 Hey man, so everyone can hear me. Okay. Well good morning. Happy Father's Day and first let me say thank you to Pastor Anderson for inviting me here. Thank you to the Anderson family for loaning us your dad and your husband. I know everybody in Fresno is excited to have Pastor Anderson there preaching. We're a small group so it's it's really cool to see Pastor Anderson come there. I'm excited for them as well. So just thanks for the hospitality. I can't even go through all the things that have been done to get me here and everything. So just thank you. Kind of an interesting story. Somebody just talked to me and shook my hand as I came in and they said I thought you were a first time visitor. Actually I'm a second time visitor here. Okay. I've been here once before and it's kind of an interesting story. It was several years ago. There was there was many more walls as I remember. I think there was walls in the back and definitely walls here but I actually was here. This is actually the first time that I've been here saved as a believer. I actually, Pastor Anderson, it was a small group and I had just found Pastor Anderson's preaching online. Just keep your place in Malachi chapter two. I think the stories worth telling. I just found his preaching online just a couple weeks prior to I always had this conference in Phoenix every single year and I'd always bring my whole family with me to this conference and I found this preacher online. I told my wife, we were Lutheran at the time. I told her we got to go to this guy's church. We just got to go and listen to this guy preach. My wife was saved. I was not and of course I didn't really know that at the time but I came here and Pastor Anderson actually introduced me. I was sitting somewhere over by that window by the mother baby room and I actually stood up as he introduced us as visitors and I said I'm not even Baptist. I'm Lutheran. I kind of cringe now when I just when I hear myself even say that I'm just like ah. Anyway my wife after the church service was over. My wife actually had a great time talking to the ladies. Immediately some guy and I still to this day don't know who this guy was turns around and starts like sort of arguing with me about being Lutheran right and eternal security and I knew all about eternal security and that I didn't believe in it. I knew the doctrinal issues, the differences between Baptists and Lutherans and I was actually sort of offended. As a matter of fact when my wife got in the car she's like that was just great and I was like yeah could you believe what that guy said to me? He's like he said you know I believe it works salvation you know and I was offended and so but look within a couple weeks of that visit I got saved and you know the rest is history. I'm still kind of trying to you know wrap my head around a little bit you know that that happened nearly a decade ago and now here I am preaching at this church. That's still something that I'm still you know I'm kind of I'm still working that out upstairs all right but anyway thank you and I just want all that to say this I want you to know how much this ministry means how much Pastor Anderson's ministry means to to myself personally to my family and to everybody in Fresno and everybody in the world think about that all right here we go all right Malachi chapter 2 so happy Father's Day that's what a warning I'm going to beat a little bit up on the on the men today this morning and this evening hope you ladies don't mind that but let's get into the sermon look at Malachi chapter 2 let's start reading in verse number 8 then I want to point out kind of a unique verse and in verse number 10 and how that fits with Father's Day this morning so Malachi chapter 2 look at verse number 8 the Bible says so the Bible here is Malachi is a he's a minor prophet you got to love the minor prophets you know they're pretty pretty rough stuff right he's he's a minor prophet just think about this for a second he's a prophet during the time Judah is already in captivity okay so they're not going into captivity they're already there and he's just like whacking them over the head here right so he's really really hitting them pretty hard here they're already in captivity and he's specifically talking to the priests here okay he's specifically talking to the priests which by the way you are kings and priests so especially fathers this is for you look at verse number 8 but you're departed out of the way you've caused many to stumble at the law you've corrupted the covenant of Levi sayeth the Lord of hosts therefore I also made you contemptible and base before all the people according as you have not kept my ways but you have been partial in the law so we see the problem here is that they were they were partial in the law they were doing some of it not all of it they were kind of picking and choosing what they wanted to do with what God was telling them to do they didn't keep the ways now look at verse number 10 now this is a really cool father's day verse because we see two fathers we see the word father used here twice the Bible says have we not all one father that's talking about God the father okay that's talking about God but then the next father is you have we not one all one father hath not one God created us why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother by profaning the covenant of our fathers now go back to verse number 5 real quickly so he says right there he says we have one father talking about God the father and then he says that the covenant that you've broken think about this for a second he says the covenant that you've broken was the covenant of your fathers like your actual father think about that that's what we're gonna talk about this morning look back at verse number 5 or the Bible says my covenant was with him of life and peace so here we have this covenant