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Going back to a passage that we 
noticed last week also in the 

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book of Titus Chapter 1 and 
verse 5, the Apostle Paul said, 

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for this reason, I left you in 
Crete that you should set in 

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order, the things that are 
lacking and appoint ordain 

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Elders in every city as I 
commanded You In this passage 

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the Apostle Paul instructs 
Titus, or tells Titus. 

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The reason for leaving him in 
Reet. 

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Now, something about create. 
You might remember I think this 

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is very important creep was no 
small place. 

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In fact, it was the fifth 
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Mediterranean Sea Scholars. 
Tell us that ancient Crete was 

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about 186 miles long and the 
width of it very in the 

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narrowest part of Crete, it was 
seven miles and in the widest 

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part of creating was 35 miles. 
There were over 100 cities in 

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that. 
Place and over a million people 

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and Paul tells Titus that he 
left them and creepy left him in

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Crete for the purpose of doing 
two things. 

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Number one to set in order, the 
things that are lacking. 

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And number two to ordain Elders 
in every city. 

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Now, first of all, we need to 
understand. 

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And remember that ordaining, 
Elders that every city means 

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ordaining Elders in every 
church. 

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Now, if, in fact there Is a 
hundred cities that we might say

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that there was 100 congregations
in that particular place. 

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Perhaps every city where there 
was a church, they were toward a

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Elders now. 
Elders were ordained in those 

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places without miraculous help 
from God. 

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I've heard people say, you know,
we don't have a whole lot of 

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Elders. 
Today we have a lot of 

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congregations that don't have 
Elders today and the only way 

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that they could have done it 
back in the old days or back in 

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the days of the early, you 
Testament Church was with 

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miraculous Hill. 
I don't believe that at all. 

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I don't think there's anything 
that is described there about 

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Elders, that was with miraculous
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I think that these men were 
spiritually minded, man. 

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Number two, they desire the 
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And number three, they were 
fully qualified Now. 

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Understand today, we may not 
have Elders in a lot of 

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congregations, but really, what 
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What we need to have Alders, we 
A spiritually minded men, that 

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desire the office and are fully 
qualified now. 

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It is scriptural government for 
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in the Lord's church. 
That is scriptural. 

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But it would be equally on the 
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wrong to ordain men that were 
not qualified according to the 

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word of God. 
Now names for the office. 

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We talked about this last time, 
I'll be very brief about this 

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names for the office. 
There's three different names 

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that describe the office of an 
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Elder, and Elder. 
Simply means older, and with 

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experience, and what I have here
on the screen, I have the word 

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young, the line through it. 
Because by definition alone, an 

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Elgar is an older person. 
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automatically eliminate a young 
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A young man cannot be an elder. 
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older. 
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there's another word that 
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elders and that is the word. 
Bishop and Bishop is an overseer

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and Bishop is used to describe 
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the congregation. 
And that is an overseer of the 

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flock. 
Number three is the word Pastor 

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sometimes taken out of context 
in the religious world where 

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somebody gives the name pass. 
Faster to an evangelist or a 

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preacher that is unscriptural. 
A pastor is an elder and there 

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were always a plurality of 
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body of So, a one-man Pastor 
system that is found in the 

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denominational. 
World is unscriptural and Elder 

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though is called a pastor. 
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talks about the task to feed the
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Now, here's the point and Elder 
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he's older it with experience. 
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his duty to the congregation and
that is an overseer he is called

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a pastor to Tribe. 
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Shepherd. 
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what do we noticed last week? 
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the office. 
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Now, you remember what we said, 
a man that's going to desire the

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office. 
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that passes for desire. 
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a man desire, the office of a 
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Those two English word desires 
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The first one is to desire the 
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The second one is to earnestly 
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So if a man is going to be an 
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office but even more so he has 
Desire, the work. 

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You know what? 
This man described to me is this

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man right here is described as a
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That understands that influence 
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Authority. 
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Influence is more important than
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Leadership is more important and
a man that wants the office. 

