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Power Point with Jack Graham

Jack Graham - Training Champions

May 10, 2026 | 27:29

Jack Graham - Training Champions
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.
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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Training Champions | May 10, 2026
  • ♪♪♪
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Well, turn in your bibles to proverbs 22 and verse 6.
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  • It's a familiar and rather famous scripture. and when you
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  • Find it, look right up here because we're going to get to
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  • The scripture. but first i want to say something to all the
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  • Mothers. we are filled with extreme gratitude and love for
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  • Really the most remarkable people in our lives in so many
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  • Ways... our mothers.
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  • You know i always used the term mother to describe my mom or
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  • Mother. i don't know, it sounds rather formal and traditional,
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  • Doesn't it? mother? but to me she was always up here. someone
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  • To be admired and respected and deeply loved. her name was
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  • Emogene... one word. e-m-o-g-e-n-e. she was a
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  • Wonderful mom. then i think of the mother of our children, my
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  • Wife, deb. her name is deborah. named after a great person in
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  • The old testament deborah who was one of the judges, a wise
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  • Counsellor. and she was a leader and a warrior. but she
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  • Was the wife and the mother of children as well. and when we
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  • Think of warrior moms... strong, courageous women! i
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  • Always think of deborah, that includes my deborah.
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  • Mothers are god's gift to us. some are biological, others are
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  • Adoptive moms and some are spiritual moms. i asked our
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  • Pastoral team this week if among you are there those who
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  • Have spiritual moms. and by spiritual moms... those who
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  • Influenced you or women in your life that nurtured you in some
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  • Way, women who became a variable figure of a mother in
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  • Your life. most of the hands in the room went up. and so i'm
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  • Just a little curious. in this room, how many of you would
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  • Have a woman in your life, besides you biological or maybe
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  • Adoptive mom, that you would consider a spiritual mother to
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  • You? you want to lift your hands? that's a lot of us in
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  • This room, so i know you have deep gratitude in your heart
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  • For these who have influenced you spiritually. perhaps led
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  • You to christ or taught you god's word.
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  • Mothers are the hands and feet of christ in our homes, truly.
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  • They pray when no one else sees. they work when it is
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  • Sometimes difficult and no one says thanks. they love when it
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  • Is hard, and they wonder if they can go on and keep doing
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  • This. that's love, that's mom. they teach, they guide, they
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  • Comfort, they confront, they correct, they nurture. often
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  • Sacrificing their own needs to meet the needs of others. and
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  • So today on this mother's day we do what is said in proverbs
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  • Chapter 31, verse 28: “her children rise up and call her
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  • Blessed, and her husband also he praises her.”
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  • And so in this house of worship we rise to praise god for the
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  • Women who have shaped our family, who have shaped our
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  • Faith and who are shaping our future. to every mother here,
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  • You have our hearts because you have ours. bless you and thank
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  • You for your beautiful devotion and your steadfast faith and
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  • Your courageous convictions and your daily sacrifices. you are
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  • Loved and you're lifted up today and rightly so. because
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  • The scripture says, “give honor to whom honor is due.” and you
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  • Are due great honor today. and we honor you, not just with
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  • Gifts and flowers and so on, but we honor you with our love.
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  • I asked chatit what are some of the gifts that we give to
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  • Mothers. what are the most popular gifts, is what i asked.
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  • You know chatit; you know him personally? it's a robot. but
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  • Here they are. your gifts that are the most popular gifts
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  • Given to mothers on mother's day. you might get some ideas.
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  • It's not too late. flowers... got it, jewelry, spa gift
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  • Certificates... (who's in for that? on yeah, i see.),
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  • Handwritten cards and notes... (who's into that? yeah),
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  • Chocolates and sweets, beauty and skincare products. i don't
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  • Know if this is a hint or a suggestion, but kitchen gadgets
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  • And cookware. [laughter], books and journals and home décor. so
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  • Those are the most popular gifts we give to moms on this
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  • Very special day.
