1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,480 Proverbs chapter 13, Proverbs chapter 13. 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:09,560 It's amazing how God uses the music and the singing to point 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:10,960 to the message. And that's exactly what we're 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,520 going to talk about tonight. I'm finishing up with a series 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,160 that we've been working on and I'm still doing our discovering 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:23,200 the stories of the Bible. And I told you that as we go 7 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,160 through that, I'm going to kind of do some of these different 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,040 messages on the family. And I've been in this one for a 9 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,880 little bit and finishing up with it tonight. 10 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:34,480 Probably could have finished up with it last time. 11 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:38,400 It's not going to be a real long message tonight, but I didn't 12 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:39,800 want to, didn't want to rush through it. 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,800 Just a reminder, I forgot to mention this during the 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,920 announcements, but the essay contest that we're doing for the 15 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,560 young people that are going to camp. 16 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,080 If you've been taking notes, and you should be, most of them are, 17 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,640 most of you are, but find a message that God used in your 18 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,640 heart and write an essay. 200 words, at least 200 words, I 19 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:06,000 guess try not to write a book, I suppose, but at least 200 words 20 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,800 of of how that message spoke to your heart. 21 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,600 How how it can change your life if you apply it to your heart. 22 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,440 And brother Gary was passing out the papers. 23 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,000 I think he put his e-mail address on there. 24 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,160 You can send it to him and he's got a little panel of judges 25 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:23,880 that are going to judge those. And we're going to have a $25 26 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,880 for the, for the winner 13 years old and up and $25 for the 27 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,080 winner, 12 years old and under that you can use at camp next 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:32,960 week. So work on that. 29 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:35,720 It's a great, great opportunity to apply what you've been 30 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,120 learning and what you are, what you know, what you're taking the 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,040 notes. It's, it's not just an exercise 32 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,200 to practice your handwriting. It's it's there so you can use 33 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,600 the opportunity to go back and look at those notes so you can 34 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,520 hopefully capture some things from the messages and writing 35 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,520 about it is certainly going to be one of those things that 36 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,400 helps. So hope every one of you will 37 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,320 will take part in that and send that send that essay. 38 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,520 You have till Friday. So you only got a few days, but 39 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,560 campus we're leaving Sunday. So I can give you a whole lot of 40 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:09,240 time to do that. But anyway, make sure you work 41 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,280 on that this week. And I'm sure your parents can 42 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,680 help you type it up. Parents, you cannot type it for 43 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,920 them, but you can you can you can type what they write. 44 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:21,600 Let's put it that way. All right, but anyway, Justin 45 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:25,080 finally decided to come back to church tonight and I brought 46 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,920 somebody with him. So it's good to have Ashley here 47 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,960 and totally different person when when she's here, you can 48 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,160 tell. But anyway, say hi to her when 49 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,840 you get a chance to do that tonight and that's good to have 50 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,480 good to have them. He's been a great help this 51 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,560 summer and he's going back to school, but it's just been a 52 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,280 really good opportunity. Sure, go ahead. 53 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,640 And I know a lot of you have gotten to know him and and work 54 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:52,800 together with him on a lot of different things that I gave him 55 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,240 to do. And it's just been a good 56 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,320 experience for him, but a good help to us. 57 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,400 And so I appreciate that. But what I want to, what I want 58 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,520 to talk to you about tonight, and we've been talking about a 59 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,840 godly influence and really the influence of a parent, the power 60 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,240 of a parents influence is what we've been talking about. 61 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,040 And I gave you a bunch of other things, but the one that I gave 62 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,240 you last time and, and this is kind of continuing this thought 63 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:17,840 that that I want to continue with tonight and just kind of 64 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,480 finish up with this is the influence that we have through a 65 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,360 godly environment. That was the point that I gave 66 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,960 you last week. And or maybe it wasn't last 67 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:30,440 week, maybe it was 2 weeks ago. But either way, just having 68 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,880 biblical order in the home and doing things God's way, doing 69 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,920 things that are pleasing to the Lord, making sure that the 70 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,240 entertainment that you have in your home is things that are, 71 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,000 are not just fun and enjoyable and, and entertaining, but that 72 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,120 it's an entertainment that is pleasing to the Lord. 73 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,600 That ought to be. That ought to be the criteria 74 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,240 for everything that you do in your home. 75 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:49,920 Is it pleasing to the Lord or is it not? 76 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,040 And if it's not, you shouldn't do it. 77 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,720 Doesn't matter how fun it is. Doesn't matter how much you feel 78 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:55,400 like you'd be missing out if you didn't do it. 79 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,480 If it's right, it's right. If it's wrong, it's wrong. 80 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,080 And that that ought to be the criteria for everything that we 81 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,600 do. But tonight then I want to talk 82 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,040 to you about this. And, and you're there in 83 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,720 Proverbs chapter 13. But the influence through 84 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:12,040 Christian servants, you have the influence of a, of a, of a godly 85 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,080 example of a biblical home and a biblical model and all those 86 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,200 things. But an influence through 87 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,079 Christian servants. We've been talking about 88 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:20,000 Timothy. Timothy is a great example of 89 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,200 this, of the power of a parent's influence. 90 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,240 Besides Timothy's mother and grandmother, which we know that 91 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,160 they obviously had a great impact on him, the influencer 92 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,480 with the greatest impact on Timothy's life was the apostle 93 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,720 Paul. Timothy's mother and grandmother 94 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,920 had to let the apostle Paul in to influence their son. 95 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:42,920 And you know, we caution our children many times against 96 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:44,640 having the wrong friends and we should. 97 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,040 But sometimes as parents, I think we forget to purposefully 98 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:53,200 place wise and godly influences in their lives. 99 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:58,080 The Bible says this in Proverbs chapter 13 and verse #20 He that 100 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:03,360 walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools 101 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,880 shall be destroyed. You have to be very careful and 102 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,840 very intentional about who the influences are that you let in 103 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:14,080 your children's life. But you should be letting those 104 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,680 influences into your children's life that are going to help them 105 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,680 and that are godly. You can do it a lot of this on 106 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,000 your own, but you need the church. 