How Fathers Shape Redemption Across Generations

What if the health of a home rises or falls on a father’s willingness to love, guard, and guide with Scripture at the center? We explore a clear, practical vision for headship that restores dignity to family life—provision beyond a paycheck, protection that covers both bodies and hearts, and decisions that honor weaknesses instead of exploiting them. No slogans, no rage—just a path to build households where grace and order flourish together.

We dig into how sons and daughters grow under wise care: young men learning purpose and initiative, young women kept safe with a tender, open channel to dad and mom. We talk candidly about purity in a hyper-sexualized world, setting boundaries for media, phones, and dating without slipping into legalism. Trust is earned through time, memories, and shared work, so correction lands as love. From Numbers 30 to Ephesians, we connect headship to real decisions in the living room, at the dinner table, and during hard conversations.

Then we widen the lens to inheritance, name, and land. Scripture ties identity to redemption, showing how God preserves a family’s future through a kinsman-redeemer—and how Christ claims the title deed and restores dominion to His bride. That pattern becomes our blueprint: apply the token at home, clean what defiles with patience, teach the Word daily, and create an atmosphere where the Holy Spirit is welcomed. If your church diet is all emotion, add strong teaching; if it is all head, pursue evangelistic fire. Help a weary wife reset, coach a drifting son toward strength, and lift a daughter’s eyes to her worth through a father’s blessing.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Purpose Of The Series And Message Lens
• 1:24 Introducing Love, Family, Inheritance, Redemption
• 2:53 Defining Biblical Patriarchy And Order
• 7:55 Headship Roles: Provider, Protector, Decider
• 15:06 Raising Sons And Daughters Under Headship
• 21:26 Purity, Tokens, And Fathers’ Responsibility
• 30:06 Building Homes Of Love Not Legalism
• 34:26 Inheritance, Name, Land, And Redemption
• 42:06 The Father As Priest Of The Household
• 48:16 Applying The Token: Clean And Teach
• 57:16 Creating Atmosphere For Faith To Grow
• 1:03:06 Closing Encouragements And Listener Support

Transcript

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Greetings, Bible believers and followers of the Endtime Message. Welcome to another episode of the Jason Demars Podcast, the place where we explore the incredible mysteries hidden within the pages of the Bible. I'm your host, Jason DeMars. It's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word. If it's your desire to grow in Revelation and see the message in the light of the Bible, you're in the right place. Today, brothers and sisters, we delve into the scripture, guided by the extraordinary revelations that God chose to unveil through Brother William Marion Branham, a messenger with a unique calling to fulfill Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7, and unlock the secrets of the end time message. Our purpose isn't to have another basic Bible study. We're going to dig deep and peel back the layers of prophecy, decoding the signs and perhaps discovering how the Bible resonates within the very fabric of our present day and time. In this podcast, my purpose is to help you grow in your faith through solid Bible teaching through the lens of the message of Malachi 4. So grab your Bible, a cup of coffee, and let's get started. And remember that your feedback, testimonies, questions, and prayer requests are always welcome. Please send them on social media or at jasendamars.com. With that said, let's get into today's podcast. This week we're gonna continue with our subject of love, family, inheritance, and redemption. So welcome back. Thank you for the feedback to those who have commented and gotten in touch with me, how much they've enjoyed the this series on love and family, and also talking about evil and placing that all these things scripturally. I want to continue on that, but I want to spend a little bit more time breaking down, breaking down headship, and then tying it into the household, because if you look through the scriptures, the household is meant to be a key place where redemption is is is happening. And so I'm hoping the Lord helps me to paint this this whole picture looking at the family and the household and what the what God's approach to family was and in within the rules and laws of the patriarchy that's put forward in the Old Testament. Now I want to comment about that because people will say and point out some horrific things that happened. Of course, uh many horrific things happened under the patriarchy of the whole Old Testament. Horrific things happen under feminism, horrific things happen under egalitarianism, and the the extreme and horrible things that happened don't make something unscriptural or scriptural either way. It is when when sin happens, God deals with sin, God punishes sin. God will bring vengeance upon the wicked. And just because there were some bad things that happened under patriarchy doesn't mean it's invalidated. And also, you know, if we look at it systemically, how a Christian patriarchy operates versus how a Christian Christian so-called quote unquote, but it's false, it's not scriptural teaching, how feminism with the Christian undergirding operates. I think in both places, in both, in both extremes, you have a problem, but the Bible espouses a patriarchy. And when I say that, let's break it down. The husband, Paul in Ephesians 5, says the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. He says that man is the head of the woman, so the husband is the head of the wife, Christ is the head of the man, and God is the head of Christ. And so you have a clear defining of order in that. Now, Paul Paul brings it further. He says that the man is the glory of God, and the woman is glory, the glory of the man. That the woman was not made for for the man was not made for the woman, rather, but the woman was made for the man. Right? So, but they're not independent of each other. The man's function as head of the woman, the woman's function as helper of the man. And so the man is reflecting the glory of God, and the woman is reflecting the glory of man. So man's purpose is to have to have a vision, have a purpose. If you're a young man growing up, you're you're you're finding your purpose, you're finding your vision. And when you have that vision and have that purpose, then you can turn and look and