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In in which you stay with me as we read responsibly this morning, our call to worship from Saul 86.

Incline your ear old word and answer me, for I am poor and needy preserve my life. I'm godly Savior servant who trusts in you. You are my God for you, oh Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you in the day of my trouble. I call upon you for you answer me. All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, oh Lord, and shall glorify your name for your great and do wondrous thing.

You alone are God. I've said more times than I can count of the last two or three months were living in strange times. These are strange times indeed.

And there's a sense in which that's true, is also a sense that I wasn't there in which there's nothing new under the sun. The church is been here before and survived. In fact, we know that the church will survive anything that the gates of hell throw at it, because Christ has promised that nothing will prevail against his people. It is wonderful.

A wonderful blessing to have one day and seven like this one, or we can gather together and reset our minds, our affections, our hearts out, remind ourselves that in this fluctuating, unpredictable, crazy world in which we live, there are some unchanging elements. God never changes. The gospel never changes. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever. The spirit of God indwelling his people never changes. What a comfort to know that these things will not go away. They never change our citizenship is in heaven. Not here on this earth. And so we do well to remind ourselves of these things we have gathered to worship the unchanging of faith God, let's do that, would you pray with me as we prepare our hearts for worship, father, son and Holy Spirit. We welcome your presence now. I pray that our worship would be worthy of the God who has created us who has redeemed us. I pray that your bride, the church would be built up at a five strength and nourished in our faith in our souls today as we sing the songs as we speak to you in as we hear your word read and proclaimed from this pulpit triune God. You are welcome in this place. We desire to fellowship with you.

Now we pray at all. In Jesus name, amen. Praise the Lord, you heavens adore him. Let's make much of our God this morning as we say in the rule is and and and and will be all will will will and I racist I will and will will and will get it saying Christ breaks the power of raining said how does this work are New Testament reading this morning tells us Romans chapter 6 verses one through 11 Romans six beginning at verse one. Paul says this, what shall we say then are we to continue in sin that grace may abound by no means how can we who died to sin still live in it you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death.

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin for one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again death no longer has dominion over him for the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God, so you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. This is the word of the Lord. And what a wonderful word it is to be reminded that sin no longer has dominion over us because of the death and resurrection of Christ in you, how often do we live as if that's not the case. How often do we convince ourselves and unbelief that sin still has the upper hand is good and right in our worship of this redeeming God to acknowledge our dependence on his grace, his mercy on his forgiveness.

Let's do that as we pray this morning, our prayer of confession would you pray with me, Lord Jesus, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief and of neglect to seek you in my daily life. My sins and shortcomings present me with a list of accusations, but I thank you that they will not stand against me for all have been laid on Christ deliver me from every evil habit every interest of former sins. Everything that dims the brightness of your grace in me everything that prevents me from taking delight in you.

Amen. Take a moment to silently confess your particular sins to the Lord was announced to these words from first John, my little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world our God is a merciful God never changes in being a merciful God respond to what we just been thinking about what we just confessed by singing the Gloria Patri. These words sound a little antiquated to our modern ears.

What is it mean when we sing as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end.

Amen this is an ancient liturgy that simply is is stating the fact of the triune God never changes.

The same God who showed mercy to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Peter and James and John, Martin Luther and John Calvin and John Knox is the God who shows mercy to you. Let stand and sing together. The Gloria punch him in the all come up for everyone here okay I have Schweitzer serving with you and okay Schweitzer's work discharge planners, United Kingdom bill also teaches systematic theology at the Westminster present.

Theological seminary like everyone else this way, Schweitzer and the congregation have been under lockdown.

As a result of 19. Initially, they lack the equipment to provide lifestream services to their church they may do so using a security camera. However, they received a gift that allow them to upgrade their recording equipment significantly maybe making the lifestream services available. You for that.

They are very thankful that Schweitzer is also working with the church plant Z�rich, Switzerland, one of the recent seminary graduates at village taught has been ordained and is making regular trips to Z�rich for Bible study.

When he began in October. He had 15 people within three months. Bible study is going to 20 people considering how secular Z�rich is those numbers are very encouraging their prayer requests are to pray for continued grace and growth in the church plant Z�rich and for their oldest on who has recently reported to training with the United States Marine Corps. Earlier this month, the second of the missionaries are Aaron and Rachel Halbert.

