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Voddie Baucham - Homeschooling How and Why · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So as I said, there are other connections as well,
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  Speaker 2: some of them in this part of the world. I'm currently, actually,
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  Speaker 2: when we were here in this area last year, last August,
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of a broader.
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  Speaker 1: UK tour that we were doing in August.
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  Speaker 2: We were en route moving from eastern Texas to the
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  Speaker 2: South of Zambia.
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  Speaker 1: So we moved to Zambia last August after that.
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  Speaker 2: The UK tour was over we were in the Manchester
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  Speaker 2: area then over in Northern Ireland and then down back
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  Speaker 2: to London again and from there we went on down
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  Speaker 2: to Osaka and we've lived there since the end of
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  Speaker 2: August where I'm currently serving as the Dean of Theological
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  Speaker 2: Education at African Christian University and also Dean of the
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  Speaker 2: Seminary which we will be starting shortly through the Reform
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  Speaker 2: Baptist Examiner.
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  Speaker 1: But I also have connections in this part of the world.
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  Speaker 2: People often ask me about my last name.
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  Speaker 1: It's Billy Baucom.
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  Speaker 2: And Baucom is a nice, wholesome German name. So it's connected.
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  Speaker 1: Not too far from here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not German, but the people who owned my family
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  Speaker 2: during slavery in the United States were German.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where we got our name from. But I
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  Speaker 1: also have a Scotch-Irish connection. You didn't know that, did you? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I have a Scotch-Irish connection.
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  Speaker 2: So I watched the movie Braveheart years ago, and I decided.
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  Speaker 1: When that movie was over that William.
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  Speaker 2: Wallace was my cousin. So there's a part of me somewhere, somehow,
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  Speaker 2: that's from school. And then also, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's finished yet, but I either have or am about
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  Speaker 2: to receive citizenship.
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  Speaker 1: In Northern Ireland. Yeah, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: First time I came, my family and I were in
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  Speaker 2: Northern Ireland for two weeks in March, and it didn't rain.
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  Speaker 1: Not one time. The whole time. And they said, this
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen. So we came
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  Speaker 1: back again without much of anything, and it just barely rang.
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  Speaker 1: The last time I was here during August, during that.
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  Speaker 2: Tour that we were doing, we were here again for
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  Speaker 2: about a week and a half on Northern Ireland, and
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  Speaker 2: it stopped ringing the day we got there. And so
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  Speaker 2: we were told, look, if this lasts a few more days,
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  Speaker 2: you know we're going to make you a citizen, right?
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to start.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that my citizenship in Northern Ireland is in
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  Speaker 2: the works because.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the week it did not rain. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: we love this part of the world very much.
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  Speaker 2: Last time that I was here was the first time
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  Speaker 2: we actually crossed the border into the Republic. And it's
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  Speaker 2: good to be thoroughly in the Republic of Ireland this time. So,
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  Speaker 2: been looking forward to this. I've been told that I'm
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  Speaker 2: not a scientist. Blimey stone? Maybe because I talk too
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  Speaker 2: much already.
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  Speaker 1: All right. In this session, we're dealing with Christ-centered education.
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  Speaker 2: The answer, the issue is the why and how of
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  Speaker 2: home education. And in this session, I want to give
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  Speaker 2: you a biblical theological framework, okay? As we do this, here's.
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  Speaker 1: Some useful websites. People always ask me about these. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to do it.
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  Speaker 2: If these, for those of you who have interest, votingbottom.org, acu-usa.com
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  Speaker 2: is the American version of the website for African Christian University. Sermonaudio.com,
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  Speaker 2: you can go find sermons there for homeschool price, which
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  Speaker 2: is free. And then Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, Instagram Voting Bee,
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  Speaker 2: if you guys are interested in Instagram. Right now, my
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  Speaker 2: Instagram is all about pictures of our first grandchild who
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  Speaker 2: was born June 6th. We just actually left from Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota where our oldest.
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  Speaker 1: Daughter and our son-in-law are there living with our first grandson.
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  Speaker 1: We have seven sons and two daughters and now we
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  Speaker 1: have a grandson. So, we're happy. So, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to see pictures of My grandbaby, don't go to
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  Speaker 1: my Instagram. Because he's all over there. Because he's the
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  Speaker 1: cutest baby in the history of the world. Alright.
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  Speaker 2: So, let's get started. Let's look at some trends. And
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  Speaker 2: in order to understand these trends, I want to share
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  Speaker 2: with you some trends from.
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  Speaker 1: My part of the world. From part of the world
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  Speaker 1: where we started homeschooling. Over in the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Where people think that things are so well established and
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  Speaker 2: and going so smoothly. By the way, my wife is
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  Speaker 2: here with me, but as you heard, we just got
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  Speaker 2: off the plane this morning around 11, and she said
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  Speaker 2: she was going to close her eyes for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Before coming, and you.
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  Speaker 2: See how that ended up. So I'll let her sleep.
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  Speaker 2: She'll probably sleep all the way into the morning, and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll come in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: But here's something that we see. And as far as
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  Speaker 2: home education goes, we didn't start.
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  Speaker 1: Out as home educators. My wife has an education degree.
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  Speaker 1: She was a teacher.
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  Speaker 2: And it's always interesting when people find out they're homeschoolers
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  Speaker 2: and then they find out that she was a schoolteacher.
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  Speaker 2: Because they just assume, oh, wow, that's like great preparation
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  Speaker 2: for being a homeschool mom.
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  Speaker 1: She just, no. No, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: I had to unlearn almost everything I was taught in
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  Speaker 2: order to be a homeschool mom.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing was, she was dead set against home education.
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  Speaker 2: She had been brainwashed against home education. An education degree
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  Speaker 2: comes with a bunch of other degrees that they don't
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  Speaker 2: tell you, right?
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  Speaker 1: And one of them is a degree in Marxist theory
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  Speaker 1: of education.
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  Speaker 2: And the Marxist theory of education says that children belong
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  Speaker 2: to the state, not to the family. It is the
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  Speaker 2: state's duty and obligation to take those children from you.
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  Speaker 1: And educate them, okay? And there is something.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong, something inherently wrong, something inherently sinister about people who
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  Speaker 2: will not.
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  Speaker 1: Give their children to the state to be educated.