say, Oh, I can find a helper. And as a young lady, you can look and see, there's a man, there's a young man, but he has no vision. I I wouldn't want to marry him without a vision. So the man, if you're not, if you're marrying a man just because he's cute, because you like his hairstyle, because you like his how he dresses, that's that is going to bring misery ultimately. You want to look for and marry a man that has a vision for his life, that's ready to be a provider, that's ready to place you in in your home where you can be a homemaker. All right, so the woman, the man is the stronger vessel, the woman is the weaker vessel. The the the woman is more easily deceived. This is scripture. Eve, Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. And so this was God's, this was God's using Paul to show forth why a woman should not preach or teach or usurp authority over a man, but to learn in silence, as also saith the law. So uh a woman is under the authority of her husband and is to not take authority in the church, in the home, and in the and in the public sphere, over and above her husband, because she is more easily deceived. So she's the weaker vessel, more easily deceived. So he it he he is less easily deceived. Woman woman is more often than not guided by her emotions, and that can be a positive thing if it's filtered through headship. She can be governed by this has to be equal and fair, and that's that's fine as long as it's filtered through headship. But if it's not filtered through headship, we have the world we have today, and they want socialism, communism, they want to give free things to people because they feel bad for them. And so this is the nature of a woman, and that's okay, but if as long as it's filtered through headship, all right. So next next part of it is what does what does it mean to be a head? This is the part where many times it's missing in Christian Christian homes and Christian families. Is headship is just a terminology that people use, it has no function or operation in the world. Number one is if a man would not provide for his own, he's denied the faith and he's worse than an infidel. So a husband is a is a not only a financial provider, but he is a protector. So in the world, wherever there's weakness, so if you think about a football game, if there's a weakness on the defense, the coach attacks that weakness. If there's in war, if there's a weakness in the other army, the generals attack it. In business, if there's a weakness of a competitor, the business attacks it. However, in a home, when there's a weakness, the husband is to honor that weakness. So Peter says we too we're to give honor unto our wives as unto the weaker vessel. And so we we are to honor and protect and guide. And so the Numbers chapter 30 really gives us the big picture is that in a home, the deciding factor is the father. So the the example given is making a vow unto the Lord. If a daughter being in her father's house, she makes a vow unto the Lord, and the father hears of it, and he disannuls it, disallows it, God will pardon her and not hold her accounts accountable because her father has father has disannulled her decision. All right. And so then it goes on to say, if the daughter have a husband and she make a vow unto the Lord, and her husband hear it, in the day that he hears it, if he does not disannul it, then the vow stands. But if he disannuls it, then she shall be forgiven. So uh in that and it goes on to say, a widow, if a widow doesn't have a husband, sh when she makes her vow, it stands. And so a widow becomes the head of her household, right? So if and then if she gets remarried, of course, she's back under headship. Or an unmarried woman that's older, that's never gotten married, she's the head of her own household, right? And so this means this practically means that every that the that the head of household, the father and the husband, is the final decision maker in the family. So he is the one that can make legally binding decisions, and he is the final authority. So if his daughter commits to doing something on Saturday night with a boy that he he doesn't approve of, he goes and he says, Sorry, young man, my daughter will not be doing that with you, and I will ensure that she's going to be home and not be out with you. Or whatever, whatever decision that is made. Now, legally in America, uh once a girl is 18, she can make her own decisions. So, you know, in America, in Western Europe, you know, we we need to, as fathers and husbands, we need to have the power of the word, power of charisma, the power of connection of hearts, and the power of the fact that you've taught your daughter these truths from the time that she's little, so that she understands that dad is there as a protector and a guide and a source of wisdom so that as she grows, she learns to make decisions not on her own, but decisions under the authority of headship. Now, as a with sons, it's different. Raising sons, you're trying to raise them to be able to make decisions on their own, not to make decisions without seeking and asking for wisdom, but you want to raise them to the place where you have imparted enough wisdom to them that they make their decision and they come back and say, Dad, what do you think? This is what I would want to do. And you say, That's wonderful, son. I've taught, I've taught you well. And give yourself a little pat on the back. No, just kidding. No, the the point being is you're raising sons to be decision makers, to take authority, to take a position. Now, they shouldn't be doing that when they're eight or twelve, but when they're 13, they should start learning how to make that on their own. So that, of course, you're not going to give them total autonomy at 13. As they're growing, as they're maturing, you're helping them make decisions and grow into that position of being a protector and a decision maker. And so headship means decision making, headship means provision for the wife. And again, the the goal and the vision is that a husband is the provider for the family. The goal shouldn't be me and my wife working full-time. So you're aiming for what God aims for. If you're if you haven't aimed from that, I hope that you've aimed from that from the very beginning of your marriage. But if you haven't been taught that and you didn't know that, and you've just been in a church that's allowed you to go in the ways of the world and women going to university and get education and get a career and these types of things, okay, then then I hope that you're aiming for going