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0:06sounds like the change happens
0:17[Music]
0:31[Music]
0:40[Music]
0:53[Music]
1:13[Music]
1:19he did it
1:23live again
1:40[Applause]
1:51Hallelujah
1:57[Music]
2:01[Applause]
2:02[Music]
2:06words that let the change
2:14[Music]
2:21[Music]
2:27[Music]
2:42[Music]
2:50[Music]
3:06get down here
3:19[Music]
3:35if the Lord has ever done anything for
3:38you why don't you just put your hands
3:39together as a way of testifying that I
3:43have been blessed and I have been helped
3:45by the Lord he did it
3:49amen well it feels good in the house of
3:52the Lord on this Sunday morning
3:55my thoughts today have been on the
3:58numerous scriptures that talk about
4:01the abundance of Heaven
4:03we read about the storehouse of Heaven
4:07and the good things that God Treasures
4:09up in heaven
4:11and so when you read about all of what
4:13the Bible says in heaven it becomes
4:15apparent that heaven is chocked full of
4:18a lot of good things
4:21God is accumulating good things in
4:24heaven
4:25and it dawned on me that everything in
4:28heaven
4:29has been put there for a purpose
4:33and that purpose is God's people
4:36Heaven's Storehouse does not exist for
4:39The Sinner
4:40it does not exist for the reprobate
4:43it does not exist for the god hater
4:46but everything that is in heaven is
4:48therefore people like you and I that
4:51love the Lord and who are called for his
4:54purpose
4:55amen and so I'm just anxious to see what
5:00spiritual blessings and natural
5:02blessings God is going to put on our
5:03lives this week I think we're I think
5:06we're in store for some really good
5:07stuff what do you think
5:09and this part of the service we call
5:11attention to our giving
5:13because the Bible makes it very definite
5:17link between our giving of a tithe
5:21that's 10 of our income giving offerings
5:24above and beyond our tithe to the
5:28provision of God's Storehouse flowing
5:30into our life
5:31it's kind of like God says if you just
5:33trust me try me prove me
5:36you you put in what I asked for and see
5:40if I won't open up the windows of heaven
5:42and let blessings come on you that
5:45there's not even room enough to receive
5:47and a lot of us have put God to the test
5:49and we have watched it happen in our
5:51life and I believe it's going to happen
5:53again today God bless you as you give
5:57unto the Lord
6:06as for me and my house has formed me and
6:12my house has formed me and my house I'm
6:16Gonna Be Free
6:19free
6:20[Music]
6:38I declare freedom for my dogs
6:42[Music]
6:50[Music]
7:13[Music]
7:21me with me
7:24please
7:33[Music]
7:45[Music]
7:53[Music]
8:07[Music]
8:18[Music]
8:29[Music]
8:35thank you
8:42take us away
8:48from your family
8:50to children and their children and their
8:54children face
8:58[Music]
9:10be upon race
9:12[Music]
9:19[Music]
9:29[Music]
9:39and the size
9:59foreign
10:21[Music]
10:31[Music]
10:38amen
10:56and be sure
11:06Generations
11:13[Music]
11:34come here
11:49please
11:51[Music]
12:11amen
12:21[Music]
12:26oh man
12:31[Music]
12:45[Music]
13:09everybody said amen
13:12I love the words of that song and it's
13:15so appropriate for the month of February
13:18we have devoted this month to
13:21strengthening our families and on
13:24Wednesday nights I've been teaching
13:27some messages to help our homes this
13:32past Wednesday we talked about the role
13:34of a Christian man in the home
13:36this Wednesday night Lord Willen we're
13:38going to talk about the role of a
13:40Christian
13:40woman in her home and I know we're going
13:43to have a good time delving into the
13:45word of the Lord and then the following
13:48Wednesday we're going to have a question
13:49and answer tonight we've never done this
13:51before quite like this but if you have
13:54questions regarding the family you can
13:58text them to the church number and they
14:00will be presented anonymously the number
14:03is on the little sign that's standing up
14:05right outside the doors of the sanctuary
14:07go ahead and send those in don't wait
14:10get them on the list and we're going to
14:12cover as many as we can on the last
14:15Wednesday night of this month
14:18and having a good family that it there's
14:21a lot of spiritual Dynamics and we cover
14:23those here in church but
14:26it's not all about praying together it's
14:28also about playing together
