Train Up A Child in the Way That They Should Go
Pastor David T. Elms Preached on 9/22/2026
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Summary
Pastor David T. Elms explores the spiritual architecture of a godly home, emphasizing that parents must intentionally train, correct, and nourish their children in the Way of the Lord to prepare them for life's inevitable trials.
Key points
- •Training children requires proactive 'fostering' rather than waiting for them to reach an age of discovery, because if parents do not shape their worldview, the world certainly will.
- •Authentic parenting involves leading through love and shared stories rather than just rules; children learn the seriousness of God by observing what their parents prioritize and 'play' at.
- •Fathers have a specific scriptural mandate to provide emotional strength and spiritual foundation, resisting the cultural trend of leaving child-rearing solely to mothers.
- •Correction must be administered 'betimes' (early and promptly) while there is still hope, and it should be rooted in instruction for growth rather than an outburst of parental wrath.
- •Parents must prepare children for inevitable tribulations, teaching them that while the righteous face many afflictions, the Lord is faithful to deliver them out of them all.
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Life application
This week, find a quiet moment at bedtime or around the table to share a personal story with your child or a younger person in your life about how God delivered you from a specific trial, emphasizing His faithfulness rather than your own strength.
Reflection questions
- What are the 'stories' your children or peers are learning from your life based on what you prioritize and celebrate?
- In what ways have you been tempted to 'charm' your children into obedience rather than 'charging' them with their spiritual identity?
- How can you better balance being a 'covering' for your children while also equipping their 'legs' to walk independently in their own faith?
- How does the promise that God 'delivers us out of them all' change your perspective on the current tribulations your family is facing?
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0:00attention to Acts, the 14th chapter. And thank you for being so great during the
0:04revival with Brother Trimble. It is always whenever you have these dramatic presentations, they move
0:10you in a different part of the heart, doesn't it? It's not typical Pentecostal church.
0:16But here's the thing, we are not typical people. We love all different kinds of
0:21ways to praise the Lord. I can praise him loud. I can praise him quiet.
0:26I can praise him in silence. I can praise him with a shout. I can
0:30dance with fast music and I can stand still and see the salvation of the
0:35Lord. Don't put us in a box and think you've defined us by a certain
0:39way because we love him every way we know how. And he's good at all
0:44times like that. And that's the reason tonight's so special to me because you guys
0:49expended so much for that week of revival. And yet here you are back in
0:54the Lord's house, wonderful people of God, just here to hear the simple word of
0:58God. And we are in this process of speaking that it takes God to make
1:03a home. It takes God to make a home. Tonight, our subject in this third
1:08lesson is train up a child. in the way that they should go. Now I'm
1:14taking a text that is probably not normally taught when it comes to raising your
1:19children. If I went to those normal texts, most of you would have heard them.
1:24But this is one that is bigger than just your individual child. Now, this is
1:30in reaching people, but it's essentially the same thing. Reaching people is the same thing
1:35as reaching your children. And so we come to a description given to
1:41us in the book of Acts, the 14th chapter, where the Bible says
1:47in verse 21, And when they had preached the gospel to that city
1:53and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and
1:59to Antioch. All right, you've just heard them reach
2:04in an evangelistic effort. They have extended beyond the normal walls
2:10of their jurisdiction. That's the work of evangelism, okay? Now, how
2:16do we keep our home? I'm talking about the home church,
2:21the home place, the home relationships. Here it is. It says,
2:27confirming the souls of who? Disciples. We want to always have
2:33a mind towards the outside. We're going to do that Sunday. Sunday, we're going
2:38to baptize and preach on the doctrine of baptisms. Okay? But you never forget
2:44that there's a place to return to when you're wanting to be saved. And
2:50this is it. You confirm the souls of the disciples and exhorting who is
2:55the them in this text? The disciples. Your disciples. The disciples are the
3:01subject, confirming the souls of disciples and exhorting them to continue. Everybody say continue.
3:07Oh, y'all have been so great. We have prayed. People got the Holy Ghost
3:13Sunday. There were people that were seeking again and a fresh new touch in
3:19this place. But here's the thing. You've got to come back from a time
3:24of reaching out. confirm the disciples, exhort the disciples to continue in
3:30the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter the kingdom
3:36of God. Jesus, speak your word to us tonight. Let this be
3:42an enlightening word to your people as we learn of your way
3:48in Jesus' holy and precious name, I pray. Amen. You may be
3:54seated in Jesus' name. Folks, it takes God to make
4:00a home. I preached two weeks ago from the psalm where the Bible
4:06said, except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build
4:11it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
4:17So in that text, it is very clear that the people who are assigned
4:23the task of guarding and building, they're not lazy. They're not slack. They are
4:29not people who do not mind the gap, if I can say it like
4:35that. They're very thoughtful about their purpose and their place. They know what they're
4:41supposed to do. The watchman waketh. He He's not slumbering. He's not sleeping. He gets
4:47up. The laborer does labor. The laborer is not that on his shirt, but
4:53not that in his go and giddy up. The laborer does labor. And yet
4:59the very clear point of that work is that if you're going to do
5:04the work of the Lord, You better do it in the way of the Lord.
5:10And you better understand that you've got to have the Lord to build the house.
5:14And so there is this work of the Lord that's shown to us out of
5:19the book of Acts. And when they had preached the gospel to
5:25that city, they taught many and returned again to Lystra,
5:30Iconium, and Antioch. And then they confirmed the souls of
5:36the disciples. They confirmed the disciples. They confirmed the disciples.
5:42and exhorted them to continue in the faith that they must through and that
5:47we, they didn't say you, they said we. In other words, all of us
5:53are gonna have much tribulation. It is so wonderful if you will always presume
5:59that your brothers and sisters have come through many toils and snares to get
6:04to the house of God. If you assume that about the people of God, then
6:10you will not go around with a suspicious spirit. If you will assume, I don't
6:15know everything they're going through, but look at them still in the house of the
6:20Lord. It makes you happy. It makes you joyful. It makes you welcoming. Instead of
6:25the sinister spirit of Satan that comes in with a sneer and a suspicion, the
6:31presence of the Lord comes in and it knows that you have come through valleys
6:37and crossed rivers and crossed mountains to get into the house of God. And whether
6:43it's true or not, I'm not saying what you need to know. I'm just saying
6:48when you realize that we have to come through much tribulation to enter the kingdom
6:54of God, then you will learn to love your brothers and sisters more every day.