for the right direction, you the scriptural direction. You know, the the Brother Branham says over and over again, I'm not much for these, for women working. You know, and the scriptural scripture says, I would that the younger women marry, bear children, and guide the home. So this is God's purpose and God's vision. So then we have the man as the deciding factor, as the provider, as the protector, not only the protector, because if you look at the Garden of Eden, it was it was a physical attack, but there was a spiritual agency behind the physical attack. The devil inhabited the serpent, which was a natural creature of the of the garden, who stood on two feet, who spoke, who reasoned, who looked almost exactly like a man, but his curse put him on his belly and made him a serpent. And so there's a spiritual aspect that as a man, we are to, we're to take the big hits physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And so we're to be there with the sword of the word of God in our hand at the front lines, battling and fighting for our family and leading them forward. And so the protection is not just physical protection. It's good, I believe it's good to know how to handle yourself physically. Whether, if there were a home invader or something like this, to be able to handle yourself and know how to handle a weapon properly and to administer safety and protection to your family with wisdom and justice. And so you have those three uh massive aspects to it. Now, continuing with the deciding factor is two amaz amazing things are put forward in the old testament, and one is the uh practice of verifying the virginity of a young lady, and then two is if there has been a case of premarital sex, that a young man is obligated to pay the bride price, and he's under obligation to marry her. So, on in the one situation that the father then has the right to uh refuse the young man, and yet he will still have to pay the bride price. So there's there is that one portion is that the the young man is obligated to redeem the virginity and the good name of this young lady. And if the father says, you know what, this guy is miscreant, he's evil, I won't, I will absolutely not send my daughter to this young man's home, of course, she's gonna have to live with the shame. So the father is essentially saying, I'm redeeming my daughter from this wicked man, and I'm going to be responsible for her for life, right? Or until if a young man would agree to marry a girl that's not a virgin, right? So then the next thing you have is that the preciousness of virginity is to be guarded and preserved by fathers. And so this preciousness of virginity being guarded by fathers is put forward that if he gives his daughter to a young man and it's a deception, she's not a virgin, she's pretended to be a virgin, she's gone to this young man, and there's no token of virginity, and so of course, this is this is very blunt talk, but there is a there is a little sheath of protection called a hymen in a woman's body that when she has now, of course, you could say, what about this and what about that? And I don't want to get into that. I'm just gonna talk about not the exceptions but the general rule. And so when this veil is broken, so there's there's a veil, there's a seal on her womb, right? So the seal is there on the womb, and that's protecting something precious, that's protecting her virginity, and so that seal is meant only to be broken by a lawful husband. And so when they've been joined together by God in a covenant and made made together to be one, then that man, young man, has the right to break the seal, and so he can loose the seal thereof, and that means that the bride was a chaste virgin, she's pure, he broke the seal, and now life can come forth. Now, life, the seed is planted in the womb, and uh life, a new life can come forth when that seal is broken. And so this hymen being broken, then if it's been broken before her husband comes to her, and there's no token of virginity, what happens is, and again, you could say, what about this and what about that? Again, I'm not talking, I'm just talking scripturally, is when that's broken, there'll be a little, what they talk about in the Bible, they'll talk about there'll be a little towel, so to speak, a linen towel. And when that's broken, things are wiped off, wiped clean, and now you have blood on the linen piece showing this is a token of virginity. Now, if if that young man says I hate her and I found her, she wasn't a virgin, when I came to her, all the father has to say is, look, I kept her, I kept her clean, I kept kept her as a chaste virgin before God and before men, and you're lying. And so this young man, if he's bringing a lie against her because he hates her and he doesn't want to be married anymore, and he knows that. If he brings this charge against her, she'll be executed. Because that's the thing, is if she's guilty and there is no token of virginity, then what ends up happening is he's the girl is brought by the elders of the city before her father's door and she's stoned. And so the the blame, of course, is directly on the young lady for not being a virgin, but the consequence, the consequences are on her, but the blame is put in front of her father's door because he failed to preserve her virginity. And so in headship, you're looking at redemption. So a man redeeming, redeeming his daughter from fornication, or a a husband redeeming the girl from a young man redeeming that girl from fornication. Or you have the other situation where you have handing a virgin daughter over. This is the ideal. This is what we all are aiming for. This is what we we want before the Lord. And so we're handing our virgin daughter over to a young man, and he he does the work of a husband, and he breaks the seals, seal thereof, and brings forth a new life. And now you have a new family created. That young man has then done the fullness of redemption for her. And even in that, in the scriptural culture, they were paying a bride price for this. And so the young man that would defraud the young lady before she was married had to pay a bride price, no matter what. The young man taking a virgin daughter had to pay a bride price. The young man who would bring a false charge of a girl not being a virgin and the tokens of virginity being paid, he would have to pay a fine and also be beaten by the elders of the city. And so this is the value that God places upon a young lady being a chaste virgin. And so a father, you as a father, you're wanting to find a balance. I can speak