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Watch Pt.4

Let's turn to 2 Timothy, Chapter 3. "This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God" (verses 1-4). [Now, that's a pretty ugly sounding environment, isn't it? But look at the next phrase] "having a form of godliness." These are the religious people. These are the professed Christians, and this is what's inside of them. This is who they are, but they're trying to portray godliness. It's a spirit of hypocrisy. It's a spirit of the age that we're in today of feigned Christianity without true lordship, without the headship of Jesus directing His church. Every man doing what's right in his own eyes establishing again a subjective truth instead of the absolute infallible truth of God's Word dictating every area of our lives, to where we're willing to walk in that revealed truth and not concern ourselves with the natural consequences. A life that can cast the care over upon the Lord knowing that He cares for us, lives that truly believe that the steps of the good man are ordered by God. Yet, we're living in an environment today where every man has to be vying for position and possession and everything else to fulfill the lust of hedonism in our generation, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Not just pleasurable activities but the pleasure of ease and comfort. We just don't want anything to be hard today. "That's hard; that's work; that's effort." We're continually being inundated by that mentality, and we need to come to grips with this, beloved: being a Christian is hard. Amen?

You see, he goes into the rest of this chapter, and he says, verse 10, "But thou hast have fully known my doctrine, [my] manner of life, [my] purpose, [my] faith, [my] longsuffering, charity, patience, persecutions, afflictions . . . [you understand] what persecutions I endured: but out them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus [say it with me] shall suffer persecution." We don't like that message, do we?

We've been talking about watchfulness. We've been talking about watching our own hearts. What shape am I in to contend with the hour in which we're living? Am I prepared for the persecution that's coming upon the church? Am I prepared for the opposition of the world? The persecution may not be that of casting you into the lion's den or into the coliseum, but some of us aren't even able to deal with the mocking. Some of us are not even able to deal with the discomfort of segregation. People don't want to have anything to do with us because of our stand for righteousness. "Despisers, haters of those that are good," he said is what's going to happen in this last day. He's talking about professed Christians hating good people, those that want to do good. You see, a lot of people want to talk about it, but not everybody wants to pay the price to live in obedience to the Scriptures. Are you watching your own heart? What condition are you in to deal with the hour?

We talked about the five wise and the five foolish virgins. You might want to turn over there to Chapter 25 of Matthew again, and refresh our minds as we were sharing along some of these principles. The question that has to be answered in each one of our lives this morning: "Do I have sufficient oil?" That's the most critical question that you can be asked in this hour. Do you have sufficient oil to finish this course that you're on, to be prepared for the Lord's return? Jesus is coming back very soon.

We sing choruses, some that are very exciting. "Soon and very soon we shall see the King"--the old Pentecostal songs, "I'll Fly Away, Oh glory." Will you? Are you going to see the King and hear the words, "Well done, good and faithful servant," or are you going to hear, "Depart from me, I never knew you"? You are going to see the King, and at the name of Jesus every knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess that He's Lord to the glory of God the Father. Is He Lord right now in your life? How about yesterday? Was He Lord yesterday? How about so far today? Did His presence and His glory and the privilege of honoring Him this morning occupy your thoughts even during "worship" service, or was there something else battling for your affections, your attention, your thoughts? How disciplined are you as you watch your own heart to bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of Christ?

Might I suggest to you that even Mother's Day is Father's Day? Amen. Isn't Father to receive all the glory? By the way, happy Mother's Day. We're so proud of the mothers here that are faithful in loving their children and tending to their homes and becoming the true biblical helpmeets to their husbands. Thank God for godly women. It's a privilege to be a part of a community that has women that are fulfilling their God-given call and role and bringing honor to the Lord in lives of obedience; godly women. Proverbs 31 women being raised up in our midst, but that's only because every day is Father's day as we honor our heavenly Father. "Our Father, which are art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done" (Matthew 6:9). Are you watchful to bring glory to your Father every day? Are you quick to hear the counsel of your Father on a momentary basis?

