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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 And I wanna talk to you on the topic of commitments that bring generational blessings. Or if you prefer, how to bless your great great0:24 grandchildren. It is so important to see yourself not as an individual, but as a link0:36 in a long chain of people. People that you came from and people who will come from you. That that is really who we are. The0:48 problem with America is we are a hyper individualistic society. My wants, my needs, my rights, my privileges, you know, my life. But what you don't understand is that there are people counting on1:00 you whom you have never met. They are going to come from you. They may not come biologically as not everybody has the wonderful benefit or blessing to1:12 have biological children, but they will come from you spiritually. And I think it is in incumbent upon the church to think long term. He's not the God1:23 of Abraham. He's the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He identifies himself, think about this,1:36 as an intergenerational God. We have the genealogy of Jesus. We discussed this in kingdom come. We see where he comes from, the parents and the great grandparents and on1:47 and on. And so we have to remember this because I think if you get a hold of this, you will look at your life in a whole new light. The decisions that you're making1:59 today, like ripples in a pond, will reverberate for centuries. And I'm not exaggerating, centuries. When we
2:11 last left off in Nehemiah, the people were confessing their sins. Somebody say confessing. Nehemiah chapter 9 confessing, but Nehemiah chapter 10 committing.
2:23 Every confession should be followed by commitment. Because you're confessing the sins that you committed, the failures that you made, you're realizing God was faithful even when you
2:35 weren't, You're thankful that he's still he's still working on you, calling you back to himself. He hasn't abandoned you and anybody who knows that personally, give me a good amen.
2:46 Amen. But you need to now think about, wait a second. What got us into the mess, we gotta stop doing that. There's gotta be some commitments so that the future doesn't have the same confessions.
2:58 Right? That's that's what this chapter is about. Chapter 10, the people sit down. They've they're writing it down. Writing it down, signing their names to the commitments they're going to make as God's people.
3:10 The wall has been built. The temple has the inauguration of the temple has already started. That started under Ezra hundreds of year decades earlier. They have started the feast days. They're celebrating the feast of
3:21 booze. We talked about this a few weeks ago. And the people don't go home. This is a wonderful thing. They have a big church service. It ends and the people don't go home. What wouldn't that be cool? Like, we say, okay.
3:33 Amen. God bless you. And you all like, no. We need more God. Like, wouldn't that be cool? That's what's happening here in chapter 10. They don't go home. They decide we gotta up the ante. We gotta increase our
3:44 commitments. We gotta write some things down. God has done something wonderful. Rebuilt the walls, rebuilt the city. Here we are. We've it all back. It's great. God's doing great things but but but we gotta start making
3:53 some serious and public declarations of what we're going to do. And really what it is is the stuff that they always should have done but they failed to do for many many decades, many generations. So Nehemiah chapter 9
4:03 ends and this is where we left off. It says because of all this, what? Because of all the faithfulness that God showed when we were faithless, because of his compassion toward us when we continue to fail him, because of
4:14 the ways in which he disciplined us and brought us back to the land, we make a firm covenant. And then notice those last 2 words, in writing. And on the sealed document are the names of the princes and the Levites
4:26 and our priests. Now turn to page chapter 10 verse 1. On the seals are the names. Underline. On the seals on are the names. And first name on the
4:37 list is the guy who's the leader of this whole movement, Nehemiah the governor. He leads by example. And what is he doing? He's putting his name down in paper. And then from that name is all
4:49 kinds of other names. 84 men put their names to the page to say, we're going to commit to live like this as God's
5:01 people in the land. Amen. Let me say something about commitments. I would suggest that all of your commitments I'm sorry. All of the things that are important in your life are important because
5:13 you've committed to them. Your marriage is a commitment. Probably no. Not probably. Outside of Christ, it is the most important commitment you can make. Your job
5:24 demands commitment. It's important to get a paycheck. You gotta be committed. And you're raising your kids, that's a lifelong commitment. And so your most the most valuable things that you will ever
5:36 enjoy in your life are com are commitment based. Likewise, I would say that a lot of the damage in your life, a lot of the things that you wish weren't in your life perhaps was because of a lack of commitment
5:48 or somebody else's failure to commit. And and I think about this, the commitments that you make in your generation can flow through to bless your children, and
6:00 then their children, and their children. And you can you, today, believe it or not, you might not even think like this, but I want you to think like this, you are blessing your great grandchildren right now.
