back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 5.11.25
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Happy Lord's Day, and also happy Mother's Day. 00:04:28.040 |
♪ Once again I look upon the cross where you died ♪ 00:04:33.040 |
♪ Humbled by your mercy and I'm broken inside ♪ 00:05:34.800 |
♪ Once again I look upon the cross where you died ♪ 00:05:39.800 |
♪ Humbled by your mercy and I'm broken inside ♪ 00:06:02.440 |
♪ Once again I look upon the cross where you died ♪ 00:06:07.440 |
♪ Humbled by your mercy and I'm broken inside ♪ 00:06:43.360 |
who participated in the, what's wrong with me? 00:06:56.960 |
I was told that last year they raised 29,000, 00:07:02.520 |
And so all of that is going to be going to good use 00:07:04.680 |
as we are opening more and more doors to do mission work 00:07:08.000 |
and all of that will be helpful to do all of that. 00:07:14.920 |
is that the whole church is interacting with each other. 00:07:17.120 |
You're gonna be visiting people's homes, babysitting. 00:07:19.800 |
There's gonna be some teenagers coming over to my house 00:07:24.400 |
So thank you for participating in all of that. 00:07:27.560 |
Next week, Family Ministry Picnic is happening 00:07:31.160 |
on 11 through 3 p.m. at Bill Barber Park in Irvine. 00:07:35.200 |
So this is open to anyone who desires to come, 00:07:38.580 |
You'll be able to meet your fellow believers, 00:07:41.280 |
brothers and sisters, just to kinda grab your own lunch 00:07:44.940 |
and you'll be able to meet some new people there 00:07:46.940 |
and just, they're gonna be there from 11 to 3, okay? 00:07:50.280 |
I'm gonna give a little plug on the fourfold disciplines 00:07:58.320 |
The reason why I'm doing that is because next Sunday, 00:08:04.280 |
and the reason why is because for the purpose 00:08:13.520 |
So if you haven't signed up and you're planning to come, 00:08:17.080 |
'cause we're gonna start putting people into small groups. 00:08:24.120 |
It's a four-week Wednesday night in the cafe area 00:08:27.760 |
and it's gonna be more on the practice of discipline 00:08:31.720 |
So if this is something that will benefit you, 00:08:34.760 |
and next Sunday will be the last time to sign up. 00:08:37.200 |
All church retreat, that's happening on August 1st 00:09:08.560 |
He's gonna be speaking on the subject of God's glory 00:09:20.440 |
but opportunity to meet other believers, other members, 00:09:30.080 |
and so there's people who've been at our church for months 00:09:32.380 |
and sometimes years and have very little interaction with. 00:09:35.100 |
So the retreat's an opportunity to speed up the process 00:09:43.720 |
is the last day to sign up pre-early registration. 00:09:49.980 |
So if you are planning to come, please do that. 00:09:51.760 |
And it'll help us to organize a small group, the rooms, 00:09:55.400 |
the various things that we need to prepare for. 00:10:00.720 |
And after that, again, the cost will be going up. 00:10:10.500 |
you'll see a station out there with a Bundt cake, okay? 00:10:16.380 |
Or maybe you wanna make an announcement today, 00:10:18.420 |
you can go grab it, and then we'll know why you grabbed it. 00:10:21.100 |
Okay, and then there's also flowers like this. 00:10:27.740 |
So again, make sure you grab that before you go. 00:10:33.340 |
and hopefully you feel loved and appreciated today. 00:10:39.340 |
And then after the offering and our praise time, 00:10:43.580 |
and give her testimony and be baptized this morning. 00:10:46.580 |
Father, we praise you and thank you for your goodness. 00:11:00.260 |
We thank you for the things that you're orchestrating now. 00:11:03.540 |
Ultimately, Lord God, for your glory and for our own good. 00:11:07.260 |
Help us, Lord, to open our eyes, to see who you are, 00:11:16.260 |
I pray that you would help us to use this time 00:11:21.280 |
And I pray, Father God, especially for our mothers, 00:11:24.260 |
that in the midst of just their hard labor and sacrifice, 00:11:31.040 |
We pray, Father God, that the offering that we give 00:11:35.980 |
an overwhelming gratitude toward who you are, 00:14:34.820 |
