The Godly Man, Part 3

The psalmist said in the 12th chapter, the first verse help

Lord the godly man ceases to be. That has been our theme the last

couple of weeks. It wasn't supposed to last this

long, but it has and I promise you I will finish it next week.

I promise. Unless the Lord comes again.

But the point is, is that every father in the room, every

grandfather in the room, every young man in the room needs to

understand that the last thing we would want to have happen,

it's for the psalmist to say, help Lord the godly man ceases

to be at 1432 W Puente Ave. So we're looking at what is a

godly man? How do you understand a God like

man? A man who truly has a heart for

the true and living God. A strong man, a man that truly

understands his walk with the Lord.

As fathers, we have an opportunity to impact the next

generation. I was thinking about that this

past week when I I heard these statistics that 25,000,000

children live without a biological father in the home.

That's just an America that kids in school grades one to 12, 40%

of them live without a biological father in the home.

Over 50% of all children that are born are born without a

father in the home. 85% of prisoners grew up without a

father in the home, and 90% of youth who run away from home and

become homeless come from a fatherless home.

Those statistics are an epidemic that runs through the United

States of America. So of all places that there

needs to be a a godly man, it's in the church, it's in your

home. Men that lead in a way that

understand that they have a huge impact on the life of their

children in the next generation. And I wonder if you you

understand that and recognize the impact of a father in his

home. It was John Wesley who said,

18th century preacher, give me 100 men who fear nothing but sin

and desire nothing but God, and I could care less whether they

are clergymen or laymen. Those men will shake Hell's

gates and bring God's Kingdom of heaven to earth.

Just 100 godly men. That's it.

If I could find 100 of them, it's like Paul and Silas in in

Acts chapter 17 when they went to Thessalonica.

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We've been in the study of Thessalonica, and I promise

we'll get back to chapter 5 as soon as I'm done with this.

But the fact of the matter is that when Paul and Silas went to

Thessalonica, the testimony was this.

Those who have turned the world upside down have now come here

to our city. They, they had a reputation of,

of turning the world upside down.

I, I wonder what your reputation is like.

I, I wonder, I wonder what workplace you're turning upside

down. Better yet, I wonder what family

you're turning upside down. Has your family changed course?

Has your family been uprooted from its past ways to to follow

the true and living God? Where are the men that that turn

schools and and homes and and workplaces and teams upside down

because they're godly men who love the Lord, who fear nothing

but sin and desire nothing but God?

Where are those guys? I know we like to talk about

them. Oh yeah, we got a guy here.

We got a guy there. But I'm talking about a true

godly man that has revolutionized his environment,

his sphere of influence, to such a degree that everybody knows he

has turned it upside down. That godly man is the kind of

man who goes to God incessantly in prayer.

That was point #1 he knows that he must be a man on his knees.

That's why the psalmist said these words in Psalm 32.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to you in time when

you may be found. The godly man prays.

The godly man lives on his knees.

He knows what it means to commune with God, so he goes to

God incessantly in prayer #2HE obeys God instantly, without

reservation, without hesitation. Psalm 1/19/62 says that, O Lord,

I hasten and will not delay to obey your commandments So many

times. We, we're just not that way as,

as elders this past week, we, we had our, our elder meeting.

We were talking about the fact that, you know, for 30 years at

Christ Community Church that there's something that never

changes, OK? It's that the word of God is our

authority. And so when we counsel people,

we only have one book. We don't have a plethora of

books. We got one and we have 1 Lord

who has given us that book. He speaks to us with one voice.

And so for 30 years we have given the same counsel to

everybody who comes to us. It doesn't change with one

person to another. It's the same counsel.

But we have noticed that over the years, there's one person or

one family who hears the council and says, yes, thank you, that's

what I need. We give the exact same counsel

to another family, to another individual, and they say, no, I

don't like that. I don't like you, I'm leaving.

And we're like, wait a minute. Same book, same verses, same

God, same words, same counsel. But one guy says thank you,

that's what I need. The other guy says, I'm out of

here. I don't like what you have to

say. Why is that?

It's not the book, it's not the counsel.

It's the heart of the person who is either willing to receive it

or unwilling to receive it. It's always the heart.

It's always the soil. That's what Matthew 13 is all

about. The parable of the sower and the

soil, right? The seed is the word of God.

