Jesus said: "If you love
Me, keep my commandments."
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Now people all over the
world are turning back to God's
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eternal moral law, claiming
His promise to write them
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in our hearts and our minds.
Live from the Palm Bay, Florida,
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3ABN presents
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The 10 Commandments Weekend.
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Good Morning, praise the Lord.
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My name is Pastor Wintley Phipps
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and I'm the Pastor of
the Palm Bay, SDA church
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in Palm Bay,
Florida. It's a beautiful day
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in Florida, and we welcome
you to our worship service.
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We are excited that today
is 10 commandments Sabbath,
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praise the Lord.
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We are going to lift
up the name of God today.
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Palm Bay is a special
church that God has anointed
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and blessed, and we
are so glad that you are
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joining us today. As
a member of the board
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of 3ABN, we praise God
for all that He has been doing
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in 3ABN, and now, join
us as we worship together,
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"God is our
refuge and our strength",
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as you listen to the mass
choir from the Palm Bay church.
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[Audience Claps and says amen]
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God is our refuge
and our strength, amen?
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Praise His name.
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There's a song, a
beautiful hymn, everywhere I go
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across this country, people
tell me: "You know, this is my"
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"favorite hymn." And I
want to share it with you,
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praise the Lord.
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When peace like a
river, attendeth my way,
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When sorrow like
sea billows roll;
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What ever my lot,
thou hast taught me to say,
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It is well, it is
well with my soul.
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It is well with my soul;
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It is well, it is well,
it is well with my soul.
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And Lord, haste the day
when the faith shall be sight,
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The clouds be
rolled back as a scroll,
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The trump shall resound
and the Lord shall descend;
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"Even so" it is
well with my soul.
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It is well with my soul;
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It is well, It is
well, it is well with my soul
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It is well with my soul;
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It is well, it is well,
it is well with my soul.
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Praise God.
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Praise the Lord.
Because of Jesus it is well.
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- [Audience] Amen. -
And we've come to give Him
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glory today, will
you sing that hymn,
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remain seated, and
just sing that hymn with me,
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"To God be the Glory
great things He hath done."
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Praise His Holy name for He has
done awesome and might things.
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"To God be the Glory".
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All lift your voices and sing it
today, to God be all the glory.
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To God be the glory
great things He hath done,
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So loved He the world
that He gave us His Son,
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who yielded His life
an atonement for sin,
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and open the life
gate that all may go in.
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Praise the
Lord, Praise the Lord,
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Let the earth hear His voice;
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Praise the
Lord, Praise the Lord,
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Let the people rejoice;
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O come to the Father,
through Jesus the Son,
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and give Him the glory,
great things He hath done.
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Great things He hath taught
us, great things He hath done,
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and great our
rejoicing through Jesus the Son;
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But purer, and
higher, and greater will be
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our wonder, our
transport, when Jesus we see.
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Praise the
Lord, Praise the Lord,
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Let the earth hear His voice;
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Praise the
Lord, Praise the Lord,
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Let the people rejoice;
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O come to the Father,
through Jesus the Son,
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and give Him the glory,
great things He hath done.
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Let us pray together.
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Our Father in Heaven, we
come before You this beautiful
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Sabbath Day, we've come
to praise Your holy name.
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We bless Your name
Father, for You are an awesome
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and mighty God. As
we open Your holy word,
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cleanse me of
all unrighteousness,
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fill my life with Your Holy
Spirit's presence and power.
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Speak to me, through
me, and for me, Lord,
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and I'll promise You I'll
always be careful to give You
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the honor, the glory and
the praise, in the name of Jesus
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we pray, amen.
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My message this morning
comes from the 5th commandment.
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Say it with me: "Honor
thy father and thy mother"
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"that thy days may be long
upon the land the Lord thy God"
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"giveth thee."
Praise His holy name.
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Come with me to the
morning of the third day
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of their encampment, when
all Israel turned its eyes
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towards Mount Sinai.
Together they watched
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and marveled as God
unleashed in their presence
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a magnificent and
awesome display of His power.
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They watched as God
took an ordinary mountain,
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draped it in sound and fury,
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He took an ordinary mountain,
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dressed it in
drama and darkness.
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Starting from the top of the
mountain a thick, dense shadow
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moved slowly downward, I hope
you can see that this morning.
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Soon, the whole mountain
was wrapped in a curtain
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of impenetrable darkness.
High above the mountain
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the people heard the
sound of a celestial trumpet
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summoning them to draw closer.
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Moses turned his face to
the base of that mountain
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and he prepared his
heart for the highest privilege
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known to man, the
most sacred privilege
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known to man, the
privilege of face to face,
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heart to heart communion with
the Creator of the universe.