♪ 'Til your sovereign work on earth is done ♪ 00:15:54.380 |
♪ 'Til your sovereign work on earth is done ♪ 00:16:27.460 |
♪ 'Til your sovereign work on earth is done ♪ 00:18:43.460 |
♪ Though I may wander through the wilderness ♪ 00:23:08.340 |
and getting recognition from those around me. 00:23:15.500 |
who immigrated when I was nine years old from China, 00:23:26.500 |
to depend on this all-powerful and all-knowing God. 00:23:31.020 |
My mind was always bogged down by worldly frustrations, 00:23:36.820 |
not quite American like my friends who were born here, 00:23:40.260 |
but a little whitewashed compared to classmates 00:23:48.980 |
when my family got an invitation card in the mail 00:24:17.780 |
who knows me from inside out even better than myself, 00:24:22.700 |
and he will grant me the riches of his kingdom 00:24:32.100 |
hasn't really been without difficulties though, 00:24:37.360 |
when I saw church as this glorified extracurricular 00:24:46.000 |
I was opportunistic in my engagement with the church, 00:24:57.040 |
I was repeatedly struck with the repercussion of sin, 00:25:01.040 |
and I realized how much my nominal Christianity 00:25:11.780 |
when I was desperately trying to change jobs. 00:25:15.780 |
and seemed like a Christian on the surface level, 00:25:25.380 |
watching one episode after another of my favorite TV shows. 00:25:35.680 |
eye strain, headaches, and eventually panic attacks. 00:25:39.080 |
In the depths of physical and mental struggle, 00:25:45.520 |
I was building my life on shaky foundations all along, 00:25:54.080 |
not grabbing and taking what I needed from him, 00:26:02.220 |
"Humble yourself, therefore, under God's almighty name, 00:26:07.940 |
"Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you." 00:26:10.840 |
I was eventually able to cast my anxiety on him 00:26:19.080 |
rather than just opening, reading, and closing the Bible. 00:26:22.300 |
And I attended volunteering activities at church, 00:26:26.940 |
not with the goal of getting credit for myself, 00:26:33.840 |
Out of the many transformations that God has done in me, 00:27:01.880 |
that really is allowing me to become a better Christian. 00:27:11.800 |
I'm also compelled to constantly seek forgiveness from him, 00:27:18.360 |
Harking back to Pastor Peter's message from last Sunday, 00:27:21.920 |
I don't want to be a pig who happens to have lipstick on. 00:27:28.760 |
from the inside out and have God take over control 00:27:40.640 |
and everything, everything that I am here is because of him, 00:29:04.920 |
Why did he choose this text for Mother's Day? 00:29:07.640 |
Okay, hopefully you'll know at the end of the message, okay? 00:29:25.320 |
but the woman being deceived fell into transgression. 00:29:28.400 |
But women will be preserved through the bearing of children 00:29:43.400 |
to be able to come to the throne of grace with confidence. 00:29:48.800 |
We're in need, Father God, of your Holy Spirit 00:29:51.400 |
to soften our hearts, that we may be the good soil 00:29:55.080 |
that receives your word, and by perseverance, 00:30:04.240 |
your Holy Spirit, that your word would speak to us 00:30:07.000 |
and would not return until it has accomplished your purpose. 00:30:11.960 |
The definition of feminism, according to Oxford Dictionary, 00:30:24.720 |
So by definition, it's for the purpose of equality for women. 00:30:31.040 |
But in the name of equality in our generation, 00:30:42.200 |
Feminism was used as an excuse to fight for transgenderism, 00:30:51.560 |
that we need to respect that in the name of feminism. 00:30:58.160 |
traditional family structure is looked at as oppressive, 00:31:10.120 |
In the name of feminism, masculinity has become toxic. 00:31:22.000 |
the damage that feminism has done in the name of equality 00:31:25.920 |
has made motherhood something to be tolerated 00:31:32.440 |
And that's the reason why I want to take this text. 00:31:40.580 |
they said they got nervous as soon as they saw the text. 00:31:45.580 |
I would say that in the years that I've been at this church, 00:31:50.580 |
