[Music] sometimes my life seems gentle and blessings [Music] just boys with words [Music] me always on my knees Lord I need Lord help me to remember [Music] my song [Music] oh Lord I need you when the wind is [Music]
foreign [Music] thank you so much for that special Lord I
need you and then Justin How Great Thou Art and I know I'm a little prejudiced but I think
they should just give our our kids first place and the competitions I don't even have to
hear the rest of the competitors appreciate t
heir their their work that went into that
that just didn't happen just happen a lot of work and then their willingness that's
huge to get in front of people and to sing and to play the piano and so we praise the
Lord for their willingness to bless our hearts this morning we're gonna go ahead and dismiss
our kids and by the way our young kids in about 10 years that's probably going to be
you up here Jacob you're going to be at the piano playing my Jesus I love thee and maybe
May and Sophia and Li
ly will sing a trio up here they're like let's get out of here real
quick oh it's it's great uh um encourage young people
to develop their talents and their gifts for the Lord Jesus Christ Genesis chapter 2 this
morning we continue in our summer series on Family Matters and we're looking at what the
Bible has to say about the Christian home and we've looked at our first message was
kind of the the foundation and this morning we're going to continue talking about Foundation
but the foundation spe
cifically of marriage of of making sure that there's salvation that
there's surrender that there is belief in the permanence of marriage and and just a
willingness to to do God's word and the parents blessing and then the following message we
looked at where the only place really where a math equation one plus one equals one and
talking about the the union and the marriage relationship uh physically and and mentally
and Also spiritually as well I came across this quote actually this morning I wa
s reading
in a commentary by Warren wearsby and and I've never heard it said like this but I thought
it was very powerful because if if we're honest um our our world today our culture our society
um does not really have much positive things as far as when it comes to a Christian and
the home and the marriage as far as encouragement for us as Christians and in a matter of fact
it can be very discouraging to look at what the world is teaching what culture is saying
and at times even us as Christia
ns we can even be tempted to question well it is what
God says really absolutely true and is there room for more diversity and more different
thinking than what the Bible says and we're in where and where's we said this he said
marriage was born the loving heart of God for the blessing and the benefit of mankind
and then this was a statement that just really encouraged my heart he said no matter what
the Court's decree or what culture or Society May permit when it comes to marriage when
it comes
to the family God had the first word and God will have the final word and we look
to the Book of Genesis and we look to Creation in the first two chapters and we see God has
the first word but if you were actually to go all the way to the end of the the New Testament
in Hebrews God has some very strong words about marriage in Hebrews 13 4. marriage is
Honorable and all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge
then the very last chapter of the Book of Revelation Revel
ation chapter 22 and I think
it's verse 15. it's talking about those who will not have a part of Heaven and one of
those descriptives and again these are people who have not trusted Christ as a personal
savior their names were not written the Lamb's Book of Life but whoremongers perverted perverters
of the institution of marriage of the home that God has set up so so no matter what the
Court's decree no matter what society and culture uh promotes God has had the first
word and God will also have
the final word so in Genesis chapter 2 this morning we'll
be looking at verses 18 through 25 where the Bible says these words and the Lord God said
it is not good that man should be alone I will make him and help me for him and out
of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and
brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them and whatsoever Adam called every
living creature that was the name thereof and Adam gave names to all cattle into the
fowl t
he air into every beast of the field but for Adam there was not found to help me
for him and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slapped and he took
one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof and the rib which the Lord God had
taken for man made he a woman and brought her unto the man verse 23 and Adam said this
is now bone of my bone and Flesh of My Flesh she shall be called woman because she was
taken out of man then verse 24 and 25 therefore shall a man leav
e his father and his mother
and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and they are both naked the man
and his wife and we're not ashamed let's pray father I pray that you help us now as we look
at some foundational truths for the family and for specifically the marriage relationship
and God regardless of what of all the noise outside father may we not be discouraged may
we not be distracted but may we look to your infallible word may we look to your word that
you've given us to
be that lamp unto our feet and our light and to our path may we look
to that word that's Shar sharper than any two-edged sword that divides the thoughts
and the intents of the heart that word that is like the mirror that reflects shows us
what manner of man we are and what manner of man you ought you desire for us and you
desire by your spirit and your word to change us more into the image of the Lord Jesus Christ
so help us to see truth this morning that would encourage us where we are whether
we
have a family or do not may we realize that these truths are important because each one
