1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:05,600 The psalmist said in the 12th chapter, the first verse help 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:11,520 Lord the godly man ceases to be. That has been our theme the last 3 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,400 couple of weeks. It wasn't supposed to last this 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:21,840 long, but it has and I promise you I will finish it next week. 5 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,360 I promise. Unless the Lord comes again. 6 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:34,760 But the point is, is that every father in the room, every 7 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,960 grandfather in the room, every young man in the room needs to 8 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:43,040 understand that the last thing we would want to have happen, 9 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:49,840 it's for the psalmist to say, help Lord the godly man ceases 10 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:59,400 to be at 1432 W Puente Ave. So we're looking at what is a 11 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,480 godly man? How do you understand a God like 12 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:08,720 man? A man who truly has a heart for 13 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:14,480 the true and living God. A strong man, a man that truly 14 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,280 understands his walk with the Lord. 15 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,720 As fathers, we have an opportunity to impact the next 16 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,040 generation. I was thinking about that this 17 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:33,600 past week when I I heard these statistics that 25,000,000 18 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:41,240 children live without a biological father in the home. 19 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:55,880 That's just an America that kids in school grades one to 12, 40% 20 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:01,160 of them live without a biological father in the home. 21 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:13,040 Over 50% of all children that are born are born without a 22 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:23,960 father in the home. 85% of prisoners grew up without a 23 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:39,080 father in the home, and 90% of youth who run away from home and 24 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:45,480 become homeless come from a fatherless home. 25 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:52,880 Those statistics are an epidemic that runs through the United 26 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:58,200 States of America. So of all places that there 27 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,160 needs to be a a godly man, it's in the church, it's in your 28 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:08,240 home. Men that lead in a way that 29 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:13,400 understand that they have a huge impact on the life of their 30 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:20,240 children in the next generation. And I wonder if you you 31 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:29,440 understand that and recognize the impact of a father in his 32 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:34,480 home. It was John Wesley who said, 33 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:46,480 18th century preacher, give me 100 men who fear nothing but sin 34 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:54,000 and desire nothing but God, and I could care less whether they 35 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:05,480 are clergymen or laymen. Those men will shake Hell's 36 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:11,920 gates and bring God's Kingdom of heaven to earth. 37 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,360 Just 100 godly men. That's it. 38 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:22,800 If I could find 100 of them, it's like Paul and Silas in in 39 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,520 Acts chapter 17 when they went to Thessalonica. 40 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,080 We've been in the study of Thessalonica, and I promise 41 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,320 we'll get back to chapter 5 as soon as I'm done with this. 42 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,000 But the fact of the matter is that when Paul and Silas went to 43 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,600 Thessalonica, the testimony was this. 44 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,720 Those who have turned the world upside down have now come here 45 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:48,080 to our city. They, they had a reputation of, 46 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:49,880 of turning the world upside down. 47 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,240 I, I wonder what your reputation is like. 48 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,560 I, I wonder, I wonder what workplace you're turning upside 49 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:03,200 down. Better yet, I wonder what family 50 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:09,840 you're turning upside down. Has your family changed course? 51 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:15,920 Has your family been uprooted from its past ways to to follow 52 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:21,120 the true and living God? Where are the men that that turn 53 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:27,480 schools and and homes and and workplaces and teams upside down 54 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,760 because they're godly men who love the Lord, who fear nothing 55 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,760 but sin and desire nothing but God? 56 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,000 Where are those guys? I know we like to talk about 57 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,360 them. Oh yeah, we got a guy here. 58 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,840 We got a guy there. But I'm talking about a true 59 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:49,120 godly man that has revolutionized his environment, 60 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,840 his sphere of influence, to such a degree that everybody knows he 61 00:05:53,840 --> 00:06:00,120 has turned it upside down. That godly man is the kind of 62 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,160 man who goes to God incessantly in prayer. 63 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,600 That was point #1 he knows that he must be a man on his knees. 64 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:14,760 That's why the psalmist said these words in Psalm 32. 65 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,520 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to you in time when 66 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,320 you may be found. The godly man prays. 67 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,640 The godly man lives on his knees. 68 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,360 He knows what it means to commune with God, so he goes to 69 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:36,680 God incessantly in prayer #2HE obeys God instantly, without 70 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:46,160 reservation, without hesitation. Psalm 1/19/62 says that, O Lord, 71 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:55,120 I hasten and will not delay to obey your commandments So many 72 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,560 times. We, we're just not that way as, 73 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,480 as elders this past week, we, we had our, our elder meeting. 74 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,360 We were talking about the fact that, you know, for 30 years at 75 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,080 Christ Community Church that there's something that never 76 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,640 changes, OK? It's that the word of God is our 77 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,680 authority. And so when we counsel people, 78 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,680 we only have one book. We don't have a plethora of 79 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,720 books. We got one and we have 1 Lord 80 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,400 who has given us that book. He speaks to us with one voice. 