 Good afternoon, Pastor David. It is welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered You know on Tuesdays we had a replay of our unfiltered and it was a Significant one is alcoholism and there was a lot of responses and so uh, were they sober? I Don't know why it works were misspelled So today we want to speak more because Tuesdays we usually we talk about current events and on Thursdays we either reflect on your Bible study from the Wednesday night service or We speak more on the spiritual things of the word of God and the Lord today pastor I want to speak a little bit about the family. I want to ask you how important is it to understand God's design of the family So we can recognize when Satan tries to undermine it What is God's design for the family? You know in in the first nine chapters of the Bible the book of Genesis within the first nine chapters three institutions that are building blocks for society are Are given to us there's the church and There's government and there's the family, you know And so those are the three main building blocks obviously the the family is the origin for government and obviously The family is Also part of what we call the church today. So those are three of the institutions that are Established and ordained in the first nine chapters of Genesis. So how important is the family? Well, the family is the first institution, you know marriage and the family is the first institution That God ordained and the others come after that Interestingly enough and so how important is family family is the building block of all civilization and therefore to have it under the government of God Established under his his his his rules his laws, etc. That's what makes the family Something that is very important. So within the family you have family structures. So you have How God created family which is husband and wife and then as the husband and wife those who are Committed to one another in the Lord, you know in our society. We have governmental authority related to that so that you have you know civil civil services that can take place where you know you go to a justice of the peace and And you sign a contract and all of that because it's a legal procedure And you also have the religious rituals that pertain to that which I as a pastor in us minister have On several occasions, obviously we've performed These weddings for people and all and so that is something that is established under under government guidance So here in california as of this moment, I don't know how it'll be within a week or a mother a year There is no such thing as just a civil union in the sense that Somebody is living together and ultimately begin to be regarded As a husband and wife in a legal sense that does not yet exist here But in other states it does if you live a certain amount of time you have children or whatever They have certain kinds of ordinances related to that and then they regard you as a husband and a wife Well here in california, we don't have that kind of arrangement at this moment. And so it requires A man and a woman To formally and legally marry so that they can receive all the benefits that pertain to such a union and it's a legal contract Well in in the new as well as in the old testament There are obviously marriages that took place in the marriages were normally under a certain ritual There'd be a priest involved. There'd be covenantal agreements that were made even contracts that were signed dowries bride prices, you know, there would be things like that And the first miracle that's recorded by john is obviously a miracle that took place in a wedding feast and Of kena in kena of galilee. So god ordained marriage god hates divorce god intends that the husband Is to join with his wife the two shall become one flesh and and between the two should the lord Give them the ability to and bless them with Having children and all they they raise them with a father and a mother in in the union before the lord and in a A committed covenantal agreement that gives to the the the family itself a Stability and a proper direction Family is a man a woman and the children family is not a man woman in their dog Or a man a woman and their cat or you know Bessie the cow. I mean we have we have people today who who speak of themselves as being pet parents We we we we we have them today referring to themselves in that fashion There's no such thing as a pet parent You know what you have as a pet, but you didn't give birth to that and so what we're doing is restructuring the family What we have now is we have people who are looking at family in a different way than it biblically actually is And because they're looking at family in that way, they're diminishing the reality of what it means and the the obvious god-given Institution that it is and so what we have to do is the church is we have to regard it for what it is In order that god might be able to reach people through the message of the gospel through a unit that is under his authority and leadership And so what has happened is people have diminished its importance and have made it into an institution that is really not ordained by god but recognized by people Or some government and and all of that and so yeah, we need a father in the home We need a mother married to that father And we have children under the authority and leadership of the parents So as satan comes and attacks that institution of marriage, you know, it has a trickle down effect, right? the direct attack on on the parents whether it's divorce or a deluded View of what that unit is to be Then it affects down to the children in turn. Does that come in and affect the church? Well, the church will be it is obviously Affected because it's membership, you know affects one another if there if there is a lack of Biblical understanding of relationship of covenant with one another If there is that and there's an easy divorce where someone just says, oh, I'm going to pick up and leave then you're not honoring the word It's all going to have an impact and a little leaven leavens the entire lump So yeah, it impacts the church and it impacts the society it impacts everything And I was reading a statistic not that long ago now that stated that atheists have a lower divorce rate than professing evangelical Christians So people who don't even believe in god see the sanctity of a relationship More than evangelical believers do because believers who were sometimes referred to themselves as evangelical Have cheapened the grace of god to cover over any sin that they want to do and thus god will forgive me because he's gracious And you end up diminishing the message of the gospel which teaches one man one woman one lifetime You know the demonstration of the family institution of the family Speaks louder than words And so well pastor. Thank you for that. You know you're speaking about statistics I I read a stat before we came on and recorded says 85 of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from a Uh a dysfunctional fatherless home. Yeah And uh and no wonder the enemy is attacking our families. Well, you know what I have a stat I wish I could have uh found it I forgot to look it up because there's something that I'd like to remember But if a child comes to faith before the father and mother, there's a very low percentage Rate of of the parents ever coming to faith in Christ if a woman comes to faith in christ And and all there's there's a little bit of a higher percentage for the rest of the family to come to christ But with the husband comes to christ There's a high percentage of the family coming to faith in christ because that's how important the father is in the home And a lot of fathers have forgotten that it's sobering And so well pastor. Thank you so much uh for your time here and shedding some light on the family. It's exciting because Not too long from now. You'll be going through the marriage in the family and fusions on wednesday night That's right. You know, it's a little bummed out though pancake the cat has no place in the family And so thank you pastor david church family. We want to remind you that uh saturday evening We have our couples in comedy date night with carlos oscar And hopefully you guys had purchased your tickets and we'll be able to come out and join us Sunday morning. We have a guest speaker. We have brad daikus from the pacific justice institute Look forward to having him coming out. And so Thank you pastor david for your time church family. Thank you for tuning in god bless you and we'll see you soon Amen