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All right, take your Bibles, if you will. Turn

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with me to the book of 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy chapter

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number one, 2 Timothy chapter number one. Happy

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Mother's Day. My mama, I know Sundays get busy,

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so I called her early and I got her on the phone.

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And my mom lives in Colorado. She is working

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out in her wood shop. She has a CNC computerized

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router, and you can hear it in the background.

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She's doing a project. I said, mom, what are

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you working on? And she said, would you like

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to see? I said, sure. So we put that button on

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there, you know, the FaceTime, you push that.

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She sees me, I'm smiling, but I don't see her.

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She's got it turned backwards and she starts,

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you know, walking through there and she gets

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over there, shows me the router. And finally

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I said, mom, I wanna see you. She says, no, no,

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absolutely not. And so I, you know, like any

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kid does, I threw a fit. Mom, I wanna see you.

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And so finally she turned it around and there

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was my mom smiling from ear to ear. I loved my

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mama, wished her happy memory. I got a few pictures

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and I wanna show you, I think four pictures.

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This is the first one right there. Oh, look at

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that. My mom and I was a big baby. And some of

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you still say I still am a big baby. No, no,

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no, no, no, that's not very nice right there.

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Here we go, look at this one. And that's when

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we lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa. And that was

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at Christmas time. There I am with my brother

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and my mama. Now these two other ones are special.

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And I wanted you to notice this. Look at this

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next one. And yeah, look at my mom's hair. And

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look at my hair. Absolutely right there, but

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that's right before we were going to church.

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And I remember those memories when I was a child

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of every Sunday we would go to church and in

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Council Bluffs after church, we'd go over to

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a restaurant called The Chalet and we'd eat our

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meal and in The Chalet they had the pie. a little

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display and my mom and dad allowed us almost

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every Sunday to go over to the pie display and

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choose out our pie. That was wonderful. Then

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look at this one. This is when we moved to Colorado.

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We lived on Charon Drive, my daddy's yellow truck.

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And where were we going? We were going to church.

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And I look at those precious memories of my mom

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and dad, especially I look back on Mother's Day

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and think about the influence my mama had on

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my life and is still having in my life. I have

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a godly heritage and I'm thankful for that. Today

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we're gonna look in the book of Timothy and we're

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gonna notice a man named Timothy, Timotheus,

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who had a godly influence from his grandmother

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Lois and also his mother Eunice. And so we're

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gonna stand for the reading of God's word. and

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we're gonna look at 2 Timothy chapter one, and

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we're gonna read together verse number five,

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and if you can, read that with me. Ready, verse

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number five. When I call to remembrance the unfeigned

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faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy

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grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and

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I am persuaded that in thee also. Okay, some

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of you, no doubt, you're looking around. You're

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in First Timothy, you wanna go to Second Timothy,

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okay? Second Timothy chapter one, verse number

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five. Now you're there, we're gonna read it all

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together, try your best, here we go. When I call

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to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in

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thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois,

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and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that

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in thee also. Oh wow, the life of Timothy, we're

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gonna look at it. but we're gonna look at these

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godly influences of his grandmother, Lois, and

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his mother, Eunice. Before we go any further,

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let's bow our heads in our hearts in prayer.

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Dear Father in Heaven, we love you. Today's a

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good day, a wonderful day, and Lord, thank you

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for church, thank you for Bible -believing Christianity,

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thank you for the word, your word. I pray that

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you help us to take a moment, and in a way, we're

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gonna look at some things that many of us already

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know, but need to be reminded of. For some, this

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is gonna be new. And I pray that you help all

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of us realize the importance of a godly home,

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a godly mother, godly grandmother. Lord, help

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us to make some decisions this morning that honor

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you. In Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated.

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Oh, Timothy, wow, Timothy. You know, we look

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at that and we're gonna turn over in a minute.

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to the book of Acts, Acts chapter number six.

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And that's a little kid throwing flowers at mama.