107 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,080 You need the church. And I saw, I want you to notice 108 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,920 a couple of ways that you can kind of maybe augment, if you 109 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,240 can use that word, your influence in your children's 110 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:33,920 life. What can you do to help the 111 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:35,800 influence that you already have in their life? 112 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:38,760 Obviously, as a parent, you are the most important people in 113 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,200 your children's life. You are the one that is going to 114 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,720 influence them the most by far. But there's other people who can 115 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,040 influence them as well, and you need to allow that influence to 116 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:50,920 take place. So let me let me just give you a 117 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,720 couple things here tonight. And like I said, I'm really not 118 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,800 going to be that long. We're going to have the this ice 119 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,320 cream and stuff afterwards. But I hope this will be a help 120 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,360 to you tonight. But let's have a word of prayer 121 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,800 and then we'll jump in and talk about a few of these things. 122 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,720 Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us. 123 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,800 I thank you for the good Sunday you've given us so far. 124 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,080 Thank you for those that you brought here this morning, some 125 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:13,520 that were here for the very first time. 126 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,120 God, I pray that you would just use the message in their hearts. 127 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,680 Use the messages in our hearts as well. 128 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,280 And God, I pray that you would just give us something from your 129 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:22,800 word tonight. That'll be a help to us. 130 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,520 And again, we thank you for all you do for us in Jesus name, 131 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,240 Amen. Influences through Christian 132 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,800 servants, first of all, would be an influence through the godly 133 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,280 teachers. Just imagine what it must have 134 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:37,000 been like for Timothy the day that he first heard Paul preach. 135 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:39,440 Now Timothy didn't have a great influence. 136 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,400 His father was a Greek, and from everything that we can tell, 137 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,120 Timothy's father was not a Christian. 138 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,200 He had a godly mother and he had a godly grandmother. 139 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,320 But here comes this man to town. And of course, you know, I can 140 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:55,960 imagine the apostle Paul and he even wrote this himself, you 141 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,280 know, basically mighty in pen but not very mighty in speech. 142 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,440 And I don't know, a lot of people think that Paul was 143 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,240 probably a short little fella, that he had a problem with his 144 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,760 eyesight, that he just wasn't, wasn't much to look at. 145 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,760 And when you see somebody like the apostle Paul, you would not 146 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:12,960 think that he had the great power that he had. 147 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,160 And of course, you know, we're looking at it in hindsight. 20 148 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,240 You know, everybody when you say Paul, everybody has a picture in 149 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,360 their mind of what they think Paul looked like, right? 150 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,560 Which, by the way, is one of the reasons why I don't like a lot 151 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,160 of these, like The Chosen and some of these others. 152 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,760 It puts in your mind what you should be thinking about the 153 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,520 Bible, right? The Passion of the Christ was a 154 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,960 movie that was so popular that came out, you know, I don't 155 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,720 know, 20 years ago now, probably I never watched it. 156 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,000 I never, I, I had a desire. I thought it would be an 157 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,040 interesting movie to watch, but I never watched it because I 158 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,360 didn't want Hollywood telling me what the crucifixion looked 159 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,800 like. I have a picture in my mind when 160 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:50,440 I read the Bible of what everything looked like. 161 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,600 Of course, I went to Israel and the picture changed a little 162 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,960 bit, but I'm looking at the actual place where Jesus was 163 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:00,200 crucified and I see the, the, the, the, the whole crucifixion 164 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,440 scene before my eyes as I read through the Bible. 165 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,480 And I don't want somebody as wicked as Hollywood telling me 166 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,160 what the crucifixion looked like. 167 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,360 Now, every time you read the crucifixion, you see Mel Gibson 168 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,640 or whoever it was that acted out in that, in that movie and you 169 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,520 see this actor and that actor trying to portray who these 170 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,680 people are. I don't want somebody telling me 171 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:21,760 that. And, and you know, it's not, 172 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,720 maybe that's not a biblical thing necessarily, but I keep it 173 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,720 that way because I don't want them telling me what the Bible 174 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,480 says. Not to mention that a lot of 175 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,760 these things have a whole lot of extra biblical things in there 176 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:33,559 that are not even biblical in the 1st place. 177 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,960 But that's, that's beside the point. 178 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,840 But the Apostle Paul, I don't know what kind of man he was. 179 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,880 I don't know what kind of guy he looked like, but I can imagine 180 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,760 him the first time that he comes to Timothy's little town and 181 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,880 Timothy, as a young man, hears the apostle Paul preach. 182 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,560 He had traveled to Lystra, which was Timothy's hometown, and he 183 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:56,400 had come from Iconium. And the reason he left Iconium 184 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,840 is because they were threatening to stone him there. 185 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,880 So Paul leaves Iconium and he comes to Lystra. 186 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,360 And in Lystra, Paul preaches the gospel. 187 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,440 And maybe something went off in Timothy's head. 188 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,040 The light bulb came on, so to speak, and he saw the Messiah 189 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,120 that he has so diligently studied and learned about in his 190 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,600 youth. And we know that his parents, 191 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,080 his mother at least, and his grandmother taught him the 192 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,840 scriptures because they said, remember the things that you've 193 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,280 learned and has been assured of and and all of those things that 194 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,840 they'd have been taught. But Paul then after he preaches 195 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,080 this message heals A crippled man. 196 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,720 And for the first time, these men and, and ladies and young 197 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,800 men and young ladies that that knew that this man was crippled, 198 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,120 that had been that way for his entire life, they see him 199 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,600 leaping and running around and shouting for joy. 200 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,520 And, and it's just an amazing thing to see these things. 