 Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hey, John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered. I'm a little excited pastor Usually those who may be turning it on the first day. Let me back up a little bit on Tuesday Is what we'd like to do is I like to ask pastor questions that draw out The message that you'll be able to teach it on on Wednesday And then we do the same on Thursday for Sunday's message and I'm excited because tomorrow You're gonna start a series on marriage in the family. Yeah, something that is much needed today. Yeah, and so looking at your study The points that you make here are our goods good points. Thank you, John Is this a good time to ask for a raise No Just ask for your job I'm fired you guys But what I like what you put here is that you've listed in in your in the notes here that there is this struggle between or this battle between the traditional Family or the traditional institution of marriage and this constant onslaught of this redefinition of what marriage is And so can you explain a little bit about what this constant struggle is and how this is even crept into the church, you know This battle against marriage is not brand new. I mean, it's obviously something that has existed from From thousands of years back, you know, it's the It's the reason that God gave commands related to marriage because pagan societies Didn't have a value for the women Value for family many of them didn't the major ones during the time of Christ and just prior did not have Did not have a real value for for the institution of marriage, you know, the Romans looked at their wives and treated their wives Those married to a Roman man. They treated them like they were children the father had complete authority in the home and he had even the You know the right of life or death when it came to children and running the house and that was transferred to the To the the husband, you know Over the over his wife. So the husband during Roman times had tremendous Power over her. So she was really without any real rights in the Greek the Greek man had a concubine or women on the side for his pleasure and he'd have a Wife so that he could have legitimate children. I mean, so you saw that in the Greeks, you know So during the time of Christ You know the idea of having a loving caring relationship with the woman wasn't necessarily Part of how everybody thought I mean if you're a religious person with faith and you're and you understand the Essentials of relationship and what love means and all your chances are you're gonna have a good marriage and all but There's always been problems within the confines of a man and woman, you know, because the two are of such a different Backgrounds a woman and man, you know Have just different ways of dealing with life and various things and anybody who denies that is living in a world That isn't real and so when a husband and a woman joined together. That's actually God's way of making the two one so that the two become one and actually better together and that's what marriage is intended to do is to make the two better together and so the wife will bring into the marriage certain qualities that the husband lacks and the husband brings into the marriage certain qualities that a woman will lack and under the authority of God and under the Power of the Spirit and the unity that you have and in Christ, you know, you have the possibility of having a Successful marriage and so we're going to begin looking at that tomorrow But yeah, the society didn't value marriage and doesn't to this day. There is a You know, a large rate of individuals who are cohabiting who are living together without the the sense of an is a need for a contract of any sort for an agreement any kind of ceremony and Unfortunately, that is filtered even into the church where there are people who are who actually are unmarried having children But think of themselves as being married simply because they think of themselves as being married Even in our fellowship John I was just speaking to one of our secretaries who handles the request for baby dedications Who was just telling me just 15 20 minutes ago how that very often very often people are calling saying we want to Dedicate our children and when simple questions begin being asked We're discovering that You know, not that it's not that It's not that often, but it's it's more common than it has ever been Where they're saying well, well, we're not married, you know, we just want to dedicate our children to God and turns out they're they're they're living together in the state of of Fornication and sometimes even in adultery, I'll be speaking of those things tomorrow Well pastor, you know, thank you for sharing that because yeah, it's been this ongoing thing Even when I know you'll probably be looking at divorce rates sometime in this marriage and family series But I think this is a something that us church need to really to hear and hang on to as you address the family Especially in these times So I want to thank you pastor for sharing that and again you guys tomorrow evening services start at 7 p.m. We're Pastor David's going to start as mentioned a series on marriage and the family great opportunity to invite your friends and family to Come out and join us. That's at 7 p.m. And then on Thursday. We have our worship conference Yeah, we do and I know you've been inviting our church to come out and join as you're going to be doing a Q&A with Odin Fong Yes, and we'll have some worship. Yeah, so church family come on out for that No need to register for that not for that and it's not for that, but for Friday and Saturday for those who are planning on being in the The conference itself participating in the workshops and lunches and all of that There is a there is a cost but for the Thursday night alone Just to come to worship and and all for the opening of the conference Our members of our fellowship are invited to come out and join us. It's going to be a great time Q&A With you and Odin so pastor. Thank you again, and I'm excited as we look forward into the start this series and Hope you guys are blessed and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. Thank you pastor Oh one more thing a couple more weeks. We're going to be showing the Israel video So get your name on the interest list. We're still trying to determine a date which were possibly looking at June 26th as a Representative from Inspire Travel to come on out to come in and give us some information Yeah, the trip itself is in March of 2023 What is it March 9th to the 20th to the 20th to the 20th or 21st to the 20th to the 20th? Okay, and and cost is looking at 43 89 total total. Yeah, so There's some information there. Thank you guys for tuning in and God bless you