WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:29.980 You have longed for sweet peace, and for faith to end. 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:38.240 And everlessly, fervently pray. 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:57.840 But you cannot have rest, or be perfectly blessed, until all on the altar is laid. 00:00:59.979 --> 00:01:09.979 Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? 00:01:10.979 --> 00:01:16.979 Your heart does the Spirit control. 00:01:16.980 --> 00:01:38.980 You can only be blessed and have peace and sweet rest, as you yield Him your body and soul. 00:01:38.980 --> 00:01:52.980 Oh, we never can know what the Lord will bestow, 00:01:52.980 --> 00:02:00.980 Of the blessings for which we have prayed. 00:02:00.980 --> 00:02:11.980 Till our body and soul He doth fully control, 00:02:11.979 --> 00:02:19.979 And our all on the altar is laid. 00:02:19.979 --> 00:02:31.979 Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? 00:02:31.979 --> 00:02:38.979 Your heart does the Spirit control. 00:02:38.979 --> 00:03:00.979 You can only be blessed and have peace and sweet rest, as you yield Him your body and soul. 00:03:00.979 --> 00:03:16.979 Who can tell all the love He will send from above, 00:03:16.979 --> 00:03:26.979 And how happy our hearts will be made. 00:03:26.979 --> 00:03:35.979 Of the fellowship sweet, we shall share at His feet, 00:03:35.979 --> 00:03:42.979 When our all on the altar is laid. 00:03:42.979 --> 00:03:54.979 Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? 00:03:54.979 --> 00:04:06.979 Your heart does the Spirit control. 00:04:06.979 --> 00:04:17.980 You can only be blessed and have peace and sweet rest, 00:04:17.980 --> 00:04:46.980 As you yield Him your body and soul. 00:04:46.980 --> 00:04:56.980 We're turning tonight to the sixth chapter of Ephesians. 00:04:56.980 --> 00:04:59.980 How many of you have parents that are still alive? 00:04:59.980 --> 00:05:02.980 Let me see your hands. 00:05:02.980 --> 00:05:07.980 Good. 00:05:07.980 --> 00:05:14.980 Basically, the lesson tonight is to boys and girls. 00:05:14.980 --> 00:05:21.980 But in essence, it engulfs all believers. 00:05:21.980 --> 00:05:30.980 We are studying very slowly what the Apostle Paul tells us in Ephesians chapter 5. 00:05:30.980 --> 00:05:37.980 Walk circumspectly. 00:05:37.980 --> 00:05:43.980 In essence, it could be translated, walk accurately. 00:05:43.980 --> 00:05:52.980 Having said that, and commanded it by the Holy Spirit to the Ephesian Christians, 00:05:52.980 --> 00:05:58.980 He tells us what an accurate walk consists of. 00:05:58.980 --> 00:06:07.980 First of all, it consists of acting like a wise person and not a foolish person. 00:06:07.980 --> 00:06:15.980 Secondly, it demands redeeming the time or the opportunity for which you may never have another chance. 00:06:15.980 --> 00:06:16.980 Second of all, it is a wise person. 00:06:16.980 --> 00:06:28.980 Thirdly, the accurate walk of a believer demands that he understands what the will of the Lord is. 00:06:28.980 --> 00:06:33.980 Now, do not take it out of context. 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:37.980 He is not talking about the will of the Lord for your job. 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:44.980 He is not talking about the will of the Lord for position or for service or for calling. 00:06:44.980 --> 00:06:50.980 He is talking about what is the will of the Lord for the everyday Christian. 00:06:50.980 --> 00:06:57.980 And there is only one will demanded of every Christian. 00:06:57.980 --> 00:07:05.980 Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit. 00:07:05.980 --> 00:07:14.980 The will of the Lord for every Christian who wants to walk accurately is to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:07:14.980 --> 00:07:21.980 My personal conviction, you do not need to disagree with me, you agree with me, 00:07:21.980 --> 00:07:31.980 is that Satan today is trying to get the believer's attention away from the biblical teaching of the results of the filling of the Holy Spirit. 00:07:31.980 --> 00:07:42.980 I would remind you that Ephesians 5 is the only place in your New Testament that commands a believer to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:07:42.980 --> 00:07:50.980 Now, having told us what filling of the Holy Spirit is demanded, he tells us what the results are in our lives. 00:07:50.980 --> 00:07:53.980 Number one, we will be happy Christians. 00:07:53.980 --> 00:07:57.980 Number two, we will be helpful Christians. 00:07:57.980 --> 00:07:59.980 Number three, we will be thankful Christians. 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:06.980 And number four, the most important, is in verse 21, we will be submissive Christians. 00:08:06.980 --> 00:08:11.980 Submitting ourselves one to another in the fear of the Lord. 00:08:11.980 --> 00:08:14.980 Now, I've taken five weeks to come from that verse. 00:08:14.980 --> 00:08:28.980 From that verse on, he breaks down to chapter 6, verse 10, every category of Christian apart from one. 00:08:28.980 --> 00:08:32.980 And that happens to be mothers. 00:08:32.980 --> 00:08:42.980 Mothers are not mentioned in the resultant submission to the filling of the Holy Spirit. 00:08:42.980 --> 00:08:43.980 He begins with wives. 00:08:43.980 --> 00:08:51.980 No believing wife can be filled with the Holy Spirit who's not submissive to her husband. 00:08:51.980 --> 00:09:00.980 And contrary, a submissive wife to a believing husband will be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:09:00.980 --> 00:09:04.980 Now, you can see how you can walk in and out of the filling of the Holy Spirit. 00:09:04.980 --> 00:09:10.980 You can see why it's not a once-for-all situation, can't you? 00:09:10.980 --> 00:09:14.980 Because it depends upon you. 00:09:14.980 --> 00:09:21.980 No believing husband can be filled with the Holy Spirit who does not love his wife. 00:09:21.980 --> 00:09:28.980 And no believing husband who loves his wife will not be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:09:28.980 --> 00:09:34.980 But from now on, I'm concerned. 00:09:34.980 --> 00:09:37.980 It says, walk accurately. 00:09:37.980 --> 00:09:48.980 Not as the unwise, redeeming the time, understanding what the will of the Lord is, be filled with the Spirit. 00:09:48.980 --> 00:09:51.980 I come back to my original lesson for a moment. 00:09:51.980 --> 00:09:56.980 It does not just say men are to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:09:56.980 --> 00:10:04.980 It does not say just believing wives are to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:10:04.980 --> 00:10:07.980 The command is to everybody. 00:10:07.980 --> 00:10:11.980 Now, I challenge you tonight to think, class. 00:10:11.980 --> 00:10:20.980 When is the last time you heard a lesson given to boys and girls and to children that they are to be filled with the Holy Spirit? 