201 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,240 And, you know, the superstitious people in the in the city 202 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,040 started treating Paul and Barnabas as if they were gods. 203 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,880 And here Paul and Barnabas are using this opportunity to say, 204 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,960 don't look at us. We're not, we're nothing 205 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,400 special. We're not gods. 206 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:01,160 Look at thee, God. And they used that opportunity 207 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,640 to share the gospel with the people there in Timothy's town. 208 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,640 And as Timothy sat and watched all that kind of stuff, he must 209 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,480 have marveled at these, these missionaries, if you will, 210 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,080 that's exactly what they were that used every opportunity they 211 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,840 could to share the gospel. And something inside of Timothy 212 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,080 stirred up and, and he must maybe even felt the sense of, of 213 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,760 loss or grief after Paul left. Because you know what happened 214 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,720 there at Lystra? They did actually stone Paul and 215 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,040 they drug him outside of the city and they left him there for 216 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,520 dead. Obviously God wasn't done with 217 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,280 him yet, and Paul was still alive, and somehow he crawled 218 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:40,080 out of the out of that pile of stones and went on for the Lord. 219 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,720 But sometime later, Paul reappeared in Iconium and he was 220 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,440 still preaching the gospel. And you can bet that when 221 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,600 Timothy heard that Paul was there, I'm sure he ran to the 222 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,040 place where he's at. He must have wondered at all of 223 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,520 it, rejoiced in it. But somewhere in all of that, 224 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,800 Timothy sensed the call of God in his life. 225 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,200 And Timothy started realizing that God wanted him to be a 226 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,280 preacher of the gospel. Who was going to train him? 227 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,160 Who's going to help him to get to that point? 228 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,600 Well, obviously Paul came along in God's timing. 229 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,760 Timothy wasn't responding to some emotionally charged altar 230 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,600 called or some sugar coated idea of what it would be like in the 231 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,240 ministry. He saw all of it. 232 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,880 He saw Paul get stoned and throwing outside of the city and 233 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,240 left for dead. I'm sure he had heard and 234 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,120 talking to Paul and listening to Paul preach about some of the 235 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:27,640 things that he had actually gone through. 236 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,320 Timothy was not under any impression that he was going 237 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,200 into the ministry so he can make a lot of money. 238 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,480 It wasn't under any impression that he was going to be very 239 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,200 famous and be very well known and be received and liked by 240 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,480 everybody. He saw Paul's example and he 241 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:42,120 knew exactly what he was getting into. 242 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,680 But that call of God in his life was strong, and God powerfully 243 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:50,320 used Paul to influence Timothy's life and everything we read 244 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,680 about Timothy and everything that we know that Timothy did 245 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:54,880 with his life. You can't give all the credit to 246 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,240 the apostle Paul, but you can give a lot of the credit to him 247 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,960 because he trained Timothy to be what he became. 248 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,520 And we have two books, First and Second Timothy, to show for what 249 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:07,680 Paul did in training Timothy. He was to Timothy a spiritual 250 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:10,680 father as well as a mentor. In fact, turn over to Second 251 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:14,880 Timothy, chapter one, Second Timothy, chapter 1. 252 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:27,560 Paul addresses this book to Timothy and verse #2 to Timothy, 253 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:32,520 my dearly beloved Son, grace, mercy and peace from God the 254 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:34,840 Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 255 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:42,760 Look at chapter 2, verse #2 and the things that thou has heard 256 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,080 of me among many witnesses. The same commit thou to faithful 257 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,880 men who shall be able to teach others also. 258 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,400 Who did you say that about himself? 259 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,400 The things that you've heard of me, the things that I've taught 260 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,080 you do them and then teach them to other people. 261 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:07,800 Go teach them again. And I, I want to say this as as 262 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,240 as kind of a culmination of everything that we've just said. 263 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,560 Wise parents are going to intentionally surround their 264 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:16,120 parents with that kind of person. 265 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:20,560 You are going to put those influences into your children's 266 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:25,600 life that can influence them the most in a godly way. 267 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:32,320 Now, listen, I know a lot of you homeschool and I, I'm 100% for 268 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:33,600 homeschooling. It's a privilege. 269 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,920 And my kids, they have an opportunity to go to a Christian 270 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:37,640 School. We live farther down to 88 than 271 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:39,560 most of you do. There's not a good Christian 272 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:40,800 School that I know of in this area. 273 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,080 And so you homeschool, and that's great. 274 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:44,800 I think it's a great opportunity. 275 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,800 It's much, it's a far better option than the public school. 276 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,080 But homeschool does not necessarily mean Christian. 277 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,160 And that's something you need to be very, very careful about as 278 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,480 you are getting your children involved in homeschool things. 279 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,840 You need to be very careful about who you allow your 280 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,960 children to hang around. Just because they're 281 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,000 homeschooled does not mean that it's Christian. 282 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,800 And I've seen many, many kids derailed because the parents had 283 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,400 them in homeschool co-ops and homeschool sports teams and 284 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,640 homeschool this and homeschool that that ended up getting them 285 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,680 completely off because they had them around the wrong kids first 286 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:20,280 of all, but also around the wrong mentors. 287 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,280 Just because somebody claims to be homeschooled and probably 288 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,160 they are more conservative than most people would be, that's one 289 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:29,240 of the reasons why they're homeschooling their kids too. 290 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,480 But conservative does not mean Christian either. 291 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,680 And you can have influences on your children that you are 292 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,520 putting in front of them that are having a very negative 293 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,280 influence on your kids. Not saying it's wrong to have 294 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,440 your kids involved in those things, but what I am saying is 295 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,960 you need to be very, very, very careful about who you put as 296 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,880 influences in your children's life. 297 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,560 Homeschooling groups can be a help, but they can also be a 298 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,400 great hindrance. And you've got to be very 299 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,000 careful about that. And I'm just saying this, not 300 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,880 just homeschooling, but in, in general, across the board, you 301 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:08,800 have your kids involved in a, in a public sports team. 302 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,120 You ought to be there at every practice. 303 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,840 You ought to be at every game, You ought to be involved in 304 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,640 every minute of what your kids are doing in on that team. 305 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,920 Because if you're not, you are opening the door for those 306 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:26,080 influences to come in and tell your kids how to live, tell your 307 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,040 kids how to act. Tell your kids how to do 308 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,760 whatever it is that they want your kids to do. 309 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,320 And you don't have any say in it because you don't even know 310 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,240 what's being said. You don't know what's being 311 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:36,560 done. You don't know what they're 312 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,680 being taught. And listen, I'm for it. 313 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,720 I think you ought to have your kids involved in sports. 