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Family Life in The Last Days | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Well, good afternoon. Do you have your Bibles with
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  you? This afternoon meet me in the
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  book is second. Timothy please in chapter 3,
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  2nd, Timothy chapter 3. And if you're there just bow
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  your head with me as we pray, Lord.
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  Again we thank you for bringing us into this new year.
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  Lord, we begin this new year together on the Lord's day
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  because we dedicate this year to you.
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  You are our life. There is no other purpose.
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  There is no other ambition that can compare to our desire to
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  glorify you on the Earth. Lord, we ask that in this
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  moment, as we hunger for righteousness, that you would
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  fill us and how you would speak through the written word for it
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  is your voice Lord with all sincerity in desperation.
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  We pray that this message would be free from confusion that it
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  would build up that it would Adorn us with godliness that it
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  would help us worship the Christ.
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  We asked, oh, Lord, that this message would not be delivered
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  in mere words. The Lord in the power of the
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  Holy Spirit. Lord, we know that we cannot
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  purchase that power. We cannot fabricate it.
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  We can't replicate. It has to come from heaven and
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  we know Lord that you purchased the gift of the holy spirit for
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  us through the blood. And so we just ask, oh, God,
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  because we do not depend on the flesh.
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  Today, we are eager to receive your touch.
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  We are desperate to receive your conviction and your comfort.
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  Lord. You are well aware, who in this
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  place is not born of the spirit. You know, who needs to be born
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  again? Would you would you show them
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  that they need it? That they need your salvation
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  Lord, you are fully aware, who in this place is hiding pain
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  with a smile. You know, who in this place may
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  be singing with words, but their hearts are dry.
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  Lord do a Reviving work in this place.
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  We ask you in Jesus name that you would be exalted, we ask you
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  o. God that you would be the theme
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  of our conversation as a result of this morning.
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  Lord, have your way reign in our hearts and be be blessed by what
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  you hear and Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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  Second Timothy 3 beginning in verse 1.
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  But understand this, that in the last days, there will come times
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  of difficulty for people. Will be lovers of self.
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  Lovers of money proud, arrogant, abusive disobedient to their
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  parents ungrateful, Unholy heartless, unappeasable
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  slanderous without self-control brutal.
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  Not loving good treacherous. Reckless swollen with conceit
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  lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having the
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  appearance of godliness. But denying its power of Avoid
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  such people. You and I over the past few
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  meetings paused in this series. In the book of 2nd Timothy to
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  rightfully commemorate, the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  We took some time to worship God, in light of the events
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  surrounding his first Advent, when Christ entered into this
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  world and it deserves for us to pause and to reflect on.
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  And so we stopped and we turned our attention to that truth.
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  But now we give our Focus back not to the events that led to
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  the first coming. But to the events that will lead
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  to his second coming. To his return, to the return of
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  the reigning Christ, Jesus. And I'm sure, maybe you have
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  thought that we've spent quite some time on these things and
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  you're probably wondering, you said that we were going to touch
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  on these things and we're still here.
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  You've repeated the same text a few times.
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  So why is it that we are taking so much time to dissect this
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  list of carnal characteristics. That will pervade in society as
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  it is now, Many reasons, may I provide one among many.
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  Here's one that as you and I understand.
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  The contrast between us and the world made encourage us, not not
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  discouraged, as but encouraged us to shine.
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  All the brighter in light of the gloominess that will Cloud this
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  generation and future Generations.
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  In other words as you and I hear these things, it should motivate
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  us to be the exact opposite by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  May, I remind you today of your identity and Christ you are the
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  salt of the earth. You and I are a light, a city on
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  a hill. and you and I are seeing these things not so that we can
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  get some kind of Prophetic Insight, it's pretty
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  straightforward but that as you and I continue to live in this
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  world, we would look at things like this say Lord, if this is
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  true, if the world to become more passionate about Sin, if
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  they're going to go from bad to worse than make me, holy or more
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  effective, give me the grace to be able to stand out at the wind
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  people to your kingdom. You and I from time to time are
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  also going to hear how Christ Jesus when he comes to this
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  world, that's going to be riddled with.
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  Such things is going to clean up house, and he's going to rule
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  and Reign and righteousness will cover this Earth as well as his
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  glory as the sea does. And so we come here and we read
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  these things. Again, hoping that you'll be
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  energized, hoping that you will you will sense and excitement.
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  That God, perhaps may use me in a world covered with this filth.
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  Does anything stand out to you from this list?
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  I'm sure if we had a conversation about it, you'd
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  say, isn't it amazing? That Paul said, this is an
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  amazing that people will increase in that and we have now
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  arrived to a certain portion that I believe is worthy to stop
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  on and to consider, I don't want you to be afraid.
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  We're not going to stop on every single point but there are some
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  things that just meditate on and we're going to meditate on where
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  we left off. Paul says concerning the last
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  days that one of the things that will go from bad to worse is
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  that children? We'll be more disobedient.
