WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.200 It's good to be part of that, isn't it? 00:19.200 --> 00:22.080 David, do you love your sweetheart? 00:22.080 --> 00:24.080 I think so. 00:24.080 --> 00:29.360 That's what it's all about, really, and, Dal, bless your heart. 00:29.360 --> 00:36.040 If I don't know when you needed a dog, I could have you given my wonderful dog. 00:36.040 --> 00:39.560 We call her Miss Gregorius. 00:39.560 --> 00:44.680 She wanders a bit, but I just love her, and I would have shared her gladly with you, 00:44.680 --> 00:47.920 had you needed something wonderful like a big black beagle. 00:47.920 --> 00:54.320 A little retarded, but adequate. 00:54.320 --> 01:01.240 Let's turn to Joshua, chapter 24, verse 31. 01:01.240 --> 01:05.920 And God is addressing His people, Israel, and that's a picture of you and me, His people. 01:05.920 --> 01:07.880 We are the church. 01:07.880 --> 01:13.400 And He said these words, Israel served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and 01:13.400 --> 01:18.160 of the elders who had experienced everything the Lord had done. 01:18.160 --> 01:20.080 We see that in every generation, don't we? 01:20.080 --> 01:24.640 I think a lot of people now are longing for the good old days when a man's handshake 01:24.640 --> 01:30.160 was enough where honor and integrity was rampant on the face of the earth instead of what's 01:30.160 --> 01:31.660 happening now. 01:31.660 --> 01:36.800 I think all of us would like to go back to the good old days in many, many respects simply 01:36.800 --> 01:42.040 because times are changing, and we're going to see here that in a page, by the way, this 01:42.040 --> 01:50.600 was written to Israel, God's people, around 1451 and no later than 1425. 01:50.600 --> 01:54.200 We're going to turn over one page, and I'd title this sermon, if you would, just one 01:54.200 --> 01:57.960 page over, just one page over. 01:57.960 --> 02:02.280 And you know, sometimes you can't always give it a chronicle asignation, but you can in 02:02.280 --> 02:03.760 this case. 02:03.760 --> 02:10.320 It is less than a generation that a profound event takes place, the old passes away, and 02:10.320 --> 02:16.200 the avant-garde, the new guard takes over, the hip generation, the new generation takes 02:16.200 --> 02:17.200 over. 02:17.200 --> 02:22.160 And if you would, then turn over to Judges chapter 2, verse 10, that's just a page away 02:22.160 --> 02:23.160 in my Bible. 02:23.160 --> 02:26.480 If you've got a little bitty Bible, it may be several pages. 02:26.480 --> 02:33.480 But with Spirozodietes, a big inner linear error that's got every Hebrew and Greek word 02:33.480 --> 02:38.160 in it, and I can give it to you in about 30 seconds if you're curious about any one of 02:38.160 --> 02:43.480 the words that I talk about today, it's just one page over. 02:43.480 --> 02:50.120 Let me point out what radical things can happen in just a page, in less than a generation, 02:50.120 --> 02:52.680 if you will, in the twinkling of an eye. 02:52.680 --> 02:59.120 Reading from Judges 2.10, it says this, after the whole generation had been gathered together 02:59.120 --> 03:02.840 to their fathers, another generation grew up. 03:02.840 --> 03:04.480 You know, that's irritating to me. 03:04.480 --> 03:07.840 It seems like that's happening too fast. 03:07.840 --> 03:10.560 You younger folks, just slow down a bit. 03:10.560 --> 03:13.200 I'm not ready to be crowded out. 03:13.200 --> 03:14.960 It's happening too fast. 03:14.960 --> 03:21.680 And that generation were gathered unto their fathers who a new generation presupposes grew 03:21.680 --> 03:27.680 up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done. 03:27.680 --> 03:30.880 If you think, well, that's a little far-fetched preach, man. 03:30.880 --> 03:34.000 You can't just say it's just one page away. 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 That has no relevance. 03:35.000 --> 03:36.800 Well, it really does. 03:36.800 --> 03:44.240 Because in Judges 2.11, it also says the same thing, in between 10 and 11, we see that the 03:44.240 --> 03:48.880 new generation takes on a new God, and that Lord, that God was Baal. 03:48.880 --> 03:53.600 You've heard of Baal before, Zerubba Baal. 03:53.600 --> 03:57.480 And Lord Mithra is just another Baal. 03:57.480 --> 04:01.280 And all the pagan gods of the world are just another Baal. 04:01.280 --> 04:04.520 And Baal is simply a word for Lord. 04:04.520 --> 04:09.380 And I pray to God that that's the problem that's so clearly defined today. 04:09.380 --> 04:12.080 There are new Lords with new generations. 04:12.080 --> 04:17.720 And the old generation is passing away who had a different standard, a higher standard, 04:17.720 --> 04:23.480 a better standard, as indeed in ancient Israel, the Word of God is the best standard that 04:23.480 --> 04:29.720 any people can ever have, and is the standard for all men of all ages. 04:29.720 --> 04:33.040 There is no better standard to build your life upon. 04:33.040 --> 04:39.800 And I mean that not just to read the pretty words, but to order your life, to raise your 04:39.800 --> 04:47.120 children by, to have hope in something more than just simply a better insurance program 04:47.120 --> 04:49.640 someday if it ever happens. 