the single subject that I get the most pushback 00:32:01.400 |
not when I preach against seeker-friendly movement, 00:32:05.160 |
but it's this subject more than any other subject. 00:32:08.920 |
I've had people, as soon as I mentioned men's role, 00:32:12.040 |
that we don't have male elders in this church, 00:32:18.240 |
They're usually sitting in the back and they would leave. 00:32:53.320 |
so why are you giving your wife a certificate of a divorce? 00:33:20.600 |
that's why when they say 5,000 people were fed, 00:33:25.680 |
Women and children were not numbered, legally. 00:33:30.680 |
is when they say this man has this many wives 00:33:34.160 |
That's the only way that they were able to count 00:33:36.500 |
if the woman, so imagine if a woman were not married. 00:33:43.080 |
That's why many of the women, when they were divorced, 00:33:46.040 |
were forced to sell their bodies just to feed themselves. 00:33:54.600 |
This is the daily morning prayer of a Jewish man said this. 00:33:57.800 |
Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, 00:34:00.800 |
who has not made me a Gentile, who has not made me a slave, 00:34:15.480 |
So it is in that context that Paul says in Galatians 3.28, 00:34:38.920 |
But you have to understand this in the culture of that time. 00:34:42.120 |
For Paul to say this, how offensive this must have been 00:34:44.880 |
for Jews to say, to hear, there's no difference. 00:34:52.840 |
you have no more value than the slave that you own. 00:34:58.760 |
you are no better in the kingdom of God than the females. 00:35:04.080 |
So it's something that we just don't even think twice about. 00:35:39.040 |
in his new kingdom, he's trying to teach people 00:35:47.040 |
But in the context of restoring what went wrong, 00:35:50.200 |
the concern was that they would take this too far, 00:36:20.840 |
Especially on Mother's Day, you know what I mean? 00:36:24.640 |
Preach about motherhood and how great mothers are 00:36:29.440 |
and how sacrificial you are, which I have in the past. 00:36:33.360 |
And I haven't given a special Mother's Day sermon in years, 00:36:36.720 |
and part of the reason why I didn't is because 00:36:39.480 |
it's the Lord's Day, it's not the Mother's Day. 00:36:56.800 |
They sacrifice all year, and we have one day, 00:37:12.440 |
If you're sitting here and you read this text, 00:37:13.880 |
and it's like, I can't believe he's preaching on this 00:37:17.280 |
Because this was the first thing that I stumbled with 00:37:21.400 |
And I was at Biola studying, and they gave us, 00:37:27.600 |
you can devote your time studying and come up with a paper, 00:37:36.160 |
'Cause I had a female pastor that I really loved. 00:37:42.320 |
I would drive all the way down to the valley just to hear her. 00:37:54.600 |
I spent the whole semester just doing a paper 00:37:57.880 |
and my conclusion that I came to was it bothered me, 00:38:03.460 |
And since then, not only have I been convinced 00:38:17.580 |
Why it is detrimental, not only to the church, 00:38:21.840 |
but to the family when this is not being practiced. 00:38:24.520 |
In 1 Corinthians 12, 31, Paul says to the Corinthians church, 00:38:47.540 |
and we go to school, all so that we can have a better life, 00:38:52.440 |
And we do that even spiritually, even spiritually. 00:39:04.500 |
and that's what happened to the Corinthians church. 00:39:08.320 |
and as a result of competing, the church went into chaos. 00:39:13.080 |
So he spends 12 chapters basically dissecting 00:39:17.260 |
what went wrong, and then at the end of chapter 12, 00:39:21.140 |
he says, "Earnestly desire the greater gift." 00:39:27.820 |
to be better than the other person, is not from God. 00:39:31.940 |
Did you forget that very few of you had any honor, 00:39:43.660 |
He said, "God chose you because you were nothing. 00:39:47.440 |
So that the person who's gonna be preaching the gospel, 00:39:59.400 |
like a surgeon going in to find out where it went wrong, 00:40:03.300 |
and it was their desire to one-up each other. 00:40:08.740 |
And the greater gift, obviously he's referring to, is love. 00:40:23.720 |
