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Speaker 1: and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay tuned

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Speaker 2: A Happy Father's Day to all the fathers that are

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Speaker 2: We really do to serve in this camp. Some people

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Speaker 2: you know our church has always stepped up when we've

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Speaker 2: Malachi chapter four, the last two verses in the Old Testament,

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Speaker 2: prophetic voice. The world is lying to your family, so

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Speaker 2: use your prophetic voice. Throughout history, God always sends profits

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Speaker 2: In this world where we don't know whether evolution's true

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Speaker 2: How about this one, Life begins at conception. Abortion is

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Speaker 2: I got a cassette tape so I could listen to

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00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 2: it in my car, and I was so moved by

431
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,200
Speaker 2: it because Bill said this. He said, if you've never

432
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,160
Speaker 2: gotten a blessing from your dad, and I'm not saying

433
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 2: that your dad didn't love you or whatever, but if

434
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 2: your dad never sat you down, looked eyeball to eyeball

435
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 2: and told you why he was proud of you what

436
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,560
Speaker 2: he could see you doing all these things, you just

437
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 2: need to ask for it. And my Dad, if you

438
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 2: knew my dad, I love my dad. My dad is

439
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 2: one of the most gentle, kind, loving men ever. I

440
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,880
Speaker 2: always knew I was loved. He told me I did

441
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,920
Speaker 2: a good job all those things, but there never really

442
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 2: been a time that he had sat me down and said,

443
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 2: this is what I see in you, and this is

444
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,159
Speaker 2: what you're good at, and I'm for you and all that,

445
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 2: And so I felt moved. So I wrote my dad

446
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 2: a letter, typed it up, send it to my dad,

447
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,959
Speaker 2: send him the cassette tape. I said, Dad, I love you,

448
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,359
Speaker 2: I know you love me. I'm not bitter, I'm not angry,

449
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 2: but I heard this tape. I want you to listen

450
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 2: to it. And it would mean a lot to me

451
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 2: if you might consider giving me that blessing. And I

452
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,880
Speaker 2: sent it. And after I sent it, you ever said

453
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 2: something to be like, why did I send that? It

454
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,959
Speaker 2: was one of those. And about a month later, I

455
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 2: was back in Illinois. I was living in Dallas at

456
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 2: the time, and I went back home and my dad

457
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 2: never said a word. I was there all week. My

458
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 2: Dad never said a word, And so I'm like, I'm

459
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 2: never bringing it up like again. And I remember the

460
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,119
Speaker 2: day that I was getting ready to go back to

461
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 2: Dallas and I was about two hours away from going

462
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 2: to get on a plane, and I walked downstairs to

463
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,880
Speaker 2: say goodbye to my parents and my dad was sitting there.

464
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 2: I had the cassette tape and he had the letter out.

465
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 2: He said, I want to talk to you, and he

466
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 2: sat down and for about ten minutes just affirmed me

467
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 2: and told me what he saw me and said how

468
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 2: he'd seen it in me from the time I was

469
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 2: a little boy, and told me what I could be.

470
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,719
Speaker 2: And at the time we had gone to some events

471
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: like promise keepers events and big events, and he said

472
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 2: to me, he's like Jeff. Every time I go to

473
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,919
Speaker 2: one of those events and I see one of those guys,

474
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 2: I think to myself, that's probably going to be you someday,

475
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 2: because I see you doing that thing. And both of

476
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,679
Speaker 2: us were crying and we hugged, and it changed our relationship.

477
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 2: I already knew my dad loved me, he knew I

478
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 2: loved him, but hearing the blessing changed my life, which

479
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 2: is why I would say this, I don't care if

480
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 2: you're seventy five years old. If you can still get

481
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 2: the blessing from your dad, get it. If you can't,

482
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 2: God will be the father to the fabulous. God will

483
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 2: speak those things over you. But I encourage you find

484
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 2: some older man in the church that can bless you

485
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 2: with his words, because there's something about getting that blessing

486
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 2: that changes everything. It changed me so much that when

487
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 2: my kids were growing up, even when they were really little,

488
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 2: Like I remember my youngest one, I take her out

489
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 2: for donuts or something. She'd be like five, and I

490
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: would hold her hands and I'm like, you're beautiful, You're awesome,

491
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 2: You're great, You're so worthy, you're incredible. I'm so lucky

492
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,120
Speaker 2: to be your dad, and all these things. And now

493
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,199
Speaker 2: she's eighteen, I still go out and do the exact

494
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 2: same thing right and tell her all because I want

495
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 2: her to know. And I've been that way with my

496
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,439
Speaker 2: son and my other door because it changes you. And

497
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 2: dads don't just say to yourself, oh, they know. I'm

498
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 2: sure they know. I go to all their events. They know.