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  To their parents. I find that fascinating.
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  You know why I find it fascinating?
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  Because when you look at all these other evils there, there
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  is no trouble to see how they have broader application.
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  There are many ways, somebody can be a lover of self, there
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  are many ways, somebody can be proud.
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  There are many ways, somebody can be a lover of money, but
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  this sin is specific. It's very narrow.
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  It's highlighted, children will be disobedient to their parents.
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  And I believe, one reason why it is mentioned is because God is
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  trying to hint to us. That this is a great crime in
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  his sight. God is trying to show us his
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  heart that this is a significant disturbance to him and that
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  might challenge you that might disturb you because I'm sure you
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  can think of much more atrocious evils that do more damage than a
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  certain behavioral pattern that is common among children.
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  Anyway, is this really a big deal to God?
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  Is this really worthy of mentioning, is this a flag for
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  us to consider when we meditate on the final days before the
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  return of Christ? It is. if you understand the
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  mind of God, if you understand the value that he places on the
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  home, if you understand his design for the family, if you
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  understand his purpose in children, And US, bearing
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  children, you see? When Paul mentions that there
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  will be a greater Disobedience to parents, he's talking much
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  more than just about an unfortunate attitude.
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  That makes the job of parents a little bit more difficult.
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  No. He's speaking about the decay in
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  the most foundational institution that God has
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  ordained in order for a civilization to thrive.
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  We are not speaking about just a bad temper or a terrible twos.
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  No, we're talking about here that there will be a troubling
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  resistance to the ordained Authority that God has placed in
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  the home on a level. That it will corrupt the
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  culture. How?
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  very simple, because if you have people more specifically
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  children, Who will not will not abide by the authority of a
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  father and a mother then what makes you think that they're
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  going to accept any other system of authority in the Spheres of
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  society? That's the problem.
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  The problem is this, that if there is Disobedience at the
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  foundational level, what will it look like on the secondary ones?
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  If there is corruption and chaos and Havoc within the home?
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  What is going to happen in the schools?
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  What's going to happen at work? What's going to happen on the
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  streets? we must see that Paul is
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  speaking about here that be generation of the family when he
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  says That there will be Disobedience to parents and this
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  is particularly angering to God, why?
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  Because of Malachi 215 we learned that one of the purposes
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  in which God brings a man and a woman together is that they
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  would produce what Offspring no Godly offspring.
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  Death from generation to generation.
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  God, what have those who reflect the image of his son as a
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  witness to the world? And when you come to this text,
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  we realize that this assaults this attacks, the very DNA of
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  the purpose of God. And having children and raising
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  our Offspring. But I want to tell you that as
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  Paul prophesized this, he's not saying that this is just going
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  to happen out of nowhere. He's not just saying that this
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  is just gonna spring up and all you're gonna have is now as a
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  band of disobedient. Kids running around.
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  No, no. There are things that will lead
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  to this. This is the fruit of something
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  else. This is the result.
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  This is the consequence. I believe I've many things for
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  the sake of time today, we're not going to consider all the
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  things. But may I present to you, at
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  least Couple of options of why it is that in the days to come.
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  We're going to see greater Rebels.
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  We're going to see greater greater Rebels, and some of them
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  won't be able to drive yet. One of the things that I believe
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  will contribute to this, This dysfunction number one is that
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  there will be a growing neglect of Parental discipleship, there
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  will be a growing neglect of Parental discipleship.
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  Although I don't have kids. I don't have to do something
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  else before I get there. I don't have children.
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  I hope that my lack of experience will not bring
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  hindrance to your hearing. I praise God today that my my
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  job as a as a servant in the capacity of a minister is not to
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  tell you about my experience though.
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  It may help and I'm sure there's a level of authority that comes
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  from experience. I'm not against that but my job
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  today is used to tell you what God Said.
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  My task today is just to tell you what God says about the
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  matter and I trust that it is clear enough and it is
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  straightforward enough to provide instruction.
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  Though, the vessel may not be in the season of the subject.
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  With that being said, would you turn in the Old Testament with
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  me to the book of First Kings? and chapter 1 beginning in verse
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  5, First Kings chapter 1, beginning in verse 5, There will
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  be a growing neglect of Parental discipleship.
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  And here is an example for us to consider First Kings 15.
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  We read now adonijah, The son of hagatha.
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  Exalted himself saying I will be king.
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  And he prepared for himself chariots and Horsemen and fifty
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  men to run before him adonijah. Keep that name in mind, we read
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  of this man early in the book of First Kings, right after the
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  first few verses in, which we learn about the failing body.
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  And the old age of King David himself.
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  Yes, that man after God's heart, and we are told now early in
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  this book about one of his sons named adonijah and he is one of
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  our many sons in fact, he's not just one among many sons, he is
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  one among many sons among many wives, More specifically.
