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Max Lucado – Christ in the Kitchen: Finding God in the Everyday Moments · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Well, God bless each and every one of you. May
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  Speaker 1: He give you strength and sustain you during these unique
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  Speaker 1: and oftentimes difficult times. God bless you especially. We're praying
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  Speaker 1: today for fathers, for parents, for families. In fact, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we ask you, we ask a blessing to be upon
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  Speaker 1: every person who hears this message. All of us have
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  Speaker 1: different experiences Father with a father. All of us have
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  Speaker 1: different experiences with a family. But we believe, Heavenly Father,
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  Speaker 1: that every family is a part of your plan, and
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  Speaker 1: you have given us a structure, an idea, I blueprint
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  Speaker 1: for the family. And we pray, Heavenly Father, that we
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  Speaker 1: can heed what you say and follow in that we
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  Speaker 1: can receive your blessing, because apart from it, Father, we
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  Speaker 1: have no hope.
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  Speaker 2: We bless you now the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, you know my first pet came in the form
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  Speaker 1: of a childhood Christmas gift. Somewhere I have a snapshot
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  Speaker 1: of a brown and white Chinese pug Oh boy, small
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  Speaker 1: enough to fit in my father's hand, cute enough to
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  Speaker 1: steal my eight year old heart. We named her Liz.
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  Speaker 1: I carried her all day. Her floppy ears fascinated me,
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  Speaker 1: and her flat nose intrigued me. I even took her
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  Speaker 1: to bed. So what if she smelled like a dog.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the odor was cute? So what if she
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  Speaker 1: whined and whimpered? I thought the noise was cute. So
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  Speaker 1: what if she did her business on my pillow? Well
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  Speaker 1: she really did, and I can't say I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was cute, But I didn't mind. Now, Mom and Dad
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  Speaker 1: had made it clear in our puppy prenuptial agreement that
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  Speaker 1: I was to be Liz's caretaker, and I was happy
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  Speaker 1: to oblige. I cleaned her a little eating dish. I
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  Speaker 1: opened her can of puppy food. The minute she laughed
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  Speaker 1: up some water, I replenished it. I kept her hair combed,
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  Speaker 1: I kept her tail wagging. Within a few days, however,
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  Speaker 1: my feelings.
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  Speaker 2: Changed a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Liz was still my dog, and I was still her friend.
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  Speaker 1: But I got to tell you, I got tired of
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  Speaker 1: her barking. She seemed hungry all the time, and more
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  Speaker 1: than once my folks had to remind me take care
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  Speaker 1: of her. Max she is your dog. Oh boy, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't like hearing those words your dog. I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: minded the phrase your dog to play with, or your
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  Speaker 1: dog when you want her, even your dog when she's behaving.
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  Speaker 1: But those weren't my parents' words. They said, Liz is
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  Speaker 1: your dog period in sickness and in health, for richer,
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  Speaker 1: for poorer, in dryness and in wetness. That's when it
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  Speaker 1: occurred to me, I'm stuck with Liz. The courtship was over,
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  Speaker 1: the honeymoon had ended. We were mutually leashed, and Liz
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  Speaker 1: went from an option to an obligation, from a pet
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  Speaker 1: to itch or someone to play with to someone to
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  Speaker 1: care for. I'm wondering if you can relate. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: stay at home experience of the last few days has
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  Speaker 1: left you feeling the same way. Chances are you know
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  Speaker 1: the claustrophobia that comes with commitment. Only instead of being
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  Speaker 1: reminded she is your dog, you're told well, he is
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  Speaker 1: your husband, or she's your wife, or he is your child,
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  Speaker 1: or they are your parents. Such permanence can lead to panic,
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  Speaker 1: At least it did in me.
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  Speaker 2: I had to answer some tough questions.