314 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,880 I think it's a great opportunity for them to to develop 315 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,720 character. Sports helps develop character. 316 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,600 You shouldn't put too much of an emphasis on it, right? 317 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,280 Character is important, but spirituality and godliness is 318 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,480 far more important than character. 319 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:56,360 All right? So just because they're on a 320 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,480 sports team doesn't mean that all those things come first. 321 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,240 Because I'm trying to teach my kids character. 322 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,720 You should be teaching them character, but not at the, not 323 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,320 at the expense of their spiritual life, not at the 324 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,920 expense of their relationship with God and the relationship 325 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,200 with the church. That ought to be first and 326 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,640 foremost. That ought to be #1 but if 327 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,640 you're going to have them involved in a sports team, then 328 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,880 you need to be involved in that sports team too. 329 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,200 The things that are talked about in locker rooms, the things that 330 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,080 are said by coaches, the language that's used by people 331 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,720 who are not Christians, they don't care what kind of 332 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,120 influence they have on your kids. 333 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,200 They don't care that you go to church all the time. 334 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,040 They don't care that you're involved in the ministries at 335 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:34,000 your church. They're teaching. 336 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,800 They're, they're coaching the sports team. 337 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,600 They don't care. They're not, they're not looking 338 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,200 out for your children and trying to influence them for, for 339 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,400 holiness and godliness and all of those things. 340 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:48,200 So who has to do that? You do, you need to be very, 341 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,760 very, very careful about those things that you allow and who 342 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,320 you allow to influence your children. 343 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,080 But your children can be influenced through godly 344 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,560 teachers and they should be. Now I will say this as well, 345 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,880 your children can be influenced through godly helpers. 346 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,280 And when we consider the people who have had a positive 347 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,760 influence on us, it's probably more than just your parents and 348 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,720 your teachers, right? You think about if you grew up 349 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,040 in church, especially, there's a lot of people that you can point 350 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,319 to in the church that you grew up with that we're just faithful 351 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,720 and, and maybe are still faithful to this day at the 352 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:24,960 church that you grew up at or, or you know them and they're 353 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:26,760 still in church and they're still living for the Lord and 354 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:28,119 they're still doing things for God. 355 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,640 Those people have a powerful influence on you and they have 356 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,160 been a they, they can, they, you know, they're not a pastor 357 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:36,800 necessarily. They may not be a teacher in a 358 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:41,240 Sunday school or something like that, but friends or coaches or 359 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,480 laymen. Those people can have a powerful 360 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,160 influence in a right way for your children as well. 361 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,440 And maybe you've you've heard it said before, nearness is 362 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:50,480 likeness. And it's true. 363 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,560 If the primary influence on your children, aside from your 364 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:59,520 family, is sports stars or social media influencers or 365 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,440 celebrities, your children are going to aspire to be like them. 366 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,280 Why do you think that every kid wants to grow up and go to the 367 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,840 NBA or go to the NFL or go to, you know, some Major League 368 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,480 sports? Because we've lifted those 369 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,960 things up as the top of everything. 370 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,160 I want to be like that, you know, and, and grown men walk 371 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,200 around salivating over getting a signature from some football 372 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,840 player. You know, I mean, you're telling 373 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,240 your kids that that is the most important thing. 374 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:31,880 And you shook my hand at the baseball game, right? 375 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,840 I mean, do you realize how how stupid that really sounds when 376 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,480 you when you actually stop to think about it? 377 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:43,440 But yet how often I was at the airport and it was 500 yards 378 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,240 away, but I saw this famous actor, he was walking to his 379 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:50,840 plane. So I mean, he's going to his 380 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:52,680 plane. Who cares who that guy is, 381 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,120 right? How about do that with with 382 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:56,800 preachers? You know, I'm not saying that we 383 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,120 ought to lift preachers up above the the status that they ought 384 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:03,000 to be lifted up above, but at the same time, why not make them 385 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,560 the the, the, the, the ones that you want your kids to aspire to 386 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:10,600 be like, put them on a different level, Not the sports stars, not 387 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:17,120 the Hollywood actors, right? Those, you know, if you, if you 388 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:21,360 make that the important things in your kids life, then that's 389 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:23,400 the things that they're going to want to be, right? 390 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,960 If it's all about movies and oh, this actor and that actor and 391 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,040 oh, this sports star and that sports star and this guy and 392 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,400 that guy and all these other things, you're telling them that 393 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:33,560 that is the most important thing. 394 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,600 And that's what they're going to want to be like. 395 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,320 But on the other hand, if you encourage the influence of just 396 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,000 godly servants of Jesus Christ, your children are going to want 397 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,440 to walk with the Lord. Your children are going to want 398 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,480 to be like that, just that faithful servant, right? 399 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,360 And that's why I say, OK, maybe you're in here tonight and you 400 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:58,960 don't have kids, or maybe your kids are grown, or maybe, you 401 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:00,840 know, you've got grandkids. I don't know. 402 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,320 And, and, and they live, you know, a long way away from here. 403 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,880 You can have a powerful, powerful influence on the next 404 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:13,160 generation, not just by the way that you act. 405 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,920 The way that you live and the way that you're faithful and the 406 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,240 way that you serve, all of those things are important, man. 407 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,320 How about try to take some, some young man under your wing, some 408 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:27,440 young lady under your wing and, and, and, and try to teach her 409 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,360 how to be faithful. You know, my parents obviously 410 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:34,000 had a very powerful influence on me growing up, but there were 411 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,800 people who came along when I was in high school and in college 412 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:43,600 who took me under their wing. And I don't know if I would be 413 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,720 standing where I'm at today if it hadn't been for their 414 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,280 influence. And I've told you this before, 415 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,120 Pastor Whitaker is one of them. He's been here and preached. 