SPEAKER_00 0:04

Welcome to Lambs and Company, a podcast about life. We will feature guests and friends on the podcast to have quality conversations and wonderful fellowship. We hope you will join us. It's a life worth living, and it's a life worth giving.

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Welcome to another Lambs and Company. And uh a life worth living is a life worth giving. And we're glad you're gonna uh join us today. Uh we most recent episode we addressed monogamy, and we'd like to do a couple of episodes. Um, and it seemed proper to address areas concerning marriage and the covenant that God's intended. And then uh we'd probably like to also address the areas of fruitfulness uh and productivity because those areas seem to all fit in that particular uh flow of things. And so we're again we're very excited about every person that takes the time to listen or to watch, and we're very grateful for that. We're we're gonna pray and got Dr. Hall with me, and most of the time during the program, I don't refer to him as Dr. Hall, I just refer to him as Artie because he knows me as Lonnie and I know him as Artie, and we've known each other for 50 years, and we love each other as men and brethren and our families. So thank you again, and thank you, Artie, for being present, a part of this. And thank you, Michaela, for and anything you need to jump in here and add, you go ahead and jump in. We love I loved it. Lord, thank you for today. Thank you for the folks that may hear this, and we ask that it would be an encouragement, a help, a strength to them. Lord, impart life. Uh as John 1:4 says that in Jesus is life and he's the light in our lives. And we're asking that you be both the life and the light in us today and every day in Jesus' name. Amen. Um, let me just uh begin with uh an opening uh statement because God's purpose as the author and the architect of all creation, he designed the family as the crowning act of creation and the earthly expression for what he intended for his heavenly kingdom. And the scriptures describe the family as a basic social unit created by God to extend his covenant, his promise, his kingdom reign throughout the earth. Now, in this particular area, we want to look at the foundations for productive family living. And um a couple of things that uh we will we will look you know, look at as far as references or things, is that there was a mandate that God had given. And a mandate is an authorized command. Uh He also makes mention of family, and a family is a basic unit of a society, ideally historically comprised of a man, his wife, and their children. Many families today have experienced brokenness, but are assured of God's care, guidance, as well as his provision in the areas of their lives as they place their trust in him. Now, there's also the area of lineage. Lineage is the descent in a line from a common, uh, uh a common line that is coming downward. So, like I'm the son of my father, Lonnie. Um I have sons, I have three sons and a daughter. They're they're a part of, I was a part of the lineage of my father, my children are a part of the lineage of my life. And so, you know, you kind of know how that goes. But then there's a thought of dominion, and all this we find in the first couple of chapters of the book of Genesis in uh the Bible. And um, you know, I I have found that the Bible is very credible, I found that it's very reliable, I found that it is very instructional and it's beneficial, but most of all, it's a tremendous blessing. Because, you know, I've known what it was not to be uh a follower of Christ, and I've known what it is to be a follower of Christ. And even though I'm a follower of Christ, I've known what it was to have highs and lows in my walk and my fellowship with the Lord and even with other people in the body of Christ. But I've never found the word of God not to be true and beneficial and helpful. And most of the time when I find myself in a jam, find myself uh lacking or missing something, I can always begin to turn to the word of God. You anybody can use a good old concordance, anybody can use, you know, today we have all these Bible apps on our phones and stuff like that. It's so simple to do a word study on pretty much anything. And um that's doing that's the first step. But you have to understand it's not the information that we're after, it's the benefit and the blessing and the life of the word of God that we're after. And I think that when you find things, take the time to ask the Lord for the Holy Spirit's help in your life. Because Jesus in John 14, 15, and 16 very clearly talks about the fact that when he was going away, he wasn't going to leave us as orphans. He was going to send another comforter to help lead us, guide us, instruct us, comfort us, correct us, most of all to change us. And he's bringing transformation and change in our life. And um and so all of these things, you can just kind of hold on to that, uh, these thoughts for this episode, but um, dominion is a supreme authority or absolute ownership. And the amazing thing about God is he not only pronounces or uh reveals himself as God and thinks he's God, but