as a father of three young ladies, you want to keep the heart connection with your daughters. And you want to keep that tenderness there because you want to deliver that young lady as you know coming into maturity, but you want her to re retain some of her innocence. And I don't just mean a sexual innocence, but I mean innocence of spirit and gentleness. The Bible says a young woman should have a gentle and quiet spirit. And so as a as a dad, we want to protect and preserve our daughters, and at the same time, we want them to have the kind of experiences in getting to know other young ladies and to fellowship in public with you know young men in a group of people so that they learn how to interact and they learned how to build friendships and they learn how to under the close connection of heart to mom and dad, but also so they're safe and they're protected, and their first connection is to dad and mom. And then from there they can go out and start to make godly connections, not ungodly connections, not connections of heart with people in the world or that are walking in the world, but with other Christians, with fellow believers, keeping those relationships and those conversations pure and tender and loving, and you know, as as as dads for both young men, you know, we we live in a world that is hyper-sexualized, and sex is everywhere. We have three, four devices, and we can get to everybody can get to pornography easily. It's a few clicks away, and it's horrific. And young men are exposed to this, and there's temptations there. But we should we should have an open channel of communication with our sons to be able to and our daughters to be able to talk about even sexual things and sexual purity and understanding. Young men shouldn't be introducing introducing young ladies in their teenage years to sexual talk. They shouldn't be introducing them to pornography and perverted things and talking about perverted things and talking about things that have their right place within a marriage, but not in conversations with teenage boys. Teenage boys should view themselves as the protectors of the purity of the girls around them, not as the corruptors of the purity that is around them. And it's it's so sad and it's so sick, but it's prevalent even amongst message believers that young men will strike up a friendship with young women and they'll begin to talk about sexual things in their little groups of friends. And it's it's very sick, it's very sad. And the thing is, this is it causes trust to be lost. And so teach, we should teach our young men, our teenage boys to know what appropriate things are to talk about. If you want to talk about sexual things with your father, young men, good. Talk talk with your father to learn and to grow and to understand. But you don't talk about that in in groups of innocent people, and you don't talk about that in, especially in groups of young ladies. There's a there's a proper way to do things in that, isn't it? And so, you know, prov preserving the chastity of our daughters as fathers is of utmost importance, and it isn't us just releasing our daughters upon the world, but it's our keeping our daughters close to our hearts so that we can have an open, you know, if you if you if you have an open communication with your daughter, she shares her heart, you share her heart, you listen to her, she comes to you when she's struggling. If she comes to you when she's struggling with something, that means there's a good and open communication, and that's a positive. But if you have no idea what's going on in your daughter, she doesn't want to talk to you, she doesn't want to open up, you're in a danger zone, she will find a young man that she will talk about these things with, and it exposes them to temptations that they shouldn't have to deal with. And so I'm all for friendships between young girls and young boys in a group context, and every father is going to have to watch over this and make his decisions based on what he should, based on wisdom. I also want to say something as well about protecting the purity of our daughters. Don't think just because I'm doing a sleepover with other message believers or that with family members, that something evil can't happen, that sexual assault can't happen. Majority of sexual assault and rape takes place within families and friend groups. So I'm not one that's too much in favor of sleepovers. In fact, I think they're mostly a bad idea. Of course, every situation is a little different, and you have to walk with wisdom. But in general, if you want to avoid most of the problems that happen with sexual purity being destroyed, watch over that portion, watch over that closely. And so, all right, bringing it back together about family. And people get confused about headship and patriarchy, and they immediately think, you know, and you can even come up with situations in the past, terribly abusive men who wanted their wife to be. This is I don't even like this because it's not a negative. The Bible speaks very positively about having many children and having your quiver full of children. So I don't want to ever speak negatively about it, but he looks at his wife not as a companion, but as an incubator to plant his seed in. All he cares about is sex, and all he cares about is her taking care of him. And there's no relationship, there's no tenderness, there's no love, there's no heart connection, it's just about sex and about his image and his satisfaction. And so when we're thinking about, and then she just has to make do with what scraps that he gives her. And so when we're thinking about biblical patriarchy, we're thinking about relationships that are overflowing with joy and love and provision. So as a man, we should always be seeking to uh improve ourselves and to grow and to bless our family more. And so when I'm thinking of this is I, you know, I want I want my wife to feel secure in the home, in her in the home, not just in the fact that I drop a paycheck there, but she feels secure that I'm not going out and giving my heart to my work, to my ministry, and not giving my heart to her. I want her to be secure to know that she has my heart and I have her heart. I want her secure knowing that I'm working to provide good things for her, you know, that I'm trying to, you know, that I'm always looking, how can I bless and increase and bring greater health to my family, you know, that watching her spiritual needs and then speaking to her from the scriptures about things that she needs to be built up, encouraged in, strengthened