where that it's either going to be done on your face or life and peace he says life and peace and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me and was afraid before my name so like I said in Revelation chapter 1 verse 6 the Bible says that you know you have made us kings and priests okay so this applies to us but the point I'm trying to get at this morning is this covenant of their fathers was one of life and peace now I don't know all of you fathers here today I hope to meet you all as we go through the day but you know I can't imagine any father here who wouldn't want to say you know what I wish life and peace for my children I with I wish life and peace for my family I mean what father wouldn't say that this morning but he didn't want you know who wouldn't want that for their children and their family now what what what is a covenant what is a covenant a covenant is a is an agreement between two parties it's a binding agreement like if if you do this I will perform this okay and the problem is is that this binding agreement turned to Deuteronomy chapter 5 let's look at this idea of a covenant for a few more minutes before I apply it to the fathers so here we see that the fathers God the father was mentioned in verse number 10 and then the fathers also had a covenant look at verse number 33 of Deuteronomy chapter 5 here's another covenant in the Bible this is you know Moses has was given the law on Mount Sinai you know the amount of God look at verse number 33 he says you shall walk in the ways which the Lord your God commanded you that you may live and that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days in the land which he shall possess now back in verse number 3 of Deuteronomy chapter 5 so here we see a covenant given to Moses and then back in verse number 3 of Deuteronomy chapter 5 he says this law he he says that this law was not the law of your fathers this covenant because this was actually given to them personally so they were the first people the first generation to receive this specific covenant but this covenant is if you do this you know you will have a blessing so we see that there's a covenant with Moses look at Genesis chapter 18 look at the Abrahamic covenant you know in chapter 12 of Genesis is when we see that listed out but God says something very interesting in his covenant with Abraham in Genesis chapter 18 that also applies to us as fathers look at Genesis chapter 18 look at verse number 17 so Genesis chapter 18 verse number 17 God is getting ready to go and destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and he's talking and he's saying here you know should I tell Abraham that I'm gonna do this look at verse 17 of Genesis 18 he says and the Lord said shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation so look none of the covenants by the way were just like you just going to become great and mighty no matter what you do that was never I mean that's that's just like a gift right that's like our salvation is just a gift you get this by believing on my son a covenant is hey you know you do this and I'll make you a great and mighty nation so look at the next verse he says you know he's saying Abraham will be a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him and then verse 19 says because this is why this is why you know this is why he will become a great and mighty nation and the nations of the earth he blessed him for I know him I know him God says I know he's gonna he's gonna live up to his end of the deal God says I know Abraham is gonna fulfill his end of the covenant look what it says here though dads look at this for I know him that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him so God says Abraham's gonna be great and mighty he's gonna have a great and mighty nation all the nations that could be blessed for of him you know we know that that's Jesus but he's saying because I know he's gonna fulfill his part of the deal because I know he's gonna keep my ways he's going to command his children he's gonna make what God is saying here in Genesis chapter 18 is Abraham's gonna make God's covenant his covenant and then he's gonna command that covenant in his household you see what's happening here you see how this applies to us if you look back at it go back to I'm sorry go back to Malachi chapter 2 go back to Malachi chapter 2 so there's some common things there's some common things with these covenants first of all you keep my law and basically the covenants work this way you keep my law you get blessings you don't you get dung on your face you get curses okay that's basically the way the covenants go but the third thing that we need to understand this morning is this is that it's given to the father to pass down to the children you see that he is it's given to the father to command that covenant to his family he is responsible he's responsible okay that's why it says in Malachi 2 verse number 10 it says that they profaned the covenant of our fathers they literally called God's covenant the covenant of their fathers before them because that's what the fathers before them did they commanded God's covenant to their families okay so look I want to give you just two ideas this morning dads want to give you two ideas about you know commanding your covenant in your family you know what what is your covenant you know I give you just two thoughts this morning on on commanding or securing let's talk about that maybe securing the covenant of your family all right the first thing is this look good turn to Luke chapter 14 the first thing is this so two thoughts you say I'm a dad I I want to I want to command God's covenant in my family I want to make that my covenant you know and that's what I want to do look at Luke chapter 14 look there's a saying that I like to say it's not in the Bible but you never heard the saying the devil's