They are serving with MPW in Honduras Halbert service church planters in Honduras with their five young children their prayer requests are pray for continued financial support. Pray for encouragement.

Strength is raising you children and serve on the mission field and pray that they would see much fruit. As a result of their late. This is our missions moment. Let's keep all of our missionaries and prayers Lord brings them to mind with Stan once again saying our sermon text today. Psalm 128, but explained to Solomon applied to our lives. Specifically, let's begin meditating on those we sing it together. Stay with me as we sing Psalm 120 Carol are back.

They have been my friends for 37 years and this is the longest time we've ever gone without fellowship and together done is you and your family is great to have yell back with us.

Have your Bibles with you turn with me to Psalm 128 and will be looking at verses 1 to 6. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways, you shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hand. You shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you, your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house, your children will be like olive shoots around your table the whole. Thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord, the Lord bless you from Zion.

But you see the prosperity of Jerusalem, all the days of your life. May you see your children's children piece the up in Israel got our Lord in prayer.

Heavenly father. Today is Father's Day day that we set aside each year to color dads to a deeper consecration to you. We pray that you will be honored in all of us. Dads would take heed the call we have on our lives his father's father here in our own country with secular humanistic Marxist radicals. They're doing all they can to destroy the nuclear family. I mock your principles on family they've created havoc and sadness, hopelessness and depression among Americans. God give us God's intestinal fortitude to turn from this wicked culture and to turn to Jesus for guidance. Lord building our dads a backbone of steel, helpless as day is to be man of conviction destroy the victim mentality that is spreading like wildfire.

Help us to be tough, godly, independent father's father's who are wives and children can look up to and trust.

Help us to train and nurture our kids help us to help them to build a foundation in their lives.

That is, Christ foundation so strong that all hail can't shake it. We love you Lord help us to honor you for it is the precious and holy name of Jesus that we pray. Amen.

The seated power to ask you to describe the challenges that fathers have before them in America today, what would you say I think I would probably describe it this way it's like leaving your family through a minefield. I look over America today and and the landscape is field with broken families. Families who are blown to bits by financial pressure families who are devastated by immorality families who were destroyed by drugs and alcohol and our kids today.

What are they here, what are they listening to their hearing that killing babies is called freedom of choice that sodomy is called a sexual preference and adultery is called an affair dads it's a minefield and you are called by God to be the protector.

The provider and the role model for your kids. William has a going how you lead them through the minefield. Let me ask you this is a going to be any opposition that you have to face only answer that yes there is the feminist agenda set to take that role out of your hands.

The socialist communist agenda that we see in our own government today will to take that out of your hands. The gay lesbian agenda was to take that out of your hands. The secular humanistic educational system. Want to take that out of your hands and most of all, primarily Satan, the, the one who hates us with a passion, the one whose purpose is to kill, steal and destroy is set to take that role out of your hands, dads, I want to challenge you today I want to challenge you with all my heart to be strong to take a stand to love your kids because there lives are in the balance.

America is not going to change until homes are changed and homes are not going to change until dads change our problem in America today is failing father's and drop out dads. So I've chosen for my tech for Father's Day.

Psalm 120 860 versus here I got four points about dads that I want to share with you. Number one, a father's character looking again at verses one and two. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways usually eat the fruit of the labor of your hands you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. The word blessed in this verse simply means favored by God. In the Hebrew the word for blaster blessed is by route now what you picture this is a man back in Jesus day is getting ready to move from one town to the next and have moving vans. They had deep camels. So the man would go up he take his stick hit on the back of the camels leg. The camel would drop down to his knees. Then the man would take his precious cargo and he would throw it up on top of the camel, then fastened it together. He hit the camel on the back of the leg. The camel would stand up in the take off to his destination. That action of the man throwing his precious cargo up on top of the camel was called a brute or a blessing. So the next time someone sneezes instead of saying God bless you. You can say my goblet up your camel. They won't have a clue as to what you talking about� Biblical ethical where else we see that word blessed in the Scriptures about someone.

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly understand the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Think of the sermon on the Mount Blessed are the merciful. Blessed are the pure in heart. Blessed are the peacemakers.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Blessed are those who are persecuted for my sake.

The word blast means happy but that is not happy is the world would define it. The world's definition of happiness is so much more different is happiness that is temporary. We give you just a few quick illustrations take this opioid it'll take what it will take care of the pain and and you'll be happy to drown your sorrows with alcohol and drugs.

