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Ed Young - Parenting: Do's & Don'ts

May 6, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Parenting: Do's & Don'ts
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Parenting: Do's & Don'ts | May 6, 2026
  • Means train up a child in the way
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  • God has bent them.
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  • We look at our children, we study them.
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  • We ask god for discernment.
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  • We see how god has bent them,
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  • How god has placed them, and then not how we want.
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  • We see where their giftedness is.
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  • We see where their passion is.
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  • We need to learn
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  • How to parent in the world in which we live.
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  • You know what
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  • Parenting today is like is like building
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  • A fire in the rain.
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  • Ever tried to build a fire in the rain i have.
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  • It's tough, isn't it?
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  • A lot of things.
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  • You gotta have some shelter.
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  • You try to cover it up.
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  • You got to have the right
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  • Kind of wood and you might get a fire going.
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  • It rains harder. it puts it out.
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  • You have to take the coals and work them.
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  • Building a fire in the rain is difficult.
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  • Some would say it's impossible.
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  • No, no, it just takes diligence.
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  • You have to know what you're doing.
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  • You have to stay with it.
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  • And that's what it takes to take these little miracles
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  • We call son and daughters
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  • And grow them up the way god would have them.
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  • Us to grow them up as mothers and dads
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  • And those who support and teach and lead them.
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  • It's like building a fire
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  • In the rain in our culture, isn't it?
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  • So how do you do it?
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  • It's a challenge for all of us,
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  • And we can't anticipate all the signs of rebellion.
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  • We can't anticipate all the situations
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  • We find ourselves with kids and with families.
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  • You know how in the world can we prepare them?
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  • How can we build the right stuff in them
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  • That god would have us to build in them as parents, you know,
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  • Handling this, this situation, and we can't plan
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  • For all the extremities.
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  • But there are some basic things parents, couples can do
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  • To sort of put some things down, to put down a grid,
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  • Some parameters.
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  • And i'll represent to you two negatives
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  • And two positives.
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  • Two negatives don't do this, two positives do this.
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  • And that'll help us in the overwhelming
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  • Challenge we have in our modern world.
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  • And that is to with our sons and with our daughters
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  • To build a fire in their life,
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  • A purpose in their life, christ in their life.
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  • In the middle
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  • Of a rainstorm.
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  • I want you to look, first of all,
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  • The first negative ephesians chapter number six.
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  • Paul is writing.
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  • He says, fathers, do not provoke
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  • Your children to anger.
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  • Do not provoke your children to anger.
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  • How does that operate?
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  • Do not provoke your children to wrap.
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  • It means i.
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  • Children are never to be angry with us.
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  • No, it means our children are always to be happy.
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  • No, but we don't provoke them in such a way
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  • That they are overwhelmed with bitterness.
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  • And it stays in their lives.
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  • And it it stored up there, and there's a seething
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  • Kind of anger that comes with our sons and daughters.
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  • And this happens when we over discipline them.
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  • It happens when we under discipline them.
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  • I remember my son ed, he was a sophomore
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  • Junior in high school.
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  • He had a big test on the constitution of the bylaws.
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  • I asked him through the week, are you studying?
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  • Are you started getting it?
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  • Oh, yeah, dad, i'm on top of it.
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  • I'll be ready for the test.
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  • The night before the test, i went up to his room
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  • And i got the book
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  • And the study questions, and i asked him.
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  • And he didn't know the constitution from mary
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  • Had a little lamb.
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  • It was unbelievable, i reminded him.
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  • We visited washington.
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  • We'd seen it behind the case, man.
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  • He didn't know anything.
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  • And all week long he was ready for the big test
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  • And i just lost it.
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  • And i remember i grabbed him by the hair way too hard.
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  • I said, son,
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  • We're going to stay here
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  • Till you know the constitution, the bylaws, the amendment
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  • And everybody who wrote them backwards and forwards.
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  • And we went to bed about quarter four.
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  • Next morning, i went up there
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  • Because i didn't sleep very much that short night.
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  • And i,
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  • I apologize, i cried and he cried.
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  • I over disciplined him.
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  • We've even dealt with that again as we're adults,
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  • You see, you can provoke your children.
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  • I you know,
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  • He was too old for this kind of corporate repulsion.
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  • And see, i was not in control,
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  • But i was asking him to be in control.
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  • Parents, when you're not in control,
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  • You can't just with your children.
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  • If you do it, you do it improperly.
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  • And you, you
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  • Discipline them to a point of anger and a point of wrath.