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He needs to also desire, even 
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That's the first requirement, 
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be blameless. 
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mean sinless. 
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blame. 
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sustainable charges against 
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That's a man, that's blameless, 
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What about the family 
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The first one is he must be the 
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Timothy Chapter 3 and verse 2, 
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blameless. 
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wife. 
And by the way, these are not 

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suggestions. 
If a man is going to be an elder

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which is the highest position in
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dis daresay, the highest 
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nothing is greater than the 
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If a man is going to be that he 
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the husband of one wife. 
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Paul is writing to Titus in 
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If a man is blameless and if 
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what do we have? 
We have the tightest, he's 

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giving a condition and he's 
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If you find somebody that is 
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somebody, that's the husband of 
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the category with all the other 
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a candidate to be an elder. 
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Paul says, Point Blank, he must 
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He must be the husband of one 
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The question is, what does that 
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Well, first of all, he's got to 
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He has to be a married, man. 
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He has to be a one woman, man. 
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Tell us, that's exactly what 
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It means a one-woman man. 
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said, he is to be as committed 
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to his bride. 
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true. 
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Who would be eliminated 
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obvious people eliminated for 
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obviously a polygamist and 
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in our country, really except in
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really, we don't have as A 
custom the deal of polygamy 

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because it's illegal. 
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polygamist but it would also 
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scripturally divorced not 
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Matthew, 19, I'm scripturally 
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remarried. 
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chapter, 19 gives an exception. 
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one regarding marriage and 
divorce and remarriage and that 

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is adultery 3. 
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adultery, they are the guilty 
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put that guilty party away and 
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That's the exception. 
There's only one exception. 

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Now somebody that was on 
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scripturally remarried is 
somebody that's not the husband 

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of one wife. 
It would eliminate that guy, 

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too. 
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What if a man's is married to a 
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And she dies. 
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Lord. 1st Corinthians said, and,
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congregation where he is wants 
to install him as an elder. 

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Is he the husband of one wife? 
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Romans chapter 7, says that a 
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marriage relationship as long as
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But when that spouse is now 
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separated, and that person is no
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If he marries in the Lord, he is
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again. 
See the point. 

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He's the husband of one wife. 
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I think we get that, we get 
that, but the real question is 

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this? 
And I want you to know that I 

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have really wrestled with this. 
I have studied with this by the 

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hour. 
I have wrestled with this. 

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What if a man is already an 
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He's already an elder. 
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be an elder. 
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he resign his position as an 
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Now, my first reaction was we'll
know he didn't do anything 

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wrong. 
But then, I study it further and

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I have some problems with that. 
And by the way, I have known of 

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cases. 
Where a man was married. 

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He was an elder, she died, and 
he immediately stepped down and 

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resigned. 
I've also known in cases where a

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man was married. 
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dies and he just ignored about 
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kept right on going through. 
I know that those cases to the 

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question, is this? 
Does a man have to step down if 

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he is an elder and his wife 
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Now, here's my problem with my 
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No, he doesn't. 
But watch this, Paul talks about

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what an elder must be and not 
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That's the problem I got. 
It doesn't say what an elder has

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been. 
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must be now. if a man cannot 
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can't have less than 1. 
JW McGarvey says this. 

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Look at this, that he should be 
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forbids, having less than one as
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Having more than one more over 
the context, confirms the 

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conclusion for the Apostle 
proceeds in both Epistles to 

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state that the overseer must 
govern his household and 

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especially as children, which 
statements imply that he is to 

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be a family man, or a man of 
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Only. 
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these questions might be on 
might be hard to answer with 

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certainty. 
I get that. 

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But remember this, we must be 
very consistent in when 

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interpreting these 
qualifications. 

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We can't say that some 
qualifications are literal and 

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others are well up to 
interpretation. 

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Or we can look at those things 
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We need to be very careful 
because if we look at the, at 

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the requirement of a man, being 
a husband of one wife, not 

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literally, then we would not 
have to attach a literal 

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interpretation to the next. 
Thing or the one after that, or 

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the one after that. 
What's the next one? 

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He's got to have faith for 
children. 

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He's got to have faithful 
children. 

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I'm going to tell you, if we 
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husband of one wife, then we can
also take a loose interpretation

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of faithful children. 
As the man said, one time, if 

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not, why not? 
Faithful children. 