416 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:52,200 He's coming to preach our anniversary service this year. 417 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,960 He had a powerful influence on my life. 418 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,120 And it takes work, takes effort, right? 419 00:20:58,120 --> 00:20:59,640 You got to be there when you don't want to be there. 420 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,600 You got to do things when you don't want to do things. 421 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,160 But man, it changed my life. And you can change somebody 422 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,680 else's life, too, but you have to be there. 423 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:11,840 You got to be intentional about it. 424 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,520 And parents, you ought to you ought to want to to to have that 425 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,040 influence in your children's life. 426 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,080 You ought to let people do those things when they want to do 427 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,640 them. You know, as a family, you got 428 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,520 to develop a relationship with your pastor. 429 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,120 Yeah, I can't. I can't. 430 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,240 I can't keep Brother Johnny away from me. 431 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:29,920 The time I turn around, he's there. 432 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,200 I'll go on a trip. Hey, can I go with you? 433 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,880 I want to. I want to get to know my pastor. 434 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:35,800 Just leave me alone for 5 minutes. 435 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,640 No, I'm just kidding. I enjoy it. 436 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,480 I, I want you to get to know me. I want to get to know you. 437 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,200 I want to try to have the influence on you that I can have 438 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:44,840 on you. And I certainly appreciate the, 439 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,200 the iron sharpening iron and all of that stuff. 440 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,360 But you need that your, your kids need that influence, right? 441 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,960 I want to impact your children. I want to work with your 442 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,120 children. But the problem is if you don't 443 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:00,520 allow me to work with your children, I can't have that 444 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,400 influence on them. If you, if you got this bubble 445 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,880 around them and you protect them and you, you don't want anybody 446 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,600 to see their flaws. You don't want anybody to think 447 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,960 that they're not perfect. Listen, I know more than anybody 448 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,480 that your kids are not perfect because I have 3 of my own and 449 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,360 they're not perfect, right? And, and you let them get close 450 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:23,800 to somebody who can help them and they're, those flaws are 451 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,880 going to be exposed. And oh man, they're going to 452 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,400 think that I'm not a perfect parent. 453 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,400 And oh, they're going to think that we're doing all these 454 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,360 things wrong and they're going to think this and they're going 455 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:36,000 to who cares what people think? Everybody's in the same 456 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,480 situation. We all have kids, and nobody's 457 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,640 kids are perfect. Let people work with your young 458 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,960 people. Let them correct your young 459 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,200 people. Let them show you how you can 460 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,040 help them become better young people. 461 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:53,680 That's what I'm talking about. Lois and Eunice, Paul's, I mean 462 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,880 Timothy's mother and grandmother, gave Paul the 463 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,000 opportunity to work with Timothy, and Paul used that 464 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,160 opportunity and look what he was able to do in helping Timothy 465 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,040 grow up to live for the Lord. I would say this too, when, 466 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,000 when, when guest preachers or missionaries come in, you ought 467 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,120 to take your family over there and introduce them to the 468 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:15,840 missionary, talk to the missionary. 469 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,600 I mean, maybe it's not going to work out all the time, but offer 470 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,440 to take them to lunch and let your kids sit there and talk to 471 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,600 the missionary or the pastor. All right. 472 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,560 Let them hear the stories that they have to say. 473 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,480 Let them influence them. Get to know your children's 474 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,160 teachers and, and youth workers and encourage that godly 475 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,520 mentoring relationship. Your kids need those things. 476 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,640 And it just might be that one person that, that, that that 477 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,400 takes an interest in your child that really helps them get over 478 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:50,320 the hump of rebellion or get past the, the, the struggles 479 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,960 that they're, that they're facing of, of, of surrendering 480 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,520 their will to God's will. Could be any of those things. 481 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:01,080 But anybody, as long as they are, are, are godly, then they 482 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,600 can be a great influence. And to develop that 483 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,560 relationship, you have to make the local church a priority in 484 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,920 your family. If you just show up to church 485 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,960 here and there, nobody's going to get to know your kids. 486 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,280 Nobody's going to be able to develop that relationship with 487 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,680 your kids because you're just here randomly and we don't know 488 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,640 when you're going to show up and we don't know when you're going 489 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,960 to be there. And you set something up and you 490 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,040 cancel it and you shut set it up again and you cancel it. 491 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,800 And this time it doesn't work out. 492 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,000 And that time it doesn't work out. 493 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,680 You know, eventually what's going to happen, people are just 494 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,480 going to stop trying. And whether it's true or not, 495 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,720 they're just going to think that you gave up and you don't care 496 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,360 and they're going to stop working with your kids. 497 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,920 And you know what happens when you when you just hold them like 498 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,120 this and you don't let anybody have them because they're my 499 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:51,360 babies. I can't let my babies go, right? 500 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:54,600 One of these days you're going to have to might as well do it 501 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,880 when they have that godly influence that's going to help 502 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,560 them to make it to that time when you're going to have to let 503 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,840 them go. And you'll have a whole lot 504 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,760 better chance of them staying straight when you let them go if 505 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,800 you allow that godly mentoring in their lives. 506 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,640 And it's the responsibility of the parents to filter the 507 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,360 influence on their children's lives. 508 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:16,120 It's, you know, some parents go overboard and they guard them 509 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,600 from the influences that actually could be very helpful 510 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,880 for them. And I've seen some of this, you 511 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,120 know, over the, over the, I don't know, 1020, thirty years, 512 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,760 there's been kind of a movement to to protect their children. 