1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:01,500 Hi. This is Dave Olson. 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,700 I'm the senior leader of Hartman church located in Ankeny Iowa. 3 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,000 I hope the following message, challenges and courage's and 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,200 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:19,000 You know, your relationship with your father is really a strong 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,400 indicator of the trajectory of your life. 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,400 That's why there is such a war on families and fathers and so I 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,100 ended up reaching out of this passage and I'm just going to 9 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:33,300 I'm going to use this as a jumping off point for our 10 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:35,200 service here. This morning, let's pray. 11 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,200 Father, we thank you for your word Lord. 12 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,900 I ask that your word would be like, fire this morning would be 13 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:44,000 like an arrow that would strike the Heart Lord that it wouldn't 14 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,700 Encourage and strengthen Lord, that it would Challenge and 15 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:50,400 correct. And father, I ask that you would 16 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:55,100 snap that line in the spirit God that would give us an indication 17 00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:57,800 lorda. An example, Lord, your word 18 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:02,600 would be the Plumb line for every man in this room in Jesus 19 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,600 name. Amen, I'm going to talk on 20 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,000 fatherhood and of course, there are principles that will apply 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,300 to mothers and women and children and so forth, but I 22 00:01:13,308 --> 00:01:15,700 really want to address. It's the father's this morning, 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,600 this being Father's Day and so we're going to look at Ephesians 24 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,400 chapter 3. I want you to call your 25 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,700 attention to verse 1 and then we're going to jump to verse 14. 26 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:28,700 Listen to what it says. In verse 31 for this reason. 27 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:33,600 I Paul a prisoner of Jesus Christ on behalf of you Gentiles 28 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,200 and then depending on what the version you're reading all of a 29 00:01:36,208 --> 00:01:39,100 sudden, there's a line or a colon, or he stops. 30 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:44,300 And he says this Assuming you have heard of the stewardship of 31 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:48,100 God's grace, that was given to me for you, on how the mystery 32 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:50,300 was made known to be my Revelation, and he goes into, 33 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:54,600 what is a parenthetical thought, there's a parentheses in the 34 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,500 flow of this book. So Paul and chapters one and 35 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:02,800 two, he's unpacking, theologically what we have from 36 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,900 Christ and then he's going to go into this prayer and just as he 37 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:10,199 launches into the prayer he decides, he has one more thing 38 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:11,900 he wants to talk about, and he's going to talk. 39 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:16,000 Talk about the call of God on his life and how God gave him 40 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,100 Grace to unpack, the mysteries of Christ, and then he jumps in 41 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:21,200 and verse 14. And listen. 42 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,800 What he says for this reason, I bow my knees before the father 43 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:28,000 said to you realize you recognize here in verse 1 and 44 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,500 verse 14, that he says the same thing twice. 45 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:35,800 He says, for this reason, I bow my knees before the father. 46 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,600 He starts to get into the subject, he's about to get into 47 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,700 verses 14 through the end of the chapter. 48 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,700 In verse 1 and he stops, and he gets into this parentheses, this 49 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:49,800 Rabbit Trail and then jumps back in at verse 14, one of the 50 00:02:49,808 --> 00:02:52,800 reasons I bring that up is I want to give you scriptural 51 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,500 basis for your pastor going on rabbit Trails because this is 52 00:02:56,500 --> 00:02:59,800 exactly what Paul did. Paul started to address, 53 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,600 something. He got on a little Rabbit Trail 54 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,900 and then he got back on track. So anytime you think Pastor you 55 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:07,000 get on rabbit Trails? Hey it's scriptural. 56 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,100 Amen. Verse 14 for this reason. 57 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:14,100 I bow my knees. He's before the father and 58 00:03:14,100 --> 00:03:17,900 listen to what he says here. This is a powerful principle 59 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:20,500 especially for this hour in human history. 60 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:26,900 I bow my knees before the father from whom every family and if 61 00:03:26,908 --> 00:03:29,000 you have there's a little reference there and every 62 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,200 virtually every translation you follow it to the bottom and it 63 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,100 will tell you, it can be translated every family or all 64 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:39,200 fatherhood. So it can read it this way. 65 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,800 I've kneel before the father from Whom all fatherhood in 66 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,900 heaven and on Earth derives, its name. 67 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:56,300 All Families derive, their name. Now in scripture, a name 68 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:01,500 represents identity. That's why often in Redemptive 69 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:03,600 history. As recorded in scripture, you'll 70 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,700 see people with the name change because their identity is 71 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:10,000 altered by an encounter. With God, saw the persecutor 72 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:16,600 became Paul the Apostle. Jacob, the conniving, you know, 73 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,000 the conniver became Israel, the prince with God and so there was 74 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,100 a change in the name and so when we talk about names, it 75 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:26,900 signifies identity. And so when it says I kneel 76 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:30,400 before the father from whom every family are all fatherhood 77 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,700 in heaven and on Earth derives its name it's saying that God is 78 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:38,600 God is the original father. He is the one from whom we 79 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:43,100 should get our definition of what fatherhood is and this is A 80 00:04:43,108 --> 00:04:47,900 very important point because there's a war against family and 81 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:52,600 against fatherhood and against manhood itself going on in this 82 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:57,700 day and age. Fatherhood is not a biological 83 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:00,700 coincidence or an evolutionary coincidence. 84 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:02,100 All. That's just the way it happened. 85 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:08,000 It's not a political construct by some male patriarchal 86 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,600 conspiracy so that we can consolidate power. 87 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:17,600 Fatherhood is actually embedded in creation itself. 88 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:22,900 It is a part that is part of the created order, whether plant 89 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:27,700 life, or animal life or human life, and when we fail to 90 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:31,600 realize that and we begin to diminish, the role of both 91 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:37,000 fatherhood and masculinity, there are huge and terrible 92 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:40,200 repercussions that we're seeing across the landscape of our 93 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,800 nation. I was just reading yesterday and 94 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,800 it was the. I forget the official title but 95 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,900 it's the agency that license psychiatrists and psychologists 96 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:56,900 and they have this volume that they, they, you know, look at 97 00:05:56,900 --> 00:05:59,200 all these different maladies so that you can turn to them and 98 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,900 you can find out what your malady is if you're struggling 99 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:06,200 with something and they've now they now look at masculinity as 100 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,000 largely negative that it's they call it toxic masculinity and 101 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,300 they look at masculinity as The problem and they trace it to all 102 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:15,100 these issues. And one of the things they'll 103 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:19,300 say is like, if you look at men in prison who are overtly 104 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:23,900 violent, it's because of toxic masculinity, I would propose to 105 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:25,500 you. The reason that there's a lot of 106 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:29,500 violence in prisons is because of the absence of healthy 107 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,100 masculinity and the formative years of those children. 