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As he drew closer,
white flashes of lightning
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shot out from the darkness,
and sharp peels of thunder
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echoed all about.
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As God's presence
descended upon that mountain,
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the mountain began to
shake like a tree shaking
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in the wind, and if you
don't believe that God can make
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a mountain shake, there's a text
in the book of Jeremiah 4:24,
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where God says: "I
beheld the mountains and lo,"
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"how they tremble." What
an awesome God you serve.
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He looks at a mountain
and the mountain trembles.
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You know the way your mamma
used to look at you in church
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made you tremble.
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He looks at mountains and
they tremble, and if mountains
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tremble when God looks
at them, can you imagine
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what it's going to be
like in the judgment day
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when sinful men behold the
full face of the undimmed glory
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of God. You talk about weeping
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and gnashing of teeth.
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The people fell upon
their faces, then suddenly
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all was hushed; the thunder
ceased, the lightning stopped,
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and there was silence as
though all nature were at rest,
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as though a great
storm had been stilled,
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and then out of the
darkness and mystery,
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out of the shadows
of the dimmer known,
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the voice of God was
heard speaking, saying:
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"I am the Lord thy
God who have brought you"
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"out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage."
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"Thou shalt have no
other Gods before Me"
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"for I am the Lord,
and there is no other."
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"I am Alpha and Omega,
the first and the last,"
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"the beginning and the
end." In Isaiah 44 God said:
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"Is there a God besides Me?
Ye, there is no God besides Me."
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Here God is saying: "If there
is another God, I don't him."
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God is saying: "If
there is another God,"
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"I've never met him.
I've visited every planet,"
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"every star, I've visited
the constellations of Centaurus"
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"and Phoenix, and
Cassiopeia, and Andromeda,"
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"and if there is another
God, I've never met him,"
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"he has not
shown himself to Me."
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"I've traversed the
Milky Way, I've vacationed"
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"in the [Pyrenees], and
as long as I am the potter"
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"and you are the clay, as
long as you are drawing life"
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"from my inexhaustible supply,
you shall have no other gods"
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"before Me." Praise His name.
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My glory will I not
give to another, my praise,
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neither will I give my
praise to graven images.
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Friends, out there on
that mountain God spoke
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the 10 commandments, not only
to Israel, but to all humanity.
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Out there on that mountain,
God, with His own finger
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of fire, engraved
upon the tablets of stone
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a transcript of His character.
God laid before mankind
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what would become the
foundation of many generations.
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On Mount Sinai God did
not put before the world
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10 suggestions, He
did not give to the world
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10 helpful perspectives, or 10
good ideas to order you life by.
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This was no late night
talk show top 10 count down.
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Oh no, the 10 commandments
are much more than that,
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they are the moral
laws of the universe.
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They are the laws that govern
and regulate our happiness,
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they are the laws
that ensure our freedom,
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and condemn our behavior.
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These 10 commandments
are what, in modern parlance,
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legal parlance
can be referred to as
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"settled law."
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There's a legal
concept called "settled law".
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One day an old janitor
who worked at a seminary
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was reading the
book of Revelation
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and some of the young
seminarians who had just taken
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a course in the book
of Revelation asked him
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"Do you know
what you're reading?"
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And he said: "Yes." They
said: "Do you understand"
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"what you're
reading?" He said: "Yes."
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They said: "We went to
school to understand this,"
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"what do you understand
about the book of Revelation?"
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That old janitor said: "I
understand that in the end"
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"He's going to
win." [Audience laughs]
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"God said it, I
believe it, settles it for me."
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This is settled law, hallelujah.
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The 10 commandments, there
is no opportunity for debate,
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discussion, or compromise.
David said in Psalm 119:
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"Forever, O Lord, They
word is settled in heaven."
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The 10 commandments are
settled law, they're not open
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for discussion or
revision, even Jesus said:
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"Verily, I say unto you,
till heaven and earth pass away"
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"not one jot or tittle
shall pass from the law."
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If it is settled in heaven,
it aught to be settled law
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in our hearts as
well. [Audience] Amen.
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The first 4 commandments
require a man respect
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for divine
authority, Oh hallelujah.
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Respect for divine sovereignty.
We honor the obligations
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of the first 4 commandments
because of our respect
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for divine authority.
We keep the Sabbath holy
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because of our
respect for divine authority.
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When people tell me that
men have changed the Sabbath
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in honor of the
resurrection, I tell them:
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"Suppose I lived next door to
you and you went on vacation,"
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"and while you were gone
I decided that your house"
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"would look better
pained purple and brown."
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"So I went down to Home
Depot and while you were gone"
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"I painted your house
purple in your honor..."
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"...pink trim."
