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Ephesians 6:1,3 -Spirit Filled Children- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2026-05-10
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Ephesians chapter six. Ephesians six verses one through three. Would you please stand with me as we read God's holy word together? Ephesians chapter six verses one through three. Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. Honor your father and your mother which is the first commandment with promise that it may be well with thee that thou mayest live long on the earth. Father, we thank you for your holy word and Lord, we are simple people and we thank you that you've made the Bible simple. Simple for us to understand with the help of your holy spirit. Without the help of the holy spirit, Lord, it's just a book and it's dry and it's dead in many ways, but your word's alive. And Lord, we pray that you quicken your word and if there's anybody here that doesn't know you, Lord, we pray that you would, bring them to the place of of knowing you in a relationship with you. We really need to to understand what's being said here, Lord. And, we need to hide your word away in our heart that we might not sin against you. Lord, we need to be those who are doers of your word, not hearers only. And, Lord, in this age of deception, such incredible deception, even even the roles, even the genders, even the role of a mother, the role of a father are confused, of marriage, of the family, of male, of female. And Lord, we're not confused. We've stayed with your word and we've weathered these storms and yet a lot of the public place, schools and such are pushing transgenderism and all sorts of weirdness, Lord, that goes against your word. And, the wicked one, the author of Confusion seeks to confuse the minds and hearts of the children, Lord. And we pray as parents, Lord, that we'd toe the line, that we'd we'd make sure that these absolutes are instilled within the hearts and lives of our children and grandchildren. We thank you for our moms and dads who who didn't compromise, who stood tall. And so Lord, we thank you for that. In Jesus' name, amen. Would you please be seated? We're talking about Ephesians five eighteen, be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be being filled, with the holy spirit. And so the emphasis upon us as husbands, we need the help of the holy spirit, to fulfill our role of loving our wives like Christ loved the church. We need the help, the vertical help, the help, as wives, to be being filled with the holy spirit. We need spirit filled homes, spirit filled marriages, and children. Sure. Children with the emphasis on Ephesians five eighteen in order to be a child of God, in order to fulfill the role as a child within a Christian home, and then later as you as you graduate, as you move out, you're still their child, fulfilling your role as a child, you need the help of the Holy Spirit. We need the help of the Holy Spirit. Next week when we talk about fathers, the role of a father, again, fathers need the help of the Holy Spirit. Be being filled with the Holy Spirit. It's it's the vertical. And if we're at the Lord's feet, be being filled with the Holy Spirit, we're gonna have a much, easier time, a much more effective ministry within the home. And, and so these as we're talking this morning in regard to children, they're an integral part of the home. Some people would like to to call them little people, they're still people, and, and treat them as such. But as they're growing up and they become teenagers and get a little bit older, they're gonna exercise their own independence, their own ideas and such, And yet, we as moms and dads, we know how important it is, when our moms and dads are still alive, that there's still that guidance there. There's still that that steady Freddie, you know, that just doesn't miss a beat. They love Jesus. They're in the word. They're in prayer. They're modeling the Christian life. We've seen them go through a lot of heartaches, a lot of pain and suffering and different things, loss of jobs and health and maybe a loss of a loved one, a spouse, or widowed now, but, still there's that determination to follow the Lord, to, be that person that God's called us to be, and, and that's the emphasis here this morning as a child is is, enjoy that season of being a child. Enjoy that season of the nurturing and the building you up and strengthening you and training you in the things of the Lord because this is designed by God. It's his design to have you, be raised in a family, in a Christian family, in a Christian home. A lot of kids are born and they're not raised in Christian homes. They're all over the world, and they don't know Jesus and they're not raised in Christian homes. Some of us here, I wasn't raised in a Christian home. Kathy wasn't raised in a Christian home. A lot of the children represented here in this room are very very privileged in that they've, have a Christian home, a Christian mom and dad, and that's by design. That's God's design. He's the inventor. He's the one that invented and came up the idea of Adam and Eve, the two coming together as one and having children and calling this, you know, a family. And the world wants to confuse it and come up with all sorts of different perversions thereof and ideas and such, but, we we stay firm with the word of God. We love on people that that are confused about these things, but we're not confused. And, we don't want the state raising our children. State has no, boundary in that way. There's no right or authority, to oversee or to usurp the authority of the home. The father and the mother, they're the ones that God places his mantle of responsibility upon, upon the parents, to raise these children and and the children, it's incumbent upon them, it behooves them to respond, to respond to the loving environment that God's provided for them to, get to know Jesus better. That's what it's really about. And so the instruction to children from God's word is clear. Children, obey your parents. Four reasons why children should obey their parents. Verse one, because of your relationship with the Lord. Verse one, children, obey your parents in the Lord. Jesus said, I do always those things that please him. Jesus lived a life of obedience unto his father. He's our example. So we as children, we can look to the obedience that Jesus displayed, that he lived, and what made motivated Jesus. Law or love is love. Love is the greatest motivator and, a love relationship with his father. Jesus said in John fifteen ten, if you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love even as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love. And so how is your relationship with Jesus? How is your relationship with God the Holy Spirit? How is your relationship with God the Father? It's all about relationship. That's the whole point of of the nurturing of the parents is to bring you into relationship with Jesus Christ. When Jessica and Brittany were little, we we read the word to them. I'd ask them questions like I do the grandkids is, where is Jesus? Where is Jesus? You know? And I wanted them to know that he's in their heart and I still do that with the grandkids. And you wanna, read the bible with them and and have them in Sunday school and picture bibles you start with. So you're trying to sow the word of God within deep within their hearts and, and and the objective today as moms as dads, how are your kids doing? As mothers and fathers, if we lay our head down tonight and we know that that if our children were to die today and they would spend all eternity in heaven, we did our job. We came alongside the Lord. He loaned these children unto us and we dedicated them back unto him and we said, Lord, like Hannah dedicating little Samuel, Lord, you gave us this child on loan and Lord, we give this child back unto you because Lord, we are inadequate. We are not gonna be able to fulfill what you called us to do as parents without your help. We need to be be being filled with the holy spirit. So Lord, we're asking that you, bring influences into the lives of these children. Give them like John the Baptist. Give them the holy spirit from their birth, from their mother's womb. Wouldn't that be nice? Spirit filled kids from their