of us will be interacting with others and and have an opportunity to influence them
biblically I pray these things in Christ's name amen here in Genesis chapter 2 we're
going to be looking at some building blocks to affirm Foundation Psalm 127 verse 1 says
accept the Lord build the house they that labor labor in vain just as any building that
goes up there's work that is involved and there's hard work that
is involved so it is
for a marriage to work so it is for a home to work there's hard work that is involved
it takes work for that husband and wife to work together and to live together and and
to have a happy marriage to have a blessed marriage it takes work for parents as they
raise their children and for children to follow the leadership of their parents as well Christ
if we were to look at the scriptures he's really involved in three building projects
the first one as he said in John 14 and
the John chapter 14 I go to prepare a place for
you so he is building a Heavenly mansion for all those who have trusted Christ as their
personal savior so he's building a home for our future he's also actively building a place
for our faith to be encouraged and strengthened Christ said to Peter about Peter's confession
of himself in the gospel of Matthew Upon This Rock will I build my church and I praise the
Lord for here at Open Door Baptist Church and other churches throughout Catalina and
Tuc
son in Arizona in the uttermost parts of the Earth where Christ is actively building
his church and he said the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail against it but as we just read
in Psalm 127 verse 1 the Lord is also Building Homes and as we consider the home or the family
that we are a part of we certainly as we're working as we're laboring we do not want that
to be in vain and so three specific building blocks that will help us as we seek to have
a a a a faithful Foundation a family's faithful Fou
ndation the first one is this is that we
should desire to have a god-oriented or a god-focused foundation a god-oriented or a
god-focused foundation Verse 18 of Genesis chapter 2 it says and the Lord God said it
is not good that man should be alone I will make him a help me for him God is the one
who who created marriage who started the family that phrase I will make marriage the home
was formed by God it was founded by his power it was sanctioned by his authority and so
when we think about a fo
undation we think about a marriage and a home a god-oriented
foundation must have an authority the reason being is because in our marriages in our homes
there are decisions that need to be made and what is the basis what is the foundation what
is the Authority for which those decisions are made what is the what is the foundation
or what is the basis for the value system that you have in your marriage or your home
and it is so important if God is the one who created marriage in the home he is the
one
who has the power to create it but also he has the authority to give us the direction
to help us establish to see this value system in the home is something that will help your
home be successful that will help your home have peace and Harmony and love and So a family
is built upon a source of authority and we want to be sure that we have a god-oriented
foundation what are the the value what are the authority systems that families can be
built on well one a a Family Foundation can be built
upon Human Experience and to an extent
all of our families that we are a part of right now are are a result and are influenced
by our Human Experience now think about the the young person who grows up in a Christian
home we're both Dad and Mom love God and they have placed a value system based upon God
and upon his word and and we understand that no one's perfect and we're going to take a
look at that our last point this morning the fact that we're all Sinners and we're all
selfish we're all dam
aged and so there needs to be grace in our lives but but when it comes
to a family that is a Christian Home growing up in a Christian home and having that as
your experience that can help when God allows you to create your own family have your own
marriage have your own children and so you can learn from the example but Human Experience
is just not enough because there can be exposure to God there can be an exposure to God's word
but unless it becomes personal unless the values in other words we
always went to church
as a family does not guarantee that when that child starts their family as an adult that
they'll always go to church it must be more than this is what we always did they must
see the value they must see the importance it must be personal for them so Human Experience
can be a basis or a foundation upon which families determine their value system determine
the the direction that they're going and that can be good but also can be bad you think
about some families that would y
ou we would use the word in in this is by no means um
judgmental or critical okay I just want to preface a statement with this but you have
possibly used the word or maybe some of you may have come from a family where we where
the term would be used a broken family and the Brokenness comes the Brokenness comes
from from sin and all of us are sinners and All Families have sin problems but in other
words the family is is not um as God intended it to be as we see in the scriptures uh there
may be a
a pattern or an example where in that family possessions or materialism is
the complete Focus and because materialism and and possessions has been the focus and
not God the focus the the propagation or the Perpetual thing that happens is when the children
grow up that's the example they've seen and so they live for the material they live for
the possessions if there's some sort of of an addiction within a home um and whether
that's alcohol or whether that's uh drugs or or gambling or you can go
through all different
types of addictions many times those addictions are passed on as a children grow up why because