It is sown. But for some, it falls on hard

hearts. For some it falls on worldly

hearts. For some it falls on selfish

hearts. And they're like, I don't want

to hear that. I don't want to do that.

And others have a very soft heart, a very spongy kind of

heart. They say, wow, that's exactly

what I need. Thank you so much, pastor,

because that's what I need to grow on.

That's what my family needs. You see, it's not the pastor.

It's not the book. It's the heart of the person who

is either willing to receive it or unwilling to receive it.

Never forget that it's always the way it is, that it will

always be that way. And the godly man hastens to

obey and never delay to obey the commands of God.

He wants to hear the word of God.

He wants to follow the word of God.

He longs to hear the word of God.

He says, Lord, tell me what I need to do, Correct my life, put

me on the right path and I might serve you.

He hastens because he obeys the word of God instantly.

That's the godly man. Are you that kind of man?

So he goes to God incessantly. He obeys God instantly.

He disciplines himself implicitly.

That is, there's something about the spiritual man that's

disciplined and you see it because the, the spiritualness,

the spiritual aspect of his life bulges with, with strength

because he, he loves the Lord. He disciplines himself under

prayer. He disciplines himself under the

study of God's word. He, he disciplines himself to

say no to sin. He disciplines himself to, to,

to share the gospel. He lives a life of, of spiritual

discipline of self surrender of self, denial of self submission

that he might obey the word of God.

It's he's a discipline man. Proverbs 1227 man's most

precious possession is his diligence.

That's your most precious possession.

It's your diligence, your discipline to be in the word of

God, to listen to the word of God, to follow the word of God,

to live for the Lord God. It's a discipline that takes

place and that's why Paul says the first Timothy 4 train

yourself under godliness and the word is good.

Not so even the word has a grunt in it good nod.

So you know why Because it's it's it's where we get our

English word gymnasium and we are to be spiritually in the gym

every single day. Bodily exercise profits a

little, but but godliness has profitable is profitable for all

things, not just in this life, but in the life to come.

The godly man is a discipline man.

He disciplines himself implicitly.

There's no doubt. There is no question.

There is nothing but absolute surety that when you see him, he

is absolutely in tune with the living God.

He is disciplined in his spiritual life.

That's the godly man. That's GODL is that he loves his

sin intensely. He hates it.

You can't be a godly man who loves sin.

A godly man loathes his sin. He hates his sin, he hates evil.

Psalm 95 verse #10 You who love the Lord, Ezekiel says that you

when you, when I come again and, and, and, and you're born again,

and I and I redeem Israel, You will loathe yourselves because

of your sin. You will hate the fact that you

sinned against me. You will hate the fact that

you're a Sinner, and you will grasp onto me.

Why? Because a godly man loves his

sin intensely, doesn't love a sin.

He hates the sin and seeks to separate himself from that sin.

It doesn't mean that he doesn't sin because everybody sins, but

when he sins, he hates it and causes him to turn from it, to

flee the love of money. First Timothy 6 verse #10 Paul

says the Corinthians to flee idolatry, to flee immorality.

He's a running man. He's always running away from

sin and always running to the spiritual virtues that God has

for him, faith and peace and gentleness and godliness and

long-suffering and patience, because he wants to be God's

kind of man. Then he yields to the Holy

Spirit intently because he knows he can't do anything without the

Lord. He's a dependent man.

He's dependent not on another person, not on his wife.

He's dependent upon the Lord. So he yields to the Spirit

intently. He's controlled by the Spirit.

He walks in the Spirit. So he didn't fulfill the lust of

the flesh. He understands the ministry of

Jesus was all geared to the ministry of the Spirit in Jesus.

It was the Spirit of God that drove into the wilderness to be

tempted by the devil for 40 days.

He was always living in dependence upon the Spirit of

God in his life with a godly man recognizes that and wants to

live in dependence upon the Spirit of God every single day

of his life. He wants to submit himself to a

Savior and saturate himself with the Scriptures so that every

decision that he makes is under the direction of the Spirit of

the living God. That's the godly man.

That's all Review. See, why do you review so much?

I told you that weeks ago. Peter did it, Jesus did it, John

did it, Moses did it, everybody did it.

Why? Because we forget.

We forget. So here's the here's the one I'm

going to cover today. Only one, and that is the M

aspect in Godly man. He manages his home

impressively. He manages his home

impressively. Listen to Psalm 112.