499
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,120
Speaker 2: They may know, but you need to tell them. Bill

500
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 2: Glass told the story about his sons that were like

501
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 2: six foot eight, and when he realized this. He remembers

502
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 2: talking to them in the kitchen and telling them what

503
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 2: he was blessed by for them. And these six foot

504
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 2: eight big men are like bawling right right. We all

505
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,360
Speaker 2: have that itch on the inside, and Dad's you can

506
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,679
Speaker 2: alleviate that pain. Dads, you can set your kids on

507
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 2: a course that helps them get somewhere where they never

508
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 2: ever could have been. You call out their identity. So

509
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 2: here's what I would say as a father. A silent

510
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 2: father empowers a lying world. Your kids are hearing things

511
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 2: all the time that aren't true about them, that aren't

512
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 2: true about society, that aren't true about their future. They're

513
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 2: looking to you saying, Dad, do you agree with all

514
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 2: these lies that I'm hearing? Dad? Am I ever going

515
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 2: to meet somebody that's a virgin when I grow up? Hey? Dad?

516
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 2: Am I ever going to be able to have a

517
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 2: good marriage? Hey? Dad, I'm looking at the world unravel

518
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 2: around us. Am I ever gonna be able to have

519
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,199
Speaker 2: a family? Yeah? Of course you are, because you're God's

520
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 2: and He blesses you, and he uses people just like

521
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 2: you in a hard generation. You're gonna have a blessed life. Yeah,

522
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. And I'll stand with you till

523
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 2: I see that. That's what a dad can do. And dads,

524
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 2: we need to stand up and use our prophetic voice

525
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,959
Speaker 2: because our families need it like no time before. Our

526
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 2: silence is our surrender. So just declare God's truth over

527
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 2: your family. You use your words and bless them. Don't

528
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 2: be afraid to avoid hard conversations. And here's why. Let

529
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 2: me tell you this that you're the spiritual thermostat in

530
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 2: your home, not a thermometer. It's not your job to

531
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 2: check and see are you really doing well? It's your

532
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,199
Speaker 2: job to make sure that you're doing really well. Now,

533
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 2: I get this question all the time, Pastor Jeff on

534
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 2: Mother's Day? How come it is that you make it

535
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 2: so light and so great and everybody thinks it's awesome,

536
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 2: But on Father's Day you come and lay this weight

537
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 2: on us. First of all, I don't always preach to

538
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: moms and always preach to fathers on mothers and Fathers Day. Second,

539
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 2: is this because there's such a mantle of responsibility on

540
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 2: us as dads. It's just different. And listen, I'm not trying.

541
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 2: I'm not speaking to you from a place of perfection.

542
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 2: I haven't mastered this. I'm still in progress. I'm not perfect.

543
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 2: There's things I've said, things I've done, things I've thought

544
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 2: that I wish I could have back. But I'm growing

545
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 2: in my desire to be a good dad and a

546
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 2: good husband. Amen. And that's what we need to be

547
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 2: as dads. We need to aspire to that. And if

548
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 2: you're a young guy, you don't even know, like you

549
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 2: have no clue. Like I remember before we had kids, Like,

550
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 2: let me tell you something. When I was twenty, I

551
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 2: was the smartest person I'd ever met in my entire life. Okay,

552
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 2: like I knew everything. And before we had kids, I

553
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 2: was an expert on child rearing. I remember before my

554
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: firstborn was born. I remember telling Kim, who's really sweet

555
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 2: and kind, I remember telling her, Hey, listen, we get

556
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 2: this child home, she's gonna need to learn it's our house.

557
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 2: She's going to sleep in her room. She's gonna need

558
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 2: to learn to cry herself to sleep. We're not there

559
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 2: for her every need. We got to grow her up

560
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 2: until we got her home. And then I found a

561
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 2: basketdet and I put it on my side of the bed,

562
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 2: and I got down every hour to make sure she

563
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 2: was breathing. Out of her nose and asking Kim, is

564
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 2: she gonna be okay? And all that everything changed. You

565
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about. Parents, you're dating, then you

566
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 2: see that family over there, kids are running around at

567
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 2: the restaurant, Like when we have kids, they're never gonna

568
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 2: do that, you know what I'm talking about. And then

569
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 2: you have kids and they're doing that. It's like, Hey,

570
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 2: this is the most peace we've had all week. Keep

571
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:08,719
Speaker 2: eating off the floor, you know, right, This is what

572
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. That's why for us as dads, it

573
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 2: makes such a big difference if we understand the heart

574
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 2: of God and we love our children and we bless

575
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 2: our children. So in the world of lies, use your

576
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 2: prophetic voice. Secondly, let me tell you this. Your life

577
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 2: sets the tone. This is why we have to fight

578
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:26,959
Speaker 2: for fathers, and fathers have to fight for the family.

579
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 2: You set the tone. So lead with a transformed heart.

