1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Hello. 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 2: I'm Jensen Franklin, and I'm so glad you were watching 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 2: Real America's Voice, and I want to encourage you today 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 2: to know that normally, I know you're used to seeing 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 2: the news being broadcast twenty four hours a day all 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 2: over the world, but the founder of this network wanted 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: to take some time on this Sunday and bring some 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 2: good news to all the other news. What you do 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: with the next few moments can affect the years ahead 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 2: of your life. Selean in, listen to this message. I 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 2: believe it's going to speak to you, and you're going 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 2: to encounter a God who loves you and cares about 13 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: you this very moment. Ephesians chapter six, and I'll begin 14 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: reading with verse thirteen. Therefore, take up the whole armor 15 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 2: of God, that you may be able to withstand in 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 2: the evil day. And having done all to stand, stand therefore, 17 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 2: having girded your waste with the truth, having put on 18 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 2: the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with 19 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 2: the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Above all, above all, 20 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: taking the shield of faith with which you are able 21 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 22 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of 23 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 2: the Spirit, which is the Word of God, praying always 24 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 2: with all prayer and supplication, and the Spirit being watchful 25 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:49,559 Speaker 2: to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all 26 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 2: saints I love, and I want to center in on 27 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: verse sixteen. Above all, above all, taking the shield of faith. 28 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 2: The truth is it is essential for us to have 29 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 2: faith in God. Faith is the currency that Heaven trades in. 30 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 2: If you get anything from God, you give God faith 31 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 2: and heat in return to your faith saves you, and 32 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 2: every other promise in the Scripture is unattainable without faith. 33 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: The Scripture lets. 34 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: Us know the importance of having the shield of faith, 35 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 2: as it is underlined. Above all, You've got all these 36 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 2: weapons to fight and win with. But above all, if 37 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 2: you lose the shield of faith, none of the weapons 38 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 2: will work. If you begin to let fear take over 39 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 2: instead of faith, if you drop your faith, then the 40 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 2: other things not mixed with faith are not productive. The 41 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 2: importance of having the shield. Everything we do in living 42 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 2: for God is mixed with faith. You can't please God 43 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 2: without faith, the Bible says in Hebrews. Without faith, it 44 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: is impossible to please God. 45 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: That's a remarkable verse. 46 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 2: Faith is our confidence about all that God said he 47 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 2: would do. And if you lose that, you lose your 48 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 2: confidence in what he said he would do and what 49 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 2: he said he would bring the past, then you're not. 50 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: Walking in faith. 51 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 2: You have to get to that place that you can 52 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 2: believe God over everything else. When you have faith, you 53 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,119 Speaker 2: can believe God over what the doctor says, and thank 54 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 2: God for doctors. But you can believe God over man's 55 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:55,119 Speaker 2: final report and say, but I have another report, and 56 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 2: you can believe God over what the judge says, and 57 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: thank God for our system. But I'm just telling you. 58 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 2: Faith can move mountains. Faith can overcome anybody or anything. Statistics, 59 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 2: what they say, what graphs say, Faith can overcome all 60 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: of that. Faith can overcome what you don't have. Faith 61 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 2: is the substance of things hoped for. 62 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: This is what God's word says. It's the substance of 63 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 1: things hope for the evidence of things not seen. And 64 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: until you're operating in that realm that I can't see 65 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: it yet but I believe for it, then that is 66 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: where God lives. The Bible said without faith, you cannot 67 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: please God. In Hebrews four and verse two. It said 68 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: the word preach didn't profit. Listen. 69 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 2: You can hear all the preaching you want to, but 70 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 2: it does not profit if it's not being mixed with faith. 71 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: You hear it. Faith cometh by hearing, and when you. 72 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 2: Hear it, you mix your faith because He's given to 73 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 2: every man a measure of faith, and all it takes 74 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 2: is a mustard seed of faith. You don't have to 75 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 2: have great faith if you can just ignite you see, 76 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 2: the miracle is not dependent upon how big and great 77 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 2: you're and strong your faith is. All you need is 78 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: a mustard seed. It's how big your God is, and 79 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 2: you have faith in how big he is, not in 80 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 2: how great your faith is. I don't have to have 81 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 2: a lot, but I have faith that I am saved 82 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 2: right now. I have faith that I just believe that 83 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: and it's settled. It is an absolute peace in my 84 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 2: soul that I'm ready to go to heaven. Should the 85 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: trumpet sound or should I die while I'm preaching, and 86 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 2: I hope I don't, But if I do, I know 87 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 2: where I'm going, hallelujah. And I do that by faith, 88 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 2: I know that. By faith you mean, what do you mean? 89 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 2: Once you get the faith behind it? Then you can 90 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 2: feel that thing down in your soul. The shield is 91 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: as old as war itself. It doesn't take fighting men 92 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 2: long to discover that it's needed. You have to have 93 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 2: a defense against your enemies. The meaning and need is 94 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 2: still the same. The shield is a defensive weapon. The 95 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 2: error and the land and the sea must have a 96 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 2: shield of defense around their elements of war and their 97 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 2: men and women of war. 98 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: The shield is the lasting emblem of war. 99 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 2: Many groups identify with the strength and with the safety 100 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 2: of the. 101 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: Emblem of the shield. 