Praise the Lord, how blessed is a man who fears the Lord, who

greatly delights in his commandments.

His descendants will be mighty on the earth.

The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Wealth and riches are in his house and his righteousness

endures forever. Verse 6 for he will never be

shaken. The righteous will be remembered

forever. He will not fear evil tidings.

His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.

His heart is upheld. He will not fear.

And then over in Psalm 128, Psalm 128, how blessed is

everyone who fears the Lord who walks in his ways.

When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands, you will be

happy, and it will be well with you.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine within your house,

your children like olive plants around your table.

Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.

See, the godly man has a certain kind of home.

He has a wife that that clings to him like, like a vine.

She, she, she just can't rid herself of that kind of man.

She wants to be stuck on that kind of man.

That's the godly man who fears the Lord.

And his children are, like all the plants around his table, a

symbol of blessing and abundance in Israel.

And so therefore there's an abundant life in the life of his

children because they live in submission to their parents,

especially through the father of the home.

He's a godly man. He manages his home

impressively, not because he's trying to impress anybody,

simply because very few men do it.

That's why it says of the elder in First Timothy chapter 3 these

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words. He must be one who manages his

own household well, keeping his children under control with all

dignity. But if a man does not know how

to manage his own household, how shall he be able to care for the

Church of God? If you can't manage your home,

you can't manage the church. If you can't lead your wife, you

can't lead in the church. If you can't lead your children,

you can't lead in the church. Why?

Because the church is like a family.

And if you can't do it in the small circle of your own home,

how do you expect to do it in a bigger circle of the church?

That's why the elders must be able to manage your own home

well, impressively so. Incredibly important.

So I'm going to give you the way to do that.

You're going to be so glad you came.

Unless your heart is hard, then you're going to be upset with me

because you did come. But if your heart is soft,

you're going to be so glad you came.

How do I manage my home? Impressively.

Well, The GODOY must come first. OK, the first points of our

outline and then you begin to to manage your own home

Impressively. But but it begins with vision.

Vision Proverbs 2918. Without a vision the people are

unrestrained. And the word for vision, the

Hebrew is is revelation. So without a revelation, the

people themselves are out of control.

They are unrestrained. In other words, in order for you

to manage your home well, you must have a vision for your

home. And the vision comes from the

revelation of the living God. And therefore the vision is

based on what God has already said in His Word about how your

home should be and how you should lead in your home.

Because if not without that vision, without that revelation,

then the people are unrestrained or out of control.

Is your are your children out of control?

Is your wife out of control? That's because they're not given

the proper revelation based on the proper vision, based on the

revelation of God's Word to give them a clear path by which our

family is going. If you don't have a clear path

as the father, as the godly man, how do you expect your children

and your wife to have a clear path as to which way they're

supposed to be going? And it only comes because of the

revelation of the living God. So it begins with vision.

Proverbs 29 verse #18 From vision, then comes direction.

Direction, because without the revelation of God, you have no

path to follow. But now, because of the vision

you have based on the revelation of God, now you have a direction

by which you are to journey. And the psalmist says in Psalm

32 verse #8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way that

you should go. I will counsel you with my eye

upon you. Do not be as a horse or as the

mule which have no understanding, whose trappings

include bit and bridle to hold them in check, otherwise they

will not come near to you. In other words, listen, I'm

going to instruct you clearly. I'm going to guide you

perfectly, but do not be like a horse and do not be like a mule.

Don't be stubborn because I'm going to direct you in the right

way. That's why the Bible says trust

in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own

understanding in all your ways, acknowledging Him.

He will direct your paths. He will make your paths smooth,

but if your paths are not smooth, that's because you're

leaning on your own understanding.

You got to trust in the Lord with all your heart, and He will

make your paths smooth. But it begins with vision.

The vision comes from the revelation of God's holy Word.

And that vision then leads to direction.

So I know, OK, this is where we need to go now.

This is how we're going to get there.

And then from direction comes instruction.

Instruction, In other words, let me tell you what the Bible says

about where we're going. Let me tell you what the Bible

says about where we are going. So the Bible says in Proverbs 24

verse #3 by wisdom the house is built.

By understanding it is established, and by knowledge

all the rooms are filled with precious and pleasant riches.

So wisdom applies the truth of God with conviction.

Understanding verifies the truth of God through demonstration,

and knowledge clarifies the truth of God through

instruction. So your your house is built by

wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.

