 Good afternoon Pastor David. Hey John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered Pastor as you just recently started marriage in the family series on Wednesday night with Ephesians Mm-hmm and last week you took us through Genesis and you gave us the institution of marriage and and our series is on Tuesdays I want to draw out some of those teasers as we are now starting marriage in the family But I want to start it a little bit different this time because I want to talk about the influences of our children This week our churches will be hosting A lady named Patty hike who's going to come out and speak to our children and not on various particular issues Especially the LGBTQ plus the the influences of that, but it's not so much just that it's The unmasking of evil that is influenced our children, you know Jesus speaks or Paul speaks about wives submitting to husbands and husbands loving the wives as as Christ has loved the church Washing them in the water of the word What instructions does Paul give in regards to? Protecting the influences of our children. Well, you know one thing I should very briefly say that Patty will be speaking when we say children worse we're not speaking of babies or The little ones we're talking about junior high and high school age, you know for those who are listening and don't come to our fellowship So we recognize them obviously as our children But they're they're old enough and capable enough to listen to the things that are being said and it's going to be said that will be said with With wisdom and an awareness of who they're speaking to just so because I know some may hear that and think oh And they're gonna talk to five-year-olds even though the world right now is is going after not only five-year-olds but three-year-olds and two-year-olds and they're trying to go after them from the very beginning because what they're doing is they are grooming them and the LGBTQ and name all the rest of the letters of the alphabet that is now associated with that lifestyle are very very intent on seducing our children I Was listening to something just a few days ago where the the speaker was pointing out that the The intellectual grooming begins at an early age. See, they're not really those who are trying to bring our children into a certain perspective Are not are not trying to bring us into that perspective. They already know that at our age, especially mine You know being advanced in age, you know the that I'm not going to change my mind under normal circumstances To to agree with something that I have for the entirety of my life felt was wrong I'm not going to change my mind, so they don't go after the older necessarily what they do is they find different avenues so they enter into to preschools or Libraries and they have they have People reading books to them who are part of the community of men who like to dress as women or whatever they'll bring them in for story time and They they make the children accept that as a new normal and so that's what we're seeing take place It's really not so much that they're trying to get us. They already know that many of us won't change our mind and They also take advantage I would say The charitable heart that we have towards people I I have a sympathy for someone who's going through pain Regardless of whether they think they're in pain or not See so there's a way to take advantage of even good feelings towards people or a desire for them not to be harmed etc and So it's a whole formulation of a new worldview that has taken place in the last 50 years. It's It's obvious and so you get into the school you get into the movies you get into the all of the things that that are societal influencers you get into that and Then you tell people you can't disagree with that because if you do you you're filled with hate and And all of that and that's what we're dealing with right now, obviously and so years ago back in 2000 early 2000s There was a proposition that was here in California Related to homosexual marriage and Whenever that was in the early 2000s, I still remember standing up in front of our fellowship saying this is not this is not a move to to Just have marital rights as a civil kind of ceremony where a judge pronounces someone husband and husband or wife and wife or whatever they call himself This is not that this is legitimizing something that has been recognized as illegitimate for 2000 years That's what this is because the way the elephant gets the the trunk underneath the tent is to bring in a law that makes it Legal to do these things and I said that a long time. I said that a long time ago in relation to to Abortion same thing when you pass a law because most people think in terms of if it's legal It's also moral because people think that way because that's the lowest rung of the development of Conscience and morality according to Colberg and others with that if it's legal it must be right That's how many Americans think John and so yeah, I believe what we have is a is a an onslaught because What we've done is legitimized homosexual marriage legitimized homosexual adoptions of children legitimized parades legitimized months so even major league baseball gives give time to the Rainbow Coalition and this and that the things that the rainbow which is stealing The symbol that God gave that he would not flood the earth because of the promiscuity and Sinfulness and which is really an ironic to me how they were able to Hijack a symbol that God had brought a flood because every thought and intent of man's heart was evil