Fathers Who Build Legacy

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my personal relationship with the Lord, empowered by my commitment

to community and express throughout reach to others. Therefore, I

can say, and all right, we're going to interrupt the

series on Galatians for today, regalations for for next week.

But I want to start with just a great video.

The most Amazing Man Alive.

The most Amazing man alive. Police often questioned him just

because they find him interesting. He once counted to infinity twice.

His picture is worth a billion words. He is both

left handed and right handed. It only takes him twenty

minutes to one sixty minutes. He can't judge a book

by its cover. He uses to askos locks instead of

by seeing. He can speak Braille. He once beat up

the man who invented boxing. He once overthrew a Third

World dictator by making a single phone call. His barbecue

ribs are so good. He was given a Nobel Peace Prize.

People come from miles around just to watch his beard grow.

He was turned down for the Lead and Cool Hand

Look because he was too cool. He never asked for

directions because he has never lost. He had to walk

to school, appeal both ways in the snow barefoot. There

is no lufa in his shower. He uses an sosa.

He has had a full time job since he was two.

He is not afraid of the dark. The dark is

afraid of him. His favorite food is steak. Sometimes he

even cooks it. He won the Bulletser for a grocery

list he scribbled out on an apple. He once was

named Man of the Year on January eight. He does

not lift weights. He cannot find any that are heavy enough.

He knows what to do with a Klondike pack. He

is the most amazing man alive. He is your father.

Happy Father's Day, My friends.

Come on thereby, let's give all the man a hand clap.

Let's do yeah, you know, and rightfully so we celebrate

Mother's Day, and it's awesome, and you get to Father's

Day kind of like your dirty dog give You know,

we need to celebrate men because men are awesome, and

we're gonna make it special. They are, yes, yes, and

don't forget at the close of service, we've got something

special for every man in the house. You know, let's

not make it just fathers. They have about Father's week.

What if the man gets to control the TV remote

all week long? Someone like that. As Sarah feared Abraham

and called him lord, You're gonna be called lord for

a whole week. I just went lordy, lordy. Okay, oh

my hey, We're gonna look at a day in scripture

that will help you. And I remember, God wants us

men to think legacy. Everybody say legacy, very very important,

very important. That men understand stand this, every man, every woman.

So even though I'm addressed seeing men, this applies to

the ladies just as much. Every single parent. Wherever you

find yourself today, God wants you to be able to

leave and create a venue for legacy. No matter how

we have started, no matter how we have failed, no

matter how much we've blundered, no matter how much we've

maybe taken no responsibility God can change things and do

things quickly in your life so that you finish well,

finish well, So it's not just starting, it's finishing well.

I've seen many people start something, a project or something spiritual,

whatever it is, only to stop quickly. And I'd rather

see someone start slowly and finish strong. So everybody say,

finish strong. And while you have bread and you have

this day, God, out of his mercy and his grace,

can begin to create legacy from your life and just

help you. Legacy is such a great word, and basically

it's just something that's handed down by a predecessor, someone

that is just giving you something of value for your life,

to help you so that you can run your race

in such an accurate way, godly way, and that way

you can finish strong and keep this process going. The

picture I think of is when you drop a pebble

or rock in water and boom, Okay, there you are

your legacy. But if you've done this correct, thinking about

not yourself but those that are following and those that

are going to take up your mantle, it begins to expand.

The circles get bigger and bigger. Are you with me?

How many men want something to outlive you and live

way beyond you, and all the men say, yes, I

think of qualities that create legacy, like trust and faith. Men,

how about the word commitment and the effect of commitment

a life of devotion. Are beginning to live a life

of devotion or just deciding I'm going to live a

dedicated life with God's principles. Legacy begins with all of that. Again,

it's it's not how you started or what's happened in

your past that always defines you. Because very often the

people that have great impact in society, they had a

very rough start, they had very poor examples, but somehow

they were able to realize life wasn't just about them,

it was about all those who would follow them. God

could be giving you mercy today, giving me mercy today

to defy a brand new future, something that's just awesome.