00:10:20.980 --> 00:10:29.980 I would remind you we segregate things. 00:10:29.980 --> 00:10:30.980 We segregate submission. 00:10:30.980 --> 00:10:35.980 For the moment I segregate it by saying I'm talking about believing wives. 00:10:35.980 --> 00:10:41.980 And I'd remind you over and over in this paragraph, which is the result of the filling of the Holy Spirit, 00:10:41.980 --> 00:10:44.980 we are reminded as Christ is the example. 00:10:44.980 --> 00:10:47.980 That's what you have to keep before you. 00:10:47.980 --> 00:10:50.980 Now, you come to chapter 6, verse 1. 00:10:50.980 --> 00:10:53.980 It's too bad the chapter is there. 00:10:53.980 --> 00:10:55.980 It should not be the sixth chapter. 00:10:55.980 --> 00:10:59.980 My personal conviction is chapter 6 should begin with verse 10. 00:10:59.980 --> 00:11:00.980 Finally, brethren. 00:11:02.980 --> 00:11:08.980 I think what we find at the beginning of chapter 6 is a continuation of the Spirit-filled life. 00:11:10.980 --> 00:11:16.980 Now, I might say to you, I think sometimes we have to stop and rethink our position. 00:11:17.980 --> 00:11:22.980 No one is not saying that boys and girls can't be saved. 00:11:22.980 --> 00:11:24.980 Now, don't ever go away and say, I said that. 00:11:24.980 --> 00:11:31.980 But I do not believe that little boys and girls should be pressured into being saved. 00:11:31.980 --> 00:11:36.980 I don't think little boys and girls should be scared into being saved. 00:11:36.980 --> 00:11:53.980 If they are taught the word of God and they come from a Christian home and you lovingly bring them to the place when the Lord expects them to totally understand without any pressure, they will accept Christ. 00:11:53.980 --> 00:12:01.980 How many of you sitting here have said to me, Pastor, the time I thought I was saved, I wasn't saved. 00:12:01.980 --> 00:12:02.980 I didn't understand. 00:12:02.980 --> 00:12:08.980 Now, that doesn't mean a little boy or a girl can't be saved. 00:12:08.980 --> 00:12:09.980 I didn't say that. 00:12:09.980 --> 00:12:25.980 But it almost ought to come with him begging us to be saved, not with us begging him to be saved, to please mother or dad or a teacher or because he's been scared by some means, even from the word of God, of coming to Christ. 00:12:25.980 --> 00:12:30.980 I think we ought to be very careful with boys and girls. 00:12:30.980 --> 00:12:40.980 I would remind you, boys and girls tonight, if you claim to be saved, you are to walk the way the word of God says to walk and begin with in chapter six, verse one. 00:12:40.980 --> 00:12:41.980 You got your Bible open. 00:12:41.980 --> 00:12:44.980 It says children obey your parents. 00:12:44.980 --> 00:12:54.980 No Christian boy or girl, how young he may be, can be filled with the Holy Spirit who does not obey. 00:12:54.980 --> 00:12:56.980 His parents. 00:12:56.980 --> 00:13:03.980 And a boy or girl who obeys his parents is filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:13:03.980 --> 00:13:06.980 Now, how simple can we get? 00:13:06.980 --> 00:13:11.980 Do you teach your children this? 00:13:11.980 --> 00:13:23.980 We get little boys and girls and older boys and girls and even teenagers saved and we may teach them baptism, but we have to be very careful that we don't force that on them, that it comes by their own conviction again. 00:13:23.980 --> 00:13:32.980 But do we ever show them that their walk is to be governed by the word of God and the Holy Spirit? 00:13:32.980 --> 00:13:34.980 I might say something to you honestly tonight. 00:13:34.980 --> 00:13:39.980 I have a little trouble trying to teach the filling of the Holy Spirit to a five year old. 00:13:39.980 --> 00:13:44.980 And yet it's in the word of God, isn't it? 00:13:44.980 --> 00:13:51.980 I have a little trouble teaching a little five year old that he receives the Holy Spirit. 00:13:51.980 --> 00:13:57.980 You'll realize that the traditional vernacular of teaching boys and girls is totally wrong. 00:13:57.980 --> 00:13:59.980 It makes him a schizophrenic personality. 00:13:59.980 --> 00:14:08.980 We teach little boys and girls to let Jesus come into his heart. 00:14:08.980 --> 00:14:10.980 That is a misnomer. 00:14:10.980 --> 00:14:15.980 Because a little child's heart is here and he thinks that's where the Lord Jesus comes. 00:14:15.980 --> 00:14:17.980 That is not what the Bible teaches. 00:14:17.980 --> 00:14:24.980 Now you're saying, Pastor, you're sounding like a liberal. 00:14:24.980 --> 00:14:26.980 No, I'm not sounding like a liberal. 00:14:26.980 --> 00:14:35.980 I am saying to you that we always put the teaching of the Holy Spirit and the walk of the believer on the shoulders of the adult. 00:14:35.980 --> 00:14:39.980 But Paul did not do that in this passage. 00:14:39.980 --> 00:14:46.980 After he finishes with the believing wife, he doesn't even talk about the believing mother. 00:14:46.980 --> 00:14:52.980 Because if she's a believing wife, she'll be a believing mother. 00:14:52.980 --> 00:14:57.980 And if you get a home where a believing wife will not submit to a husband and for a moment a believing husband, 00:14:57.980 --> 00:15:00.980 although I don't believe that that statement, 00:15:00.980 --> 00:15:04.980 you will have no problem with your children. 00:15:04.980 --> 00:15:08.980 And that's exactly what Paul is trying to teach us. 00:15:08.980 --> 00:15:14.980 Submission is taught in the Word of God because God is a God of order. 00:15:14.980 --> 00:15:20.980 If you've been in my class on Sunday morning, you know that's what I've been teaching over and over and over again. 00:15:20.980 --> 00:15:23.980 God is not a God of disorder. 00:15:23.980 --> 00:15:25.980 Let's look at it tonight for a second. 00:15:25.980 --> 00:15:28.980 It's a very, very touchy subject. 00:15:28.980 --> 00:15:38.980 Are you aware that the Apostle Paul added to the commandments? 00:15:38.980 --> 00:15:41.980 Or aren't you aware of that? 00:15:41.980 --> 00:15:44.980 I would also make you aware tonight of something, parents. 00:15:44.980 --> 00:15:53.980 That you must demand obedience from your boys and girls at home. 00:15:53.980 --> 00:15:56.980 It is a God-given responsibility. 00:15:56.980 --> 00:15:59.980 And we as parents, as Christians, should say to our children, 00:15:59.980 --> 00:16:05.980 you must obey because that's my responsibility before God for you to accomplish. 00:16:05.980 --> 00:16:11.980 And boys and girls and young people must say I obey because that's what God commands me to do. 00:16:11.980 --> 00:16:15.980 And we don't talk that way anymore. 00:16:15.980 --> 00:16:20.980 I have a little book stuck in my desk where nobody knows where it is. 00:16:20.980 --> 00:16:24.980 It's called The Little Red Schoolhouse. 00:16:24.980 --> 00:16:30.980 It happens to be a book that was written by a Norwegian and passed around in the Scandinavian schools. 00:16:30.980 --> 00:16:36.980 That is given to junior hires to show them how to disobey authority. 