14:31good family knows how to pray and they
14:34also know how to play
14:35and this week we're going to do some
14:37playing together at the Mid-South Ice
14:40House we have it reserved just for our
14:43church and all of the guests that you
14:45want to invite
14:47cost is fifteen dollars for adults
14:52children five and under are ten dollars
14:55that includes your admission and your
14:57skates there are concessions there at
15:00the ice house you can get your tickets
15:03on the church app under the register tab
15:06or you can pay at the door and so come
15:09on out and let's have a good time if you
15:12are not if you're like me and you're not
15:13big into ice skating you could just put
15:16a pair on and pretend a little bit
15:20I spend more time on my backside than I
15:24do on my feet when I escape but you know
15:27what we're going to have a good time
15:27anyway
15:29and we can all get out there and do it
15:31and if you're not in the skating you can
15:33just sit there on the bleachers and
15:35cheer the rest of us on but we'll have a
15:38great time with all of our families feel
15:40free to bring guests to invite guests
15:42we're going to have a great time in the
15:43lord well at this time we're going to
15:45dismiss our teens to their class and
15:48while they're going take a minute to
15:50step across the aisle greet somebody we
15:53have a number of people here today at
15:55your very first time to be in service at
15:57Christian Life and just want you to know
15:59that we're delighted to see you in the
16:01house of the Lord so glad that you have
16:03come today
16:06[Music]
16:21[Applause]
16:22[Music]
16:33thank you
16:36foreign
16:38[Music]
17:09foreign
17:10[Music]
17:22foreign
17:25[Music]
17:58[Music]
18:03foreign
18:05[Music]
18:45foreign
18:52[Music]
19:32may not seem like victory
19:39[Music]
19:46his glory is
19:49[Music]
19:53as it is on foreign
19:57[Music]
20:14[Music]
20:23Only Imagine
20:26making something out enough is what he
20:32does
20:43[Music]
20:5610 times
21:10[Music]
21:15[Applause]
21:18welcome
21:28baby
21:31[Music]
21:47foreign
22:05[Applause]
22:14[Music]
22:43subscribe here
23:16still memories
23:32Glory shines
23:43[Music]
23:55foreign
24:26thank you
24:29[Music]
24:36[Music]
24:45[Music]
25:04still everything
25:08please stay everything
25:12[Music]
25:19[Applause]
25:20[Music]
25:39Hallelujah
25:43[Applause]
25:44[Music]
25:54[Applause]
26:01[Music]
26:11[Applause]
26:19[Music]
26:20thank you
26:24with the other one
26:26[Music]
26:54Hallelujah
26:56[Music]
27:03[Music]
27:29you are everything I need me
27:39everything
27:47for me
28:05[Music]
28:21thank you
28:33is everything that we need before
28:36besides
28:38thank you Jesus
28:42man
28:44what a beautiful time of worshiping the
28:46Lord together
28:49you know I'm so grateful for
28:51musicians
28:54all of those who sang and Lead
28:57in our music Ministry they put in a lot
28:59of time and preparation and practice
29:03and these are people that don't just
29:04talk to talk they walk the walk
29:08what a blessing it is that they're here
29:10to
29:11lead us into worship and to praise
29:15we're going to praise God with or
29:17without music but how to hold up praise
29:19him with music wouldn't you
29:21if you have your Bibles with you we're
29:24going to consult two passages of
29:26scripture
29:27first we'll go to Proverbs Chapter 13
29:32Proverbs Chapter 13 and verse number 22
29:36and then from there we'll go to verse in
29:40Luke chapter one
29:44now what I'm about to bring to you today
29:47I
29:49preached at least
29:51one of the time
29:54maybe out about
29:56time or two over the years but it was uh
29:59this is the message I first preached
30:01October 6 2010.
30:05the church was over in Frazier
30:08and
30:09because I've been praying over this
30:11family month
30:13and preaching to bring I
30:16felt these scriptures stir back in my
30:18spirit
30:20and we're going to visit this text again
30:24the Bible says in Proverbs Chapter 13
30:26and verse number 22.
30:29good man leaveth and inheritance
30:34to his children's
30:38[Music]
30:39a good man
30:42leaves an inheritance to his children's
30:45children
30:46[Music]
30:49or in other words if we do this right
30:51our grandkids
30:54will be blessed because we have lived
30:59[Music]
31:01principle we're going to explore for a
31:03while today
31:05over in the Gospel of Luke chapter 1 and
31:09verse number
31:1150.
