOME DISCOURAGED." 25:11 THERE'S A BALANCE BETWEEN DISCIPLINING YOUR CHILDREN AND 25:14 NAGGING AND BADGERING THEM SO THAT THEY'RE EXASPERATED. 25:18 YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GUIDE THEM - TELL THEM WHAT'S RIGHT, 25:20 TELL THEM WHAT'S WRONG - AND WHEN THEY DO SOMETHING RIGHT 25:22 TELL THEM, ENCOURAGE THEM, THANK THEM. IF YOU'RE NOT APPRECIATIVE 25:26 IN THE HOME THEY WON'T BE WHEN THEY LEAVE THE HOME. 25:30 AND SO, CHILDREN WILL MUCH MORE DO WHAT THEY SEE THAN WHAT THEY 25:34 HEAR. SO THESE THINGS MUST BE MODELED. 25:37 I HEARD ABOUT A YOUNG BOY THAT WAS TALKING TO HIS FATHER AND HE 25:39 SAID, 'DAD, IS IT ALWAYS TRUE THAT PARENTS KNOW MORE THAN 25:43 THEIR CHILDREN?' HE SAID, 'YES SON, IT'S ALWAYS 25:45 TRUE.' HE SAID, 'DADS ALWAYS KNOW MORE 25:48 THAN THEIR SONS?' HE SAID, 'YES SON, DADS ALWAYS 25:52 KNOW MORE THAN THEIR SONS.' THERE WAS QUIET AND HE SAID, 25:55 'WHO INVENTED THE TELEPHONE?' HE SAID, 'WELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM 25:59 BELL.' 'SO HOW COME HIS FATHER DIDN'T 26:01 INVENT IT?' EVIDENTLY HE KNEW SOMETHING MORE 26:07 THAN HIS FATHER IS THE IMPLICATION. 26:10 OH, BY THE WAY, HERE'S THAT VERSE - DEUTERONOMY 4:9, "ONLY 26:15 TAKE HEED TO YOURSELF, AND DILIGENTLY KEEP YOURSELF, LEST 26:19 YOU FORGET THE THINGS YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN, AND LEST THEY DEPART 26:21 FROM YOUR HEART ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. 26:24 AND TEACH THEM TO YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN." 26:29 SO THERE'S A RESPONSIBILITY FOR A FAMILY BY WORD AND BY EXAMPLE. 26:34 NOW, THIS COMMAND - AND I'VE STRUGGLED WITH HOW TO SHARE THIS 26:37 PART OF THE WORD WITH YOU - THIS NEXT COMMAND I'M GOING TO SHARE 26:41 WITH YOU IS DIFFICULT BUT IT'S IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE GOD WANTED 26:49 TO EMPHASIZE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS NOT TO BE DISRESPECTFUL TO 26:55 PARENTS. DEUTERONOMY 21 - DEUTERONOMY 21 - 27:00 TALKING ABOUT A REBELLIOUS CHILD. LISTEN TO THIS - YOU KIDS 27:04 LISTEN TO THIS. DEUTERONOMY 21:18, "IF A MAN HAS 27:11 A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON WHO WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF 27:15 HIS FATHER OR THE VOICE OF HIS MOTHER, AND WHO, WHEN THEY HAVE 27:20 CHASTENED HIM, WILL NOT HEED THEM, THEN HIS FATHER AND HIS 27:24 MOTHER SHALL TAKE HOLD OF HIM AND BRING HIM OUT TO THE ELDERS 27:28 OF HIS CITY, TO THE GATE OF HIS CITY. 27:31 AND THEY SHALL SAY TO THE ELDERS OF HIS CITY," - THAT'S WHERE 27:33 JUDGMENT WAS - THEY'D GO BRING THEIR VARIOUS CASES TO THE 27:36 ELDERS OF THE CITY - THE GATE OF THE CITY - "'THIS SON OF OURS IS 27:39 STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS; HE WILL NOT OBEY OUR VOICE; HE IS A 27:44 GLUTTON AND A DRUNKARD.' THEN ALL THE MEN OF HIS CITY 27:48 SHALL STONE HIM TO DEATH WITH STONES; SO YOU SHALL PUT AWAY 27:52 THE EVIL FROM AMONG YOU, AND ALL ISRAEL SHALL HEAR AND FEAR." 27:58 NOW THERE'S NO RECORD IN THE BIBLE THAT ANY SON WAS STONED - 28:01 OR DAUGHTER - BECAUSE OF THAT KIND OF INSUBORDINATION. 28:04 BUT JUST THE FACT THAT THERE'S A LAW IN THERE THAT A PARENT - 28:09 MOTHER OR FATHER - A FATHER WOULD PRINCIPALLY BRING IT 28:12 BEFORE THE ELDERS - COULD BRING A CASE - A CHARGE AGAINST THEIR 28:16 SON. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE CHARGE WAS? REBELLIOUS, 28:20 INSOLENT, DRUNKARD, GLUTTON, DISOBEDIENT - 28:24 JUST THAT WE HAVE GOT A SLOB FOR A CHILD THAT JUST WILL NOT OBEY. 28:28 AND WHAT WAS THE PENALTY? DEATH. 28:32 YOU KNOW, I THINK THE REASON THAT'S IN THE BIBLE IS BECAUSE 28:34 GOD IS SAYING, 'DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT BEING DISRESPECTFUL 28:38 TO YOUR PARENTS BECAUSE THEY HOLD THE DEATH SENTENCE 28:41 POSSIBILITY IN THEIR HANDS. NOW, LOOK AT HOW THINGS HAVE 28:46 CHANGED. AGAIN, DON'T MISUNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING. 28:50 DO YOU ALL UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? 28:51 WHEN THEY LIVED UNDER A THEOCRACY - I'M NOT SUGGESTING 28:54 THAT WE PRACTICE THAT - SOMEONE'S GOING TO RUN OUT AND 28:56 CALL AN ATTORNEY. I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT WE 28:59 PRACTICE THAT. THEY WERE LIVING UNDER A 29:02 THEOCRACY WHEN GOD GAVE THEM THIS LAW. 29:05 MOSES WAS THERE. THEY WERE IN THE WILDERNESS. 29:07 THE PILLAR OF FIRE WAS HOVERING ABOVE THEM. 29:09 THEY SAW THE PRESENCE OF GOD. FOR A CHILD TO DISOBEY THE 29:13 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD RIGHT THERE IN THE VERY VISIBLE PRESENCE OF 29:15 GOD WAS ESPECIALLY DEADLY. SO I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT WE 29:20 PRACTICE THIS, BUT I JUST THOUGHT THAT IT MIGHT BE WORTH 29:23 REMEMBERING. KIDS HEARD THIS READ TO THEM. 29:29 THEY TREMBLED AT THE THOUGHT THAT THEIR PARENTS WERE 29:34 AUTHORIZED BY GOD WITH LIFE AND DEATH POWER, RIGHT? 