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  • That's what the warning here paul gives us.
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  • Don't over discipline your kids.
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  • It's got to be the right time, the right place.
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  • Then with the right person in the right situation.
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  • All of our kids are different.
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  • With ed, it took corporate punishment to get him in line.
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  • So many, many times with ben, you could talk and reason
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  • With him.
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  • With cliff, he had such a tender heart.
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  • You just look at him.
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  • He got it.
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  • You see,
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  • You have to adapt to all of these things, age appropriate
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  • And so we can over discipline and we can under discipline.
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  • The best illustration under discipline.
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  • I know it is in the bible.
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  • You have king david, man, he's on the throne.
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  • He's ruling everything.
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  • He's in charge.
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  • He's king, doing a fabulous job.
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  • Geopolitical relations are up.
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  • The economy is up, man.
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  • The people respect him. he's honored.
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  • He's a poet.
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  • He's a man after god's own heart.
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  • But what happened to his family?
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  • His son amnon was sick.
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  • Amnon asked his half sister tamar
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  • To come and feed him while he was in the bed sick.
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  • When everyone left, he took his sister and he raped her.
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  • It said in the bible.
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  • David knew about it.
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  • He was angry, but he did nothing about it.
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  • He knew, but he did nothing.
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  • The deadliest thing in a family is a passive father.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen,
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  • The deadliest thing is a passive father.
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  • And what happened in that situation?
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  • Two years later, absalom came and killed his own brother
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  • To avenge what he'd done to his sister.
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  • And then after was put in exile.
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  • Then david brought back home, and absalom fell before him.
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  • But david wouldn't even see him for two years, and, absent
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  • Later led her rebellion against david in his own father.
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  • Because david knew and did nothing
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  • That's under
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  • Disciplining, and that leads to wrath.
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  • You see the wrath, the bitterness
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  • That was in absalom, because a passive dad.
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  • So we can over discipline and under discipline,
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  • And we can miss this clear word of instruction from
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  • God's word.
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  • Don't provoke your children to anger, to wrath,
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  • And then look at the next negative we see.
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  • These are the words of jesus.
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  • Turn with me to luke, chapter number 17.
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  • The same story is told in matthew.
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  • Luke chapter 17.
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  • Jesus speaking.
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  • He said to the disciples, it is inevitable that stumbling
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  • Blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come.
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  • It would be better for him if a millstone were
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  • Hung around his neck, and he was thrown into the sea.
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  • Then one would cause one of these
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  • Little ones to stumble.
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  • In other words, don't trip up your kids.
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  • Don't provoke them.
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  • Don't trip them up. don't cause them to stumble.
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  • You say, well, how do we do that?
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  • I read only this week about the situation that disney has.
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  • It seems that a group of new york sophisticates
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  • Were taking their kids to disney down in orlando,
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  • And they found a way to beat the long lines.
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  • They would hire somebody who was handicapped
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  • To lead their children in.
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  • They'd go to the head of the line.
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  • And one new york society woman boasted, said, everybody else
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  • Stood two and a half to get 2.5 hours to get in.
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  • It's a small world, but my kids, led by that
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  • Handicapped person,
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  • They were in in a minute and a half,
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  • They just blitzed disney and they were bragging about it.
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  • Another man was talking about he did the same thing.
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  • He got a doctor to write out a prescription and said
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  • His son was hd dvd.
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  • I think all of us said that anyway, and therefore
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  • They put him at the head of the line.
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  • See, they broke the system.
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  • He said, well, what about that?
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  • You see what you're doing?
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  • You're tripping up your son and daughter.
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  • You're showing them
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  • How to take shortcuts by money, by prestige,
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  • By beating the system.
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  • And therefore they get to college and they.
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  • Oh, i can't believe you cheated on that test.
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  • And you're thrown out of school.
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  • Dad, mom, you don't have a leg to stand on any
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  • More than david had a leg to stand on in
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  • Dealing with his son, who's raped his daughter
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  • Because david
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  • Had already been guilty of sleeping with someone
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  • Who wasn't his wife.
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  • See what i'm saying?
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  • We calls our children to stumble,
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  • And sometimes they stumble.
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  • So in gloriously, it breaks your heart.
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  • I remember going to a school play some years back,
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  • And a little guy in the play had a part,
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  • You know, about a minute and a half.
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  • He did his thing and after the play was over,
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  • That little guy came storming behind the stage.
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  • I happened to see him
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  • And he just ran out there to his daddy,
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  • You know, to him, he just played hamlet on broadway.
