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Amen. 
May that be our prayers as we 

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live our life. 
Glorify Your name and me and 

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every thought and in every deed.
May we take that principle as we

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learn the Word of God today and 
as we apply it. 

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May it not just be something 
that we do for the sake of doing

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it. 
May we actually study the Word 

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of God and then leave here and 
apply it that God would receive 

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glory and honor and praise 
through our lives. 

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Give your Bibles if you would 
turn to First Timothy chapter 5,

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First Timothy chapter 5 as we 
continue walking through this 

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pastoral epistle known as First 
Timothy, as we continue to look 

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at biblical ministers and 
biblical ministry and how is 

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this supposed to look according 
to the word of God? 

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We come to a little. 
Mini series portion of this 

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text, and I want to begin this 
morning with this section 

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entitled Properly Caring for the
Family of Gods is the first part

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of this, as you will see in the 
next few weeks. 

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But Paul has just instructed 
Timothy to stand up and to lead 

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the church and and to serve as 
an example to all the people 

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there in Ephesus. 
And he commands him to not let 

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anyone look down on you because 
you're young, or to despise you 

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for that. 
Fact. 

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And he's now. 
Going to instruct him how this 

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is to be done. 
How can you keep those people 

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from looking down on you? 
And he's already told him to be 

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an example in life and love and 
speech and in purity. 

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Paul's going to get a little. 
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And that's what I want to do. 
I want us to get to the 

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specifics of this. 
And Paul is going to use an 

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analogy that's used throughout 
Scripture to compare the church,

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and that is the analogy of the 
church and the family. 

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And he's going to compare the 
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And he's going to teach us from 
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And when we learn to view the 
church, the body of Christ, as a

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family, we we're then really 
viewing the body of Christ as 

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the Scriptures would have us to 
do at a church, that family 

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being made-up of fathers and 
mothers and brothers and 

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sisters. 
If we see the. 

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Reality of that and if we apply 
that property properly, it's 

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going to cut down on a lot of 
sin and a lot of dysfunction and

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disharmony in the church because
this principle is not being 

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taught nor accepted very often 
anymore, right? 

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We, we live in the mega church 
age where people come in, they 

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don't want to be seen. 
They don't want to have any 

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relationship with anybody. 
They come, they sit on the back 

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row, they leave before the 
service is over, never having 

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any familial interaction with 
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They shouldn't be that way. 
And so Paul is going to instruct

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Timothy on the proper care for 
God's family first, seeing it as

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a true family and seeing the 
actual sections of the family 

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properly and how a leader ought 
to approach these things, how a 

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leader ought to approach caring 
for those older men and 

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correcting those older men and 
caring and counselling and. 

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Caring for those. 
Older women and, and the younger

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men as well as the younger 
women, he's going to include all

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of this. 
And so let's just jump right in 

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today and let's read this First 
Timothy chapter 5 as we begin 

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our journey on learning to 
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God. 
He says this. 

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He says do not rebuke an older 
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if he were your father. 
See the parallel that he's 

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making there? 
He says, treat younger men as 

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brothers, older women as 
mothers, and younger women as 

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sisters with absolute purity. 
Let's pray together. 

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Father, in the name of Jesus, we
come to you. 

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We thank you for your word. 
We thank you that your word is 

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clear, that your word is 
concise. 

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Lord, I pray today as we see 
this lesson, that the clarity of

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this lesson would cause us to be
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see both as leaders and as lay 
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As this lesson is laid out for 
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God, I pray through it you would
be glorified and your church 

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would be what you desire for her
to be that family operating 

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properly for your glory. 
And when I pray for that person 

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who's here, who's lost, who's 
not in Christ, who's not yet 

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surrendered to him as Lord and 
Savior, being forgiven of their 

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sin and reconciled to God the 
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understand that they are not a 
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In fact, they are alienated and 
isolated from this family 

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because of their sin. 
And I pray that you make known 

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to them in the depths of their 
being just how sinful they truly

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are and how in need of Christ 
they are now today, by your 

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spirit, you would draw them out 
of darkness and into your 

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marvellous light, bringing to 
them salvation, forgiveness of 

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sin, and promised eternal life. 
To those who believe God, we 

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thank you for this time. 
We thank you for your word and 

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how you're going to instruct us 
and how you're going to teach us

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and how you're going to change 
us and set us apart for your 

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glory. 
We give you all the praise for 

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it now in Jesus name, Amen. 
So Paul instructing in these two

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verses the proper care for God's
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actually be displayed. 
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It's it's not enough just to 
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That you care. 
You have to show that you care. 

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And he begins like this. 
He says that we are to show 

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gentle encouragement for the 
older men. 

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Watch verse 1. 
He says do not rebuke an older 

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man harshly. 
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doesn't say do not rebuke an 
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older man. 
He doesn't say do not lead an 

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older man. 
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older man, there is a proper way
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He says do not do it harshly, 
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your father. 
It's about the approach that 

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Paul wants Timothy to take. 
He wants him to approach the 

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older men in the church as if 
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Again, Paul is going to use in 
these two verses 4 familial 

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terms. 
Here he chooses the term father.

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He is relating the church now, 
relationships within the church 

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with the relationships inside of
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That's why we can confidently 
say that as a church, we are the

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family of God. 
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are those older men, and those 
older men are to be viewed as 

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our fathers. 
In the faith, respect them, show

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them the respect that they are 
due. 

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This is not a new idea, is it in
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Knows that this is not a new 
idea, and he knows how effective

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this analogy will be. 
When Timothy hears it, he's 

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going to say, OK, I know exactly
how I am to respond and to react

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to the fathers, the older men in
the church. 

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And Timothy knew this because he
knew the word of God, and he 

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knew that the word of God 
commands that we are to honor 

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our fathers and our mothers. 
And so Paul quickly grabs a hold

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of this, and he wants Timothy to
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that even when we have to 
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direct context of this rebuking 
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And don't we know that Scripture
is useful for all that, for 

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correcting, rebuking, rebuking 
for teaching and for training 

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and righteousness? 
And he's telling Timothy to use 

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this idea of your father to keep
your mind right when you have 

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to, and sometimes your mouth 
when you have to rebuke those 

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who are older than you. 
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Remember, he's just spoken to 
him about don't let people look 

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down on you because you're 
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Now, if you don't want people to
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young, you can't go around 
harshly rebuking the elderly. 

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It's not going to work out for 
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And so gentle encouragement in 
this context would be this, 

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avoid disrespect and avoid 
disrespect completely. 

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If you're going to gently 
encourage older men, you have to

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go into it with that mindset. 
I am not going to disrespect 

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this man because that would be 
equivalent to me disrespecting 

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my earthly father. 
Now, I know we live in a time 

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and in a culture where when we 
disrespect earthly fathers, it's

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no longer a big deal. 
But can I just tell you this? 

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In the Hall House where I grew 
up, when you disrespected your 

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earthly father, it was a big 
deal. 

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There were consequences. 
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I wish, I wish families would 
bring back the consequences of 

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disrespecting their earthly 
father, that they would view his

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position properly. 
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So that when we get to the 
context of the Church, we now 

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view those older Christians as 
our fathers properly. 

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So we approached them even in 
correcting them, avoiding any 

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disrespect at all. 
Remember Paul didn't say don't 

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rebuke them, don't correct them.
He said don't do it in a harsh 

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manner, don't do it harshly. 
It should be done with the 

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utmost respect, as if you are 
approaching your elderly father,

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and you should respect him and 
show that respect even in your 

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correction, even in your rebuke.
Let us avoid any disrespect. 

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In order to do that, what do we 
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We. 
We have to show and to have an 

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attitude of humble respect for 
the elderly men in the church. 

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I know this is a foreign concept
to so many, right, because so 

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many churches have fallen into 
the trap of making themselves 

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attractive for the younger 
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And then you have a church full 
of young people who know 

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nothing, who have no wisdom, who
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to that you could glean any 
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You say, well, Kirk, what do you
know about that? 

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I know about that. 
I pastored a church full of 

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young people before it was 
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Why? 
Because there was a an absence 

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of wisdom that comes from 
someone just simply being a 

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little bit older, but also being
a little bit older and mature in

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the Lord. 
And so we have to approach these

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men in the church with respect 
for their position, who they 

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are. 
Leviticus 19 speaks about having

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respect for the elderly in verse
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Two, it says. 
Stand up in the presence of the 

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aged, show respect for the 
elderly, and Revere your God. 

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And he says, I am the Lord. 
Now let me show you what God 

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just did right there. 
He put respecting the elderly in

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the same sentence as revering 
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Why is that so important for us 
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It's important because when you 
disrespect the elderly, you 

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disrespect God in a sense. 
Why? 

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Because He has told you to give 
them full respect. 

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So we need to see the 
seriousness of that and to avoid

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any disrespect toward them at 
all, right? 

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They may not be able to walk 
like they once walked. 

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They may be slower in mobility, 
they may be slower in speech, 

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but they are far more worthy, 
because of their age, of our 

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respect in the Word of God. 
God himself demands that we 

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respect them, so avoid any 
disrespect toward them at all 

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First, Peter, 55, says. 
In the same way, you who are 

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younger submit yourself to your 
elders. 

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Now, he doesn't say the elders. 
He's not talking about the 

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elders of the church, the 
presbyters. 