31:1350 there is a tremendous
31:15verse a short verse but
31:18boy is it ever powerful
31:23the scripture said of the Lord that his
31:26Mercy
31:27is on them that fear Him
31:30[Music]
31:32from generation
31:34to generation
31:36[Music]
31:37or in other words if you fear the lord
31:41God's Mercy is on you but
31:43the act of you fearing God
31:47has a generational consequence
31:51there is something that is transmitted
31:54to the Next Generation
31:57when the first generation does it right
32:00and I want to preach for a little while
32:02about generational momentum generational
32:05momentum can you receive God's word with
32:07an amen
32:09you may be seated
32:14several years ago
32:16there were two independent researchers
32:19that
32:21spent some time
32:24doing a couple of studies on two
32:27particular families that lived
32:31within proximity to one another time
32:34wise
32:36the first researcher his name was
32:39Richard dugdale
32:42and
32:43Richard dugdale
32:45studied the man
32:48who is known as Max Juke
32:52Max Duke was he lived in the American
32:57colonial times
32:59and this man was an atheist
33:03Max Duke believed in Liberation from all
33:07laws he was I guess by modern terms
33:10somewhat of a libertarian
33:13and Juke is a person that even in the
33:17time when it was not culturally
33:20acceptable to do so he advocated for
33:23free sex
33:25he had no formal education
33:29and he hated
33:31any sort of imposed responsibilities
33:37and Doug Dale an excerpt from his book
33:40he said this about Juke he said that he
33:43was a hunter and a Fisher
33:45a hard drinker
33:48jolly and companionable
33:51adverse to study toil
33:53working hard by spurts and idling by
33:57turns reminds me some people I've met
34:01said he had numerous children and some
34:04of them were certainly
34:06illegitimate
34:08and Doug Dale took Max Duke and started
34:12tracing down this Man's family tree
34:16to identify as many of his kids and
34:19grandkids and great Karen kids and so on
34:22as he possibly could
34:24and he was able to locate
34:281026 descendants
34:31of Max Duke
34:33and of these thousand and 26
34:37progenies of Max Duke 300 of them
34:42or convicts
34:4427 were murderers
34:47190 of them turned out to be prostitutes
34:52509 were either alcoholics or drug
34:55addicts
34:56and this is not any money in today's
34:59dollars but back then
35:01keep in mind we're looking a couple
35:03hundred years back 250 years back
35:07this this family this one family cost
35:10the state of New York 1.4 million
35:13dollars to house
35:15and to institutionalize and otherwise
35:18treat
35:19this family of deviance
35:23and so duckdale was able to take
35:27this one man
35:30and the life that he lived
35:33his life of sin and
35:36ignorance and craziness
35:39set his family on a trajectory that
35:42carried
35:43over the period of several Generations
35:48so one person
35:50has a big impact
35:53on what their family becomes our
35:55decisions really do matter
35:58another researcher did a similar study
36:02of a man who lived in a similar area his
36:06name was A.E Winship
36:09an a Winship took the preacher the
36:13famous preacher named Jonathan Edwards
36:15how many of you all have heard of
36:16Jonathan Edwards
36:18many of you have and he was not
36:21Pentecostal preacher but he was a man
36:24who definitely believed in righteousness
36:26and believed the word of God
36:29Edwards was the polar opposite of Max
36:32Duke this man was hard-working God
36:35fearing a Bible believing
36:37and this is what Winship said of Edwards
36:40it said he was a Godly Minister who was
36:42credited with igniting the Great
36:44Awakening
36:46through his sermons
36:48he served for a brief period just before
36:50his death as the president of Princeton
36:54University
36:55and he believed in leading by example
36:59but what is very interesting is that
37:02Winship was able to trace down
37:06the family tree of Jonathan Edwards and
37:09locate
37:10for certain 929
37:14direct descendants of Edwards
37:18and out of the 929 children and
37:22grandchildren great-grandchildren and so
37:24on
37:2513 of these were College presidents
37:2986 of them College professors
37:33430 of them were preachers of the Gospel
37:37314 were War veterans
37:4175 of them authored books
37:44100 were lawyers 30 were judges
37:4966 of them were Physicians
37:5280 of them held public offices including
37:55three U.S sinisters seven congressmen
37:59mayors of three large cities governors
38:02of three states
38:03and a vice president of the United
38:06States and a controller of the United
38:09States Treasury
38:11and when ship study
38:14coincided with
38:16the other study that duck Dale did in
38:19that it demonstrated
38:22that one man or one woman
38:25can make decisions
38:28and live a life that
38:31literally Alters their family tree
38:36this is a scriptural concept there are a
38:39number of scriptures that
38:41teach us that those are sins and our
38:45righteousness
38:46both have consequences to the generation
38:49that follow us
38:51Deuteronomy chapter 5 the scripture said