81 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,560 And so for 30 years we have given the same counsel to 82 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:35,160 everybody who comes to us. It doesn't change with one 83 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,720 person to another. It's the same counsel. 84 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,640 But we have noticed that over the years, there's one person or 85 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:46,680 one family who hears the council and says, yes, thank you, that's 86 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,680 what I need. We give the exact same counsel 87 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,160 to another family, to another individual, and they say, no, I 88 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,840 don't like that. I don't like you, I'm leaving. 89 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,280 And we're like, wait a minute. Same book, same verses, same 90 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:05,720 God, same words, same counsel. But one guy says thank you, 91 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,600 that's what I need. The other guy says, I'm out of 92 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:10,200 here. I don't like what you have to 93 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,520 say. Why is that? 94 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,920 It's not the book, it's not the counsel. 95 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,760 It's the heart of the person who is either willing to receive it 96 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,000 or unwilling to receive it. It's always the heart. 97 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,200 It's always the soil. That's what Matthew 13 is all 98 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,440 about. The parable of the sower and the 99 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:37,640 soil, right? The seed is the word of God. 100 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:42,320 It is sown. But for some, it falls on hard 101 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,520 hearts. For some it falls on worldly 102 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,320 hearts. For some it falls on selfish 103 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:49,480 hearts. And they're like, I don't want 104 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,640 to hear that. I don't want to do that. 105 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:56,080 And others have a very soft heart, a very spongy kind of 106 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,920 heart. They say, wow, that's exactly 107 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,760 what I need. Thank you so much, pastor, 108 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,840 because that's what I need to grow on. 109 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,320 That's what my family needs. You see, it's not the pastor. 110 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,880 It's not the book. It's the heart of the person who 111 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,160 is either willing to receive it or unwilling to receive it. 112 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,720 Never forget that it's always the way it is, that it will 113 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:23,800 always be that way. And the godly man hastens to 114 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,680 obey and never delay to obey the commands of God. 115 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,000 He wants to hear the word of God. 116 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:31,760 He wants to follow the word of God. 117 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:33,760 He longs to hear the word of God. 118 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,960 He says, Lord, tell me what I need to do, Correct my life, put 119 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,960 me on the right path and I might serve you. 120 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:46,080 He hastens because he obeys the word of God instantly. 121 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:49,360 That's the godly man. Are you that kind of man? 122 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,560 So he goes to God incessantly. He obeys God instantly. 123 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,520 He disciplines himself implicitly. 124 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,200 That is, there's something about the spiritual man that's 125 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:10,880 disciplined and you see it because the, the spiritualness, 126 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,520 the spiritual aspect of his life bulges with, with strength 127 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,680 because he, he loves the Lord. He disciplines himself under 128 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:20,720 prayer. He disciplines himself under the 129 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,480 study of God's word. He, he disciplines himself to 130 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,880 say no to sin. He disciplines himself to, to, 131 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,240 to share the gospel. He lives a life of, of spiritual 132 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:34,920 discipline of self surrender of self, denial of self submission 133 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,960 that he might obey the word of God. 134 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,560 It's he's a discipline man. Proverbs 1227 man's most 135 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:44,480 precious possession is his diligence. 136 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,880 That's your most precious possession. 137 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:51,080 It's your diligence, your discipline to be in the word of 138 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,160 God, to listen to the word of God, to follow the word of God, 139 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,800 to live for the Lord God. It's a discipline that takes 140 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,400 place and that's why Paul says the first Timothy 4 train 141 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,840 yourself under godliness and the word is good. 142 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,760 Not so even the word has a grunt in it good nod. 143 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,720 So you know why Because it's it's it's where we get our 144 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:17,000 English word gymnasium and we are to be spiritually in the gym 145 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,800 every single day. Bodily exercise profits a 146 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,440 little, but but godliness has profitable is profitable for all 147 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,440 things, not just in this life, but in the life to come. 148 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,080 The godly man is a discipline man. 149 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,480 He disciplines himself implicitly. 150 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,160 There's no doubt. There is no question. 151 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:42,040 There is nothing but absolute surety that when you see him, he 152 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,680 is absolutely in tune with the living God. 153 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:48,800 He is disciplined in his spiritual life. 154 00:11:49,920 --> 00:12:00,280 That's the godly man. That's GODL is that he loves his 155 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,160 sin intensely. He hates it. 156 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,800 You can't be a godly man who loves sin. 157 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:14,920 A godly man loathes his sin. He hates his sin, he hates evil. 158 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,680 Psalm 95 verse #10 You who love the Lord, Ezekiel says that you 159 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,040 when you, when I come again and, and, and, and you're born again, 160 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,960 and I and I redeem Israel, You will loathe yourselves because 161 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,360 of your sin. You will hate the fact that you 162 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,480 sinned against me. You will hate the fact that 163 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,280 you're a Sinner, and you will grasp onto me. 164 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,040 Why? Because a godly man loves his 165 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:42,800 sin intensely, doesn't love a sin. 166 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:49,880 He hates the sin and seeks to separate himself from that sin. 167 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:56,920 It doesn't mean that he doesn't sin because everybody sins, but 168 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:04,040 when he sins, he hates it and causes him to turn from it, to 169 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:10,640 flee the love of money. First Timothy 6 verse #10 Paul 170 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:15,640 says the Corinthians to flee idolatry, to flee immorality. 