constantly there was sexual immorality and So God brought judgment. That's what the scripture says the rainbow is a symbol that he will not flood the earth in this way again And then the homosexual quote-unquote community hijacks that as their symbol and the church remains silent doesn't even say This is wrong. You hijacked a Christian symbol a Jewish symbol so that you could what make that an acceptable behavior And so it all goes back to the three institutions that God established in Genesis and and obviously the church being one of them Obviously human government being the other and marriage and family being the third and so with the With the onslaught against marriage with the amount of people who think that you don't need to marry to have children Or to be called a family anymore. It's a large amount of people obviously that are doing that What you end up is you have fatherless children and When you have fatherless children and you you have that mama who's trying to raise her kids As being both father and mom I Can't imagine the pain. I'm well aware of that. I have seen that firsthand How hard it is for a mama to raise a baby or babies without the help of a husband being a single mom I've seen that obviously not only in pastoral ministry, but on a personal level. I've seen that and I tell you John When you don't have a dad in the home when you don't have a father Who represents authority when you don't have a father who supports the mother when you don't have a father? Who is in the lives of the children when you don't have a father teaching them? What is right? What is wrong? How does a man act? How does a man treat a woman? You know, that's the destruction. We're seeing right now and and It's it's heartbreaking But it's also producing and has produced a generation of children who are not aware of the difference between a man and a woman and so you have these Perverted educators who are trying to say that oh well the doctor made a mistake in pronouncing This was a boy or girl because we don't know what this is until they decide what they are that's what we're living under right now and Anybody who says that is looked at as being all a hate-filled Person I'm I am so you know in our city It was I was referred to by certain in authority as being a pastor who teaches hate in the church And I do hate sin hate what it does, but love people who need Jesus Christ So yeah, oh he hates because he says no I hate because the scripture says that that the sin that it the sinner is going to end up in eternal judgment and And I hate the enemy. I do I hate the works that he's done the destruction. He's brought I hate to see the the broken families the broken babies. Yeah, I hate that I really do and so yeah We're speaking about marriage and the family. We're gonna speak concerning Children and all as we continue and we look forward to that because you know it At one time evil was masked in a lot of ways and yes today. It's just blatant. It's law It's law and as you mentioned if it's lawful, then it's rightful Right, and and so but as a church, this is the time where we need to remain in prayer and stand up Yeah, and speak out and We're just talking about your introduction. Yeah, and now Jesus had that authority Where he Confronted Yeah, one last thought and then we'll close and I want to keep you guys here too long Yeah, very often in the ministry of Jesus. There's confrontation. You see it in all the gospels He is confronted by religious leaders quite often, you know from the beginning in John's gospel when they when Jesus Christ says Destroy this temple in three days. I'll raise it up again They begin to argue with him concerning the the temple and and he and John goes on to say but he spoke of the temple of his own body Speaking of his resurrection you see that in so many passages where the religious leaders would come and argue with him And so Jesus dealt with confrontation quite often. I mean that was part of his ministry But today people seem to think that if you actually have a confrontation or an argument that you're not a Christian And therefore what we're supposed to do is just kind of just keep our mouths shut I believe that they're that there is a proper way to respond You don't have to be belligerent. You don't have to be contentious. You don't have to be in a mean way argumentative but you need to speak what is true and Let the let the people know the truth and love them as you do So I've been doing that for over 50 years John. I went to secular college I had my discussions in college class and in in sharing things of the gospel with people. They didn't like hearing it But somebody has to say it and if I didn't who's going to nobody else did and so I think that it's time for the church to actually just know what we believe and lovingly present that Well pastor, thank you so much for sharing and thank you guys for tuning in Patty height will be out here speaking to our junior high and high school students on Actually Tuesday will be the junior high and high school. So that's tomorrow today today today Today seven o'clock and they will be in the banquet hall And then on Wednesday The parents are now invited of the children or the junior high school to come here patty addressing them questions. Yeah, that would be good Again, that will be in the banquet hall. So come on out And come up come join us Wednesday evening for a 7 p.m. Service and our Sunday morning services at 8 30 and 10 45 We look haven't we look forward to having you guys and thank you for tuning in and God bless you God bless you