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Billy Graham On Marriage · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: From our archives, the Billy Graham classics.
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  Speaker 2: Now tonight I want to talk on the subject of
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  Speaker 2: the home, how to save your.
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  Speaker 3: Marriage, how to have a happy home.
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  Speaker 2: Now, many of these servicemen here haven't gotten married yet,
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  Speaker 2: but they come from homes and they're looking forward someday
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  Speaker 2: to having a home. So you can listen with interest
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  Speaker 2: as well, because every man and every woman is interested
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  Speaker 2: in the home and the problems involved in the home today.
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  Speaker 2: And our text is found in Matthew the nineteenth chapter,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse three these words. The Pharisees also came
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  Speaker 2: unto him, tempting him and saying unto him, is it
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  Speaker 2: lawful for a man to.
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  Speaker 3: Put away his wife? For every cause?
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  Speaker 2: And the unset and said into them, have you not
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  Speaker 2: read that he which made them at the beginning made
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  Speaker 2: the male and female? And said, for this cause, shall
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  Speaker 2: a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave
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  Speaker 2: to his wife, And the twain shall be one flesh.
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  Speaker 2: Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh.
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  Speaker 3: What therefore God hath joined together?
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  Speaker 2: Let not man for asunder is your marriage successful?
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  Speaker 3: Is your home happy?
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  Speaker 2: Is your home free from tension that possesses so many homes? Today, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: is your home turmoil and strife? Why is it a
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  Speaker 2: broken home? Why is it a home about to break up?
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  Speaker 2: One out of every four American marriages breaks up. But
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  Speaker 2: during the last three years, the statistics are shooting up
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  Speaker 2: again after leveling off for about five years. And now
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  Speaker 2: the big thing is wife swapping. And a magazine said
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  Speaker 2: the other day several million couples in America practice wife swapping,
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  Speaker 2: searching for happiness. And because broken homes and divorce are
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  Speaker 2: now played up in so much of our mass media
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  Speaker 2: that we assume that most homes are unhappy, but that's
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  Speaker 2: not truth. I'm here to tell you tonight that the
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  Speaker 2: majority of the American homes stay together and they are
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  Speaker 2: happy homes. We only read about the bad ones, the
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  Speaker 2: broken ones, the ones with turmoil and strife. Nearly all
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  Speaker 2: of our domestic problems faced for the nation begin.
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  Speaker 3: In the home.
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  Speaker 2: We see on our screens, the riots, the crime. Where
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  Speaker 2: does it begin? Most of our sociologists and criminologists tell
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  Speaker 2: us it begins in the home. A nation can never
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  Speaker 2: rise higher than it's home life.
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  Speaker 3: And on a.
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  Speaker 2: Radio network last week, they had a study of crime
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  Speaker 2: in America and they said that the largest single contributor
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  Speaker 2: to murder is marital turbulous, bitterness, crime, alienation, and even war.
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  Speaker 3: Begins in the home.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the first thing that God did after creation was
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  Speaker 2: to establish the home.
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  Speaker 3: He said, it's not good that man should be alone.
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  Speaker 2: I will make an associate to help him.
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  Speaker 3: And God created the woman to help man.
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  Speaker 2: Before the government, before the church, before any other institution,
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  Speaker 2: he established the home. And yet today the home in
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  Speaker 2: our country is in danger. And the Bible says, if
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  Speaker 2: the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
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  Speaker 3: The home is the very foundation of our society.
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  Speaker 2: Our men are fighting in Vietnam. Many of you men
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  Speaker 2: that are sitting before me tonight will go to Vietnam
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  Speaker 2: to fight. I've been in Vietnam. I've seen something of
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  Speaker 2: the war there. You may have to fight on other
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  Speaker 2: battlefields on other continents.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but I know this.