171 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,840 He's a running man. He's always running away from 172 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:24,040 sin and always running to the spiritual virtues that God has 173 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:28,000 for him, faith and peace and gentleness and godliness and 174 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,600 long-suffering and patience, because he wants to be God's 175 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:41,480 kind of man. Then he yields to the Holy 176 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:47,840 Spirit intently because he knows he can't do anything without the 177 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,520 Lord. He's a dependent man. 178 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:57,600 He's dependent not on another person, not on his wife. 179 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:04,200 He's dependent upon the Lord. So he yields to the Spirit 180 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,960 intently. He's controlled by the Spirit. 181 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,760 He walks in the Spirit. So he didn't fulfill the lust of 182 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:12,720 the flesh. He understands the ministry of 183 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:19,160 Jesus was all geared to the ministry of the Spirit in Jesus. 184 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,240 It was the Spirit of God that drove into the wilderness to be 185 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:23,920 tempted by the devil for 40 days. 186 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,360 He was always living in dependence upon the Spirit of 187 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,360 God in his life with a godly man recognizes that and wants to 188 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,320 live in dependence upon the Spirit of God every single day 189 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,200 of his life. He wants to submit himself to a 190 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,600 Savior and saturate himself with the Scriptures so that every 191 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,720 decision that he makes is under the direction of the Spirit of 192 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,120 the living God. That's the godly man. 193 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:51,280 That's all Review. See, why do you review so much? 194 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:57,240 I told you that weeks ago. Peter did it, Jesus did it, John 195 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:01,360 did it, Moses did it, everybody did it. 196 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:03,800 Why? Because we forget. 197 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,040 We forget. So here's the here's the one I'm 198 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:15,000 going to cover today. Only one, and that is the M 199 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:20,320 aspect in Godly man. He manages his home 200 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:26,040 impressively. He manages his home 201 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:30,920 impressively. Listen to Psalm 112. 202 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,800 Praise the Lord, how blessed is a man who fears the Lord, who 203 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,480 greatly delights in his commandments. 204 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,920 His descendants will be mighty on the earth. 205 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,200 The generation of the upright will be blessed. 206 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,280 Wealth and riches are in his house and his righteousness 207 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,440 endures forever. Verse 6 for he will never be 208 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,600 shaken. The righteous will be remembered 209 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,000 forever. He will not fear evil tidings. 210 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,880 His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. 211 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,880 His heart is upheld. He will not fear. 212 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:07,880 And then over in Psalm 128, Psalm 128, how blessed is 213 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:10,360 everyone who fears the Lord who walks in his ways. 214 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,600 When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands, you will be 215 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,680 happy, and it will be well with you. 216 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:20,640 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine within your house, 217 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,200 your children like olive plants around your table. 218 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,080 Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. 219 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,000 See, the godly man has a certain kind of home. 220 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,840 He has a wife that that clings to him like, like a vine. 221 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,800 She, she, she just can't rid herself of that kind of man. 222 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,200 She wants to be stuck on that kind of man. 223 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,920 That's the godly man who fears the Lord. 224 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,000 And his children are, like all the plants around his table, a 225 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,400 symbol of blessing and abundance in Israel. 226 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,400 And so therefore there's an abundant life in the life of his 227 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,520 children because they live in submission to their parents, 228 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:00,560 especially through the father of the home. 229 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:08,079 He's a godly man. He manages his home 230 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:14,000 impressively, not because he's trying to impress anybody, 231 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,960 simply because very few men do it. 232 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:26,119 That's why it says of the elder in First Timothy chapter 3 these 233 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,440 words. He must be one who manages his 234 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,520 own household well, keeping his children under control with all 235 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,680 dignity. But if a man does not know how 236 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:42,000 to manage his own household, how shall he be able to care for the 237 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:47,720 Church of God? If you can't manage your home, 238 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:53,040 you can't manage the church. If you can't lead your wife, you 239 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,360 can't lead in the church. If you can't lead your children, 240 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:00,720 you can't lead in the church. Why? 241 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,520 Because the church is like a family. 