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  Speaker 1: Can I tolerate the same flat nosed, hairy, hungry face
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  Speaker 1: every morning? You wives know the feeling? Am I going
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  Speaker 1: to be barked at until the day I die? Any
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  Speaker 1: kids connecting here? Well she ever learned to clean up
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  Speaker 1: her own mess? Did I just hear an amen? From
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  Speaker 1: some parents? Such are the questions we ask when we
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  Speaker 1: feel stuck with someone. You know, there's a word for
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  Speaker 1: this condition. Upon consulting the one word medical Dictionary, which
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  Speaker 1: I wrote yesterday, I discovered this condition is a common
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  Speaker 1: malady known as stuck a titus. Stuck meaning trapped, I
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  Speaker 1: titus meaning the six words you tag onto any word
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  Speaker 1: that you want to sound impressive, Say it out loud
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  Speaker 1: with me, stuck it titus. Max's Manual of Medical Terms
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  Speaker 1: had this to say about the condition.
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  Speaker 2: Attacks of stuck a.
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  Speaker 1: Titus are limited to people who breathe and typically occur
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  Speaker 1: somewhere between birth and death. Stuccatitis manifests itself in irritability,
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  Speaker 1: short fuses, and a mountain range of mole hills. The
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  Speaker 1: common symptom of stuccatitis victims is the repetition of the
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  Speaker 1: questions beginning with.
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  Speaker 2: Who, what and why?
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  Speaker 1: Who is this person? What was I thinking? And why
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  Speaker 1: didn't I listen to my mother? This prestigious manual identifies
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  Speaker 1: three ways to copas stuccatitis. Some opt to flee to
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  Speaker 1: get out of the relationship and start again elsewhere, although
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  Speaker 1: they are often surprised when the condition surfaces on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the fence as well.
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  Speaker 2: Other fight houses.
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  Speaker 1: Become combat zones, offices become boxing rings, and tension becomes
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  Speaker 1: a way of life. A few, however, discover another treatment,
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  Speaker 1: and that is compassionate commitment. That would be one way
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  Speaker 1: of dec describing the admonition of Paul to families as
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  Speaker 1: found in the Book of Colossians. By the way, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you're participating in and enjoying the Colossians reading challenge. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before we read this scripture, I'd like to do something.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to declare a moment of grace, a blessing
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  Speaker 1: of grace over this message, because sermons about the family
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  Speaker 1: have a way of generating guilt.
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  Speaker 2: The truth is, folks, none of us score in a plus.
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  Speaker 1: Each husband could be more attended, each wife could be
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  Speaker 1: more supportive, each parent could be wiser, each child could
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  Speaker 1: be more respectful. And if the passage that we are
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  Speaker 1: about to read does not describe you and your family,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay, You're in good company. It only describes God's
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  Speaker 1: ideal for the family. The truth of the matter is
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  Speaker 1: all of us fall short. And the problem with the
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  Speaker 1: phrase dysfunctional family is that it implies the existence of
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  Speaker 1: a functional one. If you're struggling. It was not Paul's intent,
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  Speaker 1: it's not my intent, and it's certainly not your heavenly
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  Speaker 1: father's intent to pull you down. Okay, Now, with that disclaimer,
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  Speaker 1: consider these four admonitions. First, wives, submit to your husbands
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  Speaker 1: as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands. Love your wives,
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  Speaker 1: and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your
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  Speaker 1: parents and everything for this pleases the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Fathers.
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  Speaker 1: Do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.
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  Speaker 1: A review of this passage results in some key principles
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  Speaker 1: of the home. First of all, your family matters to God.
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  Speaker 1: Your family matters to God, as you've observed as we
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  Speaker 1: studied a Colossians, this epistle highlights the pre eminence of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He is pre eminent over the universe, pre eminent over
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  Speaker 1: the Church, pre eminent over our Christian conduct. He's high
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  Speaker 1: and above and deep within. The letter to the Colossians
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  Speaker 1: is full of lofty ideas and lilting language. It feels well,
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  Speaker 1: it feels royal, regal, deserves to be read in a
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  Speaker 1: museum or a cathedral. So what is the significance that
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  Speaker 1: the home is included.