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Now in Titus, Chapter 1 and 
verse 6. 

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If a man is blameless, the 
husband of one wife, having 

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faithful children, not accused 
of dissipation or 

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insubordination. 
That's the new King James. 

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The King James version, says, 
Riot or unruly. 

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Now what does it mean to have 
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I'm going to simply just say it 
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And there's all manner of 
thoughts and theories of what 

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faithful children is. 
I'll tell you what, I believe 

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faithful children is, and I'm 
going to do my very best to 

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prove that That faithful 
children means, faithful 

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Christians. 
Faithful children is faithful 

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Christians. 
Now, I don't understand why it 

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is that people sometimes 
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and they say that faithful. 
Here does not mean what faithful

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means all throughout the word of
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For example, when Paul is 
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Timothy 2 and verse to listen to
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have heard from me among many 
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Faithful Men Who will be able to
teach others. 

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Also, Nobody has a problem with 
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Nobody thinks that means 
faithful to their father. 

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Everybody understands the things
that I am Telling You Timothy 

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commit vow to what Faithful Men 
Who are faithful, man. 

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They are faithful Christians. 
Nobody has a problem with that, 

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give me another passage 
Colossians 1 and verse 22. 

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The Saints, talking to 
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in Christ who are in colossi. 
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verse 12, the same Who are in 
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Jesus. 
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would say that Paul means 
anything other than faithful 

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Christians. 
But you know, you can read 

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commentators, you can talk to 
people that have all manner of 

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interpretations about this and 
some people would say, no, they 

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don't have to be Christians as 
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parent, faithful to their 
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It's the same word. 
It's the same word. 

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Let's look at some other 
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passage and find out what they 
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Version. 
The American Standard Version in

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the place of faithful children 
says this having children that 

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belief, that's not a 
commentator. 

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That's not a commentary that's 
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That isn't it? 
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word of God and by the way, 
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believing or Believers, it is 
always talking about someone in 

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connection with some what the 
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somebody being Christian. 
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Christians. 
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The NIV says whose children 
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Testament says whose children 
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Weist expanded translation says 
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believers. 
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body of the Bible, The tell us 
that faithful children 

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obviously, is talking about 
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some Greek authorities on the 
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Mr. Thayer says this. 
This passenger faithful children

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is talking about one who has 
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the Messiah and the author of 
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Next, here's another one art, 
Gingrich says a believer in 

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Christ. 
A Christian believer. 

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Henry says, brought up in the 
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Faith Robinson says a Believer. 
A Christian one more. 

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This is the Cross Keys. 
Pulpit commentary, says 

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Believers adorning. 
The doctrine of the Gospel, my 

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Purity and obedience. 
There must be evidence that they

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have been brought up in the 
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Lord. 
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faithful children means faithful
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by the translations. 
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Number three by noted. 
O Scholars, number four by 

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commentators and obviously the 
context fits that it's talking 

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about faithful Christians. 
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When a man's children are 
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There's a good reason for having
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As a requirement, there is a 
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has experience in training and 
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Ephesians, 6 and verse 4 that he
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leading in such a way that 
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and emulate on the other hand, 
when a man's children are not 

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faithful, there's lingering 
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There's lingering questions. 
Is he had fault? 

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I'm going to tell you something,
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I believe that the Bible is 
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make decisions and sin in their 
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Bear the penalty of their sin. 
We are all we are all given the 

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freedom of choice. 
They're not going to be held 

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accountable for my sin and I'm 
not going to be held accountable

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for their sin. 
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sinneth, it shall die. 
Is he ill 18? 

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The son shall not bear. 
The iniquity of the father. 

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Neither shall the father bear, 
the iniquity of the son, we get 

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that. 
I'm going to stand before my 

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maker alone and I will give an 
account for the things that I 

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have done. 
My life. 

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So will you so will our children
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accountable age. 
And an accountable mind 

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everybody will do that. 
But if I raise a family and my 

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children are not faithful 
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by way of my influence? 
Does it not bring up at least 

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some questions? 
A my fault. 