7:00If you've ever been a part of a church that has suspicion in it, you
7:04know exactly what I'm talking about. It's like everybody's Sherlock when they come to the
7:09house of God. Everybody's got this subtle, sneaky, they've got an idea. Maybe you're being
7:14a hypocrite or you're sneaking by with something and they're trying to find out what
7:19you're sneaking by with. Thank God that that spirit has never resided in this house
7:24before. And when it has ever come into this house, thank God the saints of
7:29the Lord have decided that that will not ever have a safe place to sit
7:33in this house because the one thing I know is many are the afflictions of
7:38the righteous. I want you to hear that part first. You know where I'm going,
7:42but I need you to hear that part first many are the affliction of the
7:47righteous when you realize that it makes you love one another more it makes you
7:52pray for one another more it makes you proud of one another more I don't
7:57know everything you've been going through and you don't know everything I've been going through
8:03and thank God I have friends that aren't always showing up moaning and groaning
8:08and griping and saying all the things, you know, when people are
8:14around you, what's their revelation of your revelation? That's a pretty little
8:20sentence there. What is their revelation of your revelation? Do you
8:26show up always moping and griping and complaining and you don't know how bad
8:31I've got it? Is that their revelation of your revelation? Or even when you
8:37are going through the middle of the valley, do you show up and say,
8:43good morning? You know, I was talking to somebody recently. They
8:48had called me. They're from out of state, and they were going through all kinds
8:53of struggles, and I've got a very good relationship with them. We've been through things
8:58together, but I just stopped this person after a minute. I said, you're acting like
9:02God doesn't have your back. Does God have your back? And I
9:08started reminding them of some miracles. This isn't somebody in my church, okay? This is
9:13a peer. This is what real friends say to friends, you know? I started reminding
9:18them of some miracles that he had himself told me of. Did I tell you
9:23the gender of this person? I'm trying not to let you know the gender of
9:28this person. This person was, of course, I don't talk long on the phone with,
9:33nevermind, a man. So we were talking and I said, God's got your
9:39back. Sometimes we need a good friend. That's what a good friend will
9:44do because many are the affliction of the righteous, but y'all know where
9:50I'm going. You ready to join me? But what? The Lord delivereth him
9:56out of Them all Mmm, I'm too wound up on this rainy Tuesday night
10:02the Lord delivereth him sister Dorothy Listen, I want y'all to know Dorothy's older than
10:08me She's let played that elder card on me all the past several weeks. And
10:13so now I'm glad to tell you Dorothy's the elder Dorothy many are the afflictions
10:19of the righteous but look at us after all these years the Lord has delivered
10:25us out of up them the Lord that the
10:30Lord delivers us out of how many of them
10:36glory to God I'm not supposed to shout tonight
10:42train up a child train up a friend train
10:48up a companion allow your friends train you up
10:54that's good friends y'all good friends are those who
11:00can encourage one another in the Lord or like
11:06David he the Bible said he encouraged himself in
11:12the Lord Do not await for your children to arrive grown
11:18before you start training them. The way that they're going to walk is
11:23started in their house. It's not discovered when they get 16. I know
11:29this world wants you to say, well, you've been brainwashed by your parents.
11:35So they are there. The schools are there to get you out of
11:40your brainwashed ways. Well, I want to tell you, first of all, they do not
11:46have the welfare of your children in their mind. Second of all, that is a
11:51very evil report that would try to separate children from their parents. And third of
11:56all, you've got to start when the day they're born telling them the story of
12:01Jesus. You don't wait telling them the story of their purpose on this earth. You
12:06don't tell your child they're a unicorn. Now I've got my granddaughter,
12:12a Vienna is a unicorn sometimes. Isn't she river? Isn't Vienna sometimes
12:18a unicorn? Sometimes she's a unicorn, but most of the time she's
12:23just my granddaughter. But this messed up generation says you can be
12:29whatever you think you are. That is not the way of the
12:35Lord. The way of the Lord is you were born and made by God. You
12:40were fearfully and wonderfully made. And we're not waiting till you discover yourself before we
12:45let you know who you are. You don't know who you are until you understand
12:51who God made you to be. Every child will be fostered by someone. Every child
12:56will have voices other than their parents in their life. And I know parents want
13:02to create safe spaces for their children, and that is very important that they have
13:07them. But I can tell you, if you've ever heard of the story of Bubble
13:13Boy, you're not going to keep your children from having hurts and wounds and
13:19struggles. It doesn't mean you expose them prematurely, but you also build into them
13:25an anticipation when they have to run into someone who doesn't like them how they're
13:31going to respond to that person who doesn't like them. In the house, everybody likes
13:35them until they get a sibling, and then they got to figure out there's other
13:40people in this world. And all of a sudden, it's a great revelation for them
13:45to discover there are other people in this world. But sometimes you're going to run
13:50into somebody that doesn't like you. What do you do when you're running to someone
13:56who doesn't like you? If we have not equipped them for that moment, then we
14:01are not properly equipping and training them up in the way that they
14:07should go. Parents are responsible for the caring for and the nurturing. Parents
14:13are responsible for the teaching and the training and confirming precedes the continuing.
14:19You've got to remind them who they are. Remind them again and again.
14:24Let them know who they are and you get to tell them who
14:30they are. The world's going to tell them who they are. The
14:36world's gonna create labels to stick on them, and if they don't have a sure
14:41understanding of who they are, they need to go to a family reunion. Now, some
14:47of y'all's family reunions helps them find out who they used to be. And I
14:53love pastoring people like that, because you go to family reunions and you realize, "Thank
14:59God the Lord has given me a whole new family." And that's the
15:05kind of church we're building. We're building a church to help people get saved from
15:10families that have gone rogue from God. But you've got to understand, teach those children
15:15who they are. Some of my greatest joys is pastoring the kids of a couple
15:20who was saved by the mighty hand of God. They were saved by the mighty
15:25hand of God. And now they're trying to raise their kids in the nurture and
15:30the admonition of the Lord. It wasn't the way they were raised. And yet they
15:36did not continue the curse. They stopped the curse at the front door. And
15:42now their kids are raised in a whole brand new way. I can't tell
15:47you the joy when I get to meet with their children and their children
15:53come and try to tell on their parents to me. You don't know my
15:59mom. And you know, I listen. Because I'm going to be a sounding board of
16:05safety from the Holy Ghost for everyone, not just the adults in this church. But
16:09I'm also there to be an advocate for the absent. Because most people, they think
16:14they only know the things they know about their mother. But the things they don't
16:19know about their mother is what their mother has hidden from them to keep them
16:24in a safe space that God pulled them out of. And sometimes they won't hear
16:29that from mama, but when pastor tells them, all of a sudden they say, wow.