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We like that, that's good, that's good. He loves

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you. She'll just tape up, rip up mama's flowers

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and throw them at her. That'll be great. And

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it works every time. But we look at Timothy,

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a young man mightily used of God. I'm gonna read

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Acts chapter number 16, verse number one. It

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says, then he, the apostle Paul, then came he

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to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple

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was there named Timotheus. Timotheus, the son

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of a certain woman, which was a Jewess and believed,

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but his father was a Greek. And it begins to

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tell the story about how Paul met Timothy. And

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we begin to find that the apostle Paul begins

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to disciple Timothy, instruct Timothy, begins

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to guide Timothy, take Timothy along with him

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on missionary journeys. And whether you know

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it or not, Timothy becomes a mighty man of God.

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He becomes, what we would say, a faithful man

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of God. We begin to read in the Bible, for example,

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Romans chapter 16, verse 21, Timotheus, my work

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fellow. Now, before I go any further, I wanna

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mention about. the thought process, when we find

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out that Timothy is mightily used of God, we

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find him in the book of Romans, we find him in

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second Corinthians and first Corinthians, we

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find him all throughout the New Testament, that

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Timothy was right there working with the apostle

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Paul and mightily used of God. Now I wanna ask,

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was this luck? Was it lucky that Timothy became

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this mighty man of God? Was it sort of just luck

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that Timothy became a work fellow, a helper of

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Paul? My son Samuel, you're right there. The

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other day, I think it was Friday, I come home,

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I go into my kitchen, and all of a sudden my

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Samuel, 11 years old, he whips out this wad of

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cash. You're asking me where I'm gonna get my

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dollar, I'm getting my dollar from Samuel. But

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he whipped out, and like, where did you get that?

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He starts, he's got all this money there, and

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then he began to think, by the way, where did

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he get that? Well, for a long time, he's been

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out in the garage collecting copper, stripping

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wires, and all of a sudden they took it to the

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scrap yard. He turned it in and had so much copper,

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he has this wad of cash right there. That's not

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luck that he got that money. There was a, you

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know, it looks like I'd like to have that wad

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of cash, but that wad of cash came from behind

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the scenes, a lot of work, a lot of time, a lot

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of effort. And we look at Timothy. He's a work

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fellow. He's Paul's beloved son, the Bible says.

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He's Timothy, my brother in Christ. He's a servant

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of Jesus Christ. It wasn't luck. Timothy was

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a godly man trusted by Paul. He was used by God.

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But how did Timothy become this kind of man?

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How did he become a, luck? Just say no. Was it

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luck? Okay, good. I'm tired, I'm already tired.

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And you guys are tired of listening to the sermon,

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I understand that. But just get this right. Was

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it luck? No, okay. Now I want you to go with

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me back to the scripture we started at. And well,

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actually, I wanna continue on Acts chapter 16

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to notice something. And if you're there, it

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says this. He was the son of a certain woman,

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which was a Jewess. and believed. The Bible makes

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mention of his mama. Timothy's mama was a believer.

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She was a Christian. But then it mentions his

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father. But his father was a Greek. And it's

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almost, as you look at it, God wanting you to

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notice something that this man, yes, became a

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mighty man of God, but he didn't come from a

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perfect home without problems. He came from a

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home with a godly mother, yes. But the Bible

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is almost insinuating that his father was, you

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know, a Gentile, an unbeliever. And part of the

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message is going to be for us, well, I don't

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have a perfect home. Well, you don't need to

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have a perfect home to raise a godly man. You

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don't need a perfect home. We don't live in a

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vacuum. As a matter of fact, I don't come from

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a perfect home. The Neddesheim home is not a

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perfect home. Our church, by the way, when we

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look at this, is certainly not a perfect church,

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but God takes imperfect situations and can put

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the pieces of the puzzle together, and God can

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use it in a great way. How did Timothy become

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this kind of man? It certainly wasn't because

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he came from a perfect home. Now go back with

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me to 2 Timothy, chapter number one. Okay, 2

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Timothy chapter one, look at this. This is absolutely

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amazing, amazing. Verse number five, when I call

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to remembrance, when I call to remembrance, say

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that with me, when I call to remembrance, now

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look at this, the unfeigned faith, the unfeigned

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faith that is in thee. Ah, unfeigned, unfeigned.