in, doing the same thing for our children. You know, you're as if you can understand biblical patriarchy, is you are the benefactor of your family. You are the provider, not just money, not just food, not just clothing. Even in the scripture, it says, if a man, if a man were in the old testament, if a man were to take another wife, he's not to diminish the food and the clothing and the the this the sexual intercourse from his first wife. So this is this is what scripture says, and so you're not to diminish any of those things. So as a husband, I'm looking at myself as a provider of sexual comfort to my wife, as a provider of food, and as a provider of clothing to her. And so I always want to increase, I always want to bless more, I always want to give new experiences. You know, I I if my wife, if I see my children, they're getting isolated and they're starting to get a little weird with each other, they don't know how to interact with people. Well, I'm gonna get those kids to some youth camps, and I'm gonna get to as many youth camps as I can, and I'm gonna make sure that I'm in a place that they're interacting with other adults and with other friends more. No, I'm not gonna send them to public school or even private school. I'm gonna keep them in homeschool, but I'm gonna make sure they're getting the interaction that they need. On the other hand, I can see, oh, they're getting way too peer-oriented. Now their greatest value is on what their friends think of them. Okay, now I'm gonna pull back and I'm gonna make sure I'm gonna spend more time at home, a little bit more time at home. A little shave back the schedule a little bit, less commitments, less, less sports, let's less music, less church interaction. I'm gonna stay, I'm gonna just go Wednesday and Sunday. I'm not gonna Sunday morning, and I'm not gonna continue that because I'm seeing I need more time with my family. Or you see, oh, I you know, they they're they're they're feeling tired, they're feeling weak. I need to add something. Let's let's go skiing, let's let's let's get out and let's go four-wheeling, let's get a four-wheeler, or let's go fishing. Whatever it might be, as a dad, I'm looking at all these things. These are the examples that are in my mind at the moment. You know, you're looking at all these things and you're trying to bring bring interaction and you're trying to bring the good, you're supposed you should you, as a dad, should be a representative not just of the severity of God, but the goodness of God. As a father, you're you're standing in the place of God. God is looking at your word and saying, What decision do you make? And then he's going to hold us all accountable in regards to that. And so I were looking at a situation and we say, My goodness, my my children have gone through this and we need to do this. Lord, Father, help me. I want the strength and the wisdom to be able to add these things into my children's life. So they're struggling. If you have a child, let's say that's dealing with they've gotten around a bunch of kids and suddenly they don't want to eat anymore and they want to just lose weight and they're just not eating, almost starving themselves. Well, you're going to need to adjust something. You're going to look need to look at the friends that they're around, and you need to adjust that. And then you're going to need to begin to sew the word of God specifically into that life. Because what is it? It's an it's a lack of she's not seeing a positive image reflected back to her from her father. So she's trying to fix that in a perverted way, in a way that's damaging, and in a way that's going to harm her in the long run. And so you have to look and say, Lord, how do I help that? Or maybe you have a son who's overweight and he's lazy. Well, we've got to we've got to bring some changes here. We're going to put the video games away. We're going to put the access to apps on the television away. We are going to get him lifting weights. And you're going to lift weights with him. We're going to get him outside hiking and hunting. And we're going to work with him on showing him how to limit his caloric intake. You know, and we're going to help him with that. We're not going to do it in a, oh, come on, you fat tubellard. What in the world's wrong with you? I'm going to, we're not going to shame him into that. We're not going to do that, but we're going to start sewing the right things because we see that there's a need there. Or perhaps you have someone, they don't have any confidence in anything. They say, I'm no good at this, I'm no good at that. And you're going to start sewing positive thoughts and positive things into their life and positive attitudes and you know, bringing them into a place where they can start growing and getting some success in some things. And the same goes for our wife. You know, if if your wife's so stressed and so tired, you've left you, she's at home and she's starting to feel feel the weight of everything, you know, bring the kids to their aunties and take her for an overnight, give her some rest, or even send her for an overnight. She if she's that kind of person that that recharges when she's got some alone time, send her for an overnight to a little cabin. You know, or if she's the kind of person that needs to recharge when she's around her husband, then leave the kids and do an overnight with with her with your wife, and you know, spend time helping her and massaging her feet and massaging her neck and connecting with her heart and listening to her and helping her as you listen to her and truly understand her, then helping her come up with solutions to the problems that she's facing. She's really stressed, and the homeschool is going on, and all kinds of things going on, and she needs help. You're looking at you're watching your home and you're watching your family and you're sewing into it the things that it has need of. Yes, the word of God, but also natural things. Natural things that they can help them grow. You know, look at it as you know, my children are in such a place of learning. What are they going to want to do when they're older? Hey, my kids are, we're all living in a cold area. They should learn how to ski, cross-country ski. Let's take them to lessons. Oh, my, we live in a we live in an area where they're where it's warm. They should know how to swim. You know, find the appropriate way, but teach them how to swim. You know, bring them, find, find a, find a place that is more isolated and go to the beach and and get away from people, walk down, walk