108 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,100 A number of years ago, on some of you have probably heard this 109 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:40,100 story, Hallmark cards there. They had one of their major 110 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:43,200 printing shops that was near a prison. 111 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,700 And so what they did is they thought, hey, let's let's do 112 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:47,800 something for these men that are incarcerated. 113 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,300 It's coming up on Mother's Day. We print a lot of cards. 114 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:55,900 Let's offer free cards to these prisoners and they gave many 115 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:58,900 many cards and they ran out, more men were wanting cards, 116 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:00,900 they wanted to write their mom. They wanted to give their 117 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:03,600 appreciation of their mother and so, The thought man this was a 118 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,300 win. This was a way that we can give 119 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:07,900 back to the community and to those who are hurting the most 120 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,900 and so Father's day was coming up and they did the same and 121 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:14,800 wouldn't, you know, it that only like two cards were asked for. 122 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:21,200 The Mother's Day cards, were they went through them quickly, 123 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,900 but the Father's Day cards, no one was interested because the 124 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:29,600 fact is incarcerated, men have as a Hallmark of their history, 125 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,900 a disruptive rocky relationship with their dads. 126 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:39,700 As men, we have a huge effect on our children. 127 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,500 Biologically, it is the male who determines the gender of the 128 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:49,900 children. It's the male sperm that 129 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:54,400 determines whether it's going to be a female or a male child, and 130 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,900 I would propose to you that first the physical, then the 131 00:07:56,900 --> 00:08:00,900 spiritual that men also have a great effect on how their 132 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:04,000 children show up even in their gender identity. 133 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,100 And we need to realize this that this is something we need to 134 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:10,700 own. That our words carry weight. 135 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:17,400 And so our role as a father is a very, very important thing. 136 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:22,900 I came across something that I had posted on Facebook a while 137 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:26,300 back, this is a couple years ago on Father's Day I'm going to 138 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:27,900 read you some of it this morning. 139 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,200 Father, has not a human invention or some evolutionary 140 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,000 biological coincidence. Nor did his, the construct, to 141 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,000 some patriarchal conspiracy, an attempt by men to keep the power 142 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,500 fatherhood is foundational to reality. 143 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:46,500 It is embedded in the creation because it emanates from its 144 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:51,900 creator, The God Who reveals himself as father, You could 145 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:56,300 argue that the primary Revelation, the self revelation 146 00:08:56,300 --> 00:09:00,800 of God, is primarily first and foremost, As a father, it is the 147 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:05,000 foundation of creation of healthy relationships, and if we 148 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,700 lose that, everything else goes down with it. 149 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,200 We need to realize that all of creation emanates from God. 150 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:16,600 Just as an artist's creation is an expression of themselves and 151 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,400 therefore gives us insight into their true identity. 152 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,000 So scripture tells us that all of creation Bears, witness to 153 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,500 him revealing his eternal power and it is divine nature, 154 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,800 fatherhood is one such expression revealing who he 155 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,100 really is. Thus the war on fatherhood and 156 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:38,100 family, whether conscious or unconscious. 157 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:45,200 Is a war against him. The war against masculinity, the 158 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,400 war against the very distinction between male and female. 159 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:55,100 The ideology that says that disconnects gender from sex, 160 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:58,300 you'll hear on the news you'll hear and talk. 161 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,600 When you read the, you know, read our periodicals today. 162 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,200 You'll hear that that is rooted in solid science. 163 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:07,400 It's a settled issue in science and I'm here to tell you that 164 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,700 never came out of the sight, out of science. 165 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:15,500 Where that came from the first person to write about gender, 166 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:20,000 and sex, being difference was a Marxist bisexual, she was a 167 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,400 lesbian. I'm a Marxist in France, by the 168 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:28,500 name of Simone de Beauvoir. I always have trouble with those 169 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:32,800 front de Beauvoir, those those French names, but she was, she 170 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,500 was a philosopher. She was, I think she was 171 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:39,700 actually an English or a literary Professor, but she was 172 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:45,300 a radical Marxist feminist. And the new Left, see what's 173 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:47,700 happened? We need to understand that this 174 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:51,500 ideology that comes against the home where it's really coming 175 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:56,900 from. Marxism, and the new Left cannot 176 00:10:56,900 --> 00:11:02,800 tolerate the nuclear family, it cannot tolerate gender roles and 177 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:07,700 it cannot tolerate healthy, sexual boundaries. 178 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:11,000 Matter of fact, the founders of these movements you can you 179 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,200 know, names like Wilhelm Reich and you know, Simone de Beauvoir 180 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,900 is one of the feminist writers, she ended up losing her teaching 181 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:22,100 license, by the way because she came again, she was petitioning 182 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:25,100 for the removal of all. All age of consent laws. 183 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:27,800 And she was asking for the release from prison of 184 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,400 convicted, paedophiles. This is the ideology the 185 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,500 morality of these people. And so when people tell you, 186 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:36,500 it's settled science, don't buy it. 187 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:39,500 It didn't come out of science. It didn't science. 188 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:45,400 Is the result of observing Behavior data. 189 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,400 So you come to verifiable conclusions? 190 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,000 This came out of a Godless ideology and they were Marxist. 191 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,600 And they understood that, what this was, this was something 192 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,100 that was designed from the beginning. 193 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:03,700 They understood, they could not take over a nation without 194 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:07,300 dismantling, the nuclear family, because they understood that the 195 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:11,600 protection of the children from this ideology was Godly Parents. 196 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,200 That would raise them in understanding of gender roles. 197 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:22,200 And so, there is a war against the idea of a male being a, man, 198 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,100 and a female being a A woman in us having defined roles. 199 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:28,400 And now, let me just make a statement here if you struggle 200 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,400 with what was classically called, gender dysphoria. 201 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:37,000 If you have that feeling that man, I'd my what I feel and my 202 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,600 biology do not match. I feel like somebody that is 203 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,200 born in the wrong body. That is a very real psychic 204 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,100 psychological struggle. I'm not minimizing that that is 205 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:49,000 tragic. My heart breaks for you. 206 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:51,200 And I'm here to tell you, there is Help From Heaven. 