Participants: Richard O'Ffill, Kathy Matthews
Series Code: TAH
Program Code: TAH000136
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00:31 Hi I'm Kathy Matthews and this is
00:33 Thinking About Home, welcome back. 00:35 We've been doing a series on plain talk. 00:39 And our guest has been the director of 00:42 men's ministries of the Florida Conference of 00:44 Seventh-Day Adventists, Pastor Richard O'Ffill. 00:47 And I'm glad you are here again I enjoy so much 00:49 to talk that we do. There we are as always 00:51 it's been wonderful. And of course as 00:53 you've told our audience you know we used 00:57 to say a viewing audience, but now we can say 00:59 viewing and listening audience, yes, 01:00 and as much as 3ABN now has radio, oh yes, 01:03 isn't that wonderful? Yes it is and I didn't realize 01:05 but they just informed me that this is going out 01:08 over the air, yeah, on the radio as well. 01:10 So we would also greet the radio listeners. 01:12 Yes let's do it. But you know we are talking 01:14 plain talk and of course I hope that those who 01:17 have joined this will understand that we are 01:20 talking about some pretty basic things and 01:23 of course you know we would have pretend 01:26 that we have the last word and that we are 01:28 writing everybody else is wrong. It's just that 01:31 we think that there are several ways to see some 01:34 things and that maybe we are seeing the things 01:38 much too narrow that there are other options, 01:40 right. And especially we as Christians, 01:44 we must understand, most definitely, 01:45 that the society in which we live is not our friend. 01:49 No it isn't, it's really against us generally. 01:53 And if we just take our lives as a society 01:57 prescribes we are gonna lose everything, 01:59 right. You know Dickey you were telling me about, 02:02 did you were talking with the pediatricians. 02:06 isn't that right? I was talking with pediatricians. 02:07 I don't know it tell me about that, 02:08 I was attending I think it was, where was I, 02:11 I guess I was in a church. 02:12 I was thinking it was a medical/dental retreat. 02:14 But it was in the church and between meetings 02:17 a pediatrician came to me and he said of his own 02:20 initiative. He said you know this tension deficit 02:23 disorders they called I think that's what they 02:25 call it. He says I think that's environmentally 02:28 induced. Was this recently? Oh it's just within 02:32 the last couple of months. Now before we discuss 02:35 this first of all I'm not a medical person, 02:38 I don't pretend to say that there would be 02:41 never an instance in which there would be 02:44 some kind of a chemical imbalance, right, 02:46 of that, in other words some kind of a real 02:48 physiological or whatever. But I want to come 02:54 from the point where the pedestrian was. 02:56 And he says I think that the children are being 03:00 hyperstimulated, he says I think that the environment 03:03 is creating some of these things for which 03:07 we are having to prescribe what they call that 03:10 pills, the source, Ritalin? Yeah what does it call? 03:13 Ritalin, Ritalin. I think something like that. 03:14 And so here our children are living in these almost 03:17 an unbearable society and they are the victims 03:20 and they are having to take medicine to be 03:24 able to survive. And I could have think about it. 03:27 I thought you know what it would be like 03:28 if you were 10 years old and your parents 03:32 were getting a divorce or had gotten divorce 03:34 and you are having to spend the weekend 03:35 with daddy or your parents are in the process 03:39 of getting divorce, they are screaming at 03:40 each other. And they treat in bitterness, yes, 03:43 and then for your fun for your spare time 03:46 you are playing, on the toys, yeah on the 03:49 computer games. And the place is going well 03:52 and then you're supposed to go to school and 03:54 listen to the teacher, who teach you arithmetic. 