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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:13 This is the title of the message, filling children with a sense of divine destiny. And I wanna give you the tools on how to do that. How do you fill a child with a sense that God is at work in their life? That there is0:24 more to their life than flesh and blood and physical realities. This book is the answer. This book is the answer. And I thank God for the0:36 practices that my parents put me through, dragging me to church when I didn't wanna go. And forcing me to listen0:48 to the preaching of God's word. I'm old school. I'm old school religion. I went to Sunday school, and Sunday school was boring. We didn't have much fun. We didn't do the1:00 games. They just sat us down and told us about Noah. They said, now if you don't want God to kill you, be good. But they would sing songs. They would sing songs. And some1:12 of the songs, I think about it, simple songs filled with a sense of divine appointment. How many remember a song called father Abraham? Father Abraham had many sons,1:24 and many sons had father Abraham. Not complicated lyrics, but that next line, and I am 1 of them, and so are so let's just praise the Lord. How many knew what came next?1:36 Right arm. And then you do it again. And then you left arm, right foot, left foot. Before you know it, the kids were doing it. It was a it was a double blessing. We would instill kids with truth and wear them out so that1:47 they just sat down and shut up for the rest of the service. That's what that was. But I I also remember another song, and these are not complicated songs, but I think about it, precious truths
2:00 in simple delivery. Jesus loves the what? Little children. What little children? All the children of the world.
2:12 Red, yellow, black, white, they're all. Did anybody other than me go to Sunday school? Precious in the
2:24 sight. No. I think these are helpful. Lyrics. I think these instill into a child truths that get into their heart, that remind them,
2:36 teach them, God loves them, God has a plan for them, Jesus died for them, that they matter. I mean, it it's not complicated. We just have to be intentional
2:48 about what we're doing with the most precious gift that we could ever receive in life, a brand new baby human. Now, unfortunately, our
3:00 culture is undermining on every level and particularly when it comes to education. Those powerful and simple life giving truths for children.
3:13 If you don't fill your children with God's word, all you're filling them with is hot air. Now I was thinking about that song, Jesus
3:25 loves little children. Red, yellow, black, and I don't have white, so light purple. There we go. Balloons.
3:37 These chill children today are like a balloon. They are an empty vessel. What are you filling them with? What are you filling them with? Now now there is a secret gas. This is not a secret gas. There's a special gas
3:48 called helium. That if you fill this balloon think about this. This is your child. If you fill this balloon with helium, what happens to the balloon? I think we all know. I'm gonna demonstrate it
4:00 now for us. See if it works. I think it's gonna work. This is good stuff. Just a moment. Let me just just bear with me here. You fill that child with heal you fill that balloon with
4:12 helium, and here's what happens. It rises. It rises. And no matter how many times it gets knocked down come on, somebody. No matter how many times the devil and
4:24 the world and temptation and sin and backsliding, no matter how many tie how many of you had a parent who put God's word in you, and because they put God's word in you, though you wandered, though you strayed,
4:36 though you went your separate ways at times, God's word still kept lifting you and bringing you back to your senses. And listen to me, 1 day the enemy's gonna lose out on defeating you and you're going straight to be
4:47 with the father. Don't pop. Please don't pop. It would ruin the illustration. Okay. Here's what the world's plan is. Take God out of the equation. Oh, by the way, this is helium. I think this
4:59 is like a cool coincidence, but I think it's also a, I don't know, divine coincidence, if you will, if there is such a thing. What's the atomic letter for helium? H e. We can put it up on the screen. Isn't that isn't
5:11 that amazing? Fill your child with what he has to say. Now culture has taken God
5:23 and put him on the back burner. And all we're left with is the air of men. That's all we're left with. So
5:38 Now I I think my my air is pretty good, but it's not God's. What happens when all we're filled with is the ideas of men?
5:49 What your child is becoming is determined by what you fill them with. I want your children to rise.
