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it's certainly an honor to stand
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uncomfortable in dealing with 
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Because it's probably nobody. 
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my life, probably maybe for who 
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my wife that have had the most 
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Really the unsung hero I guess. 
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what it really means to be the 
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and you know, on the television 
in society. 

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People have made a mockery of 
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designed marriage. 
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happiness. 
While we live in this world. 

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However, unfortunately. 
It's not always happy in the 

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home. and because of that, 
People often grow up with a 

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deluded vision. 
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family life and realizing that, 
I'm not always the example I 

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need to be or always the kind of
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I ought to be Well, it's 
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I realize how necessary it is. 
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continually put before the 
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The principles that we have in 
the Bible. 

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Because whatever's in the world 
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You know, the church, first of 
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where people can come and 
change. and so, sometimes we 

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bring people From the world into
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God taking Israel out of Egypt, 
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Israel out of Egypt in one 
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To get Egypt out of Israel. 
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of Israel left that place in one
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finally had enough Egypt out of 
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the land, the promise. 
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there are things that shouldn't 
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And so it's important for us to 
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everything in our lives, and the
true standard for everything in 

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our lives is found in the Bible.
It's found in the word of God 

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and so in the scripture, We have
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mom. 
A mom that every child needs by 

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the name of henna, and there are
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want to look at this evening 
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We can't exhaust everything that
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In fact, time will not permit 
us, and I don't have the ability

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even to talk about everything 
that could be said, but there 

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are five characteristics that I 
want us to concentrate on 

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tonight and see if we can glean 
from those five characteristics 

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of Better, portrait of what a 
Godly mom is and what every 

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child needs in a mother number 
one principle number one, Every 

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child needs a mother whose 
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Takes priority two years whose 
commitment to her family takes 

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priority over her comfort in 
family. 

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How many times have you heard 
about somebody who said, I'm out

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of here? 
I've had all I can take. 

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I'm going to go somewhere where 
it's better. 

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I'll never forget little 
Jessica. some high, the years 

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have gone by It's been probably 
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years since she first came to 
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And one day those she was a very
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little girl. 
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One day, she was very upset and 
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She was start shedding tears and
cry. and I took her up in my nap

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or lie, And I said, Jessica 
what's wrong? 

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And she broke down crying. 
She said, I want my mama to love

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me. 
I want my mama to love me. 

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Her mama a deserted it, a few 
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And that particular day, her 
mama had had her for a few hours

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and she dropped her off at our 
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But she lived with her daddy. 
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She wanted and she desired her. 
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something. 
Loving your family. 

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Loving and taking care of your 
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who is committed to your family,
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sometimes you're going to be out
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It's the number one principle. 
I want you to see in the life of

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Hannah. 
In spite of her circumstance, in

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spite of her environment, her 
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beyond her comfort zone. 
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chapter 1, verse 6, and her 
rival talking about the other 

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woman. 
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Bible history of man would often
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because he did not love his 
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he would take another wife, so 
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understand that there was a, 
there was a special shame placed

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upon a person who could not bear
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And any father who did not have 
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the family inheritance was to be
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And if you didn't have a son, 
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Well today we live in a 
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In fact, Chuck Swindoll, I don't
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Chuck Swindoll says, but I 
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comment that I read one of his 
family books. 

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One time he said we live in a 
day and time when we have two 

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kinds of families he said we 
have on can beat He said one 

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income, no kids. 
Double income. 

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No kids. 
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family would choose not to have 
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I didn't make sense to me. 
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in this life. 
We can't have children maybe for

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some reason. 
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I don't know why that is. 
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front right now that I see 
sometimes people who are able to

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conceive who do not need the 
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And I see other people who can't
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wonderful parents. 
And I don't have all the answers

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about that. 
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something else. 
There are some situations. 

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There are some people who can 
pray from now until doomsday and

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they'll never have any children.
Now, I've heard people talk 

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about Hannah and tell people. 
The reason they don't have 

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children not prayed hard up. 
That's a, that's hogwash. 

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That's garbage. 
God's only one that has that 

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answer. 
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and so we don't know why things 
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happen. but now listen, it'll 
mean God closed up your womb. 

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If you can't have a child 
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evil in your life has caused by 
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It's not God. 
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then someday you can talk to 
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give you the answers because 
he's got him off. 