580
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 2: You set the tone in your family. So you lead

581
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 2: with a transformed heart. Your wives will respond to your godliness,

582
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 2: Your kids will respond to your godliness. Notice what he

583
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 2: says in the Book of Malachi, chapter four and verse six,

584
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 2: and he's going to send a prophet. He says he

585
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children

586
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 2: and the hearts of children to their fathers. So whose

587
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 2: heart's getting restored first? The dad, Dads, your hearts have

588
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 2: to be restored before your children are going to respond

589
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 2: to you. You need to have Jesus in your life

590
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 2: and live Jesus ways for your kids to be able

591
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 2: to respond to you. If you live completely for Jesus

592
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 2: and you use Jesus's principles in your life, things will

593
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 2: go different for you. But he says the heart of

594
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 2: the fathers must turn. Now. Statistics would tell us the

595
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 2: same thing. I don't know if you know this or not,

596
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: but if you're a family and there's nobody that's Christian

597
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 2: in your family, one of your children becomes a Christian,

598
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 2: there's a three point five percent chance that everybody else

599
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 2: in the family will become a Christian. If you're in

600
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 2: a non Christian family you come to church as a mom,

601
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: you get saved, there's a seventeen percent chance that the

602
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 2: rest of your family will all come to christ. But

603
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: if you're a dad and you get saved out of

604
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: an unbelieving family, there's a ninety three percent chance that

605
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 2: all your family will be Christian right. This is why

606
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 2: I unapologetically target men, because men we carry a mantle

607
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 2: of responsibility. And here's the reality. Women have no problem

608
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 2: with godly men.

609
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 3: None who What woman wouldn't want a man that's fully

610
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 3: submitted to Jesus doing everything Jesus wants, helping elevate her,

611
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 3: helping elevate her kids, helping put aside his ways to elevate.

612
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,719
Speaker 2: Hers and the family. No woman will fight against that.

613
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 2: When I say men are leaders, what women fight against

614
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 2: is Yeah, I know a guy, he was my husband.

615
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: I know a guy he was my dad. I know

616
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 2: a guy he was my uncle and he didn't live

617
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: like Jesus and hurt me severely. And I would say,

618
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 2: not promoting that, that's sin, understand, But men, we need

619
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,719
Speaker 2: to have our hearts transformed by Jesus. And it's not

620
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 2: just a one time thing, it's an ongoing thing. Yes,

621
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 2: we repent and believe that Jesus is the Christ, were

622
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: brought into the family of God, and then for the

623
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 2: rest of our life God begins to show us ways

624
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 2: in which we can be more like Christ within our family.

625
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 2: Can I pause and say one other thing too, Guys,

626
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: the way you treat your wife will determine how your

627
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 2: kids think about Jesus. It will if you're harsh with her,

628
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 2: if you're mean to her, if you're cruel to her,

629
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 2: if you're absent from her. You can go to church

630
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: every single week and talk about how great Jesus is

631
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 2: and nobody's listening. How you treat their mother. That means this.

632
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 2: Sometimes it means that you won't do everything right, but

633
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: to the extent that your sin went out. I mean,

634
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 2: there's been times in our family where I've said something

635
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: that's wrong. I knew it was wrong in the moment,

636
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 2: but I couldn't keep myself from saying it, and out

637
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 2: it came, and one of my kids or all three

638
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 2: of my kids were there. And in those situations, I

639
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 2: apologize to Kim in front of all of them because

640
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 2: I want them to know your dad was wrong and

641
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 2: the way I treat your mom was wrong. She hadn't

642
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: deserved that, And that's all on me. And I'm changing

643
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 2: and Jesus needs to change me. And I'm still growing,

644
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry, And will you forgive me for the

645
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 2: way I treated your mom? See, that's being a godly dad.

646
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: That's modeling for them what they're looking for. So when

647
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: young girls see a dad that's like that, then she

648
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 2: won't be dating some jamoke coming down the pipe because

649
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: she knows. She knows what a good dude looks like,

650
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 2: because I want somebody like my daddy, because I want

651
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 2: to be treated like that in a marriage. And what

652
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 2: it does for young men is they see a man

653
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 2: and it's okay to show emotion and treat your wife

654
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 2: with kindness, and he'll start looking for a godly woman too,

655
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 2: like how you treat your wife as paramount to be

656
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 2: in a great great Dad. But then as we continue

657
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 2: to go, Proverbs four twenty three says, watch over your

658
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 2: heart with all diligence, for from it flow the streams

659
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 2: of life, which means this God is going to take

660
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 2: you through seasons where there's different things in your life

661
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 2: where he wants you to grow in. And I made

662
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 2: a list of five things I think men need to

663
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: repent of on an ongoing basis. And the only reason

664
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 2: I can tell you authoritatively what these things are is

665
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 2: because I deal with them on just like you do.