in the details you know what the saying I think some German engineer or architect or something made it up from what I understand but here's the thing that's a very true statement because here's the thing if you don't look at the details in your life I don't care what you do you don't look at the details in your life you're not going to succeed in anything because the devil's in the details what that means is you can have the best greatest big ideas all all you want but if you don't look into details I can't tell you how many you know ideas that have been out there that I've had and you're like oh the deep that's not going to work that's a dumb idea because you got to look at the details look at Luke chapter 14 and look at verse number 28 so let's look at the details of your covenant that's the first thing the first thing you need to do with your covenant dad's is define it for your family look at verse 28 of Luke chapter 14 for which of you intending to build a tower sit it down not first sit it not down first and counteth the cost whether you have sufficient to finish it less happily after he laid the foundation is not able to finish it and that behold it began to mock him saying this man began to build was not able to finish this guy didn't look at the details this guy didn't look at the details he just started building stuff he started attaching boards together you know you have to do before you can figure out how much something costs you need to have a detailed plan and then you can figure out you know what's going to be the cost of this right if I like if I asked your kids this morning what's your dad's covenant you know what would they say what would they say you know what what am I what am I talking about we're not going to be able to go through all the details of everything I'm just going to give you some some thoughts this morning but look you need to detail out the covenant that you're going to command in your family okay now look think about the Bible think about the Bible you sit there and you read the Bible I mean this church encourages you to read and know the Bible you sit here and you listen to you know the best Baptist preaching that's out there and you listen to this and you hear the preaching you read the Bible but look that needs to be turned into details that needs to be turned into actions turn to Hebrews chapter 10 I'll just give you a couple examples as you turn to Hebrews 10 let me just read for you 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse number 17 where the Bible says wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate say it the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you in verse number 17 there we see two actions first of all it says come out it says come out be ye separate those are actions okay those are actions you're not just hearing things you're not just listening to preaching reading the Bible you're actually coming up with actions to separate look there needs to be more division today there needs to be more separation today I'll get into more details about this later not to go off on this now but the point is that all this get together let's get together all the time is it's all of Satan there needs to be more separation more division today and dads with your covenant there better be separation that comes from that covenant that's what the Bible is telling us that we need to do I mean Jesus himself said in Luke 12 he's like I'm here for division all all this stuff you hear today but come together all this it's all lies from the pit of hell it's all lies it's lies to destroy your family and to destroy your children men you need to listen to the Bible you need to listen to the preaching and you need to be separate what does that mean that means you need to take actions to separate need to define actions to separate look at verse number 24 of Hebrews chapter 10 so verse number 25 is the quintessential verse that you need to be in church right but look at verse 24 verse number 24 the Bible says and let us consider one another to provoke unto love into good works Hebrews chapter 10 verse 24 then the Bible says not forsaking the assemblies of our assembling of ourselves together is the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching what am I talking about I'm talking about creating standards in your family that's what I'm talking about I'm talking about detailing standards in your family here we're looking at one of those standards is church one of those standards is church now look there's four things I'd like to point out here with just these couple verses first of all notice how it says in both verses it says one another it says consider one another it says consider exhort exhorting one another in verse 25 you know what that means that means coming to church isn't just about you that means coming to church is about all the people around you and guess what your family as well coming to church exhorts your family making church a standard of your covenant is exhorting your children it's exhorting your wife it's exhorting your brothers and sisters around you look we're a small church in Fresno we're a we're a small church and look that's really evident it's really evident you know that that people coming to church is like really exhorts the people you can really see that you can really see when we get you know Sundays we get a lot of visitors it's just it just exhorts everyone everyone's just all excited and it just I'm sure it's the same way here but the point is is that church isn't it consider your family consider your family going to church is a standard and it's one that it's look it's one standard the reason I list it first is because it's one standard that reinforces all other standards think about that it's like the standard that holds together all your standards that you are that you have I mean think about it