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I don't have all the answers, 
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Henna wanted more than she 
wanted her own life to have a 

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son. 
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family name through, she wanted 
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be given to that son. 
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right law, where if a man died 
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take or one of his brothers 
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seed to the brother who has 
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That's why that levirate law was
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sun could be born because if, if
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wife who had died and he bore a 
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or the son that he had was, not 
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Is Law and the family 
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We would be passed down and 
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You know, we don't realize how 
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society to have children. 
We're so far removed from the 

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attitude that God's people had 
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children. 
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kindig. 
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Now, listen to me, folks. 
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They don't have them. 
But if you're using some selfish

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reason not to have your 
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your attitude. 
You better reassess your life. 

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Because God intended for 
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Well, Hannah was in a very bad 
situation but she retains her 

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faith. 
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In fact, I wonder if it had been
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have heard Hannah say, I'm out 
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She's living in the environment.
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of the babies from The Other 
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The Bible says that the other 
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What's meant by that? 
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kept rubbing it in her face. 
You may be the favorite of Elkin

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of. 
You might be the first wife but 

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I'm the one that's got the 
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The Bible says she provoked. 
Her severely Hannah's life is 

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miserable. 
Hannah's life is provoked. 

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Her life is tormented listen 
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So it was what he had to do. 
So it was year by year when she 

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went up to the house of the Lord
that she provoked, her. 

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Therefore, she wept and did not 
eat. 

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Not she's miserable. 
There's no doubt about it. 

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But she keeps doing what she 
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Now, I mentioned this last 
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people and they're having 
marriage problems and they've 

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separated, they say I'm not 
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Well my reply to that is. 
So what when you marry you've 

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got responsibilities to that 
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And if you're not happy everyday
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emotions and happiness is an 
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It's a state of mind. 
And you can't live output Cloud9

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every day of the week. 
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my servant is not on marriage 
but it's connected. 

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This idea that there's some 
special person out there 

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designed and made just for you. 
Is a Lie from hell? 

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That is hogwash. 
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You can get married. 
But you need to remember that no

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matter who you marry. 
The only original match was out 

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of me. 
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for it to become the kind of 
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It takes a lot of work. 
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This idea that young girls 
sometimes think that they can go

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out here and get some drunken, 
sot, for a husband, and change 

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them is foolish. 
If he's a drunkard before you 

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married, he's probably going to 
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married to him for 50 years. 
Now, you know what happens when 

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you make it work? 
You have storms, you have 

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problems. 
You have difficulties. 

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But you know, what happens, you 
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McClelland seal up their 
Escalon, California, they're 

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gone. 
Now, they died around 100 years 

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old and you know how long 
they've been married. 78 years 

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In fact, I was in that Zambia 
but seems like they maybe even 

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celebrated their 80th year. 
Now, that's amazing. 

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And you know what? 
When you looked at them in their

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90's, they looked like they 
looked a lot alike. 

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In fact, they look so much 
alike. 

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They look like brother and 
sister. 

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But guess what? 
You looked at their picture, 

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when Lucille the 16 and Uncle? 
Claude was 16 and they married 

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they didn't look a lot, dude. 
They didn't look like at all. 

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But after all those years of 
living together, Of waking up 

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together. 
A walking together going to 

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church together of traveling 
together. 

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I start looking like each other.
That's what it means. 

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You see. 
They twain shall become one 

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flesh. 
That's what that means. 

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Now Hannah lived in a bad 
situation, but even in spite of 

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that difficult situation, she 
was she was determined to make 

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it work because she had in her 
Lockhart a priority and that 

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priority was to be what she was 
supposed to be to fulfill her 

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job to fulfill her 
responsibilities and she 

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remained in that marriage and 
continue to do what she knew was

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right. even though sometimes it 
was hard, Even though sometimes 

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it seemed impossible. 
So it was here my year when she 

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went up to the house of the Lord
that she provoked. 

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Her. 
Therefore, she wept and did not 

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eat Hannah's commitment to the 
family took priority over her 

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comfort. 
In the family hand, his heart is

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grieved, physically socially and
mentally her heart is broken 

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into pieces. 
But she sticks to it. 

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Now sisters, what would you have
done? 

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What would you do? 
Hard questions. 

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Hard hard questions? 
Another example. 

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Abigail was married to a fool, 
his name was a ball but that's 

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what the word. 
Nabal means a fool. 