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Now, That's not necessarily a word that I use

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in everyday language. I don't go around saying,

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you're unfeigned faith. How many use the word

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feigned regularly? Okay, well, appreciate it.

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I'm gonna have you come up here. How do you use

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that in your household? That's exciting. That's

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exciting. That's exciting. That's exciting. I'm

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not gonna make you answer that, but I believe

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you. I believe you. I believe you. We had one.

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in the early bird service that sat right about

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you right there, but when he said that, he sort

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of scratched his head at the wrong time, okay?

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But I'm gonna talk to you after the service.

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I'm very, very, very, very curious right there.

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The word fame, fame, think with me. The word

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fame, it's invented or imagined. The word fame

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is an idea of something that is not real. It's

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an idea, it's something that's imagined, it's

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something that invented. but it's something that's

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not real. You feigned that, you feigned that.

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Okay, I'll give you an example of this. Years

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ago, me and my wife were asleep in our bed there

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and all of a sudden, my wife all of a sudden,

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she wakes up and sits straight up. And I'm like,

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what? She says, a horse just ran through our

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yard. Honey, you're feigning, I didn't use the

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word back then, but honey, you're feigning that.

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You're imagining that. There's no horse that

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ran through our backyard. You're imagining it.

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She says, no, a horse. I said, honey, no. No,

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no, no, no. You're imagining that. It's not real.

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So she gets up and she goes to our living room.

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I follow her there and she opens up the curtain.

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I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And right in her

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backyard is a horse. So it was her, it was not

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feigned. It was unfeigned. In other words, what

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she saw or she heard, it was real. It was real.

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It was not imaginary. So you think unfamed faith,

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it's real faith. It's not fake faith. And so

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Paul's writing to Timothy and say, the unfamed

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faith, you have real faith. You have something

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that's not imagined. You have something that's,

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it's important, not fake faith right there. And

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this is awesome right there. When I called to

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remembrance the unfamed faith that is in thee,

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which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois. And

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all of a sudden we begin to look at that. Timothy's

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faith didn't just show up by accident. He had

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grandma Lois, Grammy Lois, and Mimi Lois. There's

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all those Grammy names. You know what I'm talking

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about? Grammy, grandma, Mimi, all those grandma

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Lois, Mimi Lois. And so we begin to look at that.

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Timothy, before ever, before Timothy. ever stood

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up for God publicly, behind the scene he was

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influenced by his Mimi, his Grammy, his grandma

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Lois. And that's important. He didn't have to

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have a perfect home, but he had a grandma who

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influenced him to do right. He had a Mimi that

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influenced to do right. And we begin to think

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that he also had his mama, his mama. Eunice right

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there, his mama Eunice had great faith, had unfeigned

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faith, not fake faith. In other words, Timothy

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had something around him, an influence around

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him that pointed him to God, that showed true

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faith in God. And that's important, I believe,

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right there. You know, we begin to think about

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this. We like the results of having Timothy's.

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Okay, let me go a little bit broader here to

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help us understand, because some of you don't

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have children in the home. but we have a church

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family. And inside our church family, we have

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a responsibility to help our church young ones,

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our church young ones to grow up to serve the

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Lord. And it just doesn't happen by luck. It

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doesn't happen by luck. We have to have some

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people, some men. And soon we need some Grammy

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Lois's. We need some Mama Eunice's. We need some

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Grandpa Bubba's. And some. Daddy Chubbies. I

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don't know. What do you got it for a name? I

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don't know. But we need some people that have

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some unfeigned faith that influence, that guide,

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that direct the Timothes of the church and the

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young ladies of the church to live with God.

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By the way, I like the results. I want to raise

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a Timothy. But children know when we act one

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way at church and they see something different

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at home. They can see the difference between

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something that is real and something that is

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imaginary, the difference between feigned faith

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and unfeigned faith. And that's why our Christianity

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must be lived at home, not just shown at church.