I mean it says and then it says and there's so much more by the way as we see the day approaching look we need church today more than we've ever needed church in my life you know and of course you know that it talks about sinning willfully if we don't go to church right after this but the point is is church part of your covenant is church part of your covenant like I just I don't know how people think today that they can survive I don't know how Christians today think that they can survive without a church I mean it's like it's like we're living in this crazy rocket ship ride where you're sitting in the rocket ship and in the world like going insane around you is anyone else feel like that I mean it's just like every single week it gets crazier and crazier and crazier and you know I mean I refuse to like you know there's this idea that nothing is strange anymore I refuse that by the way I refuse that I mean I was driving home from church with my wife about a year ago we were still satellite leaders at that time and we pulled up to a stoplight and some girl or I think it was a girl but she was wearing like a bunny suit and like a helmet with fuzzy purple hair with these big rabbit ears at the stop sign on a motorcycle and and I used to read like Batman comics when I was a kid my uncle had all these old Batman comics I told my wife is like it's like we're living in Gotham City I mean nothing's weird I refuse that though I refuse that just to cut just last week I point stuff out to my kids things that are not normal because I refuse just because I live in Gotham City to to to accept things as normal I saw I saw two bombs the other day one was pushing the other in a baby store to grown men driving down this I'm driving down the street I said hey kids that's not normal I do that all the time I'm not trying to raise cynics in my family but I'm not accepting this I'm not accepting this look do you have detailed standards in your family look we have to set standards for our kids for our families we got it we got to teach them how to operate in this world they need to know how to drive around in this mess when they start you know going out on their own they need principles to guide them that's why we're here we need to command this covenant how about this one turn to Hosea chapter four look if we as fathers waffle on our standards our children won't understand them and they won't adopt them you got to think about that okay so look I'm talking about standards like where do you go what do you do where do we not go what do you not do why look your kids look when your kids are small like there's a lot of small kids in here when your kids are small it's just hey we don't go there we don't do that we do go here we do do this okay but when they get older you got to start coupling that that those standards with knowledge of why we don't do those things so you need to have Bible knowledge what you need to have knowledge of the Bible the kids need to have knowledge of the Bible and then they need a couple that with knowledge of this world so they can look at least we know what's going on right people I mean just normal decent unsaved people out there must be so confused they must be so confused look at Hosea chapter four so Hosea another minor prophet he's he's a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel during the time that they got taken they got destroyed basically by the kingdom of Assyria look at verse number one look at verse number one look at the Bible says here it says we're talking about knowledge now how we need to like part of our standards part of our our covenant dads needs to be imparting knowledge especially of the Bible to our children the Bible says hear the word of the Lord you children of Israel for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land because there's no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land by the way everything's not true that's another thing you got to teach your kids if everything's true nothing's true everything's not true again division that's what we need we need to defy truth from the garbage there is no truth in this in with these people nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land and guess what always happens guess what always no matter what they tell you guess what always happens when there's no knowledge of truth anymore by swearing lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out in blood touch of blood violence always follows I don't care how much people talk about love you get rid of the word of God violence follows we're seeing that today too we're seeing that with the mob today therefore shall the land mourn and everyone that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beats of the field with the falls of heaven yay the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away but no man strive no reproven other for that people are as they that strive with the priests it's like don't even try to argue with each other because none of you are right but look what he's saying is he's saying that in verse number five therefore thou shall fall in the day and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night and I will destroy that mother verse six my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou has rejected knowledge I will also reject thee thou shall be no priest to me seeing that thou has forgotten the law of God I will also forget what thy children so there's there's the father that walked away from his covenant and God's like I'm gonna forget your children too so look we must have Bible knowledge as part of our standards we must have Bible knowledge as part of our covenant to our families and we must couple that with you know what's going on explaining this and look then that you'll just understand everything they notice under it look it there's more and more people today I don't