29:42 YOU'D OBEY YOUR PARENTS WHEN THEY SAID 'CLEAN YOUR ROOM.' 29:46 THE KIDS SAY, 'OH, CLEAN MY ROOM. 29:47 CLEAN MY ROOM.' DAD PUT HIS HANDS ON HIS HIPS 29:49 AND HE'D SAY, 'SHALL WE GO TO THE GATE AND SEE THE JUDGES?' 29:54 YOU'D CLEAN YOUR ROOM, WOULDN'T YOU? 29:58 BUT TODAY, KIDS GET MAD AT THEIR PARENTS AND THEY PICK UP THE 30:01 PHONE AND THEY CALL CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES. 30:06 AND I AGREE THAT IT'S TERRIBLE WHEN PARENTS ABUSE THEIR 30:10 CHILDREN, AND WE KNOW THAT THERE'S PLENTY OF THAT, BUT SOME 30:13 CASES IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND, WHERE KIDS ARE MANIPULATING THE 30:16 SYSTEM AND THEY ARE THREATENING THEIR PARENTS. THEY'RE SAYING, 30:21 'YOU YELL AT ME I'M GOING TO CALL AND SAY THAT YOU BEAT ME. 30:26 AND THIS BRUISE I GOT PLAYING BASKETBALL, I'M GOING TO SAY YOU 30:29 HIT ME.' AND KIDS HAVE HAD THEIR PARENTS 30:33 ARRESTED OR THEY'VE BEEN TAKEN AWAY. 30:36 I KNOW CASES, AS A PASTOR WE'VE DEALT WITH FAMILIES WHERE KIDS 30:38 HAVE FALSELY ACCUSED THEIR PARENTS BECAUSE THEY WERE MAD 30:42 AND HAD A TANTRUM AND THE CHILDREN WERE TAKEN OUT OF THE 30:44 FAMILY'S HOME AND THEY FINALLY CONFESSED 'I MADE THE WHOLE 30:46 THING UP.' THINGS HAVE CHANGED FROM WHERE THE AUTHORITY USED TO 30:51 REST WITH THE PARENTS TO WHERE IT'S MOVED TO THE CHILD AND THE 30:54 STATE. HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER. 30:59 PROVERBS 28:24 - JUST TO REINFORCE THAT POINT - "WHOEVER 31:03 ROBS HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER, AND SAYS, 'IT IS NO 31:06 TRANSGRESSION,' THE SAME IS COMPANION TO A DESTROYER." 31:11 IT'S SAYING THIS PERSON IS A DESTROYER - THEY HONOR - 31:14 DISHONOR THEIR FATHER AND MOTHER. 31:15 PROVERBS 15:5, "A FOOL DESPISES HIS FATHER'S INSTRUCTION, BUT HE 31:21 WHO RECEIVES CORRECTION IS PRUDENT." 31:24 OH, WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN, YOU KNOW, I CAN THINK OF SO MANY 31:27 TIMES MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER SAID, 'DO THIS' OR 'DON'T DO 31:29 THAT' - JUST GAVE ME SOME PRACTICAL ADVICE AND I THOUGHT, 31:32 'OH, WHAT DO THEY KNOW?' AND YOU GET A LITTLE OLDER AND 31:35 YOU THINK, 'IT'S TOO BAD I HAD TO LEARN THE HARD WAY, THOSE 31:39 THINGS.' SOMETIMES YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU SAY 31:41 SOMETHING TO YOUR KIDS, YOU SAY, 'TRUST ME.' 'BUT WHY? WHY?' 31:44 YOU CAN'T ALWAYS EXPLAIN IT. 'TRUST ME. 31:47 THERE ARE GOOD REASONS FOR THESE THINGS.' 31:50 HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER. 31:53 NOW, THEY EVEN HAD A TIME OF - NOT ONLY WAS THERE PUNISHMENT 31:58 FOR A REBELLIOUS CHILD, BUT WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND, 32:02 THEY HAD SIX OF THE TRIBES THAT STOOD ON A MOUNTAIN IN THE 32:05 MIDDLE OF THE PROMISED LAND CALLED MOUNT GERIZIM AND SIX OF 32:08 THE TRIBES STOOD ON MOUNT NEBO ON THE OPPOSITE OF A VALLEY AND 32:14 THEY WOULD PRONOUNCE BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS THAT WOULD ECHO 32:17 ACROSS THE VALLEY THAT WOULD BASICALLY SAY, 'THIS IS THE LAW 32:20 OF OUR LAND.' AND CURSING WAS PRONOUNCED UPON THE DISOBEDIENT. 32:26 PROVERBS 20:20, "WHOEVER CURSES HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER, HIS 32:31 LAMP WILL BE PUT OUT IN DEEP DARKNESS." 32:34 YOU THINK, IN THE BIBLE, SOME EXAMPLES OF LIKE ABSALOM THAT 32:37 REBELLED AGAINST HIS FATHER. HOW DID IT END FOR HIM? 32:41 IN A NAMELESS PIT HE WAS BURIED - PIERCED THROUGH. 32:48 PROVERBS 30:17, "THE EYE THAT MOCKS HIS FATHER, AND SCORNS 32:52 OBEDIENCE TO HIS MOTHER, THE RAVENS OF THE VALLEY WILL PICK 32:56 IT OUT, AND THE YOUNG EAGLES WILL EAT IT." 32:58 AND THEN THEY WERE TO PRONOUNCE THIS CURSE - DEUTERONOMY 27:16, 33:03 "CURSED IS THE ONE WHO TREATS HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER WITH 33:06 CONTEMPT. AND ALL THE PEOPLE WILL SAY, 33:09 'AMEN!'" THAT WAS A CURSE THAT THEY 33:12 WOULD ALTOGETHER SAY AS A NATION - CURSED IS THE ONE WHO TREATS 33:17 HIS FATHER OR MOTHER CONTEMPTUOUSLY. 33:20 NOW, THIS IS PROBABLY A GOOD PLACE TO MENTION SOME OF THE 33:23 COMMANDMENTS ARE STATED IN THE NEGATIVE - THOU SHALT NOT, THOU 33:26 SHALT NOT, THOU SHALT NOT - THIS COMMANDMENT IS ACTUALLY STATED 33:29 IN THE POSITIVE. 'THOU SHALL HONOR YOUR FATHER 33:34 AND YOUR MOTHER THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE LONG UPON THE LAND.' 33:37 IT'S A POSITIVE COMMAND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, BUT YOU READ 33:41 THROUGH THE REST OF THE SCRIPTURE AND IT SAYS THERE ARE 33:43 SOME VERY NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR THOSE WHO DISOBEY. 