1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,040 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,320 And here for this Sunday school hour. 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,160 Normally we are in our series on world religions and cults, but 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,680 we're going to be apart from that series this morning because 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:37,160 of our missions conference and looking forward to all that God 11 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:39,200 has in store for us. Hasn't it been good already this 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,960 week? All right, don't get too 13 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:42,840 excited. All right, hasn't been good 14 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,120 already this week. I'll tell you, last night was 15 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,720 great. The food that we had was just 16 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,440 absolutely incredible. The amount of food, the fact 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,720 that we ate a lot of that food was also pretty impressive as 18 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:55,440 well. But it was a good fellowship, a 19 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,080 wonderful time, but looking forward to what God has in store 20 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:02,680 for us here today. Psalm chapter 127, if you will. 21 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,160 Psalm chapter 127. And once you found your place 22 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,440 there, if you would also go to Matthew chapter 28, just leave 23 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,400 your ribbon there in Matthew 28. If you've got one, put your 24 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,240 finger in there. Matthew 28, if you don't have a 25 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:20,120 ribbon, Psalm 127 is where we will be here this morning. 26 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,320 And I want to talk to you about perhaps the neediest mission 27 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:26,040 field in the world. And, you know, we could think of 28 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,880 a lot of different places that are needy places for the gospel. 29 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,640 We think of places like communist nations, like North 30 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,960 Korea. We have missionaries, and I 31 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:37,680 don't want to say too much, we are live streaming, but we 32 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,320 understand that there are missionaries that are out there 33 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:43,000 who are trying their best from the outside to be able to reach 34 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,520 people on the inside. And there are people in North 35 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,960 Korea, by and large, they don't even know the name of Jesus 36 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,200 Christ, you know, Kim Jong Un, and they know that entire 37 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:52,800 family. They Revere and sometimes 38 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,160 worship that family. Every house has to have a 39 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,200 picture of their dear leader right there in the home. 40 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,560 But they don't know the name of Jesus Christ like a Muslim 41 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:06,160 countries all around the world where they know Jesus only as a 42 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,720 good prophet, but yet they don't know Jesus Christ as the Savior. 43 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,280 And by the way, Jesus Christ wasn't just a good prophet. 44 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,920 He was and is the Savior. He either is who he said he was 45 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:20,120 or he was delusional and a liar. He could have been just a good 46 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,520 prophet. No one that's just a good man 47 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,760 goes around and says follow me and you'll have eternal life. 48 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,480 He's either who he said he was, which by the way he is who he 49 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,160 said he was, or he's delusional and a liar. 50 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,400 We know who Jesus Christ is and there those Muslim countries 51 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,400 that have that great need and we think of them as well. 52 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,480 There's a lot of needy mission fields that are out there. 53 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,840 I think of the missionaries that we have in places like Papua New 54 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:50,680 Guinea, in places like Southeast Asia, in places like South 55 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,760 Africa, and then even places crazy places like Poplar Bluff, 56 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,400 MO, you know, OK, that's not too crazy. 57 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,800 But you know what, there's, it may be pretty crazy. 58 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,320 OK, All right, that's right. Listen, even plates in Missouri 59 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,000 need the gospel still, all right. 60 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,600 And so we know Massachusetts, this area, we've seen 61 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,480 Bridgeport, CT on Thursday, we saw Keene, NH on Friday. 62 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,200 The need for the mission field is great. 63 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,920 No matter where you are, You literally could take a world map 64 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:20,760 and throw a dart at it and I'll tell you wherever it lands, 65 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,040 that's a place that needs the gospel. 66 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,360 Now, by the way, don't do that to a map. 67 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,400 That doesn't sound like a good idea, but I'm just saying the 68 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,840 idea is as you could just find a spot and any of those spots need 69 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,080 the gospel. But I would submit to you here 70 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,320 this morning, I want to consider this for the next few minutes, 71 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,360 That perhaps the neediest mission field at all isn't even 72 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,800 a traditional mission field. That the neediest mission field 73 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,160 at all isn't a locale somewhere on a map, on a globe, or on your 74 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,520 GPS. But perhaps the greatest and 75 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:53,000 neediest mission field is this. Listen, your own family, that 76 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,160 the greatest and neediest mission field is your own 77 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,760 family. Say, pastor, how could that 78 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,480 possibly be the need in North Korea, the need in communist 79 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,160 nations, the need in Muslim nations, the need all around the 80 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,200 world? You just said this. 81 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,080 How could it just be my own family? 82 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,000 Well, listen, how does world missions happen? 83 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,640 Well, it's because missionaries who come outside of the local 84 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,560 church go to those places and they're supported by other local 85 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,600 churches. So yes, those are needy mission 86 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,240 fields that have missionaries and have supporting churches. 87 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:23,920 But where? Where do those missionaries come 88 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:24,720 from? Churches. 89 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,000 Where does that support come from? 90 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,520 Churches. What are those churches? 91 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,600 They're just people, families. And without the family being 92 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,560 what it ought to be, there is no world missions. 93 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,400 But even take world missions out of it here for just a moment. 94 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,640 You need to be a missionary to your own family. 95 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,480 You need to reach your own family with the gospel, whether 96 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,360 they are under your roof and you're raising children or 97 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,440 whether it's grandchildren, an extended family or whatever it 98 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,280 is. You are primarily the person who 99 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:01,480 is going to reach those people. I could go to your house and try 100 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,400 to help you and I hope that I can and Diane and I could help. 101 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,440 I hope that we could reach extended family for Christ. 102 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,160 We would try to do our best if we could. 103 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,760 We could send brother Mrs. Abels over to be a help. 104 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,920 Certainly we could do that. But I will tell you this, no one 105 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,080 is in a better position to reach their own family and to train 106 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:23,040 their own family than you. And God calls us to do that, to 107 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,400 be missionaries within our own home. 108 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,720 Let's read Psalm 127, if you would. 109 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:32,160 All right, Psalm 127 says this, a song of degrees for Solomon. 110 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,600 We'll look at that and consider that probably at the end of the 111 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,680 lesson this morning. Except the Lord build the house, 112 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,360 they labor in vain. They build it. 113 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:44,400 Except the Lord keep the city. The watchman waketh but in vain. 114 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:46,520 It is vain for you to rise up early. 115 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,040 I just want to just say Amen right there. 