Participants: Wintley Phipps
Series Code: TCDM
Program Code: TCDM000008
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00:01 Jesus said: "If you love Me, keep my commandments."
00:05 Now people all over the world are turning back to God's 00:08 eternal moral law, claiming His promise to write them 00:12 in our hearts and our minds. Live from the Palm Bay, Florida, 00:16 3ABN presents 00:19 The 10 Commandments Weekend. 00:41 Good Morning, praise the Lord. 00:46 My name is Pastor Wintley Phipps 00:49 and I'm the Pastor of the Palm Bay, SDA church 00:52 in Palm Bay, Florida. It's a beautiful day 00:56 in Florida, and we welcome you to our worship service. 01:00 We are excited that today is 10 commandments Sabbath, 01:05 praise the Lord. 01:07 We are going to lift up the name of God today. 01:11 Palm Bay is a special church that God has anointed 01:13 and blessed, and we are so glad that you are 01:16 joining us today. As a member of the board 01:19 of 3ABN, we praise God for all that He has been doing 01:25 in 3ABN, and now, join us as we worship together, 01:30 "God is our refuge and our strength", 01:33 as you listen to the mass choir from the Palm Bay church. 05:19 [Audience Claps and says amen] 05:33 God is our refuge and our strength, amen? 05:38 Praise His name. 05:46 There's a song, a beautiful hymn, everywhere I go 05:51 across this country, people tell me: "You know, this is my" 05:55 "favorite hymn." And I want to share it with you, 05:59 praise the Lord. 06:42 When peace like a river, attendeth my way, 06:56 When sorrow like sea billows roll; 07:11 What ever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, 07:25 It is well, it is well with my soul. 07:40 It is well with my soul; 07:54 It is well, it is well, it is well with my soul. 08:21 And Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight, 08:33 The clouds be rolled back as a scroll, 08:42 The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend; 08:54 "Even so" it is well with my soul. 09:08 It is well with my soul; 09:21 It is well, It is well, it is well with my soul 09:53 It is well with my soul; 10:10 It is well, it is well, it is well with my soul. 10:43 Praise God. 10:48 Praise the Lord. Because of Jesus it is well. 10:53 - [Audience] Amen. - And we've come to give Him 10:54 glory today, will you sing that hymn, 10:57 remain seated, and just sing that hymn with me, 10:59 "To God be the Glory great things He hath done." 11:06 Praise His Holy name for He has done awesome and might things. 11:12 "To God be the Glory". 11:20 All lift your voices and sing it today, to God be all the glory. 11:26 To God be the glory great things He hath done, 11:34 So loved He the world that He gave us His Son, 11:42 who yielded His life an atonement for sin, 11:50 and open the life gate that all may go in. 11:58 Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, 12:02 Let the earth hear His voice; 12:06 Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, 12:10 Let the people rejoice; 12:14 O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, 12:22 and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. 12:33 Great things He hath taught us, great things He hath done, 12:41 and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son; 12:49 But purer, and higher, and greater will be 12:57 our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see. 13:06 Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, 13:10 Let the earth hear His voice; 13:15 Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, 13:19 Let the people rejoice; 13:23 O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, 13:32 and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. 13:49 Let us pray together. 13:52 Our Father in Heaven, we come before You this beautiful 13:55 Sabbath Day, we've come to praise Your holy name. 14:00 We bless Your name Father, for You are an awesome 14:03 and mighty God. As we open Your holy word, 14:07 cleanse me of all unrighteousness, 14:11 fill my life with Your Holy Spirit's presence and power. 14:15 Speak to me, through me, and for me, Lord, 14:19 and I'll promise You I'll always be careful to give You 14:23 the honor, the glory and the praise, in the name of Jesus 14:28 we pray, amen. 14:35 My message this morning comes from the 5th commandment. 14:42 Say it with me: "Honor thy father and thy mother" 14:49 "that thy days may be long upon the land the Lord thy God" 14:55 "giveth thee." Praise His holy name. 15:01 Come with me to the morning of the third day 15:05 of their encampment, when all Israel turned its eyes 15:11 towards Mount Sinai. Together they watched 15:18 and marveled as God unleashed in their presence 15:25 a magnificent and awesome display of His power. 