The Purpose of Marriage | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: teaching
Scripture: Genesis 2:18-25, Revelation 19:5-9, Mark 4:3, Mark 4:4, Mark 10:5, Jeremiah 4:3, Mark 4:5-6

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let's go quickly to the word of the Lord this morning the Book of Genesis chapter 2 and verse number 18 I'm going to teach today for a few moments on the purpose of marriage the purpose of marriage we have marriage Retreat coming up in a few days and I just feel like we'll get a head start on on marriage Retreat so I'm I'm going to do a little teaching today on marriage Genesis chapter 2 and verse number 18 and the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone I will make him a help meat for him out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every foul of the air brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them and whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof Adam gave names to all cattle and to the foul of the air and to every beast of the field but for Adam there was not f found a help meat for him and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof and the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man and Adam said this is now bone of my bones and Flesh of My Flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed Revelation 19 and5 and I know you've been standing uh for worship and and there's no greater thing you could stand for than worship and really there's no greater thing if you're physic Al able that stand for like the word of God Revelation 19 and5 and a voice came out of the throne saying praise our God all ye his servants and ye that fear Him both small and great and I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many Waters and as the voice of a mighty thundering saying Allelujah for the Lord God not omnipotent Reign it let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen clean and white for the fine linen is the righteousness of the Saints and he saith unto me right blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the lamb and he said unto me these These are the true sayings of God Amen I want to minister today on this subject the purpose the purpose of marriage father for the next few moments would you open our hearts and open our minds that we can once again build upon this God Foundation Lord that our lives will be blessed that our communities will be blessed that our world will be blessed because of the family anoint me in the name of the Lord Jesus I pray amen and amen you may be seated today the purpose of the family one may ask one may ask brother Carpenter why teach on the family why teach on the family and I'll make a statement the obvious is not always the obvious what we would assume that people know about the family in our culture today it's needful that we continually are reminded and that we educate our children to the true Bible purpose of marriage was several maybe a year or two ago that we became concerned um about our children about our children not truly understanding certain holidays that we that we observe Memorial Day and Veterans Day and days such as that um if we're not reminded of their true purpose it can just be another day that we take off it can just be another day that we have everybody over and open up the barbecue grill it could just be a it could just be another day we fight this at Christmas time don't we because uh the true meaning of Christmas is not gifts under a tree uh the true reminder of Christmas is that God became flesh became our sacrifice for sin but uh Christmas in our culture they you know they put the exus there and you you can't have a Christmas without a Christ and so we understand how all these things play out and few years ago we a major expense but really not really not but it it was costly you'll notice on major holidays Memorial Day uh Veterans Day 4th of July the list goes on and on the front of this building is lined with beautiful Flags beautiful flags and we uh at school when school is in we'll be reminding the students of what we do on Memorial Day and what Veterans Day is all about and we even have a special service here on Veterans Day and we bring our community the veterans from our community in and we're wanting our children we're wanting to pass it on to another generation we're wanting to pass it on to another Generation Well the true meaning of this is and um some may some may Wonder well why do you get in a a big tizzy about uh boy that's a neat word isn't it why you get in a big tizzy uh uh about about somebody burning the American flag I personally believe you burn the flag you ought to go to jail and I do I just that's I'm not I'm not running for politics already hold an office higher than the White House amen and that's the truth and and so I I think you ought to go to jail I think you ought to go to jail or go out of this country because that Flag represents freedom that Flag represents our freedom our democracy it represents who we are and men and women countless men and women have paid the ultimate sacrifice for that flag so that flag means something now I said all that to bring you around to marriage because marriage has a fuller meaning than just a male and a female coming together and getting a marriage license and sharing the same address it has a much