This knee-jerk reaction that we have toward this text, 00:40:30.260 |
is it coming from a desire to be holy or righteous 00:40:39.020 |
and I have this, and I don't wanna disobey God? 00:40:53.720 |
If you're teaching, somehow you have more value 00:40:58.860 |
"The greatest in the kingdom of God is the one who serves." 00:41:09.500 |
and why there's a knee-jerk reaction toward this subject, 00:41:19.760 |
you read more books, you have better influence, 00:41:21.820 |
you have better positions, you have better jobs, 00:41:31.940 |
Jesus comes in and he throws a wrench in all of that, 00:41:41.900 |
The very first apostle were just mere fishermen. 00:41:47.420 |
he flipped the whole world order upside down. 00:41:50.600 |
Satan's reason why he fell was because he saw 00:41:57.020 |
That's a temptation that he placed on Adam and Eve. 00:42:11.380 |
Because he's gonna fall into the same temptation 00:42:30.020 |
"Not many of you should presume to be teachers 00:42:32.580 |
"because you're gonna be under stricter judgment." 00:42:48.280 |
the position of leadership, position of teaching, 00:42:51.920 |
rather than realizing that if you get into that position, 00:43:00.460 |
your wife, your children, how you act under pressure, 00:43:06.880 |
He said, "Therefore, don't let just anybody teach 00:43:10.720 |
"'cause you're gonna be coming under stricter judgment." 00:43:14.220 |
is just simply because we consider being up in front 00:43:19.020 |
So right off the bat, Jesus is, Paul is challenging. 00:43:25.700 |
Our way of thinking, our knee-jerk reaction could be 00:43:39.660 |
as we celebrate Mother's Day, why what God had intended 00:43:43.620 |
in creation for mothers and husbands and church 00:43:55.580 |
The role of men and women, in the family and in the home. 00:43:58.900 |
You have to understand that this is not a call 00:44:07.900 |
meaning Paul's giving instructions to Timothy 00:44:12.380 |
And the family is a reflection of the church, 00:44:15.700 |
but this is not a commandment for all women to all men. 00:44:32.580 |
You know, oftentimes people negate this passage 00:44:36.100 |
But the reasoning behind it goes all the way from creation, 00:44:40.700 |
If you look at Genesis chapter two, 15 to 23, 00:44:49.740 |
because we have a lot of people who want to change 00:44:54.780 |
because they're afraid to offend the feminists, 00:44:58.380 |
but the wording is clear, and this is not mankind, 00:45:01.980 |
this is man, and I'll give you the reason why 00:45:05.700 |
"The Lord God took the man and put him into the garden 00:45:11.840 |
"'From any tree of the garden you may eat freely, 00:45:14.240 |
"'but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 00:45:15.920 |
"'you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it, 00:45:21.500 |
The reason why we say that, I say that this is not mankind, 00:45:27.560 |
"It is the Lord God, it is not good for the man to be alone." 00:45:39.140 |
he said he ended all the creation by saying, "It is good." 00:45:41.820 |
So when he said it's not good for man to be alone, 00:45:44.040 |
it's because of the creation mandate that he gave. 00:45:59.160 |
"every beast of the field and every bird of the sky 00:46:01.220 |
"and brought them to the man to see what he would call them, 00:46:04.400 |
"and whatever the man called the living creature, 00:46:10.840 |
"and the birds of the sky and every beast of the field, 00:46:20.460 |
And he looks at that and he says, "It's not good." 00:46:35.740 |
"and brought her to the man, and the man said, 00:46:39.440 |
"'This is now bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. 00:46:46.420 |
So again, I hope you're following me up to this point. 00:46:54.020 |
the man was given the, the man was commanded, 00:46:58.460 |
And he said, "It's not good for him to be alone, 00:47:01.860 |
"and the name that he gives this woman is Isha." 00:47:14.700 |
is to come alongside, to support, and to help the woman. 00:47:18.360 |
So the reason why he says that there is order 00:47:26.740 |
and in the church is because this was God's intent 00:47:36.000 |
"Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. 00:47:44.520 |
If you've been a Christian for any number of years, 00:47:49.520 |
He taught us how to pray, "Lord, your will be done." 00:47:57.680 |
was in creation right after he created Adam and Eve, 00:48:03.320 |
and the woman was created for the helper, to help him. 00:48:14.780 |
and placed into mankind, we rebel against that. 00:48:17.520 |
You can't go and say, "I wanna obey all these other things 00:48:23.400 |
"but the very order of creation, I refuse to obey." 00:48:32.820 |
Now, I know if you've been raised in this culture, 00:48:37.780 |
including myself, this is, yeah, that's what it says. 00:48:44.540 |
And it's like, but you don't feel comfortable. 00:48:53.120 |
I heard other people interpret it another way. 00:48:56.180 |
I'm pretty sure the scripture's pretty clear. 00:49:01.720 |
"but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." 00:49:09.280 |
with the values of our culture that has gone wrong. 00:49:13.060 |
Even our sense of what is right and what is wrong, 00:49:18.120 |
Our desire to be better, our desire to be taller, 00:49:24.500 |
it perverts the way we look at what is good and what is bad. 00:49:33.340 |
because of sin, of the desire to be somebody. 00:49:46.020 |
but the woman being deceived fell into transgression. 00:49:53.740 |
and I want you to pay attention to what this says. 00:49:56.220 |
Now the serpent was more crafted than any beast of the field 00:49:59.720 |
which the Lord God made, and he said to the woman, 00:50:04.040 |
"you shall not eat from any tree of the garden." 00:50:07.180 |
If you look at creation and creation mandate, 00:50:16.180 |
If you get to chapter three, where the fall happens, 00:50:38.320 |
"you shall not eat from any tree of the garden." 00:50:41.800 |
she shouldn't have been engaging him to begin with, 00:50:45.480 |
"From the fruit of the trees of garden we may eat, 00:51:00.680 |
"For God knows that in the day you eat from it, 00:51:02.600 |
"your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, 00:51:06.560 |
In other words, the temptation was to covet what God has. 00:51:29.760 |
But the coveting was, she wanted to elevate herself. 00:51:32.840 |
"When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 00:51:37.500 |
"and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, 00:51:42.440 |
"and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate." 00:51:46.400 |
So one, in the creation order, God creates man, 00:51:50.260 |
gives him the mandate to subdue, to take care of the land, 00:51:53.960 |
and he says it's not good for him to be alone, 00:51:55.760 |
creates a wife out of a man to be a suitable helper. 00:52:00.640 |
Satan comes and tempts her, and then she gives in. 00:52:24.720 |
She gave also to her husband who was with her, 00:52:38.280 |
"God told us not to touch that, what are you doing?" 00:52:43.520 |
Text tells us he was with her the whole time. 00:52:45.800 |
And you know what's interesting is after the fall, 00:52:49.600 |
when God confronts their sin, who does God talk to? 00:53:08.560 |
She was a suitable helper, you were the leader, 00:53:14.720 |
"The woman, the woman you put here, that's why I fell." 00:53:23.040 |
Adam was not able to shirk his responsibility. 00:53:25.480 |
In fact, in Romans chapter five, verse 12 and on, 00:53:31.860 |
through that one man, sin had entered the world. 00:53:41.260 |
He was given the creation mandate, she came to help, 00:53:53.980 |
First Peter 3.7, it says, "Your husband, in the same way, 00:54:03.480 |
I mean, first text is hard, but this one, weaker. 00:54:08.100 |
This goes against everything that feminists teach. 00:54:14.200 |
When you say men are stronger, it's like, what? 00:54:27.280 |
It's so ridiculous what has happened in our culture, right? 00:54:35.860 |
If that offends you, something has seriously gone wrong. 00:55:06.100 |
God created you that way, but you're also weaker 00:55:10.900 |
I brought the flowers in here because when we say 00:55:35.140 |
But to a woman, to say she's a pansy is not an offense 00:55:45.880 |