15:31 They watched as God took an ordinary mountain, 15:37 draped it in sound and fury, 15:42 He took an ordinary mountain, 15:45 dressed it in drama and darkness. 15:50 Starting from the top of the mountain a thick, dense shadow 15:56 moved slowly downward, I hope you can see that this morning. 16:02 Soon, the whole mountain was wrapped in a curtain 16:07 of impenetrable darkness. High above the mountain 16:14 the people heard the sound of a celestial trumpet 16:19 summoning them to draw closer. 16:23 Moses turned his face to the base of that mountain 16:27 and he prepared his heart for the highest privilege 16:32 known to man, the most sacred privilege 16:36 known to man, the privilege of face to face, 16:41 heart to heart communion with the Creator of the universe. 16:49 As he drew closer, white flashes of lightning 16:54 shot out from the darkness, and sharp peels of thunder 16:58 echoed all about. 17:01 As God's presence descended upon that mountain, 17:06 the mountain began to shake like a tree shaking 17:12 in the wind, and if you don't believe that God can make 17:17 a mountain shake, there's a text in the book of Jeremiah 4:24, 17:25 where God says: "I beheld the mountains and lo," 17:31 "how they tremble." What an awesome God you serve. 17:37 He looks at a mountain and the mountain trembles. 17:42 You know the way your mamma used to look at you in church 17:48 made you tremble. 17:50 He looks at mountains and they tremble, and if mountains 17:55 tremble when God looks at them, can you imagine 17:59 what it's going to be like in the judgment day 18:03 when sinful men behold the full face of the undimmed glory 18:09 of God. You talk about weeping 18:12 and gnashing of teeth. 18:15 The people fell upon their faces, then suddenly 18:21 all was hushed; the thunder ceased, the lightning stopped, 18:28 and there was silence as though all nature were at rest, 18:34 as though a great storm had been stilled, 18:37 and then out of the darkness and mystery, 18:41 out of the shadows of the dimmer known, 18:45 the voice of God was heard speaking, saying: 18:51 "I am the Lord thy God who have brought you" 18:56 "out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." 19:01 "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me" 19:07 "for I am the Lord, and there is no other." 19:13 "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last," 19:19 "the beginning and the end." In Isaiah 44 God said: 19:24 "Is there a God besides Me? Ye, there is no God besides Me." 19:30 Here God is saying: "If there is another God, I don't him." 19:36 God is saying: "If there is another God," 19:39 "I've never met him. I've visited every planet," 19:43 "every star, I've visited the constellations of Centaurus" 19:47 "and Phoenix, and Cassiopeia, and Andromeda," 19:51 "and if there is another God, I've never met him," 19:55 "he has not shown himself to Me." 19:58 "I've traversed the Milky Way, I've vacationed" 20:02 "in the [Pyrenees], and as long as I am the potter" 20:06 "and you are the clay, as long as you are drawing life" 20:12 "from my inexhaustible supply, you shall have no other gods" 20:18 "before Me." Praise His name. 20:21 My glory will I not give to another, my praise, 20:26 neither will I give my praise to graven images. 20:29 Friends, out there on that mountain God spoke 20:32 the 10 commandments, not only to Israel, but to all humanity. 20:39 Out there on that mountain, God, with His own finger 20:43 of fire, engraved upon the tablets of stone 20:48 a transcript of His character. God laid before mankind 20:54 what would become the foundation of many generations. 20:59 On Mount Sinai God did not put before the world 21:02 10 suggestions, He did not give to the world 21:06 10 helpful perspectives, or 10 good ideas to order you life by. 21:13 This was no late night talk show top 10 count down. 21:18 Oh no, the 10 commandments are much more than that, 21:22 they are the moral laws of the universe. 21:26 They are the laws that govern and regulate our happiness, 21:30 they are the laws that ensure our freedom, 21:33 and condemn our behavior. 21:36 These 10 commandments are what, in modern parlance, 21:41 legal parlance can be referred to as 21:44 "settled law." 21:47 There's a legal concept called "settled law". 21:52 One day an old janitor who worked at a seminary 21:56 was reading the book of Revelation 21:58 and some of the young seminarians who had just taken 22:01 a course in the book of Revelation asked him 22:04 "Do you know what you're reading?" 22:06 And he said: "Yes." They said: "Do you understand" 22:09 "what you're reading?" He said: "Yes." 22:11 They said: "We went to school to understand this," 22:15 "what do you understand about the book of Revelation?" 