03:56 And the only thing that seems to stimulate 03:58 you are the games you've been playing, this is it. 04:00 I was even talking to some teachers recently 04:02 and I said what does it like? And I talked to one 04:05 teacher and she said we have to almost put 04:09 on a circus, to get them to listen, to get 04:12 them to listen, yes. Because they are 04:14 accustomed to this hyper stuff, Bob and I has 04:17 experiences with that sort of thing, 04:19 trying to take care of some Sabbath school 04:21 classes sometime. And not only that but 04:25 if you are at a larger function where there is 04:28 a lot more children, it's much harder you got. 04:31 This fragment and thinking disability, 04:34 the lack of ability to focus and concentrate 04:39 for any decent period of time, it's very difficult. 04:44 What I think that obviously is a product of 04:46 the age and as Christian parents and grandparents, 04:51 I think we are going to have to be, no one uses 04:54 the word too often intentional again because 04:57 I think in our series we've been saying that 05:00 if the society is gonna do us in. All we have to do 05:04 is do nothing and we lose, yes. This is like being 05:06 in a river going towards a cataract or so. 05:10 Well in a garden you have to plant good seed, 05:12 if you don't put you'll get nothing, that's right. 05:14 No, you are gonna get something, you get weeds 05:17 because they are already there. Isn't that the true? 05:19 Right, oh yeah. And so, and so we've got 05:22 to do something to resist the deterioration 05:26 because it doesn't say in Isaiah, intentional 05:28 planting, exactly. See the Book of Isaiah says 05:31 that the time would come in which the darkness 05:33 would cover the earth and gross darkness the people. 05:36 And I don't know what is going to be like before 05:38 this is over, but it's getting pretty gross Kathy 05:41 is getting. And who is the victim, 05:43 see I have felt that when the scripture says 05:47 that in the last days the love of many with wax 05:51 coat, yes. That the first victim of that would be 05:55 the home, because of the home is about 05:58 voluntary love. And that would be the enemy's 06:01 intention. It'll break up the home, yes. 06:03 And of course the poor little victims of this are 06:06 the children, yes. And so you know sometimes 06:10 I pray Oh come Lord Jesus because these little 06:13 children who are coming out of current situation, 06:17 what chance do they have? Almost none, 06:22 and that's truly a miracle when they come turn 06:24 around and give their hearts to Lord. 06:26 And this is why I think we ought to pray that 06:28 Jesus will come because this is, you know, 06:31 don't misunderstand me I'm making an 06:32 overstatement. But if Jesus doesn't come 06:34 one of these days, there's not gonna be anything 06:36 to get. Will I find faith? Will I find faith in the 06:40 earth? See, now it's not that our generation 06:43 and you will hear me referred our generation and 06:45 their generation and all that. And you don't really 06:48 like doing that and you, don't you ever. 06:50 When you get white hair like I got. 06:54 But you see we want perfect but we knew the 06:56 difference in other words we could tell right 06:58 from wrong. But my conviction is that this 07:03 generation, you see for this generation, 07:05 I mean to get off on another subject, 07:07 to this generation adultery and fornication 07:09 are none issues. In other words back in our age 07:13 that was a problem but we knew the difference 07:18 but this generation doesn't know the difference. 07:19 Comes from the feel good do it. And so here we are, 07:22 so what are we gonna do to save our children. 07:25 Well what we are doing because husbands 07:27 and wives are working and so we've got to entertain 07:30 them. And so when they are not at the babysitters, 07:33 the television is entertaining or we are 07:35 buying them these games and by the way you know 07:38 games are expensive these days. The price tag, 07:41 no I don't, I don't buy a lot of them I'm sorry. 07:43 Yeah. You know Kathy and I were talking about 07:48 games before the program and we were saying 07:51 that when we were little guys or when our children 07:54 were, oh yes, remember that, yes. 07:57 I took a rock and a piece of wood. 08:00 And well we grew up on a farm it was a cotton 08:03 and rice farm and it was easy for us to copy 08:06 what daddy did or what mommy did and if were 08:09 copying with my, and I played in the dirt with 08:11 my brother if we were copying what daddy did, 08:13 we were growing rice, it's right. Or cotton and 08:17 we were making levies and roads in the dirt and 08:19 lot of kids, some kids would do that but the 08:22 majority of kids that's just not stimulating 08:25 enough. Well you know what I've noticed and again 08:28 I know the people make their living you know 08:29 manufacturing toys and selling them and so forth, 08:33 so we wouldn't want to be, you know, 08:34 disrespectful with that. But you know when 08:36 you buy a truck all you can do to truck, 08:39 when you started doing truck. You know what my 08:42 grandchildren say, it can't be anything but a truck, 08:45 yeah it can't be anything but a truck. Right. 