513 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,880 Some parents, you know, my, my kids are going to stay with me 514 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,200 everywhere. They're not going to Sunday 515 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,200 school, they're not going to this class, they're not doing 516 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,360 that. They're going to stay with me 517 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:38,720 because I just, I don't know what's being said. 518 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,560 I don't know who's, who's talking to them. 519 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,440 I don't know what kind of influence they're going to have 520 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:46,400 and go start a home church and just, you know, teach your kids 521 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,960 everything you can teach them. And, and you know, no, it's, 522 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,400 it's, it's not helpful. Get them under the influence of 523 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,640 other godly people. Listen in a church like this, we 524 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,080 vet everybody. You know, nobody's getting up in 525 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,720 front of your kids and and teaching them how to, you know, 526 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,400 play Dungeons and Dragons or something, right? 527 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,920 They're not having video game battles in the in the back 528 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,200 classroom. They're teaching your kids the 529 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,560 Bible. Let them teach your kids the 530 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,880 Bible. Let them mentor them. 531 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,120 Let them influence them. Let them have that influence on 532 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:19,880 them while they still can. Turn over to Galatians chapter 533 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,840 4. I know you want to protect your 534 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,480 kids because they're your babies, right? 535 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:33,360 By the way, let me say this, especially when it comes to 536 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:42,520 boys, mothers need to let their father be a dad and be hard on 537 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,520 their boys sometimes. I know Mamas are always like, 538 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,400 oh, you're going to hurt him. Oh, he's my baby. 539 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,720 You can't say that to him. You can't do that, right? 540 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:59,400 But dads know what toughness is. Moms don't, right? 541 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,000 And if you want your baby to grow up and be a mama's boy and 542 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,040 be soft and have little white pasty hands that don't know how 543 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,720 to do anything, then keep babying your kids. 544 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:15,600 But let your husband teach your boys how to be a man. 545 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:19,080 Let them be hard on them sometimes, even if you think 546 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,760 it's too hard on them sometimes. Give your husband the the 547 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:29,200 opportunity to to exercise wisdom and how he handles your 548 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,360 babies right, different with girls. 549 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,720 All right, You want your, you want to treat your babies, your 550 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,160 girls like babies, whatever. Treat your girls like babies if 551 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:39,240 that's how you want them to grow up. 552 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,920 I think it helps for them to be toughen up a little bit too, But 553 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,760 let the husband, you let your husband be a father to the boys 554 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,280 and you let your husband teach your boy how to be a man. 555 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,800 You don't know how to be a man because you're not one. 556 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,760 Let your husband, he's a man, teach your boys how to be men. 557 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,080 There's so many, there's so many kids that grow up to be soft 558 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,600 little mama's boys because they just, every time dad tried to be 559 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,960 hard on them, they, they gathered them under their wings 560 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,760 and walked away and didn't let dad do what needed to be done to 561 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,880 make him tough. Let dad, let the dad, let your 562 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,400 husband be the one that that toughens those boys up. 563 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,760 But anyway, that was free. This is biblical philosophy. 564 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,120 Our children need the influence of the local church. 565 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:29,080 They need the influence of the blessings that come from the, 566 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,440 the mentorships and everything else that can be given to the 567 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,720 need. They need to be in Sunday 568 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,520 school. They need to be under the 569 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,160 influence of a pastor. They need the influence of a 570 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,960 godly youth pastor. They need the mentorship of the 571 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:42,520 men and the ladies in the church. 572 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,880 Let them be around them, let them be around them. 573 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,360 Keep an eye on them from a distance. 574 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,880 If you want to do that, I think it's wise to do that too. 575 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,360 But let them be around the men and the ladies that are going to 576 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,720 be a godly influence on them. Galatians chapter 4 really 577 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,600 references the fact that even in the the Bible times, even all 578 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,200 the way back here, children didn't just have parents that 579 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,640 were influencing them. They had teachers. 580 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,960 They had tutors and governors. This is what the Bible says. 581 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:15,320 Galatians chapter 4, Sorry verse #1 Now I say that the heir, as 582 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,520 long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though 583 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,520 he be Lord of all. But it's under tutors and 584 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,280 governors until the time appointed of the father. 585 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,960 Hey, the fact that it's saying that the tutors and the 586 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,720 governors are teaching the children until the father deems 587 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,760 that they've gotten enough and it's it's good enough, then let 588 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,720 them be under those tutors and governors, right? 589 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:48,080 There's danger everywhere and we do everything we can to protect 590 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,600 our children. We, we check out the 591 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,200 environments. I would never send them anywhere 592 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,480 that I haven't been first, unless it's camp or something 593 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,160 like that. But get to know the individual 594 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,080 teachers, rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit when we, when we 595 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,040 have some kind of maybe unexplainable caution. 596 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,320 If there's some reason why you're really hesitant about 597 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,360 something, then it might be the Holy Spirit that's, that's 598 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,880 giving you that hesitation. But even then, we aren't God and 599 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:15,440 we can't provide that infinite protection. 600 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:16,680 One of these days, our kids are going to be gone. 601 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,240 They're going to be on their own and they're going to have to 602 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:23,000 make those decisions, right? So there may be a select 603 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,120 instance, few selection instances maybe where you 604 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,480 exercise that, that parental prerogative to say no to 605 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,240 somebody that wants to help your children or wants to mentor your 606 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,760 children or something like that. But I would say that don't, as a 607 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,160 matter of principle, withhold your children of the benefit 608 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,280 that they can receive from godly teachers and mentors. 609 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:48,160 Turn over to Hebrews chapter 10. You just never know how God can 610 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,160 use those servants to encourage your children. 611 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,200 The local church, for the most part, if you're in a church, 612 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,920 that's that's that's trying to serve the Lord. 613 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,080 If you're in a local church that's trying to live for the 614 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,960 Lord, then most likely you're going to find just humble 615 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,640 servants who are going to partner with you in loving your 616 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,800 son and loving your daughter and pointing them toward Jesus 617 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,000 Christ. Hebrews chapter 10 and verse #24 618 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,080 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good 619 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,520 works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together 620 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,120 as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so 621 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,520 much the more as you see the day approaching. 