22:18 That old janitor said: "I understand that in the end" 22:22 "He's going to win." [Audience laughs] 22:29 "God said it, I believe it, settles it for me." 22:37 This is settled law, hallelujah. 22:41 The 10 commandments, there is no opportunity for debate, 22:47 discussion, or compromise. David said in Psalm 119: 22:53 "Forever, O Lord, They word is settled in heaven." 22:58 The 10 commandments are settled law, they're not open 23:01 for discussion or revision, even Jesus said: 23:03 "Verily, I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away" 23:08 "not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law." 23:12 If it is settled in heaven, it aught to be settled law 23:15 in our hearts as well. [Audience] Amen. 23:18 The first 4 commandments require a man respect 23:23 for divine authority, Oh hallelujah. 23:28 Respect for divine sovereignty. We honor the obligations 23:33 of the first 4 commandments because of our respect 23:38 for divine authority. We keep the Sabbath holy 23:43 because of our respect for divine authority. 23:49 When people tell me that men have changed the Sabbath 23:52 in honor of the resurrection, I tell them: 23:57 "Suppose I lived next door to you and you went on vacation," 24:00 "and while you were gone I decided that your house" 24:03 "would look better pained purple and brown." 24:08 "So I went down to Home Depot and while you were gone" 24:11 "I painted your house purple in your honor..." 24:18 "...pink trim." 24:21 The truth is if I really wanted to honor you, 24:25 I would show my respect over your authority over your house 24:30 by leaving it just the way you painted it. 24:35 We show respect for divine authority when we leave 24:39 the commandments just the way God made them. 24:46 Obedience to God's commandments shows respect 24:50 for divine authority. Just as the first commandment 24:54 lays the foundation for the first 4 commandments, 24:57 and they together, those 4 commandments, lay the foundation 25:01 for our respect for divine authority, 25:04 likewise, the 5th commandment, the focus of my message today, 25:09 lays the foundation for our respect for parents 25:17 and our respect for all whom God has placed in authority 25:23 over us. 25:26 The 5th commandments says: "Honor thy father" 25:31 "and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land" 25:36 "which the Lord thy God giveth thee." 25:39 The 5th commandment lays the foundation for the remaining 25:44 6 commandments. 25:46 Those 6 commandments together lay the foundation 25:51 for our respect for others. 25:55 Somehow God knew that children who do not respect their parents 26:01 will not respect the rights, lives, and property of others. 26:08 If you disrespect your mother, you will disrespect other people 26:14 Disrespect of the 5th commandment lays the foundation 26:20 for the disrespect for all the other commandments. 26:25 People kill because they don't respect the lives of others. 26:30 People commit adultery because they don't respect 26:33 the sacred relationships of others. 26:37 People steal because they don't respect the property of others. 26:42 People lie because they don't respect the reputation 26:45 of others. People covet because they don't 26:48 respect the blessings God gives to other people. 26:54 Those are the people who pray: "Oh Lord, help my neighbors" 26:56 "to stop buying things I can't afford." [Audience laughs] 27:03 God gave us the 5th commandment because God knew 27:09 that a child who does not honor and respect his parents 27:13 will not honor or respect his teachers, his pastors, 27:19 his elders, not even the police. 27:25 There are many young people in jail today 27:28 all because they started with disrespect for the police. 27:34 Today, you have to have a special time of instruction 27:38 to teach your children how you talk to police. 27:42 There are many smart mouthed kids sitting in jail right now. 27:46 Parental authority forms the foundation for Godly character. 27:53 So the 5th commandments plays a pivotal role 27:58 in the advancement of God's kingdom. 28:01 You see, if the 5th commandment is disregarded, 28:04 or minimized, it makes it almost impossible 28:08 for all the other commandments to be respected. 28:13 The 5th commandment is the pipeline, the channel, 28:18 the conduit through which moral values flow to this generation 28:25 and to the next generation. The 5th commandment 28:28 is the foundation of the transmission of all other 28:33 values that you seek to impart to your children. 28:37 If we can't train children to respect parental authority, 28:41 we destroy the very foundation of the society, 28:46 the very foundation of the community, 28:49 and of the nation. 