mother's womb. Boy, that'd be an easy job. Right? Never have to worry about John. Right? But, unfortunately, most of us, you know, we have a a home that's like Cain and Abel, you know? We got one maybe that's walking with the Lord and one that's not, and we're praying for them both. We're not we're not bringing a favoritism towards an Esau or, you know, a Jacob or an Isaac and Ishmael. We're trying to keep a happy home. We're trying to make Jesus available to each and every one, you know. And, and that's our job. Our job is to present Christ, into the lives of the kids. And at the end of our end of our life, if we know that we know that we know that we're gonna see these kids again when we go to heaven, we might go before them. But we know that, hey, I gotta prepare you for that day when you're gonna cross that line, that day that that I'm gonna step on the other side. I I wanna be waiting there on the other side knowing that you're coming, that you're gonna be there too. That's what this is all about. What's it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what would a man give in exchange for his life? I mean, on my watch, on Kathy's watch, if one of our daughters doesn't make it into heaven, if one of our grandkids doesn't make it into heaven, what's that heaven gonna be like? What's it gonna be like? You know, it it it's like it's like, come on. This this has gotta be paramount. This has gotta be the number one reason that God would entrust me with these kids is to make sure that I've done everything I can possibly do to bring them to a place where they have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Where they're walking in obedience unto him, that they're just they're in love with Jesus. Not not the external, not just mimicking all the verses and all of the stuff they learned in Sunday school, then they go into college and they walk away from the Lord because it didn't sink down deep, you know. But we're praying that train up a child in the way they'll go, and when they're old, they won't depart from it. We're praying that they'll come back. Right? We're praying that they'll come back to their roots someday, those of us that have prodigals that have walked away. But Kathy and I banked upon the number one thing that we did when we had our girls was we made every decision based upon being a Christian home and getting them into heaven. What's that mean? It means that if Kathy would have stayed working at the telephone company, we'd had a lot more money and a much easier lifestyle with two incomes. But what would that mean? Where would we have to cart them off? Would Kathy's mom be able to watch them? Would we put them in day care? Would we put them in public school? Presently, Rob was telling me that, a lot of families are having a hard time affording Christian school right now. So now you gotta pull your kids out of Christian school and put them in the public school. Is a public school ordained of God to raise your kids? Is their mandate? Is what they teach and indoctrinate your children, is that from God? Is that his ideal? Was that his design, public school? No. It's an invention of men. And the first book, the first curriculum in America was the bible and our government printed the bible. And schools, public school were in the churches and the McGuffey readers and such. And so I don't care so much that my kids aren't elevated to the point of getting a PhD and making millions of bucks. Narrow is the way that leads to life eternal and few there be that go in, you know. Easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. But with God, all things are possible. So the number one, the number one reason God has entrusted us with children is to introduce them to Jesus. Nothing else matters in comparison. Once they know Jesus, begin to discover their bent, how God has made them. And if they're to be a doctor, do everything you can to help them become the best doctor on the mission field or in Bremerton or wherever God sends them to bring the glorious good news and bring that gift of healing, whatever they can do. A lawyer, a plumber, a janitor. I used to tell my girls when when I was raising them is is, I don't care who you marry. I don't care if they're a janitor like your like your dad or a plumber or a doctor or whatever whatever kind of occupation. I'm not pointing you in a direction. Marry this guy. They'll be rich. You'll be rich. I said, no. You know, you'll know the guy to marry when you meet the guy that loves Jesus more than your dad. That's the one you wanna marry. If he's in love with Jesus, I have no worries because he's gonna take care of you. He's gonna make that a home that thrives, that the children and you and others are gonna be safe and provided for and cared for. And the very most important thing is gonna take place, and that is is that Christ is modeled. That Jesus, you're giving the kids the best chance. They all have a choice. They all have a choice, but we give them the best chance they could ever have by pouring the word of God into them, by pouring God's love into them. We can't make them obey. We can't force it down their throat, but we can certainly during the formative years, we can certainly give them the parameters of the we used to carry a ruler and, we'd have that ruler and they'd hide it. Spare the rods, spoil the child. So sometimes they need to be encouraged what those rules are in that we love them and we're gonna we're gonna spank you into submission. We're gonna give you a little bit of pain, you know, to remind you. My dad used to use a belt and he'd say, drop them, Rick. And you'd have to drop your drawers and bend over the bed and you get whipped with that belt because you were sassy to your mom while he was at work. And that wasn't uncommon. That was fairly common, you know, with almost everybody. There was no such thing as, maybe a little bit, but time out or let's reason with them. Use your words. No. They use very few words. Drop them. Boom. Boom. Boom. End of discussion. If you're at grandma and grandpa's house, they had this thing. These guys were from Minnesota and and Wisconsin. I don't know where they got this thing, but if you're at grandma and grandpa's house, you're to be seen and not heard. There was none of these kids interrupting. And if you got rambunctious, you might be able to go outside and get your wiggles out, you know. But, if your parents dressed you in those really weird clothes and a dicky around your neck and and it was like the holidays, you better be good. Or you're gonna go kneel in the corner. Now that might have been time out. Many a days I had at grandma's house kneel in the corner and just look in that corner, you know. What is that? Who comes up with that stuff, you know? And, that might have been time out, but it gave me time to think. And, and it was it was better than being taken outside and whipped, you know, in public with everybody around, but they do that too if you pushed it too far. And so next week, we'll talk more about that, about the role of fathers within the home. And so love relationship with his father, that's where it stems from. And so, how's your relationship with your father, with the holy spirit, and with Jesus? In first John two three, it says, hereby do we know that we know him if we keep his commandments. He that sayeth I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. And so how do we know if your teenager really has a relationship with Jesus? While under your supervision at home, they learn the ropes. They learn what they need to do to function within that home environment that where you set the standard, where you set the rules. And it was a Christian home and Christian rules and such. And so if it was our home, you know, there's no, bad stuff on the TV or in the radio or there's no bad books, there's no Harry Potter, there's no, anything like you hear of Christian homes having today. Nothing like that. No alcohol in the refrigerator. No smoking pot. No doing the reefer with the kids. No drugs or gummies or any of that stuff. So bizarre today you even have to say that. So they're having an environment completely the opposite of how I was raised and how Kathy was raised. These kids are privileged kids. They've had the best of the best. A Christian home is the best of the best, and they better