207 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:55,600 I'm there. There's I'm not talking about 208 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:59,900 just disregarding these things, but what we've done is, we've 209 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:04,300 turned a corner in the western world and it didn't come out of 210 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:07,700 the scientific lab. It didn't come out of medical 211 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:09,900 institutions. It came out of Godless 212 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:15,400 philosophy that made the distinction between gender and 213 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:21,400 sex and scripture is very clear. God created them male and 214 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:22,200 female. Female. 215 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:26,700 And when there's a disconnect there, it's tragic and we need 216 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:29,800 to have tremendous compassion, and we need to help people. 217 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,600 We need to walk alongside them, and I have known people. 218 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,900 I was just sharing with some guys, back in the sound booth. 219 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:39,600 I have some dear friends. This woman was deep deeply 220 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:45,200 involved in the lesbian community and she her lover had 221 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,400 a family that her Lover's family were believers. 222 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,900 They were Pentecostal Christians, on fire for the 223 00:13:50,900 --> 00:13:53,500 Lord. And they began to witness to her 224 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:57,200 and she was very resistant to the gospel because she wasn't 225 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,100 raised in a Godly home but here her lover was and she began to 226 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:04,500 cry out to God and ask God. God if this is true you need to 227 00:14:04,500 --> 00:14:08,400 save me and she got radically saved but her heart was so 228 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,500 immersed in this relationship and she was asking Lord God 229 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:14,800 you've got to deliver me. If this is really your truth, 230 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:17,800 then I need to get out of this relationship and I can't extract 231 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,000 myself. And what ended up happening is 232 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,900 her lover was ended up dying in a tragic car wreck and she got 233 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:28,400 free, she married a minister and they've been in Ministry for 234 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,200 many years. Have a wonderful family 235 00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:34,400 grandbabies, a phenomenal Ministry and God completely 236 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,200 delivered her of those. Those struggles in her life. 237 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,700 Now was a process there is help and there is healing but we 238 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:48,200 can't let go of the standard out of an unsanctified compassion 239 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,000 that ends up. Up giving credibility to Godless 240 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,700 philosophies, we've got to be so very careful and there's this 241 00:14:56,700 --> 00:14:59,700 tension that we live in. There's it's one thing to deal 242 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:02,800 with the individual and it's another thing to deal with the 243 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,100 ideology and dealing with the ideology, we need to take a 244 00:15:06,108 --> 00:15:09,700 strong stand. In dealing with the individual. 245 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:13,200 We need to have a very compassionate approach but take 246 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,300 the stand, it is not doing anybody a favor. 247 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:19,800 When we endorse their bondage, we're leaving them stuck in so 248 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,400 we want to be people that walk and great compassion and in the 249 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:30,300 power of God and we come trained to deliver people from those 250 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:33,300 types of bondages. And so it's very important. 251 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:38,200 So modern-day Marx's, we need to understand the new left. 252 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:41,900 Day Marxism that you can read their writings and they 253 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:44,900 understood. See they came up against a 254 00:15:44,908 --> 00:15:49,500 dilemma after World War Two. The whole, the Frankfurt School 255 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:51,800 out of which critical race Theory, and critical theory and 256 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,600 general came and those are Marxist ideologies. 257 00:15:54,800 --> 00:16:00,400 What happened was is they they realized that their philosophy 258 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,800 wasn't going to be able to turn Nations. 259 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:06,500 They realized that the prosperity of the West Wood and 260 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:10,300 insulate people from going along economic lines. 261 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:13,600 And so they had to find a new way to divide cultures. 262 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,700 And what they chose is race and sexuality and you can read their 263 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:20,200 writings. It was a very, it was a 264 00:16:20,208 --> 00:16:22,300 strategic move, they were brilliant. 265 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:25,300 But diabolical and they understood in order to take over 266 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:27,400 a nation. We need to wipe out, gender 267 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,900 distinctions, we need to wipe out age of consent laws. 268 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:34,100 Do you know the night United Nations right now is proposing 269 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:42,400 to wipe out age of consent laws? Exposing little children to very 270 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,800 graphic sexual things is not some side issue. 271 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:50,800 It is Central to the philosophy of the new left in modern-day 272 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,900 Marxism. Because what they want to do is 273 00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:59,200 divide people along their the sexual immoral, xand race. 274 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:02,600 And so, they have done a really good job of doing. 275 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,500 So, and we need to understand this thing, because we can end 276 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:09,099 up siding with these demonic ideologies and fueling the 277 00:17:09,099 --> 00:17:12,800 problem. And so we need to understand, we 278 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:14,800 don't have the luxury of just saying, well, I don't agree with 279 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,900 that, but I don't know why we need to know why we need to 280 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:20,200 understand what's really going on. 281 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,000 If you're interested in, I can give you some books, that will 282 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,200 help unpack that much better than I could. 283 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:30,700 So we need to realize that a war against fatherhood and family, 284 00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:34,800 whether unconsciously or consciously is a war against God 285 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:38,500 because he is the ultimate father and to say that, you 286 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:41,100 know, there's no there's no difference between Male and 287 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:45,600 female that it doesn't matter. Your biology is trumped by your 288 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,800 psychology. That is a demonic philosophy 289 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,100 that leaves people in torment and bondage. 290 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,800 And so fatherhood emanates from God. 291 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,100 He is the original. And this is what Paul is telling 292 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:05,000 us in Ephesians 3:15, all fatherhood derives its name, its 293 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:11,000 identity from him. We as fathers are intended to be 294 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,500 an expression of who he is. We are to flow from him. 295 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:18,400 God does not use the term father to relate with us. 296 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:23,000 He uses it with us as an expression of who he is. 297 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:28,400 The problem is, is that we start with our broken Earthly fathers 298 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:31,800 and view him through the lens of them. 299 00:18:34,300 --> 00:18:36,900 And we need to understand this morning that scriptures clear. 300 00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:42,600 He is the original He didn't use that term in regards to himself 301 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:47,700 so that he could relate with us. He is a father that is the 302 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:52,300 ultimate summation. You will never understand God. 303 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:55,800 Unless you understand his fatherhood. 304 00:18:58,100 --> 00:19:00,700 We as fathers are intended to be an expression of him. 305 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,500 God does not use the term to relate with us. 306 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:07,400 He uses an expression of who he is. 307 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,700 Our human rules are reflections of the Divine. 