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The truth is if I
really wanted to honor you,
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I would show my respect over
your authority over your house
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by leaving it just
the way you painted it.
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We show respect for
divine authority when we leave
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the commandments just
the way God made them.
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Obedience to God's
commandments shows respect
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for divine authority.
Just as the first commandment
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lays the foundation for
the first 4 commandments,
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and they together, those 4
commandments, lay the foundation
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for our respect
for divine authority,
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likewise, the 5th commandment,
the focus of my message today,
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lays the foundation
for our respect for parents
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and our respect for all
whom God has placed in authority
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over us.
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The 5th commandments
says: "Honor thy father"
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"and thy mother that thy
days may be long upon the land"
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"which the Lord
thy God giveth thee."
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The 5th commandment lays
the foundation for the remaining
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6 commandments.
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Those 6 commandments
together lay the foundation
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for our respect for others.
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Somehow God knew that children
who do not respect their parents
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will not respect the rights,
lives, and property of others.
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If you disrespect your mother,
you will disrespect other people
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Disrespect of the 5th
commandment lays the foundation
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for the disrespect for
all the other commandments.
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People kill because they don't
respect the lives of others.
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People commit adultery
because they don't respect
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the sacred
relationships of others.
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People steal because they don't
respect the property of others.
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People lie because they
don't respect the reputation
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of others. People
covet because they don't
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respect the blessings
God gives to other people.
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Those are the people who pray:
"Oh Lord, help my neighbors"
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"to stop buying things I
can't afford." [Audience laughs]
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God gave us the 5th
commandment because God knew
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that a child who does not
honor and respect his parents
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will not honor or respect
his teachers, his pastors,
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his elders, not even the police.
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There are many
young people in jail today
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all because they started
with disrespect for the police.
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Today, you have to have a
special time of instruction
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to teach your children
how you talk to police.
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There are many smart mouthed
kids sitting in jail right now.
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Parental authority forms the
foundation for Godly character.
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So the 5th commandments
plays a pivotal role
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in the
advancement of God's kingdom.
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You see, if the 5th
commandment is disregarded,
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or minimized, it
makes it almost impossible
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for all the other
commandments to be respected.
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The 5th commandment is
the pipeline, the channel,
00:28:13.14\00:28:18.23
the conduit through which moral
values flow to this generation
00:28:18.26\00:28:25.08
and to the next
generation. The 5th commandment
00:28:25.11\00:28:28.22
is the foundation of the
transmission of all other
00:28:28.25\00:28:33.13
values that you seek to
impart to your children.
00:28:33.16\00:28:37.15
If we can't train children
to respect parental authority,
00:28:37.18\00:28:41.86
we destroy the very
foundation of the society,
00:28:41.89\00:28:46.85
the very
foundation of the community,
00:28:46.88\00:28:49.00
and of the nation.
00:28:49.03\00:28:50.36
If you can't train children
to respect parental authority,
00:28:50.39\00:28:55.26
there is no hope,
are you with me today?
00:28:55.29\00:28:59.83
There is no hope for the family,
there is no hope for the nation.
00:28:59.86\00:29:04.99
Violence against
parents is on the rise.
00:29:05.02\00:29:10.25
You didn't hear me
today, there was a time
00:29:10.28\00:29:13.07
when this was unheard
of. God considered violence
00:29:13.10\00:29:17.48
and disrespect against parents
so serious that in Bible times
00:29:17.51\00:29:22.58
it was considered
a capital offence.
00:29:22.61\00:29:26.39
Disrespect for
parental authority was something
00:29:26.42\00:29:30.05
you could lose your life over.
00:29:30.08\00:29:34.05
It is the foundation
of a healthy community.
00:29:34.08\00:29:38.99
Years ago in New
York city, true story,
00:29:39.02\00:29:43.72
they noticed a disturbing
crack appear on the 42nd floor
00:29:43.75\00:29:48.49
of a high rise
apartment building.
00:29:48.52\00:29:51.15
So the company
that owned the building
00:29:51.18\00:29:52.99
send for the
architect to investigate,
00:29:53.02\00:29:55.84
and the architect
arrived and the manager heard
00:29:55.87\00:29:58.68
that he was in the
building, and took the elevator
00:29:58.71\00:30:00.40
up to the 42nd floor, looked
around and couldn't find him.
00:30:00.43\00:30:04.62
Someone told him, oh no,
he's in the 6th basement,
00:30:04.65\00:30:08.18
6 floors down.
00:30:08.21\00:30:10.49
The man went down, took
the elevator, and he found
00:30:11.30\00:30:14.28
the architect, he said:
"What are you doing down here?"
00:30:14.31\00:30:17.55
"Our crack is
on the 42nd floor."
