1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,200 Why did the duck trip on the sidewalk? 2 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:14,840 He tripped on a quack. How can you tell the difference 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:25,520 between a dog and a tree by the bark dog. 4 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,520 Dogs can't operate MRI. Can't. 5 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,440 What did the car say to its tires? 6 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:42,000 Thanks for keeping it wheel. He needs more water in his 7 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,600 mouth. Feel like that counts. 8 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,560 He just swallowed them. What kind of class? 9 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:56,200 Why? How do you make holy water? 10 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:05,000 You boil the hell out of it. A guy threw a gallon of milk on 11 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,080 my head. How dare he? 12 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,280 That was a stupid one. What kind of car would Jesus 13 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,000 drive? A Chrysler? 14 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:23,760 You can't swallow it. Thank you, champion. 15 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:29,840 Thank you so much. Yeah, no sense of humor. 16 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,560 Oh, crossing family recently in Dallas, TX, they opened up the 17 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,440 husband's store. Women who were frustrated with 18 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,040 online dating and blind dates just wanted a place where they 19 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,760 could just cut to the chase, find a man and take him home. 20 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,360 And so these girls got together. They drove down to Dallas, TX to 21 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,240 the husband's store. They got there. 22 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,600 The sign reads that there are six floors at this store and 23 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,720 each floor has different kinds of men. 24 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 But the only catch is once you leave a floor to go to an 25 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,760 additional floor, you can never go back down. 26 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,560 The ladies are so excited. They go inside, they see the the 27 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,200 door, the sign on the door to 1st floor and it just says these 28 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,800 men have jobs. Women were elated because they 29 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,720 were tired of being with guys who lived in the house with 30 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,840 their mom, played a bunch of video games and couldn't pay 31 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,400 their own bills. They're like, these men have 32 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,600 jobs, this will be great. They went in there, they looked 33 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,880 around like, I want to know what's on floor #2. 34 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,680 So they leave floor one, walk up the 16 stairs to floor #2 and 35 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,560 the sign on the door reads, these men have jobs and a strong 36 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,800 romantic streak. The ladies are like, finally, 37 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,360 I'm going to have somebody who will rub my feet, tell me I'm 38 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,280 beautiful, put flower petals all over the house. 39 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,040 They're like, if this is floor two, I got to know what's on 40 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,400 floor #3. So they leave floor #2. 41 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,520 They walk up the 16 stairs, the door close behind them to floor 42 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,600 #2. They find themselves at the door 43 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,320 to floor #3 and it says these men have jobs. 44 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,400 Jobs, a strong romantic streak, and they love kids. 45 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,760 These ladies, they're going now this is going to be wonderful. 46 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,160 They're looking around, they're like, this is great, but deep 47 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:13,120 down inside they're going, I wonder what's on floor #4 so 48 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,200 they go up to floor #4 these men have jobs. 49 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,600 These men have a strong romantic streak, they love kids, and they 50 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,480 enjoy helping around the house. Jehovah Jireh, this is 51 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,200 wonderful. They're going, this is great. 52 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,320 They're looking around, they're loving what they're seeing, but 53 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:33,240 then they're going, I got to know what's on floor #5 So they 54 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,400 let the door close behind them. On floor #4 They walk up the 16 55 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,320 stairs to floor #5 the sign on the door reads. 56 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,080 These men have jobs, a strong romantic streak, love kids, 57 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,640 enjoy helping around the house, and are incredibly handsome. 58 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,320 This is where we get the pastoral staff of the crossing 59 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:55,720 is from floor #5 and they're looking around and the sign was 60 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,400 not lying. These men were gorgeous and to 61 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,760 think they have jobs, a strong romantic streak like helping 62 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,720 around the house, and they love kids and these women were going 63 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,640 if. This is what is on floor five. 64 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Can you imagine what is on floor number six? 65 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,959 So they let the door close behind them on floor #5 They 66 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:21,880 walked up the 16 steps to floor number six and the sign on the 67 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:27,520 door reads. Your visitor 3,126,853 to this 68 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,440 floor. There are no men on this floor. 69 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:35,720 This floor exists to prove that women are impossible to please. 70 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:39,560 Happy Father's Day. You're a survivor. 71 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,080 In an effort to make sure that they didn't get any 72 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,320 discrimination suits filed against them. 73 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,240 The owners eventually opened up the wife store with the same 74 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:55,240 rules. The guys went to floor #1. 75 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,920 The sign on the door reads. These women like to cook. 76 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,760 The sign on floor #2 says these women like to cook and have sex. 77 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,800 There has never been a visitor to floor number 34. 78 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,080 Five. Oh man. 79 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,560 If you didn't like that joke, you're not going to like it 80 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:18,360 here, because that's funny. That maybe is why there's a huge 81 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,440 difference on consumer spending when it comes to Mother's Day 82 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,360 and Father's Day. On Mother's Day, we spend $25 83 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:31,120 billion to say thanks, and on Father's Day, $15 billion. 84 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,080 There is a $10 billion gap. I. 85 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,600 Want to welcome those of you joining at all of our locations, 86 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,840 those of you watching online and inside, and those of you who are 87 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:44,320 joining us for the first time or the first time in a long time. 88 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,240 And my goal today is very simple, that every single one of 89 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,280 us would take steps to grow in an intimate personal 90 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:53,480 relationship with Jesus Christ. And one of the ways that you 91 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,520 could grow, what you're going to hear more about later at the end 92 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,600 of the service is if you are a man, one of the ways that you 93 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,440 could grow is by going to our uncommon conference. 94 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,600 It's going to be an opportunity for you to have fun, have some 95 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,440 food, and to grow in your faith. And it might be a great gift for 96 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,880 the man in your life to buy them a ticket to our men's conference 97 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,520 this Father's Day. Now when it comes to men in 98 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,400 God's desire. Men are not just critical to the 99 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,360 creation of children, but in the spiritual development of those 100 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,080 children. The reason I say that is because 101 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:29,480 culture today continues to reduce the importance and the 102 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:34,920 necessity of fathers. Of having a man in the home and 103 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,080 at the same time counseling centers cannot be open fast 104 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,040 enough to deal with the father wounds that so many people are 105 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,360 navigating pastoral staff across the country are having to 106 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,600 constantly help people create an. 107 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,680 Appropriate view of their heavenly Father because of the 108 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:54,120 baggage care are that caused by their earthly father. 