they saw that as as a pastor now here at Open Door for 13 years in our 14th year as we've
ministered with families both within our church and also in the community and and our church
fan that goes out and brings kids in many times insight into a child's life is gained
when you see their home life and I'll never forget a few years ago it was on a Monday
morning we are getting rea
dy to to leave for West Branch camp and we had a good group of
teenagers going and we had some of our children that would come from our church van Ministry
so their parents don't come to church but they had come to church I can remember two
of our two of our teenagers being dropped off by their mom and and these these teenagers
we've we've loved on them we've helped them and we've worked with them but what I saw
transpire between the mom and the daughters and specifically the mother towards the
daughters
just broke my heart and and we'd seen other things in the past but it was just a reminder
for me that just reminded me you know what this is the pattern that they see every single
day and by the way we don't have to be a victim of our Human Experience God can help overcome
no matter what negative experiences we may have had but Human Experience is a basis of
which families are marriages are created and families are are created and they grow and
they just well this is the way we did it
in our home or this is what I mean I didn't have
a father growing up and so Mom did everything and so in in our home I his wife I do everything
and the husband won't do anything and you see how we allow human experience to become
the foundation for how we live and how we make decisions as a family so Human Experience
can be the basis culture can become the basis we think about media today advertising the
educational system years ago the family shows were like I mean
they're like archaic now but
like Leave It to Beaver black and white um you have Little
House on the Prairie you have The Waltons and even as you watch The Waltons things kind
of progress through time even with the Waltons but now you you consider when I was a teenager
back in the 90s and and this this will date me and I don't know really what's popular
and and mainstream today but the Simpsons a cartoon a fictitious cartoon Family character
was very popular a perverted program called Married With Children when I was a teen
ager
that was very popular and I I can't even imagine what is mainstream media today not not not
just perversion within a family unit but just um with with all of the the homosexuality
it's just and that is what people are lucky to to form the basis of okay is marriage even
needed can't people just live together they love each other I mean is is marriage just
really between a a man and a woman or can it be between a man and a man and a woman
and a woman well this is the way that I am and and so
I should have the same rights as
a husband and a wife should have and so we have the media uh we have an educational system
I mean to think that there used to be a day where you could go to the public library and
you can leave your kids there for Bible for first for the story reading time but now they have all sorts of there is an
agenda driven to try and reach our children with what the Bible calls is a perversion
it's a sin and so we have culture that tells us you know if you are biological bi
ologically
a male and you identify as a woman that's okay um I was really excited for many years to
be born in the month of June but now recently the month of June in everything that it is
associated with it breaks my heart to think about the the agenda that is promoted throughout
the whole month of Junie say well Pastor Kramer you're not being very loving right now no
I I want for us to understand and for us to see that there is an agenda in our culture
day and we can't just take whatever whate
ver the display at the local store that we shop
in just because we walk in and we see a display that promotes what the Bible would call wickedness
and sinfulness just because there is a display or there's an advertisement does not mean
that we should accept it or we should allow it to be a part of our lives and to influence
us and so what is it that people's foundations that they're building their lives upon well
Human Experience but Human Experience is flawed culture well we know that culture i
s not for
God it's not for the Bible the the the all that is in the world as it says in first John
chapter 2 the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life all that's
the world um it will pass away but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever so what
Foundation well we need to have a god-oriented foundation we need to look to the word of
God and so God in Genesis chapter 2 he says here I will make for Adam a help me and he
made a woman and he brought Adam and Eve together
and they had children in the context of a
marriage relationship and so God should be the basis of our foundation and he's given
us the word as we continue in this series we're going to see what does the Bible have
to say about what a husband is about what a wife is what a father should be what a mother
should be what children should be we look to the world we look to Human Experience and
we have an idea but does that idea does culture does it match with what the Bible says well
just because ever
yone else is doing just because another church may be doing it just because
another Christian family may be accepting it doesn't mean that it's what God would have
for us and so we need to have a god-oriented foundation again the key for the god-oriented
foundation is he is the creator of marriage in the home he is the one who has the authority
to direct us and so a building block for a family's faithful Foundation is a god-oriented
foundation secondly a goal-oriented foundation a goal-oriented
foundation verse 24 of verse
of chapter two therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave
unto his wife and they shall be one flesh now this is very difficult for me at this
stage in life this whole leaving and cleaving thing because I have two adult children now
and I mean we are thrilled whenever they're home but God did not intend for our children
to stay at home forever we thank the Lord for the family that God has given us so what
is the goal for the family the goal
is for there to be Oneness for there to be Unity
Oneness and unity as there's a leaving and there's a cleaving now um our two adult children
probably within the next I I'll just say the next the next I don't
know how long for one I'm pretty certain it's extended years
all right but but when when I I think about that you know there is going to be a leaving
of Robin and I and as they leave I will say this Kylie's not here but Cason is leaving
does not mean absolutely no communication ever again o
kay and that's in the Hebrew there
trust me it doesn't mean no communication but it does mean that there is a physical
departure there is a departure of dependence as well it doesn't mean that you can't ask
your parents for counsel as a 49 year old when I had my birthday um a little bit two
Sundays ago I was talking with Kyle He says Dad are you 50 now I said not yet I'm just
49. okay I still got one more year before 50. but when when it comes to um that I lost
my train of thought anyways um the
re is there is a leaving and and what our family has been
in unified and committed and Oneness now that it's going to start all over again Lord willing
with um case and as he gets married and way down the years when Kylie gets married there
will be a leaving and that's important for us as parents to realize yes that's God's
plan for them to leave and now they are to cleave as we looked at just a few weeks ago
where one plus one equals one there now is uh a becoming of one there's a joining toget
her
of they are becoming one flesh and that takes work but it should be a goal for every marriage
and as God allows for their family to come for there to be Unity for there to be cleaving
for there to be Oneness and that's difficult because we are different God creates different
and we're thankful for the differences but we communicate differently we think differently
and so when it comes to the goal-oriented foundation it should be a goal to we're not
compatible but we should strive towards com
patibility our compatibility comes from God our compatibility
comes through the holy spirit of God that he's given us through the word of God that
guides us and has given us a god-oriented foundation so while we're different while
we communicate different the goal should be compatibility the goal also should be commitment
there should be commitment to one another and as a marriage relationship grows and as
God gives children who are completely different they're born just like their father selfis
h
and sinful and that's all that their life consists of is their needs being met and then
they grow but having compatibility and as parents being committed to that and through
the different stages whether it's the baby or the toddlers or you know the young child
and then they finally get to be a teenager and all those stages God wants there to be
Oneness he wants there to be Unity he wants there to be compatibility and also for there
to be commitment the word cleave means to be joined together w
e need to be committed
to God's word we need to be committed to a biblical definition of love it's not what
you can do for me but it's what Can I sacrificially Give to make you better to make you more like
the Lord Jesus Christ a fair question for us to ask ourselves when it comes to this
area of a goal-oriented foundation this goal leaving and cleaving this goal of compatibility
this goal of commitment what is my life or what is life like for my spouse living with
me what is life like for my ch
ild living with me what is life like for my parent living
with me is there Unity is there a commitment to being one or is there division if we are
to have a solid foundation our family our marriage must be a god-oriented foundation
God is the authority we must have a goal-oriented foundation striving for Oneness striving for
Unity and by the way what God desires in the home he also Desires in the church he desires
for us to strive together for the sake of the Gospel that we we be unified as a ch
urch
as we're fulfilling those purposes so we have a god-oriented foundation a Grace oriented
foundation and thirdly or excuse me a god-oriented a goal-oriented and then thirdly a grace-oriented
foundation look at verse 25 of Genesis chapter 2. here it says and they were both naked speaking
of Adam and Eve and the man and his wife and we're not ashamed and it'd be wonderful if
the last verse in verse 26 says and they lived happily ever after but we know that's not
what the Bible says and we know
that's not what the next chapter gives for us matter
of fact just 11 verses later in Genesis 3 10 it says of those who in Genesis 2 25 they
were both naked man and woman and were not ashamed Genesis 3 10 Adams speaking to God
says I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself so what is it that that goes against a god-oriented
foundation god-being Authority Not Human Experience not culture but God the Bible what is it that
goes against a goal-oriented fou
ndation where the goal is Unity is Oneness is commitment
what goes against that is the fact that we're all sinners that is helpful for us to realize
even if we have a Christian family we're all members of the family have professed faith
and trust in Christ as their personal savior the thing that goes against the family the
marriage that God wants it to be is a fact that we're all Sinners still in that family
relationship the husband father the wife mother the the parents or the the children the
brothers
and sisters and and the children in that relationship all of us are sinners not only are all of
us sinners but all of us are selfish when God in Genesis chapter 3 says well Adam you