he is God. And a lot of times people think they're God and they're not. But when God says something, you can trust that, you can rely upon that. And uh, but you need to not just do it in a generic way, you do it with a way that he's our father. I was just studying and having a devotional time this morning out of 1 John, and one of the things that says that if you believe that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, that you also will know the Father. And it's making reference to God as our Father. Jesus said in John 14, 6, he said, I'm the way, I'm the truth, I'm the life. No man comes to the Father except by me. Now, we have people today in culture and society and science and medicine and academia and pretty much any walk of life. And there are a lot of people that want to connect and be spiritual and spiritualize things, but everything that is spiritual may not lead you to the Father. It may not lead you to the Lord Jesus Christ. Matter of fact, it could be a deceptive or a delusional thing that you're getting into and a deceptive thing that people get into. And so if you know the word of God, if you know the word of God, you're gonna have an advantage. Now, a lot of people don't realize how savvy and how uh how informed actually our adversary, our enemy, known as the devil or the destroyer, bellzabove, or you know, Lord of the Flies, or so many different names that he's tied to in the New Testament. Uh, one of the names is accuser of the brethren. But a lot of people don't realize that he has an ability to actually quote scripture. Normally it's in in parts or portions, not it's an entirety and its context. People forget that. Uh, you know, James, when he was writing his letter, he said, you know, you believe. Well, he said, that's no big deal, because he said, even the devils believe, and they know there's a God. Well, what do they believe? You know, why do they believe? Because of who he is, but they also use that many times to try to keep people from being properly united and joined to the Lord. Uh, last week we used out of 1 Corinthians 6 a verse that it says that he's joined to the Lord as one spirit with the Lord. Well, he wants you to not be joined to the Lord spiritually, because if you're joined to the Lord spiritually, your heart is changed, your mind will begin to be transformed, and your lifestyle will begin to be yielding to areas of obedience instead of disobedience. You won't keep doing your own thing and do your own way. So I want to throw out one more word and then I want to get Dr. Hall in there. Uh, microcosm, it's an entity or a unit that is a smaller version of a larger unit. And a lot of people don't realize that when God created humanity, mankind, created Adam and Eve, gave them a mandate, gave them uh dominion, gave them instruction and direction, he intended for the family, male, female, and then their offspring, to begin to become a microcosm of what the pattern is in the heavens. And yet we have gotten so far from that. And you know, um, you know, you hear all kinds of things. It takes a it takes a village to raise a child and stuff like that. No, it takes two parents to raise a child. And matter of fact, I found out you don't know everybody that lives in the village. Some of the people that live in the village have no interest in the relationship with God or a proper order of God. So you don't just turn your kids over to everybody and anybody. And I'm jumping ahead a little bit, but anyway, you get the idea. So, you know, God gives us dominion and a mandate to be a family. In the beginning, he denotes the the out from the outset of all things, the natural and the biblical history. And he said, prior to that, we have an existence and a presence of a living God. And so the Lord created man, created him in his likeness and in his image, but he also did that and gave us the capacity and the capability to have communion and fellowship with him that does not exist for anything else in his creation in the way that he entrusted as stewards to humankind. And so please keep these thoughts and these things in mind as we move forward today. God placed within the family unit both the order and the government through which he wanted them to manage his creation. He did that. And so, you know, Artie, go ahead and jump in here because I just wanted to kind of throw that out there as a little backdrop because we're so far off the pattern. We're so far out of the order in an overall sense. And please, you know, nobody thinks that I'm against science. Nobody think I'm against medicine. My wife's in a medical field. And, you know, and I'm very grateful for that. And I think a lot of other people that know her and connected with her, they're grateful for that. But we cannot use these things as being superior and supreme to who the Lord God is. And matter of fact, the moment you take him out of the picture and you make him second or third or fourth instead of first, normally everything else in the picture gets altered, becomes uh damaged, and becomes many times even can destroy itself. So, Artie, now you can straighten us all out.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