116 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,080 I just like that verse. All right, it's vain for you to 117 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,800 rise up early. All God's children ought to say 118 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,080 Amen to that. Like what's the point of waking 119 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,320 up early? But some of you wonder that 120 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,040 right now being a 10:00 service, right, it's vain for you to rise 121 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,560 up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrows. 122 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,440 For so he giveth his beloved sleep low. 123 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,200 Children aren't heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb 124 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,160 is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a 125 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,320 mighty man, so are children of the youth happy as the man that 126 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,640 hath his quiver full of them. They shall not be ashamed, but 127 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,920 they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. 128 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,080 Now you say, I see what you're saying there, pastor. 129 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,920 I see the the thought process of the family and the need for the 130 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,160 family to be what it ought to be. 131 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,080 But what does that have to do with missions? 132 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,000 Well, I want you to take that place where you have keep that 133 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,800 ribbon there in Psalm 127 and go over to Matthew chapter 28. 134 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,840 I kind of want to look at these texts together. 135 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:44,920 This isn't maybe a typical expository message of which I 136 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,320 would preach, but we are going to treat these verses correctly 137 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,760 here this morning because that's what we do. 138 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,760 We do rightly divide the word of truth, but I want to look at 139 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,000 these together now. We look at Matthew chapter 28, 140 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,040 beginning of verse #18 what we're looking at is called the 141 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,120 Great Commission. These are some of the last words 142 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,520 that Jesus gives his church. By the way, He's giving him to 143 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,280 the church because the church already exists here. 144 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,600 It wasn't created on Acts chapter 2. 145 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,640 It was empowered, but already called out and created by Jesus 146 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,080 Christ. We've talked about this many 147 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,400 times here before. And so he's giving this 148 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,400 Commission to the church. You say, well, why is that 149 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,840 important? Because if he was just giving it 150 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,320 to the disciples, the disciples are dead and gone. 151 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:28,800 And that means the Commission is not for us. 152 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:30,960 But if he gives it to the church, that means the 153 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,920 Commission is for us today. And the Commission that Jesus 154 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:40,480 gives here is just as real to those disciples as it is to us 155 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,240 today. So listen to this. 156 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,400 And Jesus came and spake unto them, being the disciples, being 157 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,640 the church, saying, all power is given to me in heaven and earth. 158 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,920 We just saying that, didn't we? That didn't just come from a 159 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,000 hymn. That's from this verse right 160 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,680 here. Go ye therefore, and teach all 161 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,640 nations, baptizing him in the name of the Father and of the 162 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,280 Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all 163 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:07,440 things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with 164 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,200 you alway even unto the end of the world. 165 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,520 Now, what is this Great Commission composed of? 166 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,200 Well, it has three different parts. 167 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,400 The first it says to teach all nations. 168 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,880 Well, what is that process of teaching all nations? 169 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,360 It is proclaiming the gospel message. 170 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,040 You say, well, why would you say that? 171 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,440 Well, because the next step is baptism and nobody gets baptized 172 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,280 until they get saved. That's the order, isn't it? 173 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,480 You don't find anywhere in the Word of God where people are 174 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,600 baptized without knowing Jesus Christ their Savior. 175 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,120 There's a reason we call it believers baptism, because once 176 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,440 you have trusted Jesus Christ your Savior, then you are placed 177 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,679 in the water. You're placed in deep water, 178 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:45,640 Amen. And then you're brought down and 179 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,560 you're brought back up. And we'll talk more about that 180 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:49,960 in a moment. So first you teach all nations, 181 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,880 you teach them, you preach the gospel, then they are to be 182 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,120 baptized. And then it says verse 20, 183 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,040 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. 184 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,160 I have commanded you, well, what's that thought process 185 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:02,760 there? That once you're saved, there's 186 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,200 some things you need to learn. Now, wouldn't it be great at the 187 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,560 moment we got saved? That though Lord just kind of 188 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:10,960 implanted a chip in our brain And all of a sudden everything 189 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,360 you need to know about the Bible, you just, you knew it. 190 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,800 And all of a sudden you had Grok or ChatGPT in your brain and all 191 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,720 of it was about the Bible. And you know, it just like that. 192 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,960 It don't work that way, does it? Or maybe some of you think it 193 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,360 works that way. I don't know, but but it doesn't 194 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,880 work that way, does it? We have to be discipled. 195 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,480 We have to be taught. We have to have other believers 196 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,680 to be able to help us. We have to have other, we have 197 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:35,720 to have Bible preaching and Bible teaching. 198 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,320 That's why it's important for you to be in church and not just 199 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,960 to be a Lone Ranger Christian, to be able to be in church, to 200 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,400 be able to get the preaching and the teaching and the fellowship 201 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,360 from other believers. But, but I, I see that there's 202 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,640 these three steps that we're to go and teach old nations. 203 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,200 We're to baptize them and we're to to obey. 204 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:56,680 And I want to think about this this morning that how does that 205 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,000 apply to us in our homes if we're looking at our home as a 206 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,600 mission field? I think Psalm 127 makes it clear 207 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,480 we've got to teach and train the family. 208 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,840 Go back to Psalm 127 here. I know I'm making you go back 209 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:10,320 and forth. I'm sorry about that. 210 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,600 All right, So you say I'm not sorry. 211 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,280 You're right, Margarita. I'm not sorry. 212 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:16,600 All right? You've been here long enough to 213 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,560 know I'm not sorry to make you turn in your Bibles. 214 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,320 All right, That's good. Yeah, take it easy, lady. 215 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:28,480 All right, Psalm, Psalm 127. I mean, she's right though, all 216 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,680 right? I just didn't didn't like her 217 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:35,680 being being right. All right, except the Lord build 218 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:38,320 the house. They labor in vain that build 219 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,320 it, except the Lord keep the city. 220 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,160 The watchman waketh, but in vain. 221 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,720 You know, it's the Lord who builds the house. 222 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,520 It's the Lord who is the one who rises. 223 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,160 Listen, it says in the very next verse, you can get up early, you 224 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,120 can stay up late, you can do whatever you want, but if you do 225 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,040 the work without the Lord, you're in trouble. 