appreciate it. In many cases, they don't. They live lives of rebellion against God and against you as soon as they come of age and they go to college or their job or whatever. They get real mouthy. They learn how to lie, and they conform themselves to the world. During COVID, you can't even see the kids unless you get vaccinated. All of a sudden, there's all these rules and regs and you as grandparents can barely even see your grandkids with these psychos. How did you become such a pariah? How did you become so much the enemy once they got married? Once they left home? How can you be the one that's blamed for all their problems? And a lot of them are such space cadets. If you haven't done anything yet that would warrant such treatment, they come up with dreams and visions. I dreamt that you well, you're a psycho. Who cares about what you do do you think maybe you're influenced by the aliens that are coming? You know? By the demons maybe? Think you've been drinking something? What have you guys been smoking? What what are you doing? How did you become such a super spiritual gnostic that somehow we are gonna hurt your kids and we never hurt you? It's bizarre. It's bizarre. It's demonic. They wanna hurt the grandparents. We gotta get together as grandparents. Have some grandparent rights, man. Gotta do something here. So Joseph, he leaves home. His brothers sell him into slavery. Dad's lied to and they're told they tell dad that he's dead. They show a coat of many colors with blood all over it. And Joseph has no adult supervision anymore. He's a leader. He steps into the role of leadership that God had prophesied that he would he would exemplify and live through and that his his mom and dad and even his brothers and all of them would one day bow down to him. He'd be second command to Pharaoh one day. And he had these dreams and and he could interpret dreams. God was with Joseph and Joseph was with God. And he came to the home of Potiphar and he was one of Potiphar's servants. And, Potiphar's wife began to eyeball him day by day by day. This is a guy in his prime. This is a guy with high testosterone. She's a cougar maybe. She's she's like looking after this young 17, 18, 19, 20 year old dude. And she's saying lie with me. Lie with me. And he's like, looking left, looking right. Hey, nobody's watching. Mom and dad can't see what I'm doing. I'm in the navy now. I'm in a I'm in a foreign port. All the guys are doing it. They're gonna laugh at me if I don't. I'm a Christian guy, but I better put that under the radar, man. I'm I'm I'm ready to sow some oats. How how can I how can I marry a woman if I don't know how to do it? How can I marry her if if we don't try it out before marriage? We gotta try it out before marriage, see if we're compatible. Boy, you guys are smarter than God. You're in a position you're smarter than God now. Because he puts virgins together and he makes it work by design. But Joseph said, how could I do this great evil against God? You see the the training, the the relationship with the Lord even though his brothers weren't listening, even though mom and dad couldn't hear, the the trials that Joseph was going through only deepened his walk with the Lord and his resolve to obey God. He didn't wanna break his father's heart. And when you're in high school, when you're in college, your dad, he doesn't have any more sway over you, at least in my case when I wasn't living with him. I'm on my own now. I need to obey the rules unless I go to jail or lose jobs and things like that, so I'm not that big of an idiot. But when my friends are coming up to me with, you know, wanting to smoke pot and stuff in high school, I said no. Why? Because my dad didn't want me to. And I loved him. And I didn't wanna break his heart. Later on, I indulged but I didn't like it so got got through that. The Lord saved me at 20. Why not 21 or 22? Because I was a partier and I've never been to the bars that you guys have been to. Never been to the clubs all my friends started going to. I got saved at 20. I I my ID wouldn't let me in to the red onion and all that. So thank God I although I was an unbeliever and indulged in a lot of weirdness and things that went against even breaking laws, recreational drugs and stuff. I never went very deep in it. Just just barely. Just barely. Enough for me to realize it wasn't gonna fulfill. Wasn't gonna fulfill me, that it was a dead end. And that's what the Lord kept showing me. It's a dead end, Rick. It's a dead end. I wasn't even saved yet, but he's showing me it's a dead end. That's a dead end. And I I knew what not to do in marriages and stuff. I saw the bad example. But there were a lot of things that we were indulging in trying to discover in life what the meaning of life is. And, part of it had to do with drugs and alcohol and partying and things like that. But deep within me, the Lord was putting deep within me a desire for a relationship with him. I didn't know it yet, but that's what he was nurturing deep within me. And I wasn't gonna find it like the woman in John four in relationships after relationship after relationship. There was a thirst within that only he could fill. So first and foremost, I needed to have a relationship with my heavenly father, a relationship with the holy spirit, a relationship with Jesus, so that as I get to know God, my life could be governed of God. Jacob was a conniver. Joseph obeyed the Lord. Jacob was a conniver. He was always trying to supplant authority within the home with Isaac, with Esau, want to steal the birthright, that sort of thing. But he met his match one day as he got into a wrestling match with Jesus, the angel of the Lord. And the angel of the Lord broke Jacob. Many of our kids are prodigal kids. They've been warring and fighting against God for decades. It's exhausting. And Jacob cried out. His hip was dislodged. And Hosea describes how he was crippled, outwardly, physiologically crippled. That's the extent God went to to get Jacob to the place of submission that he would obey the Lord. And God transformed and changed his name from supplanter or heel catcher even in the womb, grabbing hold of his brother Esau's heel as Esau's the first born as he was one of the twins. And God changed his name to Israel, which means governed of God. He'll be governed by God. And I love to point out that within the home, within our relationship with the Lord, it's not a legal relationship. It's a love relationship. There can be rules, there can be regs, there can be the law, especially as I said in the formative years of the kids growing. We need boundaries. But ultimately, objective is when we're not looking, when nobody's watching, will our kids make the right decision? Do our kids know when they're under pressure by their peer pressure, especially kids that are raised homeschooled or even in the public school, especially in the public school. Do they know the word no? Do they have enough courage to say no to temptation? Have we made them strong enough to be that kid that'll stand up like Vicky did and tell the teacher, Jesus is the only way. A lot of our kids are leaving Christianity in the high school, in college, in their careers, when they're faced with the lies of the world. They compromise, they give in. They don't wanna stand up. They want what the world has to offer. But we need to raise kids that will dare to be Daniels, that will dare to be Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego's. Where they're not, they don't fear the face of the king. And that was the problem during COVID. We had so few Christians. Number one that could discern. Now, are you ready for the hunter virus? You ready for round two? Are you ready for the idiocy that's coming, aliens all this? It's so bizarre. Bizarre all the world we're living in. You better be able to stand for truth and stand up and say, no, not on my watch. I'm gonna protect my family and my kids. And even if they threaten you, you're gonna lose your job, you gotta pay the mortgage, you're gonna that's not paramount. That's not the number one most important thing for you as a parent. Most important objective as a parent is for you to obey Jesus. You're in disobedience when you obey those blabber mouths, those liars. There's no way I was gonna give in to that sort of tyranny, sort of lies. My whole life