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Welcome to Logan City Christian Church podcast where we bring God's Word to you weekly.

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We pray what you hear will bring clarity to your situation and open doors in your life.

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Enjoy the message.

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Last Sunday we did the baby dedication.

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You remember that?

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Last Sunday.

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And as I was praying for one of my grandsons there, Desmond, this is going to be a little

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bit hard for me.

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And this whole message is based around this.

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I had a vision when I was praying for him there.

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And that vision continued through the service and it's continued through the week.

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And today I'm going to be sharing a bit about it and it's very hard to share everything

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but we have a job to do with the young people of this nation.

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And the message is preparing the next generation.

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What I saw in brief, I'm going to touch on it in different places through the message.

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I saw this generation, Desmond's age, which he is what, three months old, not even.

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One that we have in this church that would be even in their early teens.

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They're about to enter in to an age where persecution is going to be at a level that

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you and I have never seen.

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And the main thrust of it was deception.

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My Lord, we are seeing deception today.

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People not knowing what is right and wrong in some cases and calling good evil an evil

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good.

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There's such a confusion.

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There's such an identity confusion.

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And so I saw these children as we know that they are the next preachers, they're the next

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worship leaders, they're the next members of parliament, they're the next civic leaders,

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they're the next everything.

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And although the youth do not make up 100% of our current population, they certainly

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are 100% of our future.

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And the Lord is saying the body of Christ by and large is wasting so much time on unnecessary

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things that have no eternal value, where we should be investing our efforts and our time

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into this generation.

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Because they are going and are experiencing things that you and I have never experienced.

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It's a different era, it's a different time, it's a different level of darkness.

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And we have only a few years to make an impact in their life.

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Because in that vision, I saw, this is very graphic, but I saw the Christian church in

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this vision, handing children out into the wild, amongst wild beasts and being devoured,

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and not knowing what to do, not having any strength of their own.

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And the Lord's countenance was very stern, very displeased.

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And He said to me at that time right there, He said, there's a day coming that His, this

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is God Himself, that my disfavour is going to be known to my church for the lack of care

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and spiritual input into this generation.

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They are hard words, I know, but I heard it first, and it was spoken to me first.

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It's hard.

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And if we don't do it, who is going to do it?

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The devil is harvesting children for his kingdom like never before.

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And as people of God, there should be, and I know there is, a holy discontent within

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each and every one of us.

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We don't want to see this happen anymore.

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Sometimes it's like, what can we do?

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What can we do?

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You might be thinking, I'm in my 90s, I'm in my 80s and my 70s, 60s, 50s, what can I

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do?

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And I'm going to speak about that today.

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But there's a crisis, and my eyes were opened up to it last Sunday.

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I think we've got it pretty right, we never ever get it all right, about church services,

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ministering to the vast majority of congregations around the world.

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I'm speaking about the church universal, the church worldwide.

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And I think we do, as a church worldwide, a reasonably good job.

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We don't always get it right, but we try.

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And so we put a lot of effort into meeting the needs of everybody.

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But what I saw was all along, there's a generation at our feet that are spiritually and emotionally

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unprepared for what is coming.

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And I feel that God wants to stir up, as I call it, a holy discontent, that we're no

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longer content with this happening anymore, that it will lead us to take action.

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Now I'm not speaking to any person, particularly this morning.

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This is the body of Christ worldwide.

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And I'm not suggesting that we neglect the parents and the grandparents and members of

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congregations.

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If you could have only seen what I saw, we've got it wrong.

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Overall, the church has had it, not all of them.

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We've had it wrong.

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Our main emphasis should be in the children.

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That's where it should be.

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The young people, the teenagers, you see, for us that have been Christians a while,

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there comes a time that we learn so much, and if we don't give out of what we've got,

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we can stagnate spiritually.

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I know that God wants to make us uncomfortable, that we don't accept this anymore, that in

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that vision, there were children that I knew, I saw their face walking away from the Lord,

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and I knew they weren't coming back.

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We can say that, oh, they're rebellious and they're stubborn, and that may be with some,

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but a lot of times, they're going with what they know and what they've been taught.

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In some cases, they haven't been taught enough.

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They've been making decisions based upon what they know, their experiences.

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There is a generation that is starving for this emotional input and spiritual input,

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and it is our job as the older part of a congregation to be making a difference in the lives of

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the younger people.