33:48 AS GOES THE HOME, SO GOES THE NATION. IF WE DON'T HAVE RESPECT 33:52 FOR AUTHORITY WITH PARENTS, THOSE CHILDREN TYPICALLY DO NOT 33:56 RESPECT AUTHORITY WHEN THEY LEAVE HOME. 33:58 AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE THEM AT MY FINGERTIPS BUT THERE'S AN 34:01 ABUNDANCE OF SURVEYS AND EVIDENCE - YOU GO THROUGH A 34:03 PRISON AND YOU DO AN INTERVIEW AND YOU'LL FIND OUT THAT A LOT 34:06 OF PEOPLE - IN MEN'S OR WOMEN'S PRISONS - THERE WAS NOT RESPECT 34:10 IN THE HOME. THEY TRANSFERRED THAT LACK OF 34:13 RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY, ONCE THEY LEFT HOME, TO THE SOCIETY AND 34:17 THEY OFTEN ENDED UP INCARCERATED. 34:23 YOU HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER 34:26 BY NOT STAYING A CHILD FOREVER. YOU HONOR THEM BY GROWING UP. 34:32 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS IS TO, BASICALLY, TRAIN YOUR 34:38 CHILDREN FOR INDEPENDENCE. FROM THE TIME THEY'RE BORN THEY 34:42 ARE UTTERLY DEPENDENT AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO TEACH THEM 34:47 TO BE INDEPENDENT, RESPONSIBLE, GOOD, HONEST, RESPECTFUL - AND, 34:55 YOU KNOW, IF - THERE NEEDS TO BE RESPECT IN THE FAMILY. 34:59 WHEN KIDS GROW UP AND THEY SEE MOM AND DAD YELLING AT EACH 35:04 OTHER BUT THEY GO OUT IN PUBLIC AND THEY'RE NICE, THEY'LL GROW 35:09 UP THINKING THAT YELLING IS THE WAY THAT YOU HANDLE THINGS IN 35:13 YOUR FAMILIES AND IN YOUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. 35:16 JUST WHATEVER THEY SEE IN THE FAMILY ENDS UP BEING REPRODUCED. 35:21 THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE THIS MODEL. 35:23 WE'RE TO TRAIN THEM FOR INDEPENDENCE. 35:25 YOU'RE NOT HONORING YOUR PARENTS BY STAYING AT HOME WHEN YOU'RE 35:29 25, NOT GOING TO SCHOOL, AND YOU DON'T HAVE A JOB. 35:33 PARENTS, YOU ARE NOT HONORING GOD OR HELPING YOUR CHILDREN BY 35:37 LETTING THEM DO THAT. THERE COMES A TIME WHERE THE 35:40 BEST THING IN THE WORLD YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR KIDS IS TO PRACTICE 35:43 SOME TOUGH LOVE AND SAY, 'PRAISE THE LORD! 35:47 YOU'RE HEALTHY. YOU'RE EDUCATED. THERE'S THE DOOR. SEIZE THE DAY! 35:54 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN EXCITING LIFE. 35:56 SEND ME A POSTCARD WHEN YOU GET A JOB. KEEP IN TOUCH.' 36:02 BUT YOU ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 36:07 SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND. 36:08 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS IN GENESIS, 'A MAN WILL LEAVE HIS 36:14 FATHER AND MOTHER AND CLEAVE UNTO HIS WIFE.' 36:16 AND SOME OF YOU ARE THINKING, 'WELL, I DON'T HAVE A WIFE OR A 36:18 HUSBAND YET SO I'M JUST STAYING AT HOME.' 36:19 OH NO, NO - YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GET ONE EITHER IF 36:21 YOU'RE 45 AND STILL LIVING WITH MOM AND DAD. 36:25 YOU'VE GOT TO GET OUT AND GET A JOB AND GET YOUR OWN LIFE AND 36:27 YOU'LL PROBABLY BE MORE ATTRACTIVE TO THE OPPOSITE SEX. 36:31 AND YOU'VE GOT TO - FOLKS ARE THINKING, 'YOU KNOW, I CAN'T 36:34 COMPETE, HE'S STILL BRAGGING ABOUT MOM'S COOKING AND HE'S 30 36:36 YEARS OLD AND HE'S LIVING AT HOME AND HOW CAN I EVER COMPETE 36:39 WITH THAT?' IF YOU WANT TO BE ON THE MARKET 36:41 AND HAVE YOUR OWN HOME, THERE COMES A TIME WHEN YOU'VE GOT TO 36:44 LEAVE THE NEST. AND YOU KNOW YOU EVEN SEE THIS IN NATURE. 36:48 WHEN THE LITTLE EAGLE IS YOUNG - EAGLES ARE INTERESTING 36:51 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY MATE FOR LIFE - THEY'RE VERY DEVOTED 36:53 COMPANIONS. THE MOTHER AND THE FATHER BOTH 36:56 CARE FOR THE CHICK - THEY WORK TOGETHER - AND THEY MAKE THEIR 37:01 NEST REAL FLUFFY WHEN THEY'RE BABIES. 37:04 IT KEEPS THE EGGS FROM CRACKING BECAUSE THE NEST IS MADE OUT OF 37:06 STICKS AND ROCKS AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS - BONES - BUT THEY'VE 37:10 GOT A LOT OF DOWN AND FLUFF AND AS THE CHICKS GET OLDER - PRETTY 37:14 SOON THEY GET BIG AND THEY'RE CROWDING EACH OTHER IN THE 37:17 LITTLE NEST AND THEY'RE STRETCHING THEIR WINGS AND 37:19 THEY'RE FLAPPING AND THEY GET WHERE THE PARENTS KNOW, YOU 37:21 KNOW, THEY CAN FLY BUT THEY'RE COMFORTABLE BECAUSE WE'RE 37:24 BRINGING THEM FOOD EVERY DAY. SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE PARENTS 37:27 START DOING? THEY START BRINGING LESS FOOD. 37:32 AND THEY START GETTING HUNGRY. AND THEN THE PARENTS START TO 37:36 SCRATCH UP ALL THE DOWN AND THEY THROW ALL THE SOFT STUFF OUT OF 37:39 THE NEST SO THEY'RE NOT ONLY HUNGRY, THEY'RE UNCOMFORTABLE. 37:42 THEY'VE GOT ALL THESE BONES AND SHARP STICKS AND ROCKS IN THERE 37:45 AND THEY'RE GOING, 'WHAT'S HAPPENED? 