To define a legacy you may not even see in

your own life right now, but you're going to say

I'm going to make decisions and quality choices so that

legacy does follow. And everyone says, now, I'm honorative. Had

a lot of men and have a lot of men

in my life who have impacted me in ministry, in

what I'm doing. I have three overseers. My pastor, brother

Larry Stockstill. We were texting and emailing each other throughout

the week, thanking him for his impact in my life.

And he will be here eventually, comes periodically every few

years to other overseers, Mike ware and Jeff Tarbas. They're

in periodically. You've met them whenever there's an emergency or

a need or whatever. Right here to be here with you.

Two men are who are now with the Lord, Brother

Billy Hornsby. Some of you go back real far and

remember Brother Billy and his impact on my life. Brother

Larry's dad, Roy Stockstill, who passed away a year and

a half ago. I think of my own dad, John Harrow,

he passed away thirty three years ago, healthy at could be,

and just the different things that he would do to

help and serve in our community. He was also a

volunteer fireman. My little community was kind of like Mayberry RFD.

Anybody like to watch Mayberry RFD really kind of describes

the community. The small community I grew up in Louisiana,

everybody helping doing no matter what. My dad was a

volunteer fireman and one of the rescues that trained to

relm and he got some very toxic material on him,

which led to a cancer that ended up taking his life.

But he was a man of his word. Now, I

remember as a kid going in our little bank because

we had a farm, and all the things that he did,

I remember this. I saw it. He would borrow money

with a handshake, no paper signed ever, can't do that now.

And then as selling the cows and all the things

that would take place in the farm, he'd pay back always,

I said always, because a man pays back his loans. Amen.

That's just who he was. He would help the needy.

I mean, he would help people up. Our phone would

often ring throughout the night because Dad, even though he

had great principles, had great mercy. So in the community

when people got in trouble, and I grew up in

the area where there was a lot a lot of alcohol,

and so when people would be drunk or whatever get

put in jail, inevitably they would call Dad, because my

dad would go bail them out and he'd lecture them

and he talked to them, and then he'd make them

work on the farm and he'd witness to him. Now,

that's what he did all the time. So when I'd

hear the phone ring in the middle of the night

and I go here, he goes again. If there was

an he saw the need. Our community needed a golf course.

My older brother played golf and was very very good.

We need a golf course. He built one. He just

did it. He got someone to draw plans, he got

a few men, let's do it. You know, some people dream,

some people do. I remember it destroyed our tractor built

and it's there today, and it is a fine golf

course that he built. We needed a school when all

our schools were in rough condition and all kinds of

things going on. He built a school, a private school

that's still there today. So this was the man that

I grew up around. And I found a picture of

him when he was finishing college. So bring that picture

of my dad there is when he's finished college. It's

John Harrold, just trying to get you to think of

people that have helped you. He and my mom got

married shortly after this picture. Then, of course he died

when I had just gotten married to and I had

just gotten married. I sent my mom off to Bible College.

She's around fifty years of age. She graduates, the school

sends her overseas. She's a missionary for a year as

a dean of women. Comes back and I kept telling

my mom, you need to remarry. No, no, no, no,

you know she don't want to do that. Well, great

man whose wife had died. Great friends in the family.

There again, everybody knows everyone in the small community. And

Bill's youngest daughter and I were good friends. We used

to ride horses together. We had horses on our farm.

So the Lord brought Bill into mom's life. And after

she was a widow for four years, she married Brigadier

General William Hogan. So bring up picture of Bill. Now,

that's Bill right there, my stepdad on one of his missions.

I don't know where, but I found that picture and

I thought, well, let me bring that one in case

you did know too. He played football for LSU. Come on,

bring up the next picture. There he is when he's

in college. He was center for several years. When he

was a senior, he was quarterback for Lshoe. Yeah, so

we grew up. Well, of course I'm an adult then.

But Bill was a great man. They were married for

seventeen years and he was twelve thirteen years older than

my mom, and he passed away twelve and a half

years ago. Just showing you people of integrity and character

and quality. Great leader, great, great leader. And then I'm

gonna bring up another picture my great grandfather and his family. Okay,

this is an old picture. Bring it up there it is.