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The servant came to Abigail and 
said that, that scoundrel, and 

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that means he was a son of the 
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That scoundrel, sit David's men 
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that David was coming and going 
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and sure that David was David 
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He sometimes got hot and this is
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hot. 
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Green Beret to put their swords 
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into the camp of the table and 
they were going to kill every 

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million in that place. 
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The servant what happened? 
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modern seen her. 
Thought this is my opportunity 

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David's going to get rid of him.
I'm going to be free. 

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Not what you did. 
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responsibility. 
Was her family. 

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She put some wine together. 
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together. 
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and she headed in the direction 
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Well, she changed David's mind. 
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And a ball, had a stroke and 
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And she became his wife. 
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she might have wanted that. 
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was, she knew what she was. 
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was intending to do anything she
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The death of her family. 
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Now, your husband may not have a
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guarantee you're not going to 
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Making it work. 
If you can now add takes two to 

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make it work. 
I understood that and I know 

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some situations cannot work. 
I want to tell you tonight. 

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Hannah. 
Hannah had an attitude that you 

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need that. 
I need. 

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That my wife has. 
She put her commitment to the 

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family. 
Above her personal comfort, and 

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whatever circumstance, she faced
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verse 9. 
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finished eating and drinking in 
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sitting on the seat by the 
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the Lord. 
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soul and prayed to the Lord and 
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Then she made a vow and said, O 
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He'd look on the Affliction of 
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And remember me and not forget 
your maidservant but will give 

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your maid servant in Manchild 
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Then I will give him to the 
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and no razor shall come upon his
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Well she tells the Lord you give
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prepare him so well that he'll 
serve you all of his life. 

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Now, I wonder how many of us 
would be willing to make a 

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promise like that. 
Have you made a promise like 

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that about your children? 
She said he's going to be a 

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Nazarite. 
A lot of things about that there

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were not pleasant. 
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before he's even born. 
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In fact. 
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her personal Comfort but 
secondly, every child needs a 

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mother who wants loves and cares
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Is there anybody that loved her 
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You know, it's interesting. 
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chapter 1 verse 19, Samuel is 
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conceives and Samuels born, and 
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Now, the man L can. 
I had all these house went up to

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offer, to the Lord, the yearly 
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This is what they always did. 
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This was the annual trip, the 
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make. 
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year after year, after year, but
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go. 
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She said to her husband, not 
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Then will I take him that he may
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remain there forever? 
Praise God for him as I know a 

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woman. 
She's not so young today, but 

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she was, when she made this 
decision, she was electrical 

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engineering, she worked for a 
computer company and had a 

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six-digit income. 
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born, she gave up that job 
because she felt like, That her 

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career would get in the way of 
her children. 

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She had four daughters. 
They're all grown children day. 

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They love her as much as they 
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She made a sacrifice. 
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But she didn't regret a minute 
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Hannah made a sacrifice. 
She changed her life. 

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She altered her life for her 
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Now Sister think about this. 
Are you willing to alter your 

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life for your family? 
Are you willing to make whatever

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sacrifices necessary even do to 
your own? 

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Your own sacrifice your own life
so that your family can have and

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be what they need to be hannumas
willing, but Hannah did not go 

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up for. 
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until the child is weaned. 
Then I will go and I will leave 

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him forever. 
Listen to me in Titus. 

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Chapter 2, Verse 3, the Bible 
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that they be reverent in 
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Not given to much wine teachers.
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that they admonish, the young 
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love their children. 
Now, do you, I can see him Anna.

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She must have brought Samuel up 
on her knee and she wants to sit

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all son. 
You're so special to me. 

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I long for the day that you were
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have with you is such a precious
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You're my treasure Joy. 
You ever tell your children that

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You know. 
You don't have to tell your 

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children. 
I don't love you. 

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God, forbid, that any woman in 
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Whatever do that. 
You don't realize how many 

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people have heard in this world 
because their mama didn't love 

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them. 
I knew a dad that told his son. 

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I hate you. 
I wish you would have never been

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born and I've dreaded every day 
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That boy, turned out to be a 
drug addict. 

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And just about as worthless. 
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You don't have to tell you. 
Kids that All you have to do is 

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every time they come home, 
excited about something. 

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Push your boy. 
All you have to do. 

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Is make your life so important, 
and so busy. 

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That use don't spend much time 
with them. 