would be for nothing if now I sell out. All these years of resisting, all these years of wanting to do right, all these years of sacrificing. And then what now? I'm gonna compromise? I'm gonna fall more in love with the world? So many decisions along the way prepared me for this. And our children as they watch, hopefully, they're learning there's certain things that are just non negotiable. And number one is our relationship with Jesus. Will this quench the holy spirit? Will the break the heart of the father? Is this disobedience against God? And a lot of pastors will misconstrue and take away the guilt by saying it's Romans 13. You gotta obey the government. Really? They tell you not to preach in his name anymore in Canada? You're gonna obey the government? No. I'm a rebel. I'm a rebel against the devil. But I'm in compliance to almighty God. I'll obey God rather than men. And that's the test we face today. You wanna raise a rebel? Raise a rebel in the right way. Raise a Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego. Raise a Daniel that know that they know that they know what's right. And there's no negotiating with the devil. Titus one sixteen says, they profess the unbelievers. Lot of unbelievers in the church today. Lot of unbeliev everybody's a Christian now. All of Hollywood are Christians. They're getting ready for the one road religion is what they're doing. Everybody's gonna jump on board and say all roads lead to God. They're gonna actually bring in the you guys are gods. The lie from the garden. It's getting close. It's getting really really close. The rapture's getting close. These guys are nut jobs. It's Looney Tunes out there. It's cuckoo for Coco Puffs. I can't even imagine how cartoonish and clownish the casino is today. The government casino we have. Everything is tokenized and cryptoed and and craziness going on. Insider trading and everybody jockeying for position, for power. Leveraging and the tyrannical move of of the bankers with the help of their pawns, their puppets, the government, following a script. The greatest tyranny the world has ever seen is on the verge of happening. The beast system's being built. This surveillance system that's taking place that's being built. Data centers. I mean, they're going crazy with these data centers. And you're using too much electricity. Your bills are gonna quadruple. And the water availability because they're fixated on playing God and trying to surveil you. Watch your every move. And boy, you better be in obedience. Larry Ellison from Oracle says, we're gonna have more obedient citizens as a result of this surveillance system. They'll be forced. Larry Fink says, we'll be able to shape behavior. That's tyranny. That's what that is. It's tyranny. And the Christians love it so. The mind blower, the mind you think you can operate under the radar and act like it's not happening? You you think you can escape what's coming? You're gonna be faced with the decision and you're gonna have to stand for righteousness. You're gonna have to choose to obey God. And you gotta seal it in your heart now. You gotta get it ready now. And you have to prepare your kids in the same way. You gotta you gotta say, you know, I've only got, you know, Judah's 16. Ruthie Evie's coming up right behind them. She's 14, almost 15. I mean, Wayne and Brittany, it's it's on the brink now. It's it's almost at that point. And we had the privilege and the blessing of taking Judah and Evie out to eat on Friday night, grandma and grandpa. We're able to talk with them, you know, and they're they're real busy. Their lives are different. They're they're they're I'm so thankful for little Toby and Ruthie because they still they still wanna talk to me. The kids are real busy. They got a lot of phones and activity and stuff going on now like you and I. But I think we got through to them. I think we because I saw it in their face. I said, do you know you guys? All that matters is that you guys keep following Jesus. That's really all that matters. That's the best way to honor your mom and dad. With Mother's Day coming up because they're talking about Mother's Day gifts and all, that's the best way to honor them is a life of obedience unto Jesus. That they see that all that work, all that modeling, all that that cultivating that you guys have embraced Christ and you've made him your own. I said, if you do to them what Jessica did to her mother, you're gonna break their heart. Boy, their face. I said, Jessica was about your age. She was about your age when she learned how to lie and live a double life. A Christian home, going the way the world. And she learned how to do it at a youth group filled with kids who are disobedient to Jesus and learned how to circumvent the rules and make mom and dad think that they still were following Jesus. That got their attention. Now, I don't know if it's gonna sink way down. You don't know till the temptation comes where they're tempted like Joseph was and what decision they make. And then I told them, I said, now your mother, when she was tempted at those youth groups, she flat out told them, no. She's ready to fight them. Brittany led the kids to the youth group, our youth group, and went and picked them all up and brought them to youth group on Thursdays and did outreaches on Fridays and and modeled the Christian life. She was more of a youth leader than any youth leader I've ever had. But I liked her spunk. To her, it made her angry. No. And that's the way that kids need to be. They need to be defiant with evil because you can't do both. It's one or the other. Otherwise, you're a poser. You're a hypocrite. It'll come to the surface eventually. There's many unsaved kids in the church today and they've been the most privileged kids on the planet. They weren't born in India or China or even Mexico or impoverished places or even ideological or brainwashed places, you know, like China or like Iran. Fastest growing church in the world is in Iran right now. Oh, how they must appreciate a bible. How they must appreciate a bible teaching church. Privileged kids and yet they wanna be rebels. Disobedient. But in works, they deny him being an abominable and disobedient under every good work reprobate. We pray for the John the Baptist type kid. We pray for our kids to be filled with the holy spirit from the womb. I brought Jessica to pastor Chuck when she's just a little baby and had him dedicate her before the church. Praying that God would get inside that little girl. Knowing the huge responsibility as a father, the gross inadequacy that I felt as a husband and as a father and I still I still to this day, I feel and I rely upon the Lord. I'm banking on the Lord. I'm banking on the Lord that he I can't even say it. It's unimaginable that Jessica would miss heaven. But you know, they're a bunch of punks. They think that these rebels, they're punks. They mouth off to you, disrespect you. They blame you for their lives. They've been disobedient to God. That's the problem. You're an extension of his authority and they can't punch him in the face so they want to hurt you. And their way, their rebellion hasn't worked out for them. It'll work out for the unbelieving kid, but your kid, the believer who's backslidden, it's not working out for them. The drugs, the alcohol, the ways they've gone makes them miserable. They're tormented. But they're still in rebellion, so they they wanna make you hurt. They wanna make you hurt on Mother's Day. They're not gonna call you. They're punks. They need a good whooping. I'd like to be the one. But Hebrews 12 says, whom the Lord loves, he chastens and he scourges every son or daughter. How do I know Jessica's still a Christian or is a Christian? Because the Lord's spanking her. If she wasn't being spanked, then if she's allowed to just go her way, that's an indication that she's illegitimate in Hebrews 12. But God's still working on that girl. She still professes that she loves Jesus. In work, she denies him but but she has a faith. There's a faith there and there's a profession of faith. She's living with a question mark hanging over her life. Her husband, Germ, has 501, 502, 503 of sobriety. That's attributed to your prayers and my prayers in a body of believers that don't give up on our kids. That's a start. And they're in their forties