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  Speaker 2: That we have a battle going on at home in
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  Speaker 2: America and it's being fought in the home. And if
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  Speaker 2: the enemy wins the battle in our homes to break
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  Speaker 2: our homes, we are not going to have anything worth
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  Speaker 2: fighting for. We've got to re establish the home as
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  Speaker 2: the basic unit of our society. And what are some
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  Speaker 2: of the elements in a successful and happy marriage. First,
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  Speaker 2: there must be a divinely ordered marriage. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: if a house is divided against itself, that house or
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  Speaker 2: that home cannot stand. The Bible says, be not unequally
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  Speaker 2: yoked together with unbelievers.
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  Speaker 3: Now this applies only to Christians.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a Christian, we are to marry another Christian.
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  Speaker 3: That's what that is said.
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  Speaker 2: And in the Old Testament God said to the people, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that there was such a heart in them, that they
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  Speaker 2: would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that
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  Speaker 2: it might be well with them and with their children,
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  Speaker 2: and that they might have happy homes forever. The fear
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord, in obedience to his plans and regulations
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  Speaker 2: for marriage, almost guarantees a successful marriage. And it must
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  Speaker 2: begin in courtship. Start dating the right girl or the
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  Speaker 2: right fellow. Have prayer together, you say, Billy, don't be
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  Speaker 2: such a square.
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  Speaker 3: You know, today we don't pray on dates. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: they don't even call them dates anymore. Why not pray
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  Speaker 3: if you're both Christians? Then, when you.
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  Speaker 2: Start talking seriously, how about asking God to lead into direction.
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  Speaker 2: So many marriages today on the basis of physical attraction
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  Speaker 2: rather than that inner beauty of character, because I want
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  Speaker 2: to tell you that physical attraction soon passes unless there's
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  Speaker 2: something to back it up with called Christian character.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it has to start in courtship.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know It's a very interesting thing that I
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  Speaker 2: was reading the other day, something that was almost unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: It said in this a survey was taken in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle West, and they could only find one divorce in
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  Speaker 2: four hundred homes where the family went to church regularly
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  Speaker 2: and where they read the Bible every day, and where
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  Speaker 2: they had prayer in the home every day.
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  Speaker 3: One divorce in four hundred. The national average is one
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  Speaker 3: in four.
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  Speaker 2: This indicates to me that if you go to church
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  Speaker 2: and read your Bible and pray and believe in Christ
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  Speaker 2: and our disciple of Christ, it's a guarantee, almost totally,
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  Speaker 2: a guarantee of.
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  Speaker 3: A completely successful marriage.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to me that our sociologist and psychiatrist and
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  Speaker 2: all of our family counselors would understand that one thing.
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  Speaker 2: And if you take a survey of America, you'll find
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  Speaker 2: that among those that go to church and pray and
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  Speaker 2: read their Bibles and live for Christ, divorce very rarely
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  Speaker 2: takes place, and sometimes it does, and sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: It may be necessary.
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  Speaker 2: The scripture says, in the fear of the Lord is
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  Speaker 2: strong confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
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  Speaker 2: A girl writing to a columnist signed her letter the
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  Speaker 2: other day wondering, and here's what she said. I know
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  Speaker 2: this sounds rather naive, but can you tell me how
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  Speaker 2: a girl decides on who she's going to marry? Do
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  Speaker 2: you know what the servant of Abraham said when he
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  Speaker 2: was going out to look for a wife for Isaac.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I being in the way the Lord led me.
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  Speaker 2: You give your life to Christ. Receive him as your
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  Speaker 2: Lord and savior. Put your life in his hand. Let
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  Speaker 2: him fill your heart. You will be in the way.
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  Speaker 2: God will lead you to the right girl or to
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  Speaker 2: the right fellow, and it'll be God's choice, because you see,
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  Speaker 2: God has someone picked out just for you. If you
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  Speaker 2: try to find that girl of that fella on your own,
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  Speaker 2: if you're gonna make a tragic mistake, you'll get less
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  Speaker 2: than God's best.
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  Speaker 3: Let Him help you in picking out the right person.
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  Speaker 2: Secondly, a successful marriage is one that is a daily
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  Speaker 2: fidelity to the marriage vow.