102 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 2: The shield in Bible times was so powerful that on 103 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 2: one occasion David defeated twenty two thousand Felstings, and he 104 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 2: ordered that their shields be gathered, and he took them back, 105 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 2: and he put them up on the walls of Jerusalem 106 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 2: to let Israel know that are to let his enemies know. 107 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 2: Let the Pelictings that were still spine looking down. He said, 108 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 2: I want you to know that your defense is not 109 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 2: strong enough to handle what the name that we have 110 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 2: in the victory that we have through that name. When 111 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 2: you see that and you understand that the shield was 112 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 2: designed to ward off attacks of the enemy, it is 113 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 2: the chief means of protection against the own salt of 114 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 2: the enemy. In history, there was a group of fighters 115 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 2: in Greece called the Spartans. They were natives of a 116 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 2: city called Sparta, and it's one of the only cities 117 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 2: in ancient days that did not build walls around their city. 118 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 2: They said, the reason we don't need walls is because 119 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 2: our men are the walls of safety and protection around 120 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 2: our families and around our cities. These Spartans were notorious 121 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 2: for fighting. They were fearless, they were skilled in warfare. 122 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 2: It was part of their very culture in bred in 123 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: them to raise up young men that would become warriors. 124 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, in those times, when a 125 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 2: child was born, remember they were not Christians, they were Pagans. 126 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 2: They worshiped idols and the Greek gods. So their morality 127 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 2: was not what we would have today. But I want 128 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 2: you to understand the whole very culture. This is one 129 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 2: of the facts. When a male child was born in Sparta, Greece, 130 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 2: if it was a sickly child, it was taken to 131 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 2: the heels to die because they deemed it. If it's 132 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 2: unfit for war, it's unfit for life. This was the 133 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 2: mentality of the men and the women that were in this. 134 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: Place called Sparta. 135 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 2: When a male child was born, at the age of seven, 136 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 2: every male Spartan was sent to military school. They were 137 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 2: taken from their father and their mother and they were 138 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 2: sent at the age of seven to be trained, to 139 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 2: be taught toughness, to endure, to be taught endurance of pain, 140 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 2: to be taught survival skills and honor and integrity, and 141 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 2: warfare and self defense. They were taught to be warriors 142 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 2: from the age of seven, and for thirteen more years 143 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 2: they would be trained. And when they finally after thirteen 144 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 2: years of rigorous training, at the age of twenty, a 145 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 2: Spartan would become a soldier. The Spartan soldiers spent all 146 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 2: of their time with their fellow soldiers. 147 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: They were not allowed to go home. 148 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 2: They were not allowed to hang out with just any 149 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 2: They only were allowed to have fellowship and time spent 150 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 2: with fellow soldiers. 151 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,199 Speaker 1: They did not go home. They ate with them. They 152 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: lived with them. 153 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 2: They did life with them until they reached the age 154 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 2: of twenty. And they knew each other. They grew up together. 155 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 2: They fought in the same units. They put them in 156 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 2: units early. They knew each other's faults. They were like 157 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 2: a team. They were like a unit. They had each 158 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 2: other's back. They were trained this way. They knew the 159 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 2: other's weakness. They knew everything, and it was an amazing 160 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 2: feat that they could. History records that they would accomplish. 161 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 2: At the age of twenty, they would take the oath 162 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 2: of loyalty, and that oath of loyalty was something that 163 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 2: they would declare as they were now old enough to 164 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 2: go into their first battle of warfare. They came. There 165 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 2: came the day when the Spartan soldier at the age 166 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 2: of twenty would take this oath of loyalty, and it 167 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:08,119 Speaker 2: went like this, I shall not disgrace my sacred weapons, 168 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 2: nor shall I desert my comrades by my side. Whenever 169 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 2: I stand in rank, I shall stand and fight till 170 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 2: death for sacred things. These young men at the age 171 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 2: of twenty would declare that oath of loyalty. From the 172 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 2: age of seven to sixty, the Spartan military men and 173 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 2: the military ruled their lives from seven to sixty. They 174 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 2: were not like the Athenians in Greece, who were into 175 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 2: politics and luxury. These men grew up in a different culture. 176 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 2: They did not value the same things the world around 177 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 2: them valued they valued one. 178 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 1: Are you a warrior? Are you a fighter? 