6:11 Because God's speaking to you, shaping you, discipling you through the word of God, through the life of the church, and people you have not met or may not ever meet will be blessed because
6:23 of you. I wanna say that I thank God for the intergenerational blessing that I am a part of. Now let me tell you a cool story about you, about us. Waters Church.
6:35 Waters Church, I this is kind of interesting. I don't talk about this a lot for various reasons, but for the first time publicly, I will tell you this story. Waters Church was born in 19
6:47 31. We weren't Waters Church back then. It was a small Italian Pentecostal church. It was part of a church in Boston, Massachusetts.
7:00 Italians, Pentecostals, filled with the Holy Ghost, on fire for Jesus. But the
7:12 rent was too stinking high. So they moved to the suburbs and they founded a church. 5 families founded a church on Manhattan Street in a little storefront
7:24 and gathered together in 19 31 as the Christian Church of Norwood. Norwood, Massachusetts. Now I've never told you this. But 1 of the couples
7:36 in that group of 5 couples was my great grandparents. In fact, the leader was Santi. Santi Freni was the leader of the
7:48 group. He's my great grandfather. Married to Linda, never met them. They had a son named Anthony. Anthony studied for the ministry, worked at Raytheon. Studied for the ministry, eventually left
7:59 Raytheon, Became the first English speaking pastor of the Christian Church of Norwood because God wanted to reach more than Italian people. And then the church grew
8:11 and he pastored for 30 years in Norwood and and then he handed it over to somebody. That's somebody who's good for a while, went poorly, big church split. They needed a new pastor. My grandfather stepped back into the
8:22 pulpit at 84 years old, just doing Sundays, preaching every week until God supplied the right person and a very long, very drawn out pastoral search with tons of bitterness
8:34 and anger and division in the church about who should be our pastor. Finally, 19 91, the church votes in a South African. God brought somebody from the other side of the
8:46 world. Furthest furthest thing from an Italian that you can find. So God said, I've got an multinational,
8:58 multi generational plan for this church. I get excited thinking I get chills thinking about this. Unanimous decision voted in 19 91. The
9:10 church just skyrockets from there. I become his youth pastor in 19 98. The best decision he's ever made in his life, let me tell you this. And, meet his daughter. We are now married.
9:22 It was, Romeo and Juliet, but we didn't kill each other or ourselves for that matter. And and now, we plant this church 2004, Waters Church North Attleboro. You are
9:33 officially 21 years old. Old enough to drink, but we're not gonna. We're not gonna. Not healthy. Anyway, so here we are 21 years old. Now we've planted other locations, and
9:45 and I think about this that that group of 5 families that was replicated to start this church, Norwood started this church with 5 families. The Parsons and the Whites who are still here were part of
9:57 those families, key contributors to what we're doing now, and and then the plan to plant other churches. And so today we have churches in Tampa, Florida, and South Coast in Woonsocket, and soon in South
10:08 South Carolina and Orlando, and all the way down to Guatemala with missions, tentacles reaching all the way down to the country of Peru. I just I I love that. I love our
10:20 story. But but but I am the I am the beneficiary of my great grandparents' decision. And, I think
10:32 about my son who is leading the youth ministry in Apollo Beach and my daughter who just started working here again in North Attleboro. She was at Chick fil A and and as much as she loves the Lord's Chicken, she wanted to
10:43 be in this place working at this church and I say, well, amen. I'll take her I'll take her back. So she's back here with us today. Praise God for her. Think about this. My my great
10:55 grandparents are up in heaven, and I believe there I believe there's a window in heaven where you get to look down on the good things on earth. Only the good things. Because there's no there's no joy there's no sadness
11:06 in heaven. So there's a there's a called a good things window in heaven. And I'm making this up completely out of my mind. It's not in the bible. But I think that they look, they say, oh, look at look at our look at my
11:17 great grandson, Tim. Look. Good job, Tim. Keep it up. And then their great grand great great grandchildren are involved in the church that they started back in 19 31. That is
11:29 called an intergenerational blessing. Now some of you will say to me, that ain't my story. My my parents, my grand I don't even get don't even
11:41 get me started. Okay. I understand. I'm privileged. I'm blessed. And I will absolutely admit that who I am is in large part because of who they were. But here's what I want you to think. Those of you who don't have this
11:52 story, want you to think about it like this. Here's a word for you. God has chosen to start with you. That 100 years from now,
12:04 somebody's gonna say thank God. My
12:09 grandfather, my grandmother, my great grandfather, my
12:11 great grandmother. You see what I'm saying? It starts with you. Now how do you do how do you get that? There's no easy way to say it except this, commitment.