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You don't help them with 
homework, you don't volunteer at

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school, you don't look at their 
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do. 
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shoulders and say I love you. 
but if you don't spend the time 

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with them, that they deserve, 
They're not going to believe a 

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word of it, you know. 
It's you know what's been 

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discovered in studies? 
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for seven years. 
We took some classes and it's 

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interesting. 
Some of the things we learned, 

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one of the things that we were 
taught us in several 

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psychological studies, it has 
been shown mathematically that 

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if you spend five minutes with 
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an infant. 
That saves you an hour when 

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they're teenagers. 
Of Heartache. 

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Now think about that. 
Have you ever just turned the 

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television on said, watch TV? 
Is it possible to television is 

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the babysitter? 
You know, I'm going to ask you a

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question now. 
I don't believe it's wrong for a

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woman to work. 
I don't believe that fact. 

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When you read proverbs, 31, 
obviously, how the world you can

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say that, it's wrong for a woman
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problem with working outside the
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She has two jobs two full-time 
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Sometimes we as men, we don't 
understand that and we make it 

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harder for them to sisters. but 
the point is, if you are 

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consumed with everything, except
your family, did you got to 

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change something? 
You got to change something. 

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Hannah was willing to make 
whatever change was necessary so

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that her children would have the
love that they needed. 

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The Bible says that women are to
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children. 
Love is not something you feel. 

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Love is not something. 
You say, love is something you 

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do listen to me. 
Bible Godly love is not a 

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feeling, it's not a feeling or a
romance. 

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It's something. 
It's something that you do. 

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It's love Bible of is a 
decision. 

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Even when you don't feel like 
it, you love. 

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Even when it hurts you love. 
That's what Bible love is. 

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That's the kind of love your 
child needs. 

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That's the kind of love. 
That should exist between a man 

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and a woman. 
Listen, in Proverbs chapter 31 

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verse 27, the Bible, speaking of
The Virtuous Woman, she watches 

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over the ways of her household 
and does not eat the bread of 

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idleness. 
Gar with that says, that means 

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she doesn't sleep till noon, she
gets up and fixes a hot 

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breakfast for her children. 
That means that when her 

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children need clean, clothes are
need a Band-Aid. 

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She's available to take care of 
that. 

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And you can ignore it if you 
want to. 

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But that's a virtuous woman. 
She watches over the ways of her

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household and does not eat the 
bread. 

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Of items. 1st John 3:18 says, my
little children. 

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Let us not love in word, neither
in tongue but in deed and in 

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truth, it's not wrong. 
Say I love you. 

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But your life, the actions must 
be behind that. 

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Or those words become empty 
words. well, the commitment the 

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love number 3, every child needs
a mother who is an example of 

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loving God Now, what does it 
mean to love God? 

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What does it mean to be an 
example of loving God? 

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Well, no one thing is. 
You ought to go to church? 

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Don't send your children to 
church but take them to church. 

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Teach them how to have 
relationships with people of the

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church. 
Teach them how to select friends

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in the church. 
Listen to me. 

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Not everybody in the church is 
the kind of person necessarily 

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you want your children to marry.
You know you should marry in the

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Lord. 
There's no doubt about that. 

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There are passages that teach 
that but listen to me not 

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everybody, the church is fit to 
be married. 

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Sometimes we have to learn that 
the hard way. 

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Now, how is Hannah? 
An example of what it means to 

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love. 
God. 

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How is it that she is, that 
example, look at this. 

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She trusted God. 
She wanted a child but she 

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didn't give up. 
Even when she didn't get a child

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she kept doing what she knew 
was, right? 

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even if she never got a child, 
she would have kept right on 

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That's the kind of person she 
was she was an individual that 

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put God first. 
Is that kind of person your 

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children seeing you? 
Jesus said, but seek ye first, 

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the kingdom of God, and his 
righteousness, and all these 

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things shall be added unto you. 
Now, think about this Think 

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about it. 
Maybe you come home a little bit

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tired. 
In fact, maybe you're more than 

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a little bit, tired, you're 
exhausted. 

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And you can either go to church 
tonight or you can stay home. 

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What do you do? 
Jesus said, seek me first. 

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What are you telling your 
children when you miss the 

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assembly? 
You see attending church is not 

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all there is to Christianity. 
But that's a very intricate part

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of it. 
Even how you sit in the 

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assembly, educate your children 
as to, what you really believe 

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in your heart about God. 
Listen to a nephew sleep while 

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the preachers preaching. 
If you're ignoring with the 

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preachers saying, you're 
teaching your children to do 

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that. 
You're teaching your children. 