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  He is the fourth son to his fourth wife.
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  I don't know what got into David said.
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  But if you read in a portion of scripture that with every wife,
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  he had a child, and what's interesting is that this man
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  after God's heart, Really failed in his understanding of God's
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  will for marriage. God's Will and design for the
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  home. And what we read here in this
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  verse is that one of his sons adonijah is ready to secure the
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  throne knowing full. Well that that Throne belongs to
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  his brother Solomon, the successor and we read here that
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  he exalted himself that he was puffed up with pride unashamedly
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  and he begins to create a problem with in not just the
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  home, but in the Kingdom of Israel itself, Now, I believe
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  there's a lesson here just based on that understanding, David's
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  background and the behavior of many of his children.
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  You see, here's the principal when you and I fail to trust in
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  God's design and its blueprint for relationships, especially
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  marriage, which includes the roles of marriage.
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  And we failed to understand the design and the blueprint for the
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  home, including children, what you and I will do is inherit
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  pain, confusion frustration, when we place our own ideas of
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  how we should Express and experience relationships, and we
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  don't trust God's wisdom about the standard of who a wife
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  should be or a husband. Then you inherit to a certain
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  degree, what David will inherit and that is much, much pain that
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  could have been avoided. If you would just believe God to
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  begin with, if you just trusted God, throughout the process
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  throughout the journey. And so, the fruit of what we're
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  about to discover in part comes from, David's failure to
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  understand how a family should even start.
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  But is that really the main reason?
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  Some would say yes and if you ever had wondered why it is that
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  God allows polygamy in the Bible realize that God never
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  permitted. It and realize that, with every
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  example of polygamy in the Bible, you never see a
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  successful home. Just because God is silent about
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  the issue. Does it mean that he is for it?
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  Just go to his will and you will see his mind on the matter.
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  But that's not the main reason polygamy is not the issue.
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  It contributed to it, it fueled it but it's what we read in the
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  next verse that shows us what happened for adonijah to be this
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  way verse 6. His father had never at any
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  time. Displeased him say Or asking why
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  have you done thus? And so he was also a very
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  handsome man, just like Dad and he was born next after Absalom.
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  Do you see it? Do you see it?
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  Why was adonijah willfully? Fighting against God's will for
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  the throne. Why was this man?
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  So puffed up, why was this man Gathering other men to come
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  against his own dad? It's not because of adonijah
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  though, he did have a will but in great part the holy spirit
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  is, showing us that he was deficient in his character
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  because of the lack of investment from his father.
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  The holy spirit is showing us this the holy spirit.
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  It's so clear. Why mention this right after
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  telling us about the Revolt that he's about to start?
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  There is a deficiency there, a deficiency.
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  So, great, that we are told that David never even questioned at
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  and I just Behavior. You might wonder why it is, was
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  David absent from his life was was David so busy with the
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  kingdom. I mean, I can tell you that if
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  you have several wives and each of them have a few children,
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  you're not going to be as present.
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  Or always David here in a trap throughout, his fatherhood the
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  Trap of, In The Name of Love, to smother your children with all
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  these gifts and a reservation to correct.
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  And to disciple them, lest you think that they will Rebel as a
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  result. So I better not step on their
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  toes and just, and just from time to time, maybe say a little
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  bit of a top but nothing significant enough to open their
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  eyes. Their sin David may have
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  provided in many ways for his children and for adonijah, but
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  he failed to give to him the very thing that would shape his
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  character, especially in the developmental years of his life.
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  Where was the discipleship? Proverbs 22:15 tells us Folly
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  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child but the rod of
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  discipline drives it far from him.
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  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child.
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  That's very insightful, isn't it?
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  This may disappoint you, but our children don't enter into this
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  world. With the Book of Proverbs wired
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  in their system. Our children don't come with a
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  heart filled with discretion and knowledge and only manifests as
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  they develop their communication skills.
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  Know that bundle of joy, that bundle of cuteness, the roles on
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  their arms and their legs, the cute smile, all of that is
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  covering up a heart, ready to Rebel.
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  Not your child, of course, right. because of Adam, Because
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  that is the nature that we all inherited and look at the wisdom
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  of God, hears, the wisdom of God that as this gift is given to a
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  family. God designed foolishness to be
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  chiseled from them. Through the means of loving
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  discipline from a father and a mother who has been entrusted
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  with them. God designed it that way.
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  You see there's an attack on the home for greater things than
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  just attacking the home, this generational consequences and as
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  though God is saying, I'm going to provide you a gift that will
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  reflect my image and has the potential to be a vessel of
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  righteousness. But because of Adam, they will
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  come to you with a disposition to disobey me to disobey you,
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  and this will be others and left to themselves.
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  They will like Adonai just seek to be their own rulers.
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  They were like adonijah say, I want to be king.