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  Speaker 2: In this epistle?
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  Speaker 1: Does it not suggest that the Christ who is the
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  Speaker 1: lord over the cosmos, he is the Christ who desires
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  Speaker 1: to be the lord in the kitchen. The same power
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  Speaker 1: that sustains the galaxies is the power that will bless
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  Speaker 1: your dinner table conversation. Jesus Christ, who holds all things together,
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  Speaker 1: is the one who is willing to hold all things
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  Speaker 1: together in your home. You see, your family is God's idea.
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  Speaker 1: Before there was a government, before there was an educational system,
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  Speaker 1: before there was a church, there was the family. The
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  Speaker 1: most ancient institute was God's idea. A man and a
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  Speaker 1: woman joined by God for life, and together they recreate,
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  Speaker 1: They pro create, and they reflect the intimacy that God
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  Speaker 1: desires to have with us. So your family matters to God.
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  Speaker 1: Are you married well? The way you relate to your
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  Speaker 1: spouse matters to God. You have children well, the way
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  Speaker 1: you raise them matters to God. Do you have parents?
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  Speaker 1: Your attitude toward them matters to God. These relationships are
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  Speaker 1: part of God's plan, not to be taken lightly. The
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  Speaker 1: very fact that marriage is mentioned in the Bible in
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  Speaker 1: this elevated epistle is a reminder that your family, your
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  Speaker 1: family is elevated before God. He has some specific instructions
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  Speaker 1: to each member of the family. He says this to
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  Speaker 1: the wives. Wives, submit to your husbands as is fitting
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord. Did I just pull a pen out
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  Speaker 1: of a hand grenade? By reading that passage? Would any
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  Speaker 1: statement rouse the ire of our rights seeking equality pursuing
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  Speaker 1: culture more than this? How dare Paul himself, a bachelor
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  Speaker 1: make such a statement yet further proof that the Bible
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  Speaker 1: is antiquated, out of touch and irrelevant. Wives are suppressed
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  Speaker 1: and husbands are blessed to whatever, do whatever they want. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to all those thoughts and voices, can I just ask
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  Speaker 1: you reserve your judgment for a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: The fact of the matter.
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  Speaker 1: Is that Paul actually honored wives in this passage. The
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  Speaker 1: simple fact that he mentioned wives first, and mentioned them
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  Speaker 1: at all, flew in the face of the culture in
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  Speaker 1: his day. In his commentary, William Barklay has this to say.
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  Speaker 1: Under Jewish law, a woman was a thing. She was
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  Speaker 1: the possession of her husband. She had no legal right whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: In Greek society, a respectable woman lived a life of
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  Speaker 1: entire seclusion. Her husband could go out as much as
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  Speaker 1: he chose, and could enter into as many relationships outside
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  Speaker 1: of marriage as he liked, and incur no stigma. Both
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  Speaker 1: under Jewish and Greek laws and customs, all the privileges
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  Speaker 1: belonged to the husband, and all the duties belonged to
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  Speaker 1: the wife. Now the apostle Paul, by contrast, elevates women
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  Speaker 1: to a place of respect. Wives were addressed equally with
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  Speaker 1: their husbands. This was entirely newly knew. Both husbands and
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  Speaker 1: wives were admonished in the Lord. In the Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: female and the male are recognized as under the lordship
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. Now, all of this was greatly elevating to
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  Speaker 1: the women of the ancient world. The Church of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ celebrated women more than any other group of its day.