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  Speaker 3: You promise to be faithful till death do you part.
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  Speaker 2: The Scripture has put a fence around marriage, and God
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  Speaker 2: is said, thou shalalt not what is THO shall not
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  Speaker 2: commit adultery. The sex sin before marriage will break down
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  Speaker 2: your character and your ideals, and it will certainly jeopardize
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  Speaker 2: your future marriage.
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  Speaker 3: Put that down.
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  Speaker 2: Sex outside of marriage is a sin according to the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: not because God doesn't want you to have a good time.
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  Speaker 2: It's a sin because of what it does to you psychologically,
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  Speaker 2: what it does to your future marriage. And many of
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  Speaker 2: our sociologists and psychiatrists are now coming to say that
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  Speaker 2: that is true, the sense of guilt that it leaves,
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  Speaker 2: and especially among young women. But there are many other
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  Speaker 2: things that I won't go into tonight. But the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says thou shalt not commit adultery.
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  Speaker 3: And after your marriage and you.
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  Speaker 2: Commit this sin, the Bible says it's one of the
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  Speaker 2: seven deadly sins and one of the worst sins that
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  Speaker 2: you can commit before God.
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  Speaker 3: And the Bible says it hardens your heart toward God
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  Speaker 3: more than any other sin.
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  Speaker 2: If you live in that kind of a life, you
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  Speaker 2: can almost put it down, you're not going to come
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  Speaker 2: to Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Because you hearden your heart. It's possible to come to Christ.
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  Speaker 3: It's possible to come and ask his forgiveness, and he
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  Speaker 3: will forgive you.
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  Speaker 2: But your heart heartens, and it's hard for you to
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  Speaker 2: have a relationship to God. But if you tonight are
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  Speaker 2: willing to turn from that sin and give it up,
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  Speaker 2: willing to break off that relationship that God condemns. Christ
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  Speaker 2: died on the cross for your sins, and you can
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  Speaker 2: find forgiveness and you can put your wrecked life back
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  Speaker 2: together again with God's help. He will forgive you, and
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  Speaker 2: you can leave here as clean and as pure as
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  Speaker 2: though you had never committed a sin. But this sin
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  Speaker 2: was so terrible in God's sight that in the Old
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  Speaker 2: Testament he demanded the death penalty.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's very interesting to me that.
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  Speaker 2: In the Old Testament, when God laid out the laws
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  Speaker 2: of how society was to be regulated, there.
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  Speaker 3: Was capital punishment.
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  Speaker 2: And it's very interesting that capital punishment went to the
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  Speaker 2: man and the woman who was caught in the act
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  Speaker 2: of adultery. And God was shot wanting to show to
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  Speaker 2: the world how serious the marriage vow is, because you see,
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  Speaker 2: you take this vow before God.
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  Speaker 3: The Bible talks about eyes full of adultery.
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  Speaker 2: He then look at the bonne of woman, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: and has lust in his heart. He is already guilty,
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  Speaker 2: and Job said, I've made a covenant with my eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Why should I look upon a maid.
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  Speaker 2: Thirdly, a successful marriage not only has fidelity to the
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  Speaker 2: marriage vow, but it's also a daily family altar. That
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  Speaker 2: means having daily prayer. In Acts five, it says, and
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  Speaker 2: daily in every house they cease not to teach and
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  Speaker 2: preach Jesus Christ. The scripture continually talks about the church
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  Speaker 2: in the house.
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  Speaker 3: You had to have prayer in Bible reading in your home.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have it in your home?
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  Speaker 2: Do you say a blessing at the table before you eat?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a time when you get your family
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  Speaker 2: together for a few minutes and you read them a
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  Speaker 2: few verses and have a prayer. In our home, we
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  Speaker 2: have prayer and Bible reading. We make it very brief
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  Speaker 2: and very short. I've never had one of my children
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  Speaker 2: rebel so far, at least against devotions in the home,
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  Speaker 2: because we've tried to make it interesting. We've tried to
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  Speaker 2: make it brief. And if we ever have a ministry
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  Speaker 2: in and he prays too long, my little boy will
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  Speaker 2: remind him right in front of all of us, to
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  Speaker 2: our embarrassment, that it was a little long for the prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you've never had Bible reading in prayer in your
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  Speaker 2: home and you'd be a little embarrassed to talk to
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  Speaker 2: your wife about it or your husband about it, and
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  Speaker 2: you don't know how.