now. I've had that conversation with her. And I told Judah and I told Evie the other night, you know, one of the reasons I think Jessica is so angry is because she can't be a mommy. Because she made bad choices. And it hurts her deeply to watch her sister have all these kids and she just recently had a another miscarriage. It deeply deeply hurts her. And I can understand that. But there's consequences to rebelling against God. And we don't want we don't want you kids to go the hard way. We want you to learn to be soft before the Lord. To obey means to action, to hear under, to put yourself under the words and the authority of your parents. The godly words of your parents. Again, not carte blanche. If your dad and your mom are in disobedience to Jesus, you obey Jesus. Period. And you call them out on it. You call them out. I was angry at God one time. I went up to the Bible College and I loved it for two months. And my guys ran my business into the ground and I had to come back and take it over and start over. And so in my anger to God, my fist at him. I went up there to the mountain. Kathy and the two girls I had them in a house up there were renting while I was going to school. So I had to leave that, go sleep in my shop and so angry at God. I told him, you call yourself a loving heavenly father. I would never do this to my kids. Pretty self righteous, I I went up there on the weekend to spend with the kids and I couldn't get out of the driveway. I'm not a snow guy, it snowed. And I had my work van there and I kept sliding into the embankment. I was pink. I was purple. I was frozen trying to get that van ready so I could go work on Monday. I couldn't get it out. He's making me furious. Where are you? So I came down the mountain and we moved in with Kathy's mom and Bill and lived there for a bit and got the business back going again and and went and rented a house. And I remember still angry at God. So I didn't go to church for two weeks. I missed two weeks. Most I've ever missed, two weeks. Pretty righteous, aren't I? But anyway, two weeks. Jessica comes up to me and she says, dad, are we gonna go to church again? She was really enjoying Sunday school. Really enjoying church. Little Jessica. Boy, I was convicted. So you kids can call your parents out. She called me out. Now I was convicted. I thought, you know, I can ruin my life but I'm not gonna ruin hers. And so we all began to I surrendered and humbled myself and repented and began to do what I knew I was supposed to do, walk by faith. Four reasons why. Number one, your relationship with the Lord. Second reason you're to obey the Lord, it's the right thing to do. Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. No doubt here. No gray area here. You don't have to ask mister wizard. You don't have to ask, come up with a scenario of how many angels can fit on the end of a pin, you know, type logic or reason. It's simple. He's written it out for you. You got the 10 commandments in Exodus 20. Paul's gonna talk about the fifth of those commandments. Honor your father and mother. It's gonna go well with you. Right now, he's letting you know it's right. Obedience to parents is the right, the righteous thing to do. From nature, by observing the world of the animals, we see this principle of obedience to parents exemplified. I asked, Shannon and Vicky this morning as I got a picture of them, a video of them with the flowers for the mothers. And I said, what do you guys have to say about Mother's Day today? And oh, we're excited and all that. And I said, have you ever thought of eating your young? They looked at me like, what kind of question is that? Well, then mama bears, they have to protect their cubs from papa bear when he tries to eat their young. Right? It's been known to for parents to actually eat their young. Right? And there's times where you think, Vicky said not eat them, but beat them. Thought of beating them. Sorry. But you gotta be so careful because child protective services will bring you into court and try and take your kids away nowadays. Try and make you an unfit parent for exercising authority, parental authority within the home. It's the right thing to do, kids. Don't unleash warfare. Don't go to school and tell the teachers that your parents spanked you. For me, was I got spanked at school by the principal for fighting and I prayed to God he didn't tell my parents because I'd go home and get spanked again. They were in agreement in society. Even a neighbor could probably whack me if I did something wrong. My dad would probably thank him. We have a rule as grandparents, grandparents don't spank. We don't spank. Kids get away with lots of stuff, but we send them home, don't we? And they feel free. Hey, grandparents don't spank. Can I have some more candy? Can I have some more candy? Can I have some more candy? Yeah. Hard to say no. But it's the right thing to do. Some animals eat their young. Your parents brought you into the world. And as you've heard them say, they can take you out too. How many parents said that line? But it's true. They brought you in. They gave you life. It's the right thing to do. My mom had me when she's 15 years old. Raging alcoholic. Very strong mama bear though. She could have aborted me. How many people do you think told her terminate that pregnancy? Your life is ruined according to Margaret Sanger and all the feminists. They were saving women from having babies and their lives being ruined. Why are they some of the ugliest women ever? You know? Just ugly. Ugly. They hate being mothers. They hate motherhood. What happened to them? How'd they miss it? And my mom, she she had me and three more kids and raised my sisters too and and she's a fighter. She's such a fighter. And I appreciate her tenacity. I appreciate all that she fought through. She didn't know Jesus. She destroyed every every home environment there ever was. She destroyed and rebuilt it. She had a pattern. She'd take control. She'd get her husband's drunk, really drunk. Control the money. Go to the casino. Spend it all. And when he's broke, she'd go on to another one. Guys had great retirements. They had extra houses. She'd roll through all that money. But when she was raising me, from the time I was up until I was 16, I always had food to eat, always had a bed to sleep in, I got to play sports. That was some of the most balanced years of her life, married to my dad, Ralph. When that blew up when I was 16, it was it was really ugly after that. But I got out of the house. And then my brother after me got out of the house. And my sister didn't get out. My sister wound up in jail. My mom put her in jail. My mom got the kids. You want me to keep continuing? And see, I could I could keep going, but I love my mom. I thank the Lord for her. I thank the Lord that she gave me life. And I thank the Lord for the times, really good times I had with her. Learning how to swim down Sunset Beach when she was gosh, she must have just been in her twenties. And I'm like, five years old, six years old, learning how to swim. The Ethel B. Dwyer School in Huntington Beach, swimming some more and the boys club and sports. Sports was my my huge thing. And school and friends and camping and they were they were normal. I told Kathy I had a normal upbringing. She laughed at me. Isn't that normal? Wasn't that normal? She said, well, the way that you tried to eat those egg yolks the other day, I don't know. I don't know. I don't think you can had a normal childhood. Something's off with you. Well, now I'm papa. It's the right thing to do. Even in societies where Jesus is not recognized as Lord, the understanding and the teaching is that children should honor and obey their elders. Confucius influencing the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean cultures. I never had that rebellion against my mom. No matter what she did, I I I had a I had a situation where I had to stand up to her. She was doing wrong. I was 16. And the first time I ever tried that, she threw me in jail. It's the last day I ever lived with her. But I loved her and we reconciled. She made a mistake and I forgave her. She took my car away from me too and I lost my job and I had to start all over, but I loved her. I honored her. I didn't hate her. I did not talk to her on Mother's Day. These kids we've raised in the church, they're punks. They're spoiled. Our problem is we spoiled them. I was never spoiled. The problem's not you moms and you dads. These kids are spoiled. Jesus went down with them when he's 12 years old to Nazareth and was subject under Mary and Joseph. 