00:30:17.58\00:30:20.70
The architect said: "Your
crack may be on the 42 floor,"
00:30:20.73\00:30:24.76
"but your problem is
here at the foundation."
00:30:24.79\00:30:28.12
True story, as it
turned out a security guard
00:30:29.09\00:30:33.10
who worked in the building
wanted to build a garage
00:30:33.13\00:30:36.35
unto his house, and
didn't have the money,
00:30:36.38\00:30:39.96
so every evening before leaving
work, he would take the elevator
00:30:39.99\00:30:44.19
to the 6th basement, and chisel
out a brick, put it in his bag,
00:30:44.22\00:30:51.67
and take it home, and
after 5 years of doing that,
00:30:52.04\00:30:57.39
a crack appeared
on the 42nd floor.
00:30:57.42\00:31:00.99
The foundation, brothers
and sister, of a respectful,
00:31:01.02\00:31:04.24
moral society, is
the 5th commandment.
00:31:04.27\00:31:08.48
Every time you do not
restrain a child, you chisel out
00:31:09.18\00:31:15.24
a brick from the foundation
of a safe and just society.
00:31:15.27\00:31:22.30
Every time you
neglect to discipline a child,
00:31:22.33\00:31:26.11
you chisel out a brick
from the foundation of a strong
00:31:26.14\00:31:29.88
and healthy nation.
Every time you allow a child
00:31:29.91\00:31:33.63
to say: "I hate you!" without
the appropriate response,
00:31:33.66\00:31:41.72
you chisel out a brick.
Any time you let a child
00:31:45.02\00:31:50.31
put his finger in your
face, you chisel out a brick
00:31:50.34\00:31:58.50
from the
foundation of a moral society.
00:31:58.53\00:32:02.43
You know, when we were
growing up you didn't think
00:32:02.46\00:32:04.13
of saying things children
say to their parents today.
00:32:04.16\00:32:08.19
You know what's really funny
is I used to hear old people
00:32:08.22\00:32:10.71
saying that, and now
I find myself saying it.
00:32:10.74\00:32:15.17
I guess I'm getting old too.
00:32:15.42\00:32:18.12
But one of the signs that
we are living in the last days
00:32:18.64\00:32:23.01
is that the Bible says children
will be disobedient to parents,
00:32:23.04\00:32:27.85
unthankful, unholy.
00:32:27.88\00:32:31.65
Now, to be honest, I
too, was a very creative kid.
00:32:31.68\00:32:38.75
[Audience laughs]
00:32:38.78\00:32:41.05
That's a nice way of
saying I was a handful,
00:32:43.68\00:32:47.03
but I didn't say some
of the things children say
00:32:47.82\00:32:50.80
to their parents today...
00:32:50.83\00:32:52.79
...you know, the
Bart Simpson generation?
00:32:52.82\00:32:56.70
Bart Simpson wouldn't have
lasted long in my generation
00:32:56.73\00:33:00.37
growing up, calling
your parents names and stuff.
00:33:00.40\00:33:04.10
I was one blessed child
growing up because my mother
00:33:05.37\00:33:10.57
was time enough for
me. Whenever I was not
00:33:10.60\00:33:17.05
where I was supposed to be
my mother had an uncanny way
00:33:17.08\00:33:21.35
of showing up, like
she could read my mind,
00:33:21.38\00:33:27.45
or she had an uncanny
way of hearing about it.
00:33:27.48\00:33:30.62
My mother didn't need
sophisticated eavesdropping
00:33:30.65\00:33:34.80
equipment, she
had the Holy Ghost.
00:33:34.83\00:33:39.04
She didn't need fancy
electronic surveillance,
00:33:40.83\00:33:44.66
she had the Lord on her side.
00:33:44.69\00:33:47.43
The Holy Ghost would
tell her where I was,
00:33:47.46\00:33:50.86
she would even hear about stuff
I did before I even got home,
00:33:50.89\00:33:55.07
and we didn't have a
telephone. [Audience laughs]
00:33:55.72\00:33:59.15
Kind of reminds me of that
mother who encountered her son
00:34:03.00\00:34:07.81
on the street one day when
he should have been in school,
00:34:07.84\00:34:11.44
and she listened to his
stammering, creative explanation
00:34:11.47\00:34:16.53
about why he was not in school
when he was supposed to be
00:34:16.56\00:34:20.39
in school. When he
stopped talking he saw
00:34:20.42\00:34:22.66
this puzzled look on his
mother's face and he knew
00:34:22.69\00:34:26.74
she wasn't buying that
cockamamie story of his,
00:34:26.77\00:34:30.92
and he said: "Mommy,
don't you believe me?"