37:46 DON'T YOU LOVE ME ANYMORE?' AND THEY'RE BASICALLY SAYING, 37:49 'YOU'VE GOT WINGS. YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN TO FLY. 37:52 THE TIME COMES WHEN YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE THE LEAP. 37:54 AND, YES, THERE'S RISK AND DANGER OUT THERE, BUT YOU JUST 37:57 CAN'T STAY AT HOME.' SO PART OF THAT HONOR 37:59 RELATIONSHIP OF PARENT AND CHILD IS THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE 38:04 SUPPOSED TO ULTIMATELY PREPARE THEM FOR THE TIME WHEN THEY 38:07 LAUNCH. THERE NEEDS TO BE A LAUNCH TIME. 38:12 AND I SAY THIS BECAUSE - AND I'M NOT SPEAKING TO ANYONE SPECIFIC 38:16 HERE - BUT I PROBABLY AM WITHOUT KNOWING IT. 38:20 IT BREAKS MY HEART WHEN I SEE THAT KIDS ARE STILL IN THE NEST, 38:25 THEIR WINGS ARE FULLY DEVELOPED AND YEARS GO BY AND MOM AND DAD 38:28 ARE STILL BRINGING THEM THEIR FOOD AND TAKING CARE OF THEM. 38:32 YOU'RE NOT HELPING THEM AND, CHILDREN, YOU ARE NOT HONORING 38:35 YOUR PARENTS WHEN YOU DON'T GET THAT INDEPENDENCE. 38:40 SAY AMEN. HELP ME OUT OF THIS CONUNDRUM. OKAY. 38:47 CHILDREN SHOULD HONOR - SHOULD CHILDREN - THAT'S MY QUESTION - 38:50 SHOULD CHILDREN HONOR A DISHONORABLE PARENT? 38:55 NOW, WHENEVER YOU TALK ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF HONORING YOUR MOTHER 38:57 AND FATHER, SOMEONE WILL INVARIABLY SAY, 'WELL, THAT'S 39:01 EASY FOR YOU TO SAY. YOU DON'T KNOW MY FATHER. 39:05 YOU DON'T KNOW MY MOTHER. THEY ARE IMPOSSIBLE. 39:09 THEY - THE WAY THEY TREATED ME GROWING UP. 39:11 I WAS MISTREATED.' HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THOSE SITUATIONS? 39:14 OR THERE MAY BE AREAS WHERE YOU SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I DO TRY TO 39:17 HONOR THEM BUT THERE ARE DAYS WHEN I JUST, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T 39:21 SPEAK PEACEABLY TO THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE SO UNREASONABLE. 39:24 AND EVEN AFTER I'M AN ADULT THEY KEEP MEDDLING IN MY LIFE AND 39:27 TELLING ME WHAT TO DO' OR 'I CAN'T TALK TO THEM. 39:29 EVERY TIME WE TALK, WE FIGHT AND WHAT DO YOU DO?' 39:32 AND YOU CAN FILL IN THE BLANK - WHATEVER YOUR SITUATION IS - OR 39:35 YOU, NO DOUBT, KNOW SITUATIONS. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE HONORABLE 39:41 TO THEIR POSITION AS YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR FATHER. 39:45 YOU NEED TO RESPECT THEM FOR THAT. 39:47 IF YOU CANNOT COMMUNICATE PEACEABLY - MAYBE YOU'RE A 39:50 CHRISTIAN AND THEY'RE NOT - IF THEY DO NOT ASK YOU TO VIOLATE 39:53 SOME COMMAND OR PRINCIPLE, RESPECT THEM. 39:57 IF YOUR PARENTS SAY, 'LET'S GO ROB A BANK TOGETHER.' 40:00 YOU SAY 'NO.' YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 40:03 AND SO, OBVIOUSLY, IF YOUR PARENTS ARE ASKING YOU TO DO 40:05 SOMETHING THAT'S A VIOLATION OF GOD'S WORD OR HIS WILL, YOU HAVE 40:08 TO RESPECTFULLY SAY, 'I'M SORRY, I CAN'T DO THAT.' 40:11 AND IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS GETTING ALONG, WRITE LETTERS IF YOU 40:15 CAN'T TALK PEACEFULLY. WRITE A NOTE. IT'S HARD TO ARGUE 40:17 WITH A NOTE. WRITE A NOTE AND SAY - YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT A LOT 40:21 OF PEOPLE I'VE COUNSELED WITH AND THEY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I WANT 40:23 TO HONOR MY PARENTS BUT WHENEVER I TALK TO THEM THEY START TO 40:26 BADGER ME AND PUT ME DOWN AND IT'S JUST PAINFUL.' 40:30 AND I SAY, 'WELL ALRIGHT, THEN SAY - WRITE THEM A NOTE. 40:33 TELL THEM YOU LOVE THEM AND RESPECT THEM AND JUST DO IT 40:35 THROUGH THE MAIL.' IT JUST CREATES ONE LITTLE LAYER 40:37 OF SEPARATION WHERE YOU CAN SHOW, 'I RESPECT YOU. 40:39 I WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU BUT WHEN WE TALK IT JUST ISN'T' 40:44 - YOU KNOW. AND THERE MAY COME A TIME - 40:46 THERE ARE CASES WHERE YOU NEED TO CUT OFF COMMUNICATION BECAUSE 40:50 IT IS SO TOXIC. BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU DO IT IN 40:54 A DISRESPECTFUL WAY. YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING? 40:57 THERE WAS ONE OF THE KINGS IN THE BIBLE THAT HAD TO MAKE HIS 40:59 MOTHER - HE HAD TO BASICALLY FIRE HER FROM BEING QUEEN 41:03 BECAUSE SHE WAS WORSHIPING PAGAN IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE. 41:07 AND SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO BREAK THAT OFF BUT AS 41:10 FAR AS POSSIBLE - EVEN THE PARENTS WHO ARE SOMETIMES 41:13 DIFFICULT - RESPECT THEM, HONOR THEM. THEY'RE YOUR PARENTS, 41:17 AMEN? THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU NEED TO - ONCE YOU BECOME AN 41:23 ADULT IT'S NICE TO LISTEN TO THEIR ADVICE - YOU DON'T ALWAYS 41:26 HAVE TO FOLLOW IT. THEY DON'T HAVE TO MEDDLE IN 41:29 YOUR LIVES, BUT BE RESPECTFUL. REMEMBER THEM. 41:32 WRITE THEM AN OCCASIONAL NOTE. MAKE A PHONE CALL. 41:36 I HEARD ABOUT A WOMAN WHO CALLED HER RABBI - AND SHE TURNED 60 - 41:40 SHE THOUGHT IT WAS TIME TO MAKE OUT HER WILL. 41:42 SHE SAYS, 'THERE'S TWO THINGS I WANT YOU TO HELP ME WITH.' 41:45 SHE SAID, 'I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M CREMATED. 