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Can we just bow for a moment of

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prayer, please?

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Our Father, we thank Thee that we can

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be together here because of Jesus.

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We are here out of love for Christ

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and we would be Christ's property, Christ's responsibility

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as we yield our lives to Him.

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There's no safer place to be God's property,

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if God be for us, who can be

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against us?

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He that spared not His own Son, but

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delivered Him up to us all freely, how

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shall He not with Him also give us

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all things?

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Oh, we bless Thee, Lord, that God is

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for us.

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Who can be against us?

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Who should separate us from the love of

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Christ, if the delay, sin, or distress, or

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persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or

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sword, as is written, we are killed all

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day long, we are counted as sheep for

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the slaughter, and all these things, we are

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more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

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For I am persuaded that neither death, nor

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life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor

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things present, nor things to come, nor height,

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nor depth, nor any other creature, will separate

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us from the love of God, which is

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in Christ Jesus.

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We bless Thee, Lord, that nothing, no tribulation,

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no persecution, no distress, will separate us from

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the love of God.

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How we love Thee, Lord, who were kept

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by the power of God through faith unto

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salvation.

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Oh, we bless Thee that Thou wilt keep

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us as we rest in perfect love and

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perfect faith in Thee.

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I know whom I believe and am persuaded

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that He is able to keep that which

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I have committed unto Him against that day,

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how filled with faith we are now, keeping

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power, God.

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Thou art God, greater is He that is

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in you than he that is in the

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world.

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Thou art great, and great is He to

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be praised.

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Come, Father, in Thy mercy to us tonight.

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Minister to us through Thy words.

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Speak to the depth of our hearts.

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Wash me in the blood of Jesus.

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Fill me with the Holy Spirit.

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Stand beside me in the pulpit of God.

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Dear God, Lord Jesus, make Thy word living

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and alive as Thou hast anointed my lips,

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my heart, and all of our hearts.

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Visit us here tonight through Thy word, Lord.

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Speak in a way we will never forget.

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For Christ's sake, in Jesus Christ's name.

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Amen.

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Tonight, I would like for us to look

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at the last two verses in the Old

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Testament.

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Malachi chapter 4, verse 5.

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Behold, I will send you, Elijah the prophet,

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before the coming of the great and dreadful

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day of the Lord.

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And he shall turn the hearts of the

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fathers to the children, and the hearts of

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the children to their fathers, lest I come

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and smite the earth with a curse.

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The Amplified Bible, in verse 6, says, And

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he shall turn and reconcile the hearts of

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the estranged fathers to the ungodly children, and

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the hearts of the rebellious children back to

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the piety and the feet of God of

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their fathers, a reconciliation which will be produced

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by the repentance of those who are ungodly,

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lest I come and smite the land, their

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land, with a curse, a ban of utter

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destruction.

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The Living Bible, you see, I will send

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you another prophet, like Elijah, before the coming

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of the great and dreadful judgment day of

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God.

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His preaching, his preaching will bring fathers and

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children together again, to be of one mind

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and heart, for they will know that if

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they do not thus repent, I will come

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and utterly destroy their land.

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I will come and utterly destroy their land.

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Such preaching is desperately needed in this age.

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Such preaching is desperately needed in this age.

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Preaching that will turn the hearts of the

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children back to the fathers or parents, the

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parents' hearts back to their children.

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Can I read to you these words which

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I have written on my knees?

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A sinful age, a sinful age like ours,

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rips apart the home, rips apart the home.

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A wicked generation like ours turns the hearts

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of the children against their parents.

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This age, this age breeds children who will

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defy their parents and drive them to rebel

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against all authority, especially the home.

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And a sinful age also breeds parents who

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will neglect their children and their responsibilities.

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They will refrain from discipline.

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They will let go of all authority, tragically

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even love for their children.

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That's what a sinful age like ours will

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do.

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And we must be honest.

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We must be honest today.

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The homes of God's people are being tragically

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affected by this age.

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The homes of God's people are being tragically

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affected by this age.

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We live in a day and age when

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as never before the fathers are controlled by

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the children.

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We live in a day and age when

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as never before the fathers or parents are

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controlled by the children.

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We live in a day and age when

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as never before the fathers are concerned about

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the children.

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We live in a day and age when

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as never before the fathers are condemned by

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the children.

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We live in a day and age when

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as never before the fathers are commissioned for

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the children.

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We live in a day and age when,

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as never before, as never before, the fathers

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are compared with the children.

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Let us look at these five points carefully

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here tonight.

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We live, firstly, we live in a day

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and age when, as never before, as never

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before, the fathers or parents are controlled by

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the children.

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In my country, South Africa, the controversy of

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television raids us.

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In a Christian home, many will not have

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the television in their homes anymore.

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Those who still hold on to the television

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for that which is good and educational, they're

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finding everywhere less and less time they dare

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to put it on.

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Most Christian homes, I wonder if it's wrong

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for me to say, at this stage are

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scared if they've still got it in their

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home to put it on.

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There's such fearful, fearful things that will destroy

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a child forever, his integrity, his honor, his

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purity.

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In one moment, for something in the home,

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I was speaking to a Christian lady who

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still has the television in her home.

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She was telling me how she came home

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a little bit earlier than expected and walked

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into the lounge, and there was her son

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lying on the carpet, looking at the television,

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propping his head up with his hands.

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And there she walked in a bit earlier

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than expected, and she looked at the television,

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and her heart just sank as she saw

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what he was looking at.

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And she looked at him and said, how

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could you?

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You know you shouldn't look at this.

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Her son staggered her at what he did.

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He didn't bat an eyelid.

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He didn't move.

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He carried on looking, and he said, I

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know it's wrong, mommy.

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I know this is wrong, but you see,

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mommy, I'm looking at it critically.

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I'm looking at it critically.

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You allow them to get away with it

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today, they'll talk you out of anything.

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You just give them half a chance today,

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they'll talk you out of anything.

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That's the day and age we live in,

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even in Christian home.

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Just give them half a chance, they'll talk

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you out of anything.

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Eli's son.

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Eli's sons were rebellious from childhood.

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They were rebellious from childhood and eventually became

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wicked.

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But Eli was to blame.

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God doesn't hide it.

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He hides nothing in the Bible, even though

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Eli was a man of God.

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He failed.

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Eli was to blame.

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He never disciplined them or challenged them.

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He let go of authority over his children,

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and they destroyed him.

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They were the destroying of their godly father

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and his ministry.

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You can be godly and fail and be

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destroyed.

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Like Eli, if you let go of authority,

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and the devil wants you to in this

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day and age.

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Everyone's crying out, let go of authority.

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In Romans 1, God's wrath is declared against

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all the wicked sins of men, as no

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other chapter in the entire Bible.

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You can't wind away past any of these

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sins without knowing the wrath of God comes

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upon those who commit it.

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There's no deviation, no excuse the way God

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declares in the New Testament in Romans 1.

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Most preachers are too scared to ever preach

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in their entire ministry on this chapter.

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You can't get around sin and God's wrath

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upon those who commit each sin named.

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Listen to the wrath of God upon the

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sins of the wicked in Romans 129 being

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filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,

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maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity,

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whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, spiteful, proud, boasters,

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inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, disobedient

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to parents.

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The wrath of God according to the Scriptures

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is upon this wickedness.

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Oh obey thy father and thy mother.

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God commands, honor thy father and thy mother.

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God commands, we live in a day and

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age when as never before the fathers of

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parents are controlled by the children.

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We live in a day and age when

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as never before, as never before the fathers

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are concerned about the children, are concerned about

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the children.