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Then I show my children. 
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Did I take my children and put 
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else? 
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Do I have experience in raising 
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Do I have experience in, 
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To follow my example. 
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Lingering questions. 
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means what it is. 
It is faithful Christians. 

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Now back to Titus Chapter 1 and 
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faithful children, there's 
something else that's connected 

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on the opposite side. 
Watch this not accused of Riot 

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or unruly in the King James. 
Not accused of Riot or unruly 

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the new King James says, 
dissipation or insubordination. 

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Now, the question is, what does 
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You know, I read some Scholars 
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you know, what B and said that 
this means to be not accused of 

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Riot or unruly, what's it mean 
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It means you are manifesting 
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I'm saving this to coin a word. 
That's what he said. 

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It's about being unsafe being 
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That's the opposite of a 
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In other words, the child of an 
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The quality is demanded in the 
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Riot or to be unruly. 
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he cannot be wild or 
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It's a word that is used to 
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lifestyle. 
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15 and verse 13. 
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the prodigal? 
He goes out into the world. 

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He takes his inheritance. 
It's and he wasted his substance

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on. 
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Riotous living. 
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An elder can't have kids folks. 
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ananas or a wild riotous 
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You know, this word is also used
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It's the Greek word s of T, by 
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Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 18
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and do not be drunk with wine, 
which is in, which is 

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dissipation, but be filled with 
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James. 
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the same. 
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American Standard Version, 
renders it like this and do not 

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be drunk with wine, which is 
Riot. 

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So in other words, Paul in that 
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attributing or putting this next
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Are we getting the picture of 
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We are. 
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Children must not be accused of 
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guilty of unsaved equalities. 
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a faithful Christian. 
Now now such a lifestyle brings 

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criticism to the child's father.
An elder cannot serve 

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effectively because children are
out of control, he is to rule 

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his own house. 
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3 and verse 5, watch this for a 
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his own house. 
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take care of the Church of God? 
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Here's some conditions. 
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is blameless. 
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husband of one wife, if he has 
faithful children which are 

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faithful Christians, those that 
are not what they're not accused

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of Riot, or unruly or unsafe 
weakness. 

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And if you got one a guy like 
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someone that rules or leads his 
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Well, and when he does that he 
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Church of God. 
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Here's a big question. 
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If a child leaves leaves the 
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Do the rules still apply? 
What if he becomes Unfaithful 

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away from home? 
I've heard people say, it's just

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not fair. 
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way. 
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I've heard people say it's just 
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I mean after all their child is 
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they're married and they live on
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Should the Elder actually be 
responsible for that or have the

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effects of that? 
It's not a matter of being 

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unfair but let me just say this 
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daughter is going to be 21 and 
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Everybody understands, they are 
my children. 

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Do we still have the same child 
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Yes, they are still my children.
What about when they're 30 and 

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40 and 50 years old. 
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Are they my children? 
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They are. 
They never stopped being my 

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children. 
Paul says that you have to have 

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faithful children. 
What if one of my kids, though, 

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what if I had four kids, And 
what if three of them are 

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faithful and one is unfaithful. 
What if that's the case if 

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somebody asks me? 
Well are your kids faithful? 

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What's my answer? 
Paul said, you got to have faith

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for children. 
I'm not going to say, yes. 

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I'm going to say, well, three of
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them is it? 
That's what I would say, because

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that's the truth. 
We see in the point. 

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Now. 
What about the influence? 

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Or what about things that 
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How long should there be that, 
how long does a child still have

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ramifications of their choices? 
Reflecting back on the influence

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of the father, how long, okay, 
to two examples in the Old 

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Testament, come to mind. 
One is Eli and the other Samuel.

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They had children that obviously
the context shows they had sons 

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that were not, I believe under 
their roof and yet their 

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behavior. 
Their behavior was a reflection 

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back on their father's 
influence. me ask you something,

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folks, we're not guilty of the 
sin that our children commit, 

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But we will always have that as 
a reflection back on us and our 

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good name when they make bad 
choices. 

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Just like we have people that 
Pat us on the back when they 

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make good choices and I'm going 
to tell you, yeah. 

