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KS 420 - Your Family Is Your First Ministry: How to Build a Nation That Lasts
Your calling as a Marketplace Christian extends far beyond professional success—it encompasses creating a lasting family legacy that influences generations. Drawing from Jeremiah 29:5-7, Tyler McCart unpacks the biblical mandate to "build houses, plant gardens, take wives, and have sons and daughters" as a strategic blueprint for kingdom expansion.
The concept of "starting your own nation" begins with establishing roots. When you own property, build businesses, and create stability, you're positioning yourself for greater kingdom impact. But the heart of this mandate centers on family formation. As Tyler points out, "God specifically chose Abraham because 'he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the ways of the Lord.'" Your commitment to raising godly children isn't just a personal family matter—it's a divine appointment to extend God's kingdom through generations.
Perhaps most provocatively, Tyler challenges the modern reluctance toward family formation with biblical perspective: "Grandchildren are a crown to grandparents." He shares practical advice for preparing your children to make wise marriage choices, emphasizing that "next to following Christ, the choice of a mate is the most important decision your children will make." Rather than leaving this to chance, Tyler advocates intentional coaching on character traits and relationship development.
The blueprint expands beyond family walls to community engagement. Like Mordecai, Joseph, and Daniel who influenced pagan governments from within, you're called to "seek the welfare of the city" where you're planted. Your sphere of influence represents your unique territory for kingdom impact—relationships you build intentionally that establish Christ's presence in places that might otherwise remain untouched. Will you step up as the point person for your family's legacy and your community's transformation?
Proverbs 22,. Verse 29 says Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings. He will not stand before obscure men. Fellow Marketplace Christians, stop apologizing and start winning. Welcome to the Success Edge, the show that helps you take your walk as a Marketplace Christian to the next level. Here's your host Christian entrepreneur Tyler McHart.
Speaker 2:What's going on? Kingdom Success this is Tyler McHart coming at you, episode 420. Excited to do this episode, I'm actually sitting here in my office looking at my whiteboard right now. There's a lot of notes on here. I might talk about that reference that here in just a little bit. But thankful for you guys actually being here and tuning in here on the Kingdom Success Podcast. We're all about helping you specifically men, but really anybody, but specifically men to help you guys maximize your God-given potential for the kingdom of God, for and with the kingdom of God. We're excited to be able to do that help you out in the marketplace and talk to you from another person that is actually in the marketplace doing business and that is yours truly. So, hey, before I go any further, let me actually just talk about real quick the sponsor of this podcast, and that is actually a legacy for your family that sustains you when you are gone. I would highly recommend actually you getting in touch with me. There is a send me a message button or send me a text. I can't remember which one it is. Feel free to hit that button on the inside of the actual show notes and leave a way to get back in touch with you, whether it be your phone number or an email address, and I'll be more than happy to get back in touch with you and just start to educate you and start talking through that whole process of what it looks like to actually have a family bank and actually be able to create generational wealth for your family and create that system.
Speaker 2:So, without further ado, I want to go back and get things kicked off and talk about actually part two of our topic that we've actually been talking about last week and this week, and that is start your own nation. Let me get a quick swig of water, water, and we're going to dive into this. So here we go. Last week I talked about this because I had a kind of just this whole entire thing that happened to me, where that I saw three entities come together me, where that I saw three entities come together. And then, at the same time I finished up this book, by the way, those three entities that I saw come together were the church, the government and business, all at one location happening to come together, and it was a beautiful thing at one location happening to come together, and it was a beautiful thing. And then I actually wrapped up listening to or not listening to, what am I saying?
Speaker 2:Listening to reading the book Point man by Steve Farrar, a great book. He wrote a book many, many years ago and then has now revised it. I'll be a little transparent on the book. I really like the original book a whole lot more. I feel like a little bit of the. Unfortunately, some of the topics inside of here that he does talk about, kind of the middle part of the book, are a little bit not exactly what I was wanting to be talked about. I'm not going to go into those topics right now, but the overarching message behind this book is extremely important, especially for a godly man that is wanting to have a family. I'm not just talking about a gentleman that wants to get married and then that's it, but you actually want to expand that, you and your wife, and have kids. I think that is probably the highest calling for a man is to actually have a family and to have children outside of your own calling.