The hour is going to come when men are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, lovers of self. We've talked about the self-esteem doctrine of our day and the misconception that all of us need to feel good about ourselves. You can only feel good about yourself when you realize how depraved and worthless you are. Then you can feel good about yourself that you've been able to die to self. You've recognized what you are, and you're able to die to self and be offered up to the Lord, and now it's Him working in you to will and to do of His good pleasure. That's what makes you feel good about yourself, that it's no longer I but Christ that lives in me.

We talked about the five wise and the five foolish. It says, "The five foolish took their lamps but took no sufficient supply with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps" (Matthew 25:3). You might have a little flicker in your lamp right now. How full is your vessel? How much do you have in reserve? No, not at the best, not at your best, not five years ago, five months ago--what do you have today, right at this moment, in supply to be about Father's business? That's what this parable is all about: momentary, immediate sufficiency. We saw in the parable how they all slumbered. They were all occupying until the Lord comes. We're busy about Father's business. We're busy about the mundane things of life, and we're all caring for the necessities of life, but at any moment the trumpet is going to sound. At any moment, the cry is going to go forth, "The bridegroom cometh." At any moment, the words of Revelation are going to echo through the spiritual heavens, "Come up hither." Think about it. "Those that are prepared will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye" (1 Corinthians 15:52). Think about it. In a moment caught up, the Scripture says, to be with Him or maybe weighted down with sins and weights that do so easily beset us.

We're going to look in just a moment over into Peter's Epistle and see the wiles of the devil, how they work, how subtle Satan is in building the case that we're the exception. "You see, nobody else quite has the schedule I have." "Nobody else is quite as busy as I am." "Nobody else has sickness in their family." "Nobody else has financial lack." "Nobody else has natural family pressures." "Nobody else has allergies." "Nobody else has to drive in the traffic of metropolitan Washington." "Nobody else has to live a life of lack and live in a two-bedroom apartment with electricity and running water and air conditioning." "Nobody else has to actually prepare their meals and not phone them in or go to restaurants." Lovers of self, so taken up with self, and Satan's constant bombarding, "God doesn't care. God's not fair. You're the only one that doesn't get to partake of all of the bountiful blessings, so you need to take care of yourself." The lie against your heavenly Father is the original accusation and is the constant accusation to man about God. The thing that we all have to do in our watchfulness today is make this one determination: Does the judge of all the earth do right? Is God good, and what is my worth without Him?

These five foolish, of course are taken up with their past preparation. That was the mistake of the five foolish. They were living off of their past preparation. They knew where to get oil. They at one time had sufficient oil, but they counted the presence of God common.

We talked about this in the Men's Breakfast yesterday. The mistake that so many of us make, beloved, is that we take for granted the presence of God. We take for granted the community of believers that are around us. We take for granted parents that will give us godly counsel. We, many times, despise the counsel. We despise the pressure that's put upon us. We despise the course of the straight and narrow that we're being admonished to walk in, and we forget that it's a privilege. It's a privilege to partake of these good things of God. In despising the preparation, the five foolish were ill prepared when the Lord came. ". . . Give us of your oil [verse 8]; for our lamps are gone out." What causes a man's lamp to go out at a time such as this? We just read it in Timothy--lovers of pleasure, lovers of self-ease, the overemphasis of individual worth, what my rights are. "You know, I have a right to kick back. I have a right to this abundance. I have a right to this amusement."

I was reading something the other day that struck me, and I think there's so much truth in it. How many of you know what it means to muse? You know, as you muse, as you spend time dwelling, waiting, meditating, observing. It's a discipline. We talk about it as being able to separate and be quiet, to draw upon the presence of God and to sit and listen and to hear the still, small voice and to look internally and see and know the condition of our own heart. In contrast to musing, we have amusement. All amusement is, is that, that replaces the discipline of meditation, of personal awareness. Keep the music playing. Keep the party hopping, so I don't have to deal with who I really am. I don't want to know about me. I don't want to hear that voice that reveals the real condition of life, and so let the party continue. Let the amusements become more diversified, more appealing to my senses. Raise the decibels; bring on the strobes. If we're going to watch, it's going to be a discipline.