242 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:08,080 And if you can't do it in the small circle of your own home, 243 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:12,600 how do you expect to do it in a bigger circle of the church? 244 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,760 That's why the elders must be able to manage your own home 245 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:27,200 well, impressively so. Incredibly important. 246 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,400 So I'm going to give you the way to do that. 247 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,280 You're going to be so glad you came. 248 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,840 Unless your heart is hard, then you're going to be upset with me 249 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,320 because you did come. But if your heart is soft, 250 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,480 you're going to be so glad you came. 251 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:49,160 How do I manage my home? Impressively. 252 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:55,760 Well, The GODOY must come first. OK, the first points of our 253 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,680 outline and then you begin to to manage your own home 254 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,080 Impressively. But but it begins with vision. 255 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:09,160 Vision Proverbs 2918. Without a vision the people are 256 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,960 unrestrained. And the word for vision, the 257 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:18,360 Hebrew is is revelation. So without a revelation, the 258 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:20,800 people themselves are out of control. 259 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:25,280 They are unrestrained. In other words, in order for you 260 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,960 to manage your home well, you must have a vision for your 261 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,880 home. And the vision comes from the 262 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:34,240 revelation of the living God. And therefore the vision is 263 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,880 based on what God has already said in His Word about how your 264 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,240 home should be and how you should lead in your home. 265 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,320 Because if not without that vision, without that revelation, 266 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,360 then the people are unrestrained or out of control. 267 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:51,560 Is your are your children out of control? 268 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:57,520 Is your wife out of control? That's because they're not given 269 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:02,440 the proper revelation based on the proper vision, based on the 270 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,920 revelation of God's Word to give them a clear path by which our 271 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:11,080 family is going. If you don't have a clear path 272 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,880 as the father, as the godly man, how do you expect your children 273 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,760 and your wife to have a clear path as to which way they're 274 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,160 supposed to be going? And it only comes because of the 275 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,520 revelation of the living God. So it begins with vision. 276 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:33,440 Proverbs 29 verse #18 From vision, then comes direction. 277 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,120 Direction, because without the revelation of God, you have no 278 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:42,000 path to follow. But now, because of the vision 279 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,080 you have based on the revelation of God, now you have a direction 280 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:52,000 by which you are to journey. And the psalmist says in Psalm 281 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,280 32 verse #8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way that 282 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,280 you should go. I will counsel you with my eye 283 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:02,080 upon you. Do not be as a horse or as the 284 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:06,800 mule which have no understanding, whose trappings 285 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,080 include bit and bridle to hold them in check, otherwise they 286 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,880 will not come near to you. In other words, listen, I'm 287 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,520 going to instruct you clearly. I'm going to guide you 288 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:22,120 perfectly, but do not be like a horse and do not be like a mule. 289 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:26,560 Don't be stubborn because I'm going to direct you in the right 290 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,280 way. That's why the Bible says trust 291 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,080 in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own 292 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,400 understanding in all your ways, acknowledging Him. 293 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,760 He will direct your paths. He will make your paths smooth, 294 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,720 but if your paths are not smooth, that's because you're 295 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,600 leaning on your own understanding. 296 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:47,200 You got to trust in the Lord with all your heart, and He will 297 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,080 make your paths smooth. But it begins with vision. 298 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,160 The vision comes from the revelation of God's holy Word. 299 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,440 And that vision then leads to direction. 300 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,680 So I know, OK, this is where we need to go now. 301 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,000 This is how we're going to get there. 302 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:08,800 And then from direction comes instruction. 303 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:16,560 Instruction, In other words, let me tell you what the Bible says 304 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:21,160 about where we're going. Let me tell you what the Bible 305 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:28,160 says about where we are going. So the Bible says in Proverbs 24 306 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:33,000 verse #3 by wisdom the house is built. 307 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:38,640 By understanding it is established, and by knowledge 308 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,880 all the rooms are filled with precious and pleasant riches. 309 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:54,240 So wisdom applies the truth of God with conviction. 310 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:03,440 Understanding verifies the truth of God through demonstration, 311 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:11,960 and knowledge clarifies the truth of God through 312 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,880 instruction. So your your house is built by 313 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,040 wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. 314 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:23,760 Therefore, if that's the case, there must be implemented in 315 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,480 your home some kind of instruction from the Scriptures 316 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,280 that moves your family in the right direction. 