6:01 I want your children to rise. Take out your nose. We're gonna get into this. Because here's what happened 100 years ago. July 19 25. July 19 25. There was a court
6:13 case. We now know it as the monkey scopes trial, where a man named John scopes was teaching evolution in Dayton, Tennessee to high school students, and it,
6:25 at that time, was against the law to teach evolution to children. Can you can you imagine that? Teaching teaching the law teaching evolution was against the law.
6:38 And it all went I think it also the supreme all the way to the supreme court. He lost the trial, and John Scopes was fined 100 dollars for teaching evolution to children. Now what would appear
6:50 to be a victory for creationism or the bible actually turned into a stunning turn of defeat because from that moment, the reaction against that court case was intense
7:02 and immense. And ever since, educational systems have been trying to rid itself of the vestiges of the original true creation story that is written
7:13 in God's holy word. Consequently, instead of telling children that they are precious in his sight, now we tell them they are cosmic accidents. Instead of saying that they are children
7:25 of Abraham and they are chosen to be an army for God, now now we tell them that they come from nothing. Their life basically means nothing. And when they die, they go to nothing.
7:37 Oh, and on top of that, we tell them that the world is going to burn up in 12 years, and we say this every 8 years, make it make sense. And then we wonder why these children are depressed and
7:49 popping anxiety pills and depression medication. Perhaps if we gave them the truth of his word, they wouldn't need the drugs of this world. I mean, call me old fashioned. Call me
8:01 crazy. But this is what God's word says for a reason so that we know how to teach our children that they matter, that they are more than matter, and
8:13 that there's a God in heaven who loves them and has called them to his purposes. Now you do not have to get very far in the Bible to understand that the devil is after the truths of this book. You understand
8:25 this? You don't have to get very far in the book. You just gotta go to the very first passage. The very first passage, in the beginning, God. So what does the devil do? He comes and says, no. There is no God. Then you
8:36 could just go to verse 27. God made them in his image. No. You're not made in the God the man image of God. No. No. No. No. You are the great ancestors of apes and monkeys.
8:47 Even though there's no scientific evidence for it. Have you ever seen on social media people always put up those little videos of the whale becoming a frog, and then the frog becoming a
8:59 chicken, and then the chicken becoming a man? You ever realize that they're all cartoons? If your belief system needs cartoons to prove it's true, it's not
9:11 stinking true. It's a lie. We've got an ancient record of human history in this book that has proved faithful for 3500 years.
9:24 And the people who built their life on this book are gonna do better. Let me just tell you that. So the devil undermines the creation order. Undermines the idea that there's a God. Undermines the idea that they're made
9:35 in God's image. How about chapter 2 where God says, male and female make a marriage. Man and woman, make a marriage. What does the devil do? He comes and undermines that, and now marriage can be whatever you want. And
9:46 let me just say something very publicly, very proudly, very strongly. I don't care what 2 men do in front of some fake pastor. I don't care how many jewelry they exchange. There is no such thing as
9:57 homosexual marriage. Marriage is 1 man, 1 woman to the glory of God. He created it. When we mess with it, we make the mistake. How about
10:09 chapter 2 again? How about chapter 1 when it says that there's basically 2 sexes, not 72? 2. Male, female. And by the
10:21 way, both and this is gonna sound like hate speech, are different. Men can't be
10:32 women. And women can't be men, and they are very different. And every married person
10:44 said, amen. Ladies, we can't understand you. We try. Give us
10:55 grace. The the the Bible you know, the creation order starts with light, ends with woman. And commentators have talked about this. It goes from least complex to most complex.