04:49.640 --> 04:51.720 If indeed it ever happens. 04:51.720 --> 04:56.440 Now it doesn't take long for one generation to be preceded by another. 04:56.440 --> 05:03.280 At the most, learned people who count up generations declare that probably 40 years 05:03.280 --> 05:06.040 is a sensible length of time for a generation. 05:06.040 --> 05:10.040 Stop thinking about it in your own mind, that's probably about right, isn't it? 05:10.040 --> 05:14.640 Allows us teeny-boppers to grow up, have children, and then see our grandchildren come along. 05:14.640 --> 05:17.160 About a span of 40 years. 05:17.160 --> 05:24.040 And many people date geologic and theologic reckoning, archeological reckoning, by a period 05:24.040 --> 05:25.040 of 40 years. 05:25.040 --> 05:27.680 But give or take doesn't really matter. 05:27.680 --> 05:32.440 In less than a twinkling of an eye, in less than a generation, in less than 40 years, 05:32.440 --> 05:34.600 a whole new order can happen. 05:34.600 --> 05:40.880 If the church is to survive, if your family is to survive, it has to be within your time, 05:40.880 --> 05:41.880 your generation. 05:41.880 --> 05:46.960 And we have to be very careful of the upcoming generation because it doesn't take long. 05:46.960 --> 05:52.600 I look to Russia, my heart is there, having been there, having passed out Bibles and since 05:52.600 --> 05:58.560 you've given generously to those poor people without the church, without the real church. 05:58.560 --> 06:02.480 For 75 years you couldn't even meet in the name of Jesus. 06:02.480 --> 06:07.000 Read the book of Vanya if you think this is just prefabrication. 06:07.000 --> 06:13.280 Read what happened to Vanya simply because he confessed the Lord Jesus Christ as his 06:13.280 --> 06:14.280 master. 06:14.280 --> 06:22.360 And my, the people of Russia are now begging for the morality and the ethical society which 06:22.360 --> 06:23.720 we have in America. 06:23.720 --> 06:26.380 See, they're never going to have capitalism. 06:26.380 --> 06:30.500 They're never going to do business because they don't know what honor and integrity is. 06:30.500 --> 06:33.920 They don't know that there's a handshake that can make a thing binding. 06:33.920 --> 06:36.880 They don't understand that you have to keep your word. 06:36.880 --> 06:38.480 They don't really understand that. 06:38.480 --> 06:42.340 And many people in high places say, we don't know you're Jesus. 06:42.340 --> 06:45.680 We don't even believe in Him, but you do. 06:45.680 --> 06:51.160 And somehow or another, you can have honor and a democracy because you see, democracy 06:51.160 --> 06:54.840 means you fill out your income tax and turn it in without cheating, doesn't it? 06:54.840 --> 06:58.240 Well, now, essentially. 06:58.240 --> 07:02.440 And it doesn't work if all of us would cheat, see, on the standards. 07:02.440 --> 07:07.000 That's why you have to read Romans 13 and say there is a higher standing. 07:07.000 --> 07:12.520 And you need to know that authority comes from God and we need to all abide in an authority. 07:12.520 --> 07:14.640 That means I can't run the red light. 07:14.640 --> 07:16.140 I may not. 07:16.140 --> 07:22.540 Because whether anyone is watching or not, that's the way that our government has ordained 07:22.540 --> 07:24.640 we should treat red lights. 07:24.640 --> 07:29.660 We must stop when it is time to stop because there's always a possibility of error. 07:29.660 --> 07:36.460 And if we will all, on scouts' honor, do that thing, we shall all live a better life. 07:36.460 --> 07:37.460 Yes. 07:37.460 --> 07:39.500 The soldier eats and cried out. 07:39.500 --> 07:43.540 The prophet of Russia is saying, men have forgotten God. 07:43.540 --> 07:44.900 I believe he was right. 07:44.900 --> 07:48.620 What a wonderful Latter-day Saint he truly is. 07:48.620 --> 07:49.940 He knew God. 07:49.940 --> 07:53.860 By the way, he found Jesus in a dark prison camp. 07:53.860 --> 07:58.700 You ought to read some of his writings, how profound and deep they are. 07:58.700 --> 08:03.980 This is not a baby fat Christian whose biggest problem is a headache or lumps on their leg 08:03.980 --> 08:06.180 or some other goofy thing. 08:06.180 --> 08:13.900 This is a man who was tortured near to death, who spent years, decades of his life suffering 08:13.900 --> 08:16.460 for the Jesus that he knew. 08:16.460 --> 08:22.300 And he spoke before a snooty crowd of Yale and Princeton students and universities, and 08:22.300 --> 08:25.980 they booed and hissed at his philosophy. 