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He's talking about older men and
he's talking about gaining 

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wisdom from older men. 
I can tell you this, most of my 

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close friends in this world are 
older than me and that is on 

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purpose. 
I learned a long time ago by 

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reading through the Proverbs 
that if I walk with the wise I 

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will grow wise, but if I walk 
with fools I will become a fool.

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I'm thankful for the men and the
men of God that God has put in 

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my life to teach me that I may 
glean wisdom from them. 

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However, if I would have 
approached them with some 

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haughty know it all attitude, I 
would have never learned 

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anything from them. 
And so I have to show humble 

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respect for the elderly men in 
this church. 

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As the leader of this church, I 
pray that you would hold me to 

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that. 
Why? 

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Because anything else is of my 
own pride. 

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And, and we know first Peter 
continues in in verse 5 of 

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chapter 5. 
God opposes the proud, but he 

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shows favor to the humble. 
May we, as younger men, humble 

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ourselves before those older 
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Giving them the utmost respect, 
avoiding any disrespect toward 

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them, even if we are correcting 
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May we show them the same honor 
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earthly fathers. 
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obedience that God requires in 
Exodus 20, verse 12 when He says

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to honor our earthly fathers, 
may we honor the older men in 

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this church as our fathers. 
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didn't always fully practice 
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I was a young minister. 
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I knew everything as all 21 year
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I was God's gift to ministry. 
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should just shut up and listen 
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already expired. 
They've got nothing to offer. 

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I remember in a deacon's meeting
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was casting his vision for the 
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us to do as a church, or so we 
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We had a meeting with the 
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of the elderly leaders in the 
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said, pastor, we don't think 
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And I still to this day don't 
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But it wasn't my place to 
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harshly. 
I just simply took that upon 

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myself and I stood up in that 
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all 21 year old that I was, got 
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old man, that outdated carton of
milk who was no longer useless, 

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useful. 
I corrected helmet in an 

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inappropriate, unbiblical 
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I said, who do you think you 
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Trying to decide for this church
what they're supposed to do. 

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You need to listen to your 
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And that's disrespectful to him.
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unfortunately, that man probably
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If if he had ever respected me, 
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have. 
Little did I know I ruined I 

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ruined her or hindered that 
relationship that I could have 

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had with this man. 
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morning I came to church and I 
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the office the secretary buzzes 
me and says the pastor, Brother 

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Brown, would like to see you in 
his office. 

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I thought, yeah, he's about to 
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up for him in that deacons 
meeting when they were running 

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all over him. 
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he said just like this, sit down
young man. 

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I sat down and he actually 
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scripture to which I'm very 
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was young and stupid and didn't 
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And he said, do you see? 
We're not to rebuke an older man

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harshly. 
You did more harm than you did 

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good. 
He said I don't need you to 

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defend me. 
God and his word will defend me.

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I don't need you to fight my 
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And I learned that day or I 
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not rebuking an older man 
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Then I had to avoid any 
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fathers to us in the Lord. 
I have to show them honor and I 

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can't have a haughty attitude 
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God detests that. 
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says the eye that mocks a father
that scorns an aged mother will 

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be pecked out by the Ravens of 
the valley, will be eaten by the

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vultures. 
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There's consequence when you 
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Who are fathers in the Lord? 
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when you disrespect your earthly
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Instead, what we ought to do, we
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We ought to see it for what it's
worth. 

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We had to look at every older 
man in this church and we ought 

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to ask ourselves, what can I 
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And what can I glean from 
someone who has had more years 

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on this earth, more years 
walking with Christ, than I ever

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could begin to think about 
having? 

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What can I gather from them? 
Job says this in Job 12/12. 

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He says it's not wisdom found 
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Does not long life bring 
understanding? 

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He's asking rhetorical 
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We know that it does. 
Those of you who have lived 40 

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years longer than I have, you 
have 40 years more of wisdom. 

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And for me to take the attitude 
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I'm young and smart is for me to
air and me to disrespect God and

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his word and me to disrespect 
those who God has given to us as

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a church to be fathers. 
And guides and leaders for us in

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the area of. 
Wisdom and so we have to avoid. 

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Disrespect. 
When we do confront or rebuke or

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counsel, we should admonish 
gently. 

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Again, Paul's not saying that an
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correction. 
He's not deserving of 

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correction. 
He's simply saying there is a 

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proper way of doing this. 
There's a proper way that you 

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can give a sound counsel and a 
gentle, non threatening manner. 

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Colossians 46 says let your 
conversation be always full of 

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grace, seasoned with salt so 
that you may know how to answer 

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everyone. 
It is about gently conversing, 

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giving sound direction and sound
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threatening, non obtrusive, not 
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Second Timothy 2. 
Verse 24 says, And the Lord's 

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servant must not be quarrelsome,
but must be kind to everyone, 

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kind to everyone. 
You know what that means as a 

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pastor and as the pastors of 
this church, the elders of this 

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church. 
We are responsible to be kind to

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everyone, to the smallest child 
in the nursery and to the eldest

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person that we may have to help 
out to their car every Sunday. 

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We are to show kindness and 
respect and when we have. 

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To correct, we are to do that 
with the same kindness and 

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gentleness, never treating them 
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insignificant as members of 
Christ's body. 

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Don't we see that far too often 
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elderly get to a certain point 
where seemingly they have 

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nothing to offer the Lord? 
And it's not that they don't 

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have anything to offer the Lord.
They just can't offer the same 

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things that they once offered in
their youth. 

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They can offer so much more in 
the area of wisdom and guidance.

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So many times in the church. 
When they get to that point, 

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they become to us insignificant 
and useless. 

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And you know what? 
They're already struggling with 

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that to some degree anyways, 
aren't they? 

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Right. 
The older man who could at one 

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time do many things that he can 
no longer do, someone has to 

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help him get dressed, someone 
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Someone has to help him get out.
Or a quick to say that that 

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person doesn't have a place in 
the Kingdom of God if we're not 

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careful. 
However, what Paul is saying is 

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they have a very important place
in the Kingdom of God and you 

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need to gently encourage these 
older men. 

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You need to modest them and 
encourage them even if you have 

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to. 
Correct them. 

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Let me just tell you, there's 
nothing more difficult to deal 

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with than a cantankerous old 
man. 

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It's true, and there's an easy 
fix from both sides. 

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Don't be cantankerous. 
And if someone is cantankerous, 

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don't give them that in return. 
Give them gentle rebuke. 

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Admonish them gently because 
there's too much of this going 

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on in the church. 
When you handle it correctly, 

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you know what you do, you evade 
any further controversy, any 

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further anger, any more division
that could happen. 

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You approach it the way that you
should. 

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You actually strive for unity 
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And is that not what we're 
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church? 
We are to to promote unity. 

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That that is part of our job. 
That is a very important part of

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our job. 
And what you don't want to do is

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you don't want to cause 
dissension because you speak to 

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an older man harshly. 
Even if you are correcting them 

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and rebuking them. 
There's a way to do it. 

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How? 
Proverbs 15, one very simple. 

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A gentle answer turns away 
wrath, but a harsh word stirs up

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anger. 
If I learned anything in law 

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enforcement, I learned how true 
that scripture right there is. 

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We apply it in our lives, right?
I would get on scene, someone's 

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upset, they want to fight 
everybody. 

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They're mad, they don't, they 
don't want to go back to jail. 

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This is about to be a bad 
situation. 

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And you know what I learned? 
Instead of running up there and 

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telling them that I'm the police
and they better do what I say, 

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when I would see they were out 
of control, when they were in 

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their emotions, I would walk up 
and say, hey, man, are you 

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having a bad day today? 
Why don't you tell me what's 

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going on, man? 
We're, we're going to get this 

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all sorted out. 
Everything's going to be fine in

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the end. 
Just calm down, dude. 

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There's no sense in any of us 
getting upset. 

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You know what I learned very 
quickly? 

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A gentle answer turns away 
Wrath. 

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So. 
When you have to confront even 

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the elderly in the church, that 
old man, that cantankerous old 

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man, confront him gently so that
there's not any further 

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escalation. 
Because right, many times we 

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approach a situation and the 
situation is escalated and then 

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we jump in there and we escalate
it more with our attitude or our

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words. 
The best thing to do is, hey, 

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man, let's just calm down. 
We're all on the same team here.

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And for the sake of Christ, 
we're going to handle this like 

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Christians. 
We're going to handle this like 

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men of God. 
Let's talk about this. 

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Let's work this out. 
And there's no sense in any one 

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of us getting upset. 
And when we're done, we're going

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to pray and we're going to unite
in Christ and we're going to let

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this be the end of this. 
May we see the older men of the 

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body of Christ as fathers, and 
we're to honor and we're to 

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respect even while we're 
rebuking and correcting them. 

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He moves on secondly, using the 
second term to describe the 

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family he's talking about, the 
young men here and concern for 

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young men he says treat younger 
men as brothers. 

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So, he says gently encourage the
older men as our. 

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Fathers, but then treat younger 
men as brothers. 

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When I think about brothers I I 
think of how many times in life 

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I desire to have a brother. 
I always thought it would be 

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cool. 
I was sandwiched in between two 

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sisters and I always thought it 
would be cool to. 

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Have a little brother so that I 
could teach him the ropes right 

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so that I could pick on him and 
then I could beat other people 

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up who tried to pick on him and 
say I can pick up my brother but

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you can't. 
But I never had the privilege of

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saying that or doing that. 
But I, I have been able to 

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observe families that are 
brother rich and, and, and I 

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what I mean by that, they're 
full of young boys and I'm very 

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thankful. 
For the Macmillan family and I'm

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going to. 
Embarrass them right now. 

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Brad is even here and I'm I'm 
thankful for him because he's a 

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good Big Brother. 
Now watch him he he will line 

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his pesky little brothers out 
very quickly, but he will also 

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defend them just as quickly when
someone else comes after them. 

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Of course, I'm only talking 
about playground stuff. 

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They're not gangster, but I love
to see that. 

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I love to see that brotherly 
love. 

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It gives me insight into how I 
am to love the young men of this

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church as a pastor and how we as
pastors and leaders in the 

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church are to do the same, to 
relate to them with real 

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compassion. 
I think that's important, 

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especially, again, this is in 
the context of possibly 

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correcting or rebuking or giving
wise counsel to these younger 

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men. 
And we have to see them as 

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brothers. 
And and in. 

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Order to be a good brother, you 
have to relate to your younger 

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brothers with compassion. 
Remember what it was like when 

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you were in their? 
Shoes so, so often we forget 

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that, don't we? 
We get a little older and a 

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little wiser and we forget what 
it was like to be that young man

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way back when. 
We have to, we have to 

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recollect, recollect the the 
difficult struggles of being a 

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young man, right? 
The lusts of our youth, so 

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quickly we forget about that 
right We just look at the 

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younger generation and we say 
man, what is wrong with this 

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younger generation? 
Let me help all of you older 

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wiser people, same thing that 
was wrong with you. 

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Their propensity to sin it may 
come out in different. 

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Flavors, it may have different 
takes in our culture now, but 

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00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,960
it's still the same. 
And So what do we have to do? 

451
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,280
And those of us who are leading 
in the church and having the 

452
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,800
proper concern and compassion. 
For the young men in our church,

453
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,320
we have to view them as brothers
in need of someone to to nudge 

454
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,200
them along and to help them 
through the same struggles that 

455
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:39,480
just a few years ago you were. 
Going through the same 

456
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:46,400
temptations, the same battles 
were to help them, Colossians 3 

457
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,840
verse 12 says. 
This, therefore, is God's chosen

458
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,520
people, wholly and dearly loved.
Clothe yourself with compassion,

459
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,840
kindness, humility, gentleness 
and patience. 13 says. 

460
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,840
Bear with each other and forgive
one another. 

461
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,200
If any of you has a grievance 
against someone, forgive as the 

462
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,880
Lord forgave you. 
And over all these. 

463
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,360
Virtues put on love, which binds
them all together in perfect 

464
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,680
unity. 
Now, if that's instructions that

465
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,040
Paul's giving to the church at 
Colossae, in general, those are 

466
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:18,120
instructions that fall upon us 
in viewing our younger brothers 

467
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:20,680
in Christ, the younger brothers 
in the church. 

468
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,760
We are too. 
Clothe ourselves with compassion

469
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,080
and kindness and humility and 
gentleness and patience. 

470
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,400
I told you before that I 
pastored a church full of young 

471
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,440
people. 
It required great patience. 

472
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,280
Why? 
Because they are learning how to

473
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,160
live. 
They are learning how to live 

474
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,200
life, and they are learning how 
to live the Christian life. 

475
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,800
And we have to be very careful 
when someone is learning this. 

476
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,920
Just as that Big Brother does 
with his little brother. 

477
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,880
Just a few years ago, Big 
Brother was struggling with the 

478
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,800
same thing. 
He can't just slap little 

479
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,320
brother in the back of the head 
and tell him how stupid he is. 

480
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,160
Big Brother can now take the 
role of leadership in his life 

481
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:06,080
and he can show them this is the
way to do this better. 

482
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,800
Let me help you out. 
Let me have some compassion on 

483
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:13,640
you and where you are. 
Let me encourage you without 

484
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,560
condemning you. 1st 
Thessalonians 511 and Ephesians 

485
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,240
429. 
They both speak of building our 

486
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,760
brothers up through 
encouragement. 

487
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,120
Where's this in the church? 
It is. 

488
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,280
It is almost non existent in 
many churches. 

489
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,160
I'm thankful it's not here. 
I get to see it all the time. 

490
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,240
I get to see the older men in 
this church encouraging the 

491
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,800
younger men as brothers, and it 
is encouraging to me as a 

492
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,720
pastor. 
But so many times we see the 

493
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,920
opposite of that right? 
The older men in the church, the

494
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:53,960
leaders in the church, often 
looking down upon those young 

495
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,200
men in their struggles instead 
of encouraging them to be what 

496
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,720
Christ died for them to be and 
desires for them to be. 

497
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,760
So in order to do this, we have 
to resist the urge of being 

498
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,840
overbearing or self-righteous, 
especially those of us who are 

499
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,280
leaders. 
I can tell you this. 

500
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,760
When we go through the pastoral 
epistles, as as you have seen, 

501
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,040
I'm preaching to myself a lot, 
and that's OK. 

502
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,880
I preach. 
I preach to you guys all the 

503
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,320
time. 
Thank you for letting me preach 

504
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,200
to myself for a moment, but I 
have to be. 

505
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,080
Very careful so that I don't 
become overbearing or over 

506
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,760
righteous, my approach to these 
young men. 

507
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,160
But I can still maintain what 
Ephesians 42 says to be 

508
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,680
completely humble and gentle. 
Be patient again, bearing with 

509
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,840
one another in love, just as we 
saw him say there in Colossians,

510
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,240
humble and gentle. 
If we're going to truly show 

511
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,160
concern for the young men, we 
have to relate to them with 

512
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,240
compassion. 
And we can't have compassion 

513
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,400
until we walk in humility. 
So I would encourage all who are

514
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,120
in any place of leadership to 
see these young men as their 

515
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,040
brothers and to do what 
Scripture has pointed us to do, 

516
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,760
resisting theirs to be too 
overbearing, too self-righteous,

517
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,560
but approach them in truth 
coupled with love. 

518
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,920
Does that know what scripture 
tells us to do? 

519
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,040
Ephesians 4-5 to tell the truth 
in love. 

520
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,320
Now I know the trendy thing to 
do now in the church is to be 

521
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,720
bold. 
And there is a. 

522
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,840
Lack of boldness. 
I'll be the first one to tell 

523
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,760
you that. 
But I want to also make very 

524
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,520
clear to all of us this morning,
boldness does not have to be 

525
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,160
brutality. 
I can be bold and I can tell my 

526
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,880
younger brother in the faith, 
the truth, and love, and I don't

527
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,640
have to beat him up in doing it.
I can simply come alongside of 

528
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,680
him and say this right? 
I'd have to get honest and 

529
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,000
transparent, and I'm OK with 
that, though many people aren't.

530
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,280
Hey brother, not too terribly 
long ago I struggled with this 

531
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,040
same thing. 
If you don't mind, can I share 

532
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:02,800
with you how the Lord showed me 
and how He empowered me to 

533
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,640
overcome this struggle? 
You know what? 

534
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,200
That's non threatening, isn't 
it? 

535
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,600
That's not brutality, that's 
actually using some wisdom to 

536
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,440
help. 
Care to show compassion for your

537
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,840
younger brother in Christ? 
Approach them. 

538
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,720
Truth and love. 
Here's the truth. 

539
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,840
I'm going to do it in a manner 
that's loving and compassionate 

540
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,520
to you. 
Again, boldness does not have to

541
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,160
be brutality and I wish people 
would understand that. 

542
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:32,560
You can be bold without being 
brutal, but you must learn to 

543
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,640
tell the truth in love. 
We must do this with our younger

544
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,320
brothers, those young men, if 
we're truly concerned for them. 

545
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,800
Treating younger men, as Paul 
says, as brothers, relate to 

546
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,760
them with compassion. 
Secondly, we see this about the 

547
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,680
younger brother. 
Redirect them with care. 

548
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:53,680
They need redirection. 
But use wisdom and how you do 

549
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,560
this. 
Use wisdom and how you correct 

550
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,080
them and how you rebuke them. 
It's crucial that you do. 

551
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,240
Why? 
Because if you don't use wisdom,

552
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,880
you will actually drive them 
away from the church. 

553
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,360
You will actually drive them 
away from the family of God. 

554
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,880
You will offend them and you 
will in fact, at times embitter 

555
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,120
them. 
Proverbs 2512 says like an. 

556
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,480
Earring of gold, or an ornament 
of fine gold, is the rebuke of a

557
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,960
wise judge to a listening. 
Ear a wise judge. 

558
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,920
We're to be those wise judges to
those younger men, those 

559
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,960
brothers in Christ. 
We're to give them wisdom that 

560
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,880
they value, wisdom that they 
value. 

561
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,080
That can help them and carry 
them through whatever situation 

562
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,520
they're in. 
Now, you may say I don't have a 

563
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,160
whole lot of wisdom. 
Well, the good news for you is 

564
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:45,480
James says if you lack wisdom, 
ask and God will give you the 

565
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,320
wisdom that you need. 
When that younger brother is in 

566
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,200
need of wisdom and perhaps you 
don't feel that you possess that

567
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,680
wisdom, go to God in prayer. 
God, I know that you've promised

568
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,120
to give wisdom where wisdom is 
lacking. 

569
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,040
Lord, I admit I lack wisdom. 
Give me wisdom from your word 

570
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,160
that I may instruct and 
encourage my younger brother in 

571
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:11,360
the faith, redirecting them with
the proper care, being careful. 

572
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,719
Please listen to me, being 
careful never to belittle them 

573
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:21,199
or act as if you've never been 
in their shoes or if you are 

574
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,719
above stumbling in the same 
manner. 

575
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:28,960
Never, ever act like that. 
That is nothing but pride. 

576
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,800
Never talk to them as if they 
are stupid. 

577
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:40,239
Never make them feel small. 
Let them know that we are all 

578
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:45,159
tempted with sin and there are 
occasions when we fall to sin 

579
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:51,280
and redirect them with the same 
care that you would want to 

580
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,920
receive if you were being 
redirected from your temptation 

581
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,520
or from your sin. 
Galatians 6 verse one says 

582
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:04,160
brothers and sisters, if someone
is caught in a sin, you who live

583
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,120
by the Spirit should restore 
that person gently. 

584
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,840
Gently, but watch yourselves, or
you also may be tempted. 

585
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,120
Carry each other's burdens, and 
in this way you will fulfill the

586
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,000
law of Christ. 
What is the law of Christ? 

587
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,400
Love the Lord you got all your 
heart, soul, mind and strength. 

588
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:26,120
Love your neighbor as yourself. 
He's saying to us, when we see 

589
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:30,680
that brother who is caught in 
sin, we ought not to glory in 

590
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,200
the fact that they're caught in 
sin. 

591
00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:36,000
And perhaps it's a sin that 
you've never been caught in and 

592
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,160
you need to stop. 
And you need to humbly thank God

593
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,040
that you weren't caught in the 
same sin, because you know full 

594
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:42,720
well that you were tempted with 
it. 

595
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,120
And then to come back and to. 
Gently, as Scripture says, 

596
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:54,160
gently restore that person. 
Lead that person out of sin by 

597
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:58,280
the power of the Holy Spirit 
living in you, carrying his 

598
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,040
burden, just like that big 
brother's going to carry the 

599
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,720
burden of that little brother. 
Carry his burden, he says. 

600
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:09,120
In this way you'll fulfill the 
law of Christ. 

601
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,200
You'll show that you love the 
Lord your God with all your 

602
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,040
heart, soul, mind, and strength.
And you love your neighbor as 

603
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,680
yourself because you're willing 
to bear with them when they're 

604
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:23,400
burdened, always taking the 
greatest care and the greatest 

605
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,280
concern for their soul, leading 
them out of their sin, leading 

606
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,160
them out of their struggles, 
pointing them to Jesus over and 

607
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,480
over and over again. 
How many times should we point 

608
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,240
to this? 
Struggling brother to Christ. 

609
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,840
I don't know how many times if 
your younger brother was about 

610
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,560
to walk off a Cliff, would you 
point him the other direction? 

611
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,800
This. 
The answer is simple, isn't it? 

612
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,360
Until he gets it. 
Until he turns around and if he 

613
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,120
refuses to turn around, you grab
him and you drag him back until 

614
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,160
he understands. 
That's how we're to treat the 

615
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,000
younger brothers in the church, 
always taking the greatest care 

616
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,200
and the concern for their soul 
because we don't at the end of 

617
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,400
the day know exactly where they 
are spiritually. 

618
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,480
James 5 speaks on this verse 19.
My brothers and sisters, if one 

619
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,520
of you should wander from the 
truth and someone should bring 

620
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,800
that person back, remember this.
Whoever turns a Sinner from the 

621
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,760
error of their way will save 
them from death and cover over a

622
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,240
multitude of sin. 
Remember in dealing with these. 

623
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,800
Professing believers that we see
as brothers, we could 

624
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,480
potentially by being that Big 
Brother to them, we could 

625
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,880
potentially rescue them 
eternally. 

626
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,400
Now we know this, that 
ultimately Jesus is the one who 

627
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,920
rescues us, but it is our duty 
to continually point them to 

628
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,360
Christ, to continually remind 
them that yes, maybe you have 

629
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,280
felt 1000 time. 
But God's grace is sufficient, 

630
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:44,400
Brother, I'm going to help you 
back up. 

631
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,240
We're going to get back up, and 
we're going to keep marching 

632
00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:47,680
forward. 
We're going to keep our eyes 

633
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,440
fixed on Jesus, the author and 
the perfector of our faith 

634
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,600
together. 
You never want to push them 

635
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,000
away. 
You never want to push them away

636
00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:00,760
by embittering them, looking 
down on them, making them feel 

637
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,120
as if they can never get it 
right for you to continually 

638
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:10,480
urge them toward Christ with the
greatest encouragement and care 

639
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,520
that you can give them. 
I pray that we care about our 

640
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,560
brothers and nothing. 
Again, I know that much of this 

641
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,800
sermon I am preaching to the 
choir. 

642
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,200
Much of these things we already 
do, and we already do them well.

643
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,520
And here's the thing, we can 
never settle for that. 

644
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,160
We can never say, OK, we're just
going to become complacent. 

645
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:32,240
We have to keep thinking on 
these thing nurturing that 

646
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,800
younger brother. 
So Paul covers here concern for 

647
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,040
young men, gentle encouragement 
for the older men. 

648
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,760
And now as we continue in verse 
2, Paul's going to transition to

649
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,960
the females in the church. 
And he says this in verse two, 

650
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,800
older women as mothers. 
Here's how you ought to care. 

651
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,120
For and to view the older women 
in the church and he says 

652
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,560
mothers, this is our 
relationship to the older women 

653
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,600
in the church. 
He begins with older women, 

654
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:05,080
again using that analogy of a 
mother and a mother who deserves

655
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,880
honor and respect. 
That is what we are to give them

656
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:15,880
in the church, honor and respect
toward the older women. 

657
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:21,280
This is our Third Point and that
third familial relationship that

658
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,520
we're talking about that Paul is
discussing here. 

659
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,720
Proverbs 2322 says listen to 
your father who gave you life, 

660
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:32,720
and do not despise your mother 
when she is old. 

661
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,000
Do not despise your mother when 
she is old. 

662
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,960
Now we know that it's talking 
about our earthly mother, but in

663
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,240
what Paul is teaching here to 
Timothy, who will then teach 

664
00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:48,400
this to the Ephesians, he is 
talking about mothers within the

665
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,440
church, those older women. 
Now we are to. 

666
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,160
View them with that kind of 
honor and respect, the same 

667
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,240
honor and respect that we have 
for our earthly mothers now. 

668
00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:02,560
I know. 
Again, just as the fathers and 

669
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:07,080
our day and culture, it's hard 
for us to understand because we 

670
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,040
don't see that as a position of 
respect, right? 

671
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,400
But it is many people. 
Have forgotten the position of 

672
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:19,200
mother as a position of honor. 
You would not be here without 

673
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,160
her. 
Be thankful for that. 

674
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:26,040
If for no other reason, she 
deserves that honor. 

675
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:32,440
And here's how we're to approach
the older women in the church 

676
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:40,640
with honor and respect, seeing 
them as our mothers. 

677
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,840
And I can tell you this, I 
didn't have a great relationship

678
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:48,040
with my earthly mother. 
My earthly mother was not a 

679
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,120
follower of Christ, My 
knowledge. 

680
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:57,760
Other than maybe a mere 
profession, I didn't have a 

681
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:02,000
great relationship with her. 
But I am. 

682
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,920
Thankful for the mothers that 
God has raised up in my life, in

683
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,960
the churches that I have been a 
part of, those ladies who I have

684
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:15,280
been able to honor and to 
respect as my own mothers. 

685
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,240
Those ladies who have. 
Cared for me and cared for my 

686
00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:22,120
family and poured in to us far 
more than they should. 

687
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,120
What I mean by that is there was
a time in Arkansas where I 

688
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:31,520
started a lemon icebox pie 
competition and it cost me about

689
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,160
£25, right? 
Because those mothers in the 

690
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,560
church and one of them made me a
lemon icebox pie and I am either

691
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,320
a lemon icebox or a Key Lime 
guy. 

692
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:41,680
I don't like a whole lot of 
sweet. 

693
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,760
Stuff I like a tart pie, so 
that's just for free. 

694
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,960
But this lady made me a lemon 
icebox pie and I told her I made

695
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,760
a mistake and I said that was 
the best lemon icebox pie that I

696
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,120
had ever had. 
Now, the mistake was not a lie 

697
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,360
because I didn't lie to her. 
It really was. 

698
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,400
But she went back, obviously, 
and told the other ladies in the

699
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,480
church that Pastor Kirk likes 
lemon icebox pie. 

700
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,160
And he told me that I made the 
best one that he had ever had. 

701
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,320
So you know what happened to all
the moms in that church? 

702
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,640
They were going to prove 
otherwise. 

703
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,840
So I received. 
An abundance of lemon icebox 

704
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,600
pies and felt that often at 
times forced to lie, though I 

705
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,160
never did. 
But there was a lot of pressure 

706
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,520
to tell all of them that theirs 
was better than the last. 

707
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:36,160
However, in that I saw the love 
and the kindness and the care. 

708
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,600
Those mothers in the church who 
would just bake a pie or cook a 

709
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,800
pie or whatever you do with a 
pie, I guess you bake it. 

710
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,000
I would bake a pie and give that
to me and to my family. 

711
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:52,520
Sometimes I would share. 
And I began to value them and to

712
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,120
see them as mothers because 
there were times where I would 

713
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,160
pray for my own mom when she was
still alive and I could have a 

714
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:03,560
godly mom and a mom who loved 
Christ. 

715
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,200
I never got to see that, and I'm
OK with that. 

716
00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:13,840
Lord has healed me. 
I have come to grips with that. 

717
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:20,080
But you know what? 
One day I came to this, that 

718
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:26,360
where my earthly mother was 
deficient, God was sufficient 

719
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,520
and he gave me many mothers. 
And I'm thankful for that. 

720
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:35,920
I'm thankful for those of you 
who are here who are older than 

721
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:41,200
me in life and in faith that you
do serve that role in my life. 

722
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,080
And I pray that I would honor 
you and I would respond to you 

723
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,440
even when I have to correct you.
Then I would respond to you 

724
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,120
properly in tenderness because 
that's what the scriptures 

725
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,360
require of us. 
If I'm going to honor you and 

726
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,840
respect you as my mother in the 
church, I have to respond in 

727
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,320
tenderness. 
Do the respect that you deserve 

728
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,360
that. 
And that is how I ought to come 

729
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,360
to you even when I am having to 
correct you, right? 

730
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:10,240
Maybe there's a theological 
difference or there is a an 

731
00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:14,120
issue of sin in your life. 
And from time to time, we as 

732
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,440
pastors just have to do this 
undertaking. 

733
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,000
We have to correct others. 
May we do it wisely. 

734
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:25,120
May we do it as we respond in 
tenderness, due to the honor 

735
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:29,160
that the older women in this 
church deserve and that older 

736
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,840
women in general deserve. 
He says see them. 

737
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:38,720
As mothers and honor them just 
as you would honor your earthly 

738
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:40,840
mother. 
God thinks this is important. 

739
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,800
In fact, it is the command that 
he gives. 

740
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,320
Honor your father and your 
mother that your days may be 

741
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,960
long upon the earth. 
It's the command that is 

742
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:54,360
attached to a promise. 
So that command applies in our 

743
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,360
familial relationships in the 
church if we're to show proper 

744
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,480
respect to everyone as Peter 
commands us to do in First Peter

745
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,840
chapter 2, verse 17, this surely
applies to the older women in 

746
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,640
our congregation, those mothers 
who pour into us and who love 

747
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,360
us. 
We should show them that love 

748
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,080
and that honor and that respect 
in return. 

749
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,040
Paul exemplifies this, doesn't 
he? 

750
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,480
If you think back with me to 
Philippians, when we went 

751
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,280
through Philippians verse by 
verse not too terribly long ago,

752
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:27,120
and we saw in chapter 4 a little
discrepancy that was going on 

753
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,200
between two women, Yoda and 
Senta Key. 

754
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:35,440
And there in Philippians chapter
4, Paul actually shows us how we

755
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,280
can respond in tenderness even 
when there's conflict and 

756
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,520
there's a need for correction. 
He says, Therefore, my brothers 

757
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:45,000
and sisters, you whom I love and
the Lord and love and long for 

758
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,480
my joy and crown, stand firm in 
the Lord. 

759
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,560
In this way, dear friends, I 
plead with Yodia and I plead 

760
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,040
with Sentaki to be of the same 
mind in the Lord. 

761
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,640
Yes, and I ask you, my true 
companion, help these women, 

762
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,840
since they have contended at my 
side in the cause of the gospel,

763
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,520
along with Clement and the rest 
of my Co workers whose names are

764
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,760
in the book of life. 
You see what Paul does there? 

765
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,880
He responds in complete 
tenderness to the fact that 

766
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,440
these two ladies. 
Are causing dysfunction and 

767
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,920
disharmony in the church. 
And you know what he reminds 

768
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,440
them of? 
We're all on the same team here.

769
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,320
He reminds them that you're a Co
laborers in Christ with me. 

770
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,600
You're Co laborers in Christ 
with me and with Clement, with 

771
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,480
those there at the church, at 
Philippi. 

772
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,640
There's no need for this 
division. 

773
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:34,400
So he shows honor and he shows 
respect while correcting them. 

774
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,720
What wisdom we can glean from 
that. 

775
00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:42,720
He corrects them while at the 
same time being tender and kind 

776
00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:46,720
and gracious to them. 
We are to respond in tenderness,

777
00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:51,280
and we are to reflect God's 
grace as we honor and respect. 

778
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:55,520
The older women in the church as
our mothers, what does it mean 

779
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,680
when we show them grace to to 
graciously honor them above 

780
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,760
ourselves again, So often we 
think that then they're old, 

781
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,240
they don't matter. 
They're not not contributing 

782
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:09,920
much. 
They're insignificant. 

783
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,640
We forget what God tells us to 
do. 

784
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,120
He tells us in Romans chapter 
12, verse 10 to be devoted. 

785
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,680
To one another in love. 
Honor one another above 

786
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:27,440
yourselves, even if that one 
another is an elderly woman in 

787
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,720
the church. 
Love her and show honor and 

788
00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:34,920
respect to her, just like you 
would your earthly mother. 

789
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,760
You can bet Timothy, who 
received this, who had a 

790
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,200
grandmother and a mother who 
loved him. 

791
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,040
Paul's already testified to that
in his writings. 

792
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,520
You can bet this meant something
to him. 

793
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:54,240
That I am to love these women at
Ephesus, to honor and to respect

794
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:58,560
them like I honor my mother who 
raised me and raised me to know 

795
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:03,000
Christ and to know the word of 
God, showing them grace, 

796
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:07,840
constantly treating them as 
Jesus said what the golden rule,

797
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,080
the way you want to be treated 
in Matthew Chapter 7, verse 12. 

798
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:16,480
Do everything. 
Do it to others in everything. 

799
00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:19,040
What you would have them do to 
you. 

800
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,720
This sums up the law and the 
profits. 

801
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,560
Everything you do. 
Treat people the way you want to

802
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,960
be treated. 
Now I know this when I'm old, I 

803
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,600
don't want treat people treating
me as if I'm insignificant and 

804
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,320
can no longer contribute. 
You already feel like that on 

805
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,360
your own to some degree anyways,
the older that you get. 

806
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,520
I know instead what we ought to 
do as they age. 

807
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:46,040
We ought to grow in our honor 
and our respect toward them, 

808
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:52,560
offering them grace upon grace 
upon grace, exemplifying God's 

809
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,800
goodness to the body of Christ. 
Relations 610. 

810
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,160
He says, Therefore, as we have 
opportunity, let us do good to 

811
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:04,440
all people, even the elderly, 
even the elderly women, seeing 

812
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,240
them as our mothers. 
He says especially to those who 

813
00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:10,560
belong to the family of 
believers, especially in the 

814
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:16,320
church, especially here, Paul 
says to honor and respect and to

815
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,800
show that honor and respect 
toward older women. 

816
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,280
We are to view the older women 
in the church as mothers. 

817
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,800
Our perspective is right that 
will allow us to give to them 

818
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,960
the proper honor and respect 
that they deserve. 

819
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,000
Why do they deserve it? 
Because God says it is a 

820
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,920
position of respect and go back 
all the way to to, to Exodus 

821
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,280
chapter 20 verse 12. 
He doesn't say honor your mother

822
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:45,240
and father. 
If they do honorable thing he 

823
00:49:45,240 --> 00:49:48,440
says honor them. 
And the same goes in the church.

824
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:54,040
We're to honor the older women 
in this church as our own 

825
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:59,320
mother. 
Lastly, Paul will here complete 

826
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,480
the family order in the church. 
He says verse 2, the second part

827
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,240
and younger women as sisters. 
He says view the older women as 

828
00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:11,920
mothers and the younger women as
sisters with absolute purity. 

829
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,760
So he has said. 
Be gentle as you encourage the 

830
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,520
older men. 
Show concern for the younger men

831
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:21,720
as if they were your younger 
brothers. 

832
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:25,320
Give honor and respect to the 
older women. 

833
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,760
And now he's saying have moral 
purity toward younger women. 

834
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:35,440
Paul now turns to this category 
of the younger woman, and he 

835
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:42,160
uses this term absolute purity. 
You know what Paul's saying? 

836
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:49,720
He's saying see them as women 
with all of their femininity and

837
00:50:49,720 --> 00:50:57,000
all of their emotional 
weaknesses, acknowledge them as 

838
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:05,320
women, as sisters, and have 0 
inclination or thought as 

839
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:10,400
pertaining to them sexually. 
Now, I know that there are many 

840
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,200
churches who they're not even 
going to entertain even 

841
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,880
discussing this portion of the 
scripture here. 

842
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,920
They're going to somehow figure 
out a way to jump over it. 

843
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,480
We're not going to do that. 
That's why I love about 

844
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:21,960
expository teaching. 
You get to it. 

845
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,400
You have to preach it. 
Here it is. 

846
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,640
What is he saying? 
That you have to view the 

847
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:34,160
younger women in the church from
a morally pure mindset? 

848
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,000
He gives instruction on how to 
do that. 

849
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,400
Rightfully viewing them as 
sisters. 

850
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:44,920
Rightfully viewing them as 
sisters. 

851
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:49,240
Why is this important? 
It's important because the 

852
00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:55,200
disgusting nature of incest 
ought to be a deterrent for 

853
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:59,680
anyone of sound mind in their 
relations to other and 

854
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:06,240
especially here younger women. 
Scripture condemns incest in all

855
00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:09,080
forms. 
Leviticus 18-9 it specifically 

856
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:14,400
says do not have sexual 
relations with your sister. 

857
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,200
Don't have sexual relations with
your sister. 

858
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,280
This is the forbidding of 
incest. 

859
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:24,000
It ought to be. 
Disgusting because it is 

860
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:27,920
despicable. 
He's reminding us that no one of

861
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:33,360
noble character would ever 
entertain sexual flirtations or 

862
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:38,120
make sexual advances on their 
little sister. 

863
00:52:39,240 --> 00:52:44,040
We would all know that to be 
disgusting behavior. 

864
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,800
You say, Well, pastor, do you 
really think that a pastor or 

865
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,480
leader in the church would have 
a sexual desire toward a younger

866
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,200
woman? 
Absolutely. 

867
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:57,720
Not too long ago, a man that I 
respected in the Lord, who I 

868
00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:04,320
gleaned from his teaching in his
70s, he had an inappropriate 

869
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:11,520
relationship with a 27 year old 
girl simply because he refused 

870
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:16,080
to see her as a sister. 
Now I can tell you this, every 

871
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:20,880
man in this room, every man, I 
am not an exception. 

872
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:27,160
Every man in this room could 
have a sexual temptation. 

873
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:31,800
Is that not true? 
He could lust sexually after 

874
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,440
someone else. 
We all could and we all have. 

875
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:42,560
And I can tell you this, even in
my younger years when I had all 

876
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,000
of these new hormones that I 
didn't know what to do with and 

877
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:50,880
and didn't know how to control 
them, I lusted sexually after 

878
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,160
females. 
And all of you who were honest 

879
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,120
here today would say, me too. 
Now, I'm not going to ask you to

880
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:59,560
do that because some of you are 
sitting next to your wives and 

881
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,720
she's going to ask a whole bunch
of questions over lunch and you 

882
00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:08,560
don't want to answer. 
But I have never one single time

883
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:11,720
looked at my sister and lusted 
after her sexually. 

884
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:13,800
Why? 
That's not normal. 

885
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,960
So Paul is wanting to make this 
point, and he's wanting to make 

886
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:22,960
this point very clear, that if 
we'll view younger women in the 

887
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:27,760
church as our little sisters, we
will have a whole different take

888
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,440
on it. 
If that sexual thought pops into

889
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:38,080
our mind, we must rightfully 
view them as those sisters, 

890
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:44,480
avoiding that incest within the 
body of Christ. 

891
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,040
And isn't proper perspective the
key to purity in all the? 

892
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:53,080
Areas of our life, right? 
If I view sin as sin and I view 

893
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:57,920
sin as offensive to God, and if 
I love God, I am going to resist

894
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,160
that sin because I love God. 
Why? 

895
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,800
I had the right perspective. 
So Paul's giving Timothy 

896
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,120
perspective here. 
He's saying, you know what, yes,

897
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:10,640
that younger woman is far more 
attractive than the older woman 

898
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:15,440
in the last part of this lesson,
and so you're going to be more 

899
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,400
prone to be sexually tempted 
with her. 

900
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:28,440
But in absolute purity, see her 
as your little sister. 

901
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:32,680
And when you see her as your 
little sister, things are going 

902
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,080
to change. 
In your mind you were going to 

903
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:40,920
see her as a potential for 
incest, not a potential for self

904
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:46,560
satisfaction. 
Rightfully view them as sisters,

905
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:51,400
refusing to entertain any 
appropriate desires toward them 

906
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:53,440
at all, he said. 
Absolute purity. 

907
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:57,840
That is in thought and in deed. 
Absolute purity. 

908
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:03,440
I remember hearing a preacher, I
don't remember exactly who the 

909
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:07,000
preacher is, but I remember 
hearing a message that was very 

910
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,360
impactful on me as a young 
minister. 

911
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,840
This preacher shared of an 
instance where he had a young 

912
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:18,000
lady, a young married lady in 
his office and he was actually 

913
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,280
counseling her, giving her 
marriage counseling. 

914
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,600
And he was just going about his 
normal business of going through

915
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,360
the Bible and instructing her on
how she used to be the wife that

916
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,240
she needs to be and helping her 
through her problems that arise.

917
00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:32,800
And yes, they do arise, don't 
they? 

918
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,640
Married couples have problems, 
and sometimes we have to seek 

919
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,440
the advice of pastors. 
Now, pastors and leaders in the 

920
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:40,720
church, please pay attention to 
this. 

921
00:56:40,720 --> 00:56:43,640
For people who may be a pastor 
down the road, you know, not yet

922
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:45,760
that you're even going to be, 
that God's going to call you 

923
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:47,400
into that. 
And this is a helpful tidbit for

924
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:48,760
you that I learned from this 
man. 

925
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,320
And he said as he was there, he 
was talking to this girl all of 

926
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:57,440
a sudden in his sinful mind, 
because his sinful mind is still

927
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,840
existing just as mine is, just 
as yours is. 

928
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,680
He began to notice how beautiful
she was and then it went from 

929
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,160
the fact that she was beautiful 
to sexual faults. 

930
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:12,920
And as he's telling the story, 
he said that I couldn't get her 

931
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:16,240
out of my office quick enough. 
And he said she left my office. 

932
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,720
I scheduled appointment with her
and her husband. 

933
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,640
And he said he cancelled the 
rest of his appointments that 

934
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:23,400
day. 
And he locked himself in his 

935
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,520
office with a sign on his door, 
do not disturb. 

936
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:29,800
And he devoted himself the rest 
of that afternoon to praying 

937
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,960
that God would help him with 
this lust that he had in his 

938
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,680
flesh. 
What wisdom we can gain from 

939
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:41,120
that type of attitude. 
One who refuses to entertain 

940
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,080
inappropriate desires. 
That because that's really what 

941
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,960
got King David, isn't it? 
He looked out on the roof. 

942
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,600
And that was not the first time 
that he had seen a woman bathing

943
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:54,080
out on the roof, but he began to
entertain it in his mind. 

944
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,600
Over and over and over again. 
Then lust took over. 

945
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,320
Then the next thing you know, a 
man after God's own heart is 

946
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:04,000
summoning another woman to have 
sexual relationships with him 

947
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:09,320
that he is not married to. 
He commits adultery and we know 

948
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:16,120
ultimately murder and why? 
Because he refused to see her as

949
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:19,720
the sister that she was. 
When we see them as. 

950
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,640
Sisters, our whole perspective 
ought to change. 

951
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:26,680
It ought to help us to refuse 
entertaining any appropriate, 

952
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,040
inappropriate, or sexual desires
that we may have. 

953
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:34,640
It ought to cause us to watch 
our conduct and our conversation

954
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,760
with younger women closely. 
Isn't that important? 

955
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,080
Why? 
So that they don't get the wrong

956
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:45,920
idea. 
Did you notice there are younger

957
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,680
women in the church who could 
come to any of our pastors for 

958
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:50,920
sound advice? 
I pray that they would find 

959
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:56,800
sound advice. 
And we invite you to comment, to

960
00:58:56,800 --> 00:59:00,640
talk to us about things. 
But sometimes they get the wrong

961
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:01,920
idea. 
And here's how they get the 

962
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,280
wrong idea. 
This woman's struggling in her 

963
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,840
home because her husband is not 
the godly man that she knows 

964
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:08,680
that he ought to be or that she 
desires. 

965
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:12,400
Him to be as I've said it before
and I'll say it again, the thing

966
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:14,880
that a woman who loves Christ 
wants more than anything is a 

967
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:17,920
man who loves Christ she. 
Didn't care about your muscles. 

968
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:19,040
She didn't care about your 
money. 

969
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,240
She wants you to live for 
Christ. 

970
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,280
And so this woman comes and she 
doesn't have a man who lives for

971
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:26,760
Christ. 
And then she sees as you're 

972
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,000
counseling her and you're giving
her this good advice from the 

973
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:34,360
Scripture, she sees you as 
attractive because the one thing

974
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:36,960
that's missing from her life is 
a godly man. 

975
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,800
And then she sees this as an 
opportunity to have for herself 

976
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:43,440
a godly man. 
You think that it doesn't 

977
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,520
happen. 
It happens all of the time in 

978
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:49,520
churches. 
Pastors fall because people have

979
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:51,480
the wrong idea. 
A woman comes with the wrong 

980
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:55,160
idea. 
She comes for counseling and he 

981
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:58,120
goes beyond that and goes to her
own. 

982
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:03,920
Desires for this man of God, and
so we have to be very careful of

983
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,960
that. 
We have to be very wise in that,

984
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:11,640
making sure that we don't relay 
the wrong message. 

985
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,920
Pastors, in our counseling, what
do we need to constantly do? 

986
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:20,840
When he's the need to constantly
point her to Christ and her to 

987
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:25,400
her husband and her to her 
husband in Christ, treating her 

988
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:30,480
as that little sister who no way
in the world would we ever 

989
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:35,320
entertain any kind of impure 
relationship with her at all. 

990
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,920
Now, I know for some of you this
is uncomfortable stuff to talk 

991
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:42,200
about in the church. 
And I think because the church 

992
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,400
is so afraid to talk about it, 
it's an epidemic in the church. 

993
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:50,800
So we're going to talk about it.
We have to refuse to entertain 

994
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:57,120
any appropriate desires so that 
no one gets the wrong idea, so 

995
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:00,120
that the wrong message is not 
relayed. 

996
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:05,720
We have to maintain a healthy 
distance in our interactions 

997
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:10,600
with the opposite sex, both in 
conversation and in conduct, 

998
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,480
right? 
For instance. 

999
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,120
When we think of them as little 
sisters. 

1000
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,040
Is there anything wrong with 
hugging my sister? 

1001
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:22,560
No, I'm not going to kiss my 
sister in the mouth, right? 

1002
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:25,200
It's just not going to happen. 
Now, you might do that. 

1003
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:28,120
That's just weird. 
I'm not doing that. 

1004
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,240
And so it's all about that. 
Perspective and seeing that so 

1005
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:37,640
that we can watch our conduct, 
so we we can maintain healthy 

1006
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:42,880
distance, we can maintain a 
godly relationship. 

1007
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,000
So we have to refuse to 
entertain any appropriate 

1008
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,280
desires that we may have. 
Guys, the worst thing that you 

1009
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,520
can do is pretend like you don't
have desires. 

1010
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,440
When you do have desires, that's
the worst thing you can do 

1011
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,320
because you know what? 
You don't address the desire. 

1012
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:57,640
You just pretend like it's not 
there. 

1013
01:01:57,640 --> 01:01:59,480
And things that we pretend like 
they're not there, those are 

1014
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:01,280
usually the things that sneak up
and bite us. 

1015
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:04,680
Acknowledge it and go to the 
Lord Lord, as that pastor I 

1016
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:06,880
share with you a moment ago, 
Lord, I have a problem. 

1017
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:08,720
My problem is this. 
I didn't intend on lusting. 

1018
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:11,600
My sinful flesh began to lust 
after this woman. 

1019
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,320
And instead of being afraid to 
admit that to a God who already 

1020
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:17,240
knew, he got on his face and 
said, God, you know, and I need 

1021
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:20,440
your help with this because I 
cannot resist this on my own. 

1022
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,760
And he waited until God supplied
him the help that he needed, 

1023
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,400
until the Word became alive in 
his life, until he began to see 

1024
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:33,120
her as a sister again, not as 
something that would fulfill his

1025
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:36,400
sexual longing. 
We have to safeguard ourselves 

1026
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:39,080
from any and all impure 
temptations and attacks because 

1027
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:43,120
they're real and they do come 
Job 31, one Job took this 

1028
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:44,480
attitude. 
He said, I've made a covenant 

1029
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,880
with my eyes not to look 
lustfully after a woman. 

1030
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:52,400
Job knew this by by the time it 
comes into my eyes, I'm in big 

1031
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:54,120
trouble because it's going to go
into my eyes. 

1032
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,280
It's going to go into my mind. 
And if I'm not careful, this is 

1033
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,760
going to root in my heart. 
So jokes and I've made a 

1034
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,800
covenant with my eyes not to 
look lustfully after a woman. 

1035
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:05,520
I don't even want to give it a 
second glance when I see 

1036
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,880
something that I know could lead
to this. 

1037
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:09,920
I have to safeguard myself 
against it. 

1038
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:14,200
I have to resist it. 
Matthew 26 verse 41. 

1039
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:15,360
The Lord taught, taught it like 
this. 

1040
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:17,320
He said, watch and praise so 
that you will not fall into 

1041
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,440
temptation. 
The Spirit is willing, but the 

1042
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:24,760
flesh is weak. 
Don't think for a second that 

1043
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:28,120
any of you in here, in your 
flesh are strong enough to 

1044
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:34,440
resist the temptation of sin. 
And especially for men with 

1045
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:38,200
young women and the temptation 
to sin sexually, don't think for

1046
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:40,760
a second that you're above that.
None of you are. 

1047
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:45,200
None of us are. 
Must watch and pray so that we 

1048
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,440
will not fall into this 
temptation. 

1049
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:51,240
Ephesians 611 says for us to put
on the full armor of God so that

1050
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:53,400
you can take your stand against 
the devil's schemes. 

1051
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,440
You think the devil's not 
scheming against the church 

1052
01:03:55,440 --> 01:04:00,240
leadership, trying to get church
leaders to think of young women 

1053
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:03,680
as something other than little 
sisters in the Lord? 

1054
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,360
Of course he's scheming. 
Of course he's plotting. 

1055
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:11,040
He seeks to destroy all that God
is doing through His church. 

1056
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:15,640
Therefore, we must see the 
importance of guarding our own 

1057
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,520
hearts. 
Proverbs 423 It says, above all 

1058
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:21,400
else, guard your heart, for 
everything you do flows from it.

1059
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:25,480
Protect your heart, because once
this temptation seeds in your 

1060
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:30,320
heart, you're in trouble. 
Psalm 11911 You know what? 

1061
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:33,640
I have hidden your word in my 
heart, that I might not sin 

1062
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:35,360
against you. 
It didn't say I've hidden your 

1063
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:39,080
word in my heart that I might 
not be tempted sexually by a 

1064
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,360
younger woman. 
He said, no, I've hidden your 

1065
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:47,200
word in my heart so that when I 
am tempted with sin, I won't sin

1066
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,080
against you. 
And what does this word say 

1067
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:51,840
pertaining to this? 
See the younger women as 

1068
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:54,120
sisters. 
So when your mind goes to 

1069
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:57,120
anything sexual, all of a sudden
default is now. 

1070
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:02,160
Oh no, gross. 
That's incest and that's 

1071
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:04,320
despicable behavior and it's 
unacceptable. 

1072
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:10,960
According to God's Word, set 
yourself boundaries and rules. 

1073
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:16,680
1st Thessalonians 522 says 
reject every kind of evil, even 

1074
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:20,120
the appearance of it. 
Reject every kind of evil. 

1075
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:23,520
Set yourselves boundaries so 
that you don't do anything that 

1076
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,680
could potentially lead to evil 
or do anything that could 

1077
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:30,800
potentially look like evil. 
The pastors here, they've all 

1078
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:34,680
been taught when you're meeting 
with a female by yourself, you 

1079
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,880
should close the door and black 
out the window so that no one 

1080
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:42,760
suspects anything going on. 
No, should never meet with a 

1081
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:46,840
female behind closed doors. 
In fact, I'll say this, I won't 

1082
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:51,400
ride with a female who is not my
family in a car alone with her. 

1083
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:55,680
I'm sure not going to go to 
lunch with you. 

1084
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,000
It's funny that there are people
who actually do that, right? 

1085
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:02,000
We have some salespeople who 
calling us females. 

1086
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,200
Would you like to go to lunch 
with me? 

1087
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:07,520
Absolutely not. 
I don't want to go to lunch with

1088
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:08,720
a female. 
Why? 

1089
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:10,680
Because I'm not above 
temptation. 

1090
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:15,960
But besides that, it appears to 
others as something that could 

1091
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:17,560
be potentially. 
Evil. 

1092
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:20,320
We have to avoid that, and 
leadership has to take that 

1093
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:25,160
seriously and to safeguard 
themselves, setting biblical and

1094
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:30,760
realistic and wise boundaries. 
And then as we refuse to 

1095
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:34,160
entertain appropriate, 
inappropriate desires, we have 

1096
01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:40,040
to constantly be mortifying any 
impure thought or lustful desire

1097
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:45,240
that should come about. 
If lustful thoughts happen, 

1098
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:51,080
don't be surprised if they do. 
Let me say that again. 

1099
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:56,280
Don't be surprised if they do. 
That's it causes to long for 

1100
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:59,120
glorification all the more. 
I'll be thankful when these 

1101
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:08,680
thoughts are no more, but when 
they do and if they go unchecked

1102
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:12,960
as they did in the life. 
Of David, you can rest assured 

1103
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:17,720
that more often than not, 
they're going to lead to sin, 

1104
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:22,960
and so safeguard yourself by 
mortifying your impure desires 

1105
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:28,960
the moment that you have them. 
2nd Corinthians 10 verse 5. 

1106
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,560
What does it say to do? 
Take every thought. 

1107
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:36,640
Captive. 
Take every thought captive to 

1108
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:41,160
make it obedient to Christ. 
And what does that look like in 

1109
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:47,880
looking at First Timothy 5 verse
2 when you have that lustful 

1110
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,880
thought? 
Take that thought captive. 

1111
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:55,320
Process it. 
This is not from my new nature, 

1112
01:07:55,960 --> 01:08:01,600
this is from my flesh. 
And I must die to my flesh. 

1113
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:05,680
I must crucify my flesh. 
This person that I had this 

1114
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:10,240
thought about is my sister in 
Christ. 

1115
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,040
Take that thought captive. 
Make it obedient to Christ. 

1116
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:19,520
Christ, I'm going to obey you. 
I need strength from your 

1117
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:22,600
spirit. 
You said that sounds like you're

1118
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:24,040
admitting weakness. 
You are. 

1119
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:25,560
Stop thinking that you're 
strong. 

1120
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He who thinks he stand, take 
heed lest he fall. 

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01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,080
When that thought enters your 
mind, remember this. 

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01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:34,760
You're capable of fulfilling 
that thought. 

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01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:39,600
Run to God and say God, I cannot
do this on my own. 

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01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:43,200
Let me see this woman as a 
little sister. 

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01:08:43,279 --> 01:08:46,399
Let me avoid incest and impurity
in any way. 

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01:08:46,399 --> 01:08:48,399
Why? 
Because that's what Your Word 

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01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:52,200
says that I am to do. 
Guard your hearts and your minds

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01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:57,399
in Christ Jesus, taking every 
thought captive, making it 

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01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:02,359
submit an obedience to. 
Christ Galatians 516 says this. 

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01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:04,760
It says so. 
I say walk by the Spirit. 

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01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:09,680
And you will not have any 
desires of the flesh. 

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01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:18,319
It doesn't say that. 
It says walk by the Spirit and 

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01:09:18,319 --> 01:09:23,960
you will not gratify or fulfill 
the desires of your flesh as 

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01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:28,000
long as you are in this earthly 
tent, this fleshly vessel it is 

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01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,600
going to have. 
Desires. 

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01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:34,560
What should you do? 
Walk in the Spirit and if you 

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01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:38,200
walk in the Spirit, you will not
fulfill the lust of your flesh, 

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01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:41,720
but you will fulfill the will of
God as you take every thought 

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01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:46,200
captive, making it obedient to 
Christ, mortifying the impurity 

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01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:50,560
and the impure thoughts and lust
of your flesh, taking them 

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01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:53,840
captive, crucifying your sinful 
desires. 

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01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:57,360
Galatians 516 says it, Walk in 
the Spirit, you won't fulfill 

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01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,560
the lust of your flesh. 
Colossians 35 gives us 

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01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:01,600
instruction. 
To put to death, therefore 

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01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:03,440
whatever belongs to your earthly
nature. 

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01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:05,480
What's the things that belong to
your earthly nature? 

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01:10:05,480 --> 01:10:09,040
In case you think you're above 
this sexual immorality, 

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01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:15,920
impurity, lust, evil desires and
greed, which is idolatry. 

1149
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:19,840
All of the things that we would 
think of as despicable, our 

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01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:23,120
flesh is capable of leading us 
into. 

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01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,360
So we can't give any room to the
flesh. 

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01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:32,120
We must put it to death and then
we must do as Paul says in 

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01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,760
Romans 13, verse 14. 
He says rather, instead of 

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01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:38,480
entertaining your flesh, he 
says, rather clothe yourselves 

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01:10:38,480 --> 01:10:40,360
with the Lord Jesus Christ, and 
do not. 

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01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:43,520
Think about how to. 
Gratify the desires of the 

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01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:45,640
flesh. 
Don't think about how you can 

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01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:47,400
gratify the desires of the 
flesh. 

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01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:49,840
Remember when you were lost and 
all you had was your flesh, and 

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01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,360
you would think of new ways to 
gratify your flesh. 

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01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:55,600
How can I gratify my earthly 
cravings? 

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01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:59,400
How can I make this happen? 
Paul Giving. 

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01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:01,520
Instruction to the church 
instead of that because you've 

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01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:05,200
been freed from that life, he 
says. 

1165
01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:09,120
Clothe yourself with the Lord 
Jesus Christ and don't think 

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01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:10,880
about how to gratify the desires
of the flesh. 

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01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:12,680
What are you to do? 
You're to focus on Christ, to 

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01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:15,800
fix your eyes on Jesus, the 
author and the perfecter of your

1169
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:19,880
faith. 
Walk and moral purity in your 

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01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:23,360
life, especially in regard to 
what he's saying here, moral 

1171
01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:26,280
purity toward younger women in 
the church. 

1172
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:29,840
And so may we have that proper 
view, and may that proper view 

1173
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:33,040
of younger women in the 
congregation direct our 

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01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:39,640
relationships with them as our 
sisters in Christ. 

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01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:42,520
I receive them for what God says
that they are. 

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01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:47,160
And may that deter us from any 
temptation to go outside of 

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01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:51,040
God's will and to enter into a 
wrongful sexual relationship 

1178
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:54,440
with them, whether that's just 
sexually in the nature of 

1179
01:11:54,440 --> 01:11:59,240
flirtation, or if that is 
further deviation into sexual 

1180
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:02,360
immorality and adultery. 
Let us be aware of that. 

1181
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:08,320
Let us be safeguarding ourselves
and wise and handling these 

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01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:12,000
things. 
So Paul has outlined for us the 

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01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:13,960
family of God. 
And how do we care for the 

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01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:16,000
family of God? 
Even in our correction and our 

1185
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:18,160
reducing and our counseling, 
What are we to do? 

1186
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:23,200
But we're to gently encourage 
the older men, to not rebuke 

1187
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:26,720
them harshly or have concern for
younger men, as we have for 

1188
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:30,040
younger brothers. 
We're to honor and respect older

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01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:34,040
women as our mothers. 
We're to have moral purity 

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01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:37,120
toward the younger women in the 
church. 

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01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:39,640
That's our responsibility as 
leaders. 

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01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:42,760
I told you as we open this 
morning, hold us to this. 

1193
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:44,440
This is our responsibility as 
leaders. 

1194
01:12:44,440 --> 01:12:47,960
But it's also your 
responsibility in your life to 

1195
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:53,240
view each element of the church 
the way that you ought to view 

1196
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:59,960
it so that you don't fall into 
any sin or any temptation. 

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01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:04,720
So to the leader here today, any
of our pastors that are present,

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01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:11,080
any of our elders, any of our 
reach group leaders, I pray that

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01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:14,480
you pay attention to this. 
I pray that you obey the truths 

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01:13:14,480 --> 01:13:18,000
that we have seen today. 
May that even in leading a 

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01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,000
reach. 
Group, you would gently 

1202
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,480
encourage the older men, even 
when they get it wrong and you 

1203
01:13:23,480 --> 01:13:26,800
have to correct them. 
Do it gently and you would see 

1204
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:29,160
that younger man who's 
struggling, not as a young kid 

1205
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:33,440
who just can't get it right. 
Just seem as that younger 

1206
01:13:33,440 --> 01:13:37,000
brother where you once were. 
You'll give him that direction. 

1207
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:43,720
To that older woman in your 
group who is hard sometimes to 

1208
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:47,920
deal with, I pray that you see 
her as your own mother. 

1209
01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:52,760
You remember the words of Christ
when he spoke to John and he 

1210
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:55,160
pointed to his own mother as 
Christ was leaving this earth. 

1211
01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:57,280
And he said, here is your 
mother, here's your son, take 

1212
01:13:57,280 --> 01:13:59,960
care of her like your own 
mother. 

1213
01:14:01,240 --> 01:14:04,360
And then to the younger women, 
don't think for a second that 

1214
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:09,360
you're above temptation. 
Make sure that that relationship

1215
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:15,800
is morally pure as the word of 
God has demanded to the believer

1216
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:19,000
here. 
Accept nothing less your life 

1217
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:23,360
and from the lives of your 
leaders to the unbeliever. 

1218
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,760
Perhaps you realized today 
talking about all these family 

1219
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:29,520
terms that you're just not part 
of the family. 

1220
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:33,280
You're not, You're not part of 
the family of God. 

1221
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:35,400
And I want to make that very 
clear in a day, in an age where 

1222
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:37,480
people say that we're all just 
children of God, you're not. 

1223
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:41,040
You must be adopted into this 
family and you're adopted into 

1224
01:14:41,040 --> 01:14:43,800
this family only through the 
sacrifice of the Lord Jesus 

1225
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:49,280
Christ. 
Now I pray today that you who 

1226
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:51,800
are an illegitimate child 
wandering through the world, a 

1227
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:56,480
son of Satan and the Son of sin,
see your great need because you 

1228
01:14:56,480 --> 01:14:59,200
are a Sinner and you need to be 
forgiven and washed clean clean 

1229
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,880
of your sin, to be cleansed from
head to toe, inside and out 

1230
01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:03,480
through the precious blood of 
Jesus Christ. 

1231
01:15:03,480 --> 01:15:07,520
I pray that you see your need 
for that today, that God in His 

1232
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:10,560
mercy and His grace would do 
only what God can do, and that 

1233
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:14,640
is to turn your sinful, 
unbelieving heart unto Him. 

1234
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,640
That He would give you faith to 
believe, and that belief would 

1235
01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:21,320
be marked by true repentance. 
As you turn away from sin and 

1236
01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:25,800
unbelief and you turn to Christ.
I can promise you this, Everyone

1237
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:29,360
who turns to Christ, whosoever 
shall call upon the name of the 

1238
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:30,840
Lord, shall be saved. 
I preach today. 

1239
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:34,960
And if God would grant you that 
grace, that God would grant you 

1240
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:38,080
that mercy, that you would 
obediently follow Christ as your

1241
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:41,120
Lord and Savior and be saved, 
saved forevermore. 

1242
01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:43,840
Let's pray together. 
Father, in the name of Jesus, we

1243
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:47,440
thank you so much for your word.
We thank you, Lord, that it 

1244
01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:51,560
doesn't have to be entertaining,
It doesn't have to be exciting. 

1245
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:56,200
It's true. 
What I pray that today truth 

1246
01:15:56,200 --> 01:16:00,680
would hit us or it needs to hit 
us, that Your word would do 

1247
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:04,680
exactly what You have designed 
Your Word to do for this 

1248
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:07,480
specific service at this 
specific church, at this 

1249
01:16:07,480 --> 01:16:09,680
specific time, for Your glory 
and for Your honor. 

1250
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:13,080
But I pray if there'd be someone
here who does not know Christ, 

1251
01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:16,800
that you would graciously draw 
them to yourself to receive 

1252
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:20,440
mercy and forgiveness today. 
We'll be careful, careful to 

1253
01:16:20,440 --> 01:16:22,920
give you all the praise for it. 
We pray these things in Christ's

1254
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:24,120
name. 
Amen. 

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01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,600
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01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:32,400
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