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Family Life Chapter 6 - Family Honor · Passing On The Faith

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  SPEAKER_01: But what lesson did the baby boomers pass along when they aborted 80 million siblings of those who will operate the economy in the year 2030?
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  SPEAKER_01: These young people, on average, start out with less capital than any previous generation, and they are saddled with 300 times more college debt than the Gen Xers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, the baby boomers retire with far more debt than the silent generation, and very little, if any, inheritance to pass along.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what you get when a nation steeps in self-centered narcissism, materialism, and socialism over half a century.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: This experiment with socialism will not go well for the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: Integ to help you build a strong biblical foundation for your family.
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  SPEAKER_00: This week's episode is a chapter from our audiobook, Family Life, entitled Family Honor, written by Kevin Swanson.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chapter 6, Family Honor.
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  SPEAKER_01: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Exodus 2012.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is appropriate to dedicate an entire chapter to this commandment.
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  SPEAKER_01: For our God included this commandment addressed to parents and children in his list of ten.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the first commandment with a promise, according to the Apostle Paul.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there are usually temporal benefits that attend this command.
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  SPEAKER_01: When things are not going well for a family, it is plain that they are not enjoying the benefits promised.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ephesians 6 2-3.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where there are unhealthy families, disturbed relationships, conflicts, financial crises, divorce, and other family problems, often we do find that a lack of honor is somewhere in the mix.
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  SPEAKER_01: Should a couple come into the church for counsel and fail to follow through on the counsel they are given, one or both of them most likely are dealing with broken relationships with their parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very possibly they have failed to honor their parents somewhere along the line.
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  SPEAKER_01: God has hardwired this law into all of human life on this planet.
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  SPEAKER_01: Honor your parents, and things will go well with you on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: What does this honor involve?
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  SPEAKER_01: The Westminster Larger Catechism.
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  SPEAKER_01: 127.
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  SPEAKER_01: Provides a good summary of the duties required in the fifth commandment.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is the honor that inferiors owe to their superiors?
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  SPEAKER_01: Answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: The honor which inferiors owe to their superiors is, all due reverence in heart, word and behavior, prayer and thanksgiving for them, imitation of their virtues and graces, willing obedience to their lawful commands and counsels, due submission to their corrections, fidelity to, defense, and maintenance of their persons and authority, according to their several ranks, and the nature of their places, bearing with their infirmities, and covering them in love, that so, they may be an honor to them, and to their government.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is much to be said about each of these duties, and our time would be well spent in training our children in these.
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  SPEAKER_01: However, the most important thing a parent can do to train his children in honor is to exemplify honor to their own parents in the presence of their children.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have seen parents who do not reverence their own parents in heart, word, and behavior, deal with unrelenting, difficult rebellion in their own children.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Hebrew word for honor carries the idea of gravitas or weightiness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Elsewhere, God's law tells us that we should fear our father and mother, Leviticus 19.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the same word used for fearing and reverencing God, Proverbs 1.8, 910.
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  SPEAKER_01: Clearly, the application of this honor will vary for a 55-year-old who honors his 85-year-old father, as compared to a two-year-old who honors his 32-year-old mother.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are also differences between cultures, and also between families in regards to how honor is communicated between the generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the purposes of the rest of this chapter, however, we will consider the instruction that our Lord gave in Matthew 15 on honoring parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then, the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus saying, Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?
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  SPEAKER_01: For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
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  SPEAKER_01: He answered, and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
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  SPEAKER_01: For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and your mother.
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  SPEAKER_01: And, he who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you say, Whoever says to his father or mother, Whatever prophet you might have received from me, is a gift to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then he need not honor his father or mother.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thus, you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 15 1-6.
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  SPEAKER_01: There can be no question that Jesus Christ had immense respect for this commandment from God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some mistakenly believe that Jesus took issue with the Pharisees for their over-emphasis on God's laws.
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  SPEAKER_01: But actually, his issue with them was the opposite.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was concerned about their failure to respect the law of God, their avoidance of the core issues, and their lifting up of human traditions in primacy over the commands of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: In this case, the Jewish leaders had institutionalized an approach to tithing and giving to the temple that exempted their followers from providing for the needs of their parents in their old age.