28:50 If you can't train children to respect parental authority, 28:55 there is no hope, are you with me today? 28:59 There is no hope for the family, there is no hope for the nation. 29:05 Violence against parents is on the rise. 29:10 You didn't hear me today, there was a time 29:13 when this was unheard of. God considered violence 29:17 and disrespect against parents so serious that in Bible times 29:22 it was considered a capital offence. 29:26 Disrespect for parental authority was something 29:30 you could lose your life over. 29:34 It is the foundation of a healthy community. 29:39 Years ago in New York city, true story, 29:43 they noticed a disturbing crack appear on the 42nd floor 29:48 of a high rise apartment building. 29:51 So the company that owned the building 29:53 send for the architect to investigate, 29:55 and the architect arrived and the manager heard 29:58 that he was in the building, and took the elevator 30:00 up to the 42nd floor, looked around and couldn't find him. 30:04 Someone told him, oh no, he's in the 6th basement, 30:08 6 floors down. 30:11 The man went down, took the elevator, and he found 30:14 the architect, he said: "What are you doing down here?" 30:17 "Our crack is on the 42nd floor." 30:20 The architect said: "Your crack may be on the 42 floor," 30:24 "but your problem is here at the foundation." 30:29 True story, as it turned out a security guard 30:33 who worked in the building wanted to build a garage 30:36 unto his house, and didn't have the money, 30:39 so every evening before leaving work, he would take the elevator 30:44 to the 6th basement, and chisel out a brick, put it in his bag, 30:52 and take it home, and after 5 years of doing that, 30:57 a crack appeared on the 42nd floor. 31:01 The foundation, brothers and sister, of a respectful, 31:04 moral society, is the 5th commandment. 31:09 Every time you do not restrain a child, you chisel out 31:15 a brick from the foundation of a safe and just society. 31:22 Every time you neglect to discipline a child, 31:26 you chisel out a brick from the foundation of a strong 31:29 and healthy nation. Every time you allow a child 31:33 to say: "I hate you!" without the appropriate response, 31:45 you chisel out a brick. Any time you let a child 31:50 put his finger in your face, you chisel out a brick 31:58 from the foundation of a moral society. 32:02 You know, when we were growing up you didn't think 32:04 of saying things children say to their parents today. 32:08 You know what's really funny is I used to hear old people 32:10 saying that, and now I find myself saying it. 32:15 I guess I'm getting old too. 32:18 But one of the signs that we are living in the last days 32:23 is that the Bible says children will be disobedient to parents, 32:27 unthankful, unholy. 32:31 Now, to be honest, I too, was a very creative kid. 32:38 [Audience laughs] 32:43 That's a nice way of saying I was a handful, 32:47 but I didn't say some of the things children say 32:50 to their parents today... 32:52 ...you know, the Bart Simpson generation? 32:56 Bart Simpson wouldn't have lasted long in my generation 33:00 growing up, calling your parents names and stuff. 33:05 I was one blessed child growing up because my mother 33:10 was time enough for me. Whenever I was not 33:17 where I was supposed to be my mother had an uncanny way 33:21 of showing up, like she could read my mind, 33:27 or she had an uncanny way of hearing about it. 33:30 My mother didn't need sophisticated eavesdropping 33:34 equipment, she had the Holy Ghost. 33:40 She didn't need fancy electronic surveillance, 33:44 she had the Lord on her side. 33:47 The Holy Ghost would tell her where I was, 33:50 she would even hear about stuff I did before I even got home, 33:55 and we didn't have a telephone. [Audience laughs] 34:03 Kind of reminds me of that mother who encountered her son 34:07 on the street one day when he should have been in school, 34:11 and she listened to his stammering, creative explanation 34:16 about why he was not in school when he was supposed to be 34:20 in school. When he stopped talking he saw 34:22 this puzzled look on his mother's face and he knew 34:26 she wasn't buying that cockamamie story of his, 34:30 and he said: "Mommy, don't you believe me?" 34:34 She said: "Now baby, I don't want to accuse you of lying," 34:37 "I'm just saying that in all of my life I have never heard" 34:42 "of school giving time off for good behavior." 