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  Speaker 2: Or at least to a private school that will brag
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  Speaker 2: that they have teachers who are certified by... That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Don't send your children to the state for their education.
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  Speaker 2: Send them to us where all of our teachers have
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  Speaker 2: the same training.
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  Speaker 1: As the teachers of... Hmm? So, but she was a
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  Speaker 1: public school.
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  Speaker 2: Teacher, so public school was not an option from the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: In the U.S., public school teachers are twice as likely
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  Speaker 2: as the population as a whole not to put their
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  Speaker 2: children in public school. Two times the rate of the population.
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  Speaker 2: in general, better, because they know better. So our children
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  Speaker 2: started at a private Christian school.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually, we became home educators, because we had some.
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  Speaker 2: Home educators at our church. We didn't know anything about homeschooling.
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  Speaker 2: We asked all the questions that people ask, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what about socialization? Where do you get your curriculum?
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  Speaker 1: Is it legal?
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  Speaker 2: Who do you report to? Just all that sort of stuff, right?
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  Speaker 2: We asked all those same questions when we met these people.
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  Speaker 2: We had never met homeschoolers before. And so that's when
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  Speaker 2: I began to read and research, and I was all in.
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  Speaker 2: It took about a year and a half to bring
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  Speaker 2: Bridget along, but eventually she came along. And at first
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  Speaker 2: we started doing at home what she had learned to
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  Speaker 2: do in the classroom, and after a short while of
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  Speaker 2: doing that, we realized that we had to have a
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  Speaker 2: completely philosophical and theological overhaul. Home education is not about
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  Speaker 2: doing the same.
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  Speaker 1: Thing in a different location. It's a different animal altogether.
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  Speaker 1: Oftentimes it takes a while to figure this out. I
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  Speaker 1: want to help you today with that. So what are
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  Speaker 1: we seeing?
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  Speaker 2: We're seeing homeschool families abandoning home education in the United
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  Speaker 2: States in alarming numbers. We're also seeing homeschool children graduating without.
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  Speaker 1: A vision or commitment to home education.
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  Speaker 2: So homeschool children go through their homeschooling, ask them about
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  Speaker 2: their children, and they're like, eh, well, maybe. Maybe we will,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we won't. Why are we seeing families jumping ship? First,
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  Speaker 2: strained marriages that cannot sustain a long-term commitment to home education.
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  Speaker 2: That's number one. We're seeing people abandon home education because
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  Speaker 2: their marriage can't take it anymore. I'm so glad you
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  Speaker 2: heard our brother come and talk about that. Just a
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  Speaker 2: few moments of thank you for that. Please listen to
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  Speaker 2: what he said. I'll say more about it later. But
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  Speaker 2: this is very important. See, we have a tendency in
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  Speaker 2: the West already to have child-centric homes.
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  Speaker 1: The marriage is no longer the focus. In fact.
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  Speaker 2: tell me if this sounds familiar you have a couple
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  Speaker 2: and they get married and then they have a discussion about.
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  Speaker 1: Whether or not they want to start a family that's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Having a child is not starting a family it's expanding
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  Speaker 2: a family when you got married you became.
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  Speaker 1: A family.
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  Speaker 2: And we say that because we actually believe that. And
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  Speaker 2: this child-centric world that.
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  Speaker 1: We live in, where we want to give.
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  Speaker 2: Our children everything, our children come into our world and
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  Speaker 2: we center our entire.
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  Speaker 1: Universe around them.
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  Speaker 2: And home education is often an excuse to do that
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  Speaker 2: to an entirely different degree.
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  Speaker 1: And so now they become our everything.
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  Speaker 2: And when we get finished educating our children, they leave
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  Speaker 2: We look at our spouse and say, who are you?
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  Speaker 2: Because we haven't had a marriage in 20 years. Everything
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  Speaker 2: we had and everything.
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  Speaker 1: We were was those children. And now they're gone and
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  Speaker 1: we've got nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And for some people, this happens before the children. For
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  Speaker 2: some people, this strain is too much to bear just
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  Speaker 2: a few years in.
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  Speaker 1: For some people, it's a fight. every year to home educate.
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  Speaker 1: They're not in the same package. They're not a team.
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  Speaker 2: And so we see people leaving because of that. Secondly,
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  Speaker 2: a commitment to the God of sport. A commitment to
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  Speaker 2: the God of sport. We would homeschool, but our kids
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  Speaker 2: are very talented and they have an opportunity to make
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not going to do this anymore. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to send them to.
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  Speaker 2: The place where our true worship can be expressed more fully.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't say amen, don't say out. Okay? Thirdly, deception.
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  Speaker 1: The AP, advanced placement courses.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we were okay, you know, down in
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  Speaker 2: those lower grades, but now they're up in the higher
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  Speaker 2: grades and they need some advanced placement courses so they
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  Speaker 2: can get ready.
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  Speaker 1: For college, so we'll send more of the children to worship.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, many states.
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  Speaker 2: In the United States are, they're catching on, so here's
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They have a program that looks like this.
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  Speaker 2: They'll say, hey, you know, it's a carrot and stick approach.
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  Speaker 2: So the stick is the state government. And the state
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  Speaker 2: government says, you have to provide us with these records,
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  Speaker 2: these records, and these records, and you have to prove
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  Speaker 2: that you're doing this, this, and this.
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  Speaker 1: And homeschool mom was pulling her hair out because she's like.
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  Speaker 2: I just, I don't even know if I got, how
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  Speaker 2: do you do that? Where do I find that? You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's more to do. Well, now, here's the carrot. The
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  Speaker 2: carrot is the school district that says, hey, we'll give
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  Speaker 2: you records for you. In fact, we'll give you curriculum.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll give you a laptop.
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  Speaker 1: I'm set aside here. Now, here's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: You see, school districts receive government funding on a per-child basis.
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  Speaker 2: With this program, they get to control your curriculum.
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  Speaker 1: They get to count your child.
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  Speaker 2: They get a kickback from the state, and you get
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  Speaker 2: your 30 pieces of silver in the form of a laptop.
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  Speaker 2: And the next thing you know, you're no longer in
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  Speaker 2: control of your child's education.