Therefore, if that's the case, there must be implemented in

your home some kind of instruction from the Scriptures

that moves your family in the right direction.

Because you know what the Bible says, you have a vision based on

the revelation of God. Therefore you know which

direction you are to go. And as you know that direction,

now you give the instruction on what the Bible says because you

want to manage your household impressively.

And the only way to do that is to keep it in line with what

God's Word actually does say. It's not about the Father's

opinion. It's about the Father's belief

in the authority of the Word of God to guide and direct his

family. So incredibly and important.

So once there's vision, there comes direction, then comes

instruction, then comes imitation.

I'm going to show you how to do it.

Instruction says I'm going to tell you how to do it.

And now imitation says I'm going to show you how to do it.

Why? Because you want your children

to imitate you. Paul said follow me as I follow

Christ. So you need to tell your

children follow me as I follow Christ.

Tell your wife, follow me as I follow Christ.

I'm going to imitate Christ to you.

I'm going to imitate his word to you.

Paul in Silas in First Thessalonians chapter 1, the

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Church of Thessalonica became mimics of Paul and Silas.

They became imitators of Paul and Silas.

They followed their example. They set the tone.

And imitation is so important. Is it not sure it is your

children. Listen, watch your children.

How do your children speak? What's the tone of your

children's voice? Where did they learn that from?

Yeah, you. The words they say, the tones

they use, the attitudes they they portray.

Look at your own life. Examine your own life.

Because somewhere, somehow that that attitude is being conveyed

to them, that tone that you speak to them with or you speak

to your wife with. Now they're using that tone with

you because they heard it with you and your wife.

They're imitators of of mom and dad.

And so you want to provide the kind of imitation that makes it

so that they can follow the Lord and honor the Lord.

Manage your household impressively.

Begin vision. It's based on the revelation of

God. That vision leads to the

direction in which your family must go.

That direction leads to the the instruction of the truth of the

living God in their lives, in the imitation of that truth

before their lives #5 I have a lot of them.

So hold on this one. Inspiration, inspiration.

Listen as a godly man, you inspire, you infuse

encouragement, you move your family that there must be some

kind of inspiration, some kind of motivation that stems from

the godly man. You're inspiring others to move

on toward godliness. Could you imagine coming to

church every Sunday and me saying, so glad you guys are

here, take your Bible and let's turn to 1st Thessalonians 5.

That's because the elders want me to preach on 1st

Thessalonians chapter 5. So let's open it together.

You wouldn't come back. I wouldn't even come back.

But there's got to be some kind of inspiration as the father, as

the husband, you're inspiring your children to move on toward

maturity. You're inspiring your wife to

move on toward maturity. There it's inspiration, it's

motivation. Jeremiah would say, thy words

are found. Then I did eat them and eat with

the joy and the rejoicing of my heart.

Song was that I was glad when they said to me, let's go to the

House of the Lord. I was glad.

Your children will be glad to come to church if you are glad

to come to church. If you're excited about church,

your children will be excited about church, but if you're not,

they won't be. If you're excited about church,

your wife's going to be excited about church because she sees it

in you. She sees what moves you.

You're inspiring her. You're moving her, you're

motivating her. You're moving on to our maturity

in Christ. You wanted to hear the same

voice, be in the same place, be with the same people that you

were there, and she wants to come and be right by your side.

Inspiration. Listen to what the psalmist said

in Psalm 119. He said this make me walk in the

path of your commandments, for I delight in it.

Verse 24 someone, your testimonies also are my delight.

They are my counselors. Verse 47, I shall delight in

your commandments, which I love. And then he says over in verse

#70 their heart is covered with fat, but I delight in your law.

Verse 77 Excuse me, for your law is my delight.

If you if your law had not been my delight, verse 92, then I

would have perished in my affliction.

Listen, Dad, if God's word is your delight, then God's word

becomes your children's delight. It it translates so easily over

to your children. But inspiration is important to

any leader, right? Are you inspiring your wife

toward Christ likeness? Are you inspiring your children

to walk with Christ? Are they moving in that

direction? You want to manage your home

impressively. It will be seen in the lives of

your children and your wife more so than anything else.

The strength of any man's ministry is not in the number of

people that attend his church, his Bible study or study school

class. It's whether or not his wife and

children are following his leadership.

That's what makes the godly man the godly man That's it.

Because there are a lot of men who preach.