38:54I the Lord thy God
38:57am a jealous God
38:59visiting the iniquity of the fathers
39:01upon the children
39:03unto the fourth third and fourth
39:05generation of them that hate me
39:08now this scripture
39:10is not teaching
39:12that your sins will be judged upon your
39:17children that's not what it's saying it
39:21is not saying that if you have a son or
39:23daughter that they will have eternal
39:25consequences based on your action
39:28because everybody will stand before God
39:31on their own account but what it is
39:34saying is that when a person lives the
39:38life of sin
39:40they set their family on a trajectory
39:43spirits that we entertain in our homes
39:47habits that we embrace
39:49addictions that we bring in will set up
39:53strongholds that will be passed on to
39:57our children and our grandchildren and
40:01our great-grandchildren and all the way
40:04to the fourth generation it has been
40:08well documented that when people grow up
40:10in the homes of an alcoholic their
40:13likelihood towards alcoholism is greatly
40:16increased when a home is filled with
40:20immorality the chances of the children
40:23living an immoral life are greatly
40:27increased and so what we do matters and
40:31let me tell you something brothers and
40:33sisters if you're fighting battles with
40:36Temptations If there are strongholds of
40:40the devil in your life you need to fight
40:43those battles and win them you need to
40:46break
40:47cycles that were handed to you from your
40:50parents because it's more than just your
40:54life at stake but it is the life of your
40:58sons and daughters that are following
41:00you
41:02but just like sin has generational
41:05consequences so does living right and
41:08making good choices
41:10Deuteronomy again chapter 7 and verse
41:13number nine
41:14the Bible says know therefore that the
41:17Lord thy God he is God the faithful God
41:20which keepeth Covenant and mercy with
41:24them that love him
41:26and keep his Commandments watch this now
41:30look at this this is astounding he does
41:33this
41:34unto a thousand
41:37Generations
41:40literally what the scripture is teaching
41:43us
41:44is that descendants who will come along
41:48after we are long Dead and Gone
41:51will reap the benefits of a man or a
41:56woman who fears God and keeps the
42:00Commandments of God
42:03I'm hearing this Pulpit today to talk to
42:06you
42:06about the concept of generational
42:09momentum
42:11this concept is in me I'm not just
42:15preaching to you some things that I
42:17think or believe
42:19but I'm preaching to you some Concepts
42:21that are poor in the word of God and
42:25that I believe that all of us need to
42:27grab a hold of
42:28I hope and pray before I'm done today
42:31that every person in this building will
42:35walk out of here committed to seeing a
42:38Revival in your grandchildren and Grand
42:41great grandchildren some of which have
42:44not even been born at this point
42:47just think it what would happen in this
42:51local church if just our small
42:54congregation were to live for God and
42:59raise our children to serve God and to
43:03marry in the faith in just a few years
43:07without us reaching one more sinner from
43:10our society although we're going to do a
43:12lot of that if we were just able to
43:14raise our kids
43:16and get our kids to marry godly people
43:19what would this church become in just a
43:24generation or two
43:26I had sister Michaela pull some numbers
43:29for me this week
43:31and here at Christian Life we have 86
43:34youth who are 18 years old or younger 86
43:39of them and then I don't know how many
43:42young adults we have we have probably 30
43:44or 40 single young adults in the church
43:47a large number of them but focusing on
43:50just those 18 years or less
43:53what if
43:55we were able to instill
43:58into our children biblical ethics what
44:02if we put in them a love for God
44:05and taught them that when they get
44:08married they also need to marry a holy
44:11ghost-filled person who also loves God
44:15and that's the way it's supposed to
44:17happen
44:18our 86 youth if they married out would
44:22become a Congregation of 172.
44:27if all 86 of these couples each were
44:30blessed with two children the family
44:33size would be 344.
44:37but if we could duplicate this for one
44:40more generation
44:42in which their children grew up to fear
44:46God and marry in the church and also
44:50have children the congregation would
44:53grow to 860 people with just those that
44:59are here now and those that they marry
45:03so you talk about a great way to grow
45:06the church we can grow the church
45:09through Godly families but if in the
45:13process of raising our children to live
45:16for God we reach out into our
45:19communities and find people who are
45:22searching for God bring to them the
45:25gospel Plan of Salvation and we see them
45:28saved and we see their family trees
45:31altered this thing will begin to
45:35mushroom to an exponential degree in
45:40just a generation or so I believe with
45:44all of my heart that a big part of the