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Yeah. 
We feel good when somebody 

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passes on the back and, you 
know, our kids are doing well 

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and they're doing right and boy,
you done a great job. 

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Yeah, thanks doll. 
That take the flip side of, that

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is the flipside of that is, they
bring shame and reproach on 

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their father and their mother. 
When they go make terrible 

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choices. 
Has absolutely. 

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When a child goes away from 
home, he's still a child. 

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And by the way, this 
relationship between child and 

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father it continues through 
life. 

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In fact, children are to honor 
their parents. 

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Did you know that a child is to 
honor his parents for his 

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lifetime? 
Not just while they live under 

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the roof, they are to honor 
their father and mother for the 

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duration of their life. 
And by the way, the greatest way

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to honor your parents is stay 
faithful. 

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That's the greatest way. 
You can honor your father and 

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mother is to stay faithful. 
Have you ever stopped to 

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consider all the people in here 
that are old enough old enough 

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to be a Christian? 
And you have parents that are 

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still living? 
Have you ever stopped to 

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consider that the destroy Isis? 
That you make in your life are 

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affecting whether or not your 
father can be an elder in the 

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body of Christ, in the Lord's 
Church? 

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You know what I say that to the 
young man or young woman. 

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That has a Godly father, a 
spiritually minded father. 

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That is Desiring the office of 
an elder that wants to be an 

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elder in the body of Christ, in 
the Lord's church that fits the 

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qualifications in every other 
way, but you have decided the 

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young person has decided, I'm 
going to go about my business. 

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I'm gonna quit the church. 
You don't have to say about 

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that. 
The only comes to make my mind 

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shame on you. 
Shame on you. 

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We have confidence in children 
that are faithful. 

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We have confidence in children 
that are faithful in Proverbs 25

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and 19 listen to this 
competence. 

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In an Unfaithful man though in 
time of trouble is like a bad 

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tooth and a foot out of joint. 
Boy, some good stuff. 

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We don't have confidence in 
people that are not faithful, 

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children bear, responsibilities 
toward their parents. 

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First Timothy 5 and verse 4, 
Listen to this. 

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But if a widow has children or 
grandchildren, let them first 

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show. 
Learn to show piety at home and 

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to repay their parents for, this
is good and acceptable before 

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God, so does an Unfaithful child
disqualify an elder. 

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Yes. 
Yes. 

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May not be fair folks, but it's 
right. 

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Can that man? 
Be a Christian? 

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Yes. 
Can that man, go to heaven? 

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00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,800
Yes. 
Can that man be a teacher in the

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local congregation? 
Yes. 

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Can that man? 
Be an evangelist and preach the 

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gospel all over the world? 
Yes. 

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But if he does not have faithful
children, he can't be an elder 

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in the Lord's Church, simple as 
that. 

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00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,800
Simple, as that. 
The only way that an elder can 

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00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,300
serve free from distracting 
questions pertaining to a man's 

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qualifications to be an elder is
if he continues to have faithful

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children. 
Okay, here's a big question. 

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Here's a big question. 
I did not come to the conclusion

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that I have today without much 
study reflection and prayer. 

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But here's a big question. 
If a man only has one child does

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having one child disqualify him 
from being qualified to be an 

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elder. 
Doesn't disqualify him. 

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00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:32,200
Well, let me just say this, I 
will say that a man that has a 

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plurality or multiple children 
in their home and he raises a 

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00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:41,700
plurality of children and he has
a plurality of children that are

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Christians and are faithful. 
That man, really has, 

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00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,500
demonstrated greater that he can
deal with multiple personalities

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00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:51,900
in the church, because he has 
dealt with multiple 

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personalities in his own home. 
So, do I think think it is 

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better for a man to have a 
plurality of children. 

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Yes. 
The question, isn't that? 

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00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:07,600
The question is, if a man only 
has one child? 

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Is he disqualified? 
All right, let's answer it like 

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this. 
Let's find out in Titus. 

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Chapter 1 in verse 6. 
Again, it says, having faithful 

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children. 
Now, the word children is the 

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word Tecna. 
Now, take Nia is the plural form

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of the noun, for child, which is
taking on now. 