109 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,320 And looking into the future, there is a problem on the 110 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,760 horizon because church attendance is between 60 and 70% 111 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,880 women, which means that the church is doing a pretty decent 112 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,840 job of reaching the women in their communities, but not so 113 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:11,040 good of a job of reaching the men in their communities. 114 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,480 Why does this matter? We've talked about this 115 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,680 statistic before that when a kid comes to faith in Christ, 3.5% 116 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,200 of the time the rest of the family follows. 117 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,720 When a kid finds a relationship with Jesus, 3 1/2% of the time 118 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,800 the rest of the family comes to faith. 119 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,080 When a woman comes to Christ, this is wonderful news. 120 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,880 It's 17%. That means that 17% of the time 121 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,920 when a woman comes to faith, the rest of the family will follow. 122 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,920 Why are men so critical to reaching our communities to 123 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,480 accomplish in the Great Commission is because when a man 124 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:47,480 comes to faith, 93% of the time the rest of the family will 125 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,680 follow. Now ladies, this does not mean 126 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,720 that you do not carry an important role in the home. 127 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,280 I'm just telling you how what the statistics show. 128 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,040 In fact, ladies, we've talked about this before as well, that 129 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,440 while your husband is the one who primarily picks out the 130 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,720 spiritual direction of the home, the mother is the one who 131 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:11,200 develops the spiritual quality of the home. 132 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,360 In fact, teenagers cite that the person that they're going to go 133 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:19,880 to the most, learn from the most about spiritual matters is the 134 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,680 mom. So men, you pick the spiritual 135 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,240 direction. Ladies, you're responsible for 136 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,600 the spiritual quality. Let me give a little devotional 137 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,440 thought to those of you who are single. 138 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,880 Who you pick to marry will determine the level of 139 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,640 spirituality in your home. So ladies, if you find a guy, 140 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:41,760 make sure you find a guy who loves Jesus because your family 141 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,800 will 93% of the time follow his spiritual direction. 142 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,480 Man, when you're getting ready to pick a someone to marry, your 143 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,560 kids are going to most likely learn their faith from their 144 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:56,000 mother. So make sure you pick somebody 145 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,600 who has a great faith. I've seen this happen all too 146 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,720 often. You have young people who love 147 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:06,000 the Lord and then they start finding somebody else to love as 148 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,920 well. And the person that they love 149 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,520 doesn't necessarily love Jesus there, you know, she loves the 150 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:13,640 Lord and all of a sudden she meets Ted. 151 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,560 Ted doesn't love the Lord, but he has a tan and a metabolism. 152 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:19,440 And so she's kind of like, this is wonderful. 153 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,720 But just because something is wonderful doesn't mean you 154 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,200 should take it home. Like some of you have ugly dogs 155 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,920 that you love. And some of you are even cat 156 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,320 owners. And it's OK to acknowledge that 157 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,200 God made it and that's, you know, great. 158 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,080 But just because God made it and it's great doesn't mean that you 159 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,240 should marry it or bring it into your home. 160 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,920 And what happens is you fall in love with somebody who hasn't 161 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,960 given their heart to God. And then you find yourself in a 162 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,880 spot that you didn't expect you'd be. 163 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,760 And you find yourself navigating the challenges and the hurts of 164 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,640 life. And you're going, where's God? 165 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:55,000 And what I would tell you is God is where he always has been. 166 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:00,560 He is in the business of blessing, obedience, and if you 167 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:05,400 step outside of God's of being obedient to God, you cannot 168 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:10,920 expect the blessings from God. Now, that is not to say that God 169 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,520 is not redemptive in an area of your life where you've made 170 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,640 mistakes or somebody else has made mistakes. 171 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,120 God is constantly in the redemptive business. 172 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:26,600 He loves to redeem sin, but what he loves more is blessing 173 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,800 obedience. And the problem is, and we are 174 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,600 part of the problem as a church is we love redemption stories, 175 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,120 don't we? People fall off the tracks. 176 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,080 People go all kinds of crazy. We're like, look at how awesome 177 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,800 God's redemptive work is. And we highlight and we make 178 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,360 little short videos about it. And we're all moved by it 179 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,480 because God loves to redeem sin and we love watching God redeem 180 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,360 sin. But what has happened is, is we 181 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,520 have over elevated the redemptive arc of God and we 182 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,240 have under elevated what happens when people are obedient to God 183 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,000 and experiencing the blessings that come from that obedience. 184 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,320 Parents, let me prove it to you. Which would you rather have 185 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,000 happen? Your kids go off the deep end, 186 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,360 make an absolute mess of their life, have to do all kinds of 187 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,080 trauma and all kinds of rehab, and God redeems them and puts 188 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,640 them back into a right relationship. 189 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,360 Or your kids have an incredibly boring testimony because they 190 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,320 got serious about God from a really young age, trusted God 191 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,040 and not just with their faith, but they also made Him the Lord 192 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:25,800 of their life and they were obedient to Him. 193 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,480 And God put His blessings on your kids out of obedience. 194 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,680 And their testimony was, I obeyed God in an early age and I 195 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:34,400 never regretted it. Every parent would rather have 196 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,600 this testimony than watching their kids go through the pain 197 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,680 and the horror of the redemptive ark. 198 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:45,680 God is good in both scenarios, and God does a wonderful job in 199 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:49,280 both lanes. But if we could choose, I would 200 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,880 tell you, avoid the heartache of the redemptive ark and just 201 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:58,040 learn to experience and enjoy the blessings that come from 202 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,560 obedience. Because one of the days you're 203 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:02,800 going to find yourself in a relationship with somebody, 204 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,600 you're going to find yourself in a marriage, you're going to find 205 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,160 yourself in parenting. Situations and you are going to 206 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,760 want to just live in the blessing that comes from 207 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,680 obedience. Now, some of you are going by 208 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:15,760 Clayton. My life is presently a wreck. 