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  Speaker 1: There is no indication that a first century female would
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  Speaker 1: read these words and feel suppressed. God would not want
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  Speaker 1: females of the first century to feel suppressed, and he
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  Speaker 1: would not want females of this century to feel suppressed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: look carefully at the language. The phrase submit yourselves is
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  Speaker 1: not to be understood as cowering before, but it's more
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  Speaker 1: the idea of respect. The same apostle and a different
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  Speaker 1: epistle said this, Each one of you must love his
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  Speaker 1: wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect
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  Speaker 1: her husband. Do you see the two key words of
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  Speaker 1: that passage, love and respect, the two essential elements to marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Husbands love your wives. Love your wives. Do everything you
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  Speaker 1: can to let your wife know you're committed to her
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  Speaker 1: for as long as you both shall live. And wives
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  Speaker 1: respect your husbands acknowledge has God given role as protector
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  Speaker 1: and provider. Now this passage prompted doctor Emerson Eggerich to
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  Speaker 1: write a phenomenal book, Love and Respect. His many years
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  Speaker 1: as a marriage therapist led him to state wives are
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  Speaker 1: made to love, They want love, and they expect love.
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  Speaker 1: Husbands are made to be respected. They want respect and
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  Speaker 1: they expect respect. Submission does not imply inferiority. Galatians three
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight affirms that there is no difference between male
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  Speaker 1: and female. Jesus submitted. He submitted to the Father during
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  Speaker 1: his time on the earth, yet he was in no
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  Speaker 1: way inferior to the Father. And also, to be clear,
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  Speaker 1: there's no hint that this passage grants husbands the right
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  Speaker 1: to rule over their wives. Indeed, if a husband's desire
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  Speaker 1: violates God's word, the wife must obey God rather than man.
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  Speaker 1: Nor does his passage give the husband the right to
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  Speaker 1: exercise authority over his wife in an overbearing manner.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, the man.
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  Speaker 1: Who might do so needs to pay special attention to
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  Speaker 1: what God says to husbands through the pen of the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul in the next phrase, husbands, love your wives
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  Speaker 1: and do not be harsh with them. First female readers
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  Speaker 1: would have rejoiced at this teaching as well. Such a
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  Speaker 1: command does not appear in any of the extra biblical
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  Speaker 1: literature of the day. Novel Idea, husbands were instructed to
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  Speaker 1: love their wives. The command was not to erotic love
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  Speaker 1: or friendship love, but to a gope love. Now, a
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  Speaker 1: gop a love seeks to put the welfare of another
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  Speaker 1: person ahead of one's own. A godpe love seeks to serve,
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  Speaker 1: not to be served. A godpe love builds up, it
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  Speaker 1: never tears down. A gode love brings the best out
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  Speaker 1: of another. How do we know all this? How do
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  Speaker 1: we know all this about a godpe love? Because this
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  Speaker 1: is God's love toward us.
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  Speaker 3: The scripture says, for God, so love for He, so
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  Speaker 3: I got paio the world that He gave his only
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  Speaker 3: begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish
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  Speaker 3: but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, husbands, we could hardly be given a higher
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  Speaker 1: call than this. Love your wife like God loves the world. Or,
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  Speaker 1: as Paul wrote to the Ephesians, husbands, love your wives
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  Speaker 1: just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up
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  Speaker 1: for her. Now the home has structure, for sure. The
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  Speaker 1: husband is the head of the household. Scripture makes no apology,
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  Speaker 1: no apology of the fact that Adam was created to
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  Speaker 1: provide leadership and protection in spiritual guidance to Eve. Husbands
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  Speaker 1: are to do this, not in a manner that belittles
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  Speaker 1: the wife. Just the opposite, husbands, Let's love our wives.
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  Speaker 1: Let's love our wives with agape love, an affection that
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  Speaker 1: is akin to the love of Christ for the church. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he died for the church, He shed his blood for
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  Speaker 1: the church, He paid the ultimate sacrifice for the church.
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  Speaker 1: So are you beginning to see God's design for the family.
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  Speaker 1: A husband who cherishes his wife, a wife who respects
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  Speaker 1: her husband. Don't you think a marriage would like that
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  Speaker 1: would would thrive today? And don't you think that children
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  Speaker 1: would flourish in such a home? Of course they would.