Speaker 2:Specific calling that you have on your life is to raise up other godly children so that things continue to move forward for the family of God. There's a reason why it says actually in the Bible that God actually chose Abraham and I believe that is. Hang on, let me see if I can find this. Yeah, actually that says it right here in Genesis 18, verse 19. It says right here in the new NIV version this is God talking just so that the Lord will bring about Abraham what he has promised him. So there's a reason why Abraham was chosen was because he actually was going to teach his family, he was going to take on that mantle, on that responsibility of being that husband and father that would teach them the ways of the Lord. It says that will direct his children and his household after him to keep the ways of the Lord. You know, guys, I'm just reading the Bible and I'm not trying to be I mean even the. I like this.
Speaker 2:Actually the New Living says I have singled him out so that he will direct his sons and his family to keep the ways of the Lord by doing what is right.
Speaker 2:And just, gang, I cannot sit there and not tell you that you actually having a family and you actually having your own children to teach them the ways of the Lord is again one of your highest and highest callings that you can have as a father, as a man of God. Now I know you might say, well, I'm just going to, you know, go and mentor some other people and, you know, hope that and that's fine. You know, honestly, if you're not going to have kids and you've already chosen that route, again, I'm not bashing you at all, but if you've chosen that route, I hope you do find some young adults or some children that you can help out to influence for the kingdom of God and not just be in your own little world. I think that that is not the way it should work. I sat down with actually an attorney, an estate planning attorney, this past week and had lunch with him and we were going through a lot of different things about family planning, estate planning.
Speaker 2:And he shared this very interesting finding that he is seeing where that there are a lot of couples out there he didn't say if there are Christians or not Christians. He said there's a lot of couples out there that don't have kids and never planned on having kids, didn't want to have kids. And on top of that he said, yeah, they actually have a family trust set up for their pets. And I'm not going to sit there and say that that's wrong at all because I'm not one to judge, but that's very interesting. Let me just say it that way. That's very interesting. I find that very fascinating. So that's very interesting. I find that very fascinating.
Speaker 2:But, gang, I'm here to tell you that we, as men, are called to be the point man we're called to be, to start our own nation, and last week I talked about this and I'm just going to highlight a couple things. You know, we actually jumped into Jeremiah 29, verse 5-7, which says Build houses, live in them, plant gardens, eat their produce, take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage that they may bear sons and daughters.
Speaker 2:Multiply there and do not decrease, decrease, but seek the welfare of the city where I have set, sent you into exile. Pray the lord, pray to the lord on the behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. And again, if you don't know this whole background, again this is the children of Israel were sent into bondage, sent into slavery, not slavery, but sent into exile, into Babylon, to the actual city of Babylon, and you know you can go and read that whole thing.
Speaker 2:There were 70 years they were going to be there. You can go and read that whole thing. There were 70 years they were going to be there. But again, the prophet Jeremiah has a word from the Lord that, hey, man, you are actually supposed to be planted right there. You are supposed to expand. You're not supposed to decrease. You're supposed to actually pray for the welfare of that city right there, so that it might be well with you.
Speaker 2:So there were a couple things that I just wanted to highlight. Uh, the last week I highlighted build hot. The first thing he says is build houses. The second thing he says is plant gardens and eat the produce. Okay, the third thing he says is get married and start a family. You know, in those three things right there there, there is this whole thing of guess what. This is where I'm located, this is where I'm putting my tent pegs down and this is where my family's going to be.
Speaker 2:Now the second aspect, the second round, has to do a lot with family and it says in the next portion of that it says prepare your sons and daughters to get married. That's kind of the gist of what he's saying in this thing. I just want to read this right here. He said if you're in your 20s or 30s and further down the road with your wife and children, just keep on living. But if you're young, and you're a young man who would like to find the match for their daughter, then he says you need to actually fill out a survey and bring it to the dad after you filled out the survey application for the daughter and so forth. And obviously he's just kidding about that sort of but.
Speaker 2:Next to following Christ, the choice. Now watch this. This is very important. Next to following Christ, the choice of a mate is the most important decision your children would make. And while you're preparing your kids for marriage, prepare them so that they will look forward to having children and raising up the next generation, because even in the Jewish custom and Jewish culture, grandchildren are a crown to the grandparents. That is what the Bible clearly says. Parents. That is what the Bible clearly says. And if you want to have every ward or be crowned as a parent, then you need to encourage your children to go and have children. And, on top of that, before you even have children, you've got to coach your spouse or not.