08:25.980 --> 08:31.420 And I wouldn't give you all of Yale or Princeton or two cents worth of anything else for one 08:31.420 --> 08:37.980 soldier in Eatson, for he has suffered for the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the 08:37.980 --> 08:42.020 Yaleites have suffered nothing except their own ignorance. 08:42.020 --> 08:48.020 Now listen to Matthew 28, 18 through 20, go, he said, Jesus is speaking, all authority 08:48.020 --> 08:55.980 is given unto me, teach, baptize, teach again, teaching them to do whatsoever I have commanded 08:55.980 --> 08:58.300 you, and lo, I will be with you until the end of the world. 08:58.300 --> 09:00.740 So here's the focus of the sermon. 09:00.740 --> 09:05.980 I don't care what your gifts are in the church, and I don't care, I can name them all. 09:05.980 --> 09:12.860 You can probably, too, Ephesians 4 and Romans 12, and those are simply saying that there's 09:12.860 --> 09:17.580 a lot of parts to the body, but there's one thing the church is given to do, what all 09:17.580 --> 09:21.180 your talents may be, somebody's got to teach. 09:21.180 --> 09:28.940 And so I focus on what Hegel, the great unbeliever, had to say, I show you a mystery. 09:28.940 --> 09:33.860 Now he was a great intellect for his day, about the turn of the century, it was he who ushered 09:33.860 --> 09:42.020 in in genetics, and in science, more than probably Darwin himself, the concept of atheism 09:42.020 --> 09:49.580 that we see in the evolutionary concept, from goo to zoo to you, from a feckless blob of 09:49.580 --> 09:55.380 protoplasm to genololabrigida, in one smashing ascendancy. 09:55.380 --> 10:00.900 He says we are from the primordial slives, and then cheated to show it in many of his 10:00.900 --> 10:06.980 drawings, as he showed that ontogeny tried to capitulate, recapitulate, phylogyne had 10:06.980 --> 10:12.020 trouble saying it, there must be something wrong with me, because I love to say it. 10:12.020 --> 10:17.980 And so the man lied, a great intellect, why does a great intellect have to lie about anything? 10:17.980 --> 10:22.900 Because you're trying to prove something, maybe, that's shaky in the beginning. 10:22.900 --> 10:23.900 Things need to be taught. 10:23.900 --> 10:26.720 What was that mystery that great Hegel had to say? 10:26.720 --> 10:33.800 He said this is the mystery, that the Jews have maintained their integrity, though dispersed 10:33.800 --> 10:38.800 in the diaspora, across the face of the earth. 10:38.800 --> 10:48.200 The Jews remain Jews wherever they are, Russia, France, America, England, Timbuktu, or the 10:48.200 --> 10:54.840 cold Arctic, and why do the Jews maintain their faith? 10:54.840 --> 11:02.840 It is because of the precious family, a family philosophy of religion, a patriarchal, a papa's 11:02.840 --> 11:08.840 in charge, and the mama's glad of it, and the children prosper because of that. 11:08.840 --> 11:12.520 See, man, that's really corner, man, doesn't it sound liberated? 11:12.520 --> 11:16.080 That's liberated by God Almighty Himself. 11:16.080 --> 11:18.640 That's the way you're to do business in your family. 11:18.640 --> 11:22.720 I cry out, I have only two small points. 11:22.720 --> 11:29.440 Family devotions should be the heart and the soul of the years to come in your worship. 11:29.440 --> 11:36.080 Now, it is wonderful, it is a physical command to be here on the Lord's day. 11:36.080 --> 11:42.880 Whether you agree or like it or not, He says, forsake not the assembly of yourselves together 11:42.880 --> 11:44.520 as the custom of some is. 11:44.520 --> 11:49.040 But you continue the more, as you see that day drawing nigh, it's what day drawing nigh? 11:49.040 --> 11:52.000 The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 11:52.000 --> 11:59.200 Now, you can say, man, this is corny, I'm a school teacher, I'm a Bible school teacher, 11:59.200 --> 12:06.760 I teach in VBS, I teach from time to time, hey friend, it may require more than that. 12:06.760 --> 12:14.480 The didactic mission of the church, the instructive mission of the church is to teach where you 12:14.480 --> 12:17.440 don't teach them, something about baptism, because they're baptized, and actually had 12:17.440 --> 12:19.080 to teach them something about that. 12:19.080 --> 12:24.960 But then He said, teaching them on and on and on, odd infanny tomb till it quits. 12:24.960 --> 12:30.120 You can't just stay with baptism, that's for beginners, that's the born again part. 12:30.120 --> 12:34.920 But all of our life is a teaching and learning experience, and it's so important, that's 12:34.920 --> 12:36.960 the thrust of the church. 12:36.960 --> 12:39.000 And that's how the Jews survive. 12:39.000 --> 12:42.640 The mama and the papa, they gathered around and they read their Bible. 12:43.240 --> 12:48.000 Now, we don't do that, well, I'm suggesting you should. 