know did you take the tree and the knowledge of Good and Evil and he says well it was the
woman that she gave me and he said it was a snake that tripped me making excuses selfish
preserving their image as as as if their sin would be overlooked if what they had done
and so the the problem within the family wi
thin the marriage is that we're all Sinners that
we're all selfish but in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 21 God did something wonderful for
Adam and Eve the Sinners and the selfish ones says and unto Adam also and to his wife to
the Lord God make clothes of skin and he clothed them although the enemies of our marriage and our
home our our sin natures and our selfish natures I'm thankful for God's grace that's what those
those animal skins that covered their neck in this they were a picture of God's
grace
and we can look through the Old Testament and and we can see the animal sacrifice and
how the Lambs were a picture of the Messiah that would come in John chapter 1 John says
Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world and then we see Jesus Christ
dying up on the cross his blood being shed um dying being buried for three days and then
Rising again and here's the hope for our marriages and our homes today even though we're Sinners
even though we're selfish even though we'
re all if you want to say damaged goods God's
grace is available God's grace is available to provide salvation from our sins but God's
grace is also available in our home God's grace is available for that husband who sinned again for that wife that sinned
again for that child for the umpty time or for the parent who for the umpteenth time
did not keep their promise to their child I'm thankful that in our homes in our marriages
that God's grace is available and that God wants one of the foundatio
nal building blocks
of our families and our marriages to be is his grace I'm so thankful it's not his Justice
I'm so thankful it's not his Holiness his judgment but it's his grace there's a story
that Christ told well three stories in Luke chapter 15. about the lost sheep the Lost
coin and the lost son and the parable of the it's known as the parable of the Prodigal
Son the son one of two said to his father I want my inheritance now his father gave
him his inheritance he went off into another co
untry and he wasted his inheritance he lived
of the world and then finally when he wasted all of his inheritance it says he joined himself
to another man and the word join means to become to be stuck together like glue and
this man that he joined himself together with he was living with the pigs and eating the
pig's food leftovers what a wonderful end result of rebellion against the Father's Love
and living the way that he wanted to live but there came a point where he said the Servants of my fa
ther's
house are treated much better than I am I'm going to go back to Dad I'm going to say make
me as one of your servants and as he went back the father of the prodigal son had such
Grace he didn't sit him down and interrogate him he didn't sit him down and give him 10
steps of why he is where he is today when the son came back and said I'm no worthy to
be called your son make me as one of your hired servants he embraced him he welcomed
him back into the family he didn't bring him before his o
ther son or the other family members
or the other servants and talk about what an embarrassment and a failure he was and
talk about how he was embarrassed and how he left and how he wasted all that he extended Grace and in our Christian homes in our Christian
marriages we need to be able to extend Grace how can we extend Grace what we have received
God enables us to give I'll close with this this illustration my sister called yesterday
and shared with her about shared with us about her son Andre
w he's 16 he he has quite a successful
landscaping business and um he he's doing very well and he has expensive equipment and
she said he had a really bad day today the first house he was working at never happened
before a rock came up from the edger and broke glass glass door so he had to replace that
second house he went to he's working towards saving for a truck and a trailer but he I
mean he has the best he has this this like Landscaping cart that he pulls he's got all
his tools on it and he
just finished a house and he's got his blower and he's blowing off
and my sister said he noticed this silver sedan keeps circling around and as he was
walking back he noticed that they stopped actually a person got out and they started
taking his tools off of his Landscaping cart and so he went up and he approached me hey
what are you doing those are my tools and the person proceeded to tell him in so many
unkind words that he needed might basically mind his own business and thankful that um
th
at he wasn't hurt I mean he lost about two thousand dollars worth of tools and so after
the the response to the individual he just kind of backed up and he let them take it
and so my sister was sharing all this and you know if we're not careful this is what
can happen in in a person's mind who wants to just fix things all right I'm not saying
that anyone did this but if we're not careful we could go through well this is what you
should have done this is what this is how it it could not have happ
ened this is all
these things and one of my first responses to my sister was well I'm just thankful Andrew's
okay I'm thankful he didn't pull out a knife or a gun I mean this is Southern Atlanta or
he's working I'm thankful that he's okay he wasn't hurt he wasn't killed and you know
there can come a point for helping teach a family member and and helping them see this
is why it happened or this is why it pot I mean basically it's the sinful nature of mankind
why these people as these were people
these people stole his stuff all right it's because
they're Sinners and they need Jesus Christ to save them from their sins but there's a
proper time for that but right now what does he need he needs love he needs Grace I think about the one of the pivotal points