209 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,880 My family is blown up. Things are not going the way 210 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,320 they're supposed to be. So what am I supposed to do? 211 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,280 I want you to know if you find yourself in a spot today that is 212 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,920 not necessarily where you wanted to end up, you're in good 213 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,200 company. In fact, if you were to go 214 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,960 through scripture and try and find the family that you would 215 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,120 want to be of, be a part of in Scripture, you'd be hard pressed 216 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,120 to find one. It might be one of the hardest 217 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:46,120 things to have a godly marriage and to raise a godly family. 218 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:51,640 Why is this the case? Because you have a spiritual 219 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,800 enemy when it comes to your home. 220 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,720 Look what it says in John 1010. We talk about this all the time 221 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,280 the thief this is Satan comes only to steal, kill and destroy 222 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,520 I this is Jesus have come that they may have life and have it 223 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,320 to the full. This is God going I want to 224 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,640 bless your obedience. I want to redeem the sin but 225 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,360 let's make no mistake about it. You have an enemy. 226 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,400 You want a good marriage. Satan wants to destroy it. 227 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,360 You want to heal the brokenness in your family. 228 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,480 Satan wants it to to keep it from happening. 229 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,360 You want to break generational curses. 230 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,480 Satan wants to stop it in its tracks. 231 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,440 Satan takes no days off. You want to come clean to your 232 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,480 wife about something that you've been doing in your life. 233 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,720 Satan wants to you to keep you from doing it, and the moment 234 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,280 you try to make a move in the direction of God, Satan is there 235 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,840 trying to kill that move of God in your life. 236 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,640 You've come to church hundreds of times and you felt the the 237 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,000 pull that you're supposed to make a response or supposed to 238 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,760 make a decision. And from the moment you make the 239 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,320 decision that you want to do it until you're actually getting 240 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,800 around doing it, you never actually got around to doing it 241 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,040 because Satan stole it from the path he came in and he 242 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,480 intercepted the move that you were trying to make. 243 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,520 You have a spiritual enemy and he takes no days off. 244 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,000 For instance, fellas, you guys, you know, here in our part of 245 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,840 the world, we love guns rights. And we have concealed carry 246 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,880 permits. And we've got a gun in the truck 247 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,400 that we forgot that we had in there. 248 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,160 And we've got a gun behind the safe. 249 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,640 And if someone breaks into our house, they got another thing 250 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,600 coming. And when a guy comes and tries 251 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,880 to date my daughter, I'll be cleaning my shotguns on the 252 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,280 front porch. And we're super jazzed about it. 253 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,320 But if you were to ask, like most people, they don't know 254 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,240 somebody who's ever had anybody break into their house. 255 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,280 What that means is, is that we are overqualified for an an 256 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,920 event that will not occur for an enemy that will probably not 257 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,280 show up. And we are under qualified for 258 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,880 an enemy that is already in our home because you and I have a 259 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:47,800 spiritual enemy who tries to steal, kill and destroy your 260 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,480 marriage, your parenting, and the obedience that God wants you 261 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,040 to experience. More important than whether or 262 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:59,160 not is your house locked up is is your heart locked up. 263 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,920 Take another step forward is you and I, we are under qualified to 264 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,560 deal with the spiritual realities of this war. 265 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,320 You and I have an enemy. And it's not just spiritual. 266 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,640 There's other enemies too. And Satan knows just how 267 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,200 powerful a God honoring family can be. 268 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,600 Let me show you how fast he attacks it. 269 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:24,480 And Genesis one, God creates man. 270 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,920 In Genesis 2, he creates woman. And now we have a family in 271 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,440 Genesis three. They sin. 272 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,480 In Genesis 4, the oldest son kills the youngest son. 273 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:38,440 Satan attacks that fast because he knows what how powerful a God 274 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:43,160 honoring family can be. So he wages war against us. 275 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,560 And it's not just a spiritual war that he wages against us. 276 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,400 There is our fleshly war as well. 277 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,080 Look at what it says in Romans Chapter 7. 278 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,320 I do not understand what I want to do. 279 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,960 For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate to do. 280 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,880 For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it 281 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,600 out. For I do not do the good I want 282 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,640 to do, but the evil I did not want to do. 283 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:18,080 This I keep on doing so. I find this law at work. 284 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:23,160 Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 285 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,640 Some of you, you're at church last weekend and you go, OK, 286 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,360 this weekend or this week, I'm not going to cuss. 287 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,480 And sure enough, you scare cussed twice. 288 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,360 And one of those scare cusses wasn't a scare cuss, it was a 289 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,080 real cuss. And you haven't asked for 290 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,200 forgiveness for it. You have the good that you're 291 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:37,800 going. You know what? 292 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,640 I'm not going to do this bad thing anymore. 293 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,440 I want to do good and yet you did the opposite. 294 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:45,840 So you this week, you're like this week, I'm not going to lose 295 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,680 my anger. I'm not going to lose my cool. 296 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:49,160 I'm not going to get all crazy in the house. 297 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,480 And sure enough, that is exactly what you did. 298 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:53,760 Sometimes we're going, this is the bad stuff. 299 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,400 I don't want to do it and we end up doing all the bad stuff. 300 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:58,520 And sometimes we're going, you know what, I'm going to do a 301 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,280 good thing this week. I'm going to spend time on my 302 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:01,360 word. I'm going to spend time doing 303 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,200 the things of God and we never get around to doing the good. 304 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,319 That we actually wanted to do. You and I have an enemy. 305 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,160 Now, on top of that, we don't have a strategy for the 306 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,160 spiritual enemy or for the enemy of our flesh. 307 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,440 And so we are kind of accidentally going through life. 308 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,680 When it comes to our marriage, we're accidentally marriaging. 309 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:24,880 When it comes to our parenting, we're accidentally parenting. 310 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:27,800 And I've never heard anybody talk about an accident as a good 311 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,760 thing. Like, I got in an accident 312 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:30,560 today. Oh, praise God. 313 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,520 That sounds wonderful. Yeah, it was a real blessing. 314 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,240 We're hoping to get for in another accident later today. 315 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,880 Nobody ever says that when we hear an accident like, oh, 316 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:39,200 that's so bad. I'm so sorry. 317 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:41,920 But most of us are accidentally involved in our marriage, 318 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,360 accidentally parenting, and then our kids turn out in a way that 319 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:48,440 we didn't want them to turn out because we didn't accidentally 320 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,120 parent them. And then you find people who 321 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:53,520 have pretty decent kids and you're like, how did you get the 322 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,200 pretty decent kids? Because we want to kind of run 323 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,760 your play and they're like, we really don't know because they 324 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,760 were accidentally parenting too. And then we just find ourselves 325 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,920 going from one accident to another accident and constantly 326 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,400 being in a position where God is having to redeem stuff and never 327 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,320 actually operating in a place where God blesses. 328 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,400 So how do you and I navigate this? 329 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:16,640 We need a better strategy, we need a better blueprint and I 330 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:21,920 think there is a great blueprint found in Ephesians chapter five. 331 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,920 I think if you were to take the New Testament from from Matthew. 332 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,360 All the way to Revelation and you were to like condense it 333 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:31,840 that Ephesians chapter 5 has like all the tools, tips and 334 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,640 tricks for you and I to be the people that God created us to 335 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:35,680 be. Let's take a look at it. 336 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,080 Ephesians 5. Follow God's example. 337 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,720 Therefore, as dearly loved children, most of us are 338 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,680 struggling in our marriage and in our parenting because we are 339 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,840 not following God's example. You can't follow God's example 340 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,400 if you don't know what God's example is. 341 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,840 And you wouldn't know what God's example is unless you're 342 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,240 spending time in His Word, being obedient to His Spirit, and 343 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,960 spending time with God's people. And so if you want to follow 344 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,480 God's example, you need to put yourself in a position to see 345 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,120 what God's example is and then have the courage and the 346 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:09,480 strength to walk it out. Let's keep going and walk in the 347 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:13,600 way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for 348 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,360 us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 349 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:19,080 Fellas, I want to give you a little. 350 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,320 Pro tip here, you may have noticed that women really love 351 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:23,880 Jesus. They're huge fans of him. 352 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,560 And I would submit to you that the reason they're huge fans of 353 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,480 Jesus is because he sacrificed for them and he serves them. 354 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 And you might be going, you know, my wife, she's always 355 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,440 spending time wanting to learn more about Jesus and she listens 356 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,160 to whatever Jesus tells her to do. 357 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,560 And I really, I kind of want that I'd kind of like her to, 358 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,880 you know, listen to me every once in a while. 359 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,880 And what I would tell you is you trying to get her to sacrifice 360 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,920 for you and you trying to get her to serve you might not be 361 00:19:54,920 --> 00:20:00,040 the best strategy that what might work better is you loving 362 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:06,040 your wife the way Christ loves us by serving and sacrificing. 363 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,600 Tough question. When was the last time you 364 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:13,080 served your spouse? When was the last time you 365 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:18,200 sacrificed for your spouse? When was the last time you did 366 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:23,320 something you hated because you loved her more? 367 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,360 Let's keep going, verse 3. But among you, there must not be 368 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:32,200 even on a hint of sexual immorality or any kind of 369 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,080 impurity or of greed, because these are improper for God's 370 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,320 holy people. This is not just for fellas 371 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,480 based off stats. This is an issue for women too. 372 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:50,640 Purity must be our priority. What you watch, what you log on 373 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:55,680 to, who you follow on social media, there must not even be a 374 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:01,040 hint of sexual impurity. Just so you guys know the. 375 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:08,600 More you engage in fake sex, the more it will impact real sex. 376 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:13,000 Studies show that people who abstain from any kind of sexual 377 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,840 impurity and say, you know what, that's just not going to be us. 378 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,440 Have a better, more healthy, more frequent sex life. 379 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,920 So if you want to destroy the sex that you actually want to 380 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,600 have with a real person, keep watching other people do what 381 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,320 they do and they get paid to do those things. 382 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,640 There is a better way. This is one of those areas where 383 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,960 God's going, trust me, my way's the best way. 384 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,880 Follow me and you'll experience greater blessing. 385 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:41,280 There should not even be a hint of impurity in us. 386 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:46,280 We should be above all of that. Second thing is greed must be 387 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,040 defeated. As Americans, we are some of the 388 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,160 wealthiest people in all of human history. 389 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:55,400 We have houses for our clothes, walk in closets. 390 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,280 We have houses for our cars, but we call them garages. 391 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,400 We have houses for our house and then we have second houses. 392 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,960 We have plenty and we will be like, I got to work so hard so 393 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,560 that way I can get my kids all the stuff they need. 394 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,400 Let me say this little side note. 395 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,760 First off, Christian should be the very best workers. 396 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:24,560 We should be so good at our jobs that secular institutions only 397 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,400 want to hire us that they're like, listen, we're, we're, we 398 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,480 got all these jobs open and we would, we just want a profile 399 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,880 that we just want the Christians because these people don't just 400 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:36,760 work for money. They don't just work for their 401 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,040 boss. It's as if they're working unto 402 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,800 the Lord. If you're going to get fired as 403 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,240 a Christian from your job, it should be because they violated 404 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,200 a spiritual principle, but it should not be because of bad 405 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,240 customer service and poor work ethic. 406 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:57,880 We should be the best. However, some of us are 407 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,600 overworked and over committed, not because we are, you know, 408 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,760 just serious about our faith, but because we just want to keep 409 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,680 buying our stuffs our our kids stuff. 410 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,480 And we did a survey here at our church and our kids told us that 411 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,720 your our spiritual provision is more important than our material 412 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,920 provision. Our kids actually said they 413 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,400 would rather have time with their dad than a new iPad. 414 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,480 They want you. Verse four. 415 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,920 Nor should there be any obscenity, foolish talker 416 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,400 course, joking, which are all out of place, but rather 417 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,920 Thanksgiving. This is important for men to 418 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,000 hear. Men, your words have power and 419 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,560 what you say gives permission in your home and you can use your 420 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,560 words to build your wife up or to tear down to build your 421 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,920 family up or to tear them down. You can use your words to push 422 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,720 people away from Jesus to tear down your reputation or you can 423 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,080 use your words to point people to Jesus. 424 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,560 Make sure you use your words to accomplish the things that Jesus 425 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,080 would want you to accomplish. Let's keep going for of this you 426 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,720 can be sure no immoral, impure or greedy person. 427 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,360 Such a person is an idolatry has any inheritance in the Kingdom 428 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:09,360 of Christ and of God. If you guys are running this 429 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:11,000 plot. Say when you're doing these 430 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,840 things, this is not OK for you, versus let's keep going. 431 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,280 Let no one deceive you with empty words. 432 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:20,040 For because of such things, God's wrath comes on those who 433 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,880 are disobedient. God loves to bless obedience, 434 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:27,880 but He will punish disobedience. Therefore do not be partners 435 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,800 with them. For you were once darkness, but 436 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,080 now you are light, and the Lord live as children of the light. 437 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,320 For the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, 438 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,200 righteousness, and truth. And find out what pleases the 439 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,680 Lord. You and I are supposed to be a 440 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,920 light on a hill, us or city on a hill, a light on a stand, so 441 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,840 that other people can see us and take notice of us from a 442 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,720 distance. They should notice the 443 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,560 difference. You and I are supposed to be 444 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,160 different than the people around us. 445 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,720 Because of our allegiance to Christ, let's keep going. 446 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,400 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but 447 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,600 rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention 448 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,800 what the disobedient do in secret. 449 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,480 Keep going. But everything exposed by the 450 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,280 light becomes visible, and everything that is illuminated 451 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,360 becomes a light that is. This is why it is said, Wake up, 452 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,920 sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ. 453 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,680 Will shine on you. Do the things that God calls you 454 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,000 to do and He will shine on you. Let's keep going. 455 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,600 Be very careful then, how you live not as unwise, but as wise. 456 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,720 How do we do this? Making the most of every 457 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,360 opportunity. Why? 458 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,960 Because the days are evil. This could have been written 459 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,240 today. The days are evil. 460 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,600 You and I need to live as wise people, not as unwise people. 461 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,520 We need to make the most of every opportunity. 462 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,920 Let's keep going. Therefore, do not be foolish, 463 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,760 but understand what the Lord's will is. 464 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,680 If you were to ask what are the one of the top five questions 465 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,120 that pastors gets asked, it is what is God's will for my life? 466 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,240 So let me give you like the Cliff Notes version, we'll do a 467 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,840 bigger one at a later time. But if you want to know God's 468 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,160 will for your life, you learn God's will for your life by 469 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,800 spending time in his word, the Bible, spending time in prayer 470 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,640 with the Holy Spirit and spending time with God's people 471 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,360 and then finding where God is working and join him there. 472 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,000 If you want to know what God's will is for your life, that is 473 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,880 how you do it. And one of the ways you can 474 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,680 determine your spiritual maturity, charity in Christ, is 475 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,760 through your spiritual intimacy with Christ. 476 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,440 And when you are intimate with Christ, you know what it is that 477 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,960 He wants you to do. So if you're going, I'm having a 478 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,560 really hard time figuring out God's will for my life, that 479 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,400 might mean that you are deficient in spending time in 480 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,400 God's Word with His Spirit, with His people, and looking for 481 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,280 where He is working and joining him in that work. 482 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,720 Let's keep going. Do not get drunk on wine which 483 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,520 leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the 484 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,880 Spirit. So quick little devoke here, you 485 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,920 can drink, you just can't get drunk. 486 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,520 You should never be in a position where you can't drive 487 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,280 and clearly tell somebody the good news of Jesus Christ. 488 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,960 And if you can't tell somebody the good news of Jesus Christ, I 489 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,640 would tell you to spend less time drinking and more time 490 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,240 studying because a lot of times we get the courage to tell 491 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,880 people about Jesus when we're drunk and but we can't really 492 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,000 tell people what Jesus is like. So you should go to my church is 493 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,240 the best. And the crossing has grown leaps 494 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,520 and bounds on that strategy. But I want us to have a better 495 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,800 strategy. OK, So you should always be in a 496 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,720 position where you can do the work of the Lord. 497 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,000 So alcohol is a lot like a lot of other things in Scripture. 498 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,560 It is good in bounds, but if you operate outside of that bounds, 499 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,160 it can do all kinds of damage. Alcohol is something that you 500 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,960 can use, but if you use it in the wrong way, it can take you 501 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,720 down a really bad Rd. Sex is a good thing from God, 502 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,960 but if you do it in ways that you're not supposed to do it, it 503 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,720 can cause all kinds of damage. And what happens when you let 504 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,480 alcohol get out of its bounds? Well, it leads to all kinds of 505 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,840 debauchery and just a little another devo. 506 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:06,680 I've never met somebody who's like, you know what, Clayton? 507 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,000 And we just wanted to come in and give you a praise report. 508 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,080 Like, our marriage was really, really struggling. 509 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,240 And then we started drinking a lot. 510 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,640 And like, our marriage has never been better. 511 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,200 Like she's more beautiful than me today than ever. 512 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,320 OK, I've never had that testimony. 513 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,320 I've never heard people come up to me and go. 514 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,280 We are having a hard time managing our kids and we just 515 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,440 started drinking. Just lots and lots of that's 516 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,680 just never worked. In fact, a lot of people who 517 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,400 give themselves over to a bunch of drinking end up in places 518 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,000 that they never thought that they would be. 519 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,840 He's saying listen man, don't be drunk. 520 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,280 It leads places you don't want to go. 521 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,440 OK, next one, speaking the weather with psalms, hymns and 522 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,960 songs from the Spirit. Singing and making music from 523 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,840 your hearts to the Lord. Always giving thanks to God the 524 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,400 Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 525 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,480 That when you and I do these things, it points people to 526 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,400 Jesus. So how do you and I make a 527 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,440 difference? How do we use Ephesians 5 to 528 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,840 make a difference that we want to desperately make? 529 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,000 The first thing I'll tell you is we use our hands to help and not 530 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,680 to point fingers. I do this sometimes and it's 531 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,280 wrong. We like to make fun of the 532 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,760 generations that are coming after us, and it's easy to make. 533 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,120 Fun of them, but I would just remind us that if they're so 534 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,040 jacked up, I would aren't we the ones that raised them? 535 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,080 So like, if they stink, I guess we just have to admit that we 536 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,880 stink as parents. I hear all the time people 537 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,840 saying, you know, this younger generation and sports and all 538 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,600 that stuff. It's impossible to get kids to 539 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,960 come to church and the schedule is absolutely crazy. 540 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,760 You know how you could solve all of that? 541 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,120 Become the coach. When you become the coach and 542 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,560 you use your hands to help instead of point fingers, they 543 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,040 practice when you want to practice. 544 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,640 They go to the tournaments that you want to go to. 545 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,080 And by making that simple move, instead of sports pulling your 546 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,640 kids away from church, you can use sports to pull kids to 547 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,320 church, which is the strategy that we ran and you got you got 548 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,720 maybe going. But Clayton, I'm not, I don't 549 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,240 know sports all that well. Can you beat a 10 year old? 550 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,440 Like I could dominate any 10 year old league right now. 551 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,360 I guess that makes me the coach, doesn't it? 552 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,200 Like unless it's cross country, but Hensels don't run. 553 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,560 OK, So I ain't we ain't getting involved in that ministry. 554 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,440 All right, if my kids want to start like cross country, I'd 555 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,120 have to do a paternity test. I'd be like, that is not our DNA 556 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,560 promise. Not even a hint of it. 557 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,120 There should be a line out the door at all of our churches for 558 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,200 men to invest in our kids ministry. 559 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,280 When I was writing the sermon, I'm praying that this weekend, 560 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,720 50 men would go. You know what? 561 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,520 I'm ready to serve and make a difference in kids ministry. 562 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,760 I'm ready to be a spiritual coach for kids. 563 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,320 There's so many single moms attending our church and for 564 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,320 them, for those kids to have one hour where a man invests in 565 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,120 them, encourages them, speaks into them, and shows them how to 566 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,640 be a man of God could be absolutely life changing. 567 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,480 Some of you need to think about retiring early, coming on staff 568 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,680 for free so that you can be available to help men become the 569 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,000 husbands that they need to be because they never saw how a 570 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,200 husband was supposed to operate. Show them how to be a father 571 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,800 because they never had a father. We are people who don't point 572 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,760 fingers. We use our hands to help. 573 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,440 Second thing I would tell you, don't let pride get in the way 574 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,440 of your progress. Too many times we let pride get 575 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,000 in the way of us becoming who God created and designed us to 576 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,480 be. Recently, I took up the game of 577 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,280 golf because I wanted a chance to meet people who didn't go to 578 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,960 church and I wanted a chance to have spiritual conversations. 579 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,680 And you kind of get some isolated time there. 580 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,800 And it's been actually really wonderful. 581 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,800 In fact, during first service today, one of the guys that I 582 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,920 have been hanging out with got baptized and one of the big 583 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,960 surprises to me was how horrible I am at golf. 584 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,480 I thought I was going to be way better than I am, but oh man, 585 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:52,080 I'm I'm just horrible. I'm unsafe and so there are so 586 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,360 many people who have come along on the journey with me to 587 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,000 resource me to help me get better. 588 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,800 My putter and my 60° wedge are from Lucas. 589 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:03,080 My irons and most of my drivers are from Pat and Connie. 590 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,160 My other driver is from from Mike. 591 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,000 My ball marker is from Dan. My golf balls are from Craig. 592 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,360 My towel is from Andrew. My shoes are from Ben. 593 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,320 Like everybody just keeps resourcing because they don't 594 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,960 want me to kill somebody. Like before they accept Jesus, I 595 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,080 don't want to be doing a funeral. 596 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,080 Like I, I, I did it. I hit him right in the head with 597 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,840 a golf ball. And so where people are just 598 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,080 coming alongside of me. And when I'm out there golfing, 599 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,960 everybody is helping me because I'm like, how do you? 600 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,200 I mean, I spend so much time in sand traps. 601 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,760 I'm like Clayton Hasselhoff, like, I'm just going to start 602 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,080 wearing Shorty red shorts when I go golfing. 603 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,480 It's just brutal. But every single one of them 604 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,880 will tell me, hey, when you're getting ready to do this, you 605 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,560 should try it this way or roll your wrist or keep your weight 606 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:47,720 on your foot foot or your back foot. 607 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,040 They're constantly trying to help me, and they're trying to 608 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,720 help me get better because I keep humbling myself and saying 609 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,720 I need help in this area. And if only some men in our 610 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:01,160 church would humble themselves and say, I don't know how to 611 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,840 read the Bible. I don't know how to pray. 612 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,120 I don't know how to navigate things spiritually in my home. 613 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,600 I I don't know how to connect with my wife anymore. 614 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,800 I, I feel like I'm getting distance with my kids and I need 615 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,200 a guide. If only a few men would humble 616 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,960 themselves, Do you know what the people on our staff would do the 617 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,400 moment they heard something like that? 618 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,640 They would clear their schedule and they would say, we start 619 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,680 tomorrow. If you would humble yourselves, 620 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,160 people would help you grow in your relationship with Jesus 621 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,760 Christ. But our pride is getting away of 622 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,280 the progress that God wants to take in your life. 623 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,320 And just so you know, the people that I'm golfing with are not 624 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,160 Tiger Woods. They're just better than me. 625 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,840 And some of you need to realize that if you've been following 626 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,160 Jesus for a while, you have something to offer the people 627 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,360 around you. That when you spend time in the 628 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,040 Word of God, with the Spirit of God and with the people of God, 629 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,920 you have something to help other people grow in their 630 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,440 relationship. With God. 631 00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:58,760 Here's the other thing I tell you. 632 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,840 You need to train for your testimony. 633 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,760 What story do you want to be able to tell long term? 634 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,800 What do you want the story of your kids or your grandkids to 635 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,520 be? Start training them. 636 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,080 It's impossible to talk about training and parenting without 637 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,360 talking about Proverbs 22 verse 6. 638 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:20,679 Train up a child and the way he should go. 639 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,159 And when he is old, he will not depart from it. 640 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000 In our home, when Jennifer leaves, I make the boys help 641 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,040 clean the house. And then I'll I'll mess certain 642 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,600 stuff up in the living room. And then I'll have them come in 643 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,600 and I'll quiz them about what's wrong and what needs fixed. 644 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,280 Because I want them to be attuned to how their mom wants 645 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,840 the house so that way they can make the adjustments. 646 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,040 Because one of these days they're going to have a wife. 647 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,040 And I want them to know how to make what matters to their wife 648 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:52,120 matter to them. I want my There's a 0% chance 649 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,199 that my boys are going to have to navigate or pay their 650 00:34:55,199 --> 00:35:00,200 mortgage with their fastball. There's a 0% chance that my kids 651 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,680 are going to pay their health insurance premiums with their 652 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,040 golf swing. There's 100% chance that they're 653 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,040 going to have to navigate with a wife who's ticked off. 654 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,240 There is 100% chance that they're going to have to 655 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:13,080 navigate a prayer that goes unanswered or goes gets answered 656 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,160 in a way that they didn't thought. 657 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,440 I need to train my kids for the valleys of life. 658 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,960 Speaking of training, ladies, can I give you a little insight? 659 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,520 There are two ways to train your husband. 660 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:31,920 The carrot and the stick and the carrot works best when you 661 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,320 affirm something in your husband, it releases all of 662 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,120 these chemicals inside of them and it sears in their minds. 663 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,920 Do that again. And when you criticize them, it 664 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,080 makes them want to run. Here's ladies how you need to 665 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,880 view your husband. You need to think of your 666 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:53,000 husband as a big dumb Labrador retriever. 667 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,320 He just. Wants to wag his tail? 668 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,840 That's all your husband wants so. 669 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,760 When he comes home and before he does all of his other stuff from 670 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,760 work, he spends like 30 seconds with the kids. 671 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,040 Here's what I want you to do. I love it when you spend some 672 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,640 time with our kids, when you come home from work and you know 673 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,360 what he's going to do. Oh, you love it. 674 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,360 Oh, OK, I love that you love it. And the next day when he comes 675 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,520 home, he's going to, like, slam the car door. 676 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,320 So you hear it and then he'll be playing with the kids and 677 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,720 looking through the window, you see you seeing what I'm doing. 678 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:30,640 I'm playing with our kids. And when he comes inside you, I 679 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,800 love it when you play with our kids outside in the road. 680 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,120 And he's like, I love it when I play outside in the road too. 681 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,960 He'll just be wagging his. Little Jesus tail. 682 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,880 Third day, he'll be running a parade with all the kids in the 683 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,520 neighborhood. Just out here, you're getting 684 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,840 ready to pray before the meal and you. 685 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,280 Put your hand on his arm and you go, would you bless the meal? 686 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:55,880 And he goes, God is great. Not as good. 687 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,760 We thank you for this take out food. 688 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:06,000 You know what you do, ladies? I love it when you pray prayers. 689 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:10,320 Oh yes, I love it when you pray prayers to our Heavenly Father. 690 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,640 I love it when you are spiritual covering over us and you know 691 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,600 what he's going to be doing. She likes it when we pray. 692 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,600 She likes it when we pray. Next day you're going to get 693 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,120 ready to eat and he's going to go. 694 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:27,280 Our Father who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy 695 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:31,640 Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth. 696 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,720 And she's like, I love it when you pray the Lord's praise. 697 00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:35,800 Like I didn't know it was the Lord's Prayer, but I love it. 698 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,960 You love it when I pray next day six, AMI, beseech thee, Heavenly 699 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,920 Father, I'm coming to you in the heavenly realms. 700 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,960 And I'm putting a hedge of protection around my sons. 701 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,880 And I'm putting a hedge of protection around my daughters. 702 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,480 And God, my wife went to bed angry last night. 703 00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:54,280 A little bit cranky, but I know that you're a healer. 704 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,040 You'll be like waking up. What happened? 705 00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:02,720 You affirmed him. And when you affirm your man, he 706 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,640 will kill for it. He will leave the house. 707 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,480 He will go out to war. And he will die for it. 708 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:20,600 It is hard wired into him and when you criticize or critique 709 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:26,760 he will run from it. Name the thing your husband 710 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,640 stinks at. Chances are he quit it. 711 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:39,760 He went fishing one time, didn't catch a fish, never went back. 712 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,040 Another guy went fishing, caught a fish the first time, and he's 713 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:50,160 never stopped. They run towards affirmation. 714 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:56,800 They flee criticism. So in your marriage, you want 715 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:01,320 intimacy, you want closeness, you want conversation, you want 716 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,360 spiritual direction. A firm, just a little bit when 717 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,920 you see it and he will get his big Jesus tail. 718 00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:13,400 A wagon for you and you will find yourself in a relationship 719 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,640 with the person you dreamt you would marry. 