But the the the creation mandate is very important, and and you know, it's it's mama and daddy children. That that is the order. And besides, they're creepy people in the village. Yeah, you know, they really are. There really are. You know, you you don't know who's out there, and and you can have a much better control if you have a mama-daddy children. Uh but that the the original creation mandate was such that that the the man and the woman were to have dominion over the world. And that never changed. Humans people are supposed to be the ones that are sort of in charge of this thing. And and that uh you know, God, when God looks at the planet and God looks at all of us, he says, Yes, mine. That's what he says. But when we look at everything in the planet and all that's going on, what we need to say and what we need to proclaim is that it's his. It belongs to him. And uh, you know, in any kind of worldview, you've got to answer questions, three basic questions. One is, you know, who who or what am I? You know, where'd I come from? And and two, what what's wrong with the world? Because things don't seem to be going very well, and then what's the remedy for that? And any particular worldview needs to satisfactorily answer those questions. Christianity does that very well. Uh but you know, there's a lot of talk out there now about uh whether God is male or female or what you know, there's a lot of that stuff going on here. A lot of a lot of politicians have gotten involved in a lot of the theology in that. There they've even created these Bible versions that supposedly are gender neutral. And the the the problem with all that is that God chose to reveal himself in a masculine form. Is God male or female? No, God is God. You know, he's way beyond all of that. So it it that's but when he reveals himself to us, Jesus was a man. He came to the earth and he manifested himself in the form of Jesus. A man. You know, and so there you can't get past all that. So there's Father, Son, Holy Spirit, there is not mama daddy, you know, within the Godhead. You know, it's mama daddy children. That's not in the Godhead, and yet God says that when he created people, Adam, and and in fact the Hebrew word Adam means man, it means human. So so when he created Adam, it was in his image and likeness. It's not exactly like him, but it is his representation in the earth. First he created the male, and then out of the male, he made the female, and and it's a a a great Hebrew word that we often translate as suitable, uh, uh a helper suitable for him. But the Hebrew word is negative, and and it it means to correspond to. So when God made and control the woman and he made the woman, the woman and the man they correspond to each other. So there's this uh completion that you find in all of that. And without that, I I the we that we're not complete. You know, so the the natural state is marriage, the natural state is family. That's what God has ordained. And if you look throughout history, one of the first things they do with with false religion is all of a sudden you got Mama God, you got Mother Earth, you got Mama Fertility God, you got you got all this stuff. And it it it's always a direct attack on this masculine aspect of God as He's chosen to reveal himself. So you just you just have to get past all that and and look at at the biblical theology of the family and of God's representative on the earth. And and God said part of the creation mandate is that you're supposed to rule over the animals and they're gonna be afraid of you. And and uh and you should be fruitful and multiply. So man, woman, mama, daddy are supposed to make children. And children are gonna fill the world. And and uh, you know, some of us have done a better job of that than others. Uh you know, Sue and I just duplicated. We didn't multiply, we only had two children. Others have multiplied, they multiplied. Yeah, you multiplied a few others. My my daughter multiplied, she has three, but you know, it so you yeah, I guess you gotta have more than two just to just to be multiplied.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