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It's not that important. 
Henna trusted God in her life. 

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She trusted God every single 
day, she obeyed God, whatever 

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his voice said, that's what she 
obeyed. 

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In first Samuel, chapter 1, 
verse 29. 

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Now, when she had weaned him 
that his cellular, she took him 

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up with her with three Bulls, 
one F of the flower and a skin 

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of wine and brought him to the 
house of the Lord in Shiloh. 

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And the child was young, then 
they slaughtered a bull and 

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brought the child to Eli. 
And he said, oh Lord. 

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As your soul lives. 
My Lord. 

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I am the woman, who stood by 
you, here praying to the Lord. 

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Now, you remember what happened 
when she's pray to the Lord? 

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00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,700
I didn't talk about that when we
read it. 

455
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,600
But, you know, she's praying in 
the temple. 

456
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,300
The Bible says, her lips are 
moving, but there's no voice. 

457
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,200
And Eli Cesar there. 
And he says, you're drunk. 

458
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,900
You get out of here. 
Now, what's the point of all 

459
00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:30,300
that? 
They're always going to be 

460
00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:32,100
problems. 
And sometimes when you do the 

461
00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:34,300
right thing, you're going to be 
accused of the wrong thing. 

462
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,800
Don't forget that, don't just 
become disheartened, don't 

463
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,800
become downtrodden. 
Don't expect people to 

464
00:32:43,808 --> 00:32:46,500
appreciate you. 
Expect the Lord, to appreciate 

465
00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:49,800
you. 
You know, we're not serving each

466
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,100
other. 
Now it's true. 

467
00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:55,700
If I'm serving God as I should 
that, I'm going to be willing to

468
00:32:55,700 --> 00:33:00,200
serve others. 
But even if others do not like 

469
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:05,700
me, I can please God be that 
Jesus said Beware. 

470
00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:14,900
When all men speak, well of you.
For they did the same thing with

471
00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:20,600
those false prophets. 
Think about it. 

472
00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:27,900
We serve the Lord. 
And we need to give him our all,

473
00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:32,000
we need to demonstrate that 
attitude with our children, O My

474
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,800
Lord, as your soul lives. 
My Lord, I am the woman who 

475
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,900
stood by you, here praying to 
the Lord for this child, I 

476
00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:45,700
prayed and the Lord has granted 
me, my petition which I asked of

477
00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:48,200
him. 
Therefore I also have led him to

478
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:53,400
the Lord as long as he lives. 
He shall be lent to the Lord. 

479
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,800
So they Worship the Lord there. 
Truly she made a vow. 

480
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,900
She made a promise she was given
this sun and even while he's 

481
00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:06,200
still young when the time comes 
for her to fulfill her vow, she 

482
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,300
keeps it just to the letter. 
And this brings us to the fourth

483
00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:12,400
point. 
You see every child needs a 

484
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,300
mother. 
Who was Willie, who is willing. 

485
00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:21,300
And successful to give her son 
to the Lord. 

486
00:34:22,699 --> 00:34:28,500
You see while they serve you. 
While they're under the umbrella

487
00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:32,699
of your Authority, it's easy to 
persuade your children. 

488
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,600
That is why they're in the 
house. but what you have to do 

489
00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:41,699
is you have to prepare them for 
the day that when they leave 

490
00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:46,699
your house there, under God's 
care And even though they're not

491
00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:50,800
in your house, even though 
they're not hearing your voice, 

492
00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:54,600
even though they're out of your 
jurisdiction, they still serve 

493
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:59,600
the Lord. 
My mom said you have to convince

494
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,800
your children to do what you 
want them to do. 

495
00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:04,200
And that and when you're done 
they need to think it was their 

496
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,200
idea. 
And that's true. 

497
00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:13,000
That's true because you see, 
you're going to teach your 

498
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,800
children, your everyday that 
they live there. 

499
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,500
The remember this, it's hard for
us to accept that. 

500
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:19,500
You know, we talked about the 
empty nest syndrome. 

501
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,200
It's hard to see our children 
leave, but the truth of the 

502
00:35:25,207 --> 00:35:29,200
matter is right now, while 
little Emma's so small and so 

503
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,100
precious, her parents need to be
praying. 

504
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:33,700
Lord help us to prepare for the 
day that m is grown. 

505
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,200
You need to be looking forward 
to that day. 