08:46 No creativity there, I can remember when my children 08:50 were small they would go to the kitchen and 08:53 they would, you know open the cupboards 08:54 and they get out the Tupperware. Yes, yes. 08:56 They could play, you know even Rachel was just 08:59 telling us about a little baby that she was 09:00 babysitting that had more fun getting out 09:03 Tupperware, oh yes. And could actually play 09:05 with the Tupperware for an hour or two, 09:08 but you know I noticed my little grandchildren with 09:10 some of these things every five minutes grandpa 09:12 I am bored. Yes, yes. And it's because may 09:18 be in some of these toys that are so mechanical 09:20 and even they are so mechanical, they 09:22 are real that there is not this, what do you call 09:25 at this creativity, yes; you were saying something 09:28 about that. Element of creativity there or a 09:30 different kind crops when you go into the games. 09:35 Over stimulation I remember one of my 09:38 favorite books is the desire of ages. 09:41 And there is a statement in there that go 09:42 something like this. The more quite and simple 09:45 the life of a child, the more can do so to mental 09:48 and spiritual life, yes. No I'm not saying put 09:50 them in a closet, no, by all means please don't 09:53 misunderstand me. But to have quietness that 09:57 a person can think that's almost done hardly. 09:59 Oh yes, right. You know these computer games 10:03 and again you know we don't wanna just 10:05 categorically say that everything out there is bad 10:08 in the computers that every computer game would 10:10 be bad. But they are tremendously 10:13 nerve wracking, oh I know it. You know these are, 10:14 somebody was saying I don't know who it was 10:18 they said that some of these young men that 10:19 going to the arm forces these days. Oh, 10:21 Tom was telling you that, the Tom was telling 10:23 you that. Repeat that, well I think it was, 10:27 he had been talking to a recruiter or a commander 10:30 or somebody who was in the military and he said, 10:35 oh he was a member of our church, 10:36 he was a member of our church who is in military. 10:39 Well actually there is a member that comes to our 10:41 church, he is not yet a member, he is 10:43 a husband. But anyway he is in the military 10:46 and he said that the observation has been with 10:51 the young people that are coming, young men 10:52 that are coming in to the military that they put 10:57 a gun in their hands and they are already sharp 11:01 shooters, they are already dead shots because 11:03 they've played so many of these games that are 11:07 violent games where they have to shoot that 11:09 they don't have to be trained to be a good aim 11:13 or a good shot. Isn't that amazing? 11:14 They already know how to do it. 11:15 They've never had gun in their hands in this sense 11:18 like the military would have them to do, yeah. 11:21 Nerves of steel and, ahhaa I don't know but 11:22 anyway this thing right there is frightening to me? 11:25 It is, it is, it's amazing. Well I think that in our 11:29 homes we owe it to the teachers to slow down 11:34 our lives a little bit and our children of the product 11:38 of their homes. Now I recognize that there are 11:42 some terrible things going on in the homes 11:44 for example, you know homes are breaking up 11:46 single parents, yes. Now you know I can't tell 11:49 you what is like to be a single parent. 11:51 I can tell you what is like to have a son who 11:52 abuses drugs, he is an alcoholic, 11:55 I can tell about that. We can recognize it as hard. 11:57 I can talk about many things but that one 11:59 I can't talk about being a single parent and so our 12:02 hearts go out, yes, out to the single parents. 12:05 But yet how can they, how can we altogether 12:08 with them move in the direction of trying 12:11 to stop this freefall, it's friendly. 