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It needs to be real. Okay, I'm out of breath.

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I'm out of breath. You out of breath yet? No,

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your ears hurt though, don't they? I get it,

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I get it. But think with me, I remember going

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to church before I was ever a pastor, there was

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an older lady in the church named Cecilia Stroud.

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And she was short, she was really petite, really

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skinny, and she loved the Lord. She loved the

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Lord. She read the Bible through from cover to

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cover every month of the year. And after church,

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she would often go, she didn't have family in

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the church, but she would grab a young lady.

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and she would get them to sit with her. And after

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the sermon, she had preached another sermon to

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this dear lady. But she cared for these people.

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And those young girls, they loved her. They cared

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for her. They loved the investment. But her faith

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was real. Her faith was real. By the way, you

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got around Miss Cecilia Stroud, you stood up

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a little straighter. You guarded your mouth a

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little bit more. Now her husband, Brother Stroud,

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Brother Stroud would want to go golfing. And

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he'd say, Brother Matt, you want to go golfing?

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I said, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, well, you pick

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me up. And I was like, OK. And so I'd drive over

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to his house. It was off of Indian River Road,

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off the highway. There's the Waffle House in

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the neighborhood back there. I'd drive down the

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street. They had lived on the corner. I'd get

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out. And then I'd walk out knowing that I'd get

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to see Brother Stroud. And Brother Stroud, come

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on in. And you'd meet up with Sister Cecilia

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Stroud. And then she'd be looking at you're going

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golfing, huh? And she's looking up at you. Yeah,

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I'm going golfing. Did you read your Bible? And

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you never want to go over that without reading

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your Bible. And she had real faith that also

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influenced you. And that's what we need. We need

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some influencers and people who lead with a faith

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that's not feigned, but unfeigned faith. Now

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go over with me to the book of 2 Timothy chapter

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three. 2 Timothy chapter number three. Part of

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this message though, if you got children in your

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home, wow, you have an influence. Be a godly

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mother. Be a godly father. Boy, maybe your grandpa

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who has or grandma who has influence with your

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grandchildren. Be a godly grandpa. Be a godly

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grandmother right there. Take that opportunity.

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Know your time is short and show them as best

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you can to have a real living, live faith. Amen.

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Okay, good, good, good, good, good, good, good.

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If he didn't say amen there, the sermon was getting

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longer. Look at verse 14. chapter number three,

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verse 14. This is interesting. But continue,

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okay, but what's that word? Okay, keep on going.

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But continue thou in, in what? The things which

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thou hast learned. But continue thou in the things

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that thou hast learned. Paul's instructing Timothy,

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continue thou in the things that thou hast learned.

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Now, stop with me for a second. He had learned,

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he learned him some things, okay? And we're gonna

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look at it a little bit longer in a moment, but

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think about us. If we could stop in a moment

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and think about what are our kids learning in

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our homes? Okay, that's sort of convicting. If

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you just think about your home, maybe your grandchildren

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came over to your house or your kids came over

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to your house. What did they learn in the last

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week from you in your home? And think about maybe

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the last month. What would your kids say, I learned

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this from Grammy. I learned this from Grandpa

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Bubba. Amen. What are the kids learning? Now

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this is very convicting because you begin to

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think about it and it becomes reality. What have

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you, he's saying continue now the things that

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thou has learned right there. Paul wanted us

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to know something. He wanted to know that he

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learned some things in the past and I wanted

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to say the world. Oh, we live in a sin sick world,

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do we not? We live and you go out there and I

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do feel very bad for the world and the children

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growing up in this Sinsic world because often

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they're not raised by a parent they're raised

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by their phones and often on their phones there's

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a lot of things on the phones that are not good

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and The statistics I'm not that I'm not trying

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to do that this morning But the statistics where

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some of the children are introduced to things

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they should never be introduced at is absolutely

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horrific. They're taught things, shown things,

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seen things that they should never see in their

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entire life. And they're shown at a very young

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age. And it is sad. It's corrupt. It's terrible.