16:34And then when I tell them that, do you know that way you react now
16:39will be the way your children react to you? Oh, that changes their whole disposition.
16:45Now, they start thinking, I'm gonna reap what I sow. I've been playing the silent
16:50treatment on my mama. And when I have a baby, my baby's gonna play the
16:55silent treatment on me. You know, it changes the way you parent. What are
17:01you doing? You're training them up in the way that they go. Do
17:06you know that your children have opinions about you that you cannot control?
17:12Hallelujah. Your parents, your children have thoughts. They think of you, and they
17:17will never tell you. That's the reason you've got to lead not by
17:23law but by love. When you lead with a song, then your kids at
17:29some point will stand up and say, when they could overpower me, they stood and
17:33let me fly. When they tried to grab their hands around my shoulders to keep
17:38me close, they opened their hands and said, I know you were made for the
17:42road. You were built to go, and I'm going to let you go. And the
17:47children will come home faster if you let them realize I know what you were
17:52made for. You were made to go. The Bible says a man shall leave
17:58mother and father and cleave unto his wife. I have known some mothers that would
18:03not let their sons go. You're wrong. You're wrong scripturally. You've got to let your
18:08sons go. Your son's not there to support you. Your son's not there to take
18:13out your trash. Your son's not there to take care of your emotional breakdown. He's
18:19got a wife to take care of and you're not his wife. Let your son
18:24go. He's got to go to his wife. Now, listen, that's the reason I told
18:29my wife, you know. My wife, every once in a while, early on, would go
18:34and we'd talk, and I'd say, she would say things about maybe my mom and
18:38dad, you know. She loves my mom and dad. Listen, nothing bad. But every once
18:42in a while, I'd just say, Melanie, listen, I understand the thing you're wanting me
18:47to do here, and maybe miss because you have something going on over there. I
18:51said, but when Ethan does that to you, how's that going to feel? When
18:57Austin does that to you, how's that gonna feel? Oh man, of course, it's a
19:02different hour right now. Okay, they're all grown up and thank God I've got a
19:08wonderful home. But you've gotta think like that. The sons go away, daughters come home.
19:14Daughters come back. I know, did you hear how loud Brother Viles just said right?
19:19Notice he had three daughters and one son and his son is at my house.
19:27Okay, because he left mother and father and he's cleaving to this little machine
19:32called my daughter. All right. But here's the thing. Daughters come back. That's the
19:38way it is. You don't have to lose your son, but how you handle
19:44your son will determine how much you lose them. They're not yours anymore. The
19:50Bible said they leave mother and father. I know some. Hallelujah. That's good preaching,
19:55Brother Elms. I don't care. And so you started at home. You start thinking
20:01that when they're little. It's easy when they're little to dictate all of their story.
20:07But if you start preparing them for the days when they fly, when they're little,
20:12I mean, one of these days, Little River's gonna meet a woman, and I'm telling
20:18you what, Tessa is gonna, she's gonna have to back off because that little girl
20:24is gonna be grabbing my grandson's heart. And you think, oh no, River
20:30will never leave me. Hold your horses. It all depends on who
20:35they marry. And I've watched some guys marry a... You better marry
20:41right, that's all I got to say. You know, we're all very
20:47vulnerable with who they marry. I've told both my son-in-laws, I got
20:52guns. I got guns. You know, how they treat my daughters. But
20:58a little fuss can't let my daughters come to my house and say, well, me
21:02and Zach's fighting. I'm coming to spend the night over here. I want to tell
21:06you what, Winter won't do that. She knows better. Me and her mother say, you
21:09get right back there to your husband. I don't care what's happening. You're going to
21:13sleep in that house tonight. You're not coming over here just because you're fussing. What
21:17am I talking about? We're talking building homes that are wholesome homes. that are built
21:21on the rock that are built to be sustained i know things don't always go
21:26right and sometimes divorces happen as much as we all do not want it to
21:30happen sometimes divorces happen one of my best friend's daughter her her husband had huge
21:35affairs on him and when we found it out i'm telling you what it's one
21:40of those emotional things you go through it's like i'm ready to grab You know,
21:45you go through all of this stuff, but it's complicated, ladies and gentlemen. What are
21:50we going to do as children of God? It's not always smooth sailing, but that's
21:55the reason we build our home. And when they're young, we start building them for
21:59trouble. You don't lead them to believe life's going to be a bed of roses,
22:04a box of chocolates. No, no, no. There's going to be trouble that comes. So
22:08when you have a bad teacher and they're little, what do you do? You use
22:12that as an opportunity to start teaching them when life's going to go crazy. You
22:16lay down with them... And that evening, and I hope you all understand, I'm speaking
22:20really wholesome when I say that, but this is one of my most precious time
22:24with every one of my children was when the lights were out and we're not
22:28to sleep yet and we just lay down and we just talk. and we let
22:32the heart come out. Yes, there's the table. You preserve the table, but sometimes you've
22:36got to just go in and just tell them a story and tell them how
22:40you went through something. And I remember telling Austin about a guy who wanted to
22:44be my friend, and he tried to bribe me with candy. Every time he came
22:48to church, he brought candy, and my heart was so sad. You know, initially I
22:53took it, but my mama had a sit down with me and dad would have
22:57too. Dad told me a lot of stories, but it was the stories of how
23:01to handle this person and know they're hurting. They're not trying to bribe you. All
23:06that candy is a cry of hurt. So I looked at them through different eyes
23:10than I did. And how did I do that? I wouldn't think like that as
23:14a 11 year old, but it was a mama who's laid down You know, she
23:19was with me. Nowadays, I gotta be careful when I say this stuff because people
23:24are thinking in all kinds of negative ways. But listen, this is pure. I'm talking
23:29about being pure. I'm talking about having a wholesome home of peace and hope and
23:34love. And they learn through your stories. You gotta tell them stories. You tell them
23:39the stories from your childhood and what are you doing? You're layering it down. That's
23:43the reason, dads, I'm about to come after you. Dad's got to lay the foundation
23:48in that home. It's a father that's supposed to raise up the child. People in
23:52this present sinful generation, the men have just said that's women's work. No, it's not.