317 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,640 Because you know what the Bible says, you have a vision based on 318 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,120 the revelation of God. Therefore you know which 319 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,480 direction you are to go. And as you know that direction, 320 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,120 now you give the instruction on what the Bible says because you 321 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:45,440 want to manage your household impressively. 322 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,480 And the only way to do that is to keep it in line with what 323 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,520 God's Word actually does say. It's not about the Father's 324 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,040 opinion. It's about the Father's belief 325 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:01,480 in the authority of the Word of God to guide and direct his 326 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,680 family. So incredibly and important. 327 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:12,560 So once there's vision, there comes direction, then comes 328 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,320 instruction, then comes imitation. 329 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,320 I'm going to show you how to do it. 330 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,240 Instruction says I'm going to tell you how to do it. 331 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,160 And now imitation says I'm going to show you how to do it. 332 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:30,760 Why? Because you want your children 333 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,360 to imitate you. Paul said follow me as I follow 334 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,720 Christ. So you need to tell your 335 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,640 children follow me as I follow Christ. 336 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,040 Tell your wife, follow me as I follow Christ. 337 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,080 I'm going to imitate Christ to you. 338 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,160 I'm going to imitate his word to you. 339 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:52,040 Paul in Silas in First Thessalonians chapter 1, the 340 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,240 Church of Thessalonica became mimics of Paul and Silas. 341 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,280 They became imitators of Paul and Silas. 342 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:02,720 They followed their example. They set the tone. 343 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:12,680 And imitation is so important. Is it not sure it is your 344 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,360 children. Listen, watch your children. 345 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,520 How do your children speak? What's the tone of your 346 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,600 children's voice? Where did they learn that from? 347 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,840 Yeah, you. The words they say, the tones 348 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,720 they use, the attitudes they they portray. 349 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,360 Look at your own life. Examine your own life. 350 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:40,120 Because somewhere, somehow that that attitude is being conveyed 351 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:44,560 to them, that tone that you speak to them with or you speak 352 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,360 to your wife with. Now they're using that tone with 353 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:49,680 you because they heard it with you and your wife. 354 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,880 They're imitators of of mom and dad. 355 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,880 And so you want to provide the kind of imitation that makes it 356 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,360 so that they can follow the Lord and honor the Lord. 357 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,520 Manage your household impressively. 358 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,600 Begin vision. It's based on the revelation of 359 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,320 God. That vision leads to the 360 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,200 direction in which your family must go. 361 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,840 That direction leads to the the instruction of the truth of the 362 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,240 living God in their lives, in the imitation of that truth 363 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:28,880 before their lives #5 I have a lot of them. 364 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:35,480 So hold on this one. Inspiration, inspiration. 365 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:41,120 Listen as a godly man, you inspire, you infuse 366 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:47,160 encouragement, you move your family that there must be some 367 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:52,320 kind of inspiration, some kind of motivation that stems from 368 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,560 the godly man. You're inspiring others to move 369 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,960 on toward godliness. Could you imagine coming to 370 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:03,800 church every Sunday and me saying, so glad you guys are 371 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:10,400 here, take your Bible and let's turn to 1st Thessalonians 5. 372 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,160 That's because the elders want me to preach on 1st 373 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,920 Thessalonians chapter 5. So let's open it together. 374 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,400 You wouldn't come back. I wouldn't even come back. 375 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:29,000 But there's got to be some kind of inspiration as the father, as 376 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,760 the husband, you're inspiring your children to move on toward 377 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,160 maturity. You're inspiring your wife to 378 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,640 move on toward maturity. There it's inspiration, it's 379 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,400 motivation. Jeremiah would say, thy words 380 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:44,720 are found. Then I did eat them and eat with 381 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,520 the joy and the rejoicing of my heart. 382 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,400 Song was that I was glad when they said to me, let's go to the 383 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,160 House of the Lord. I was glad. 384 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,840 Your children will be glad to come to church if you are glad 385 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,000 to come to church. If you're excited about church, 386 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:03,880 your children will be excited about church, but if you're not, 387 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,320 they won't be. If you're excited about church, 388 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,000 your wife's going to be excited about church because she sees it 389 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,480 in you. She sees what moves you. 390 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,880 You're inspiring her. You're moving her, you're 391 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,920 motivating her. You're moving on to our maturity 392 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,840 in Christ. You wanted to hear the same 393 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,400 voice, be in the same place, be with the same people that you 394 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,680 were there, and she wants to come and be right by your side. 395 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,240 Inspiration. Listen to what the psalmist said 396 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:43,760 in Psalm 119. He said this make me walk in the 397 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,880 path of your commandments, for I delight in it. 398 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,520 Verse 24 someone, your testimonies also are my delight. 