11:10 So light, not very complex. Land, not very complex. Beast, getting complex. Fish, even more complex. We can't even understand all this in the ocean. Men, complex. Women, I don't know
11:22 what's going on. And you're different you're different by design. I can't think of a more damaging statement to make to a child than to tell them that even
11:33 their body is lying to them, which brings me to the events of this past week. How many Christian children in Christian schools have to be
11:45 sacrificed on the altar of transgender ideology? How many until our country wakes up and realizes it's on a collision course with chaos? I almost
11:57 kind of think that God has been administering a stupid test on America for the past 20 years. Just
12:09 to find out who are all the stupid people. No. Siri I really think this. I think God's up in heaven saying, let's see how stupid they are. Let me have them redefine marriage and see
12:21 if they'll buy it. Let let me have them think men can become women and see if they can buy that. And then let me also see if they can get the whole country to appease them. And then
12:33 let me get guys to play in women's sports and win women's trophies and see who buys that and who falls for that. Do you understand? We've been taking a
12:45 stupid test, and a lot of people aren't tossing this test. Do you know why? Because the Bible says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And
12:57 the fool says in his heart, there is no God. Romans chapter 1, in their thinking, they became fools because they exchanged the creator for created things and
13:09 worship the creation rather than the creator who is to be forever praised. I could go on in the book of Genesis. I could go on. Genesis chapter 3, instead of talking about
13:21 sin and shame and guilt and fear, we teach children to blame their surroundings. Instead of teaching children to take responsibility for their actions and correct their behavior, now we therapeutize them.
13:34 Therapy is a dangerous drug for your children. Dangerous. Therapy is the tool of the failed parent. You put your children in therapy, watch out. Therapists today will tell you, your
13:46 children, that they need to disconnect from you. There are thousands of parents in this country right now who have no relationship with their children because of a therapist. And they teach them to blame the economy,
13:57 blame the president, blame capitalism, blame society, blame the social structures. Instead of look at your life and take responsibility and repent and turn
14:09 to God who has offered you the free gift of his grace that you are saved from sin, fear, guilt, and shame through the blood of Jesus Christ who bore your shame on the cross.
14:21 You can go to Genesis chapter 8, and I just thought about this 1. This was a big 1. The last verse of Genesis chapter 8, God promises Noah. He says, while the earth remains, seedtime harvest, cold, heat, summer, these
14:32 things will never stop. In other words, there's gonna be planting and there's gonna be harvesting until Jesus comes again. That is a promise of scripture. But modern society and pseudoscience comes
14:44 along and says, we're ruining the planet and it's all gonna burn up in a couple of years. They it's undermining the scriptures. Do you understand what I'm saying? Let's do 1 more. Got time for 1 more?
14:55 Yes. Let's just flip to Genesis chapter 12 verse 1. The lord said to Abram, leave your family. Go to land I'll show you. I will make you a great nation. And whoever blesses you, Abraham, and your
15:07 people, I will bless. And whoever curses you, I will curse. Now Abraham becomes the father of a nation. What nation is that? Israel,
15:19 the Jewish people. Now listen to me. It's 20 25. And in our quest for equality and respecting all persons, there's only 1 ethnicity that is still fair game even on Ivy
15:31 League college campuses, and that's the Jewish people. The stupid test. Do you see how we're all taking it? Every statement God makes,
15:42 the devil seeks to undermine. Fast forward to the bible story about Jesus when he says, I'm the only way. What does Satan come and do? No. No. No. There's many ways. All
15:54 religions lead to the same place. Well, I agree with him about that. All religion leads to hell, including I'm a good
16:06 personism. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But only faith in Jesus Christ leads to eternal life. He's the way, the truth, and the life. Now the
16:18 whiners will come out and say, but what about the people who've never heard of Jesus? That's our job. That's an amazing would love to debate that fact instead of just get busy sharing Jesus with whoever hasn't
16:30 heard. That's why we're planting churches. That's why we ask you to go to Guatemala. That's why we ask you to go to Peru. That's why we ask you to partner with us and give to the mission so that we could take this
16:39 message to the outermost parts of the earth so that everybody hears and everybody has a chance to follow Jesus Christ and save their souls from hell. That's the church's role. That's what
16:51 we're here for. So this past week, another transgender shooting. And thank God we have the the journal left behind in which this man who cowardly
17:03 targets children Writes in his journal, I am tired of being trans. I wish I never brainwashed myself. And what does the Minneapolis mayor do? He comes out and supports
17:15 the trans community because he didn't pass the stupid test. And by the way, Minnesota, where this happened is a trans refugee
17:27 state, which means that if your child identifies as trans, they can relocate to Minnesota. Minnesota taxpayers will pay for that child to emancipate itself from you if you don't agree with this ideology.