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  I want to be Queen. But it is your duty to direct
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  them. It is your duty to guide them in
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  a way that would lead them ultimately, to my son, who can,
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  who can be the only one who ultimately changes them.
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  David didn't do this at all. The role of a parent is a great
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  responsibility and just watching parents.
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  Just traveling with their kids alone, I can feel the way that
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  can. I could see that I can see the
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  difficulty but one of the responsibilities that is so
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  great is to guide them to progressively, be delivered from
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  Adams nature, although we cannot save them.
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  There is a restraining power that God has given us through
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  the principles of his word. And our ultimate hope is that
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  they would meet Christ. Maybe change from the inside
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  out. David was a Man Who Loved god
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  with his heart. The Bible tells us that, but I'm
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  going to say something that might shock you.
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  Although he loved god with his heart, he indirectly hated his
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  son. Not directly hated his son.
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  indirectly hated his son because in the same Book of Proverbs we
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  read in Chapter 13 Verse 24, whoever spares his Rod hates his
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  son, Whoever spares the rod hates his son but he who loves
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  him is diligent to discipline him.
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  What does this mean? It means this that he refuses to
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  lovingly teach and worn and exhort and even at the
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  appropriate age provides some kind of discipline by the rod
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  according to God the person who neglects this.
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  Hates their child. No matter how much you say, you
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  love them, no matter how much you buy stuff for them, no
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  matter how much you feel about them.
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  If this is absent according to God, it is hatred and his sight,
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  he say, how can that be? Well let me ask you this if a
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  child was riddled with disease. Was infected with a disease and
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  the Cure the remedy has been placed in the hands of the
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  parent, but they refuse to give it to their child.
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  Would you not think that they hate their child?
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  And yet there is the sin of the Soul.
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  There's a sickness of the soul and the medicine has been
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  provided through the means of parents, who understand the word
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  of God and to apply the wisdom of the spirit and who operate
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  with the fruit of the spirit. In order to see a greater
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  Deliverance. ' for them to be people who would represent the
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  Prince of Peace. I'm not here today to provide
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  you lessons on how to best discipline your children.
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  That's Another time and there are people more qualified to
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  give that advice in the I believe.
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  But what I am saying is this David missed?
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  It completely, he completely missed it and the Bible is true
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  and showing us the reality of his failure.
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  I love the Bible because it does not hide the failures of men and
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  women. And what David failed to show
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  his son that I ja God does not fail to show his children.
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  Because my Bible and your Bible says in Hebrews 12 verse 6 for
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  the Lord disciplines, the one he loves.
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  How do you know? Jesus, love you?
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  Well for God. So loved the world that He Sent
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  His only begotten son. Wonderful.
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  Have you reached the point in your Christian Life where you
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  say? I know God loves me because he
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  disciplines me. Many Christians limit God's love
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  to what he provides for them to the blessings.
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  The new car, the great health. That's that's one expression.
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  But can I ask you this? Do you believe God loves you
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  through his discipline? Because the Bible says he loves
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  those whom he disciplines. You know what that means about
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  God. Unlike David he is not willing
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  to allow you to remain a state in a state of apathy in
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  disobedience. He will not, he loves you too
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  much as a father to allow you to remain in a condition that will
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  destroy you others. And ultimately, Taint his glory,
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  he loves you too much. And so what will he do?
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  He will disturb you lovingly, he will send piercing conviction.
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  He will even have to wound you in order to sanctify you and he
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  will allow you all trust me, he will allow you to stay in remain
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  in the season of hardship so that it can have a cleansing
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  work on your soul. Where am I getting this from?
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  This is my own idea, this is not the only place where it tells us
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  on more than one occasion. It tells Listen, our Bibles that
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  he chastises, Those whom he loves, and he told it to a whole
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  church at one point, a whole church that was plagued with
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  lukewarmness, and they were happy in that condition.
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  They thought were Rich were prosperous, we have Prestige, we
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  have pedigree that there were dead inside and God from Heaven,
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  as a heavenly father says, I cannot in my love.
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  Allow you to stay that way. So he sends a word of rebuke and
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  he says, are you You ready for me to spit you out of my mouth?
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  And then he clarifies by saying Those whom I rebuke Those whom I
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  discipline. Are those whom I love read in
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  Revelation 3:19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline.
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  And so he was ready to shake them.
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  He was ready to do something spectacular.
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  That might have hurt that might have been painful, but what does
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  Hebrews tell us, just listen to it.
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  And don't don't turn there. You don't have to, in Hebrews 12
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  10. Speaking about Earthly fathers
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  for they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to
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  them. But he being God disciplines us
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  for our good. That we may share his holiness.
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  That we may share his holiness. It's always for our good.
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  David failed to show that to his son and had an eye job because
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  of that was not just trouble for David and his other Sons.