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  • But in reality, the gift that keeps on giving is... is your
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  • Love. you moms reflect god's love in extraordinary ways,
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  • Remarkable ways. your prayers are heard by god; your tears
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  • Are seen by the lord. i want to challenge you today to never
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  • Give up on what god has assigned you to do. i know it
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  • Can be tireless and thankless. "and yet, not i, but christ
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  • Through me." amen? he will give you the strength.
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  • Today being a woman is challenging... being a parent
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  • In this generation [clears throat] is more like a war as
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  • We face a very toxic environment for our children.
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  • And to pray for our children and protect our children is the
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  • Goal of all of us, but to the mothers [clears throat] your
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  • Role, your life [clears throat] is not small; it is sacred...
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  • It is sacred. you're doing god's work as a mother. and
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  • Don't ever say "i'm just a mother" or "i'm just a
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  • Homemaker." no! you're not just anything. you are god's child,
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  • Created in his image in christ, and you are made to do
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  • Something so important and that is to shape the lives of those
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  • That god places in your womb or in your heart, in your hands.
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  • What is this work? this work that we as parents do, both
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  • Mothers and fathers? it is proverbs 22 and verse 6 which
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  • Says: “train up a child in the way that he should go and when
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  • He's old, he will not depart from it.” again, familiar words
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  • To many of us in this room but really what do they mean?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • The bible is the bestselling, most translated, and most
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  • Quoted book of all time, and yet so many have neglected
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  • Reading or have completely missed what the bible is all
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  • About. in a world of chaos and confusion uncertainty out
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  • There, the bible is the only constant. the only certainty is
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  • Jesus himself and his word, who is the same yesterday, today,
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  • And forever.
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  • And i want to help you see god's word with clearer eyes.
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  • By sending you my brand-new book, “the jesus book, reading
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  • And understanding the bible for yourself.” the jesus book is my
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  • Thanks for your best gift to help powerpoint to share the
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  • Unchanging truth of god's word and the testimony of jesus
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  • Around the world. so request your copy today.
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  • You can go to jackgraham.org
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  • We know that god's word is powerful. it is the story of
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  • Salvation through christ, with the scarlet thread of
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  • Redemption running through its pages from beginning to end.
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  • That's why i call it the jesus book. i hope you'll take the
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  • Step to request my new book, the jesus book, so you can see
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  • The word of god come alive in you and abide in you
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  • Now and forever.
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  • Thank you so much for being a powerful part of god's word
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  • Through powerpoint.
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  • Changing hearts, changing lives till the whole world hears.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • I bring you an exciting video today. it's a video from espn.
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  • You know that? [makes sound effects] espn- national news,
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  • Made by our prestonwood christian academy lions
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  • Baseball team on the plan of the day, and let me set this
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  • Video up for you because we were in the regional state
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  • Finals and we won this game that you're about to see a
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  • Portion of it. and we're on our way to the semi-finals.
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  • Hopefully the finals this week. great team,
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  • Coached by james vilade.
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  • And we were in a touch situation in this game. we were
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  • Up two to one in the fourth inning. and we walked the
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  • Leadoff hitter. and so we got one on first. and then they
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  • Laid down a bunt and we make the throw to second base and it
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  • Was late. so now we got first and second and nobody out,
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  • Clinging to a two to one lead. that's a tough situation.
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  • Got a good hitter up and we're thinking this could
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  • Be disastrous, because their pitcher was really pitching
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  • Well. it was going to be tough to score runs. two to one.
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  • Runners on first and second. and here is what happened:
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  • [announcer 1] number three texas high school baseball,
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  • Trinity - prestonwood. prestonwood turns the 4,6,3,2
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  • Triple play. wow! prestonwood won the game too, 2 to 1.
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  • [announcer 2] what do we say? you make the top play
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  • And we will find you.
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  • [announcer 1] that's right, you say it and you say it well.
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  • [announcer 2] even through the nets
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  • Alright! we got it! triple play!
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  • Alright, you got it? triple play! [applause] now... now i
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  • Show you this film... this highlight reel for a reason.