12:23 Commitment. Write this down in your notes. Commitments are supposed to be public. All the important commitments are public. You get married publicly. You exchange rings and
12:34 vows in front of friends and family. Grammy is in the front row. You know, they usher her in before everything else starts. Here comes Grammy. She's barely able to walk. She's just so excited. Finally,
12:46 they're getting married. Oh, I'm so excited. She sits there and you say, I promise. And Grammy's like, you better mean it. You better mean it. I'm watching you now. Commitments are supposed to be public. Now if you will
12:58 be at Water Church for any amount of time, you will see that we are constantly challenging you to be public in your commitment to Christ. This is not a private faith. This is a public
13:10 faith. People should know you're a Christian. They should know it because the way you live. You live it and you talk it. Some people say,
13:22 I just walk it. I don't talk it. No. You should do both. There should be a both and. Don't don't talk it and not lick it. Walk it. Don't do that. But walk it and talk
13:34 it. Now we challenge you from the day you come. The fact that you are here in person today is the fact that you made a public commitment to Christ to come, to follow, to hear. You will notice that at the end of
13:46 our services, we set we end the end end of the service. This the message is the same every time. Bow your heads, close your eyes, it's time to make a commitment. And we ask you to make a commitment. Then what do we do?
13:54 Raise your hands. We wanna know. Did you just say that prayer? We wanna connect with you. Make it public. And then we ask you to come back and be a part of the church and publicly here's the here's why you you could
14:06 publicly confess your faith. When you gather together as the church, you publicly gather with us and then you sing out. Sing the songs with us. You're not the
14:17 audience. You're not the audience. God's the audience. We're the performers singing to him. The people up here, they're just they're just supposed to inspire you
14:30 and lead you to sing to him. Another way you could go public. Lift your hands and praise the lord. Lifting your hands. Some of you are like,
14:38 oh, no no no. I can't do that. Can't do that. Oh, but if we bring you to Fenway Park, have no problem lifting your hands. Or we bring
14:44 you to Gillette Stadium. You you you can lift your hands then. What about what about lifting your hands for the Lord? He's the ultimate victor. He's the ultimate champion, undefeated. Now I understand. I remember the
14:56 first time I lifted my hands in worship. I remember I was a very young boy and I again, a very heavily Pentecostal church. I wasn't raised, by way, in this church. I wasn't raised in this church. I was raised in a little
15:06 tiny church in Western Massachusetts. Do you know what's in Western Massachusetts? The Basketball Hall of Fame and nothing else. It was divine origin divine orchestration God brought me back into this church,
15:17 intergenerationally. I wasn't raised here. But nonetheless, I remember the first time in that Pentecostal church that I put my hands up. It's very very strange, very awkward. And men, you you really wrestle with this
15:29 because ladies do it much for you. You ladies do it way easier than men because men, you're stubborn. And so I I I I did it like, you know, this is how you do it. This is the way you warm up to it. You don't wanna do it
15:40 the whole way, so you go like this. You get a little bit more confident, you're like you start to really love the Lord,
15:52 and before you know it, okay, I can do it. I know when you get to this point, you realize, oh, people don't really even watch me when I do this. So it's okay. They're not even focused on me. The the person next to you is
16:02 worrying if you're watching them and all the way all the while, you're just worrying if they're watching you. It's like so ridiculous. These these are the brain games that we play of thinking about ourselves, and nobody
16:11 cares about what you're doing, so just lift your hands and praise the lord. Right? As it barely saves getting there, totally saved, almost you know what
16:23 I'm saying? Then another way you go public is you get baptized. Now listen to me very carefully. Every time in the New Testament, especially in the book of Acts, when people became
16:34 Christians, the first thing they did was get baptized. They didn't pray about it. They didn't wait to see if it stuck. They just went for it.
