It is always a
thrill when men of God
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come together with a purpose
of deepening that commitment
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to their heavenly father,
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and to the
wonderful responsibility
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and task that He has given.
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I was just saying in
the last seminar that though
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as a minister of the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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I can be the
pastor of all of you,
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that there are something
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that I can never be the pastor
of and that is of your home.
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You are the pastor of
your family, understand that.
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And you might say but then
I am just--I do not preach.
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Who said you had to know.
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It's a responsibility,
pastor means shepherd.
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And God has called on man
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to be the spiritual
leaders in their homes.
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You've been called to
be that and God would never
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asked you to be what He
wouldn't enable you to be.
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By the way we
live in the last days,
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have you noticed that? Amen.
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Some people have wondered
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what it was gonna be
like to live in the last days
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and they've said to me, pastor,
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what it's gonna be like
to live in the last days?
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I said, like this.
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I never thought though that God,
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the creator, Lord Jesus
Christ would during that week
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will create the
heavens and the earth,
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and then on the-- at
the last part of the week,
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He would leave two institutions,
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one would be in
relationship to Him
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and that would be
what? The Sabbath.
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And the other would be in
our relationship to each other
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and what would
that be? Marriage.
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I would never have thought,
that though it was easy,
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relatively easy for the
devil to get at the Sabbath
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that he would save
until the very last.
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And attract on this the most
sacred of all human relationship
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and that would
me marriage itself.
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I would never have thought
that that day would happen.
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The attack now is on
our homes and fellows,
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you know, you have
insurance on your car,
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you got insurance on your
house, you got health insurance,
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you got your savings with the--
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whatever it is,
the bank insurance,
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but listen brothers, it's time
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that we did
something to insure our family
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and we're
talking about our hope.
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Everything seems
to be collapsing,
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everywhere the
culture in which we live.
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It used to be that you could
be the black sheep of the family
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and the rest of the
society would hold you up.
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But nowadays
we're taking the hits
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and we're taking them direct.
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It's time for us not to
draw a line in the sand.
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It's time for us to
put it down in concrete
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that we will protect out homes
against all of these attacks.
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We must do this brother.
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It's incredible how the
devil has gotten in amongst us
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and what he's trying
to do. And it's up to you,
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I can't do it, but
you've got to do it.
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And I appreciate what Jim said,
as we go back to our homes,
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let's go back with men
who renewed their commitments
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and we will at all cost,
we will protect our homes.
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You know getting
ready for coming of Jesus
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must have something
to do with the family,
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because it says in the
last book of the Old Testament,
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the last chapter in
the last book of Malachi,
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that just before the
great and awful day of the Lord
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that God would send a message
and that message would do what?
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It will turn the what?
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Hearts of the
fathers to the children
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and the children to the fathers.
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And we could add the
husbands to the wives
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and the wives to the husbands.
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Brothers, getting ready
for the coming of the Jesus
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is got to be
something we do at home.
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But yet, it's incredible,
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as I was sharing
in my seminar today
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that it's like the devil has put
a steel band around our homes.
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It's as if the
gospel works every place.
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It's supposed to work
every place, but at home.
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If I were to say
after this session tonight,
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we're going to invite those
who have a burden for the loss.
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In fact tonight
we're going to be praying
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for Osama Bin
Laden. And for his family
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and we're gonna
pray for the Muslims.
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And we're gonna
pray that the Lord
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will work amongst them
and bring them to Jesus
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and we invite you to stay.
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And you would feel
so good about that.
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You say, oh thank
you Brother O'Ffill,
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I think we ought to do that.
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And then I can
say shall we include
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your wife in that list?
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Not my wife, not her.
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In fact I just called my
lawyer this week about her.
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As if it's incredible
to me that when Jesus says,
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love you enemies,
that's any enemy, but who?
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Judah, that's any
enemy but your brother.
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That's any enemy but your wife.
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You're supposed to forgive
everybody, seventy times seventy
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as long as it's
not the little lady.
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You're supposed
to do good to those
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who abuse you and
despitefully use you
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as long as it's
not somebody at home.
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You see I get carried
away. When you get white hair,
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you get carried
away very easily.
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Some of you guys
ought to dye you hair white,
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because I've found this
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that when you get
white hair you get smarter.
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As a young man on the front
door there with dark brown hair,
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have you thought
of dying your hair.
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Don't wait till
you get to be my age
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to get smart, get smart early.
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Save yourself from trouble.
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Listen brothers, if
the gospel of Jesus Christ
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doesn't work at home,
it doesn't work notably.
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If you can't be like
Jesus at home then don't bother.
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Yeah, the hardest
place in the world
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but--am I among friends?
You don't mind me talking,
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you know, I'm from
what's left to Florida.
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I mean you can expect
the guy that's been through
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all these hurricanes to be
kind of hysterical against you.
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Man, if you were sitting
there hunkered down for 36 hours
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where the wind
trying to blow you away,
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you know, you express
yourself wouldn't you?
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Hardest place in the world
to be a Christian is at home.
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But we've got to get it there,
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because if we can't get it there
we ain't Christian notably.
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You know, I've been
thinking about this,
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you sure you don't
want to dye your hair?
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Don't wait as long as I waited
to start thinking big thoughts.
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You know, I want
to tell you this,
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if you men aren't
thinking these days,
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if you're not
thinking for yourself
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somebody else is
thinking for you, you know that?
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You don't want that to happen.
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We got to start thinking
of what's going on these days,
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because whatever it
is, it doing our homes in,
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that's what it's doing.
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But I want to tell you
that those who are ready
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for the coming of Jesus are
not just people who believe,
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they--it's not what
you believeth who you are?
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This is what I've been
giving a lot of thinking lately
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to the matter of
the fruit of the spirit,
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because you see, if we're
gonna spend all of our days
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trying to keep from
telling dirty jokes,
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you know, you
can wake up and say,
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I'm gonna see
if I can go all day
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without telling dirty jokes.
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Reminds me of a
story, you must have heard it
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that it happened--that
didn't happen over in India.
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A charlatan came in the
town and he told the villagers
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that he had a special formula
that he would use to turn
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little pebbles into
gold. You heard that story?
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And so he got in
the middle of town
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and he put the pot out
there and he got the brew
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and he put the
little stones in there
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and he mixed up the brew
and he said the magic words.
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Then he reaches
his hands down in there
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and he pulled out
these little pieces of gold.
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The people that
stood back and said, wow.
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The richest man in town said,
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I want that. He
said to the charlatan,
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how much you charge for
that? It's not for sale.
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Oh, come on man,
I'll pay you a good price.
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I say it's not for sale.
And so they start to bid it up.
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Finally, it was a
big pile of money.
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And so the old,
you know, the magician
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or the
charlatan, whoever he was.
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He gives the guy this formula
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as to how to
turn stones into gold
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and the guy gives him the money.
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And he gives that he said,
man I am gonna be rich man.
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And so the magician, he
turns, he starts to walk away
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and he turns he
said, oh by the way,
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I forgot to
write something down.
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If when you stirring that up,
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if you think of a little
red monkey it won't work.
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And that's what the Christian
life--listen, listen brothers,
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the Christian life got
to be more than just trying,
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you know, not to think
of a little red monkey.
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Being a man of God,
over in Galatians 5,
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it talks about what the
fruit of the spirit is like.
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Fruit of the spirit, it says,
"its love, and joy, and peace,
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and longsuffering, and
gentleness, and goodness,
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and faith, and
meekness, and self control."
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And the first one is love.
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You know I've heard people say,
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you know, all our pastor does
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is he talks about
love all the time.
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You know, if
that's the bad thing,
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I want to tell you, if
your pastor talks about love
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all the time that's the
best thing you could have,
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but most of the pastors
who were talking about love
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aren't talking
about love at all.
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Because the scripture
says in 1 Corinthians 13,
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what love is and it
says love is longsuffering,
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its kind, it doesn't
envy, it's not proud,
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it doesn't do crazy
things, it's not selfish,
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it doesn't have a temper
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and it doesn't
think evil of people.
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I want to tell you, if
your preacher is preaching
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that you are on the right track.
