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The Bible says children honor my father and mother. The dideys may be long upon the earth Because if you don’t, they’re gonna kill you. No, no. Your days may be long. You should honor your father and your mother. A Christian mother shall love her church. You know, there’s a lot of people, trust Christ as their Savior. But they go to church when they… Well, when I need it. When it’s convenient for me. But what are you teaching the kids?

To do the same thing in whatever you do. moderation. They will do in excess. Children always do. My kids have always seen their dad in church. Sunday morning and Sunday night, Wednesday night, and it wasn’t because I was the preacher. It’s what I’ve always done. When the doors were open, Yankee was there. Unless I was on a job and I was working and I couldn’t do it. But when I got to where I could, I would go. Wednesday night after I got through working at a bread plant and I had grease all over me, I looked pathetic.

I had old old orange work boots and my white clothes because I worked at a bread place and I would get off work just in time and I’d walk in the back doors of the church and I looked like homemade sin. But I was there because I was establishing habits in my life. It’s so important that you learn, do what’s right. My little grandson the other day, he texts me. He said, we’re going to go camping and he says, I’m gonna preach the service that morning.

He’s 12 years old. I checked in bang. What are you gonna speak on? Text me back. John 3 16, he said, I want to be a preach just like you. And I want my first message to be on John 3 16 that I’m given the gospel. I haven’t talked to him since then. He takes me the other day again. He says, how many of the different kinds of animals did Moses take into the art? I take them back. I says, two of every kind except those that he was going to use for sacrifices except that was no one non-loses.

He takes me back. I tried to trick you. I haven’t text him back. I said, I thought so. But I don’t know what he’ll be someday, but grandpa is making an impact on grandson. And I told you when I drove all the way up at 750 miles vim just to take that little 12-year-old kid up there to dare to share and there was me on the front row and my son and my grandson and several thousand we got on our knees on a concrete floor and we all had prayer together.

I want him to learn things from his granddad because I know that grandpa won’t be around forever and if you don’t try to teach some of these things into the minds of these kids why you can you don’t have them forever. There will come a time when you’re teaching days are going to be gone and the impact it is so important. If the church is important and we should love the church, wow, wow, wow, wow, why do we have to love the church?

Because the Bible says Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. Isn’t that a pretty good reason? We should love what he loves. We should hate what he hates. And if he loves the church, what is the church? It’s not this building. It’s the people. It’s people. It’s God’s children. Teach them to love God’s people. If there’s anything you should be a part of is a good strong local body of believers. People join all kinds of things all out of the world.

There’s anything better than a good strong Bible church. Where you can go and you listen and you listen and you listen. learn and you let the preacher chew you out once in a while. Say things you like and say things you don’t like, but be faithful. Get chips off your shoulders. Stop being so easily hurt. Stop whining and pining about something. And don’t leave the church and have rose to reverend for dinner or potted pastor. Learn to get some good out of everything and share the good and talk and praise the Lord about things that are good and spiritual and right.

Otherwise you’ll give your kids every opportunity to have reasons to gripe and complain about something because that’s all they see mom and dad do is whine about something and that’s what the kids do. Don’t be like that. It wouldn’t be a good Christian mother. You should attend the church, give to it, pray for it because kids are so easily influenced. They want to see something that’s real and genuine. Or you would, I hate to use that word, a genuine Christian, there is no other kind.

If you’re a Christian, you’re a Christian. But what they ought to see is some genuineness in your life. A Christian mother should love the Bible. This Bible. Do you love the word of God? If you was asked your children, Do you think mom or dad loved the Bible? I don’t know. Do they ever read it? Now’s a no of. Should you learn scripture? If you’re a child of the king, shouldn’t you learn the language of the court? A child of God should learn the word of God.

The Bible is God’s love letter to his children. Won’t it be a shame to get to heaven and somebody like Isaiah walks up to you and says, hey, how you doing? You’re Isaiah, the prophet? Yeah? Man, didn’t you have a book in the Old Testament? Yeah? Did you ever read it? Never got time. Never had any time. Then here comes Jonah and says, did you read my book? You wrote a book? Here’s Matthew and Mark, Luke, John. No, no, there’s a lot I only wrote about 14 of them total.