226 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,360 Can I put it to you this way? If you want to raise your 227 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,120 children, if you want to reach your grandchildren for Christ, 228 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,560 if you want to do it yourself with the power of God, you will 229 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:07,400 fail. We'll say that again. 230 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,400 If you do it yourself without the power of God, you will 231 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,000 completely and totally fail. You say, well, I've got some 232 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,480 good podcasts I'm hooked into. I've read some books. 233 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,880 I I have some other people who have helped me and encouraged me 234 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,840 there can there's not necessarily something wrong with 235 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:25,480 that. As long as those people and 236 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,200 those things are speaking biblical truth. 237 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,760 There's certainly nothing wrong with that in and of itself. 238 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,360 But I will say this. If you are not raising your 239 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,840 children and your family and the nurture, the admonition of the 240 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,480 Lord and you're, you're busy, you're doing all this stuff. 241 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,400 It says you can stay up early, you can get up early, you stay 242 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,920 up late, but without the Lord, you're just doing a lot of work 243 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,240 and a lot of activity, but you're not really accomplishing 244 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:46,280 what you think you're accomplishing. 245 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,080 So what do we need to do? Well, we need to be able to 246 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,080 reach our families for the Lord. I think there's a pattern given 247 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,400 to us in the Great Commission that can help us. 248 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,240 And the first thing we saw in the Great Commission was to go 249 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:59,520 and teach all nations. What does that mean? 250 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:02,760 We need to give the gospel to our families. 251 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,120 Listen, Missions Conference has been great. 252 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:06,800 Missions Conference is wonderful. 253 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,160 We ought to send the gospel all around the world. 254 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,480 We ought to send the gospel all around the world. 255 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,160 That's what God told us to do, the Great Commission. 256 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,840 Acts chapter one, verse 8. Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, unto 257 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:21,640 thee uttermost parts of the earth. 258 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:23,960 That's what we're supposed to be able to do with the gospel. 259 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,360 But listen, wouldn't it be a shame if we're so encouraged 260 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,200 today to send the gospel all around the world, But we don't 261 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,600 do the same in our own home, and we don't do the same with our 262 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,720 own family. Listen, if you're a parent here 263 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,440 today, your objective #1 is not that your children go to a good 264 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,680 college. Your objective #1 is not that 265 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:47,360 your children have a fast car when they're 16 years old. 266 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,320 Listen, if that was the case, I was an utter failure because 267 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,440 they didn't have cars at 16, let alone fast cars at 16. 268 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,960 But listen, your primary goal was this, that my children know 269 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:01,320 Jesus Christ their Savior. Now, where are they going to 270 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,000 hear that? Where are they going to hear 271 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,760 that? They're going to hear that in 272 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,120 the House of God. They're going to hear that here, 273 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,400 but they're also going to hear that, listen, and ought to hear 274 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,400 that in your home as well. Now, listen, do people get saved 275 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,600 when they're adults? Well, yeah, a lot of you did, 276 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,960 didn't you? How many of you got saved when 277 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,280 you were an adult? After you're 18? 278 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:22,480 Raise your hand. All right, that's great. 279 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:23,360 That's a lot of you. All right. 280 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,280 It's like one side the other. This is this is interesting. 281 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,960 All right, So I didn't know we we segregated you all that way. 282 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,440 So then put all the people that got saved young on this side and 283 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,280 not over here. But listen, how many of you that 284 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,880 are adults would say this? It would have been so much 285 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,280 better if I got saved when I was young. 286 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:41,760 Yeah. And listen, God, God through 287 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,240 your life, he worked, didn't he? I mean, God, God in his 288 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:45,800 Providence saved you when he did. 289 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,200 And he helped you meet the people that you did and all 290 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:49,800 that. But you understand that the Lord 291 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,440 would have saved you from some heartache and some troubles. 292 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:57,400 Listen, Mom and Dad, you have the opportunity to make that 293 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,960 difference in your child's life. You have the opportunity to give 294 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,760 them perhaps what you didn't even have yourself, which was to 295 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,280 be able to know Jesus Christ their Savior at a young age. 296 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,440 And we just talked about this in the men's charges, more in the 297 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,120 men's devotion. Brother Dave talked about 298 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,120 testimony and having a testimony and we talked about that. 299 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:17,880 You don't need to necessarily have the testimony. 300 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,560 Well, you know, I was, I was a heavy alcoholic. 301 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,560 I was in jail. I was all these things. 302 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,680 Listen, if the Lord saved you from that, praise the Lord, 303 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,840 Amen. But it's also wonderful to say 304 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,240 this. I got saved when I was five 305 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,880 years old. I got saved when I was six years 306 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,320 old. It's just as much of a miracle 307 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:35,920 they get saved at that age. And think of the things that God 308 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:41,320 saved you from and the things that God got you out of as as a 309 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:44,680 as a child. In essence, what I'm asking you 310 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,160 to be is a home missionary. You know, often times we talk 311 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,000 about home missions. We're talking about the United 312 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,760 States. The Mallards are home missions. 313 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:55,840 The Riveros to Easton were home missions. 314 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:00,520 The the Shives home missions. No, you need to be home missions 315 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,360 within your home and that includes your children. 316 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,360 Some of you say, well, I don't have children in the home 317 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:06,600 anymore. Do you have grandchildren? 318 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,960 Do you have people that you can influence for the Lord? 319 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,080 I remember a few years ago that I met a, a, a couple at one of 320 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:14,520 the churches that we were preaching at. 321 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,280 They had grandchildren. They were very discouraged about 322 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,600 the fact that the grandchildren were not being raised in the 323 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,040 nurture and the admonition of the Lord. 324 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:26,320 And so this grandmother asked her daughter after this 325 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,720 question, do you think that once a week, or I don't remember the 326 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,240 frequency of it, if I send you a Bible, will you give it to my 327 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,120 granddaughter? And that on FaceTime, once every 328 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,440 few weeks, we can do a little bit of a Bible study. 329 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,080 What a blessing. Now, does that work in every 330 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,720 situation? It may not. 331 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:46,960 I understand that and I recognize that. 332 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,040 But this woman's heart was this and her husband's as well. 333 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,640 I want to try to do whatever I can to reach my grandchildren 334 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,520 for Christ. And if the daughter is not doing 335 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,000 what she ought to do, I want to do what I can without being 336 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,640 insulting, without being disparaging. 