17:38 How long and how many how many how many tests and questions on this stupid test do we have to take before we wake up and realize that this word is true and everybody else is a liar?
17:50 I mean, this is tough preaching, but sometimes you need tough preaching. Let me say something that the cool church pastors on YouTube with 1000 tens of thousand followers don't have the guts to tell you. Transgenderism
18:02 is not a mental illness. It is a suicidal demonic death cult. In fact, it's even written in there a lot in their own code. They when they transitioned, they referred to their former
18:14 identity as their dead name. Isn't that amazing? Don't deadname me. That's an it's an I think that's an appropriate title because they have reidentified themselves, given themselves their own version of being
18:26 born again, and then they actually commit confess that they have killed off their former identity. It's a demonic suicidal death cult. And if you've got family and
18:38 friends in this thing, man, all I have to say to you is pray for them. The devil has taken them captive, and the schools are empowering it, and our government celebrates it. And the church stands as
18:50 a bulwark to the lies of the enemy and fights for the souls of men and women. We're not here to trounce on them, but we're here to call it what it is. If I don't call
19:01 out your cancer for cancer, you'll just put a Band Aid on it and die a couple of years later. Let's identify the real problem so that we can offer the real solution.
19:13 God's word is the breath that lifts and brings people out of the darkness into God's marvelous light.
19:25 Amen. Now I could stand up here all day, and I could tell you about all the bad things that the world has to say to your children and all the hot air that they're getting from the liars of our culture, but that's not my
19:35 job. My job is to tell you the good news of God's word. So let's move from deconstruction to construction. Here's 3 things we gotta teach our children if they're gonna have a divine destiny in their heart. Number 1,
19:45 teach them that they are created by God, male or female. Start there. First page. Kids, open the bible. Let's take a look. God has made us male or female.
19:57 And that is by his design and his choice. And this is a good thing, and this is God's desire for you. Verse 27 of Genesis chapter 1. I've already referenced it. I've already said it several
20:09 times. There it is on your notes. But I have a question for you, and I want you to think about this. Why did God choose to do it this way? You if you think about it, really, God could have made
20:21 God could have made us all the the same sex, 1 sex. Right? He could have. And then it wouldn't matter. And we're all the same sex, so who cares? Right? But he doesn't do that. He does this with intentionality.
20:32 Nothing that God does is without intention. So I I thought about this and I researched the scriptures and I came up with 4 reasons for male and female. 4 reasons for male and female. And I think that these are powerful
20:44 truths that we have to we have to get in our hearts. Letter a in your notes, that humanity might partner to bear God's image. That we would learn that we need each other.
20:56 You are not meant to be on your own. Male and female come together, and we bear the image of God. How? Together. In the
21:08 scriptures, God refers to himself in motherly terms. Jesus himself saying, I wish I was a hen who could gather the chicks of Israel under my wing. God says in Isaiah 49, can a mother forget her children? Even if she
21:18 forgets, I will not forget you. Paul in Galatians says, I am in pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you. Motherly terms. That that I'm not gonna call him heavenly mother. I will never do that. But
21:30 the image of God is born out in mothers and fathers, and children need to see mothers and fathers caring for them. If you're still married, I'm telling you today that you are a hero
21:42 on behalf of your children. They need a month. They need a dad. They need God represented in both sexes to partner together, to produce in that child a healthy sense of self.
21:53 Scripture says in Genesis 2 18, it is not good that man should be alone. God said that. Adam needed a helpmate. He needed a helper fit for him. And he brings the woman out
22:05 of the man, and every man since has come out of woman. When when when Eve is brought to the man, Genesis 2 23, Adam sings over her. This is at last bone of my bones and
22:17 flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman. Which the old preacher jokes is, when he saw naked Eve standing there, he said, woah, man. Which actually works in the Hebrew. In the Hebrew, the word
22:29 for man is ish, and the word for woman is isha, which means that Adam woke up and said, isha. And partnership, which brings me to point b.