41:48 IT'S MORE AFFORDABLE.' AND SHE SAID,' THEN I'D LIKE YOU 41:51 TO TAKE MY ASHES AND THEN COULD YOU SPRINKLE THEM ALL AROUND 41:53 MACY'S?' HE SAID, 'WELL, I GOT THE FIRST 41:57 PART BUT HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE SECOND PART.' 42:00 SHE SAID, 'YEAH, I JUST WANT TO BE SURE MY DAUGHTERS WILL COME 42:02 AND SEE ME AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK.' 42:09 SOME KIDS NEVER VISIT THEIR PARENTS. 42:13 YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT IN THE BIBLE, WITH ALL THAT'S 42:16 BEING SAID THESE DAYS ABOUT THE ROLE OF WOMEN, THE BIBLE - OLD 42:21 TESTAMENT/NEW TESTAMENT - THERE WERE A LOT OF NATIONS AND 42:25 COUNTRIES AND EMPIRES THAT BASICALLY WOMEN WERE TREATED AS 42:27 PROPERTY AND SLAVES AND ANIMALS. BUT IN THE BIBLE GOD DOESN'T 42:31 SAY JUST HONOR YOUR FATHERS, HE SAYS, 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND 42:33 YOUR MOTHER.' AND HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT IT 42:35 ISN'T ALWAYS FATHER AND MOTHER? IF YOU LOOK IN LEVITICUS 19:3, 42:40 ONE TIME MOSES SAID, "EVERY ONE OF YOU SHALL REVERE HIS MOTHER 42:44 AND HIS FATHER," - HE SWAPPED THEM AROUND. 42:49 PART OF THE REASON FOR THAT MIGHT BE - WHO IS THE PRIMARY 42:52 SUPPLIER OF NURTURE AND GUIDANCE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE LIFE? 42:57 IT'S THE MOTHER. OH, BY THE WAY, IT GOES ON TO SAY, 43:00 "...REVERE HIS MOTHER AND HIS FATHER, AND KEEP MY 43:04 SABBATHS; I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD." AND PART OF THAT IS - I'M 43:09 WONDERING IF HE'S SAYING, 'WORSHIP WITH THEM.' 43:12 SPEND TIME WORSHIPING TOGETHER. SO, HOW LONG SHOULD YOU HONOR 43:18 YOUR PARENTS? DO YOU EVER OUTGROW THAT? 43:22 NO, AS LONG AS THEY'RE YOUR PARENTS YOU WANT TO HONOR THEM. 43:27 YOU KNOW, WE'RE LIVING IN A CULTURE TODAY WHERE, AS PARENTS 43:31 AGE, AND SOMETIMES - WE WERE VISITING JUST BEFORE THE SERVICE 43:35 TODAY WITH A COUPLE OF OUR ELDERS THAT ARE HELPING TAKE 43:38 CARE OF THEIR PARENTS. AS PEOPLE GET OLDER THEY 43:41 USUALLY BECOME WEAKER. THEY BECOME MORE NEEDY. 43:43 SOMETIMES THERE'S THE FINAL SICKNESS. IT COULD BE 43:46 PARKINSON'S. IT COULD BE DEMENTIA. AND WHEN YOU WERE 43:53 YOUNG AND YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO CONTROL YOURSELF AND YOU DIDN'T 43:59 HAVE YOUR TEETH AND YOU MAYBE DIDN'T HAVE HAIR - IT'S 44:04 INTERESTING, WE KIND OF LEAVE THE LIFE THE WAY WE ENTERED - 44:07 AND YOU HAD TROUBLE WALKING WERE YOUR PARENTS THERE FOR YOU? 44:13 SO SHOULD WE BE THERE FOR OUR PARENTS DURING THAT TIME? 44:17 NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S NEVER A SITUATION WHERE YOU WANT 44:20 TO PROVIDE SOME KIND OF ASSISTED LIVING CIRCUMSTANCES. 44:23 I'M NOT TRYING TO CONDEMN ANYONE FOR DOING THAT. 44:25 SOMETIMES PARENTS ASK FOR THAT AND THEY PREFER THAT AND THEY'RE 44:28 HAPPIER IN A SITUATION AS OPPOSED TO BEING LEFT AT HOME 44:31 WHILE THE CHILD GOES AND WORKS. IT MAY NOT BE SAFE. 44:34 I'M JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, HOSPITALS ALMOST EVERY WEEK HAVE 44:40 OLD CITIZENS THAT ARE DROPPED AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM BY CHILDREN 44:44 THAT DON'T WANT TO TAKE CARE OF THEM ANYMORE - THEY'RE JUST 44:46 DUMPED THERE. IT'S A PARENT-DUMPING PROBLEM. 44:51 AND THEY SAY, 'LOOK, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO TAKE CARE OF THEM' OR 44:53 'WE DON'T HAVE THE INSURANCE' OR 'WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME' AND 44:56 THEN LATE AT NIGHT THEY'LL BRING THEM INTO SOME EMERGENCY ROOM, 45:00 SET THEM DOWN AND LEAVE. AND THEN THE STATE HAS TO TRY AND 45:04 FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T JUST, 45:06 YOU KNOW, KICK THEM OUT IN THE GUTTER. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT 45:10 THEY DID IN THE BIBLE. YOU NOTICE THAT SOME OF THE 45:12 CULTURES THAT THRIVE THE MOST HAVE THE MOST HONOR FOR PARENTS. 45:18 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER THAT YOUR DAYS WILL BE LONG UPON 45:22 THE LAND.' THIS IS A COMMANDMENT THAT 45:24 ACTUALLY HAS A PROMISE IN IT, DID YOU NOTICE THAT? 45:28 IT TELLS US THAT YOUR DAYS WILL BE LONG UPON THE LAND. 45:33 IT SAYS IT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS. YOU LOOK IN DEUTERONOMY 5 45:37 - WHERE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE GIVEN THERE - 45:39 IT'S DIFFERENT THAN YOU FIND IN EXODUS CHAPTER 20. 