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Because that's what
it is to be a man of God
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is to be a man of love
that has those qualities
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to be full of the spirit.
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I am convinced that probably
the time has come for us
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to not only be addressing
the sin issues in our life,
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but I was saying
to some of the men,
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those of you who, you know who--
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what do you
call, you fix the site.
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You prepare the
site for the building.
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That overcoming sin in you
life is to prepare the site
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for the Holy Spirit to
dwell. We've got to go on
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and once and as we get
victory over sin in our lives,
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then come in right
into that prepared site
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is the infilling
of the Holy Ghost.
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And I want to tell you that when
we get full of the Holy Spirit
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with the fruit of the
spirit and with true love,
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it will be impossible
to break up your home.
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Impossible to break up.
You can't get a divorce.
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You just wouldn't
be able to pull it off,
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because we'll be longsuffering,
impatient, and Kind.
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You know I'm
learning some things.
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I think I want to talk to you,
I don't know, get to know you.
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If you get you hair changed,
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get a gray though I
think we can talk man to man.
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You know, I've
been-- where's he from?
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He's from Florida.
Are you from Florida?
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I know I was
talking with a friend.
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Anyway, you know I
am learning some stuff.
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When you get grey
hair you get smart.
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I've been learning some stuff.
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I'd some big
crises in my life lately.
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About the time
that was going on,
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my mother-in-law was dying.
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I was kind of dying emotionally,
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you know, I was going
through some real trouble.
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My wife's mother was dying
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and I was kind
of watching myself,
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and you know, I
learned something fellows.
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Let me share this with you.
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I learned that when
people are going through trouble
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before you can encourage them,
you've got to comfort them.
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If you come home and your
wife is crying or something
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don't tell her not
to cry, comfort her.
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I'm learning that. And
I'm still doing my warm-up,
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why do I do this today?
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I come with a sermon here
and the sermon just set now.
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I am doing my warm-up,
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I do that all the
time, I can't help it.
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Anyway the sermon is
coming on just a minute.
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But anyway I
learned this fellows,
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learn this from your uncle.
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Don't wait till you get
white hair to learn this.
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And that is if your
wife comes home and she--
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or you come home and she say's,
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wipe that stupid
look off your face ugly
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and go change your dirty tie.
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I want to tell you
what she just said.
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Goes away, if you
don't say anything.
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Those of you who
are into computers,
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remember it's what
you say to your wife
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when she says something
to you that hit "save as".
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It's what you say in response
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to someone who puts you down
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that will be the
hook from which it had.
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If someone in your
family said something to you
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that really arouse you
up, what's the smart man do?
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The scripture said it all
along a soft answer does what?
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Turns away wrath. The
reason we're getting in trouble
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in our marriages
fellows is because we're--
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you know, I've
said so many times
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we're not getting
an F in graduate work
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of the Christian life,
we're getting F in pre-kinder.
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If we just do, just
what the scripture says
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we be in much less
trouble than we are in.
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Let's just get smart, go
dye you hair and get smart.
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Yeah. Remember I don't
know if you're married or not.
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I hope you are, yeah.
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You know, being married
is a wonderful experience.
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You married a right girl,
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you did a good
thing, it's a nice gift.
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And by the way you might say
Pastor O'Ffill, I wish I had.
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And you're from Florida,
aren't you Pastor O'Ffill? Yeah.
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Well, doesn't Florida
have a lemon law? Yeah.
00:16:14.36\00:16:17.37
What's that lemon
law? Well, lemon law says,
00:16:17.40\00:16:19.06
you buy a bad car you
can take it back after
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you know, if
it's really a lemon.
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Pastor O'Ffill, I
think I married a lemon.
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I think I need to take
her back. I need a new wife.
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You know what I say to
man when they say that to me?
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I say you want a new wife son?
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Ask Jesus to
give you a new heart,
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and you're getting new
wife. See I'll tell you this
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if you men can go back
from this convention today
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with the renewed commitment
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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If you can go back and
invite the fruit of the spirit
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and true love into your life,
you gonna get go back there
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and your wife is gonna say
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what's going on
up there at academy.
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What's happen to my husband
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because she'll
have a new husband
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and when she get's a new husband
you get a new wife out there.
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What do you
think about that? Yeah.
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Anyway, I am about to
ready to start my sermon.
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You know when you go to
a big convention like this
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and you go to
these seminars all day,
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you hear all this information--
you get information overload,
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you know, I
noticed even some fellows,
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when they go to the seminars
they're writing like crazy
00:17:24.23\00:17:26.58
because I know they're
just trying to impress me.
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Because I know
I've done that before
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when I go to
seminars, I write like crazy.
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I get at home, I can't
read it, have you done that?
00:17:34.38\00:17:36.77
You can't make
heads or tails out of it,
00:17:36.80\00:17:38.57
you don't know
which way to hold it up.
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But you've impressed by
taking notes like crazy.
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But you get
information overload,
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you don't even
know, you know, so much.
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By the way have you ever
heard a really good sermon
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that really gets you excited?
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And you go home and
you tell your friends
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who weren't
there, you say, you know,
00:17:56.27\00:17:58.17
on Sabbath I think
I had the best sermon
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I ever heard in all my life.
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And the person says, I
didn't say it was life changing.
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You should have been
there, it was marvelous.
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You can just feel the spirit,
you should have been there.
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Person say's what was it about?
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I don't remember.
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You've ever done that?
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You know what I thought I do?
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You know what I
thought I do here?
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This is been
information overload today boy.
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All these seminars
and all this preaching,
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wow, man, this is-- I
thought I close this thing
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by giving them a sermon
that's got just three points,
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just three miserable points.
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Now, if you can't
count to three fellows,
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take out piece of paper.
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Because I am gonna
tell you what I am gonna do,
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I am gonna give you these sermon
with these three points there.
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And it's gonna be
about what are we gonna do
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to stand firm in the last days.
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How can--what can
we do for our families,
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to protect our families?
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It's gonna have
just three point.
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And if I meet you out
there at supper at some place,
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I am gonna say, what
was point number two?
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If you can't tell
me, I am gonna go--
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I am gonna roll my eye.
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And if your
buddy standing by you
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and you say point number two
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then I am gonna turn
to your buddy and say,
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what was the last
point? Can we do that?
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Or we agree to that?
So I am gonna tell you.
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Many times when I
preach this sermon
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I call it the
Christian home in 21st century.
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What's the Christian
home of the 21st century like?
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I am gonna tell you one way,
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one thing is like and
that is the Christian home
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of the 21st century
is a place of prayer.
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You say, I knew
that. That's not big,
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that's not new
news, that's old news.
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And it is old news,
you knew that when you came
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that our home
should be places of prayer.
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Fellows, I am here to
tell you that most of our homes
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aren't places of prayer.
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And that's one of
the problems we have.
00:20:03.35\00:20:05.78
And if you can't just
coming here this weekend,
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if you can go
home and you can say,
00:20:08.23\00:20:09.93
Dick, I'm gonna do that, man.
00:20:09.96\00:20:11.95
I'm gonna make my
home a place of prayer
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then it would have
been worth the trip.
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Now are the Christian
home of the 21st century,
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you gonna stand firm,
you gonna pray at least
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three occasions in your home.
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The first one would
be your private devotion.
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Private devotion
means, that it's just you,
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it's just you and Jesus.
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Fellows, I don't know
what problems the women
00:20:32.91\00:20:35.37
have in their
lives and of course
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I've read about
the women in the Bible,
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it has a kind of some
hard stuff to say about them,
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you know, what I mean?
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But I know what problems
we men have in our lives.
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You know, you've,
heard about the war.
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Have you ever heard this
expression "paint the target",
00:20:48.74\00:20:50.88
have you heard that
one? Paint the target.
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You know, they'll put
those whatever it is those beams
00:20:52.95\00:20:55.89
or whatever it is,
you know, on the target
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and they send up a rocket
to blow it out of the air.
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Listen, fellows,
what if you and I
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were just get on our
knees in the morning,
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the first thing in the morning
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and give your heart to
Jesus then during the day
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we would know when we're
being in painted by the devil.
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Because when you are attempted
by the devil during the day
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if you have to stop and say,
00:21:18.80\00:21:20.87
"I don't know what
I'm-- it too late."