337 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,760 I just want to, you know, I want to be able to teach them about 338 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,320 who the Lord is. Do not be laid back about your 339 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:10,720 children's spiritual condition. Verse #1 says that except the 340 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,400 Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh, but in vain. 341 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,560 You are the watchman for your children, Mom. 342 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,720 You are the watch woman for your children, Sir. 343 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,640 You are the watchman for your children. 344 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,160 God has placed you, had placed you as the leaders. 345 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:28,920 They placed you as the nurturers, placed you as the 346 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,120 parents of those children to be able to, to do what you can. 347 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,160 And listen, it's not just about, well, I want my children to have 348 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:39,480 a better life than I did. And I understand that sentiment, 349 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,320 but I'll tell you this, if you wanted to have a better life 350 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,760 than you did teaching the Gospel, make sure they know that 351 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,280 they can be saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. 352 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,320 So what do we do? We go and teach all nations. 353 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,800 Make sure that you are teaching your children about their need 354 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,440 to be saved, but then also to baptize them. 355 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,240 That's the second part of the Great Commission, isn't it? 356 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,320 And this is where I'm gonna kind of take, I don't want to say 357 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,720 liberties because we don't twist the Word of God not to make it 358 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,040 say what we want to. And you ought to make sure that 359 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,160 when your children are saved that they are biblically 360 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,000 baptized. It's important for them to 361 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,079 follow the Lord and believers baptism. 362 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:14,960 What do we say about that? That's the very first step of 363 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,280 obedience. We don't baptize babies at 364 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,640 Liberty Baptist Church. The reason we don't baptize 365 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,800 babies is because nowhere in the Word of God was a baby ever 366 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,400 baptized. Nowhere do you find that. 367 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:27,119 And you always find in the Word of God that someone says that 368 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:29,480 they believe in Jesus Christ their Savior, they trust the 369 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,560 gospel, and then they are baptized. 370 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,520 That is always the order that it's found in the Word of God. 371 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,760 And so because that's the way it's done in the Word of God, 372 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,600 that's the way we do it at Liberty Baptist Church. 373 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,760 And by the way, as Baptist, historically, that is what we've 374 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,320 done. And there are people that are as 375 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,640 Baptist gave their lives for that kind of doctor. 376 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,160 Brother Abel's and I just a few days ago did a whirlwind tour of 377 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,000 Boston and we did everything you could possibly do in Boston in 378 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,320 about 3 hours. But one of the places that I 379 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,720 wanted to take him was the a Freedom Trail. 380 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:00,920 And you know, all the tourists are out there. 381 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,600 And one of the places we went to is where the Boston Massacre 382 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,080 was. And we're all familiar in this 383 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,280 area with the Boston Massacre. But you may or may not be aware 384 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:12,120 than the very same spot, or he's very close adjacent to that 385 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:17,040 spot, that about 100 and so years before, there was a man, a 386 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:21,160 Baptist named Obadiah Holmes that held to biblical Baptist 387 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:26,040 doctrine and was willing to literally be whipped in front of 388 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:30,720 dozens and dozens of people instead of taking a fine and 389 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,080 admitting he was wrong for what he believed. 390 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:39,560 And you know that it was from that man stand that Boston 391 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,440 changed because there was a Baptist Church that was formed, 392 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,080 There was a president of Harvard who decided that he wasn't going 393 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,200 to baptize his children because he saw the the power of that 394 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,880 doctrine lived out that man. No, no, it's important for us to 395 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,080 believe this doctrine, not because we're Baptist, but 396 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,800 because it's Bible. And by the way, I'm a Baptist 397 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,600 because we believe the Bible and the Bible alone. 398 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,960 That that's what made me bad. I wasn't always a Baptist. 399 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,560 I grew up as a Lutheran, but I realized that it wasn't the 400 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:10,240 catechism in the Bible. It wasn't CCD in the Bible. 401 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,640 It wasn't things in the Bible, it was the Bible in the Bible 402 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:14,320 alone. That's how I became a Baptist 403 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,280 when I was saved. But what are we to do? 404 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,760 We're to baptize. We baptize in deep water. 405 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,040 But then what do we do? I want us to look at this. 406 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,840 The Bible sometimes uses this idea of water. 407 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:30,040 In fact, Ephesians 526 talks about the washing of the water 408 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,800 of the Word. And so can I make an application 409 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,440 about that? Was we look at baptism being 410 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,040 full immersion? Now listen, when it's full 411 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,800 immersion, you got to go all the way down. 412 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:41,160 When you're all the way. Down. 413 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:42,440 Guess what? It's all around you. 414 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,320 The second person I baptized here was Brother Jim Jerome. 415 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,480 And I remember we went down to Houghton's Pond. 416 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,920 In fact, I think, I think Dwight and Diane, you were there at 417 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,680 Houghton's Pond, weren't you? And I wasn't used to baptizing 418 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,440 outside. I sure wasn't used to baptizing 419 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,200 in a pond. And we, we, we got out there and 420 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,120 I asked Brother Jim Jerome to kind of get ready. 421 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,240 He got himself ready and I was ready. 422 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,520 And, and, and I kind of, you know, when you're a pastor, you 423 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,560 have a way of doing it and you've done it for a while. 424 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,520 And Brother Abel's kind of test this you, you, you do, you're 425 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,520 almost automatic in the way not that it's special. 426 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,200 You're not automatic in what you say and the specialness of it, 427 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,640 but in the way that you kind of make sure they go down and come 428 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,000 back up. Because I'll tell you, I'm 429 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,920 really good at burying him in the likeness of his death. 430 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,920 Sometime raising in the likeness was resurrection. 431 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:25,880 I have a little bit of trouble with. 432 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,120 So what do we find? Here's Jim Jerome, we're in 433 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:31,920 water. This is not fiberglass. 434 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,960 This is a pond. There's rocks. 435 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,760 There's all these little places. And I said, I said, you know, 436 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,120 brother Jim Jerome, if you accepted Jesus Christ, your 437 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:41,280 Savior, he says, I have. I said, well, according to your 438 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,680 profession of faith, I baptize you, my brother, in the name of 439 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,720 the Father and of the Son, the Holy Holy Ghost buried in the 440 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,640 likeness of his death. And I planted this foot over 441 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,080 here, right? I planted it over, but I didn't 442 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,280 realize it dropped down about 8 or 9 inches. 