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#277 Revival In Your Home: How to Raise Spirit‑Filled Families · The OneCry Podcast

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Speaker0: Let's just give life to our— to each other. Let's give
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Speaker0: life to people. The only way you can do that is if you're filled with
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Speaker0: the life of God and you're filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker1: Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide call
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Speaker1: for spiritual awakening. The goal: accelerating
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Speaker1: the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories,
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Speaker0: Well, Kyle Reno, here we are one more time.
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Speaker2: Let's do
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Speaker2: it.
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Speaker0: At the One Cry Podcast. I'm Bill Eliphant
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Speaker0: and my buddy Kyle is here and we have been talking
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Speaker0: for the last 3 weeks about having a
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Speaker0: revival in our home. How many of you would just raise your hand right where
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Speaker0: you are right now? I can see those hands. I see Kyle's and I see
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Speaker0: mine. But you just say, man, I need a
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Speaker0: revival in my home. And you've
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Speaker0: heard the phrase, Kyle, if mom ain't happy,
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Speaker0: nobody's happy. The truth of
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Speaker0: the matter is, if our home is not happy—
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Speaker2: That's right.
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Speaker0: If our home is not life-giving, everything's just miserable.
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Speaker2: Yeah,
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Speaker0: that's right. I mean, nothing seems to be of value if
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Speaker0: our home Is not life-giving.
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Speaker0: And so we need the life of God,
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Speaker0: the regeneration of God to come into
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Speaker0: our homes. And the beautiful thing is it can, and it's not as complicated
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Speaker0: as we think. This doesn't take 10
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Speaker0: years of counseling to get you where you need to go.
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Speaker0: That's right. And it It does take
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Speaker0: though some understanding of what God
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Speaker0: says and submission to it.
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Speaker2: That's right.
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Speaker0: So we've been talking
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Speaker0: about that, how to let the love of God rule and reign in
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Speaker0: your home, how to be filled with the Holy Spirit,
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Speaker0: and how to be a right husband and wife.
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Speaker0: Last time we looked at that and fulfill our roles
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Speaker0: in a proper way, but today Man,
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Speaker0: we're getting into it.
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Speaker2: Nitty-gritty, baby.
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Speaker0: This is the nitty-gritty about my role and yours
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Speaker0: as dads and moms and as kids.
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Speaker0: Yeah, it's so cool that God covers all of
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Speaker0: this.
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Speaker2: He does, bro.
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Speaker0: You know, he didn't leave a corner
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Speaker0: of that home, you know, a stone unturned.
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Speaker0: And so today, Kyle, talk to us about
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Speaker0: how to have revival Right there in our families with
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Speaker0: our children.
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Speaker2: Yeah, I just have a few things to set it up. We're gonna
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Speaker2: land in Ephesians 6 in a second if you're able to look at it,
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Speaker2: or you can go back to it later. But you got to remember, there's been
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Speaker2: a whole letter that has been written by the Holy Spirit through Paul,
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Speaker2: and you're going to get to the end of 6, and man, I've heard Bill
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Speaker2: talk about this so much. There's so much about spiritual warfare,
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Speaker2: and man, like you're in the middle of the fray in the fight. But then
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Speaker2: you get to the front part of Ephesians 6, and it's, it's about the relationship
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Speaker2: between Parents and their children. There's, there's strong commands
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Speaker2: to the children in this moment. And so you're going to
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Speaker2: get to— I'm about to talk about, rightly so, about children obey
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Speaker2: your parents, which every parent's like, hallelujah, that's it!
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Speaker2: That revival would happen right there if our kids would just obey their parents.
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Speaker2: Yeah. But I want to say something before that because the Spirit of God
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Speaker2: did this with me. Hey, Kyle, you know, if you arrive at
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Speaker2: chapter 6 as a parent let's just say that this is the,
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Speaker2: the life of a home, and you as a dad have
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Speaker2: lived the first 5 chapters. If you've lived that,
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Speaker2: then, then it sets the tone for the command
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Speaker2: for the children. So let me, let me make a statement.
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Speaker2: When parents display obedience
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Speaker2: as disciples, they are actually discipling their
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Speaker2: children toward obedience. I'm gonna say it again. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker2: When parents have displayed obedience, meaning like, if you
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Speaker2: went back just to Ephesians, that if you've been— we have been,
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Speaker2: by God's grace, the kind of parents that Ephesians 1,
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Speaker2: have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places.
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Speaker2: Like, if our children know that we know that we're chosen,
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Speaker2: we're adopted, that we're loved— that's all Ephesians 1—
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Speaker2: if our kids Have seen us receive from our
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Speaker2: Heavenly Father all these spiritual blessings, it fosters
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Speaker2: this revivalistic atmosphere in
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Speaker2: our home. If our kids— notice I'm starting with parents first because
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Speaker2: it should— if our kids have seen and know the testimony
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Speaker2: of their mom, of their dad, that we Ephesians 2
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Speaker2: have shared with them that, hey, we were once dead in our trespasses.
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Speaker2: Mm-hmm. And sin, that we by faith in Christ have
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Speaker2: been saved, given this gift. If they know that,
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Speaker2: it fosters that environment in our home.
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Speaker2: If they know Ephesians 3 is true for mom
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Speaker2: and dad, that, that we've bowed our knee, you know, before the Father,
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Speaker2: that we believe that our God can do immeasurably more
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Speaker2: than all that we can ask or think,
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Speaker2: it sets the environment for our home
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Speaker2: and for our children. You've heard me share the story of spiritual father
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Speaker2: in my life, uh, that he, he was in the early
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Speaker2: morning, knelt down praying, uh, in their
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Speaker2: living room. He had this practice that every morning he would get up,
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Speaker2: read his Bible, and he would just kneel and lean his head on the couch.
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Speaker2: And he heard the pitter-patter— their kids were young at this point—
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Speaker2: he heard the pitter-patter of their feet that they'd got up And he started
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Speaker2: to get up, and the Spirit of God said to him, don't move.
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Speaker2: So he just continued to pray, and he thought they'd went back to bed.
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Speaker2: And the next thing this dad sensed was the presence
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Speaker2: of his young son that knelt down beside him and put
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Speaker2: his— put his— whoo, come on now, get me crying.
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Speaker2: Yeah, which is Ephesians 3, I bow my knees before the Father.
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Speaker2: And one of the greatest gifts, parents, we can give our children is a
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Speaker2: living display of that kind of obedience
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Speaker2: personally, as those that have done it. Ephesians 4,
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Speaker2: parents, if we've been the kind of parents that have been eager to maintain
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Speaker2: the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace,
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Speaker2: if, if we're the kind of parents that are not gossips,
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Speaker2: that are not slanderers, That are not— that, that we are— we,
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Speaker2: we build people up. It's what we do. If we've been that kind of parent,
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Speaker2: man, it's— we've displayed obedience for
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Speaker2: our kid. Maybe some things that we'll end up correcting as a parent in our
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Speaker2: kids is, is something that we've displayed obedience, and personally
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Speaker2: it's paved the way. And then the last thing I'd say to us parents in
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Speaker2: this before we jump to the text in 6:1 is
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Speaker2: if, if, if we've been the kind of parents that have displayed in
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Speaker2: our marriage, like we talked about last week, Spirit-filled love and respect.
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Speaker2: All right, it, it brought about a safety and
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Speaker2: a security for our kids and created an environment for
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Speaker2: them to meet with God because they're not worried about mom and dad's
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Speaker2: love and respect for one another. They're not worried about those things now.
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Speaker2: They've had a proper display of the gospel and that,
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Speaker2: that we the Christ relationship, the church they've seen in
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Speaker2: their own home. So I'll say again, parents, it starts with us. When parents display
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Speaker2: obedience, it disciples their children toward obedience.
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Speaker2: Now with that said, revival in the home. Ephesians 6:1,
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Speaker2: children— and I doubt there's many kids that are just listening to the podcast
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Speaker2: today. If they are, you know, awesome, you know. Come on. But if
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Speaker2: not, this is something that we could sure share with them.
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Speaker2: And, and, and believe for them. I love the simplicity.
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Speaker2: It's— Bill, you know this, uh,
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Speaker2: I'm, I'm not gonna say anything too profound in
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Speaker2: the next few moments, but I love that it's— God's not trying
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Speaker2: to blow our minds with some eloquent thought. Right.
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Speaker2: But the simplicity of these statements will set
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Speaker2: the tone and position a family for revival.
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Speaker0: Children— let me pause right here and remind
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Speaker0: us, I'm almost 75. I'm still a child of my father.
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Speaker2: That's right, that's right.
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Speaker0: I'm still a child of my mother.
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Speaker2: Right.
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Speaker0: So this is for— even as you're talking
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Speaker0: to children,
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Speaker2: yeah,
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Speaker0: you're talking to all of us. Okay,
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Speaker0: go ahead.
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Speaker2: It says, children, obey your
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Speaker2: parents. That's where it starts. Obey your parents.
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Speaker2: Uh, here's something to recognize,
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Speaker2: that we live in an era where there's no longer
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Speaker2: clarity on what obedience looks like in the
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Speaker2: home.
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Speaker0: Hmm.
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Speaker2: And when that is true, it's to the detriment of our
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Speaker2: children's spiritual maturation and their maturity
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Speaker2: in just life. And, and so I remember vividly, Bill, you and
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Speaker2: Holly talking about this. One of our roles as
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Speaker2: the parents is to draw the lines for them, you know.
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Speaker2: Yeah. And if I will clarify
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Speaker2: where that line is, my children will rise or fall to it,
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Speaker2: but then I can parent them through that. Where there's a lack of
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Speaker2: clarity, where there's a lack of clarity is where there's confusion and
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Speaker2: chaos around that. And so here's what I say.
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Speaker2: a great way for us to parent in such a way that fosters an environment
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Speaker2: for a real move of God and revival. Children obey their parents
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Speaker2: when they hear what they say. They hear what
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Speaker2: their parents say and they do what they said. They hear
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Speaker2: what they say and they do what they said. It's pretty simple,
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Speaker2: right? But for parents, the responsibility is we need to make sure that
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Speaker2: we're saying something that they can hear and
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Speaker2: understand. And then, and then we have the responsibility to make
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Speaker2: sure they know if they obeyed it or not. If they're not— which is,
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Speaker2: hey, which is the beauty of God's word to us as his
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Speaker2: children. He don't want to leave— he don't want to leave it hazy.
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Speaker2: He wants to help us after fulfill it. Here it says, children, obey your
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Speaker2: parents. And then as it keeps going, in the Lord.
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Speaker2: In the Lord is a very interesting phrase here in verse
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Speaker2: 1, because to obey parents in the Lord is recognizing
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Speaker2: that there's a good order. is for a child to recognize that God has
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Speaker2: placed a parent in a role, in an authority
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Speaker2: that helps them align. And this is what
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Speaker2: I love right here. The next verse says,
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Speaker2: for this is right.
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Speaker2: This is right. So parents, I'm gonna help in this moment,
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Speaker2: in this atmosphere we're trying to create in my own home. I got 5 kids
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Speaker2: from, at this point right now, from 14 to 5 years old,
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Speaker2: 5 in between them. And anytime I can simplify what
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Speaker2: does it mean for them to obey their parents in
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Speaker2: the Lord, for this is right,
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Speaker2: is to help our children to know this simple thing: just
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Speaker2: do the next right thing.
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Speaker0: Hmm.
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Speaker2: Just do the next right thing. And here's
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Speaker2: the deal, is that it— that's the Christian life, is it not?
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Speaker2: To just do the next right thing. So I want to encourage our
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Speaker2: parents, instead of rehearsing all past
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Speaker2: failures— instead, aren't you glad God doesn't do that with us
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Speaker2: all the time? It's instead of coming to every moment
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Speaker2: with your child anticipating their next wrong move, why don't
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Speaker2: we encourage our children in an everyday way? This is revival. Just do
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Speaker2: the next right thing. What's the next right thing in alignment
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Speaker2: and obedience to the Lord? I love what Colossians 3:20 says: Children,
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Speaker2: obey your parents in everything. Why? For this
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Speaker2: pleases the Lord. This pleases the
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Speaker2: Lord. I've learned to do this, Bill, and I know you have too, with,
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Speaker2: with my kids, is to let them know that
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Speaker2: their obedience brings God pleasure.
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Speaker2: It brings God pleasure. So I'm giving you an illustration of this, if I won't
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Speaker2: cry on you. Uh, I'm, I'm proud of
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Speaker2: Cooper, my oldest son, 14.
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Speaker2: Adopted him when he was born, and I held,
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Speaker2: uh, when I held Cooper the first day of his life,
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Speaker2: Katie asked me a great question. She said,
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Speaker2: what do you feel right now in this moment? I told him
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Speaker2: first time, right? And, and I'm telling— and she didn't give me
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Speaker2: like that question beforehand, you know, for me to
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Speaker2: think about. But you know what came out of me, Bill? I said,
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Speaker2: I'm just so proud of him. And, and she
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Speaker2: said, what do you mean? Why are you proud of him? He said— he had—
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Speaker2: I said, I'm proud of him because he's mine.
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Speaker2: Because he's mine. Which is what the Lord feels for each
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Speaker2: of us. He's proud of us because we're his Kids. Now that's because
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Speaker2: he's mine. He carries my name,
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Speaker2: all those things. He's my son. But when I walked by a couple Saturdays
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Speaker2: ago and I walked by his room, and not because he's doing it for
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Speaker2: Dad to see, that, that Cooper's in there sitting with his
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Speaker2: Bible open and he's reading it just
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Speaker2: because he wants to know the Lord better, I'm proud of him because he's doing
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Speaker2: the next right thing. Okay, his obedience to
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Speaker2: the Lord brings me pleasure, brings me pleasure,
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Speaker2: because I know it's setting a trajectory for his life. I know you've had so
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Speaker2: many moments like that as a dad too.
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Speaker0: Yeah, so many.
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Speaker0: And, and, and, you know, uh,
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Speaker0: boy, fostering this in the home,
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Speaker0: it just doesn't happen. And I tell you why,
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Speaker0: because everything in the world is
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Speaker0: telling him he's a scumbag,
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Speaker0: God doesn't care, his, you know, his family doesn't care.
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Speaker0: We see it all around us. And combating that with
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Speaker0: the love of Christ, you know.
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Speaker2: Yeah.
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Speaker0: I had one of my sons that
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Speaker0: went through a season of rebellion, and God just
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Speaker0: brought him out of that. I love to see him,
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Speaker0: particularly when he's with other people,
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Speaker2: Right.
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Speaker0: And I walk
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Speaker0: up and say, hey, have you seen my son right here?
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Speaker0: He's my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased.
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Speaker2: Amen. Amen.
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Speaker0: There's something about that moment.
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Speaker0: I love to say it, and he needs to receive
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Speaker0: it.
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Speaker2: That's right.
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Speaker0: And, and so it's a beautiful— it's
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Speaker0: a beautiful thing that we're doing here, teaching them to
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Speaker0: live in that.
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Speaker2: Yeah, well, verse 2, just in light of revival
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Speaker2: in our home, specifically in our parenting, uh, and it says verse 2,
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Speaker2: honor your father and, and mother. You know,
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Speaker2: honor has no expiration date. You know,
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Speaker2: that's true for us, you know, at any age or stage
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Speaker2: of life. But, but setting that culture of honor in your home
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Speaker2: early really matters, really, really matters.
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Speaker2: And, and I think it's one of the most needed
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Speaker2: components to having a real move of God,
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Speaker2: to, to help your children understand. And I'll say
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Speaker2: this, that honor matters. That honor matters.
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Speaker2: Mm-hmm. And, and so parents, if we allow our children
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Speaker2: to dishonor— for me specifically, if I allow my children
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Speaker2: to dishonor their mom, I'm teaching—
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Speaker2: and, and in my house, there's a few things like
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Speaker2: No margin there. Yeah. No, no margin. You know,
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Speaker2: if you start— if you, if you verbally attack your mom, I'm, I'm gonna
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Speaker2: step in at that point. And if you dishonor her in any
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Speaker2: way, I'm gonna step in and I'm gonna call a hard stop on
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Speaker2: everything. And that, that's gonna— it's gonna demand for
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Speaker2: us to go a different direction, and I'm gonna make sure that we
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Speaker2: do that. But let me tell you why. In a lot of ways though,
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Speaker2: Because if we allow that to happen in our homes, it won't stop.
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Speaker2: It won't stop in our homes.
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Speaker0: Mm-mm.
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Speaker2: That,
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Speaker2: that they will learn to dishonor authorities everywhere.
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Speaker2: They'll dishonor the authority in the church.
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Speaker2: They'll dishonor authorities in, in those systems that God even has
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Speaker2: placed, maybe police or those in authority structures,
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Speaker2: a principal, a teacher. And that dishonor Anywhere
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Speaker2: promotes dishonor everywhere. Everywhere.
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Speaker0: And ultimately, Kyle, they'll dishonor God.
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Speaker2: Exactly.
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Speaker2: That's where we're heading.
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Speaker0: Yeah.
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Speaker2: And it will not go— as it goes on, that's why verse 3
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Speaker2: says this. You're so right, Bill. That it may go well with you and
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Speaker2: that you may live long in the land. What,
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Speaker2: what, what God is saying is if you get honor right get
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Speaker2: obedience right for kids, it's gonna
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Speaker2: go well. It promises— and I love this about our God— that
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Speaker2: God rewards right living.
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Speaker2: He rewards it. He blesses it. He blesses
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Speaker2: that obedience. He blesses with his presence, with his provision.
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Speaker2: He walks, he watches over us. And so
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Speaker2: I say this, if we want revival in our home, Parents, let's paint a better
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Speaker2: picture for our kids on the why behind obedience,
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Speaker2: on the why behind honoring, because God rewards
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Speaker2: that with his pleasure. He rewards
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Speaker2: that with his presence in their life. Now let me go to the last part
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Speaker2: of this in light of revival in our home. And fathers— man,
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Speaker2: this is where it lands— do not provoke your children
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Speaker2: to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and
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Speaker2: instruction of the Lord. I've heard Bill— I'm the wrong guy talking about
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Speaker2: this right now because I heard Bill preach this really, really well.
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Speaker2: I want to give us a few things that will remove the, even the opportunity
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Speaker2: for revival in our homes, how, how we can
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Speaker2: provoke our children. And it's for us parents to say
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Speaker2: and make adjustments. Let me say what provokes,
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Speaker2: uh, anger— it provokes anger in
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Speaker2: our children is judgmental speech.
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Speaker2: Is when we, when we, we prejudge our kids.
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Speaker2: When we don't— when we— hey, well, you're just— you always do
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Speaker2: this. You're always this way. When we,
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Speaker2: when we embarrass them. You know what I, what I,
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Speaker2: what I realized, even sometimes when my kids might be doing
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Speaker2: something that disappoints their action in it.
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Speaker2: Does it disappoint me because I'm concerned for how they're seeing
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Speaker2: things, or am I concerned about how I look?
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Speaker2: Is this, is this more about me than it even
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Speaker2: is about them? A way that we provoke our children to anger
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Speaker2: is comparison. It's comparison.
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Speaker2: Nobody wants to be compared, do you? I mean, like, you don't want to be
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Speaker2: measured continually by a sibling or another kid
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Speaker2: and whatever it may be. A way we provoke our kids to anger is unrealistic
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Speaker2: expectations. You know,
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Speaker2: that we— that I look at my kids and, Bill,
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Speaker2: they are light years ahead of where I was
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Speaker2: at their age by God's grace. And so, and yet
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Speaker2: if I set these expectations that are unrealistic,
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Speaker2: eventually they can become so discouraged. Yeah.
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Speaker2: Instead of embracing the fact that they're in process too. God is working,
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Speaker2: maturing, they're growing. I don't change, I don't move the line at
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Speaker2: all, but I also arrive there with some grace and understanding, like,
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Speaker2: hey, yeah, missed the mark there, big guy. Hey, let's talk
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Speaker2: about that. There's some consequences for those. Now keep going,
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Speaker2: keep going, keep moving in this. And, and,
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Speaker2: and we provoke our kids to anger with when we have conditional
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Speaker2: forgiveness. Conditional forgiveness.
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Speaker2: When our children realize that they've messed up— I want to encourage
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Speaker2: some parents here because there's extremes on both ends— when
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Speaker2: our children realize they've messed up, let them up off the mat.
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Speaker2: Don't just keep them down. Don't, don't, don't beat them into oblivion
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Speaker2: over past offenses. Like,
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Speaker2: walk with them through it. I love what Colossians 3:21 says,
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Speaker2: fathers, do not provoke your children lest they become
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Speaker2: discouraged. Discouraged.
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Speaker2: One of the primary— set the atmosphere for revival.
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Speaker2: One of the primary ways we do that is that parents,
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Speaker2: fathers, mothers, instead of discouraging—
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Speaker2: and you got to correct, you got to discipline, the wisdom, instruction of the
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Speaker2: Lord, all that's there— set the line. Make sure you hold to it,
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Speaker2: all those things. But also be the first person to put courage
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Speaker2: into your kids. Put courage into your kids. We got
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Speaker2: a practice in our home, Bill, is that, uh,
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Speaker2: we take some time now and we bless our siblings.
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Speaker2: And as mom and dad, and we just speak life over them.
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Speaker2: And man, they, they, they— when we started, they're like, oh, here we go again.
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Speaker2: I'm like, hey, I want you to just say one thing that you see in
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Speaker2: your sibling, you know, in your brother, your sister, like just encourage
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Speaker2: them. And I'm telling you, I don't care if we start there mad,
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Speaker2: like, oh, I'd rather go do something. By the end of it, every ear's tuned
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Speaker2: in, every heart's receptive.
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Speaker2: Because like you said earlier, when you say to
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Speaker2: your Son, this is my Son in whom I'm well pleased, is that everybody needs
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Speaker2: those words of blessing. One of the greatest examples of that is I knew a
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Speaker2: dad that we had— I spoke about some of this about a father's blessing.
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Speaker2: And I think I've shared this before here, but he heard it and he wanted
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Speaker2: to put it to practice. And he— they were going to a baseball
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Speaker2: tournament over the weekend, and they're riding a long ride. Kids are
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Speaker2: on the Kindles or iPads, and mom's messing with
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Speaker2: the phone. And he reached up and turned off the radio, and he's got— I
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Speaker2: love his courage in this. He said, guys, guys, put the iPads
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Speaker2: down for a second. Mom, would you help me do something. I, I want
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Speaker2: to just bless y'all. Of course, he'd never done anything like this.
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Speaker2: And, uh, they're looking at him like, you're gonna what? And he just spoke
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Speaker2: to his 2 sons. Hey, I see a strength in you. I see a creativity
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Speaker2: in you. I think, I think God's made you this way. And he
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Speaker2: just spoke a few words, and then mom chimed in, said a few things as
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Speaker2: well. And when it sort of played out, Kids sitting
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Speaker2: back there said, okay, can we play our games now? You know, so they went
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Speaker2: right back to it. And he's like, ah, didn't land, didn't make a difference.
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Speaker2: But he was obedient, right? The next weekend they're doing
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Speaker2: the same thing, going to play baseball. And about halfway to the
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Speaker2: place, I cry every time I say it. One of the
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Speaker2: boys leaned up in between the seats between mom and dad and said, hey,
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Speaker2: dad, can you speak some of those words again?
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Speaker2: Wow. And he came back to me and told me that Sunday, big tears
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Speaker2: in his eyes, he said, hey man, that works. That works.
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Speaker2: And I would, I would say to, uh, our listeners
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Speaker2: today, it works. It works.
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Speaker2: Instead of exasperating our children, let's encourage
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Speaker2: them. Let's, let's, let's build them up.
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Speaker2: And then it ends with verse 4, and bring them up in the discipline
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Speaker2: and the instruction. The discipline could be also translated
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Speaker2: training. Training makes somebody stronger,
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Speaker2: and listen, and it often hurts. There's a pain point inside
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Speaker2: of that training. The instruction is you teach them, you admonish them,
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Speaker2: you give them guardrails, and you let them know when they cross it.
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Speaker2: That you give them Jesus along this journey. Parenting— parents
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Speaker2: have to be willing to do the hard work of
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Speaker2: parenting. Have to be willing. Yes. And it ain't a
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Speaker2: seasonal, every once in a while. It's consistent. But when
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Speaker2: you get all that mixture by the power of the Holy Spirit
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Speaker2: in a home, in the relationship between children and a parent, it is positioning
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Speaker2: a home for revival.
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Speaker0: Yeah, you know,
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Speaker0: Kyle, I'm just sitting here thinking before
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Speaker0: we pray, I have the
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Speaker0: privilege of having a perspective now that I never had
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Speaker0: before, and it's twofold.
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Speaker0: Number one, I was a part of a
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Speaker0: wonderful home growing up with a great Spirit-filled
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Speaker0: mom, Spirit-filled dad, not perfect by any means,
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Speaker0: but they did this.
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Speaker2: Yeah.
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Speaker0: What you've
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Speaker0: talked about the last 2 weeks, they loved each other and they
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Speaker0: loved the Lord. We knew, my mom always
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Speaker0: said and dad said, the one thing we wanted our kids to know was
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Speaker0: that they loved Jesus more
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Speaker0: than they loved anything else.
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Speaker2: Yeah.
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Speaker0: And now I
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Speaker0: have raised my kids and they're all married
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Speaker0: and they have kids. And by the grace of God,
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Speaker0: they're all following the Lord and serving the Lord and
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Speaker0: all 8 of them. And I'm watching
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Speaker0: the fruit of that in a home. And I
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Speaker0: wanna just say, you know, you've talked about— I'm sitting here thinking, You've covered
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Speaker0: a lot of ground in the last 2 weeks.
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Speaker0: We've covered a lot of ground in the last 4 weeks,
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Speaker0: but the simplicity of it is this, be filled
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Speaker0: with the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker2: Yeah.
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Speaker0: Just be filled
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Speaker0: with the Holy Spirit and then do what the Spirit of God tells you to
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Speaker0: do. Just aggressively obey every
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Speaker0: single day. You're going to make mistakes.
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Speaker0: You're going to walk in the flesh some days. You're going
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Speaker0: to get off the path at times. But over the long
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Speaker0: haul of your life, there's going to be all these ups and downs,
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Speaker0: but you're just going to see the chart of that consistently
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Speaker0: walking with Christ. And I'm just telling you,
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Speaker0: like that daddy said to you— It works.
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Speaker2: It works.
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Speaker0: It just works. And,
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Speaker0: and you have a revived home. And something
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Speaker0: else I want to say before we pray is one time, I'll never forget this,
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Speaker0: Kyle, when you became the directional leader of
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Speaker0: the Summit Church here, I don't
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Speaker0: remember how you did this, but you, you did a whole session with
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Speaker0: our staff on let's just be a life-giving staff.
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Speaker0: Let's just give life to our To each other.