deeper spiritual analogy that God had in mind I have a book and I would I would I would actually recommend that if you would like to purchase this book um you can go online I have it in uh in electronic form but several years ago I purchased a book called well well vered and it it simply it it it simply uh addresses uh subject matters um that that are in our world today and one of the subject matters is is marriage let me read from garlo's book on well verse why should we care about marriage what is the foundation of marriage and why is marriage such a big deal to God it is important to know that your Bible opens in the Book of Genesis with a marriage between a man and a woman and your Bible closes in the Book of Revelation with a marriage between a groom Jesus Christ and a bride his church the book opens with the marriage Genesis and it closes with the marriage in the in the New Testament the full image of God I just buckled up for a few moments God is neither male nor female the Old Testament writers use gender specific metaphors to describe Indescribable sometimes the words used to describe God are distinctly masculine most obviously the usage of father or he at other times the phrase is used to depict God or feminine terms like a breastfeeding nursing mother Psalms 131 and2 Isaiah 49:15 giving birth is referred to God Deuteronomy 32:18 in labor Isaiah 42:14 as a mother hen Matthew 23 and 37 but the fact is God is neither a he or a she in Genesis chapter 17 in verse one God's name in the Hebrew phrase is El shedi It is believed that the eel means Mighty like a mountain thus the strength of masculinity Shad ey likely comes from the Hebrew word for breast such as feeding a newborn baby thus the nurturing feminine characteristic that single name for God includes a full SP spectrum of masculinity and femininity We Are Made In His Image however a male alone cannot fully represent all the descriptors of the image of God for example a male by himself cannot manifest the full spectrum of God's features historically associated with femininity tenderness thus no husband can represent the full image of God at the same time a female alone can not do justice To His Image either due to a lack of classic classic masculine strength in spite of the fact that we were created by God individually we express the full image of God only when the two halves of humanity complement each other and become one now let me stop there and add my my my my thought on on this we often say the devil is attacking my marriage the truth of the matter is the devil is attacking your image he is not attacking you personally he is attacking what you represent for Satan would love to erase every image of God on the face of this planet that's why the you know well these people don't want the manger scene here and these people don't want a cross here and these people don't want the Ten Commandments hanging up and on on the list goes it's not those people they're just a puppet in the hand of an enemy that wants to erase every image of God let me continue to read from garlo Adam the man versus Adam humankind and I do need your undivided attention you you this is really kind of goes deep put your snarkle on this morning and and get your air tanks ready all right let's go deep deeper into the Hebrew language of Genesis the traditional view of human creation is that God created Adam put him to sleep took a rib created Eve but the Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew not English is the Hebrew text saying that God created Adam a male and then created Eve a female from Adam's Rib I think there is something more profound in the Hebrew Old Testament that reveals a deeper understanding of the Genesis account in the beginning God created not Adam the male but Adam that is humankind don't picture Adam as a male the word Adam or pronounce Adam means humankind or personhood it is later that Adam is the name of a male but initially God created Adam small a that is humankind after creating humankind God said it is not good that Adam humankind be alone this was not a case of God creating a male and then saying it is not good that a male is alone so I will make a female that is not what happened I suggest a more correct reading of the Hebrew would be it is not good for humankind to be at one let's not miss the point God made human kind then he said it is not good for humankind to be at one or one one or to live in solitude here we have the splitting of the atom pardon the pun here we have the splitting of the Adam as Adam or humankind he gets split apart and when we end up with male and female but what about the proverbial rib the word rib does not appear in the ancient Hebrew text the word that is used used is Tesla I'm not talking about the car either what is Tesla it can be translated half or side don't miss the significance of the next this next sentence instead of God creating Adam taking a rib to create Eve the text says that God created humankind observed that it was not good for humankind to be one or alone and then took a side or a half of humankind and created a female which is Eve what remained was male Adam let me stop there and inject this evidently God took all the femininity out and when he did there was masculinity there in other words the whole of humanity that was created in the full image