506
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,800
Not looking forward to the day 
because you wanted to go because

507
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,500
you wanted to leave your house 
but because it's right. 

508
00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:51,800
That's the design. 
But you don't happen sometimes. 

509
00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:59,600
We wait till it's too late. 
And they don't have any 

510
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,300
relationship with the Lord. 
And when they leave our homes, 

511
00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:06,700
they're ready to get out. 
They want to get away. 

512
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,700
They want to sow to the wind and
they reap the Whirlwind. 

513
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,600
All children will go through a 
rebellious stage, but if you had

514
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,000
developed a relationship between
them and the Lord, they'll have 

515
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,800
a conscience. 
Now, don't misunderstand me 

516
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:28,000
today. 
I don't have all the answers. 

517
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:34,500
And I know that if you're 
perfect the devil still real and

518
00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:37,400
he's going to, he's going to do 
what he can to destroy your 

519
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,600
family. 
And sometimes I look at a man 

520
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,200
and his wife, and I think, what 
good people and when their 

521
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,800
children grow up, they leave the
church. 

522
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,900
I look at somebody else, maybe 
the dads are drunkard, maybe 

523
00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:54,000
even the children were 
physically or sexually abused 

524
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,300
and when they grow up, they're 
all faithful to the Lord. 

525
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:05,600
I don't understand all that. so 
what we're talking about, Is the

526
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:12,900
pattern that God has given us. 
The pattern that Hannah has left

527
00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:16,400
for us, she decided before her 
son was born. 

528
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,400
I'm going to give him to the 
Lord. 

529
00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:20,100
I'm going to lend him to the 
Lord. 

530
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,600
I'm going to, I'm going to give 
him as a servant. 

531
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,500
And you know what happened when 
she gave saying to the Lord is 

532
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,900
the nation of Israel. 
Geez. 

533
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:34,200
He that old saying The Hand That
Rocks the Cradle, rocks the 

534
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,900
nation. 
I'm telling you this little girl

535
00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:41,300
right here. 
You don't have any idea where 

536
00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:43,600
she's going to end up or what's 
going to happen in real life. 

537
00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:47,900
It's like that passage. 
We LED read last night in the 

538
00:37:47,908 --> 00:37:53,000
Book of Psalms a great Archer 
shoots his bow at a venture and 

539
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,900
his hope is to shoot the are Way
Beyond he could even see that's 

540
00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,400
what's going to happen to these 
kids. 

541
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,200
So what's going to happen to 
these children? 

542
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,800
Our hope is they go beyond what 
we did. 

543
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:11,900
Do greater things than we did. 
And we're a part of that. 

544
00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:19,000
Anna changed the future of a 
Nation. 

545
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:25,600
Hannah was able to influence 
people that she never saw or met

546
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:32,500
through her son. 
And you can too. sit your son 

547
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:39,900
down and say son, why don't you 
become a Free talk to him about 

548
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:42,100
what you think it might take to 
be a preacher. 

549
00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:46,000
Give brother Frank or some of 
the other leaders to come and 

550
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,000
talk to you and talk to him and 
tell him what he needs to do, to

551
00:38:49,008 --> 00:38:50,600
prepare himself to be a 
preacher. 

552
00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:54,600
Getting the thinking about the 
future. 

553
00:38:56,300 --> 00:39:00,100
Teach your daughters to find. 
A young man who's strong in the 

554
00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:04,000
church and teach her how she can
be an asset to that man in the 

555
00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:09,000
church. 
Talk about these things. 

556
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,800
You need to teach your children.
How to marry you need to talk 

557
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,500
about who they should marry. 
You need to talk about 

558
00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:23,700
characteristics develop within 
their little Minds. 

559
00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:29,500
What they really need. 
Because you wait till they find 

560
00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:35,500
somebody, it's too late. 
You got to start early. 

561
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,900
And that's what Hannah did. 
We need mothers like Hannah. 

562
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,700
Who are able to give their 
children to the Lord. 

563
00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:48,400
Now, how did she manage to do 
that? 

564
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,800
Look at Deuteronomy chapter, 11,
verse 18. 

565
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,700
Therefore you shall lay up these
words of mine in your heart and 

566
00:39:54,700 --> 00:39:57,000
in your soul. 
Now, she had access to these 

567
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,200
words. 
Listen to this. 