So, so under the under the area what God's established for the family, we see the productional or the reproduction aspect. We see the whole concept of expansion and growth. Yeah, we see really occupation because he he really talks about God desired that the whole earth would be filled with the righteous seed of Adam and Eve's family. We see the area of seduing, where God gave the first family the responsibility of mastering and training the whole creation. Somewhere in all of this, we lost something because when it comes to ruling, you know, it's funny how people miss the fact that the dominion God gave was intended to be over the creation for the benefit of the creation and the benefit of the creation. Yeah, and God wanted us in the sense of ruling, God entrusted Adam's family with a responsibility. And something's gotten turned today where you see this desire in people to grab for power.

unknown 19:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

And they want dominion, but they want dominion over other men and women. And God never gave dominion over other men and women, he gave it over creation that was like the birds of the air, the fowl of the sea, you know, or you know, the fish of the sea, uh, over the things that are growing and things of this nature. But somehow that got you know turned, and and you you have, you know, the follow the book of Genesis, you you see where there was a desire like Nimrod to actually, you know, where it says he was a great hunter. Most most Bibles in the side note there actually expand that and say he was a hunter of men's souls. He was after he was after control over people. He wanted to control people, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

He invented tyranny.

SPEAKER_03 20:14

Yeah, and and it's like um, you know, and then they wanted to to build this whole thing all the way to the heavens, and that didn't work out real well either. But what what I was thinking when you were just talking already, I was thinking about the the area uh of even backing up to this thing of how this has been affected in society, because really our relationship was always tended to be with God as a father. Adam had fellowship, communion with God every day in the cool of the day and that sort of thing, and then uh that was broken, and life became very dysfunctional, and death really began to you know to to happen that was never intended to happen the way it did. And um but one of the things that I think you mentioned about the whole idea of gender for God, it's funny how that has gotten so twisted. Like, I know right now the month of June is Pride Month. I'm like, so what's wrong with Pride Month? Well, if you're if you're a follower of Jesus Christ, now I'm I'm gonna say something, and probably people are gonna like, oh we don't, I don't like that, I don't agree. You know what? I'm okay with that. Because I'm this is where the authority of God's word actually has a place in my heart and my soul, and it's been engrafted there, and people's opinions really can't change that for me. And and here's what I was gonna here's where I'm gonna I'm gonna make a statement. About keep the engine running, y'all. But if if this whole thing of Pride Month represents a perversion of God's creation, and yet there's a hard press, full court press being put on Christianity today to buy this lie and to accept this as if you know you don't love God if you don't accept us. We do love God and we do accept you. We just don't approve of your lifestyle. You can't pervert God's pattern and order of things and want everybody to buy into that and accept that. But the thing is, the guy that came up with that whole thing with the flag and everything, he actually had words beside each color. One of the things he tells you about pride is the spirits. Literally, in the in the definition of the guy that originally did that, literally, well, he didn't tell you it's it in the spirit of God, it isn't the Holy Spirit. It's a spiritual influence in it, though, and it really brings a real deception and deceit to people. And you know, the the thing, Artie, about about pride, it's very clear that 1 Peter 5 tells all of us, pride's not good for any of us. Not the kind that that we think that we're superior or we have a special exemption somehow in our responsibility and our relationship and our stewardship with God. But it says God resists the proud and he gives more grace to the humble. So the best place for all of us to live is in a place of humbling ourselves. But who are we humbling ourselves before?

unknown 24:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:04

God. And if we humble ourselves before God, then a lot of times we're gonna walk differently, think differently, and our attitude and the way we treat one another is gonna be different, too.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

So, you know, it it you know, God resists the proud. He doesn't ignore the proud, he he resists the proud. And when God resists you, you lose. You're not gonna win that battle. And and so you better humble yourself for him.

SPEAKER_03 24:33

Well, I I've said for years, I said, you know what, I discovered, I found out God can hold his breath a lot longer than I can hold my stride.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

He can do it.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

You know, and look, you sit there and you can turn until you turn blue and start blowing bubbles, and you realize I can't do this. But the other thing, too, this whole this whole twist of men thinking they're women and women thinking they're men and this sort of thing, people don't understand there's a spiritual force behind that that actually was tied to different deities that are exposed in the covenant, the old covenant of God, when the children of Israel were going in to occupy the land, part of the thing that they were supposed to go in and deal with were certain groups of people. But the reason he had to deal with the different groups of people was the influence that those people were under and the spiritual influence. And that same spiritual influence, though, is present, more present today than probably it's been the last 200 years in this nation. Because it's like they've opened that Pandora's box and basically said, hey, we kind of want to, we want this, we like this, please, you know, please, you know, accept all of this. But what people don't understand is when men, you know, uh when men in in many of the worship patterns of ancient cultures wanted to be a part of one of the female deities, oftentimes they had to be castorated or they had to become a eunuch or something to actually take on an identity that wasn't theirs. And I, you know, all that was spiritually motivated, all that was spiritually driven. And, you know, but because I read my Bible, I look at that and I look around sometimes when I see the news and I see what's going on, and I thought, you know, I would have been right in the middle of all of this if God hadn't reached in and pulled me out of it.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

I well, I don't even know if I'd be alive today, but yeah, but you know You know, it it goes when Adam and Eve sinned and disobeyed God, one of the temptations that came to Eve was, you shall be as God. So from that point on, all of these false religions began to develop because that was the promise that you'll be like God. So in all of and all of them, almost without exception, all of them have got some sort of sexual fertility element involved. There's some sort of perversion involved. There's usually a lot of of the uh the homosexuality involved. There's the the whole transgender, you know, in the past it used to be called cross-dressing and all of that. The priests would dress up as a woman or pretend to be a woman or whatever, all that with even among the Canaanite religion, a lot of the others. They all sort of had a lot of this perversion that was there, and it's spiritual. Uh, you're you've nailed it in that because this is not just the physical stuff people are involved in. Oh, I'm gonna live my life and just be the way I want. I mean, after all, we're just people. We are, but there's something behind all that, and that's where the issue is. When you give yourself over to that level of evil and perversion, then then you really have given yourself over to that spiritual influence.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

Well, you know, uh so I've kind of took a little rabbit trail here on this thing, but this needs to be addressed because this is one of the things that is trying to destroy the microcosm of the of the uh of the family, uh of the nucleus of the family that God has intended.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