He died in nineteen fourteen. Okay, so this picture is old.

Everybody say old. Okay. This is my great grandfather right here.

He was a philanthropist. He just made things work. He

owned banks and farms and houses and I don't know

what'll Apparently he loved the Lord because you go around

our community. He built this church, he built that church.

He gave them my for this over here. That's what

he did. Now, this is my great grandmother, Ellen Gray Harold.

I'm Mark Gray Harrold. You just heard Andrew Gray Harrol

and Declan Gray is running around here somewhere. So just

showing ongoing. This is my grandfather's a little boy. This

is his older sister. There's a big age difference. That's

because five children died between them, not just in infancy,

but at age ten twelve. All the diseases way back then,

it took place. Now, the great man that he was. Unfortunately,

my grandfather became an alcoholic at an early age when

the depression hit and he lost all the stuff that

he had worked so hard to accumulate. So I'm so

grateful when my day grew up he broke that curse.

He broke that because he wanted to create something of

legacy and kind of picked up the mantle that my

great grandfather had. Now are you ready for his name?

His name was Leonidas. It is Greek, and Jonathan my

middle son. I mean, he's a family buff. They're getting

ready to have their first child. Guess what his name

is going to be Leonidas and they're gonna call him

leon So someone who died over one hundred years ago,

legacy is continuing. Men, What are you creating? What are

you doing? When my great grandfather moved to Louisiana, it

was four brothers from Harrowsville, North Carolina. You can go

to Harrowsville, North Carolina. They're a very small community of men.

I guess the family big old colonial home is still there.

I don't know. It was in pretty shabby shape the

last time we were there. But my great grandfather came

south and he began doing all that he did legacy

legacy so many others. Men in the church who committed

themselves to the vision, men who lead their family, men

who have stayed devoted, men who could trust the Lord,

not just their feelings, even if others were failing them

in their lives, or family members were failing them or whatever.

They stayed committed as a man, as a husband, as

a dead someone who could stay steady in a moment

of testing our trial, that when others maybe couldn't do

it or wouldn't do it, you decided I'm going to

do the right thing. May we be men who do

right even others don't. John twenty, verse twenty nine. And

then we're going to look at our theme someone we're

going to study just briefly in the scripture. But John

twenty twenty nine, I want you to see this. And

this is after his resurrection, and Thomas was doubting the

whole appearance of the Lord, and Jesus appeared to him.

Then Jesus told him, Thomas, because you've seen me, you

have believe. And that's one thing that's great. You've heard

the frame. If I see it, I'll believe it. That's

kind of where this guy was at the moment. But

look at this. The rest of the verse blessed her

those who have not seen and what you believe yet

have believed. So God wants to raise up men, women,

dad's fathers that are willing to be devoted even before

even before they see the outcome, willing to have faith,

even before they see the result of that faith. Oh

it's quiet in here today. Come on, ma'am. Anybody can

believe when they see. But the Bible says there's a

blessing that comes on a person that can actually make

the right step before they see the outcome, right, the

right decision, staying committed, staying devoted, staying loyal. So let's

look at a man in scripture. Turn to Matthew chapter one.

We're gonna look through a window of his life because

he's not talked about a lot throughout the scripture. We

don't know a lot about Joseph. And I'm not talking

about the Old Testament Joseph. I'm talking about Joseph the Guardian,

the earthly dead of Jesus. Joseph. Can I say, the

foster dead of Jesus, And you don't hear much about him?