568
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:02,300
And Brian is a sign on your hand
and they shall be as frontlets 

569
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,300
between your eyes. 
You shall teach them to your 

570
00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:07,700
children. 
Speaking of them when you sit in

571
00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:11,800
your house when you walk, by the
way, when you lie down and when 

572
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,100
you rise up, how did she manage 
Age to do that and you shall 

573
00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:18,900
write them on the doorposts of 
your house and your Gates that 

574
00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:21,900
your days and the days of your 
children, may be multiplied to 

575
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:24,700
the land of which the Lord swore
to your father's, to give them 

576
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,300
like the days of the heavens 
above the Earth. 

577
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:29,700
Listen to me. 
This verse is telling us that 

578
00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:32,900
you do not develop this attitude
in a day. 

579
00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:39,400
It's daily. 
When you walk outside. 

580
00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:44,400
At night. 
You can talk about the Big 

581
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,800
Dipper. 
And you go over there and the 

582
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,800
Book of Job where it talks about
the bear, that's the same 

583
00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:56,200
constellation. 
And you could show them that job

584
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:04,200
lived 4,000 years ago. 
And he saw the same stars that 

585
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:10,500
God created. 
You can find when you're out for

586
00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:13,100
a walk a caterpillar inching 
along. 

587
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,900
You can get excited and get down
through a little girl, your 

588
00:41:16,900 --> 00:41:19,300
little boy. 
And you can say look at here, 

589
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:22,900
look at this, this is a worm but
it's going to become a 

590
00:41:22,900 --> 00:41:26,100
butterfly. 
You teach him a lesson? 

591
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:32,500
About transforming. 
From a worm to a beautiful 

592
00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:36,200
butterfly. 
You can take horses. 

593
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,100
And teach your children, you can
take paint and teach your 

594
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:45,400
children about God. 
That's what it's all about. 

595
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,300
That's what he's talking about 
practice. 

596
00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:51,700
What you know is, right? 
And then when you sit in the 

597
00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:55,000
house, when you walk, by the 
way, when you lie down and when 

598
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,700
you rise up at every opportunity
and every situation, teach him 

599
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:04,700
that God is on your mind. 
That's what it's all about. 

600
00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:09,900
But listen, we get so busy. 
We get so consumed with our 

601
00:42:09,900 --> 00:42:18,900
lives, we fail to do that. that 
there's not any of us, you know,

602
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,500
I'm so thankful for Midland 
Texas, you know, I was Raising 

603
00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:30,800
home where you work You get up 
early and work, you could eat 

604
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,600
lunch and your work afterwards, 
you work in the afternoon, you 

605
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,500
work at night when you're tired,
your work. 

606
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,500
Brother already Eastman came to 
me. 

607
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:48,300
When my son was about 16. 
He said, brother, we love you so

608
00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:52,300
much. 
We're so thankful that you live 

609
00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:56,300
here. 
You've done so much work, you've

610
00:42:56,300 --> 00:42:59,000
helped us in so many ways, but 
please listen to me. 

611
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,300
You need to quit working so 
much. 

612
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,900
You need to spend some more time
with your family. 

613
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,500
You need to take your son 
golfing. 

614
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:17,800
Me to take him fishing. 
We appreciate you. 

615
00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:25,500
But you're working too much. 
Pretty hard to argue with that, 

616
00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:29,000
what? 
I'm so thankful for art. 

617
00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:33,500
Maybe that really made a 
difference in our family. 

618
00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:38,100
I don't know. 
I'm going to tell you something.

619
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:43,600
If you want your children to 
love the Lord. 

620
00:43:44,900 --> 00:43:52,200
It takes time. it takes years, 
it takes days, upon days, upon 

621
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:56,900
days of effort, And you can mold
their life. 

622
00:43:57,500 --> 00:43:59,900
I'm telling you, you can change 
their life. 

623
00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:05,500
And they'll become what God 
wants them to become and the 

624
00:44:05,500 --> 00:44:10,100
potential in their lives is 
beyond anything we can imagine. 

625
00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:20,800
if we give them the hope and the
determination to go forth, Well,

626
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,600
I preach too long already. 
We need to take her children to 

627
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,400
heaven. 
When you go to heaven, you going

628
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:37,400
to lose everything. unless you 
take your family with you, 

629
00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:45,100
whatever you used to be. 
I used to tell the people in 

630
00:44:45,100 --> 00:44:50,200
Zambia, listen if you'll obey 
the gospel, If you and serve the

631
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:55,100
Lord didn't Heaven someday. 
I'll introduce you to my 

632
00:44:55,100 --> 00:45:00,100
grandchildren that tickle death.
That's the way to be. 