12 years olds subjected himself under Mary and Joseph, their leadership within the home. Four reasons why we should obey as children, our relationship with the Lord. It is the right thing to do. And thirdly, it is required in the law. Verse two, honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment. Exodus 20 verse 12. Obedience speaks of your activity. Honor of your attitude. You smart Mal. Don't talk to your mom like that. Want me to come over there? Want me to pull this car over? I'll do it. That smart mouth. Where did they get that smart mouth from? Crazy. Crazy. I love Wayne and Brittany the way that they manage seven kids. I'll tell you. It's a it's a it's a miracle. It's a work of art. It's phenomenal. You know what else I like? It's not my job. I love that there's so many people out there that don't like me and that don't like this church or whatever. And I tell Kathy all the time, I'm not in charge. I don't wanna be in charge. That's between them and the Lord. Let them figure it out. But for those who come under the the the covering of this little fellowship, it's a responsibility I have to love you. But I'm not lord and over you. You're free to come. You're free to go. We have structure. We do things according to God's word, but it's not a legal force and bullying. It's a love relationship with Jesus. We're in agreement. We wanna get to know Jesus. That's who it's about. You're not trying to make your pastor a celebrity. You're not coming here because your pastor is a celebrity. You're not running around going, yeah. And Jack said and Jack said and Jack said. Chuck said, Chuck said, Chuck said, love my pastor. I followed the teaching. I love I still love it. I'm grateful for the consistent systematic teaching of God's word. And I'm grateful that it quit me to help me teach my kids. And we honor. We have the attitude of honor. Honor means to show respect, love and care for them as long as they need us. And so for some of us, we'd say, hey, an ADA. These ADAs are real common. People building a room off or a little little shack for elderly mom and dad. In my case, the Wayne and Brittany let us park our RV in their yard when we lost our house. Ten years we spent in that RV. Wasn't easy on them having mom and dad right there. But they sucked it up. They they helped us. They let us be there. They never whined or complained or made us feel like we need to leave. Ten years. Ten years in a in a 30 foot full RV so that we could keep this church going. Because rents were $25.03 grand, there's no way we could afford that. We got rent here. We got insurance. We got overhead. Church is real small, always a small. People come and go. My gift is making them go. You try real hard to get them here. So we gotta keep the overhead low. So Kathy opted. I'd say to her, you want me to go rent a house? Should we rent a house? We always had a house. Our girls grew up in homes. They never had to live in the RV with us. But the price was so low and everything got out of kilter financially, we thought it best to lay low. No credit cards, No credit, nothing. And our kids were there for us. They honored us. Then they helped us buy the land next door and you guys gifted us. Rob and Vicky gifted us an RV now. We got five slide outs. It's like a hotel room now. High ceilings. I feel like I'm a king again. I'm watching my toothbrushes though, I'll tell you that. Watching close. I still feel like a king. I feel like I'm being honored. Feel like I'm being respected. To show respect. In Deuteronomy twenty two sixteen, said cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother. The Jewish law allowed for parents to take their kids out and have them stoned, to stone them to death. A cursed son or daughter that got involved with witchcraft or followed a false prophet or did things that were against God's law and persisted in it. They didn't it didn't make it to the courts. Mom and dad can take that fool out and put him down. I don't know if it ever happened, but it's there in the law. And this is the understanding that if you don't follow the rules kids, if you persist in rebelling against the authority within the home, they're not gonna take you out and stone you with stones, they're gonna stone you with drugs. Your rebellion's gonna be met with a psychological quote unquote disease. It can be called bipolar, ADHD, many different names for aberrant behavior. And they're going to riddle in you. They're going to put meds in you to zombie you, to lobotomize you chemically. And if that don't work, then you're gonna be put out you're gonna be on the streets in Seattle, addicted to drugs and alcohol in your rebellion against God, not because you don't have enough money to have a home or keep a job, but because you're so addicted to the drugs which stems from your rebellion against God. A vicious circle. Take it serious. Honor authority. You'll wind up in jail. You'll wind up in prison. Honor your father and mother. Be like Joseph. I'm not gonna break my mama's heart. She told you don't stand on the street corner to sell dope. She told you don't take the dope. Don't do the dope. Don't be a dope. Kathy calls me a dope on a rope. You're just a dope on a rope. That's on the good days. A lot of little things like that, I'll tell you. Am I really a king or not? Proverbs 10 verse one says, a wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is heaviness of his mother. Oh, it breaks her heart. She's the best mother I've ever seen. You can disrespect me, but you better not disrespect disrespect your mom. Rebellious children are heartbreaking. Honor your father and your mother. Children, obey your parents. Number one, your relationship with the Lord. Number two, it is the right thing to do. Thirdly, is required in the law. And fourthly, you will reap many blessings. My mom was good to me. There's a lot of blessings I reaped and and just trying to obey, just trying to not be a rebel. I had a lot of privileges. I had a lot of latitude because I I I didn't if you if you do wrong when they let you stay home for the weekend when you're 13 years old and they go camping, you get to stay home when you're 13, 14. If you don't burn the house down, you have freedom and you get more freedom. And I like that. I like having freedom. I like being with my friends and doing things with my friends and being able to go fishing or go to the beach or do things without parental supervision. There were a lot of rewards that came with obedience, with honoring them. If you don't obey, if you don't honor them, then you're a punk kid that they gotta put in a I don't know what, you know, in a a room. You're on restriction. You can't leave. No. You gotta go with us. We gotta watch you. You'll reap many blessings. This is with promise he says that it may be well with thee and you thou may live as long on the earth. So honor your father and mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee. Exodus twenty twelve. There's a promise with this. As you honor, a promise of quality and quantity. You know what happens to rebels? Drunks die before they're 50. Addicts die at a young age. They overdose. They go in and out of marriages. One of my mom's husbands, he he, he had a brand new pickup truck. And I went down there to Kingman. They worked at Laughlin at the at the casino. This was her last husband. The last one. She had brain cancer. And it was so strange to see this brand new pickup truck. Every panel of the pickup truck was smashed in. How do you do that? That car belongs to a drunk. That is a drunk that smashed it. This fender smashed. That fender smashed. This fender smashed. That fender. And you stand back and you look at that vehicle. How could that possibly happen? And then occurs to you. Oh, this is DUIs. This is this is driving under the influence. It's crazy out there. It's crazy. Who would wanna live like that? Who would wanna be that? Not not me. I got friends that I saw when I was down in California. I met up with them. You know, they fly through windshields. They they go through rehab three, four times. One of