Speaker 2:A spouse, I'm saying coach your son or your daughter on how to look for a mate. Are you actually dad? Are you actually even praying for that mate? I mentioned, actually, I think, on the last episode, that we had a family gathering me and my sisters and their families a family gathering me and my sisters and their families, and we were praying over the kids, all the cousins at the time for back to school, which has just now started, and I felt prompted in my spirit to actually pray for each of their spouses.
Speaker 2:You know, all the girls, all my nieces, my daughters and my sons and my nephews, their spouses that they will have, and you know the correct spouses too. I clearly said you know their husbands, you know that my nieces will have their husbands. I specifically called out you know that the nephews and my sons will have. You know wives. All right, I want to make that clear distinction, especially in this day and age that we live Now. Are you praying for them? Are you praying for that family that is raising up that spouse, for your children? Also, are you teaching your son or your daughter how to look for a mate? What are the qualities? What are the qualities they don daughter how to look for a mate. What are the qualities? What are the qualities they don't want to have in a mate? These are things that you have to prepare your children for. It's not, trust me, it doesn't need to be by happenstance. There needs to be some sort of teaching and planning and you know coaching your children on what to look for.
Speaker 2:I feel like you know a lot of parents. They just go and call it out. I mean, they stick their head in the sand and think you know, hey, just make sure that that person loves the Lord or maybe loves Jesus, or at least you meet them in church or make sure they're a nice person, and you don't take the time to actually get involved and start to coach your child on what they need to be looking for, what kind of character traits, how to recognize those character traits. Right now, I mean, I'm even having to do this with my two oldest because they're into the teenage years, and I've had to kind of let them know that hey, look, you're really not going to be dating anybody. You're really not going to be dating anybody. Okay, you're not going to be going out with anybody.
Speaker 2:I remember, um, actually, um, uh, a young lady saying this which I thought was just really really wise. She said that the only purpose for you to go and date somebody is for the purpose of, actually, this is a person that I probably will be marrying. If you cannot see yourself marrying this person, I mean, you don't date just to kind of, hey, go and have a good time and, you know, see, if you know, go and give your stuff away. Your whole purpose of dating someone or actually, you know, courting someone is for the purpose of is this the one that I'm going to marry? Okay, now, there's a lot that goes into that. I don't have time to really kind of dig into any of that right now, but I just want to put that out there, that guess what you?
Speaker 2:know, I've told Tyler and Trinity that hey, look, you know, if you do find somebody that you're going to date or that you are interested, then real simply, you're going to go on a coffee date and it'll probably be about two or three coffee dates where you're going maybe two, at least two minimum where you're just going to go on that date and you're going to go and have coffee or go have tea, whatever it is. You're going to sit in a cafe and you're going to talk. You're not going to go to the movies, you're not going to go to some fancy restaurant or anything like that. I don't believe you need to even do that. You need to go, sit and have a conversation with this person, find out, hey, does this person have any goals, have any direction, have any substance to them? These are things that I'm coaching my own children on right now, that I'm telling them. Now let me move on.
Speaker 2:The next one. It says don't decrease the population of your nation. Now here's where having children you're going to get married. Having children is very important to the kingdom. It is creating a longevity that the kingdom will continue to move forward. I've got people that I've had. I mean, I know this one couple that the husband many, many years ago said why would I want to bring any children into this God-forsaken world? This world is evil, it's unjust, it's all these things. Why would I want to bring any person into this? And you know, whenever you put it that way, it does make sense, but you know what I make sense, but you know what I can't agree with that. I can't agree with that statement and thankfully this this gentleman actually wound up seeing the bigger picture of why having kids and now he has three kids of his own and those three kids watch this now. Those three kids, because the mom and the dad had an epiphany, had a revelation about why they're having children and guess what they are accomplishing they are responsible, they are productive adults.
Speaker 2:And you know what's even cooler? Those children that he didn't want to have now have grandchildren.
Speaker 2:That he has a crown, for this gentleman now is so elated and so excited about his grandkids that he has, but at one point in his marriage he did not want to have kids and thankfully, now he does. And my encouragement to you guys is that you would want to have children, is that you'd want to actually further that generation on. Now there's a lot I have to say about family planning and I'm actually going to do another episode next week about family planning and it goes in line with a whole lot more than just actually having kids, but it goes more into the lines of you know what we're doing to sustain our family, okay. The last portion and I'll wrap up with this is be a good citizen. Okay, be a good citizen.