He gets a cameo appearance at Christmas time. You don't

think of all the bathroodramas and so forth. Here comes

Joseph and do you have any room at the end? No, bam,

off to the manger, they go. That's about all you

really see or here. But let's look at a few scriptures,

and I hope men especially let this rivet you something

you can talk about. Think about in regards to your legacy,

not just your biological family, but your spiritual family people

you know, your community and so forth. Think all that

Joseph was up against. Just think about it. Can you

imagine the task of being the dead of Jesus? How

do you direct or correct something that's perfect? I mean,

come on, put yourself in that place. So think with

me the task God gave Joseph in the legacy God

gave him through his adopted son that he was responsible

to raise Jesus Matthew Chapter one, beginning verse eighteen. This

is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. His

mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but

before they came together, she was found to be with

child through the Holy Spirit. Now would you stop and

think about that conversation for a few moments. Please, Joseph,

I have something to tell you. I'm pregnant. Who's the dead?

The Holy Spirit? I haven't met the Holy Spirit? Think,

come on, think with me for a minute. He is

aware of this news pre dream. Okay, hadn't had the

dream yet. He's aware of this pre dream verse nineteen.

Because Joseph, her husband, You said, well, wait, I thought

they were engaged. Well, back then, when you got engaged,

you had to go through divorce or a form of

divorce to break up an engagement, So engagement was legally

binding at that time. Are you with me? Because Joseph,

her husband was a righteous man. Everybody say righteous man,

and he did not want to expose her to public disgrace.

He had in mind to divorce her quietly. He's going

to do this quietly, in an honorable way, when he

felt Mary had been unhonorable to him. He's just doing

the thing that you would do, except he's doing it honorably,

and he's trying to still protect Mary. Thank man, think

of qualities here. But after he had considered this, that's important.

But after he had considered this, that's probably one of

the most important raises as it relates to Joseph, because

he's thinking, he's contemplating, trying to figure this out, trying

to understand what's going on, trying to do it in

an honorable way, not try not to make Mary become

a disgrace in the community. An angel of the Lord

appeared to him in a dream. Now just stop for

a minute. I've had a lot of dreams, and I've

had some spiritual dreams as well. All of us probably have.

But still it's a dream. It's not an appearance. It's

a dream. Okay, there is a difference. But after he

considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him

in a dream and said, Joseph, son of David, do

not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife,

because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

She will give birth to a son. And you, Joseph,

you have the responsibility. You're to give him the name

what's his name? Because he will save his people from

their sins. Of course, they were looking for a a

side that would be a political redeemer and deliver them

from the Romans. But right here, even the angels saying

he's going to deliver people from their sins verse twenty two.

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had

said through the prophet, the Virgin will be with child

and will give birth to a son, and they will

call him Emmanuel, which means God with us. When Joseph

woke up, he did what the Angel of the Lord

had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. Wow,

next verse very important. But he had no union with

her until she gave birth to a son, and he

Joseph gave him the name what Jesus. So here we are,

two thousand plus years later, singing songs about Jesus, rejoicing

in our spiritual heritage because of Jesus, because a man

named Joseph created legacy. And you don't hear much about Joseph.

Think about what Joseph was up against. Think about the pressure,

the shame, the accusation. And let's think about our time today, everybody.

I've never seen a time such as now where people, families,

men are under such pressure. Many of you. The pressure

is robbing you of sleep at night. You have anxiety,

pay the bi raise the kids, answer to the boss,

deal with the situations, fix the problems, fix the broken

stuff around the house. Everybody say stuff that pressure on

you of trying to figure out life and land it.

Think of the pressure on Joseph when all this went

down and he has to take a whole new direction.

I'm sure he had a nice condominium picked out somewhere

that they were going to live. I mean, he had

all these plans and now it's chaos. Come on, chaos,

And with all those pressures, Joseph did the right thing,

even before he had a full revelation. Come on, ma'am.

Of course, you've got to know the word to know

what the right thing is. You've got to know the

heart of God. You've got as Andrew was talking about

listening to the Holy Spirit. You've got to know that

to know what the right thing is. Joseph was a

man who did the right thing, and because he did,

he got the revelation from God. Because he was going

to do the right thing, and because he got a

revelation of God's plan and of being committed and devoted,

God gave him a legacy that speaks today, delivering men

and women of their sins no matter what country we're from,

aren't you glad we celebrate the nations of the world

got people out all over and we have guest missionaries

in today. It's awesome and I believe that is the

heartbeat of every person here. It's not in your notes,

but write it down. God wants your life to outlast

your few moments here on earth. Got to thinking about

that earlier, and I wrote it down. God wants your

life to outlast your few moments here on earth. So

let me just quickly give you four things we can

see from the life of Joseph as we just take

a glimpse through this window that can help us create legacy,

fine legacy, or expand the legacy that we're already working on.