45:42 "HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, AS THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS 45:45 COMMANDED YOU, THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE LONG, AND THAT IT MAY BE 45:48 WELL WITH YOU IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING 45:52 YOU." WHY DOES GOD PROMISE A BLESSING? 45:55 BY THE WAY, THAT WAS IN OUR SCRIPTURE READING ALSO - 45:57 EPHESIANS 6:1, "CHILDREN, OBEY YOUR PARENTS IN THE LORD," - BY 46:01 THE WAY, IF YOUR PARENTS EVER TELL YOU TO DISOBEY, GOD DOESN'T 46:05 SAY 'OBEY THEM OUT OF THE LORD' - OBEY THEM IN THE LORD - SO IF 46:08 YOUR PARENTS SHOULD EVER ASK YOU TO, YOU KNOW, BECOME A BANK 46:12 ROBBER OR SHOPLIFT OR SOMETHING, YOU DON'T HAVE TO OBEY THAT. 46:15 OBEY THEM IN THE LORD THAT IS RIGHT. 46:17 HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER, WHICH IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 46:20 WITH PROMISE - THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU. 46:23 THAT YOU MAY LIVE LONG UPON THE EARTH. 46:26 LONG LIFE IS PROMISED IN THIS COMMANDMENT. WHY? 46:31 A COUPLE REASONS. ONE IS THAT GOD'LL BLESS YOU 46:32 FOR IT. THE OTHER IS YOUR PARENTS HAVE 46:35 LEARNED THINGS TO HELP YOU STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. 46:39 YOUR PARENTS - WHEN YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR FATHER SAY, 'HERE ARE 46:42 THE CAR KEYS, DO NOT DRIVE FAST.' 46:45 YOU HONOR THEM, YOUR DAYS WILL BE LONG UPON THE LAND. 46:48 YOU DISHONOR THEM, THEY MAY NOT BE AS LONG. 46:53 WHEN YOU DISOBEY - THEY'RE GIVING YOU ADVICE ALL THE TIME 46:55 TO TRY AND KEEP YOU ALIVE. AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT IN THE 47:00 COUNTRIES THAT HAVE THE LONGEST LIFE EXPECTANCY, THEY HAVE THE 47:05 BEST REGARD FOR THEIR ELDERS. YOU KNOW WHAT COUNTRY HAS THE 47:08 LONGEST LIFE EXPECTANCY? JAPAN(ESE). 47:12 DO THEY HONOR THEIR ELDERS THERE? 47:14 IT WAS AMAZING WHEN THEY HAD THAT TREMENDOUS EARTHQUAKE A FEW 47:17 YEARS AGO, TO SEE THE WONDERFUL TENDER CARE THAT PEOPLE TOOK FOR 47:22 THE ELDERS THAT WERE DISPLACED BY ALL OF THIS. 47:25 AND THEY WERE SO CONSCIENTIOUS AND SO CAREFUL TO - BECAUSE THEY 47:30 HAVE - THEY'RE TRAINED FROM INFANCY TO HAVE HIGH REGARD FOR 47:34 THEIR ELDERS. THEY EVEN TAKE IT TOO FAR IN 47:36 SOME CULTURES - THEY'VE GOT ANCESTOR WORSHIP - BUT THEY'RE 47:38 VERY CAREFUL TO RESPECT THEIR ELDERS. 47:41 HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER THAT YOUR DAYS MIGHT BE LONG. 47:45 YOU KNOW, THERE'S SIN IN THE WORLD TODAY AND THE REASON 47:49 THERE'S SIN IN THE WORLD TODAY IS BECAUSE OUR FIRST PARENTS 47:53 DID NOT HONOR THEIR FATHER. ADAM AND EVE - WHEN THEY 47:58 DISOBEYED GOD, THEY DISOBEYED THEIR HEAVENLY FATHER - LOOK AT 48:01 ALL THE TROUBLE IT CAUSED. DEATH ENTERED THE WORLD FROM 48:04 DISOBEYING A PARENT. AND PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE OFTEN 48:09 SHORTENED - ONE, BY THE CURSES THAT GOD SENDS, THE OTHER 48:12 THROUGH PRACTICALLY NOT LISTENING 48:14 TO THE GOOD INFORMATION AND ADVICE OUR PARENTS GIVE US. 48:17 BUT HE PROMISED YOUR DAYS WILL BE LONG IN THE LAND. 48:19 HE WAS BRINGING THEM INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 48:21 HE SAID, 'IF YOU WANT TO LIVE AND HAVE A LONG LIFE AND A 48:24 PEACEFUL LIFE, HONOR YOUR PARENTS AND I'LL DO THAT FOR 48:27 YOU.' YOU KNOW, THIS IS A WONDERFUL 48:29 COMMANDMENT THAT HAS A PROMISE IN IT. 48:33 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL LEARNED TO BE FAITHFUL. 48:35 THERE'S A STORY IN THE BIBLE - I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ THE 48:37 WHOLE THING - BUT YOU LOOK IN YOUR BIBLES IN THE BOOK OF 48:39 JEREMIAH CHAPTER 35. IT TALKS ABOUT THE BABYLONIANS 48:45 HAD SURROUNDED JERUSALEM. THEY WERE ABOUT TO DESTROY THE 48:49 CITY - JUDGMENT WAS COMING. JEREMIAH WAS TOLD BY THE LORD, 48:53 'I WANT YOU TO CALL THE RECHABITES. 48:57 BRING THEM INTO THE TEMPLE.' AND SO THIS FAMILY - THIS TRIBE 49:01 OF RECHAB - WHO WAS THE SON OF JONADAB, WHO WAS A FRIEND OF 49:05 JEHU - THAT'S ANOTHER HISTORY - THEY WERE BROUGHT INTO THE 49:08 TEMPLE AND JEREMIAH HAD SOME WINE POURED INTO PITCHERS AND 49:14 SET CUPS DOWN IN FRONT OF THE LEADERS OF THE RECHABITES WHO 49:16 WERE THERE IN THE CITY. HE SAID, 'HAVE A DRINK.' 49:20 AND THEY SAID, 'NO, WE'LL NOT DRINK.' 49:23 AND HE SAID, 'WHY NOT? HAVE SOMETHING TO DRINK. 49:25 THUS SAYETH THE LORD.' AND THEY SAID, 'NO, BECAUSE OUR 49:28 FATHER, RECHAB, HE COMMANDED US NEVER TO BUILD A HOUSE, NEVER TO 49:37 DRINK ANYTHING FROM THE VINE AND TO LIVE IN TENTS AND HE SAID 49:42 WE'D HAVE LONG LIVES IF WE FOLLOWED HIS ADVICE.' 