12:48.000 --> 12:52.680 I think it's very, very important what the church can't do, you are still obligated 12:52.680 --> 12:53.680 to do. 12:53.680 --> 12:54.680 Do we understand that? 12:54.680 --> 12:57.320 So we say, well, the church can't do this, the church can't do that. 12:57.320 --> 13:02.400 The church needs inspired moms and dads as well, the church cannot do it. 13:02.400 --> 13:07.000 Now the church does an awful fine job, did you know of the 34 people ordained to full 13:07.000 --> 13:10.720 time ministry from this small congregation? 13:10.720 --> 13:15.280 About a third of them came from Godless believers, disbelievers. 13:15.280 --> 13:19.200 They didn't even come with their children to the church. 13:19.200 --> 13:20.840 Don't you ever let that happen to you. 13:20.840 --> 13:27.600 If you're a man, act like a man and bring that boy, bring that girl and sit together. 13:27.600 --> 13:31.240 And if you don't have the guts to do that, then Fred, you gather them in the morning 13:31.240 --> 13:35.200 or in the evening or whenever you're with your children and hold that little boy and 13:35.200 --> 13:41.040 hold that little girl and read the Bible, listen to them stumble through their scriptures. 13:41.040 --> 13:44.200 We don't care if they don't pronounce the words right. 13:44.200 --> 13:47.320 We don't care if we say, well, hey, you're just giving me another thing to have to do. 13:47.320 --> 13:49.720 I've got plenty of things to do in the kingdom of God. 13:49.720 --> 13:50.720 No, you don't. 13:50.720 --> 13:52.360 You're not that busy. 13:52.360 --> 13:58.160 All of us can find the time to hold our boys and girls and speak about Jesus. 13:58.160 --> 14:00.640 That's the thing you ought to do. 14:00.640 --> 14:01.960 Why do you eat oatmeal cookies? 14:01.960 --> 14:05.640 I know that old guy with a mustache says, of course, it's the right thing to do. 14:05.640 --> 14:10.760 Well, I tell you, Hegel declared that our people spread across the face of the earth, 14:10.760 --> 14:15.800 still maintain their religious integrity because of the family. 14:15.800 --> 14:21.960 It was a family that did not divide, but a family that was held together around God's 14:21.960 --> 14:22.960 precepts. 14:22.960 --> 14:25.160 That's all they had was the Old Testament. 14:25.160 --> 14:27.240 Did that old boy know his Old Testament? 14:27.240 --> 14:32.680 Yes, friend, there wasn't a kid raised in all Jerusalem city who couldn't give you 14:32.680 --> 14:38.800 all 31 chapters of the book of Proverbs, and we, bellyache and gripe about, oh, I've got 14:38.800 --> 14:43.160 to commit to memory, Jesus wept. 14:43.160 --> 14:49.520 Every kid growing up at his papa and his mother's side understood all of the verses 14:49.520 --> 14:53.120 of the full 31 chapters of the book of Proverbs. 14:53.120 --> 14:54.640 That's why they were held together. 14:54.640 --> 14:59.440 In the Job 1.5, that requires a little sacrifice, family devotion. 14:59.440 --> 15:03.640 It requires maybe a little bit of, you don't have to study to do that. 15:03.640 --> 15:10.080 Just open up to any of the gospels, God's spiel, God's good tidings, God's good news. 15:10.080 --> 15:11.640 That's good tidings, isn't it? 15:11.640 --> 15:19.400 Jesus came for sinners, such as we, and He conquered death that we might have eternal 15:19.400 --> 15:20.400 life. 15:20.400 --> 15:21.400 That's cool, man. 15:21.400 --> 15:28.480 You don't have to apologize to a punk kid because you're teaching them the Word of God. 15:28.480 --> 15:29.480 What a blessing it is. 15:29.480 --> 15:35.000 It takes a strong man to be able to have the courage, just like going down to the jail 15:35.000 --> 15:36.160 and playing your flute. 15:36.160 --> 15:39.600 You've got to be Mr. Studley to do that. 15:39.600 --> 15:45.040 It takes a man to preach the good tidings of the Lord Jesus Christ. 15:45.040 --> 15:49.280 We're approaching an age when you may pay a price for that. 15:49.280 --> 15:51.880 Practice it with your own babies. 15:51.880 --> 15:52.880 Practice it. 15:52.880 --> 15:53.880 Listen to what Job did. 15:53.880 --> 15:54.880 This is profound. 15:54.880 --> 15:55.880 Job 1.5. 15:55.880 --> 16:00.560 Early in the morning, he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking this, 16:00.560 --> 16:06.400 perhaps my children have sinned and have cursed God in their hearts. 16:06.400 --> 16:07.680 And what did this old boy do? 16:07.680 --> 16:10.920 I get nauseous when I go deer hunting at four in the morning. 16:10.920 --> 16:15.680 I think it's disgusting what the sun does when it comes up early in the morning. 16:15.800 --> 16:19.120 That full hen keeps crawling. 16:19.120 --> 16:20.240 It's disgusting. 16:20.240 --> 16:22.280 There's nothing going on in the morning. 16:22.280 --> 16:29.480 And this man takes his time and prays and gives offerings in behalf of his children just 16:29.480 --> 16:32.440 in case they had sinned. 16:32.440 --> 16:35.640 That's painful. 16:35.640 --> 16:38.880 It's nauseous getting up in the morning, but it's worth it. 16:38.880 --> 16:39.880 It's your babies. 16:39.880 --> 16:41.480 It's your kids. 16:41.480 --> 16:44.880 You need a devotional time. 16:44.880 --> 16:49.000 It's a sacrifice, but it's a sweet sacrifice. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.160 That's the best kind. 16:51.160 --> 16:54.360 How big are the plans that you have for your kids? 16:54.360 --> 16:58.360 I think as you pray with that little guy, I think as you correct him, as he makes a 16:58.360 --> 17:03.240 mistake in his scripture reading or her scripture reading, and be sure the little girls get 17:03.240 --> 17:05.760 their part in this business too. 17:05.760 --> 17:10.080 In the long run, they'll probably affect more people than the boys will. 17:10.080 --> 17:16.440 You better give those little girls every ounce of spiritual encouragement that you can give 17:16.440 --> 17:23.240 with them, and especially devoted attention and family devotions really cause those little 17:23.240 --> 17:26.520 girls to profit as well as the little boys. 17:26.520 --> 17:28.000 How big are those plans? 17:28.000 --> 17:33.040 Well, I'll tell you, it's like the picture of God's plans for His people, Jeremiah 29, 17:33.040 --> 17:37.160 11, for I know the plans that I have for you. 17:37.160 --> 17:43.840 This is God, not wishy-washy God we hear of, how Jesus kind of thought that maybe He 17:43.840 --> 17:49.880 was the Redeemer, and He was deluded in all this phony baloney that you're hearing now. 17:49.880 --> 17:51.880 Jesus knew He was the Redeemer. 17:51.880 --> 17:57.640 Job had already announced, I know I have a Redeemer who lives, and His name was still 17:57.640 --> 17:58.640 Jesus. 17:58.640 --> 18:02.720 For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and 18:02.720 --> 18:07.240 not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and to give you a future. 18:07.240 --> 18:10.640 As you sit around in your family devotions and you talk to your little boys and your 18:10.640 --> 18:16.680 little girls, if it's just the two old folks, it doesn't matter, talk to one another about 18:16.680 --> 18:25.960 the plans that God has for you if you're 85, if you're 54, if you're 37, if you're 19, 18:25.960 --> 18:27.680 or if you're six. 18:27.680 --> 18:34.240 God still has plans for each one of us, and it was to profit us, and it would be good 18:34.240 --> 18:35.400 for us. 18:35.400 --> 18:41.600 That's the exciting good news of Jesus' life, His death, and His burial, His resurrection. 18:41.600 --> 18:47.520 If Jesus was successful in conquering the grave, then I am successful. 18:47.520 --> 18:52.200 Let's see, that's a contingent preposition, this kind of a twitty thing. 18:52.200 --> 18:57.440 I know Jesus was raised, therefore I am raised with Him. 18:57.440 --> 19:01.760 The one thing I know in this veil of tears is that was an empty grave those folks went 19:01.760 --> 19:03.480 to see. 19:03.480 --> 19:07.040 And old Mary cried out, it's empty, it's empty, it's empty. 19:07.040 --> 19:12.920 Why sure enough, honey, He's gone to sit at His Father's right hand. 19:12.920 --> 19:17.880 He reappears for a few weeks, and then He sends into heaven with the clouds to be with 19:17.880 --> 19:18.880 His Father. 19:19.600 --> 19:25.840 Now listen to Deuteronomy 6, verse 4 through 9, we read 4 and 5, we're in a hurry, it says 19:25.840 --> 19:30.640 verse 6, and these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in your heart. 19:30.640 --> 19:32.680 Now how do words get in your heart? 19:32.680 --> 19:39.160 Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, thou shalt talk of them when you 19:39.160 --> 19:44.160 sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 19:44.160 --> 19:47.480 I wonder what that excludes during the day. 19:47.480 --> 19:53.600 He doesn't talk about some pompous time where you preach a sermon from notes. 19:53.600 --> 19:54.600 Not really does it. 19:54.600 --> 19:59.040 It comes from the heart, Mom and Dad, and thou shalt bind them for a sign up on your hand, 19:59.040 --> 20:01.760 and they shall be as frontlets between the eye. 20:01.760 --> 20:06.800 That was because they knew the mind was up here, and that you had to get to a person's 20:06.800 --> 20:09.880 mind if it's to really reach their heart. 20:09.880 --> 20:15.000 And thou shalt write them on the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.840 You entered in, you saw the Word of God. 20:16.840 --> 20:18.520 When you left, you saw the Word of God. 20:18.520 --> 20:25.920 It was your protection for in the house, in the home, was sustenance to live forever, 20:25.920 --> 20:28.800 and to encourage your children into eternal things. 20:28.800 --> 20:33.280 Listen to Proverbs 1-8, Listen, my son, to your papa's instruction, and do not forsake 20:33.280 --> 20:35.400 your mother's teaching. 20:35.400 --> 20:39.160 I see evidence because sometimes it's hard to get teachers at the lower level. 20:39.160 --> 20:40.160 Why is that? 20:40.160 --> 20:41.560 The kids don't behave for a woman. 