179 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,599 Speaker 2: I want to read this other scripture from first Corinthian 180 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 2: sixteen because it's so important if you're going to have 181 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 2: the shield of faith. Obviously I'm building a case and 182 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 2: I'm going somewhere, but I want you to listen to 183 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 2: this verse. It says to men, be watchful, stand firm 184 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 2: in the faith, act like men, and be strong. 185 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: This was the culture in Sparta that. 186 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 2: The young men would come up and they would act 187 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 2: like men, and they would be strong in warfare. Now 188 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 2: I'm talking about spiritual warfare, but they were trained. 189 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: In physical warfare. 190 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 2: But there's a great parallel that I believe is worth 191 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 2: looking at. And while the others in Athens may have 192 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 2: been concerned about luxury and power and politics. 193 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: And all of that, they had one thing. 194 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 2: In the culture of Sparta. Your success was not based 195 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 2: upon the things you owned, or this or that, or 196 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 2: the power that you had, or the clothes that you wore. 197 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: They could care less. 198 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 2: They all wore the same uniforms. All they cared about 199 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 2: and all they respected in that culture was men who 200 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 2: would fight for their families, fight for their children, fight 201 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 2: for their cities. Fight for their farms, fight for their harvest. 202 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 2: They would stop any enemy that would come against them. 203 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 2: They refused to build physical walls because they said, our 204 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 2: men are so strong, you don't have to worry about 205 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 2: intruders encroaching and stealing our things, because we have men 206 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 2: who stand up and who know how to defend their 207 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 2: families and all that we have and possess. When they 208 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 2: turned sixty, they were allowed to carry the shield home. 209 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 2: But the shield carried home meant I steal am a 210 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 2: lifetime member of the Spartan Army. 211 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 1: On the day that the. 212 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 2: Twenty year old made that loyalty pledge, and then he 213 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 2: was about to go into warfare and fight on his 214 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 2: first bloody battlefield. The mothers of the young boys would 215 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 2: talk to the son and she would be given by 216 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 2: the commanders the shield sometimes that had been passed down 217 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 2: in the family for generations, and she would go over 218 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 2: to her son. Wasn't just me and acting like men. 219 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 2: But we're talking about Sparta mamas, Spartan mamas. We're not 220 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 2: talking about helicopter mamas. That my poor little baby. No, no, no, 221 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 2: no no. She would walk with the shield and she 222 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 2: would say to the son. 223 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: That was there at the age of. 224 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 2: Twenty these words prior to him going into the battle. 225 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: Either bring this shield back or be brought back on 226 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: this shield. 227 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 2: How they brought their slain back from the battlefield is 228 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 2: they would lay them on a shield, because they never 229 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 2: were to give up that shield. They were never to 230 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 2: lay down that shield. It's not a toy. You bring 231 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 2: it back on your arm, or you don't come back. 232 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 2: And this is their mother talking to them. You don't 233 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 2: turn your back on your enemy. You don't run and 234 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 2: flee in fear. You are a man's act like a man. 235 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 2: Stand up and provide for your family like a man. 236 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 2: Fight for your family, for your marriage, take care. 237 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: Of your children. Be a man. And the mother is 238 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: saying you either lay down. 239 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 2: You either die defending this shield, or you come back 240 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 2: laying on this shield. 241 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,359 Speaker 1: Nothing else is acceptable. 242 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 2: I think that's how we ought to be about our 243 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 2: faith and about passing on to a new generation the faith. 244 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: But also in the natural. 245 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 2: We need we need to quit rescue in our children 246 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 2: and giving them participation trophies on every blessing. We need 247 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 2: to get a little toughness in them to. 248 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: Stand up to life. 249 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 2: If you don't, life will run over you and leave you. 250 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 2: At some point we need you to act like a man. 251 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 2: If you're a boy, you need to act like a man. 252 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: Shield kept, which to be kept. 253 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: Keep. The last charge of. 254 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 2: The mother was keep the honor of the shield. This 255 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 2: is passed down, This is powerful. Don't take warfare lightly. 256 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 2: Don't disgrace the shield, don't dishonor the shield. 257 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: Don't run from a fight. 258 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 2: If you got a fight and you see one of 259 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 2: your spartan women under attack or someone doing something, you 260 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 2: are a man, stand up. What a disgrace it was 261 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 2: to come back And I was reading some of this 262 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 2: stuff and I'm like, man, that's cold. But they considered 263 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 2: it a disgrace to come back wounded on a wagon. 264 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 2: If you came back wounded, you were to come back 265 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 2: wounded on a shield. Only you may have went down, 266 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 2: you may have lost one of your arms, but the 267 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 2: one you got still clinging to the shield. And they 268 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 2: may have to carry you back, but they're going to 269 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 2: carry you back on the shield. And you might not 270 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 2: have won the fight, but they gonna know they were 271 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 2: in a fight. You won't win every fight, but sometimes 272 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 2: you just gotta stand up and fight and say nobody's 273 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 2: gonna bully me, devil. I'll fight you until I don't 274 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 2: have anything to fight. 