720 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:20,920 Finally this. Is in life and in parenting 721 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,000 fathers, more is caught than taught. 722 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,720 You didn't give your kids a book when it came to changing attire. 723 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,440 You went outside and you did it with them. 724 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:41,000 And your kids are going to catch from you how to love God, how to 725 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:46,440 follow Him, how to treat and love and adore and serve a wife, 726 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,480 how to handle the highs and lows of parenting. 727 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,400 They are going to catch it from you. 728 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:59,240 So let them catch Jesus. They've caught your political 729 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:01,280 beliefs. They've caught your generational 730 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,520 sins. They've caught your anger. 731 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,600 They've caught your frustration, they've caught your looks, 732 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,720 they've caught your metabolism. Let them catch Jesus. 733 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,480 That's what they need. Galatians chapter 5 says this, 734 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:19,000 but the fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, patience, 735 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,840 kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, 736 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,200 self-control. Against such things there is no 737 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:24,800 law. The fruit of the Spirit. 738 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:30,760 Let your kids catch love, let them catch joy, let them catch 739 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,040 peace. Let them catch patience and 740 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,200 kindness. Let them catch goodness and 741 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,760 faithfulness. Let your kids catch gentleness 742 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,320 and self-control. Let them catch Jesus. 743 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,280 And those are called the fruit of the Spirit is because that's 744 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,840 what happens when the Spirit is in your life. 745 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:52,040 That means that your kids can't catch Jesus from you until you 746 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,120 have Jesus in you. It means that they can never 747 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,480 experience the love, the joy, the peace, the patience that 748 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,840 they're supposed to experience until they get it from you 749 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,880 because they're going to catch it from you. 750 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,080 And you might be going. But Clayton, I don't have that. 751 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,760 Well, the good news is you can. The Bible says that when you 752 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,760 come into an intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ, 753 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,520 when you believe that He exists, that He died on the cross for 754 00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,160 your sins, when you come into that right relationship through 755 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,400 the waters of baptism, the Bible promises that you will receive 756 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,040 the gift of the Holy Spirit. So he imparts the Spirit into 757 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,720 you, and then this is what the Spirit produces in you. 758 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,160 And no matter where you are on your journey today, you can 759 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,200 begin that journey towards an intimate personal relationship 760 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,440 today. And when you do that, you put 761 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,320 yourself in a position where you can pass on that goodness, that 762 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,240 gentleness, that self-control because you have finally 763 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:49,360 acquired it in Him. Men, your kids are going to 764 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:55,000 catch something from you. Make sure that they catch Jesus. 765 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,480 We're moving to a time of decision. 766 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:06,360 Fathers. You will never be who God 767 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:10,280 created you to be. You will never be who your 768 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:17,040 family needs you to be until you have an intimate, personal 769 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:26,480 relationship with Jesus Christ. And Satan knows how critical the 770 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:32,080 direction that you take is. That's why you can come to 771 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:38,320 church for years, hear sermons for years, have a desire to 772 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:43,360 pursue Jesus for years, but never actually get around to 773 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,120 doing it. Because every time you get ready 774 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,240 to take a step, Satan has intercepted it. 775 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,560 Satan has stopped it. You might be the most 776 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,680 spiritually contested battleground in our region. 777 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:01,480 It's because Satan knows that if he can keep the men, he can keep 778 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:08,360 the family. What if today you pursue pursue 779 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:14,200 Jesus not just on behalf of yourself, but on behalf of your 780 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:21,400 family, your future family? Because wherever you go, your 781 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,840 family will follow. That means that the spiritual 782 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,640 decisions you make will have generational implications. 783 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,560 That means that you are right. Now, in a pivotal moment in time 784 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,120 where you will be making decisions that will impact those 785 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,280 who will come after you, what decision are you going to make? 786 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,960 You can choose to follow Jesus, chase after Him, grow in your 787 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:51,120 relationship with Him, start a relationship with Him, or you 788 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,440 can choose to walk away and let Satan win. 789 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,000 And I know that there's a battle going on right now because there 790 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,720 are some of you who are going. I think He's talking to me and 791 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:05,560 that's not me. That is the Holy Spirit saying 792 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:10,800 it's time, it's long overdue. It's time to answer the prayers 793 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,880 that your mom's and your dad's and your wives have been 794 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,960 praying. Today's the day where Jesus 795 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:21,840 wins. And if that's you, it's just a 796 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,280 few moments. The people around you are going 797 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,840 to stand and worship, and some of them are going to come to the 798 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,280 steps and pray. And I'm going to encourage you 799 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,080 to walk right over there underneath that screen next to 800 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,960 that baptistry, and start asking the questions that you know need 801 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,440 to be asked, making the decisions that you know need to 802 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:45,200 be made, not just for you, but for those you love who will come 803 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,720 after you to the rest of you in the room. 804 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,000 Would you pray for the men in your life? 805 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,840 There might be a harder Rd. that they walk because of the 806 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,640 significance that they play in the spiritual direction of your 807 00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,400 home. So instead of criticizing him, 808 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,840 would you pray for him? Would you pray that you would be 809 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,560 a great support system for him? Would you pray for your sons and 810 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,010 your daughters? Your son in 811 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:40,720 Do a work that only you can do in ways that only you can make 812 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:44,520 happen. God, you know that there are 813 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:49,200 people in the sound of my voice who desperately need to 814 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:53,880 surrender their life to you. And God, I know that right now 815 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:57,160 there is indeed a battle going on in their mind. 816 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,960 But God, I know that you can win any battle, but there's no one 817 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,920 greater than you, stronger than you, more powerful than you. 818 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,720 So God, with your help, give us the ability to win the war right 819 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:13,880 now and move in the direction that you would have us to move. 820 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,040 And your name I pray. Amen.