20:41.560 --> 20:43.440 You know why that is? 20:43.440 --> 20:45.920 Because they don't behave for her at home. 20:45.920 --> 20:50.040 And there's something papa has been remiss because he doesn't enforce what mama says 20:50.040 --> 20:51.440 at home. 20:51.440 --> 20:57.240 And let me tell you, big daddies, if the mother says something, you better verify what she 20:57.240 --> 21:06.600 says for that child is to obey both you and she and her, forgive me, obey both you and 21:06.600 --> 21:07.880 her. 21:07.880 --> 21:10.120 And that's important to realize. 21:10.120 --> 21:16.120 And therefore, man or woman, she commands respect because she's diligently teaching 21:16.120 --> 21:17.120 the Word of God. 21:17.120 --> 21:22.560 Ephesians 6-4, fathers, don't exasperate your children, instead bring them up in the training 21:22.560 --> 21:25.280 and the instruction of the Lord. 21:25.280 --> 21:29.560 I read that from NIV, King Jesus said, don't provoke your kids. 21:29.560 --> 21:34.120 You know folks who bait their kids, who provoke their children, somehow or another, the schism 21:34.120 --> 21:35.120 between them? 21:35.120 --> 21:36.680 They haven't gone on to the idea. 21:36.680 --> 21:44.960 I looked up what Spiros had to say and he said, that word is really, don't anger alongside 21:44.960 --> 21:46.160 you. 21:46.160 --> 21:50.400 Don't cause anger at ones that are close to standing next to you. 21:50.400 --> 21:51.400 And that's sometimes the case. 21:51.400 --> 21:53.120 Who do we exasperate the most? 21:53.120 --> 21:57.120 The ones we love the most, the ones we're nearest, the ones we're around all the time. 21:57.120 --> 22:00.040 I don't anger a lot of people because I'm not around them much. 22:00.040 --> 22:02.920 That's a good prayer, keep away from me. 22:02.920 --> 22:05.760 I can live with you better that way. 22:05.760 --> 22:10.520 It takes a more noble spirit to live with someone all their life than to ignore the 22:10.520 --> 22:12.840 most of their life, doesn't it? 22:12.840 --> 22:15.600 You get in problem. 22:15.600 --> 22:18.320 Don't exasperate your children. 22:18.320 --> 22:19.400 What is your function? 22:19.400 --> 22:22.480 There he defines the function, doesn't it? 22:22.480 --> 22:28.880 Instead bring them up in the training and in the admonition, or this version says, the 22:28.880 --> 22:32.000 instruction of the Lord. 22:32.000 --> 22:41.400 And then lastly, there is a reason that we're just a page away from chaos. 22:41.400 --> 22:46.480 There is a reason that it may be just one generation and we could lose the church. 22:46.480 --> 22:47.960 We could lose our Christianity. 22:47.960 --> 22:50.520 We could lose Godly America. 22:50.520 --> 22:52.600 We could give it all up and lose it all. 22:52.600 --> 22:58.240 It can happen in the twinkling of an eye. 22:58.240 --> 22:59.400 I'm kind of excited. 22:59.400 --> 23:01.680 I was hoping there'd be seven baptisms this week. 23:01.680 --> 23:04.120 It may not happen. 23:04.120 --> 23:09.640 Well, can't say we didn't try and someone will say, well, I'll show you, Mouthey. 23:09.640 --> 23:13.920 No, I won't show me anything because I got a dream. 23:13.920 --> 23:15.440 You got a dream. 23:15.440 --> 23:19.040 Brian and Chuck and I got a dream. 23:19.040 --> 23:21.840 We got a young man down at the jail. 23:21.840 --> 23:23.120 His first name is Ortiz. 23:23.120 --> 23:24.120 He's going to be baptized. 23:24.120 --> 23:29.160 He'd like to be here with you this morning, so he could, but in just a few weeks he will. 23:29.160 --> 23:30.160 He needs to start over. 23:30.160 --> 23:32.320 You know what the man said to us? 23:32.320 --> 23:39.840 He said, since I was five, my parents have offered me liquor. 23:39.840 --> 23:41.680 Does he have a drinking problem? 23:41.680 --> 23:44.360 Yeah, he does. 23:44.360 --> 23:48.400 But he realizes he has to be born again if he's going to conquer. 23:48.400 --> 23:53.560 I really think there's some sin so powerful that without the Holy Spirit of God, you're 23:53.560 --> 23:56.640 probably incompetent to solve the problem. 23:56.640 --> 23:58.640 You can say that's corny. 23:58.640 --> 24:00.080 But I don't think so. 24:00.080 --> 24:03.920 I believe that's from the mouth and the lips of God. 24:03.920 --> 24:05.040 Discipline is all important. 24:05.040 --> 24:09.800 Some people are so afraid of discipline, they think of punishment, and that may go with 24:09.800 --> 24:10.800 it. 24:10.800 --> 24:13.040 But disco is the base root. 24:13.040 --> 24:18.120 See, not disco tech, not disco dancing, but discovery. 24:18.120 --> 24:23.320 Disciple is one who is a learner of one who has much learning. 24:23.320 --> 24:24.800 And I learned a lot from Jesus. 24:24.800 --> 24:26.720 How about you? 24:26.720 --> 24:28.520 I still have a lot to learn. 24:28.520 --> 24:30.000 Praise God for that. 24:30.000 --> 24:31.280 Let me share with you. 24:31.280 --> 24:35.280 I told you once I have a big, ugly brother. 