308 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,500 Hints of the Eternal order faded expressions of the original that 309 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:19,700 is God, he is not taking on our role in an ill-fitting attempt 310 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:23,800 to relate with us. The essence of who he is, is a 311 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,600 father. We are the reflection, he is the 312 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,900 reality. We have been assigned these 313 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:32,900 roles as created Sons, but through the fall, these have 314 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:36,300 been Twisted distorting the real in the original through sin. 315 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,700 And gentlemen, I want to tell you unless you deal with your 316 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:44,500 own father issues, you will replicate those in the and the 317 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:48,700 Next Generation to the degree that we don't settle Our Father 318 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:50,700 issues. And the fact is every one of us 319 00:19:50,700 --> 00:19:54,800 has them because every one of us has a father who has fallen, 320 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:00,100 there are no perfect dads. And so, the enemy will 321 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:04,100 strategize to wound us and no one can wound us like a dad. 322 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:08,100 And even if you had a Godly father, like I did, my dad is a 323 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:11,200 great man. We are, we have a great 324 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,900 relationship, we talk at least daily. 325 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:16,900 And a lot of times, multiple times a day, I was out at Team 326 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:19,200 Challenge the other day. I preached I got done in this 327 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,700 young man. Stood up, came right to me. 328 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:26,100 See you look just like your dad. I take that as a compliment. 329 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:29,900 I love my dad. But there were things my dad did 330 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:32,500 that wounded? Me and my dad is mad at. 331 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:34,900 He's a man of God. So there were times where he 332 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:37,800 realized some things he did he drove an hour and a half to see 333 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,500 me and he said I need to talk to you pulled up in my driveway and 334 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:43,400 said, you know, I was thinking about this and I don't know why 335 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:44,900 I did that. Would you forgive me? 336 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:50,600 That's a good dad. But here's the problem that if 337 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,700 we don't understand and we don't face those issues, if we don't 338 00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:57,500 begin to deal with those in release them through forgiveness 339 00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:01,200 and even redeem those things we end up replicating them in the 340 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:05,800 Next Generation. And father, wounds are a, the 341 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,100 really, the Taproot of a lot of our problems today. 342 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,900 There was an interesting study that went on what it was is in 343 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:16,900 South Africa. There were a lot of endangered 344 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:21,200 species and South Africa, was one of the primary places people 345 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:26,300 point to as a real win and preserving these dying species 346 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:28,600 of animals. And so what they did is they 347 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,400 would start these animal reserves and they would try to 348 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,600 put all these endangered species on these reserves. 349 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:39,600 And one of these animal reserves, had a plethora of 350 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Infants too many. So what they want to do is 351 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,100 they're going to move these elephants to some of them to a 352 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:48,400 new animal reserve but they realized man these big the the 353 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,700 adult male elephants are just too big to move. 354 00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:54,100 So what they did is they gathered up a lot of the small 355 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:58,000 elephants and they said we'll just they'll just grow up on the 356 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,700 reservation. Well, a few years into this, 357 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:03,900 they begin to find that. There were these crime scenes 358 00:22:03,900 --> 00:22:07,400 that were showing up all over the animal preservation. 359 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:11,700 It was dead rhinos. And they knew it wasn't poachers 360 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:15,300 because they're valuable tusk was still intact and they would 361 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:19,900 see these bloated, dead rhinos with big holes punctured in 362 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:22,400 their sides and they couldn't figure out what was happening. 363 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,200 So they began to mount cameras all over this. 364 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:29,700 Preserve to Fig find out who was the perpetrator of these murders 365 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:34,900 and they found out catch this. It was a gang of young 366 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,400 adolescent, elephants. They would pick on these rhinos 367 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,500 and they would pick on other animals to their work. 368 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,100 As they began to grow, they would they would go up and they 369 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:47,000 would kick them. They would roll them or 370 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,800 sometimes they would they would knock them over and sit on them 371 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,100 and all these kind of crazy things they were just like 372 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:55,700 bullies. And there were certain male 373 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:57,900 elephants that would write they even had names. 374 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,200 They named each one of them and they would rise to the surface 375 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,700 is kind of the gang leader and some of them they actually had 376 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:08,100 to kill because they would start to attack humans and so forth 377 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:11,900 and it was Out of outside of the realm of normal elephant 378 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:15,400 behavior that, they'd seen on these other preservation sites. 379 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,900 And what they realized is they weren't raised in families, they 380 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:24,600 were raised by one another. And so finally they decide we're 381 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,200 going to have to figure out a way to get some older elephants, 382 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,600 some male, mature, male elephants. 383 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,000 And so they got these huge trucks had never done this 384 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,600 before and they move these huge bull elephants and what happened 385 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,400 is, these bull elephants began to kind of push these young ones 386 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,700 around and bring them into line and they stopped their murderous 387 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:45,300 Rampages. It's an amazing thing. 388 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:51,000 Now, it's the it's a picture even embedded in creation of the 389 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:57,300 effect that a father is to have on young men that to harness 390 00:23:57,500 --> 00:24:00,900 that potential. So that it's not destructive. 391 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,500 And the violence we see in the inner city today. 392 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:08,500 The violence we see, among young people, is not the result of 393 00:24:08,500 --> 00:24:12,400 toxic Mac masculinity. It's a result of the lack of 394 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,200 healthy masculinity. Being there to raise them up and 395 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,300 to bring them into their potential. 396 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:21,300 I just heard another story the other day. 397 00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:24,100 There was, I don't remember where the school was now, but 398 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:26,700 there was a lot of violence on the campus. 399 00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:29,100 And they were trying to figure out how we going to stop this 400 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:31,700 because some of these kids were just beating each other up. 401 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:33,400 The kids were scared to go to school. 402 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:37,600 Even the teachers were worried and a group of fathers that we 403 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,800 had, kids went to that high school, they said we're going to 404 00:24:39,808 --> 00:24:43,300 start the dad Patrol. And they signed up and 405 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:46,300 volunteered. And they would between classes, 406 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:49,400 they just alternated shifts and the dad would stepdads would 407 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,600 stand in the hallway. They would high-five the kids, 408 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,900 they get to know them by name and the violence stopped. 409 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,100 And the news media picked up on this and they went and asked the 410 00:24:58,108 --> 00:25:00,700 kids, they said what's going on? What is there a change? 411 00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:04,000 He said, oh yeah, but we used to be scared to come to school, but 412 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,800 now that these dads are here, it's feels safe here. 413 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,500 And one of the reporters asked this young woman, they said, 414 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:14,900 well, how How is it that these dads are able to to stop these? 