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Fatherhood [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: what it's there. For amen today, since we're right the
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Speaker 1: next day celebrating fathers. Amen. From the time this recording
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Speaker 1: yesterday was Father's Day, Amen, I think I felt like
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Speaker 1: we should talk about fatherhood, biblical fatherhood. Amen. Everybody's from
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Speaker 1: some kind of hood, right, whether you're a woman, motherhood,
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Speaker 1: If your dad's man is fatherhood right and fatherhood biblical fatherhood.
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Speaker 1: What does that look like? Amen? If you have a
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Speaker 1: dad in your life, Amen, you're blessed. My dad went
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Speaker 1: to be with the Lord when I was only fifteen
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Speaker 1: years old, and it still hurts me. And I'm in
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Speaker 1: my fifties, Amen, and it's still I still miss him.
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Speaker 1: I think that's how the feeling never goes away, but
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Speaker 1: the feeling of comfort that comes by way of Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit next level. Amen. And especially when you find out
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Speaker 1: that your dad served the Lord, or believing in the
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Speaker 1: Lord somehow, some way, you start believing and trusting in
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Speaker 1: the Lord to be able to see your love one,
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Speaker 1: your love Dad again. Amen. Our father is or should
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Speaker 1: be a spiritual leader. Biblical fatherhood doesn't mean to dominate
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Speaker 1: or control, but to serve the way Christ Jesus did
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Speaker 1: with love and authority, With love and authority, not to dominate,
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Speaker 1: not to be you know I said this, you better
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Speaker 1: do that. Not none of that. That's not biblical fatherhood,
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Speaker 1: that's not biblical spiritual leadership, none of that. But to
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Speaker 1: serve the way Christ did with love and authority. Love
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Speaker 1: and authority. We're going to be in Joshua chapter twenty four,
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Speaker 1: verse number fifteen. That's why we're going to devote some
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Speaker 1: time there in the scriptures, Amen, to get to where
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Speaker 1: God wants us to go today on the morning devot.
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Speaker 1: So let's pray first. After we pray with shut us
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Speaker 1: out for like sixty seconds, and on the other side
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Speaker 1: of those sixty seconds, we'll get right into our topic fatherhood,
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Speaker 1: biblical fatherhood. And if you're a woman and your mom,
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Speaker 1: if you're a sister, if you're a brother, if you're
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Speaker 1: a child, amen, if you're a single, if you don't
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Speaker 1: have any children, this is still for you, Amen, because
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Speaker 1: once we learn what biblical fatherhood looks like, and we'll
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Speaker 1: start recognizing the men who are living that way. If
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Speaker 1: you don't know the truth about biblical fatherhood, how would
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Speaker 1: you know what's right and what's wrong. So that's why
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Speaker 1: we have the scriptures. Amen, fatherhood. So Father, I thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, that you are the ultimate father in heaven.
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Speaker 1: You're the father who loves by way of who you are.
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Speaker 1: You proved them in scriptures. You showed us all through
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Speaker 1: your word. Thank you for sending the son who saves,
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Speaker 1: which is the Lord Jesus. And thank you Jesus for
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Speaker 1: giving us your Holy Spirit which guides us on the
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Speaker 1: rest of these days until we meet you in the air.
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Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord God for today. Thank you, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: provide every single thing that's necessary for us to continue
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Speaker 1: this ministry, to continue going on in faith and knowing
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Speaker 1: that you are with us and in us and working
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Speaker 1: through us. I pray for my friends whose son and
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Speaker 1: needs a miracle in Jesus holy name. I pray Lord
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Speaker 1: God that you would continue to transfer your blood of
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Speaker 1: healing into this child that we are knowing in the
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Speaker 1: Lehigh Valley, that people know who we're praying for right now.
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Speaker 1: I pray peace over the family. I pray peace and
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Speaker 1: healing over the sun. And I pray Lord God that
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Speaker 1: you would just continue to do what you continue to
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Speaker 1: do miraculous works and heal this loved child that's loved
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Speaker 1: by so many. Lo God, that you will continue to
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Speaker 1: bless and heal this child. In Jesus Holy Name, I pray,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that you will guide, guard and protect us
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Speaker 1: as we move about our way, and that you will
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Speaker 1: help us be of a sound mind, and that we
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Speaker 1: will be clear in our thinking, and that we will
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Speaker 1: not listen to the stranger's voice, but listen to the
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Speaker 1: voice of God, and we will hear what you're saying
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Speaker 1: and do what you want us to do. And the
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus, our prayers by faith, knowing that you
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Speaker 1: hear these prayers and you are able to answer these
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Speaker 1: prayers according to every single individual situation. In Jesus Holy Name,
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Speaker 1: my prayer is by faith, and those who agree we
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Speaker 1: say amen to the Amen. So let's go forward. Ladies
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Speaker 1: and gentlemen. Thank you so much for coming through again.