49:46 AND FOR SEVERAL GENERATIONS THEY HAD FOLLOWED THEIR FATHER'S 49:48 ADVICE AND NONE OF THE RECHABITES EVER DRANK WINE. 49:53 AND JEREMIAH SAID, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD: 'BECAUSE THE 49:56 RECHABITES HAVE NOT DISOBEYED THE LORD, THAT WHEN JERUSALEM IS 50:01 DESTROYED, I'M GOING TO PRESERVE THEM BECAUSE THEY OBEYED THEIR 50:05 FATHER AND THEIR MOTHER.'' AND HE SAID, 'THEY WILL NEVER 50:09 FAIL TO HAVE A PERSON TO STAND BEFORE ME BECAUSE THEY'VE SHOWN 50:12 RESPECT FOR THEIR ELDERS THIS WAY.' 50:15 AND SO, BEFORE JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED, GOD MADE JEREMIAH ACT 50:19 OUT THIS WHOLE SCENARIO AND BASICALLY TEST THEM AND THEY 50:21 WOULD NOT DRINK WINE - EVEN THOUGH THERE FATHER WAS LONG 50:23 DEAD. THEY SAID, 'BECAUSE HE COMMANDED 50:25 US AND WE'VE NOT DONE IT FOR GENERATIONS. 50:27 AND HE SAID 'DON'T BUILD A HOUSE' AND THE ONLY REASON WE'RE 50:29 IN THE CITY NOW IS BECAUSE NEBUCHADNEZZAR SURROUNDED THE 50:31 CITY' AND SAID 'BUT WE LIVE IN TENTS AS OUR FATHER COMMANDED.' 50:35 AND GOD SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU OBEY YOUR FATHER, I'M GOING TO BLESS 50:38 YOU. I WISH MY PEOPLE WOULD OBEY 50:40 THEIR FATHER.' AND SO, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND 50:44 MOTHER, FIRST AND FOREMOST, IS TALKING ABOUT GOD. 50:49 YOU KNOW GOD IS PORTRAYED AS OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN AND HE ALSO 50:50 SOMETIMES USES THE VERBIAGE OF A MOTHER. 50:53 HE SAYS, 'AS A HEN PROTECTS ITS CHICKENS UNDER ITS WINGS, SO 50:56 I'VE LOVED YOU.' AND 'CAN A WOMAN FORGET HER NURSING CHILD? 51:00 HOW CAN I FORGET YOU?' SO GOD LOVES US WITH THE LOVE OF 51:03 A FATHER AND A MOTHER AND IF YOU WANT YOUR DAYS TO BE LONG - I 51:07 DON'T MEAN JUST LONG IN THIS WORLD - IF YOU WANT YOUR DAYS TO 51:09 BE LONG IN THE EARTH MADE NEW, WE NEED TO LEARN TO HONOR OUR 51:14 FATHER IN HEAVEN, AMEN? IF PARENTS HONOR GOD AND LIVE 51:20 HONORABLY AND IF CHILDREN ARE RESOLVED TO HONOR THEIR PARENTS 51:26 - IN OUR RELATIONSHIPS AND IN OUR FAMILY - EVERY ONE OF THE 51:30 OTHER COMMANDMENTS IN OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH MEN WILL BE A 51:34 LOT EASIER. THEY'LL SORT OF BE AUTOMATIC AT 51:36 THAT POINT. IT ALL BEGINS IN THE FAMILY, 51:38 RIGHT? HAPPY, HAPPY HOME. 51:46 >>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES. 51:54 >>HI, MY NAME IS DIAMOND GARCIA AND I'M FROM THE BEAUTIFUL 51:56 ISLANDS OF HAWAII. I WAS RAISED IN A VERY 52:00 DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY - LIKE MOST FAMILIES. 52:04 BEING IN THAT ENVIRONMENT, I WOULD LIE, CHEAT, STEAL, ROB 52:07 HOUSES, CHEAT IN SCHOOL AND TESTS AND LYING TO TEACHERS AND 52:12 GETTING INTO FIGHTS AND ALL KINDS OF STUFF. 52:16 ONE DAY I WAS ASKED TO TAKE THIS LITTLE BOX OF SOMETHING AND I 52:19 HAD TO WALK DOWN THE ROAD AND GIVE IT TO SOMEONE AND THEY 52:22 WOULD GIVE ME MONEY AND I WOULD WALK BACK HOME. 52:24 AND I LATER REALIZED I WAS DEALING DRUGS. 52:28 GROWING UP IN THAT ENVIRONMENT, I THOUGHT THAT, YOU KNOW, BEING 52:31 AN ADULT WAS A LIFE OF DRINKING AND SMOKING AND PARTYING AND 52:34 THAT'S JUST WHAT ADULTS DID. WHEN I LOOKED AT MY FAMILY AND 52:39 SAW THE ROAD THAT THEY WERE GOING DOWN - GETTING ARRESTED, 52:42 GETTING BEATEN UP, COMING HOME DRUNK AND PUKING ALL OVER THE 52:46 FLOOR - I JUST DIDN'T WANT THAT FOR MYSELF. 52:50 GROWING UP, I HAD A GRANDMA WHO WAS BAPTIZED AS A CHRISTIAN IN 52:54 HER TWENTIES, BUT SHE WASN'T A REAL PRACTICING CHRISTIAN AND 52:57 SO, ONE DAY I WAS AT HER HOUSE AND THERE WAS A BOX OF VARIOUS 53:00 BOOKS AND I WENT TO THE BOTTOM OF THAT BOX AND FOUND A BOOK 53:03 CALLED THE GREAT CONTROVERSY AND I PICKED IT UP AND I SAID, 'THIS 53:07 IS INTERESTING.' AND I OPENED TO THE FIRST PAGE OF THAT BOOK AND 53:11 IT SAID, 'IF THOU HADST KNOWN' - I HAD NO CLUE WHAT IT MEANT AND 53:16 SO I SAID, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? FORGET THIS.' 53:17 I PUT THE BOOK DOWN. I JUST WALKED AWAY - DID MY 53:20 THING, BUT THEN SOMETHING TOLD ME, 'YOU KNOW, DIAMOND, GO BACK 53:22 TO THAT BOOK.' AND SO I WENT BACK TO THE BOOK, PICKED IT UP, 53:26 WENT TO THE LAST TWO CHAPTERS AND I READ IT. 53:30 AND I SAID TO MY GRANDMOTHER, I SAID, 'WHAT CHURCH IS THIS FROM? 53:33 I WANT TO GO TO THAT CHURCH.' SO SHE BROUGHT ME DOWN TO THE LOCAL 53:37 CHURCH AND THEN I WALK IN FROM THE BACK DOOR AND THE PIANO'S 53:40 OFF KEY, PEOPLE ARE OFF KEY - IT'S LIKE, MAN, THIS IS REALLY 53:43 KIND OF - I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE. 53:47 AND I GOT TO THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH AND I SAT DOWN. 53:49 I WAS LISTENING TO THE SERMON AND THE WHOLE SERVICE - IT WAS 53:51 SO BORING TO ME - BUT THEN SOMEONE GIVES ME THIS SET OF 53:55 DVDS AND IT WAS CALLED THE PROPHECY CODE . 