443 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,680 And so I said I. Bury you, and I said I bury you. 444 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,000 In the likeness of his. Death and I'll tell you he went 445 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,520 all the way under and raising him up. 446 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,880 We have a video of this. I probably I'm glad I didn't 447 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:13,520 show it this morning, but and raised him in the likeness of 448 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,280 his resurrection. I'll tell you, Jesus didn't 449 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,640 struggle in his resurrection like I struggled getting Jim 450 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,840 Jerome out of the water. It was awful. 451 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,560 But you know what? When he was down, he was all the 452 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,800 way down. When he was down, he was 453 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,560 immersed. But when I think of washing, of 454 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,760 the water of the Word, listen, you know what you ought to do 455 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,280 with your families once they're saved. 456 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,040 You got to immerse them in the Word of God. 457 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:35,920 I'm not trying to. Twist the scriptures here. 458 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:38,200 But I'm telling you this, if you were going to be a home 459 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,880 missionary, you better immerse your families in the word of 460 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,480 God. You know, we immerse them in 461 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,000 sports. And I'm not just talking about 462 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,440 sports like the socks and the Pats and that stuff. 463 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,400 I'm talking about Little League. I'm talking about pee wee 464 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,680 football. I'm talking about hockey, all 465 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,240 those things and listen in and of themselves, that's not a bad 466 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,760 thing, but when that becomes their life. 467 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,640 That's a. Problem immerse them in the word 468 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,840 of God. They can. 469 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:05,880 They've memorized their favorite movies. 470 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,400 They've memorized their favorite TV shows. 471 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,160 Listen, let them memorize the Bible. 472 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,840 Say this week we're going to we're going to memorize one 473 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,000 verse this week. You know what's amazing? 474 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,960 Kids can do pretty much what we tell them to do if we actually 475 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,240 plan on doing it. You know what you do before you 476 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,440 eat at night? You can do this. 477 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,040 Just have a Bible verse on a note card we passed around the 478 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,160 table. Everyone's going to read it 479 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:28,320 once. We're going to memorize it this 480 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:32,200 week, pass around a prayer card for a missionary, and we're 481 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:33,400 going to pray for this missionary tonight. 482 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,800 Immerse them in the Word of God. Immerse them in those things. 483 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,560 Deuteronomy chapter 6, you know. What? 484 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:41,680 Turn to Deuteronomy. Chapter 6. 485 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,320 Why don't you do that? Go ahead and do that quickly. 486 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,080 Deuteronomy, Chapter 6, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, 487 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,680 Deuteronomy. All right, Deuteronomy chapter 488 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,240 6, because this idea of immersing yourself, immersing 489 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,840 your family in the Word is not foreign to the Word of God. 490 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,840 This is something that we find all throughout the Word of God, 491 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:01,760 and I don't think you can find a better passage about it. 492 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:11,160 The Deuteronomy chapter #6. Look at what it says. 493 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,080 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, the judgments with 494 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,280 the Lord your God commanded to teach you that you might do them 495 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,120 in the land, whether you go to possess it, that thou mightest 496 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:22,760 fear the Lord thy God to keep all His statutes and His 497 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,440 commandments which I command thee, Thou, thy son, thy son 498 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,440 son, all the days of thy life, thy days may be prolonged. 499 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,920 Listen, the fear of the Lord doesn't mean you're cowering in 500 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,880 fear like God's going to backhand you, but it is a 501 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,840 reverence, it is a respect, it is understanding. 502 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,240 Listen, it's understanding who He is and understanding who we 503 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:42,880 are. That's the fear of the Lord's. 504 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,520 Don't get weird about this idea of the fear of the Lord. 505 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,880 It's like, I know who he is, I know who I am, I know my place. 506 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:51,200 He says you need to have a fear of the Lord. 507 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,240 Why look verse #3 here? Therefore, O Israel, observe to 508 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,560 do it that it may be well with thee that they may, that they 509 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,280 that ye may increase mightily as the Lord God of thy fathers that 510 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,000 promised thee in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 511 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,320 Here, O Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord. 512 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:09,760 By the way, that's still true today. 513 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,520 Verse 5 and. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 514 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,240 with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 515 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,800 Listen with every fiber of your being you ought to love them, 516 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,720 which means this with every fiber of your being. 517 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,720 You want your children to love them. 518 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,880 Every fiber of your being. You want your grandchildren to 519 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,960 love them. By the way, and I'm talking 520 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,880 about children by the, that also means you're adult children. 521 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,480 And maybe they're not living for the Lord right now. 522 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:35,880 Maybe they've never lived for the Lord. 523 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,400 Listen, that is your responsibility as best as you 524 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,760 are able to, to be able to fulfill that. 525 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,720 Well, how do you do that? Now, this is especially true 526 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,280 with the youngsters. All right, I don't know if I've 527 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:47,560 ever used the word youngsters before. 528 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,240 I think I just aged myself right there. 529 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,240 All right, verse six, With the the word which I command thee, 530 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,440 this day shall be in thy heart. Thou shalt teach them diligently 531 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,800 unto thy children. Thou shalt talk of them when 532 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,920 thou sittest in thine house, when thou walkest by the way, 533 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,040 when thou liest down, when thou risest up. 534 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,520 So how often are you supposed to talk about the word to the 535 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,200 children? All day. 536 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,200 All day. Now look at verse #8. 537 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,280 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand. 538 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,520 They shall be frontlets between thine eyes. 539 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,120 Thou shalt write them upon the post, thy house and on thy 540 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:22,600 gates, and it shall be when the Lord thy God shall have brought 541 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,720 the end of the land which he swearing to thy fathers, to 542 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,360 Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, to give The great and goodly cities 543 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:31,040 which they build us not, and houses of good things which out 544 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,960 fill us not, and wells dig which out dig us not, vineyards and 545 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,440 olive trees without plant us not when thou has eaten and be full. 546 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,440 Then beware lest thou forget the Lord which brought thee forth 547 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,280 out of the land of Egypt, out from the House of bondage. 