399 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,160 They are my counselors. Verse 47, I shall delight in 400 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,880 your commandments, which I love. And then he says over in verse 401 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,880 #70 their heart is covered with fat, but I delight in your law. 402 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,840 Verse 77 Excuse me, for your law is my delight. 403 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:12,160 If you if your law had not been my delight, verse 92, then I 404 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,480 would have perished in my affliction. 405 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:23,040 Listen, Dad, if God's word is your delight, then God's word 406 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:32,760 becomes your children's delight. It it translates so easily over 407 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,880 to your children. But inspiration is important to 408 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:43,840 any leader, right? Are you inspiring your wife 409 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,680 toward Christ likeness? Are you inspiring your children 410 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,560 to walk with Christ? Are they moving in that 411 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,080 direction? You want to manage your home 412 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:59,360 impressively. It will be seen in the lives of 413 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:04,720 your children and your wife more so than anything else. 414 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:12,000 The strength of any man's ministry is not in the number of 415 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,280 people that attend his church, his Bible study or study school 416 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,520 class. It's whether or not his wife and 417 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,200 children are following his leadership. 418 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:28,720 That's what makes the godly man the godly man That's it. 419 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,080 Because there are a lot of men who preach. 420 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,800 You have a lot of people coming to church on Sunday, but they're 421 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:40,440 not godly men. Are their wives inspired to 422 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,760 follow the Lord and serve the Lord and honor the Lord, their 423 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,760 children following in their footsteps? 424 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,640 Next comes evaluation. Want to manage your own home? 425 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,360 Well, evaluate it. How are we doing? 426 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,640 How are we moving? Are we growing? 427 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,360 Are we stagnant? Are we excited? 428 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,200 Are we bored? What do we like? 429 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,560 What we don't like? That's why Paul says the 1st 430 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,600 Thessalonians 521 examine everything. 431 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,360 Everything. Put it under the microscope and 432 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,040 from evaluation then comes correction. 433 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:28,680 Once you evaluate it, correct it because nobody does it perfect. 434 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,960 So once you evaluate it, you can correct it by putting on the 435 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,440 right path. James says in James chapter one 436 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,800 that that the man of God is blessed. 437 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,760 He looks into the perfect law of liberty. 438 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,360 He sees the blemish. He doesn't turn away and keep 439 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,440 the blemish on his face. No, he removes the blemish 440 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,400 because he saw that it was there. 441 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,800 He removes it because he knows it's a hindrance. 442 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,880 This man is blessed in what he does. 443 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:59,160 Same is true for the godly man as he evaluates his family, his 444 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,440 children, his relationship to his wife. 445 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,760 There needs to be correction. He corrects it, puts it on the 446 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:15,520 right path. Then comes, I'll put all the 447 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,880 three, three of these together, protection, provision and 448 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,760 purification. Because as a shepherd you're a 449 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,920 protector. As a shepherd, you're a 450 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,360 provider. You want what's best for your 451 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,080 children. You're going to say to them, I 452 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,000 take care of you. I'll watch out for you. 453 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,360 I'm concerned about your purity and your holiness. 454 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,200 That's why I say no to this and yes to that. 455 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,560 I'm concerned about your, your, your, your alone time. 456 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,680 So I say yes to this and no to that. 457 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,920 I'm concerned about your purity. I'm concerned about how you are 458 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,280 protected. More so than anything else, you 459 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,200 need to know that. So protection, provision, and 460 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,640 purification. And as a husband, you want to 461 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,920 sanctify your wife, Ephesians after 5, right? 462 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:58,920 You want to set her apart unto godliness. 463 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:05,760 You want to purify your wife. And therefore it becomes a major 464 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,560 aspect in managing your home impressively. 465 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:20,920 Let me give you just two more recognition. 466 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,640 It's a recognition that God is sovereign, your rules over all, 467 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,440 and God's in charge and you are not, and that all things will 468 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,960 work together for good to those who love God and are called 469 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,040 according to His purpose. You need to recognize that as a 470 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,080 godly man, want to manage your home impressively? 471 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:48,520 Recognize that you're a steward of God's family, a steward of, 472 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,880 of God's woman who's your wife, a steward of God's children who 473 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,160 are, who are given to you as a gift and you're a household 474 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,320 manager of them. They're they're, they're God's 475 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,600 children. So you want to, you want to 476 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:06,360 manage them properly and therefore you recognize that 477 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,639 within God's sovereign plan he gave you specifically your wife 478 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,159 and not somebody else's wife. He gave you your children, not 479 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:18,159 somebody else's children in a sovereign plan. 480 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,159 And you know that all things will work together for good to 481 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:24,560 those who love God and are called according to his purpose. 