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  • You know, he was just thrilled to death.
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  • And he ran out there and he grabbed his daddy wanted
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  • To say, you know, what a good job he'd done.
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  • I'm proud of you, son, is.
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  • Dad said, i can't talk to you now.
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  • I'm talking to mr. smithson.
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  • So he pushed into one side and he could see that little guy.
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  • He just goes off.
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  • He's broken hearted.
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  • Parents awake up.
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  • Be sensitive to your kids.
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  • Don't cause him to trip.
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  • Don't cause him to
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  • Trip to stumble.
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  • It's better that jesus said a millstone be hung around
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  • The neck of somebody who trips up a kid.
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  • In our society
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  • When we tolerate pedophilia, i don't understand it.
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  • Look what jesus says.
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  • How deadly it is. our kids.
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  • We build them up.
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  • Jesus said, let them come to me.
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  • Oh no, the disciples said, oh no, you're talking to
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  • A lot of big, important people.
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  • He said, i don't care about them.
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  • Suffer little children to come to me.
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  • He said, unless you have the humility of a child like that,
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  • You'll never, never get to heaven yourself.
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  • How important jesus elevated
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  • Children, elevating children.
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  • The bible gives us instruction.
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  • Don't provoke your kids to wrath.
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  • Don't trip up your kids about your lifestyle.
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  • But what's the positive part of training?
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  • Look at it.
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  • We go to the book of proverbs, a very familiar verse.
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  • Proverbs chapter 22,
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  • Verse six,
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  • Train up a child and the way that he should go.
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  • And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • It means train up a child in the way
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  • You think he should go.
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  • She should go. no, no.
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  • It means train up a child in the way
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  • God has bent them.
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  • When i was a boy,
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  • There was a popular little song called mother.
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  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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  • Back.
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  • In biblical days, when a child did not begin to suck
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  • When they were born,
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  • The midwife would
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  • Take some fig juice and rub it on their gums.
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  • Then they would teach them how to suck,
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  • And they naturally became sucking machines
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  • So they could live
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  • So they could live.
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  • That's the way we train children.
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  • We look at our children, we study them.
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  • We ask god for discernment.
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  • We see how god has bent them,
  • 00:13:56.926 --> 00:13:59.695
  • How god has placed them, and then not how we want.
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  • We see where their giftedness is.
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  • We see where their passion is.
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  • You know, joe, beth and i are just strolling through life.
  • 00:14:07.970 --> 00:14:10.372
  • All of a sudden,
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  • My youngest
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  • Son, cliff, was born and we were trying to
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  • Figure out how he was bending.
  • 00:14:13.575 --> 00:14:15.144
  • We couldn't figure it out until we gave him a guitar,
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  • A little guitar
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  • One christmas and man, all of a sudden
  • 00:14:19.548 --> 00:14:21.717
  • We have a musician on our hands.
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  • Where did that come from?
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  • You see, you have to do this with your kids.
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  • Don't have all those presuppositions,
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  • All those ideas of what they ought to be.
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  • So you're not. kids are young.
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  • And a kid will say, you know, i want to be a doctor
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  • And all the rest of you,
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  • You know, billy, when you were little,
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  • You said you wanted to be a doctor.
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  • You know, you know, you said you want to be a doctor, billy.
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  • Now, if billy said, i want to be a garbage man,
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  • We'd never bring that up again, would we?
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  • But let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • Billy is a doctor.
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  • Is in worse shape than billy as a garbage man.
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  • If he's outside the will of god,
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  • It's not prestige, money, power.
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  • We can't live vicariously through our children.
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  • We figure out how god has molded them.
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  • I know man who's been tremendously successful
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  • In the business world, but he's been miserable
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  • All the years of professional life.
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  • He has a gift of being a teacher.
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  • And he said, oh, how i wanted to teach, but
  • 00:15:24.113 --> 00:15:27.016
  • My family just wouldn't let me do it.
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  • You say you missed the passion of your life.
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  • You want to find out what turns your kids on,
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  • And you study them and you encourage them.
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  • See how god has bent them.
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  • Then you train them well.
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  • How do you train them?
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  • You know how the jews chariot train and the bible.
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  • You go to deuteronomy chapter six.
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  • You see it clearly.
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  • It's ashima, and they come and moses
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  • Just give them the ten commandments.
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  • And he says, this is how you're going
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  • To teach your kids right and wrong.
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  • Look at deuteronomy chapter six, verse seven following
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  • This is how you do it.
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  • You shall teach them diligently to your sons,
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  • And shall talk of them when you sit in your house,
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  • And when you walk, by the way, and when you lie down,
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  • And when you rise up,
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  • You shall bind them as a sign on your hand,
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  • And they shall be as frontals on your forehead.
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  • You will write them on the
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  • Doorpost of your house, on your gates.
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  • What is this saying?
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  • It's saying that in the home we surround our
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  • Kids with principles of life.
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  • We teach them.
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  • God is number one.
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  • Don't take his name in vain.
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  • Worship him on the sabbath on sunday.
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  • Be a worshiper.
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  • Honor your father and your mother.
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  • Don't murder.
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  • Don't commit adultery.
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  • Don't steal, don't lie, don't covet.
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  • And we teach that we encounter we.
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  • We teach that to our kids all the time.
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  • It's just a part
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  • Of the atmosphere of our family and of our home.
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  • This is how we do it.
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  • Oh, we are training them
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  • Up in the way that god has bent them,
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  • Putting moral fiber in the middle of them.
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  • That's the second.
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  • That's the third thing we do.
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  • And that's the first positive thing we do.
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  • Look at the next positive thing we do with our kids.
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  • We go back to ephesians.
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  • It finishes that passage up.
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  • It says, but bring them up in the discipline
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  • And instruction of the lord.
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  • You teach them in the way god
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  • Has bent them, giving moral fiber to them.
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  • And then you bring them up.
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  • You bring them, you go along with them.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, you can require your kids
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  • To do what you want them to do until they become teenagers.
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  • Then they begin to do what you do.
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  • And there's our problem.
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  • There's our problem.
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  • We bring them up in the discipline of the lord.
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  • What is discipline, you say? oh, that's punishment.
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  • Oh, no, it is.
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  • Discipline is drawing boundaries.
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  • Here's the boundary.
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  • This is how our family functions.
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  • Here are the rules. here's the regulation.
  • 00:18:07.042 --> 00:18:09.044
  • This is who we are.
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  • These are the boundaries.
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  • That's discipline.
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  • Then when they move outside of those boundaries,
  • 00:18:12.948 --> 00:18:15.384
  • Then you have a response that is appropriate to age
  • 00:18:15.384 --> 00:18:18.854
  • In that particular situation and that particular child.
  • 00:18:18.854 --> 00:18:23.192
  • And see, that's where parents are always
  • 00:18:23.192 --> 00:18:25.294
  • Praying for wisdom
  • 00:18:25.294 --> 00:18:26.562
  • And dessert and discernment and the leadership of the spirit.
  • 00:18:26.562 --> 00:18:30.065
  • So in the instruction and the discipline
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  • And the instruction of the lord and the teaching of the lord.
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  • How do you teach?
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  • I remember my mother teach me how to walk across the street.
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  • And i was a little guy,
  • 00:18:42.277 --> 00:18:43.412
  • You know, in front of my house there was a street.
  • 00:18:43.412 --> 00:18:46.148
  • I thought it was a busy street.
  • 00:18:46.148 --> 00:18:47.816
  • A call went by about every 30 minutes.
  • 00:18:47.816 --> 00:18:49.651
  • But anyway.
  • 00:18:49.651 --> 00:18:50.485
  • And she said, and she would go on
  • 00:18:50.485 --> 00:18:52.688
  • To go across the street to play with people.
  • 00:18:52.688 --> 00:18:54.256
  • She'd take me by the hand.
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  • She'd say, edwin, stop, look and listen.
  • 00:18:55.691 --> 00:18:58.227
  • We'd walk across, we'd come back, stop looking.
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  • Listen, we did this a few times.
  • 00:19:00.629 --> 00:19:02.531
  • Then she said,
  • 00:19:02.531 --> 00:19:03.532
  • All right, i want you to lead me by the hand.
  • 00:19:03.532 --> 00:19:05.934
  • So i took her hand and i stopped looking.
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  • I let her sometimes you say,
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  • Wait a minute, that car is coming.
  • 00:19:09.504 --> 00:19:11.773
  • And we did that.
  • 00:19:11.773 --> 00:19:12.908
  • Then a few times he'd say,
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  • I'll stand on the curb, let's see how you do.
  • 00:19:14.109 --> 00:19:16.044
  • And she'd watch me. that's good. that's terrific.
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  • You got it.
  • 00:19:18.547 --> 00:19:19.681
  • Then down the road she'd stay at the door of the house.
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  • She'd say, okay, i'm watching you.