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  • And, now i'm happy about the play and happy about the win,
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  • But this was a... an unusual 4,6,3,2 triple play. you say,
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  • What do all those numbers mean? alright 4 is the position of
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  • The second baseman. ball is hit to 4, the second baseman. the
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  • Ball goes to second for one out, to 6 who is the shortstop,
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  • Who comes across the bat and throws to first which is 3. the
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  • First baseman, trip vilade... the first baseman then turns
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  • And throws a 90 mile an hour fast ball to the catcher who is
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  • 2 (the pitcher's 1, the catcher's 2) so now you have a
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  • 4,6,3,2 very extraordinary triple play. now you say wow,
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  • That's crazy. and yes, it was a great play and it was in a very
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  • Critical situation which... which made it even better.
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  • But i began to think about this play and i remembered that
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  • These kids, these young men had been trained to do this pretty
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  • Much all their lives, and you know how? it's called infield
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  • Practice. because if you have ever played baseball or you
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  • Watched your children play, no doubt, you watched them take
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  • Infield from the coach. so these are ground balls you
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  • Throw to first. and then there's always a section of
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  • Infield where you turn the double play. i was the second
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  • Baseman so i was the 4, so hit the ball to 4, flip it to 6,
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  • Back to 3 and then always the ball has to go back to the
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  • Catcher for the coach to hit the next ball. so it always was
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  • A 4,6,3,2. and so what happened on that field, though it was
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  • Extraordinary in the event that it happened, it happened
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  • Hundreds of times before because they were trained to do
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  • It. and so when the big moment came... when the big play had
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  • To be executed, they were ready... 6 to 4 to 3 to 2...
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  • And that is a triple play.
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  • So when the bible says, “train up a child in the way that the
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  • Child should go” what does it mean to train your child? it's
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  • Different from teaching a child. training is the
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  • Difference between reading a book and actually doing it. if
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  • You're being trained you typically have a coach or a
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  • Teacher or an instructor. you don't learn how to drive a car
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  • By just reading a manual about how to drive a car.
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  • One of the great scriptures in god's word is in deuteronomy
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  • Chapter 6. in fact, you may want to turn to it and just
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  • Look at it with me. we're going to put it on the screen. but
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  • Deuteronomy 6, verses 6 through 7, the shema of the hebrew
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  • People. hebrews... the jewish people have very strongly
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  • Connected families and it goes way back. and these are words,
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  • Not only to the hebrews, but to the followers of jesus, for he
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  • Says: "and these words that i command you today shall be on
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  • Your hearts." so where does it start... this training? on your
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  • Heart and mine. you can't share what you don't first have. and
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  • This training, this development... it comes from
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  • The heart, your heart! it's been said that if the husband
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  • Is the head of the home... the father, the wife... the mother
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  • Is the heart of the home. so from your heart.
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  • And "you shall teach them diligently to your children."
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  • Diligently meaning, of course, faithfully, and i like the word
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  • Consistently. our children do not look for perfection, but
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  • Direction from their parents, and consistence and
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  • Authenticity. and so in the reality of a personal
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  • Experience that you have with christ, you teach these
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  • Words... what words?... god's words. you must have them in
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  • Your heart before you can impart them to your children's
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  • Hearts.
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  • "and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house,"
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  • That is when you're hanging out at the house, when you're just
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  • Being together, "and when you walk by the way" (and you're
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  • Having a conversation in the normal traffic pattern of your
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  • Life... you're walking with them, "and when you lie down,
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  • And when you rise." throughout the day, morning and evening,
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  • Just naturally, normally living and giving your faith. sharing
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  • The word of god with your family. this is how you
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  • Training your children.
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  • It doesn't necessarily come with family worship
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  • Experiences, though we certainly affirm that. it
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  • Doesn't come with formal bible study, per se, but it comes in
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  • Those quiet moments when your children are asking questions.
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  • It comes in those times when they can come to you when their
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  • Heart may be broken, when they're troubled or when you're
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  • Just simply wanting to impart truth... something that was
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  • Passed on to you, you pass it on to your children. this is
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  • How it happens. it's just happening... not i, but christ
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  • Through me. and you're living out your faith in christ in
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  • Both deed and in word.