45:47Revival that God is giving our church is
45:51the Revival of families and a Revival of
45:54couples I love to preach the gospel to
45:58The Sinner and if you are here today and
46:01you are an unsaved the person I want you
46:05to know that you are welcome in this
46:07church we have a place for you we love
46:11you and God has a plan for your life and
46:15God wants to change your life and we're
46:18going to have Services if you come for a
46:20while you're going to hear the gospel
46:22and you're going to be convicted of your
46:25sin and you're going to be born again of
46:28the water and of the spirit but today my
46:33number one mission is not to preach to
46:36The Sinner per se but my mission here is
46:41to preach to families who are struggling
46:44let me preach to marriages that are
46:48struggling right now and let you know
46:51that there is a reason to work through
46:54your problems that far supersedes the
46:58reasons that you have been contemplating
47:00for splitting up the last thing we need
47:03is another marriage to fall apart the
47:06last thing we need is another fatherless
47:09home the last thing we need is Another
47:13Broken family but mom and dad let me
47:17tell you whatever your problem is right
47:20now it is temporary if you just hang on
47:24and live for God for a little while the
47:27present distress in your home will pass
47:31along and there will be another day
47:33coming there will be better days coming
47:36I believe that with everything that is
47:38in me but you've got to get something
47:41down in the corn of your spirit this
47:44says come what may come what will I'm
47:47going to have my family in church my
47:51kids are going to learn the word of God
47:53and I will raise them to fear the lord
47:57oh let's clap our hands and Worship the
48:00Lord
48:00[Applause]
48:05just one person
48:07committed to living for God can change
48:10the course of their family tree
48:14now I am sure that if I were to pass the
48:17microphone around and
48:19hear everyone's story
48:22a lot of us could talk about family
48:25trees
48:27in our upline
48:29that were corrupt and rotten
48:33some of our family trees the root
48:35systems are so
48:37Twisted even we can't decipher who was
48:41who
48:42applying
48:44some of us have family trees that were
48:47similar to Max jukes
48:51and we could point out a bunch of mess
48:54there's many of us when we look back
48:56over the generations
48:58who our family is is not a source of
49:02pride
49:03but it's a source of Shame
49:06but the beautiful thing about salvation
49:09is when a person is born again
49:13the Bible says that all things are made
49:17new
49:18literally that means that you have a
49:21chance to break the generational cycles
49:25of sin of poverty of incest pornography
49:31alcoholism drug addiction and false
49:36Doctrine and you are able to bring your
49:40kids up in the fear and the admonition
49:43of the Lord and through you and through
49:47your family the kingdom of God is
49:50strengthened in our city
49:58we gotta grab this concept of building
50:00the kingdom through the family
50:03and one way we do that is we teach our
50:05kids to marry with the interest of the
50:07kingdom of God in mind
50:11you don't need to marry someone because
50:13they're sexy
50:16you need to marry them because they're
50:18holy
50:23you need to give more Credence to their
50:25prayer life than their tax return
50:33you need to look at their involvement in
50:36the kingdom of God more than you look at
50:38their career path
50:40because at the end of the day brother
50:42money comes and goes careers can change
50:45but what really builds a marriage is
50:49godliness and Holiness and the fear of
50:52God
50:57I'm more concerned with my wife knowing
51:00how to pray than her having a college
51:02degree
51:05although she knows how to do both and
51:07has both
51:11and then we've got to get it in us that
51:13when our marriages hit tough spots
51:17that we stay married
51:20for the sake of the Kingdom
51:23now I am not of the persuasion that
51:27all divorce
51:30can be avoided because some of it cannot
51:35if a person is a Serial adulterer
51:39and they're not repentant
51:42and don't demonstrate the fruits of
51:44repentance
51:46put them on the road
51:49the Bible does not require a man or a
51:52woman
51:53to remain faithful and married to
51:58someone who is an unrepentant adulterer
52:05it's not Bible
52:07I know some people don't believe that
52:08but if you don't believe that bring your
52:10Bible this week and Min you we'll talk
52:14the Bible
52:20does not require you to live in a home
52:23where you're getting beat
52:26and abused
52:30the Bible does not require that
52:33but let's be honest the Lord of what
52:37happens to break up our marriages
52:41is not
52:43physical abuse
52:45and be careful about these people say
52:47they're verbally abused
52:49there is such thing as verbal abuse but
52:52a lot of times verbal abuse means my
52:54spouse said something I don't like
52:57it's a very elastic term
53:01that pardon upon gets abused
53:07most of the time our marriage issues are