Did you read my books? You know, I didn’t even, what’s your name again? Aren’t you gonna be embarrassed and ashamed that you didn’t even have time to read the Word of God? Don’t you think a good Christian mother should spend time in God’s Word? This is God’s love letter to us. And you wonder why we can’t get children to read and to study the Word of God? Because we don’t. You see, you can’t tell children. This is what you do.

You do as I say, not as I do. You live it. Love the things you want them to love. That’s part of their education. Where they can have something that can form their manners. Why they do what they do. Why they treat people the way they do. Why you don’t lie in steel and so forth. You hold back because you’ve got some restraints upon your life. See, we don’t have any children being raised today that’s got restraints upon their life.

just free to do whatever the old nature wants to do without consequences because they weren’t disciplined at home. They were allowed to commit murder and do whatever they want, say whatever they want, sash hire other want. But I can tell you this, my mom and dad did not know the Lord when I was a little kid. I never saw them in a church or read the Bible or pray. But buddy, I didn’t sass my parents. You know what I got when I even come close to looking at them wrong?

I got backhanded until I got slapped, cleaned up against the wall, taken outside to the woods, shed and beat half the death. And when my dad says move, I’m going to move it. He said, jump high high. I respected them. You know they’re in Hebrews when he made the statement he says, our father’s corrected us. But when fathers don’t correct in the home because half theolean’s are not there, they don’t care and they leave that responsibility to the wife.

You do all that. That way they can hateSenate and love you. Daddy comes home and all they heard all day long, you just wait until your daddy gets home. You just wait until your daddy gets home. You wait until your daddy gets home. So daddy comes home. Hello kid. Ah! He’s rung. Learn the discipline, but yes, you do it in love. Because you just love to be deter out of a man, no. But you have to have some regulations in your life.

I’m not talking about murdering. I’m talking about teaching what’s right and teaching what’s wrong. The other thing is a Christian mother should not only believe the Bible, but she should enjoy the Bible. She should live the Bible. She should be an example of what a Christian is supposed to be. Where are those kids supposed to see this example of the Lord? Oh, they see that in church. Yes, one hour in church and they see the examples. And then they live six days a week out of the church.

Where is this good Christian example these kids are supposed to follow? So they know what to imitate. As the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 1, be it imitators of God. Well they don’t see God. They see mama. They see daddy. Should mama and daddy be somebody the kids should imitate? I think so. I think it’s what God talking about? I think it’s important. Christian mothers should love her home. It’s a crown to her husband, provides for her household.

As it says in Proverbs 31, loves to work with her hands. Deligent. I’m a preacher and I’ve been to a lot of homes. You know what I despise? Going to somebody’s home and it looks like a tornado hit it. I’m talking about a tornado. This is not wise. Nothing’s clean. Everything’s a mess. Woman, something’s wrong in your home. Don’t be lazy. Don’t be undisciplined. Clean your house. Keep it clean. Look neat. See, I didn’t come to church to hear this.

Yes, you did. This is the book. Do everything decently and in order like I tell people when you come in and see my desk. I believe in a place for everything and everything all over the place. My dear darling, she’ll come in and she’ll look at the desk and say, oh, I can straighten that up in about five minutes. Sometimes she’ll pull out the drawers and say, look so much neater. She’ll take things I’ll come in and say. You know what I’m talking about?

It’s not where everything is. You can take one piece of paper and it was gone. Because somebody just moved, you have to go. You have to delete something and… Because you think, I don’t need that, and then I need that. But it is so important. Be a good mom. Keep a house clean. Do you think a clean house affects kids? You see, I don’t think it does. But then I’m not a mother, so how would I know? I know I have been around for a while, and I know there’s things that does make a difference.

But what about a mother should love her children? Should a mom love her children? Should you ever tell them so? Never tell your kids I love you. We finally got to where our kids would call us up and say, I love you mom, love your dad. And don’t you love to hear it? Love to hear it, I love you. Sometimes it’ll be a while. They just say, you haven’t told me you let me for a while. I love you.

You just said it because I said that. The other thing, sometimes you can’t win. No, but it’s good to say it once in a while. I say those little words. Like this boy and girl’s out there in the boat. And he says, say those three little words that just make my feet dangle in the air. She says, go hang yourself. She says, why don’t you say something nice and sweet, mushy. He says, oh well, oh well. Don’t you love oatmeal?

