 Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hey John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered Wednesdays you've been doing well actually just started a series on marriage and the family and and that's what I like to speak about today And then on Thursday, we'll talk a little bit about what you're gonna teach on on Sunday And so since tomorrow is our Wednesday evening service and and we have communion to and we have communion tomorrow So invite your friends. I mean, it's always a sweet time when we have communion with the church family Even on even with the series like this, it's it's a sweet time with the worst job Yeah, except you keep asking for real wine at communion. I'm telling you, no John I want to show with it really quick faster. There was a so when we Were storing the communion prefab cups. Yeah, we had them on top of the fridge in the kitchen Well, the top of the fridge gets warm and so a lot of the Cups were fermenting. Oh my goodness. So one of the men had it and some of the guys were looking at it Like what are you trying to do really fermented? So you took them all home and You know pastors we as you're now in marriage and the family and tomorrow we're looking at why submitting to The husband and that's a 10-part series. I Wanted to speak a little bit more and get your feedback on the family as a unit, you know You've been married for so many years and and you've probably understand a lot more The value of the family unit and the things that can come Into the family into the marriage that will actually pull and You know, I think about in my life I had a strike of balance and you've been really good at telling me this Because I love doing ministry. I have a tendency to want to dive in But yet I have wife and kids at home And these are the things that will pull on a family and affect the actual family unit Versus then making it better. Can you speak a little bit about that pastor to it to some degree? You never want to have your children or wife resent ministry. You never want them to I think it's part of what happens when you're full-time in ministry to be honest with you but you never want to create an environment where your children feel that they've lost their dad and Especially when they're small because they they don't realize that daddy is serving the Lord and it's part of the sacrifice of his life And so it's a very good and very important thing to have a wife who is very supportive of your call My wife has always been very supportive of of my call to the Lord From the time she became my girlfriend Marie has been my at my side supporting me in every way, you know Didn't even realize that she was beginning her life of ministry while she was dating me and she's never stood in my way Complaining or Getting upset Or making me feel bad. She's never done that. She's She's been really quite a warrior bride when it comes to those things. She really has John Because she knows the call that God plays on my heart And so she freed me up to to follow that call and in the first portion of our ministry in the earlier days I had Opportunities handed to me to do ministry in China to go to to India to the Philippines Various places to minister and I began to take the opportunities as they were handed to me to do that but after a while after a few years of Reaching out going out doing ministry in various lands and all I Began to realize that even though I I did the very best I could as a father To to care for the home and the children Giving them devotions every night and bringing them to church. I've said to the fellowship here That my children basically were seven day a week Christians as I raised them Meaning that five days out of the week. They got devotions. I would give them devotions if I was not there Marie would and Then the other two days of the week were Sunday and Wednesday We have Wednesday night services and Sunday services as well as Sunday night So they were saturated in the things of the Lord from an early age Which didn't guarantee that they wouldn't taste the world which they did But it was also the the strength that brought them back To to where they're at now in in their awareness of their own personal walks with God and their ministries and so It was a fine balance that that Marie and I working together tried to find to Be able to prioritize our children's lives in terms of their needs for for their dad and my influence and My presence my ear when they needed to speak it was a fine balance and it took a while for me to learn it because as a aggressive for the kingdom as I was especially in the early days of Wanting to travel wanting to to go to other places and bring the gospel England in various places I got chances to do that Austria and others I had to make sure that I didn't lose my children as I pursued the kingdom and That's kind of a large statement to make by itself, and I know it could be misinterpreted but I came to realize that there were some things that Were really personal desires on my heart that were not necessarily something that would benefit my children so our church was booming it was growing I was gaining a lot of experience I was speaking in a lot of places and Getting opportunities to travel to other countries and all of that and I I put a stop to that in my own life John and in doing so I in voluntarily in some ways Short short circuited some of the path that I was going because at the end I Realized that the Lord doesn't necessarily need me to go certain places There are so many others who are able to and me I I wanted to concentrate on being a better father a better husband and Eventually become in a grandfather That which happened obviously and gave me opportunity to to love them as the elder of the family and so I I believe that that My ministry is to Jesus first Scripture teaches that but I have a wife to cover I have a family to be a covering over and Grandchildren to be an influence to as well as a congregation that looks to me to be here to be present with them and minister to them and So I decided that the best thing I could do is Is be the kind of man that would make my daughter say? That's what a man supposed to be or to be the kind of man where my sons would say That's the best man. I know and he's a model for me Which you know my kids and I would say that to some degree. I Have seen success in that my boys especially You know have they love their daddy and They they you know, they want they want to be like me and and to me That's that's what it should be because I wanted to have the character of my father You know and my dad wanted the character of his father I think that's how God ordered the family John and so We'll be speaking about the relationship tomorrow of a wife and her husband, you know, what does it mean to submit and You know men's responsibility and encouraging it. It's a very important subject right now especially in a time when Men and women and children are being lied to and confused about their genders and About their roles and it's not as if I'm going to touch on all of those things But it's very common for all of us to know that there's a lot of gender confusion a lot of role confusion You know and things of that nature. I'll be approaching some of those subjects or some of those topics As I go through the study so tomorrow I talk to the ladies where he is simply is one of the scriptures Even unbelieving men know, you know, I know why I'm supposed to be submitted to their husband, right, you know and And yeah, but what our husbands to do to encourage a woman to To voluntarily subordinate herself to the headship and leadership of this man So we'll be looking at that as a package. So tomorrow I'll be speaking on women But the next week we'll spend some time with the man Look forward to it and and as you mentioned Church family as Pastor David mentioned will have Communion after the Bible study and so invite your friends to come out and join us, you know, one of the things not in it I don't want to take the time just looking forward to your study tomorrow and we'll keep it at that and And again fit Church family 7 p.m. Wednesday evening and we'll be in the chapel this week And so excited to have you guys come out July 10th. We're having our Israel informational trip Yes inspired trouble will come out after 2nd service July 10th. If you're still interested You don't need to sign the this online or interest. Let's just come just come to me and check it out We'll have some questions or we have over 200 people interested, which means maybe you and I'll go I Unless Marie makes me take her Thank you church family pastor David, thank you so much and church family looks forward to seeing you God bless you