34:46 [Audience laughs] "I've just never heard of it." 34:49 I think the reason I like that story is because it reminds me 34:52 of somebody I knew when... praise the Lord I'm not 34:56 what I used to be. 34:58 But I am comforted by the fact that none of us 35:02 were perfect kids, none of us. 35:09 A father of 5 children one day brought a toy home 35:14 and he called his kids together to ask which one 35:16 should have the toy, the gift, the present. 35:20 "Alright," said the father, "who is the most obedient?" 35:23 "Come on," he asked, "who never talks back to mother?" 35:28 "Come on, who does everything mother says?" 35:31 One little voice answered: "Daddy, we think you aught" 35:35 "to play with the toy because daddy," [Audience laughs] 35:39 "you're the only one who is always obedient to mom," 35:43 "and never talks back, and does everything she says." 35:49 You know, times are rough when the only perfect kid 35:51 in the house is dad. 35:56 To be a creative kid is one problem, 36:00 but a disrespectful kid... 36:04 If you allow disrespect from a child, 36:08 you are disrespecting God. This past week 36:16 Danny Shelton and his wife and I had a chance 36:19 to meet President Bush at the White House. 36:23 While at the event, I sat next to a well dressed, 36:28 successful, articulate woman, and she said to me 36:33 in a moment of personal candor, she said: 36:37 "My biggest failure in life has been the raising of my boys." 36:44 She said: "Just before coming here to the White House" 36:46 "I spoke to one of my boys who's an alcoholic," 36:51 "and I kept telling him, you have to give it to God," 36:55 "He's the only one who can change you." 36:57 Brothers and sisters, in trying to raise respectful children, 37:01 sometimes, I've got to be honest with you, 37:03 I tell the Lord: "It's not a fair fight" because as fast 37:08 as you make the deposits in the hearts and minds of children, 37:12 of common sense, and virtue, and character, 37:15 there is a degenerate culture making withdrawals, 37:19 faster than we're making deposits, 37:22 and kids from good homes, where you've got prayer 37:26 and Bible study, are becoming bankrupt all because 37:31 the Devil has been chiseling out a brick. 37:34 When my wife and I were building our first home, 37:37 we would stop by the building site every day, 37:40 just to check on how things were progressing. 37:43 I was particularly interested in watching them pour 37:46 the concrete. Pouring concrete is very hard 37:51 work, but very important work, because a solid foundation 37:59 has to be poured before you build anything else on it. 38:04 When the concrete is poured you've got to shape it 38:09 before it sets, are you with me today? 38:13 Because once it sets, you can only change it by 38:18 breaking it up, you've got to get a jackhammer 38:22 to break it up. And it's the same way 38:24 with children, teaching respect is like pouring a foundation. 38:32 Teaching respect if like pouring concrete, and you better 38:37 shape it when the child is young because once it sets 38:42 it's hard to break it up. God has to get a jack hammer 38:48 before He can change some of our children. 38:53 Oh, but when it's poured right, hallelujah, 38:58 and it sets a good foundation, will last a child a lifetime, 39:05 but if it's not done right you'll start to see structural 39:09 cracks and the walls will start to shift, and the floors 39:13 will start to buckle and sometimes the whole building 39:17 starts to lean with a little compromise here, 39:21 and a little compromise there. I'll never forget years ago 39:25 my family and I, my darling wife and I, 39:28 visited the Leaning Tower of Pisa. 39:32 We were able to climb to the top of it, that was before 39:36 they closed it. They closed it around 1998 39:41 for 12 years because it was leaning so much, 39:44 and had become dangerous. The tower wasn't leaning 39:48 because of a bad design or poor workmanship, 39:51 the tower was leaning because it was built on a poor foundation. 39:59 Listen to what the servant of God says, she says: 40:01 "A virtuous character is the foundation upon which to build" 40:08 "a happy home, but if the foundation is gone," 40:14 "the building is worthless. A daughter who does not respect" 40:20 "her father, will not respect her husband." 40:27 "A young boy who does not respect his mother" 40:30 "will not respect his wife." Children who honor their parents 40:36 are building on a sure foundation, hallelujah, 40:41 the kind of foundation that will not only last, 40:45 but give them the basis for success in life. 40:49 My mother passed away about 21 years ago. 40:54 There are days when I wish she could have been around 40:58 to see the fruit of some of what she has instilled into me. 41:06 Even today, I'm still trying to honor my mother and my father 41:12 through my life, through my ministry. 