666
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: When I'm filled with the spirit, I act differently than

667
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 2: when I'm acting in my flesh. Man, can I give

668
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 2: you five things that you need to repent of. Number

669
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 2: one is this passivity. Passivity from our very first father,

670
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 2: act him in the garden who remained passive, rather than

671
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: bringing the word to his wife, rather than killing the serpent,

672
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: rather than asking the serpent to leave, rather than grabbing

673
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 2: his wife and coming back to God, he stood there passively,

674
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 2: and passively means I'm waiting for someone else to lead

675
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: because I'm too scared to make a decision. Stop it,

676
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 2: repent of it. Passivity opens the door to chaos and confusion.

677
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 2: The Bible says in one Corinthians sixteen thirteen. Be on

678
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: the alert, stand firm in the faith. Act like men,

679
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 2: be strong, Let all you do be done in love.

680
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 2: Passivity is the area of our life men, where we

681
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 2: see things going on in the world or at the

682
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 2: grocery store and that person's just being a goofball and

683
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 2: treating their kids bad, like that's not my thing. I'm

684
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 2: not going to do that. I'm not going to talk

685
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 2: to this and I'm not getting involved. That's somebody else's job.

686
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 2: That's passivity in our hearts. If every Christian man would

687
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 2: stand up and speak truth in love when he sees

688
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 2: those things and makes all the difference in the world.

689
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 2: In a family, it's easy to be passive. Why guys

690
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 2: working all day, I'm super hard to come home now.

691
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 2: I got noise, I got kids issues, we got dinner,

692
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 2: we got this. It's chaos. It's like being at work. No. Stop.

693
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 2: Work is not your number one responsibility. Your family is.

694
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 2: Make that a priority first. If your family gets the

695
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 2: lion's share of your best who cares what work gets

696
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,959
Speaker 2: like That's what the Bible would say. So reject passivity

697
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 2: because every part of your flesh is going to say, yeah,

698
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. It's not my job.

699
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 2: Not my job. My wife can do that. My wife

700
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 2: can take care of the kids, my wife can do

701
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,240
Speaker 2: all this. No, it's your job. Number two. How about pride.

702
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 2: All of us are deal with it. Here's what pride is.

703
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 2: Stop pretending you have it all together. Just like I

704
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 2: told you, I was an expert on child wearing before

705
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 2: I had children. I was an expert on marriage before

706
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 2: I got married. You ever hear a single person talk

707
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 2: about what you should do in your marriage, even if

708
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 2: they're being biblical, it's somewhat laughable because until you're in it,

709
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 2: you don't understand it. And what we're saying when we

710
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: talk about pride is to be a good husband and

711
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 2: a good father is not Okay, here's what the word says.

712
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 2: I know it. I had read Ephesians five for thirty years,

713
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 2: didn't understand it, and I'm still learning how it works

714
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 2: itself out. Getting rid of pride is being humble. If

715
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 2: scriptures say God opposes the problem but gives grace to

716
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 2: the humble. When you stand before the Lord and you're like, Lord,

717
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 2: I don't know how to be a great husband. This

718
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 2: one keeps failing for me. I don't know what it

719
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 2: means to be a great dad. Lord, How do I

720
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 2: encourage him? How do I encourage her? What does that

721
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 2: look like? What do you want me to do? I

722
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 2: don't even know if I'm doing it right. Sometimes I

723
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 2: feel like I'm too harsh. Sometimes I feel like I'm

724
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: not harsh enough. Where's the balance? If you're humble enough

725
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 2: to ask God, God will lead you on the journey

726
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 2: for where you need to be. And by the way,

727
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: your kids don't need a perfect mom or dad. They

728
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 2: know you're not perfect. They're not asking you to be.

729
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 2: They just want you to be growing in Christ. Let

730
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 2: me give you a third, if you can repent of

731
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 2: passivity and pride. How about this, guys, this is a

732
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 2: big one. Any secret sins. Now, all of us have

733
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 2: sinned and fall short of the glory of God, right

734
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 2: all of us, every single one of us. There's still

735
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 2: ongoing sin that happens that we have to confess and

736
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 2: repent of. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking

737
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 2: about some secret sin in your life that you know

738
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 2: you always been there for a period of months, weeks,

739
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 2: or years, that you have no intention of letting go of.

740
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 2: It's your thing. It's not hurting anybody else. It's your poorn,

741
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 2: it's your anger at your addiction, it's your deceit, it's

742
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 2: your gambling. Here's what I'll tell you, get ruthless. Was

743
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 2: what you're hiding in the darkness. When you say, oh,

744
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 2: they'll never know, they'll never find out. Here's what I

745
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 2: tell you. On the authority of God's word numbers thirty

746
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 2: two thirty three. Your sin will always find you out.

747
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 2: Your sin will always find you. I just tell my

748
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 2: kids when they were younger, well, I'll just never tell you.