275 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: Like good little boy. 276 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 2: That was in the closet that his father put him 277 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 2: in the closet because he was misbehaving. I don't recommend that, 278 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 2: but that's what he did. And he came back about 279 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 2: two minutes later and opened the door, and the boy 280 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 2: was just standing there in his straining to swallow, and. 281 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: He said, what are you doing? 282 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 2: He said, I spit on your coat, I spit on 283 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 2: mama's code. I spit on everything in here, and I'm 284 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 2: just waiting on some more spit. 285 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: I wish we'd get that way with the devil. I'm 286 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 1: gonna spit on you. 287 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: I'm gonna spit on everything you're trying to do. 288 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: I am not a whimp. 289 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 2: I'm going to stand up and fight and listen, life 290 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 2: is not easy, and when it comes at you, you 291 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 2: don't flee. You sand and you fight. This was your 292 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 2: father's shield. He defended it until death, preserve it or perish. 293 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 2: That's how we've got to get about this faith. We're 294 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 2: not serious about passing on the shield of faith to 295 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:28,919 Speaker 2: our children. Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to 296 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 2: welcome you to Real America's voice. 297 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: There's something that's going to happen. 298 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 2: I believe as you watch this program, lean in, listen, 299 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 2: and let's see what God. 300 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: Can do in your life. 301 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 2: We act like it's some kind of option. We act 302 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 2: like it's just something that we hope takes I hope 303 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 2: he takes it. I hope bless their a little hard. 304 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 2: I hope they take it up. 305 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: No. 306 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 2: No, this our culture needs to change in the church. 307 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 2: This is everything. This all that matters. This is how 308 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 2: we judge success. Are you still Have you been to university? 309 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 2: Is great, I'm glad you went. But are you still 310 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 2: holding on to the shield of faith? Do you still 311 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 2: believe in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 312 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: Do you still believe that there is. 313 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 2: No other name whereby men can be saved. Education can't 314 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,879 Speaker 2: save you. Money can't save you. Good works can't save you. 315 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 2: The Catholic Church can't save you. The Pope can't save you. 316 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 2: There's only one savior, and he is Jesus, and Jesus 317 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 2: only and Jesus alone. Carry your father's shield with honor. 318 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 2: Your shield is to be cherished. It is to be polished, 319 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 2: is to be defended. 320 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 1: It is to be. 321 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 2: Something that is very very much a part of your life. 322 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: You're a hero. 323 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 2: According to how you treat the shield that was in 324 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 2: the Spartan culture. You might be on the battlefield, but 325 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 2: if you somehow in an emergency situation drop your shield 326 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 2: and you run, and you recognize you left that shield, 327 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 2: you had committed the worst thing possible, and you would 328 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 2: not be allowed to enter back into the army again. 329 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 2: The future of our people depends on us honoring and 330 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 2: protecting the shield. What means more than anything is to 331 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 2: maintain the honor of the Shield of faith in our families. 332 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 2: If we're not careful, we'll turn our eyes away to 333 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 2: the glitzy spoils of war. Oh my, look, there there's 334 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 2: a there's a there's a great of gold, there's this. 335 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 2: And that's what's happening in our culture because more and 336 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 2: more that the younger generation is not picking up the 337 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 2: shield of faith because their values are different. But there 338 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 2: needs to be a value in this book like never before. 339 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 2: The only thing that you can give your family that 340 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 2: really matters is the shield of faith. 341 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,239 Speaker 1: Honor it, honor it. 342 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 2: God, help us to value the importance of the Shield 343 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 2: of faith. Get your eyes off the glitter, get your 344 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 2: eyes off the gold. Sitting in church is a valuable thing. 345 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 2: I'm polishing my shield. Prayer is a powerful thing. When 346 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 2: you pray every day, you're polishing and protecting and valuing 347 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 2: the shield of faith. When you read this book, when 348 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 2: you teach it to your children, when you correct them 349 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 2: and tell them what the scripture says, when you tell 350 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 2: them Bible stories, when you huddle them together and lay 351 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 2: your hands on them, when you turn music on in 352 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 2: the car and they hear you worshiping, when you're cooking 353 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 2: and you're listening and tears are going down your face, 354 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 2: or when you're working in the back with your kids, 355 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 2: or sitting in a deer stand, and every once in 356 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 2: a while you take advantage of that moment and you 357 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 2: say to that, son, Son, Jesus means everything to me. 358 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 2: Have ever told you how He saved me? Have ever 359 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 2: told you how lost I was? Have ever told you 360 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 2: how we didn't have nothing? And God blessed us and 361 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 2: he gave us everything we have. Son, I need to 362 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 2: tell you that's what. 363 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: Defending the shield is. 364 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 2: And you got to make sure you're passing it to 365 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: a new generation. 366 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: Honeylujah. 