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I am fully aware that there are times that you and I, as older Christians, we have our

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needs, we always will do, and we meet each other's needs and we connect with God and

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we do these things, but there's a time in between our needs when the wind is in our

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sails and we are doing okay, I'm speaking about that time.

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The church of Jesus Christ needs a shift of thought and direction that we can no longer

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neglect this anymore.

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Because once the children are taken by deception, it takes an outright miracle of God to get

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them back.

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So prevention is way better than any cure.

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And yes, God is almighty and all-powerful, and yes, we have seen God move and bring back

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the prodigals and we've seen Him do that.

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And thank God for the praying mums and dads and the praying grandmas and grand dads and

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so on.

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Great stuff, but you know that is not God's best.

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What I see as God's best is that children are taught from a very young age to know God,

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to know what it is to walk with God, to have the elders, and when I say elders, the older

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Christians that have experienced God to sit with them and impart their life, their journey,

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their encounters with God into this generation.

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But if they don't know and if they're not taught and if they've never had that experience

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when they reach that age, temptation comes, deception comes, and they're left unequipped

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in the word, if not it is now.

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And then we see them go off and suddenly things become serious.

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And we'll pray through the nights for the prodigal and the Lord is saying while He'll

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answer those prayers and He'll work with you, it would have been good for those nights that

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we spend in prayer going back to invest them into the heart and soul of the children, to

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teach them the Word of God, to teach them the ways of God so that they follow you, follow

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me, our example.

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I remember one time years ago, one of my children, I was in my office praying and the door was

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open and I happened to look and saw, I don't know which one it was, was watching me.

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And this first thought that I had, I need to close the door so I'm not distracted.

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And I did.

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And then the Lord spoke to me, why did you do that?

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So I opened the door again, by the time I did, they were gone, they were outside.

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And it dawned on me, children need to see their parents in prayer.

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They need to see their mum and dad in deceit.

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They need that example.

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So I believe that for many of us that have been saved a long time, we need to shift our

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focus.

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I believe it's like starting to warm up the baby bottles again, oh how exciting that is.

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And to understand that while we have breath, it is our responsibility to keep nurturing

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this next generation.

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It is so important.

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And if we don't, this next generation probably will not make it.

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They're not my thoughts, current statistics support what I just said.

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And I believe we can change that.

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I believe we can change that very thing.

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And I've been praying through the week that the Lord may lift the weight of what I saw

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and the grief of it, to lift it off me.

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But He hasn't done it.

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And so I as a pastor, I've been doing a very gracious thing.

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I've been praying that it may come on the congregation.

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And I think it's a burden we all need to share.

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You see we can rightly so protest against world affairs and the unjust things that happen

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in this world.

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That's what we're called to do.

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As men and women of God, we're going to stand for righteousness in this world.

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That's a good thing and rally behind the political party that's going to bring the level of justice

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that's needed and spend hours and hours of a day praying and believing God for our government

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and for all of these wonderful things.

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Yet at the same time can spend hours a day watching television or on Facebook or on the

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phone or on the internet and just wasting so much time.

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Now I'm not saying that is you.

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I'm saying this is what statistics say happens in the Christian church today.

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The surveys that were released, I think it was 18 months, two years ago, that's what

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it was saying.

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And so we're nearly two years further down the road and I would hope to think that it

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has improved somewhat.

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But what about preparing this generation that we have?

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You see, we know about succession that in a church that the minister reaches a place

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where God will speak to him or her about a successor.

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And we rightly so put the right level of time and interest and prayer into that because

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it's important.

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What about the successes of the church, of leaders?

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And I see this is where by and large, not all, but in a lot of cases where the big gap

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is.

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And so we're hoping that this next generation will just find their way and hopefully do

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the right thing.

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But it is up to us church to show them the right way, to instruct them the ways of God

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and to teach them the ways of God and to sit with them in the presence of God and to pray

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with them and to commune with them in the presence of God because children need to experience

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the presence of God.

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That Christianity for them is no longer just a thing, it's an encounter with a living

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God.

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And I believe this is one of the areas that we need to truly, truly lead this generation,

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that they are spirit people.

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You see, a spirit person really is not interested in the ways of the flesh.

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A spirit person is discerning.

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You see, a spirit person, you see the gifts of the spirit, it's a spiritual gift.