You have a lot of people coming to church on Sunday, but they're

not godly men. Are their wives inspired to

follow the Lord and serve the Lord and honor the Lord, their

children following in their footsteps?

Next comes evaluation. Want to manage your own home?

Well, evaluate it. How are we doing?

How are we moving? Are we growing?

Are we stagnant? Are we excited?

Are we bored? What do we like?

What we don't like? That's why Paul says the 1st

Thessalonians 521 examine everything.

Everything. Put it under the microscope and

from evaluation then comes correction.

Once you evaluate it, correct it because nobody does it perfect.

So once you evaluate it, you can correct it by putting on the

right path. James says in James chapter one

that that the man of God is blessed.

He looks into the perfect law of liberty.

He sees the blemish. He doesn't turn away and keep

the blemish on his face. No, he removes the blemish

because he saw that it was there.

He removes it because he knows it's a hindrance.

This man is blessed in what he does.

Same is true for the godly man as he evaluates his family, his

children, his relationship to his wife.

There needs to be correction. He corrects it, puts it on the

right path. Then comes, I'll put all the

three, three of these together, protection, provision and

purification. Because as a shepherd you're a

protector. As a shepherd, you're a

provider. You want what's best for your

children. You're going to say to them, I

take care of you. I'll watch out for you.

I'm concerned about your purity and your holiness.

That's why I say no to this and yes to that.

I'm concerned about your, your, your, your alone time.

So I say yes to this and no to that.

I'm concerned about your purity. I'm concerned about how you are

protected. More so than anything else, you

need to know that. So protection, provision, and

purification. And as a husband, you want to

sanctify your wife, Ephesians after 5, right?

You want to set her apart unto godliness.

You want to purify your wife. And therefore it becomes a major

aspect in managing your home impressively.

Let me give you just two more recognition.

It's a recognition that God is sovereign, your rules over all,

and God's in charge and you are not, and that all things will

work together for good to those who love God and are called

according to His purpose. You need to recognize that as a

godly man, want to manage your home impressively?

Recognize that you're a steward of God's family, a steward of,

of God's woman who's your wife, a steward of God's children who

are, who are given to you as a gift and you're a household

manager of them. They're they're, they're God's

children. So you want to, you want to

manage them properly and therefore you recognize that

within God's sovereign plan he gave you specifically your wife

and not somebody else's wife. He gave you your children, not

somebody else's children in a sovereign plan.

And you know that all things will work together for good to

those who love God and are called according to his purpose.

And the last word is appreciation, a life of

thankfulness to God for what He's done.

So godly man does Isaiah chapter 43 verse #21 my people who I'm,

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I have formed for myself. They will declare my praise.

And so you praise God, You thank him because you want to honor

him. Having said that, Psalmist says

in Psalm 78, these words, Listen, O my people, to my

instruction. Incline your ear to the words of

my mouth. Are you listening?

Turn your ears toward the words of my mouth.

Make sure you are listening to everything I'm going to tell

you. I will open my mouth in a

parable. I will utter dark Sagans of old,

which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us.

We will not conceal them from our their children, but tell to

the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his

strength and his wondrous works that He has done.

We're not going to conceal this from our children.

No, we're going to tell our children.

We're going to make sure our children understand the wondrous

works of God. We're going to make sure our

children understand who God is. We're going to inform them about

everything that God has done so that they are without excuse.

We're going to do that, for he established the testimony in

Jacob verse 5, and appointed a law in Israel which he

commanded. Our fathers, our fathers, they

should teach them to their children.

So you have Genesis, generation number one.

Our fathers, teach them to their children, generation #2 that the

generation to come might know even the children yet to be

born. Generation chapter 3 that they

may arise and tell them to their children.

Generation chapter 4 So you have 4 generations.

So our fathers have told us that we might tell our children that

they might be able to one day tell the children not yet even

born. So that when they hear about the

Lord of God is one of his works, they will tell them to their

children who are a long way down the road.

That's the vision based on the revelation of God.

That's direction under what you should be doing.

It's the instruction of the truth of God in his wondrous

works and praise that should inspire you.

Say, man, look what God has done.

This is so great so many times as fathers, we're we're like a

bump on a log. We, we just, we just, we're

immovable. There's no, there's no joy,

there's no, there's no passion, there's no motivation there,

there's no inspiration. That's that's the way we should

be. So he says this.