367 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 2: The spoils of battle are not the sign of greatness. 368 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 2: Greatness is not how much money you can make, But 369 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 2: in the Spartan culture it was are you a lawyer? 370 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,439 Speaker 2: Are you fighting for your family? Are you fighting for 371 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 2: their salvation? Are you fighting in prayer and fasting and 372 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 2: seeking God? 373 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 1: It's the shield of faith. We must have it to 374 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:20,959 Speaker 1: give it to our children and our children's children. Honor 375 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: the shield of faith. 376 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 2: You see, when our kids get it, they'll only get 377 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 2: it just like we got it. I was thinking about 378 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 2: this and how that my mother was sitting on the 379 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:46,199 Speaker 2: second Road and father created such a wonderful home. I 380 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 2: have no memories of things being thrown, just me and 381 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 2: my brothers, but no memories of cursing, no memories of 382 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 2: cussing out, no memories of. 383 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: None of. 384 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 2: Fussing and fighting and throwing, ranting and raving. 385 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: None. 386 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 2: And some of the most memorable moments of my childhood 387 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 2: is when me and my brothers. 388 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: And sisters would play church. 389 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,479 Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to welcome you 390 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 2: to real America's voice. If you'll give me the next 391 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 2: few moments and listen, you're going to have the opportunity. 392 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 2: I believe to have a moment that can change your life. 393 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 2: They created such an environment in our home that our 394 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 2: their babies wanted to play church. And one would get 395 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 2: to be the choir leader and soloists, and one would 396 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 2: get to be the preacher, and one would get to 397 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 2: be the center. I was using my brother Dole because 398 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 2: he was one amen, and and and but I can 399 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 2: remember before God Almighty, and my my siblings can cannot 400 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 2: confirm what I'm telling you. We would have times where 401 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 2: we'd start singing and we could sing, all of us 402 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 2: could sing, and we we would sing and get to 403 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 2: singing and pretending like and we'd here would take uh 404 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 2: the old clothes racks, you know, you take the white 405 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 2: part that you fold your pants over, and that would 406 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 2: become a microphone. 407 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: Whatever. 408 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 2: We became very We didn't have all this stuff. We 409 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 2: didn't have all that we were. We were poor, but 410 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 2: we didn't know it, and we were happy, and we 411 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 2: had Jesus and and we would we would one would 412 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 2: play the drums. They would set up shoe boxes and 413 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: you played the drums on the drums. We'd have a 414 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 2: fake piano that was the uh. The ironing board was 415 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 2: the organ, and we just were pretending and we were 416 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 2: worshiping Jesus. But I can remember there were times where 417 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 2: the presence of the Lord would come and we'd all 418 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 2: get the crime and get the praising the Lord that's 419 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:30,359 Speaker 2: passing the shield. My daddy was a spartan. My daddy 420 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 2: was a holy ghost preacher, and he was a spartan. 421 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: He didn't do it for money. 422 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 2: In the eyes and the eyes of the world, he 423 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 2: would be considered unimportant. He didn't have fancy stuff. He 424 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 2: didn't even have much to give us. I'm gonna tell 425 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 2: you something. He had a shield of faith. He sure 426 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,640 Speaker 2: taught me about the love of God, the prayers of God, 427 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 2: how to pray, how to preach, wrote me, sermon on 428 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 2: an envelope, Haidelujah. 429 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 1: I'm a spartan. 430 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 2: You got a Spartan for a pastor, hallelujah. That's why 431 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 2: I get up my preach stuff that seems out of date, 432 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 2: because I'm a Spartan and I don't judge my pastoring 433 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,439 Speaker 2: by what the world says. I don't care what the 434 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 2: universal Church thinks. 435 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: I don't care if I don't get invited to certain 436 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 1: cliques and clans. 437 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 2: I just want to hear him say well done. I 438 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 2: just want to know I stood wha what this book 439 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 2: says is right. 440 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 1: Why do you get involved? 441 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 2: Why do you stand for Israel because I'm a Spartan, 442 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 2: not Tolujah, and. 443 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: The Bible stands for Israel. 444 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 2: Why do you stand for marriage between a man and 445 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 2: a woman cost the Bible stands for it. Why do 446 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 2: you talk about abortion is wrong because the Bible says 447 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 2: it's wrong. Why why, pastor, can't you just shut up 448 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 2: and preach a nice message. Course, we're called to be 449 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 2: spartans in Jesus's name. Spiritual spartans maintain and protect the 450 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 2: shield of worship. I don't care who comes to this church. 451 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 2: We don't change our worship for anybody. You're welcome, but 452 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 2: you do not control the menu. We're gonna preach. This 453 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 2: is the menu right here, John three point sixteen is 454 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 2: the menu, and you're. 455 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: Not gonna come in here and change the menu. We'll 456 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: fight for this. 457 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 2: And if we don't get some men who start acting 458 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 2: like men and their homes and in their families, I 459 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 2: just feel like telling you act like a man. If 460 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 2: you gonna sleep with her, you should marry her, and 461 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 2: do get married and sleep with her. 462 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: Don't give her a condom, give her a ring. And 463 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: be a man. Be a man, Be a a man. 464 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: A man provides, a man protects. 