482 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,960 And the last word is appreciation, a life of 483 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,800 thankfulness to God for what He's done. 484 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:40,440 So godly man does Isaiah chapter 43 verse #21 my people who I'm, 485 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:45,080 I have formed for myself. They will declare my praise. 486 00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:52,360 And so you praise God, You thank him because you want to honor 487 00:34:52,360 --> 00:35:01,080 him. Having said that, Psalmist says 488 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:07,240 in Psalm 78, these words, Listen, O my people, to my 489 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:11,320 instruction. Incline your ear to the words of 490 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,840 my mouth. Are you listening? 491 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,360 Turn your ears toward the words of my mouth. 492 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,840 Make sure you are listening to everything I'm going to tell 493 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,040 you. I will open my mouth in a 494 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,120 parable. I will utter dark Sagans of old, 495 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,320 which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. 496 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,840 We will not conceal them from our their children, but tell to 497 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,040 the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his 498 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,280 strength and his wondrous works that He has done. 499 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:47,520 We're not going to conceal this from our children. 500 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,280 No, we're going to tell our children. 501 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,440 We're going to make sure our children understand the wondrous 502 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,040 works of God. We're going to make sure our 503 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,840 children understand who God is. We're going to inform them about 504 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,920 everything that God has done so that they are without excuse. 505 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:05,600 We're going to do that, for he established the testimony in 506 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,480 Jacob verse 5, and appointed a law in Israel which he 507 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:15,040 commanded. Our fathers, our fathers, they 508 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,000 should teach them to their children. 509 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,520 So you have Genesis, generation number one. 510 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:25,240 Our fathers, teach them to their children, generation #2 that the 511 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:28,240 generation to come might know even the children yet to be 512 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:31,920 born. Generation chapter 3 that they 513 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,920 may arise and tell them to their children. 514 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,440 Generation chapter 4 So you have 4 generations. 515 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:46,520 So our fathers have told us that we might tell our children that 516 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,440 they might be able to one day tell the children not yet even 517 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:54,160 born. So that when they hear about the 518 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,520 Lord of God is one of his works, they will tell them to their 519 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,160 children who are a long way down the road. 520 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:03,600 That's the vision based on the revelation of God. 521 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,040 That's direction under what you should be doing. 522 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,240 It's the instruction of the truth of God in his wondrous 523 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:17,360 works and praise that should inspire you. 524 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,120 Say, man, look what God has done. 525 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:24,320 This is so great so many times as fathers, we're we're like a 526 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,680 bump on a log. We, we just, we just, we're 527 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:32,200 immovable. There's no, there's no joy, 528 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,440 there's no, there's no passion, there's no motivation there, 529 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,640 there's no inspiration. That's that's the way we should 530 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,800 be. So he says this. 531 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:48,920 What are you going to tell them that they should not put their 532 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,920 that they should put their confidence in God and not forget 533 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,600 the works of God but keep his commandments? 534 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,160 It's not a whole manual on what to do. 535 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,200 It's just this way that don't put your confidence in anybody 536 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,000 else but God and make sure you keep his commandments. 537 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:17,880 How hard is that? Don't trust anyone else but God 538 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:26,240 and keep his commandments. God just narrows it down to bare 539 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:31,040 bones, makes it so simple. That's it. 540 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:41,040 That's all you got to do. Verse 8 And not be like their 541 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:47,560 fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a 542 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:52,600 generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was 543 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:59,440 not faithful to God. Not like their fathers, who, by 544 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:05,680 the way, heard the same words from the same voice, from the 545 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:12,640 same God, from the same prophet, but they didn't like what they 546 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,480 heard. They were stubborn and 547 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,880 rebellious. They turned away. 548 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:25,480 Don't be like that. And that soft, supple, spongy 549 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:30,000 kind of heart that soaks it in and says, yes, I hear your 550 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,280 voice, Lord. I hear what you're saying, Lord. 551 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,440 Yes, that's what I want to do, Lord. 552 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:44,040 It gives nostration. The sons of Ephraim, Joseph's 553 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:48,760 second son. The sons of Ephraim were Archers 554 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:53,600 equipped with bows, yet they turned back in the day of 555 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:59,920 battle. Really, they were the largest 556 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:09,960 leading tribe in Israel, in the northern Kingdom, and they were 557 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,960 Archers. They were special at what they 558 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,720 did, unlike anybody else. But in the day of battle, they 559 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:20,520 turned back. Turned back. 560 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:26,680 Verse 10 They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to 561 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,160 walk in His law. They forgot his deeds and his 562 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:37,360 miracles that He had shown them. Oh they were prepared. 