my husband's went through three rehabs. They're $35 each back then. They're very talented drunks even at work. And they go out to their car to get a little bit to calm their nerves to go back in and work, and they're very gifted at work. That's why they don't get fired. They go through rehab. They're functional drunks. But their life is greatly greatly impaired because of their rebellion against God. And what started out in high school for me, that was fun and check it out and and get rid of your ambitions, the drinking and the little drugs and all that in high school, you go back to your reunion forty years later. And for many of them, it didn't play nice. Didn't play out nice. As I said, they flew through windshields. They went to jail. They went through relationships, marriages. It doesn't go well with you. And their moms and dads were there trying to steer them, trying to help them, bailing them out of trouble every every which way. Always bailing them out. God the the parent wants them to fulfill their potential. The parent wants their life to be blessed. They're they're gonna help you buy your house. They're gonna help you if you ever lose your job. They're there to help you. But they can enable you, not indefinitely, in your addiction to drugs and alcohol. And you're gonna break their heart. You're gonna break their heart because they saw the athlete. They saw the the the beauty queen, they saw the one that was good with the piano, they saw the talent, the ability, the the things that God has bestowed upon you. Unrealized potential. Breaking your father and mother's heart. They they they dreamt over you. They prayed over you. They they they pleaded with God. They envisioned up ahead that they wanted your life to be much better than theirs. They didn't want you to be raised in an alcoholic home. They didn't want you to have to worry and hear the raging and the lying, the screaming, and all the the the police officers coming to the door dragging people away. They didn't want you to experience that. You you you have a Christian home. God's desire is to bless your life. He gives these instructions for your good. He puts you in a Christian home with good parents. Psalm 32 verse eight says, I'll instruct thee and teach thee in the way which you shall go. I will guide thee with mine eye. Be not as the horse or as the the mule, which have no understanding whose mouth must be held in with a bit and a bridle. So the Lord's saying, go the easy way. Go the compliant way. Do what's right. Don't be absent. Don't be like a donkey. Don't be like a mule that needs pain in the mouth to get it to go left or right. God doesn't wanna use pain in your life. That's secondary, but he will. But that's not the best way to be led is is by pain. Lest they come near unto thee. Many sorrow shall be to the wicked but he that trusts in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. So God doesn't wanna use pain the bit to guide you, he wants love to guide you like with Joseph. Rebellion will keep you from the blessing. Rebellion characterizes our generation. I almost said your generation picking on the kids. No. It represents the boomers. It represents the boomers coming out of the fifties into the sixties and a rebellion, a sexual revolution against God. It affected the church with prayer and the bible being taken out of the church and the church being compromised in many ways like a Laodicean church. We're guilty also. But Paul specifically says in second Timothy three verse one, in the last days perilous times will come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves. Covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents is in that list. Unthankful, unholy, unfulfilled, unfulfilled lives. Do you know if I was raising my kids today and one of my kids had the audacity to go tell on me to her teacher at school, do you know what I would do? You take her. She's yours now. I'm serious. I'm not gonna tolerate that. If I have a child that is that rebellious to me in my home, and they're gonna try and get me in trouble for taking them to bible study or something that we do as a family that's biblical, and they're gonna try and make me be a monster because I'm a Christian, whatever they wanna make the people up in Canada right now, which is coming here, then you know what, honey? You get to go live with child protective services. I don't know what, but if you're gonna live here, the only way you get to live here and I'm not it's not a legalism thing. It's it's it's a circumventing of the whole house. It's it's rebellion against God. And I can't go down to New Orleans and grab an adult child who's living in hell and force her back here. That's kidnapping. She's in her thirties. I did everything I could to extricate her from the influence of that guy. We cleaned the house up. We paid the rent. We brought her home. We nursed her to health. And she's sneaking over there to his house and then takes her car and drives him to New Orleans. She's there seven years. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. When's the hell gonna stop? How did it get started? Where did we go wrong? It was a Christian home. We have to factor in, it's demonic. The devil's after your kids. We gotta be wise as serpents and gentle as doves. Of course, I don't wanna give her over to child protective services, but I gotta be wise enough to figure all this weirdness out. All of a sudden, we're we're we're in court trying to assert our rights as parents and people are trying to take our kids away from us. What are we gonna do? Maybe we're gonna have to record everything and write everything down and have evidence about everything because these kids are liars. They'll go into court and they'll lie about you. How can that be, but it happens? These are perilous times. Your life is shortened like Absalom. Your life will be shortened like Samson because of rebellion. Failing to enter into God's best for you. Unreached, unrealized potential, heartbreaking, reduced to a crust of bread. In Matthew nineteen fourteen, Jesus said, suffer the little children and forbid them not to come on to me for such is the kingdom of heaven. Jesus likes to hang out with the youth. He has time for you. He wants to bless your life. The goal for all of us is to be like Jesus. He prayed to his father, not my will, but thy will be done. I love hanging out with the kids. I'm a big kid. And I'm so incredibly blessed to have my grandkids right next door. Incredibly blessed. But even before that, when we bought the Roxy, and I told Judah the other day, I wish we had it. Something you'll observe about that ministry is that ministry first and foremost was for the children in this community. The young adults, the kids, the junior hires, the high scores. They had a place to come play as rock stars, to play their music, secular and Christian. They had a coffee house. It was the coolest place in town for the young people. Why? Because we didn't have a liquor license. Every venue all over America has to make money off selling liquor. To have a child venue, somebody has to support it. Somebody has to underwrite it. And these kids came in droves with their parents, their names on the marquee in the green room, they were rock stars. And Friday night football games, the kids would come after the football games to the Roxy. In the Bremerton High School, they would advertise at lunch time what bands, their bands were playing at the Roxy. Olympic High School, their yearbook, inside, outside of the yearbook, pictures of concerts at the Roxy. And I had the joy and the blessing of facilitating, of helping along with a lot of other parents that were there helping me. We were there all serving, helping to set these kids up, to let them let them express themselves musically, to express themselves, even jumping in the mosh pit and I got in a lot of trouble and they took two rows out and they're taking the kids on up above and all the pastors were going crazy on me. What is that? That's crazy. What are you doing? And you know what else? We shared the gospel every night and kids got saved. And the secular kids, they'd walk out and go outside and listen, you know, out there, smoke their cigarettes and all that. We didn't impose upon them. We just told them don't use f bombs, don't say anything blasphemous about