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  Speaker 1: So for the kids, Paul has a word as well.
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  Speaker 1: He says, children, obey your parents and everything for this
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  Speaker 1: pleases the Lord. Now, just as with wives, this teaching
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  Speaker 1: greatly elevated children in a culture where they were elevated.
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  Speaker 1: Under Roman law, the father was permitted to do anything
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  Speaker 1: he wanted.
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  Speaker 2: With his children.
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  Speaker 1: He could sell them, he could turn them into slaves,
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  Speaker 1: he could even take their lives. But here children are
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  Speaker 1: presented as valuable, essential parts of the family. Along with
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  Speaker 1: their parents. They are under the authority of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: He reminds kids to obey their parents. Again, keep the
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  Speaker 1: big picture in view. Here is a husband who loves God.
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  Speaker 1: He's aware of how Christ loves the church and his goal.
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  Speaker 1: His aim is to replicate that love in the way
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  Speaker 1: he loves his wife. She, in like manner, loves God
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  Speaker 1: and she is aware. She is aware that family is
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  Speaker 1: God's idea, and she chooses to respect her husband. This
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  Speaker 1: relationship is not top down on his part or manipulative
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  Speaker 1: on hers. It's a happy partnership of mutual submission to God. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this folks is a greenhouse in which a child will flourish.
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  Speaker 1: In this context, children are told to obey their parents. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a stronger word than submit, It is more absolute.
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  Speaker 1: It actually consists of two words, listen and under Obedience
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  Speaker 1: is a willingness to listen and submit to mom and dad.
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  Speaker 1: Young people, can I just speak on behalf of your
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  Speaker 1: parents for a second. They don't think they know everything,
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  Speaker 1: they know full well they do not. In fact, most
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  Speaker 1: parents live with this nagging sense of insecurity. But son
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  Speaker 1: and daughter of imperfect parents, here's the truth. They know
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  Speaker 1: more than you do. They know more about life than
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  Speaker 1: your friends do, and they have a love for you
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  Speaker 1: that is beyond words. They really do mean you well.
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  Speaker 1: So listen, listen to what they have to say, and dads,
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  Speaker 1: be careful in the way you say it. Paul turns
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  Speaker 1: his attention back to you and me and he says, fathers,
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  Speaker 1: do not embitter your children or they will become discouraged.
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  Speaker 1: And why does he not include moms in this admonition, Well,
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  Speaker 1: because we're the head of the home. Hence we're responsible
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  Speaker 1: for the tone of the home. Other translations of this
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  Speaker 1: scripture translate it like this, do not provoke your children
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  Speaker 1: unless they become discourged, or do not nag your children
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  Speaker 1: if you're too hard to please. They may want to
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  Speaker 1: stop trying. Or this one. Don't come down too hard
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  Speaker 1: on your children or you'll crush their spirits. Now, folks,
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  Speaker 1: discipline is not easy. The cartoon appeared some time ago
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  Speaker 1: that had a picture of a dad talking to his
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  Speaker 1: wife and in the background, his son was down on
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  Speaker 1: his knees praying. The caption had the confused father saying,
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  Speaker 1: how am I supposed to spank him? When he keeps
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  Speaker 1: on saying, Lord God of Israel, have mercy on me.
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  Speaker 1: Discipline is not easy, but it is an essential part
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  Speaker 1: of parenting.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: While God promotes it, he also calls for the mature
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  Speaker 1: application of it, just quickly. Four rules for discipline. Number one, parents,
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  Speaker 1: be careful. Be careful, be quick to interpret misbehavior, but
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  Speaker 1: slow to punishment. Place a child in time out while
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  Speaker 1: you both cool down for a minute. Punishment is never
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  Speaker 1: a license for cruelty. If you are enjoying the administration
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  Speaker 1: of the discipline, you need to stop. Number two, be consistent.