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You've already had it.
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When you get on your
knees in the morning.
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Now my mamma taught me to
pray at the end of the day.
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I'm thankful for that.
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But the prayer at the end of day
is the loser's prayer, Florida.
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The damage is done, man.
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You know, what I mean
there, oh, Jesus, what I do man,
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I messed up again. Help me.
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You know, most of us know,
00:21:48.66\00:21:51.03
we know how to call
911 in the Christian life.
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We know how to call A.A.A.
what most of us don't need
00:21:53.80\00:21:57.24
or don't know yet as
men is the text now unto him
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who is able to
keep you from falling.
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And that's why you get it on
00:22:03.51\00:22:04.95
when you start
the day with Jesus.
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Because then during the
day you know who you are.
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You don't have to say "who am I"
the Bible tells us who we are.
00:22:09.42\00:22:12.94
Now are we the sons of
God. Does not yet appear
00:22:12.97\00:22:16.42
what we will be but
we're gonna be like Him.
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Start this, fellows, if
there's anybody here today,
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I hope
everybody here in Michigan
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starts the day with prayer.
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But if you don't have the custom
00:22:24.90\00:22:27.03
of getting on your
knees in the morning, fellow,
00:22:27.06\00:22:29.49
and giving your heart to
Jesus do it tomorrow morning
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make it the first time and
see what it does to your life.
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Another time we need to pray
in our homes is family worship.
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There is a bunch
of pastors here today
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if I was the pastor of
a church I wouldn't rest,
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I would make this
one of my objectives
00:22:47.00\00:22:49.15
that every family in the
church have family worship.
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Now I recognize that
we all know this truth,
00:22:54.56\00:22:57.46
but I also think sometimes
that there are husbands
00:22:57.49\00:23:00.87
that don't know what
family worship looks like.
00:23:00.90\00:23:04.35
It isn't preach time.
00:23:04.38\00:23:07.24
I personally I made the mistake,
00:23:07.27\00:23:09.64
I gave family
worship to my wife,
00:23:09.67\00:23:11.54
I was there all the time,
00:23:11.57\00:23:12.94
you know, reading
to the little kids
00:23:12.97\00:23:15.52
out to the goo, goo,
the little hey honey.
00:23:15.55\00:23:16.92
Come and let's do to
ring and ring and all,
00:23:16.95\00:23:19.20
I'll said, oh wow, man,
00:23:19.23\00:23:21.05
I'm sleeping
and everything else.
00:23:21.08\00:23:23.07
And I'm ashamed of
that, looking back on it now
00:23:23.10\00:23:25.99
when I think of my
four little children,
00:23:26.02\00:23:27.85
my wife was doing the worship
I was sitting there sleeping.
00:23:27.88\00:23:30.75
She should had me do the welcome
00:23:30.78\00:23:32.73
any announcements
and take up the offering.
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At least I've been in
on, you know, what I mean.
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And you don't just have
to have a little preach.
00:23:41.48\00:23:44.99
I remember I was at a
family worship one time
00:23:45.02\00:23:48.05
and it was a
sweetest thing you ever saw,
00:23:48.08\00:23:49.98
they had a couple of
boys in the family worship
00:23:50.01\00:23:52.77
that night was each
one would turn to the next
00:23:52.80\00:23:55.50
and they would say,
enough for worship tonight.
00:23:55.53\00:23:57.38
You turn to the person
next to you and you tell
00:23:57.41\00:24:00.22
what you like about them.
00:24:00.25\00:24:03.58
You know what
sibling usually do?
00:24:03.61\00:24:05.01
They probably turned to
each other, want to say,
00:24:05.04\00:24:06.71
what they hate about each other.
00:24:06.74\00:24:08.11
That was sweet, I like that.
00:24:08.14\00:24:09.82
Now you got to be
careful with family worship too,
00:24:09.85\00:24:12.15
because you can
set the wrong mood.
00:24:12.18\00:24:14.72
You can say listen,
junior, sit still and shut up,
00:24:14.75\00:24:17.86
can't you talk, don't you
know we're talking to Jesus?
00:24:17.89\00:24:20.36
You want me to slap your face?
00:24:20.39\00:24:22.43
We do that.
00:24:32.27\00:24:34.81
You got to be
careful about that.
00:24:34.84\00:24:37.51
I want to tell you, if
you don't have family worship,
00:24:37.54\00:24:39.95
you don't know
what it looks like,
00:24:39.98\00:24:41.35
I think even in the
ABC's books on that.
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Go find out how to do that.
00:24:43.43\00:24:44.80
You find out how to
repair your car, don't you?
00:24:44.83\00:24:48.47
You keep your car
up, don't you, fellow?
00:24:48.50\00:24:50.91
You keep your computer
booted up right, don't you?
00:24:50.94\00:24:53.59
Don't let the devil
take your marriage out.
00:24:53.62\00:24:57.31
Don't let him take
your family away from.
00:24:57.34\00:25:00.48
Another thing
about prayer in the home,
00:25:00.51\00:25:02.92
so we pray--the home is
a place of prayer is when?
00:25:02.95\00:25:08.02
Private devotion.
When else does we pray?
00:25:08.05\00:25:11.14
It has the family
worship. Another time,
00:25:11.17\00:25:13.70
you know, I am a minister,
00:25:13.73\00:25:15.10
I've been a
ministers all these years.
00:25:15.13\00:25:17.88
And you know, we
ministers are paid to pray,
00:25:17.91\00:25:20.43
did you know
that. Ring. Hello. Yes.
00:25:20.46\00:25:25.75
Oh, I'm sorry about that.
00:25:25.78\00:25:27.24
Yes, pastor, would you
come over and pray with us.
00:25:27.27\00:25:29.79
Yes, ma'am, I'll be right over.
00:25:29.82\00:25:33.19
We get paid to do
that. Ring. Hello.
00:25:33.22\00:25:36.21
In the hospital. Yes,
ma'am, ah-ah, go over.
00:25:36.24\00:25:39.28
Yeah, I'll do that.
Yes, ma'am, bye, bye.
00:25:39.31\00:25:41.49
That's what
we're paid to do that.
00:25:41.52\00:25:43.51
I recognize one day fellows,
00:25:43.54\00:25:46.16
that I was praying
with anybody and everybody.
00:25:46.19\00:25:49.41
In fact I was in a
place where you said to me.
00:25:49.44\00:25:52.10
Dick, see that tree over
there, that plastic tree?
00:25:52.13\00:25:54.69
Yeah. Go over there
and pray with that thing.
00:25:54.72\00:25:56.64
I was praying
with anybody everybody,
00:26:01.35\00:26:03.89
anything and everything,
but there was one person
00:26:03.92\00:26:06.46
I wasn't praying
with, guess who? My wife.
00:26:06.49\00:26:11.01
Now, you know,
for some funny reason.
00:26:11.04\00:26:13.48
Now, those of us
who are here today,
00:26:13.51\00:26:15.01
we're powerful
looking men, aren't we?
00:26:15.04\00:26:16.81
You noticed this, when
you're going in the marriage
00:26:16.84\00:26:18.97
just look at us
there, we're a mean bunch,
00:26:19.00\00:26:21.78
but it's really
fragile. We men are very fragile
00:26:21.81\00:26:26.46
in two areas of our
lives, and one is spiritual.
00:26:26.49\00:26:31.68
And many of us,
fellows, have subcontracted
00:26:31.71\00:26:35.68
the spiritual parts of
our families too are what?
00:26:35.71\00:26:40.47
Which mean, that if
I want to talk to you
00:26:40.50\00:26:43.13
about the
computer, I talk with you.
00:26:43.16\00:26:47.57
If I want to talk about
the ball game, I talk with you.
00:26:47.60\00:26:51.95
If I want to talk about
the truck, I talk with you.
00:26:51.98\00:26:55.04
But if I want to
talk about Jesus,
00:26:55.07\00:26:56.47
I got to talk with little lady,
because she got the contract.