Oh, I love oatmeal. Anyway, some of these things are important to remember. The Lord is going to hold us accountable. Does your children or your grandkids believe you love your husband? That’s one of the most important things you can do. A woman is to love her husband. She is to be a help meet a company. complete the two. A man is not as complete without the woman. And so it’s like, you know, is complete and finished. Does it mean the same thing?

No, but if, well I was going to say something but I better not say that, you can complete something and do something that’s right. But lot different between complete and finish. If the man is caught with another woman, he’s finished. So when it comes to the husband, are you under subjection? Now you know what the Bible says. Yeah, I know what it says. That the husband is the head of the home. You don’t know what I’m married to. Yeah, I’m I’m getting an glimpse of it.

He may not be, you know, your Clark Gable, but he’s all yours. Whatever he is, he’s all yours. That don’t make you happy. Whatever the man is, he’s your husband. You teach children how to honor their husband down the road down the road and a husband how he ought to be treated by how that woman treats her husband. And you’ll find out kids are always watching and you are now preparing them for a good marriage or chaos down the road.

Are you an obedient wife? I had a couple come to me one day and they want to know if I would perform the marriage ceremony. I said, here’s a sample. Oh, how I do weddings and I got down to whereowered says andFlor, I will assum, I’ll say, oh, I said, what? She says, take that word out. I said, what word? Obey. I said, now let me get this straight. Why are you marrying this guy? He said, because I love him.

Do you love him enough to obey him? I don’t want that in there. He said in there, I said, let me ask this. I looked at him and I said, why do you want to get married? He looked totally dumbfounded. Because you love me, because I love her. I said, I am not going to be able to perform this wedding. Because if I can’t put something in their scriptural that I believe is for the foundation of a Christian home.

If you’re not willing to obey your husband, you are not marry him. Let him get him a wife that will submit to him. Now if you want to boss a man, you go find yourself one that you just want to boss and you be the head of the home and you’ll destroy it, I guarantee you. Because God doesn’t honor that. Now I know that I’m not going to be the most famous preacher in the world after the day. But I’m telling you what God says.

Now we don’t always do what God says. You may not have always done what you know you should have done. You say, well I’ve already done it wrong, man. Okay. But from this point on, don’t make the same stupid mistake. Do right. Do right from here on out. And just like you’re supposed to love each other and forgive each other, you know that’s sometimes the hardest thing for people to do. I told a man one day I says she will listen to you and submit to you if you can do one thing.

He said what’s that? I says make three correct decisions in a row. He said that’s hard. I said I know but if you made three decisions in a row that’s right she might trust you she might think you know what you’re doing. I said but if you make three dumb decisions in a row Why should she trust your judgment? Look at it. A woman is easier to trust the man that she knows trusts the Lord. But if you’re not smart enough to follow the Lord and trust the Lord and do what God says, why should she listen to you?

You’re no smarter than her and it destroys the home. And of course you have the children and if mom doesn’t listen to dad and dad doesn’t listen to God, why should they listen to either one? Do we teach them or not? The best thing to do is love your wife, love your husbands. Be the example that you should be. Your home should be a picture of what heaven is like. You say, would you repeat that? I’ll try it. Your home is to be a picture of what heaven is like between two that are equal, admitting themselves to each other and living the way God wants to live so that your home is a home of peace and love and joy and happiness and long suffering and gentleness and goodness and faith and meat and temper all those qualities because the Holy Spirit controls your life and this is what your home is like.

Easy preaching or living on. So God has laid it out for us. It all depends if we want to do it God’s way. And some people are just so unforgiving and some women, they will hold a grudge all their life and never forgive. And sometimes there’s a man that will never forgive his wife. And yet we’re supposed to be teaching how to forgive one another. And when they want to get married and whenever you hurt each other and you say things you shouldn’t say, I’m sorry.

But you forgive me. That was wrong. You were right. And the hardest words for any man to say is, I was wrong. And the worst thing a woman can say is, I know it. I mean, I apologize, it was all my fault. It sure was. And some women just loved to dig a little deeper. But learning, you’re hurting each other, you’re ruining your marriage. Build trust with each other. Confidence. And it can make the difference with the kids. And you can preach to those kids all day long and then accomplish it’s nothing.

