Latest / Join With Me Podcast / Episode 12 - What is Family?
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- Join with Me Ministries Podcast Episode 12: We are honored that you have chosen to listen to this podcast. Join with me, where the information will be biblical, filled with joy, and very helpful. Stay tuned to the end where you will learn how to communicate with Rayburn and Donna about today's episode. Hi, I'm Rayburn here. This is Join with Me Podcast. thank you for listening. For watching, whichever you may do. just a few disclaimers, you know. I know we've had a little issue on the YouTube if you're watching it. there's you know some some blurring and different things with the we're working on it, okay? Just just bear with us, we are working on it. trying to get things, you know, all right. So we're still in that process. But What I want to talk to you today about, I'm trying, if you if you've been with us, you've you've learned that our platform for join with me podcasts is based on faith, family, fitness, and fulfillment. So I'm trying to lay groundwork. We talked about Donna and I, and now I'm trying to talk about the foundation for the podcast and the four different areas. I I did a coup an episode about faith. I tried to define, describe, and that that that that is our foundation is faith. I want to do one on family just a little bit. And so you can kind of get an idea of of family. When I say faith, family. What do I mean by family? well let me just ask some questions. Let's approach it from a practical standpoint. Where does family come from? Well, that's a fair question, I think. I I'll make a couple statements. I'll say that everyone has a family. Now, lem let me clarify that. I'm not saying that everybody has a traditional family of a mother, father, brothers, sisters, cat, dog. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that everyone has a family. So let me describe that. Well think about it. I'm just gonna I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm not trying to be funny or cute, but everybody comes into this world from a woman. Everyone is con that from from the woman could is conceived by man. So what I've said is an absolute fact. I realize not everyone that listens to this podcast are all in on Christ the or the Bible. I I understand that. You you you might not deny Christ or your God or even the Bible, but you're not totally all in with everything. And by the way, I got a question that's coming in a couple weeks for our for our pastor friend about the Bible. how do we how do we all believe, or if we don't believe, I I got some questions about the Bible, maybe you do too, so make sure you get them to me. First off, if you're not a Christ follower or Bible follower or believer, thank you for listening. that. Thank you for listening to this podcast. Cause I'm never gonna try, I told you I'm never gonna try to convert you or or I'm not trying to argue with you or win an argument or convince you. I'm I'm j I oftentimes I'm telling you what I believe, why I believe it, and I'm just kind of offering solutions. But if life started with birth and that came from man and woman, well then where did that start? In other words, if you keep going back, okay, with man or woman, where do they come from? Okay. I think that question needs to be answered, so I I just once again I happen to believe what the Bible says. I believe what we would call the Bible account of creation. in Genesis 1:1, a lot of people will know that verse. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. If you go back and read Genesis chapter 1, you'll he he goes through the light. The water, the all everything. So so in the beginning, God. So I think that what I believe is that everything has to start with God. That's just logical thinking for me. And i if it's not for you, then I that's okay. I I'm not a an apologist where I can defend all parts of the Bible. That's not me. I I I I know some people and do that pretty well, but but But so if if I believe that everything starts with with God and what the Bible says in Genesis chapter one, the creation, Genesis chapter two and verse seven, God created man. And then later in that same chapter, chapter two, verse twenty two, God created woman. So you you understand that that's what I believe, that's where man and woman are. started. I choose to believe that. now from man and woman, the original man, the original woman, at what we would call Adam and Eve, they pro excuse me, procreated that that from them came children, children, children, and and that's where really God early on said he wanted them to multiply. That was part of the command, multiply. So if you if you choose to believe that the creation, the Bible the Bible account of creation, then you agree this is where the family was established. Now if you have other ideas about that, I I I that's okay. I mean just somehow think you if you start with man, woman, children that to me is where family comes about. By the way, that makes it extremely important. I mean that. not only just important, but extremely important. So once again, if I believe God created man, woman, then he certainly defines that relationship. And by the way, I'm not gonna get off into all the misunderstandings or confusion maybe The Bible's clearly man-woman. There is no other definition of that. Man is a man, woman's a woman. You know the difference. There are differences. Physically, mentally, emotionally, men, women are different. I'm so thrilled to be able to offer a new sponsor, Community Mortgage, and my friend Becky Schultz. She's got an amazing opportunity for investors. Becky has some not only her lending, she's got an amazing opportunity for investors. Now, I promise you, some of you are thinking about investing in real estate, or at least you'd like to. 