Look over to the next chapter in Matthew from the five wise and the five foolish. Verse 35, Peter says, "Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples." That's where so many of us are this morning. I'd never deny the Lord. "I'd never turn my back on God. I would never be resentful of the direction that God took my life. I would never distrust Father. Yeah, my business can go bankrupt. My wife can leave me. My children can die, and I would never turn from the Lord. They can line me up out here on the street corner and shoot me. I would never deny God. They can slander my name, say all manner of evil against me, I'll just count it a joy." "And all the disciples said likewise." Then Jesus came and said, "Sit here while I go and pray." "And he took with him Peter and [James and John] the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me." Beloved, this is what we're trying to call you to in this hour. The heart of the Savior is exceeding sorrowful as this hour approaches, the hour of the defection of His bride. Jesus is in the process of having His bride desert Him in this very hour that we live, to betray Him and be unfaithful with a world system, to fall in love with His enemy, to defame Him for not being sufficient to provide my lust. Watch with me. "And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass . . ." "And he cometh unto the disciples [verse 40] and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter [who was willing to die for Him] . . . You see, we're always going to do something great in the future, aren't we? We're always going to get it right tomorrow. "Tomorrow I'm going to pray." "Tomorrow I'm going to fast." "Tomorrow I'm going to serve." "Tomorrow I'm going to be disciplined." "Tomorrow I'm going to love others." "I'll die for you," and Jesus said to Peter, "You just said you were going to die, and you can't even stay awake?" "You can't even control your flesh enough to watch with Me and pray in My greatest moment of need? You say you love Me, and you have to take a nap? Learn this about yourself. You can't stay awake for me? You better learn to stay awake for yourself." "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (verse 41). The spirit is willing. "I'm willing." "I want to." "You know, I really want to be different." "I don't want to be selfish." "I don't want to be lazy." "I don't want to be prideful." "I don't want to be self-reliant." Then do something about it. Change! The spirit is willing. That's admirable. Praise God, you don't want to be that way anymore. The flesh is weak.

What would the solution be? Make the flesh strong. How about that? "Well, how do I make the flesh strong, and yet not rely upon self and have it become a works salvation?" By walking in the spirit, by letting the Spirit bring the discipline, by obeying the Spirit. In other words, listen, it doesn't initiate in yourself. You're not setting the course. You're not coming up with the great ideas. You're not coming up with the workout program. The Holy Spirit is saying, "Here's what you need to do." You obey that voice, and you become strong because by reason of use, your senses are exercised to discern good and evil. Can you see the difference?

You see, what many of us do is we think we know better. "You know what I need to do; I need to pray six hours a day." You need to pray when you're told to pray. We want to set our own schedule. We want to work God around instead of listening and doing what God tells us to do when He tells us to do it, how He tells us to do it. He might not want you to pray six hours. He might only want you to pray 30 minutes, but He wants you to pray. You wanted to pray six hours around that 30 minutes you wanted to reserve for yourself at a given time, and that's the 30 minutes God wants you to pray. Who's Lord? Where are the treasures? Are we willing, as Peter said, to die? "I'm ready to die for you." Then prove it by living for Him. It's so vital, beloved. It's what you do in life. As we look at this, and we understand the working of the Holy Spirit and the obedience to where we're known by our fruit. "The spirit is willing; the flesh is weak." We have the wrong perception of who we are, and it's an irony.

A person just recently making a statement about myself said that one thing was so disturbing that they just lost respect for me was because I married so soon after my wife died. "I would never do that to my husband," and now, has left him while he's still alive, walked out on him and defies him.

I wonder what your heart is really like. What are you doing in life? What are you doing when you have the opportunity to do right and good? It's easy to make all of these assumptions of what you will do in the future. What are you doing now? What's the testimony of your life today? That's the real issue. We have this perception of how much we love the Lord, and here's an opportunity to show Him. I shared that before, as it pertained to the relationship that Janet and I had. People, it's not a--the duration is not a normal thing, and I understand that. I understand that God directed us, and I won't go into all the details of that to the many hours that Janet and I spent talking about it before she went home. You see, my wife and I talked. We communicated. We knew each other's hearts. When she left, there's nothing, there are no regrets. There was nothing left unsaid. There was not, "Oh, I wish I could have."