00:26:56.50\00:27:01.25
That ought not to
be-- listen fellow,
00:27:01.28\00:27:03.25
God has called you to
be the spiritual leader
00:27:03.28\00:27:06.06
of your home, don't forget
that. And I want you to go home,
00:27:06.09\00:27:10.26
I want to plea
with you to go home
00:27:10.29\00:27:12.00
and become the
spiritual leader of your home.
00:27:12.03\00:27:13.79
You'll able to say, well,
pastor, I feel I can't do that,
00:27:13.82\00:27:16.70
so sue me for
breach of contract.
00:27:16.73\00:27:18.42
I got to contract her.
Go home and just tear it up.
00:27:18.45\00:27:22.74
Just say I'm going to
be the spiritual leader,
00:27:22.77\00:27:24.50
honey, in the
home from here on now.
00:27:24.53\00:27:26.04
She'll say, thank you
Jesus. That's what she will say.
00:27:26.07\00:27:28.68
But anyway I decided,
00:27:28.71\00:27:30.89
I was praying with
anybody and everybody in my life
00:27:30.92\00:27:33.81
except my wife, out loud I mean,
00:27:33.84\00:27:37.16
we were praying before we
ate, we were praying in the car,
00:27:37.19\00:27:40.04
we were praying
in family worship.
00:27:40.07\00:27:41.51
But just she and I
alone we weren't praying,
00:27:41.54\00:27:44.01
I decided that I gonna do that.
00:27:44.04\00:27:46.91
And I want to tell you
what a blessing it's been,
00:27:46.94\00:27:48.86
it's not romantic, it's
not sexy, but its bonding.
00:27:48.89\00:27:52.91
You know, when you're
praying with your wife
00:27:52.94\00:27:54.61
just the two of you and
you're praying out loud,
00:27:54.64\00:27:56.95
it's such a blessing.
Those of you who do it,
00:27:56.98\00:27:59.53
I'm sure you'll agree with me.
00:27:59.56\00:28:01.98
And so for years now her on her
side of the bed and me on mine
00:28:02.01\00:28:05.29
we pray out loud.
What a blessing it is.
00:28:05.32\00:28:09.94
And I want to tell you
something, I learned this.
00:28:09.97\00:28:14.05
It's impossible to be
plotting to divorce your wife
00:28:14.08\00:28:16.61
and be praying with
her at the same time,
00:28:16.64\00:28:18.34
you can't pull it off, man.
00:28:18.37\00:28:20.44
Can't do it,
because families do what?
00:28:20.47\00:28:24.10
Pray together,
they stay together.
00:28:24.13\00:28:26.12
And you know, I'll never forget
what one woman said to me.
00:28:26.15\00:28:29.17
She said, after I
suggested this one time.
00:28:29.20\00:28:31.77
She said, my
husband and I went home
00:28:31.80\00:28:34.01
and we prayed
together for the first time.
00:28:34.04\00:28:36.41
You should have
heard what he said.
00:28:36.44\00:28:38.16
I have so much
respect for him now.
00:28:38.19\00:28:43.57
I don't know about you fellow,
00:28:43.60\00:28:45.82
but I crave it long
for the respect of my wife.
00:28:45.85\00:28:51.13
We got to earn that,
00:28:51.16\00:28:52.85
by being the
spiritual leader of our home.
00:28:52.88\00:28:56.46
Okay, the home
is a place of what?
00:28:56.49\00:28:58.77
Prayer. And when does he pray?
00:28:58.80\00:29:02.47
Private devotions,
then when does he pray?
00:29:02.50\00:29:05.34
Family worship, and
then when does he pray?
00:29:05.37\00:29:08.11
He prays with his spouse.
00:29:08.14\00:29:10.62
Am I among friends, I
feel like when I'm in Michigan,
00:29:10.65\00:29:13.66
I'm among friends, but
I got to hear it from you,
00:29:13.69\00:29:15.70
am I among friends. Yes.
00:29:15.73\00:29:17.37
Because this part
I'm about to say next.
00:29:17.40\00:29:18.99
I think Danny, gonna
introduced us this morning.
00:29:19.02\00:29:24.94
Fellows, we got to do
something about the television.
00:29:24.97\00:29:30.58
Television is watched
by the average Christian,
00:29:30.61\00:29:34.03
is the opposite of
everything you are asking Jesus
00:29:34.06\00:29:37.31
to do in your
life, it's the opposite.
00:29:37.34\00:29:43.07
We are by watching this
stuff that we're watching,
00:29:43.10\00:29:47.02
we're celebrating the very
things for which Jesus died.
00:29:47.05\00:29:53.66
If the scripture is
telling us the truth
00:29:53.69\00:29:55.99
that by beholding
we become changed,
00:29:56.02\00:29:58.53
we can think what we want
and we're going to become,
00:29:58.56\00:30:01.29
and our minds are
gonna be the minds of devils.
00:30:01.32\00:30:05.26
To watch simulated sin
and now please forgive me
00:30:05.29\00:30:08.84
for saying this, now
that the homosexual thing
00:30:08.87\00:30:11.83
has come about and
we're laughing at this,
00:30:11.86\00:30:14.20
this is going to
burn our brains out.
00:30:14.23\00:30:17.98
This is gonna cauterize
our consciences to the point
00:30:18.01\00:30:20.93
where we're not going
to know right from wrong.
00:30:20.96\00:30:26.14
By the way in
scripture, in scripture,
00:30:26.17\00:30:29.64
the scripture uses leprosy,
you know, as the symbol of sin.
00:30:29.67\00:30:33.91
I used to travel in Africa.
00:30:33.94\00:30:35.74
I've seen these
people with leprosy.
00:30:35.77\00:30:37.95
You know, leprosy does.
00:30:37.98\00:30:39.35
You know, have you
seen these pictures
00:30:39.38\00:30:40.75
with the lepers with no fingers.
00:30:40.78\00:30:42.59
Hey, when you get lepers
and your fingers don't fall off.
00:30:42.62\00:30:46.36
When you get leprosy
you can move your fingers,
00:30:46.39\00:30:49.05
but you just can't feel anything
00:30:49.08\00:30:50.99
which means you slam your hand
00:30:51.02\00:30:52.64
in the car door
and you don't say ouch.
00:30:52.67\00:30:55.78
Its there all crushed and
bleeding and somebody says,
00:30:55.81\00:30:58.16
lets get you to the
doctor. They'll say never mind,
00:30:58.19\00:31:00.38
I don't know, I
didn't hurt myself.
00:31:00.41\00:31:04.66
And that's
what's happening to us.
00:31:04.69\00:31:07.09
We are watching
things that are taking away
00:31:07.12\00:31:10.03
our ability to
discern right from wrong
00:31:10.06\00:31:13.03
and its going to
destroy us, fellow.
00:31:13.06\00:31:15.12
Do something
about the television.
00:31:15.15\00:31:19.25
Just do something.
00:31:19.28\00:31:22.41
You might say, Pastor O'Fill.
00:31:22.44\00:31:25.99
You know, I feel like you do.
00:31:26.02\00:31:29.49
But my wife, she says, she
gets the spiritual blessing
00:31:29.52\00:31:33.51
from watching the soap opera.
00:31:33.54\00:31:39.97
I don't know what to do.
00:31:40.00\00:31:41.37
And I say, make a deal
with her just negotiate,
00:31:41.40\00:31:47.52
do a little give
and take. What you mean?
00:31:47.55\00:31:51.98
Just say honey,
sweetheart, you're telling me
00:31:52.01\00:31:55.94
you get a spiritual blessing
from watching the soap operas.
00:31:55.97\00:31:59.50
Why don't we do this,
00:31:59.53\00:32:00.90
we'll have a
television for five years
00:32:00.93\00:32:03.06
and then we'll be
without one for five years.
00:32:03.09\00:32:05.27
How am I doing?
00:32:05.30\00:32:08.48
And she'll say, I like that.
00:32:08.51\00:32:11.62
Then you say, we've
already had your five years.
00:32:11.65\00:32:13.99
So if we're going to stand firm,
00:32:25.00\00:32:28.80
our homes are got
to be places of what?
00:32:28.83\00:32:33.69
When does he pray?
00:32:33.72\00:32:36.77
And then? And finally?
00:32:36.80\00:32:40.60
And then the homes, you
got to do something about what?