Number One, Joseph was a man of marrows, but he

was also a man of mercy. Okay, can you see

that what we've just read? It's a great combination. I

love combinations. Anybody go to dairy Queen occasionally? I like

a strawberry cheese quake blizzard. Do I hear an amen

in the house? Combination? I love a combination peanut butter

and no, not chocolate. Jeanet. Gosh, she's got one track mine,

don't she. Peanut butter and jelly. Yes, I like my

pizza with pepperoni and Canadian bacon combination and cheese. Of course,

I like a combination of things going on all at once. Now, look,

this is an amazing combination for Joseph, Marls and mercy.

You say why because most people have a tendency to

dominate on one or the other. Come on, men, thank

God for Marls. Please, but listen, if you are just

totally driven by Marls, which we need, I mean, it

doesn't move. But if you just dominate that and just

communicate that, you can create an atmosphere where God's forgiveness

can't flow. Yes, yes, see, because the Holy Spirit is

going to want to minister mercy and compassion. The lady

caught an adultery. She should have been killed, but Jesus

had mercy. He wasn't condoning sin. He was trying to

bring an answer so that there could be a change

in her situation. Are you with me? You know? And

we have to be very careful because remember last week Galatians,

we talked about the evil eye. We can cast that

evil eye of judgment on someone if their morals aren't

just like ours. How we're going to reach someone unless

they feel the love coming from your heart you're not

condoning sin, you're bringing Jesus to them. Then there's a

person who's all mercy, mercy, mercy. But if they don't

have marls. Now listen to me, please, If you are

overly mercy, if you're if you've got that degree, when

someone else doesn't do that like you do, you can

be offended at someone who doesn't flow like you. Because

I've seen mercy people be offended a bunch. Are you

hearing me? Okay, no matter where it is, what what area? Oh,

there's so much mercy. When this one doesn't do it

just like them, well, they end up mad at them. Yeah,

the n a ditch. They just end up in a ditch.

Joseph had morals, but he had mercy. He knew what

was right, he knew what was pleasing to God. But

in the middle of wanting to please God and still

honor Mary and do this right, he had a wonderful

merciful spirit. After he had the dream, God give us

dads fathers. Spiritual fathers will have strong morals. But with

strong moral moral excuse me, strong mercy mercy as it

relates to people, especially people walking through tough stuff, it

would be nice if the only people in your life

were exactly like you, then you could just stand around

with them and be right. But the people around you,

even family, maybe especially family, they're not like you. And

everybody says number two. Something else we can see about Joseph.

Joseph was logical, but he believed in the supernatural. Come on,

don't quit believing in the supernatural. God has not lost

his recipe for miracle. Church. Even this Saturday, our Encounter service,

We're just going to pray and pray in the spirit

and believe God from all of his presence to invade

all of our lives. He still has a miracle for

your life, a miracle for your home, your marriage, a

miracle for your children. If you will step up and

believe old pastor, let's be logical. Let's get a logical

plan and figure it all out with good old common sense.

Thank God for common sense. And I think you need

to get a plan. You need plans in your life.

But please make room for God to mix it all

up and just come in with a miracle and do

something of that nature. This is an area my father

had to grow in because of just the way he

was wired. He was a self made man, if he

touched it, it worked. If he touched it, it just

would prosper in Doo. I mean, people in the community

come to him. He help them with their budgets in life.

And so he had a tendency to lean on that.

So as he grew in the Lord and my mom

and praying for miracles and things happening in the family

and all this type of stuff, he had to grow

and develop that side. And he did. I said he did.

He chose to men, don't forget we serve a supernatural God,

the supernatural power of God, Almighty God can do anything. Amen.