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  Speaker 1: Someone else is. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: So this is another reason that we see people Unconvinced children.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that second piece of the puzzle? The children who say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to do this with my kids.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Number one, because of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy. They see hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: It's an amazing thing that happens when you become a
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  Speaker 1: homeschool dad.
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  Speaker 2: Sin becomes harder to sin. Both your children sinned And
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  Speaker 2: your own. Your children seem to confirm that because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they go off to the school and they come back
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  Speaker 2: with these glowing reports. Every once in a while, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's somebody who has a problem and you've got to
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  Speaker 2: come in and talk about this idea. But for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, most kids get glowing reports.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's a wonderful child. She's a wonderful girl.
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  Speaker 2: And you just, you know, you get stickers to put
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  Speaker 2: on your car and all this sort of thing. And
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  Speaker 2: you just think everything, everything's pretty. Then you bring them
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  Speaker 2: home and you see their sin. It's there with you
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  Speaker 2: all the time. And you realize your child's a bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Sinner than you thought. And then you get frustrated with
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  Speaker 1: them and you realize you're a bigger sinner than you thought. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So it exposes that. And we can even deal with
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  Speaker 1: that honestly. Like we heard earlier.
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  Speaker 2: That can even drive us to the cross where we
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  Speaker 2: deal with it honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Or we can deal with it as hypocrites.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, all too often, this is what happens. Homeschool parents,
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  Speaker 2: homeschool mom, I've often homeschooled mom. Homeschool mom cracks the
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  Speaker 2: whip on the kid's sin and never acknowledges her own.
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  Speaker 2: And the kids see that as hypocrisy and they want
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: Secondly, legalism. Legalism. The homeschool movement is rife with legalism.
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  Speaker 1: To a sickening degree.
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  Speaker 2: It's rife with legalism. Because that's a lot easier. Because
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  Speaker 2: here's what happens. As parents, many of us are recipe parents.
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  Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is we have this
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  Speaker 2: idea that raising children is like baking a cake.
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  Speaker 1: And if you just find the right ingredients and you.
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  Speaker 2: Put them together in the right balance, then you can
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  Speaker 2: guarantee the outcome, right?
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  Speaker 1: And most of us wouldn't say this up front. We
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't admit to being recipe parents. But here's how you know.
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  Speaker 2: Something happens and, you know, you have some children and
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  Speaker 2: several children go off and they do well. And then
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  Speaker 2: you have one that derails. And you come and you say, I.
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  Speaker 1: Just don't know what happened. We did everything that we
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  Speaker 1: knew how to do. I don't know what we did
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  Speaker 1: with this one. Stop, time out.
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  Speaker 2: Because here's what you just said, homeschool mom, homeschool dad.
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  Speaker 2: You just said those children are doing well because of
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  Speaker 2: what we did. This child's not doing well because obviously
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  Speaker 2: we missed a step.
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  Speaker 1: Because we determined the spiritual outcome of our children's lives.
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  Speaker 2: We control that. That's recipe parenting. And here's what recipe
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  Speaker 2: parenting does to you on the front.
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  Speaker 1: End of homeschooling.
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  Speaker 2: When you're not admitting that you're a recipe parent, you
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  Speaker 2: look at curriculum like this.
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  Speaker 1: What's the matter? I just don't know which one. I
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  Speaker 1: can't just pick one. Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because if the recipe's not right, I'll mess up the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Because everything depends on me. Again, if you can't say amen,
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  Speaker 1: you ought to say out. You know I'm telling the truth, right?
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  Speaker 2: And we don't admit this, we don't see this, but
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  Speaker 2: that's what it is. It's recipe parenting, okay? Or if
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  Speaker 2: it's not recipe.
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  Speaker 1: Parenting, it's reputation parenting. Reputation parenting is a little different.
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  Speaker 2: With reputation parenting, our goal with our children is is
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  Speaker 2: for our children to perform, to behave in such a
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  Speaker 2: way that they don't embarrass us.
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  Speaker 1: And so, we find a family.
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  Speaker 2: Whose children look orderly, and they dress nicely, and they
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  Speaker 2: walk in a straight line, and they speak matterably, and
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  Speaker 2: we go, what'd you guys use?
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  Speaker 1: We know nothing about your child's education. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: can be as dumb as a post.
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  Speaker 2: But they look shiny on the outside and that's all
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  Speaker 2: we care about.
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  Speaker 1: What did you use? Because that's what I want. Shiny
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  Speaker 1: on the outside.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus referred to that as polishing the outside of the cup.
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  Speaker 1: This was his accusation against the Pharisees. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to be recipe parents. We don't want
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  Speaker 2: to be reputation parents. We want to be redemption parents. Amen?
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  Speaker 2: My children are utterly dependent on the cross.
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  Speaker 1: And whatever I give to my children, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be in that way.
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  Speaker 2: And any of my children who end up walking with God,
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  Speaker 2: my response will be to fall on my face before
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  Speaker 2: a holy God and to thank him for.
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  Speaker 1: His mercy and his grace.
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  Speaker 2: Not to tip my hat because he gave me what
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  Speaker 2: he owed me because I got the recipe right.
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  Speaker 1: You see the difference? Please hear this. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: hear anything else this weekend, hear this.
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  Speaker 2: Because there are a lot of us in this room
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  Speaker 2: and we're trapped in one of those first two rooms. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: It is the natural tendency. Alright?
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  Speaker 2: I can tell.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell because of the questions that you ask.
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  Speaker 1: I listen to you ladies ask my wife questions.
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  Speaker 2: And your questions are some form of give me a
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  Speaker 2: paint by numbers Way to deal with X. Tell me
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  Speaker 2: step by step what to do to fix this because
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  Speaker 2: you're a child of a.
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  Speaker 1: Witch and not a person. Enough. Okay? Enough. Some of
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  Speaker 1: y'all already don't like me. I'm just getting started. Alright. Worldliness. Worldliness.
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  Speaker 1: Worldliness is the third one. Worldliness? No, we're not now.
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  Speaker 2: Those other two things, maybe. But this worldliness thing, no.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: He's talking about somebody else now, right?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: That's not us. Yes, it is. Yes, it is.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: All I have to do is find somebody who doesn't
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: like homeschooling and sit them in front of you. And
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: your worldliness will come out.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: They don't like homeschooling, so what will you do?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: You'll say, well, you know, actually, homeschoolers outperform other people
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: academically and they get a better education.