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00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,700
Now in this passage, it says, 
take NE. 

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00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,400
It is the plural form of the 
noun for child, which is 

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00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,500
translated in the English 
language as children. 

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00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,400
And it is, obviously plural. 
The question is, what does it 

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mean? 
What does children mean in a 

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plural sense in this passage 
does it mean the number of 

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children that they have? 
Well, let's look the word teak. 

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NE is actually translated is 
actually defined as the word 

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spring. 
So Titus Chapter 1 and verse 6 

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by definition would be having 
faithful offspring. 

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Okay, let's go further. 
What is plural mean here? 

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00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:20,900
Plural means plurality, here 
means plurality of class. 

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00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:25,600
What does that mean? 
It means the plural containing 

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the singular. 
That's what that means the 

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00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:33,600
plural containing the singular. 
And not necessarily, they 

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00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,699
plurality of children or more 
than one. 

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00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:38,900
Okay. 
I didn't go off the reservation.

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Stay with me. 
Let's look at Some Bible 

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00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:43,800
examples that prove exactly what
I'm talking about. 

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Same exact word and moved 29:28.
Watch this saying teacher, Moses

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00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:54,000
wrote to us that if a man's 
brother dies, having a wife 

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00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,700
singular and he dies without 
children teak. 

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00:34:57,700 --> 00:35:01,900
NE chloro, containing the 
singular, his brother should 

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00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,400
take his wife and raise up 
Offspring for his brother. 

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Same exact word. 
Let's go further, though, let's 

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look at another one. 
How about this then, This is one

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00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:14,900
that we know about this is the 
perfect example of the singular 

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00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:17,800
contained. 
In the plural word, it's talking

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00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:22,500
about words that Sarah said in 
Genesis chapter 21 and verse 7, 

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00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:26,400
watch this who would have said 
to Abraham that Sarah would 

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00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:31,300
nurse children, Tecna plural, 
containing the singular. 

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00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:37,200
Then what did she do for? 
I have borne him a son singular.

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00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:41,500
In his old age. 
Let's talk about another one. 

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00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,600
How about this first, Timothy 
Chapter 5 and verse 4. but if a 

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woman has children, Tina The 
plural containing the singular 

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00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:56,300
or grandchildren, let them first
learn to show piety at home and 

543
00:35:56,300 --> 00:36:00,500
to repay their parents for, this
is good and acceptable before 

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00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:05,500
God, now in this passage the 
word children is used without 

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00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:10,100
regard to a specific number. 
If a widow had only one child, 

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00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,700
the use of the word children 
would in no way have relieved 

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00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:15,800
that person of their 
responsibilities. 

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00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,900
Here's another one. 
And this really hits home to us.

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Father's, watch this. 
This Ephesians 6 and 4. 

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00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,400
And you fathers, do not provoke 
your children, plural, 

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00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:30,900
containing the singular, taking 
us a word to wrath, but bring 

552
00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:35,300
them up in the training and 
admonition of the Lord, bring 

553
00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:39,300
them up in the training and 
admonition of the Lord. now 

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00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:42,800
folks, that is a requirement of 
Father's when you have one child

555
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:48,800
or 10 children, whether you have
one child or whether you have 10

556
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,600
children, Now, here's another 
one. 

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00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,100
First, Corinthians 7:14 for the 
unbelieving, husband is 

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00:36:57,100 --> 00:37:00,700
Sanctified by the wife and the 
unbelieving wife is Sanctified 

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00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:03,800
by the husband. 
Otherwise, your children teak. 

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00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,600
NE plural containing the 
singular would be unclean but 

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00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:13,200
now they are holding. 
So what's my point? 

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00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:20,800
Folks, listen, I do think I do 
believe that it is better for a 

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00:37:20,808 --> 00:37:24,300
man to have and demonstrate the 
he can raise multiple children 

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00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:27,900
in the house. 
Then he can raise them in the 

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00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:31,500
training and admonition of the 
Lord that they could all be 

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00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:34,500
faithful members of the body of 
Christ, that he can have, the 

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00:37:34,508 --> 00:37:37,400
kind of reputation that shows 
that his influence, is more 

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00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,800
important than his authority. 
And he has demonstrated in his 

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00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,400
life that he could deal with 
multiple personalities. 