16:47 Went for it. The Ethiopian eunuch, Acts chapter 8. Philip tells him about Jesus. He sees water on the road. He says, can we do it? Yep. Let's do it. Boom. Baptized.
16:59 Now baptism is to Christian faith what the wedding ring is to marriage. I have a wedding ring on. Notice it is publicly worn. Okay? Now this is not how it goes
17:11 in the wedding ceremony. We don't show up at the altar and say, I am going to try to be your husband for the next 20 years. And
17:23 if I do enough and we're still together in 20 years, I will put this on. I mean, could try that, but you'll be shot.
17:36 That didn't work. We put it on by faith. Not to see, are we gonna be a faithful husband? Now here's the thing. Let me ask a question. Are you gonna be completely faithful all the time? No. You're are you gonna fail? Yes.
17:47 Are you gonna be a bad husband or a bad wife at a certain time? Absolutely. Yes. But you've made the commitment. You've gone public first. Every
17:58 meaningful commitment is public, and it is initiated with some measure of a rite of passage. That's what baptism is. Don't pray about what God commands you to do.
18:11 I'll I'll I'll pray about it for a few more weeks, see if I'm still saved. Okay. Wait. Stop. It's not you stay saved. Can we just eliminate that nomenclature, please?
18:23 It's God saves you. And hear me. Some of you need to hear this today. God keeps you saved. It's not, I don't know if I got what it
18:35 takes. Let me give you spoiler alert here. You don't have what it takes. If you could lose your salvation, you would. You could if you could if it could be taken from you, it
18:47 would be gone. God keeps his children safe. So you get baptized in the full confidence that God is going to keep you safe.
18:59 Safe from what? From yourself. I'm my own worst enemy. And I thank God he keeps rescuing from me. That's the process of salvation because salvation
19:11 if it's my if it's I did it, then I get to boast in it. I don't get to boast in what God has done. God does it. He gets all the praise. I glory in him. And I'm not ashamed. Jesus
19:23 said in Luke chapter 9 26, for whoever is ashamed of me and my words of him, the son of man will be ashamed when he comes in his glory. You know, got a shame problem in the church today. In the Christian church, we're
19:33 ashamed of what we teach. We're ashamed of what the bible says. I see I see pastors on YouTube. It it it it it it bugs the life out of me. They bend over backwards to try and teach
19:45 things that are in the bible that are uncomfortable for Americans. They're like, I don't whatever. Like, these these linguistic gymnastics to try to appease and make everybody comfortable when they well, you know, I'm
19:56 sorry. I'm sorry that the bible says, it's not you're not gonna but I'm gonna say there's no such thing as a sensitive topic. There's only sensitive people.
20:10 It's time for pastors to just say what's in say it in love. Say it out of a heart of love because you love the people and you care but for heaven's sake, say what's there. Yes.
20:23 Anyway oh, commitments are public. I was going somewhere else.