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  Speaker 3: To bring it up. It's sort of an embarrassing subject.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I've never understood that.
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  Speaker 2: Why it's embarrassing to talk about the King of Kings
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord of Lord? Is it embarrassing to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the Queen of England? Is it embarrassing to talk
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  Speaker 2: about some famous film star? Is it embarrassing to talk
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  Speaker 2: about some scientific discovery? Why is it embarrassing to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the creative the whole universe? And why are we
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  Speaker 2: timid about talking to him? We have the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: coming into his presence every day, into the Throne room,
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  Speaker 2: and it will do more to help solve your problems
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  Speaker 2: as a family, and yet we don't use that privilege.
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  Speaker 3: Why it has Satan.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow trapped us into thinking that crad doesn't count.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people wait until their children
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  Speaker 3: are grown are half drowned before they start trying to
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  Speaker 3: teach them anything, and then it's too late.
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  Speaker 2: Unless you have your child pretty well for the time
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  Speaker 2: he's five or six, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Almost too late.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, here a little there, a little precept
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  Speaker 2: upon precept, a little bit here, a little bit there.
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  Speaker 2: You can't wait till he gets to be about twelve
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  Speaker 2: or thirteen, and sudden they try to jam religion down
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  Speaker 2: his throat.
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  Speaker 3: It won't work.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to start when they're small, and do it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit over time. But you say, Billy, I've
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  Speaker 2: already been such a failure as a perry.
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  Speaker 3: Start now a.
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  Speaker 2: Little bit now, ask God to forgive you.
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  Speaker 3: In the past. Say oh God, I've been a failure.
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  Speaker 3: You please help me and forgive me. He will. And
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  Speaker 3: if you have.
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  Speaker 2: Since in your heart about it, and you really make
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  Speaker 2: a turn and a change tonight, I believe that God
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  Speaker 2: will help you with those children, no matter what age
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  Speaker 2: they are, you can start tonight. And then, fourthly, for
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  Speaker 2: a successful marriage, there must be a dedicated father and
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  Speaker 2: a husband, the scripture says, and the Lord said, for
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  Speaker 2: I know Abraham that he will command his children and
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  Speaker 2: his household after him, and they shall cheap the way
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be wonderful if God could say that about me?
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  Speaker 2: For I know Billy Graham that he will command his
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  Speaker 2: children and his household after him, and they shall keep
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  Speaker 2: the way of the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Wouldn't you like that to be said about you?
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says Moses was faithful in all his house.
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  Speaker 3: Now, sometimes that takes help from the wife.
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  Speaker 2: One man looked very depressed as he came out of
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  Speaker 2: his office after the first day with his new secretary,
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  Speaker 2: and he was asked why, and he replied that he
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  Speaker 2: had entrusted the hiring of a new secretary to his wife.
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  Speaker 3: Very interesting, replied his friend. Is she a blonde of brunette?
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  Speaker 3: She's falls snapped the man. But it takes a dedicated
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  Speaker 3: husband and father for a successful home.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible holds the man accountable and responsible.
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  Speaker 3: In our home.
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  Speaker 2: My wife has had to be father and mother, and
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  Speaker 2: she's done a magnificent job.
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  Speaker 3: I give her credit tonight.
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  Speaker 2: She's ridded them with a Bible in one hand and
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  Speaker 2: a hickory stick in the other, and.
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  Speaker 3: So far it's worked.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible talks about people in the church, and it
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  Speaker 2: says one that ruleth well his own house having his
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  Speaker 2: children in subjection. You know, we're developing in this country
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  Speaker 2: sort of a matriocal society.