00:32:40.63\00:32:43.53
Just do something,
whatever you're doing,
00:32:43.56\00:32:45.02
you say Pastor O'Fill you
say, I got to get rid of my T.V.
00:32:45.05\00:32:47.06
I didn't say that. I just say,
00:32:47.09\00:32:48.70
whatever you're
doing, I want to tell you
00:32:48.73\00:32:50.50
if this day has
been a blessing to you
00:32:50.53\00:32:53.20
and you don't
live far from here,
00:32:53.23\00:32:54.60
you go home tonight
it will wipe it out,
00:32:54.63\00:32:56.00
I'll tell you
that, it'll wipe it out.
00:32:56.03\00:33:02.26
Anyway, this--
it's crazy, you know,
00:33:02.29\00:33:07.20
if your house
gets overrun with rats.
00:33:07.23\00:33:10.06
You do something about it.
00:33:10.09\00:33:13.13
Our homes more than overwhelm
with rats with the stuff
00:33:13.16\00:33:15.55
we're letting in, its worst
than rats, its worst than rats.
00:33:15.58\00:33:22.41
The stuff we're
watching you'd have to call us
00:33:22.44\00:33:24.38
peeping toms and
pure voyeurism, bad stuff.
00:33:24.41\00:33:28.58
No place in the life of sons
and daughters of God, no place.
00:33:28.61\00:33:34.32
Anyway, the third
thing. Am I still among friend?
00:33:34.35\00:33:38.14
By the way if
you get good anatomy,
00:33:38.17\00:33:41.15
it'll take you
while to get organize.
00:33:41.18\00:33:44.16
And I think I can be out of town
by the time you get yourselves.
00:33:44.19\00:33:48.90
Anyway, the last
point has a text with it.
00:33:48.93\00:33:54.55
In Ephesians 4:32.
00:33:54.58\00:33:57.89
Now the others had
text with them too.
00:33:57.92\00:34:00.26
I could have
buried you with text.
00:34:00.29\00:34:03.66
I'm not telling
you why you don't know.
00:34:03.69\00:34:06.26
I'm just saying come
on, fellows, get with it.
00:34:06.29\00:34:10.24
Anyway, this Ephesians 4:32
the first part it simple says.
00:34:10.27\00:34:15.47
Let me turn over
here and try to find it.
00:34:15.50\00:34:21.42
It says, "And be ye kind"
00:34:21.45\00:34:24.90
what's the rest of
it? "one to another."
00:34:24.93\00:34:27.38
I'm gonna ask you a question.
00:34:27.41\00:34:30.45
Why is it that we are so kind
00:34:30.48\00:34:35.63
to people we
don't know from Adam
00:34:35.66\00:34:39.21
and we are so mean
to the people we love?
00:34:39.24\00:34:46.58
Not only are we mean
to the people we love,
00:34:46.61\00:34:50.13
we call it names, you
idiot, you stupid or something,
00:34:50.16\00:34:53.45
you dummy, you lazy.
00:34:53.48\00:34:56.18
Let me ask you a
question, fellows.
00:34:56.21\00:34:57.85
How long would
you last onto job?
00:34:57.88\00:35:04.77
If you talk to your boss
like you talk to your wife,
00:35:04.80\00:35:11.20
how long would you last?
00:35:11.23\00:35:14.70
Our homes are
supposed to be heaven on earth.
00:35:14.73\00:35:19.18
Yet I've heard a guy say,
00:35:19.21\00:35:20.61
"I'd rather be at
any place than at home."
00:35:20.64\00:35:25.22
Why would our homes belike,
00:35:25.25\00:35:29.82
if we were just
kind to each other.
00:35:29.85\00:35:33.57
I heard a person
say one time a guy said,
00:35:33.60\00:35:36.15
he was at the office.
00:35:36.18\00:35:38.67
He said, I can't
wait to get home at night,
00:35:38.70\00:35:40.39
I get so tired of
being kind all day.
00:35:40.42\00:35:42.68
What would our homes belike
00:35:50.58\00:35:52.97
if we were just kind, just kind.
00:35:53.00\00:35:57.31
You know, I'm
talking about my white hair.
00:35:57.34\00:36:00.56
I think I was
born with white hair.
00:36:00.59\00:36:03.33
You look at me, you
think I'm old, don't you?
00:36:03.36\00:36:05.91
I got white hair,
when I was in my 30s,
00:36:05.94\00:36:09.08
my dad was in his 30s.
00:36:09.11\00:36:11.08
In fact my wife's
worse, because her dad was 28.
00:36:11.11\00:36:15.07
We are race of
white haired people.
00:36:15.10\00:36:20.92
But when I started getting
grey, when I was in my 30s,
00:36:20.95\00:36:26.72
I thought I'm not
gonna let this happen to me,
00:36:26.75\00:36:28.56
I'm gonna dye my
hair. So I dyed my hair
00:36:28.59\00:36:33.65
until I saw what men who
dyed their hair look like.
00:36:33.68\00:36:36.39
You know, the women could dye
their hair they look just fine.
00:36:41.71\00:36:44.03
The man who dyes
his hair is green, blue,
00:36:44.06\00:36:47.46
orange and everything
else, you know, what I mean?
00:36:47.49\00:36:49.76
I thought I'm not
gonna do that no more.
00:36:49.79\00:36:52.97
So once where I was going
to Africa for a long trip,
00:36:53.00\00:36:56.15
I thought here go nothing,
00:36:56.18\00:36:58.45
I got back and I
had a white hair.
00:36:58.48\00:37:00.36
They thought man what
happened to him in Africa,
00:37:00.39\00:37:02.11
man, it must
have been pretty bad.
00:37:02.14\00:37:03.69
So, but anyway,
00:37:08.48\00:37:10.72
you get white
hair, you get smart.
00:37:14.69\00:37:18.08
And when I say what
I'm about to say next
00:37:18.11\00:37:21.45
I think God, fellows, I
got to be a parent again
00:37:21.48\00:37:28.23
and that when I was in my 50s.
00:37:28.26\00:37:32.41
We had a little girl come
and stay with us for five years
00:37:32.44\00:37:36.08
who was my granddaughter Andrea.
00:37:36.11\00:37:39.37
We kept her from
the time she was two
00:37:39.40\00:37:43.54
until the time she was seven.
00:37:43.57\00:37:47.00
Some of you men who
know what I'm talking
00:37:47.03\00:37:49.52
about will know
that whenever you hear
00:37:49.55\00:37:52.71
that a grandparent
has raised a grandchild,
00:37:52.74\00:37:55.36
you know, there is a
sad story at someplace.
00:37:55.39\00:37:58.92
But I'm thankful, I'm thankful
00:37:58.95\00:38:00.87
that in spite of the
sadness of the story,
00:38:00.90\00:38:04.20
that God allowed me
to be a daddy again.
00:38:04.23\00:38:08.19
You know, I have wedding, I
have four children of our own.
00:38:08.22\00:38:12.15
We got eight
grandchildren, but you know,
00:38:12.18\00:38:14.00
when I was young, younger,
00:38:14.03\00:38:18.93
when I was young
in my 30s and 20s,
00:38:18.96\00:38:23.60
I went to Pakistan on a
ship with three children
00:38:23.63\00:38:26.88
when I was 26, in
the middle of the winter.
00:38:26.91\00:38:31.35
Try that out. And you'll wimp,
00:38:31.38\00:38:33.35
you won't be able to do that.
00:38:33.38\00:38:35.95
Take some time.
00:38:35.98\00:38:38.32
Anyway I think when I was young,
00:38:38.35\00:38:42.56
I was trying to be
in charge, you know,
00:38:42.59\00:38:46.24
you try to be
the head of the home
00:38:46.27\00:38:47.89
and when you want to
be in charge of your home
00:38:47.92\00:38:50.50
you got to be tough.
00:38:50.53\00:38:52.87
And you can't really be tough
unless you're little bit mean.
00:38:52.90\00:38:57.48
And you got to show that
you're tough and in charge
00:38:57.51\00:38:59.61
and you know, when
my kids would come to me
00:38:59.64\00:39:01.53
and say, daddy,
can I, I just say no.