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And when a child becomes, and we teach them to become a spirit being, like a spirit person,

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knowing the ways of God and how the Holy Spirit operates and a relationship with the Holy

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Spirit, that when something comes along that is not right, they know before anyone has

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to tell them.

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But they just don't learn this automatically.

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It is our job, our responsibility to teach them to be young men and young women of God

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that know the ways of God and are learning the Word of God.

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And there we are equipping them, making sure that at the right age they understand what

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it is to be truly born again, understand the importance of being water baptized, being

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filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking in other tongues, not just a place or something

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to achieve, but a lifestyle of praying in tongues.

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And I tell you, I believe if we can accomplish this at some level, these children are going

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to be so much further advanced in their walk with God to be able to handle what is coming.

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I know as you do that God does bestow a greater grace, the darker it gets, the greater the

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grace will be.

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But that does not excuse this current older generation from our responsibilities to train

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and equip the young people.

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The things that I saw was the aggression within the opposition against Christianity.

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The aggression carried an element of violence.

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It was horrible.

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But the realization came that majority of us, when this happens, won't be here.

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And I probably won't.

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So we won't be here when the pedal hits the metal and they're in their darkest hour of

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trial and they'll call out for mum and they'll call out for dad or granddad or grandma and

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they're not here.

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But we're here now.

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We are with them today.

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We have this opportunity today to impart into our grandchildren, into our children and to

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teach them thoroughly and equip them thoroughly the ways of God.

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Oh Lord, I'm praying that that same vision comes upon the body of Christ.

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It was the most uncomfortable thing I've probably ever experienced.

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So who's preparing this generation?

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I remember a few years ago, I was talking to a guy about this because we were talking

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about youth and children and children's ministry.

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He said, well, I'll tell you straight up now, he said, it ain't my job.

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And I said to him, if it ain't your job, whose job is it?

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It is our job.

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It is our responsibility.

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All of us, each and every one of us.

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I know this may sound uncomfortable and I know it may sound a little bit hard this morning,

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but trust me, according to what I've endured this week and what happened last Sunday, I

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am trying to be very aware, very mindful how I deliver this this morning.

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It's not an easy thing.

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You see, the first place of learning is not the education system while it's needed.

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That's not the first place.

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The first place of learning is not the church, while it is very important.

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It's not the first place of learning for a child.

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The first place of learning is the home.

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It's the family unit.

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That's where it begins.

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And we are seeing the devil destroying the fabric of society with divorce and sole parents

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and children, God bless their hearts, trying to do the best they can, growing up with one

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parent or even some with no parents.

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Your heart's got to go out to them because they didn't ask for it.

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A victim of circumstance.

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And so in the home is where I believe that it needs to start.

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It needs to be present in the church.

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But I believe every believer, those of us that are older, parents and grandparents and

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great grandparents, that we can impact those families to be an encouragement to every family,

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whether they're Christian or not, to make a positive impact and an influence of God,

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to encourage mums and encourage dads, to encourage single parents to do the best they can do

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and do whatever you can, and we're going to help you do what you can't do.

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And I believe if we could adopt this in society, it will make a huge difference.

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I'd like to put something to this congregation this morning.

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You guys are amazing.

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You've always been so incredibly supportive in every way with missions with Chantel and

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I and things that need to be done around here and all that.

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It just astounds me how supportive you all are.

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It's just amazing.

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It really, really is.

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And it's a blessing.

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I want to put something to us today, this morning, in fact to the entire body of Christ.

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Choose a young family in your church, the church you attend, and get to know the family.

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And ask permission if you can be an intercessor for that family, because so many families

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are not coping.

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And they cry out to God.

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I can tell you this for sure because I meet these people during the week.

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They're saying we're praying and asking God to help us, but it seems like He's not listening.

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This week the Lord was saying to me, and yet there are houses of God around the world that

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are full of people that could help that need to be mobilized.

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Are you with me this morning?

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Is this so far making sense?

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And do you still love me?

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Be an intercessor for that family.

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Be a support to that family.

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If you support the family, you support the children.

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And I believe this is a way how we can make a huge difference.