20:33 I think when I turned
20:34 my head upside down, my the blood rushed to my Where was I? Anyway, the the commitments are public and the generational
20:45 blessing comes. So oh, ashamed. Not ashamed. There we go. Baptism means I'm not ashamed. Raising your hands.
20:57 I'm not ashamed. We have nothing to be ashamed of.
21:01 Nothing. And some of you have allowed this world to shame you. Oh, no. No. No. No. What kind of a country are we living in
21:13 where the pagans and the unrighteous filthy sinners are proud of what they do and Christians are ashamed of what we believe and do? No. I refuse.
21:24 We're going to be loud and proud in Jesus.
21:30 And let the haters say what they wanna say. Okay. So how do we bless our great great grandchildren? 5 commitments that the people of Israel
21:41 make in Nehemiah 10 that I'm encouraging you to take today. Letter it's, acronym, b u I l d, build. Letter b, be
21:53 obedient to God's word. If you wanna bless your children, obey God's word. And some of you need to know that you know this already firsthand because you are the result of disobedience
22:05 from your parents. Mom or dad were I don't know. Maybe they were drunks. Maybe they weren't faithful to each other. Maybe, you know, the offspring of infidelity. I don't know. It's tough.
22:17 I when I first broke into ministry with young people, with youth, I remember a girl named Diane. And, Diane swore off alcohol. And, in those you know, back in those days, all the kids drank all the
22:29 time, teenagers. I asked her, said, what what's your conviction here? She said, my mom was drop dead drunk, and I swore I will never do that to my children. See, sometimes you gotta take the
22:41 curses in your past and turn them into commitments in your future. Obeying God's word is the best thing you can do for your children. It's the best thing you can do. It's better than putting them
22:53 through college. It is better than, feeding them. That's that's important. Don't not do that. But obedience, your children will watch and
23:04 remember that. And this is so this is their commitment. Look at verse 28. All the people the rest of the people, the Levi's singers, that list. Verse 29, join with their brothers, their nobles to enter into a curse and
23:15 an oath to walk in God's law that was given by Moses and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord and his statues. Obedience to God's word is not optional. It is
23:25 operational. Your life will be blessed to the level that you obey God's word. Your life will be cursed to the level that you do not obey God's word. And hear hear me, Christians,
23:37 God's wonderful grace to keep you saved, you might not like this, but it's true. He will not let you enjoy disobedience.
23:51 So some of you say, well, my non Christian friends can enjoy it and you can't and you're like, it's not fair. Oh my word. What? That's the best thing.
24:03 It's the it's God's grace that he doesn't let you enjoy that. That you you taste it and you're like, ugh. They like it, but I can't like it. Yeah. Good. Your your
24:15 heart has been changed. Rejoice and be glad. And so they commit And and and here's what I think is the problem. Not that we don't obey it, it's that we don't know it.
24:27 We have a biblical literacy problem in the church. You gotta know God's word. When when Jesus was tempted, he quoted back the word of God to the devil. The devil came and said, make these stones
24:38 bread. It is written, man does not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds. He did not have a bible on him. He did not chapter and verse by turning the pages. He had it in his heart. He knew what God said and
24:48 he knew, and you need to know this, the word of God is a weapon in the spiritual war that you are waged in with the enemy right now. You don't overcome temptation through
24:59 willpower, you overcome temptation through word power. The word has power to destroy the temptations of
25:11 the enemy. There's a story, it goes like this. If a pastor went to a family for dinner, for lunch, sorry. Had him over, wonderful dinner with the pastor. Pastor and his family left. They are
25:23 cleaning up those dishes, doing all the dishes. The lady says, wait a second. I I'm missing a spoon. She said, where'd the spoon go? Husband said, I don't know what the spoon goes. I don't know. I know these are my this
25:33 is my good silverware. The pastor's family's coming with put I took out the good stuff. Now I'm missing a spoon. This is a whole set. I need the spoon. This bugs the lady for a month. She starts to think, maybe the
25:42 pastor stole my spoon. Why would the pastor steal my spoon? And she can't get it out of her head. The pastor might have stolen my spoon. So the husband finally can't take it. He's like, let's just have them over again
25:52 and see if another spoon goes missing. That'll smoke them out. So, alright. Good idea. So they have them over for dinner. And the lady's just, you know, biting her tongue in the hole and she can't take it anymore. She
26:03 says, pastor, I have a question. Since you've been here the last time, I've been missing a spoon. And I hate to ask this. You're my pastor. I respect you. But did you steal my spoon? He says, no. I didn't steal
26:15 it. I took it and I put it in a bible on the shelf. If you can't say amen, say ouch. Let
26:27 me just tell you something. If this book has dust on it, your life has rust on it. Open it up. Read it. Read it to your children. Read read it with your children.