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Speaker 1: let's go for it. Sixty seconds. Help me share this album.
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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get right into today's topic, fatherhood,
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Speaker 1: Biblical fatherhood today on the morning, dev Ibby, right back, Amen,
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Speaker 1: it sounds like I got an owl that's owling outside.
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Speaker 1: If they do owling outside of the studio, it's so funny. Fatherhood,
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Speaker 1: fatherhood today in the morning, Devo. Let's see what the
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Speaker 1: word of God says about it. So important, What an
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Speaker 1: important role, what a humbling role. Amen, I'm honored to
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Speaker 1: be a dad. Yeah, even though I screwed it up
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Speaker 1: before christ I believe that I really messed up. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I was admitting that to my son. And I have
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Speaker 1: a thirty two year old son, thirty two, thirty three,
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Speaker 1: thirty four. My math is all messed up. He's in
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Speaker 1: his thirties. Amen, in his early thirties. Amen, he's gonna
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Speaker 1: kill me like that. You don't even know my age,
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Speaker 1: you know. It's just that it's early in the morning
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Speaker 1: and I can't think of the year. But he's in
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Speaker 1: his thirties. And I was texting him admitting to him that,
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Speaker 1: you know, I own up to my failure. On he
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Speaker 1: was grown up, didn't know the Lord. Amen. Then when
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Speaker 1: I got saved, he was still young, and then it
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Speaker 1: was just trying to catch up getting things right. Amen.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't to me in my humble experience and my
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Speaker 1: humble opinion. I think I failed. But God has got
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Speaker 1: a second chances, Amen, and he's allowing me to try
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Speaker 1: to restore things Amen, that should have been restored a
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Speaker 1: long time ago. But God has got a grace and mercy. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And I love my son and I'm proud of him.
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Speaker 1: He's a dad now too, so I'm so proud that
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Speaker 1: God allowed him to experience fatherhood as well. So shouts
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Speaker 1: to all the dad's out there, Happy Father's Day. Every
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Speaker 1: day is Father's Day, right, just like every day's Mother's Day.
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Speaker 1: But I you know, it's cool that we live in
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Speaker 1: a country that celebrates parents. You don't get that in
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Speaker 1: a lot of places in the world. Right. You can
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Speaker 1: say whatever you want to say about the United States
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Speaker 1: of America, but at least we get certain things right
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Speaker 1: and honoring and expecting parents. I believe that's very important,
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Speaker 1: and I believe it's biblical. Amen. Amen. Sister Joanne, I
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Speaker 1: see you, Good morning, God blessed you. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the morning eve with my sister and my friend. How
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Speaker 1: was your Father's day yesterday? I hope it was good.
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Speaker 1: It was okay, Amen, I'm blessed. My wife took me
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Speaker 1: to go eat. My mother in law paid the bill. Amen,
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Speaker 1: And I was able to share that day with my
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Speaker 1: wife and my children, my two daughters. Amen. Maybe hopefully
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Speaker 1: I'll see my son soon during the summer, but and
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Speaker 1: my grandchildren. I was blessed. Can't complain. Wonderful church service,
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Speaker 1: a good preaching and teaching by my pastor, and it
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Speaker 1: was just great all the way around. I hardly complain.
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Speaker 1: If you see me complain, that means it's something that's
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Speaker 1: been festering and I haven't been able to let go
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Speaker 1: for a long time. But I'm glad that I was
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Speaker 1: able to share another day with my family. Amen. I'm
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Speaker 1: humble and I'm grateful. So shout out to all the
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Speaker 1: dads out there that are trying their best to provide,
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Speaker 1: trying the best to do the right thing for their
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Speaker 1: wives and for their baby's mother. How the situation is.