I am when you do that you gonna feel better and you get to be at the depression will be gone and you'll be happy.

What else do you need to do will check out pornography check out pornography and it'll give you an endorphin rush and you'll be happy or pager expense account and you'll be able to take some money extra bills and put them in your pocket and that'll make you happy. You know what you see in each one of those illustrations you see that there's a temporary element to each one of them.

All of those things. Promise you happiness but to give you just a little temporary bit of pleasure, it's here and there very quickly. It's gone. There's a quick adrenaline rush. Then there's guilt and sorrow and then there's an addict development that that comes in and just has you in his clutches verse one tells us that we can be genuinely blessed dancer, you blast.

By that I mean are you happy in the Lord, are you satisfied in Jesus. Does your life reveal contentment and peace and joy, or do your kids and your wife. Take a look at you and I see a man that's got a black cloud over his head. There's the man's not satisfied is not. He's not happy he's not joyfully has no contentment. AAA just it is all the time feeling just down. He doesn't see how the Lord can satisfying that nephew claim to be a Christian is a day and this was going on in your life, what your children think about Christ as Lord Jesus paint bring me joy.

Jesus can't make me happy. Christianity is just rules and regulations and laws, but is not about a life changing relationship so that you can fail in a lot of areas, but you need to be careful not to fail. Here you need to be content in the Lord, joyful in the Lord and your kids need to see it. Maybe you're here and you sent the guest is not me. I'm not that kinda guy.

I'm just not happy like that. I don't have that kind of joy you say what can you do about it. I think we have an answer here in verse one, two things you to fear the Lord in your to walk in God's ways fear the Lord and walk in God's ways to fear the Lord has to do with your attitude to walk in his ways has to do with your yesterday with your your being. Dear God has to do with attitude walk in his ways has to do with action. So what does it mean to fear God.

What does it mean cringing in fear every time you think about God. Every time you hear his name is not a servile fear like a slave would feel fear of risk taskmaster that just means that a whip in his hand the exact opposite of that. It's a reverential all is an excitement and it's a joy to love God you can fear God and is not a conflict with that. It's a compliment to complement each other a member.

13 years ago was in a terrible car car accident had three major operations and I was in the hospital in and out for about three and half months.

During that time a red book.

It was one of the most important books in my life. It was a book called the fear are the joy of fearing God by Jerry Bridges and sounds like an oxymoron done it.

Fear and joy in the same title is not an oxymoron at all. It's truly the fear of God leads to obedience and obedience submissive children of God are the happiest people on earth. Let me give you a few verses to just chew on and him.

Proverbs 19 on the fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Psalm chapter 2 verse 11. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling Job 2828 behold, the fear the Lord, that is wisdom and to turn away from evil is understanding. Some hundred three verse 13 the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him, hundred 47 verse 11. The Lord takes pleasure in those who, fearing we share something with you that Adrian Roger said your kids need you to fear God there facing humanism that tells them that man is the center of everything. Materialism tells them that happiness belongs and things.

Hedonism tells them to live high, wide and handsome relativism tells them that there are no absolutes, no fixed standards of right and wrong. They need a God fearing man amen the man who truly fears God is a man who's going to walk in God's ways. That's what's being said here. I think it's this God is not called you to be passive. God is called you to be active in your relationship with your children.

He has called you to a life of passionate, passionate, unadulterated, Christian action there way too many Christian dance in this nation today who think their responsibility as a dad and when they bring on the paycheck.

While it is true that is a day of your responsible for be in their material provider but your responsible for much more than that. You're also responsible for being a spiritual and emotional provider is whale and you can't do that by sit down on your Blessed assurance with a a remote TV remote in one hand and watching sports center on TV as your chill as your wife is gathering the children together and walking about the door to go to church and the kids are screaming while we have to just go to church when dad gets to stay home and and watch TV. Man, what a difference there is in that and in the end the dad who fears God and walks in God's way.

Who delights in the Sabbath day who gets up on Sunday morning with a song on his lips goes and wakes the kids up to can't get up. This is the greatest day of the week. This is Sunday. This is the Lord's day we get to go worship him get up and let's do it. Proverbs 22 six is train up a child in the way should go and when he is old he will not depart from it word for train up there comes from a root word in the Hebrew for my health and has to do with actions of the midwife midwife would be helping the mother and the delivering to the baby and and the baby would be delivered she take the baby in her hand. She washed the baby up that she wrapped the baby up in a blanket and she go over to the mom and she would take her finger and get one drop of milk from the mother's breast.