of God with both the strength of man masculinity and the tenderness of femininity is now two complimentary halves of humanity male and female one of the reasons for the strong sexual attraction of males and females to each other is the desire for the two halves of humanity to come back together undoing the splitting of the atom and reuniting male and females as halves to make a whole now reflecting the full image of God now let's go a step further are y'all all right today somebody sleeping beside you punch them real good all right let's look at this ish i sh and AA i a h and Yahweh the Hebrew word for man is ish i the Hebrew word for woman is AE i h a h pronounced a here's the difference between ish and a in the Hebrew language there is one letter in is or man that is not in Ashe woman and that is the letter yah in the Hebrew word for Ashe woman there is one letter that is not in the ish man and that is the Hebrew letter yay put these two together and you form yah way you get today Yahweh is the basis for Yahweh the name of God that is used 6,800 times in the Old Testament in other words when you put ish and Ashe together we have Yahweh or the expression of the full image of God even the Hebrew words from man and woman depict the breathtaking construct let's be clear two men can never two men can never represent the full image of God and two women can never represent the full image of God that's not being judgmental that's just being biblical it takes a man and a woman to fully give the full spectrum of the image of God what was Satan's what was Satan's caus to be cast out of Heaven what was Satan's reason why did God cast him out of Heaven I will Ascend and I will be like the most high God I will be like the most high God and do you know that God cast him out of heaven but yet God in Satan's own backyard God created a world and God created man and woman and when Satan looks at man and woman in the relationship of marriage Satan is reminded of his Doom how many of you have said this or heard this I've read the back of the book and we win amen I've read the back of the book and we win and so Satan every time he sees a man in a woman joined together in holy matrimony in a marriage Satan is reminded of the ultimate marriage that will take place at the end of time when the Lord Jesus Christ our heavenly husband our Heavenly bridegroom is going to say time is no more and God is going to call his church his bride he's going to Rapture her and he's going to take her to heaven for to ever throughout all eternity be with the Lord and we're going to have a great marriage supper come on do you believe that today would you give him some worship right now began to study and um I came across and I'll spend the rest of my Bible lesson on an old familiar Parable found in the Book of Mark 4 verse number three and see I don't want you to think because I wasn't yelling and throwing my hands in the air and running up down the aisles I wasn't preaching you probably heard some of the fine is preaching the last 10 minutes to be reminded it's not just about my wife and I my husband and I it's about who we represent and it's about at the end of time at the end of time I want to be called to that marriage supper of the Lamb I want to be robed see we we think we think we came up with all this stuff the the bride coming down the aisle and the the the the uh the white dress you know we think man aren't we aren't we aren't we cool to think about and then we really think we're cool because after the wedding we get to go we get to go eat can I tell you that was put in US somehow in our DNA and somehow man brought it out of us because one day we the church symbolically or literally are going to be clothed in fine linen not just linen but fine linen and it's going to be clean white and as we are adoring in heaven and the the bride and I could I could get into this but I I don't want to get into this but I might crack the door door and let you look into it the church is going to wear a garment throughout all eternity that represent her as the Church of Jesus Christ the Old Testament Saints although they'll be there worshiping they will not have the same garment on as we have because we are the Bride of Jesus Christ we we'll be identified as the bride there'll be Old Testament Saints there that will talk about the blood of the Lamb that Moses put on their door but we'll sing a new song in heaven that we have been redeemed by the blood of the lamb and we'll have a new garment on in heaven and there there will ever be and if you're happy about that would you give him a praise right now there will ever be with the Lord there will ever be with him but let's work on our marriage this morning let's work on our marriage today Mark chapter 4 and verse number three Jesus gives a parable he says hearken behold there went out a swer to seow let me first tell you about this a sewer goes out today for a harvest tomorrow the sewer goes out today for a harvest tomorrow he has tomorrow in mind we are here today listening intently to an important subject of marriage because if we will listen and apply and seow not maybe not if not if I get lucky but if we'll apply God's principles to our lives today we will enjoy a better Harvest tomorrow so the sewer is working today for a harvest tomorrow verse 4 Mark 4 and4 and it