down the beach a while and you know, swim together as a family. Do do things together that connects your hearts, that brings memories, that helps you. Because when you do that, you connect to their hearts, you do enjoyable things with them. Then when you have to come and say, No here and no there, they can see dad loves me, dad likes to spend time with me. I can respect him and honor him for that. And and be straight and be firm and be loving all at the same time. And the same thing goes with your wife. She's gonna see that you're doing these things, and it's gonna be so much, he has to respect you anyways, and submit to you, anyways, but it's gonna be so much easier for her to respect and honor you when she sees you're taking the initiative. Really, it headship speaks of taking the initiative, it's being the redeemer. Jesus Christ took the initiative. He he was born of a virgin, he came to his ministry. He said, I don't lay down, no one takes my life, I lay it down. He laid his, he took the initiative, he went forward, he took the leadership role. He didn't leave the decision making and the leadership role to his wife. He wasn't just along for the ride, he didn't hand the finances and all the financial and life decisions over to her. He kept it for himself and he communicated with her and he led her down the road, the positive road that as a provider for her. And I am 40 minutes in, and I have not even gotten to my notes quite yet about the household. And so as we uh let me let me try to tie this together more. The next part, as we look at it as inheritance. In the Old Testament, a huge part of inheritance was the name. And so the name continuing was critical. And I believe this. This harkens to God's purpose is from generation to generation, God wants his name to be glorified, and it won he wants his name to continue on. And so it's not it's not just a matter, it's you know the in the name is the character. So the character and nature of God, he wants it to continue, the DNA, if we want to put it that the DNA of God, he wants it to be passed down from generation to generation, each person having their own experience, being infused with the life of Christ, being born again, but each person from generation to generation, the DNA going from one to another. And that's why it was so critical that God placed each family in a piece of land. So he gave that family a piece of land, and he wanted that family to always have possession of that piece of land. Now things happened, difficulties transpired, and so they couldn't afford to keep running the land, they were in poverty, they made bad decisions, whatever it was. And so what ended up happening was they would sell the land to someone, but they knew when they sold it, it was temporary, that someone could come and redeem it. Now it didn't mean they would redeem it, but now you know, say I'm Jason Demars, and uh I have inherited land from my father, Jim DeMars. He's given it to me. Now I have this land and I've but I've fallen on hard times. The the the farm isn't, I'm not a good farmer, let's say that, and the land hasn't yielded its increase. And I have a son, let's say, named Jesse. And so I sell this land and we move out and we're going and we're the we're working for another on another farm, doing something on another farm. Well, my son grows up, gets married, has a child. Now it's it's 50 years down the line. Now is the chance that my grandson can come and redeem this land. Now he has the chance to redeem the land. Now he can come back, and because his name, my name is in him, now he can claim that land back for himself. Now he claims the land back for himself as a redeemer. So that name, that land is always attached to that name. So the name is going on, and again, every one of them has a different name, so it's not necessarily about that, it's about the life for the life, the generations, the DNA, the tribe, the family, etc. And so this, and it's ultimately looking at the family of God. And so now my grandson has become a redeemer, he's redeemed that land, he's taken that land. Now my grandson has children, has two boys, and they get married, but the first son gets gets gets married, but has no children, and he dies. So now his name is perishing from the earth, and God doesn't want the name to perish from the earth. So his commandment is to my great grandson's the second son, the second son now must redeem that daughter, that wife of my firstborn great grandson. She must take he must take her and raise up seed to the firstborn, right? So now he takes her and raises up seed, and the name continues on. You say the name would have continued on from the secondborn. That's not what God's looking at. He's looking at the name continuing on from the firstborn. And so that's the DNA passing down from generation. That's the name passing on. So when it's looking at inheritance, inheritance is never completely lost under God's program. Inheritance can be squandered, mismanaged, sent away, but it can always be redeemed. Amen. And so God always looks at it and says, There's always my children will always be redeemed. And so this is this is our land, is the in is that inheritance, and our name is attached to that, and and the name needs to continue on. All right. So the name continuing on, now, you know, it's in the in in the in that scriptural, very scriptural sense is you know, in inheritance and redemption is in the family. And the name, God, the name is ultimately looking to the character of Christ. And so there's a title deed of redemption that's been opened up in this day. Seven seals have been opened up, and this gives us gives us right to the land. That land, which Adam lost, the title deed went back to the hands of the original owner. Then the original owner had it in his hand, so then there had to come a first and a second Adam that could come and redeem the name. And that was the Lord Jesus Christ. He offered his life as the payment to be able to take the book and to redeem the land. All right. So he takes the book, and when he redeems the land, now when the redeemed land is taken, the name is restored back to the land. And what is the land that's redeemed? It's you and me. It's the bride of Jesus Christ. He's taken his bride to himself, he's redeemed his inheritance, he's redeemed the inheritance. So now in land, inheritance, and family are restored. And so this can only be done from the opening of the seven seals. And then when we begin to see this, it's the very name of God is placed upon us. The very life of God is in us, and all