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Speaker 1: But let's try to show our kids that there is
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Speaker 1: a difference between unbiblical fatherhood and biblical fatherhood. And I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna try to share that with a little time that
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Speaker 1: we have. Thank you for asking that new facts, but
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Speaker 1: even not a lot of people ask men. People think,
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Speaker 1: oh Sam's always busy. Amen, No, not really. Amen. What
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Speaker 1: I do is I stay focused on what God is
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Speaker 1: doing in my life, and I try to share as
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Speaker 1: much of the Gospel that I know, much of the
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Speaker 1: Bible that I know, with everybody that I come across.
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Speaker 1: Not everybody reaches out. So I'm so grateful that people
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Speaker 1: do reach out when they do. Amen. Fatherhood, biblical fatherhood.
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Speaker 1: Let's go for it. Let's see. Do I have everything
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Speaker 1: up and running? Yes, everything, It's like it's up and running.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure of that. Okay, that's good thinking that I
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Speaker 1: forgot something, but it looks like I did it. Got
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Speaker 1: everything going an fatherhood. Fatherhood. Man, if you're a child,
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Speaker 1: you have a dad. I know, not everybody gets to
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Speaker 1: meet that dad. I have. My older brother met his
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Speaker 1: dad late in life. My younger brother never met his dad.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not taking that lightly and not
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Speaker 1: putting it out there like, oh that's okay, it's not okay.
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Speaker 1: I believe fathers have a role to play, very important
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Speaker 1: role to play, especially in young men's life. I can
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Speaker 1: only speak for men because I'm a man, and also
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Speaker 1: for young woman's life, like for girls as well. I
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Speaker 1: have two daughters, so try my best. That's why I'm
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Speaker 1: looking into this because I care about my kids, and
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Speaker 1: you should care about your children too, especially if your
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Speaker 1: dad Joshua twenty four, Verse number fifteen. Joshua twenty four fifteen.
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Speaker 1: The Bible says, if it is unacceptable in your sight
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Speaker 1: to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom
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Speaker 1: you will serve, whether the gods which your father served
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Speaker 1: that were on the other side of the river, or
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Speaker 1: the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live.
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Speaker 1: But as for me and my house, we will serve
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Amen. So you have to look it up.
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Speaker 1: Read josh for Chap To twenty four to get the
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Speaker 1: whole chapter, to get the context of why we're talking
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Speaker 1: about other gods and other territories and what the river
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Speaker 1: is all about. If you're one of those people who
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Speaker 1: want to know, hey, there is more to this than
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Speaker 1: what the scripture is saying right now. They got to
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Speaker 1: be more to it. There is a man. That's why
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Speaker 1: it suggest that people read the whole scripture, the whole
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Speaker 1: chapter every time we do the morning Devo, so that
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Speaker 1: way you could get a better background of where we landed.
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Speaker 1: We're landing in Verse number twenty five, and the most
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Speaker 1: popular version of this scripture is that people, we say,
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Speaker 1: as for me and the Lord, as for me and
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Speaker 1: my house, we will serve the Lord. But if you notice,
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Speaker 1: he probably read that a thousand times, heard it a
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Speaker 1: thousand times. But if you notice the way this is phrased.
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Speaker 1: But as for me, Joshua said, as for me, it
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Speaker 1: starts with the head. It starts with the leader. It
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Speaker 1: starts with the man. As for me, right, we will
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Speaker 1: serve the Lord. Because if you took out me and
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Speaker 1: my house, it starts for me, as for me, I
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Speaker 1: will serve the Lord. As for me and my house,
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Speaker 1: we will serve the Lord. See. So it starts with
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Speaker 1: the man of the house to show and declare that
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Speaker 1: he's going to serve the Lord. And when he goes
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Speaker 1: in his house, he's going to serve like the Lord. Right,
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Speaker 1: and that means him be the man and my house,
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Speaker 1: we will serve the Lord. It's a humbling thing, honoring thing, Amen,
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Speaker 1: biblical thing that's a characteristic of a Biblical father, Amen,
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Speaker 1: serving serving. There's been some kind of weird graduation going
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Speaker 1: on in church churches and leadership that some people stop
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Speaker 1: serving in certain areas because they feel like they graduated.
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Speaker 1: I don't do that no more. But in all actuality,
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Speaker 1: we serve. Amen. If you want to be a leader
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Speaker 1: of your home, you should be the servant of the
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Speaker 1: home as well. Amen. Good morning, brother Jonathan, I see
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Speaker 1: you man. Happy Father's Day to you as well. Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much, God bless you. Welcome back to the morning.