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  Speaker 1: What about socialization? Well, my kid's involved in this, this, this, this,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and this. Truth be told, I'm running ragged. My life
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: is completely out of balance because of my kid's social life.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: That's worldliness. In other words, some worldling comes to you
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and says, I don't like what you're doing. because it's
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: not worldly enough, and your response is, I'm as worldly
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: as you are when it comes to my child's education.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Hmm? Some of y'all are going to make it stop. No! Lastly,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a lack of vision. These kids just don't have a vision.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: They don't know. They just don't. I can't tell you
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: how many times I've talked to homeschool parents at conferences,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: You know, and they're like, yeah, we're doing it this semester.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing it this year. Next year, I don't know.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: You know, but you know, right now we're doing it.
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  Speaker 2: No big picture.
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  Speaker 1: No vision. No biblical theological framework as to.
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  Speaker 2: Why it is we're doing what we're doing. And if
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: you're not giving your children.
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  Speaker 1: A vision for this, then they're not going to have
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: a vision for what they're doing. Two problems. Number one,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the what without the why. We're doing this thing, but
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: we don't know why we're doing it. Number two, the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: wrong why.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: We have the wrong motivations. Those are the two main problems.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: When we talk about the what without the why, Proverbs 20, 25,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: it is snare to say rashly, it is holy. And
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: to reflect only after making vows. Now, for how many
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: of us? Now, that's not, that's just because almost everybody's
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: hand goes up.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't even have to raise your hand.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: But how many of us would this not be true
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: of as it relates to our decision to homeschool?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: We didn't understand what we were doing.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: We just, we were afraid, we were frustrated, we were whatever,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: and we just went, come on. And we had no biblical, theological,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: philosophical framework whatsoever.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: We swore rashly, it is holy. And then later, we
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: tried to figure out how.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Okay? This is this man. Proverbs 2, 1-5.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: My son, if you receive my words and treasure up
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: and inclining your heart to understanding.
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  Speaker 1: My son, if you receive my words and treasure.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: voice for understanding, if.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: You seek it like silver and search for it, ask for.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Hidden treasures, then you will understand.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: The fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I keep trying. We search for it. We seek for it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: We don't just make assumptions. Okay? What are some of
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the wrong whys? Here's some of the worldly whys. Sorry.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Wrong whys.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Hired test scores. That's the wrong reason why. Hired college GPA.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: It's true. That's the wrong reason to do this. Escaping
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the evil of the government school campus. That's the wrong reason.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: That's the wrong reason. I always laugh when people are like,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: why are you doing this?
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Because there's evil over there in the schools and I'm
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: bringing them home so they can escape the evil.
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  Speaker 1: What's going to help them escape the evil at all?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Amen you better have a better program than.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Moving them somewhere because you move them home you're going
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to find evil there too right.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: So the higher test scores higher GPA why is this
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: the wrong why well because what do we do if
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: next year for some strange reason the government system produces
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: higher test scores.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Do we then just flip flop I mean, if that's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: our reason, then all they have to do is somehow
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: figure out, you know, a way to get better test scores,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and they can do that, right? They can do that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: The game's rigged anyway. This is the great irony.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: And I have, there are people, I've had conversations with people, conversations.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: With dads whose wives are on pins and needles.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: They're terrified because dad has said to them, If their
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: test scores don't improve by this time, we're going to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: put them.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Back in the school system.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I just have to ask a couple of questions. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: just want to go, okay, first dad, let me ask
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: you a couple of questions.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Have you looked at the school system's test scores?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Because the school.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: System's test scores are horrific, right? And is your attitude,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: if the school system's test scores don't improve, that I'm
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: not going to trust them? No, no it's not.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: You're treating your wife uniquely. But let's just leave that
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: over there for a moment. Here's the second question I
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: have for.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: You, Dad. Who's setting, you know, your scope and sequence
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and everything.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: For your child's education? Is it the school system or
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: is it your wife? Because this is important. Because here's what.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: You're telling your wife.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: You're telling your wife, you need to educate your children
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: our children, in accordance with our understanding, our philosophy, our pedagogy,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: our school consequence, then you need to go to the
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: school system and allow them to attest for something you're
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: not teaching toward in order to gauge whether or not
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: you're successful. That's stubborn on students. The only way that
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: measure could be accurate, and by the way, this is.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Positive or negative, the only way that measure.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Could be accurate is if whoever's making the test knew
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: what it was you were doing so.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: That they can test for the success of what you're doing. Right?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: If you're doing something different, it doesn't matter if your
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: children do well or if they do poorly, that is
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: not an accurate assessment. So whether you poke your chest
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: out and cry or crawl up under the bed for three.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Days, it makes no sense. That test, those tests can't
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: tell you whether or not you're being successful. Whether or
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: not your child is being successful. So those are the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: wrong lies. What are the right lies? Here are the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: right lies.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: We do it because we're convinced by Scripture. We do
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: it because we understand the role and responsibility of parents.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: We do it because we desire to advance the kingdom
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: of God. And we do it because we desire to
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: bless the kingdom of man. Those are the right reasons
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: to educate your.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Children at home.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Let's look at these. Number one, we do it because
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: we're convinced by Scripture. We're convinced by Scripture that this
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: is what we're called to do. But convinced of what? Um...
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Home education is not just preferable. It's biblical. Home education
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: is not just preferable. It's biblical. Now, secondly, this is important.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Though not everyone can or must homeschool, Christians are obligated
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: to give their children Christian education.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: It's important that you get this distinction. I get used
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: all the time.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he says everybody has to homeschool. I've never said that.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Not one time, not one day in my entire life Okay?
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Because first of all, we can't even agree on a
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: definition of homeschooling.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Right? For some people, you know, if you're using an
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: outside curriculum, you're not truly homeschooling. Because if you're truly homeschooling,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: you're creating your own curriculum.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: For other people, you know, you can use outside curriculum,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: but you can't use outside instruction. So if you go
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: somewhere for piano lessons or writing lessons, then you're not
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: truly homeschooling.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: For some people, it's what you think. You see what
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I'm getting at? We can't even agree on a definition, okay?