She put it into the mouth of the little baby and rub it in the top of the babies mailed the baby get that taste of the milk in its mouth and start sucking on the finger of the midwife as soon as that would happen. The midwife would immediately give the baby back to to the mom and the baby would start the nursing process. So, what had she done. She had developed in that child a thirst for the mother's milk and brothers and sisters. That's exactly what God is called dance to do. He has called you as a dad to developing your child's heart a thirst for God.

I listen that's different than pushing religion that a kids throat legalistic mean-spirited dads give their children the impression that Christianity is, like swallowing casserole and it's not fun. It didn't taste good.

You're not gonna like it but do it anyway, grit your teeth and bear it because it will keep you out of trouble. What happens if they see a day so excited about Jesus that is contagious and they see a dad who has a family devotions with his kids into a time of of fun a time of joy and not a time to dread. Dad, you train up your kids by developing in them a thirst for God. Kids will develop that thirst lacing a dad who loves them. But he loves Jesus more like number two. The father's companion.

Look at verse three. The first partners three a, your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house.

Father's if you want to be a good dad love God, love your wife and love your children and do it in that order. Our kids need security. One of the ways that our kids get security is when they know that that you're gonna love them but you can love mom even more than them.

If I don't have to fight for your affection because the white wife is already won that battle. She comes before them, and they need to see that they need to see that your kids need to see you being affectionate with your wife. They need to see that you love her as Jesus loved the church so much he was willing to die for it. The kids need to know that you won't side up with them against their mother. The psalmist refers to the good wife by calling her vine a great and as we look at the grapevine.

What is it do three things. Number one, it clings not know the image that the word that pops up in her mind when when we think of playing and it's a very negative word thing is not a good thing. People that are clingy other people run from that their manipulative their controlling like they depend on other people to make them happy, and if people are giving them what they want. If they're not given them the time the attention and the the love that they want from them and they go like this people's life miserable clingy people will suck the life out of you will suffocate you. We don't like that word clean but that's the negative part of playing what I'm talking about very positive and I'm talking about a dependence. The wife feel dependent on her husband dependent that he is a provider of protector and defender. A lover and a friend, and when the husband feels that and knows that he's going to feel needed. He's going to feel respected is not to feel suffocated.

Genesis 224 God said that the man and the woman shall leave their father and mother and they shall cleave together as husband and wife.

That's a great word that we are to cleave together to cleave second word is Kleine people grow vineyards. Willow Grove Vineyard by putting stakes up or are like a lattice and the grapevine will climb up to the lattice grit bigger and bigger and bigger and grow it produced many many graves. That way, and by putting up that lattice but by doing that, the, the great the grapevine is growing its maturing and dad, you have the responsibility of helping your wife mature you want help or mature in the faith you want to help her and by encouraging her in her responsibilities with the kid and she is overcome with trials and sufferings and she's going through a tough time. She needs your shoulder to lean on what is up husband. Husband helped her to grow up. He helps her emotionally, spiritually, and socially. But how many husbands doing the exact opposite Wiley doing the exact opposite what they help in their wife to mature because they're not mature them sales and because they think they married their mother and they want to do to treat her like they would mama I want to take all those things that God has ordained for us to to do responsibilities.

These given us and just push them to the wife is how you be the provider you take care of the finances. You take care the family devotions you take the children to church because I want to live my life just like I was living when I was in high school.

Husband is your responsibility to help your wife to climb to mature her into a godly stable lady. How you do that mimic a few suggestions. I think you have a date night. That means like one night out of the week. It's her night you take her out. No kids. Nobody else new friends. Just you and her were there can be romance where you can look into her eyes. When you can get into her heart. When you can listen to what she's gotta say they then help her. She was to go to a Bible study keep the kids help her to grow in the Lord.

The third word is cluster verse three a says your wife will be like a fruitful vine that primarily has to do with bearing children, but it's much more than that is helping your wife to have a productive productive fruitful life. The Bible teaches us. The wife is to be submissive she is to be submissive to her husband and it takes it further than that. So she should be to submissive to her husband in the same way she is submissive to the Lord while when she does that her husband feels respected and her children feel secure.