came to pass as he SED some fell by the way side and the fouls of the air came and devoured it I want you to know something very important even statistics tell tell this not even Church statistics tell this that people who attend couples who attend houses of worship on a regular basis are happier healthier and their families are more whole now that's not some church organization that's just some college or university like Yale places like this that do stats on families that doesn't surprise me that doesn't surprise me why the seed that's going to be swn is greatly influenced its growth is either promoted or stunned by the soil that it falls into I want you to know today that the environment of the Church of Jesus Christ is the best place place to sew your life it's the best place to sew your life you know we hear so much sometimes negative about a church or about the church can I tell you if there's any negative it's got to do with people but in our God there is no negative at all it is a good life living for Jesus Christ it is the best life you will ever live are you hearing me today it is the best life you will ever live to live for Jesus Christ this is the best time you'll ever spend to have it on your schedule on a regular basis to come into the house of God because environment environment is important he said he sewed seed but the seed fell by the wayside the Wayside is soil is soil that is not tilled it is dirt that is hard and compacted it has not been tilled it has not been plowed it has not been turned over it's as hard as the asphalt that you walked into this church upon but the seed but the seed fail on the Wayside the soil is the environment that the seed is swn into Wayside soil is unprepared ground hard packed the seed cannot enter the seed cannot enter enter it cannot enter into that ground they asked Jesus one day they said why did Moses why did Moses allow divorce why did Moses allow divorce Jesus gives a simple answer Mark 10 and5 Jesus answered and said unto them for the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept he said you know why it happened because Hearts were hardened Hearts were hardened now that makes me today want to work on not getting a hard heart I I don't want my heart to get hard I I don't want my heart to get callous and there's several things there's one major thing the the plow the plow is not the is not the seed and I know you know that I just want to make the point the plow that goes into the ground is not the seed but it's important because it's the instrument that God uses to break up the soil and so there are several things that will help you keep a soft pliable heart number one that's prayer number two that's hungering after God and yes number three and not necessarily in this order you need to have a preacher putting the plow to your heart and turning over and sometimes you can yell out amen preacher preacher sometimes you whisper to your heart oh my God help me but whether you're saying amen preaching or you're whispering to yourself oh God help me he just took my feet right off me with that word you need to say come on Plowman plow me up today come on preacher plow me up today don't worry about me going and find and you know I said this and I I I do believe we're living in this culture people don't backslide and leave church now they nowadays they just change churches and and they think by going somewhere else I'm going to tell you if he's a true Plowman he'll plow you up God will tell him because God loves you too much to let you die with a hard Heart come on Plowman plow me up today come on preacher plow me up a little bit today come on plow me up don't don't you want the preacher to plow come on when I start drifting away get on your bullhorn and start hauling at me to paddle Back To The Shore and get back to the shore come on preacher plow me up plow me up today so why did they get divorced Jesus he said because your hearts were hard Jeremiah 4:3 thus sayeth the Lord to the men of Judah Jeremiah 4:3 thus sayith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem break up your fow ground that's hard ground and S not a among said he said be careful be careful break up your hard ground cuz you're getting word throwed on you you getting seed throwed on you you're getting the word throw it on you and he said if your ground is not broke up somebody's looking somebody's perched up in the tree and that's the adversary the Bible said the foul comes and that's the adversary he's looking today and we say the devil don't come to church but he does and he's perched around here today and he's saying I don't care how much seed Falls over here and falls over here and falls over here and falls over here it doesn't matter the ground is as hard as can be and when they leave here today I'll just swoop down and I'll take up the word out of their heart I'll just take it up it'll never it'll never change them it'll never change them one bit but I say today preach to me Plowman plow me up Plowman turn me over Plowman it don't feel good it don't feel good but put the blade put the blade down in you know I think uh sister Karen I think I was back maybe brother Weir I was probably when the Lord kind of stops me and speaks to me I I don't know I get a picture of where I'm at not that I want to go back there I don't think there's