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  • And i'd stop looking.
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  • Look, that's the way she taught.
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  • That's is the way we teach our children
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  • And all kinds of things. we're with them.
  • 00:19:28.156 --> 00:19:30.492
  • We stay with them. we hang in there with them.
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  • We're teaching
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  • The way the lord has taught and the admonition of his truth.
  • 00:19:34.630 --> 00:19:39.434
  • Now, here is the challenge.
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  • You build all the right
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  • Stuff with time and talent and prayer
  • 00:19:45.207 --> 00:19:47.509
  • And going to church with them, praying with them,
  • 00:19:47.509 --> 00:19:49.711
  • And all of a sudden they leave home and they go
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  • Bazooka wild.
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  • What in the world?
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  • And we fall back on this verse,
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  • Trainable child in ways you go.
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  • And when he's old here
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  • Not depart from boy, i sure hope they come back.
  • 00:20:02.524 --> 00:20:06.361
  • I sure hope they do.
  • 00:20:06.828 --> 00:20:07.896
  • I you know, we tried to train them up.
  • 00:20:07.896 --> 00:20:09.765
  • I've heard that a quinn zillion times.
  • 00:20:09.765 --> 00:20:13.201
  • Let me show you what's missing
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  • In our training up our children right here at this point.
  • 00:20:15.070 --> 00:20:17.439
  • Let me show you what we miss many times.
  • 00:20:17.439 --> 00:20:20.442
  • We we get all the rights and the wrongs
  • 00:20:20.442 --> 00:20:22.811
  • And the do's and the don'ts and the discipline
  • 00:20:22.811 --> 00:20:25.113
  • And the parameters, and we encourage and we build
  • 00:20:25.113 --> 00:20:27.916
  • All those things in, but we leave out something.
  • 00:20:27.916 --> 00:20:31.887
  • I want you to see what joseph had in the bible,
  • 00:20:32.888 --> 00:20:35.824
  • What his other brothers didn't have.
  • 00:20:35.824 --> 00:20:39.027
  • Joseph other the other sons of big jake
  • 00:20:39.027 --> 00:20:41.563
  • Were just unscrupulous characters.
  • 00:20:41.563 --> 00:20:44.800
  • They were slime.
  • 00:20:44.800 --> 00:20:46.134
  • They were the kind of kids
  • 00:20:46.134 --> 00:20:47.336
  • You don't want your kids to play with.
  • 00:20:47.336 --> 00:20:50.038
  • But big jake,
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  • I'm sure, took the sheema and commandments
  • 00:20:51.406 --> 00:20:55.277
  • And tried to build that in his kids.
  • 00:20:55.277 --> 00:20:56.912
  • That's what they did. that's what they did.
  • 00:20:56.912 --> 00:20:58.947
  • Moses principles.
  • 00:20:58.947 --> 00:21:00.615
  • But it took what joseph
  • 00:21:00.615 --> 00:21:03.185
  • And you look at joseph, they were jealous of him.
  • 00:21:03.185 --> 00:21:05.987
  • He was little, egotistical, marked that down.
  • 00:21:05.987 --> 00:21:08.523
  • The favorite of his father.
  • 00:21:08.523 --> 00:21:10.225
  • His mother was rachel.
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  • Different from leah.
  • 00:21:12.194 --> 00:21:13.161
  • The other boys and the brothers sold him.
  • 00:21:13.161 --> 00:21:16.164
  • They wanted to kill him,
  • 00:21:16.164 --> 00:21:17.332
  • But they sold him as a slave with the potiphar's house
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  • Part of her put in charge of everything.
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  • Part of his wife tried to seduce him.
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  • He said no. she accused him.
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  • He was put in prison.
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  • He became head of the prison.
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  • Then he made some promises and he predicted some things,
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  • Some dreams they had.
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  • And they said they would speak for him before pharaoh.
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  • But they didn't, until finally the day pharaoh recognized
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  • Joseph as someone who could be prime minister because of his
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  • Understanding of god and economic affairs.
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  • And here is joseph, a stranger, a jew, now prime minister
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  • Of the most powerful nation in the world.
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  • You say he's not qualified,
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  • Man, was he qualified as a young man.
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  • He thought he was going to die as a young man.
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  • He was sold in his slavery. as a young man.
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  • He rose in prominence in part verse house.
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  • As a young man, he rose in prominence as he was in prison.
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  • See, god put him through
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  • All those schools of desmond that uniquely prepared him
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  • For that moment of service and exaltation in his life.