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And I told myself I wasn't going to get into

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it in the sermon this morning because I don't

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want to get sidetracked. But it's terrible. OK.

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OK. We would say that. But that's not what they

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ought to be learning in your home. And if I could

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do a secondary thing, that's not what they should

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be learning at our church. at our church. So

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we go to this next part. Well, what did he learn?

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Look at verse number 14 again. But continue thou

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in the things which thou hast learned and hast

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been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned

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them, and that from a what? Child. Thou hast

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known the what? Holy scriptures. Has known the

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holy scriptures. Wow! Wow! That was known the

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Holy Spirit. And from a child somehow we can

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find out that Grandma Lois and Mama Eunice took

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the word of God and somehow taught him the word

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of God from a young age. The word of God. We

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all know the word of God is quick and powerful

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and sharper than any of you. We can quote all

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those verses, the power in God's word. This is

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not man's book. This is God's book. It's true

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from beginning to end. And praise God. God preserved

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his word, the pure, inspired, and errant word

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of God in the King James Bible. You can believe

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it from Genesis 1 to Revelation, the last chapter,

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the last word. This is a true book. It's a wonderful

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book. But it does you no good if you never learn

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it. And part of the story is inside your home.

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Okay, grandpa, grandma, when the children, the

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children come over to your house, your grandchildren

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come over to your house, what are they learning

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from you? Hopefully, grandpa says, hey, let me

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take a moment and read this book to you, this

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word of God to you and teach them something from

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the word of God that they remember you stopping

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and praying and asking God to bless the food

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that you're about to eat and they see a semblance

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and influence of godly living in the home. and

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we would say amen to that. Let's take another

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step. Inside of our church, we desperately need

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to be a church that's built upon and where we

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teach the word of God. Wouldn't you agree with

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that? You know, at church, when people come to

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our church, we're not necessarily, well, I want

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a church that entertains. Well, entertaining

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is not gonna help the children as they get a

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little bit older, but you know what'll help them?

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The word of God. And that's the point right there,

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from a child that has known the holy scriptures,

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which, by the way, yesterday, my son Amos, Saturday,

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I like to go to bed a little bit early, and so

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Saturday, I went to bed, I'm in bed at eight

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o 'clock last night, and I'm sitting up a little

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bit, but in comes my Amos, boom, pounds through

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that door, and he's saying goodnight to me, and

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he says, daddy, I just wanna talk to you. So,

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you know, he's five almost six years. I said,

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come on up here He sat on my bed. He begins to

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look at me. He says daddy He says and a few weeks

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ago. Well, I think it was last week last week

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It's his birthday coming up and I ordered him

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a present and I let him open up early and it's

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a knife That's about this big knife and it is

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a brutal looking knife. It's rubber though It's

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rubber. It's just bends all over the place. And

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so he says daddy If somebody broke in our house,

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what would you do? I said, well, Amos, you know

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what I would do? I would go get your knife, and

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I would go, wah! And I would get there, and he

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says, that's not what I would do. Well, what

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would you do? And here's what he said. He looked

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at me, he said, Daddy, I would pray. And wow,

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where did he learn that? He learned that here

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at church, obviously not at home. I mean, come

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on. I just want to say thank you, thank you.

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But really, he learned that. From a child, he's

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been taught the holy scriptures that lead him

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to go to God in prayer right there. What are

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the kids learning in your home? What are the

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kids learning in your home? The childhood matters,

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the early years matter, the homes matter, and

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we at church, we can make a difference. We need

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some Cecilia Strouds here at the church. We need

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some grandpas who, maybe your kids are no longer

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kids, but you can help raise and train and teach

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and model biblical Christianity to the kids at

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church. Now I want you to turn over to Psalm

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chapter number 19. Psalm chapter number 19. I

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want you to have seen something. Remember, but

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continue thou. in the things that thou has learned,

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has been assured of, knowing of the things that

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thou has learned, and that from a child thou

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has known the holy scriptures, holy scriptures.