00:34:30.95\00:34:34.35
She said: "Now baby, I don't
want to accuse you of lying,"
00:34:34.38\00:34:37.55
"I'm just saying that in all
of my life I have never heard"
00:34:37.58\00:34:42.68
"of school giving time
off for good behavior."
00:34:42.71\00:34:46.21
[Audience laughs] "I've
just never heard of it."
00:34:46.24\00:34:49.66
I think the reason I like that
story is because it reminds me
00:34:49.69\00:34:52.52
of somebody I knew
when... praise the Lord I'm not
00:34:52.55\00:34:56.11
what I used to be.
00:34:56.14\00:34:58.89
But I am comforted by
the fact that none of us
00:34:58.92\00:35:02.35
were perfect kids, none of us.
00:35:02.38\00:35:07.04
A father of 5 children
one day brought a toy home
00:35:09.94\00:35:14.27
and he called his kids
together to ask which one
00:35:14.30\00:35:16.60
should have the toy,
the gift, the present.
00:35:16.63\00:35:20.11
"Alright," said the father,
"who is the most obedient?"
00:35:20.14\00:35:23.91
"Come on," he asked, "who
never talks back to mother?"
00:35:23.94\00:35:28.45
"Come on, who does
everything mother says?"
00:35:28.48\00:35:31.68
One little voice answered:
"Daddy, we think you aught"
00:35:31.71\00:35:35.33
"to play with the toy because
daddy," [Audience laughs]
00:35:35.36\00:35:39.70
"you're the only one who
is always obedient to mom,"
00:35:39.73\00:35:43.59
"and never talks back,
and does everything she says."
00:35:43.62\00:35:48.28
You know, times are
rough when the only perfect kid
00:35:49.15\00:35:51.92
in the house is dad.
00:35:51.95\00:35:54.66
To be a creative
kid is one problem,
00:35:56.58\00:36:00.06
but a disrespectful kid...
00:36:00.09\00:36:02.97
If you allow
disrespect from a child,
00:36:04.60\00:36:08.30
you are disrespecting
God. This past week
00:36:08.33\00:36:16.11
Danny Shelton and his
wife and I had a chance
00:36:16.14\00:36:19.87
to meet President
Bush at the White House.
00:36:19.90\00:36:23.18
While at the event, I
sat next to a well dressed,
00:36:23.38\00:36:28.75
successful, articulate
woman, and she said to me
00:36:28.78\00:36:33.01
in a moment of
personal candor, she said:
00:36:33.04\00:36:36.86
"My biggest failure in life has
been the raising of my boys."
00:36:37.25\00:36:43.34
She said: "Just before
coming here to the White House"
00:36:44.29\00:36:46.93
"I spoke to one of my
boys who's an alcoholic,"
00:36:46.96\00:36:51.71
"and I kept telling him,
you have to give it to God,"
00:36:51.74\00:36:55.24
"He's the only one
who can change you."
00:36:55.27\00:36:57.77
Brothers and sisters, in trying
to raise respectful children,
00:36:57.80\00:37:01.76
sometimes, I've got
to be honest with you,
00:37:01.79\00:37:03.89
I tell the Lord: "It's not
a fair fight" because as fast
00:37:03.92\00:37:08.70
as you make the deposits in the
hearts and minds of children,
00:37:08.73\00:37:12.55
of common sense, and
virtue, and character,
00:37:12.58\00:37:15.84
there is a degenerate
culture making withdrawals,
00:37:15.87\00:37:19.61
faster than
we're making deposits,
00:37:19.64\00:37:22.92
and kids from good
homes, where you've got prayer
00:37:22.95\00:37:26.28
and Bible study, are
becoming bankrupt all because
00:37:26.31\00:37:31.15
the Devil has been
chiseling out a brick.
00:37:31.18\00:37:34.87
When my wife and I were
building our first home,
00:37:34.90\00:37:37.34
we would stop by the
building site every day,
00:37:37.37\00:37:40.86
just to check on how
things were progressing.
00:37:40.89\00:37:43.96
I was particularly
interested in watching them pour
00:37:43.99\00:37:46.91
the concrete.
Pouring concrete is very hard
00:37:46.94\00:37:51.80
work, but very important
work, because a solid foundation
00:37:51.83\00:37:59.80
has to be poured before
you build anything else on it.
00:37:59.83\00:38:04.51
When the concrete is
poured you've got to shape it
00:38:04.91\00:38:09.08
before it sets,
are you with me today?
00:38:09.11\00:38:13.72
Because once it sets,
you can only change it by
00:38:13.75\00:38:18.14
breaking it up, you've
got to get a jackhammer
00:38:18.17\00:38:22.08
to break it up.
And it's the same way
00:38:22.11\00:38:24.27
with children, teaching respect
is like pouring a foundation.