And I remember the first time learning about that 00:55:48.600 |
after I got married, 'cause Esther was my first 00:55:53.100 |
real girlfriend, I grew up with boys, you know what I mean? 00:55:57.820 |
We say whatever's on our mind, and if we don't like it, 00:56:00.540 |
we punch each other, get on the floor, right, 00:56:03.460 |
and we fight, and the next morning, we wake up, 00:56:05.300 |
have breakfast, and then we go out, that's it, 00:56:20.660 |
I was just kidding, why is that such a big deal? 00:56:27.860 |
It took me years, years to figure out, right? 00:56:43.520 |
God made you more delicate, but that's a good thing. 00:56:56.260 |
So when we say pansy, yeah, it requires more nurturing 00:57:03.480 |
God made us men like hammers, you know what I mean? 00:57:10.280 |
We get things done, so even the way we communicate, 00:57:20.440 |
Women will tell us about the color of the flower 00:57:27.660 |
'Cause God created us for the purpose of leading. 00:57:33.200 |
God created women for the purpose of supporting, 00:57:37.360 |
and when they accept and embrace the creation mandate, 00:57:42.360 |
not only does it bring joy to you, it glorifies God. 00:57:48.480 |
And so when the scripture tells us the reason why, 00:57:59.320 |
and when the women leads, this is what has happened. 00:58:17.980 |
our families fall apart, our church falls apart. 00:58:24.960 |
Adam should have been there to tell Satan to get out. 00:58:30.440 |
Instead, he stood by there and then followed her 00:58:42.320 |
Can you imagine what this world would be like without women? 00:58:50.960 |
That's what your house is gonna smell like without women. 00:58:56.920 |
Some of you guys live in all houses with just men. 00:59:08.280 |
Can you imagine the whole world smelling like a locker room? 00:59:11.360 |
God has created men to be men and women to be women. 00:59:15.360 |
When men act like men and women act like women, 00:59:18.920 |
God's creation order is restored and God is glorified. 00:59:21.920 |
When you ask a man when he's frustrated with his wife, 00:59:41.800 |
that when you say you're frustrated, say it this way. 00:59:49.520 |
So you feel happy and at peace when you feel loved 00:59:53.160 |
because God has created you as a weaker vessel. 00:59:59.940 |
but weak in the sense that God has created beauty in you 01:00:04.060 |
for the purpose of supporting the man to do his work. 01:00:08.240 |
In Jude 6, it describes the fall of the satanic world 01:00:24.300 |
There's a debate as to what this fall looked like. 01:00:33.580 |
is they didn't follow what they were created for. 01:00:41.820 |
they're in rebellion and under the judgment of God. 01:01:05.620 |
So Satan is going back to the very beginning. 01:01:13.060 |
The beginning of God's creation was male and female 01:01:16.780 |
and what God had intended for men to be and women to be. 01:01:29.820 |
Third one, if you're squirming at your seat now, 01:01:36.720 |
but a woman will be saved through bearing children 01:01:44.380 |
Now, is he saying that men are saved by grace 01:01:54.200 |
We want to know the heretics in this room, right? 01:01:56.460 |
Of course, of course that's not what it's saying, right? 01:01:59.940 |
The word saved here in the NASB, it says to preserve. 01:02:27.240 |
So it's not just talking about justification. 01:02:29.180 |
Clearly, that's not what he's talking about here. 01:02:33.840 |
In order to understand what he means by that, 01:02:36.420 |
in Genesis 3:16, we need to understand the curse of the fall 01:02:41.320 |
because this is related to the restoration of what was lost. 01:02:45.700 |
In Genesis 3:16, it said, "To the woman," he said, 01:02:48.060 |
"I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, 01:03:01.560 |
The woman was created so that the union with man 01:03:16.440 |
because the two words, your pain in childbirth, 01:03:36.320 |
every aspect of what God intended in creation 01:03:40.520 |
because of sin and this desire to one-up each other, 01:03:52.660 |
And when it says your desire is going to be for your husband 01:03:54.860 |
the word for desire is to challenge and to usurp. 01:04:16.860 |