And he wants to Number three. Third thing about Joseph life.

That helps to remind myself and hopefully you about legacy.

He was a great thinker, but he was a great dreamer.

All these are very similar. Just trying to write down

different thoughts that I can see from those few passages

in Matthew. He was a thinker and he was a dreamer. Men,

we have to think through things, and please think, use

your brain. Think, get up and think that's a good thing.

Don't be passive aggressive, don't do that. How about this Manja,

just calm down, you just calm down. Think, but also dream.

Joseph did not react think about it. He did not react.

When he gets the news from Mary, he starts devising

a plan that would be honorable and just and rework

his life. He wanted to do, not disgrace Mary. He

thought it through, but he received a dream. He made

way for a dream. He made way for something bigger

than what he was thinking about. And God can give

us all that. God helped me to just dream your

dreams from my family in life, and greater yet, for legacy,

things that live on beyond us. Lord, help me to

be sensitive to your dream. And please remember a dream

is never just for you, It's for all those who

follow Amen. Number four last thing is a reminder I

see from the life of Joseph all very similar. Joseph

could refrain and do right, but he was also a

man of revelation because he had a revelation through the

Angel for our plan and this son is going to

save people from sins. Can you imagine just trying to

figure all that out, folks, Come on, we read the

end of the book. It's just right there being written.

They're trying to understand what's going on. So he was

able to refrain himself. But he was a man of

revelation and continuing revelation about this son that he's raising.

Because he had a revelation, he could refrain himself, and

he kept himself refrained from Mari until after she had

the baby. He saw listen, and he was handpicked to

be the earthly dad of our Savior, the earthly dead

of the Son of God. Wow, how special is that

God saw stuff in him? And I believe every man

in here, God sees stuff in you that you don't see.

Right now, don't let the devil beat you up and

limit you and cause you to be defeated in the stop.

God sees stuff in you, just like he saw in Joseph,

and I want you to take him off. Just think

about some men. Think about men who have impacted you.

Whether it's a family member, a teacher, a coach, a neighbor,

a relative. Just think from it. Ladies should do that

as well. Think about men who have impacted your life.

You need to if there's still a little you need

to thank them. If they've gone on to glory, you

need to thank God for them and what they've taught you.

I'm thinking of a man the precious man that could

have been my father as well. And I've mentioned him before.

Roosevelt Norris down in Louisiana, one of the most godly,

quiet men of character you could ever meet. He worked

for my grandfather. My grandfather that was an alcoholic, so

he dealt with all that. Now he had his other job,

but my grandfather did have rental properties and so forth,

and he would manage that and take care of that.

And then after my grandfather had died, he worked for

my dad when my dad still had all that property

and so forth. Worked for my dad after my dad died,

And I'm still now minister and all that type of stuff.

On my day off, I'd go up to the farm

and the property, trying to manage your property. Then mister

Roosevelt worked for me. So I'm the third one in

line that he's working for. Then. An elderly man, just

strong as an ox and godly, godly to the core.

He and his wife. He just lived it. He just

lived it. One time he had taken the chainsaw home

to do something with it, and he left it in

the back of his truck and someone stole it out

of his truck, and he came to me immediately to

tell me. He said, now I'm going to replace it.

I said, no, you're not. You're not going to replace that.

And I said, he said, you know what, I'm going

to pray and God's going to show me who has it. Yeah,

and he did, and he went right to a certain

house and up under the porch, under the steps, and

there it was, and he grabbed it and took it.

I mean, that's that's the type of man that he was,

and the respect this man would work in. Now, growing up,

I'm my little boy, called me Mark, and so forth.

After college, as soon as I made the declaration I'm

going to Bible College, I'm going to be a minister.

The moment I said that, and he found out about it.

The next time he saw me, it was no longer Mark.

He called me reverend. I said, mister Roosevelt, you don't

need to call me that. He said, yes, sir. I

don't know how to describe this man to you. We

were working hard. One time, we had removed the stump.