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  He brought trouble to Israel. And surely this will contribute
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  to the increased chaos in our culture, as David's, negligence
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  will be common in those days. I think it's appropriate to stop
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  here for a moment to speak about how what Paul says this
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  Disobedience among children will flourish and manifest.
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  Here's one of the ways among men, eight, We're seeing it
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  already. Are we not do we not perceive it
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  that the cultural continual assault on motherhood. and the
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  growing trend of a lack of examples from Godly men, Who
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  will lay down their lives for their wives and their children.
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  A couple of those things together and we have a recipe
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  for disaster. And you come to this book and
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  you see how countercultural it is on every issue including the
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  estimation and the value of the home.
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  Can I show you one place in the book of Titus, Titus?
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  2:4 we read when God instructs, not the pastor, not the Sunday
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  School teachers, when he's speaking to the mothers, he
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  speaking, to the older woman of the church and he says there in
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  Titus, 2:4 concerning the older woman and how they should relate
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  with the younger. Married woman.
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  And what do we read in Titus? 2:4 and so train.
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  Train, the young woman to love their husbands and children.
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  Train them. To be self-controlled pure
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  working at home. And if I read this, if I posted
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  this on social media, if I read this on my secular job, they
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  would whip me out of the place. Working at home, kind.
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  And submissive to their own husband's.
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  That the word of God may not be reviled.
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  Older women in the church, listen to this Arc command not
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  suggested Paul, Paul's not giving suggestions for the local
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  church commanding that older woman within the church be
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  intentional. And actually speaking to those
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  younger woman who have been married, who are freshly married
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  and what had a love, their husband and their children.
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  I read this and I thought to myself, is this really
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  emphasizing the local church. Among many other things.
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  How much is this really emphasized?
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  Do older, women really seek out younger woman?
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  And to provide the wisdom from their own experience and the
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  word of God do younger woman in their humility and hunger seek
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  out the wisdom of older women to know how they can be more
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  prepared and more Adorn for this wonderful role.
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  As a mother as a wife, It goes to show that God cherishes he
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  sees the incomparable value of the health of the home because I
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  want to tell you today that a holy church is built by holy
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  homes. it's not individualistic here when I just coming here and
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  just no, no, this is it integrates in life in the living
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  room in the kitchen, And God intends for the church, to be a
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  help to the home. And it's a circular thing, where
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  then the home comes in and blesses, the church, So he says,
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  among other things, older woman, train train the younger ones to
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  love their husbands and their children.
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  And you know what, the message of the world is it, it's the
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  opposite. Because what the world is
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  saying, don't get married at all.
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  And trained to love your children.
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  No, no. Children are burden and there's
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  such a burden that you have the right to kill them in the womb
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  if they're inconvenient. And if you are married.
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  Well. Okay, let's figure this out.
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  Since you did get married, if you are married trained to love
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  them with, loyalty, know if you feel like your heart fell out of
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  love. I follow your heart even if it
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  leads you away from your spouse. And this is why as we are
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  understanding, second Timothy 3, when I just dumping data on us
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  this afternoon, we're trying to understand as this is going to
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  become a growing Trend in the homes.
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  And the narratives of the world, we must as a church, strengthen
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  our understanding disciple and trained so that we would have
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  healthy. Holy homes, stand in contrast to
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  this wicked world. Growing negligence of Parental
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  discipleship. Oh, we can talk about it for the
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  next few Sundays. Just the mention is enough, I
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  believe But there will be a growing secondly influence from
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  corrupt surroundings, not just a growing negligence of Parental
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  discipleship, but a growing influence from corrupt
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  surroundings. I want us to look at another son
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  of David and if you turn to 2nd Samuel 13 will see another
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  insight to what Paul prophesied about children in the last days.
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  we looked at adonijah, but now we're going to look at amnion
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  I'm ninh. Emmalin's issue is not the same
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  as adonijah has issue. Adonijah had a craving for the
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  throne. And then had a lust for a woman.
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  And this lust was not, was not normal, because he was, he was
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  wanting his half-sister Tamar. And this desire was so intense.
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  It was eating up to such a degree that he actually became
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  physically ill. Physically ill and wanting this
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  woman that he knew he could not have.
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  And in the same way you and I heard the main cause to add an
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  eye, just dangerous and rebellious Behavior, you and I
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  are now going to see the key factor that pushed, and then
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  over the edge. What was the Tipping Point for
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  this man? To make this temptation become a
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  reality. Because unfortunately, when you
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  read this chapter, you will see that am ninh and then responded
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  to this desire in ended up raping his half-sister.
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  What was the reason? It's in verse 3. but amnion had
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  a friend. N had a friend whose name was
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  jonadab the son of shamya, David's, brother.
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  And jonadab was a very crafty man.
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  But Hamlin, had a friend, you see?