It's amazing what that will do and and she's not way down with responsibilities that God never intended her to have but husband you can destroy your wife's fruitfulness by taking advantage of her submission the command of the husband is to love his wife even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her. That means that he is to love her and the way Jesus loved the church and how much did Jesus loved the church. He loved us so much he died for us with your wife you, that you love her so much that, if necessary, you would die for her. She don't mind being submissive. Do you know because she knows you're always going to have her best interest in mind. That's the command, but how many husbands think submission means Boolean submission means demanding submission means totally controlling. Some men even take it further and get abusive with their wives so the wives are fearful that they can get hurt in his book, each for the other. Brian Chappell said this God's word in the hands of a religious fool can do immense harm. I've seen couch potatoes who order their wives and children around like the grand Sultan of Morocco adulterous misogynists with the domestic ethics of Jabba the Hutt to tell their wives around Bible verses about submission insecure man whose wives do not dare go to the grocery store that permission even tell their wives had address with the fact that evil disordered men have perverted God's word is no reason to throw it out either heal the great pastor at a Watts California who years ago passed away went on to be with the Lord grew up in a little town in Texas called Sweet home Texas. He went to a church where they took these principles of marriage very, very seriously, and one day in that church while he was there lady came in with her little five-year-old son. She walked in her eye was swollen. Her lip was cut. The deacons ran over tour support in the world happened you are you okay and she said all snacks and it was nothing, nothing, it's it's okay and the little boy piped in a sit was not an accident. Dad got drunk and hit mama and I tried to get him to stop and he wouldn't do it after the service was over, the deacons would pay this man to visit and they walked into his house. He was lying back in his recliner and they said, sir. God is called you to love your wife as Christ loved the church and they say do not hit her again.

If you do working to come back over here and wiggle lay hands on you and they were talking about an ordination well about two weeks later man got drunk again hit his wife again. The deacons came over and that he was in his recliner again. They grabbed and pulled them up out of the recliner took him out back behind the barn and wore him out.

It was a needed attitude adjustment and that that man quit drinking that day and he never beat his wife again started coming to church, heard the gospel and came to know Christ as his Lord and Savior. I don't know about you but I call that church discipline I don't see it quite that way in Scripture, but boy it worked in that situation. Husbands need to be respected but they don't need to be feared.

Number three the father's leadership verse three basic four. Your children will be like olive sheets around your table the whole rest shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord, the psalmist compares our children to olive sheets now olive trees. Very strange tree for the first seven years of its existence. It doesn't produce any olives at all from year seven to year 15. It produces a few olives, but then after that gets very productive and has a along lifespan. Olive trees can last millennia there, like the California redwood trees.

I was over in Israel that 40 years ago when I was there in the garden of Gethsemane and our God told us that the olive trees that were they are that several of them were there and growing. When Jesus Christ walked the earth 2000 years ago. So what's the message here the messages this you can grow a court corn stalk in a few weeks, but it takes years to grow in idolatry. It takes it takes a lot of work a lot of preparation, a lot of of caring to put into a child in those formative years to help them to grow and what God would have them to be. The Roman Catholic Church is to have a say and give us a child until he seven years old and with guiding for life. I think there's some truth to that, I think there's some truth to that is, the twig is bent so grows the tree and Proverbs 22 verse six we are looking that a minute ago to train up a child the way he should go when he is old he will not depart from it knows it says in the way he should go, not necessarily in the way that you as a parent might think he should go see you don't live your unfulfilled dreams that your children that you see what is bent.*What are his talents were his gifts. One of the things that he likes and did things that he dislikes and then helped him by the by the power of the Spirit of God to move him into what God wants him to be � don't force your unfulfilled dreams on your kids.

Another great verse Ephesians 64 father's, provoke not your children to anger, but train them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, we send negative and a positive here. First of all the negative don't provoke your children and what what does that mean that means don't drive them nuts. We can do that his parents can't wait don't exasperate frustrate wound them badger them or humiliate them. Here are three ways that dance provoke their kids number 100 discipline that is by letting them get away with murder just given them everything they demand is not good for your children.

Number two is inconsistency is making empty threats that that you don't feel that you don't carry out the number three over discipline at 20 father's a bully.