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  • To train means to dedicate. there's only 4 times in the
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  • Scripture, the old testament, this word is used in the hebrew
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  • Language ... train... as it is in 22:7 proverb. it's used by
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  • Solomon later on when he dedicated the temple... same
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  • Word.
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  • It's a word that also means to discipline or to disciple, and
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  • The number one job that a parent has is to be a disciple
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  • Maker. to disciple your children: first, to know
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  • Christ, and then to love and follow him all the days of
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  • Their lives. and could i say the very best time for your
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  • Children to give their life to jesus is early on in their
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  • Lives... early on. as soon as possible lead your children to
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  • Christ.
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  • I don't like some of the putdowns i hear every now and
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  • Then about childhood conversion. we get excited when
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  • We see an adult come to christ and we get fired up when an
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  • Older person follows christ in baptism, and we do celebrate
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  • The grace of god in their lives. but sometimes i think we
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  • May pass over that little child who may barely get his head
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  • Above water. she's giving her heart to jesus. the best time,
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  • The most wonderful time for a child to come to jesus is when
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  • They're young. i came to faith in christ when i was 6 years
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  • Old in great part to my mother's faith and my mother's
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  • Training of me. and so as jesus said, “let the little children
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  • Come to me.”
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  • We have christian classes for boys and girls, we have
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  • Opportunities for them to grow in their faith and disciple
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  • Them, but the best education... the best christian education
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  • They can get is with you. every child deserves a christian
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  • Education. did you know that? and you say, "well, i can't
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  • Afford it. i'm not talking about a formal education. the
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  • Christian education i'm talking about is the education that
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  • Comes from mom, the education that comes from dad, and every
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  • Home should be a place where children are growing in the
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  • University of life and learning, where you are shaping
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  • Their lives for the future.
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  • Shane pruit is a wonderful speaker, preacher and
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  • Evangelist. he's preached to as many young people as anybody i
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  • Know for the most part. he says if you parents treat your
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  • Church as optional, don't you be surprised when your children
  • 00:20:05.961 --> 00:20:09.665
  • Grow up and treat church as nonessential. there's no
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  • Question that you're going to church on sunday, and you're
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  • Going to be involved in the ministries of the church where
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  • Your children can grow. so that's christian education too.
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  • Make sure your children are educated.
  • 00:20:25.180 --> 00:20:26.815
  • But it amazes me... somehow, we raise our children in christ,
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  • We raise our children with conviction, we raise our
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  • Children in the church, and then send off our children to
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  • Some ideologue university whose chief goal is to tear down your
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  • Child's faith. why would you do that? why would you send your
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  • Child to a place that is going to destroy potentially your
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  • Child's convictions and faith? choose a university, a school
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  • That will honor christ and develop your child's faith, not
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  • Tear it down! so,
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  • Women, you know we are in a spiritual battle for our
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  • Children. and you, like deborah, have to fight the good
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  • Fight, you're a female fighter. and i think we've seen in this
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  • Clip what happens when you turn mama bears loose on some of
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  • These school systems and other places. but it is a fight
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  • Because as denise george writes: “our culture demeans
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  • Women. (it's true) it devalues their ability to birth and
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  • Nourish life.”
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  • In fact, now are you hearing the term instead of mother,
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  • Birth-person? so i guess we're going to have a birth-person
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  • Day coming up. and, of course, that's to assimilate all this
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  • Nonsense and madness and foolishness of the transgender
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  • Movement. birth-persons.
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  • But “this discredits their decisions to choose family
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  • Roles and dishonor the specific gender-endowed abilities. ‘in
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  • The beginning god made them male and female, he created
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  • Them.' jesus reiterated that; he underscored it and nobody
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  • Can change that. there are two genders - male and female.
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  • Mamas and the papas. [applause]
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  • "this attack on womanhood has assaulted society's basic
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  • Structure of sanity and reason. it has killed common sense.