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  There was a man in an ins life. that was not a faithful friend,
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  you could almost say that this was a man and surroundings And
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  then did not have a friend that can look him in the eyes because
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  she discovered. Why was that a man's head was
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  low and his shoulders Shrugged jonadab ask him, what's going on
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  with you man? Every time I see you you looked
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  sad, you look depressed, you barely eat your food and and
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  then expresses his longings his fantasies with Tamar and jonadab
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  failed to be a faithful friend because a true friend would have
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  looked him in the eyes and says, what are you thinking, man?
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  Have you lost your mind? You're going to give in to this
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  do you realize what's going to happen to you?
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  You realize, what's going to happen to her?
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  Do you realize what's going to happen to the glory of God?
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  He failed to rebuke him. He failed to warn him.
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  He failed to admonish him and he didn't just fail to do that.
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  He actually did the opposite, he encouraged him.
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  See you have two types of friends in life.
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  You have friends who will help you fight your Temptation and
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  you have friends who will help you feel your temptation?
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  And I've seen many Christians who can't grow because like em
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  and they have a friend. They have a friend and they're
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  not just talking about people in the Gen Z category.
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  I'm talking about people who are baby boomers They can't.
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  They haven't grown in Christ in 20 years all because they had a
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  friend. And this man had a friend and he
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  fueled his temptation, he gave him a strategy, he gave him a
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  plan to know how to satisfy this list.
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  You know, what's incredible here?
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  I look at Jonah table and I see a glimpse into the world of the
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  last days, because as we learned, a few weeks ago, the
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  spirit informs us that in the final hour, in those moments
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  leading up to Christ's return people.
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  It will be a cultural norm. People will be lovers of self.
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  And we heard it. They will love pleasure more
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  than they will love God. Even if that pleasure offends
• 37:05
  God, even if it's trips people from their rights, people be
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  love of pleasure, more than God. Unlike Jonah dad, the
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  suggestions of the culture, will only get louder and louder and
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  louder and what should be rightly recognized as perverted
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  will actually be deemed as normal.
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  That's what jonadab did. She see and then realize that he
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  couldn't go for this because it was abnormal and it was through
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  the Whispers of Jonah that I don't know.
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  This is fine. You can actually satisfy this
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  lies is that not what the culture is Whispering to our
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  children? If you feel it, do it, if you
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  think it, you are it. If you want it, you can have it.
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  Such a truth may cause parents this afternoon to leave this
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  place more discouraged and encourage more filled with
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  anxiety, than with hope. And I'm not here to give this
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  message to cause that. No, I'm here to give you a
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  message of Hope because, although, although, this will be
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  more and more prevalent, we serve a God who is powerful, and
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  he is so powerful and so faithful that he is supplied,
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  the church he is supplied, his Spirit, he is supplied, the word
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  of God to ensure that our children would be so strong.
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  That no cultural tide can overpower them.
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  We have to believe that. It's a Perfect Cue for a song is
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  enough. I know I think we should keep
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  it. I don't know anything.
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  God sounds more emotional, doesn't it?
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  Live sermon gem. We don't have to edit it later.
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  You and I have to understand something.
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  God has given us so much. To prepare our children.
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  I want to give you hope today and you might think well yeah
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  well well I'm then was the son of a man who was known as a
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  person after God's Own Heart. Any made this horrific decision?
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  And I'm here to tell you that, I completely understand.
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  I'm realistic in that people have grown up with Godly
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  Parents, can make foolish decisions.
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  But I'm also here to tell you that when you have a God-fearing
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  father, a God-fearing mother and makes it much more difficult for
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  their children to dishonor Christ.
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  There is a restraining power. In every almost every
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  institution. In fact, in every institution
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  that God has ordained in the home with the government.
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  With the church. And that is why our culture is
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  attacking every single one of those institutions.
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  Because it loosens the restraining power that God has
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  built through these institutions.
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  May, I remind you again, if you are not convinced What kind of a
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  father David was? How do you think David responded
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  when he heard about and then sin against against Tamar?
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  You don't have to guess go down to verse 21 of chapter 13.
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  When King David heard of all these things.
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  He was very angry rightfully so but that's all that we heard,
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  that's all that we see. He doesn't go to protect Tamar,
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  he doesn't go to provide healing and provide Comfort.
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  It he doesn't do anything of the sort and he never.
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  He never Warns or disciplines or chastises end?
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  makes you wonder if he was hesitant to do that because he
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  was reminded of his own sin with Bathsheba Makes you wonder that.
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  He felt this conviction. How can I go and tell my son?
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  What he did was wrong when I gave in to my own list.
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  I want to tell you today that although there will be a
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  corrupting culture that will try to reach the ears of our
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  children as it as it did for am ninh.
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  You have no reason to be afraid. I want to show you a negative
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  response as we close a negative response to a person who cared
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  for a child and the positive response to what you.
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  And I should do, when there is a threat directed to our own
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  children. We're still in Samuel.