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Speaker 1: Devote my brother and my friend. Amen. So yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: fatherhood is humbling. Man willing to be a dad, It's
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Speaker 1: not easy. There's no textbook. I wish there was a
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Speaker 1: book that I could have read. Right. It probably was,
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Speaker 1: but I wasn't. I wasn't looking for it. Unfortunately. When
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Speaker 1: I first had my first kid, I was just looking
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Speaker 1: to figure out how I'm not gonna pay the rent
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Speaker 1: for where we were living. Then. Of course I was
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Speaker 1: doing all the other stuff that was really not benefiting
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Speaker 1: my son or my son's mom at the time. But
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Speaker 1: I was young, I was starting out in life. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know any better. Amen. It still bothers me today
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Speaker 1: because I know what I was doing back then, and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't benefiting my son at all. Amen. That's why
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Speaker 1: I'm in my fifties. My son is in his thirties.
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Speaker 1: And I'm still letting him know. Listen, I'm sorry, I'm
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Speaker 1: ful failing you when you were young in your earlier years. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I'm man enough to admit it. Amen. Some people like
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Speaker 1: to just ignore their past and just shove it under
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Speaker 1: the rug, or not even come to the conclusion, or
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Speaker 1: not even ask their children to forgive them for their
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Speaker 1: past wrongs. Amen. But as for me, as for me,
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Speaker 1: I served the Lord. As for me and my house,
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Speaker 1: we will serve the Lord. Amen. Because now God has
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Speaker 1: revealed himself in my life as a dad. Amen. And
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Speaker 1: now I know much better than when I knew without
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Speaker 1: knowing God. Amen. It seems like a cop out of excuse.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't know Christ. I didn't have any direction.
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a good example. I had a good dad, Amen.
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Speaker 1: But even in that, he wasn't married to my mom. Right.
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Speaker 1: So I thought when I, you know, hooked up with
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Speaker 1: a girl, I think I thought that was normal because
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Speaker 1: I saw that in my life. Amen. It's not an excuse.
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Speaker 1: And looks like I lost my my notes here, but
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Speaker 1: it's not an excuse. It's not an excuse, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: I'll just go to leave itlate that Amen. Some things
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Speaker 1: happened right there else and you start looking at it
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Speaker 1: and you're like, why did I do that? Because a
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Speaker 1: person that doesn't know the father, the father in heaven
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Speaker 1: won't even have a clue of how to be a
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Speaker 1: father here on earth. Amen, we have a father who
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Speaker 1: loves us. He loved us so much that he sent
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Speaker 1: himself in a form of a man named Jesus, a
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Speaker 1: man as the son of God, to save us, not
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Speaker 1: to condemn us, not to destroy us, not to accuse us,
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Speaker 1: not to wipe us out, but to save us, rescue
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Speaker 1: us and give us the born again experience right as
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Speaker 1: a father. Our spiritual leadership is important. Why because it
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Speaker 1: has eternal impact, not just temporary impact. You know, you
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Speaker 1: hear stories of I heard, I heard, I heard good
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Speaker 1: things and bad things. Like you hear stories about men
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Speaker 1: that I know that sad man, my dad was x
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Speaker 1: y Z. He wasn't good, he was this, he was
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Speaker 1: this and that and it's not good. Then you hear
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Speaker 1: some good stories about some men that I know that
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Speaker 1: had good fathers, Amen, that they were like golly fathers man,
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Speaker 1: and it really impacts. But what impacts eternally if your dad,
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Speaker 1: if I'm let me. Just put it to me. My
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Speaker 1: dad was serving the Lord, and when I was growing up,
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Speaker 1: I didn't see him serving the Lord, but I heard
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Speaker 1: that he served the Lord. It's a long story, man.
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Speaker 1: So a father's leadership should be a spiritual leadership that's
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Speaker 1: going to impact your children. It's gonna impact your family eternally. Right.
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Speaker 1: If you study the scriptures, you'll see that scriptures affirm
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Speaker 1: where fathers are engaged spiritually. Children are more likely to
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Speaker 1: follow Christ in their adulthood if they see an example
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Speaker 1: of their father serving, they see an example of their
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Speaker 1: father praying, they see an example of a father connecting,
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Speaker 1: a father helping, a father of being a part of
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, a father applying the word of God.