that everything that Adam lost has been brought back to us. The power of dominion, the authority of the word, the right to rule and reign as kings and priests has been restored back through Jesus Christ, opening and breaking those seven seals. And so, land when we look at family, love, inheritance, and redemption, it's all connected together. And so, as fathers, we are our purpose is to redeem our household. And if we look at this in the scripture, we see this over and over again is redeeming, redeeming. We are redeemers, and so kinsman, redeemer, are you a kinsman, redeemer? You must you must be willing, you must be able, you must qualify as a kinsman, and it must be done according to law and custom. The Bible, Brother Branham says in Israel in the church, number three, the father was the priest of the house in the old sanctuary, the old time, the father always was the priest, and he had to watch over the house, his household. What a change today. The kids watch over the dad in the modern world, but the father was to watch over his house. He killed the lamb, he took the hyssop, put it on the doors, on the lintel, and that was their protection. All right, they stayed in. And so as we look at this, we see over and over again Acts 16, 30, and 31, and brought them out and said, Sir, what sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Now, this isn't a magical salvation that comes simply because the father was saved. Now they become subjects of salvation in the household, because once the father of the household is saved, now he is qualified to redeem his household. Now he can go speak to them about the gospel of Jesus Christ. He can go raise them daily, each day. He speaks to them about the gospel, he preaches to them, he teaches them, he reads the word, he worships with them so that they so that they what? Then they can be converted. Acts 18 8. And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house. And many of the Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized. First Corinthians 1 16, and I baptize also the household of Stephanus. Besides, I know not whether I baptize any. Again, Stephanus, what did he do? He forced everyone to be Christians. No. When Stephanus got saved, he came and he spoke to all of them about Christ. This as for being my house, we will serve the Lord. We're going to walk with God. He spoke to them, he brought them to this place where they understood it, and altogether they said, We will get baptized with you. First Timothy 3 4, the qualifications of ministry. One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity. For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? So the first qualifier for a minister is if he can rule his house well. All right. And ye fathers, provoke this is Ephesians 6 4. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Nurture speaks of teaching, the whole training and education of children, which relates to the cultivation of minds and morals and employs for the purpose. Now commands and admonitions, now proof and punishment. It also includes the training and care of the body. Sounds like Paul is advocating for homeschool. Admonition speaks of corrective teaching. Call attention to. Now you've seen the God of heaven perform a miracle. It's before judgment. Do you believe it? Yes. What can I do? He said, Rise and be baptized. Paul took him out and baptized him and said, Now believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou and thy house shall be saved. Believe what? Believe the Lord Jesus Christ for your house, apply the token to your house. Then what do you do when you apply it to your house? So what do you how do I apply the token to my house, Brother Branham? He says, Move all the trash out. Get all the short skirts and the shorts and the cards and the cigarettes and televisions and what more and kick them out the door when you apply the token when you go apply the token. Won't stand still for it, yes, sir. Take it all out, all the dances and parties and rock and roll and old vulgar newspapers and the stuff that's of the world. Kick it out the door. Say we're cleaning out this place around here. Now, you don't do this like a madman. You don't go into your 17-year-old daughter's room and rip everything out of there. You go and you have a conversation with the family. You talk about what the Lord has done. You begin to apply the principles of salvation first. Then you begin to talk about once they get saved. Again, maybe they don't get saved, maybe they just respect it. In our house, we do this, but you do it all in love. We're getting rid of this. We're getting rid of the PlayStation. We're getting rid of these apps now. We're not allowing unfettered access to the internet. We're not we're not allowing you to go on one-on-one dates with boys anymore. We're not letting you date this one and date that one. You know, we're applying the principles. It's not just forcing them to do it, but it's teaching them the principles of the Word of God and then step by step putting it in place. We don't do it like a madman and chase them out, but we do it step by step, teaching, convincing, holding accountable. But we're we're doing it. We're getting rid of the we're we're not allowing our girls to go to the beach in a bikini anymore. All these different things. Getting rid of televisions in the bedrooms. You know, we're not gonna have televisions in the bedrooms anymore. We're not gonna allow iPads in the bedrooms anymore. We're not gonna allow unfettered access to the internet on a on a self on an iPhone in your bedroom anymore. We're not gonna have liquor in the house anymore. We're not going to go to rock and roll concerts or country music concerts anymore. We're not going to have pornography in the house anymore. You know, all of this stuff. We're going to do it, but we're going to teach our family while we do this. Right? We're not going to just take it out and everybody says, Dad, what's going on? And you know, provoke not your children to wrath, but raise them up in the admonition and correction of the Lord. Right. Like he says, Brother Branham says, like Jacob did, he said, told his wife and all of them, wash your clothes and everything, put away them gods. Amen. You know what Joshua said before crossing over? He said, Wash your clothes, come not at your wives and so forth, and get ready, for within three days we'll cross Jordan. Amen. He was getting ready, he was applying the token. Amen. That's it. Get ready, apply it, believe it, clean up, let your children, let your family, let your loved ones