415 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:16,400 You know, these kids from acting out. 416 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:20,500 And she said if you ever heard of the look, when the dad's just 417 00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:24,600 give the look but there was something calming about these 418 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:29,600 dad's being in that environment. And I'm telling you our role as 419 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,400 fathers, even though we often don't understand it. 420 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:37,000 We need to, we need to get a vision for this that we are 421 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,700 voice our presence carries weight. 422 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:45,700 And that we have a huge part in raising the Next Generation, 423 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:52,700 both male and female. When when dad's you know and on 424 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:55,900 Mother's Day we can talk about the role of a mom and that the 425 00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:57,800 essential nature of having moms involved. 426 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:02,500 But I'm telling you a dad in both the the little girl and 427 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:06,400 that little boy's life. It's the dad who begins to shape 428 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:13,800 their identity even more so than a mom Fatherhood emanates from 429 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:18,000 father, God. And as we begin to understand 430 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,400 who he is and model ourself after him and get healed of our 431 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,100 own father issues by coming into relationship with the ultimate 432 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:31,500 father, then we can even begin to heal our past, he'll you know 433 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:34,500 backwards in the generations, I had to go through that, my dad 434 00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:37,700 and I had to bury the hatchet. There were some things I had to 435 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:40,400 apologize for the he had to apologize for. 436 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:44,400 There were awkward conversations we had to have but I'm so 437 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,300 grateful now for his His influence in my life. 438 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:52,300 And only then can we begin to have the influence? 439 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:56,300 We need to have into the future but if we don't settle the past, 440 00:26:56,300 --> 00:27:00,200 the past is going to cast a dark shadow over the future. 441 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,800 And so, our father issues are a huge issue. 442 00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:09,100 I don't think it's a coincidence that the Revival of 25 years ago 443 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:14,700 that has literally wrapped the globe and a move of God was 444 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:18,000 called The Father's blessing out of Toronto and it happened on 445 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,700 Father's Day in bra. And and Brownsville assembly in 446 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:25,600 Pensacola Florida. It was a move of God having to 447 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,800 do with the father heart of God and it was necessary before the 448 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,700 Great Harvest could be brought in because if we would have had 449 00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:37,200 a great harvest without fathers healed of their father wounds, 450 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,400 we would end up with a dysfunctional Revival. 451 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:45,000 And so, we need to understand that fatherhood emanates from 452 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,300 him. When we are trying to Define 453 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:52,500 fatherhood, we must not begin with man as the example. 454 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:56,200 When we do, we reduce the concept of a father to the frail 455 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,900 attempts of human fathers to be dads. 456 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:03,300 We then superimpose their failures and deficiencies upon 457 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:06,300 our heavenly father. This drives us to the faulty 458 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:09,700 presuppositions that God will fail us like our Earthly. 459 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:14,600 Father, did I know for me? When I got saved I had some 460 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,800 issues in regards. As to my father, that kept me 461 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,300 from really receiving the Father's Love and I had an 462 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:23,900 encounter with the Lord one night when I was still in Teen 463 00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:28,100 Challenge. I was sitting in my little my 464 00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:30,500 little bedroom in the Lord spoke to me and said go ask. 465 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:33,800 John it was another student. John Godfrey said go asked John 466 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,300 if he has a devotional I took that is so weird. 467 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,500 I went into his room said you got a devotional. 468 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,700 Yeah I just put it in my suitcase here I walked out like 469 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:45,200 okay, sat down, open it up and boom. 470 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:49,100 There was this article about fatherhood and the Lord began to 471 00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:52,400 minister to me and all of a sudden the Lord took me back to 472 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:57,100 an episode in my young adolescent years I was I was 473 00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:59,700 probably, I don't know, it probably was more like when I 474 00:28:59,708 --> 00:29:03,100 was 14 years old and I was just starting to Rebel. 475 00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:05,600 My dad didn't know, I was already using drugs. 476 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,500 I was already going out and doing a lot of things I 477 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:09,800 shouldn't do. He didn't realize it yet, but he 478 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,600 could tell there's something going on. 479 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:16,200 And I remember my dad coming into my room and we lived in 480 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,500 this parsonage. The church my dad pastured, it 481 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:22,800 was the parsonage. You had to be careful walking in 482 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,600 the upstairs because it would shake the light and the 483 00:29:24,608 --> 00:29:26,200 downstairs. It was a pretty rough. 484 00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:29,800 Ruff ruff house. And so the, our bedroom was this 485 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,700 kind of attic room that it had these. 486 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:36,000 You know, slanted walls and I was sitting at this drafting 487 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,400 board. I was drawing and my dad came, 488 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:43,300 and he said, what you doing? I said drawn, I'm like, what are 489 00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:44,500 you doing? That's what I'm thinking, you 490 00:29:44,508 --> 00:29:47,400 know, why are you in my room? And he said, oh, you know, just 491 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,100 he's talking, small talk, and I'm thinking, what's going on 492 00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:52,300 here? This doesn't usually happen. 493 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:54,800 Why is he invading my space is what I was thinking. 494 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,700 And he was just talking and and just small talk and I was 495 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:03,900 responding you know, and I think in this is awkward and all said 496 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:08,300 my dad walked over and I was in a dormer it was a little slanted 497 00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:10,000 roof, you know. And so he had to kind of 498 00:30:10,008 --> 00:30:13,000 crouched down and get inside the Dormer and he went, he said, 499 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000 Dave, I up, I love you. He put his arm around me and 500 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,600 kind of stared at the Dormer wall. 501 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,900 And I'm looking one way he's looking at the other and here I 502 00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:22,800 am real stiff and he's I love you. 503 00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:27,800 Okay, and then he said, well, I'll talk to you later. 504 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,700 Walked out. And add a 14 year old kid. 505 00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:33,800 I'm thinking that was weird. What was that about? 506 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:36,200 Because my heart was already hard. 507 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:40,900 But now as a 19 year old kid that had been radically 508 00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:43,600 encountered by the Lord. After a lot of pain in my life, 509 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:47,400 I was processing this father, when the Lord began to talk to 510 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,300 me and all of a sudden I went into this encounter and I was 511 00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:55,300 back in that room and I saw my dad doing that and it broke me 512 00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:58,100 in half. I began to weep because I 513 00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:02,900 realized how awkward that was for my dad for him to come in 514 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:05,700 there. And tell this rebellious 14 year 515 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:08,900 old kid that was not going to Kate the affection. 516 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:11,600 He had to go in there and kind of bend down in a dormer and 517 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,300 stare at the wall to this kid. That's all stiff. 