749
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, let's pray to God that he shows

750
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 2: me and I'm gonna win your sin. Always find you

751
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 2: can't keep your sin down anymore. And you keep a

752
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: beach ball under the water. I mean, at some point

753
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 2: in time it's coming up. And so here's what you

754
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 2: repent of it. You repent to God first. You let

755
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 2: God lead you on a journey. You don't care. You

756
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: just want to get clean. You want to do it right.

757
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 2: Repentive secret sins. Repent to this people pleasing In comparison,

758
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 2: you weren't made to bow to the culture or fear

759
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 2: of other people's opinions when your kids say, well, so

760
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 2: and So's parents don't or that's not the way my

761
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 2: school does it. Okay, did you have a point right?

762
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 2: I mean, you understand what I'm saying. You don't need

763
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 2: to bow to what everybody else is doing because at

764
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 2: the end of the day, men, let me tell you something,

765
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 2: You're going to be held to account. And I'm not

766
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 2: talking about ultimate judgment and hell, because that's only taken

767
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: care of by Jesus Christ on the cross. If you've

768
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 2: repented and believed He died for you in Rose, your

769
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 2: sins are forgiven. But there is accountability for how you

770
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 2: live before God. And one of the first things he's

771
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 2: going to ask us, as married men, how did you

772
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 2: treat your wife? And how did you treat your kids?

773
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: Because I put you in charge of their future? Are

774
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,760
Speaker 2: they better off because they met you? Are they better

775
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 2: off because of your investment? Or has it been really challenging?

776
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what we're held accountable to, right, And

777
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 2: they'll give you a fifth one. It's bitterness and unforgiveness. Guys.

778
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 2: I just got to tell you this. Every one of

779
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 2: us has been hurt by somebody in some way that's

780
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 2: been devastating every one of us. And those the hits

781
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 2: keep on coming, so to speak, don't they If you

782
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,399
Speaker 2: can't get to a place where you can take those

783
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 2: to the cross, where you're not carrying your wounds around,

784
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 2: wounds are going to turn into weapons. And who's going

785
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 2: to be weaponized as your wife and your kids. You

786
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: have a bad day at work, you have a bad

787
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 2: day over here, and you come home. You're not mad

788
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 2: at your wife, you're not mad at your kids, but

789
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 2: they get all the fullness of your assault because you

790
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 2: weren't able to forgive that person. Right. Don't let your

791
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 2: kids be targets of the enemy because you have unforgiveness

792
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 2: in your heart. Unforgiveness forms itself and hurt, bitterness, resentment, anger,

793
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 2: all those different things you have that just bring all

794
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 2: those things to the cross and then go deal with

795
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 2: the people that hurt you rather than taking it out

796
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 2: on your family. Amen. And these are just five things.

797
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I deal with all these things all the time.

798
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, guys, how I'm growing as a

799
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 2: Christian man. And my kids are here, they know I

800
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: love them, they'd love me. I'm trying my best to

801
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 2: do these things. But they would tell you I've been

802
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 2: so imperfect so many different times. I'm not standing up

803
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 2: here as an expert telling you I've mastered it. I'm

804
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 2: telling you I'm growing in it. Amen. And here's what

805
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 2: I would tell you, guys. If say we I don't

806
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: even know the Bible, I don't even know what to do,

807
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 2: then I would just tell you you be present physically, mentally, emotionally,

808
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 2: and spiritually. I mean physically means this be present. I

809
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 2: hear some guys tell me we get quality time on

810
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 2: the weekends, we get quality time. There's no such thing

811
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 2: as quality time. There's time like be present, Like how

812
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 2: often as often as you can be when your kids

813
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 2: are little, be present, be down on the ground with them,

814
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 2: hug them, you know, love them, be at their games,

815
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 2: do the difference. Be present, don't be absent. Don't be absent.

816
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 2: Give everybody else the lion's share of your time. There

817
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 2: was a time about six or seven years ago, I

818
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 2: realized as we were starting our church, you know, I

819
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 2: was meeting with too many people, and I was having

820
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,919
Speaker 2: all these lunches. I'm like, I never do this with Kim.

821
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 2: I never do this with my kids. So I stopped

822
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 2: doing it. Like if I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna

823
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 2: go out with them. No. I still would go out sometimes,

824
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 2: but it's just not as regular because I want them

825
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 2: to have the lion sare. If I'm gonna go, do

826
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 2: something to do with my family right, because it's more important.

827
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, I love being

828
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 2: your pastor. I want to get better being a pastor.

829
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 2: I want to work in my craft and being a preacher.

830
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: I want to do all that. But at the end

831
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 2: of my day, asked me, what do I care more

832
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 2: about this job or my wife and kids. It's them

833
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 2: times of infinity because I know at my funeral They're

834
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 2: the only ones that are going to care. That's it.