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And to pray for that family with all of your heart every day, every morning, every night,

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whenever they come to your mind, and pray that the children will grow to be men and

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women of God who will learn the ways of God, bind the work of the devil over their mind,

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pray that devil that bring in friends and influences they need to keep away from, show

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me your friends, I'll show you your future, pray that God would intervene and separate

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all of those wrong influences and in its place bring the right godly influences into their

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life.

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Oh church, we need to be praying this.

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Pray for the marriages, pray for the children that they grow in the knowledge and the strength

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of God.

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I think it's the least we can do.

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You see raising a family, raising a Christian family is a lot harder now for young mums

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and dads than it was when we were mums and dads.

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We didn't have to contend with internet.

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We didn't have to contend with Facebook and all these media platforms.

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As parents we didn't have that.

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We didn't have that problem.

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And we didn't have to contend with this social bullying and false information, misinformation,

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disinformation, trying to lead your children astray.

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It's everywhere.

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We didn't have to contend with that.

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But there is a generation today of mums and dads that sometimes don't know which way to

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turn.

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There was a family that called me one day, it would be about three years ago.

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They said we haven't been to a church in a long time, husband and wife, we've got nine

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children.

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I thought he must be Catholic maybe, I'm not sure.

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Nine children and they said that we are so disjointed we don't talk to each other in

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the house.

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They text each other.

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No one eats at the dinner table together anymore.

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They text the mother to put in their order for dinner to be delivered to their bedroom.

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What do we do?

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Firstly, turn the internet off.

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Throw it in the bin, get rid of it.

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We can't do that.

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We might hurt the poor little darlings.

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Well then I can't help you.

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You see this is what they're dealing with.

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It's a different dynamic.

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Parents are being prosecuted for, I don't know what the word is, but it's like bullying

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because they're taking their phones and privileges off their children.

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See parents aren't allowed to be parents in many ways today.

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They need your help.

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They need your prayer.

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They're dealing with things that you and I didn't have to deal with.

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The family altar needs to be restored.

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Maybe you can be the person to help establish that in a family.

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What is a family altar?

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A family altar is where God is first in a home.

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When we come to the table together, there are no phones and we give thanks together

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and talk together.

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How's your day been?

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What did you do today?

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Pray together.

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Share the word together.

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Oh dear God.

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I said deception is one of the things that I saw and through the week the Lord was showing

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me if we don't prepare the children now to learn how to discern between what is right

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and wrong.

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If you see discernment, please listen to what I'm about to say and remember this if you

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can.

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Because for me sometimes I'll hear something really good.

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If I don't write it down, someone will ask me a question and then I'll go, what was it

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they said?

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Is there anyone else here like that?

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If you're writing things down, it'd be good to write this down.

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Discernment is not knowing the difference between what's right and wrong.

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Discernment is knowing the difference between what is right and what is nearly right.

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See, there are a lot of things in society today that are nearly right, but they're not

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right.

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We've got to teach our children this deception.

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You know in Revelation chapter 20 verse 7 to 8, it talks about how the devil himself

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or Satan will be released from prison and he goes out to deceive the nations.

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Can I just say something here about that?

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The devil just spent a thousand years in prison.

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He gets let out, released, and he's only got one more shot because he knows the lake of

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fire awaits him.

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And he still thinks that he's going to be able to beat God.

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So he's got a thousand years in prison, if you like, walking around, around the prison

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cell, a thousand years to hatch a plan.

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This plan has to be the master plan.

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I'm putting everything I've got on this one plan.

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What is the plan that he came out with that the Bible says he went out to deceive the

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nations?

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Deception is a powerful tool of the devil.

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And if we can equip and teach our children how to navigate through this and to discern,

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discern with the Holy Ghost what is right and what is wrong.

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You see what I saw in that vision, deception, was at an all-time high and I saw through

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the week prominent spiritual leaders being deceived and leaving multitudes, multitudes

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of people to a very wide gate that leads to destruction.

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Darkness is coming to houses of God that were once houses of light.

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And I see a massive change in the church universal, the modern church, and this popular style

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that's even being developed now resembles exactly of Revelation chapter 3, a church

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in there called the Laodicean Church.

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It's a self-serving church, a self-glorifying church, a church that knows about Jesus but

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doesn't want Jesus.

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Jesus said, I'd rather you be hot or cold but don't be lukewarm.

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Lukewarmness is the place where darkness and light meet.

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You don't want to be in a church where that is accommodated and your children certainly

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don't need to learn that.