What are you doing in life when you have opportunity to love Jesus, to serve Him? The night is coming when no man can work. What are you doing now in this relationship with the one you say you love? That's why so many people as they face death and these different, and there's so many regrets; and there's guilt and there's, "I'll prove now." Why don't you prove it when there's the opportunity, and here's a great opportunity. Don't be telling Him how much you're going to love Him; love Him! Obey Him! Watch and pray! He's called you to watch and pray. What are you doing sleeping?

We're in an hour of preparation for the coming of the Lord, when iniquity is abounding. The love of many around us is waxing cold. There are those that are coming that are false prophets deceiving the simple. What are you doing to guard your heart? What are you doing to protect the most precious investment we have, our children's lives? What are we doing in this generation to oppose the seductiveness of absolute discontentment? More, better. Watch and pray. The spirit is willing; the flesh is weak.

Well, then let's put our flesh under, the Apostle says. "I bring my body under. I discipline it. I press toward the mark, the prize, the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I fully extend myself at every opportunity to be the best I can for the Kingdom, to seek those things that are above where Jesus is seated at Father's right hand" (Philippians 3:14). What are we doing?

These words, when I read them in verse 45. The Scripture says, "It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God" (Hebrews 10:31). Listen to these words. After the third time, He comes to his disciples. They're still not able to deal with their own ease of life, and He says, "Sleep on..." "Just forget it. You had your chance. You might as well go rest; you're going to need it. "I don't want to hear that." You had your opportunity to fill your vessels. Just sleep on; you missed it. The night is coming when no man can work."

For some reason, we seem to think that tomorrow is going to be another day just like this one. We're convinced. "Where is His appearing? We've been hearing forever the Lord is coming back. Nothing has changed. The only thing that has changed is that guy next door has more, and I just have the same. I need to get out there and get mine. That's the only thing that has changed." Do we believe that He's coming back? Do we believe that there are spiritual treasures that are being laid up?

Turn over to Colossians for just a moment, and take a look at an interesting passage. Chapter 4, verse 2 says, "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds." "I'm bound because of it, but pray that there would be more opportunity. Pray that I could be beaten more. Pray that I could be imprisoned more. Pray that I would be in bonds more. Pray and watch that we might be used up for the glory of God in this generation." Chapter 3, "If ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ [look at it, and when Christ, say the next phrase with me], who is our life . . ." Is He, or is He a hobby? Is He one of many gods? None of us would say that, but in reality, is pleasing Him supreme? Is His lordship, His glory, His honor, totally distinct, holy? Holy means distinct. He's not on the top of the list; He's the only thing on the list. Amen? It's a whole separate list. There's the glory of God, and then there's everything else. That's what it means to serve a holy God, unique, separate. Nothing else can even be compared to Him.

As Chuck was trying to point out to some of the young people--the treasures of God and the value of His Word being more precious, His wisdom being more precious than gold and rubies. We say amen, but it's not even on the same list, beloved; but in practice--"When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." The spirit is willing; the flesh is what? Look at the next phrase. "Mortify therefore your members [your flesh, put it to death, put it under. What are you talking about?], fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. For which things sake the wrath of God cometh on the [pagans, the Muslims, the Buddhists. What does it say, the what? The who?] the children of disobedience... But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not to one another, [and stop lying to yourself, and] seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him" (verses 5-10). Verse 12, "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another . . ." "And let the peace of God [verse 15] rule in your hearts . . . and be ye thankful." "And whatsoever ye do [verse 17] in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him."