know if you see you're seeing this I'm sure there's more and more people today that know nothing about the Bible I've noticed a difference where we're at in just the last two or three years I mean just the fact that how many people do you have to go out soul-winning you just got to like explain Jesus from zero like they've never heard of them look I'm noticing a different I'm you know I'm not a hundred three hundred years old you know I'm noticing a difference in just the last couple of years it's because there's no knowledge out there but look here's the problem that's why people are totally confused because they're being destroyed that can't be us that can't be our families people are just getting worse and worse I just read something last week and I don't know if it's true but I mean it just shows what I'm talking about that Gen Z Gen Z is everyone from 25 years old and under 20% this point I don't know if I believe the poll but it proves my point anyway 20 percent of Gen Z and under defines themselves as something I have two categories I think Romans 1 uses the word natural four times for a reason so I've created file folders in my head one is a natural file folder and one is unnatural that natural file folder only has one item in it but I don't feel like it's my responsibility to like learn all these sick perverted things but 20% of Gen Z identifies as something unnatural can you believe that I mean it's it's because they have no knowledge and what are we seeing they don't nothing about the Bible they know nothing so look they're being there they're being confused the Bible says train up a child not confuse a child I mean it's it's just getting worse and worse and worse look train up a child works for the good and for the bad you know children are trainable you can confuse a child just as easy as you could train them in the Bible this is what's happening today we basically there is there's a couple in California that have like started transitioning their their child when they were three years old we have state sanctioned child abuse now that's what's happening in the public schools it's not just it's not just evolution and look it's state sanctioned child abuse it's it's legal child abuse now you're like you know you know I homeschool I hope you homeschool so this doesn't affect because what I care about other people's kids I mean the reason that we go so many is because we actually care about people we I mean this is a tragedy what's happening today why is it because lack of knowledge that's why all you have to do to fail today is leave your children a blank slate that's all you had because somebody else will fill it out some sick twisted person will fill out that slate for you it's it's a shame it's a shame so look detail a plan is all I'm trying to say this morning you need to detail a plan need to be in a good church I'm preaching to the choir this morning I get it you need to appreciate a church you need to you need to appreciate the knowledge of the Bible and you need to use that knowledge of the Bible to educate your children and set standards in your family specific detailed standards to do what what's the point of standards to divide us look it's all about division folks the wheat from the chaff I mean it's all about division you need to be divided from it separated from it so what now that we've defined it then what then what you apply the Bible you have detailed standards you know you need to do that you make that covenant here's the next thing you need to turn to Ephesians chapter 5 now that you have those details and you bust out all those details in your family this is what we're gonna do this is what we're not gonna do we're gonna study the Bible we're gonna explain things to our kids look as you as you're as you get older as your kids get older you know you can give them more details on why you do the things that they do and they'll start walking right beside you it's a beautiful thing but look at Ephesians chapter 5 here's the second thing that you need to do you need to set those standards through church through preaching through the Bible here's the next thing you need to operate those standards you need to do what you need to command those standards dads standards I mean standards are nothing if they're not carried out if they're not followed and guess what your your pastor Pastor Anderson just priests a sermon at first works on Reuben unstable as water you know what unstable if you're unstable you know you'll succeed at nothing unstable in what unstable at your job you will not succeed unstable in church you will not succeed unstable in any part of your life you will not succeed so you need to be detailing out a plan a covenant for your family and then you need to be stable in that plan you need to be stable in the operation of that plan at what cost look at Ephesians chapter 5 you say at what cost look at verse number 22 we love this one why submit to your husbands on under your own husbands as unto the Lord for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is a savior of the body therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything husbands love your wives even as Christ also love the church and gave himself for it then he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word notice verse number 25 where it says husbands love your wives and it says what what do you mean what's that mean by I love my wife I tell her I love her all the time said no no no even as even as Christ loved the church whoa that's a whole another level right there you know what that means it means in the same way it means in the same way he physically gave himself he sacrifices by he died he said I mean that's what that's what love is it's sacrifice that's what the Bible is telling us here being a father and this is for all you young men that want to be a father and this is for