He's a leader he's making the decisions, but he might make a bad decision and is going to bully the child and the child can't do anything about it because he's bigger and stronger than the child that's the negative thing about raising children don't provoke your children. The key I think is working toward the right balance all rules and no relationship equal rebellion our relationship and the rules equals chaos, what about the positive side, the positive side is nurture cultivation is where nurture comes from a car or we get the word nursery from that word for nurture. So what is Baucom's nurture nursery do Baucom's nursery cultivates plants she can go over to get a plant from their a tree and take it back your house planet. They will help to helped you to cultivate that plant for your house so farmers will tell you what it takes to nurture. It takes time, patient training, good soul, good water, sunlight and weeding that is removing the the bad influences from the plant dad's teacher sons to be men teacher sons to be men teach them character and morals and ethics.

Teach them to be adventurous. Teach them to be bold. Teach them to protect the weak.

Teach them to stand against evil. But most of all, teach them to love Jesus and the glory in the cross with you got dollars daughter. She had a little differently.

Dad's love your dollars be affectionate with them, then hold them when their little hug, and when they get big a daughter needs male affection and she's not get male affection from her dad. Chances are she's going to get it from another source .4 is a contribution he leaves. Look at verse five and six the Lord bless you from Zion. But you see the prosperity of Jerusalem, all the days of your life may see your children's children piece the up in Israel on close this message with the challenge saw a movie about eight years ago that just touched my heart movie was entitled courageous is a movie about a policeman group of policemen that were just buddies like good friends. I love each other.

The main character was a policeman whose nine-year-old daughter got killed in an automobile accident and flew his suffering.

With that through the trials that he had to go through through all the pain of that loss.

The Lord led him to become responsible and godly daddy and several months later after he begin to grow as a dad after he began to take that responsibility seriously.

His pastor asked him to come on Father's Day and to give a challenge to his two to the people in that church to the dance and that church only take just a minute read you that challenge and I'll close with this father should love his children, and seek to win their hearts they should protect them.

Discipline them and teach them about God patient model had a walk with integrity and treat others with respect and should call at his his children to become responsible men and women who live their lives.

What matters in eternity.

Some men will hear this and mock it or ignore it but I tell you that is a father you are accountable to God for the position of influence he has given you. You can't fall asleep at the wheel, only to wake up one day and realize that your job or your hobbies have no eternal value, but the soles of your children do so me and will hear this and agree with it but have no resolve to live it out. Instead, they will live for them sales and waste the opportunity to leave a godly legacy for the next generation. But there are some men who, regardless of the mistakes we made in the past. Regardless of what our fathers did not do for us will give the strength of our arms and the rest of our days to loving God with all that we are in the teach our children to do the same. And, whenever possible, to love and mentor others who have no father in their lives but you desperately need help and direction, and we are inviting any man whose heart is willing and courageous to join us in this resolution in my home. The decision is already been made.

You'll have to ask who will guide my family because by God's grace, I will. You don't have to ask who will teach my son to follow Christ because I will who will accept the responsibility of providing for and protecting my family.

I will who will ask God to break the chain of destructive patterns in my family's history I will who will pray for, and bless my children to boldly pursue whatever God calls in the do. I am their father. I will accept this responsibility and it is my privilege to embrace it, I will. The favor of God in his blessing on my home any good man does. So where are you men of courage. Where are you father's who fear the Lord is time to rise up and answer the call of God is given you in deciding I will I will I will pray heavenly father may every dad granddad great granddad that are here today take the challenge to heart the chaos, the lies, the destructions, the mayhem that is going on in America could stop if you would bring revival to our land.

We know we don't deserve revival because his country delves deeper into anti-God. Foolishness each day our children's minds are pounded with acceptance of sexual perversion of the destruction of the Puritan work ethic and the mocking of holy Scripture heavenly father.

It's time for dads to take a stand is time for dads to quit being effeminate, cowardly and become loving and strong.

We deserve judgment, but we need mercy, open our hearts cleanse our souls and help us reach our kids, our grandkids and our great grandkids with your gospel, for it is in the holy and precious name of Jesus that we pray.

Amen the blessings of Psalm 128 are predicated upon the blessed man, fearing the Lord. Let's think about that as we respond to the truth.

We've heard this morning stand with me sing together song of Moses and all encourage you to be back with us Wednesday night Wednesday night. Jim Laufer is teaching us the crystalline garage guards book on unity within and just a great great book revenue great study, prayer, maintenance, Bible study Wednesday night and we encourage you to be here with us now and encourage you with these words, for God has highly exalted him and given him a name that is above every name, that the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father and all God's children said