12:14 We are almost in a freefall, yeah. 12:15 And I think that we've got to save you know 12:18 if I'm going to save my own sanity, yes. 12:21 And if I'm going to raise same children 12:23 I've got to slow things down, yes. 12:25 And you see, one of the problems is that because 12:28 of our selfishness we don't want to spend much 12:31 time with our children and this is why to set them 12:34 down in front of computer game that solves our 12:37 problems. Because they can just go from one 12:39 game to the next and you can imagine what 12:42 it does to them, that just start selfishness 12:43 coming out so. I think it is, absolutely. 12:45 Because if we would spend quality time with them, 12:47 it would be at the level at the emotional and 12:49 the energy level of the computer game surely, 12:53 how can you do that. Well I don't know a lot of 12:54 people might because that's what they've been 12:56 may be a lot of them have done themselves and 12:58 gone caught in good and that might be quality 13:01 time there, it might be. But I think people are, 13:04 I think many people and that's what I hope 13:06 for our audience is that they are looking 13:09 for something better looking for what God would 13:11 have them to do, yes. And to replace that people 13:14 sicker, many people are becoming very sick of this, 13:16 they are looking for something better. 13:18 Because, because things are going wrong, yes. 13:19 In other words you would think that if what 13:20 society is teaching us, what's the way to go 13:23 that things would be getting better and better 13:25 and they are really not. Violence is now not 13:27 only simulated in the videos, violence is now 13:29 become real in the schools and we know the 13:31 stories that we can talk about that. Yes we do. 13:33 You know, I think, I think Kathy that is coming 13:36 upon us as parents and as grandparents to 13:38 provide an environment in our homes that are safe, 13:45 that hold some and they are I even say Holy, 13:47 they are even I say Holy, oh yes. 13:49 And see this brings up to the subject that 13:51 I don't know if you are willing to discuss with me 13:53 a little bit. Are you going to pull new one here 13:55 on me? New one, it's kind of an extension 13:57 of what we are talking about because our 13:59 children have their rooms, oh yes, this is, 14:02 oh yes I want to talk about that; 14:04 you want to talk about that, yes. 14:05 See this is junior's room you know and so junior 14:08 goes in and closes the door and that's his room. 14:13 And I don't know what you feel about that but 14:15 I have some feelings about that. Well I do, 14:16 I have some feelings about that too. 14:18 I recently was asking some advice from a dear 14:23 friend about this kind of subject and they told me 14:27 that they had been listening to 14:28 actually a radio program and I don't know who 14:31 this was but they had told me that this person 14:35 reserved the right hand and was the policy and 14:38 instruction within their family. 14:40 So it was an understood thing to the children 14:42 that at anytime there could be room check 14:44 and it could be anything in the room. 14:48 And it was understood that was for their safety, 14:50 it was for their good because of the authority 14:53 and the experience that God had given parents. 14:58 But for their safety they need to be able to realize 15:05 the room isn't theirs. Let's see I take the position 15:10 right along with you that Betty and me were there 15:13 before the children came, yes. That will be there 15:17 after the children grown and our children have 15:19 all grown and they've gone away. 15:22 And that in a way and some may have problems 15:25 with this but we loan these facilities to these 15:30 children, yes, for the duration. 15:31 Now they can stay there for as long as they want. 15:34 But that I think that we as parents in particularly 15:36 we as fathers have the responsibility for that 15:39 realistic, yes. I'm saying in that way, yes. For 15:41 that piece of realistic that whatever goes 15:43 on under that roof that is not for junior but 15:48 for the honor and the glory of God, right. 15:52 And just because the room has a door on it, 15:55 it doesn't mean I close the door and this is my room 15:57 now I do whatever I want, I can do anything going on. 15:59 Well we had this creep into our thoughts that 16:03 it has to be pride total, total and complete privacy. 