see it in you. That's right. It'll take effect. Yes, sir. See what? The fruit of the spirit. Not the ang, not the not the anger of a man wanting his family to be righteous, but the fruit of the spirit, loving them through the process of applying the token in the home. Then he says, then apply the token in prayer with consideration, with believing. Apply it with such love and so forth, till you know it's going to take, it's going to take place. That's all. Apply it in confidence, believing it's going to help. When you talk to that child, when you talk to your husband, talk to your wife, talk to this loved one, believe that it's going to help. Just stand there and say, Lord, I've claimed them, they're mine, I'm getting them for you, Lord. Apply it and create that atmosphere around you that they'll just drop right into it. See, oh, you are. You are. If you got the token, you create a spirit around you, a power that when you talk, people know that you're a Christian. They love for you to say something to them, they believe your word. What you say, they hold on to it. See, that's it. So you should speak to your family in such a way, you know, it might not happen right away, but you should speak to your family then in such a way that step by step they're going to appreciate your teaching and your direction. Don't just give them do's and don'ts, give them the worldview, the vision of who God is, what he's doing today, and from there, then take them to we're going to change some of the standards in the home. And we'll do it step by step. You know, go in your go go in your notebook and write down all the things you want to change in the home. And don't do it all in one minute. Do it step by step. For yourself, you can do it all in one minute. But for the rest of the household, if you have little kids, it's different. Just go do it. If your wife doesn't believe, conversations, do it for yourself and start working on her and bring it to the place where she enjoys speaking to you about the things of God, right? You say it doesn't work. Well, bring it in such a way to approach her on the level she's at. Don't bring her far along to something else. If she can't see water baptism, focus on water baptism. Start there. But if if your wife, you and your wife receive the revelation, your hearts are on the same page, and you have little kids, just apply the token. They might be confused for a little bit, just do it. Do what you need to do in your household to get it cleaned up. Then the next part is you have, oh, you have 12-year-old, you have preteen kids. That'll be hard, but apply the token step by step. You have teenagers that are almost 18. It's gonna take some wisdom and it's gonna take some direction and it's gonna take writing down what writing down the things you want to clean up and then slowly approaching them, not as legalism, but approaching them with a knowledge of revelation of the word first. Then from there, once they receive they start receiving the truth of the word, start going to church, God will start cleaning them for you, and then you can speak to them and teach them. Apply the token, then walk in it. Claim your household. You must do it now. This is evening time. Now you've been listening a long time. Now, this is the evening time, it's applying time now. The wrath will strike one of these days. It might be too late then. See, apply the token with confidence. So believe for your house, apply it to your house, clean it before the Lord, and talk to your family. Teach them, teach your family. Sit down with the Bible, go through the Bible and teach them. Go through the message and teach them. Take the time to do it so that they understand. It shouldn't be someone else that's introducing your child to the message. You should help them to understand salvation, baptism of the Holy Ghost, water baptism. The god the basics of the Godhead. This, the, the, the revealing of the Son of Man, the seven seals, the coming of the Lord, all these different things. You, as dads, should take the time to be teaching them and doing it from such a young age that it's not complicated once they're teenagers, that it's kind of second nature. So, yes, we can't give them the baptism of the Holy Ghost. God must fill them with the Holy Ghost, but our job is to create such an atmosphere of love, of the word, and of even of loving confrontation over spiritual pride and pride. You know, it's our job as fathers to watch over these things and bring it forward. And as mothers, it's your job also, you know, when dad is at work, when dad is out of the home, to take your time to be teaching the children and instructing them in the word of God. And it's looking at principles, it's looking through proverbs, it's looking at what modesty and holiness is, it's looking at all serpent seed and Godhead and all of these things, taking the time to really teach and instruct so that your children know and understand. And the Holy Spirit can come and quicken it to their hearts. So, all right, we're gonna finish there. I will go in more details, Lord willing, next week into the household from a little different perspective. If you can understand, you know, we are we bring redemption into our covenant household. God has a covenant with us. How does he do it? By faith. Through Abraham. Righteousness is imputed by faith. And so that same applies to our kids. You say, my kids are having a struggle knowing whether they have the Holy Ghost. I don't know what they've had, what they've had. Keep teaching them, keep creating the atmosphere, keep pointing them to Christ. He will quicken the truth to them. Maybe they have the baptism of the Holy Ghost without sensation, and they're already putting the attributes of Christ on display, and they they're there they can go back one day and say, it was this point of time my heart was changed. But but the point of point is we can't control God giving the Holy Ghost, but we can control the atmosphere that they're in and adding the things. Say, you know, if you go to a church that's maybe a little bit focusing on teaching, well, take them to youth camp so that they can get some evangelism. Or maybe you're in a church that has too much evangelism. Well, get to get to a place or that has get to a place where you can go to meetings that has a little bit more teaching and instruction to help you and you as a dad take the time or as a mom take the time to bring teaching and instruction to your children at home. So, well, thank you all for listening in. 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