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  Go to 2nd Samuel, chapter 4 and verse 4.
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  I want you to see here, how fear the fear of a, of a person who
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  has been given the responsibility to take care of a
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  child can be more harmful than beneficial.
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  I want you to see what can happen when panic and anxiety
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  overtakes the heart of a good-hearted person who wants to
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  really see their child Thrive and grow and be protected.
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  Jonathan the son of Saul had a son who was crippled in his
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  feet. He was five years old.
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  When the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel and
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  his nurse, the nurse who's been given the responsibility to take
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  care of him, took him up and fled and as she fled in her
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  haste, he fell down and became lame.
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  And his name was the fetish. Here's this tender little boy.
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  He was the son of Jonathan, the grandson of Saul and we learned
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  that that Saul and Jonathan died in battle and the News reaches
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  the kingdom and all-out panic breaks out.
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  And this nurse was unnamed begins to fear for mephibosheth
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  because she realizes that they're coming after the Royal
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  Line. Surely, he must be next.
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  And so in her genuine care and a genuine love, she Scoops up.
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  Mephibosheth and she flees, but we're told she flees in haste
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  and we're not told the details. But at one point as she runs
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  runs for, not just for her life, but for his life, she drops him.
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  And those tender little legs. That vulnerable neck.
• 43:39
  That spine was affected. I don't know if she fell over
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  something. I don't know if it was a
• 43:42
  balcony. I don't know if she crushed him
• 43:44
  when she fell with him. I don't know what it was but it
• 43:47
  was enough damage to make him paralyzed for the rest of his
• 43:50
  life. And what's good news about my
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  fetish f? Is that we later see that David
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  brings him in and allows him to sit at the table, the Royal
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  table and to Feast with him because he promised he promised
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  Jonathan that I will take care of your descendants.
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  I will not do them harm and it's a picture of the Gospel.
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  It's a picture of the Gospel that you and I because of our
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  first parents are crippled or crippled, but he who is the son
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  of David brings us to his table. Although you and I have been
• 44:23
  fractured by Adam's sin, you and I are invited to Feast with
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  Christ. What we see here is quite
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  amazing, though, because there's a practical implication that
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  this woman, this woman who is almost like a mother figure to
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  the feather shot was overcome by fear to such a point that she
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  acted in haste and she lost Mobility.
• 44:45
  She lost focus and it caused more harm.
• 44:52
  Than it did blessing. I think, I think a lot of
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  parents can fall into that trap. Think a lot of parents out of
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  great anxiety. Begin to operate more in the
• 45:03
  flesh than in the spirit and they Implement certain
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  principles and disciplines that ultimately hurt their children
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  more than actually help them flourish and grow.
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  And so, although you and I look into the Horizon of our world
• 45:19
  and we hear about threats that will probably come to our
• 45:23
  children that are, in fact, not even, it's not even.
• 45:25
  Solid more are targeted towards our children, may, we not erupt
• 45:30
  which such fear to the point where we hurt more than we help.
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  Because here is the example to follow and it's not an example
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  that I'm pulling out as an example.
• 45:40
  It's an example that God gives it's incredible.
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  That when you go to that Hall of faith and Hebrews 11 we think of
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  men like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob Samuel.
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  Moses. But tucked in all of that.
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  Are Moses parents. God, highlighted the faith.
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  Of a mother and a father that we just Brush by in the book of
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  Exodus. And I want you to leave with
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  this truth, as we look out and we see that it's only getting
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  lumiar and darker to not in haste, not in flesh, respond to
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  our children, Without faith in God, would you turn there in
• 46:26
  Hebrews 11 23 as we close together?
• 46:38
  I want to tell you today, that there is no reason to fear the
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  dangers in our world, to the point, where we lose our faith
• 46:46
  in God's Sovereign will, and Sovereign wisdom.
• 46:50
  Here's the faith of Moses parents.
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  By faith, Moses. When he was born, was hidden for
• 46:58
  three months by his parents because they saw that the child
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  was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
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  Put yourself in their sandals for a moment.
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  Imagine a law that passes in America.
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  That every Christian male that is born must be killed.
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  And there are surveillance and there are people knocking at
• 47:30
  your door. And there are people wanting to
• 47:34
  see if you have a baby boy in your house.
• 47:40
  That was the edict. I don't think many young couples
• 47:44
  would be encouraged to have babies.
• 47:47
  I have a feeling that many people would delay on obeying,
• 47:51
  be fruitful and multiply but this couple, they weren't
• 47:58
  afraid. They weren't afraid you think.
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  I don't know if I agree with that because that seems unwise.
• 48:04
  If that's the case I'm going to hold off and having a child, I'm
• 48:07
  going to wait until this passes by, they were not afraid because
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  God said something and they trusted it be fruitful and
• 48:14
  multiply we're going to be fruitful and multiply now being
• 48:18
  Fearless is not the same as being foolish because what do
• 48:21
  you read there that they still hit him for three months?