518 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:18,900 I love you, and I didn't reciprocate, but I knew where 519 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:21,000 that was really coming from that. 520 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,200 My dad really did love me. I had bought into a lie that my 521 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,600 dad didn't love me that, he loved my sister, and but he 522 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,100 didn't love me. And I, there was this wound that 523 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:32,600 was there. And all of a sudden, I just 524 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,400 began to weep because I realized how hard that was for my dad. 525 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,500 How awkward that? Was for my dad and that it came 526 00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:41,800 from a tender place that he really did love me. 527 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:43,900 He just didn't know how to show it. 528 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,400 And in that moment, something broke open. 529 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,500 It was like a flood gate, and I was able to receive the Heavenly 530 00:31:51,500 --> 00:31:57,300 Father's Love. Tony these father wounds, we 531 00:31:57,300 --> 00:32:03,500 have a tendency being humanoids that we evaluate God through our 532 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:07,900 Human Experience rather than evaluating our Human Experience 533 00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:11,400 through. God and God lovingly came down 534 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,100 and reminded me and took me into that encounter. 535 00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:17,700 And some of you guys this morning, some of you ladies this 536 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:21,200 morning have father wounds, and I'm telling you that God wants 537 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,700 to touch that and remove that there are no Perfect father's, I 538 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:29,000 remember a number of years ago as a pastor, you end up in 539 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,200 situations where you're with families at the end of their 540 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,500 life and and there was a dad laying on a hospital bed. 541 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:40,300 And I knew some of the history of this family, having haven't 542 00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:43,500 counseled some of the family. And so now I'm in this room and, 543 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,600 and the dad had a rocky relationship with the Lord and 544 00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:49,600 had, they were pretty sure he was going to go to heaven, but 545 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,700 it would things were up in the air and I watched the family 546 00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:55,500 lean over. And I watched one of the kids 547 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:57,900 say to their dad whisper. I love you. 548 00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:02,200 Dad, you were a good dad. Now you got to understand, I 549 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:07,200 knew the backstory, okay, I knew that was a generous evaluation 550 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,200 of what really went on. And it broke me. 551 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:16,300 It brought me to tears. Because I saw the look on that 552 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:21,100 Dad's face all of a sudden this aged elderly, man, this little 553 00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:24,600 child like look came on his face, like he just drank it in. 554 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,700 It's almost he, I mean, he was at death's door, he almost sat 555 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:30,800 up. He was just drinking that in. 556 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,100 He just like a little child. He needed to hear that from his 557 00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:39,800 children and it was just such a vivid picture to me that this 558 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,000 was a man who wanted to be a good dad, but didn't know how. 559 00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:48,800 and this man because I had talked to some of the family had 560 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,900 hurt some of his children by the things he did but yet who he 561 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:57,600 really wanted to be was a good dad and I'm telling you if we 562 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:03,500 can understand that that broken father's produce broken sons who 563 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:07,400 grow up to be broken fathers, who produce broken sons and what 564 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,800 God wants to do is he wants to stop that - Legacy and if Will 565 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,500 yield ourselves to him, God God, I'm telling you, God can turn a 566 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,500 whole family line in one generation. 567 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:26,900 One generation that thing can turn my dad, my dad's dad, my 568 00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:29,800 dad, led him to the Lord at the end of his life. 569 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:36,000 He was a very immoral man Drinker very sexually immoral. 570 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,800 The whole family was dysfunctional on my mom's side, 571 00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:42,600 same thing, just a lot of dysfunction, but Mom and Dad met 572 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,699 Jesus. And it's like that flow it. 573 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:51,400 There's a beautiful picture in a in the book of Exodus where they 574 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,000 come to the River, Jordan to cross the River Jordan, remember 575 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,400 where the River Jordan stopped flowing and they marched across. 576 00:34:57,700 --> 00:35:01,000 Do you realize? It says it stopped flowing at a 577 00:35:01,008 --> 00:35:08,600 town called Adam. God wants to stop that. 578 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:14,100 Add Dynamic flow of the Fall, that brings all that garbage 579 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:17,000 with it and he wants to stop that flow. 580 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,400 So it's no longer flowing in our family line. 581 00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:25,300 As I was praying this morning, just asking the Lord what he 582 00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:31,400 wants to do this morning. I saw a picture and it was, It 583 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:36,600 was like this landscape and I knew it was inheritance, it was 584 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:41,900 family histories and all of a sudden off the landscape lifted, 585 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:45,300 all this valuable stuff that had been hidden in the weeds. 586 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:51,700 It's like it was separated. And you could see the value that 587 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:56,200 laid in the fields that were hidden under, all the other 588 00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:00,700 stuff that was in those fields. And the Lord reminded me of a 589 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:04,400 story was kind of a strange illustration, but it was of a 590 00:36:04,408 --> 00:36:06,700 young boy. All I want to say his name was 591 00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:12,900 Charles Hall. His mother and father went to 592 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:17,200 the Bible School, founded by Charles Finney Oberlin College. 593 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,100 It may not have been founded by him but he was the president of 594 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:23,500 Oberlin College. They went to that school and 595 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:27,600 ended up in as missionaries in Jamaica and they ended up having 596 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,000 to come back because they couldn't sustain it financially. 597 00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:36,900 And so as a young boy, he began to ask God about wealth and he 598 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:40,300 wanted to learn, he wanted to do something to create wealth so 599 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:45,200 that he could fund missions. And one day in class, in science 600 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,900 class, the teacher showed them, a little piece of aluminum, a 601 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:52,400 little tiny block of aluminum and talked about how valuable 602 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,500 this was. And he said, the person who 603 00:36:56,500 --> 00:37:01,900 learns to extract aluminum out of the soil will be a very, very 604 00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:06,500 wealthy person. And so, he said his life towards 605 00:37:06,500 --> 00:37:11,100 doing that at that time, aluminum was among the crown 606 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:12,800 jewels. There was a block of aluminum 607 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,000 among the crown. Jewels, matter of fact Napoleon, 608 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,100 he would feed his guests on plates of silver and gold, but 609 00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:23,700 the guest of honor, 8 on a plate of you hurt your honor aluminum 610 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,500 because it was so valuable. Matter of fact, the Pinnacle of 611 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:31,500 the Washington Monument was made of aluminum because they could 612 00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:33,800 only get just tiny little elements. 613 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,000 It's one of Most plentiful elements in the Earth, but it 614 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,100 was so hard to extract out, and so he began to study that and he 615 00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:45,400 would when he come up, he tries something to didn't work. 616 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,300 He, he just began to Worship the Lord and he kept trying and one 617 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:53,300 day he learned through electrolysis to separate 618 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,600 aluminum from the soil. And he started a company that 619 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,800 eventually became known as Alcoa. 620 00:38:00,900 --> 00:38:05,000 And he became a very, very wealthy person and funded 621 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,600 missions and a lot of other things. 622 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,900 And as I was laying in bed this morning in the Lord showed me 623 00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:19,200 that picture, he reminded me of that story and it's like we put 624 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:24,000 it this way honor. Is the way in which you extract 625 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,200 the wealth out of the previous generation. 