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Look at how the godly Job became concerned

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about his children.

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Because you're godly doesn't mean you don't have

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to be concerned about your children.

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Look how the godly Job became concerned about

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his children.

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In Job chapter 1 verse 1, there was

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a man in the land of Uz whose

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name was Job and that man was perfect

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and upright and one that feared God and

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eschewed evil and they were born unto him

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seven sons and three daughters.

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His substance also was seven thousand feet and

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three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of

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oxen and five hundred sea asses and a

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very great household so that this man was

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the greatest of all the men in the

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east.

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And his sons went and feasted in their

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houses every one his day, every one on

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his birthday and sent and called for their

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three sisters to eat and to drink with

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them.

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And it was so in the days of

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their feasting were gone about that Job sent

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and sanctified them and rose up early in

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the morning and offered burnt offerings according to

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the number of them all.

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For Job said, Job said, it may be

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that my sons had sinned and cursed God

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in their hearts.

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Oh, oh, he was the holiest man on

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earth, perfect.

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But look at his concern for his children.

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Being holy doesn't mean you don't have concern

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that everything automatically will go well.

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Here this man had deep concern for his

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children.

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Job offered sacrifices for his sons continually in

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his concern for them.

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Job offered sacrifices for his children continually to

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God.

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It may be my sons have sinned and

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cursed God.

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We know that all the Old Testament sacrifices

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of animals was looking to and pointing to

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the blood of Jesus Christ.

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The lamb slain from the foundation of the

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earth.

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No animal's blood could ever have cleansed away

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sin.

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But before the foundation of the earth, God

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in his sovereignty, in his foreknowledge, it was

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as good as Christ had been crucified.

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And all through from the time of the

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creation right through to the actual crucifixion physically

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of his son, it was in God's eyes

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completely done.

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For his son was so perfect in his

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resignation to the plan of God and salvation

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that every time men offered the blood and

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sacrificed animals, God accepted it as the blood

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of Christ as he looked to the lamb

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of God slain by God before the foundations

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of the earth.

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For the forgiveness of men, the blood of

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Christ was being pointed to every time Job

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sacrificed for his son.

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God looked at Christ's blood, nothing else.

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There's something very precious there.

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Back home, I knew a home, a family,

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a farming home with one of the godliest

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women I've ever known, the mother of that

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home.

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Every time I went through the years back

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to that home, the children, from the first

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time I ever saw them, they loved Christ

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with all their hearts.

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As the years went by, I went back

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there on fire for God, right through to

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manhood, to womanhood.

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There was never a time in their lives

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they didn't want God.

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They never wanted the world.

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They never felt that they were deprived or

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left out.

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They never wanted it.

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They never desired it.

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There was one thing they wanted was God,

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God's people.

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Oh, these children walked with God with such

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zeal, such joy, no compromise, from childhood right

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through, all of the children.

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I was stunned, and one day I looked

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at her and I said, what did you

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do?

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Not every Christian home has children like yours.

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What did you do that you can tell

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me that I can do?

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She looked at me quite staggered, and she

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said, oh Keith, I've made mistakes.

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I have made so many mistakes, but I

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tried with all my heart to bring them

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up in the fear of God.

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But if I have to single out one

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thing that I believe I should tell you,

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Keith, the day they were born, each child,

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the day they were born, I put my

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hands on them.

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And I said, oh God, shelter this child

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under the blood of Jesus.

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Protect this child under the blood of Christ.

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Every day, as they grew to teenagers, there

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was never one day in the nights when

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they fell asleep, and I finished my times

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with God.

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I went to each child every day of

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their life, from birth right through.

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And I nursed beside each bed, and I

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put my hands on their head, and I

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prayed while they slept.

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Oh God, if there's anything the devil's sight

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is so in their minds, undo it now

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by the blood of Christ.

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If there's any failure in anything, oh, wash

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them in the blood of Christ.

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If there's any influence, if there's any seed

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the devil's somehow gotten there, wash it out,

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undo it by the blood of Christ.

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Protect this child under the blood of Christ.

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I prayed on my knees at their bed

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when they were grown men.

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And those that have left the home, I

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still pray every day on my knees, though

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I can't put my hands on them.

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And those that are still in the home,

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though they don't know it when they're asleep,

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I still go from the day they were

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born till this day.

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I can think of nothing else that I

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can tell you that I did different from

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any other parent who tries.

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But I look to Jesus' blood and faith

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for my children daily, daily.

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Oh, Moses, when the battle was

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raging between the enemy of the people of

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God and God's people, Moses was in prayer

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watching the battle, and he stood there lifting

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up his hands in earnestness as he was

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looking at the enemy advancing, making advance over

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the people of God.

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He's lifting his hands up, crying to God

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in his old age, calling out to heaven.

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And as he began to pray, everyone looking

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at him calling out to God saw something

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amazing.

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Suddenly the enemy retreated.

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The people of God began to conquer in

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advance, and then in his old age he

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began to grow weary.

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His hands came down, and the people watching

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Moses saw suddenly the enemy advancing over the

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people of God, overcoming the people of God.

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And they took hold of his hands and

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lifted them up.

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Oh, it wasn't the physical hands they were

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encouraging, pray on!

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Moses prayed on, and as they held up

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his hands and encouraged him, pray on!

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Suddenly the enemy was overcome and retreating.

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The people of God were victorious, conquering.

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Oh, in this war there's a battle for

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your son, for your daughter, don't doubt it.

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And God says to you and I, there's

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one way I will, therefore that men pray

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lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.

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Don't doubt God when you pray.

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The weapons of our warfare are not carnal,

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but mighty through God, through the pulling down

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of strongholds.

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I don't care what stronghold the devil has

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on your child, God will pull it down.

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But we have to get into warfare, there's

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a war.

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If you don't know that, your head's in

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the sand.

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You'll be confused about everything on this earth.

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There was never a war so just terrifying,

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so many casualties, so many destroyed souls.

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There's a war between God and the devil,

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and the war's on for your son.

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If you don't know it, you're in trouble.

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And there's one way, one way, oh holy

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hands, lifted up without wrath, whatever the world's

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becoming, whatever happening that we could fight and

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get angry about, without doubting.

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And God will give you victory.

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Oh, while you pray in faith, the devil

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will retreat.

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If you grow weary in prayer for your

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children, you slack off and you forget to

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pray, the devil will make advances.

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The moment you slack, don't doubt it, with

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evil influences on your son, with wrong friends,

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with decadent, evil, corrupt influences will suddenly influence

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your son, I guarantee you.

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How do you think he'll escape this world,

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it's so filthy?

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Oh pray, pray, and see the devil retreat,

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I guarantee you, I guarantee you.

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Just pray, I entered into warfare, I entered

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into warfare before my sons were born, I

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entered into warfare for them.

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I found myself praying a prayer that I

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tried to stop, I tried to stop myself.

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When I was married to my wife, before

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we had any children, I found myself one

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night as I looked at this world, saying

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to God as I wept, Oh God, don't

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let us have children.

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If thou doesn't know, they're going to follow

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the devil.

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Don't let us have children, I beg you.

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If they're not going to follow thee, and

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I wept.

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And what I prayed, what have I prayed?

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Oh, what have I prayed?

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But I opened my eyes, and the words

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I read were very precious to me.

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Listen to them.

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The page the Bible was open, Isaiah 54,

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verse 13, I read these words the moment

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I said amen to that prayer.

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My heart sank in what I prayed, all

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thy children shall be taught of the Lord.

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That was not coincidence.