00:38:24.30\00:38:30.86
Teaching respect if like
pouring concrete, and you better
00:38:32.86\00:38:37.19
shape it when the child
is young because once it sets
00:38:37.22\00:38:42.55
it's hard to break it up.
God has to get a jack hammer
00:38:42.58\00:38:48.83
before He can change
some of our children.
00:38:48.86\00:38:52.91
Oh, but when it's
poured right, hallelujah,
00:38:53.36\00:38:58.68
and it sets a good foundation,
will last a child a lifetime,
00:38:58.71\00:39:05.81
but if it's not done right
you'll start to see structural
00:39:05.84\00:39:09.68
cracks and the walls will
start to shift, and the floors
00:39:09.71\00:39:13.79
will start to buckle and
sometimes the whole building
00:39:13.82\00:39:17.09
starts to lean with a
little compromise here,
00:39:17.12\00:39:21.65
and a little compromise there.
I'll never forget years ago
00:39:21.68\00:39:25.37
my family and I,
my darling wife and I,
00:39:25.40\00:39:28.66
visited the
Leaning Tower of Pisa.
00:39:28.69\00:39:32.37
We were able to climb to
the top of it, that was before
00:39:32.40\00:39:36.09
they closed it. They
closed it around 1998
00:39:36.12\00:39:41.01
for 12 years because
it was leaning so much,
00:39:41.04\00:39:44.91
and had become dangerous.
The tower wasn't leaning
00:39:44.94\00:39:48.19
because of a bad
design or poor workmanship,
00:39:48.22\00:39:51.84
the tower was leaning because it
was built on a poor foundation.
00:39:51.87\00:39:59.17
Listen to what the
servant of God says, she says:
00:39:59.20\00:40:01.77
"A virtuous character is the
foundation upon which to build"
00:40:01.80\00:40:08.08
"a happy home, but if
the foundation is gone,"
00:40:08.11\00:40:14.06
"the building is worthless. A
daughter who does not respect"
00:40:14.09\00:40:20.55
"her father, will
not respect her husband."
00:40:20.58\00:40:24.14
"A young boy who does
not respect his mother"
00:40:27.30\00:40:30.72
"will not respect his wife."
Children who honor their parents
00:40:30.75\00:40:36.30
are building on a sure
foundation, hallelujah,
00:40:36.33\00:40:41.39
the kind of foundation
that will not only last,
00:40:41.42\00:40:44.99
but give them the
basis for success in life.
00:40:45.02\00:40:49.26
My mother passed
away about 21 years ago.
00:40:49.29\00:40:53.60
There are days when I
wish she could have been around
00:40:54.74\00:40:58.76
to see the fruit of some of
what she has instilled into me.
00:40:58.79\00:41:06.62
Even today, I'm still trying
to honor my mother and my father
00:41:06.65\00:41:12.16
through my life,
through my ministry.
00:41:12.19\00:41:16.74
Even if your parents
are deceased, did you know
00:41:16.92\00:41:19.62
the best way you can honor
them is by living in such a way
00:41:19.65\00:41:23.17
that you don't
bring shame to their name,
00:41:23.20\00:41:26.45
shame to their memory.
You can still honor them,
00:41:26.48\00:41:29.43
you can still show honor
to your parents if you live
00:41:29.46\00:41:32.75
by the principles they
taught you in the word of God.
00:41:32.78\00:41:36.81
One of my dear
friends, Dr. Benjamin Carson,
00:41:36.84\00:41:39.11
I'm so inspired by the
way Dr. Carson takes care
00:41:39.14\00:41:42.73
of his mother.
00:41:42.76\00:41:45.26
It is not unusual when
Ben Carson would travel
00:41:46.57\00:41:49.88
that he takes his wife,
children, and his mother.
00:41:49.91\00:41:54.86
You know, that mother
who pushed him, and believed
00:41:55.36\00:41:57.74
in him when he
didn't believe in himself.
00:41:57.77\00:42:00.99
That mother who made him
hand in book reports to her
00:42:01.02\00:42:05.43
when he didn't know
that she couldn't read,
00:42:05.46\00:42:10.04
I believe the it
was Ben Carson's respect
00:42:10.07\00:42:13.64
for his mother that saved him.
00:42:13.67\00:42:17.35
Are you listening to me today?
00:42:18.12\00:42:21.04
President Garfield,
after taking the oath of office
00:42:21.07\00:42:23.57
at his inauguration, turned
around and kissed his parents.
00:42:23.60\00:42:28.60
You know, you're blessed
when you honor your parents
00:42:28.63\00:42:30.50
while they're still alive.
00:42:30.53\00:42:33.15
It was Oliver
Wendell Holmes who once asked
00:42:33.18\00:42:35.60
what the most important
factor in a man's success was,
00:42:35.63\00:42:38.60
and he answered:
"choosing the right parents."