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They don't need to be around that.

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They need to be in a house of God where Jesus is truly glorified and that His way is the

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way, is the only way, and will only ever be the way, the truth and the life.

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The Laodicean Church, Jesus said, I'll spew them out of my mouth.

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In other words, you know, people believe in eternal security, once saved, always saved,

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and let me tell you now, I do not believe that.

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There are so many scriptures that point otherwise.

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If Jesus was to spew someone out of His mouth, it's a term saying that that substance or

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that person was once in His body.

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But it was making His body sick and so for the sake of the rest of the body, He ejected

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what was making or potentially could make the rest of the body sick.

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Jesus said to these same people, He said, I stand at the door and I knock.

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He sends an invitation to them to say, let me in and let us dine together.

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In other words, it's saying that Jesus was on the outside and there was no more fellowship

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and no more relationship taking place.

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Yet the Laodicean Church boasted that they had everything.

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And then we see in comparison the Church of Philadelphia and I believe these are the two

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churches that are going to run parallel right to the end when Jesus comes.

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The Church of Philadelphia represents a church of love, of truth, of power and it's all orchestrated

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by God because they are totally plugged into God.

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If you're a parent that has children, you're watching online and you are not satisfied

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with what you're seeing wherever you may be fellowshipping, I normally never say this

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at all.

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But if you are listening to this and you're hearing, hey, the fellowship that I'm at sounds

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a lot like that Laodicean Church, I'm telling you today, get your family out of that place

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while you can and find a house of God that loves Jesus, honors Jesus and is willing to

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do whatever the Word of God says and let your children grow in that environment, let them

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grow in that atmosphere, let them grow under that leadership where Christ is truly glorified

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and Christ is truly honored.

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A leadership where they pull up things that are not right, address issues, the hard things

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that they call it today.

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Oh, they talk about the hard things.

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Not hard things.

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You see, society has become so soft and I think in some cases churches are becoming

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too soft.

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Oh, but we don't want to lose the love.

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Can I share something?

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If you see someone going the wrong way and you say, I don't want to offend them, I'll

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let them go because I love them and you're quite happy to let them go, that is not love.

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God says in Hebrews 12, those whom I love I chastise.

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Why?

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Because He loves you.

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I am so glad there are times that God's given me a kick up the backside.

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Anyone had a kick up backside by God?

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You know why He did it?

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Because the Word says that you're a legitimate child and He loves you.

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It's never comfortable.

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Thessalonians chapter 2, I'm going to be finishing in a minute if you think, oh, He's going to

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get on forever, I can tell.

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It talks about a falling away and this is the last part of what I saw in what, 30 seconds?

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How does that happen?

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Within 30 seconds you see so much.

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The Bible says that there's coming a day there'll be a great falling away.

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Now there's a doctrine that's trying to counteract this, that's saying the falling away doesn't

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mean backsliding, it means the day of the Lord, it means the rapture.

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Has anyone heard that?

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Well, let me tell you, it's out there right now.

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So if that was the case, why don't we put it to its test?

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So if the falling away is the rapture, then let's read it.

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That day will not come.

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What day is that?

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The day that Jesus comes.

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What day is that?

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That's the rapture.

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So they say if the falling away is the rapture, then it would read that the coming of Jesus,

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the catching away of Jesus will not come until the catching away takes place first.

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People just listen to it, they go on their Google and they watch YouTube and they go,

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isn't that wonderful, that soothes my soul, makes me feel so good.

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I'm glad that that burden has lifted off my soul, oh I feel so much better.

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Oh, there's a donate button, thank you very much.

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Yet the ministries that are putting their reputations on the line, telling the truth,

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don't get a mention.

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And it's always been that way.

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You see, society today, there's a generation that is being trained that if you don't get

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likes, it's not good.

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If you post something and people don't like it, they give you a thumbs up, that means,

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well the message is no good.

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No, the message is probably really good.

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And you're probably preaching something that is really needed to be preached.

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And so people are living lives and adjusting their lives and their constitutional values

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in God, whether they get thumbs up or thumbs down from society.

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Can I say this, train your children not to run with the crowd and not to run with what

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is popular, what everyone says is good may not be good.

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Teach your child to be an individual in Christ and to know the ways of God, to know God.

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And so this great catching away, sorry, the great falling away, the falling away is apostasy,

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it's apostasy.

