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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Fathers: Essential for Family and Faith 0:10 Well, we welcome you to chapter 24. We're processing through the book, Reverse from Culturally Woke to Awake. If you don't have a copy, you can certainly get 1 by going to well versed world dot0:22 org. The name of our ministry is Well Versed, and the name of the website is well versed world dot org. And we encourage you to pick 1 up if you don't have a copy. Many of you already do. You have read it.0:34 You're in a small group discussing it. So let's talk about chapter 24, fatherlessness. My wife and I've been able to attend, the ARC cover the conference in London or organized by0:46 Jordan Peterson called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship or ARC. I went to the 1st 1 in 20 23, and the 2nd 1 was in 25. And these these conferences cover a host of0:58 topics. They have anywhere from 70, 80, 90 speakers from, about that many nations, and, the attendance is in the thousands. The reason I talked to you about1:10 it is 1 of the most moving moments for me in attending this conference is 1 issue. The other issue of fatherlessness, the impact. It is a extremely1:22 serious global epidemic impacting our world. I just wanna read. If you have the book well versed or rather reversed, go to 1 94, page 1 94. I1:34 want you to see these statistics. For those without fathers are 5 times more likely to commit suicide, 5 times more likely to experience poverty, 7 times more1:46 likely to get pregnant, 9 times more lock likely to drop out of school, 10 times more likely to abuse drugs, 14 times1:58 more likely to commit rape, 20 times more likely to go to prison, and 32 times more likely to run away from home. Those2:09 are jolting disastrous statistics. Fathers are essential. God ordered the home to have fathers. They're they're2:21 not they're not expendable. We can't get along without them. The number of white families and Hispanic families that are now fatherless is shooting up.2:33 But black families, 67 percent black families have no dad in the home. And some reports, it's a good bit higher than that. And when there's no dad in2:45 the home, the chance of crime and poverty absolutely skyrockets. I gotta tell you, I shudder to think what I would be like if I didn't have a dad. I had a dad when I was a2:57 kid. I do not know what it would have been like. I think I'd probably well, I don't want to even think where I might be. The fathers offer I'd be able to3:09 offer correction and discipline in a way that a mom by herself has a very challenging time doing. Dads play a unique role,3:21 and they're needed badly. Parenting is challenging enough. And single parenting, I think about women, some men, obviously single parent, but generally most single parents are3:33 women. And I think what women must go through as single parent that is extremely hard. And I have to compliment those who've been forced into single parenting because a man3:44 abandoned them, a man left them, man just disappeared and refused to care for them or a man may have been killed in an accident or something. Single parenting is very, very, extremely difficult. I3:56 can only fathom how people do that. But fathers can teach certain lessons that mothers cannot teach. Why? The father has been given a unique authority by God in the home.4:09 I wanna read you from read to you from page 197 in the book of Akan. And it says, this is yet another profound reason, if not the primary reason,4:21 why God emphasizes fatherhood. His divine institution of earthly fatherhood provides the foundation to more readily accept, understand,4:33 and fully appreciate having a relationship with him as Father. Many people, as we know, their whole relationship with God as Father is shaped by the relationship they have with their earthly4:45 father. So what's their view going to be of God if their dad is absent? Their dad has abandoned them. Their dad doesn't care about them. It shapes their understanding of the nature of God. And 1 of4:57 the reasons God established the notion of father, 1 of the reasons, is so that we, with a godly earthly father, understand how to relate to our heavenly father?5:09 I would submit to you that absentee fathers is the greatest problem, the greatest problem in America today and around the world.5:21 We pray, we pray that there's a breakthrough in this arena, and men who procreate will stand by the women with whom they've5:33 procreated and raise those children and love them and teach them rightly in a way so those children can someday relate to God as father properly because they've been5:45 able to relate properly to their earthly father. Well, that's part of being going from culturally woke to biblically awake.God as Father to the Fatherless 5:56 Let us pray to our heavenly father. God, we come to you today lifting up those who are fatherless. We bind and rebuke the spirit of abandonment6:08 and rejection that has come into the lives who have for those who have lost their father. We acknowledge that while earthly fathers may have been absent or may have hurt6:19 us, you are always present and ready to be our father. Heal our wounds, both emotional and spiritual that have been inflicted by absence or failings of our6:31 fathers. We thank you for the promise that you are a father to the fatherless. You bring hope and reassurance. Help us who are fatherless to see your6:43 faithfulness in our lives and to know that you are with us in our pain. We pray that you would protect us and lead us to find strength in you. In Jesus' name,6:55 amen.6:57 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey. Don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 Fathers: Essential for Family and Faith5:56 God as Father to the Fatherless
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