Speaker 2:Don't just stick your head in the ground and live only in your own little address, in your own four quarters of your house and just stay right inside there. That's where you start. That's where you start, but I promise you that it needs to be bigger than that. It needs to be bigger than that, guys. It needs to be where that you are actually investing, not just in your own local church, which that's another step.
Speaker 2:That's a good step of actually attending a local church and plugging into that local church and being active in a local church, but I would even say going as far as possibly getting involved with any kind of politics and actually meeting your state representative. I just actually last week met my state representative and had lunch with that person.
Speaker 1:Actually.
Speaker 2:I had coffee with that person. That is important, okay, because all of a sudden you become aware of how you can help that person, or kind of what that person is all about. I'm just thinking of Mordecai. Mordecai, in the book of Esther, learned about the assassination attempt that was going to happen to King Artaxerxes I think I'm saying his name right, but about the king and he went and told someone about that. Now he didn't get rewarded immediately, but way down the road, if you read that story, he got rewarded and he got elevated to a prominent position in the kingdom. Now here he was a Jew.
Speaker 2:I'm just going back to this whole entire thing of you know. Pray for the welfare of your city, be a blessing in your city. Don't just sit, you know, go to your job, come home and that's all you do. That is not what kingdom is all about. That is not what God wants us to do. You are to go outside of the four walls, get involved with your community, pray for your community. That's something that I'm really enjoying about the new prayer journal that I have is one of the areas in there it has about praying for your community. So I'm finding myself praying, you know, not just for Dekula, the city I live in, but I'm also praying for the different school systems. I'm praying for some of the local officials, the county that I live in as well. These are important things to be praying for. Okay, now, last thing I'll say is this I'm not going to have time to read it right now, but I just want to highlight this In 2 Corinthians 10-10, verses 13-15, paul clearly says that we are actually to have influence in our sphere of influence.
Speaker 2:You probably live in a zip code. You live in an area. Do you have influence over that? Are you someone that is actually going out and doing relationship building within your area? Guys, I'm telling you, these things are important to the kingdom. God wouldn't sit there and have these things out and tell the children of Israel, specifically when you are actually in this area of Babylon, behind enemy lines, actually in the city, guess what you need to be doing? Relationships. You need to expand your influence. You have a sphere of influence. People are around you. Are you actually befriending those people and building a relationship with them? Because that's how you create your influence. So, kingdom of success, all right, those are the things. Right there, guys. Those are the four things of building your own nation. All right is build houses, plant gardens, eat the produce start a business, all right get married start a family.
Speaker 2:okay, number four, which is today's prepare your sons and your daughters. I talked a little bit about that pretty heavily. Five don't decrease the. Prepare your sons and your daughters. I talked a little bit about that pretty heavily. Five don't decrease the population. Let's have a family. Let's have some kids. There's value in that. Six be a good citizen. Remember how Mordecai was a blessing to the king, to the government that he was actually an exile in, I mean Joseph was.
Speaker 2:I can go down the line, daniel, all these examples in the Word of being a blessing to actually the nation you're actually in. It might not be your nation, but guess what? You're planted there. Our citizenship is not here on this earth, but we are planted here. We are to colonize this area and we have the authority to be able to do that. So, team success, go, build your nation. I have two calls to action. One is I'm going to probably repeat it again. Well, actually, I'm going to use a different one. I'm going to probably repeat it again. Well, actually, I'm going to use a different one. If you've got kids, have you begun the process of actually teaching them what to look for in a spouse? That's one of my big call-outs, because that's an important decision.
Speaker 2:Again, it's the second most important decision that they will make outside of actually following the Lord Jesus Christ. So, are you doing that? Are you really doing that? Are you actually teaching them what to look for, what kind of qualities to look for, how to steer clear of certain situations? These are important. The last thing I'll say is, if you got something out of this episode, I would ask you just to share it with one person. Take the time, go share it with one person. Tell them why you are recommending that they listen to this, that you thought of them when you heard this episode, and, gang, I'd appreciate that. So, kingdom of success, know that you're blessed, you're highly favored, you're empowered to prosper, you walk in divine health. The spirit of breakthrough is upon you. Guys and gang, we'll catch you on the other side.