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: But here's what we can say clearly from Scripture, is
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: that we are obligated to give our children a Christian education.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt. So, while I do not say and
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: would not say everybody has to go.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: To school, I do say nobody should use government school.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: No Christian should use government school. Unless there's some circumstance
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: in your.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Life that forces you to do so. And sometimes they're wrong.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they're wrong.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: There are people who, you know, who've had the frowning
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: providence of a divorce in their life and joint custody and,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: you know, there's some people who have, you know.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Other sort of things that put them in that situation.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I understand that. Okay? I understand that.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: But when we get what education is, allowing the government
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: to do it is not an option. Thirdly, Therefore, government education,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: which is anti-Christian by federal.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Mandate, is not a viable option.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: And government education across the West is anti-Christian by federal mandate.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Government education cannot be pro-Christian. First, we must view education
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: as discipleship. I want to explain why I make that argument.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Because we must view education as discipleship. In Army 6,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: 6 and 7, These words that I command you today
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: to your children and shall talk of them when you
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: sit in your house, when you walk by the way,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: when you lie down, and when you rise. In other words,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: he uses those four distinctions in order to paint a
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: picture of discipleship.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: That is all-encompassing. It's all-encompassing. Luke 6, 40.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
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  Speaker 1: Period.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Education is discipleship. Whoever is educating our children is discipling
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: our children.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Alright?
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Secondly, we must protect our children from undoubtedly influence when
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: we can.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Proverbs 1, 1 and 2.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: of Psalms, I said Proverbs, Psalms, walks.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the way.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: his delight is in the law of the Lord, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: on his law he meditates during non-school hours.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: You can't make that fit, folks. You can't force an
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: acceptable government education into Psalm 1, 1 and 2.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Psalm 14, 1, the fool says in his heart, there
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: is no God.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: who does good.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: God bless the folks in the United States, but, you know,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: there's this, our schools are different mentality. And as we
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: say in the psalm, everybody, not everybody, everybody, that's beyond everybody, okay?
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Everybody thinks that their schools are different, right? It doesn't
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: matter what the evidence is. Our schools are just not
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: like all those other schools. We have good schools. Your
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: schools are anti-Christian by federal mandate. Good and godless do
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: not go together. There are no good government schools.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: There can't be. There can be government.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Schools that get good outcomes in terms of, you.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Know, grades or whatever.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: But that's not goodness. That is a flawed measure of goodness.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Proverbs 1.7, Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: There it is.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: That's the beginning of knowledge. That's the starting point. So
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: if your starting point is something.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Other than that, you're a fool.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Proverbs 13.20, Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: the companion of fools.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Who we saw in life. No. We'll suffer harm. The
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: band of fools will suffer harm. That's what the text says. Well, okay,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I get all that, right?
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I get all that, and that's fine. But eventually your
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: children are going to be out there in the world,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: and you need to prepare them to go out there
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: and face oppositions so you can put them in school,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: and they learn how to face the oppositions. Matthew 18
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: 7 Woe to the world for temptations to sin for
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: it is necessary that temptations come but woe to the
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: one by whom the temptation comes.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: My children are going to be tempted but woe to
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: me if.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I'm the one who blames it. It's not my job
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: to tempt my child. It's my job to prepare my
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: child And a disciple my child. It is not my
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: job to tempt my child. Here's the other thing. And
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: it's so. But listen to this. When people are saying that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Here's what they're saying. Discipleship. In it's fullest expression. Cannot
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: be accomplished.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Without the godless. Think about that.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: A person cannot be fully and appropriately discipled without godless
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: people to finish the discipleship process through temptation. God's people
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: can't get discipleship done. That's what we're saying. Now no
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: one would just sort of openly say that, but when
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: we don't think about the application of truth, we end
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: up saying it nonetheless. We must avoid unbiblical teaching when
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: we can. Romans 12, 2. Do not be conformed to
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: this world. By the way, the most conforming exercise.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Known to man is education. Amen?
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Can anybody tell me a more conforming exercise? I had
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: somebody say one time, well, you know, military, boot camp,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: you know, that lasts.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: a couple months.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Right and it does an effective job in those couple
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: months but the education system lasts over a decade there
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: is no more conforming exercise known to man than the
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: education process do not be conformed to this world but
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: testing you may discern what is the will of God
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: What is good and acceptable and perfect.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: 2 Corinthians 10.5.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: knowledge of God.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: And take every thought captive to obey Christ. How many thoughts?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Every thought. We take every thought captive to obey Christ.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Colossians 2.8.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: See to it that no one takes you captive by
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: philosophy and empty deceit.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: According to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the world, and not according to Christ.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: 1 Timothy 6, 20-21 O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradiction to what
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: is falsely called knowledge, for by professing it, some have
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: swerved from the faith.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: 1 Timothy We must teach God's law. We must teach
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: God's law. You know, there are a lot of people
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: who love to make the argument. In fact, it's the
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: most common argument against a whole bunch of kiddie Christians.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: It's that Matthew 5 argument.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: It's the salt and light argument. We need to be
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: salt in life.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So we need to send our children to the government
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: educational system so that they can be salt in life.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: First of all, send them in before they're converted. Right?
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: So that they can be unconverted salt in life, whatever
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: that is.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: A couple of things. I love it when people bring
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: this up. Right? I love it when people bring this up.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Because there's a great opportunity here on two fronts.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: First, there's no duty. Okay, bring it up in Matthew
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: chapter 5. Let's look at Matthew chapter 5. 5, shall we?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Since that's what you want to bring.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Up, you want to say that I'm violating the Twitter
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: teaching in Matthew chapter 5. And as we do this,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: do you understand the difference between indicatives and imperatives?
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Okay? What was that? Well, an indicative. An indicative tells
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: you what something is, right? An indicative. That is a microphone.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: That's an indicative statement, right? An imperative statement, speak into
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the microphone. There's a difference between indicatives and imperatives.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: And when you read the Bible, you must know the
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: difference between indicatives and imperatives. There's a difference between the
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Bible telling you you are something and the Bible telling
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: you you must do something.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Okay? We all get it, right?
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Now, you ought to be in the school system So
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: that you can go and be salt and light. Sounds
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: like there's an imperative somewhere in there, right?