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God doesn't mock us that on the page

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of that prayer, groaning before God, God knew

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my eyes would fall and see all thy

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children shall be taught of the Lord.

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Great shall be the peace of thy children.

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I remember my second boy, praying, calling on

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God, not expecting it to happen again, believe

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me.

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But do you know what God did?

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Isaiah 44, my eyes fell upon, verse 2,

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in the amplified version, I was opened at

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that particular time, fear not my servant, I

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will pour my spirit upon your offspring.

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I was praying, so when my wife fell

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pregnant with our second child, I got on

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my knees and began to groan again as

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I saw the world getting worse.

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People were standing and saying, is it right

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to bring a child in this world?

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And I prayed, oh God, oh God, concerning

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my second child, oh fear not my servant,

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I will pour my spirit on your offspring,

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my blessing upon your descendants.

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One shall say, I am the Lord, another

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shall call himself by the name of Jacob,

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another will write upon his hand, I am

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the Lord.

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You know what I do daily?

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I say to God, remember, remember the word

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unto thy servant upon which thou has caused

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me to hope.

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I have nothing else to hope in.

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Remember the promises God in this wicked world

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unto thy servant for my children that thou

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didst give me when I wept before their

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birth, upon which thou has caused me to

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hope.

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Oh, we live in a day and age,

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we live in a day and age when

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as never before, as never before, the father,

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the parents are controlled by the children.

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We live in a day and age when

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as never before, the fathers are concerned, are

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concerned about the children.

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We live in a day and age when

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as never before, as never before, the fathers

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are condemned by the children.

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Oh, oh, as never before, fathers were condemned

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by the children in our Christianity.

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When I was saved, one of the first

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people I wanted to find was my childhood

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friend who went into such sin.

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His life was virtually destroyed in his sin.

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When I found him, I wanted to tell

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him about Jesus.

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I did find him.

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There he was, married with his children.

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I sat looking at him and I wanted

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to weep as I looked at him.

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All that was left of him.

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Sin is a terrible thing.

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I told him what God had done for

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me.

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I told him of the salvation of Christ

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and all the eagerness and the longing and

543
00:32:10,340 --> 00:32:11,440
the yearning in my heart.

544
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,400
Something I could give him now that I

545
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,780
couldn't give him when I saw his life

546
00:32:14,780 --> 00:32:15,620
being destroyed.

547
00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:26,840
This young man looked at me and tears

548
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,680
came down his face and he said, Oh,

549
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:36,890
Keith, oh, Keith, I've heard everything you're saying,

550
00:32:38,250 --> 00:32:39,850
everything you're telling me.

551
00:32:39,970 --> 00:32:43,730
I've heard it all before from my father

552
00:32:43,730 --> 00:32:47,330
and mother who told me to come to

553
00:32:47,330 --> 00:32:49,990
Christ so when I could remember hearing it

554
00:32:49,990 --> 00:32:50,290
first.

555
00:32:51,190 --> 00:32:53,090
All I heard was give your life to

556
00:32:53,090 --> 00:32:55,090
God, come to Christ.

557
00:32:55,670 --> 00:32:56,910
They dragged me to church.

558
00:32:57,010 --> 00:32:59,410
There they were in the church praising the

559
00:32:59,410 --> 00:32:59,730
Lord.

560
00:33:00,450 --> 00:33:02,290
But oh, Keith, as the years went by,

561
00:33:02,370 --> 00:33:05,330
I looked at their lives, the hypocrisy, what

562
00:33:05,330 --> 00:33:06,750
they were in the church, they weren't in

563
00:33:06,750 --> 00:33:08,190
the home, they were not in the home,

564
00:33:08,190 --> 00:33:08,490
Keith.

565
00:33:10,490 --> 00:33:12,270
I looked at their lives and I made

566
00:33:12,270 --> 00:33:14,450
up my mind once for all, forever as

567
00:33:14,450 --> 00:33:16,850
a child, I don't want this religion.

568
00:33:18,730 --> 00:33:20,990
I don't want this lie.

569
00:33:29,110 --> 00:33:31,310
I don't want what you've come to give

570
00:33:31,310 --> 00:33:31,850
me, Keith.

571
00:33:32,990 --> 00:33:37,190
I had enough of it in my home.

572
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:57,240
Oh, many

573
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,440
people believe that David's son, Absalom, was the

574
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:02,760
result of David's sin.

575
00:34:04,180 --> 00:34:06,720
I can't be sure of that, for God's

576
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:07,920
forgiveness is so great.

577
00:34:08,659 --> 00:34:12,940
But while David professed to be a godly

578
00:34:12,940 --> 00:34:16,300
man, and the world believed him to be

579
00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:19,020
a godly man, his sins are sins that

580
00:34:19,020 --> 00:34:24,739
his children stumbled over to accept from him.

581
00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:35,040
Oh, oh, be careful, be careful not to

582
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,960
judge now other Christians if their children go

583
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,659
astray into sin.

584
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,699
You must very, very, very carefully hear, listen

585
00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:44,139
to me.

586
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,920
You be careful never to judge other Christians

587
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,060
whose children go wide into sin, don't you

588
00:34:51,060 --> 00:34:52,159
dare judge them.

589
00:34:52,980 --> 00:34:55,340
Be careful, a woman walked up to me

590
00:34:55,340 --> 00:35:00,180
in Pietermaritzburg of South Africa, weeping, oh, Keith,

591
00:35:03,180 --> 00:35:07,620
whatever you do, boy, don't judge other Christians

592
00:35:07,620 --> 00:35:09,380
if their children go into sin.

593
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,060
I did, I did, Keith.

594
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:17,680
My husband was an elder, another elder, whose

595
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,180
children were my children's age.

596
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,880
These kids eventually went off into such wickedness,

597
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,540
such sin, and I stood judging them that

598
00:35:29,260 --> 00:35:30,520
they were wrong in the way they brought

599
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:31,240
up their children.

600
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,240
I didn't agree on certain issues.

601
00:35:34,130 --> 00:35:37,260
And, Keith, two weeks after that, my children

602
00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:41,420
started going, but, oh, Keith, I looked at

603
00:35:41,420 --> 00:35:44,420
them, and I began to fear that I

604
00:35:44,420 --> 00:35:47,900
had ever judged someone else whose children went

605
00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:48,400
astray.

606
00:35:49,770 --> 00:35:52,350
I was so sorry as I watched my

607
00:35:52,350 --> 00:35:54,590
children fall into such sin that they were

608
00:35:54,590 --> 00:35:55,350
unfaithful.

609
00:35:55,750 --> 00:35:58,090
My daughter is somewhere in Europe, she's a

610
00:35:58,090 --> 00:35:58,690
prostitute.

611
00:36:01,150 --> 00:36:03,430
None of my children follow God anymore.

612
00:36:04,190 --> 00:36:06,730
And it happened right when I judged.

613
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:13,800
Be careful, be careful, don't you judge anyone

614
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,380
whose children go astray.

615
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,460
You just pray for them, you weep for

616
00:36:19,460 --> 00:36:24,240
them, you encourage them, you help them, guide

617
00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:25,540
them with love if you dare.

618
00:36:25,540 --> 00:36:29,100
But don't you judge.

619
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,740
A careful note must be taken now that

620
00:36:41,740 --> 00:36:44,740
the children also may be wrong in condemning

621
00:36:44,740 --> 00:36:46,400
their fathers through misunderstanding.

622
00:36:47,260 --> 00:36:50,160
Oh, this word, misunderstanding, is a terrible word,

623
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:50,500
you know.

624
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,400
And careful note must be taken by everyone

625
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:55,220
sitting here.