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  SPEAKER_01: They called this social security program, Corbin.
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  SPEAKER_01: In so doing, they had disregarded the law of God, and encouraged others to break this holy commandment.
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  SPEAKER_01: The example of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: So great was Jesus' love for this commandment that he exemplified obedience to it on the cross.
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  SPEAKER_01: When we consider the importance of the person of Christ as the very, eternal Son of God, and as we think of the importance of the cross where he redeemed his people and died for the sins of the world, we can only stand in wonder at these words in John 19.
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  SPEAKER_01: As he hung there in agony, Christ looked down upon his mother and said, Woman, behold your son.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then he looked down upon his disciple John, and said, Behold, your mother.
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  SPEAKER_01: Does this digression seem a little incongruous, superfluous, or even unintentional?
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  SPEAKER_01: A non-sequitur?
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  SPEAKER_01: How does this fit into the scene that represents the greatest event in all of human history?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why does the Redeemer of the world stop the action for a moment, to provide for the care of his aging mother, by transferring responsibility to John?
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  SPEAKER_01: If we are to have the same mind of Christ, Philippians 2.4, and walk just as he walked, 1 John 2.6, then this short digression has immense meaning to every person who ever had a mother or a father in the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: There on the cross, our Lord honored his mother.
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  SPEAKER_01: He understood the will of the Father, Psalms 48, John 4.34.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the will of the Father is to take responsibility for the care of one's aging parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 15 1-6.
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  SPEAKER_01: We also learn that the priorities of Jesus are not always our priorities, or those priorities imposed on us by the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: In another passage that informs us concerning that momentous, final day in which the Son of Man will judge the world, Matthew 25, 31 to 46.
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  SPEAKER_01: Christ gives us more insight into the matters of the utmost importance.
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  SPEAKER_01: He does not mention the finer points of doctrine, eschatology, ecclesiology, or even soteriology.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing is said about who we voted for, or how much we complained about politics.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nor is there any mention of how many people were evangelized under our ministry work.
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  SPEAKER_01: What seems to be of the greatest concern in the day of judgment is whether we have reached out to the least of Christ's brothers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and visit the sick and those in prison?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is of essence to Christ is our relationship with Him and with His friends.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Pharisees had developed a human tradition, or, shall we call it an institution, whereby they could exempt a person from the obligation to care for his or her aging parents?
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  SPEAKER_01: Somehow, taking personal care of one's own parents had dropped off the priority list of the Pharisees.
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  SPEAKER_01: They lost sight of the will of God for family life.
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  SPEAKER_01: How does this same thing happen to us in the flurry of all of our systems, traditions, programs, institutions and bureaucracies?
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  SPEAKER_01: Has the modern social security system relieved us somewhat of our personal responsibility to our parents, in their old age?
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  SPEAKER_01: There should be no question that God feels strongly about this matter of caring for elderly parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: In what might be the most emphatic language used in the entire New Testament, the Apostle Paul refers to the man who is unwilling to care for his widowed mother or grandmother as worse than an unbeliever.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1 Timothy 5.8.
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  SPEAKER_01: It seems the Apostle considers such flagrant irresponsibility worthy of church discipline.
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  SPEAKER_01: Also reference 2 Thessalonians 3, 10-15.
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  SPEAKER_01: Christian family elder care is Christianity 1.01.
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  SPEAKER_01: Modern humanist philosophers love their institutional form of love, funded by government dollars.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like the archetypal humanist and socialist, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, they consider themselves the greatest lovers who ever lived, but they fail at love.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rousseau abandoned his five children upon their births, at the steps of an orphanage where they almost certainly died, because he did not wish to care for his own children.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was too busy saving the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Karl Marx starved his own children to death, and then introduced a socialist system that was supposed to be the incarnation of love on Earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Traditions of Men.
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  SPEAKER_01: The year 2011 was something of a symbolic year in the history of the United States.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was the year that the Social Security Fund went into the red, where it has remained ever since.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Social Security System was developed as a sophisticated Ponzi scheme, always relying on a positive birth replacement rate and a strong worker-to-retetiree ratio.
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  SPEAKER_01: The timing for the bust of Social Security could not have been worse, because 2011 was also the year that the first baby boomers entered their retirement years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Between 2011 and 2029, 80 million baby boomers will have retired.