What are you going to tell them that they should not put their

that they should put their confidence in God and not forget

the works of God but keep his commandments?

It's not a whole manual on what to do.

It's just this way that don't put your confidence in anybody

else but God and make sure you keep his commandments.

How hard is that? Don't trust anyone else but God

and keep his commandments. God just narrows it down to bare

bones, makes it so simple. That's it.

That's all you got to do. Verse 8 And not be like their

fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a

generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was

not faithful to God. Not like their fathers, who, by

the way, heard the same words from the same voice, from the

same God, from the same prophet, but they didn't like what they

heard. They were stubborn and

rebellious. They turned away.

Don't be like that. And that soft, supple, spongy

kind of heart that soaks it in and says, yes, I hear your

voice, Lord. I hear what you're saying, Lord.

Yes, that's what I want to do, Lord.

It gives nostration. The sons of Ephraim, Joseph's

second son. The sons of Ephraim were Archers

equipped with bows, yet they turned back in the day of

battle. Really, they were the largest

leading tribe in Israel, in the northern Kingdom, and they were

Archers. They were special at what they

did, unlike anybody else. But in the day of battle, they

turned back. Turned back.

Verse 10 They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to

walk in His law. They forgot his deeds and his

miracles that He had shown them. Oh they were prepared.

They were prepared when it came to their physicality.

They were prepared when it came to their their knowledge and

education. Prepared when it came to their.

Expertise. But in the day of battle, when

push came to shove, they had no confidence in God.

Why? Because they weren't walking

with God. And let me tell you something.

I don't care how smart you are, how creative you are, how

intelligent you are, how physical you are, without God

you can't accomplish anything. It must be totally upon the

truth of the living God following Him and.

Serving him and loving. Him, that's why you take your

children, you sit them down and you teach them the truth of the

word of God that they in turn would teach them to their

children, that they in turn will teach them to the children yet

to be born and then the children way beyond that.

There's a generation of people who need to know the truth, and

it begins with us right now, today, this very hour, saying

today's the day I'm going to manage my home impressively.

It's all going to be. Based on the vision.

Because without that vision of the revelation of what God says,

my home's going to be chaotic. My wife's going to be doing

this, my kids are going to be over there, and I got to bring

them all together. It's based on the.

Revelation. Of the living God, and that

revelation is. Going to give me the.

Direction I need to make sure I fulfill God's plan for my wife

and for my children and then. I'm going to instruct them in

the. Ways of God teach them the truth

of God, and then I'm. Going to say as I.

Teach you follow me, follow me. There are a lot of men today who

are really good teachers, but you don't want to imitate them

because their character is so bad.

If your wife. 'S not following you.

Your children are following you the very first.

Question you must always. Ask is what am I doing that's

hindering them from following me?

What is it about? My life.

That does not inspire. And motivate.

My wife and my children to follow.

My God, are you a? Hindrance to that?

Are you blocked? To that.

God is sovereign. God rules over all.

God's in charge, but you always got to ask the self evaluation

question first. So my prayer for me.

For you, for our church. Is the godly man would not cease

to. Be among us that we would

strive. To be the kind of.

Men, God wants us to be for the glory of His Kingdom, that

people would say those who went to that church have turned.

Our school. Upside down those.

Who went to that church? Have turned their families

upside down, those. Who?

Who went to that? Church have turned their

workplace completely upside down.

Not because of. Anything.

That they do or are, but simply because of God working in and

through them for the glory of His Kingdom.

Let me pray with you, Father. Thank you for today.

Thank you for our children. Who've been with us this last

month, They've been so good. Thank you, Lord.

That they have been here. To worship with their parents.

Thank you, Father, for his chance to.

To look into the word of God, to be challenged.

I know I'm challenged. I know I'm held in into account.

And I realized, Lord, that. There are many faults in my own

life that I need to deal. With personally.

That I might be able to lead my wife and my children and even.

Though my children are grown. And out of the house except for

one I still have. To provide a a model.

Of imitation they can follow, still have to instruct.

Still have to be able to. To evaluate, correct, inspire,

pray Father. That all of us as men would.

Recognize the great responsibility before us.

It's not impossible. It's not an impossible.

Mission it's a very possible. Mission because you gave it to

us. Go before us, Lord, Use us

mightily for your glory and for your Kingdom, until you come

again, as you most surely will. Jesus name Amen.