626
00:36:56,180 --> 00:36:58,980
Careful note that the children may be wrong

627
00:36:58,980 --> 00:37:01,960
in condemning their fathers through this terrible thing

628
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,840
called misunderstanding when you really didn't understand, and

629
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,400
you condemn them for something they're not guilty

630
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:09,720
of.

631
00:37:11,260 --> 00:37:12,500
You be careful.

632
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,160
I was once preaching in Stutterheim, a German

633
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,120
community back in South Africa, virtually the whole

634
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,240
town and farming community is German.

635
00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:24,080
I was asked one night at the meeting

636
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:25,460
to come for lunch at one of the

637
00:37:25,460 --> 00:37:27,540
farms just outside of the town of these

638
00:37:27,540 --> 00:37:28,700
Christian people.

639
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:32,860
So I arrived there, and as I knocked

640
00:37:32,860 --> 00:37:36,120
on the door, the door opened, and I

641
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,140
suddenly thought, oh, as I looked at this

642
00:37:39,140 --> 00:37:43,780
woman's face, her eyes were swollen, tears, she

643
00:37:43,780 --> 00:37:44,900
was smashed.

644
00:37:46,530 --> 00:37:49,110
I said, oh, it's wrong for me to

645
00:37:49,110 --> 00:37:51,770
be here, I can go, I don't have

646
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:52,890
to be here for lunch, I've come at

647
00:37:52,890 --> 00:37:53,630
the wrong time.

648
00:37:53,990 --> 00:37:56,570
She said, no, no, God knew you must

649
00:37:56,570 --> 00:38:00,190
come now, today, come inside, please.

650
00:38:01,530 --> 00:38:04,710
I looked at her husband, broken, sobbing.

651
00:38:07,230 --> 00:38:08,930
I looked at the son, sobbing.

652
00:38:11,660 --> 00:38:14,020
I sat just looking at this broken family.

653
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:23,500
See, when my boy was a young child,

654
00:38:24,340 --> 00:38:26,600
he's a man now, farming with his father

655
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:27,440
here on the farm.

656
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,240
When he was a boy, something happened, we

657
00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:32,280
could never work out.

658
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:34,680
He turned against his father.

659
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,780
He hates his father.

660
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,600
We tried to speak, to talk to him,

661
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:46,880
what is it, what's wrong?

662
00:38:47,740 --> 00:38:48,780
He just closed up.

663
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,960
He never wanted to come near his father,

664
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:52,860
to touch his father.

665
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,540
He wouldn't show any affection or love to

666
00:38:54,540 --> 00:38:57,100
his father, right through to the man.

667
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,500
He doesn't want anything to show love to

668
00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:01,100
his father, just keeps his distance.

669
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,760
And today, we found out why.

670
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,620
He looked at me and said, mommy, how

671
00:39:09,620 --> 00:39:12,980
could you ever have loved such a wicked

672
00:39:12,980 --> 00:39:15,580
man as my father?

673
00:39:17,670 --> 00:39:19,710
I said, how could you say such a

674
00:39:19,710 --> 00:39:20,050
thing?

675
00:39:20,630 --> 00:39:22,230
Your father's a good man.

676
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,480
How could you ever say that of your

677
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:26,820
father?

678
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,960
Mommy, when I was a boy, I remember

679
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:38,170
one day daddy whipping you, in the pantry,

680
00:39:38,590 --> 00:39:39,290
whipping you.

681
00:39:39,690 --> 00:39:40,810
You were screaming.

682
00:39:40,970 --> 00:39:42,190
I stood at the door.

683
00:39:43,550 --> 00:39:45,590
I was too small to help you.

684
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,980
I never forgave him.

685
00:39:49,980 --> 00:39:54,300
She said, your father never did that to

686
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:54,780
me, boy.

687
00:39:55,980 --> 00:39:57,040
What are you talking?

688
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,120
She called her husband, told her husband what

689
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:01,820
the boy said.

690
00:40:02,420 --> 00:40:03,360
He just sobbed.

691
00:40:06,410 --> 00:40:08,310
Then they sat there thinking, and she said,

692
00:40:08,370 --> 00:40:08,870
I remember.

693
00:40:10,270 --> 00:40:12,890
One day you came into the pantry, she

694
00:40:12,890 --> 00:40:13,810
says to her husband.

695
00:40:14,550 --> 00:40:16,410
He took the sandbox from behind the door.

696
00:40:17,230 --> 00:40:19,030
I was on my knees, clearing up below

697
00:40:19,030 --> 00:40:19,830
in the lower shelf.

698
00:40:21,010 --> 00:40:23,370
And you were joking, you pretended you were

699
00:40:23,370 --> 00:40:25,510
whipping me, and I just laughed, screaming.

700
00:40:26,430 --> 00:40:28,750
That child behind the other side must have

701
00:40:28,750 --> 00:40:29,610
thought you meant it.

702
00:40:29,990 --> 00:40:30,690
You were doing it.

703
00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:33,110
Misunderstood.

704
00:40:33,730 --> 00:40:34,870
Robbed of a son.

705
00:40:38,140 --> 00:40:39,240
Robbed of a father.

706
00:40:42,710 --> 00:40:44,310
Do you know how possible it is you

707
00:40:44,310 --> 00:40:45,270
made a mistake?

708
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,100
Through misunderstanding.

709
00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:59,920
But if the fathers are condemned justly, now

710
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:00,860
that's another thing.

711
00:41:01,620 --> 00:41:06,140
If the fathers are condemned justly, that's another

712
00:41:06,140 --> 00:41:06,500
thing.

713
00:41:09,860 --> 00:41:12,980
I remember standing as a boy with my

714
00:41:12,980 --> 00:41:15,020
father at the gate of our home in

715
00:41:15,020 --> 00:41:16,500
Durban, in South Africa.

716
00:41:17,740 --> 00:41:19,900
And there was this neighbor of ours who

717
00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:20,980
would walk down the street.

718
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,600
He always loved to speak to my father.

719
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:23,900
My father never asked him in.

720
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,540
But there at the gate, he was speaking

721
00:41:28,540 --> 00:41:29,040
to daddy.

722
00:41:30,460 --> 00:41:32,600
And I was standing beside my father, and

723
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,160
his son was standing beside him.

724
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:36,880
And they were speaking about this thing of

725
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,620
disciplining children when they needed it.

726
00:41:39,780 --> 00:41:42,040
And suddenly this man took my father, when

727
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,460
he looked at my father with a smile

728
00:41:43,460 --> 00:41:44,980
on his face and said, Oh, this boy

729
00:41:44,980 --> 00:41:45,540
knows.

730
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,540
When he does wrong, he never does it

731
00:41:47,540 --> 00:41:47,920
again.

732
00:41:49,660 --> 00:41:51,540
I beat him.

733
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,720
I beat him, and I don't stop beating

734
00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:58,900
him until he's crawling up the wall, trying

735
00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:00,300
to crawl up the wall.

736
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:01,120
Then I stop.

737
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,800
He knows never to do it again.

738
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:08,380
And I looked at this little boy as

739
00:42:08,380 --> 00:42:12,480
he looked up at me.

740
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,340
And the man went, and my father stood

741
00:42:14,340 --> 00:42:14,540
there.

742
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,240
And I looked at my daddy's tears, which

743
00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:17,700
was coming down my daddy's face.

744
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:20,500
My mother said, Why are you crying?

745
00:42:22,710 --> 00:42:25,750
He said, Oh, that man is so wrong.

746
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,300
Something terrible is about to happen.

747
00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:34,040
You know, a few days later, that boy

748
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:35,140
committed suicide.