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It's a great falling away from this great deception that so many people who once walked

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with God are going to walk with him no more.

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How does that happen?

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Deception.

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And this deception is coming to our children, to these little children that we see around.

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And 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 9 to 12, I'm going to finish.

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The coming of lawlessness, sorry, the coming of the lawless one is according to the working

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of who?

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Satan.

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With all power, signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous deception among those

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who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved.

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And for this reason, God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie,

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that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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This here is in direct connection to those who have fallen away.

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It's continued through.

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The ones that have fallen away have fallen away from truth because there was something

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still there that was not addressed and I believe in society today there are many youth.

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If they heard the gospel for the first time and if they heard the stories and encounters

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from us older people, all the wonderful things God has done for us, I guarantee you they'd

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be like a moth to the flame because generally a younger generation today are looking for

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answers.

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They're tired of walking around aimlessly.

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They're looking for somebody to show them the way.

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Why not it be you?

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Why not?

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Why wouldn't it be me?

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They're looking for answers and we have this opportunity to take them there.

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I'm just going to read a few quick scriptures and I'm going to do something very different

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this morning.

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Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 6 to 7, and these words which I command you today shall be in

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your heart, you shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when

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you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up.

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Psalm 34 11, come you children, listen to me.

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I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

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Oh how important that is today.

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Psalm 78 verse 5, for he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which

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he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children.

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Verse 22 6, train up a child in the way he should go when he is old he will not depart

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from it.

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See this is what I see.

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It is not happening like it should.

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And I put my hand up too.

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Proverbs 29 15, the rod and rebuke give wisdom.

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I mean that needs to hit the table, the floor at parliament.

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But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

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Ephesians 6 4, and you fathers do not provoke your children to wrath but bring them up in

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the training and admonition of the Lord.

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Gus, could I ask, he's gone, to let Chantelle know she's got a message, a cue.

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Someone's raising your children, someone's raising your grandchildren, do you know who

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they are?

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Is it you?

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Is it someone else?

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Is it social media?

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Because someone's going to be doing it.

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Social media, I believe, is one of the worst things that's ever hit planet earth.

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It's no surprise to anyone that this world is getting darker.

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The contest is getting hotter.

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Holds on the increase, and I don't say this to be negative, I'm just saying a matter of

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fact.

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And those who desire to live a godly life are going to be persecuted.

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That's it.

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That's how it is.

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What about the next generation?

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What about them?

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Are we preparing them for what's coming?

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See, a person will yield to the stronger influence.

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Let family be that stronger influence.

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Prevention is better than cure.

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I don't know about you, but for me and anyone that's in ministry, you know this.

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You get tired of administering the cure.

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Sometimes we ask, Lord, there must be a better way, and there is.

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Teach prevention.

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Teach them the ways of God.

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I've asked for the children to come up today.

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Would you guys come and stand here, please?

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Granddad's been having a real good sook today.

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Come on, kids.

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Adjie's come.

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Got a bit of a light on day in Sunday school, Shantel would be happy with that.

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Come up a bit closer.

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Come right up to the front.

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Come on.

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Here we go.

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Here we go.

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Let's make them, let everybody see.

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Come on.

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What do you see?

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What do you see here right now?

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Naturally, we would say we see the future of the church, right?

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We see the future of society.

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But you know what I see?

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I see a people that the devil is hot after, and we've got to do something about it.

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We're not going to be able to stop what he does, but we can equip them to know what to

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do when he does.

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I'm asking today if you guys could take even one child, get their name, and pray for them

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every day.

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Pray for them two, three times a day or more, and see them growing to be men and women of

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God that are going to do great exploits for God, that won't lose their way.

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Come on, let's pray.

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Father in the name of Jesus, let me hear you praying.

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You pray what you want to pray.

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I'm going to pray what I'm going to pray.

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We pray for these young people that in the name of Jesus, Father, we surround them.

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Father God, with your presence, there'd be a hedge of protection around about them.

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Lord, that you be the glory and the lifter of their heads.

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Father, we thank you, that Almighty God, that as we pray that hedge of protection, that

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Father within the boundaries of that hedge, Lord, that we would teach and train these

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children to be mighty warriors in God, to know you and to experience you in the name

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of Jesus.

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Thank you for joining us.

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See you next week.