835
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 2: And so at the end of my day, that's why

836
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 2: I'm pouring myself into That's why I'm giving my time

837
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 2: to and they know that. So be present physically, mentally,

838
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 2: be aware of what's going on. Just be aware of

839
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 2: what's going on. Who are your kids talking to? What

840
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 2: are they talking about? Well, they don't really talk to

841
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 2: me very much. We'll make them talk to you. Well,

842
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 2: they're on their phone all the time. Who they text in,

843
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 2: what do their texts say? Well, you know that's none

844
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 2: of my business. Yeah, it is your business. You're paying

845
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 2: for the phone. You need to know who's talking to

846
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 2: them and what they're saying. And if your kids don't

847
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 2: like it, they can buy their own phone. You know

848
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. You're responsible for their future. How about emotionally. Emotionally,

849
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 2: just be real. It's okay for your kids to see

850
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 2: you cry. It's okay for your kids to see you angry.

851
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 2: It's okay for yours to see you discussed it. It's

852
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 2: okay for your kids to see every part of you.

853
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 2: You do not need to be a stoic dad and

854
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,479
Speaker 2: just pretend that you have it all together all the time,

855
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,439
Speaker 2: because you don't. They need to see that a real

856
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 2: man deals with real things and sometimes you're happy and

857
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 2: sometimes you're sad, and sometimes this is going on, and

858
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:16,959
Speaker 2: they can be a part of your life, so they

859
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 2: know what authenticity looks like and that's okay, that's good

860
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: for them. And then finally, spiritually, here's what I would say,

861
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 2: just model Christ's likeness. I talk to a lot of

862
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 2: women that will tell me in the church sometimes I

863
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 2: wish my husband was a spiritual leader. I wish you

864
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 2: would do Bible studies. I wish you there's nowhere in

865
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 2: the Bible it says you have to do Bible studies

866
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 2: with your wife. Okay, that's not what you're looking for anyway.

867
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 2: Here's what you're looking for. You're looking for a guy

868
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 2: who is clearly growing in Christ, who's clearly being shaped

869
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: by Christ, who's clearly changing because of Christ, who's love

870
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 2: for you and for your kids is growing significantly because

871
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 2: of Christ. And if that is happening, that is a

872
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 2: very very good thing. And even if you say I

873
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 2: don't even know what Christ's likeness is, I'm brand new

874
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 2: to this. Dads, do this. Just bring your family to

875
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 2: church every single Sunday. That's it. And when you go

876
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 2: on vacation, take them to church. Take them to a

877
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 2: different church on vacation. You know what they'll get the

878
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 2: idea Dad thinks church is pretty important. Every sunday we're there.

879
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 2: You model that for them, and then they see it

880
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 2: because how you live is more important than everything that

881
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 2: you're just saying. So here's what I'm saying, dads, is

882
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 2: your heart truly turned towards Christ. That's it. This is

883
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,320
Speaker 2: not heavy, like, oh, you're not doing it. It's just

884
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 2: the opposite. We are some of the best dads I've

885
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 2: ever met that are in this church, Guys that are

886
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 2: really trying to do a good job. Guys that are

887
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 2: saying I want this and I want to be better,

888
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 2: and you're doing great, and I'm proud of you for

889
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 2: doing that. But we need dads to model this in

890
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 2: a way that's different. You know. In One Timothy chapter

891
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 2: five to eight, talking to the men, here's what it says.

892
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 2: It says, but if anyone does not prevent for his

893
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 2: own and especially those of his own household, he has

894
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 2: denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Provide

895
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 2: there carries a financial bearing, like you provide for your family,

896
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 2: you protect your family. But it's more than that. It's

897
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 2: thinking ahead, it's caring for, it's planning in advance. It's forethought,

898
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 2: it's responsibility, it's intentional care. It's proactively thinking about what's

899
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 2: going to meet the needs of my wife and kids.

900
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: And the Bible says, if you're not doing that, you're

901
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 2: worse than a non believer. Isn't that crazy? How you

902
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 2: treat your family is demonstrating how much you love God.

903
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 2: How much you preference your family demonstrates how much you

904
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 2: love God. And so the application is, am I allowing

905
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 2: Jesus to change my heart, to transform my heart so

906
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,240
Speaker 2: that in my family I can set the tone. Amen.

907
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 2: And then let me give you a third one. If

908
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 2: you're using your prophetic voice and God is transforming your heart,

909
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 2: then I would say this, the future depends upon you,

910
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 2: Dad's the future depends upon you. So God guard the

911
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 2: coming generation. Guard the coming generation. Notice what he says

912
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 2: at the end of verse six and Malachi four. He

913
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 2: goes as he turns the hearts of the fathers to

914
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 2: the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

915
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 2: So that what so that I will not come and

916
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,720
Speaker 2: smite the land with a curse. What he links here

917
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,280
Speaker 2: is the spiritual leadership of the fathers to the future

918
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 2: of the land. When dads, when we're doing our stuff

919
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 2: right and the generation is rising, it receives god blessing,

920
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,919
Speaker 2: God's blessing and Dad's when we're not doing what we're

921
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 2: supposed to do, you see the results of what's going

922
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 2: on like that in our culture right now. And this

923
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 2: is why he says, Dad's the future is changed by

924
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 2: how you treat your kids. Let me just say it

925
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 2: this way, Dads, you should be the number one intercessor

926
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,439
Speaker 2: for your family, meaning nobody should pray for your wife

927
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 2: and kids more than you pray for your wife and kids.