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Becky's license number is two five seven nine five two and community mortgage license number two four one four three. If God created and defined, do you think? It would be logical that he would describe such an important relationship. As he created all things, the light, the waters, the as he created all that, then he put man and woman on the earth, and he gave very specific instructions as to how the man and the woman would go forward. Well. I just I just say, okay, you've heard Donna's story, how we started, how we got together, we got married, and then Donna and I produced four children, and then those four children so far have produced seven grandchildren, their children, our grandchildren. My son has produced two boys. My daddy, by the way, was always concerned about the hair name. once I had a son, then he thought, okay, now the hair name can continue. So I've always made a deal out of that with my children. My son's produced two. My other son has a daughter as first. so Lord willing, he'll produce a son. And the hair name will continue. But anyway, it's just you know what my daddy would do. But we certainly married and we have say done our part, I mean, but we were part of that process that is the same in every country, nation, and people. They they produce children the same way. So if you resist the idea And I certainly know that there's plenty of people that resist the idea of roles R O L E S Roles in the Bible for men and for women. I I I get it. People resist that and they're afraid to, you know, say, well, think this is what women do I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, and I'm not here to discuss it now, that the Bible clearly defines Roles in different ways. Not not in superiority either, by the way. It's not that, okay, well, men are it doesn't mean that at all. It just means every organization, a family, a business, a nation, a country, establishes roles, leadership and what what have you. I I mean I think you understand that. But anyway. let me just say this. You s you heard a little story about Don and I and how we started. Well, I I always tell people ask us for occasions, and I've told this before, they'll say, How do you guys live? How have you how have you been married for forty-seven years? What's your secret? Same thing. I say, look, we started believing in in Ephesians five twenty-one. We quote learned it, we quoted this, learned it, quoted it together to each other. at our wedding in front of well I don't know how many people were there but submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. So we we submit ourselves to each other. Not she submits to me. No, we submit to each other in the fear of God. So we're trying to follow how God defines our relationship. Are we perfect in that? Absolutely not. No No, no. We've never been perfect at it. But here we are, 47 years later, still talking about it and still saying, hey, listen, we we can do better. So, no, we're not perfect. Family life is real. You know that. I the podcast seeking life together. You have disputes in parents, you have aging parents, you have heartbreakers. breaking stories of of real estate and listen I of of families and and I've been in the real estate business for a long time so I've seen heartbreaking stories. I sat in front of a got called to a family wanting to sell the the the farm the fli family farm and home and and and and there was a son and a father there and the father I I I kind of sensed some resistance to this idea. And the son, very particular, very specific, said, Daddy, if you don't sign this agreement to sell this property, we're gonna put you in a nursing home. my goodness. And I just you'll so you'll know, I I just b very simply spoke up and said, Hey, listen, I can't be a part of this transaction. You're putting undue influence on him, which makes a contract voidable, but But yeah, I won't I won't be a part of that. But I heard that. I've seen stories of things that that happen. So sad, sad. And you know stories? Families. All kinds of conflict, all kinds of hurt and siblings and aunts and uncles and boy, you let a something you let money get involved and you'll find it real quick in the in the in some of the best of families. So here's my question, and I'm almost done. If if God makes it, establishes it, don't you think He would know best how to function? That's my question. I say yes. That's my answer, yes. So I try to understand the roles of family and my role as a father, as a husband. Those are those are roles that I take. And I try to say I understand, I'm trying to understand that, and then I try to fulfill it. Have I been perfect? No, sir. Not as a father, not as a husband, not even remotely. But I'm still trying. Just know that when we talk about family, we're gonna have all kinds of things about family. I promise you, it's gonna be fun. But faith, family. I'm gonna try to do my next one on fitness and then fulfillment. That'll have our four platforms and then from there we just got all kinds of things planned to to try to fit into those categories. Not necessarily in order, but fit in. So thank you for listening. Thank you for being part of the Join Me podcast and I'm so thrilled with I get things coming back at me and people that are listening and I want it to be something that's practical, fun and and I just appreciate so much, you know, your participation. Please like, follow, all those things, let us know, because I just want it to be meet needs and be funny and intriguing. So thank you. This is Ray Burn Hare, Join With Me Podcast. We trust you enjoyed today's sharing from the heart. If you want to learn more, please feel free to contact us at Rayburnhair at gmail.com or you can go to our website joinwithme.life. Thank you for listening. Be sure to share with a friend and have a blessed day on purpose.