I know, I'm skinny as can be, but I can

work hard. Okay. He is a big, old, just muscle guy,

and I mean he picked up this stump put it

in the back of the truck, and it was hot,

and we sat on the tailgate and I said, mister Roosevelt,

won't it be good when we get to heaven and

we won't have all this work? And he took his

cap off and he looked at me. He says, Reverend,

I believe they're going to be so few of us.

We's all going to be working overtime. I wrote it

down so I wouldn't forget it. It was just, oh, listen, then.

I believe God responds to us when we respond to

him in obedience and truth and faith. Even before the

dream comes about, I watched mister Rooseveld have to bury

a child and do it with such dignity one of

his teenagers who died. Oh, I'm serve God, life's going

to be perfect. It's not, folks. And if someone tells

you that they're lying to you, now it's the thief

that comes to steal. Jesus comes to give us life,

and he'll give you life even through something hard. Are

you with me? Okay? Now? I believe God is pleased

when you and I make good decisions and we stay

devoted and dedicated to doing the right thing, even before

we receive the outcome of a dream. Joseph did not

live to see the fulfillment of Jesus paying for the

sins of the world world. We don't know what point

he died, but when Jesus is dying on the cross,

he looked at John and said, behold you. You know

my mother is now your mother, and so forth they

did that exchange. He wanted to make sure that his

mother was taken care of. Obviously, Joseph was deceased. God

help us to be dedicated and devoted even before we

see the full outcome. You know, I started talking about

my dad, and like I said, if he touched it,

it worked. I mean, it's just what he did, all

the different things, from developing subdivisions to this, that and

the other. I don't know. He just he had a

knack and making something work. He had plans that we,

he and I were going to do together when I

finished college in architecture. I meant he had bought a

lot of property. I said, a lot of property, and

we were going to develop this property and we were

going to build houses. I'll tell you, he bought a

lot of property. I'm in hundreds and hundreds and hundreds

of acres that we were going to develop, and we

put down the water lines. We did all this stuff.

So when I have this call now that I know

I have to follow in Bible College and so forth,

I had to break that news to my dad, the thinker, Hello,

and so I put some tension there. Jenne said, yep,

he didn't fully embrace that at that moment. He was

excited about it because he could see what God was doing,

but didn't fully embrace it. But we still loved each

other deeply. Of course, in after Bible College and Jeanette

and I got married and the doors opened for ministry,

you would have thought it was his idea all along.

Isn't that right? Because you know, he could see what

God was doing and he was excited. So he got

to witness one year of our lives in ministry before

he died. Now, man, listen to me. He left everything

in order. Are you hearing me? I said, he left

everything in arder when he knew was sick. He already

had it in order. But I was to be the

executor of his will. And that was hard doing all that,

but just meeting. But I meant I had from boom.

I mean, I just need to follow each each thing

to make this work so Mom was secure and could

keep going on in life and not have to liquidate everything.

Everything was in arder, everything thought through, everything in place. Everything.

When I go back to my little town, and I

will at some point this summer to check on my

mom and help her with a few projects around her house,

like we want to do even for our widows, I

feel the responsibility to go do that. My brothers they're helping.

But I will always do this because my little town

is Maybury RFD. I'm serious. So I will go downtown

park on one end of the street, and I'm gonna

go jogging because it's just a good prayer time, beautiful

little town. It's a little historic town, old homes on

a lake, gorgeous where I grew up, a lot of

architecture and so forth. I will jog. I haven't lived

there in thirty four years? Are you here? And I

will have people stopping waving Haymark, Hey Mark, And inevitably

somewhere on the route, I will be stopped and somebody's

going to tell me a story about my dad and

something he did for them and something he taught them

in some way, he helped them, something he gave them,

or my stepdad as well, something he did because legacy

is to live on. Now. Man, we can be selfish

and self centered and just I'm gonna do this and

I'm gonna have my way and I'm gonna live contrary

to the word of God and you'll be miserable, or

can say, Lord, I surrender it all create a legacy

through me. Can we stand? Thank you for listening. We

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