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  SPEAKER_01: And over the next 35 years, they will require a high level of economic support before they die.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since 1960, this baby boom generation also instigated an abortion Holocaust that has resulted in 80 million dead babies in this country alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, who will support these retirees through the 2050s?
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  SPEAKER_01: In this country, expect the worker to retiree ratio in 2030 to be one-third of what it was in 1950 when Social Security was first implemented.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even more important for our consideration, what is the condition of the character of the younger generation?
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  SPEAKER_01: Will the few young people left be able to support the heavy load of elderly retirees and a bankrupt social security system?
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  SPEAKER_01: Will they live self-sacrificially and double their efforts to make up for the slack in the retirement funds?
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  SPEAKER_01: Regrettably, the timing for this system failure could not be worse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Time magazine recently reported the millennial generation to be the laziest, the unluckiest, and the most narcissistic generation ever.
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  SPEAKER_01: As we know, over half of children born to women under 30 years of age are born out of wedlock.
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  SPEAKER_01: If the majority of young men refuse to act the father for their own children in 2016, why would they care for the elderly in 2036?
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  SPEAKER_01: The masses of young men are playing their computer games while empires burn to the ground around them.
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  SPEAKER_01: A pattern seen in the fall of Rome in the 4th and 5th centuries.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what lesson did the baby boomers pass along when they aborted 80 million siblings of those who will operate the economy in the year 2030?
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  SPEAKER_01: These young people, on average, start out with less capital than any previous generation, and they are saddled with 300 times more college debt than the Gen Xers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, the baby boomers retire with far more debt than the silent generation, and very little, if any, inheritance to pass along.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what you get when a nation steeps in self-centered narcissism, materialism, and socialism over half a century.
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  SPEAKER_01: This experiment with socialism will not bode well for the future.
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  SPEAKER_01: What will the most narcissistic generation do to the 80 million baby boomers that contributed to 80 million abortions between 1970 and 2000?
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  SPEAKER_01: Mass euthanasia appears to be the only probable political solution, given the present economy, social conditions, and moral perspectives of the developing generation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Highly institutionalized and socialized elder care is already proving itself unwieldy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Over the next 25 years, the 75 years old and older population will grow from 20 million to 46 million.
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  SPEAKER_01: Already, half of unmarried retirees rely upon Social Security almost exclusively.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Congressional Budget Office is proposing a 29% cut in the average Social Security check by the year 2029.
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  SPEAKER_01: If the average elder care facility runs$3,000 per month, the$900 Social Security Check will hardly cover a fraction of the cost.
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  SPEAKER_01: The degree to which euthanasia is employed will depend on whether the state rations the medicine.
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  SPEAKER_01: However, here is the conundrum.
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  SPEAKER_01: As the patients progress in years, they require more care, but they have less money to pay for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Other, more viable patients will be considered more qualified for the rationed care, and the others will be left to die.
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  SPEAKER_01: As socialist systems run out of other people's money, it will revert to providing the least common denominator care for the masses, and euthanasia will soon follow.
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  SPEAKER_01: In so many ways, professionals, bureaucrats, government-funded programs, and quid pro quo business arrangements have displaced opportunities for personal service and expressions of love.
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  SPEAKER_01: Billions of dollars of inheritance that would have been passed on to children have been transferred to the state.
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  SPEAKER_01: The next 20 years will be the most defining years in this nation's history, as we will witness massive socioeconomic changes.
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  SPEAKER_01: The important question for us, however, is this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Will family relationships disintegrate across the generations?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or will families reintegrate the generations?
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  SPEAKER_01: Will the relationships between children, parents, and grandparents become closer or farther apart?
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  SPEAKER_01: Will we find cross-generational churches where the 80-year-old and the eight-year-old sit in the same pew?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now is the time to restore relationships across the generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is no better way to do this than by restoring home-based elder care, as the Lord leads in various families across this country and around the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: While the socialist governments always run out of resources, the love of Christ will not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing can compete with voluntary, sacrificial, compassionate, relational love.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have no fear that this love will bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is a thousand times more robust than the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services.