Jesus and cooperate with us in between the sets that we have somebody come up and share the gospel. And I likened it to Elijah with the 450 prophets of Baal. I wanted the Christians to be challenged and show the world what they got. To be emboldened rather than being like the world. So if you play the guitar, play it skillfully. Play it in such a way that the world's looking at you. Do you know the best lead guitar player is a Christian guy? Why does it always have to be the other way around? And it was it was exciting. They come from all over. National, internationally, from Australia, New Zealand, all over the place, they came to play. And I'd mix it up with them, with Seattle ones, with Kitsap ones, and it was on. It was it was exciting. And Brittany was in that age group of high school and she facilitated that with all of her friends. And I didn't have a linebacker in Britney. I wanted a linebacker. I I might have one in Gideon. He wants to play football. But I had this beautiful wonderful daughter and Jessica was helping too and they were serving the Lord. We were serving the Lord as a family with many other families with young people and God was blessing it. How are you come alongside the kids, the youth, to transition them, to help them in their desire to serve Jesus? You can send them to youth group and forget about them or we can be a part of something if we listen. If we stop and listen. Nowadays, they're so into the gaming. Maybe we gotta have a gaming center and nobody talks for 20, you know, for twenty hours. I don't know. It's it's bizarre. I I don't understand it but it's so pervasive. It's so powerful. The AI and such. Child like submission is essential. Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall no wise enter therein. We must, you and I as adults must come to Jesus with a child like obedience and dependence upon him. Our rebellious independent nature must give way to his lordship. We are to humble ourselves as children, proving our love of him through obedience. Each and every one of us are still children and our heavenly father treats us as such. He knows our frame. He remembers that we're but dust. And I'm not afraid of being undignified and being childlike and getting down on the ground where the kids are to play with them. To hit me. I have to take a pillow and put it on my lap today because if I don't, they'll wake me up. They jump and they don't give any warning and I love it. And the other day, I don't know if you saw it, but I was trying to eat four duck eggs like Rocky and, man, Gideon and Judah were there and they're filming me and man, it was it was tough. And I failed. I failed, but man, they'll never forget that. And papa was there and I was trying real hard to get that much protein and nutrients in my body. And I tried to do it in the rocky mode. Oh, Adrian and everything and I was getting close and and they're just screaming of laughter and they filmed it. And then when I maybe I should just do one and when I poured it into the other glass and I saw it slithering like a like an oyster. Who does that oyster or shucking oyster? I was like, woah. And then that GERGE thing started coming. Woah. Woah. Woah. And I couldn't stop it. And, finally, it ended. The little video ended with me turning the the stove on. I was gonna make them scrambled, you know. I'm thinking about it a lot from the serious standpoint. I know what I could do. Could put it in a blender. I could put whey protein in there. I could put some berries and I could make a smoothie. I don't know why I didn't think about that before. Just the concept of those eggs and I my grandkids are looking at like, is he gonna do it? Is he gonna do it? And who does that? So no pun intended, but they'll probably egging me on to do it again, you know? But they'll never forget that. How undignified. I thought you're a pastor. I thought you're a papa. I thought you're why why are you acting like that? Some people are scolding me. Why don't you just scramble them? Because I wanna connect with my grandkids before they won't talk to me anymore. Before they're too busy and too sophisticated and too serious. I told Ezra the other day, hey Ezra, I've got a lot of eggs built up in that refrigerator. I get I get a dozen of them from from Sean every Sunday and I must have three, four dozen, man. And one time when I had that many, I hard boiled them all, but I learned they only last three days. So you know what? We should we should do an egg toss. Let's do an egg toss. I'll give $20 to anybody that could that could throw an egg and hit me in the head with an egg or something or on the chest or let's toss them back and forth and see if they break. And Judah's like, I'm not letting an egg break on me. You know, he's got his nice clothes on now, you know. He's a teenager. But the boys, I might be able to talk to boys in something like that, you know, as long as their mom doesn't hear about it, her grandma. I might be able to do it at the church picnic this year, have an egg toss. Wouldn't that be fun? But we're so adult. We're so adult. It might take some things to to lighten the air to laugh with kids. To bring laughter into the room instead of always so on the muscle. Always on the muscle. Diffuse the tension. Get the kids laughing. There's a balance, isn't there? We're to humble ourselves as children proving our love of him through obedience. In John fourteen twenty one, Jesus said, he that has my commandment keeps them. He it is that loves me and he that loves me shall be loved to my father and I will love him and will manifest myself unto him. Children, obey your parents. It'll go well with you. Let's pray. Father, thank you. Thank you, Lord, that you give us boundaries, you give us rules, you give us your word, Lord, that we won't hurt ourselves. That we won't do like Britney did where she ran out into the street and the car almost hit her, Lord. There's boundaries. And Lord, there's also as we mature, there's a deeper relationship and connection that of love. That Lord, we don't wanna even go near the electric fence and see how close we can get without being shocked. We know that's a dead end. We wanna go the opposite direction as close as we can to you, lord. We don't wanna live on the fence. We don't wanna live in the world. Lord, we wanna go to extreme. We wanna be fanatical about getting to know you and walking with you and loving you. Lord, we pray that our lives will bear much fruit for your kingdom and glory. We pray that you would bless our kids and bring our prodigals home and have them call their moms tonight, today, FaceTime all of it, all that technology to connect, to reconnect, Lord. Soften hearts. Don't let the grudge, the unforgiveness continue, Lord. Don't let it persist. Lord, it's heartbreaking. It's demonic. Lord, we pray that you'd break through that hard shell that envelops the hearts of those we love. Break them, Lord. Set them down easy. But bring them that place of submission like you did with Jacob as you wrestled with him. Let them have some good years ahead. Let them know that we're we're here to help. We're here to be a help. That's all we've ever wanted. It's to be a blessing. So father, pour out your holy spirit. Help us to be being filled with your holy spirit, But love prevail. And as you pray, if there's anybody here this morning and you're not a child of God, you don't have a relationship with him, this morning you can. As you yield your heart unto him, as you turn from your sins, as you cry out to God, God be merciful to me a sinner. Sorry I was such a rebel. Sorry I've been fighting against you. Lord, come into my life, make me new. Help me to start over. Help me to be born again. The bible says as many as received him to them gave he the power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name. He wants you to be a son, a daughter, a child of God. Your heavenly father loves you. And he's given you earthly parents, moms and dads to as an extension of his love. So simply respond. Quit resisting his love. Anyone here this morning? Just lift your hand up. Father, thank you. Thank you, Lord. Bless now as we partake of communion, as we draw ever closer to you. And Lord, we pray that you bless the rest of this day, this beautiful wonderful Mother's Day. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
