 Good afternoon Pastor David. How you doing John? Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered welcome home Yeah, I know that you had a you're sharing with me a fruitful time in it was good in New Mexico I'll go ahead ourselves. You're telling me that you were able to minister to how many pastors were at this? Well 21 churches were represented I had a chance to meet with about 15 of the pastors I'd say because some of the pastors were we're unable to because of Circumstances surrounding their churches or their family one of the pastors had For example his wife had gotten ill he wasn't able to go so some didn't come but we had I believe it was 21 churches represented It was good. We enjoyed it food was good Well, you know is a good conference Well, I know we've missed you pastor and welcome back and we're looking forward to tomorrow's study as you continue the series and Marriage of the family and looking at husbands and you know one of the things I've been thinking about I was thinking about what to ask you today is You know, I don't know if you would believe this or think this but has there been a shift or a The importance of holiness and being filled with the spirit Has there been especially within the family and husbands and wives? Do you see a shift away from that? Do you see that? That's not so much the big thing anymore in terms of the The family unit staying together because one of the things I was thinking about is is, you know The Holy Spirit were to be filled with the Spirit, but oftentimes we can allow so much clutter in our hearts That we don't make room for the Spirit to come and dwell within us And I wanted your feedback on the importance as as we're going to be looking at husbands now as Paul was talking about being Spirit filled. He was even then talking about how important it was Pastor how important and it's kind of a two-fold question. How important is it for the husband? To be to allow the Spirit to fill him because it tells us here that we have a duty to sanctify Our wives or the have the love to that we may sanctify him cleansing with the washing of the water of the word Well, you know every every person who has come to faith in Christ the moment that they confess Christ's Savior and And our cleanse and all of the things that pertain to salvation the Holy Spirit in dwells them so the Bible first Corinthians 3 and various other passages Say that we are the temple of the Spirit of God and that the Spirit of God dwells within us So every genuine believer has the Holy Spirit being filled with the Spirit is a command that is given by Paul and in the Ephesians and Because being filled with the Holy Spirit speaks of the the power of the Holy Spirit working within us and influencing us and Directing us it speaks concerning the power of the Spirit living within the believer and us not quenching him But yielding to him as he works within us. And so There are quite a number of people who live as if they don't even know there's such a one as the Holy Spirit Because perhaps they have they have never really considered scripture. Perhaps they haven't even read it or in church Perhaps their pastors never addressed the issue of being filled continuously being open to the work of the Holy Ghost and So What begins in the Spirit they get married God brought them together They pledge their lives to Christ and make vows to serve God together and know what begins in the Spirit Ends up being worked out in the flesh and in doing so There is a lack of the Spirit's presence in the marriage and That that is the result of the lack of the Spirit's presence in each of the individuals and can also be the result of a path of rather a husband Failing to wash his water his wife with the water of the word and that happens. I would say Very frequently that may even be the common experience in many in many marriages and one of the reasons I would Feel that that's possibly true is the divorce rate amongst evangelical Christians is According to at least one survey that I read even greater than the divorce rate amongst atheists Yeah, think about that for a minute atheists are keeping their promises and Quote-unquote evangelical Christians are breaking them And what would that be the result of it would be a result of husbands at least portion of it Not washing their wives with the water of the word not loving them in a sacrificial fashion Even as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her right and so the Holy Spirit is the one who works within the believer Enabling us to live the sacrificial life to lay our lives down for our wives and to and to succeed in leading a home leading our our wife leading our children and Doing those things that are pleasing to God And he it's amazing As we look at this we look at the gravity of the what Paul's instructing the husbands to do we could often as Husbands as we joking as you jokingly did when we first started this marriage and family series Why submit to your own husbands and drop the mic and walk away, right? We're like wipe wipe our hands off But the impact and the magnitude and the gravity of the role of the husband and the Responsibility to love our wives as Christ's love the church and gave himself for her that he may sanctify her and wash Yes, those are really heavy-duty responsibilities of the husband When a lot of husbands are either so So captivated by the world or working so hard on their jobs or You know the and and let's face it right now in in the United States here in California at this time There are a lot of distractions a lot of things taking place at that take our eyes off of the things that that really matter in the more spiritual and practical way meaning that sometimes because of the pressure and concerns and and all the things that pertain to feeding a family and caring for a House and making a payment and all of those things we can be distracted and We take our eyes off of the foundational things and and we put them on the things that that matter but not in the same Priority list of priorities and so we take our eyes off the ball and so I would encourage every husband to to take a deep breath and to Re-evaluate every every believing husband ought to do that. What is what is it that matters? What should I be doing? How can I how can I encourage my wife and pressure? She goes through how can I be a better father? things like that and To be aware of those things and I think that that in times like this where where there is a concentrated effort to Depress the church to oppress and depress the church The enemy is working overtime in in in the United States as he does throughout the world, but I Think here in California. There are many who have been taken by the COVID scares and and You know having a home school or children and do things that they hadn't really been You know trained in or perhaps never felt qualified to do all those things that have taken place John Has really taken its toll on believers You know and and many of them got caught up with just staying home on Sunday and and their children have no real Fellowship anymore with believing children and going to church Being supplemented any of the spiritual life being supplemented by the work of the body of Christ here in their home Fellowship and all and what happens is you begin to drift away because of the things that Have mattered to the point of taking your eyes off the things that really matter have become greater and so I've seen many many men who have Fall into that temptation But Not all have but a good amount happened. So yeah tomorrow as we gather I'll be sharing some of these these things with men and if you can come I'd love to have you with us if you can't be with us and perhaps you can watch online Join us online service starts at 7 p.m. We're celebrating communion. Yeah after our Bible study So church family. It's a great opportunity to invite your friends and family to come out and enjoy time of worship Spending time in God's Word spending time in fellowship and spending time in communion Amen, so we look forward to having you guys come out pastor. Thank you so much for sharing this and Please tune in and like our page go to our page and like it We have pastor David as his Bible studies on YouTube We can go to you can go to Calvary Chapel Chino Valley on YouTube get all his teachings and And we do look forward to having you join us and pastor. Thank you so much. Amen. God bless you guys Thank you for tuning in