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  • Since when did we have to start calling people by their
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  • Pronouns? and you know why it's wrong to be forced or to force
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  • A teacher or a school or business... anybody else, to
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  • Call a person by their chosen pronoun. you say, "what's the
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  • Big deal about somebody's pronoun? that's really not a
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  • Big deal." it is a big deal! you know why? because it forces
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  • People to lie. if you force me to call you something you are
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  • Not, and i know you're not, then i'm lying. this is the
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  • Ultimate religious freedom issue! thank god we have some
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  • Fighters on the religious freedom front these days that
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  • Are calling this out. but this tears down the basic structure
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  • Of sanity and reason, killing common sense and creating
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  • Hostility... oh, we got plenty of that, disgust, injury,
  • 00:23:36.905 --> 00:23:41.076
  • Destruction and even death.
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  • "sixty-three million babies aborted since roe v. wade! it
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  • Has invaded... (watch this... this woman is right!) it has
  • 00:23:49.518 --> 00:23:53.722
  • Invaded our schools, hospitals, businesses, locker rooms,
  • 00:23:53.722 --> 00:24:02.063
  • Churches, sports arenas and government. and this ideology
  • 00:24:02.063 --> 00:24:11.473
  • That is left of reality as i said it is a war on womanhood,
  • 00:24:11.473 --> 00:24:19.714
  • And therefore, a war on society and culture. it is the death of
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  • Everything we call valuable."
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  • And so moms, be a deborah. stand up to this craziness.
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  • Don't let anybody again say, you are less that, you're
  • 00:24:37.632 --> 00:24:40.835
  • Something different, you're just a woman, or a woman is
  • 00:24:40.835 --> 00:24:44.072
  • Something else. no! you are a woman made by god, created in
  • 00:24:44.072 --> 00:24:48.643
  • Christ jesus unto good works. and now you have an opportunity
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  • To change the world, starting with your own children...
  • 00:24:52.948 --> 00:24:57.118
  • Starting with your own children."
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  • So train up a child in the way that he or she should go and
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  • Then when they reach maturity... and this a proverb,
  • 00:25:07.762 --> 00:25:11.666
  • This is a promise in the verse of a proverb.
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  • Now i want to say that some of you have raised up your
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  • Children to love god and they're prodigal children. and
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  • You're still clinging to this promise; you're hanging on to
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  • This truth. i hear it all the time from parents. “pray for my
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  • Children. they're in trouble.” “pray for my children; they're
  • 00:25:38.126 --> 00:25:40.395
  • Going in the wrong direction.” and sometimes you can read a
  • 00:25:40.395 --> 00:25:44.065
  • Verse like proverbs 22:7 and say “why didn't it work for me,
  • 00:25:44.065 --> 00:25:47.535
  • God?” you hang in there; you keep praying; you keep the
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  • Porch light on for your children. and by god's grace in
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  • Due season, we pray that they will come home to him and to
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  • You and the way you've brought them up.
  • 00:26:04.819 --> 00:26:07.188
  • Now, sometimes when that verse is explained, proverbs 22:6 ...
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  • And i'm wrapping up here. sometimes when you explain
  • 00:26:10.525 --> 00:26:14.195
  • Proverbs 22:6, it says "in the way that the child should go."
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  • You see that word way there. sometimes that gets interpreted
  • 00:26:18.033 --> 00:26:20.969
  • To mean in the proclivity of the child, in the bent. it's a
  • 00:26:20.969 --> 00:26:24.372
  • Word in the hebrew for bent. the bent of a child, the nature
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  • Of that child, the personality of that child. and the idea is
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  • That we should be studying our children because they're not
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  • All the same, are they? in our same families, they're
  • 00:26:34.683 --> 00:26:37.252
  • Different. so what do you? you look at that child and you
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  • Discover the way that they could go in their own way, in
  • 00:26:40.955 --> 00:26:45.660
  • Their own personality, and so on. and i get that. i actually
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  • Think that's a good idea, to know your children and the
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  • Birth orders and all of that sort of thing.
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  • But that's now what this verse is saying. this verse is not
  • 00:26:55.070 --> 00:26:57.972
  • Saying train them up in the way that they could go. it's saying
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  • Train them up in the way they should go! the way of
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  • Righteousness, the way of truth, the way of god, the way
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  • Of jesus christ! this is the way we're to bring up our
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  • Children. not in their own way, but in god's way.
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  • ♪♪♪
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