00:16:36.980 --> 00:16:43.980 And it is sold in schools in the United States of America. 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:53.980 You have no reason to be amazed at the lack of authority taken by children because of the fact God has set an order. 00:16:53.980 --> 00:17:00.980 When we learn to obey God, then we learn to obey our parents, then we also learn to obey the authorities over us. 00:17:00.980 --> 00:17:04.980 And the moment you take that away, you destroy God's order. 00:17:04.980 --> 00:17:09.980 Read, parents and young people. 00:17:09.980 --> 00:17:12.980 All you have to do is read. 00:17:12.980 --> 00:17:15.980 You can read of the young people that get into trouble. 00:17:15.980 --> 00:17:22.980 You can go into the stir of the beginning of the 70s or the late 60s and read what those young people said, 00:17:22.980 --> 00:17:24.980 why they acted the way they did. 00:17:24.980 --> 00:17:30.980 And you'll find out that the parent gave them everything and didn't do anything when it came to obedience and authority over them. 00:17:30.980 --> 00:17:34.980 Every one of them says it from top to bottom without any difference in their language. 00:17:34.980 --> 00:17:44.980 And you realize, as my kids realize, that the moment I make them obey, they holler like stuck pigs. 00:17:44.980 --> 00:17:47.980 And parents are softies. 00:17:47.980 --> 00:17:50.980 Oh, I hate to see that kid unhappy. 00:17:50.980 --> 00:17:52.980 And so parent gives in. 00:17:52.980 --> 00:17:56.980 And so when the teacher puts the arm down, the kid cries. 00:17:56.980 --> 00:18:00.980 And the teacher doesn't dare to give in because she's got 29 other kids there. 00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:04.980 And so the teacher finds disobedience right down the line. 00:18:04.980 --> 00:18:07.980 And the kid becomes obnoxious because of the home. 00:18:07.980 --> 00:18:13.980 We live in an age of minority. 00:18:13.980 --> 00:18:16.980 The minorities are not the black people. 00:18:16.980 --> 00:18:22.980 The minorities are the Bible-believing Christians who want to live by the word of God. 00:18:22.980 --> 00:18:28.980 They are the minority even from the Christians who are saved but don't want to live by the word of God. 00:18:28.980 --> 00:18:31.980 Let's look at it. 00:18:31.980 --> 00:18:33.980 I don't know how far we can get tonight. 00:18:33.980 --> 00:18:36.980 It's a very serious subject. 00:18:36.980 --> 00:18:41.980 I think boys and girls ought to be told they have to obey. 00:18:41.980 --> 00:18:43.980 If they put up any guff, I think they ought to be told, 00:18:43.980 --> 00:18:48.980 You must obey because God demands that I make you obey. 00:18:48.980 --> 00:18:53.980 Now that doesn't mean fathers won't be wrong occasionally. 00:18:53.980 --> 00:18:55.980 But I want to tell you something. 00:18:55.980 --> 00:19:02.980 A believing father will be right more than he's wrong if he's filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:19:02.980 --> 00:19:06.980 Did you notice that in Ephesians 6, 1 and 2, 00:19:06.980 --> 00:19:13.980 which are the results of spirit-filled boys and girls and young people who are walking accurately 00:19:13.980 --> 00:19:19.980 because they understand that the will of God for them is two commands, not one. 00:19:19.980 --> 00:19:22.980 The first command is very interesting. 00:19:22.980 --> 00:19:25.980 It is not found in the Old Testament. 00:19:25.980 --> 00:19:27.980 The first command says children. 00:19:27.980 --> 00:19:29.980 And for the moment I talk to believing children. 00:19:29.980 --> 00:19:32.980 I'm not going to talk to unbelieving kids. 00:19:32.980 --> 00:19:37.980 It would seem that the word children means those that are in the home. 00:19:37.980 --> 00:19:40.980 That seems to be what it's saying. 00:19:40.980 --> 00:19:47.980 Now when the child goes out of the home on his own, he probably reverts to verse 2. 00:19:47.980 --> 00:19:50.980 For that is the Old Testament verse. 00:19:50.980 --> 00:19:51.980 Honor. 00:19:51.980 --> 00:19:56.980 But kindly notice something, and I have never thought of this. 00:19:56.980 --> 00:19:59.980 Someone has said, 00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:06.980 You are not able to honor until you first know how to obey. 00:20:06.980 --> 00:20:10.980 Not vice versa. 00:20:10.980 --> 00:20:15.980 There is a diverse teaching that if you can get boys and girls to respect somebody, 00:20:15.980 --> 00:20:17.980 they will obey something. 00:20:17.980 --> 00:20:20.980 Biblically, that is not true. 00:20:20.980 --> 00:20:24.980 Obedience comes before honoring. 00:20:24.980 --> 00:20:26.980 Now, honoring is a very interesting word. 00:20:26.980 --> 00:20:28.980 Whether we get that far tonight or not is not important. 00:20:28.980 --> 00:20:32.980 But honor is the word reverence. 00:20:32.980 --> 00:20:35.980 Honor is the word respect. 00:20:35.980 --> 00:20:38.980 Honor is a word which means piety. 00:20:38.980 --> 00:20:40.980 It has a Christian atmosphere to it. 00:20:41.980 --> 00:20:43.980 Honor is the word to submit. 00:20:43.980 --> 00:20:45.980 Now, submission is not necessary. 00:20:45.980 --> 00:20:46.980 Totally obedience. 00:20:46.980 --> 00:20:49.980 Because when you become an adult and still have parents, 00:20:49.980 --> 00:20:52.980 you are responsible to God as an adult, not as a parent or to the parent. 00:20:54.980 --> 00:20:56.980 So very simply, we can say tonight, 00:20:56.980 --> 00:21:00.980 boys and girls who claim the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, 00:21:00.980 --> 00:21:02.980 no matter how young or what age, 00:21:02.980 --> 00:21:04.980 who live at home, 00:21:04.980 --> 00:21:08.980 if they are to manifest the result of the filling of the Holy Spirit, 00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:10.980 must obey their parents. 00:21:10.980 --> 00:21:14.980 And if you do not obey your parents, 00:21:14.980 --> 00:21:17.980 you are not filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:21.980 Now, go a little further with me. 00:21:21.980 --> 00:21:25.980 The word obey is a very interesting word in the original language. 00:21:27.980 --> 00:21:32.980 It really could be translated in its loose form, three things. 00:21:32.980 --> 00:21:37.980 And it works beautifully because the original language always gives the total intent. 00:21:37.980 --> 00:21:40.980 It could be translated, 00:21:40.980 --> 00:21:44.980 children, listen to your parents. 00:21:44.980 --> 00:21:50.980 Would you kindly notice that by the Holy Spirit, 00:21:50.980 --> 00:21:54.980 Paul does not use the singular word parent. 00:21:54.980 --> 00:21:58.980 He has added an S to it. 00:21:58.980 --> 00:22:06.980 It is not a child is just to listen to his father. 00:22:06.980 --> 00:22:10.980 He is to listen to his father and his mother. 