all the the kids that are you don't going to be a father and you know what being a father is a sacrificial role being a father I mean look you know you ever heard of like the women and children they go in the lifeboats first you ever read a book like that or that that actually used to be the way things went you know what happened to the dad he drowned the women and children went in first because being a father is sacrificial look women and children the lifeboats first that's actually biblical is what we're seeing here not enough food that means you don't eat that's what that means it's a sacrificial role so look go back to Luke chapter 14 Luke chapter 14 where he says counteth the cost and you're going to build this tower that's what we're talking about building your tower counteth the cost well whether you have enough to finish it so I put all these standards together I'm going to separate my family I'm going to be dedicated to church I'm going to learn the Bible I'm going to teach my children knowledge so they know what's going on with this mess out here today and look the Bible says counteth the cost well guess what you need to be willing to lay it all out on the line to operate that covenant that's what the Bible is saying because that's even as Jesus did that's how Jesus did it he laid it all on the line you need to sacrifice for your family to operate this covenant you say well what what if you know maybe you're a young guy and you're like I don't know this doesn't sound too good for me what if what if I don't what if I don't want to you know what if I don't know if I can do that but here's the thing it's just like any other covenant if you don't do what you're supposed to do dung you know blessings dung that that's the way it goes so you have to be able to do this 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verse 12 yeah and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution if you start operating a covenant like this you detail a plan like I'm talking about you're going to separate from people they're not going to like that look if if you haven't separated from people you know you're gonna have to separate from people that's the way it works it's going to cause division even in one house the bible says so no matter what that's what needs to happen operated at all costs because Jesus gave everything that's what Ephesians 5 is saying to us dads I mean what about this one what what if it becomes what if it becomes what if it becomes dangerous to be a Christian think about that kind of like what I'm thinking what I'm thinking is already happening there was a pro-abortion group that came out last week and said I mean just just wide open out there on social media you know I you can't post something on a vaccine but they're just like threatening anybody that is a pro-life type of organization they're going to burn down their building they're going to blow it up they're going to rip it down we want more people it's out in the open saying they're just going to commit violence against these they burn destroy it's right there out in the open look I mean with the abortion this is this is really changed with the abortion thing by the way 20 years ago I don't know if you're if you're you know over 40 maybe you remember this but this is how the debate used to go with the abortion thing all the politicians that were pro-abortion would get up and they would say we want abortion to be safe legal and rare that's what they would say and I'd sit there and be like look you don't have to be like I've always been involved in the pro-life movement my mom was very involved in pro-life pregnancy centers and all these types of things you don't have to be saved to figure this one out you don't have to be saved to know that murdering children is wrong it's safe legal and rare and I'm sitting there as a logical human being being like well why if why is it out to be rare if there's nothing wrong with it because the only thing that could possibly be wrong with it is murder but now no it's a different story now now it's just these people just love murder and they're just they're just out there they were just we just love murder we love murder and if you try to stop us from murdering we're going to hurt you that's what they're saying so what if it becomes dangerous to be a christian you know what you know what these wicked you know pro-life organizations do to get women to stop having abortions you know what these these tricky pro-life organizations do you know what they do they kidnap women that are pregnant and then they force them to you know stay in a room kidnapped until they have their child now that's not what they do you know what they do they like provide free ultrasounds you know why because a normal human with a conscience as Romans 2 15 says we'll see their their child inside them and they'll say oh they will see that ultrasound of that baby sucking their thumb and they'll say oh that's murder i'm not going to do that and these people they hate it they hate it they hate the conscience they hate the conscience turn to psalm chapter 2 and this is why this is why that this is why christians have always had to be oppressed they always have to stop the christians from telling the truth why because they can't compete with it that's why they can't compete with the truth don't don't don't think that it's a coincidence by the way is the same time that all the the christian just in this country are being threatened by mobs that they're also trying to remove self-defense don't think that's that's the whole other thing in itself but don't think that's an accident it's almost like it's a coordinated agenda look at psalm chapter 2 operating this covenant look you have to be ready for this dad's you're gonna detail out a covenant you're gonna put this covenant in place in your family and you are gonna operate