633
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:08,600
Whatever this life has. 
Whatever we do in this life, 

634
00:45:08,700 --> 00:45:12,400
it's not worth it. 
If you lose your family. 

635
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,900
Our families are the most prized
possessions of our life. 

636
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,800
And you need to take your 
children to heaven in proverbs 

637
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:29,000
4, but I was my Father's son. 
Tender. 

638
00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:31,800
And the only one who decided my 
mother. 

639
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:37,100
He also taught me and said to 
me, let your heart retain my 

640
00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:41,200
words and keep my commands and 
live. 

641
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,900
Well, we talked about that last 
evening so I'm going to skip. 

642
00:45:45,900 --> 00:45:51,700
Now toward the end. 
Our children rise up and call 

643
00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:54,800
her blessed. 
Her husband also, and he Praises

644
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,900
her many daughters have done 
well, but you Excel them. 

645
00:45:57,900 --> 00:46:02,100
All charm is deceitful and 
beauty is passing, but a woman 

646
00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:06,100
who fears the Lord shall be 
praised. 

647
00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:10,500
Give her of the fruit of her 
hands and let her own works. 

648
00:46:10,500 --> 00:46:15,200
Praise her in the gates, you'll 
never regret. 

649
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,500
Whatever sacrifice you make. 
For your family. 

650
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,800
And someday the Lord blesses you
with many children. 

651
00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:33,700
When you get old, you'll be 
praised every child needs a 

652
00:46:33,707 --> 00:46:38,800
mother, like Hannah who had a 
commitment that took priority 

653
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,700
over her comfort in the family 
who wants and loves and cares 

654
00:46:42,700 --> 00:46:45,200
for her children, who is an 
example of what it means to 

655
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,500
love. 
God, who is willing to give her 

656
00:46:48,500 --> 00:46:51,100
children to God? 
Who loved her husband? 

657
00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:55,000
And that love was requited every
child. 

658
00:46:55,700 --> 00:47:01,700
Needs a henna for a mother. 
You go home and read the story 

659
00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:05,000
to give Read the story of 
Abigail. 

660
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,300
Read the story of Aquila and 
Priscilla. 

661
00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:13,400
And you think about what kind of
character they demonstrate for 

662
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,600
us and you try to practice it. 
If you're here tonight and 

663
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,300
you're not a Christian, we want 
you to become one. 

664
00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:22,100
Your mother wants you to become 
one. 

665
00:47:23,900 --> 00:47:26,100
They'll be nothing like it when 
you get to heaven. 

666
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:34,900
You'll walk on a street of gold,
you'll live forever, no pain, no

667
00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:40,000
sorrow. 
Never being tired, never be 

668
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,900
weary. 
You'll be with Jesus. 

669
00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:46,700
You'll be with God, the Father, 
you'll be with the Holy Spirit. 

670
00:47:47,900 --> 00:47:49,500
You'll live forever in a 
mansion. 

671
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:55,700
Don't you want to go there? 
Don't you want to get there? 

672
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,700
Well, you can You obey the 
gospel. 

673
00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:07,100
The Bible says, though, he were 
a son yet learned. 

674
00:48:07,100 --> 00:48:10,300
He obedience by the things, 
which he suffered being then 

675
00:48:10,300 --> 00:48:13,300
made perfect. 
He became the author of Eternal 

676
00:48:13,300 --> 00:48:17,300
salvation unto all that obey, 
him obey him today. 

677
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,200
And he will save you Come 
believe you with all of your 

678
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,400
heart, repent of your sins 
confessing him before men being 

679
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buried with him in baptism for 
the remission of your sins. 

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If you here and you've obeyed 
that gospel but you've allowed 

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your life to go away from Jesus.
Come back tonight. 

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Jesus says, behold I stand at 
the door and knock If any man 

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will hear my voice and open the 
door, I will come in to him and 

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will sup with him. 
And he with me what a blessing. 

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We thank you for listening to 
our podcast, put on by the 

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Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.
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would like any additional 
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receive a free Bible 
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Please email us at info at True 
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Bakersfield.com. 
Our service times are on Sundays

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at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 
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Please make plans to join us. 
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honored guest.