53:11conflicts of personality
53:13bad communication
53:16selfishness
53:18self-centeredness narcissism
53:24unwillingness for forgive
53:27laziness
53:29negligence
53:31brutishness
53:33and these are all things that can get
53:35fixed
53:36but let me just tell you if you're
53:38married to someone you're married to
53:40someone that's doing at least one of
53:42what I just said
53:46because when you got married you married
53:48a fallen person
53:51a person with a sinful nature
53:55and let me tell you if you're discontent
53:58with your spouse right now let me tell
54:00you what your spouse married
54:03they married a person
54:06who is guilty of one or more of those
54:08things
54:09they married a sinner with a fallen
54:12nature
54:14and so if you're thinking I can just get
54:17rid of her
54:18and trade her in for a newer younger
54:22skinnier model
54:35he forgot to get you roses or
54:37strawberries for Valentine's
54:41you think I will get rid of him and get
54:43me Romeo
54:46you got another thing coming brother
54:50you got another thing coming because
54:52guess what spouse number two
54:56is going to be a fallen creature
54:59with a sinful nature
55:03God forbid their spouse number three or
55:06four or five they're all going to be
55:09Sinners with a fallen nature so at some
55:12point you've just gotta buckle down and
55:14understand that that if I'm going to be
55:16married I've got to forgive I've got to
55:18overlook I've got to have Grace from my
55:21spouse I've got to give Mercy but beyond
55:25what is good for me what is good for the
55:28kingdom there is more reason to stay
55:31together and work through our problems
55:34then there is cause for divorce stay
55:38married for the sake of the Kingdom
55:46well I feel it getting a little tight in
55:48here right now
55:53but when it gets a little bit tense in
55:55the room that lets me know that the word
55:57is
55:58working
56:04talking to you about generational
56:05momentum
56:07how many times did Martin and Dad get
56:10caught up in the issue of the moment in
56:13its legitimate stuff it's stuff it's a
56:15lot of times there's bad stuff and
56:16hurtful stuff but we get so mired down
56:20in what's going on in the moment and we
56:23get so consumed with our ego and our
56:26emotions that we break up a family and
56:29before you know it we have disrupted the
56:32plan of God for that family simply
56:35because we weren't willing to forgive
56:37and we weren't willing to work through
56:39the problems and before we know it we're
56:42watching our children
56:44manifest the scars and the dysfunction
56:47that we bring on them with our decisions
56:52[Applause]
56:57we need to raise our kids
57:01for their lives to be centered
57:03on the kingdom of God
57:06I'm all about raising kids that are
57:08well-rounded and
57:10productive citizens and we need to do
57:13things outside the church we need to
57:15play outside the church have fun outside
57:17the church
57:18the church is not everything
57:23I understand that
57:25but I do believe this
57:28God's Mission needs to be the main thing
57:32the most important thing
57:34God's Mission needs to come before play
57:39God's Mission needs to be more important
57:41than money
57:43we need to raise our kids with a value
57:45system
57:47in which their biggest aspiration is to
57:50be involved in some Ministry of the
57:53church
57:54our kids need to start feeling the
57:57burden for lost souls while they're
57:59still young
58:00her kids need to learn how to teach a
58:03Bible study while they're still young
58:06our kids need to know how to work with
58:08people praying in the altar while
58:11they're still young that's the most
58:14important thing that we can put in our
58:17children I'm all about making money and
58:20I hope you make tons of it but if you
58:22never make a lot of money but you give
58:25your kids a Heritage of righteousness
58:27and Holiness you have given them an
58:31inheritance that is far beyond anything
58:34that we could quantify with a dollar
58:36amounts
58:37[Applause]
58:42the psalmist
58:44wrote a beautiful passage and I've
58:46preached from it probably a hundred
58:48times
58:50Psalm 127 and verse number 3 the Bible
58:54said
58:55children
58:57are in Heritage of the Lord and the
59:00fruit of the womb
59:02is his reward the whole that there just
59:06for a minute
59:09anytime a woman conceives a child let's
59:13be clear on this it's God
59:16that grants the conception
59:20God gives conception
59:23and we know that some pregnancies are
59:26unplanned
59:29we know that some of them happen
59:33in less than ideal circumstances
59:38but for people of faith we understand
59:40that
59:42pregnancy
59:44is God's gift
59:46it's God's gift
59:49there's no such thing
59:52as a child
59:54who is an accident
59:59your child might have been conceived
1:00:03in sin
1:00:05unplanned
1:00:07the circumstances around its conception
1:00:11may have been far less than ideal
1:00:16but when conception is given God gave it
1:00:20and when that child is conceived it is
1:00:24given a soul