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In Psalm 19, an amazing Psalm, Psalm of David,

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we get to verse number 14. Look at verse 14.

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And this verse is memorized. People know this

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verse. Say it with me. Let the words of my mouth

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and the meditation of my heart. Be acceptable

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in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

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Say it one more time. Let the words of my mouth

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and the meditation of my heart be acceptable

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in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

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That verse is a verse we commonly try to get

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people to memorize. Pastor, I'm struggling with

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my thoughts. Pastor, I'm struggling, well. Memorize

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this verse, let the words of my mouth and the

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meditation of my heart be acceptable. I say,

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oh Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Memorize

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that, say it a hundred times and get in your

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mind. Let the words of my mouth and sort of like

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a prayer, let the words of my mouth, the meditation

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of my heart. And by the way, it's crazy, through

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the years, I've had so many people, Brother Mitch,

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this is important. You and I, we talk to people,

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they struggle, they struggle. Memorize this verse,

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they memorize, I still struggle. And part of

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it is because we never do the first part. Look

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at this, go back a little bit earlier in this

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verse, the verse number seven, look at this.

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The law of the Lord is what? Perfect, okay, the

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law of the Lord, that's the word of God, the

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Bible. Converting the soul, the testimony, that's

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another name for the word of God, of the Lord

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is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes

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of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The

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commandment of the Lord is pure in lightening

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the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring

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forever. The judgments of the Lord are true and

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righteous all together. Those are all verses

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on the power of the word of God. Then it says,

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more to be desired. Okay, God's word, it's more

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to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much

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fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

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Wow, okay. Let the words of my mouth and the

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meditation of my heart be accepted by my side,

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oh Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. And you

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say, I would like the words of my mouth, the

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meditation. I'm struggling with that. But how

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does that happen without filling your heart and

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your mind with the word of God? In other words,

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sometimes we do not emphasize the importance

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of saturating your heart and your mind with God's

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holy precious word. We skip that part. Well,

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I'm struggling. Well, try not only saying, let

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the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart

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be accepted on the side of the Lord, my strength

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and my deliverance, but try saturating your heart

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and my mind, your mind with God's holy precious

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word for a while. Psalm chapter one, just a few

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chapters before that, it talks about the blessed

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man, his delight, his delight is in the law of

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the Lord and in his law that they meditate once

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a week on Sunday. And then all of a sudden, once

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a week on Sunday, and then you're struggling

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by Tuesday, and then you quote the verse, let

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the words of my mouth, no, you need to saturate

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your heart and mind day and night with God's

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holy, precious word. We look at the end result

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of Timothy, man, a mighty man, you might say

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a valor, a man of strength, a man used mightily

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of the God, and we thank God for that, but it

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happened with a Eunice. It happened with a grandma,

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Lois. It happened with a purposeful saturation

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of that child where they learn the word of God,

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they study the word of God, and it's a powerful,

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glorious, amazing truth that I think that we

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all ought to find. And this is interesting, that

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from a child that's known the holy scriptures,

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we're at the end of the sermon, amen. Okay, now

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if you don't say amen, it's gonna go longer.

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It's the end of the sermon. Some of you need

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to get right with God. Make it a little bit longer,

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okay? This week, I got a call. Hello, this is

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Pastor Matt Chesapeake Baptist Church. How may

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I help you? And all of a sudden it was a missionary.

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He said, oh, Pastor Matt. And Pastor Matt, I

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think he called me Pastor Nettisime, but Pastor

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Nettisime, and I don't know how he said my name,

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but he actually said it pretty good. And he said,

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wow, I'm excited, I'm a missionary. Me and my

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family, we. watch your service all the time.

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I can't believe we're talking. I like your sermons.

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I like this guy. Okay. You know, I get a lot

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of calls from missionaries, but if a missionary

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is watching us right now, if you ever want to

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come to our church, get support, that's a good

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way to get started. Okay. And anyways, this missionary

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to Indonesia, man, amazing person. They have

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11 children. And then he began to talk to me

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a little bit about his parents. They had 12 children.