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00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,400
And they could be children of 
God as I think that, that is 

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00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,500
better than a man that has one 
child. 

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00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:53,600
For example, in demonstrating 
that a man that has one child 

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00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,300
does not disqualify him for 
being an elder. 

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00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:59,200
Does in that. 
Passage the word, Tecna their 

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00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,300
teeth. 
NE is the word children, which 

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00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:05,300
is plural containing the 
singular, and Paul. 

577
00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:08,600
The entire point is this, he 
wasn't saying how large your 

578
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,100
family is, he was talking about 
what the status of your family 

579
00:38:12,100 --> 00:38:16,700
is. 
He was talking about the status 

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00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:20,200
of your offspring. 
Are they faithful? 

581
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:27,400
Or are they not? 
Plural containing the singular. 

582
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,500
That's exactly what he meant in.
Titus 1 in 6. 

583
00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:34,500
That's exactly what Tina means. 
Now, it's the kind of family 

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that a man has and so what is a 
man to be in closing? 

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00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:46,200
He's to be a one woman, man. 
He is to be the husband of one 

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00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,800
wife. 
He is to have faithful children.

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00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,600
He would be a man that rules. 
Well, his own house. 

588
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,500
He will be a man that has his 
children in subjection. 

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00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:01,900
He will be a man that has the 
desire for the office and more. 

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00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:05,500
So even the desire for the work,
he will be blameless. 

591
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,400
And there will be no sustainable
charges against him. 

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00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:13,400
He will be the husband of one 
wife, and as McGarvey said, if 

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00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,500
he can't have more than one, 
then he can't have less than one

594
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:22,300
a married, man, he must be one 
that has faithful children, and 

595
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:24,900
that means that they are all 
Christians. 

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00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,100
I'm going to tell you. 
There's some hard 

597
00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:32,300
qualifications, folks? 
Not tell you Faithful children. 

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00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:36,200
Probably disqualifies the 
majority of the men in the 

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00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,500
Lord's church today. 
But folks, if we don't take a 

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00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:44,200
literal interpretation of the 
requirements, then we can just 

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00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,400
add any kind of Lux position. 
We want. 

602
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:50,200
We can explain it all away and 
we could say that the 

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00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,000
requirements don't even matter. 
The qualifications don't even 

604
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,600
matter, we can throw them right 
out the door and we can add in 

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00:39:55,600 --> 00:40:00,000
whatever we want to add in. 
We don't interpret anything else

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00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,100
in the word of God doctrinally 
that way. 

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00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:05,200
And we can't do it regarding an 
elder. 

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00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:11,300
Listen folks, we are teaching on
the subject so that we have at 

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00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:15,900
some point in time at some point
spiritually minded man, that 

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00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:19,400
desire, the office of an elder 
and are fully qualified to be so

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00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:23,800
These for we've already talked 
about next time. 

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00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,500
Two weeks from today before 
Sunday morning, my next turn to 

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preach. 
We're going to talk about the 

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00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:33,400
elders demeanor and the elders 
Behavior. 

615
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,700
Now, let me just add one final 
thing in closing here. 

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One final thing. except for 
being the husband of one wife, 

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Are all of these requirements 
and qualifications, great things

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00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:49,000
for a Christian to Aspire to 
have in their life. 

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Absolutely. 
A Christian needs to be mindful 

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00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:55,100
of these things. 
He needs to be blameless. 

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00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,700
These are great qualities for 
the child of God. 

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00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:03,300
So a sister that might be 
watching and studying with us on

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these subject on the subject 
matters can also apply the 

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00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:09,500
things that would apply her life
will be better in her life too. 

625
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:18,500
And one final thing. 
If many strove to do that and 

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00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:21,900
aspire to be an elder one day 
and never made it. 

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00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:25,800
Let's say they never made it. 
Don't you think they'd be better

628
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,900
for the cause of Christ in ever 
could have been They would. 

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