Watch. Where are you in this scenario? The admonition that he gives us here in the Epistle to the Colossians-- where are you? Are you aware of this warfare? Are you aware of what it takes to prepare, to put on the new man, which after God is created for His purposes, His glory, for the image of Christ? Are you putting off the old? What decisions do you make to put it off? Get it off of me! I don't want this thing on me anymore! It's in our members. We're all alike. Stop lying one to another. We're all alike. We're all in the same boat. We all are driven by the same lust. We all have the same natural appetites. We need help. We have to help one another if we're going to overcome this thing in this generation. Surround yourself by the right people. Be followers of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises of God. We've admonished the young people--get new heroes. Stop worshipping all those street thud, basketball, tattooed freaks, and find somebody to follow into Heaven, or hear these words, "Sleep on." Who's He looking for?

Turn over to Judges for just a second. I want to show you something in the book of Judges. Who is He looking for? Judges, the seventh chapter, a passage we're all very familiar with, but I'll tell you, this is exactly what's happening in the professed church of Jesus today. You know, the seeker-friendly, the dispassionate bride. You see, the problem today is there is a professed bride who has no concept of what her role is. He's coming for a chaste virgin, not a party girl--separate, holy, chaste, sober--and the professed church of Jesus Christ today is the epitome of the great whore.

Read the book of Revelation. "The professed church is nothing more than a whore," the Scripture says. It's tragic. It's like the woman who adorns herself based upon her own pleasure. "My husband likes me in these clothes, but I don't like those, that's why I dress this way. This is my style." A woman has no business dressing the way she prefers, a wife, the espoused. You only adorn yourself for your husband. Your whole purpose is to be appealing to your husband. The Lord has told us what's appealing to Him. What are we doing to prepare ourselves for Him, for His pleasure, for His glory? "Yeah, but we thought this would look a little better." That's not His taste.

In Judges, we see that God does things absolutely contrary to the natural way of doing things. We'll end with this for this morning. It's a passage that we're all very familiar with. We won't spend a lot of time on it, but in Chapter 7, verse 2, a very strange thing is said, especially in light of our society today. He says, " . . . The people that are with thee are too many . . ." You'd have trouble convincing churches of that today. To them the whole deal is how many people can you get, when God's standard isn't how many you have, it's how many are filled with Me. How many are about My business? How much of this is for My glory? The people you have are too many. What was it the Lord was concerned about? He said, the deal is that you're going to have the tendency to say, ". . . Mine own hand hath saved me [verse 2]." That's basically what we're looking at in society today. We see that just like at the time of the Tower of Babel, nothing is impossible to man. You get enough men together with a common purpose, and you can pretty much do what you want to do. You can win world wars. What a true statement was made when Pearl Harbor was bombed, and the Japanese general said, "I'm afraid that all we've done is awaken a sleeping giant." Gave people a purpose. When there's a commonality, and there's a common goal and people work together, you can accomplish virtually anything, so God brought confusion at the Tower of Babel, confounded them with language and separated them and brought about distinct cultures and language and took man's power from him. Man basically said that's not acceptable even to the place where today, technologically, I can type in English, and the guy on the other end reads it in Japanese. We have one world system and government being reestablished as the Tower of Babel is being re-erected to bring God from His throne. In the churches, it's the same thing. Men are "representing God" in their own strength. The Lord says it's not acceptable.

"Just tell the people that are fearful to go on home," and 22,000 left. We're getting ready to go to war, and here's what it's going to take: the disciplines, the cost of preparation, the sleepless nights, the warfare with demons, the 50-mile marches with full-pack, all of the calisthenics, the climbing, crawling in the mud, the gas chambers, the live fire. There was a guy killed when I was a kid out in Fort Ord during the live fire. They were crawling through the trenches, and they were firing the machine guns over them. Where we were there, he crawled up on a rattlesnake that got down in the trench. He would have been better to have gotten bit than to jump up. Live fire is very--I don't even know if they use it anymore. Discipline, preparation, boot camp--how many of you want to go home from boot camp? Twenty-two thousand. There were still 10,000 that were singing, "Put silver wings on my son's chest; make him one of America's best." They thought that it was glamorous to go on, to be part of this thing. "I can do it. I'll die with you," but don't know their own hearts. Ten thousand remain. The Lord said, "Don't worry; I'll try them."