41:16 Even if your parents are deceased, did you know 41:19 the best way you can honor them is by living in such a way 41:23 that you don't bring shame to their name, 41:26 shame to their memory. You can still honor them, 41:29 you can still show honor to your parents if you live 41:32 by the principles they taught you in the word of God. 41:36 One of my dear friends, Dr. Benjamin Carson, 41:39 I'm so inspired by the way Dr. Carson takes care 41:42 of his mother. 41:46 It is not unusual when Ben Carson would travel 41:49 that he takes his wife, children, and his mother. 41:55 You know, that mother who pushed him, and believed 41:57 in him when he didn't believe in himself. 42:01 That mother who made him hand in book reports to her 42:05 when he didn't know that she couldn't read, 42:10 I believe the it was Ben Carson's respect 42:13 for his mother that saved him. 42:18 Are you listening to me today? 42:21 President Garfield, after taking the oath of office 42:23 at his inauguration, turned around and kissed his parents. 42:28 You know, you're blessed when you honor your parents 42:30 while they're still alive. 42:33 It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who once asked 42:35 what the most important factor in a man's success was, 42:38 and he answered: "choosing the right parents." 42:42 You are blessed when you've got the right parents, 42:46 parents are pivotal to a child's success or failure in this world 42:52 Did you know that much of what you become in life 42:55 depends on how you respond to your parents' authority. 43:00 Maybe you've paused to consider today 43:03 how much you really owe your parents. 43:06 You didn't come here by yourself, amen? 43:11 You are a candidate for eternity because of your parents. 43:19 You have a chance to live forever with God 43:24 because of your parents. The clothes on your back, 43:28 the house you lived in, the shelter you had, 43:30 the food you ate, I want to say thank God for my parents today. 43:37 There is no wealth, no technology, no internal assets 43:44 that can save us from evil if we don't raise up 43:47 a generation of children who understand the importance 43:51 of honoring their parents. Now remember, lastly, 43:56 this commandment is the only commandment to which 44:02 God has attached a promise: "Honor thy father" 44:09 "and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land" 44:17 "that the Lord thy God giveth thee." 44:20 I'm going to share with you some research that was just 44:22 absolutely astounding to me. In 1952 at Harvard University, 44:30 a professor by the name of Dr. Stanley King 44:32 began a study of 126 healthy men. 44:39 They asked these men how close were they to their parents. 44:46 They asked these men if they had a good relationship 44:50 with their parents. 35 years later they came back 44:56 and did a detailed medical, psychological history 45:01 on these patients, and here's what they found: 45:05 91% of the men who did not have close relationships 45:11 with their mothers developed serious diseases. 45:18 Only 45% who had good relationships with their mothers 45:24 develop serious diseases. 45:29 82% who did not have good relationships with their fathers 45:35 developed serious diseases, but the most incredible thing 45:41 they found out was that 100% of the men who did not have 45:46 close relationships with both, father and mother, 45:50 developed diseases. 45:53 So even science bears out that obeying your parents 46:02 will boost your immune system. 46:08 Obeying your parents will give you the benefit of the promise 46:13 of long life, not only in this life, but in the life to come. 46:21 I was asking myself how would I close and share 46:23 with young people the importance of the 10 commandments? 46:28 They are a hedge, a protection, but I want to say it 46:32 in a way that this generation can understand. 46:36 We live in a generation that speaks another language. 46:42 So some years ago I took my computer that was infected 46:47 with a virus to be check out. The first thing the technician 46:53 said to me was: "who turned off your firewall?" 47:01 I said: "What's a firewall?" [Audience laughs] 47:07 I didn't know what a firewall was. 47:10 Young people the 10 commandments are a moral firewall 47:19 and you can't live in a world of evil without a firewall. 47:27 The 10 commandments are a firewall for God's people. 47:32 If you dismiss them as being irrelevant, 47:35 there is no protection against the evil that is in the world. 47:39 Whether your parents are living or dead, 47:42 whether they were good parents or not, 47:44 today I want you to make a commitment to honor 47:48 your mother and your father. 