00:39:01.56\00:39:06.32
You don't have to hear what
they're asking, you just say no,
00:39:06.35\00:39:08.90
because what you're
telling them is, I'm in charge.
00:39:08.93\00:39:13.21
And then they'd say, but
daddy--I said, I said no.
00:39:13.24\00:39:17.72
But, daddy, I said, I want to.
00:39:17.75\00:39:19.12
I said, no. But, daddy!
00:39:19.15\00:39:23.20
Okay, you go head and do it.
00:39:23.23\00:39:31.03
You know, I'm gonna exaggerate
this little bit, okay.
00:39:31.06\00:39:35.32
I'm so glad that Jesus
let me be a daddy again.
00:39:35.35\00:39:41.16
Now I know what you're thinking,
you're thinking that's the way
00:39:41.19\00:39:43.07
you grandpas are,
when the grandchildren.
00:39:43.10\00:39:45.88
No, not for five
years fellow, come on now,
00:39:45.91\00:39:48.51
maybe for
Christmas and birthday,
00:39:48.54\00:39:51.46
you know but not for five years.
00:39:51.49\00:39:53.01
But, you know,
what I did with Andrea?
00:39:53.04\00:39:55.97
Andrea would come to me
and she'd say, grandpa can I.
00:39:56.00\00:39:59.46
And the first thing
I do is listen to her.
00:39:59.49\00:40:01.77
Not bad, huh.
00:40:01.80\00:40:03.98
What's that, honey?
00:40:04.01\00:40:05.38
And if what she was
asking me was reasonable.
00:40:07.01\00:40:12.20
I'd say yes, why not.
00:40:12.23\00:40:13.60
And, you know,
what I discovered.
00:40:13.63\00:40:18.41
I discovered that you can
be nice and still be in charge.
00:40:18.44\00:40:24.34
You can say yes, and
still be the head at the home.
00:40:24.37\00:40:29.42
I discovered that, I
discovered you could be nice.
00:40:29.45\00:40:34.88
And you know, now I didn't
00:40:34.91\00:40:36.28
always say yes to Andrea.
00:40:36.31\00:40:38.93
Sometimes I'd say, no honey.
00:40:38.96\00:40:42.09
You know, what she'd do,
00:40:42.12\00:40:44.49
she just turn
around and walk away.
00:40:44.52\00:40:48.10
That really
surprised me, because I wanted,
00:40:48.13\00:40:50.88
you know, a temper
tantrum or something,
00:40:50.91\00:40:52.55
you know, what I mean, a little
scream and a little holler,
00:40:52.58\00:40:54.90
and I wanted to say,
what's wrong with you,
00:40:54.93\00:40:57.42
aren't you gonna
scream or anything?
00:40:57.45\00:41:00.64
But you see, I realized
that that one of the reasons
00:41:00.67\00:41:03.93
why our kids carry
on so much is because
00:41:03.96\00:41:06.67
they don't how it's going to
end up until they're screaming.
00:41:06.70\00:41:11.77
You hear what I am saying.
00:41:11.80\00:41:15.05
Anyway I remember
when she used to come to me
00:41:15.08\00:41:19.18
once in a while
and she'd say, grandpa,
00:41:19.21\00:41:22.13
help me make my bed.
00:41:22.16\00:41:25.20
Now back when I was, like you
oh, I hope you're not like me.
00:41:25.23\00:41:31.90
But back when I
was young like you.
00:41:31.93\00:41:34.65
And one of my children
would say, help me make my bed,
00:41:34.68\00:41:37.40
I probably say, what
you're lazy or something,
00:41:37.43\00:41:40.80
you get in there
and make your bed.
00:41:40.83\00:41:45.24
But you get smart see,
you get kind after a while.
00:41:45.27\00:41:50.33
You know, I was
talking with a guy one day
00:41:50.36\00:41:52.05
and he said if I had my
life to live over again,
00:41:52.08\00:41:55.38
I think I'd
want to be more kind.
00:41:55.41\00:41:59.46
Anyway I realize that
when you're only this big,
00:41:59.49\00:42:03.85
the bed comes up to
here on you. Am I wrong?
00:42:03.88\00:42:09.27
Come on now, it
comes up to here on you.
00:42:09.30\00:42:12.71
And so I could see, you
know, sometimes, sometimes
00:42:12.74\00:42:15.68
I don't know if you
ever make the bed at home.
00:42:15.71\00:42:18.33
You're gonna say,
no I'm a He-Man, man.
00:42:18.36\00:42:21.37
I don't make my bed I
leave it messy all day.
00:42:21.40\00:42:25.27
Give me a break.
00:42:25.30\00:42:26.67
You know, there are some things
you can't control in your life,
00:42:26.70\00:42:28.33
but you can make your bed.
00:42:28.36\00:42:30.10
You'll say, but my
wife makes the bed.
00:42:35.06\00:42:36.79
Well, another thing, fellows.
00:42:36.82\00:42:38.72
If your wife is
having to go out and help you
00:42:38.75\00:42:40.44
make a living, you
know, what the deal
00:42:40.47\00:42:43.07
we have in our house, last
one out of the bed makes it.
00:42:43.10\00:42:47.43
And you think
that's about right,
00:42:47.46\00:42:49.11
if you expect
your wife to go out
00:42:49.14\00:42:50.60
and make the
money and bring it home,
00:42:50.63\00:42:52.04
and you're not
helping around the house,
00:42:52.07\00:42:53.46
you're gonna have trouble.
00:42:53.49\00:42:54.86
I just tell you that.
00:42:54.89\00:42:56.56
Anyway sometimes when you
make a bed it's easy to make.
00:42:56.59\00:43:03.23
You just go.
00:43:03.26\00:43:04.66
Other times now
it's all over the floor,
00:43:08.88\00:43:12.46
and we're talking
about some major work.
00:43:12.49\00:43:15.88
What if you only this big,
00:43:15.91\00:43:18.51
don't put her down,
don't call her names.
00:43:18.54\00:43:21.68
She needs help.
00:43:21.71\00:43:23.64
Take her by the hand be
nice, go help her make the bed.
00:43:23.67\00:43:30.00
And when she'd say to me,
grandpa help me clean my room.
00:43:30.03\00:43:34.91
You know, I'm cleaning
my garage now, my garage
00:43:34.94\00:43:37.61
has been so messy lately,
I don't know where to start.
00:43:37.64\00:43:42.36
Do you ever had
something that messy.
00:43:42.39\00:43:43.82
Listen what if
you're only that big?
00:43:43.85\00:43:46.51
Just take her by the hand
and help her clean the room.
00:43:46.54\00:43:49.30
Listen, fellows, what
would our homes belike
00:43:49.33\00:43:52.98
if we were just kind.
00:43:53.01\00:43:55.71
You know, I was talking
with a guy the other day,
00:43:55.74\00:43:57.39
we were talking about
this and he said, you know,
00:43:57.42\00:43:59.66
you know, its so funny
the way we are at the office,
00:43:59.69\00:44:01.83
we're so polite, you
go into the Xerox room
00:44:01.86\00:44:04.95
and somebody's
already in there to Xerox it
00:44:04.98\00:44:07.70
and the person
says, oh, excuse me.
00:44:07.73\00:44:09.89
And You say, oh, no that's okay.
00:44:09.92\00:44:13.29
Take your time, I'll wait.
00:44:13.32\00:44:16.00
Oh, no I don't worry,
00:44:16.03\00:44:17.88
and again after
that you go home.
00:44:17.91\00:44:20.69
And your wife's in
the kitchen working around
00:44:20.72\00:44:22.40
and you want
something from under the sink,
00:44:22.43\00:44:23.80
you just got to
go get out my way.
00:44:23.83\00:44:26.27
Why are we that way fellows?
00:44:29.05\00:44:31.46
What would our
home would be like
00:44:31.49\00:44:35.24
if we were just kind.
00:44:35.27\00:44:37.17
You might say, Pastor
O'Ffill, you're right.
00:44:42.07\00:44:45.96
But it's too late for me, man.
00:44:47.42\00:44:50.50
I've been mean too long.
00:44:50.53\00:44:53.80
I don't say,
God can get over it.