928
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: Nobody should protect your wife and kids more than you

929
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 2: protect your wife and kids. What you're really doing is

930
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 2: you're preparing your kids to stand in the truth because

931
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 2: one day you're not going to be there. One day

932
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 2: they're either going to be out on their own or

933
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 2: you're gonna be dead and they're not going to be

934
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 2: able to call you. So line them up so that

935
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 2: they're ready to go, and don't just protect them physically,

936
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 2: guard their minds and their spirits, so they're walking in

937
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 2: the ways of Jesus. See, Dad's your kids are looking

938
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 2: for those moments where you pour into them. Your kids

939
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 2: are looking for those moments where you know they're desperate

940
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: and they need a dad, because only dad can do

941
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 2: what Dad can do. I tell this story all the time.

942
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 2: When I was a sophomore in high school, I played

943
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 2: on our basketball team. I was either going to be

944
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 2: a starter or the sixth man, but I got hurt.

945
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 2: I couldn't really run. I stayed on the team I

946
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 2: shouldn't have been, but I really couldn't play very well,

947
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 2: and so I was more of a bench warmer that season.

948
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 2: But we had a game one time on a Friday night,

949
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 2: and our sophomore games preceded our varsity game, and our

950
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 2: varsity was playing to go on to the state and

951
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 2: it was it was packed, like there's a couple thousand

952
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,479
Speaker 2: people in there in the small gym, and everybody's there.

953
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 2: And so at the end of our game, it was

954
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 2: full and we were blowing out the team we were playing.

955
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 2: And what the coaches do at the end of the

956
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, why they do They start emptying the bench.

957
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 2: So I watched one of my friends go in, and

958
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 2: then I watched two of my friends go in, and

959
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 2: then I watched another friend go in. Now they had

960
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 2: replaced all those five, and now there's like three of

961
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 2: us sitting on the bench. Then he calls another guy.

962
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 2: It's not me, calls another guy, it's not me. I'm

963
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 2: the only one on the bench that hasn't played at

964
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: this point in time, with like a minute ago. I

965
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 2: don't want to go in to make matters worse. All

966
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 2: my friends were up in the stands and they began

967
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,760
Speaker 2: the schwartzy chant, put in schwartzea, you know all this stuff.

968
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 2: I was embarrassed, I was shame, I was horrible. As

969
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 2: soon as the buzzer went off, I got to the

970
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 2: locker room as fast as I could, took off my

971
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 2: basketball gear, put on my clothes, got out of there,

972
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 2: didn't shower, didn't do anything. And that's when I saw

973
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 2: my dad and he picked me up, and I was bawling.

974
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 2: As a sophomore in high school, and my dad said

975
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 2: to me, He's like, don't even worry about that. You

976
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 2: know you're hurt. Nobody knows, nobody even remember this day.

977
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 2: He goes, but you're a really gifted athlete. And you're good,

978
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have a lot of success before you graduate,

979
00:46:58,120 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 2: and and I believe in you and all those different things,

980
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 2: and it changed me. So two years later we went

981
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 2: to two state championships. Won it my senior year when undefeated.

982
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 2: My dad was at that game. He told me I

983
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 2: did a good job. But what Dad wouldn't go see

984
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 2: his son win a state championship? That was easy. What

985
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 2: I remember about my dad is when he was there

986
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 2: my sophomore year when I felt like a loser. Dad's

987
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 2: your kids are always going through stuff. Some of them

988
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 2: may not feel like a big deal to you, but

989
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 2: they feel like a big deal to them where they

990
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 2: feel hurt and they feel wounded, and they feel like

991
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can make it, and do

992
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 2: I really have what it takes? And does anybody believe

993
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 2: in me? Dad's your prophetic voice to them means everything.

994
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 2: Your transformed life to them means everything. The next generation

995
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 2: depends upon what you do for them. And Dad's here's

996
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 2: what I would tell you. By the power of the

997
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, you're capable of all these things. There's none

998
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 2: of us that can walk out of here today with

999
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 2: a list of five new things I'm gonna work on.

1000
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get really really good at this. No you won't.

1001
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 2: The message is this, God, there's some things that you

1002
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 2: need to work on in me. There's some things that

1003
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: need to change in me. So let me kind of

1004
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 2: wrap up here. If you're here today. For some of you,

1005
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 2: this is a hard message because your dad was really harsh.