749
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,260
He couldn't face the discipline of his father.

750
00:42:42,180 --> 00:42:45,040
When that father found what he had done,

751
00:42:46,100 --> 00:42:48,780
he drove himself into the grave.

752
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,020
And he realized how wrong he had been.

753
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:55,840
But it was too late.

754
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,060
Oh, I have seen many Christian parents beat

755
00:43:02,060 --> 00:43:04,560
their children so that their children were not

756
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,320
the only ones who condemned him.

757
00:43:06,860 --> 00:43:09,100
Everyone condemned him the way he beat their

758
00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:09,480
child.

759
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:14,100
Listen.

760
00:43:14,100 --> 00:43:15,340
Listen to these words.

761
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,520
I have so many scriptures.

762
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:17,940
I'm only going to give you one here.

763
00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:22,220
Colossians 3, verse 21, in the Amplifiers.

764
00:43:22,220 --> 00:43:25,760
Fathers, do not provoke your children.

765
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,800
Do not be hard on them or harass

766
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,820
them, lest they become discouraged and sullen and

767
00:43:30,820 --> 00:43:33,760
morose and feel inferior and frustrated.

768
00:43:34,140 --> 00:43:36,040
Do not break their spirits.

769
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,120
He's writing to Christians.

770
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:39,020
It's possible.

771
00:43:41,060 --> 00:43:42,020
It's possible.

772
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,960
Don't be hard on them or harass them,

773
00:43:49,740 --> 00:43:51,620
lest they become discouraged.

774
00:43:52,580 --> 00:43:54,800
Oh, I could give you other scriptures.

775
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:55,660
I'd love to.

776
00:43:58,010 --> 00:44:00,650
But, oh, I have seen so many Christian

777
00:44:00,650 --> 00:44:04,150
parents being so hard on their discipline of

778
00:44:04,150 --> 00:44:06,450
their children that their children didn't only stand

779
00:44:06,450 --> 00:44:07,290
there condemning them.

780
00:44:07,350 --> 00:44:10,090
In everyone's heart, we knew this is wrong.

781
00:44:14,820 --> 00:44:16,620
Moody, your great D.

782
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:16,760
R.

783
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,080
Moody, who shook the whole world and still

784
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:20,380
shakes the whole world.

785
00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:26,050
After all these years of his death, Moody,

786
00:44:26,930 --> 00:44:28,850
his children wrote a book about him, you

787
00:44:28,850 --> 00:44:29,150
know.

788
00:44:30,170 --> 00:44:31,770
Will your children ever write a book about

789
00:44:31,770 --> 00:44:32,290
you, sir?

790
00:44:32,870 --> 00:44:37,150
What will they say with all your Christianity?

791
00:44:37,510 --> 00:44:39,150
What will they tell the world?

792
00:44:41,130 --> 00:44:43,930
Isn't what these children told the world about

793
00:44:43,930 --> 00:44:44,230
Moody?

794
00:44:44,750 --> 00:44:46,990
When they needed to be disciplined, Moody disciplined

795
00:44:46,990 --> 00:44:47,190
them.

796
00:44:47,270 --> 00:44:48,650
Sometimes it had to be publicly.

797
00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:53,280
He disciplined them.

798
00:44:54,820 --> 00:44:58,240
But they knew something about Moody that he

799
00:44:58,240 --> 00:44:59,220
never failed to do.

800
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:00,740
Whenever it happened that they had to be

801
00:45:00,740 --> 00:45:02,720
disciplined, they didn't go to sleep when they

802
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:03,720
lay in their beds, you know.

803
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,300
They knew something still had to happen.

804
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:10,060
Moody was a very big man, and they

805
00:45:10,060 --> 00:45:11,240
waited, and there he came.

806
00:45:11,340 --> 00:45:13,020
They heard him coming up the steps every

807
00:45:13,020 --> 00:45:14,620
time anybody was disciplined.

808
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:15,660
They waited.

809
00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:16,800
They didn't go to sleep.

810
00:45:17,740 --> 00:45:18,300
There he comes.

811
00:45:19,260 --> 00:45:20,400
Here comes Daddy.

812
00:45:22,860 --> 00:45:25,440
And Moody fell on his knees beside the

813
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,540
children, and he wept.

814
00:45:30,020 --> 00:45:37,960
He wept, and he said, forgive me if

815
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,500
I was too harsh.

816
00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:43,920
You may say that's wrong to compromise and

817
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,020
ask forgiveness when they need it.

818
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:46,100
Let me tell you something.

819
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,800
If your children don't know that it hurts

820
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,900
you more than it hurts them, then you're

821
00:45:52,900 --> 00:45:53,240
wrong.

822
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,460
If your children doesn't know and don't know

823
00:45:58,460 --> 00:46:00,420
every time you have to discipline them, it

824
00:46:00,420 --> 00:46:02,640
hurts you more than it's hurting them, then

825
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,440
you're wrong in how you're disciplining them.

826
00:46:06,660 --> 00:46:08,440
Moody's children knew one thing.

827
00:46:08,860 --> 00:46:10,900
It hurt him far more than it ever

828
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:11,540
had hurt them.

829
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,640
He wept when he had to hit them.

830
00:46:21,250 --> 00:46:21,870
He wept.

831
00:46:23,150 --> 00:46:24,790
That's what made Moody great.

832
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,160
That's what made him great.

833
00:46:31,650 --> 00:46:34,390
We live in a day and age when,

834
00:46:34,590 --> 00:46:40,690
as never before, the fathers, the parents are

835
00:46:40,690 --> 00:46:43,010
controlled by the children.

836
00:46:43,310 --> 00:46:44,490
We live in a day and age when,

837
00:46:44,550 --> 00:46:48,030
as never before, the fathers are concerned about

838
00:46:48,030 --> 00:46:48,770
the children.

839
00:46:49,270 --> 00:46:50,570
We live in a day and age when,

840
00:46:50,650 --> 00:46:55,030
as never before, the fathers are condemned by

841
00:46:55,030 --> 00:46:55,690
the children.

842
00:46:58,970 --> 00:47:00,690
We live in a day and age when,

843
00:47:00,890 --> 00:47:03,810
as never before, the fathers are commissioned for

844
00:47:03,810 --> 00:47:04,450
the children.

845
00:47:05,370 --> 00:47:06,790
Where do I see that?

846
00:47:07,870 --> 00:47:12,150
Oh, yeah, in the very book we started

847
00:47:12,150 --> 00:47:13,450
with, Malachi.

848
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,460
Listen to how God commissions us as parents

849
00:47:21,460 --> 00:47:23,280
to reach the children.

850
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,880
And listen what he tells us the commission

851
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:27,260
is.

852
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:28,780
This is going to shock you all.

853
00:47:29,720 --> 00:47:31,580
You think reaching the children is preaching to

854
00:47:31,580 --> 00:47:32,880
them, reading the Bible to them.

855
00:47:37,550 --> 00:47:39,050
Listen to what God says is the only

856
00:47:39,050 --> 00:47:41,030
reason you ever will reach your child in

857
00:47:41,030 --> 00:47:41,390
truth.

858
00:47:43,650 --> 00:47:47,650
Malachi chapter 2, where God cries out against

859
00:47:47,650 --> 00:47:52,310
divorce, separation, because it breaks his heart to

860
00:47:52,310 --> 00:47:53,710
know who's going to suffer the most, of

861
00:47:53,710 --> 00:47:54,410
course, the children.

862
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:00,160
And then after God's rebuke, he cries in

863
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,280
verse 14, and I'm reading from the amplified

864
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:02,940
version.