26:39 Discuss. Oh, by the way, there are so many resources now. I'm not a huge fan of all of these. I'm not the chosen move the the chosen show. I'm not a big fan. It's hard
26:51 for me. I know I've read Jesus from the text so much. It's hard for me to imagine any other fictional content. But it might be a good doorway for you to have conversations about what's in the book with your kids. And
27:01 then they just released this David thing on Amazon Prime. There's there's plenty of creators now. They're doing some really good work. And I was sitting down watching it with my son Jake and and,
27:13 know, he was bored for the first half hour. He started to get into it and then he started talking about, what happened here dad? And what's that all about? And before we knew it, we had this awesome dad son conversation
27:23 about the bible. The so you're without excuse in this generation, have opportunities to discuss scripture with your kids and to build your family in the faith. Letter u, which this
27:34 brings me to letter u. Uphold the faith in your family, which means have standards for your family and how you're going to raise your children and do this before you even have children. And this
27:46 is what they do in Nehemiah chapter 10 verse 30. Look what it says, we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. Here's what their their
27:58 statement, the commitment that they make is, we are not going to marry pagans. We are not going to allow our children to date or to be united in
28:09 matrimony to people who don't worship our God. Amen. Now the reason why they're so strong, this is why it's number 2 on the list, is because remember the
28:21 context in the narrative arc of Israel in the old testament of Nehemiah. Nehemiah is a post exilic book. The exile was 70 years into Babylon because God handed them over for their sins to the
28:32 foreigners. And the Babylonians destroyed their temple, destroyed the walls of Jerusalem, ravaged their children, killed pregnant mothers, wiped them out. They should have been wiped out of the earth. They weren't. They
28:42 were preserved by God's grace. And then Nehemiah is in the process of bringing them back, building the walls, putting them back into the city that they lost because because of the sins that they committed in the past.
28:52 This is a 4, 500 year narrative arc that I'm going to summarize for you. It all started the problem started when Israel reached the pinnacle of their history under a guy
29:04 named Solomon. So way back, first Kings chapter 10 describes Solomon's reign. He excelled. Verse 23, first Kings 10, among all the
29:16 kings of the earth in riches. He was the most famous, richest, wisest king on the earth and he was Israel's king. Israel was the world's superpower at the time. And
29:28 the whole earth came to hear from Solomon and to receive his wisdom. And then in verse 26 of that same chapter, it says that he had 1400 chariots and 12000 horsemen. This massive military that
29:39 protected. They were they were strong. They were wise. And then it says, and the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem. They were wealthy, they were
29:51 healthy, they were militarily mighty, everything was going well for them. And at the pinnacle of their existence,
30:03 The next chapter opens up with these words. Now king Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of
30:14 pharaoh Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite, and all the other pagan parasites. From the nations that God said, you should not you shall not intermarry. You're not gonna enter into marriage.
30:26 For they will surely, what does it say, turn your heart after their gods. And Solomon clung
30:37 to these women in love.