23:57Get back in the word. The way starts at home. Dads are supposed to provoke
24:02not your children under wrath. Dad's supposed to support the children, provide for the children.
24:08What does provide mean? It's not money. It's not a paycheck. It's not just bread
24:14in the cupboard. It's provide emotional strength and stories and love, and you're there, and
24:20you're with them and being present because confirming goes before the continuance. Confirming
24:26precedes the continuing. And I wanna tell you the other thing is that we must
24:30continue in the apostles doctrine. Oh Lord, this is the one thing my kids know.
24:35I love them, but if their doctrine goes crazy, I'm not gonna go to the
24:39heaven where they're at. Did you hear what I said? I'm going to the doctrine
24:44of the word of God. And there's several different editions of the Bible that are
24:49out there, but a lot of them are winking at scriptures. I love my kids,
24:54but if they're not baptized in Jesus' name, filled with the Holy Ghost, with the
24:58evidence, and speaking with other tongues, walking in a separated way, we may be going
25:02to a different place. Why? Because I don't get to decide where they go. And
25:06everybody has a different opinion on how to get to heaven. The only opinion that
25:10matters is the one that gets you there. And one of these days, there's going
25:15to be an angel that's going to come down with special equipment, and he's going
25:19to separate the wheat from the tares. And those that have borne no fruit, they've
25:24got a new interpretation of fruit. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I want to make sure
25:29that we have the continuing in the apostles doctrine. It breaks my heart when I
25:34watch people and I could call names right now. I've got a fresh situation of
25:38this happening just the last month of a friend of mine's son who's going off
25:43into false doctrine and it just they're starting to drink and they're stuck. They just
25:47said we all these separations things don't matter. You don't have to have the Holy
25:52Ghost. You just gotta believe in your heart and that's all you gotta do. And
25:56my heart is absolutely shattered for him. How does it happen? Well, people are falling
26:00prey to the same lie of the devil. If you wanna be that way, there's
26:05a thousand churches up and down the road. Just go to them. But it's not
26:09an apostle's doctrine, church. You've got to be born of the water and of the
26:15spirit. You've got to be filled with the Holy Ghost. You've got to be repentant.
26:19You've got to come out from among them, saith the Lord, and be separate and
26:24touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. That means if you do
26:29touch the unclean thing, what is he going to do? Not receive you. That's strong
26:33medicine, but it's the truth. There's still going to be a day that the sheep's
26:38going to be separated from the goats. And when that day comes, it doesn't matter
26:44how much your last name has been affected throughout all kinds of life or who
26:49your family is or God has no grandchildren. He only has first generation children. And
26:54everybody's got to either be his child, which is obedient and following after him, or
26:59they're all those that are trying to dodge and cut and weave and figure out
27:04some nice little new interpretation of how to blend and bend and also think they're
27:09ready for heaven. No, it's got to be the book of Acts, not the
27:15David Elms way, the book of Acts way. Confirming precedes the continuing. We continue in
27:21this apostle's doctrine. Training means to initiate. Initiate is feeding them. That's the metaphor. You
27:26have to feed them. When a child is born, the first stress point that happens
27:32is the baby eating. That's one of the first things you wonder about is the
27:38baby eating. And then after eating, the feeding of that child is the number one
27:43important thing. We gotta have diapers, we gotta have a bed, we gotta have food.
27:47If you got those three things, your baby's gonna be all right. Well, nourishing has
27:52the same picture as feeding. And we've got to feed our children, train up. You
27:56know, there's people that say, well, I believe that gospel way, but my children are
28:01not gonna have to do it. Well, you're one generation from goodbye because your children
28:06either have to walk in this way separate from the world or might as well
28:11just go ahead and go on out there. There's plenty of churches for that. This
28:15isn't one. This isn't that church. The children have got to learn to deny their
28:20flesh just like I had to learn to deny my flesh. And you say, well,
28:24you're propagating the pain? No, it's just many are the afflictions of the righteous. Some
28:29of those afflictions are saying no to the world and yes to God. It's not
28:34that we're trying to be mean or heavy, it's just that these things still matter.
28:39They matter. Training means to initiate. The teacher is the one who feeds and nourishes.
28:45Train up is feeding before it is lecturing. You know, you don't just say, well,
28:50this is the way they do it at the church. I'm gonna tell the pastor
28:55on you. Don't use me against your children, please. My Lord, please don't do it.
29:00I'm not the one that's gonna turn on the rapture machine. I'm not the one
29:06that's gonna stand at the gate and say, not you, not you, but you, you,
29:10you, you, you. No, no, no. I don't have all that. I'm just the messenger.
29:14If I've told you, then your blood is off my hands. If I haven't told
29:17you, then your blood is on my hands. And I've got to be a reminder
29:22of this house that it still matters pleasing God. The devil still wants the church
29:26to bow to Nebuchadnezzar's image. And it's spiritual in this hour the same as it
29:31was then. And there were three Hebrew boys who said, we will not bow. And
29:36there was a bunch of Jews in the crowd that night that thought, you know
29:40what, I'm just going to bow to the Lord God. Everybody will not know, but
29:45when I go down, I'm gonna bow to the Lord God. And the Lord said,
29:49no, no, no, that's not the way it's going to be. The teacher feeds and
29:54nourishes. We gotta teach our kids. You start them the way you start a meal.
29:59I was going through, I've got Grokbot, which is, I've loaded all my sermons into
30:04it. So it's such an awesome thing. Every sermon I ever preach. So I just,
30:08last night I just said, please go through my notes and tell me every story
30:13I've ever told on my kids. And I'm telling you what, it brought so many
30:18stories out. It just, I sat there and laughed and cried. I'm sitting there thinking,
30:24I forgot that story. Did y'all know that Ethan, now, a lot of my kids
30:29had some eating issues, all right? And what's funny is certain ones would get a
30:34bite of food in their mouth, and for some reason, they couldn't ever chew it
30:39up. It just would stay there, and it would just grind and chew and They
30:44didn't, they couldn't, they would chew it, chew it. I forgot that Ethan, if we
30:50were trying to give him something that he didn't like, he wouldn't hardly open up
30:56his mouth and say, all right, here's the green beans. He'd go, I mean, not
31:02a green bean could get in his mouth. We'd say, open your mouth. He'd go,
31:08you get a Skittle in front of him, that cavernous thing would open that big.
31:14But if you're trying to give him broccoli or green beans or spinach, it was
31:20like, And I told on him in a message, and
31:26I totally forgot until I saw that list last night. I thought, I remember that.
31:30We would sit there, I would look at Melanie, and I'd say, watch this. Open
31:34up. He would even hear me say, watch, Melanie, because we were laughing. You've got
31:40to laugh at your kids. You've got to just laugh because they learned from you,
31:44all right? You're the one who did it. Now it's payback time. So I must
31:49have done that to my mother. I don't know how I did. But when he
31:54broke that out, he just opened that mouth a little bit. What did I have
31:58to do? I had to teach him what to eat. Every child, my daughter-in-law is
32:03amazing to me. Tessa has got Vienna thinking that beets
32:09ought to be eaten just every day, all day. You
32:14can give Vienna a beet and she thinks I'm in
32:20heaven. She's, ooh, I didn't never get that revelation. How
32:26in the world that she got the revelation of beets,
32:31I'll never know. but it is amazing to me the the
32:37skill set she has and the ability i didn't have that skill i taught
32:43my kids how to eat an oreo you had to be in the oreo
32:49club but training means to feed so what are you doing you're making what
32:55you're trying to get into them appetizing what are you trying to get into
33:00them you're trying to get eternal food into them Why is it that parents
33:06will get so concerned about their vitamins and their meal and what they eat? And
33:11then when it comes to getting them truth, I'm talking about doctrine. Yes, doctrine that
33:16young. My kids would play church, and it's just amazing how they would play church,
33:22and they would issue tickets, okay? You had to have tickets to come to their
33:27service, and they would make the tickets, and Ethan and Winter would do dowel rod
33:32presentations, and we would put the seats out, and Austin was known as Austin the
33:37Baptist because he loved to baptize a bunch of people. I mean, just he would
33:42baptize and baptize whether they wanted to be baptized or not. He was just baptized,
33:48Austin the Baptist. And Scarlett was the preacher. She was long-winded. And she had whiteboards,
33:53and she would have pointers. And if they weren't listening enough, she would come and
33:58tell on the saints. The saints aren't listening. And Ethan and Sophia were the saints.
34:03Austin found a way to be an usher, and the usher got to go in
34:08the foyer whenever he wanted, a lot like the ushers do now in this church.
34:15They're the people who you can't corral. So let your ushers be the ones who
34:20meander and wander. Now, Sister Daisy's gonna be our head usher because she's always in
34:26the house. I'm gonna have to get you to corral the other ushers, Sister Daisy.
34:31What is this? They're playing church. You know, Winter got the Holy Ghost playing church.
34:36We were on vacation in a motor home going. It was almost midnight. They had
34:42a piano. My wife made them take a piano. You've heard the story. Austin knew
34:47it wasn't a spiritual song. It was Let It Be by the Beatles playing. And
34:52he kept trying to change the song back to some song of praise. And Scarlett
34:57said, no, that's the song that's moving the Lord. And she put it right back.
35:01and Melanie went back there and said, oh, she's serious. She's praying and crying. And
35:07I'm up there listening to Laugh USA in the front of this motorhome. My head
35:12isn't, I'm on vacation. I'm not trying to have church. My wife come up and
35:17said, David, they're serious back there. I thought, how do I get from Laugh USA
35:22to a move of God? And yet in those walk, it was a 45 foot
35:27motorhome. Brother E, what was his name from? Oh, I forget who his name was,
35:32but Brother Reap. Brother Reap had loaned our family that motorhome for our vacation. And
35:36I walked, it was a 45-foot motorhome with a diesel pusher in the back. I
35:40walked all that 45 foot all the way to the back. And by the time
35:45I got back, I saw her tears. And her tears moved me from Laugh USA
35:49to pray for her. And as soon as my hand hit her head, I like
35:53to tell that part of the story because it makes me sound powerful. I wasn't
35:58powerful at all. I was on vacation. I was listening to Laugh USA. And I
36:04went back there, and when I put her head, she started talking in tongues immediately.
36:09And, of course, the flood came. Why did they get that? Because they knew we
36:15encouraged them. playing what you're gonna do when you grow up. Play it, play it.
36:20It's what they do when they know it's serious to you. If they think your
36:26dancing is serious, your kids will be a play disco. But if they know church
36:31is serious, they'll do a play church service. What is serious to you? Because whatever's
36:36serious to you is what your kids are gonna pretend that they wanna do.
36:43Oh, training begins in the diaper, and there's got to be repetition that comes to
36:48them. Training begins when they're small. Years ago, they always felt king's sons were told
36:54that they had to be sent to foster parents at the age of eight. And
36:59what the king would do would send his son, who was going to be kin,
37:05to some of his greatest warriors, and the greatest dukes of his land. And that
37:10son would be carried to the various great warrior. And a warrior would take the
37:15king's son and teach him things. It was called fosterage. It was part of the
37:20formal training of their children. And after he spent time and that warrior taught him
37:25the best skills, then he would go to a duke's house. And so that when
37:29that child became king in just 10 years, all those dukes had a special season
37:34of six months that they had grown in relationship with the king. What was it?
37:39The duke was handing their best skills to the son and the son was also
37:44building a relationship with the duke. And that's how the kingdoms were made great because
37:49there was this thing called fosterage where they would come and teach this son. Ladies
37:54and gentlemen, that's why we need church today. We need to send our children to
37:59Joy University. We need to send our children to Joy Scouts. There's good youth camps
38:04that our kids need to go to. Don't raise them in a bubble because the
38:08shower, you gotta wear your flip-flops in the shower and the bed's not perfect. Send
38:13them and let them wear their flip flops in the shower and learn that there's
38:17other great people in this world that don't have everything perfect made for them. Everything
38:22is not just so easy. No, make them know you fit. It starts when they're
38:27young. They need to go to camps. They need to go to conferences. Well, I
38:31don't know everything. Well, let me tell you what you don't know. You also don't
38:36know that when they're 18, what they're going to think of you. So start putting
38:40them in the hands of God when they're younger. Because when they're 21, they'll have
38:45thoughts they think of you. And when they're 25, they'll have thoughts they think of
38:50you. And if all you did was cling as if you had all the answers,
38:54you didn't build them to have a Messiah. Let them know your mama or your
38:59daddy, but I'm not your Messiah. There's some things I want you babies to know
39:03I have to carry to the Lord. Because daddy can't answer it or mama can't
39:08answer it. I need the Lord to answer this. And then your kids need to
39:13see you sometimes when you're not theirs. I'm telling you, when they see you pray
39:17and they know you're in another dimension, sometimes kids will come and grab your face
39:22and pull it toward them because they want to be your everything. You gotta let
39:26them know you're not my everything. I love you, you're my child, but you're not
39:31my everything. There's some things you can't do for me. There's joy you cannot give
39:36me. The joy that I'm looking for doesn't come from my children. It comes from
39:40the Lord. My children help my joy, but they're not the source of my joy.
39:45When my children become the source of my joy, I'm in trouble. But when I
39:49have the Lord as my source, then the children can go do things that are
39:53contrary to what they were raised to be. And you can stop and say, that's
39:57all right. I know God's in charge. I raised him for this. And when they
40:00come home, I'm going to be standing by the doorway. I'm not quitting on God.
40:04I'm not running from God. I'm just going to let those kids know when you're
40:08ready to come home, we're going to have a light on for you. We're going
40:12to have the dinner ready because we knew you were coming all the time you
40:15were away. Proverbs 22 and six says, train up a child in the
40:21way that he should go. And when he is old, he will not depart from
40:27it. The metaphor that many people use as you learn the grain of wood and
40:32you've got to observe the child. You don't tell the child their way they're supposed
40:37to go. God wired everyone differently. This is the hardest part of parenting is helping
40:42guide your child, finding their strengths. finding what they have a natural propensity for, and
40:47then building them up in it, and then letting them know if it can make
40:52money or not. Don't tell them they can be whatever they want to be. Hogwash.
40:56Whatever you want to be doesn't pay. This follow your heart junk is a bunch
41:00of junk. I mean, do it as a hobby, but then go make some real
41:05money because you got to have children that you got to pay for one day.
41:09Well, I'm following my heart. Where does that paycheck come from? When you meet with
41:14me, and I know most of you have, you go to college, and I like
41:19college. I'm not contrary to college. I've got all the college in my life that
41:23I want, and I've done it, but I'm telling you something. I always ask, all
41:27right, whatever your job's gonna be, what do the people that have that job, what
41:32kind of car do they drive? Have you gone and found that job in a
41:3620-mile radius? Go find that job in a 20-mile radius, and then see what kind
41:41of cars those people drive. then go see what kind of houses those kind of
41:45people live in because what you need to do is get ready to be happy
41:50with that kind of car and get ready to be happy living in that one-bedroom
41:54apartment because that college took all your money and they're gonna give you a check
41:58that doesn't give you anything the college told me I was gonna die no whose
42:03name is gonna be on the top left corner of that paycheck because as much
42:07as people hate or don't like Memorial Health Care it pays a lot of people
42:13As much as people don't like FBNL, it pays a lot of people. So what
42:18do you got to do? You got to find what your degree is going to
42:24do, where you can get paid, and then go do it. Or be an entrepreneur
42:29and fix people's toilets and become a multimillionaire because you know how to help people
42:34out of a jam. That's real living. When you help solve problems, you're going to
42:40be compensated for it. When you help people with people, you're going to be compensated
42:45for it. Don't worry about this AI doom. I'm telling you right now, this AI
42:49doom is a bunch of junk. It's lie. It's going to be well for the
42:53people of God. It's gonna be, I'm gonna say it again, it's gonna be well
42:58for the people of God. Even in Egypt when there was famines and pestilence and
43:02everything going on, the Lord drew a line and the pestilence stopped there and it
43:06did not touch the people of God. So whatever they're gonna say, you just stay
43:10in the boat. You stay with the people of God. It's gonna be well with
43:14us. I refuse to let the fear of this world come and capture my mind.
43:18There's not gonna be any fear in this house. He hath not given us the
43:22spirit of fear, but of power. and of love and of a sound mind. And
43:27so with our children, don't be fearful. Just do your best every day. Do your
43:33best every day. It's a brand new day. Give your best and you raise them
43:38up. Correct them while there is hope. Don't wait to correct them. Correct them before
43:43they can talk. Your child knows when they're doing wrong and they can't even say
43:48words. Every one of my children knew where the power outlet was and they knew
43:53where to look when they were getting close to the power outlet. They
43:59would literally sit there with their finger like that
44:04looking at me. All I would do is go,
44:10little Bobo is boating outside Austin. He's learned this.
44:16This is a big word. That was the word.
44:21What are they doing? They need corrected. Now here's
44:27what the scripture says. Fondness without correction is a
44:32sin. The Bible tells us that you can be loving your children,
44:38but if you love them so much that you will not correct them, the
44:44Bible said, he that does not correct his child hates his son. Hates his
44:49son. Now, in the Old Testament, they used the word rod. But rod does not
44:55mean like the rod and beat people in the Far East, okay? Rod is the
45:01instrument of correction. It's the instrument of instruction. That doesn't mean always by smiting them.
45:06Many times it's by pointing and instructing and teaching. A rod can be a tool.
45:12A rod can be a lever. A wad can be an instruction device. It doesn't
45:17mean, well, I'm gonna spank them. Spanking is not always the
45:23answer. Most times it's not the answer. Sometimes. Every child will be fostered by somebody
45:29and so we gotta train them. And of course, you train them and it's not
45:35a charm. A delay is not mercy. You say, "Well, I'm gonna wait till they're
45:41older for me to adjust them." No, that's not mercy. When it happens, stop them.
45:47It's a mistake. You correct them, you instruct them, you lead them. You say, but
45:52he can't talk yet. Oh, but he can lie. They can lie, but they don't
45:57know how to talk. I'm not being cruel. I've lived in this world for a
46:02minute. You know, you guys know I've had my own kids. All these people who
46:06got no kids and they have no marriage because the two they had, they're divorced,
46:11but they want to tell me how to run the world. I'm sorry. I got
46:16the fruit. Delay is not mercy, you handle it
46:22right then, you adjust them. Proverbs 19:18, this is an
46:27amazing verse of scripture. Somebody pulled it up. Somebody pull
46:33up Proverbs 19:18. So as we would go through this
46:39process, do you have it? All right, read it, Sister
46:45Winter. All right, chasing him while there is hope. Don't
46:51wait, he's learning. And don't let his crying stop the
46:57correction. That's the Bible. If I have some
47:03book from a modern day author or the Bible, I'm
47:08always gonna choose the Bible. Don't let their crying stop
47:14the chastening. All right, now let's go to the next
47:19verse, Proverbs 13:24. This is the one about the rod.
47:25You got it? All right, read it, sir. "He that
47:30spareth the rod does what for his son? Hates him
47:36betimes." Big word. You know what betimes means? Betimes means early
47:42while it works. You do it quick. What is it? It's not
47:48hurting, it's instructing. Vengeance is wrath. Some people have discipline from wrath,
47:54not from instruction. Your kids know it and they won't take it
47:59but so long. But when they know it's from true correction, it's
48:05built from love, it's built from building them up, it comes
48:11with a completely different approach to things. And so you correct them while
48:17there is hope. And so we go on to the next slide, please.
48:24There we go. I don't know. We might have gone too far. All right. This
48:28is I know this is a metaphor that looks crazy. Wings get shorter as legs
48:33get longer. The wings speak for parents. Okay. You've got your kids. You cover your
48:38kids. You cover them with your wings. But as those kids grow up, you're covering
48:43for them gets less and less and less. because they're becoming an adult. If you
48:48cover them with all, they're young, they don't know how to go forward. But as
48:53they get older, you gotta give them a structural cover where they learn the structure
48:58of your instruction. And then you go until they walk, and then you've got to
49:02let them go forward. And sometimes they're walking to a dangerous place. You can warn
49:07them, but when they get older, you gotta just warn them, but you can't stop
49:12them. You can try, but they become an adult. All right, and here's the
49:18thing. Back in the days of the knights, and there's an amazing book that I
49:23recommend for fathers entitled Raising a Modern Day Knight, but it talks about how before
49:28you're a squire, you're a page. A page had to learn certain things about taking
49:33care of the equipment of a knight. The squire knew how to take care of
49:38the weapons. The page learned how to take care of the saddle work and the
49:44horse's bridle and the stanchion. The saddle blanket, that's what the page took care of.
49:49The squire took care of his weapons and made sure they were sharp and knew
49:53how to make sure his knight's outfit, the iron was perfectly oiled and taken care
49:58of. And then they would graduate to a knight, but they were distinct places that
50:02they went. And in this hour that we live in, there are not enough people
50:07that are letting the kids go through the stages of growth. They need to graduate
50:11from a certain time. They need to have a stage when they're just a child.
50:16And then you need to have a time when you say you're no longer a
50:20child. You got to take care of the chores here. It's got to go out.
50:24My mother, I don't know. We didn't. I don't know. Did mom put up a
50:28list of your chores somewhere with stars? One time. Not much because she would have
50:33put me on the list. I wouldn't always had gold stars. Okay. But I take
50:37the trash out good. But my mother did. In the laundry room was a list
50:42of my chores, and if I did them, I got stars. And I remember that
50:46pack Mom got from, it was an Office Depot back then. Was it Woolworth? I
50:51don't know where she got those stars. But maybe it was from Woolworth. or Zayers,
50:55but she would get those little foil stars and put them up and boy, it
51:00was so nice when I saw that strip of stars down there, I was so
51:05glad I had the stars. What's going, you're learning how to become responsible. And then
51:10when they make a mistake, you point out the mistake and you let them fix
51:15it. Now, Brother Ryan told us Sunday, he said, "You know, when I use my
51:20kids to do things, "it goes a lot slower." And I'm telling you, I don't
51:26know if I was great at that part. I was helpful, but I could have
51:30used my kids more than I did because you just got to go half the
51:35speed when your kids are helping. But boy, they get such fulfillment if they turn
51:40that thing in. It's like, ah, this is double the time. But it's more important
51:46to squelch that desire in you to be efficient and you start training them.
51:51Ephesians says, fathers, bring them up in the nurture and the admonition of the
51:57Lord. It's instruction to fathers. Don't throw this off on mothers. Fathers have got
52:03to take their role in the house and make sure you have your wife's
52:09back when she does what she naturally does. This is the reason it's in the
52:15Bible, because there are some things scripturally, they're there because it's not natural for us.
52:19And so the Bible has got to remind us to do it. There are
52:25things spoken specifically to men in Scripture that's differently than spoken to women. Oh, I
52:31would that men would lift up holy hands without wrath and without doubting. I don't
52:36know if women need to be reminded of that. You start church and you women
52:41are ready to go. You're ready to worship. I mean, not all of you, but
52:46most of you. You're ready to praise God. You're spiritual creatures. Men aren't. We're stubborn
52:51old bulls. And the Bible said, I would that men would lift up holy hands
52:57without wrath. The men like to get in the fight. Man, they're always looking for
53:02a good fight. Who pulled part too close to me? Some men will measure, look
53:07how close. I mean, I went and I won't tell you all that. But you
53:11know, men, they think they're ready to get in the fight all the time. It's
53:16ridiculous. Us men are a mess. We're a mess. We think, oh, you're challenging me?
53:21You know, oh, Lord, help us. But the Lord said, I would that men would
53:26be without wrath and without doubting. Men say, I doubt it. I don't know about
53:31that. Men are skeptics. Y'all are all quiet on me right now. You women need
53:35to be quiet. But you men are being quiet on me. You're skeptics. Well, I
53:40doubt it. I doubt it. And the Bible's got you nailed. It nails you, said
53:45without doubting, oh, that men would come with lifting up holy hands, without wrath and
53:49without doubting. When a church gets the men on fire, when it's not just a
53:53bunch of women around the front of the church, but you men will get out
53:57of your seat and walk up here and praise God. When altar call time comes,
54:02you're not just having women coming to the front, but the men come and get
54:08up front. Why? Because you know you're making your presence felt and your prayers heard
54:13and you're letting your masculinity worship and praise God. That makes a powerful church, a
54:19powerful church. Y'all can sit on me. I'm not afraid of you. Convert them early.
54:25Don't wait till they got a PhD on sin. Let the children come, Jesus said.
54:31Suffer. Why did he say suffer? Because some of y'all don't like the kids
54:37getting up there. They're twirling over here and they're dancing over here and they're
54:43praying and they're peeking at the same time. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Suffer the little children
54:49to come unto you. Don't let them become experts in the dark
54:54first. When they were killing Justin Martyr, and I believe it was 160 AD, he
55:00was the one where we got the word martyrs from. Stephen was martyred, but it
55:05was Justin who they killed, and the prefect of Rome was martyred. judging him and
55:10trying to say, all right, you're about to be killed. Why? How can you get
55:15out of this thing? And you know what Justin Martyr said before he died? He
55:19said this. They said, where did you get this faith from? Because they couldn't comprehend
55:24somebody that would be willing to die for this kind of faith. It was foreign
55:28to what they did. Men would die for Caesars, but not for faith not for
55:33some absent God they would die for their captain and their their Centurion but for
55:39God oh and so here they would say they asked Justin Martyr where did you
55:45get this from and he said I received from my parents this good confession my
55:50Lord what a testimony When I read that, I said, that's going in those notes
55:56right there. I received from my parents. Paul told Timothy, it was your grandmother and
56:00it was your mother. You got this handed down to you. And when the church
56:04is the right kind of church, mamas are going to hand it down to daughters.
56:09Daddies are gonna hand it down to son and it's gonna go from generation to
56:14generation and the curse will be reversed and God will raise his people up and
56:19they'll stand forever in the way of righteousness. The way they should go is the
56:23path that you start for them. Charge them with who they are. Don't charm them.
56:28Oh, we're gonna go to church tonight. I'll get you some candy. No, no, don't
56:34charm them, charge them. Let them know, do you know the power of your prayer?
56:39Do you know how powerful you are when you say Jesus? You tell that little
56:45girl, you tell her when you say Jesus, demons start to tremble. Let her know
56:50she can lay her hands on her sick grandfather or her sick grandmother or her
56:56sick auntie or her sick cat or her sick dog. Yes, I said it
57:01right. Lay hands on them and say in Jesus name, heal them. I promise you,
57:06you start it when they're young and let them learn the charge of the Lord.
57:11You're not serving God because it's a charm. We're not here chasing rainbows and unicorns.
57:16We're standing in the way of God's righteousness. And the path is not delegated. It
57:20is walked before them. They will walk as you walk. You don't point and say,
57:25well, you walk that way. No, you prove it and show them how to do
57:30it. You don't delegate it away from them. Well, y'all go to prayer. I'm going
57:34to stay at home tonight. No, you lead the way to prayer. Let your kids
57:39hear you pray. Let them know what it sounds like when your family says a
57:44prayer. And let them know your family doesn't pray weak prayers. Some families may pray
57:49timid prayers, but not this family. Some families may let demons sleep in bedrooms, but
57:54not this family. You walk through that house with your kids and say in Jesus
57:59name, we're cleaning out the place for our dog and the dog's gonna be safe
58:04all night and the cat's gonna be safe all night and what are you doing?
58:09You're showing them, you're teaching them, have them pray for their tricycle. When Ethan was
58:14little, I picked up his tricycle one day and I just lifted over with him
58:18on it. I just lifted it up and it so awed him I forgot this
58:23one. This was another story that came up last night. He's so odd to him,
58:29he looked up at me. He just sat there and he said, you're lifting him.
58:35I thought he knew I could do that, but to lift the trike with him
58:40on it, I mean, to lift the whole tricycle and move it over, it just
58:46wowed him. But let me tell you something. I'm not strong, but the one who
58:51is strong, he'll lift you in a car and get you through an accident. He'll
58:55lift you out of a hurricane. He'll lift you from a tornado. He'll lift you
58:59in the biggest of trials and storms. And when the devil comes in to try
59:03to destroy you, I'm closing, musicians come. You know that he'll lift you up. So
59:07you initiate it, then you correct them. Then you talk with them about it. Conversate.
59:12Let them know about the whys and the hows and the whats, and then you
59:17will convert them to the ways of the Lord. Start them out. Stop what will
59:22kill them. Do it in Jesus' name. Tell them why it's dangerous, and I'm talking
59:27about spiritually too, and where there is hope, you do it while there is hope.
59:32Talk, then lead them to Jesus Christ. Initiate, correct them, Converse and convert, shall we
59:37stand in Jesus' name? Hallelujah. We're giving them tools for life, not just a shelter
59:42for the dark. Tools to win. Let them know how to pray when they become
59:48very rich. How many of y'all have told your kids you're gonna be really rich?
59:53You gotta learn how to pray when you're rich. Everybody knows how to pray when
59:59they're broke. Who knows how to pray when you're rich? Do you only need God
60:04to bail you out? Or do you need God to be with you when you're
60:10rolling? That's what I'm saying. We got to prepare for the blessing because revival's
60:16coming. Master, we bless your name. I thank you for these good people. I thank
60:21you for this week, this month of family growth. We're preparing our children to be
60:26champions, teaching them though that we know trials and tribulations will come. If we do
60:31not prepare them for the battle, then we're not preparing them properly. Many are the
60:36affliction of the righteous, but the Lord will deliver him out of them all. God
60:42bless our families. I want to hear you pray, church. Let me hear you pray.
60:48Oh Lord, God our church, God our families. Fathers, let me hear you talk to
60:54God about your kids. Oh Lord, bless our homes, bless our children, bless our wives,
60:59bless our mom and bless our father. Bless our dad, oh Lord. Bless our workplace.
61:05Let your blessing be over my employer. Let your blessing be over my boss. Let
61:11your blessing be over my CEO. Bless those that I know. Bless my neighbor on
61:16the left and my neighbor on the right. And bless the neighbor who is in
61:22front of me. And bless those that live behind me. Lord Jesus, I've come to
61:27declare that your righteousness will reign in my spaces because you're holy. You're
61:33righteous, you're glorious, you're godly. You are the friend
61:38that seeketh closer than a brother. I praise you,
61:44O Lord. Glorious is your name. Glorious is your
61:49name. Glorious is your name. Glorious is your name.
61:55That's it. Listen to yourself. Pray just a minute
62:01longer. Disturb the air around your space with the
62:06sound of your volume. Hallelujah, Jesus. You are the ruler
62:12of my home. You are the maker of my way. Let all the earth
62:18know that great is the Lord, greatly to be praised in Jesus' holy and
62:24precious name. In Jesus' name I pray. I want you to greet four people
62:29around you and let them know their space belongs to the Lord.
62:35Just tell them that
62:41before you go home.
62:47Walk up to them
62:53and tell them. Four
62:59people. Your space belongs
63:05to the Lord. Remind
63:11them. They need to
63:17hear you say it.
63:23You're dismissed in Jesus'
63:29name. Have a wonderful
63:35week.