548 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:46,720 Here, here, here. Here's what's, here's what he's 549 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,840 talking about here. All right, Jonah of Israel about 550 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,720 to go in the promised Land. That's what Deuteronomy is all 551 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,760 about. It's the second telling of the 552 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:54,800 law. They're about to go in the 553 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,560 Promised Land. Moses is giving his last 554 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,480 instructions because he's not going over with them. 555 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,240 And he's saying this. There's going to be another 556 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,760 generation who's going to get into the Promised land and 557 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,560 they're going to have all this good stuff. 558 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,560 And if you don't? Teach them why they have that 559 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,640 good stuff. Then they're going to get away 560 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,640 from God. So you make sure that you talk 561 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,120 to him about it all day. Listen, he says make sure your 562 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,280 clothing reflects that you're a believer in Jesus Christ. 563 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,160 There's something there, Amen. Make sure your clothing reflects 564 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,920 that you're a believer. And he says this, make sure your 565 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,400 home reflects you're a believer. Write it on the post of the 566 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,200 house. By the way, you can have a 567 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,960 little pillow in your house that says, you know, As for me and my 568 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,280 house, we serve the Lord. I think every believer has that 569 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,440 in their home. But I'll tell you, it's not just 570 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,800 having about a throw pillow or cross stitch on your wall. 571 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,960 It's about this. We're actively everyday 572 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,040 immersing our family in the word, by the way, how can you do 573 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,040 that? How can you do that if you're 574 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:58,400 not reading it yourself? Yeah, that went over about. 575 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,400 As well as I thought it would. I know, darling, that's how I 576 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:01,120 feel. I know. 577 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,640 How can you immerse your family in the word if you're not 578 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,560 immersed in it yourself? You cannot. 579 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,600 I'm not trying to get on to you this morning, but I'm just 580 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,080 saying this is the way it works is we've got to be immersed in 581 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,960 it. We've got to be reading it 582 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,520 because we can't pass on something that we're not in 583 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,920 ourselves or we pass it on to them without doing ourselves. 584 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,840 And overtime, you know what that breeds? 585 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,160 Rebellion because you are telling them to do something 586 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,720 that they see you're not doing yourself. 587 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:29,800 Hey, make sure you pray before bed. 588 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,320 And they say, well, I never see Dad pray. 589 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,840 I never see Mom pray. You do your devotions today and 590 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,920 they say, well, I don't know if I've ever seen mom and dad do 591 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,000 devotions. What do you do? 592 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,360 Have a family altar. Have a time where? 593 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:46,960 You say we can't do it every day. 594 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,200 Start with once a week just for 5 minutes. 595 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,480 We're going to read a couple Bible verses. 596 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,880 We're going to pray. We're asked for prayer requests. 597 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,520 Start small. Don't, don't say, well, we're 598 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,200 going to do it every day and we're going to do it for an 599 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,200 hour. Well, you know what's going to 600 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,880 happen? You've you're not going to do it 601 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,160 and you're going to quit. Let's do something small and 602 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,880 start from there. Can I tell you one of the 603 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,080 biggest regrets that I have as a father? 604 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,720 And it's easy for me to say these kind of things because 605 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,560 Diane's not in here. But we've, we've talked about 606 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,960 this before, was that I wasn't as faithful the family altar 607 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,320 that I wanted to be. Now I'm thankful we got good 608 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,360 girls that love the Lord. But I'll tell you what, the Lord 609 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:27,640 filled in a lot of gaps because Dad was too busy doing the work 610 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,840 of the ministry and I was trying to help everyone else and I 611 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,800 wasn't helping my own family like I should. 612 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,440 So what do we need to do? What do we need to do? 613 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,160 We need to make sure we immerse our families in God's Word. 614 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,400 So what do we do? We go and teach all nations the 615 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,640 Great Commission. Make sure your family save, do 616 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,520 all that you can. You teach them or baptize them 617 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,320 to immerse them in the Word of God, washing with the water of 618 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,840 the Word, and then teach them to obey. 619 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,240 Now go back to Psalm 127 very quickly. 620 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,120 Psalm 127. And no, I'm not sorry to have 621 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,680 you moving around your Bible. All right, Psalm 127. 622 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,040 It says this in verse. #3 lo, children are in heritage of the 623 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,280 Lord now. There's some days that don't 624 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,320 feel like that. There's some days you. 625 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:17,160 Say, Lord, I know they're a blessing, but right now I don't 626 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,480 feel like it. But they are blessing or in 627 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,120 heritage of the Lord. Fruit of the womb is His reward. 628 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,600 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are children of 629 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,960 the youth. Happy is the man that hath his 630 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,640 quiver full of him. They shall not be ashamed, but 631 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,480 they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. 632 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,400 Now it says happy as a man have quiver full of them. 633 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,560 You say, Does that mean that there's an amount of children 634 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,800 that we're supposed to have? Well, there are different 635 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,960 quivers for different things that they did. 636 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,040 There was no standard amount, but you have the amount of 637 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,280 children. The Lord has you and desires for 638 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,440 you to have that. That's that's between you and 639 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,640 the Lord. Don't ask me about telling you 640 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:52,960 how many children you ought to have. 641 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,640 That's not my business. I know a pastor who says 642 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:57,760 something like this. I'm not the priest. 643 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,320 Your home. And I don't want. 644 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:01,720 Not going to answer that question for you. 645 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:02,840 I'm not going to help you with that. 646 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,280 That's between you and the Lord. But I do know this. 647 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,160 It says as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are 648 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,800 children of the youth. Meaning this. 649 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,240 Are you ready where you point them as where they'll go. 650 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,400 Teach them. Teach them where you point and 651 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,160 they'll go. I've told you this story before, 652 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,720 at least some time ago when I was a Cub Scout, one of the 653 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,280 things that we had to do to get a badge was to go to do archery 654 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,360 and we had to go to an archery range. 655 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,560 And I remember going, I mean, I was probably like 7 or 8 years 656 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,080 old. I don't know how old I was, but 657 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,200 I was a Cub Scout. I never made it past weed blows, 658 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,200 you know, because I, I washed out. 659 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,560 So that was said I couldn't make it past that. 660 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,640 But I remember going the archery range and I had the, I was 661 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,280 pulling the arrow back and we're, we're, I think we're 662 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,080 indoors in an indoor archery range. 