• 48:25
  They still protected him, they didn't expose him to Danger, see
• 48:29
  it's not Faith to say well God's in control so let's just throw
• 48:33
  our kids into the lions den. Know There's wisdom that he
• 48:37
  should be applied still, but there's also a faith that God is
• 48:40
  in control, even over Kings and their edicts even over the media
• 48:45
  and the, the songs and all those things.
• 48:47
  And the growing corruption in the land, god is Sovereign even
• 48:51
  over that because he has an intent with your family and just
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  like Moses. I don't know if when they saw
• 48:58
  that he was beautiful. They saw that.
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  There was a destiny that he was to fulfill many people debate.
• 49:03
  What they meant by this? What?
• 49:05
  It that they saw, was it? Because he was a beautiful baby
• 49:08
  like all. He's beautiful.
• 49:09
  So we better keep him. I doubt that is what it is.
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  But perhaps it is that they saw that there was a special calling
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  on Moses. And they wanted to protect him.
• 49:20
  And this faith in God was so great for their child.
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  That these slaves, these immigrants in a different land.
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  Could stand up to the king because they knew that their God
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  was on their side and they knew that their child has been
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  dedicated to the true and living God.
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  They were not afraid because they were not afraid.
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  You read later on in the same, the same text that when Moses
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  grew up, actually. Let's turn there.
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  Look what happened to Moses as a result of the faith of his
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  parents. Verse 27.
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  By faith. He left, Egypt.
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  Not being afraid. Not being afraid of the anger of
• 50:10
  the king. Where did he learn that from Mom
• 50:12
  and Dad? His faith.
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  His fearlessness. Was something that he received
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  from to Fearless parents. And he can trust in God because
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  Mom and Dad trusted in God. and I want to tell you today, That
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  like, these parents over their child or your child.
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  May not be a Moses. The child may not be a preacher.
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  Believe that God's design God's intent for your children is that
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  they would be used by him. It be used by him.
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  Today, as we start this New Year, we're going to dedicate a
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  portion of our time to pray for our families to pray for our
• 50:57
  children. And if your child is Wayward
• 51:01
  tonight, this afternoon, if your child is not what you thought,
• 51:04
  he or she would be though, you have prayed invested so much.
• 51:09
  I can't stop but think of Samson that guy caused a lot of
• 51:13
  Heartache to his mom and dad and they were Godly. you know, what
• 51:17
  happened to Samson, his whole life was a train wreck, but at
• 51:22
  the final moments, he turned to God.
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  Without Eyes without hair humbled and stripped of dignity.
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  He was included in the Hall of faith.
• 51:38
  I want you to leave here. Encouraged today?
• 51:40
  Yes, it's going to get worse out there with with families and
• 51:43
  children, but that means you and I have a chance to disciple a
• 51:48
  generation that will shine all the brighter for the glory of
• 51:51
  God. God is with you.
• 51:53
  He hears you, he sees you and he loves your children more than
• 51:57
  you love them. You keep praying for them, you
• 52:01
  keep loving them. You keep having fun with them.
• 52:04
  Don't be afraid to sit with them and to talk to them about Sin.
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  The world is teaching them about Sin.
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  If we're not going to disciple them, if we're not going to have
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  those honest conversations, the world, gladly will.
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  And let's not just believe I'm ending it here.
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  Let's not just believe that our children will be protected.
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  That's one benefit, that's one side of the coin.
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  Let's believe that they will go back and Pierce.
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  The Darkness as they are filled with the holy spirit of God.
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  Believe God for your children as Moses believed God.
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  As his parents believe, God for him.
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  No. Need to fear this new year.
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  God is with us. Let's pray.
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  Let's pray. Shall we pray?
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  I can I have somebody on the keys.
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  Please. Just to kind of drowned out.
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  Any thoughts or distractions? Thank you Laurie.
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  Here's what we're going to do. If you're with your wife, if
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  you're with your husband, pray for your children in this
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  moment. If you are siblings, if you feel
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  like you want, if your parents are here, go and pray with your
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  parents. Let's be intentional about this.
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  Okay. We're not going to hear
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  something like this and then just wave it off.
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  Let's be intentional about this. If this is the, if this is the
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  prophetic word for the generations leading to Christ,
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  let's dedicate our hearts. All the more to Christ.
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  Let's pray for our family. So you have the right now at
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  this moment to get up and move closer to your parents, to your
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  spouse wherever, Baby and let's just spend time to pray for
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  them. Okay.
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  Shake It Off. I know it's not the routine
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  service but it's okay. Let's let the spirit of God lead
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  us. So just In This Moment now, pray
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  with your spouse, pray for the Salvation of your daughter, pray
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  for the Salvation of your son. Pray that God would use them.
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  Pray that God would protect them.