But you live it in front of them. You teach it and you live it. practice what you preach. You don’t become a hypocrite and love the Lord like you should. Look up here. Letting this hand represent you and me. Learn how to do this. This is the easiest thing in the world. If you don’t have a wallet, you got a shoe. I did it one day. I didn’t have my wallet with him for some reason. I just took off my shoe and I said, let this shoe represent sin.

And if you, hey, it worked. It worked. He passed out now, Dan. This is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin on us. Everybody’s a sinner. Wouldn’t it be needed if we just did everything right and perfectly the first time through? But we never get taught those things. Sometimes we don’t listen and we don’t learn. And so sometimes we have to let somebody else that’ll come along and know teachers a few things. But God loves us.

God loves your husband. God loves your wife. God loves those kids. Those unlovable kids? God still loves them. God loves the whole world. And He says that we’ve all sinned. And the payment for sin is eternal separation from God and hell. But to go to heaven you have to be perfect as righteous as God, and none of us are perfect. None of us are good enough. Because of sin we can’t get in. God says, you can’t save yourself. You need a Savior.

Your good works won’t get you to heaven. It won’t help. So this hand representing Jesus Christ, he’s the Lord God in the flesh came into the world. And because he loves us, hates our sin. And so the Bible says our sin separates us from him. So Christ who had no sin didn’t have to die, he took our sin. Paid for them on the cross and came back from the dead. God said if you and I, if we would believe that he did it for us, he would put that payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Christ did for us.

So the best thing you and I could ever do is to trust Christ as our Savior. This is what’s so important to teach children to trust Christ. And once you trust Christ as your Savior, you become God’s child. You have eternal life. You’re going to heaven when you die. That is the most important thing you can have going for you and trying to teach a child how to serve God. What to do that’s right. You teach them what God says.

God says, God is the authority. Mama does this and mommy obeys daddy and mama does it and daddy does this because God says so. God’s the authority in this home. Our home belongs to the Lord. We’ve committed our home to the Lord. We told the Lord that we love our children because of that. We’ve dedicated our children to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. This is our responsibility. This is what we’re going to do. Have you dedicated your home to the Lord?

Have you in your life? And you said, our children belong to God and we’re going to raise him for the Lord because they’re only linked to us for a little while and we want the best for our kids. That’s so important. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looked around. If you hear this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, Would you trust Him? Would you believe that when He died, He died for you.

He paid for your sins. Would you trust Him? Dependent upon Him to take you to heaven when you die. Friend, if you will, God said He would give you the free gift of everlasting life and you can know that you’re going to heaven whenever you die. And if you’ve never done it but you’ll do it right now, I’d like to have prayer for you. And I’m going to ask you with heads by nice clothes. Is there anyone else who says, yes, I will trust Christ as my I save you this morning.

I want to know I have eternal life and preach our life to pray for me. We’ll just slip you in a very quickly and put a wrap back down. Anyone at all. Anyone at all. You that know Christ is your Savior. You already know you’re going to heaven. But as a mom or even as a dad, I know it’s not Father’s Day, but you’ve listened to what I’ve had to say. Do you think there’s things in your life that you need to have corrected between you and God?

Do you really want God to bless you? Bless your home? Are you the kind of a wife, a good Christian wife, that God wants you to be? Are you the kind of a mother God wants you to be? Are you the kind of a wife God wanted you to be? All these things are so important. Talk to the Lord about that. Our Father, we thank You so much for the payment Christ made on the cross for our sins so that we could have eternal life.

And Lord, I pray Your blessings upon each person that’s here. And especially mothers and all the ladies who just want the best for them. And Father, I know you want them to have that joy and the peace and the love. All the things that you want for each individual, that you want to permeate the Christian home. You want them to permeate the church. And Father, we thank you so much for it. In Christ name you pray. Amen. Hello, this is Peter Amato.

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What are the essential points that a lost man must be told in order for him to be saved And what does believing in Jesus really mean? These are just a few of the topics that are covered in this book. So for the month of May, when you send a gift in any amount, we’re going to give you the book, The Declaration of the Gospel. Our mailing address is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 33634, and don’t forget to include your mailing address as well.

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