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And then he'd tend to talk about their life,

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living for the Lord. And then he told me a story.

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He asked me a question first. He says, Pastor,

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how many people are in your family? You have

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kids and grandkids. And we counted them up. And

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it's a little over 40. With grandkids, the daughters

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-in -law, son -in -law, and the grandkids and

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kids is about 40. He says, my dad has over 100.

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And I said, wow. And he emphasized that God,

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he says, you know, when I was growing up, my

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dad never worried about money. He was worried

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about us knowing the word of God. He was interested

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in us knowing Christ. And then they had a lot

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of kids. We'd say, wow, I'd say that's a lot,

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right? You'd say that's a lot. Then he said,

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and we emphasized, he said there was another

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family member, a relative, who is more interested

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maybe in money. And he looks back and he says,

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you know, they only have, and then he was just

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talking about, the power and the blessing of

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having a godly heritage, having a dad and a mama

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who led them to the scriptures and led them to

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living by the word of God. And I got done talking

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to that and I thought, wow, what an opportunity

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I have as a dad. I've still got five children

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in my home, well six, almost five now and my

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son Joshua's getting married, but I want to take

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those five children that I have in my home and

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I want to be a godly, I don't want to be a fake

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Christian. I wanna teach him the word of God.

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I wanna teach him the word of God. I want him

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to be a part of a church where it's not fake.

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It's not fake, it's real. Where we have some

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Cecilia Strouds and some men and women here who

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are more interested in not entertainment, but

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actually learning and living by God's holy precious

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word. And I think about that, we have an opportunity.

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Now let me ask you a question. What about you?

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What is your home producing? What are your children

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hearing? I don't got no children. Well, what

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are your children? We're brothers and sisters

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in Christ. What about the children in the church?

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What are they hearing from you? What are you

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doing to help the next generation? Is your faith

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real or is it an unfeigned faith? And is the

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word of God central, not just in your home, but

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in your life? A godly heritage, it can happen.

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I'm gonna mention one other thing, we're done.

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but that from a child thou hast known the holy

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scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto

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salvation, unto salvation, wise unto salvation

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which is, I think it's in Christ, I don't wanna

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misquote it, and so I'm gonna go back and find

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it, ah, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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At that point, the word of God points us to how

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we can go to heaven when we die. And if you were

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to die today, are you 100 % sure you'd go to

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heaven? If you're not, God wants you to know

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that when you die, you go to heaven. The scriptures

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point us to the only way to heaven, and it's

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not you being good, it's not you being a Baptist,

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it's not you getting baptized, but the way to

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heaven is through Christ Jesus, through the Lord

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Jesus Christ, who came born of a virgin, lived

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a perfect life, he died on the cross for our

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sins, he rose again proving to God. He is the

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way, the truth and the life. And if you accept

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Jesus Christ as your only hope for heaven, the

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Bible says you'll be a child of the king, you'll

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go to heaven when you die. Let's do this, bow

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your heads, bow your hearts, go to the Lord in

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prayer. Dear Father in heaven, we love you. Wow,

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this truth, as I studied it, convicted me. And

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I thought about what influence is in my children

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through my home. And I pray that you help me

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and Mandy. make good decisions where we have

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a Christian home, an unfeigned faith home, Lord.

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I pray that you help me to be a dad, a grandfather

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that leads my children and my grandchildren to

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you and influence them for truth and right. Help

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me to be a pastor, help us be a part of a church

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that will re -influence the next generation to

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live by your word. I pray that you help the moms

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and dads here to take their training. of their

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children seriously. Help them even make decisions

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right now. Maybe have an uncomfortable talk with

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a husband and wife, Lord. I pray that you help

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maybe a mom or a dad with an imperfect situation

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at home realize there's hope for their children.

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Lord, if there is one that's not been saved,

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I pray that this would be the day of salvation

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for them. We sure do love you. We need you, Lord,

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in Jesus' name, amen. Stand with me if you will.

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In a moment,