24:35.280 --> 24:39.600 He's my little brother and he's a pretty guy, his curly hair, natural curly hair. 24:39.600 --> 24:42.320 Everything always went up great for Pat. 24:42.320 --> 24:49.920 My mama one time says, well, Al, Jerry Pat's got all the looks and he has the personality 24:49.920 --> 24:55.160 and the girls really think he's tremendous, but you've got a fair mind. 24:55.200 --> 24:57.520 Maybe you can make something of that. 24:57.520 --> 25:02.520 I said, well, that's better than not having a fair mind, I guess. 25:02.520 --> 25:04.240 I don't know what you meant by a fair mind. 25:04.240 --> 25:06.200 She didn't even say you had a good mind. 25:06.200 --> 25:08.840 But you know, capitalize on as much as you could. 25:08.840 --> 25:13.840 He called me an SOB one time in front of Big My Moon. 25:13.840 --> 25:15.720 Now you see, you say, oh, that's shocking. 25:15.720 --> 25:16.720 Why? 25:16.720 --> 25:19.520 You can say anything you want to if you don't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. 25:19.520 --> 25:22.200 What's wrong with that? 25:22.200 --> 25:28.600 And mama was a good woman, but she didn't have the help of her husband until he was 25:28.600 --> 25:29.960 in his 80. 25:29.960 --> 25:36.920 He finally understood Jesus should have been the Lord of his life. 25:36.920 --> 25:40.280 But he did, he did, he did do it. 25:40.280 --> 25:44.240 And mama picked this big awkward teenager up, good Lord. 25:44.240 --> 25:49.280 His feet were longer than she was tall and took him to the bathroom and with a bar of 25:49.280 --> 25:52.480 lava soap, massage his mouth like this. 25:52.480 --> 25:55.040 And I can still hear Pat Raven and everything. 25:55.040 --> 25:58.840 This big old Irish girl, her name was McGinnis. 25:58.840 --> 26:03.480 And let me tell you, she put the lava soap in that kid's mouth. 26:03.480 --> 26:08.040 You say, why, why mercy, you would stultify his head. 26:08.040 --> 26:10.560 And at 14, you can take a kid out of your home now. 26:10.560 --> 26:11.560 Do you understand that? 26:11.560 --> 26:14.760 If they just get to a social worker, they're out of your home, they're gone. 26:14.760 --> 26:15.760 Oh, it hasn't happened. 26:15.760 --> 26:20.360 It's happened a hundred times in this church. 26:20.360 --> 26:22.880 You don't have possession of your children forever. 26:22.880 --> 26:27.240 Get the job done while you have the opportunity to do it. 26:27.240 --> 26:34.520 And I can still, I was so excited, justice ultimately triumphs and the bubbles were coming 26:34.520 --> 26:35.520 out. 26:35.520 --> 26:37.680 Did that stultify Jerry Pat's id? 26:37.680 --> 26:39.480 It did not. 26:39.480 --> 26:41.920 He needed his mouth washed out. 26:41.920 --> 26:44.520 That's not the way you talk to your mama. 26:44.520 --> 26:46.720 That is not the way you talk to your mama. 26:46.720 --> 26:49.040 She could, oh honey, you hurt my feelings. 26:49.040 --> 26:53.080 No, I think she should have tarred him good while she was at it. 26:53.080 --> 26:54.080 Wouldn't have hurt a bit. 26:54.080 --> 26:59.280 Maybe me too for provoking the fight. 26:59.280 --> 27:00.280 Did that hurt him? 27:00.280 --> 27:01.280 No. 27:01.280 --> 27:02.280 He's got a little boy named Jerry Patton. 27:02.280 --> 27:03.280 I got a boy, little Jerry Patton. 27:03.280 --> 27:04.280 We all get together. 27:04.280 --> 27:05.280 It's chaos. 27:05.280 --> 27:07.640 We say Patton, everyone comes running. 27:07.640 --> 27:10.440 It's really funny. 27:10.440 --> 27:14.280 And Jesse James Patrick Allen didn't come this time, but he will next time. 27:14.280 --> 27:18.200 And at any rate, did that hurt him? 27:18.200 --> 27:25.720 No, Bud gives more money to the church here, the second Jerry Patton, because my brother 27:25.720 --> 27:30.920 grew up knowing right from wrong and that there was a punishment for doing the wrong 27:30.920 --> 27:36.520 thing and his boy gives more money to the church and many of the deacons here in the 27:36.520 --> 27:37.520 church. 27:37.520 --> 27:38.520 Why? 27:38.520 --> 27:41.560 Because this church is interested in young people and he is. 27:41.560 --> 27:43.800 Did that hurt him because he got punished? 27:43.800 --> 27:44.800 Well I know it profited. 27:44.800 --> 27:47.800 Do you see the next verse of Scripture? 27:47.800 --> 27:49.480 It talked about that. 27:49.480 --> 27:54.040 First Samuel 3.13, speaking of that old priest Eli, for I have told him that I will judge 27:54.040 --> 28:01.960 his house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves wicked 28:01.960 --> 28:07.800 and he did not restrain his own children. 28:07.800 --> 28:11.000 It's a commandment of God, isn't it? 28:11.080 --> 28:17.480 Look at John 10.5, and Jesus is speaking, and when he put forth his own sheep, he goeth 28:17.480 --> 28:24.160 before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice, isn't that cool? 28:24.160 --> 28:25.720 I think that is tremendous. 28:25.720 --> 28:28.040 How do you get to know your children? 28:28.040 --> 28:31.080 Someone says, I'm raising a teenager, I don't know them from beans. 28:31.080 --> 28:34.680 Well it started earlier than the teenage stage. 