30:41 In verse 2, verse 3 of the same chapter, Solomon had 700 wives, which means he got 0 sleep, and 300 concubines. All foreign
30:53 princes princesses. And then the nation followed their leader and became so utterly corrupt. You know, the saddest part about Solomon, he wrote the book on
31:05 this. He wrote a book called Proverbs. The first 6 chapters of Proverbs I'm gonna summarize the first 6 chapters of the book of Proverbs written by
31:16 Solomon. Here it is. Don't marry pagans. That's the first 6 chapters of Proverbs. And he wrote the book on it, and he still did
31:28 it. Which is let me just say, that's the problem that we are faced with in sin. We can't beat it even when we know we shouldn't do it, which is why
31:40 we need the Holy Spirit to overcome sin and temptation. Anyway, the nation follows suit. They start to intermarry. Before you know it, Solomon is
31:52 building shrines to pagan gods. Some of you don't know this about the end of Solomon's life. He ends his life building shrines and temples throughout Israel to
32:04 the pagan gods that his wives worshiped. Now let me just tell you something. If that's what it did to Solomon, the
32:15 wisest man on earth,
32:19 what will it do to you? Don't
32:24 marry pagans. Amen. Fathers and mothers, you better make this a standard in your house. We're only gonna pray for you to marry a Christian
32:35 that loves the Lord. Now we Christians get a
32:40 lot of flack for our homophobia or homo what they call homophobia.
32:45 It's not homophobia. It's biblical understanding of truth. And they'll make fun of us and mock us for saying and I say, no.
32:57 You will
32:57 not attend a gay wedding. Pastor, should I attend it? No. What you cannot celebrate, substantiate, and and validate sin under any
33:09 circumstances. Pastor, you don't know I have gay family. I do too. And I have family members who gay. They got into a gay marriage. Guess what? I didn't get
33:21 an invitation. I make it easy. They go through the list like, not Tim. Mm-mm. Nope. What's up? Alright?
33:33 If you're getting invitation, my question is why? Anyway, how about that though? We say no to that 1. Well, how about this 1? A Christian marries
33:45 a pagan and they're heterosexual. I say don't go to that wedding either. It's getting quiet.
33:57 Why should we celebrate, substantiate, validate, and support something that is unbiblical? I mean, if we're really gonna say that we stand for
34:10 biblical marriage hello? Yep. So quiet. If we're really gonna stand for biblical marriage, then we
34:22 start standing for true biblical marriage. I'll pay for my daughter's wedding
34:34 on the condition she marries somebody who loves Jesus. Otherwise, she's on her own. And the same is true for my son. Oh, that's gonna be hard, Tim. Are you sure? I don't know. God will
34:46 help me. I do not want to substantiate sin in my family. This is the rubber hitting the road, friends. Welcome to the road. Rubber road.
34:58 The bible says in second Corinthians 6 14, Paul says, do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. What partnership has light with darkness, righteousness with lawlessness? Now let me say
35:09 another thing that is a big nomenclature in our country that I just it drives me nuts. My skin crawls. We are not all children of God.
35:22 Not every human is a child of God. There are 2 families on this earth. There's the family of God and the family of the devil. Jesus said to the Pharisees, you
35:33 are of your father, the devil, and you do what your father does. And first John chapter 4 says, this is how we know who the children of God are and
35:45 who the children of the devil are. This is but this is the scriptures. It's on the first page, by the way. Adam had 2 sons. Cain, who, first John says, is a child of the devil,
35:57 and Abel, who is a child of God. This everybody's a child of God nonsense comes from John Lennon, not from
36:09 scripture. And the reason why you're not being more vocal in your amens is because you have been more pastored by the Netflixes and the videos and the media of this country
36:20 than you have by the word of the living God. And I'm here to clarify things for you. I don't want your children married to a child of the devil. Your child
36:32 is precious to God. Your son is a prince in the kingdom. Your daughter is a princess of the father. Protect them and keep them as far as it depends
36:44 on you. Now Paul in first Corinthian second Corinthians 6 here is actually picking up on a passage way back from Deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 10 that says this, thou shalt not plow with an ox
36:56 and an ass together. Because these animals, as functional as they are in their own rights, when you put them together, it doesn't work.Show more
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