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Okay. You are the salt of the earth. Is that
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: indicative or imperative?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: That's indicative. There's no imperative there whatsoever. But if the
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: salt has lost its taste, how shall.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Its saltiness be restored?
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: It is no longer good for anything except to be
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: thrown out and trampled under people's feet. By the way,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: that would sound like a reason not to go to
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: government school.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: But we're just going to leave that for now. You
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: are the light of the world. Indicative or imperative?
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: That's indicative, folks. No imperative anywhere there. A city set
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: on a hill cannot be hidden.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Nor do people light a lamp and put it under
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: to all in the.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Hmm?
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? But would you leave that alone too, right?
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Because, you know, we don't want to witness too quickly.
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  Speaker 2: We need to linger over it for a while. But
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  Speaker 2: for now, just contemplate that word for a few moments,
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  Speaker 2: shall you?
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  Speaker 1: Your first problem, the person who's telling me that.
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  Speaker 2: I need to send my kid to the government school,
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  Speaker 2: is that you turned indicatives into imperatives.
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  Speaker 1: You created a law where there was none.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible tells me I am salt, I am light,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of where I am.
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  Speaker 1: You tell me there's certain places that I have to
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  Speaker 1: go in order to become salt and light. You're abusing
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  Speaker 1: the text. But wait, there's more. Let your light shine.
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  Speaker 2: Before others so that they may see your good works
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  Speaker 2: and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Do not think that I have come to abolish.
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  Speaker 1: The law or the prophets. I have not come to
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  Speaker 1: abolish them, but to fulfill them.
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  Speaker 2: For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth
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  Speaker 2: pass away, not an iota, not a dot will pass
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  Speaker 2: from the law until all is accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, whoever relaxes one of the least.
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  Speaker 2: Of these commandments and teaches others to do the same,
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  Speaker 2: will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but
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  Speaker 2: whoever does them and teaches them will be.
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  Speaker 1: Called great in the kingdom of heaven. First of all,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: not only did you take an indicative and turn it.
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  Speaker 2: Into an imperative, but the Salt and Light text mentions
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  Speaker 2: absolutely nothing about education or teaching. And right after it,
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  Speaker 2: there is a text that clearly mentions teaching, and it says,
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  Speaker 2: don't be.
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  Speaker 1: Taught by people who don't uphold the law.
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  Speaker 2: So you abuse one text in order to try to
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  Speaker 2: tell me that I need to send my kid to
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  Speaker 2: the government school.
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  Speaker 1: And you ignore one that comes right after.
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  Speaker 2: It that makes it clear that you must not send
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  Speaker 2: yours there.
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  Speaker 1: But I digress. Alright. Matthew 22, 34, 36. But when
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  Speaker 1: the Pharisees heard that.
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  Speaker 2: He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together And one
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. Teacher,
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: which is the greatest commandment in the law? Now, it's
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: very interesting because there were several schools of thought. Some
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  Speaker 2: would argue that the greatest commandment in the law was
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  Speaker 2: the first commandment. You know, you should not know the
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  Speaker 2: God before me. There were some who argued that it
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  Speaker 2: was the tenth. The tenth commandment was the greatest commandment.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Because coveting really is the root of all of our
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: violations of all the other commandments. There are others who
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  Speaker 2: would argue that the fifth commandment was the great commandment
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  Speaker 2: because it was the bridge between the two tables of
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: the law, right?
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  Speaker 1: The first table of the law is the first four commandments.
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  Speaker 2: The vertical commandments have to do with our duty to God.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: And the second table of the law, the last six
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: commandments are the horizontal commandments. They have to do with
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: our duty toward men, right?
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: And so basically they're going, Jesus, which school are you
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: part of? Commandment one? Commandment five? Commandment ten? Which one
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest? Listen to his answer.
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  Speaker 2: He said to them, you should love the Lord your
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  Speaker 2: God with all your heart, with all your soul, and
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  Speaker 2: with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, that's a summary of the first table.
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  Speaker 1: Of the law.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus, what's the greatest commandment? His response, I'm going to
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: have to go with one through four. And the second commandment,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: It's like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: By the way, that's the second table of the law.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, what's the greatest commandment? I'm going to have to
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  Speaker 1: say 1 through 4.
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  Speaker 2: Follow closely by 5 through 10.
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  Speaker 1: That's his answer. Folks, we must teach the law of
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  Speaker 1: God to our children. We have to.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: If we don't teach the law of God to our children,
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  Speaker 2: number one, they don't know they need the Gospels.
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  Speaker 1: Because they don't know that they're not righteous.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: They don't know that they don't rise to the level
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: of the righteousness that God requires if we don't teach
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: them God's law.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: And this is the problem with our governments. They don't
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: have a.
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  Speaker 2: Standard of righteousness. They've become their own standard of righteousness.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: And if you are your own standard of righteousness, then
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: anything goes. Secondly, if we don't teach our children the law,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: then they don't understand what righteousness looks like when Christ
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: forms in you.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: As a believer.
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  Speaker 2: We almost must be gospel sinning because the law is
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: not an end in itself. I will put enmity between
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  Speaker 2: you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.
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  Speaker 2: The first proclamation. Of the gospel. Romans 1.16.17. For I
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the
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  Speaker 2: power of God.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: To salvation. To everyone who believes. To the Jew first.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: And also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: of God. Is revealed from faith for faith. As it
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: is written. The righteous shall live by faith. Not recipes.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: I am astonished.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: You are so quickly, Galatians here, deserting him who called
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: you in the grace of Christ and are turning.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: To a different gospel. Not that there is another one.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: But there are some who trouble you and want to
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: contrary to the one we preached to you, let.
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  Speaker 1: It be accursed.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: As we have said before, so now I say again,
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: the one you received, let.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: It be a curse. We must also be good stewards.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: This is a stewardship issue. Should we pay tax to Caesar?
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Caesar says, bring me a denarius. Let me look at it.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: And they brought one.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: And he said to them, whose likeness and inscription is this?
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: And they said to him, Caesars. Jesus said to.
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  Speaker 2: Them, render to Caesars the things that are Caesars, and
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  Speaker 2: to God the things that are God's.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: And they marveled at him.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Well, what does that have to do with education? Bring
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  Speaker 2: me a child. Whose inscription and image is on the child?