1:00:26and that child has a plan for its life
1:00:29given to it by almighty God
1:00:35so regardless of whether it was
1:00:37unplanned or planned we have to
1:00:41understand that children are the
1:00:43heritage of the Lord and the fruit of
1:00:45the womb is his reward
1:00:47but I like this it says there's arrows
1:00:51are in the hand of a mighty man so are
1:00:53children of the youth
1:00:55happy is the man that has his quiver
1:00:59full of them
1:01:01they shall not be ashamed but listen now
1:01:04they shall speak with and the Hebrew for
1:01:08speak here is to subdue the enemy in the
1:01:12gate
1:01:13and of course we understand that it was
1:01:15written in the era of a hand the hand
1:01:17combat
1:01:18and a man knew that that there will be
1:01:22enemies I will have in my lifetime who I
1:01:25am not able to fight hand to hand alone
1:01:29but if I have a host of sons who are
1:01:33with me together with my sons and their
1:01:37sons will go out and we'll confront the
1:01:40enemy and through the medium of family
1:01:44the enemy would be defeated well I know
1:01:49that that was written in the era of hand
1:01:51to hand combat but I believe it applies
1:01:54to spiritual warfare as well
1:01:57because there's lots of devils in this
1:01:59city there's a lot of powers and
1:02:02strongholds of evil in this city and I
1:02:06believe this scripture is literally
1:02:08teaching that the way we advance the
1:02:11kingdom of God and subdue the enemy in
1:02:15this city is we raise our sons and
1:02:18daughters to be worshipers teachers
1:02:22Bible study teachers missionaries
1:02:26prayer warriors church attenders thank
1:02:31God for the family together with our
1:02:35families we are going to have dominion
1:02:38over the adversaries of the devil in
1:02:41this city
1:02:47now on and on we go through the Bible
1:02:50hell
1:02:51God intended
1:02:53his church to grow through the family
1:02:55let me read you just a couple of
1:02:57scriptures before I land the plane today
1:03:00Acts chapter 2 and verse number 17 when
1:03:03God gave the promise of the spirit he
1:03:05said I'll pour out my spirit on All
1:03:07Flesh everyone say All Flesh
1:03:10but watch this next line here
1:03:12and your sons and your daughters shall
1:03:15prophesy
1:03:17so the prophecy of the spirit
1:03:19the promise of the spirit
1:03:22was given in the context of family
1:03:27Acts 2 and verse 39. the promise of the
1:03:30Holy Ghost is unto you
1:03:33and
1:03:35to your children
1:03:37if you have received the Holy Ghost
1:03:41it is also promised to your children
1:03:44when God's salvation visits a home he's
1:03:49not just out to save dad and mom he
1:03:52wants to save the kids too
1:03:58often in a church we step over our
1:04:01children and go try to reach the
1:04:02stranger
1:04:04but our greatest Mission field in this
1:04:06church is the people that lives in our
1:04:08own home
1:04:09it's our own kids that's Mission field
1:04:11number one that's Mission field number
1:04:14one
1:04:17when the Holy Ghost came in Acts 10
1:04:20chapter 11 to Cornelius
1:04:23the angel said the Cornelius in verse
1:04:25number 14 of Acts 11 it says Peter's
1:04:28going to tell you the words whereby thou
1:04:30and all thy
1:04:31house shall be saved Acts chapter 16 and
1:04:35verse 15 Lydia when she was baptized and
1:04:39her household and on and on and on we go
1:04:44in the scripture there is a pattern that
1:04:47won one person in the family got saved
1:04:50there is a promise given and an
1:04:53expectation set that every member of the
1:04:56family will be saved and if I'm
1:04:58preaching to somebody right now you're
1:05:00the only saved person in your family
1:05:02I've got good news for you because you
1:05:04plugged into the family tree of God and
1:05:07because you got born again of the water
1:05:08and spirit you're bringing Grace to your
1:05:11whole household there is potential for
1:05:14Revival and salvation in your entire
1:05:16household because of you
1:05:19[Applause]
1:05:22shall We Stand Together
1:05:31I'm convinced that
1:05:33we have to get this concept in this
1:05:36church
1:05:40we have to take
1:05:43the salvation of our kids and our
1:05:45families
1:05:47so serious
1:05:52it needs to become
1:05:54the thing that fills your windshield to
1:05:58every day when you're looking out
1:06:00it needs to be Forefront in your mind
1:06:04that my kids have got to be saved
1:06:08my kids are watching me
1:06:11so I'm going to set an example for them
1:06:13to follow
1:06:15[Music]
1:06:17so here's
1:06:18here's what we know
1:06:21[Music]
1:06:24we know we cannot force a child to live
1:06:28for God God doesn't do anything
1:06:31make anybody to serve him
1:06:34salvation's an individual affair
1:06:36and kids are going to be saved they got
1:06:39to get it for themselves
1:06:41I can't give it to them
1:06:44but I'm gonna tell you what I can do as
1:06:46a dad
1:06:47I can set the example
1:06:53my daughter
1:06:56needs to grow up hearing me pray
1:07:00he needs to see me worship
1:07:03my daughter needs to see and hear me
1:07:07apologizing to her mother