563 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,400 They were prepared when it came to their physicality. 564 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,840 They were prepared when it came to their their knowledge and 565 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:49,920 education. Prepared when it came to their. 566 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,840 Expertise. But in the day of battle, when 567 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:57,000 push came to shove, they had no confidence in God. 568 00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,520 Why? Because they weren't walking 569 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,280 with God. And let me tell you something. 570 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,960 I don't care how smart you are, how creative you are, how 571 00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,560 intelligent you are, how physical you are, without God 572 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:12,360 you can't accomplish anything. It must be totally upon the 573 00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,480 truth of the living God following Him and. 574 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,840 Serving him and loving. Him, that's why you take your 575 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,480 children, you sit them down and you teach them the truth of the 576 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,000 word of God that they in turn would teach them to their 577 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,680 children, that they in turn will teach them to the children yet 578 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,280 to be born and then the children way beyond that. 579 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,200 There's a generation of people who need to know the truth, and 580 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:37,640 it begins with us right now, today, this very hour, saying 581 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:42,240 today's the day I'm going to manage my home impressively. 582 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,520 It's all going to be. Based on the vision. 583 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,320 Because without that vision of the revelation of what God says, 584 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,240 my home's going to be chaotic. My wife's going to be doing 585 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:54,760 this, my kids are going to be over there, and I got to bring 586 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,000 them all together. It's based on the. 587 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,120 Revelation. Of the living God, and that 588 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,240 revelation is. Going to give me the. 589 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:06,520 Direction I need to make sure I fulfill God's plan for my wife 590 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:11,040 and for my children and then. I'm going to instruct them in 591 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,440 the. Ways of God teach them the truth 592 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:17,120 of God, and then I'm. Going to say as I. 593 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:22,920 Teach you follow me, follow me. There are a lot of men today who 594 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,520 are really good teachers, but you don't want to imitate them 595 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,240 because their character is so bad. 596 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,560 If your wife. 'S not following you. 597 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,720 Your children are following you the very first. 598 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:42,720 Question you must always. Ask is what am I doing that's 599 00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:44,680 hindering them from following me? 600 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:47,760 What is it about? My life. 601 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,840 That does not inspire. And motivate. 602 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,560 My wife and my children to follow. 603 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:58,040 My God, are you a? Hindrance to that? 604 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:00,800 Are you blocked? To that. 605 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,000 God is sovereign. God rules over all. 606 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:09,200 God's in charge, but you always got to ask the self evaluation 607 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:15,080 question first. So my prayer for me. 608 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:21,480 For you, for our church. Is the godly man would not cease 609 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,560 to. Be among us that we would 610 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:25,840 strive. To be the kind of. 611 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:31,280 Men, God wants us to be for the glory of His Kingdom, that 612 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:38,520 people would say those who went to that church have turned. 613 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,520 Our school. Upside down those. 614 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,480 Who went to that church? Have turned their families 615 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,120 upside down, those. Who? 616 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,880 Who went to that? Church have turned their 617 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,400 workplace completely upside down. 618 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:00,280 Not because of. Anything. 619 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:06,600 That they do or are, but simply because of God working in and 620 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,280 through them for the glory of His Kingdom. 621 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,800 Let me pray with you, Father. Thank you for today. 622 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,160 Thank you for our children. Who've been with us this last 623 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:26,080 month, They've been so good. Thank you, Lord. 624 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:30,040 That they have been here. To worship with their parents. 625 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:34,560 Thank you, Father, for his chance to. 626 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,840 To look into the word of God, to be challenged. 627 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:43,000 I know I'm challenged. I know I'm held in into account. 628 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,560 And I realized, Lord, that. There are many faults in my own 629 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,360 life that I need to deal. With personally. 630 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:57,600 That I might be able to lead my wife and my children and even. 631 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,240 Though my children are grown. And out of the house except for 632 00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:05,360 one I still have. To provide a a model. 633 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:10,680 Of imitation they can follow, still have to instruct. 634 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:19,800 Still have to be able to. To evaluate, correct, inspire, 635 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:23,960 pray Father. That all of us as men would. 636 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,440 Recognize the great responsibility before us. 637 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,600 It's not impossible. It's not an impossible. 638 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,640 Mission it's a very possible. Mission because you gave it to 639 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:41,520 us. Go before us, Lord, Use us 640 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:47,160 mightily for your glory and for your Kingdom, until you come 641 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:52,840 again, as you most surely will. Jesus name Amen.