465 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 2: A man stands there when everything's ugly. 466 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: He doesn't cut and run. 467 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 2: I don't know where this is coming from, but we 468 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 2: need men. 469 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 1: We need men to act like men. Quit being a 470 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: whiney girly man. If you have to, you. 471 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 2: Work two jobs. If you have to, you work three jobs. 472 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 2: Whatever it takes to take. 473 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: Care of my family. 474 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna do. That's the culture I was 475 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 2: raised in. My daddy to stay in ministry. 476 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: Sold cars. 477 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 2: If you pulled up to the church, he would have 478 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 2: two or three. He'd go the car sell every Monday 479 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 2: night and he'd have for sale for sale so that 480 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: he'd have a salary to feed his family. He always 481 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 2: kept a car for sale truck. Sometimes he get hot 482 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 2: ride trucks, take me to school in them, and I'm 483 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 2: so embarrassed, and I would say, let me off a 484 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 2: block away. 485 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: I'm not pulling up in this thing. Oh it'll do good. 486 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: I sell it and make five hundred dollars. He did that, 487 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: stay in the ministry. 488 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 2: You know, I thought about the young men and women 489 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 2: in this ministry I'm proud of. I'm proud of young 490 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: men and women who still want to be in the ministry. 491 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 2: We're not second class because we chose not to go 492 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 2: into business, because we chose not to go into some 493 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 2: field that is highly respected. 494 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: Oh, you're just a pastor. I mean you can feel 495 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: it you get on an airplane. 496 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 2: I can be I can have people that treat me 497 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 2: with respect the moment they find out that I'm a preacher. 498 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: If I tell them, I usually don't I use it. 499 00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: I do have two options. 500 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 2: I can say pastor, I can say I'm a musician, 501 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 2: and I size him up and decide which one according 502 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 2: to how I want to. 503 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: Feel the vibe. You can feel the vibe of you 504 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. But I just want to 505 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: say that. 506 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 2: I admire the young men and women who want to 507 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 2: be in ministry and maintain the honor of the shield. 508 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 1: I thought about uh. I thought about Rutger Kendrick. He's 509 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: a spartan. 510 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 2: When this service is over, he'll pick up his shield. 511 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 2: He'll go into the prisons, Metro Entry, Hayes State, Whitworth 512 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 2: Correction Correctional. 513 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: He's a spartan. 514 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 2: Do you know where he got that faith from to 515 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 2: go into those prisons every week? 516 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: That's him. You know where he got that faith from. 517 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: He had a grandmother Humphrey, sister Humphreys. 518 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 2: You know when I first came to Free Chapel on 519 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 2: Browns Bridge Road, they would collect the offering. The ushers 520 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 2: would take the offering in the little bags. And by 521 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 2: the way, all of you who here saying all the charities, 522 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 2: I bad his money. 523 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: We don't even take an offering. We haven't taken an 524 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: offering in four years. Three years. When when did COVID start? 525 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: Five years? 526 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 2: We have not passed a bag in five years, except 527 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 2: in special services for a guest speaker or something. So 528 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 2: we're not about the money. I'm a spartan. I'm not 529 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 2: for sale. I'd rather have Jesus Well, he'll suit up 530 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:10,759 Speaker 2: Rucker Humphries. His grandmother was Humphreys, and she used to 531 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 2: sit on the back row of that church, and she 532 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 2: was the church clerk, I guess that is what they 533 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 2: called it. And she would count the money, and trust me, 534 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,440 Speaker 2: she could count it in the introduction amen of my sermons. 535 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 1: While I was preaching. She would sit back there and 536 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:29,399 Speaker 1: I would hear clean. 537 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 2: And it was a lot of dimes, nickels, and pennies, 538 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:39,320 Speaker 2: but she was counting the money. 539 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,240 Speaker 1: But think about that old prayer warrior. She's still alive. 540 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,279 Speaker 2: She watches online every Sunday. And so now she's got 541 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:52,760 Speaker 2: a grandson. It gets up and he's got the shield 542 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 2: of faith? What are you passing on? We better get 543 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 2: a burden for our children it along and to see 544 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 2: our grandchildren hear so much about Jesus around the tables 545 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 2: in the family that they want to go off and 546 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 2: play church. Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to 547 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 2: welcome you to real America's voice. Maybe you've been going 548 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 2: through some things and you've had moments that have discouraged you, 549 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,359 Speaker 2: or maybe you just feel like you've messed up and 550 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:31,320 Speaker 2: you can't recover. 551 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,520 Speaker 1: This message is for you. I believe it's going to 552 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: speak to you this very moment. Are we passing the 553 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 1: shield of faith to a new generation? 