28:34.680 --> 28:39.040 We admit that's a pretty weird stage, isn't it, sometime. 28:39.040 --> 28:40.680 But it's the most wonderful stage. 28:40.680 --> 28:46.840 You young families, look forward to your children in junior high and high school because they'll 28:46.840 --> 28:47.840 soon be gone. 28:47.840 --> 28:51.520 The little sheep will leave the fold soon. 28:51.520 --> 28:54.240 Profit by it, it begins by family devotions. 28:54.240 --> 28:56.120 I really mean that. 28:56.120 --> 28:59.760 If your religious is just here, that's not enough. 28:59.760 --> 29:04.960 Your religion is at home with the mama and the papa and the little sis and the little 29:04.960 --> 29:14.520 brothers gathered around, shutting out the road for a moment, and hearing the testimony 29:14.520 --> 29:15.520 of God. 29:15.520 --> 29:19.080 Oh, the little sheep will leave home. 29:19.080 --> 29:25.640 Del, I'm sure would pronounce it different, but the little e-weas grow up, don't they? 29:25.640 --> 29:31.280 And they leave home, and then it's kind of hard to control their lives. 29:31.440 --> 29:35.240 Oh, it is distinctively hard, see. 29:35.240 --> 29:41.120 Psalm 78, 6 and 7 says, So the next generation would know their God, even the children yet 29:41.120 --> 29:47.040 to be born, and they in turn will tell their children, then they would put their trust 29:47.040 --> 29:51.520 in God, and would not forget his deeds, but would keep his command. 29:51.520 --> 29:56.920 You see, the children tell their children, as neat to be a grandparent, as you watch 29:56.920 --> 30:00.800 each generation begin to tell, and grandpa and grandma, you're not done telling them 30:00.800 --> 30:05.120 what to do, that's really neat to intervene. 30:05.120 --> 30:08.560 You know, Psalm 37, I looked around, and I didn't see her at prayer meeting the other 30:08.560 --> 30:10.560 night, and you know, I got on to her. 30:10.560 --> 30:13.760 Where were you, honey, I missed you. 30:13.760 --> 30:22.080 Well, it's always going to be that way, because I want to see my children grow up in the faith, 30:22.080 --> 30:26.320 and I want to see those precious children grow up in the faith, and so shall it ever 30:26.320 --> 30:27.320 be. 30:27.840 --> 30:30.840 Strict biblical commandment. 30:30.840 --> 30:37.920 GK Chesterton said, when people reject God, they don't believe in nothing, they believe 30:37.920 --> 30:41.160 absolutely anything you tell them. 30:41.160 --> 30:44.240 And that's how you're getting away with OBE, whatever name, they're not going to give 30:44.240 --> 30:46.440 it the name OBE, they're too sharp. 30:46.440 --> 30:54.480 Now, it was here two years ago, by the way, I've read you from their manifesto already, 30:54.480 --> 31:01.240 from the pulpit I've read from the OBE manifesto, it's in Casper, they'll give it another name, 31:01.240 --> 31:03.240 well for crying out loud. 31:03.240 --> 31:10.120 If you don't have family devotions, you're whooped, and you're not going to be whooped, 31:10.120 --> 31:11.120 you're going to win. 31:11.120 --> 31:14.440 Your children are your manifest destiny. 31:14.440 --> 31:20.560 And then I conclude with the last scripture, 2 Timothy 3.16, all scripture is God breathed. 31:20.560 --> 31:22.920 Do you believe that, everybody? 31:22.920 --> 31:28.080 And what's to come of that, listen to what it says, and it is useful for teaching. 31:28.080 --> 31:32.040 Isn't it silly to think you can teach a kid anything without biblical principles? 31:32.040 --> 31:36.600 It is useful for rebuking, they need to be rebuked from time to time. 31:36.600 --> 31:40.400 They need to be corrected, see it's useful for correcting. 31:40.400 --> 31:45.120 It is useful for training and righteousness in being right. 31:45.120 --> 31:48.680 I just want to do the right thing, because it's the right thing to do, and that's what 31:48.680 --> 31:56.680 God commanded me to do, is we sing our hymn of invitation. 31:56.680 --> 32:01.080 Maybe you've got something on your heart. 32:01.080 --> 32:04.280 Maybe you need a church home. 32:04.280 --> 32:08.320 When Jesus comes, I don't want to be around here without a church home. 32:08.320 --> 32:12.140 He's going to take the bride, the church, right on up. 32:12.140 --> 32:15.160 Maybe you need to be baptized for the remission of your sins. 32:15.160 --> 32:19.320 That was the fundamental mission of the church, to teach them about baptism, and when you 32:19.320 --> 32:24.280 taught them that, go on teaching them. 32:24.280 --> 32:29.320 Maybe you can't be baptized today, but you can make your confession of faith, and we'll 32:29.320 --> 32:32.080 baptize you when you can. 32:32.080 --> 32:36.760 And I pray that that's soon, because biblically it was the same hour of the night when they 32:36.760 --> 32:38.520 were first convinced. 32:38.520 --> 32:42.600 As we sing our hymn of invitation, what number is it, Jen? 32:42.600 --> 32:43.600 The 106th. 32:43.600 --> 32:44.600 Would you stand?