663 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,520 And someone said, Hey, Adam and I went like this. 664 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:54,360 What? What? 665 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,160 For some reason. Everyone ducked for some reason, 666 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,600 kids screaming for some reason I didn't get edge. 667 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:04,640 I can't imagine. Why? 668 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,440 Well, why? Why was everyone work? 669 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,040 Because where I pointed is where it's going to go. 670 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,920 Was at the range a few. Weeks ago and and I was with 671 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,040 brother Dave and I'm aiming at the target. 672 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:21,920 I'm telling you, I'm aiming at the target. 673 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,440 I'm sighted, right? This is a gun range, by the way, 674 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,280 this time, not a, not a, a, a archery range. 675 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,920 I've, I've given up the archery stuff all right, but it's gun 676 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,880 range. And, and it was funny because I, 677 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,240 I, I shot a couple times and I looked at that said, boy, those 678 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,120 holes are so small on the target that I can't even see them. 679 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,240 He says, well, that's because there are no holes on the 680 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,840 target. You missed the. 681 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,760 Target. I just thought they were just. 682 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,360 Really small. He said, no, no, you, you 683 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,280 missed. And so I was more careful 684 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,960 watching the next time and I, I shot, I missed the target. 685 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,440 I saw a little puff of dirt in the berm. 686 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,080 I was hitting the berm. I was hitting high. 687 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,200 Well, there's a lot of reasons for that, my mechanics and all 688 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,920 kind of different things. But you know, I I could look at 689 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,560 the gun and say, yo, this is a bad gun. 690 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,720 Or I could say the person holding the gun is a bad shot. 691 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,560 And it would be the second. Not the first the gun sighted, 692 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,040 right? If it's what it needs to be, 693 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,560 listen. It's what they call operational. 694 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,160 It's on me. Now listen. 695 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,600 I'll be careful how I say this. And I would be. 696 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,600 Very, very compassionate. How I say that. 697 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,840 I mean this in all sincerity. When your children grow older, 698 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,240 they have to make their own decisions. 699 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:38,800 You can do everything. Right. 700 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,400 You can get them to. Church, you can model that which 701 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:44,600 is right. You can see him saved. 702 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,120 You can see him baptized and listen, they have to make their 703 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:48,280 own decisions when they're older. 704 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:52,480 I am not preaching the fact that if you do everything right, they 705 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,360 will stay in church forever. And if they're not in church 706 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,920 that you are to blame. Listen, that's between you and 707 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,960 the Lord and I do know this. They have free will to do what 708 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,640 they need to do. And by the way, just because 709 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,280 they're still in church and serving the Lord when they're 710 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:07,680 older doesn't mean you did everything right. 711 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,600 Because I look at myself and I think. 712 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,480 I thank the Lord that we. Have two beautiful daughters 713 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,800 that are adults that are serving the Lord and doing right. 714 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,560 But I can't take the credit for that. 715 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,440 I mean, doesn't verse #1 talk about that except the Lord build 716 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,080 the house? But I will say this. 717 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,360 There's a general principle that's involved in here. 718 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,640 Point him in the right direction, point him in the 719 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,520 direction they need to go, and the Lord will do what only the 720 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,600 Lord will do. You know what I want my. 721 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,680 Children to do. I want them to know mom and dad 722 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,800 love Jesus. I want everything. 723 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,600 In my home, to point them to the fact that they love Jesus, That 724 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,440 we love Jesus. You know what that means? 725 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,000 That means we're careful about what we watch on TV. 726 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,640 You know why? Because the TV shows we watch 727 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,120 ought to show the fact that we're believers in Jesus Christ. 728 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,680 We're careful what we. Put on the screens in front of 729 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,280 them. You know why? 730 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,560 Because we want to make sure that everything they watch that 731 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,920 comes in front of their eyes helps them understand that we 732 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,600 believe in Jesus Christ. We want to make sure the. 733 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:18,679 Activities we partake in are all about this, that they are 734 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,080 understanding that we are Bible believers. 735 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,880 I'll say this, I want them to understand the activities we 736 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,159 don't participate in. That we don't. 737 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:30,960 Participate in help them understand that we're Bible 738 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,560 believers. Why do we? 739 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,280 Bring them to three services a week. 740 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,639 Why don't why pastor? Because you're a pastor. 741 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,840 Well, that is part of it, but I wasn't always a pastor. 742 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,920 There came a point in our lives where we said this. 743 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,800 Unless we can't be in the House of God, we're going to be in the 744 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,600 House of God. I don't want my children to ever 745 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,000 grow up in a home where they say this, Mom, dad, are we going to 746 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,560 church tomorrow? I want them to know if the doors 747 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,800 are open, we're going to church. That requires A sacrifice. 748 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,120 It does. But what are the end? 749 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,600 Results you're looking for. The end results I'm. 750 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:15,320 Looking for is this I want 1234 children to love Jesus when 751 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,960 they're not in my home anymore and I'm going to do everything 752 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:23,200 that I can to make sure that they look pointed in the right 753 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,760 way. So I teach them to observe those 754 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,640 things that they ought to now listen to this. 755 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,680 We're almost done. We're almost done because I have 756 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:34,720 to almost be done. Today. 757 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,400 Families will do whatever they need to do. 758 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,680 To give their children. Often times what they want. 759 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,760 Well, we want to want. Them in Little League with a 760 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:51,640 Little League is on Sunday. Well, we'll just do it this 761 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,880 time. Well, what will end up happening 762 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,920 is you've taught your children Little League is more important 763 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,640 than church. You say no, it's not that. 764 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,280 Severe. No, that's exactly what it is. 765 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,560 Well, hey, darling, how are you? Yes, I know. 766 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:05,480 I see you right there. Come on. 767 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:06,600 Right over there. There you go. 768 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,960 All right, you've, you've taught them it's more important. 769 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,040 Well, we've got these other things going on. 770 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,960 Listen, I know there's a lot of things going on. 771 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,320 I'm trying not to, I'm really trying. 772 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:21,840 I, I, I want to be compassionate about that. 773 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,840 I'm not trying to be hard nosed. But I want to say this, if 774 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,360 you're looking for the end result to be what it is, you got 775 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,600 to put something into the beginning. 