54:00 IT WAS THROUGH WATCHING DOUG BATCHELOR EXPLAIN THE TRUTHS 54:03 FOUND IN THE BIBLE, THAT REALLY BROUGHT ME TO CHRIST AND BROUGHT 54:06 ME TO REALIZE THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT? 54:08 THERE IS A LIFE BETTER THAN MY FAMILY'S LIFE. 54:12 MY SECOND WEEK AT CHURCH, ON SABBATH, THERE WAS ONE PERSON 54:15 THERE. HE BASICALLY TOLD ME, 'HEY 54:17 DIAMOND, DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME MONEY?' 54:19 AND I SAID, 'SURE,' I SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU DO?' 54:21 HE SAYS, 'WELL, I'M A COLPORTER. WE GO DOOR TO DOOR AND WE SELL 54:25 CHRISTIAN BOOKS.' I SAID, 'OH, OKAY, WELL THAT 54:28 SOUNDS INTERESTING. I DO WANT TO MAKE SOME MONEY 54:30 TOO.' AND SO HE SAID, 'OKAY, WHY DON'T YOU COME WITH ME?' 54:34 WE DROVE OUT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, PARKED THE CAR, 54:37 AND THAT NIGHT WAS JUST RAINING - IT WAS POURING AND POURING - 54:39 IT COULD NOT STOP RAINING. 54:41 HE PRAYED - HE SAID, 'GOD, THIS IS DIAMOND'S FIRST NIGHT. 54:44 IF IT'S YOUR WILL, STOP THE RAIN SO WE CAN GO KNOCKING ON DOORS.' 54:47 AND AS SOON AS HE SAID, 'AMEN', THE RAIN JUST STOPPED. 54:50 I WAS JUST THINKING IN MY HEAD, 'IS THIS GUY A PROPHET OR WHAT?' 54:54 I MEAN, HE JUST PRAYED AND ASKED GOD AND IT HAPPENED. 54:58 AND SO I WAS SO - I WAS SO HAPPY, I GRABBED THE BOOKS AND 55:01 WENT TO THE FIRST DOOR AND THE FIRST DOOR I WENT TO, THE PERSON 55:03 GAVE ME FIFTY BUCKS. THAT NIGHT WAS ACTUALLY A BIG 55:06 NIGHT FOR ME BECAUSE IT WAS WHERE I SAW GOD'S POWER WORK IN 55:10 STOPPING THE RAIN AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY GIVING 55:13 ME LOTS OF MONEY. I THEN BECAME A COLPORTER OR 55:15 CANVASSER AND I SAVED MONEY TO PAY FOR MY WAY THROUGH ACADEMY. 55:19 AND WHEN MY CHURCH BEGAN TO SEE HOW GOD WAS USING ME, THEY 55:23 IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED THAT IT WAS GOD'S SPIRIT MOVING AND THEY 55:26 PUT ME, YOU KNOW, PREACHING AND TEACHING AND SHARING MY FAITH. 55:29 AND I'VE BEEN ENGAGED IN MINISTRY FOR THE PAST SIX TO 55:32 SEVEN YEARS NOW AND GOD HAS TAKEN ME ALL OVER THE WORLD ON 55:35 MULTIPLE CONTINENTS, SHARING MY TESTIMONY HOW GOD HAS BROUGHT ME 55:38 OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT. 55:41 SUCH A TOTAL CONTRAST AS TO HOW I WAS BEFORE AND NOW, YOU KNOW, 55:44 IT'S A TOTAL CONTRAST. MY NAME IS DIAMOND AND AMAZING 55:49 FACTS HAS HELPED TO CHANGE MY LIFE. (MUSIC) 56:01 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE 56:03 HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS 56:07 WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. 56:10 NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. 56:15 WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID GOD CREATE 56:17 A DAY OF REST? DOES IT REALLY MATTER 56:20 WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? 56:23 DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. 56:27 VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. (MUSIC) 56:37 >>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965 WITH A GOD-INSPIRED 56:42 CONCEPT. >>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND 56:44 THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU. 56:48 >>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM 56:52 SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY, FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT 56:56 TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE. 57:00 THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON 57:03 BEGAN EXPANDING TO INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS. 57:06 IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS 57:11 GROWING OUTREACH EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING 57:14 EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD. 57:18 IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE 57:22 MINISTRY, ADDING THE BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO 57:25 PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON 57:29 MULTIPLE NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD. 57:32 FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE 57:37 BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A 57:41 TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND 57:44 WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF 57:47 EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S 57:51 CHURCH SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS. 57:55 AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S MESSAGE, OUR MISSION. 58:04 (MUSIC) |
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