865
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,340
I wish I had time to read first

866
00:48:05,340 --> 00:48:07,660
from the King James, the authority to me.

867
00:48:09,220 --> 00:48:12,440
But here to bring it in its expounded

868
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,820
way, in clarity, right to the point, verse

869
00:48:16,820 --> 00:48:18,680
14, the Lord was a witness.

870
00:48:19,540 --> 00:48:21,060
The Lord was a witness to the covenant

871
00:48:21,060 --> 00:48:24,260
you made at your marriage, between you and

872
00:48:24,260 --> 00:48:25,900
the wife of your youth, against you have

873
00:48:25,900 --> 00:48:27,060
dealt faithlessly.

874
00:48:27,060 --> 00:48:29,580
Faithlessly, faithlessly.

875
00:48:29,580 --> 00:48:33,220
Verse 15, did not God make you and

876
00:48:33,220 --> 00:48:34,360
your wife one?

877
00:48:37,130 --> 00:48:37,690
Why?

878
00:48:38,350 --> 00:48:40,690
Why did God make you two one?

879
00:48:41,190 --> 00:48:46,350
Because he sought a godly offspring from your

880
00:48:46,350 --> 00:48:46,710
union.

881
00:48:48,530 --> 00:48:51,550
Why did God make you two one?

882
00:48:53,400 --> 00:49:01,200
Because he sought godly children, godly offspring from

883
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:01,940
your union.

884
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:07,040
Therefore, keep a watch upon your spirit, that

885
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:11,200
it may be controlled by my spirit, that

886
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,580
you deal not faithlessly or treacherously with your

887
00:49:14,580 --> 00:49:15,280
married mate.

888
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,920
Keep a watch upon your spirit, that it

889
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,600
may be controlled by my spirit.

890
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,220
We live in a day and age when

891
00:49:27,220 --> 00:49:30,120
as never before, the fathers, the parents are

892
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,240
commissioned for the children.

893
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,680
How does God commission us to reach our

894
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:35,100
children?

895
00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:37,820
Let me tell you, by being faithful in

896
00:49:37,820 --> 00:49:40,760
your marriage, by being Christ-like in your

897
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:45,340
marriage, by being spirit-controlled in your marriage

898
00:49:45,340 --> 00:49:49,780
toward your partner, your life partner, to bring

899
00:49:49,780 --> 00:49:52,980
up these children to fear God, godly offspring

900
00:49:52,980 --> 00:49:54,000
is one way.

901
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:58,640
Let them see you spirit-filled, spirit-controlled

902
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,360
in your love, in your Christ-likeness, in

903
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:02,720
your reactions to each other.

904
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:10,800
They'll listen to you then, but otherwise I

905
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,720
think they'll hate the God of their fathers

906
00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:13,140
and mother.

907
00:50:15,250 --> 00:50:17,050
Do you want to win them to Christ?

908
00:50:17,210 --> 00:50:18,870
Are you the reason they'll go to hell?

909
00:50:20,870 --> 00:50:23,290
The only reason they're going to hell is

910
00:50:23,290 --> 00:50:24,890
that their mother and father will tell them

911
00:50:24,890 --> 00:50:25,790
to come to Christ.

912
00:50:27,590 --> 00:50:30,110
We have to be spirit-filled.

913
00:50:31,630 --> 00:50:34,210
We're commissioned to be sure we're filled with

914
00:50:34,210 --> 00:50:35,630
God's holy spirit.

915
00:50:36,830 --> 00:50:38,230
Do you know what that means?

916
00:50:39,210 --> 00:50:41,170
You're not filled with the spirit if this

917
00:50:41,170 --> 00:50:42,530
isn't written across your life.

918
00:50:43,850 --> 00:50:48,050
In every circumstance, no matter how trying, the

919
00:50:48,050 --> 00:50:53,290
fruit of the spirit will spontaneously react in

920
00:50:53,290 --> 00:50:53,770
your life.

921
00:50:56,450 --> 00:50:57,330
Not the gift.

922
00:50:59,710 --> 00:51:03,050
The gifts are counterfeit if the fruit isn't

923
00:51:03,050 --> 00:51:03,430
there.

924
00:51:08,050 --> 00:51:09,970
The evidence that we're filled with God's holy

925
00:51:09,970 --> 00:51:11,190
spirit is not gifts.

926
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:15,220
Don't seek them.

927
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,300
Seek desperately for God to fill you with

928
00:51:20,300 --> 00:51:22,800
the holy spirit that in every circumstance you

929
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,080
will spontaneously react, no matter how trying, with

930
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,220
the fruit of the spirit.

931
00:51:28,340 --> 00:51:31,660
Love suffereth long and is kind, especially to

932
00:51:31,660 --> 00:51:35,200
your marriage mates, not only to your enemy.

933
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:44,040
Oh, spirit-filled lives in the home is

934
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:47,000
what this age needs to bring the children

935
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:48,580
back to the God of their fathers.

936
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:51,380
Don't blame the devil.

937
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,220
Don't blame the world.

938
00:51:55,700 --> 00:52:04,380
Blame yourself, because if you're not spirit-filled,

939
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:10,430
you're the one to blame on almost every

940
00:52:10,430 --> 00:52:10,930
account.

941
00:52:10,930 --> 00:52:13,350
And I don't say that with any judgment,

942
00:52:14,030 --> 00:52:15,670
to bring judgment on myself.

943
00:52:15,870 --> 00:52:18,830
I say it because God's word cries out,

944
00:52:19,010 --> 00:52:21,950
that's the way you will bring godly offspring

945
00:52:21,950 --> 00:52:23,010
from your union.

946
00:52:23,990 --> 00:52:29,060
By being controlled by my spirit in front

947
00:52:29,060 --> 00:52:31,680
of those children, so they will want the

948
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,880
God who made this mother and father what

949
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:35,880
they are and gave them the home they

950
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:36,260
have.

951
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,260
We live in a day and age when,

952
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,380
as never before, as never before, the fathers

953
00:52:42,380 --> 00:52:43,720
are controlled by the children.

954
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:45,120
We live in a day and age when,

955
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,800
as never before, the fathers are concerned about

956
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:49,540
the children.

957
00:52:49,700 --> 00:52:50,760
We live in a day and age when,

958
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,460
as never before, the fathers are condemned by

959
00:52:53,460 --> 00:52:53,960
the children.

960
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:55,340
We live in a day and age when,

961
00:52:55,420 --> 00:52:58,060
as never before, the fathers are commissioned for

962
00:52:58,060 --> 00:53:00,880
the children, are commissioned by God for the

963
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:01,200
children.

964
00:53:04,490 --> 00:53:05,770
We live in a day and age when,

965
00:53:05,810 --> 00:53:09,370
as never before, the fathers are compared with

966
00:53:09,370 --> 00:53:09,870
the children.

967
00:53:10,030 --> 00:53:11,130
What do I mean by that?

968
00:53:11,250 --> 00:53:12,710
I don't know if you see through the

969
00:53:12,710 --> 00:53:15,450
scriptures how God compares the fathers.

970
00:53:15,870 --> 00:53:17,950
He is to us, with me, as fathers.

971
00:53:18,470 --> 00:53:20,730
If ye then, being evil, know how to

972
00:53:20,730 --> 00:53:23,050
give good gifts unto your children, how much

973
00:53:23,050 --> 00:53:25,010
more shall your Father, which is in heaven,

974
00:53:25,150 --> 00:53:27,390
give good things to them that ask Him?

975
00:53:27,650 --> 00:53:29,390
There's this amazing comparison.