47:52 I want you to make a commitment to teach children 47:57 how to honor their parents, and yes, to honor you, 48:03 even Jesus kept this commandment. When He was dying, 48:07 Jesus stopped dying on the cross long enough 48:11 to provide for His mother, He looked at His mother 48:13 and said: "Mother, I've gone with you as far as I can go," 48:18 "but now I place you in the care of one I love." 48:22 "I trust and I respect my disciple John." 48:27 We are living in an age when too many of our young people 48:30 are bold in sin. What do we do? 48:35 We've got to fight for our children. 48:40 You didn't hear what I said! We've got to fight 48:44 for our children. God has told us: 48:46 "train up a child in the way he should go," 48:50 "do the best you can, leave the rest to Jesus." 48:55 There is something that we must do, we've got to fight 48:59 for our children, why? Because, did you know, 49:02 that a child who is rebellious will not be in the New Earth. 49:08 A child who does not obey their parents will not be 49:14 in the New Earth, why? Because God is saying: 49:17 "If you can't respect and obey your parents on this earth," 49:22 "I can't bring you to my eternal kingdom, where you" 49:25 "will disrespect Me forever." 49:29 So God calls upon us to hold a destiny of our children sacred 49:34 and I'm here to tell you today: fight for your children! 49:39 Fight for their salvation! Fight for your children! 49:46 You mothers who set aside your vocations and your careers 49:50 to raise your children, don't give up now. 49:55 Fight for your children. By the world's standards, 49:59 your contribution may seem ordinary, don't give up, 50:04 fight for your children, you never got a paycheck 50:08 for raising your child, but you did it because of love. 50:13 Don't give up now, fight for you child. 50:17 Yes, you never got a promotion, you never got a citation, 50:20 but don't give up, God, through you, 50:25 praise His name, and through your prayers, 50:29 God will bring salvation to your children. 50:35 Anybody here today say praise God? 50:38 [Audience replies] Praise God. 50:39 Thank Him for this commandment because without it 50:46 we would not have obedience to any of the other commandments. 50:52 How many of you say: "I'm not going to give up on my child?" 51:01 "I'm going to fight for my child." 51:08 I want to put it all in the hands of Jesus today 51:11 because He's the one that gives us the strength, amen? 51:15 There's a song that I want to share with you before 51:17 we leave today. It says: 51:19 "I would love to tell you what I think of Jesus." 51:25 "How I found in Him a friend so strong and true." 51:31 "I would tell you how He changed my life completely." 51:35 "He did something no one else could do." 51:59 I would love to tell you what I think of Jesus, 52:07 since I found in Him a friend so strong and true. 52:14 I would tell you how He changed my life completely, 52:22 He did something that no other friend could do. 52:30 No one ever cared for me like Jesus. 52:38 There's no other friend so kind as He. 52:45 No one ever else could take the sin and darkness from me. 52:54 O how much He cared for me. 53:05 All my life was full of sin when Jesus found me, 53:13 all my life was full of misery and woe, 53:20 Jesus placed His strong and loving arms around me 53:27 and He led me in the way I aught to go. 53:35 No one ever cared for me like Jesus, 53:42 there's no other friend so kind as He. 53:48 No one else could take the sin and darkness from me, 54:00 O how much He cared for me. 54:31 Everyday He comes to me with new assurance, 54:37 more and more I understand His words of love, 54:44 but I'll never know just why He came to save me, 54:52 till one day I see His blessed face of love. 54:59 No one ever cared for me like Jesus, 55:07 there's no other friend so kind as He. 55:14 No one else can take the sin and darkness from me, 55:25 O how much He cared for me. 55:36 O how much He cared for me. 56:12 How many of you know God cares for your children? 56:19 So now matter how hard it is, 56:23 no matter how difficult it has been, 56:27 don't give up on them because God has prepared a crown 56:33 for your child. We praise the Lord 56:37 for joining us through His Holy Spirit's presence 56:41 in our worship today. Have you been blessed? 56:46 You've been blessed of God. 56:49 We want to thank those from all around the world 56:52 who have been listening to this service today. 56:56 Anytime you're in the Orlando area, we welcome you 57:00 to our church, praise His name, 57:04 the Palm Bay SDA church. 57:08 We leave you with this song from our mass choir, 57:12 and we're asking you, keep praying for your children 57:18 that they will learn to honor God, Praise the Lord. |
Revised 2014-12-17