00:44:53.83\00:44:57.89
I think I might have
to go back to school,
00:44:57.92\00:44:59.92
take a course in how to be kind.
00:44:59.95\00:45:03.17
And the tuition is
real high these days.
00:45:03.20\00:45:05.40
I have to get a student alone.
00:45:05.43\00:45:08.12
Have to quit my job
00:45:08.15\00:45:09.52
and then I wouldn't be
able to support my family.
00:45:09.55\00:45:13.30
I don't think
there is any hope for me.
00:45:13.33\00:45:14.81
I think I'm gonna
have to stay mean.
00:45:14.84\00:45:18.49
And I said, no,
there is hope for you.
00:45:18.52\00:45:20.48
I don't know how many
hundred of us there are here,
00:45:20.51\00:45:23.46
this afternoon,
but there are lots.
00:45:23.49\00:45:25.98
But I know, that everyone of
you here know how to be kind.
00:45:26.01\00:45:29.45
You know how to be kind.
00:45:29.48\00:45:31.19
You say, how do you,
what do you mean man,
00:45:31.22\00:45:32.72
I don't even know you man?
00:45:32.75\00:45:34.51
You'll tell me, I
know how to be kind?
00:45:34.54\00:45:36.46
You don't know me for matter?
00:45:36.49\00:45:37.91
Oh! Well, I don't need
to know more about you.
00:45:37.94\00:45:40.77
I know, you know how to be kind
00:45:40.80\00:45:42.83
because I've been talking
to you for nearly an hour
00:45:42.86\00:45:45.82
and you've been
kind to me. Yeah.
00:45:45.85\00:45:49.57
I've been saying
this awful things to you.
00:45:49.60\00:45:52.60
And you've sitting
there, ah ha-ha ha-ha ha-ha,
00:45:52.63\00:45:54.51
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah!
00:45:54.54\00:45:57.31
You know how to be kind.
00:45:59.71\00:46:01.68
Come on, just go home
00:46:01.71\00:46:06.31
and be as kind to your family
00:46:06.34\00:46:09.53
as you were to me and
to the brothers today.
00:46:09.56\00:46:13.06
Just be kind like that.
00:46:13.09\00:46:16.36
You know, I used to
live in South America.
00:46:16.39\00:46:21.89
I speak Spanish,
00:46:21.92\00:46:25.35
and they said we gonna
speak Spanish in heaven.
00:46:25.38\00:46:29.59
I don't mind I got a good
start, I get a head start.
00:46:29.62\00:46:32.50
I will be all right.
00:46:32.53\00:46:34.74
But one thing I
want to know though is--
00:46:34.77\00:46:37.60
if it's true we're
gonna speak Spanish in heaven.
00:46:37.63\00:46:40.86
Then how come when the
angel talk with Mrs. Witty
00:46:40.89\00:46:43.54
always spoke in English.
00:46:43.57\00:46:45.67
But however it works
out all right with me.
00:46:49.49\00:46:51.69
It's all right with me.
00:46:51.72\00:46:53.57
But down there in South
America, they have a custom.
00:46:53.60\00:46:58.87
You know when we get into car
and we are gonna take a trip,
00:46:58.90\00:47:02.93
we will say a prayer.
00:47:02.96\00:47:04.64
Don't you do that? We do that.
00:47:04.67\00:47:08.87
But you know what?
00:47:08.90\00:47:10.27
They get in the car
and they say a prayer
00:47:10.30\00:47:11.72
when they are even
going to the super market.
00:47:11.75\00:47:14.99
May be it's the way
they drive for all I know.
00:47:15.02\00:47:17.54
But you know, what I want to do?
00:47:20.68\00:47:22.15
Is I want to challenge
you, this is for Monday.
00:47:22.18\00:47:25.36
Listen to me now,
when you are coming back
00:47:27.09\00:47:31.38
from work on Monday.
00:47:31.41\00:47:33.92
Oh no! even go, because, no,
no, well, let's do it tonight.
00:47:33.95\00:47:37.19
Let's do it tonight.
00:47:37.22\00:47:39.28
You gotta be
going home to the wife.
00:47:39.31\00:47:42.58
When you pull up your
car in front of the house,
00:47:42.61\00:47:45.91
and you turn off the key,
00:47:48.41\00:47:52.01
before you get out of
the car I want to invite you,
00:47:52.04\00:47:57.23
to bow your head
and say a prayer.
00:47:57.26\00:48:01.14
And what would that prayer be?
00:48:03.43\00:48:06.80
God help me to be kind.
00:48:06.83\00:48:11.38
You can do that.
00:48:15.20\00:48:17.41
Now it's not going
to be easy at first,
00:48:17.44\00:48:19.26
because we've been mean so long.
00:48:19.29\00:48:21.47
Why--you know we
love these people,
00:48:21.50\00:48:23.79
we love our family and kids,
00:48:23.82\00:48:25.19
But why do we treat
them in this way which means
00:48:25.22\00:48:27.29
its kind of a knee
jerk its just like,
00:48:27.32\00:48:29.01
I'm at the office I'm
nice I'm at home, I'm mean.
00:48:29.04\00:48:32.30
What it means when we come home,
00:48:32.33\00:48:33.88
we gonna have to
work it at a while
00:48:33.91\00:48:36.39
till we are sweet at home
00:48:36.42\00:48:37.94
and I want to tell you when
you sweet to those you love,
00:48:37.97\00:48:40.52
you got some sweet going
there. Don't you think so?
00:48:40.55\00:48:43.19
We can do that brother.
00:48:43.22\00:48:45.62
And so the Christian
home, that's gonna stand firm,
00:48:45.65\00:48:50.32
while the devil has
taken everything aparts,
00:48:50.35\00:48:53.69
its gonna be doing
at least three things.
00:48:53.72\00:48:56.17
Its gonna be a
place of what? Prayer.
00:48:56.20\00:48:59.09
When is he gonna pray?
00:48:59.12\00:49:02.22
Private devotions,
fellows if you don't do that,
00:49:02.25\00:49:04.56
listen to me, do that,
00:49:04.59\00:49:07.75
do that, just
get down your knees,
00:49:07.78\00:49:09.48
give your heart to Jesus.
00:49:09.51\00:49:10.88
Tell him you are his boy,
you want to be his son today
00:49:10.91\00:49:13.65
in whom you are well please.
00:49:13.68\00:49:16.03
We're gonna pray in the morning
00:49:17.51\00:49:18.88
and when else we're gonna pray?
00:49:18.91\00:49:20.68
We gonna have family worship,
00:49:20.71\00:49:22.08
you don't know how
to do that? Find out.
00:49:22.11\00:49:24.66
You got problem, you
have computer, you find out.
00:49:24.69\00:49:26.17
Let's find out.
00:49:28.17\00:49:29.54
Our families are more
important than anything we got.
00:49:29.57\00:49:33.56
You don't know how to
have family worship, find out.
00:49:33.59\00:49:37.30
And then, when is the
other time we're gonna pray.
00:49:37.33\00:49:40.68
Now, that will
be a little tricky
00:49:40.71\00:49:42.08
if you've never
done that before.
00:49:42.11\00:49:43.48
A man did that
he said, I'm praying
00:49:43.51\00:49:45.40
with my wife for the first time.
00:49:45.43\00:49:47.34
It was a little
difficult for me.
00:49:47.37\00:49:48.74
Of course man, I mean
you know you've learnt--
00:49:48.77\00:49:51.49
you know, riding a motorcycle
for the first time is not easy.
00:49:51.52\00:49:55.38
You know, you gonna
control break yourself.
00:49:55.41\00:49:58.55
And so but you can do
that, you get a little practice.
00:49:58.58\00:50:01.23
You just gonna find it will
do something to your marriage.
00:50:01.26\00:50:03.63
It will do
something to your marriage.
00:50:03.66\00:50:05.60
Family is there what?
00:50:05.63\00:50:07.81
Pray together, stay together.
00:50:07.84\00:50:09.94
And then what else
do we do in our home?
00:50:09.97\00:50:12.67
Do something about the T.V.
00:50:12.70\00:50:14.07
I'm serious about this.
00:50:14.10\00:50:16.06
And don't ask
your kids what to do.