00:42:38.63\00:42:42.63
You are blessed when
you've got the right parents,
00:42:42.66\00:42:46.31
parents are pivotal to a child's
success or failure in this world
00:42:46.34\00:42:51.60
Did you know that much
of what you become in life
00:42:52.22\00:42:55.11
depends on how you respond
to your parents' authority.
00:42:55.14\00:42:59.31
Maybe you've
paused to consider today
00:43:00.07\00:43:03.53
how much you
really owe your parents.
00:43:03.56\00:43:06.74
You didn't come
here by yourself, amen?
00:43:06.77\00:43:10.67
You are a candidate for eternity
because of your parents.
00:43:11.58\00:43:17.96
You have a chance to
live forever with God
00:43:19.00\00:43:24.14
because of your parents.
The clothes on your back,
00:43:24.17\00:43:28.21
the house you lived
in, the shelter you had,
00:43:28.24\00:43:30.83
the food you ate, I want to say
thank God for my parents today.
00:43:30.86\00:43:37.58
There is no wealth, no
technology, no internal assets
00:43:37.61\00:43:44.03
that can save us from
evil if we don't raise up
00:43:44.06\00:43:47.41
a generation of children
who understand the importance
00:43:47.44\00:43:51.53
of honoring their
parents. Now remember, lastly,
00:43:51.56\00:43:56.73
this commandment is the
only commandment to which
00:43:56.76\00:44:02.46
God has attached a
promise: "Honor thy father"
00:44:02.49\00:44:09.28
"and thy mother that thy
days may be long upon the land"
00:44:09.31\00:44:17.94
"that the Lord
thy God giveth thee."
00:44:17.97\00:44:20.28
I'm going to share with
you some research that was just
00:44:20.31\00:44:22.21
absolutely astounding to me.
In 1952 at Harvard University,
00:44:22.24\00:44:30.05
a professor by the
name of Dr. Stanley King
00:44:30.08\00:44:32.27
began a study
of 126 healthy men.
00:44:32.30\00:44:38.66
They asked these men how close
were they to their parents.
00:44:39.17\00:44:45.74
They asked these men if
they had a good relationship
00:44:46.00\00:44:50.26
with their parents. 35
years later they came back
00:44:50.29\00:44:56.60
and did a detailed
medical, psychological history
00:44:56.63\00:45:01.43
on these patients, and
here's what they found:
00:45:01.46\00:45:05.35
91% of the men who did
not have close relationships
00:45:05.38\00:45:11.40
with their mothers
developed serious diseases.
00:45:11.43\00:45:16.38
Only 45% who had good
relationships with their mothers
00:45:18.12\00:45:24.22
develop serious diseases.
00:45:24.25\00:45:27.26
82% who did not have good
relationships with their fathers
00:45:29.56\00:45:35.91
developed serious diseases,
but the most incredible thing
00:45:35.94\00:45:41.32
they found out was that
100% of the men who did not have
00:45:41.35\00:45:46.63
close relationships
with both, father and mother,
00:45:46.66\00:45:50.69
developed diseases.
00:45:50.72\00:45:53.60
So even science bears
out that obeying your parents
00:45:53.63\00:46:02.96
will boost your immune system.
00:46:02.99\00:46:06.35
Obeying your parents will give
you the benefit of the promise
00:46:08.73\00:46:13.92
of long life, not only in this
life, but in the life to come.
00:46:13.95\00:46:21.20
I was asking myself
how would I close and share
00:46:21.23\00:46:23.85
with young people the importance
of the 10 commandments?
00:46:23.88\00:46:28.69
They are a hedge, a
protection, but I want to say it
00:46:28.72\00:46:32.52
in a way that this
generation can understand.
00:46:32.55\00:46:36.11
We live in a generation
that speaks another language.
00:46:36.14\00:46:39.89
So some years ago I took
my computer that was infected
00:46:42.27\00:46:47.66
with a virus to be check out.
The first thing the technician
00:46:47.69\00:46:53.96
said to me was: "who
turned off your firewall?"
00:46:53.99\00:47:01.06
I said: "What's a
firewall?" [Audience laughs]
00:47:01.85\00:47:06.92
I didn't know
what a firewall was.
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Young people the 10 commandments
are a moral firewall
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and you can't live in a world
of evil without a firewall.
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The 10 commandments are a
firewall for God's people.
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If you dismiss them
as being irrelevant,
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there is no protection against
the evil that is in the world.
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Whether your
parents are living or dead,
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whether they were
good parents or not,
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today I want you to
make a commitment to honor
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your mother and your father.