16:07 I'm not saying that a person shouldn't have 16:09 a respect for the privacy of another individual 16:12 and even our children. But total and complete privacy, 16:18 oooh am I stepping on toes here, I think it's, 16:22 I think we need to be careful that one of the 16:24 reasons why parents have lost all control in 16:29 their home, lost control. There is a president for 16:32 this, may I say the armed forces. You know people 16:37 making flashbacks; you know that might think 16:38 that you are getting a little pushy here. 16:40 But they have inspection, they have inspection 16:42 for the common good. In other words you can't have 16:45 everybody living like a pig for the common good, 16:47 yes and so, and so there is something about 16:50 a common good, so the common good of the family. 16:52 That's exactly right. Do you know, 16:53 I would like to share with you a little experience 16:55 that I had I got a call one day at the conference 16:57 office and a man was, he was asking that there was 17:02 somebody that know anything about exorcism. 17:06 And one of the secretaries has passed the call to me 17:08 and so I thought when I heard the message that 17:11 this man was going to do some kind of a meeting 17:13 on exorcism and want somebody to talk about it. 17:15 And you know I'm not attracted to that 17:17 and you know this doesn't really, 17:19 this is not one of your, this is more than I think, 17:20 yes. But there is a phone number to call and 17:24 so I called this man up expecting you know that 17:27 he wanted information let me tell you what was 17:30 happening. He had a 15-year-old daughter. 17:33 And she was hanging out with devil worshipers 17:37 and with skinheads whatever that is. And that 17:40 apparently, apparently in this it's kind of 17:44 an evil circle that this 15-year-old girl was in 17:47 someone had put curses on each other and 17:50 already two children had committed suicide, oh. 17:54 And now someone had put a curse on his daughter 17:58 and he was really concerned, concerned. 18:00 And he was calling can anybody help. And 18:04 he saw this as a reality; this was not anything 18:06 to play with. This what already two children 18:08 are dead, yes, see in his, there is a curse 18:10 on his daughter whatever that means. So 18:12 you know I, so I said I don't run after these 18:16 things but I recognize that he was a father and 18:19 that would need help and he was basically saying 18:21 would you come and pray for my daughter. 18:23 And so I got on the phone that afternoon and 18:26 I called some of friends around the country who 18:28 are my prayer partners because I knew that 18:30 when you go into situation like that. 18:32 You know you want to have lots of prayer 18:33 of the power of God and the angels that are 18:36 accompanying. And so I made arrangements 18:38 to go over to see him that night. And he said my 18:41 daughter isn't gonna be here. I said that's alright 18:43 you and I need to meet each other first before 18:45 we can pray for your daughter, we need to get 18:47 acquainted. In the conversation, he mentioned 18:50 something to me about his daughter's room, 18:52 remember what I am telling, something about 18:54 his daughter's room. So time came I got in my 18:57 car and as I drove over I was praying you know 19:00 that the Lord would help us and give us grace 19:03 and power. I went knocked on the door he came 19:05 and he met me at the door invited me into the 19:09 family room. And we sat down and we begin 19:12 to get acquainted and there was a picture of his 19:14 daughter and she is 15-year-old you 19:15 can imagine, yes, you see. 19:17 And she wasn't there and we talked and I was 19:19 trying to get handle on his own spirituality, yes. 19:23 And so suddenly it occurred to me that what he 19:26 has said about his daughter's room. 19:29 And so I said may I see your daughter's room, 19:32 yeah what did he say? Well why not and so 19:35 we got up we walked down the hallway we passed 19:39 his 10 year old son's room in on the wall are these 19:43 Rambo pictures, these machine gun stuff already 19:46 some posters, some posters. When we got to the end 19:50 of the hallway there was the room, 19:52 his daughter's room. Believe it or not Kathy 19:55 the trim in the room painted in black, 19:57 that's weird, that alone should alert you. 20:01 That's weird. And I don't remember what color 20:03 that the room was painted but it was another 20:05 weird color I mean a black trim weird paint. 