22:41 God created 2 sexes that we might learn to depend on each other. You're not meant to do life alone. You need help. You need friends. You need community.
22:53 And, we depend on 1 another to care for 1 another, to love 1 another, serve 1 another. By the way, only through a male and female marriage or union can another
23:05 human being come into existence. No matter what they're telling you in textbooks that in science class today, kids, it's still a man and a woman that require that are required to make a
23:17 person. And and then this is how God designed it so that we learn to depend on each other. First Corinthians chapter 11 verse 11 says, in the Lord, a woman is not independent of man, and a man is not independent of a
23:29 woman. Ladies, we need you. Amen. 2 ladies believe that. Let me see if this work.
23:40 Ladies, you need us. Amen. More women said that, amen, than men. We need each other. God wants us not to feel isolated in life.
23:53 Now even if you're not married, that's why God gives you a church. That you have a community. You have brothers and sisters. You have partners to do life together. So the the
24:05 scripture says that if 2 are together, there's more from that labor than 1 person being alone. A cord of 3 strands is not quickly broken. Letter c, that
24:17 humanity might learn to distinguish 1 from the other. Here's biology 1 0 1. Men look different than women, and God intends it to
24:28 stay that way. Oh, here we go. You ever realize that in the created order, even on the first page in Genesis chapter 1,
24:40 there's distinction at every verse? There's darkness hovering over the surface of the deep, and God says, let there be light. Distinction. Yeah? Let's go a little further. God separates the day
24:52 from the night. Distinction. How about this? God separates the land from the sea. Look at it in Genesis chapter 1. You'll see what I'm talking about. Then God separates the beasts of the earth from the fish of the sea.
25:02 Then God separates the man from the woman. Distinction. This goes throughout the entire bible. Fast forward to Leviticus, and God tells the people of Israel, this is clean. This is unclean. Make distinctions. Learn to
25:14 distinguish what is good from what is not good. Are you hearing this? Fast forward to Jesus. He says, in the last day, there's gonna be a massive distinction between the sheep and the goats. The sheep go
25:25 in. The goats stay out. Fast forward to the end of the bible, the book of revelation. 1 massive distinction. Everyone whose name is written in the lamb's book of life are in the heavenly city, and everybody who's not are
25:37 outside. God teaches his people from the very first page of the bible to distinguish things. Now you say that doesn't seem like a big deal. It's a
25:49 huge deal because God is trying to teach us how to choose the right and reject the wrong. And even further than the right and the wrong,
26:00 here's something that some of you need to listen to. Sometimes you need to pick the better from the good. Sometimes you need to learn to distinguish the best from the better.
26:13 In other words, what's best for your child and not just good for your job. Amen? Are you hearing this? You say, how do I do that? The word of God and the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit brings gifts with him, and 1
26:24 of those gifts listed in first Corinthians chapter 12 is the distinguishing between spirits. The Holy Spirit leads you to the best church from the good church.
26:36 In case you were wondering, you found it. The holy spirit can just help you distinguish between mister right from mister right
26:48 now or good enough. And your whole life, you're gonna have to learn to make distinguishing distinctions so that you become distinguished.
27:01 Now God doesn't just make male and female. He intentionally teaches us that they must look different. Old Testament first.
27:13 Deuteronomy chapter 22. A woman shall not wear a man's garment nor a man wear a woman's cloak. And you if you do that, you are an abomination to the Lord. In other
27:25 words, dress like a man. Ladies, dress like a lady. Amen. Celebrate this. This is a distinguishing characteristic. Today is considered hate speech.