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  SPEAKER_01: The powerful motive of love trumps the motive of capitalistic greed, and the motive behind the power-driven, big government state.
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  SPEAKER_01: The cold, dystopian world of socialism, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, must go.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is wilting away, and it will die.
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  SPEAKER_01: The biblical approach to helping the poor never endorses the Marxist model of forced redistribution of wealth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Biblical charity is local, voluntary, and relational.
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  SPEAKER_01: Deuteronomy 14, 28-29.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus commended the good Samaritan, who reached for his own wallet, to help the stranded and wounded traveler.
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  SPEAKER_01: James commended the personal visitation of the poor in James 1.27.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Apostle Paul required the family to be the first to care for the widowed mother and grandmother, and for her to only resort to the church if the family was unable to provide the care.
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  SPEAKER_01: He makes no mention of the state.
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  SPEAKER_01: How to honor your parents in their later years.
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  SPEAKER_01: At this crucial time in history, Christian families are restoring the biblical vision for family elder care.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are bringing their own aging parents into their homes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Many churches minister to nursing homes on a weekly basis.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what will mark out true Christian faith in future years.
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  SPEAKER_01: As Christians are really starting to care for the least of these, my brethren, Matthew 25 40b.
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  SPEAKER_01: The stories of sacrificial love for aging parents abound.
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  SPEAKER_01: Christian families understand the limitations of bureaucracies and institutionalized care that rests on a quid pro quo business model.
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  SPEAKER_01: They begin to see the blessings of living in relationship with the older generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here are a few examples of how Christian families can show honor to their aging parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: Call them, write to them, and visit them on a regular basis.
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  SPEAKER_01: 2.
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  SPEAKER_01: Invite them to live with you, even if you know they will refuse it.
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  SPEAKER_01: 3.
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  SPEAKER_01: Move your family in order to be closer to them, so you can be more available to help them.
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  SPEAKER_01: 4.
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  SPEAKER_01: Adapt your home with architectural improvements and ergonomic conveniences to make them more comfortable.
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  SPEAKER_01: 5.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pray for them.
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  SPEAKER_01: 6.
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  SPEAKER_01: Help them to their medical appointments.
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  SPEAKER_01: 7.
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  SPEAKER_01: Encourage your children to spend time with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: 8.
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  SPEAKER_01: Glean from their wisdom and capitalize on their gifts.
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  SPEAKER_01: 9.
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  SPEAKER_01: Send money for their upkeep if they run short on funds.
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  SPEAKER_01: 10.
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  SPEAKER_01: Help them with difficult tasks, home repairs, and so forth.
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  SPEAKER_01: While it can be a challenge to provide for unbelieving parents or grandparents, we are still obligated to show them honor.
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  SPEAKER_01: I recommend that those living in a Christian home participate at some level in daily family devotions and weekly church worship, as the members of the home are physically able.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where unbelieving relatives cannot comply with this, some accommodation may have to be made in living arrangements.
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  SPEAKER_01: Perhaps the physical separation of living quarters may be in order.
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  SPEAKER_01: Unbelieving grandparents actually do have some wisdom to share with their grandchildren, but Christian parents should be careful to provide necessary oversight as those primarily responsible for their children's nurture.
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  SPEAKER_01: In many cases, aging parents are not willing to live with their adult children, even when invited.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is more common in societies where government-installed institutions have reigned supreme for several generations, and relationships have become cold and distant.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: People enjoy living alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Seven times the percentage of people live alone today than at the turn of the 20th century.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: Governments supply social security support, parents burn up their kids' inheritance, children are raised in government funded programs, marriages break up in divorce, and relationships dry up over the years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Often, unresolved conflicts, bitterness, and pride create great rifts in relationships.
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  SPEAKER_01: Under such conditions, we cannot expect much to change outside of the supernatural work of God, changing hearts.
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  SPEAKER_01: And restoring relationships.
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  SPEAKER_01: Continue to pray over these things and wait in hope for God's great work.
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  SPEAKER_01: Benefits of Christian Family Elder Care.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are many wonderful benefits of home-based elder care, most of which are on the intangible side.
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  SPEAKER_01: The world doesn't understand these intangibles.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: How can a thousand hours of backbreaking, sacrificial service result in blessings?