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Speaker 1: Not just you do this because the word says that,
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Speaker 1: and never applying that word over his own life. If
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Speaker 1: I don't, if I don't live out when I'm speaking
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Speaker 1: in front of my daughters, in front of my son,
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Speaker 1: even he's still in his thirties, he's still watching Amen,
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Speaker 1: in front of my wife, it's gonna be useless. Man,
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Speaker 1: this whole thing about I'm a Christian and you know scriptures,
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Speaker 1: you do this, you do that in the church, and
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Speaker 1: then you live file. Don't you realize people see that.
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Speaker 1: Not only do people see that, but the people who
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Speaker 1: are influenced by you see it also. And it's discouraging,
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Speaker 1: and people get confused, and people start leaving churches, and
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Speaker 1: people start doing X y Z. They confused. Man, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to be a part of nobody's confusion. I
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Speaker 1: want to be a part of someone's conquering. Amen and
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Speaker 1: living a life of faith, especially my family, especially my children. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And if you're a man of God, a man stand up.
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Speaker 1: And if you're struggling in your faith, a man go
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Speaker 1: to a man of God. Right, and let's man up
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Speaker 1: and let's get together to get into these scriptures and
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Speaker 1: apply what we know to be true in your life today.
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Speaker 1: It's never too late. It's never too late to end me.
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Speaker 1: Used to bombarrow my way of thinking. All you messed
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Speaker 1: up with your sons. It's too late to try to restore.
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Speaker 1: It's too late for this too. He used to try
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Speaker 1: to convince me that I had no chance trying to
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Speaker 1: restore my relationship with my son. And Devil is a liar.
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Speaker 1: God is amazing at restoring relationships. God is amazing at redeeming.
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Speaker 1: Gods are amazing at reconciling. God is amazing at saving
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Speaker 1: people's lives. Man, he did it for me. He could
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Speaker 1: do it for you and your relationship with your children.
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Speaker 1: If that's where you find yourself right now as a dad,
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Speaker 1: that you messed up right, and that the enemy is
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Speaker 1: now trying to tell you, oh, remember what you did
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Speaker 1: when you were like twenty years old, Remember what you did?
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Speaker 1: And like you're in your thirties, your forties and fifties,
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Speaker 1: and he's still reminding you of your past. Why Because
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Speaker 1: he doesn't want you to focus on your future in Christ,
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Speaker 1: that's why. And he's trying to distract. In Malachi chapter four,
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Speaker 1: verse number six, the Bible says he would turn the
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Speaker 1: hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts
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Speaker 1: of the children to their fathers. Spiritual leadership isn't optional
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Speaker 1: for Christian fathers. Christian leadership and spiritual leadership for a
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Speaker 1: dad is essential. Remember when COVID happened and the whole
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Speaker 1: nation closed down, Amen, And the only people who could
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Speaker 1: be out there driving and working were the essential workers.
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Speaker 1: Why because the government felt that it was important for
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Speaker 1: truckers and people who are delivering meds of the hospitals,
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Speaker 1: the nurses, the doctors, and the bars and the churches closing.
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Speaker 1: That's totally worldly, that's totally nonsense. But the essential workers
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Speaker 1: that were out there doing having important roles to play. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I was one of them, Thank you Jesus. I was
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Speaker 1: delivering meds because I knew that was going to be
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Speaker 1: a boom. I knew that was going to be something
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Speaker 1: that was necessary, that something that was needed during the
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Speaker 1: COVID time. So I went out there to serve. Man,
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Speaker 1: I went out there to serve, kind of like risking it,
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Speaker 1: all right. But the thing about it is that they
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Speaker 1: deemed that type of work essential work. And I believe
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Speaker 1: spiritual fatherhood, Amen, is essential work. And you can see
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Speaker 1: it all throughout the scriptures. So man, let's not be
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Speaker 1: too busy right not to get into the word and
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Speaker 1: not to apply the principles of being a dad or
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Speaker 1: being a father or a spiritual leader. Some people don't
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Speaker 1: have children like fleshing blood children. Some people have spiritual children.