20:10 On the walls these awful pictures of these what 20:14 they call them these rock groups, 20:17 what's it called this the worst kinds of rock. 20:20 Well there is a rave rock and then there is rap rock, 20:23 and it was the works all this awful stuff, 20:24 and there all kinds of heavy metal, heavy metal. 20:26 These heavy metal people and then right 20:28 in the middle I'll never forget, right in the middle 20:31 of the wall was this picture of this goat. 20:33 I don't know a lot about that but I think that 20:35 goat head, you can recognize that, 20:36 the goat head is a symbol of this demonic stuff, yes. 20:40 And I stand there and I looking and taking this 20:43 stuff in and then down on a kind of a bookshelf, 20:46 this big bunch of paper back occult books and 20:52 I looked at that. I could hardly believe it. 20:55 Well anyway I don't remember saying much we 20:56 turned and we walked out, we would back, 20:59 did he not be, was he not more concerned. 21:01 Well, no, no it's just, did he not recognize it himself, 21:03 no we were just back. When we get back to the family 21:05 room we sat down and it occurred to me, 21:11 you know how the Lord, the scripture says don't worry 21:14 about what you gonna say it'll come to you, right. 21:16 It occurred to me the case of Gideon. 21:19 You remember Gideon was called to deliver 21:22 the Israelites from the Midianites, band of 300? 21:25 But before he could do that, he had to get rid of, 21:28 he had to get rid of his father's idols. 21:31 And so one night he got and he threw it all down 21:34 at risk of his life, yes. So I said to this brother, 21:38 I said you know I don't know how we can pray 21:42 for your daughter under these conditions. 21:45 Because here she is living with this, 21:47 not living but associating with these skinheads 21:50 and these devil worshipers all day, 21:52 she comes home at night to a devil's nest. 21:55 She really doesn't have any option wherever 21:57 she goes the devil is there. And so I said to 22:01 him, how can a holy angel's come in without? 22:03 How could she be delivered? And so I said respectfully 22:07 I said I think it's your obligation as the 22:10 spiritual head of this home to overthrow, 22:11 I used the word overthrow this room, yes. 22:14 I said you could go overthrow that room. 22:15 What was his reaction? Well he, what he could say, 22:18 what could he say? And so I suggested that he 22:22 overthrow the room and I said now when you do 22:25 that she'll probably attack you physically and she 22:28 probably runaway from home. 22:31 Well anyway we spent the rest of the time that 22:33 we were together with a recommitment of his own 22:36 heart to the Lord Jesus Christ, because obviously 22:39 he had slipped. He wasn't being, 22:41 he wasn't protecting his daughter from the devil. 22:44 Well anyway I don't know it was a week or so later 22:46 he called and he said Pastor O'Ffill on Sunday 22:49 I went in, I didn't do it the next day, so they 22:51 didn't do it that night on that time. No, no. 22:52 Three or four days passed. On Sunday he took a 22:56 bucket of paint and he went in and he starts 22:57 painting out this black trim, oh really? 23:00 And I said what did your daughter do? 23:02 He said she didn't do anything. But 23:04 when I started ripping down those posters 23:05 then she began to go into a rage and she 23:10 attacked me. I said then what she do? 23:12 And she got her stuff together and ran away. 23:15 This is what you said, but he said. She 23:16 didn't stay going alone? He said pretty soon 23:20 a few hours later she came back he said we sit 23:23 down on the outside on the porch that night and 23:26 we talked together till 2'o clock in the morning. 