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: We must have a God who can supernaturally turn sacrifice into blessing.
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  SPEAKER_01: On the tangible side, think of the billions and trillions of dollars that could be saved for inheritance if we could just restore relationships between the generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Apostle Paul considered this to be a normal part of family life.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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  SPEAKER_01: 2 Corinthians 12 14b.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: Assisted living centers currently cost an average of$36,000 per person per year, and$50,000 for the patient with dementia.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: Social Security remuneration averages$16,000 per year at$1,335 per month.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: Assuming there are 80 million retirees from the baby boom generation by the 2020s, that's$2.9 trillion in inheritance turned over to basic institutional care every year.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: If families provided much of that care instead, then as much as$60 trillion of potential inheritance could flow back into these individual family units, which would enable families to provide a better start for their millennials.
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  SPEAKER_01: This reintegration of the generations into the home will also provide ample opportunity for the transfer of wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: When the elderly generation takes the time to share their wisdom, and the younger generation is humble and receives it, the results are nothing short of phenomenal.
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  SPEAKER_01: This may be the only saving grace left for the present social milieu.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: If by God's grace, millions of families across the nation and within the Christian community would reintegrate the generations, an entire civilization would be salvaged.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: This is the secret weapon contained in the fifth commandment.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: It is the means by which society is able to continue on the earth.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Without the hearts of fathers and grandfathers turning towards their sons and grandsons, and the hearts of sons and grandsons turning towards their fathers and grandfathers, we will have to expect God to revisit the world with a curse.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: Malachi 4.6.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: These foreboding words make up the final revelation contained in the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_01: May God have mercy on our families and our communities in this generation.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: Conclusion.
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  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, every family will encounter their own unique circumstances, but in any case, the purpose of this chapter is to encourage more honor and more building of good relationships across the generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: I urge the reader to regain something of the vision that was lost over previous generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: By exploring resources and conferences on this subject, visit elderly care facilities in the area of your home on a weekly or monthly basis, and establish long-term relationships with the residents.
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  SPEAKER_01: Use video calls or other means to reconnect on a regular basis with grandparents who don't live nearby.
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  SPEAKER_01: Be sure that your aging parents know that your home is available to them should they need more regular care.
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  SPEAKER_01: Seek God's will in these things, and follow the example of our Savior on the cross, when he made special provision for his own mother, with the disciple whom he loved.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what have we learned?
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: How did Jesus keep the fifth commandment while he was on the cross?
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  SPEAKER_01: 2.
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  SPEAKER_01: What was the Pharisees' system of Corbin?
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  SPEAKER_01: 3.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are some of the ways that children should honor their parents, as described in the Westminster Larger Catechism?
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  SPEAKER_01: 4.
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  SPEAKER_01: How does the Apostle Paul interpret this principle of honor in 1 Timothy 5?
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  SPEAKER_01: 5.
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  SPEAKER_01: What does the Word of God say about the care of widows and orphans?
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  SPEAKER_01: To whom do these responsibilities belong?
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  SPEAKER_01: How does this contrast with the socialist approach?
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  SPEAKER_01: 6.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are the tangible and intangible benefits of family-based elder care?
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  SPEAKER_01: 7.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are the various economic and social stresses upon the current social security system?
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  SPEAKER_01: 8.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is the promise contained in the fifth commandment?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is the curse contained in Malachi 4.6?
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  SPEAKER_01: So, how are we doing?
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  SPEAKER_01: 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are your plans for caring for your aging parents?
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  SPEAKER_01: What are the conditions under which you might take them into your home?
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  SPEAKER_01: Would they agree to this?
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  SPEAKER_01: In what ways would home care be an improvement over institutional care?
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  SPEAKER_01: What are the benefits of institutional, professional care?
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  SPEAKER_01: 2.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are your plans towards saving an inheritance for your children?
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  SPEAKER_01: Have you conveyed your plans concerning your own care to your children?
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  SPEAKER_01: Equip your family with these resources.org.
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  SPEAKER_01: Marcia Washburn, Home Based Elder Care, Stories and Strategies for Caregivers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Peter Rosenberger, Wear Comfortable Shoes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Surviving and Thriving as a Caregiver.
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