anything special about that spot but I was praying last week in my private time and I was going up and down the aisles because I try to have a ritual and a custom to lay my hand on all the pews and pray for the men and the women and the children and and I got back there and the Lord spoke this into my heart heart he said I hate the phrase toxic masculinity I hate the phrase toxic masculinity well don't we know has anybody heard that phrase toxic masculine did we hear it from here where did we hear it from heard it from the world I stopped there and said come on Lord talk to me a little bit and he said people today my people have mistaken the plowman's voice for toxic masculinity there is masculinity that has been used to harm but not the plowman the plowman May raise his voice and he may get redac and he it's flat out will get angry but his anger is to get you to turn he's only trying to show you on his face what's on my face he's only trying to tell you by his voice voice and his displeasure what is in my heart and I stopped back there you know we need masculinity in the pull pit I said we need masculinity in the pull pit let them call him a dictator let him call him a cult leader let him call him whatever they want to call him but we need strong masculinity in the pull pit we need leaders in the pull pit we need need men that can get the pul of the church and know this is the direction we want to now wait a minute we not only need masculinity in the pull pit we need masculinity in the home we need masculinity in the home we need it in the home we don't need fathers that try to be best friends we need fathers to be fathers I'm going to tell you something if you'll be a father to them they may not love you at the time but the day will come that they'll shed tears and tell you thank you Daddy that you didn't let me go there thank you Daddy that you made me do this thank you Daddy when everybody else was doing it you said as for me in my house we are going to serve the Lord we need strong masculinity not being not being abusive not when it's God not when it's God we love the flock we can kill a lion we can also hug a lamb you hear me a true Shepherd can kill a lion but he can also love a love a lamb a true father can kill a lion and he can hug his kids he can hug his kids so please have the attitude come on Plowman PL CL me up today let's go to verse five let's go to verse 5 Mark 4 some fell on Stony ground it had not much Earth and immediately it sprang up and because it had no depth of Earth when the sun was up it was scorched and because it had no root it withered away are you ready for this this ground now Wayside is not plowed at all this ground wasn't plowed deep enough was it plowed deep enough won't you look good on the surface it had it had yay amount of soil evidently evidently either the plowman didn't go deep enough or The Rock was there that wouldn't move so he got enough Earth but not enough for root and it came up immediately overnight but when the sun came up trials and tribulation and heartache came it withered away because it had it had no root look good on the surface but underneath there was issues good on the surface but underneath and I know you've already said I do and you did but if there's somebody here today that's not said I do yet date them long enough to know if they've got any Rocks Under the surface I don't care what he drives and what his checkbook looks like and and I don't care what she looks like and and and her dress and all that that's surface that real person is what's underneath the surface that's going to be it's not what you see here that determines it's what is right inside this Heart come on Plowman not only plow me but plow me deep today no don't don't just plow me today but but but but but plow me real deep let let me get issues you know there are things that happen to happen to us as we're growing up some are in single homes and some may some may you know be the custody of the state and we have all of those that are here but there's nothing in your child raising that God and a relationship with God cannot bring out he's either Lord of all or he's not Lord at all at all we either have to crown him Lord or crucify him but don't try to comprom compromise him he can either help us in all our areas of our life or he can't help us in any area of our life and I want to preach to somebody from the bottom of my heart today and tell you you don't have a rock so deep inside of you that a Rel relationship with God his word prayer and fasting cannot bring that rock to the surface I forget where I was at I forget where I was at but I was in a Countryside somewhere and I really I don't even know if I was in the United States or not but it's a beautiful stone fence it was just such a beautiful stone fence and it went for some distance beautiful stone fence there and the person and I was with and Lord I wish I could remember that who it was but they said brother Carpenter do you know where they got those stones from and I said I don't he said when they would plow the field said every time they hit a rock they would take it out to the border of their property and they would stack it up and that over time every time they' hit a rock they take that rock put another put another thing up said that field could not produce a harvest until all that