 Good afternoon Pastor David. How you doing John? Welcome everybody to an unfiltered a random moment with Pastor David. Welcome back We missed you. Oh, I'm sure you did You took over the church doing Wednesday night. You're up there giving the bulletin and just talking about yourself Yeah, I'm sure you did. Oh We're glad to have you back and we celebrated 41 years amazing and but on Wednesday It looks like there's gonna be a good study Well, let's hope so as you're continuing the series on marriage and the family the series the series is now shifting to children Yeah, and in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 1 it says children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right And so we see that the first duty of a child is obedience Yet this is that verse is focused on the child pastor house What's the importance as parents that we lead our children in Obeying Jesus because I like what you've pointed out here that some say we will let our children decide what faith if they if any They will practice if we don't bring them to Jesus the world will lead them away from him Well, that's absolute truth. We know that for a fact and I'll be giving a few things, you know related to How the world is lined up in opposition to faith, especially the Christian faith It's not really at least here in the United States. It's not as obvious But I believe it's worldwide in the end It is because the whole world lies under the swear the wicked one and he's the denier of Christ and also Every false religion finds its origin in the the one who is the first liar You know and first murderer Jesus said which is Satan so all of his lies and conniving is Created what has been called the system of the world and the world is an opposition to God And all that is within it less of flesh less of the eyes and the pride of life is all of the world and not of God Which is an opposition to the righteousness of God and all of that and so our children being born with a Sinful nature by nature according to Ephesians 2 3. They are children of wrath. We are children of wrath Well, if you don't if you don't bring the word of God and and evangelize your children Well, the world doesn't even have to try to they're already prone to that so the real task that a parent has I believe is to deposit the seed of faith into nurturing Nourish it over a child's lifetime and so we'll be looking at that in some detail tomorrow But there's no doubt in my mind John To send a child to school today in some school districts not all thank God there are Christian teachers Thank you who are Christian teachers for your good that you do to our for our children bless you But there are so many who are not and are actually opposed to faith opposed to the Christian faith Who have made it their aim to evangelize? Those who profess Christ especially many college professors, but that goes down through the secular educational system all the way to Preschool where you're having drag queens and libraries, you know that are Telling stories to children to make themselves seem to be acceptable and normal and that's what we're going through right now I could give you many examples About that, but that's every parent knows that the child comes home from school And you don't know what they've been exposed to and the higher in education they go into college the more the brainwashing, you know I'll be quoting Hitler and and others who basically said socrates And Karl Marx, you know who spoke concerning the institutional education of children because Hitler said you give me a child You know and I can show you the man ultimately seven years of If you give me a child for seven years, it was said I'll show you the man So it's a formative period that that we have to guard the most with our children And that's when we should be pouring in to our children the things of the Lord and yet It seems that some Christians not not all but but a good portion Have looked at Sunday as being instead of going to the house of the Lord to worship God and to celebrate faith It's a good time to have soccer competition or softball or whatever You know to travel on this team because God knows one day you're going to be a soccer player making $50,000 a year, right? I mean to it just Amazes me at how parents are willing to give up their children to the enemy and then they come and cry to us And you know this, you know, I don't know what I'm gonna do with my child But may I ask you did you do vote devotion? How long you've been a Christian? Well a long time where your children born in a home of believing parents. Oh, yes, they were So you've been born again a long time and your children that were born to you were born into a Christian home Yeah, did you have devotions? Crickets did you did you make a regular practice of attending fellowship crickets? No, you didn't do any of the things that That would have at least you know helped your children and and and now I'm sad because You gave them away A lot of parents don't realize they're doing that John you do you've got small children, you know I my children are well into adulthood and I have ten grandchildren, you know or so and No, I even as a grandfather I still care about their souls and I want my children all my children including my children's children to go to heaven As you know that you have the same feeling and so we'll be talking about that tomorrow Yeah, I look forward to that and what's interesting here is when you look at The word child here or it says children Sometimes I think we get this idea that it's talking about small children But it's talking about older children because when you cross-reference that word it references son or daughter and And it's interesting that it's not just primarily