It it's the the like the decrease in the birth rate. Just to look at that that issue, there are fewer people being born in the United States now, so that we don't even have a replacement birth rate. There's not a you know, normally you you have the same number of people dying as you have being born, which gives you sort of this replacement birth rate. You need about two per family or so, but thereabouts. Uh and we're not there. In a number of other places, because the devil hates children and he hates women. And that those are the two things he always attacks. Women always suffer. Women always have problems. Often they're either oppressed by men or oppressed by other women or whatever is going on with that. If you look at anything that's not Christianity. And and children. Women and children suffer more than anything else around the world. And and that that's part of the difficulty in in looking at the lie that was sold to our generation. We were growing up in 1970. The the one of the 68, 69, 70, what was his name? Paul Ehrlich. The guy came out with the population explosion. We got to do something about the population. There are gonna be so many people in the world, we're gonna run out of resources and food, and then we're gonna all start eating each other. And they made movies about it, about people eating each other, and all that was involved in that. Charlton Heston and everybody. It and that's just nonsense. The God has designed the world to support people. There will be as and and all of that will balance out. And and so that this this whole thing of that uh large populations create poverty. No, it doesn't. A lot of people may be poor, but there are a lot of other reasons why people are poor. It's not just because they have a lot of children. And and sadly, often in in impoverished nations, you have big families. So they say, well, see, that's what's causing the problem. Well, no, it's not. The children are not causing the problem. The government, the economy, etc., all of that is probably causing the poverty. So and they don't want to face that. They just want to blame something. So, okay, we got to kill children. We we gotta stop this children thing. It's a plague. You gotta quit having children. And a lot of people in our generation, and they're sad because they're women our age, never had children, never had a family, never had any of that. And now they're all alone. And and uh uh and then there's this middle-age area of of folks that have bought this lie that you don't need to get married, you don't want to have family, you just you know, you can have all the sex you want, you just have to don't get married because you can take birth control pills or you can stop there, you can do this, you don't have to have children because children are evil, children are bad, children will ruin your life. There are too many children in the world. Stop having children. Where does that come from? It sure doesn't come from God because what he said was be fruitful and multiply. Yeah, you know, so it's it's it's it's a real evil thing that's happened in the hearts of people.

SPEAKER_03 31:46

It really is. You know, um one of the other things that uh that I would say about uh this this whole direction that we've taken, um he found out God's covenant and faithfulness in the family. God revealed and demonstrated his own covenant faithfulness and the old covenant within setting the earthly families, especially the chosen people of Israel. But then God demonstrates his covenant faithfulness in Noah and his family and the impending judgment. He found out God establishes a covenant, a promise with Abraham and his descendants and his household. God expressed and confirmed covenant faithfulness through Abraham's heirs and descendants, Isaac and Jacob. In other words, even though there was a lot of rough places, because the Bible, that's another thing. The Bible, um, the Bible is full of stuff that makes people uncomfortable. But you gotta understand what God's showing there is for the fact that people, when they live without God, do stuff they're not supposed to be doing. They act ways they're not supposed to act. They're their whole, you know, when people talk about a demeanor, a lot of people just get meaner. Not just a demeanor, it they just get meaner. And and people start taking that out on one another. But but God's plan was to actually have a unit that would occupy, that would have dominion, would be productive, uh, be occupational, and actually be fruitful. And um, you know, one of the things that has happened, and Marty and I both talk about this a lot out of John 10, 10, when Jesus says, you know, Jesus said, I've come to give you life and life more abundantly. But the thief has come to steal, kill, and destroy. The enemy doesn't want people to discover what their purpose is and what God's order is, because the moment they do and they begin to allow that to influence their life, it begins to not only rescue them, but it begins to restore them and rebuild what God's intended purpose is, not only for them, but also for Him. And it's an amazing thing to see the Lord take an individual, take a person, and change their life. You know, I I'm I'm I'm been married now for 48 years to the same wife that was my sweetheart at 22, and we're still married, still love each other. It ain't because we've never had disagreements or arguments or setbacks or disappointments, but because we've had a covenant with God and with each other, that gives us a strength and a reason to work through and walk through things together and um and and not to have to do what happened to Israel. You know, people miss the fact that when God created man and woman, he never really intended, and Moses explains this, and then Jesus actually demonstrates this, and Paul comes back and addresses this, but you know something that's happened in our society and become very common? Divorce. But Moses gave a bill of divorcement because God said because of the hardness of their heart. And so if it's the hardness of men's hearts, how do men's hearts get hard? Normally it gets hard not because of God, it's the absence of God, not the presence of God that causes that. And Moses was told by God to give a bill of divorcement because what these rascals were doing is they knew the only way by God's law that they could be released from the marriage is that their wife was dead. And you know, in a society, in a culture, and you mentioned it already, most of the world, and definitely the devil, does it like women and does not like children.