in Youth Ministry for me when I was a youth pastor for 11 years was God spoke to my heart
about the parable the goods Good Samaritan the the guy he he's got money he's traveling
he gets robbed beaten up left for dead the high priest pa
ssed by the levite passed by
but it was a good samaritan the Good Samaritan what did he do he ministered to his wounds
he provided for him a way to be healed we could say he extended Grace there is not a
perfect marriage there's not a perfect parent there's not a perfect child and all of us
need to remember that all of us need to remember the Amazing Grace of which saved us The Amazing
Grace and benefits that we have been that we have received of and by God's grace we
can extend that to our fami
ly members so Christ wants to build our family may we look to him
for our Authority may we look to him to strive to be unified and committed and may we look
to him to allow us to extend Grace to our family members when they fall when they fail
and help them see them restored and brought back to him let's bow for prayer father I
thank you for our time together this morning I thank you that you are the Creator of the
home of the marriage relationship and God there's so much confusion and conflict
in
the world today and God I I pray that this message you know my heart is I've shared it
and tried to share the truth of your word God made may we see clearly from the Bible
of what you intend marriage in the home to be may you be the authority that gives us
the direction and helps to establish the value system for our marriage in our homes God you
created us different we're thankful for that but help us to not just oh well it'll always
be this way we're just different may we seek to be Unified
in our thoughts and our words
and our Deeds in our marriages and in our in our families with our children and God
we thank you for your grace there is a time for instruction there's a time for reproof
and rebuke but God we're also thankful that there's a time just to love there's a time
to give your grace and to show others the difference that God can make in their lives
and to show that there's hope for change There's Hope for forgiveness There's Hope for restitution
There's Hope for renewal s
o God May as as you help us either in our current family or
in family to be or in the families that you give us an opportunity to influence may you
help us to take truth from your word and live it and share it I pray these things in Christ's
name with our heads still bowed and our eyes closed in just a moment we'll have a an invitation
an opportunity for folks to respond as God has spoken to your heart and Cason will play
the piano in just a moment but before he does I just want to encourage you
that God wants
to help you right where you're at he wants to help your home it may be broken it may
it may be ravaged with sin and selfishness but God wants to help he wants to give your
grace it may be that there has not been Unity that there's been every family members going
opposite directions but God desires for there to be Unity God desires for there to be Oneness
for there to be a cleaving it may be that God spoke to your heart about the Authority
for your home and you've allowed this cul
ture you've allowed Human Experience to dictate
what you believe is a basis for your value system the invitation is just simply an opportunity
for you to talk to God as he's spoken to your heart if you need help if you'd like to pray
with someone we'd be happy to do that if if you say Pastor I you know this message was
on on the home and everything but I'm just struggling with knowing if I'm going to heaven
when I die we'd be happy to take a Bible and share with you how you could know for certai
n
Heaven's your home so if God's spoken to your heart I would encourage you you can pray there
at your seat down here in altar if we can pray with you and help encourage you from
God's word we'd be happy to do so father I pray that you'd have your will and your way
in this time of invitation I pray in Christ's name with her head still bow in our eyes closed
let's stand together as a piano plays would you respond there at your seat down here at
an altar if we can pray with you we'd be happy to do
so God's spoken to your heart would
you respond [Music] God I want you to be the foundation of our home the authority I'm sorry
for it not being God I desire for there to be Unity for there to be Oneness I can't imagine what life is like for my children
and the way I've been living the way I've been so irritable and angry I can't imagine
what life like for my parent I've just been so so ungrateful and I'm thankful well if
God's spoken to your heart talk to him about it [Music] [Music] thank you
[Music] father God we ask that as you have spoken
to hearts and as you continue to speak by your word and your spirit God would you not
pass Us by would you not allow us to continue in sin if we have been set in a pattern of
sin God would you still convict would you still convince help us to see the truth of
your word and while there may be offense when we look at the Bible when we see that our
lives don't match up we see that our choices and our decisions don't mess up match up God
we're thank
ful for your grace that loves us that saves us and that wants to help us God I firmly believe that that with your grace
there is not a relationship a situation that cannot be healed so would you give that hope and father for those prodigal sons for those prodigal spouses for those prodigal parents I pray that they
would come to a place where they acknowledged their sin in their Rebellion and God what
they returned to you for forgiveness for healing and restoration thank you for our time together
this morning I thank you for our guests and I pray that you would bless each one now as
we dismiss we pray these things in Christ's name amen Lord bless you have a good afternoon
[Music] thank you
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