00:22:10.980 --> 00:22:20.980 And the writer of Proverbs does a beautiful example of this in chapter one, chapter two, chapter four, chapter five, chapter six. 00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:30.980 Because the writer of Proverbs always refers to the law of the mother. 00:22:30.980 --> 00:22:38.980 So Paul is saying that boys and girls who live at home. 00:22:38.980 --> 00:22:42.980 Now that's interesting because he didn't put any age on it. 00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:44.980 Some of you are 18 and still living at home. 00:22:44.980 --> 00:22:46.980 It applies to you. 00:22:47.980 --> 00:22:51.980 If you are 20 and still living at home, it applies to you. 00:22:53.980 --> 00:22:55.980 Now that's very interesting. 00:22:55.980 --> 00:22:59.980 Spirit filled young people are to live at home. 00:22:59.980 --> 00:23:01.980 People are to listen to their parents. 00:23:01.980 --> 00:23:05.980 Now the second part of the translation, which might put in here. 00:23:05.980 --> 00:23:08.980 You know, lots of kids listen, but they don't hear. 00:23:10.980 --> 00:23:13.980 And the Greek language does this for us. 00:23:14.980 --> 00:23:20.980 Spirit filled children are to listen and hear their parents. 00:23:20.980 --> 00:23:23.980 And then, of course, you have the word you have here. 00:23:23.980 --> 00:23:25.980 So you put them together and this is what you have. 00:23:25.980 --> 00:23:32.980 A spirit filled child living at home, listen, hears and obeys his parents. 00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:34.980 Isn't that nice? 00:23:34.980 --> 00:23:39.980 And that's exactly the way God meant it to be. 00:23:40.980 --> 00:23:46.980 God never says to us, you do this without telling us why. 00:23:46.980 --> 00:23:52.980 He didn't say to us, be filled with the Holy Spirit and just drop it, right? 00:23:53.980 --> 00:23:56.980 Always refer back to your own commentary. 00:23:57.980 --> 00:24:01.980 When Paul said, walk accurately, understand what the will of the Lord is. 00:24:01.980 --> 00:24:04.980 I think that's the greatest phrase I've ever run across in a life. 00:24:07.980 --> 00:24:10.980 When a believing wife comes to me and chats with me and says, 00:24:10.980 --> 00:24:11.980 Pastor, I don't know what the will of the Lord is. 00:24:11.980 --> 00:24:13.980 I know what the will of the Lord is for a believing wife. 00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:14.980 Submit to your husband. 00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:16.980 I don't have any problem with that. 00:24:21.980 --> 00:24:22.980 Now it's interesting. 00:24:22.980 --> 00:24:32.980 What happens in the Old Testament when young people would not obey their parents? 00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:34.980 Does anybody know? 00:24:35.980 --> 00:24:36.980 Allah. 00:24:37.980 --> 00:24:39.980 They were killed, right? 00:24:41.980 --> 00:24:42.980 They were killed. 00:24:42.980 --> 00:24:43.980 Do you realize? 00:24:43.980 --> 00:24:52.980 That's why in the law it does not say in the fifth commandment, obey your parents. 00:24:53.980 --> 00:24:58.980 It says honor your mother and your father. 00:24:59.980 --> 00:25:00.980 Why? 00:25:01.980 --> 00:25:08.980 Because obedience was taken care of by the other parts of the law of Moses. 00:25:08.980 --> 00:25:13.980 It's hard for us to believe that that really took place. 00:25:16.980 --> 00:25:21.980 That people, boys and girls of a family, when they would not obey or they would curse, 00:25:21.980 --> 00:25:23.980 that's the word that usually comes. 00:25:23.980 --> 00:25:25.980 And it's very interesting in the Hebrew language. 00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:30.980 A child that disobeys his parents in the Hebrew language is cursing his parents. 00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:35.980 That's interesting. 00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:39.980 And if you translate that over into this little passage, you come to a very interesting thing. 00:25:41.980 --> 00:25:46.980 A believing child who will not listen to his parent would be the same as the Old Testament who is disobeying, 00:25:47.980 --> 00:25:48.980 and he would be cursed. 00:25:51.980 --> 00:25:54.980 No Jewish boy or girl would ever say to his father, shut up. 00:25:54.980 --> 00:25:55.980 Shut up. 00:25:58.980 --> 00:26:01.980 Now we know that Christian boys and girls say this because we hear them say it at school. 00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:03.980 If they say it at school, they have to say it at home. 00:26:06.980 --> 00:26:07.980 That's right. 00:26:08.980 --> 00:26:10.980 And I'd remind you Christian school teachers tonight, 00:26:10.980 --> 00:26:13.980 if you ever hear just a Christian child say shut up to any other child, 00:26:13.980 --> 00:26:15.980 you ought to handle that immediately. 00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:21.980 That should not be allowed in Christian circles. 00:26:21.980 --> 00:26:23.980 Because of the fact, 00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:28.980 every person has a right to be heard and listened to. 00:26:29.980 --> 00:26:31.980 Now there may come a time that you have to say, 00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:34.980 I don't have time to listen right now. 00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:37.980 And be honest, don't say shut up. 00:26:37.980 --> 00:26:43.980 Because the Hebrew language says, if a child says, I won't listen, 00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:46.980 he is saying be quiet and he is cursed. 00:26:48.980 --> 00:26:53.980 Now if the child listens and won't hear what you're saying, he is also cursed. 00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:58.980 And the curse of a Hebrew child was, destroy that child. 00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:03.980 Now we have come a long way in the age of grace. 00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:06.980 But it is rather interesting. 00:27:06.980 --> 00:27:09.980 In the age of grace, 00:27:10.980 --> 00:27:14.980 the Holy Spirit has re-emphasized the position of a child in a home. 00:27:15.980 --> 00:27:20.980 So Christ did not do away with the fifth commandment in regards to children. 00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:23.980 He re-emphasized it. 00:27:24.980 --> 00:27:27.980 Now let's look at it a little further tonight, while we have time. 00:27:28.980 --> 00:27:30.980 If you read your commentaries, 00:27:30.980 --> 00:27:31.980 read your commentaries, 00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:34.980 I have a feeling that you're going to look for a loophole. 00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:38.980 And for the moment I'll have you let you have that loophole. 00:27:38.980 --> 00:27:39.980 Because every commentary, 00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:40.980 start with James and Watson around, 00:27:40.980 --> 00:27:41.980 go to Barnes and Noe, 00:27:41.980 --> 00:27:42.980 go to Matthew and Henry, 00:27:43.980 --> 00:27:44.980 go to any of the others. 00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:46.980 I'm not too sure Mackintosh has this same opinion. 00:27:47.980 --> 00:27:49.980 But they will say to the child, 00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:55.980 now a believing child should obey his parents as long as it's in the Lord. 00:27:55.980 --> 00:28:00.980 Therefore, if a believing child has an unbelieving parents, 00:28:00.980 --> 00:28:02.980 he doesn't have to pay any attention to them. 00:28:04.980 --> 00:28:05.980 That is not true. 00:28:07.980 --> 00:28:10.980 Now we are aware that there are extenuating circumstances. 00:28:10.980 --> 00:28:14.980 But I believe you can look at something, 00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:17.980 because all the way along with husbands and wives, 00:28:17.980 --> 00:28:19.980 he has turned your attention to Christ. 00:28:21.980 --> 00:28:23.980 Why does a believing wife submit to a believing husband? 00:28:23.980 --> 00:28:26.980 Because she does it as unto the Lord. 00:28:27.980 --> 00:28:29.980 Because the moment a believing wife doesn't submit, 00:28:29.980 --> 00:28:30.980 she's not filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:28:30.980 --> 00:28:33.980 And secondly, she destroys the picture of Christ in the church. 00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:40.980 Why does a believing husband love his wife? 00:28:40.980 --> 00:28:43.980 Because he's commanded to do so as being filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:28:43.980 --> 00:28:46.980 And because if he doesn't, he destroys totally 00:28:47.980 --> 00:28:52.980 the outward illustration of Christ for the believer. 00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:58.980 Now look, in chapter 6 verse 1, 00:28:58.980 --> 00:29:00.980 it says children. 00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:03.980 There is no age on that limit. 00:29:03.980 --> 00:29:05.980 It's a very interesting word. 00:29:05.980 --> 00:29:06.980 Obey. 00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:09.980 That means to listen, to hear, and to obey. 00:29:10.980 --> 00:29:11.980 Your parents. 00:29:12.980 --> 00:29:15.980 This is the proof that you're filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:20.980 This is proof that you're walking the way God wants you to walk. 00:29:21.980 --> 00:29:22.980 In your Bible it says, 00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:25.980 Children, obey your parents in the Lord. 00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:27.980 Now that sounds immediate like, 00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:28.980 if they're not in the Lord, 00:29:28.980 --> 00:29:30.980 I can tell them to drop dead. 00:29:31.980 --> 00:29:34.980 That's another phrase Christian teachers ought to wash mouths out for. 00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:41.980 Maybe you people don't know where some slang phrases came from. 00:29:44.980 --> 00:29:47.980 You ever know why people brought up the phrase drop dead? 00:29:48.980 --> 00:29:50.980 It's more acceptable than saying go to hell. 00:29:52.980 --> 00:29:53.980 That's right. 00:29:53.980 --> 00:29:54.980 You say, Pastor, you're nitpicking. 00:29:54.980 --> 00:29:55.980 No. 00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:56.980 I'm just telling you the etymology of the term. 00:29:57.980 --> 00:29:58.980 But change a little word in your translation, 00:29:58.980 --> 00:29:59.980 and see if it doesn't help you to see something for the most. 00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:01.980 Isn't that interesting? 00:30:01.980 --> 00:30:05.980 When you who live in the home, hear, listen, and obey your parents, 00:30:05.980 --> 00:30:06.980 even though you may do it under stress, 00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:06.980 00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:06.980 00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:07.980 But change a little word in your translation, 00:30:07.980 --> 00:30:10.980 and see if it doesn't help you to see something for the most. 00:30:10.980 --> 00:30:12.980 Isn't that interesting? 00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:14.980 Isn't that interesting? 00:30:14.980 --> 00:30:15.980 Isn't that interesting? 00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:21.980 When you who live in the home, hear, listen, and obey your parents, 00:30:21.980 --> 00:30:25.980 even though you may do it under stress, 00:30:25.980 --> 00:30:30.980 the Lord sees that you do it as being submissive to him. 00:30:30.980 --> 00:30:37.980 Now that's the same category you have with the woman, the believing wife. 00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:40.980 That's basically the same category you have with the believing husband. 00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:43.980 He does it as unto the Lord. 00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:49.980 Now I am glad that the Holy Spirit didn't stop with verse one. 00:30:53.980 --> 00:30:59.980 Because you are aware that boys and girls and people can obey out of fear. 00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:05.980 And that's all right, but it's not totally good. 00:31:05.980 --> 00:31:10.980 They can obey because they might think they're going to get a reward, 00:31:10.980 --> 00:31:12.980 and so they obey. 00:31:12.980 --> 00:31:14.980 That wouldn't be right either. 00:31:16.980 --> 00:31:20.980 They might obey not only because they fear and because they might get a reward, 00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:22.980 but because they don't want any punishment. 00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:26.980 Now with children, occasionally that's a necessity. 00:31:28.980 --> 00:31:30.980 That is why the writer of wisdom says, 00:31:30.980 --> 00:31:32.980 if you don't do the rod, 00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:36.980 you are going to have problems getting the devil out of that child. 00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:39.980 And that's exactly what he said. 00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:48.980 Now why should boys and girls who live at home obey their parents? 00:31:49.980 --> 00:31:50.980 Number one, 00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:53.980 because it proves you're a Christian. 00:31:53.980 --> 00:31:58.980 Number two, 00:31:59.980 --> 00:32:04.980 because it proves you know how to walk by being filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:32:06.980 --> 00:32:07.980 Number three, 00:32:08.980 --> 00:32:09.980 because God said so. 00:32:12.980 --> 00:32:15.980 And number four is a little phrase at the end of verse one. 00:32:15.980 --> 00:32:16.980 Children, 00:32:16.980 --> 00:32:19.980 children obey your parents as to the Lord, 00:32:19.980 --> 00:32:22.980 for this is what? 00:32:22.980 --> 00:32:23.980 Right. 00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:26.980 Isn't that a beautiful phrase? 00:32:27.980 --> 00:32:31.980 It's just plain common sense. 00:32:34.980 --> 00:32:39.980 That the child is not superior to the parent. 00:32:39.980 --> 00:32:43.980 Do you realize that parents are superior to children? 00:32:44.980 --> 00:32:49.980 Do you realize that parents and children are not equal? 00:32:50.980 --> 00:32:54.980 It's amazing how smart parents are. 00:32:55.980 --> 00:32:57.980 After you become a parent. 00:32:58.980 --> 00:33:00.980 After you become a parent. 00:33:03.980 --> 00:33:05.980 Let's stop for a second now, 00:33:05.980 --> 00:33:10.980 because Paul added something to the fifth commandment. 00:33:11.980 --> 00:33:14.980 Turn with me for a second and our time is fast running up. 00:33:14.980 --> 00:33:16.980 Turn to Exodus chapter 20. 00:33:16.980 --> 00:33:21.980 Maybe we'll have to stop with Exodus 29. 00:33:22.980 --> 00:33:23.980 I'd hope to make this one lesson, 00:33:23.980 --> 00:33:25.980 but maybe it's too heavy for one lesson. 00:33:26.980 --> 00:33:27.980 And if so, 00:33:27.980 --> 00:33:28.980 if the Lord carries to next week, 00:33:28.980 --> 00:33:29.980 you'll come and get the rest of it. 00:33:29.980 --> 00:33:31.980 And so it'll be easier that way. 00:33:31.980 --> 00:33:31.980 00:33:37.980 --> 00:33:38.980 Exodus 20 verse 12. 00:33:38.980 --> 00:33:41.980 Now you are aware that's exactly what Ephesians 6 2 says. 00:33:41.980 --> 00:33:42.980 Secondly, 00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:47.980 it does not say honor your parents first and then obey them. 00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:53.980 Because you see submission in regards to the filling of the Holy Spirit 00:33:53.980 --> 00:33:56.980 and the order of God demands obedience first. 00:33:58.980 --> 00:34:01.980 Now I keep repeating this because I think it's important. 00:34:02.980 --> 00:34:05.980 Parents must get obedience from children. 00:34:06.980 --> 00:34:09.980 That is because they're concerned about their Christian testimony. 00:34:09.980 --> 00:34:16.980 Now in writing the commandments as Moses got them from the Lord, 00:34:16.980 --> 00:34:18.980 you come to the fifth command, which is verse 12. 00:34:18.980 --> 00:34:22.980 Honor thy father and thy mother. 00:34:22.980 --> 00:34:24.980 It doesn't say obedience. 00:34:24.980 --> 00:34:27.980 Because within the character of the law 00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:31.980 is the result of disobedience to parents. 00:34:31.980 --> 00:34:34.980 I will pick that up next week and show you those verses. 00:34:34.980 --> 00:34:38.980 Now the word that you have for honor here, 00:34:38.980 --> 00:34:40.980 I have taught you a couple times before. 00:34:40.980 --> 00:34:41.980 In the Hebrew language, 00:34:41.980 --> 00:34:44.980 it's spelled C-A-B-B-E-D. 00:34:44.980 --> 00:34:45.980 Kabed. 00:34:47.980 --> 00:34:49.980 And believe it or not, 00:34:50.980 --> 00:34:54.980 in the majority of instances that we find it in the Bible, 00:34:54.980 --> 00:34:57.980 it is a term which is always attached to God. 00:34:57.980 --> 00:35:04.980 And of course we can't realize that unless we look all of the phrases up 00:35:04.980 --> 00:35:06.980 that have the word translated honor. 00:35:06.980 --> 00:35:07.980 But take my word for it for a moment. 00:35:08.980 --> 00:35:13.980 The word really means load with honor. 00:35:16.980 --> 00:35:17.980 Isn't that interesting? 00:35:17.980 --> 00:35:22.980 And in the Greek language, when Paul picks up the second result, 00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:26.980 the boys and girls who are going to walk according to the Holy Spirit 00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:28.980 who have been given when they were saved, 00:35:30.980 --> 00:35:34.980 the second result of that submission is not only obedience, 00:35:34.980 --> 00:35:37.980 but loading that parent with honor. 00:35:40.980 --> 00:35:44.980 My wife got a call today from a dear old saint whom you know, 00:35:44.980 --> 00:35:46.980 and I heard her when she finished the telephone, 00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:47.980 she said, 00:35:47.980 --> 00:35:48.980 I really feel badly. 00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:51.980 I should have gone over there and chatted with her months ago. 00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:56.980 She has a family who never comes to see her. 00:35:57.980 --> 00:35:58.980 How old is she? 00:35:58.980 --> 00:35:59.980 Ninety? 00:36:00.980 --> 00:36:01.980 Almost. 00:36:01.980 --> 00:36:02.980 Ninety. 00:36:03.980 --> 00:36:04.980 Lives by herself. 00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:06.980 A great saint of God, 00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:08.980 and I'm sure if she had a choice, she'd say, 00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:09.980 Lord, let me die tonight. 00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:10.980 I'm ready to come home. 00:36:10.980 --> 00:36:12.980 I have no earthly good left. 00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:16.980 But I'm saying to you, 00:36:16.980 --> 00:36:19.980 here's a dear soul who's got a family, 00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:22.980 who because of age, 00:36:22.980 --> 00:36:25.980 and I suppose because of senility occasionally, 00:36:25.980 --> 00:36:26.980 but she's fairly sharp. 00:36:27.980 --> 00:36:29.980 She probably can preach better than I can, 00:36:29.980 --> 00:36:31.980 and I know she can pray better than I can. 00:36:33.980 --> 00:36:34.980 But because she's this way, 00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:35.980 nobody pays any attention to her, 00:36:35.980 --> 00:36:37.980 and yet she has a family. 00:36:38.980 --> 00:36:40.980 Now I think there's a balance here. 00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:43.980 And you realize if you're reading the commandments, 00:36:43.980 --> 00:36:46.980 that you're transisting from God to life, 00:36:47.980 --> 00:36:49.980 and in the middle is the home. 00:36:51.980 --> 00:36:53.980 How do you teach boys and girls not to lie? 00:36:57.980 --> 00:36:59.980 You never will if they won't honor you. 00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:02.980 How do you teach them not to steal? 00:37:02.980 --> 00:37:03.980 You never will. 00:37:05.980 --> 00:37:06.980 Unless they honor you. 00:37:07.980 --> 00:37:08.980 And I'd remind you boys and girls, 00:37:09.980 --> 00:37:10.980 that even though this is in the Old Testament, 00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:13.980 it's repeated over and over again in the New Testament, 00:37:13.980 --> 00:37:15.980 as a result of you being saved. 