unknown 36:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:39

Because those two things affect the entire order of what God's intended.

unknown 36:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

That's what amazes me about, and I'll I'll just throw this out there, guys. The Muslim faith. The Muslim faith. A lot of people are buying into that. But I don't get it. Because number one, look at what goes on with the children and look what goes on with the women. That that's that's not my opinion. That's an easy fact to research and to check out. And I thought a lot about this, and again, I'm saying this from a Christian perspective as a follower of Jesus Christ. There are really only two spirits at work in the earth today: the spirit of Christ and an antichrist spirit. You gotta ask yourself if you're a part of something that does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God, came in the flesh, was born a virgin birth, then what if you're believing something that's religious and spiritual, but it's not that.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

Whose side you on? Whose side you on?

SPEAKER_03 37:59

I remember Bob Dylan singing that song in the 80s about you gotta serve somebody. You gotta serve the devil or you gotta serve the Lord. And a lot of people and he lists out this whole list of uh personalities and positions of prominence in the world, but yet he said, you gotta serve somebody. And and that's where we're at today. And you know, this episode is really about the importance of the family. If you've got one, love them, protect them, watch over them, pray for them. The greatest thing you can do for your family is pray for your family. If if you got hard heads in your family, pray that God will touch that hard head. If you got hard hearts in your family, pray that God will touch those hard hearts. If you got people that just absolutely refuse and want to reject the reality of who God as a creator is, don't fight with them and argue with them all the time. Just begin to pray for them and ask the Lord, Lord, give them divine meetings and divine appointments with people who are authentic and real and genuine so that they might have voice and actually have input into their life. I'm telling you, this whole moment that we're living in is redeemable. It's something that God can revive and breathe life into. But if we just keep ignoring it and acting like everything is okay, and it's not, all we're doing is moving the furniture around on the Titanic while it's going down. And that's not what we want to do, and the music's playing in the background. We're not doing that. That's not who we are. And as a man or a woman of God today, if you're listening, make a decision that you're gonna follow the Lord with your whole heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, your strength, and the areas that you find that are in conflict, ask Jesus Christ to bring those areas of disobedience into the obedience of Christ. And your life will be tremendously blessed and rewarded because of your willingness to be willing and obedient. I like what Jeremiah said. The people when they're willing and obedient, they'll eat the good of the land. That's the thing. If you like eating good, then you need to learn what willingness and obedience is about, because it goes better that way if it goes God's way. And, you know, please understand, no matter what it is, I don't care what name you put it under, I don't care how you tag it, identify it, how you present it, package it, and brand it. If it's not by the Holy Spirit's life in the Lordship of Jesus Christ, then what spirit is it really of? What nature is it presenting and pursuing? And a lot of what's going on today is coming from the world, and it's coming from the world that has an influence, unseen influence, that's spiritual, that is actually presenting and proclaiming an antichrist spirit. And part of that is directed directly at the integrity and the intended purpose of God for the family, for husbands and wives, for parents with children. If you've suffered already a loss as a person that started out desiring that, and that's been broken and that's been damaged, then you know what? Please hear this. God is able to heal your broken heart. He's able to help you in still being a great example. He's able to help you and restore you and supply you with what's needed and necessary to be the parent, even if you're a single parent, to be the parent that you need to be. Is there anything, Artie, you want to add to that and maybe close us out in prayer?

SPEAKER_01 42:26

Yeah, it just just remembering that God's way is always the best. His way always works. And it does. It always works. Mama daddy children always works. Now, doesn't mean they're not problems with that, and it that mama can be a really bad person or daddy's a son of Belial. You know, I I don't know. It just it could be a real problem with some of those things. But the basic design is mama daddy children. And and uh as we begin to move and walk in that as a culture, it begins to heal the country. I think it could, it could heal our nation and our country. So let's pray. Lord, we ask you to help us obey you. Father, help us have mercy on us as a nation. We we repent before you uh for all the sins we've committed as a nation. Lord, all the times we've broken your law, all the times we've turned away from you. Lord, help us turn back to you, turn our hearts back to you, save women, save men, save children, save families. Help us, Father, be redeemed and healed as we repent and turn back to you. We pray in Jesus' name.

unknown 43:41

Amen.

SPEAKER_02 43:42

Amen.