1006
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 2: He was difficult, and I'm sorry that that was your experience.

1007
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 2: But I want to tell you there's a god in

1008
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 2: heaven that saw it all, and he loves you unconditionally,

1009
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 2: and he will speak words of blessing over your life. Amen.

1010
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 2: I would tell you if you can get the blessing,

1011
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 2: get it. If you can't, some of you may have

1012
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 2: fathers that are already deceased, I get it. You can't

1013
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 2: do that, that's fine. Find somebody else. Find somebody your age,

1014
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 2: Find somebody a little bit older that's a man saying, hey,

1015
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 2: I never got this from my dad. Do you see

1016
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 2: anything in me? You know me pretty well? Would you

1017
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 2: speak words of blessing? Because I feel like that hasn't

1018
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 2: been there. Let me tell you something else. There's some

1019
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 2: of you guys that are Dad's here. You're my age sixties, seventies, eighties,

1020
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 2: and as you're hearing this message, here's what you're saying.

1021
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 2: I blew it, and the enemy's lying to you like

1022
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 2: you're no good, you're lousy. Look at how you messed up.

1023
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 2: I want to tell you there's grace for today. Like

1024
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 2: if you apply what you're hearing today, maybe it's that

1025
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 2: you pick up the phone and you call your daughter,

1026
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 2: or you call your son, or you call your a

1027
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 2: strange wife and you say, I was in church today

1028
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 2: and I want to tell you something. I realized I

1029
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 2: was wrong in what I did. I'm sorry for what

1030
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 2: I did. Will you forgive me? And by the way,

1031
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 2: let me tell you these things I see in you,

1032
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 2: and you've always been really good at those things. If

1033
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 2: you do that, you will free your son or daughter

1034
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 2: or wife for the rest of their life. It's not

1035
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 2: too late to do it, so don't think like, oh

1036
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 2: it's too much. You can change their generation, you can

1037
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 2: change the next family. You can do this and so

1038
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 2: we can start fresh with where we are. The Bible

1039
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 2: does not take perfect people and say I only use

1040
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 2: perfect people the Bible. The only people the Bible can

1041
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 2: take are broken, messed up people, just like me and

1042
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 2: you and start us on a journey and made the

1043
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 2: journey for you. Start today. See, I'm teaching you about

1044
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 2: our Father because when you meet our Father in heaven,

1045
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 2: when you hear our Father in heaven, Jesus Christ is

1046
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 2: going to present you faultless before the throne of God

1047
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 2: with exceedingly great joy, and you'll hear the words of

1048
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 2: the Father, well done, good and faithful servant, just like

1049
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 2: Jesus heard. It's no wonder that Jesus always snuck off

1050
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 2: to pray. Prayer was not a chore for Jesus. Do

1051
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 2: you know why? Because every time he got in the

1052
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 2: presence of the Father, Dad was saying to him, this

1053
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 2: is my son, I love you. I'm so pleased. Way

1054
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 2: to do it. Yet another great day today. I'm with

1055
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 2: you tomorrow too. Hey, you're doing every So he wanted

1056
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 2: to spend time with him. Most of us don't spend

1057
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 2: time in prayer because we don't know. That's how the

1058
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 2: Father's speaking over us. But I want to tell you something.

1059
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 2: We serve a good good father. Amen. And even if

1060
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 2: you didn't have a good good father, you can have

1061
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,760
Speaker 2: a good good father through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 2: I want to tell you this, whatever you heard today,

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Speaker 2: I hope you go put into practice whatever the Lord

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Speaker 2: spoke to your heart, and that you're set free to

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Speaker 2: live more free for what the Lord's doing in you.

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Speaker 2: Would you stand with me our Father in heaven. We

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Speaker 2: give you praise, glory and honor for who you are. Lord.

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Speaker 2: We bless you civically today for the fathers. Just want

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Speaker 2: to speak a word of blessing over all you, fathers.

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Speaker 2: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the

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Speaker 2: Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious

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Speaker 2: son to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance

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Speaker 2: upon you and give you his peace. May you serve

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Speaker 2: your wives and your families well. May you all grow

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Speaker 2: in the knowledge and grace of Jesus and get better

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Speaker 2: and better at it all the time, not by works

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Speaker 2: of your own, but because of what He's working through you. Lord,

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Speaker 2: we love you, We thank you for who you are.

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Speaker 2: We bless your holy name. You are so good. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: we pray, Amen and Amen. Who you have got praise

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Speaker 2: for his word. You will be like God human unity.

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Speaker 2: God was severed and through it all God's promise remain true.

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Speaker 1: Follow me April and I would make you grains.

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Speaker 2: This is the Chosen People. Listen to the Chosen people

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Speaker 2: at the chosen people dot com. That's the Chosen people

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Speaker 2: dot com.