speaking about young children Even some of us who are older who are children. There's still a responsibility to have obedience in the Lord And and then in that pass it on to our children Absolutely, you know, there's not a time coming that I no longer will be a father to them until I go to heaven I'll be on earth always their father Even though they're adult children. I'm still their dad and Marie will still be mama That's what we are and I don't abdicate that I don't give that to somebody else I don't intend somebody else to take the role in place of their father See again, you know, I was I was Saved at the age of 20 I began to read the Bible and and I began to see how important certain things were and eventually mature to understand how how influence from a mom and dad is So important and they watch what I do and don't necessarily Just hear what I say because if I say love well, what is love? So they watch dad with mom They watch daddy with with them and with others and they learn love So that word love that is nebulous at first begins to become concrete Oh to love my wife. Oh, yeah, my dad we get up early and my dad would go with her places My dad would date her my dad Would tell her in front of us all the time how deeply he loved her my father wept over her I mean, I've done that with my children in private You know, Joseph can tell you he lived with us recently and he'd see me talk to their of their mom and I cry Why because she's so mean and no but because my heart is so knit with her That my children know that that there's no woman on the face of the earth that I I want to be with Other than that woman, they know that and they know that that my grandchildren mean everything to us They know that they mean everything to us John and they know their souls matter to us so that's 40 some years of pouring into children and Why because I don't want to go to heaven without them. I Don't so I evangelized my children. I still do John. I you've seen me do it I do it in various ways, but they know when they talk to dad, they're gonna hear godly advice They're not gonna just hear me talk to him as some man I'm talking to him as as a man who loves the Lord and loves them and all of that That's what we'll talk about tomorrow to some degree and I like what you pointed out here either as parents We take our children to a place where they obey the Lord Or the world will take all the world world either we teach him what he is or they teach him what he's not That's how that works, you know, and I'll tell you one last thing and I know that I Won't say this tomorrow. That just comes to mind right now You know my children have sinned nature's they grew up as as children with the sin nature At a certain point they made decisions that I wasn't always blessed with or pleased with and many in this church in Earlier days know some of those decisions and how painful they were Some of them left this church because they thought I was just a bad father, you know And I and Marie and I paid the price for that with people's Actions and and things that were very painful because my children went through a painful period in their life Like I guess most almost every other kid does right, but they're not supposed to have those things to remember that I'm a perfect man who creates perfect children. They didn't have sin nature's they didn't have wills of their own So that's how people actually think John and misinterpret scripture to to make their point, but this is thing Without going into names and stuff. I don't want to embarrass my my family. I will tell you this that one of my children had a You know had a child out of wedlock prior to Marriage and they did marry and it was painful and I would say Several hundred in this church left because of what a bad father I am and all of that hundreds left the church But you know what I did the other day as I baptized that little one because that that that parent Made the Decision to To love that baby into the kingdom. So God's grace triumphs John It always does and I am never going to feel ever shame ever any shame For for loving my baby and doing the best I could to help that person Out of a very hard period in their life and I will never be upset about that and those who left Well, I hope they found the perfect church. I hope they found the perfect church But here God's grace is always abounded. God's grace abounded to you. God's grace abounded to me God's grace abounds to my children, you know, and that's what I've taught my children and my my the one who had this child that that many left because of and I could tell you stories I Baptize that child and that child loves the Lord that child has little little journal where they they they Write their story to God. They they they will on on their social media. They'll they'll tell their friends What can I pray about for you? You know what? That's yes, God's grace abounds and no sin sin is evil but where there is evil God's grace is greater and You just hold fast and you just love your babies and you just don't give up on them And you just pray for them and you're there for them And that's what parents do at least that's what this parent does and so yeah, well, I won't talk about that tomorrow I don't want to embarrass anybody, but that's that's between you and me and the seven people who watched this Well pastor, thank you so much and we do want to invite your church family out to our Wednesday night service at 7 p.m Come join us for a time of worship get into God's word as Pastor will be speaking on the believing children and so come out and join us and invite a friend We look forward to having you pastor. Thank you so much and God bless you guys. Thank you for tuning in and we'll see you guys tomorrow God bless you