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Speaker0: Let's give life to people. Well, the only way
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Speaker0: you can do that is if you're filled with the life of God and
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Speaker0: you're filled with the Holy Spirit. But let's have life-giving
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Speaker0: homes.
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Speaker2: Amen.
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Speaker0: Let's just have life-giving homes.
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Speaker0: Give life to your children. Give life to
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Speaker0: your wife. And the only way you can do that is to be filled
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Speaker0: with the Spirit and do the next right thing. Just the next thing
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Speaker0: that he prompts you to do by the grace of God.
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Speaker0: So thanks for this, Kyle. What you shared with us today
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Speaker0: is so rich. And Kyle, why don't you pray this
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Speaker0: in? You're a dad that's right in the thick of it with 5
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Speaker0: kids.
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Speaker2: Yeah.
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Speaker0: And why don't you lead us to
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Speaker0: pray this in to be godly,
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Speaker0: Spirit-filled moms and dads and
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Speaker0: children?
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Speaker2: Yeah, come on. Well, let's do it. Let's— through
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Speaker2: the blood of Christ, veil's been torn.
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Speaker2: Let's walk into the throne room of grace and mercy
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Speaker2: where there's everything that we need.
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Speaker2: If you're a mom or a dad, grandparents,
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Speaker2: children, take a moment and just ask the Spirit
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Speaker2: of God to fill us fresh. To give
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Speaker2: us what we don't have naturally and need spiritually.
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Speaker2: Lord, glorify your name in the family, in the home of every
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Speaker2: listener today. Amen. I ask that you would fill us with your
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Speaker2: Spirit in such a way that we would parent in
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Speaker2: a way that Bill just said, Lord, that brings your
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Speaker2: life into our homes. The life of God emanating
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Speaker2: in every way, Lord God, that blesses children and
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Speaker2: children's children, that there'd be generational blessings
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Speaker2: that are poured out on the homes of every listener, and that we would lean
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Speaker2: in. I pray for the, the kids of the listeners that
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Speaker2: are represented here today, that Holy Spirit, you would do your
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Speaker2: work to teach them what it means to obey.
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Speaker2: because it is right, and to honor their father
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Speaker2: and mother. And in that, it would help them be prepared for the rest of
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Speaker2: their lives, for every area of their life, and that
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Speaker2: you reward that. So Lord, I thank you that you want to bring revival
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Speaker2: and you want to bring it to our homes. And so we ask for nothing
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Speaker2: less than that, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Speaker0: Amen.
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Speaker2: Amen. Man, it's been a fun, fun series,
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Speaker2: Revival at Home.
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Speaker0: It really has. And Kyle,
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Speaker0: we want to encourage people. I don't know anybody
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Speaker0: that doesn't need help with their home
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Speaker2: and
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Speaker0: that doesn't need
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Speaker0: to see some measure of fresh movement of God in
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Speaker0: their home. And so I know we say this every
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Speaker0: week, but it's such a small,
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Speaker0: easy thing to do.
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Speaker2: Right.
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Speaker0: To take these podcasts
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Speaker0: and make them available to somebody and just say,
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Speaker0: you know, as a parent with grown
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Speaker0: children, just say, hey, would you do me a favor? Would you just listen to
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Speaker0: these 4 podcasts for your home and give that to your
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Speaker0: son, your daughter, married, you know, unmarried, whatever,
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Speaker0: as they're preparing for life ahead? So spread
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Speaker0: revival.
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Speaker2: That's right.
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Speaker0: And get it out there
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Speaker0: to people that you love And let's see God extend
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Speaker0: His work in our day. Thank you so much for
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Speaker0: joining us. And every week we're trying to bring
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Speaker0: you the things that will help you and help us all glorify
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Speaker0: God by following Him and seeing fresh movement
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Speaker0: of God in our lives, our homes, our families, and our nation.
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Speaker0: And I know you're praying for that. We join you. Amen. God bless you.
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Speaker0: And we'll see you next time on One Cry.