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I want you to make a
commitment to teach children
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how to honor their
parents, and yes, to honor you,
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even Jesus kept this
commandment. When He was dying,
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Jesus stopped dying
on the cross long enough
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to provide for His
mother, He looked at His mother
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and said: "Mother, I've gone
with you as far as I can go,"
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"but now I place you in
the care of one I love."
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"I trust and I
respect my disciple John."
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We are living in an age when
too many of our young people
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are bold in sin. What do we do?
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We've got to
fight for our children.
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You didn't hear what I
said! We've got to fight
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for our
children. God has told us:
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"train up a child in
the way he should go,"
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"do the best you can,
leave the rest to Jesus."
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There is something that we
must do, we've got to fight
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for our children,
why? Because, did you know,
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that a child who is rebellious
will not be in the New Earth.
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A child who does not
obey their parents will not be
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in the New Earth,
why? Because God is saying:
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"If you can't respect and obey
your parents on this earth,"
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"I can't bring you to my
eternal kingdom, where you"
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"will disrespect Me forever."
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So God calls upon us to hold
a destiny of our children sacred
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and I'm here to tell you
today: fight for your children!
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Fight for their salvation!
Fight for your children!
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You mothers who set aside
your vocations and your careers
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to raise your
children, don't give up now.
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Fight for your children.
By the world's standards,
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your contribution may
seem ordinary, don't give up,
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fight for your children,
you never got a paycheck
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for raising your child,
but you did it because of love.
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Don't give up now,
fight for you child.
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Yes, you never got a promotion,
you never got a citation,
00:50:17.07\00:50:20.64
but don't give
up, God, through you,
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praise His name, and
through your prayers,
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God will bring
salvation to your children.
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Anybody here
today say praise God?
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[Audience replies] Praise God.
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Thank Him for this
commandment because without it
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we would not have obedience to
any of the other commandments.
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How many of you say: "I'm not
going to give up on my child?"
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"I'm going to
fight for my child."
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I want to put it all in
the hands of Jesus today
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because He's the one that
gives us the strength, amen?
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There's a song that I
want to share with you before
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we leave today. It says:
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"I would love to tell
you what I think of Jesus."
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"How I found in Him a
friend so strong and true."
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"I would tell you how He
changed my life completely."
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"He did something
no one else could do."
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I would love to tell
you what I think of Jesus,
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since I found in Him a
friend so strong and true.
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I would tell you how He
changed my life completely,
00:52:14.84\00:52:22.16
He did something that
no other friend could do.
00:52:22.19\00:52:30.15
No one ever cared
for me like Jesus.
00:52:30.40\00:52:38.16
There's no other
friend so kind as He.
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No one ever else could take
the sin and darkness from me.
00:52:45.92\00:52:54.49
O how much He cared for me.
00:52:54.52\00:53:01.56
All my life was full of
sin when Jesus found me,
00:53:05.95\00:53:13.02
all my life was
full of misery and woe,
00:53:13.05\00:53:20.00
Jesus placed His strong
and loving arms around me
00:53:20.03\00:53:27.57
and He led me in
the way I aught to go.
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No one ever cared
for me like Jesus,
00:53:35.57\00:53:42.01
there's no other
friend so kind as He.
00:53:42.04\00:53:48.04
No one else could take
the sin and darkness from me,
00:53:48.07\00:53:57.21
O how much He cared for me.
00:54:00.07\00:54:06.39
Everyday He comes to
me with new assurance,
00:54:31.17\00:54:37.85
more and more I
understand His words of love,
00:54:37.88\00:54:44.94
but I'll never know
just why He came to save me,
00:54:44.97\00:54:51.98
till one day I see
His blessed face of love.
00:54:52.01\00:54:59.67
No one ever cared
for me like Jesus,
00:54:59.70\00:55:07.08
there's no other
friend so kind as He.
00:55:07.11\00:55:14.25
No one else can take the
sin and darkness from me,
00:55:14.28\00:55:22.78
O how much He cared for me.
00:55:25.53\00:55:32.10
O how much He cared for me.
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How many of you know
God cares for your children?
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So now matter how hard it is,
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no matter how
difficult it has been,
00:56:23.25\00:56:25.98
don't give up on them
because God has prepared a crown
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for your child.
We praise the Lord
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for joining us through
His Holy Spirit's presence
00:56:37.10\00:56:41.77
in our worship today.
Have you been blessed?
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You've been blessed of God.
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We want to thank those
from all around the world
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who have been
listening to this service today.
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Anytime you're in the
Orlando area, we welcome you
00:56:56.08\00:57:00.69
to our church, praise His name,
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the Palm Bay SDA church.
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We leave you with this
song from our mass choir,
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and we're asking you,
keep praying for your children
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that they will learn to
honor God, Praise the Lord.
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