622 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,520 You know, parents are not adults, I should say, not just 623 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,640 parents, but adults are not the only ones that need the 624 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,080 spiritual exhortation of fellow believers, right? 625 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,520 This is written to Christians, not just to parents. 626 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,440 Doesn't just say this is for the adults. 627 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,880 Let us consider one another to provoke unto love into good 628 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,800 works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves 629 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,200 together, exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see 630 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,600 the day approaching. That's for everybody, all right? 631 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,800 The truth is we all need the local church, Not just moms and 632 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,160 dads, but young people need the church too, right? 633 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,880 Which is why it's such a such a hindrance to them when you have 634 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,200 them in sports instead of being at church. 635 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,040 Such a hindrance to them when you, when you send them or allow 636 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,240 them to go do these other things instead of being at, at, at, at 637 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,960 church. There's a lot of benefits that 638 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,880 families receive who allow the help of godly influences on the 639 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,840 lives of their children. And one of those blessings is 640 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,360 encouragement. Another one is accountability 641 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,960 for the whole family, right? You let your kid go with 642 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,480 somebody else and he starts telling them, well, this is what 643 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,760 we do in our family, right? Hey, I was going to say, hang on 644 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,680 a second. If you want your kids to grow up 645 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,880 and live for the Lord, why are you doing this at home? 646 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:45,840 You know, I was talking to your son and oh boy, right? 647 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,920 I mean, but hey, it's accountability is 648 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,840 accountability. It helps keep you honest too, 649 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,160 right? It helps ensure that you're 650 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,760 doing things within your home. If you're willing to allow 651 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,920 somebody else to help you mentor your children, then that's under 652 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,480 the assumption that you're doing everything you can in your home 653 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,320 to do what's right as well and to lead them in the right 654 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,200 direction. Now, let me say this, when it 655 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,320 comes to your influence in in this area as a parent as well. 656 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,080 And we're we're basically done. But but don't expect your kids 657 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,520 to follow the rules and your leadership when you are the 658 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:21,560 exception to every rule, whether that be in the church or whether 659 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,480 that be in, you know, wherever it happens to be, when you're 660 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,520 the exception to every rule and you everybody else has to do it, 661 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,840 but you don't. Your kids are going to see that. 662 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:34,840 Don't expect them to follow your leadership. 663 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,440 Don't expect them to follow your guidance. 664 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,960 They're watching you. Well, you don't, you know, your, 665 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,080 your kid sees every bit of that and they're taking notice when 666 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,760 you're not excited in church. And again, I'm not. 667 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:51,520 I mean, listen, we sing and we like to sing, right? 668 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,800 And I think most of you sing to the best of your ability when 669 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,160 you have the opportunity to sing. 670 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,160 But the way you sing in church is the way your kids are going 671 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,440 to sing in church, the way you get excited about being at 672 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,560 church on Sundays, the way your kids are going to get excited 673 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,400 about being in church on Sunday. If you just show up because 674 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,280 that's what you have to do, then don't expect that your kids are 675 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,480 going to be excited about it. They might be now because they 676 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,199 don't really have a choice #1 they're coming to see their 677 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:15,920 friends and they're going to, you know, they're going to do 678 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,360 different things that they have going on. 679 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:23,639 But 10 years from now, they're going to remember how excited 680 00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:27,040 you were or were not about being in church. 681 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,600 And Oh well, 10 years from now, I mean, that's it. 682 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,239 No, it makes a big difference. It has a big impact on your 683 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,880 children when you can throw yourself into your hobbies and 684 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,120 your, your, your true passions, but you're just going through 685 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,840 the motions and your spiritual things. 686 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:43,639 You're setting a standard and you're setting a pattern for 687 00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:46,080 your kids to follow. And they're going to follow that 688 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,239 pattern. That's exactly what they're 689 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,480 going to do too. And they're not going to be 690 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,440 excited about the things of God. They'll be excited about the 691 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:53,760 things that they want to do with their life. 692 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,040 They're not going to be excited about living for the Lord. 693 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,240 Don't expect your kids to walk around with a good attitude at 694 00:34:58,240 --> 00:35:00,880 church or at home. If you don't, don't expect your 695 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,440 kids to love the Lord with all their hearts. 696 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,800 If you don't, you might fool them for a while, but they're 697 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,480 not dummies and they're watching you. 698 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,520 Eventually they're going to figure it out and they're going 699 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,080 to know that you're just going through the motions and that's 700 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,920 exactly what they're going to see is acceptable and it's 701 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,680 exactly what they're going to eventually do. 702 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,560 And one of these days you're going to wake up and you're 703 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,040 going to say, I don't know why my kids are not in church. 704 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,840 I don't know why they decided to, you know, they just made the 705 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,800 decision. They started rejecting God and 706 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,040 they started going their own way. 707 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,360 And I don't know why. And I'm going to say This is why 708 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:33,680 right here. Because you weren't excited 709 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:34,680 about it. Why do you think they're going 710 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,280 to be excited about it? You didn't have to do it. 711 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:38,360 Why do you think they're going to do it? 712 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,160 You are an example. You are their number one mentor. 713 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,040 But even where you fail, sometimes maybe somebody else 714 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,880 can come along and help you keep pulling the slack. 715 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,760 And maybe where you would fail and it would mean that your kids 716 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,920 are going to fail, you allowed them to be under the influence 717 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,320 of somebody who cared about them the same way that you do, maybe 718 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,720 not as much, but in the same way that you do. 719 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,320 And they didn't because they had that godly influence. 720 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,440 Now look, Lois and Eunice were obviously a very strong 721 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:22,920 influence on Timothy, but they allowed Paul come in behind them 722 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,680 and shore up everything that they had been teaching him 723 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,840 already. And the influence that Paul had 724 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,640 on Timothy made a huge difference. 