23:28 The first time we had talk in cool Lord's wind. 23:33 And he came back and he saw me years later 23:34 Kathy and he said it was that talk that night 23:38 that turned it all around. And I thought to myself 23:41 what chance did the girl have? What chance, 23:45 because her father was not protecting her, yes. 23:48 He had allowed her under whatever like he 23:50 was saying, under the name of privacy, yes, 23:52 of that was her room. She could do in her room 23:55 what she wanted to do and this is not true. 23:58 And so finally when he exercised his leadership, 24:00 and did like Gideon did. He gonna pray, 24:03 he gonna purge the room then he gave her 24:05 choice back. And that would began to be the 24:08 breakup of this power of the darkness around her, 24:12 saving of the daughter, yeah. Oh amen, 24:14 I'm glad to hear that it turned up that way. 24:16 Well this story has a happy ending, good. 24:18 But I guess that my appeal and I think you are 24:22 with me on this that my appeal is that we as 24:25 parents owe it to our children to maintain not 24:29 only a home where there is no rats. Yes, or 24:33 snakes, yes, or you know a poison gas, yes. 24:38 But I think we owe it our children to providing 24:40 the atmosphere that's wholesome and it's moral, 24:45 the spiritual. Now this doesn't mean that we are 24:48 gonna ram our religion down their throats, 24:51 we can't do that. But if we are living at ourselves 24:55 and they see the enthusiasm of serving God 24:57 ourselves, the joy of, well it's bound to have 25:01 its of good effect as well. Well it's like now you know 25:05 you hate use this, may be this isn't a good 25:06 illustration but when I go to a hotel they fix 25:09 the environment, in other words they don't try 25:12 to say this is the way you got to live but while 25:14 you are here this is the way we live. 25:16 And so I think we got to be careful that we don't 25:18 force spirituality on our children. 25:23 Because we can't get in our heads we can't take 25:25 away religious freedom but I don't thing it's wrong, 25:28 many may disagree with me to say that in this 25:31 house we don't play rock and roll music all over 25:34 the house, right. Rock music 25:36 for example is like smoke, if somebody in the 25:38 house is smoking guess who smokes, 25:40 everybody smokes. So if somebody in the house 25:42 is listening to some weird heavy metal guess 25:45 who is listening to it, we are all of us, 25:46 everybody, yes. So may be I won't say to my child 25:49 you can't listen to heavy metal. 25:51 I mean I don't have to have a police force and 25:53 an army to follow wherever they went, 25:54 because they are gonna do it at some place but 25:56 I don't think that is wrong to say sweetheart. 26:00 You know if you are gonna listen to that music 26:01 you know which is your choice, you're gonna listen 26:02 what type of music you want to, but don't make 26:05 all listen to the music they know you love that. 26:06 But that's where is our duty Pastor to try to 26:10 help them, try, strive to help them to make choices 26:14 from right principles, amen. And that's not a one 26:19 time shot that's over and over and over repetition 26:25 is most necessary in this and every situation 26:28 that comes up and if it's 2'o clock in the morning 26:29 that's when you have to do it, that's right. 26:32 And but the time that it takes the energy that 26:36 is gonna take is and the leadership that it's gonna 26:40 take, oh and the leadership, that's right, 26:41 with our children in our youth, 26:43 unless we fight for our homes we gonna lose them. 26:46 Unless we'll struggle to save our children we 26:48 will lose them. The devil is, the scripture says 26:51 as a roaring lion. If there is a roaring lion 26:56 in your house the first thing you do, 26:58 you get him out. Yeah I agree with you Dick, 27:02 I'm going to invite our audience to write or call 27:06 3ABN for future topics for Thinking About Home. 27:10 We might be able to handle if you that you 27:13 give to us, its 3ABN PO Box 220 West Frankfort, 27:18 Illinois 62896 and we are going to be praying 27:22 for you now. We've been talking plainly to children 27:26 and youth and we want you to join us again next 27:29 time on Thinking About Home but before we 27:32 are going to have prayer. Heavenly Father 27:35 we are thankful that you let us share in your 27:37 creative power in having children. 27:39 Lord we pray that you will put a head around 27:41 our youth. We pray that this roaring lion 27:43 will be held and obey Lord, yes, 27:45 that you'll protect our families, protect our 27:48 homes, give us the courageous parents, yes, 27:50 to do what you are called us to do and wake up, 27:53 we pray this in Jesus name thanking him 27:56 for all he has done for us and for all he. |
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