instead of him nurturing you, caring for you, 01:04:21.660 |
He's going to use his muscles to dominate you. 01:04:31.460 |
was to be fruitful and multiply, to subdue the land. 01:04:34.300 |
The Bible says that he's going to be laboring all his life 01:04:37.780 |
all he's going to produce is thorns and thistles. 01:04:40.460 |
And then at the end of it, instead of producing life, 01:04:48.680 |
but it's going to produce pain and suffering. 01:04:53.680 |
but it's going to produce pain and suffering. 01:05:03.140 |
In what way is she saved through childbearing? 01:05:28.120 |
And he's saying all of them have value in the kingdom, 01:05:31.240 |
but at the end, they're going to be tested with fire. 01:05:34.680 |
And only the things that remain after they are tested 01:05:43.260 |
"If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, 01:05:45.980 |
"but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire." 01:05:49.300 |
So is that passage saying that fire is going to save him? 01:05:52.900 |
Okay, don't look at me 'cause the answer's not here. 01:05:59.340 |
Is that text saying fire is going to save that man? 01:06:19.280 |
he's not saying bearing children is going to save him. 01:06:23.060 |
What he is saying is that the pain and suffering 01:06:40.940 |
In the value, when we restore what God had intended. 01:06:49.800 |
The reason why I chose this sermon is because our churches 01:07:09.300 |
And even the churches are beginning to cave in 01:07:11.820 |
in order to appease what's happening in our society. 01:07:15.460 |
But this is at the beginning of God's creation. 01:07:27.940 |
we have to be a light of what God has intended. 01:07:30.560 |
If we're going to pray, let your will be done 01:07:36.900 |
The problem with our generation is we have young women 01:07:41.020 |
who dream about one day they're going to become 01:07:50.420 |
But if that woman says, I'm going to grow up, 01:07:54.540 |
and I'm going to be the best mother I can be, 01:08:22.000 |
and even in the church the response is, that's it? 01:08:38.400 |
Men tend to wake up when there's an emergency. 01:09:01.120 |
went to the military, they come back different men, 01:09:37.640 |
If you're struggling with your girlfriend physically, 01:09:49.080 |
Because God has placed the responsibility on you. 01:10:06.360 |
And you say me and my household, we will serve the Lord. 01:10:18.800 |
So men need to be men so that the women can be women. 01:10:39.480 |
hoping that the church will do the evangelism. 01:10:48.620 |
Two, do not make your child the center of your world. 01:11:01.740 |
nobody but you is gonna make them the center of their world. 01:11:23.820 |
Third and finally, do not inoculate your children. 01:11:32.420 |
there's a little bit of that disease in that vaccine 01:11:35.680 |
in order for your body to build up an immune system. 01:11:51.340 |
so that when they get to the next stage of life, 01:11:53.520 |
they build up a tolerance against the gospel. 01:12:01.860 |
And so everything that they know about Christ is theory, 01:12:12.260 |
you're gonna end up inoculating your children 01:12:25.800 |
is gonna have godly children when they grow up, 01:12:32.140 |
our children are gonna be even harder to reach 01:12:40.300 |
We live in a generation where every fundamental value 01:12:46.700 |
that we have as Judeo-Christian is being attacked. 01:13:05.680 |
it doesn't matter how many verses you've memorized. 01:13:22.540 |
the best way that you can honor your mother and father, 01:13:39.940 |
if on a day-to-day basis you don't live like a man. 01:13:43.900 |
So psych, you thought this was gonna be for women. 01:14:18.260 |
Help us, Lord God, to fight, to struggle, to wrestle. 01:14:23.520 |
As Paul said, that we would buffet our bodies, 01:14:38.380 |
May they receive the reward for their sacrifices. 01:15:37.740 |
♪ His strength will help me scale these walls ♪ 01:16:36.060 |
♪ When winter fades, I know spring will come ♪ 01:17:02.780 |
♪ I know His grace will relieve these tears ♪ 01:19:52.580 |
continue to guide us and lead us and challenge us