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  Speaker 1: Hmm? God's.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: So you must not render him to Caesar. Psalm 127.
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  Speaker 2: Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: the watchman stays awake in vain.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: It is in vain that you rise.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: Up early and go late to rest, eating.
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  Speaker 1: The bread of anxious toil, for he gives to his
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  Speaker 1: beloved sleep. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: the fruit of.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: The womb of reward, like arrows in the hands of
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: a warrior are the children of one's youth.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them.
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  Speaker 2: He shall not be put to shame when he speaks
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: with his enemies at the gate. Malachi 2, 15-16 Did
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: he not make them one with a portion of the
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Spirit in their union?
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  Speaker 1: And what was the one God's seed? Godly offspring. So
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: guard yourselves in your spirit and let none of you
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: be faithless to the wife of your youth.
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  Speaker 2: The man who does not love his wife but divorces her,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garments
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: in your spirit And do.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Not be faithless. Secondly, I don't want.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: To spend too much time on these, but first, again,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: we do what we do because we're convinced by Scripture.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: We're convinced by Scripture that we're obligated to give our
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: children a Christian education.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: This is not opinion. This is what the Bible teaches clearly.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: And secondly, we understand our role and responsibility as parents.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: We only really need one text here. Ephesians 6, 1-4. Children,
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  Speaker 2: obey your parents and the Lord, for this is right.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Honor your father and mother. This is the first commandment
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  Speaker 2: of the promise, that if they go well with you,
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  Speaker 2: and that.
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  Speaker 1: You may live long in the land. Fathers, do not provoke.
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  Speaker 2: Your children to anger, but bring them up in the
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  Speaker 2: discipline and instruction to the Lord. Do you realize that fathers, parents,
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  Speaker 2: are the only ones who are given the specific obligation
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: to train and educate children? You see, and we don't
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: have time for this, but this is a very John
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Knox thing. There are jurisdiction and spheres of jurisdiction. There
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: is the jurisdiction of the state. There is the jurisdiction
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: of the church. There is the jurisdiction of the family.
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  Speaker 2: We have these jurisdictions given to.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Us very clearly.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: And it is not permitted for us to cross those jurisdictions, right?
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: As a family, I am not allowed to take over
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: the jurisdiction of the.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Church, right? And so it's not like I can excommunicate
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  Speaker 1: a member of my family from the church. That's not
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  Speaker 1: my jurisdiction. I can't take over the jurisdiction of the state.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I can't put one of my family members in jail
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: or I can't give one of my family members a ticket.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: That's the jurisdiction of the state, right? And the state also.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Cannot usurp the jurisdiction of the church or the family.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: It cannot.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Folks, this jurisdiction of education is a family jurisdiction. Now,
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: there is also a church jurisdiction as it relates to
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: educating all of God's people theologically. That's why the idea
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: of a Christian school is a permissible idea.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: You see?
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: But when the state gets involved in education, it has
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: jumped jurisdictions. And this is why in most constitutions, except
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: the ones who have been changed recently, there is no.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Mention of education, the education of children. Right? And the U.S. Constitution,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: the longest standing constitution in the world today, you know, we're.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Not that old of a country, but we have the
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: oldest standing constitution in the world.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: There is no mention of education. The United States government
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: has no.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Jurisdiction and no authority whatsoever over education. The United States
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: Department of Education is unconstitutional and needs to be shut down.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: They don't have a right to be involved, biblically or constitutionally.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: And yet they usurp, and yet they overstep.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Okay? All right. Parents to children, number one, represent God's
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: authority in their lives.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Number two, model Christ's relationship to his church through our marriages.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Three, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Four, preach the gospel to them with a hint toward
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: their conversion.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: All right? For the sake of time, I'm going to... Oh, wait.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do that one. For the sake
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: of time, I'm going to... I'm going to move forward here.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Number three. Advancing the kingdom of God.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Advancing the kingdom of God. And this one is ironic
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: because there are a lot of Christian families who view
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: home education as a means of retreating.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: And this is both inside and outside homeschooling. A lot
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: of people outside of homeschooling view it as retreat. And
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: that's why they make a soft light argument. Because they're going,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: you know, we're in the world, but not of the world.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: We're here, we're supposed to be proclaiming the gospel, and
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: you're running away.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: You're running away and hiding.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, unfortunately, for a lot of us, that's absolutely
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the case. For a lot of us, that is what
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: we're doing. Guilty as charged. We're scared. We're frightened.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: We're running away. We're hiding. We don't want to engage.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: We don't want to have anything to do with the world.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: We don't want to go buy us some land and
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: not even have to go to the store anymore.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Okay? We don't want to see anybody. Alright? Wrong answer. Okay?
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Wrong answer.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: This is about advancing the kingdom of God, folks.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: We are residents of the kingdom. Colossians 1, 13 and 14.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son in
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. We're heirs
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: of the kingdom. James 2.5. Listen, my beloved brothers, has
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: not God chosen.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Those who are poor in the world to.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: is promised those who love him? We're also seeking the kingdom.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Matthew 6, 31, 33. Therefore, do not be anxious, saying,
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: what shall we wear? For the Gentiles seek after all
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: these things. And your Heavenly Father knows that you need
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: We also preach the kingdom.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: We preach the kingdom.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: the whole world as a testimony to all nations.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: And then the end will come. There is no room
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: in that for retreat. None. None.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe retreat for respite. Maybe we go retreat so we
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: can regroup.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: But just permanent retreat. We're not part of this battle anymore? No,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: you don't get to do that. That's not who we are.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: That's not who we are.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Listen, we're just beggars telling other beggars where we found bread.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: How dare we retreat?
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: How dare we retreat from people who are starving and
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: dying like we were starving and dying when.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: We have what they need? How dare we do that?