626 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,300 There is riches in every family, in your history. 627 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,600 I don't, it doesn't matter in this sense. 628 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:45,800 How broken your father? And your forefathers were God by 629 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,200 Design, put great wealth in the generations. 630 00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:54,900 But we've got to extract that. We've got to have eyes to see 631 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,800 and only as we begin to see him as the real father. 632 00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:03,500 That can we can relate right to our Earthly fathers. 633 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:08,400 And God wants to extract some of those riches. 634 00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:13,400 I think I may have talked about this recently, but I can't help 635 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,900 myself. When I think about this 636 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:18,700 principle, it's in the last will and testament of King. 637 00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:24,800 David second, Samuel chapter 23. And David. 638 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,700 It's his last will and testament. 639 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:30,000 Now, David has lived a phenomenal life. 640 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:36,600 I mean, what God has done with him is epic. and so David is at 641 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,100 the end of his life and he's going to write it says this is 642 00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:43,800 the last words of David it's possibly him writing it himself 643 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,900 or at somebody writing what he's dictating but he's saying this 644 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:52,700 is the last words of David And he goes on to say the anointed 645 00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:58,300 one, I am the Oracle of God, I speak God's words. 646 00:39:58,700 --> 00:40:02,100 God has blessed me. He says, is not my household 647 00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:03,800 right with God. That's a big statement. 648 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,100 When you were see his history, this was a man who knew 649 00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:10,700 forgiveness and Redemption. And now, he's an old guy. 650 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:12,600 He's ready to step over and Eternity. 651 00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:16,100 There's no false humility here. He's just owning and he's 652 00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:20,200 saying, I'm the guy God put his hand on in my generation and 653 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:24,100 He's just glorying in all that God did with him, but what 654 00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:26,300 breaks me and what just struck me? 655 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:31,600 So strong reading that a while back was, he says these, this is 656 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:38,500 the last words of David, the son of Jesse comma the king of 657 00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:46,600 Israel, And it's so struck me that David at the end of his 658 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:51,000 life when he had reached the Pinnacle, he's so revered even 659 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,600 today. He's so revered by his people 660 00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:58,900 that he had achieved this enormous success. 661 00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:03,700 And while he's standing on that platform, he says wait a minute. 662 00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:05,500 I'm David you know who I am the king? 663 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:07,400 The Oracle, wait a minute. I want to introduce you to 664 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,600 somebody and he pulls this broken man named Jesse next to 665 00:41:11,607 --> 00:41:16,300 him and says, hey, I'm the product of this guy and in so 666 00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:21,800 doing, he redeemed, his history and wiped the shame from his 667 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:26,500 dad's name. This was the man who didn't want 668 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:30,900 to own him in front of the Prophet, but David owns him in 669 00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:34,600 front of the world. And that is redemption. 670 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,900 We need eyes to see as we look over the landscape of our past 671 00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:42,500 are the history. The Legacy that has been left To 672 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,800 Us by our forefathers. And even if there's just just 673 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,300 broken landscape, I'm telling you. 674 00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:53,300 They're there is treasure there. And honor is the way by which 675 00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:57,000 you extracted, and when we really get healed, we begin to 676 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,300 have compassion on the broken father, that fathered us. 677 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:06,500 And when we give Mercy, all of a sudden, something is released 678 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:10,100 from that history that we can then begin to walk in and give 679 00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:13,300 to the Future. But we've got to see it 680 00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:19,300 bitterness will cause you to be blinded to the treasures in your 681 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:24,300 family history but gratitude and honor is the way to lift that 682 00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:27,700 out. I'm gonna ask the worship team 683 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:31,700 to come forward as I read through the rest of this when we 684 00:42:31,700 --> 00:42:33,700 try to find fatherhood weakness, not begin. 685 00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:36,900 With man as the example, when we do, we reduce the concept of a 686 00:42:36,900 --> 00:42:39,500 father to the frail, human attempts of human fathers to be 687 00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:41,600 dads. We then superimpose our 688 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,600 failures, our deficiencies upon our heavenly father. 689 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,300 This drives us to faulty presuppositions that God will 690 00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:51,600 fail us like our Earthly. Fathers did Earthly fatherhood 691 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,100 was intended to Aid us in our relationship with our heavenly 692 00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:56,100 father showing us the way to him. 693 00:42:56,300 --> 00:42:58,800 How to relate with God as a father, how to see ourselves as 694 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,100 sons and Men of God exaggerate. But now due to the fall, 695 00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:05,300 fatherhood is all too often become the primary hindrance 696 00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:09,400 when we start with God, however, we then have the proper lens 697 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,600 through which, to interpret what true fatherhood is and it equips 698 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,500 us to face the hardships of life. 699 00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:17,900 When we start with God, he redeems the phrase and even the 700 00:43:17,900 --> 00:43:21,100 relationship. We are then able to extend grace 701 00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:24,200 to the broken Sons. Our fathers were God's 702 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,500 revelation of himself. As father is the first step in 703 00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:31,400 redeeming us from the fall. He wants to redeem this idea, 704 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,700 this concept and elevate it once again. 705 00:43:34,900 --> 00:43:38,500 Dad's you pave the way for your kids to relate with God, your 706 00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:42,300 example, your relationship with them and with God serve as a 707 00:43:42,308 --> 00:43:46,000 temperate template pressed into the moldable clay of their young 708 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,700 minds. This holy stewardship must be 709 00:43:48,700 --> 00:43:52,300 recognized for what it is but you can't give what you don't 710 00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:55,500 have. We like Jesus need to hear the 711 00:43:55,500 --> 00:44:00,900 father speak. You are my son in whom. 712 00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:05,400 I'm well, pleased. If the Son of God himself Need 713 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,900 the sinless Son of God. Had a perfect father needed to 714 00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:11,400 hear that from his father. In order to launch into 715 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,800 Ministry. How much more do you? 716 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:18,400 And I, with our broken, pasts need to hear that and receive it 717 00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:21,700 and get it in a so that we become like John the Beloved 718 00:44:22,700 --> 00:44:24,700 John. When he wrote his gospel he said 719 00:44:24,700 --> 00:44:28,700 five times and the one whom Jesus loved and the one whom 720 00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:31,200 Jesus loved you. He was talking about he's 721 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,400 talking about himself and that was an arrogance. 722 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,000 He was Not saying yeah, when you look at the disciples, I'm 723 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,400 really the one who he loved wasn't saying that Peter didn't 724 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,500 get offended. When he wrote 20 red, John's 725 00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:45,200 gospel. What John was saying? 726 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,000 Is that when I look in the mirror, I can't help. 727 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,900 But sees the guy that's been impacted by God's love. 728 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,300 The man who was a son of Thunder. 