976
00:53:29,610 --> 00:53:31,550
If you are a father toward your children,

977
00:53:31,670 --> 00:53:33,190
God says, I'm a father toward you.

978
00:53:33,750 --> 00:53:35,970
And how much more in every aspect, if

979
00:53:35,970 --> 00:53:38,550
you do any good, anything right, how much

980
00:53:38,550 --> 00:53:39,610
more shall I be to you?

981
00:53:39,610 --> 00:53:43,090
In every aspect, God continually flowing out, look

982
00:53:43,090 --> 00:53:44,490
at your children, look at the love you

983
00:53:44,490 --> 00:53:46,070
have, look at the care, the discipline, the

984
00:53:46,070 --> 00:53:46,450
chastening.

985
00:53:46,830 --> 00:53:51,920
Oh, God compares us as His children, as

986
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,680
we as fathers look to our children.

987
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:55,340
We live in a day and age when,

988
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,140
as never before, the fathers are compared to

989
00:53:57,140 --> 00:53:57,620
the children.

990
00:53:57,620 --> 00:54:02,540
It's a terrible thing, you know, when suddenly

991
00:54:02,540 --> 00:54:06,940
you see your child disobeying you, beginning to

992
00:54:06,940 --> 00:54:09,660
rebel against you, not under your authority anymore,

993
00:54:09,860 --> 00:54:12,520
wanting to break loose, will not obey your

994
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,060
will or your commandments to him.

995
00:54:15,460 --> 00:54:17,700
Oh, how your heart breaks when suddenly you

996
00:54:17,700 --> 00:54:20,160
see this happening in your own child.

997
00:54:21,500 --> 00:54:24,060
But then how staggered we are, how bewildered

998
00:54:24,060 --> 00:54:26,020
and staggered we are when suddenly God whispers

999
00:54:26,020 --> 00:54:28,400
in our hearts, as our hearts are bleeding

1000
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:33,220
over our children's defiance, and God whispers to

1001
00:54:33,220 --> 00:54:36,320
us, now you know something, what have I,

1002
00:54:37,500 --> 00:54:41,120
of the grief I know through you, through

1003
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:47,440
your disobedience, through your defiance, through your rebellion

1004
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,140
against my authority and will.

1005
00:54:49,140 --> 00:54:53,580
Now you taste something of the grief and

1006
00:54:53,580 --> 00:54:57,600
the sorrow I have daily over you, as

1007
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,260
you grieve now for your son.

1008
00:55:03,460 --> 00:55:06,220
How bewildered we become when God says that

1009
00:55:06,220 --> 00:55:09,930
to us, as we begin to grieve over

1010
00:55:09,930 --> 00:55:10,550
our children.

1011
00:55:12,310 --> 00:55:16,390
I want to ask everyone here tonight, I

1012
00:55:16,390 --> 00:55:20,870
want to ask every father and mother who

1013
00:55:20,870 --> 00:55:23,230
needs to ask God from their souls in

1014
00:55:23,230 --> 00:55:28,750
this day and age, desperately, God, fill me

1015
00:55:28,750 --> 00:55:35,200
with the Holy Spirit, that I may bring

1016
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:40,070
my children up, fearing God through my life

1017
00:55:40,070 --> 00:55:41,350
in the home.

1018
00:55:41,350 --> 00:55:44,850
Those of you that know you desperately need

1019
00:55:44,850 --> 00:55:48,830
for God to control you by His Spirit

1020
00:55:48,830 --> 00:55:52,990
toward your married mates, to keep a watch

1021
00:55:52,990 --> 00:55:55,030
on your spirit, that it may be controlled

1022
00:55:55,030 --> 00:55:58,770
by my Spirit toward your life partner, for

1023
00:55:58,770 --> 00:56:00,830
your children to be able to fear God

1024
00:56:00,830 --> 00:56:02,510
and want the God you tell them of.

1025
00:56:02,510 --> 00:56:04,710
I want all of you who know you

1026
00:56:04,710 --> 00:56:06,950
need desperately to cry out to God, it's

1027
00:56:06,950 --> 00:56:09,130
me, fill me tonight, God, with a little

1028
00:56:09,130 --> 00:56:10,030
bit of time left.

1029
00:56:14,170 --> 00:56:16,030
I want you to stand right now as

1030
00:56:16,030 --> 00:56:17,950
you're the one that God's speaking to.

1031
00:56:18,550 --> 00:56:20,930
God, fill me for my home's sake.

1032
00:56:21,630 --> 00:56:24,370
I need to be Spirit-filled and controlled

1033
00:56:24,370 --> 00:56:26,470
by the Spirit for my children's sake, and

1034
00:56:26,470 --> 00:56:28,370
I'm not, though I'm saved.

1035
00:56:28,370 --> 00:56:31,150
Will you stand, those parents who need to,

1036
00:56:31,270 --> 00:56:32,730
please, before God.

1037
00:56:34,410 --> 00:56:36,290
Thank you for all these that are standing,

1038
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,000
courageous of you.

1039
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:52,500
I want to ask all of you to

1040
00:56:52,500 --> 00:56:55,520
come, come stand in the front here, make

1041
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,920
your way, let's make this a consecration to

1042
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,300
God here, it's a holy thing in this

1043
00:57:00,300 --> 00:57:02,000
day and age to seek God like this.

1044
00:57:19,950 --> 00:57:22,630
I want to ask all the young people,

1045
00:57:23,410 --> 00:57:29,480
all the children, all you children who are

1046
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:35,690
not Spirit-controlled in the home, who are

1047
00:57:35,690 --> 00:57:40,750
not obeying your parents, but you're grieving them,

1048
00:57:43,620 --> 00:57:45,960
who are not honoring your mother and father.

1049
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:50,270
I want those of you that need to

1050
00:57:50,270 --> 00:57:53,510
ask God for mercy for that tonight, to

1051
00:57:53,510 --> 00:57:57,730
stand right now, be courageous, yes, and ask

1052
00:57:57,730 --> 00:58:00,290
God tonight to make you Spirit-controlled so

1053
00:58:00,290 --> 00:58:03,650
that you in your home, you in your

1054
00:58:03,650 --> 00:58:05,910
home cannot be a grief to your parents,

1055
00:58:06,630 --> 00:58:07,510
but a joy.

1056
00:58:08,590 --> 00:58:10,110
Come, you make your way to the front,

1057
00:58:10,210 --> 00:58:10,770
young people.

1058
00:58:17,140 --> 00:58:19,080
I want to ask one last thing.

1059
00:58:20,620 --> 00:58:22,280
This is going to cost you sitting here

1060
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,200
tonight, you parents that aren't saved.

1061
00:58:28,900 --> 00:58:31,240
In this day and age, imagine being unsaved

1062
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,480
and bringing up children without God.

1063
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:36,000
Don't do it.

1064
00:58:38,380 --> 00:58:41,280
There's virtually no hope without God.

1065
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,720
You parents that know you don't know Christ,

1066
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,020
and you need Him to come now for

1067
00:58:50,020 --> 00:58:51,700
your home's sake, for your life.

1068
00:58:54,180 --> 00:58:56,840
I want you parents, you young people who

1069
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,780
are not saved, you are looking at the

1070
00:58:59,780 --> 00:59:01,600
world and all its lust and all its

1071
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,440
evil and all that cries out to you

1072
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:06,820
to rebel against your parents, with your parents

1073
00:59:06,820 --> 00:59:09,700
tonight, with all the unsaved here tonight in

1074
00:59:09,700 --> 00:59:10,160
the home.