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: How dare we do that? How dare we sit comfortably
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: God because of people who love God and us enough
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: to advance toward us with the gospel.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: And then shut our mouths.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: In our comfort and hide away without giving.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: It away to somebody else. God help us.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: That is not who we are. And we are anticipating
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: the consummation of the kingdom. And the seventh angel blew
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: his trumpet. And there was a loud voice in heaven saying,
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: the kingdoms of the world has become the kingdom of
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: our Lord and his Christ. And he shall reign forever
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: and ever. Even when the Lord taught us to pray,
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: what did he teach us to pray? Your kingdom come,
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: your will be done on earth.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: As it is in heaven. This is our mentality. This
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: is our mindset. So we don't bring our children.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Home in order to hide them. I don't think about
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: my home as a hiding place for children. I think
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: about my home as a silo. And not a grain silo.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: ICBM silo. Intercontinental ballistic missiles. You don't put ICBMs in
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: a silo because you're scared. You put them in there
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: to arm them.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: So that one day, dawn comes.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: The silo opens up, and they're launched to do all
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: kinds of damage.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Amen? I'm not hiding my children, I'm arming them. Amen?
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: I'm arming them. So if we see retreat in that sense, amen,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: But if it's retreat in the sense of We're the
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: only holy people in the world.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: We need to go hide in our holy hole so
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: that nobody.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Can mess up our holiness and nobody can know.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: That's the wrong answer.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: Our goal is to advance the kingdom of God and.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: To bless the kingdom of man. To bless the kingdom
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: of man.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: See, when these ICBMs are launched, they don't do destructive
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: damage like intergovernmental ballistic missiles do. They bring healing and wholeness.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Because we launch them with the gospel. They give you
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: the tale.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Of two Christians.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: There's the one Christian who says, I want to be
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: a physician. Well, why do you want to be a physician?
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: Because it's a job with a lot of prestige and
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: they make good money. And another one who says, I
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: want to be a physician. Why do you want to
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: be a physician? I want to be a physician because
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: people are made in the image of God. And as such,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: they have inherent dignity and inherent worth and inherent value.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: And I want to use my hands to bring healing
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: and wholeness to people in the name of Jesus. Two
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: people who want the same job, but have completely different perspectives.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Are you equipping your children.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: With a vision for advancing the kingdom of God and
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: make a blessing to the kingdom of man? I'm just
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: afraid that for most of us, our children, they hear
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: what we say about the world out there.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: And the message that they get is those people are ugly.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Those people are unworthy. Those people are unsafe.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: And you need to figure out a way to live
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: life as far away from them as possible.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Instead of hearing from us and seeing from us, those
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: people are lost. Just like I was. And they need
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Jesus just like I did. So they can't teach you.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: I'm going to teach you.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: But I'm teaching you so that you can be equipped
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: to invest your life in advancing the kingdom among these people.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Just like mom and dad invest our lives.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: And advancing the kingdom among these people.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Please tell me you.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: Hear the vast difference between those two visions. Because they're
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: nowhere near the same. And unfortunately for most of us,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: what we're communicating.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: To our children is the former and not the latter.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: And so here's what's ironic.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Some of these children who want nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: home education It's not because they're rebelling against their godly families.
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  Speaker 2: It's because they're hearing the gospel proclaimed. They're seeing the
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  Speaker 2: lostness and the hurt out there in the world. And
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  Speaker 2: the Jesus in them wants to go and be a
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  Speaker 2: healing balm. And their parents paint homeschooling as a way
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  Speaker 2: to hide from the world that needs the healing that
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  Speaker 2: we have.
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  Speaker 1: And they say, I don't want that. I want nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with that. I'm a Christian. People need the gospel.
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  Speaker 2: I will not run away and hide from a hurting world.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a bad rebellion at all. That's rebelling against
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  Speaker 2: something that has stopped being Christian. So we do this
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  Speaker 2: first and foremost because we're convinced by scripture that it's
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  Speaker 2: the right thing to do. And secondly, we do this
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  Speaker 2: because we understand our role and responsibility as parents.
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  Speaker 1: And we're not willing to give up on that.
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  Speaker 2: And thirdly, we do this because of our desire to
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  Speaker 2: advance the kingdom of God. And we want to advance
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  Speaker 2: the kingdom of God among our children. And we want
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  Speaker 2: to equip our.
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  Speaker 1: Children to advance the kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, we do this because we want to communicate
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  Speaker 2: a vision of being a blessing to the kingdom of man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not willing to argue that having this together in
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  Speaker 2: our minds means that none of us will ever stumble
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  Speaker 2: or fall. Or that it can just be another recipe, right?
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  Speaker 2: And here you do this and your children will always,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but that's not my point. But what I
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  Speaker 2: am saying is I believe this is faithful description and
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  Speaker 2: I believe God will bless it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray.
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  Speaker 2: Our God, we thank you for your goodness and your
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  Speaker 2: kindness and your mercy towards us. We thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the blessings and the grace that you have lavished upon us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the privilege of being able to even.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: There are places not far from here, just across the
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  Speaker 2: water in Europe, where people don't have the right to
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  Speaker 2: do what we're.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about here.
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  Speaker 2: And so, Lord, we thank you for your grace, for
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  Speaker 2: your kindness, for your mercy that you've extended. And we ask, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: that you would continue to be gracious to us here
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  Speaker 2: in and that you would bless our brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 2: in places like Germany and elsewhere where the children are
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  Speaker 2: being taken away from them because of their desire to
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  Speaker 2: do what we're talking about here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Grant by your grace, Lord, that they might receive your
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  Speaker 1: mercy and your protection.
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  Speaker 2: And also, grant, Lord, that we might see what is
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  Speaker 2: happening there as a warning to us here today So
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  Speaker 2: that we might fight to maintain the rights that we have.
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  Speaker 2: Not so that we can run and hide. Because we
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  Speaker 2: believe that this is what scripture teaches us.
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  Speaker 1: Because we understand our role as parents.
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  Speaker 2: Because we desire to expand the kingdom and we desire
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  Speaker 2: to bless the.
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of man.
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  Speaker 2: And so we ask, Lord, that the government here in
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  Speaker 2: Ireland would not cut off its nose to spite its face.
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  Speaker 2: and attempt to rid itself of one of the greatest
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  Speaker 2: blessings it will ever see. Father, I pray for all
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  Speaker 2: those under the sound of my voice. For those who
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  Speaker 2: are weary, God, would you grant them strength. For those
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  Speaker 2: who are afraid, God, would you grant courage. For those
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  Speaker 2: who are confused, grant clarity. And for those who have
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  Speaker 2: given up, would you mount them up on wings as eagles.
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  Speaker 2: This we pray in Christ's name.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.