729 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:57,100 A bar brawl, would would empty the bar and a fight became the 730 00:44:57,100 --> 00:45:02,200 Apostle of love, John the Beloved and that the turn. 731 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,500 And that thing was when he received the love God, when he 732 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,600 when John would look at himself, he couldn't help it. 733 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,600 There he is. Again, there's the one whom 734 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:15,000 Jesus loved and until you see yourself that way, you will 735 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,200 never be able to be the father or the mother that you were 736 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:23,600 intended to be. We need to be infected impacted 737 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,000 by the love of God, so that we don't feel like we're failures 738 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,500 and we're not measuring up, but we know the one who knows Us 739 00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:34,300 best loves us most, and he's the one who defines us. 740 00:45:34,700 --> 00:45:39,100 Fathers were meant to Define their children and the ultimate 741 00:45:39,100 --> 00:45:43,200 father wants to Define you. He wants to heal you of your 742 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,600 father. Was, I'm going to ask you to 743 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:52,500 stand this morning. Paul says this later on, in that 744 00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:57,800 passage, when he begins that prayer, he said, I pray that the 745 00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,900 power of the spirit would come upon you. 746 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,400 Not for Ministry says, so that you would grasp the immensity 747 00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:07,700 The height depth, width and breadth of the love of God for 748 00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:10,000 you and the for the Saints in Christ. 749 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,500 And then he says this strange phrase and that you would know 750 00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:16,600 this love that surpasses knowledge. 751 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,400 How can you know something you can't that is beyond knowledge. 752 00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:24,800 What he's saying is you need an encounter with the love of God, 753 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:32,000 that is beyond your ability to think yourself into There's 754 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,200 something we need from God, will never be able to study our self 755 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,300 into it comes by encountering him. 756 00:46:39,700 --> 00:46:44,600 The father who loves us while we were yet, sinners Christ died 757 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,500 for us while we were yet. Sinners, the father said, I'm 758 00:46:48,500 --> 00:46:51,200 going to send someone to rescue my sons and daughters. 759 00:46:52,100 --> 00:46:55,200 And when that becomes your identity, then you have it to 760 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:59,300 give dads. I want to do two things this 761 00:46:59,300 --> 00:47:02,600 morning. If you're here this morning and 762 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,300 you've never been reconciled to Jesus, you're saying I need to 763 00:47:06,300 --> 00:47:08,800 get right with God or maybe it was something you did. 764 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,000 But you've wandered and you're saying, I want to recommit to 765 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,400 Jesus this morning, I want to be reconciled to the father. 766 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,200 If that's you, I want you to raise your hand. 767 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:18,900 We want to pray for you this morning. 768 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,700 You need to get right with the Lord. 769 00:47:20,900 --> 00:47:24,200 Listen God brought you here this morning for this very thing, 770 00:47:24,700 --> 00:47:28,200 this is a Divine appointment. So if that's you don't Don't 771 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:29,800 don't hesitate just raise your hand. 772 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:31,200 We want to pray for you this morning. 773 00:47:31,700 --> 00:47:34,200 If you need to get right with the Lord, raise your hand High 774 00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,400 until I acknowledge it. You know, you need to get right 775 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,200 with the Lord. Listen, I know there are people 776 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,200 here this morning that you need him. 777 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,000 You need a fresh surrender if that's you, just raise your 778 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:52,400 hand. The second thing I want to do 779 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,500 this morning as I want to pray for the dads I want to pray for 780 00:47:55,500 --> 00:47:59,600 the men. I'm going to ask every male in 781 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,900 this room to come up front. I want you to stand in the 782 00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:05,600 solitary right now. I want to pray a father's 783 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,000 blessing over you, and we're going to just present ourselves 784 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,400 to God. We're going to ask him to visit 785 00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,900 us so that we can become the men. 786 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,200 I'm telling you what this nation needs. 787 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,400 What the church needs. Are men who become fathers. 788 00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:25,300 Listen, you may be on the years where you're going to be 789 00:48:25,300 --> 00:48:28,800 producing biological children. It's time to begin to produce 790 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,900 some spiritual children. There's a generation of young 791 00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:35,200 men that need to hear from another man. 792 00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:40,300 You have what it takes. So now ladies I want you to get 793 00:48:40,300 --> 00:48:43,000 behind these men and just put your hands out towards them, 794 00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:47,000 once you to bless the men, come behind them and just begin to 795 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,900 pray. And guys, listen, everyone of us 796 00:48:52,300 --> 00:48:54,400 have felt like, we're not up to the call. 797 00:48:54,700 --> 00:48:58,000 Every one of us has had doubts about our ability to do what's 798 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,400 going to take, but it's not about us doing, it's about him 799 00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:06,200 doing it through us. Bruce over said, where are you 800 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,600 at? Where's Bruce is right here. 801 00:49:08,700 --> 00:49:10,400 One time. Bruce and I were consoling. 802 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:15,700 A young, man. And the Lord told me scoop him 803 00:49:15,700 --> 00:49:18,200 up in your arms and give him a father's hug. 804 00:49:18,900 --> 00:49:23,200 And I remember telling the Lord, Lord, he's only like eight years 805 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,700 younger than me. This is awkward have Bruce to 806 00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:27,100 it. Bruce has a few years older me 807 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,800 he could be more of a father figure and the Lord rebuked me 808 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,000 and he said I'm not talking about you releasing. 809 00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:36,500 I'm talking about me, fathering him through you. 810 00:49:36,500 --> 00:49:40,500 Now grab that guy and I grabbed him and just tell him and he 811 00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:43,200 wept and gave him a father's blessing. 812 00:49:43,900 --> 00:49:48,600 We want to receive the father's blessing this morning so at six 813 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:53,600 down to the roots of our identity and then we want God to 814 00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,800 get strengthened us to give it away. 815 00:49:56,900 --> 00:49:59,800 Some of you I'm telling you God's going to turn the legacy 816 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:04,000 of your family's. What the enemy meant for bad. 817 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,900 You are the kinsman redeemer. You hear me? 818 00:50:07,100 --> 00:50:11,000 You are the kinsman redeemer. The enemy brought shame into 819 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:15,500 your family line, failure. Going to look back on the past 820 00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:17,600 generation. Say God, I forgive them. 821 00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,300 Lord, I bless them and we're going to turn this thing. 822 00:50:21,300 --> 00:50:25,000 So, Lord we ask right now. God for a father's blessing. 823 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:30,400 Lord we need you. Father is Men We Stand before 824 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,600 you as the broken sons that we are. 825 00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:36,800 But Lord, were your son's? And Lord were asking that you 826 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,000 would Open the Eyes of our understanding, open our ears 827 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:44,000 that we could hear. You are my son and who, I am. 828 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,800 Well, pleased. Lord by your spirit shed. 829 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:54,100 The love of God abroad in our hearts and Lord. 830 00:50:54,100 --> 00:50:58,100 I'm asking God for special Grace, for those who have been 831 00:50:58,100 --> 00:51:02,600 especially wounded Lord, those who are never able to hear from 832 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:07,300 their father, a father's affirmation, Lord. 833 00:51:07,300 --> 00:51:09,800 I'm asking God that you would reach in and touch them this 834 00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,000 morning. Lord that they would begin to 835 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,400 receive from you, what they shouldn't receive from their dad 836 00:51:16,900 --> 00:51:22,400 so that they can turn and bless their fathers in Jesus name. 837 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,000 Amen. Amen. 838 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,600 Thanks for listening to our podcast. 839 00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,100 If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you 840 00:51:30,100 --> 00:51:32,700 could get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on 841 00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:35,000 social media. If you'd like to support the 842 00:51:35,008 --> 00:51:37,100 Ministries apartment church, you can do. 843 00:51:37,100 --> 00:51:40,300 So at Heartland Church, online.com give