00:50:16.09\00:50:20.41
So junior, I was
listening to preacher
00:50:20.44\00:50:23.38
and I want to ask
your permission here to--
00:50:23.41\00:50:26.76
oh! Have mercy.
00:50:29.33\00:50:30.87
But don't scream at
them and holler at him,
00:50:30.90\00:50:32.63
and by the way understand
to that you don't ever want to
00:50:32.66\00:50:35.75
pull some out of your life
00:50:35.78\00:50:37.15
unless you put something
else in, you understand that?
00:50:37.18\00:50:39.91
Because you pull this out
and you leave that hole empty.
00:50:39.94\00:50:42.94
Then you got
trouble with that hole.
00:50:42.97\00:50:45.14
You gonna take
this out put this in.
00:50:45.17\00:50:46.83
Do you understand me? We
do some about television.
00:50:46.86\00:50:49.63
Whatever it is just--whatever
you've been doing don't do that.
00:50:49.66\00:50:53.61
And what was the last one?
00:50:53.64\00:50:56.84
Be kind. Come on
fellows, be kind.
00:50:56.87\00:51:02.38
What did I tell you
anything you didn't know?
00:51:02.41\00:51:05.63
You knew that, didn't you?
00:51:05.66\00:51:07.12
We are now not all alone.
00:51:07.15\00:51:09.28
But you can get your--can
you get your hands around that?
00:51:09.31\00:51:12.20
Did you write that down?
00:51:12.23\00:51:13.60
Son, did you write that down?
00:51:13.63\00:51:15.00
I didn't see you
writing, how do you tell me
00:51:15.03\00:51:16.40
you wrote it down, I
didn't see you writing?
00:51:16.43\00:51:18.50
Oh, you had it already written.
00:51:18.53\00:51:19.90
Alright now,
excuse me I'm sorry.
00:51:19.93\00:51:22.42
You got to write it down.
00:51:22.45\00:51:23.82
Hey that guys
said-- next to him ask him.
00:51:23.85\00:51:26.11
Did you write it down?
00:51:26.14\00:51:27.51
Okay, I just wanna make
sure he is not pilling my leg.
00:51:27.54\00:51:30.27
Ok, take this home
fellows and put it into work.
00:51:30.30\00:51:33.42
And the other things
you heard during the day,
00:51:33.45\00:51:35.35
its time that we
stick up for family.
00:51:35.38\00:51:41.12
At the end of the day no
one is ever going to say,
00:51:41.15\00:51:46.09
I wish I would've spent
more time at the office.
00:51:46.12\00:51:49.70
At the end of the day
all you had was your family.
00:51:49.73\00:51:53.08
Don't throw it away.
00:51:53.11\00:51:55.21
They say Pastor O'Ffill,
you talk to me too late man.
00:51:55.24\00:51:58.42
I'm on the third marriage
and there is no hope for me,
00:51:58.45\00:52:02.18
no wherever you are
at, there's hope for you.
00:52:02.21\00:52:04.36
Jesus will take you
where ever you are at.
00:52:04.39\00:52:07.13
And we can't live our
lives over again fellows.
00:52:07.16\00:52:09.37
You say I made a
thousand mistakes,
00:52:09.40\00:52:10.84
Jesus will
forgive those mistakes.
00:52:10.87\00:52:12.24
You know the mistake is
not in making the mistake,
00:52:12.27\00:52:14.25
the mistake is
keep on making it.
00:52:14.28\00:52:17.55
So, you may have
made all kind of mistakes,
00:52:17.58\00:52:19.31
you might have come
here to this convention
00:52:19.34\00:52:21.78
making all kinds of mistakes.
00:52:21.81\00:52:23.33
Hey, that was too
bad, but if you go home
00:52:23.36\00:52:25.90
and you keep
making them, you are dumb.
00:52:25.93\00:52:27.70
You know it's--forgive me
00:52:27.73\00:52:29.10
for saying it, you
got to be an idiot.
00:52:29.13\00:52:30.50
I mean I get worse still.
00:52:30.53\00:52:33.06
To make a mistake,
and to err is human
00:52:33.09\00:52:35.92
not to admit is dumb.
00:52:35.95\00:52:38.59
So let's go back out of here.
00:52:38.62\00:52:40.25
Let's go back out of
here with the resolve
00:52:40.28\00:52:42.68
that by God's grace.
00:52:42.71\00:52:45.38
You expect me to
be perfect pastor?
00:52:45.41\00:52:46.91
No, I didn't say that.
00:52:46.94\00:52:49.12
Either when you shoot
baskets what do you do?
00:52:49.15\00:52:50.79
Just go, where
is the basket man?
00:52:50.82\00:52:53.21
No, come on at
least aim for the basket.
00:52:54.83\00:53:01.42
Aim for the
baskets, see what happen.
00:53:01.45\00:53:04.41
I'm not perfect, but
there is nothing wrong
00:53:04.44\00:53:06.84
with what should I was.
00:53:06.87\00:53:08.24
I want a perfect
job, a perfect house,
00:53:08.27\00:53:10.02
a perfect car,
perfect wife, perfect kids.
00:53:10.05\00:53:12.02
What's wrong with wanting
to do the perfect will of God?
00:53:12.05\00:53:15.52
Let's go home fellows.
00:53:15.55\00:53:17.09
Let's go home.
00:53:17.12\00:53:18.49
Forgetting those
things which are behind,
00:53:18.52\00:53:20.51
but remembering
them, but looking forward
00:53:20.54\00:53:22.99
to those things
which are ahead of us,
00:53:23.02\00:53:25.09
we press on toward the
mark of the high calling of God
00:53:25.12\00:53:30.25
in Christ Jesus.
00:53:30.28\00:53:33.56
We represent a lot of homes,
00:53:33.59\00:53:35.01
I've come to
conclusion Pastor Gatamore,
00:53:35.04\00:53:38.63
that the Michigan Conference
is nothing more or less
00:53:39.97\00:53:44.28
than the homes represented here.
00:53:44.31\00:53:46.63
That they talk about the church
00:53:46.66\00:53:48.03
and the
problems with the church,
00:53:48.06\00:53:49.43
the church can never
be more than his families.
00:53:49.46\00:53:52.42
And if the church is going
to have revival and renewal
00:53:52.45\00:53:55.08
and reformation, it's
gonna be because we have revival
00:53:55.11\00:53:58.26
and renewal and
reformation in our homes.
00:53:58.29\00:54:00.60
Getting ready for
the coming of Jesus.
00:54:00.63\00:54:03.51
It's something
that happens at home.
00:54:03.54\00:54:05.78
Before the great and awful
day of the Lord I will sin,
00:54:05.81\00:54:09.48
Elijah with the
message that turns the hearts
00:54:09.51\00:54:13.01
of the fathers to the children
and the children to the fathers.
00:54:13.04\00:54:16.91
If you'd like for me
to pray for your home,
00:54:16.94\00:54:18.39
I want you to stand.
00:54:18.42\00:54:20.10
Heavenly Father,
00:54:24.19\00:54:28.26
oh daddy of Saul, you
who instituted the family.
00:54:28.29\00:54:33.76
Lord do something for us here
before the devil takes it away.
00:54:33.79\00:54:37.98
Hear us, we are as men standing
00:54:38.01\00:54:40.15
before You
representing all these home.
00:54:40.18\00:54:43.61
You said that when the
devil would come in like a flood
00:54:43.64\00:54:46.22
that you would raise
up a standard against him.
00:54:46.25\00:54:48.71
Oh God! Do
something for our home.
00:54:48.74\00:54:54.27
We know that in order to do
that you got to do something
00:54:54.30\00:54:56.88
in our hearts and so
for the heart of every man
00:54:56.91\00:54:59.74
who's standing here now, we pray
that you'll convict us of sin,
00:54:59.77\00:55:04.10
sweep us and clean
us but not just that.
00:55:04.13\00:55:08.03
Oh Jesus, fill us with
the fruit of the spirit,
00:55:08.06\00:55:12.46
strengthen us to
stand firm we pray
00:55:12.49\00:55:16.04
in these last days through
Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
00:55:16.07\00:55:21.61