  • 00:22:14.055 --> 00:22:18.460
  • Well, what did how did joseph have this kind
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  • Of character and fiber and his other brothers?
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  • Didn't
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  • You see the character demonstrated there
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  • When miss potter tried to seduce him?
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  • She was miss egypt, knock out beautiful.
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  • And it was the culture of they.
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  • Here's joseph's strong, handsome jewish man.
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  • He was something.
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  • And the bible says she tempted him day
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  • After day after day, not a one time deal.
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  • And finally he said no, and she grabbed him
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  • By the shirt and ripped the shirt
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  • Off his back as he ran from her.
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  • But he told her as to why he could not sleep with her.
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  • Three things.
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  • What did he say?
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  • He said, i can't do this thing because your husband
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  • Has put me in charge of everything he has.
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  • But you, you know, he had a vocational accountability.
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  • He was taught.
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  • And then he says, i can't do this thing because
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  • You're his wife,
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  • You're the exclusive property of him,
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  • And he's the exclusive property of you.
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  • I can't do it.
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  • And then he said,
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  • The third reason i can't do it because god sees me.
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  • Where did he learn this kind of application?
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  • His older brothers evidently didn't have it.
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  • Had the same dad, but the different mom.
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  • And i'm going to guess it was rachel
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  • That that mom said, look, here's what you don't do,
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  • And here's what you do, but this is here it is parents.
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  • Why?
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  • We did not worship other gods.
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  • This is why.
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  • We do not covet other people's property.
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  • This is why we do it.
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  • Murder.
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  • It's why we do not commit adultery.
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  • It's why we do not steal.
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  • It's why.
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  • You see,
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  • We have to not only teach and put boundaries up and explain.
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  • We use
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  • Illustrations in life and say, look what happened over there.
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  • Look what they did wrong. look at the example.
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  • Look what's going right in that life. why?
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  • Look why?
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  • What happened to that kid on drugs?
  • 00:24:27.656 --> 00:24:29.791
  • And look what happened to that life.
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  • Look what happened to that kid who made the right choice
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  • And what happened in that life.
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  • You see,
  • 00:24:36.464 --> 00:24:37.566
  • We not only teach and lay down all the principles line
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  • Upon line, precept upon precept.
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  • We explain to our kids why.
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  • And when you do
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  • That, they'll get out in this world
  • 00:24:47.275 --> 00:24:50.011
  • And they'll make value judgments and moral choices.
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  • That will be fabulous.
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  • You see the genius of it.
  • 00:24:58.353 --> 00:25:01.289
  • Two negatives don't provoke.
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  • Don't trip up.
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  • What do you do?
  • 00:25:07.796 --> 00:25:09.631
  • You train up words and precepts.
  • 00:25:09.631 --> 00:25:14.035
  • Then you bring them up.
  • 00:25:14.035 --> 00:25:15.604
  • That means you bring them along with yourself.
  • 00:25:15.604 --> 00:25:19.608
  • And i wonder how many sons and daughters are saying,
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  • You know,
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  • My mom and dad
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  • Went to church all the time when we were coming up,
  • 00:25:24.012 --> 00:25:25.814
  • And now they just have moved on.
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  • What does that say to you
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  • Kids now?
  • 00:25:31.453 --> 00:25:34.155
  • Because parenting is a life
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  • Time calling and responsibility.
  • 00:25:36.391 --> 00:25:41.262
  • When i was a boy,
  • 00:25:41.696 --> 00:25:42.964
  • There was a popular little song called mother.
  • 00:25:42.964 --> 00:25:46.735
  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
  • 00:25:46.735 --> 00:25:51.039
  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
  • 00:25:51.806 --> 00:25:53.942
  • They are certainly universal in their application
  • 00:25:53.942 --> 00:25:57.245
  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
  • 00:26:00.582 --> 00:26:01.683
  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
  • 00:26:40.455 --> 00:26:43.625
  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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  • Before we go.
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  • Think about this. your family.
  • 00:26:59.941 --> 00:27:02.844
  • My family is our greatest
  • 00:27:02.844 --> 00:27:05.213
  • Opportunity to leave a lasting legacy.
  • 00:27:05.213 --> 00:27:09.184
  • Not just what you say, but how you and i live.
  • 00:27:09.184 --> 00:27:13.221
  • When we center your home on god's truth, you're building
  • 00:27:13.221 --> 00:27:16.858
  • Something that will impact generations to come.
  • 00:27:16.858 --> 00:27:20.929
  • And that's a legacy worth investing in
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