776 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,920 Do you know why I? Don't have the physique? 777 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,640 Of someone. That has a bodybuilder. 778 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:40,800 I know some of you are surprised. 779 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,360 About this, but those kind of things. 780 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:44,880 Do you know why I don't have that? 781 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:49,200 There's a really good reason. I am put in the effort and I 782 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,640 can't imagine one day just say man, look, look, look, wow, 783 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:52,480 look. Look at that. 784 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:53,040 That's pretty. Good. 785 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,120 You know where they would have come from. 786 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,920 It would have appeared out of thin air because I didn't do a 787 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,840 thing about it. But eventually a day will come 788 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,880 where you'll look and say this. Where are they now? 789 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,840 And it'll be. Too late. 790 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,640 The kids won't go to the major leagues, they won't go to the 791 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,480 NBA, they won't go to do those things. 792 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,280 But you do want them to be believers now. 793 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,840 Let me give you 2. 2 examples from my 2 oldest children and 794 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,720 then I'll be done. Bethany came up to me some time 795 00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:33,160 ago and to Diane and said that her, her, and I'm not saying 796 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,840 anything that hasn't been said here, just to be clear that her 797 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,480 desire was to go into the military. 798 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,080 This was when she was about. 16 years old, there's a part of a 799 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,920 dad's heart that's like serving the country. 800 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,760 You know, that's awesome. And, and I never served because, 801 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,000 well, you know, you know, anyway, you know, you can figure 802 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,240 out why. But our country is safer with me 803 00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:00,840 not serving. But in my heart. 804 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,280 I said I don't know if this is what. 805 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,600 So we said, you know. Girl, we're going to whatever 806 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,320 God has for you. That's what we want and we're 807 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,720 going to pray. And God brought her through a a 808 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,080 situation or not brought her through a situation, brought her 809 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,880 through a process where she realized that God really wanted 810 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,560 her in the ministry. But here's what I told her. 811 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:21,600 This is the only reason I say that. 812 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,640 I told her this. I said, you know, my fear of you 813 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:31,920 going to the military is not that you go to some hot spot on 814 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:36,080 the planet and that you give your life or even or are injured 815 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,200 as. I know God will. 816 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,080 Have you where he needs you? I said. 817 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,480 My fear is this, that you come back unrecognizable as a 818 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,480 believer. I said because that would. 819 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,320 Do more to me than anything. I want you to be a believer so 820 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,040 you figure out where God wants you and we'll support you. 821 00:38:54,440 --> 00:39:00,120 But you make sure of that. Kaylee several years ago, you 822 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:01,520 know, homeschooler. I don't know if, you know, she's 823 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,720 homeschool, but anyway, they all are homeschooled. 824 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:04,880 That was kind of a joke. That's all right. 825 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,200 But you know, those homeschoolers, you know, they 826 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,920 have no personality. You know, they were afraid of 827 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,080 people, all that stuff. Payne's a homeschooler, you 828 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,080 know, So that's why, that's why she's such a wallflower. 829 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,680 But anyway, you say, who did she talk to all day? 830 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,560 Us. And she don't. 831 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,480 Stop. That's why I work here, all 832 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,560 right. But anyway, don't record that, 833 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:26,920 let's delete that. But anyway. 834 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:30,560 Kaylee. A few years ago said something 835 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,600 to this. She, she, she want to get into 836 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:37,560 performing arts. And there was a, a Christian 837 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,800 place where she could go and, and do plays and those kind of 838 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,240 things. And it was over in Lexington, I 839 00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:45,680 think, you know, somewhere around there. 840 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,320 And we looked at it. Christian organization. 841 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,480 All right, we'll do it. There's one problem. 842 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,440 There was a dress rehearsal on a Wednesday night now. 843 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:55,400 Listen, you're going to think I'm. 844 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,720 Extreme. That's OK. 845 00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,720 Dress rehearsal, right? Just a dress rehearsal. 846 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,280 And I asked him, I said, you know, this is what we believe, 847 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,320 you're a Christian organization, can we get it or have the dress 848 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:05,760 rehearsal on Wednesday? I said no, you got to, you got 849 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,320 to be all in. And I get that. 850 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,640 That's their prerogative. But I made the. 851 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,520 Very hard decision and it was hard. 852 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,320 Tell Kayla. I said, you know what, we go to 853 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,480 church on Wednesday night, he said. 854 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,280 Well, Wednesday night's just Wednesday night, I. 855 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,400 Mean it's just Wednesday. Wednesday night, Pastor, what's 856 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,720 the matter with you? I'll be honest, there was even a 857 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:28,440 part of my heart. It was kind of, am I being too 858 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,040 tough through that? We ended up finding another, 859 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,040 better Christian organization. Of which she. 860 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:43,320 Met Casey Gaudette, who will now hopefully, well, maybe 861 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:49,560 hopefully, yeah, so be her husband here in a few months 862 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:55,560 that if I had said yes to that would she had missed out on 863 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,120 God's will for her life. Now God works all these things 864 00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,040 out. But you understand what I'm 865 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,440 saying. I thought I was being. 866 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,520 Bad to her. I ended up doing the very. 867 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,320 Best thing for her? By just saying we're going to. 868 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,400 Hold the line here. Now. 869 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,840 Do you do it in love? You do it. 870 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:15,040 Don't be do it to be a jerk, but you do it because it's the right 871 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,080 thing. Listen, it's a heavy burden to 872 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,920 be a home missionary. It's serious. 873 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,560 Don't put more effort into your hobbies. 874 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:25,840 Don't put more efforts into your money. 875 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,760 Don't put more efforts into all those other things than you do 876 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,360 with your children. Your grandchildren. 877 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,320 Why? Because we know as we get older 878 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,240 that you would you would cut off your right arm. 879 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,440 To have your children be. Where they ought to be. 880 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,400 You would give all the money you accrued for your children to be 881 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,160 where they ought to be. So what do we do? 882 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,320 Let's be home missionaries and reach our children. 883 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,640 Thank you for listening. To the sermon from the pulpit of 884 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,560 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 885 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,040 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 886 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,640 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 887 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:08,440 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 888 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,280 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 889 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:12,480 grow in His Word.