554 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 2: Are we raising up spiritual spartans who put on the 555 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 2: whole armor of God? Do you ever hear your kids 556 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,839 Speaker 2: singing in the shower to Jesus? Do you ever hear 557 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 2: them pray? Do you ever have service? Sometimes? And get 558 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 2: a burden and when you start to tell them a story. 559 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 2: This used to happen to me when I had my kids, 560 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 2: So every once in a while we would have quick 561 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 2: devotions most of the time, but every once in a 562 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 2: while I'd get to telling a little story or something 563 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,479 Speaker 2: as I had the little family huddle together and the. 564 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 1: Spirit of God would come. It ought to be happening 565 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: in our homes again. 566 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,919 Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you to stand to your feet 567 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 2: all over this building, and only cowards are going to 568 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:54,319 Speaker 2: run for the door. Spartans won't do it. I want 569 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 2: every man in this house. I want every man in 570 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,400 Speaker 2: this house house who wants to be a spiritual spartan 571 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,839 Speaker 2: that wants God to make you and to the man 572 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 2: you know your call to be. I want them to 573 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:17,279 Speaker 2: throw that verse back up in for Corinthians sixteen. Be watchful, 574 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:24,279 Speaker 2: don't fall asleep, don't get lacks of daisical, stand firm. 575 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,040 Speaker 1: In the faith. Listen to that. That doesn't sound like weakness, 576 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,320 Speaker 1: does it? That doesn't sound like wishy washy? Does it? 577 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,359 Speaker 1: Be watchful, taking care. I'm the wall of my I'm 578 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,120 Speaker 1: the huts band the house. 579 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 2: Bands where that comes from like a rubber band. I'm 580 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,839 Speaker 2: the house band that holds the whole family together. What 581 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,359 Speaker 2: do you mean you're too busy to pray? You're the 582 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,480 Speaker 2: house band you hold it together. 583 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:50,520 Speaker 1: Act like a man. 584 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:56,760 Speaker 2: What money glitter has taken you off of the real, 585 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:03,160 Speaker 2: real thing that God expects of you? Hold firm the 586 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 2: shield of faith above all, and act like men. 587 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,680 Speaker 1: Be strong. 588 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,319 Speaker 2: I want every man who wants that. You may not 589 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 2: be that, but you want that. You're not the man 590 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 2: you ought to be, and God's calling you to spiritual 591 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 2: manhood this morning. You may be a teenager, but he's 592 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,799 Speaker 2: calling you the spirit spiritual manhood this morning. You may 593 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,919 Speaker 2: be seventy years old and you've never All you've done 594 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 2: is for you and me and my. 595 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:45,319 Speaker 1: But today the Lord's calling you. Act like a man. 596 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,080 Speaker 1: Don't listen to what the world says a man is. 597 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 2: It's not how many women you can sleep with. It's 598 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 2: not how many trophies you have on the wall. It's 599 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 2: all about who is on the As for me and 600 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,000 Speaker 2: my house, we will serve the Lord. That's a man, 601 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,439 Speaker 2: a man that's faithful to his wife, a man that's 602 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 2: that's pure, a man that his word is his integrity. 603 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,720 Speaker 1: I want to call the men today. 604 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,759 Speaker 2: I'm it's not gonna take long, but I want every 605 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,680 Speaker 2: man who wants to be a spiritual spartan to get 606 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,319 Speaker 2: out of your seat and come forward right where you are. 607 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,640 Speaker 2: Bring your son, if you're with him, or your sons. 608 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,560 Speaker 2: Bring the young kid if. 609 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,719 Speaker 1: You've got him, if he's not in kid pat. 610 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 2: Come on, come on, come on, come on. Anybody can 611 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,080 Speaker 2: get drunk, anybody can go get high. 612 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 1: It takes a man to live. For Jesus, I'm a spartan. 613 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:51,000 Speaker 2: I still believe. I still believe I have no business drinking. 614 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,320 Speaker 2: I still believe I have no business flirting. I still 615 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,920 Speaker 2: believe I have no business in certain situations. 616 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,040 Speaker 1: I just don't need to put myself. I'm a spartan. 617 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 1: I know I'm old fashioned, but I'm a spartan. 618 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:12,279 Speaker 2: Hyeah m hm. And you're looking at an older man. 619 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,560 Speaker 2: You're a younger man, and I'm telling you, I'm telling 620 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,440 Speaker 2: you the truth. I'm looking you face to face, and 621 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 2: I'm telling you the like the world is lying to you. 622 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,279 Speaker 2: The world is telling you that that you know, just 623 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 2: live for yourself. You young men need to get married, 624 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,920 Speaker 2: You need to fall in love. You need to quit 625 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,000 Speaker 2: dating around because when you date around, you sleep around. 626 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 1: I did, I just didn't date. I had a chance 627 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,040 Speaker 1: to date some pretty women, but I didn't date them. 628 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:44,399 Speaker 1: I knew. 629 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,480 Speaker 2: I knew that that's not that won't make a preacher's 630 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:55,440 Speaker 2: wife right there, m h. I had a purpose. I 631 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 2: had a vision, and if she didn't help me with 632 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,479 Speaker 2: that vision, I didn't need her had she's my help maid. 633 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,279 Speaker 2: You can't have a help maid if you don't get 634 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,480 Speaker 2: up and get doing something that you need help with. 635 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,200 Speaker 1: Wow, somebody write that one down. That was good. 636 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,839 Speaker 2: Why would God give you a help mad I want 637 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:24,160 Speaker 2: my woman. Well, you ain't doing nothing, you shark doing. 