27:38 Today is considered old fashioned, out of touch, wrong side of history because those people telling you that failed the stupid test. Now you say, well, that's Old
27:50 Testament, pastor. Okay. Let's go to the New Testament. First Corinthians chapter 11 verse 14 to 15. Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him? If a
28:02 woman has long hair, it's her glory. Now I want you to listen to me. I just read to you a verse from the bible, and already some of you, the tension level just went up. And all I
28:14 did was read scripture. The problem's not scripture. The problem's you. You've been enculturated by the chaos of this
28:26 culture that wants to blur the lines of distinction and pretend that men can be women and women can be men, and that distinctions don't really matter. And when distinctions don't matter, everybody's the same. And when
28:37 everybody's the same, everybody goes to some happy place when they die, and that's just not true. And I refuse to placate you for the sake of your sensitivities than to tell you the
28:49 truth that could mean the difference between eternal heaven and eternal hell. You don't don't reject me. And you don't like you reject him.
29:01 This is this is his word. I'm just the postman. I'm just dropping it in your spiritual mailbox. You tear it up. It's his word, not mine.
29:14 But it'll save your life. Learn to be a distinguishing person. Letter d that humanity might declare the gospel. Now here's how this goes down. Man and woman marriage
29:25 declare God's gospel. In the book of Ephesians chapter 5, are you ready? Are you
29:37 ready? Everybody's favorite verse. The husband is head of the wife even as Christ is head of the church, which is his body and is his savior. Oops. Got that 1 wrong. Let me go back. Ephesians.
29:48 I was I missed 1 verse. That's all I did. Verse 22. There we go. Alright. Here we go. Wives, submit to your own husbands.
30:03 Don't stop. As to the lord. Wives, submit to your husband's as to the lord. Okay, ladies. Let me just tell you
30:15 something. That's in the Bible. If you're gonna be a Christian, you gotta do it. This is I know. I know. This is hate speech, but
30:27 it's scripture. Don't don't fail the stupid test. Now listen to me. Ladies, let me clue you in about the male brain. Are you ready? Right here. Right about
30:39 here, there's a little box in the male brain. And in that box is doubt. Self doubt. No. No. No. I'm being serious. In that box,
30:51 we keep a couple of phrases that keep coming out. The devil goes to that box, pulls it out, shows it to us. The phrases are, you're not good enough, You're a big fake and phony. You don't have what it takes.
31:05 Every man has that box. Ladies, do not feed that box. Don't help the devil take that box out and show it to him.
31:17 Later in the passage, Ephesians chapter 5, Paul says, respect him. Wives need to respect their husbands. Submit in everything to their husbands. Oh,
31:29 we're not done. Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church. Husbands, you love your wife by working hard and providing for her.
31:41 You don't get married until you can prove you can do that, by the way. You you work hard. You show yourself faithful. You put your hands to whatever opportunities are provided.
31:53 You stop dreaming and start doing. Activate. Wake up early. Stay late. Be an a
32:05 plus plus employee. God's watching, and he will reward faithfulness in the little things. Then you get a wife that you can love the way Christ Christ
32:16 Christ provides. Christ loves. Christ lays down his life for the church. Christ sanctifies his wife, cleanses his wife. Husbands, have you ever thought about this? You are your wife's
32:28 pastor. You're the priest of the home, which means that you better not wait for her to tell you to go to church or be the
32:40 church or open the bible or get the kids in in in the house of God. You lead the way. You wake up the family. You lead the home.
32:54 You if she is making the coffee in the morning on Sunday, you, sir, have failed because you are the man.
33:06 And the bible says Hebrews, not Shebrews.