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  Speaker 3: In certain segments of our society.
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  Speaker 2: Where the husband is failed, this is not the failure
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  Speaker 2: of the The wife has to take over.
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  Speaker 3: As almost in the case of.
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  Speaker 2: My home, because I've traveled so much, I'm thankful for
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  Speaker 2: a Christian wife who, in all humility has tried to
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  Speaker 2: build a place of husband and father and wife and mother.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a dangerous trend in a society when it
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  Speaker 2: becomes a matriocal society. Because God is ordained that the
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  Speaker 2: man shall be the head of the house, and a
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  Speaker 2: man is to be the bread winner in the family.
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  Speaker 2: This is a man's responsibility, and if the man is
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  Speaker 2: not meeting that responsibility, God is going.
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  Speaker 3: To hold him responsible. At the judgment.
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  Speaker 2: You say, well, I haven't been the right kind of
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  Speaker 2: a husband, and I haven't been the right kind of
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  Speaker 2: a father. What am I going to do? Get on
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  Speaker 2: your knees right now and ask God to forgive you,
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  Speaker 2: and determine from this moment on that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: live a new life. You're going to let Christ into
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  Speaker 2: your heart. You're going to ask him to forgive your
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  Speaker 2: sin and come into your life and make you the
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  Speaker 2: right kind of a husband and the right kind of
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  Speaker 2: a father. And then fifthly, to have a successful marriage,
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  Speaker 2: there must be a devoted wife and mother. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: let mothers first show piety at home, for that is
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  Speaker 2: good and acceptable before God. The Bible says women should
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  Speaker 2: guide the house and give none occasion to the adversary
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  Speaker 2: to speak reproachfully. And you know, sometimes on a television interview,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see a housewife that's being interviewed and they say,
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  Speaker 2: what do you do? She says, well, I'm just a housewife,
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  Speaker 2: sort of apologizing. I'm no star, I'm no glamour person.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just an ordinary housewife. What I want to say
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  Speaker 2: that to be a housewife and to be a mother
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  Speaker 2: is the greatest calling in the world. Now you men
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  Speaker 2: ought to applaud that because that is life. And then sixthly,
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  Speaker 2: there must be disciplined children. The apostle Paul said that
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  Speaker 2: one of the signs of the latter days will be
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  Speaker 2: disobedient to parents, and we see today disobedient children. Absalom
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  Speaker 2: was brought to the judgment of God in his later
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  Speaker 2: life because he dissobated his father, and in the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Testament, children were severely punished for rebelling
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  Speaker 2: against their parents. Now there's a strange teaching going on
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  Speaker 2: today that children naturally rebel against their parents at all.
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  Speaker 3: Children reach an age when they were against their parents.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you believe it. I never really.
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  Speaker 2: Felt rebellion against my parents in the sense we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about today. My wife says she never felt any rebellion
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  Speaker 2: against her parents, nothing but love and reverential fear of
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  Speaker 2: her parents, according to the Bible. And I've talked to
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of people asking them, did you rebel against your parents?
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  Speaker 3: They said, no, I didn't have time. I was working
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  Speaker 3: too hard.
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  Speaker 2: And then sixthly, I determined destiny. Get your house in order,
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  Speaker 2: the scripture says, is your own house in order? Have
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  Speaker 2: you made a decision for Christ? The scripture says, choose
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  Speaker 2: you this day whom you will serve. But it's for
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  Speaker 2: me and my house. We will serve the Lord. Believe
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  Speaker 2: on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved
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  Speaker 2: and thy house tonight. You can receive Christ, fathers, husbands,
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  Speaker 2: why lives, mothers, young people, children.
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  Speaker 3: You can receive Christ and.
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  Speaker 2: Go back your home tonight, forgiven of your mistakes and
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  Speaker 2: failures and sins of the past, walking with a renewed life,
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  Speaker 2: because Christ has died for you and risen again from
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  Speaker 2: the dead and offers all of you tonight forgiveness, reconciliation
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  Speaker 2: to God, and reconciliation to each other.
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  Speaker 3: Bill and Joanne Ying.
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  Speaker 2: Are a moment ago totals how Christ had come into
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  Speaker 2: their home and it changed their home and changed their lives.
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  Speaker 3: Christ can do the same for you if you'll let him.
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  Speaker 3: You say, but what do I have to do? First?
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  Speaker 2: You must repent of your sin. That means you're willing
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  Speaker 2: to say, Oh God, I've sinned. I'm willing to give
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  Speaker 2: up my sins. I'm willing to change my way of life.
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  Speaker 2: That's repentance. And secondly, by faith, you receive him as
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  Speaker 2: your savior. You cannot understand it intellectually all the way,
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  Speaker 2: but by faith you receiding and you're willing to go.
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  Speaker 3: Back and live a clean, hopesome life before God. Now
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  Speaker 3: this doesn't mean you'll be perfect.
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  Speaker 2: You'll still have pressures and problems of every kind, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: more than before.
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  Speaker 3: But God will be in your heart.
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  Speaker 2: He will be there to help you every day and
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  Speaker 2: every hour to do one of the greatest task He
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  Speaker 2: ever sunned us, to have our part in a home
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  Speaker 2: somewhere as a son, as a daughter, as a father's,
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  Speaker 2: a mother's, a husband and a wife.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you to receive him.
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  Speaker 2: Husband and wife can come together tonight, Whole families can
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  Speaker 2: come together.
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  Speaker 3: Service men, come and receive Christ as your Lord and.
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  Speaker 2: Your Savior, and leave this stadium tonight knowing that the
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  Speaker 2: past is forgiven and that you're going to start leading
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  Speaker 2: a new life, in a different life from tonight. All,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you to do something hard. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to ask you to get up out of your
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  Speaker 2: seat right now, hundreds of ye, get up out of
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  Speaker 2: your seat and come and stand in front of this
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  Speaker 2: platform and say, tonight, I receive Christ.
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  Speaker 3: You may be a member of the church. You may
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  Speaker 3: not be a member of any church.
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  Speaker 2: You may be Catholic or Protestant, or whatever you may be,
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  Speaker 2: but you need Christ in your heart.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you to come, and after you've
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  Speaker 3: all come and stood here, we're.
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  Speaker 2: Going to have a prayer and I'm going to say
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  Speaker 2: a word to you. We're going to give you some literature.
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  Speaker 2: Then you can go back and join your friends. If
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  Speaker 2: you're with friends or relatives, they'll wait on you. You get
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  Speaker 2: up and come. Why do I ask you to come forward?
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  Speaker 2: Because every person Jesus called in the New Testament he
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  Speaker 2: called publicly, just as when you got married, you said
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  Speaker 2: I will publicly. So you come to Christ tonight and
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  Speaker 2: say I will publicly.
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  Speaker 3: That settles it and seals it in your life. You
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  Speaker 3: get up and come.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to wait on you right now, quickly, from
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  Speaker 2: all over the stadium, hundreds of you. You may be
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  Speaker 2: a member of the choir, you may be a serviceman
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  Speaker 2: visiting wherever you're from.
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  Speaker 1: You can make that same commitment right where you are.
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  Speaker 1: Just pick up the phone and call the number you
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  Speaker 1: see on your screen. Special friends are waiting to talk
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  Speaker 1: with you and pray with you about this most important decision.
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  Speaker 2: Hundreds of people here in the Alamo Stadium in San Antonio,
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  Speaker 2: Texas are filing.
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  Speaker 3: Down in front of this platform from all.
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  Speaker 2: Over the stadium to make their commitment to Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: and ask him to forgive their sin and change their life.
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  Speaker 2: You can make that same commitment that had been watching
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  Speaker 2: by television in your home, in a bar in a
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  Speaker 2: hotel lobby, wherever you may be, you can say yes
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  Speaker 2: to Christ, ask him to come into your heart and
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  Speaker 2: cleanse you and make you a new person.
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  Speaker 3: I hope that you'll do it. God bless you.