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  Speaker 1: The punishment must fit the act. Seek to discern the
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  Speaker 1: cause of the action, What motivated this misbehavior? You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to slam a door out of disrespect.
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  Speaker 1: It's another to slam it because you're running to catch
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  Speaker 1: the ice cream truck down the street. Oversights are misdemeanors.
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  Speaker 1: Rebellion is a felony. Number three, be clear, Be clear,
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  Speaker 1: explain what the punishment is and what the punishment was.
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  Speaker 1: Do not assume that the child understands, and don't punish
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  Speaker 1: a child for being bad. The child may have done
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  Speaker 1: a bad thing, but that does not mean he or
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  Speaker 1: she is a bad child. And then, lastly, number four,
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  Speaker 1: be compassionate. One mistake does not a child make, and
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  Speaker 1: one season of waywardness does.
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  Speaker 2: Not a child. Define.
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  Speaker 1: Love keeps no record of wrongs, wrote the Apostle. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's not easy being a kid to a parent a
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  Speaker 1: parent to a kid, nor is it easy being a
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  Speaker 1: good husband or wife.
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  Speaker 2: But in the end, folks, it's worth it. It's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: I learned this with Liz, the pug faced puppy. She
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  Speaker 1: became a fixture in our house. And no boy ever
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  Speaker 1: loved a dog more, no dog ever loved a boy more.
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  Speaker 1: It stuck a Titus ended up being a blessing beyond words.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm praying that someday, when you look back, you'll
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  Speaker 1: say the very same about your family. Maybe this conversation
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  Speaker 1: about family has caused you to want to pray, And
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like someone to pray with you and to
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  Speaker 1: join with you in prayer about anything, but especially the family,
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  Speaker 1: just text pray to two one oh five eight five
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  Speaker 1: two five eight five, And now may you go in
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  Speaker 1: the great grace and peace of our Lord and Savior
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And may you remember that the one who
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  Speaker 1: came still comes, and the one who spoke still speaks.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to stay close. As long as there's
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  Speaker 4: somewhere out there. That's enough for me.
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  Speaker 5: I don't need to hold you near me, don't need
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  Speaker 5: promises to keep just the thought that you are breathing
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  Speaker 5: somewhere in this world I see, even if I'm not
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  Speaker 5: beside you, even if you never know, there's a quiet
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  Speaker 5: kind of comfort just.
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  Speaker 6: In knowing you still glow. I don't need forever. I
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  Speaker 6: just need you to exist.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to stay with me, You don't have
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  Speaker 7: to feel the same. Just as long as you're still
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  Speaker 7: out there, calling softly through my days. You don't have
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  Speaker 7: to look my way, you don't have to be my home.
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  Speaker 6: It's enough to know where you're living in the world.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not alone.
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  Speaker 7: I won't chase you through the distance, won't disturb your
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  Speaker 7: chosen life.
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  Speaker 6: I'll just keep you in my silence, like a star
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  Speaker 6: that shines.
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  Speaker 8: At night, through the darkened, through the blue, I still
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  Speaker 8: think of you.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to stay with me.
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  Speaker 6: You don't have to feel the same.
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  Speaker 7: It's just as long as you're still out there, calling
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  Speaker 7: softly through my days. You don't have to look my way.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to be my home.
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  Speaker 5: It's enough to know you're living in a world.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not alone.
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  Speaker 6: I don't need to be your late. I don't need
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  Speaker 6: to cross your mind.
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  Speaker 7: All I need is just the truth that you're somewhere,
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  Speaker 7: still alive.
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  Speaker 9: You don't have to stay with me, you don't have
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  Speaker 9: to feel the same. Just as long as you're still
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  Speaker 9: have the calling softly through my days. You don't have
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  Speaker 9: to look my way.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to be my home.
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  Speaker 7: It's enough to know you're living in the world.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not alone.