Do you know that God's trying you here today? I don't know what's in your hearts. I don't know what's in my heart, but I've watched what's come out of my life when the fire is put to me. What have you seen? Many of you have seen some good stuff, more than you thought would come out. You stand and say, "I didn't know that was in me." That's how grace works. Pride says, "Though everybody else will leave you, don't worry about me, Lord." Your time of humbling is coming. The facing of reality is at hand. God said, "I'll try them. I'll tell you who I want."

We know the story, then, as the time went on, and times had gotten tough. All of their Perrier had run out. Finally, they are able to refresh themselves, and it says in verse 5, "So he brought down the people unto the water . . ." Some of you may never have been to that place of being so thirsty that you would drink whatever was before you. Most of us haven't been there, but we all know the need for water. Here was an opportunity for them to refresh themselves, and we know how the story goes. As they came to the water hole that so many of them as they went down did what is typical at that time. They stuck their head in the water and refreshed themselves. Here they are refreshing themselves. Ten thousand that thought they were ready to be warriors. Ten thousand that were not fearful like the rest of those people that went home. Ten thousand that were going to be the best but had become so easily wearied, and so easy to take ease and refresh ourselves, but three hundred who dipped into the water and lapped like a dog and stayed alert and watched for the enemy. God said, "I'll save by the three hundred, the watchful. I'll save by those who are not so easily distracted with ease and comfort. I'll save by the ones who have filled their vessels at the cost of a night's sleep, a day's amusement, the vain praise of men." Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation.

Father, we thank You for Your Word this morning. As we look around us, and everything says peace and safety, ease and comfort, abundance, new and improved, bigger, better, more for less, You're looking for a people, when man has a solution for everything, who says, "Our eyes are upon You, Lord. Our eyes are upon You. You are our peace. You're our bread. You're our healer. You're my present help in trouble. For me to live is Christ." Do I have another reason? Do I have another way? Let us work while it is day. It's our heart's cry, Father, in Jesus name. Amen. Let's stand before the Lord this morning.

We'll take a moment as Gary plays for us, and don't forget to pray for the brethren, the ministry, in Kakamega. It's not just Kakamega, it's the ministry as a whole that is under attack and being slandered. Why? Very simple, we've touched their god, and they're not going to take it lightly. Everything is about the glory of man and the glory of the nation, and we chose to do it for the glory of God. We chose not to bow our knee to their idol, and they said, "You're going to go in the lion's den, you're going to go in the fiery furnace," and our answer to that is, "God's going to deliver us, and even if He doesn't, we won't bow our knee." We won't bow our knee. Take everything. Run us out. Kill us. We will not bow to your god, because we have treasures in Heaven. We don't need your praise. We don't grade the way you do. There's one measure of success by which we live, to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Are you watching in this generation?

Let's sing this together and worship Him. Sing it again, worship Him. Oh, we do, Lord. Hallelujah! Oh, yes, Lord. Hallelujah! We worship You, Lord. You are worthy of all praise. Your name is great, Lord, and You are greatly to be praised. We declare Your majesty. We thank You, Lord, for Your visitation to us. We thank You for Your presence that is our strength and our peace, our joy. You're the refreshing of our hearts. You are the peace of mind that passes all understanding. You're our strength made perfect in weakness. We rejoice in You, Lord, and declare Your majesty, and with thanksgiving, we ask that You would open doors of utterance for us that we could declare the goodness of our God, the unspeakable gift of redemption. For that we say, "Thank You," In Jesus' name, amen and amen.

Again, happy Mother's Day to all of you moms, the great high calling. What a privilege to function in that role, to tend to a household in the raising of a godly seed in a generation that's saying despise that. "You deserve more. You should be more." There isn't more. There isn't anything higher than a woman can do. You're doing a good job, and we say thank God for it. The lie, the seduction, of this age, don't even entertain it and look to do all that you do by Him and for Him. Make it real, Father, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Go in peace, God's love go with you in Jesus' name.

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