this covenant you're gonna run this covenant no matter what you're gonna be stable in this covenant you know what's gonna happen look at verse number one why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing look it's gonna make the wicked crazy the heathen are gonna rage against you why because you know why because we we have we have every unsaved person that's not a wicked reprobate has a conscience and we when we go to them with the truth of the bible you know what it fits their heart and we win with what the truth that's it and the heathen rage and they must they must burn it down the heathen rage against that they always will they always have this is not a surprise so be ready for that when you detail and operate the covenant for your family the heathen are gonna rage against you so what we need to define a covenant for our families it needs to become god's covenant needs to become our covenant as fathers then we need to operate that covenant at all costs it reminds me of a story you turn to proverbs 20 reminds me of story i heard many years ago there was this old farmer there was this old farmer and he was getting older he was a farmer in the midwest he was getting older he didn't have any sons the farm was getting too much uh getting to be too much for him to handle so every year at the county fair there was always like a job center where people looking for work would be there so he went to the county fair this old farmer and there was three young men there and he went and he talked to the first young man the first young man told him um how good he was with cattle how good he was you know working cattle and and just dealing with livestock went to the second guy and asked him what he could do he talked about how good he was at fixing things he could build fences he could fix machinery he was a good welder all these types of things yeah okay that sounds pretty good then he went to the the third kid and the kid just said i can sleep when the wind blows he's like hmm all right so he went to the fair and he spent some time at the fair and he went back towards the end of the day and the only kid left was the one that said the answer i can sleep with the wind blows so he's like well he's the only one left so he hires this kid he takes this kid out to the ranch and the kid works for him for a couple months he's doing okay he's doing you know seems to be catching on to things he's doing fine the farmer's in town one day and a storm comes on and i mean the rain's going sideways the farmer sees the storm he sees what's going on and he gets in his truck and he races home and he goes out to the bunkhouse he starts beating on the door of the bunkhouse and the kid won't come to the door and the farmer was so mad he's like i should i should just fire this kid right now but he just thought about everything that needed to be done so he just left the door of the bunkhouse and he went out back to the feedlot all the cattle were in their pens all the hay piles were tarped down all the straw was put up in the barn everything was taken care of and then he knew at that point what that kid meant when he said i can sleep when the wind blows so look here's the thing folks here's the thing dads when you read for your proverbs 11 you look down at proverbs 20 proverbs 11 3 says the integrity of the upright shall guide them but the perverseness of the transgressors shall destroy them they're the transgressors and the perverted and the unnatural folder i think that folder was over here that that's gonna they're gonna destroy themselves the integrity of the upright shall guide them that's you that's you dad that's you with your covenant today now look at proverbs 20 in verse number seven the dad that defines a covenant in detail for his family and then he operates that covenant consistently and diligently and is willing to sacrifice anything to operate that covenant for his family look what the bible says in proverbs 20 in verse number seven the bible says that just man walketh in his integrity this is that man look what it says his children are blessed after him isn't that interesting the bible says that the man who has done this his children will be blessed guess what you know what that is that's a promise that's a promise from the bible to find your covenant operate it your children will be blessed and guess what you'll be able to sleep when the wind blows because let me tell you something it's blown out there it's blown out there so look your children will be blessed from it kids you got a dad like this today you got a dad that no matter what you're in church no matter what you've got standards in your life kids you better appreciate that because not a lot of kids have dads like that today better give your dad a hug today and thank your dad for making god's covenant his covenant and he'll pass it on to you appreciate your dad how about you dads you guys your dads are like this is depressing i'm gonna have to sacrifice everything i'm gonna go hungry i'm probably gonna drown guess what though you'll be able to sleep when the wind blows you'll be able to sleep when the wind blows and 30 years from now 30 years from now when your covenant becomes your son's covenant becomes your grandson's covenant becomes your grandson's covenant then you really be able to sleep when the wind blows because guess what you say that's gonna really mess up in 20 years guess what that promise still works the bible still works that's the beauty of promises you know through all the covenants in the bible god never broke his end once isn't that nice the messed up variable has always been us every single time so let's get this covenant right and let's let's take the blessings from this from this promise that god gives us and then our children will have that as well happy father's day let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer