I usually wait until in praise and worship to make the final decision, and I was going to speak on tithing and offerings again this morning, and we're going to make the switch. I've had something brewing in me all week. The whole time we were gone it's been brewing in me, and just getting stronger. And then this morning at five I woke up. I didn't get to sleep last night because I was talking to God about it. I woke up early and he shared some things with me and I just want to... I'm going to jump start on what was bothering me and then go into what other things he had shared. But I feel like, and this is a feeling, I feel like I'm neck deep surrounded by Christians who by the way they live, by the way they talk, by the way they do, they're on the verge of going the wrong direction, going to hell. And there's not a thing I can say or do about it. Because the laodicea and culture we're living in, the deception of it has grown so thick that unless we as believers are extremely focused on God and just cleaving to him, relying on him, embracing him, the deception of this time just sucks us in. Sucks us in. I saw it coming years ago and I wrote a book on it, not a popular book because people don't like to read that kind of thing. But it's still there, which is the breath of antichrist. It's out in the foyer. They're free. You can take one if you want. Talks about lawlessness and the deception and everything that at that time I said this was coming. Well now we're seeing it more and more and more. We're into it. And I was bothered last night. I was talking to the Holy Spirit about some of these things. Didn't get to bed early at all. And he brought some things up to me. So I'm just going to bring them up to you and then we'll use this as the jump off point to go into our message. He asked me this question on the basis of we're saved by grace through faith. We get in by believing. And he asked me this question. He said, is there a difference between entering the kingdom and inheriting the kingdom? I've never thought of that before. Because if you go to John 3.5, so I looked up some scripture, you go to John 3.5. Nicodemus said, what must I do to enter the kingdom? Must be born again. How do we get that? We're saved by grace through faith. That's how we enter. It's how we get in. But yet Paul lays some things out that we have to do to inherit the kingdom. So is there a difference between entering a house and inheriting a house? Absolutely. So I'm, you know, I'm listening to people talk around me and you can hear when they're Christians and they're talking Christian language and young people talking and parents talking about their children and this, that and the other. So I'll just, I'll just bring up one thing he brought up to me. He took me a Holy Spirit last night, took me to 1 Corinthians 6, verse number nine. I'm in the new King James, if you're going to bring that up. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Okay, so just stop right there. Ask yourself this question. The unrighteous. If you go to different translations, it'll say the wicked. Like I think the King James says the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do we think the wicked or people who are not righteous will go to heaven? How many think that? Other than go there for judgment. But I mean, talking like, go there to stay there. None of us. We'd all say, yeah, we know the unrighteous or the wicked will not inherit the kingdom. Next words. Do not be deceived. Neither. Neither is a tying word that ties you back to the first statement. The wicked and the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Neither will fornicators and he makes a whole list of things. And he's at the end, he says, they're not going to inherit the kingdom of God. The end of verse 10, he says that. And he asked me this question last night. He said, why is that so hard to understand? Well, it probably is not. Unless we're already under the influence of our culture and deception. Then it could be. So I'm just going to pick the first one. I'm not going to dwell on this. I'll pick the first one. Go back to that first verse 9. Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators. So I'm out amongst people. I'm out people I don't know. All kinds of people. And there weren't Christian t-shirts and they prayed before their meal. And then they're talking about how one of their children who isn't married is living with their boyfriend or their girlfriend. And they just hope it works out okay because, you know, God could be working in this. And I'm sitting there in my spirits that's quenching down. Like, my God, you're so deceived you can't even read a verse and believe it applies to your kids. For if the wicked are not going to heaven, neither are sexually immoral as the Amplified uses it. Well, but we're saved by grace. Well then, what in the world is that verse about? I feel like I'm surrounded by people who are so deceived they could be headed for hell and they don't even see it. Well, they've been living together two, three years. But if they died, you know, they'd be fine. They'd go to heaven. They'd go straight to hell. That's what Paul says. That's what the Holy Spirit says. Struple. You can't inherit it. Well, but they're saved. Well, you can enter it. But boy, some decisions you make in the process can cause you not to inherit the house. Folks, we're living in a very, very deceptive time. What did Jesus say? First thing he said when they asked him, what about the last times, the end times? Be careful, you're not deceived. He said that two, three times. Be careful, you're not deceived. So I'm going to veer from our series this morning. I'm going to talk about fathers. We are in desperate need of godly fathers. This country, this world, every church in America is in desperate need of godly fathers. And what we're seeing going on in society right now comes from a lack of godly fathers. We have more than half of our children who for the last number of decades have been raised away from their biological father, which that's not a good start. But even if they were with their biological father, does that mean he was godly? How can you talk about your own child living in willful sin as a father and condone what they're doing when it's so plain? That's not a father, not a godly one. We need fathers to be men and call white, white and black, black. And when we're not doing that, we end up with what we have going on in this country right now. That's what we end up with. So, since I didn't have time to put this into PowerPoint form, I went back and grabbed some notes from a child discipline class. Mary and I did a few years back, so I'm just going to take just the beginning of that. And I'll just use my notes as the slides. Proverbs one, listen my son, because what we're after is what is a father? What is his role? What makes a father? Well, listen my son to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. There will be a garland of grace to your head and a chain to adorn your neck. Father's instruction, here's what that literally means. In every place it says projector, that's the part I pull out and I send to Abby and she makes PowerPoint out of it. But it won't happen for today, so just ignore that. Father's instruction, here's the word instruction in the Hebrew. Chastisement, reproof, warning, instruction, restraint, bond, chastisement, check, correction, discipline, instruction, rebuke. It comes from a root word, number 3256. A primitive root means to chastise literally with blows. Which is illegal now in Minnesota. Which shows you how far down the wrong road we've already gone in this state. You can't spank your child here anymore. Better not get cocked if you do it. Then how in the world can you be a father giving instruction if you're forbidden from doing what the Scripture says you need to do to be a father? Buckle up, we're going in deep this morning. You say, I don't believe in that. I know. There's people who don't. And that's your choice, it's America, you don't have to believe in it. However, whether we believe it or not, does not cancel the truth. The truth doesn't adjust to our belief system, our belief system needs to adjust to the truth. The word seems to cover all aspects of the process of building a child, instruction correction discipline, which that was the name of the little series we did. Chastisement or to chastise in Webster, which was one of the definitions there, it was said a couple of times, to chastise, said there a couple of times. Chastisement in Webster means to criticize someone harshly for doing something wrong. Now, I don't want us to cross over into abuse this morning. Because fathers can do that, especially when they get angry. Rather than attacking the issue, they attack the value of the child, or they attack the child. The child is great. What they're doing needs help. Don't attack their worth or value because of what they did. Quick example. They are not the stupid idiot who acts just like your mother's side of the family. They did something stupid. See the difference? They don't have to be stupid. They can be very intelligent and do something stupid. And then there's also the delivery of that message. Tone is more than words, you know, in language. So as fathers, we have to watch our tone. We have to watch how we're going to deliver that message. But if they're doing something stupid and you're not man enough to criticize it even harshly, what they did, not them. What they did. You're not acting as a father because you're not chastising them for what they did. You drove the car 35 miles an hour around a corner on ice and rolled it. My car. Because you don't have one yet. Now a father, especially if there was instruction previously and that's why it's called child instruction and discipline. Instruction always has to come first. I presume if he's driving your car alone or she's driving your car alone by that point you've instructed them. If not, it's on you. But if you've instructed them and said you know when it's icy you might want to slow down. Take it easy because put it in the ditch. If you don't do that right. One of the first things my dad taught me. When you go down the ditch you turn the wheel down the ditch. You don't turn the wheel back up to go on the road because that will turn your car and that's how you roll. You turn the wheel down the ditch so you're going to go down the ditch. So you might also go down the ditch, go down frontwards. See that's instruction. Well they went too fast, they didn't go down the ditch, they tried to get back up on the road, they rolled the car. I would say that wrong decision needs to be dealt with fairly strongly. Because if it's not they're going to do it again. That's a father's job. You can almost feel the confusion because of our culture and society now. And what has actually seeped into us that we're not even aware of. Do you mean a father could actually verbally chew out a child for what they did? Not because they're bad, but for what they did and it's godly? Yes. Oh that ain't godly, that ain't a man. No that actually is a man. Now yes, you got to watch your words. If you can't control your mouth take a break till you can. If you can't control your emotions take a break till you can. You can always revisit the situation. But gird up like God told Joe, gird up like a man and be a man. We need godly men. In this, just this one definition, he's obviously the harder motive in which it's done. It plays big. You can't discipline out of anger, you can't correct out of hate or frustration. Embarrassment's a big one. You see this in stores all the time. Go to Walmart and the kid starts acting out. The parent gets embarrassed and abuses them. And it's like, come on mom, come on dad. I know we all had to grow through it, but you feel like walking over and saying, no, do it this way instead. You have to correct them. But don't start calling them a little blankety blank, blah, blah, blah. To try to get them to stop doing what they're doing. We need to do it out of love concern. We need to lead a guide. It makes all the difference. Remember this is all in the context of building a child and not destroying them. What's the mother's job? Remember back up here? I'm scrolling and if that bothers you, look down until I'm done. Listen, my son, to your father's instruction. Do not forsake your mother's teaching. What is mother's teaching? What does that mean? It comes from the word Torah in the Old Testament. It's a precept or a statute. A precept or a statute is to flow as water or like rain. It just follows and flows. Wherever the low point is, it goes. Transitively to lay or throw, especially like an arrow. If you're shooting a bow and arrow at a target and you miss the target, it's not the arrow's fault. It's where you aimed it. How you release it determines where it ends up. That's the concept here. To direct, to inform, to instruct. So here's how it breaks down. Precepts and commands. A command or direction means as a rule of action or conduct. It's a rule of direction. That's what the father gives. I am commanding. This is the way we're going. This is the direction we're going. Here's how we're going to conduct ourselves. A statute means an established rule. A formula regulation. A law. Limits. I said curfews at 11.30. That means curfews at 11.30. Mom, don't you dare say, honey, don't be too hard on him. He needs to be a father. And set some limits. And establish the rule all over again. That's why this country's in the shape it's in. Because we've got too few fathers. Who are forming and shaping things. You say, well, what's the mother's purpose? Precept and statute. Gives direction the way to go. Gives limits how far to go. On what basis does mom determine these? On the father's instruction. That's what verse 8 and 9 and 10 say. This is a dual endeavor. Mom and dad talk together. Mom and dad communicate together. And then when it comes time to lay out, this is how this family is going to run. It's dad who needs to step up and lay it out. In agreement with what he and his wife have decided. It's a dual endeavor. Dad, you have to step up and say, here's what we're going to do, here's what we're not going to do. Mom's job is to reinforce what dad established. And he established it with her. He didn't just go off by himself and think up rules. That causes problems. You're married. Do it together. But then dad, your job as a father is to take the lead and establish this. Your job as a mother is never to get in the lead of him, of dad. Your job as a mother is to support dad. And when the kids come whining to you to try to split you two as a team. Which we all did. And if we've had children, they've all tried. Starts at about three months. That's what it feels like. Mom's job is not to get upset with dad and go correct dad. Mom's job is to support dad. But he did this and well then let's go talk to your father. And let's get this all out in the open. There's a role each one plays according to Proverbs chapter one. I can't go in too much deeper. But this is not dad being a dictator kind of thing. And this is not mom being a servant who follows behind. Just keeps her mouth shut. And guys don't use scriptures as support for your underlying control and anger issues. If you can't control yourself, you have no right to control them. But scripturally speaking, we are commanded to control them until the bar myths for bar myths for age when that transfers over and our control grows less and their self control grows on the basis of what we taught them. But when they're in the age of directives 13 and under, we control them. Do you know that scientifically they've even proven now that they don't have two chemicals under puberty? That's a crossover spot when the chemicals change. Under puberty, children do not have two chemicals needed to see cause and effect for their decisions. And I've watched parents reason with their three year old. Honey, now if you do this, what do you think is going to happen? They don't have the brain power to think that one through. It's not even there. That changes at puberty. So you have to train them. Do you know why God chose Abraham? God, the scripture says God chose Abraham to make covenant with because he knew he would command his children after him. This thing wouldn't be lost in one generation. It would go on. You know why it would go on? Cause dad said, this is going on. We're not giving you an option on this. We will all serve God. You should see some of your faces. Back to that thought. Guys, if we got control issues, we need to get a grip on ourselves, get a grip on our mouth, get a grip on our attitude so that we are not coming across as a dominator, dictator, controller, abuser. But because we've never done that in some cases, we have been pulled out of our God given position. And there's an anointing that goes with being a father. And there's an anointing that goes with being a mother. And if you pull them out of that and don't let them walk in that, the seed or the fruit of that shows up in your kids. I mean, Mary could struggle and fuss with them all day long. Aunt, we don't want to. No, I don't want to. I'm not eating that. All day. I walk in the house. Mary says, we have a problem. And I look at her and say, what's the problem? They're immediately eating. They're immediately quitting the whining. It's over. You say, what is that? That's an anointing from God. Because it's the father who's got to lead this thing. You can't shove that over on the wife and say, you take care of it. You're the man. Start acting like one. Now, grow into it. Become one. But it is a dual endeavor. Children obey your parents. Exodus 20, your father and mother, regard your father and mother, honor your father and mother. So there's two aspects of anointing. It comes with fathers and mothers. And this is a companionship that follows. And we have to learn to grow in it. So let me shut this off for a second and I'll be back to it later. But what we're seeing in society now is a two-fold attack. We've got the lawlessness of the end-time antichrist spirit gaining momentum. And strategically planned with that, we have the removal of godly men who are fathers. And those two things working in concert with each other is giving us what we're seeing in society right now. Lawlessness is beginning to run rampant. Let's talk about just this last week, just a little bit. Because this is father issues. Wait for my iPad to reconnect. Let me turn it this way. A tumulus week in Los Angeles illustrates the human toll of the Trump administration's more aggressive immigration crackdown. June 15th, that came out sometime yesterday, early today, whatever. What kind of dictator animal would send uniform people against the citizens of his own country? You heard anything like that this last week? Do you know what kind of animal would do that? One who is trying to enforce the law. See, here's my question, and here's a lack of fathers and godly men. Why is it that we have illegal immigrants in the country? And I'm not against immigrants. Just come in the right way. Just do the process. Not against you. Just do it the right way. We have illegal immigrants in the country. You shouldn't even have to say more than that. It's the word illegal. This has nothing to do with being a Republican or Democrat. This has to do with godliness. When it's illegal, it's called sin. I know that's a revelation, but when it's illegal, it's called sin. When it's illegal means you have forfeited all your rights. Because you're illegal. Why, when we're trying to enforce the law on someone who is actually illegal? Do I, who don't like what you're doing, have the right to break the law? I don't like what you're doing, so I'm going to show you I don't like it. I'm going to go down and burn somebody's business down. I'm going to take a bat and beat cars windshields in and their headlights and bang them all up. I'm going to get on the interstate, which is a federal offense. And I'm going to stop traffic, me and all my friends. We're going to lay down in the interstate and we're going to stop traffic because we're so against what you're doing. So we're using lawlessness to fight lawlessness. And we wonder why we have chaos. You know what's missing in the whole picture? A dad who would walk out on the interstate, grab his child by the back of the neck and say, we're going home and you are never doing this again. That's what we're missing. We're missing fathers who will set the example on righteousness. And I had one person say to me, what do you think of this scenario? You had a immigrant couple from Mexico come, they've been living in the United States. They birthed a child here who is now graduating high school, 18 years old graduating high school. And Trump and his people got the parents and are now expelling them out of the country because they're illegal. And they can't be at their child's high school graduation who he was born here so he's a legal citizen. What do you think of that? Here's what I think. The child was born here and now he's 18. Why are you not citizens yet? Why are you still here illegally after 18 years? Maybe you need the boot. You know, it goes back to that was a stupid thing to do. You might be very intelligent because in your mind you might be getting all kinds of benefits and you were beating the system. But in the long run that was a stupid thing to do. Become a citizen, pull your weight, be part of a society and let's do this thing together. Not use us and then when it catches up with you, you dirty dogs throwing me out of the country. You should have been gone 18 years ago. Or you should have started becoming a citizen. I'll burn your house down. See that's just a godly response to that, isn't it? It's like, why do we have such all over the charts thinking because we don't have godly fathers? And the further we get into the end times, the deeper the deception gets, the more the power of antichrist is rising, the further we're off gauge. My father was not an abuser, period. Mom? There were some days I was questionable, but dad was not an abuser. He was a quiet guy and if he got loud you knew it's time to shut up and sit down because something stirred him up. Because he's just quiet guy who just went through life, he was not an abuser. But if he would have ever caught me throwing a brick at a police officer, I would have remembered and come to the understanding of who my father was. It wouldn't have made any difference if the President of the United States was standing right there. It would have been between me and him at that moment. And it wouldn't have went down well for me. Well, that's just control and abuse. No, that's being a father. That's being a man who will step up and lead. I'm going to switch back and forth here a couple of times, so bear with me. See, to me it kind of goes back to that verse I read to you at the beginning. What part of fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God? We don't get. It's just too hard to understand. I mean, what would God mean by that? Just read it. That's what he means. What part of you're illegal? You don't get. Well, I got rights here too. You got none here. You're illegal. Exactly. You got no rights here. There we go. You're illegal. See, we've been talking in the tithing, we've been talking about the covenants. Remember the first big covenant, Noah's covenant? Anybody know what that covenant established on earth? Government or law? Go back and read it. Genesis 8, kind of most of 8 and then into 9. Basic law laid out was you kill someone, you'll be killed. If an animal kills a human being, the animal will be killed. You have to respect each other, you have to let each other live. It's just some real basic laws, basic laws of government. That covenant is still in place. Every time it rains, we see a rainbow. That's the sign of that covenant. It says that the wickedness on earth became so great. Have you ever read any secular stuff on the Nephilim? Like from Josephus, he was a Jewish historian. There's a number of them out there, including you can read the book of Enoch. Some of that stuff, have you ever read any of that? These Nephilim were brutal. They were big, and they would eat humans for snacks. Not all of them, but there were those. And the wickedness and the violence grew to such a point, God had to say, okay, we have to end this and reboot. When people think they can be lawless, wicked, violent, and get away with it, once that's programmed into them, it's really hard to pull that back out, because they think it's their right. The thing that stops children from growing up thinking they can be wicked, violent, lawless, and get away with it, is dad. It's not mom, they'll argue with mom till the sun sets. It's dad. And for those of you that are in single-parent families, my heart goes out to you because you're with, whether you're a guy raising the children, or whether you're a lady raising the children, you're missing half the anointing, and you're going to have to try to step in and cover that and ask God to help cover that, because men raising children alone don't produce the results as if they have that helpmate working with them. The results don't turn out as well. It's designed to be a dual thing. But we are now in a society that almost leans towards men are inept, men are incapable, men make stupid decisions. It started with Tooltime, Tim Taylor, went in with Everybody Loves Raymond, you know, just to name a couple of the shows, Simpsons weren't much better for those of you that are immature enough to watch a Simpsons. If I stepped on your toes, I'm sorry, but for you to enjoy the symptoms, at the Simpsons, something needs to grow up. But it's the same thing. It's the guys are incapable, and the women have to step up. Yeah. Mary pointed it out. Have you ever noticed? Just go through Netflix, just go through some of the movies. We have as many or more strong hero women as the heroines now, as we've got guys. This little 95 pound chick will take out this 285 pound bodybuilder and she'll just lay him flat and beat him up and move on to the next one. And it's like, what delusion are these people living in? I mean she'd come at him and he would just grab her by the neck and lift her up and it'd be history. But it's a plan. It's a plan to get women out to the forefront because when you've got them out of the forefront and the man incapable of being a father now you're going to raise a bunch of messed up kids which is exactly what the enemy wants. So we have to, if we're single parents I know it's tough but we have to recognize it so we can adjust get God involved and make some changes in it. Huh? The king protests. That's just this last week, yesterday. Push back against President Trump being a king. Now I'm going to say something that, you know, maybe surprise you. There's some things that, Trump is a brilliant man but there's some things he does that are just stupid. It's like you brought this one on yourself, this king thing? I mean you just said some stupid things, did some stupid things out of your own arrogance and now it got turned on you. And you're too smart to be that dumb. But here we are. So the protests are against a president trying to be a dictator or a king which he's so much a dictator and a king he's just shoving this down our throats he's overrunning the courts with sending the military to LA and the cities and he's just a dictator, he's acting like a king and he set himself up for that so well there you go. Plant seed, you get harvest. But I have a question for you. When was Biden ever called a dictator or a king when he started writing the executive orders that forced us to let boys and girls bathrooms and girls and boys bathrooms that forced us to allow boys to compete on girls teams high school on up that forced us to teach multitude of genders in our school system or you lose federal funding. Just as a little fun here let me bring this up. Now you don't know what you're talking about. So I'll have to interrupt and say you don't know where I'm going so AutoPen wouldn't help. See if it's here. Yeah. You're going to want to see this if you haven't seen this yet. This is what gets produced when people do stupid things. Well, I'm not going to be able to play to you. It's on YouTube. If you want to look it up, you can do so. A congressperson was asking Governor Waltz a question. What is a woman? Could you tell me what a woman is? The governor of six, seven million people the state that is known for its medical expertise known around the world Minnesota, Mayo Clinic. Could you tell me what a woman is? He got the shock look on his face. And this is what he said. Excuse me. I'm not sure I understand the question. And you're the governor? How many protests? How many buildings were burned down? How many highways were blocked when those kind of executive orders came down? When this gender identity delusion was being taught as fact and still is in some places. Demanding DEI and critical race theory be taught and people who are white need to apologize for their white privilege and all this. Where was all the lawlessness that blew up over that? None. Was there even any protests? Not really. And there's a problem. Where were our godly fathers? Saying you're going to tell my daughter to go into a locker room and a boy can walk in at any time and shower with her? The godly father should have come unglued. Maybe we've heard too long, honey, you need to control yourself and calm down. Mama, there's times dad needs to stand up and let his voice be known. Don't tell him to sit down and be quiet. He actually needs to stand up and draw a line in the sand and say, No. We're not doing this. That's part of being a father. And I agree, men can be abusive and brutal. That's where a healthy wife can be a helpmate to him and help curb some of that. Flip side of that is women can be abusive and brutal too. They just do it differently. But we're not talking about mothers today, we're talking about fathers. But I'll tell you this, there's been a coordinated effort to cut the feet out from underneath men so they quit carrying their rightful position in this land. They keep being portraying us as incapable, inept, etc. And the swing to run our society on emotion rather than common sense wisdom and law is now producing what we are seeing on TV on a daily basis. Because the people who are throwing the fits are coming out of their emotion. Doesn't make any difference. These people are illegal. There's criminals involved in these people. There's problems here. Illegal is the only word you need. Doesn't make any difference. We're being so sad and so bad and so mean We were once immigrants too, and yeah, and you know what? My parents had a sign in when they came across, or my grandparents, when they came across the sea. At Ellis Island. That was immigration at that point. They didn't sneak in from Canada. Or Mexico. Just saying. So to take it a step further, this is a picture. This will help. Here's the most recent. As soon as it hooks up, we'll be there. Here's the most recent problem we have. The democrat speaker of the house was murdered night before last. In her home. Now nobody knows exactly why, and they suspect they know who. But I find this interesting. Just hours before Minnesota representative Melissa Hortman, age 55, and her husband were brutally gunned down in their home. She broke down in tears on camera. Defending her courageous vote with Republicans to cut health care for adult illegal immigrants. She said, as the lone democrat to support the June 12th bill, she said, I did what leaders do. I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota. Now police confirm her murder was politically motivated. Huh. Apparently the Republicans didn't want her boating with them. Because it's the Trump gang that would have killed her. Really? So the police themselves are saying it's politically motivated. Here's the guy they think that did it. The main suspect that they have at this point is, is... For those of you online, somebody said which one? It's the left one, far as I know. He was appointed into office by Governor Walts. That's why they got his picture there with him. He was appointed by Governor Walts and I've got it written here someplace. He was actively involved with the king, distributing the flyers for the king protests and was against everything that, you know, that party is trying to do. I'm not going to say one way or the other, but I will say this. It seems odd to me that shortly after one of their people breaks rank, they end up dead. By one of their own people, if he actually did it. We don't know if he did. But if he did. Huh. You know what that comes from? Could. It could. I'm going to dig a little deeper than that though. Fatherlessness. Fatherlessness. What gives you the right just because you disagree with someone to go kill them? You know what gives that right? So don't get offended with this. I'm just going to give you a thought. Emotional mothers who will defend their children even when their children are wrong. That's what will give a little boy growing up the right to where he thinks I can do what I want because mom always told me. It's okay, honey. When dad should have come in there and cuffed him up the backside of the head and sit down, shut up. We're going to have a talk now. You are not throwing rocks at cars that drive by. See, that's where it starts. Do you ever have to do that with any of your boys? You wouldn't admit it. I want to give you one more example. Then I want to pray for the fathers. And to give you this example, I'm going to have to again go to screen mirror and hopefully this comes live for me. The video wouldn't play, but hopefully this does. I want to show you something that is an extreme problem in this country. That is the U.S. debt clock, and they've rearranged it on us. They've been hiding some things. Up on the top left, the U.S. national debt is $36 trillion. And look how fast she's growing. That's craziness. Now they used to list everything else out on this and they don't anymore, but one person was kind enough to do it. There's the U.S. national debt, $36 trillion at the top. See it? So it gives the national debt per person on the $36 trillion per household. Then it starts listing other things that I talked to just a couple of years back already when it was on the other debt clock. These things were there. Now they're not anymore. They've hit them. I asked the banker in town, I said, you're smarter and money stuffed in me, I think. Give me some description of what U.S. unfunded liabilities are. He said, well, that's all the IOUs we have written to other countries on pieces of paper saying give us the money and we'll pay you back later. Do you know what our current IOUs are to other countries right now? Top line. $123 trillion. Go down the list. Social security, unfunded liability. Mr. Banker, what's that? He says, that's when they reach in the Social Security Fund, take out money and put it in the general fund. So the general fund doesn't look so bad. Well, what's the Medicare unfunded liability? Well, that's when they're doing the same thing with Medicare. They're seizing money from Medicare to pay bills, so it doesn't look so bad. Prescription drug, national health care, all the same? Yep, he said it's all the same. So if we go across to the Social Security unfunded liability, $15 trillion, Medicare, $79 trillion. Uh, prescription drug and national health care, prescription drug is $19 trillion and national health care is $9 trillion. Liabilities. You know what this means? We are not $36 trillion in debt, like they tell you. We are $282 trillion in debt. Which, of course, is too big a number. I don't carry that big a number in my checkbook. So it's hard to understand it. So I'm going to break it down for you. Maybe I should. Let me mirror this for you also. Because sometimes seeing and hearing, that's why I do so many PowerPoints. Seeing and hearing sticks with us better than just hearing. Government spending, I just showed you the U.S. debt clock. So what I added it all up, it's $282.7 trillion in climbing. Now, Gary put me on to this last night. I thought this was really good. I'll put it down here so you don't read ahead. So you got to read at the bottom because I know you're going to try to cheat on me. One million seconds is approximately 11 days and 13 hours, 46 minutes. One million seconds. Okay, so now I got all these figures from AI so they're all right. I did not figure this out longhand. I just asked AI and within seconds they spit it out. Okay, one trillion seconds, or one, my mistake, one billion seconds is approximately 31 years and eight months. One billion. So we're talking one billion dollars. That gives you an idea. Every second one dollar would take 31 years and eight months to count one billion dollars. One trillion seconds is approximately 31,688 years. One trillion. Two hundred and eighty two trillion seconds. One per second, just count them out, is approximately 8,936,000 years of seconds. So if we would take $1,000 per second and put it at the national debt to pay it off, it would take us almost 9,000 years. $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $4,000, $5,000 at that pace. Almost 9,000 years to pay off our national debt. Now, outside of corruption, which is anybody in government seems to smell that, but outside of corruption, I lay the blame for that, the lack of fathers. Emotional spending will get you that. Corrupt spending will get you that. The father is the one who needs to say, we don't have the money to buy that right now. But mom, all my friends have it. Her job is to go with the father and they become a team and cause the child to learn there are limits in life. You can't overspend your limits. And no, I'm not going to sink the bank account to make you feel good. All that stuff is learned in childhood. There's only so much money to go around. I heard one guy say it this way, you can, you know, unless you're a billion billionaire, the average millionaire, they can spend that in a year or two. I mean, the more you make, the more you spend typically. You buy things you wouldn't buy if you didn't make that much. So you spend it. We are in a culture now that is run by emotion. That is basically a female driven thing because Adam was created first. He was very logical. He named all the animals this, that and the other. Got all that job done and God looked at him and said he's alone. It's not good for man to be alone. Loneliness is an emotion. It's not a reasoning problem. It's an emotion. He lacked an emotional support. He said, so I'm going to make a helpmate for him to give him that emotional support. So he made another extremely logical being to help him with his emotions. No, he made an emotional being. So guys, that question you've asked your wife for years now, why are you so emotional? I just gave you the answer. God made her that way. Now, yeah, she needs to learn to control it. Actually, zip it at times. I mean, it's all part of maturing. But he was lonely, so God made an emotional partner for him. Now, we've got guys being reduced. You don't know what you're doing. You've got white privilege. The running joke still is, if you're 50 years, 55 years up, white, a male, you are now the criminal of all society and have brought evil. All evils on society is on you. Because you had white privilege and you're a bigot and you're a racist and you're all this stuff. Any facts? Don't need any. It's how I feel. I just feel like it. And then they won't reason with you. Have you ever tried? You know, we went to the Capitol and we were trying to prevent some of the stupid things being passed. And the left extremists were there. They wouldn't talk with you. They yell at you. Aha, we got you down. Trunk can't do anything for you now. Can we talk? We don't need to talk. We're right. It's like, you're running on pure emotion. You know what we need? We need a good dose of a logical dad to step up and say, shut up. Hold your tongue long enough that I, as your father, can talk with you. Yeah. But to many households, dad has been relegated to the background because he doesn't know what he's doing. And mom has stepped up and here we are. This is what we got. Guys, without being abusive, without being dominating, without being a dictator, without being a controller. Guys, we need to be the men God created us to be. Stop cow tailing and step up and lead in our culture. Ladies, you need to encourage and let your men be godly men. Quit beating them back for every opinion they've got because it doesn't feel right. It may feel horrible, but it still can be the right thing to do. I realize to take a stand on right and wrong can come off harsh, no matter how it's presented. We've got to try to present it the best we can in love. But ladies, in your efforts to reduce the abuse, don't destroy the core of the man and what God's created him to be. He needs to be a father to your family. Not saying he does everything right. That's why you're there to help him. And if he's a godly man, he'll listen to you. But don't take his place. You can't make it happen. It doesn't work. Our society is desperately in need of godly men who will pick up a righteous club and beat back sin, beat back the demonic, beat back the culture, beat back everything that is standing against righteousness because our nation, our culture, has lost its way. And when men come forward, and I don't agree with everything Trump does or how he does it. But you know what? You've got to have a pretty rough personality to put up with what that man put up with. And still say, oh yeah, I'll run for president again. You've got to have some loose screws, man. It's like, you wouldn't have talked me into it. But he feels called by God to do it. And I don't like everything he does and frankly I don't like his personality. But you know what? We hired him to do a job and he's doing the job. He's trying to be a man. And all the extremists are trying to say, oh he's so mean. No, he's actually trying to enforce the law. That's what he's trying to do. And see, that's why the end game is to change the laws. So there's no laws to enforce. Right now, we still have laws to enforce. So ladies, men will never be fully palatable to you as women. They're always going to leave a little bit of a bad taste in your mouth. Because to be fully palatable to you, they'd have to be like you. And God didn't make them like you. He made them men and he made you a woman. And he says now, we're going to put you two together in the same ring and see if you can figure out love and how to get along in your fallen condition. It wasn't supposed to be that way, but in the fallen condition. So men will never be fully palatable to you. And guess what, ladies, you're not fully palatable to us either. There's some ways you approach things that's just like, I'm gagging on that one. That one's hard to swallow. But you know what, if we'll get God in the middle of it, take our rightful roles and take a stand on him and his righteousness and his morals and his word, we can still restore things in the church and in the country. Because the way the church goes, the country follows. We still are the salt and the light. And we've refused to do it well for too many decades and here we are. So fathers, we need you to be fathers. Man, we need you to find out what a man is and become a man. And there's plenty of places in the word, you can read it. You know, when God was talking to Job and he said, you need to gird up and be a man because I've got some things to tell you. I think it's in Job 40, chapter 40. It's right in that area. God basically read Job's riot act and said, if you're going to be a man, you're going to set up and you're going to listen to me. Now be a man, gird up and let me be a father to you, Job. That's the example of a man. It's the example of a father. And I believe with all my heart, God is looking at us as men, as fathers. And saying, are you going to do anything about this? I know we've been told we can't do anything about it and you're going to break it, you're going to make it worse, you're going to hurt somebody's feelings. Well, that can happen. But don't cut our feet out from underneath us so we do nothing. Guys, we need you to be men. And I want us, it's voluntary, it's up to you. I want us as guys, whether you're married, unmarried, still a young man, 80 years old, makes a difference. If you're a man, and I'm going to do what Governor Walts is incapable of, I'm going to describe to you a man. He carries a certain set of DNA chromosomes that are different than the woman's. His plumbing is different than the woman's. He thinks different than the woman's. Do I need to continue? He helps produce children, but he's incapable of carrying and gestating them. And a man is not a deadbeat dad. And how I intended the phrase to be used was when the pressure of life comes on and you're wondering how you as a husband or a father got into this situation and someplace far, far away seems a really good idea. You don't squirt and run. You know how you have a tomato and you put pressure on it? You don't squirt? That's the idea. I want us to pray over our men. So if you're a man or you're still a boy headed that direction, voluntary, but please come to the front. We want to pray together. Here come the stabilizers of society. And I'm not belittling a good woman because I want a peaceful day yet today. So I'm not going to belittle a good woman. But there is a role a man plays and God's calling us back to it. Amen. I'd love nothing more than to have those of you ladies who agree to come in behind and support us as we pray. Pray for your men. Heavenly Father, we are living in a very, very messed up society, culture. And the pressures of deception, the pressures of lawlessness, the pressures of doubt and self questioning and these things are pushing in on us at an enormous rate and amount. I am praying and I am asking that myself and these men, we offer ourselves to you. Give us the wherewithal to step into being men if we're not. And if we are, give us the ability to do it with grace. Have the power flow and control and literally affect society for a godly righteous person. Purpose. Reason. Every time we do something godly it affects somebody. Every time we do something ungodly it affects somebody. Lord, help us to step up as men and be men. Forgive us for our failings. Forgive us for our shortcomings. But Holy Spirit, we are 100% dependent on you. Make the word flesh in us in the beginning. God created man. Return us to that creation. Return us to that creation. In Jesus' name. Amen. Make us bold. Make us wise. Bless us that everything we lay our hands to, the anointing just drips off of it. And everything changes. Give us the ability to join with our spouses if we're married and learn things of emotion, learn things of empathy, learn things of insight beyond the rules and the laws and the intellect and the logic. Make us to learn and be wise and submissive and not proud so we can come under truth no matter where the source is. And then give us the ability to stand up for it and live it. Make this church. Make TBO. Make those who are watching online. Make us to be a peculiar people. In this world. Like you call us. Make us to be real men. Real men. Which is going to stand out and be a bit peculiar right now but it's what this world desperately needs. Make us into that in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name.