33:21 It's right there. I love this TV. I love what Joshua says. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And Joshua at no point
33:32 says, kids, are you interested in serving the Lord? Do I have your permission to serve the Lord? Would you like to oh, you don't wanna serve the Lord? Okay. No worries. No. He makes the decision for his family. Men, make
33:44 the decision for your family. Wives, submit. And this is a picture of the gospel because in the gospel, we have a distinction. Christ and the church, they
33:56 are not the same. Christ is different than the church, but Christ surrenders his life for the church. Now on the cross, Jesus dies. When he
34:07 dies, they pierce his side. Right? And Bible says blood and water flow out of his side. Doctors tell us it's because he had a broken heart. That might be cute. I don't know if that's
34:19 true. But blood and water flowed. This is a bigger picture. In the original creation, the scripture says that to find Adam a wife, God puts Adam to sleep,
34:32 a deep sleep. And then God takes out of his side a rib and fashes a woman. Do you see the gospel being preached right there? Then God wakes up Adam and brings the woman to Adam and unites
34:44 them together. On the cross, Jesus was put into the sleep of death. And out of his side came blood, which cleanses us from our sins, and water, which washes us from a
34:56 guilty conscience according to Hebrews. And Jesus, through his death, bears a a woman out a a bride out of his death, and God raises him up on the third day
35:08 and brings him to his bride, and the 2 become 1 flesh. Which is why Paul says in Ephesians chapter 5 31, look what it says, a man shall leave his father and mother
35:19 and be hold fast to his wife, the 2 shall become 1 flesh. This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ in the church. Every male
35:31 female marriage is a proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. So first John chapter 4, he picks up on this. Verse 17, he says, as he
35:43 is, so we are in this world. We are 1 with Christ. Do you know who you are? You are Christ's body. And for some of you, you need to understand this. You are the only
35:55 Jesus that anybody will ever see or read. What a holy responsibility he has given us. Number 2, teach your children that God saves them by
36:07 grace. God saves them by grace. For the second point, we gotta go to the Old Testament, Exodus chapter 12. And here's here's how this whole thing goes down. It's
36:18 pretty powerful. Moses calls the elders of Israel, and he says, go select lambs from yourselves according to your clans. Kill the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop. Dip it in the blood in the basin. Touch the lintel
36:30 and a 2 bore dove post with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of his door out of his house until morning for the Lord will pass through and strike the Egyptians. And when he sees the blood when he
36:40 sees the what? The blood on the lintel, the Lord will we call this the Passover. He will pass over you, and he will not allow the destroyer to enter your house or strike you. You
36:52 shall observe this as a rite and a statute for your sons forever. You're gonna do this every year. This is the first Passover. God says, take a little lamb into your home, kill it, and take the blood, and put it on your
37:03 doorposts. There's a illustration that Don Carson says about this moment, and I'm stealing it. It's on the Internet, but I'm stealing
37:14 it. He says there's 2 Jews that are having a conversation the night of Passover, Bob and Smith. Very Jewish names. And they're talking about what's going
37:26 down. And Smith says to Bob, Bob, what do you think of all this? Bob says, what are talking about? He goes, the whole thing, the blood, the lamb, the killing, all these plagues. I'm kinda scared. I'm kinda nervous. I
37:36 don't know what's gonna go down. Bob. Total opposite reaction. He says, no. I'm not worried. God said it. We did it. The blood's on the lot on the doorpost. I am looking forward to a good meal with the family. All things
37:46 are cool. We're fine. Kosher. Pun intended. Smith says, I don't know how you can be so calm. I'm nervous wreck. Bob says, didn't you apply the blood? Yeah. I applied the blood. But listen, Bob, I have
37:58 1 son. You have 3. If you have 1 son dead, you got 2 more, but I only have 1. I'm scared. I'm nervous. I am a nervous wreck about this thing. Now, DA Carson, Don Carson says this, which 1 wakes up the next morning out of
38:09 Bob and Smith and has a dead son? Neither. Because the power of God's grace is not rooted
38:21 in the intensity of your faith, but in the blood being applied to your life. And the blood of Jesus is the true blood of the lamb that silences the
38:33 voice of the accuser. Come on, somebody. I'm preaching to somebody who feels like they got weak faith. Hey. Maybe you just drag yourself in here. Here I am beating you up for 3 for half an
38:45 hour. You're like, I just barely got myself here today. I feel weak. That's okay. It's not the intensity of your faith. It's the object of your faith. And the blood of Jesus is effective no
38:57 matter how little your faith might be. So Moses goes on, and and he says to the people of Israel, and when your
39:09 child let's see if we can find this. Here we go. Verse 26. And when your children say to you what do you mean by this service? Now you gotta think about
39:20 this. If you're a Jew and you're killing an animal, a little baby lamb you know, have you ever seen these little images of little baby lamb? They're cute. Imagine. You bring it into your home. It'sShow more
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