725 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,360 My son in the faith is what Paul called him. 726 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,760 And I don't know if all Timothy had was Lois and Eunice, if he 727 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,280 would have failed or if he would have made it. 728 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,160 I don't know. But I know this having Paul 729 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:49,760 along certainly didn't hurt. And if everything we read in the 730 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,320 Bible is an indication of the way things went, then having 731 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,760 Paul along almost made Timothy successful. 732 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,520 The home is a God ordained institution. 733 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,320 That's where it all starts and it's so important. 734 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,120 But so is the church. And your kids need the church 735 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,960 just as much as you need the church. 736 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,200 And your kids need that godly mentorship. 737 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,160 Your kids need that godly leadership that they have in 738 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:18,160 their lives. And when we neglect to focus on 739 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,920 the other, when we neglect to focus on the church side of 740 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,960 things, and the foundation for both of those is going to 741 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,120 crumble. If we as parents neglect the 742 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,080 local church, then we're sending the message that we know more 743 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:32,200 than God what's best for our home. 744 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:37,200 Because God said don't forsake the assembling of yourself 745 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,880 together. He said He loved the church so 746 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,280 much that He gave his life for it. 747 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:43,640 You ought to love it the same way. 748 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,480 You'll love the people in it the same way, and you ought to treat 749 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,680 the people in it the same way. We as parents need the 750 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,280 accountability and the teaching that a church provides if we 751 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,400 want to have a positive influence on our children. 752 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,600 So we're coming to a close with this whole thing about the power 753 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,040 of your influence. We've talked a lot about it. 754 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,440 We've, we've mentioned a lot of different things and I hope 755 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,200 you'll take it seriously because you have the influence over your 756 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,760 children. And if you don't intentionally 757 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,200 set out to influence your children, then what you're doing 758 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,600 is opening the door for somebody else to do it. 759 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:27,760 Social media, Hollywood, professional sports, public 760 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:33,040 school teachers, people in Walmart, you're giving them the 761 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,760 influence over your children. If you're not intentionally 762 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:42,720 influencing your children, God gave you one of the greatest 763 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:47,520 gifts when you had children, and that is the influence that you 764 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,160 can have to either raise them for the Lord or to allow them to 765 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,800 go live their lives or whether they want to. 766 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,760 You have that. You have that influence if 767 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:02,000 you're willing to take it. And not just parents, but 768 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,720 everybody in the church, you have the influence too. 769 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,240 And I hope that you'll take it seriously. 770 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,320 And we got a lot of young, a lot of young kids running around 771 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:14,320 here, a lot of young people that have some great potential to do 772 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:19,760 some things for the Lord. The way you interact or don't 773 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,040 interact could have a huge impact on whether they grow up 774 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,240 to live for the Lord. I could, I could, I could, I 775 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:30,560 would need probably four or five hands to list you the people 776 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,760 that I know of that I grew up that, that, that, that grew up 777 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:38,840 at the same time that I did who were, who were faithful people 778 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,800 in the church who are still faithful today. 779 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,440 And then I look at it and I say, man, look at that. 780 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,800 They're still going. That's, that's been 40 years, 50 781 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:46,800 years. They've been, they've been in 782 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,760 the same church living for the Lord, serving the Lord. 783 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,840 It has an impact because when you go back and you see the same 784 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,800 people serving the same ministries doing the same thing 785 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,640 that they've always done for the Lord, that's encouraging. 786 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,240 It's encouraging. And you might think I'm just 787 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:06,160 part of the church. You know, my kids are already 788 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,440 grown and my kids are living in some other part of the country. 789 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,240 And, you know, I don't really know. 790 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:16,480 You have a huge impact. You have a huge impact on the 791 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,960 next generation. Maybe not as much as the parents 792 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,840 that have kids that are here, but you have a big impact. 793 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,680 And you can be that godly leadership. 794 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,840 You can be that godly mentor that that young person needs to 795 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,280 help them become just exactly what God wants them to become. 796 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:35,280 Parents, first and foremost, it's your job. 797 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,360 It's your responsibility. You have the influence. 798 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,120 Secondly, there's a lot of people that you can, that you 799 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,760 have that will help you do it if you're willing to let them. 800 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:48,680 Influence is a very powerful tool. 801 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,960 Sees it, use it. God gave it to you. 802 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,560 What are you doing with it? Are you being a positive 803 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,840 influence? Are you going to be one of those 804 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,320 ones that wakes up someday and says, I don't know why my kids 805 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,120 don't want to live for the Lord, but you never use the influence 806 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,960 that God gave you. Let's pray. 807 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,760 Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness. 808 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,880 We thank you for an opportunity. We have to be here tonight. 809 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,040 Thank you for the opportunity You've given every one of us 810 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,760 parents maybe first and foremost to influence our young people, 811 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,600 but everybody in this room tonight that has an opportunity 812 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,040 to influence the next generation for the cause of Christ. 813 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:32,440 God, may we take that seriously. And God, may we not lose one 814 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,720 single young person in this church to the world. 815 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:41,280 May every single parent have the wisdom and the spiritual insight 816 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,880 and the godly desire to live in such a way that their young 817 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,320 people will grow up in their homes and live for you. 818 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:53,400 You give that same godly desire for holiness and godliness and 819 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,400 righteousness to every single person in the church to be an 820 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,560 example to the next generation. May every single one of them 821 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,520 grow up and do exactly what it is that you've laid out from 822 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,240 them to do from the beginning of the foundation of the world. 823 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,520 May every one of them serve you with their lives. 824 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:15,960 Thank God. I pray that you'd give us great 825 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,280 impact on this world because of it. 826 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,600 Thank you again for all that you do for us. 827 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:22,880 In Jesus name, Amen.