1075
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:12,520
Give God a chance in this day and

1076
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,780
age to prove to you and to promise

1077
00:59:15,780 --> 00:59:19,020
you, oh, even as He promised me, great

1078
00:59:19,020 --> 00:59:20,560
shall be the peace of my children.

1079
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:22,320
Their righteousness shall be of me.

1080
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:24,460
They shall follow me.

1081
00:59:27,180 --> 00:59:29,120
Let God begin to give you promises in

1082
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,580
this wicked age that will fill your heart

1083
00:59:31,580 --> 00:59:33,600
with hope, but you have to be God's

1084
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:34,380
child for that.

1085
00:59:36,390 --> 00:59:38,110
I want all of you who are unsaved,

1086
00:59:38,290 --> 00:59:40,010
please, take courage.

1087
00:59:40,230 --> 00:59:41,370
All of us have to do is, will

1088
00:59:41,370 --> 00:59:43,010
you stand right now where you sit in

1089
00:59:43,010 --> 00:59:44,410
and say, God, I'm coming.

1090
00:59:45,070 --> 00:59:45,630
I'm coming.

1091
00:59:45,730 --> 00:59:46,290
Will you stand?

1092
00:59:47,130 --> 00:59:47,790
We're waiting.

1093
00:59:48,730 --> 00:59:49,890
Come to Christ.

1094
00:59:50,350 --> 00:59:51,130
You're not saved.

1095
00:59:53,100 --> 00:59:54,000
I look around.

1096
00:59:56,550 --> 00:59:56,970
Yes.

1097
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:04,200
Now all of us bow our heads in

1098
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:04,500
prayer.

1099
01:00:04,500 --> 01:00:14,040
I want the father, the parent to pray

1100
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:14,800
this with me.

1101
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:29,930
Father God, forgive me for failing thee toward

1102
01:00:29,930 --> 01:00:36,890
my children, toward my wife, my husband.

1103
01:00:38,330 --> 01:00:46,950
Forgive me for professing Christ, but not living

1104
01:00:46,950 --> 01:00:50,250
Him in front of my children as I

1105
01:00:50,250 --> 01:00:50,750
ought to.

1106
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:54,980
Wash me in the blood.

1107
01:00:57,790 --> 01:00:59,070
Make me clean.

1108
01:01:00,150 --> 01:01:02,250
Let the blood go deeper, God.

1109
01:01:04,290 --> 01:01:06,830
Create in me a clean heart, oh God,

1110
01:01:08,430 --> 01:01:11,270
and renew a right spirit within me.

1111
01:01:11,270 --> 01:01:20,080
Oh God, fill me with the Holy Spirit.

1112
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,600
Take complete control of my life.

1113
01:01:25,500 --> 01:01:27,520
I yield it to thee.

1114
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:36,530
Let the fruit of the Spirit spontaneously be

1115
01:01:36,530 --> 01:01:42,170
seen in my life, in every reaction, no

1116
01:01:42,170 --> 01:01:45,690
matter how hard or trying the circumstance.

1117
01:01:46,870 --> 01:01:53,150
That my children may believe in God through

1118
01:01:53,150 --> 01:01:54,830
what they see in my life.

1119
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:00,420
And they may want the God of their

1120
01:02:00,420 --> 01:02:01,420
father and mother.

1121
01:02:05,730 --> 01:02:07,250
In Christ's name.

1122
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:12,700
Now you young people, will you pray aloud?

1123
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:14,580
All you children, no matter how old you

1124
01:02:14,580 --> 01:02:16,700
are, who need to pray this, but you

1125
01:02:16,700 --> 01:02:19,280
young people who should pray aloud.

1126
01:02:19,420 --> 01:02:28,350
Father, forgive me for causing any grief to

1127
01:02:28,350 --> 01:02:29,410
my father and mother.

1128
01:02:30,310 --> 01:02:31,750
I love them.

1129
01:02:35,140 --> 01:02:40,320
Reveal thy love to them through me as

1130
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,800
I obey them, as I honor them.

1131
01:02:44,860 --> 01:02:48,440
Wash me in the blood now from every

1132
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:48,960
failure.

1133
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:53,520
Let the blood cleanse me through and through

1134
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:59,140
and fill thou me now with thy Holy

1135
01:02:59,140 --> 01:02:59,780
Spirit.

1136
01:03:01,150 --> 01:03:06,630
That I may be Christlike and godly and

1137
01:03:06,630 --> 01:03:08,710
a blessing to my father and mother.

1138
01:03:10,070 --> 01:03:12,350
In Jesus Christ's name.

1139
01:03:14,170 --> 01:03:14,470
Amen.

1140
01:03:14,470 --> 01:03:19,870
Can we all stand in the congregation please?

1141
01:03:22,890 --> 01:03:25,090
If there were any who are unsaved here

1142
01:03:25,090 --> 01:03:29,990
tonight who are seeking God, will you please

1143
01:03:29,990 --> 01:03:34,850
do me the honor of walking up immediately

1144
01:03:34,850 --> 01:03:36,790
to someone you know is godly.

1145
01:03:38,050 --> 01:03:40,330
Even if it's a young person whose parents

1146
01:03:40,330 --> 01:03:40,990
are godly.

1147
01:03:41,670 --> 01:03:43,730
Don't let daddy lead you to Christ tonight.

1148
01:03:44,830 --> 01:03:46,250
But come to Christ tonight.

1149
01:03:46,850 --> 01:03:47,270
Please.

1150
01:03:48,450 --> 01:03:52,750
Give yourself to God as family and serve

1151
01:03:52,750 --> 01:03:52,950
him.

1152
01:03:53,030 --> 01:03:54,890
And in this world, I guarantee you, I

1153
01:03:54,890 --> 01:03:58,090
don't care how wicked this world becomes, God

1154
01:03:58,090 --> 01:04:01,630
is obliged to answer the prayers of those

1155
01:04:01,630 --> 01:04:02,550
holy hands.

1156
01:04:03,350 --> 01:04:06,330
Lifted up without wrath or doubting in the

1157
01:04:06,330 --> 01:04:08,110
God who's greater than the devil right to

1158
01:04:08,110 --> 01:04:08,490
the end.

1159
01:04:09,630 --> 01:04:11,770
You pray, you live the life and your

1160
01:04:11,770 --> 01:04:12,730
children will be godly.

1161
01:04:15,460 --> 01:04:17,500
And if they aren't, they're bred and will

1162
01:04:17,500 --> 01:04:19,360
pray with you, not condemn you.

1163
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,180
They dare not.

1164
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:31,580
It's a terrible age we're living in.

1165
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:39,050
But with God, it's God.

1166
01:04:40,470 --> 01:04:42,630
There's never going to come a moment that

1167
01:04:42,630 --> 01:04:47,590
we can't walk holy in our homes and

1168
01:04:47,590 --> 01:04:48,850
in this world in white.

1169
01:04:50,130 --> 01:04:53,510
I guarantee you that if you have God

1170
01:04:53,510 --> 01:04:53,990
first.

1171
01:05:02,470 --> 01:05:06,370
Now tomorrow night, I want to go even

1172
01:05:06,370 --> 01:05:10,520
deeper with this thing called the home.

1173
01:05:12,180 --> 01:05:14,300
And I want every one of you to

1174
01:05:14,300 --> 01:05:16,900
come back here with others who need to

1175
01:05:16,900 --> 01:05:18,760
hear whose homes are hurt.

1176
01:05:21,460 --> 01:05:23,360
Our brother here will commit us to God.

1177
01:05:23,780 --> 01:05:24,020
Please.