638 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,920 Speaker 2: Adam had to cultivate this is before the curse. He 639 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,759 Speaker 2: had to cultivate the garden. He had to make the 640 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,680 Speaker 2: garden productive. He had to get up and cultivate the 641 00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:35,680 Speaker 2: garden of Eden. He had to take care of it. 642 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:48,200 Speaker 1: Then God send him a helpmate. I commission you men 643 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,120 Speaker 1: to be mighty men of God. 644 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,000 Speaker 2: I want you to throw that verse up one more time, 645 00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,239 Speaker 2: and I want us to say it out loud on 646 00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,160 Speaker 2: what every man in this place to sound like an 647 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 2: old line that's growling. I want you to say it. 648 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,480 Speaker 2: I want you to say it like it needs to 649 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:12,760 Speaker 2: be said. Ready to say it. Be watchful, stand firm 650 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 2: in the faith, act like men. Be strong hotdelujah, Now 651 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:21,160 Speaker 2: crow your hands up. 652 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:24,319 Speaker 1: Come on. 653 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,960 Speaker 2: When you're praising, you're polishing the shield. When you're repenting, 654 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:33,200 Speaker 2: you're polishing the shield. When you're consecrating your life, your body, 655 00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,520 Speaker 2: your mind, you're polishing the shield. 656 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,920 Speaker 1: When you're having a made up mind about your marriage. 657 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,200 Speaker 2: And about your future, about your kids. 658 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,200 Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna tell you something. 659 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,200 Speaker 2: You're carrying the shield, and you're transferring the shield. What 660 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,640 Speaker 2: are you transferring to your children? Live a life that 661 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:57,040 Speaker 2: glorifies Jesus, Live a life that brings glory to his name. 662 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,200 Speaker 2: Live a life that your children can see you. He's 663 00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:04,800 Speaker 2: a sends love so that when you. 664 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:09,560 Speaker 1: Go, I'm gonna die on my shield. Got loujah. He 665 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,280 Speaker 1: didn't mess up at end of his life. 666 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:13,359 Speaker 2: He did it right. 667 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,720 Speaker 1: He loved God, he loved this family. He give his life. 668 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,680 Speaker 1: He loved his children and his grandchildren. He loved his shirts. 669 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:32,719 Speaker 1: That's all the letters. Get up, lava, cool, come my. 670 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:41,680 Speaker 2: Sole, poor Conshi maintaining research out of the sling and Hi, 671 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,200 Speaker 2: get up lavrase. 672 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,480 Speaker 1: Now I want you, I want you to put your 673 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:56,360 Speaker 1: hand on your heart. I don't want everybody in this 674 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:57,200 Speaker 1: room to do it. 675 00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:00,839 Speaker 2: I want all of you mothers out there to say, God, 676 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:06,400 Speaker 2: make me a spartan mother, Give me the courage to 677 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:10,400 Speaker 2: teach my children how critical faith is. You either die 678 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,920 Speaker 2: on the shield or you come back with the shield 679 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,160 Speaker 2: on your arm. 680 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:25,000 Speaker 1: I will not I will not raise inferior spartans in 681 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:25,720 Speaker 1: my house. 682 00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,560 Speaker 2: And I promise you it'll be warfare to get them 683 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:40,759 Speaker 2: where they're supposed to get. 684 00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,600 Speaker 1: But I see it in every one of mine. Now 685 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,080 Speaker 1: I've turned the corner. 686 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,840 Speaker 2: We have SHARESA and I, and we're seeing it in 687 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,160 Speaker 2: every one of them. 688 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,800 Speaker 1: The spiritual spartan is coming out little by little. 689 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:04,680 Speaker 2: The grip is getting tighter, tighter and tighter. Everybody, say this, 690 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,640 Speaker 2: I will not, by the grace of God, be an 691 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:15,000 Speaker 2: inferior spartan. I will not lay down. I'll stand up. 692 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:21,680 Speaker 2: I will not forsake my family. I will not be 693 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,960 Speaker 2: less than what God's called me to be. A mighty 694 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,440 Speaker 2: man of God. Say this, I will not come on. 695 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,080 Speaker 2: Women of God, say this too. 696 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:31,160 Speaker 1: I will not. 697 00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:36,440 Speaker 2: Raise inferior spartan children and grandchildren. 698 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,520 Speaker 1: They will know the value the honor of. 699 00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,160 Speaker 2: The shield of faith. They will cling to it. 700 00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:44,319 Speaker 1: They will not. 701 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 2: Drop it because their friends and the pressure of the 702 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,080 Speaker 2: world made them drop it. If they will come, I 703 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:51,759 Speaker 2: will die. 704 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,839 Speaker 1: Say that I will die on. 705 00:45:53,960 --> 00:46:00,920 Speaker 2: My shield of faith, and hear him say, well done, thou. 706 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:15,440 Speaker 1: Good and faithful servant. Spartan. You raise your hand. Receive 707 00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:25,160 Speaker 1: this word today? Do you receive it? Sometimes you have 708 00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:32,280 Speaker 1: to tough love. You find your kids tough love. 709 00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,840 Speaker 2: Not because I'm mad at you, because I love you 710 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,239 Speaker 2: too much to lie to you and see you go 711 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:45,000 Speaker 2: down the road. I can't support that. That's the hardest 712 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:57,320 Speaker 2: thing A parentaled. Why I feel the Lord in this place, 713 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,120 Speaker 2: God speaking and this serious stuff. 714 00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:07,200 Speaker 1: This is generations. It's time to get it together. 715 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:13,640 Speaker 2: If that sixty year old spartan retired and took his 716 00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:17,040 Speaker 2: shield home, if war broke out, guess what he had 717 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:18,680 Speaker 2: to re enlist, and if he. 718 00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,120 Speaker 1: Was seventy eighty, you'd never outgrow warfare. 719 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:24,960 Speaker 2: You jump right back in. And if you can't do 720 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,160 Speaker 2: you can cook the meals. You can do something for 721 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:40,279 Speaker 2: the young lions. Pastor Aaron, would you come up. He's 722 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:40,880 Speaker 2: a Spartan. 723 00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,879 Speaker 1: This guy was This guy was a scout and he 724 00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:47,120 Speaker 1: was 725 00:47:50,440 --> 00:48:00,840 Speaker 2: Working for the University of Southern California basketball team,