00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:16.980 Not because you're scared. 00:37:20.980 --> 00:37:22.980 And not because you're commanded to obey, 00:37:22.980 --> 00:37:23.980 although you are that. 00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:27.980 And so this little word that you have in verse 12 says, 00:37:27.980 --> 00:37:28.980 Kabed. 00:37:29.980 --> 00:37:30.980 Load with honor. 00:37:30.980 --> 00:37:33.980 It's often used with reference to God. 00:37:34.980 --> 00:37:35.980 It's deeper than obedient. 00:37:36.980 --> 00:37:37.980 And someone says, 00:37:38.980 --> 00:37:41.980 it touches the heart and the affection. 00:37:44.980 --> 00:37:45.980 Now let's be honest. 00:37:45.980 --> 00:37:52.980 Saints who grow old by age and do not mature spiritually 00:37:53.980 --> 00:37:55.980 are kind of hard to get along with. 00:37:58.980 --> 00:38:01.980 That's why you should learn as much about the word of God 00:38:02.980 --> 00:38:04.980 when you're young and middle-aged as you can, 00:38:05.980 --> 00:38:07.980 because someday we're all going to get old and senile 00:38:08.980 --> 00:38:10.980 and you'll only be sweet Christians that are lovable 00:38:10.980 --> 00:38:11.980 if you've matured in Christ. 00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:15.980 And I know what I'm talking about. 00:38:18.980 --> 00:38:20.980 There has to be an affection. 00:38:23.980 --> 00:38:24.980 Now someone says, 00:38:24.980 --> 00:38:26.980 well, pastor, my parents don't demand affection 00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:28.980 or they don't deserve affection. 00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:29.980 Hey, wait a minute. 00:38:29.980 --> 00:38:30.980 You're a Christian? 00:38:32.980 --> 00:38:34.980 Then in order to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:38:35.980 --> 00:38:38.980 Look, my wife and I have aged parents. 00:38:38.980 --> 00:38:39.980 They're both alive yet. 00:38:39.980 --> 00:38:40.980 How much longer? 00:38:40.980 --> 00:38:41.980 We don't know. 00:38:42.980 --> 00:38:44.980 They really are difficult to get along with. 00:38:45.980 --> 00:38:47.980 Occasionally you'd like to blow your top. 00:38:49.980 --> 00:38:50.980 But you don't. 00:38:52.980 --> 00:38:54.980 Because you honor them. 00:38:55.980 --> 00:38:56.980 They are human beings. 00:38:57.980 --> 00:38:58.980 They are individuals. 00:38:59.980 --> 00:39:03.980 And the relationship here is based on a fact. 00:39:04.980 --> 00:39:06.980 Did you notice that that in Exodus 20 verse 12 is based on a fact? 00:39:06.980 --> 00:39:07.980 It's not a fact. 00:39:08.980 --> 00:39:09.980 See what it says? 00:39:11.980 --> 00:39:12.980 What is the fact? 00:39:13.980 --> 00:39:14.980 Well, first of all, 00:39:15.980 --> 00:39:17.980 you owe your existence to your parents. 00:39:20.980 --> 00:39:21.980 That's a fact, isn't it? 00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:23.980 If your parents weren't your parents, you wouldn't be. 00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:25.980 Unless you can find another parent. 00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:27.980 I don't know how you knew that. 00:39:29.980 --> 00:39:31.980 You see, God is very logical. 00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:32.980 And we must stop. 00:39:33.980 --> 00:39:38.980 He is going from our attitude and our actions towards God to society. 00:39:39.980 --> 00:39:40.980 And he's doing that in Ephesians. 00:39:40.980 --> 00:39:44.980 And he's going to show us that you can be a slave, spirit-filled. 00:39:47.980 --> 00:39:49.980 You can be an employer, spirit-filled. 00:39:49.980 --> 00:39:51.980 You can be a father, spirit-filled. 00:39:51.980 --> 00:39:52.980 And if you ain't, you're in trouble. 00:39:52.980 --> 00:39:53.980 Employer, spirit-filled. 00:39:53.980 --> 00:39:55.980 You can be a father, spirit-filled. 00:39:55.980 --> 00:39:56.980 And if you ain't, you're in trouble. 00:39:58.980 --> 00:40:04.980 And I firmly believe that where most men get out of the realm of the Spirit's filling is being a father. 00:40:05.980 --> 00:40:10.980 Because it's contrary to our nature to be spirit-filled fathers. 00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:16.980 You see, you owe your existence to your parents. 00:40:17.980 --> 00:40:20.980 Therefore, you see, the world is trying to teach us. 00:40:20.980 --> 00:40:21.980 Bill and Edward just in Russia. 00:40:21.980 --> 00:40:23.980 We must talk to them some more. 00:40:25.980 --> 00:40:28.980 But you are aware that that's what governments who have gotten big have said. 00:40:29.980 --> 00:40:30.980 The children don't need the parents. 00:40:31.980 --> 00:40:34.980 Get them away from them so we can train them the way we want them to be. 00:40:35.980 --> 00:40:37.980 Their existence was only necessary for the moment to get them born. 00:40:38.980 --> 00:40:39.980 After that, it's not important. 00:40:41.980 --> 00:40:44.980 And that's coming in America if you look at the welfare bills that are going through. 00:40:47.980 --> 00:40:49.980 The daycare centers that are being established. 00:40:52.980 --> 00:40:56.980 The American philosophy is the kid doesn't need the parent. 00:40:57.980 --> 00:41:05.980 But the Christian truth is that parent brought them into existence and on the basis of that, that relationship demands honor. 00:41:05.980 --> 00:41:14.980 And I'd remind you that all of us are made in the image of our parents. 00:41:15.980 --> 00:41:19.980 Now that doesn't mean we don't educate differently. 00:41:20.980 --> 00:41:27.980 But there is some loading with honor necessary because we are their image. 00:41:27.980 --> 00:41:32.179 and of course whether we like to admit it or not 00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:38.659 for a great part of our life we were dependent upon them for life and for maintenance of that life 00:41:38.659 --> 00:41:47.059 why do you honor your parents well number one because i want to be a spirit-filled kid 00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:53.380 because i want the world to see that a christian acts differently 00:41:53.380 --> 00:41:58.039 isn't it interesting i must be nasty once today 00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:04.140 that the people who will give off the results of the spirit's filling as being the charismatic 00:42:04.140 --> 00:42:06.920 speaking in tongues don't pay any attention to kids 00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:14.119 if being filled with the holy spirit is so great let's teach it to kids and get them started in the 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:21.559 right spot ah but the holy spirit through paul is teaching kids the filling of the holy spirit 00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:25.980 