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Speaker 1: I have spiritual sons and I have spiritual daughters. Amen
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Speaker 1: did I do? I did my best for what I
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Speaker 1: knew how to do when I was raising them in
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Speaker 1: the faith. And every now and then I'll get a
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Speaker 1: call or text every now and then I get to
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Speaker 1: see what's going on in their lives. Amen. And I'm
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Speaker 1: just blessed and honored that I was able to apply principles,
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Speaker 1: biblical principles in my spiritual children's life and also my
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Speaker 1: flesh and blood children's life. I could do that, Amen.
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Speaker 1: It's just humbling and honoring. I don't say nothing boastful.
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Speaker 1: If it wasn't for God and his grace, where would
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Speaker 1: I be? If it wasn't for good and his grace?
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Speaker 1: Where would you be? Especially as a man. So all
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Speaker 1: the women out there that are watching, all the ladies,
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Speaker 1: young ladies that are looking for you, know your husband.
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Speaker 1: Make sure your future husband. Ladies, if you're a young lady,
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Speaker 1: and you're not married yet, make sure your boyfriend or
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Speaker 1: whatever is a spiritual leader. He might not have it
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Speaker 1: all together. I don't think we will all never have
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Speaker 1: it all together on this side of eternity. But at
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Speaker 1: least he's looking for the one, or he's applying the
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Speaker 1: one that has it all together in their lives the
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. Amen. That's a good start. And of course, boundaries,
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Speaker 1: young ladies, put up boundaries. Don't let any man, even
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Speaker 1: if they say they're a Christian or not a man,
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Speaker 1: just get in your life and do whatever they want
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Speaker 1: with you. Am. I'll leave it like that. I'll leave
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Speaker 1: it PG. Guard your hearts, guard your minds. Make sure
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Speaker 1: you use discernment. Women have great discernment. I think they're
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Speaker 1: born with like this discernment. They have like a radar,
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Speaker 1: more keen in my opinion, than men. But use discernment. Pray,
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Speaker 1: of course, and ask the Lord if this is the
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Speaker 1: right one. You don't want to waste time. You don't
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Speaker 1: want to be dating ten to fifteen guys, amen, and
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Speaker 1: realize none of them were up to your standards. What
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Speaker 1: about the one that was trying to follow the Lord
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Speaker 1: Jesus don't leave that one out. Amen, Really reignite or
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Speaker 1: reinvestigate that relationship an and see if it was the
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Speaker 1: right relationship for you. That's all I got to say.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why I went down that road. That's
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Speaker 1: for someone. So are spiritual leader? What makes spiritual decisions right?
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Speaker 1: Lead by example, Live out your faith in everyday life. Pray,
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Speaker 1: Read the Bible. Can you imagine you say, oh, I
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Speaker 1: believe in the Lord, and then you don't read the scriptures.
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Speaker 1: Come on, read the scriptures. It's okay. Read the Bible,
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Speaker 1: attend church regularly. If you can write and serve others,
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Speaker 1: that should be like a no brain and to serve others,
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Speaker 1: especially if you have holy spirit living inside of you.
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Speaker 1: We should be able to serve with love, serve one another,
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Speaker 1: and love children and spouses. They'll literally imitate what they
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Speaker 1: consistently see now, what they see every now and then.
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Speaker 1: If I came into my home and every now and
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Speaker 1: then I pray. If I came to my home and
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Speaker 1: every now and then, I'll do them morning devo. If
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Speaker 1: I came to my home and every now and then
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Speaker 1: I feel like a Christian, I'll act like a Christian.
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Speaker 1: They won't follow that because that's inconsistent. But when I'm consistent,
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Speaker 1: sooner or later, my spouse, my children, the people around
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Speaker 1: me will know that I am about my father's business,
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Speaker 1: and they will consistently see a man of God working
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Speaker 1: it out. Not just what they hear, but it's about
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Speaker 1: what they see. Amen. Proverbs twenty verse seven. The righteous
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Speaker 1: who walks in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So read, Joshua. Read the scriptures, Amen, for yourself. I
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Speaker 1: believe we're at twenty four right. Read the whole chapter
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Speaker 1: for yourself. Amen, and there you can see God's heart
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Speaker 1: on the matter about fathers. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: hanging out with me for this morning, Devo. I'll send
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Speaker 1: you all out with a blessing. Yeah, Joshua, twenty four.
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Speaker 1: I was making sure I had to write scripture. Read
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Speaker 1: the whole chapter for yourself. God. Bless you all, God
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Speaker 1: keep you all, and remember always that God is good. Please,