1:07:10when I'm wrong
1:07:14my daughter needs to see
1:07:17me living out in the home
1:07:21the biblical principles that I professed
1:07:24in the church
1:07:27[Music]
1:07:29the reason why a lot of families spiral
1:07:31in the dysfunction
1:07:33is it because we get it together at
1:07:35church
1:07:37but at home we're living a life that is
1:07:39so far out of sync
1:07:41with the word of God it's not funny and
1:07:43we just put on our spiritual something
1:07:45when we come to church and make all the
1:07:47church people think we're holy
1:07:49but we keep living like Sinners at home
1:07:53the pulpit that's in your home is louder
1:07:56than the pulpit that's in this church
1:07:58foreign
1:08:00the sermons You Preach by example in the
1:08:03home
1:08:05will have far greater import than any
1:08:08sermon that I as the pastor preach in
1:08:09this pulpit
1:08:11but when you got a family a church
1:08:14family that's committed to generational
1:08:16momentum
1:08:18and we start living the word at home
1:08:22you know what that does it frees Grace
1:08:25to flow
1:08:27God gets to moving in the home
1:08:31when we bring our Christianity in
1:08:34godliness and prayer fasting
1:08:38Holiness of Lifestyle when we bring that
1:08:41into the home
1:08:43it brings Grace into them
1:08:47now we're gathered here on this Sunday
1:08:49morning and
1:08:52church members here and
1:08:54quite a number of people here for the
1:08:57very first time
1:08:59and I think we need to close this
1:09:00service with a time of prayer and I
1:09:02don't want anybody to feel awkward or
1:09:04excluded so I want to invite everybody
1:09:06[Music]
1:09:07I think it would be good as much as
1:09:09possible for us to join and just walk up
1:09:12to the front and join with our family
1:09:13we're going to have stand up here and
1:09:14have a time of prayer right now and
1:09:17we're going to pray for our families
1:09:20those of you that are single we've got
1:09:22about half our church I think a single
1:09:25and I want you to pray for your spouse
1:09:27that you don't even in many cases you
1:09:29don't even know who that spouse is going
1:09:30to be I want you to pray for him right
1:09:31now
1:09:32your spouse to be that you don't even
1:09:34know
1:09:35I want you to pray that God would work
1:09:38in his or her life
1:09:40and that conviction would be working in
1:09:42their life
1:09:43if you have children and grandchildren I
1:09:45want you to pray over them
1:09:47and I want us to pray right now that
1:09:49there will be a Revival
1:09:53that would start in our households
1:09:56that would span several generations of
1:09:59the Lord tears is coming
1:10:01can you just pray earnestly right now
1:10:05God I pray for my children
1:10:09I pray for children who haven't even
1:10:11been born yet
1:10:12[Music]
1:10:15I pray God that your spirit was settle
1:10:18upon this church
1:10:21I pray for every house Soul represented
1:10:24across this altar today
1:10:26[Music]
1:10:31I pray for a move of your spirits
1:10:36I pray for grace to be on every single
1:10:39person
1:10:43[Music]
1:10:52direct our steps
1:10:56I pray for marriage is right now
1:11:02who half behind the scenes struggles I
1:11:05pray that Grace would fall on those
1:11:07homes right now
1:11:08I pray for Hope and Faith to fill that
1:11:12home
1:11:12[Music]
1:11:14I pray that there will be a spirit of
1:11:16reconciliation
1:11:18move through the families of this church
1:11:20[Music]
1:11:24hope and Grace flow
1:11:29[Music]
1:11:32in the name of Jesus
1:11:35in the name of Jesus
1:11:38in the name of Jesus
1:11:43[Music]
1:11:50go ahead and intercede for the future of
1:11:53your family
1:11:55pray for the future of your family
1:12:01God we want your blessing to flow down
1:12:03our family tree
1:12:04[Music]
1:12:10oh God
1:12:12[Music]
1:12:13I pray God
1:12:17[Music]
1:12:23let our babies grow up to fear you
1:12:27I pray ahead your protection to be about
1:12:30them
1:12:31[Music]
1:12:36yes God
1:12:42yes God
1:12:47oh yes God
1:12:58Hallelujah heal the Brokenness of our
1:13:00homes heal us God
1:13:03but healing flow when healing flow
1:13:08I pray for healing the flow and through
1:13:11our dysfunctions
1:13:14[Music]
1:13:16till our Spirits heal our minds God
1:13:19[Music]
1:13:33thank you Jesus
1:13:39[Music]
1:13:42Hallelujah
1:13:49and everybody said amen
1:13:53let's grab a hold of the spirit and the
1:13:56essence of this word today and
1:13:59let's let's go and let's talk about it
1:14:01let's talk about it with our kids
1:14:05and let's pray on this and let's go to
1:14:07settle in
1:14:09and I believe God's going to give us
1:14:11Grace to do it
1:14:13now tonight we have our evening services
1:14:16at 6 30.
1:14:19come early for a prayer meeting at six
1:14:21and let's join together and Worship the
1:14:23Lord the Holy Ghost is going to be
1:14:25moving in this place in a powerful way
1:14:27tonight and we want to see everybody
1:14:29back out to church God bless you I love
1:14:32everybody be dismissed the fear of the
1:14:34Lord

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