and in the line of the fourth result it's submitting ourselves in the fear of the lord 00:42:25.980 --> 00:42:29.259 and that submission is to parents under the word honor 00:42:29.259 --> 00:42:35.099 well i'll cut it in half that's about halfway 00:42:35.099 --> 00:42:42.420 why should children be leaving children i don't care how young you are kids 00:42:42.420 --> 00:42:46.900 obey their parents number one because they're christians 00:42:46.900 --> 00:42:53.639 number two because you want to be spirit-filled and walk an accurate life 00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:59.420 number three because god told you to and number four because it's right 00:42:59.420 --> 00:43:05.000 and then he comes to the second phrase of the filling of a child 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:12.519 and i think he includes all of us load your parents with honor 00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:19.460 why because it's the foundation of how you're going to live in the world 00:43:19.460 --> 00:43:24.659 well if you're interested come next week heavenly father 00:43:24.659 --> 00:43:29.820 thank you for the word of god we are aware tonight that we've only scratched the surface 00:43:29.820 --> 00:43:35.219 laid a foundation challenged our own heart and we trust we'll use it for the glory of christ 00:43:35.219 --> 00:43:38.759 for these who have come on this evening which was not easy to come 00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:45.300 they deserve god's best in singing and music and prayer and fellowship and the teaching of the word 00:43:45.300 --> 00:43:51.280 of god we thank you for your presence that you never fail us and you never forsake us and now tonight 00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:57.360 as we close the service may the holy spirit just operate as he's supposed to in the will of god for 00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:04.640 jesus sake amen there's only one song that comes to my mind sing me a stanza or two of 261 when we walk 00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:09.839 with the lord in the light of his word trust and obey and i would remind you 00:44:09.839 --> 00:44:16.199 that the filling of the holy spirit is supposed to produce happiness and he said with that comes 00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:21.500 obedience so there's no other way to be happy in jesus but to trust and obey and that's especially 00:44:21.500 --> 00:44:28.920 true for boys and girls the happiest christian kids you know are kids who obey their parents 00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:32.300 because they don't get any hangouts 00:44:32.300 --> 00:44:43.280 and i'd remind you i don't know many spirit-filled christian kids nowadays and we parents are fault 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:50.840 because we don't demand obedience for will you sing with me as we close 261 let's stand together 00:44:50.840 --> 00:45:01.780 oh when we walk with the lord in the light of his word what a joy 00:45:01.780 --> 00:45:16.980 while we do his good will he abides with us still and with all who will trust and obey 00:45:16.980 --> 00:45:31.179 trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in jesus but to trust and obey 00:45:31.179 --> 00:45:34.659 we're going to sing but let's have a word of prayer with our heads bowed 00:45:34.659 --> 00:45:37.420 i like to give a time of decision 00:45:37.420 --> 00:45:44.179 most of us have parents tonight very few of you didn't raise your hand when i asked that question 00:45:44.179 --> 00:45:49.219 you realize that the fifth commandment in the filling of the holy spirit is possible someday 00:45:49.219 --> 00:45:51.219 you won't be able to practice it when your parents die 00:45:51.219 --> 00:45:58.099 i don't know if you're all saved here tonight or not 00:45:58.099 --> 00:46:03.460 you know it's very possible that you've come tonight and you've just practiced salvation you 00:46:03.460 --> 00:46:07.940 really don't have a heart experience you don't have a born again experience 00:46:07.940 --> 00:46:14.019 that's not be in such a hurry to go home that we don't give opportunity to someone when the holy 00:46:14.019 --> 00:46:20.260 spirit's working on maybe you're a boy or girl or a young person a teenager who's claimed to profess 00:46:20.260 --> 00:46:25.460 christ as savior and you say pastor that can't be true the way i act towards my parents 00:46:26.980 --> 00:46:29.139 that might be a good indication you're not saying 00:46:30.659 --> 00:46:33.700 it's hard for you to obey your parents you better look at your life 00:46:33.699 --> 00:46:40.980 maybe some of you have decisions that have been coming for a long time maybe through the weeks 00:46:40.980 --> 00:46:45.859 and the months in the morning and the afternoon i don't know what we should do tonight to close 00:46:47.299 --> 00:46:55.619 i just say to you if you have a need a decision i know you say pastor don't have to be public i can 00:46:55.619 --> 00:47:01.139 do it privately that's right but i would be remiss if i didn't say to you at the close of a service 00:47:01.139 --> 00:47:05.859 do you have some needs you want to make known some decision you want to settle 00:47:08.500 --> 00:47:12.900 christ you want to accept that's my invitation while we quietly wait 00:47:14.739 --> 00:47:19.460 if you're just prompted not even knowing why and say i ought to go and have someone pray with me and 00:47:19.460 --> 00:47:24.019 look at the word of god with some question that i have and you say well that's strange i shouldn't do 00:47:24.019 --> 00:47:32.420 that yes you should do that that's how the holy spirit works and that's the opportunity we give 00:47:32.420 --> 00:47:37.699 you at the close of the service we just quietly wait if you'd like to step from your seat you can 00:47:37.699 --> 00:47:41.940 do it with no one looking or you can do it when we sing one more stanza in a moment i don't care 00:47:43.460 --> 00:47:46.579 i'd like to do things the way the holy spirit wants to do it 00:47:46.579 --> 00:47:59.940 any decisions tonight any decision well you have verse five don't sing it kids if you don't mean it 00:48:01.380 --> 00:48:05.539 please meet me if you'd like to come i'll come down to the front so it'll be easier for you then in 00:48:05.539 --> 00:48:08.739 fellowship sweet let's sing that verse to close the day in the lord together 00:48:08.739 --> 00:48:13.699 it 00:48:14.819 --> 00:48:17.699 is 00:48:18.819 --> 00:48:20.419 is 00:48:21.699 --> 00:48:23.379 is 00:48:23.539 --> 00:48:25.699 is 00:48:25.699 --> 00:48:27.859 is 00:48:27.859 --> 00:48:30.099 is 00:48:30.099 --> 00:48:31.859 is 00:48:31.859 --> 00:48:33.699 is 00:48:33.699 --> 00:48:34.819 is 00:48:34.819 --> 00:48:35.539 Uh 00:48:35.539 --> 00:48:35.619 oh 00:48:35.619 --> 00:48:36.619 Amen.