rock got out and when all that rock got out that field could produce a harvest but now that fence that rock fence when the farmer comes out there don't mean anything to the don't that old rock fence don't mean anything to me but there's an old leather skinned farmer that steps out there and when he comes through that rock he comes through that fence he knows exactly I yeah I had to dig and dig and dig to get that Boulder right there out yeah I had to put her deep I I had to put me four mules up to get that rock out right there but I said and God will do the same thing for you if you're not if you're not being fertile inside of your heart with joy peace and righteousness God is able to help you get that rock out and you'll put it over to the side and you'll say when I used to think about that I got bitter when I used to think about that I felt sorry for myself when I used to think about that I got angry with people but now through the blood of Jesus Christ I can look over it that and I can raise my hands and I can give God thanks come on would you give him some praise right now with well let me let me bring this to a close all right I want I want to end I want to end on this I'm not done maybe I'll take it up next week I'm not done but men the responsibility falls on us the responsibility falls on us our wives were not made to carry the load of the leadership and I know clips of this will be taken by people I love you praying for you God love and I do mean that how archaic is what a dictator he is what a cult leader he is and I told somebody they said I was a cult leader and I said they said we heard that's a cult down there I said I can prove to you that's not a cult what you mean I said Give me the definition of a cult I said a cult is a group of people that follow a man and do everything that he says I said right there it tells you oh Lord let me go but men falls on us God designed us to be leaders God designed us to be leaders in our home we are abandoning our position you know and I this this the way my brain works maybe some of you Brothers can help me today down at the Thor dealership brother Doug what is it I can buy a half ton truck can I buy a half ton truck is there a half ton what about a one ton truck can I buy they make a one ton make a one ton is that what you got out there brother Perry one ton then there's a half ton right is there anything below a half ton is there a quarter ton no so a half ton what would happen to a truck if I tried to put a ton on a half ton truck it's going to break it down oh you might you you you you might get across town you know it's go go across town like that right there you might do it once or twice but sooner or later what you're putting in that truck that truck wasn't designed for and sooner or later it's going to break and I'm here to tell you today and I'm just here to tell you today when our wife lives are called upon to be the spiritual leader of our house there is a weight put on them that they were not designed to carry now over time it'll break their health down over time it'll break their mental ability down over time sister Carpenter it will rob them of their Joy over time so men today I'm closing with this let's step back into our role of leadership and let's begin begin to lead our family when things start in the home that's the time that we address it and that's the time that we call attention to it that's the time because God so designed God so designed the family to put the man in the leadership of the home and I want every man today that has received this word every every man that has received this word you may not even be married yet but you're going to get married someday and you're going to need to remember what Pastor taught this morning I want every man to stand with me right now that you receive this word you're physically able I want you to stand today you you receive this word right now I want you to stand with me now I want you to walk down to the front of this altar today I want you to walk down to the altar with me because that's what real men do real men don't only just tell real men show real men show today God I love you today man I want you to push in as close around the altar as you can want you to push in as close as you can up around the altar today real men oh it's my house God lord it's what's going on in my house God it's what's going on in my house God oh it's what's going on in my house God lord ask for me in my house we're going to serve God as for me in my house we're going to serve God today my Lord Lord what an army what an army what an army men of leadership men I'm going to I'm going to lead I'm going to lead I'm going to lead I'm going to lead I'm going to lead I'm going to lead wives today wives you'd stand with me right now if you'd make your way down because after this man is you after this man it's you you make your way down if youve received this word today if you'll make your way down Lord I love you today God I love you this morning God first lady I want you to come cuz I want you to help to pray want you to come and help us pray right now the name of the Lord Jesus now before I pray over the men before I pray of the men I want to tell you of a story that I read of a man that had a large Rock a large Rock in his yard and he had he didn't have the ability he didn't have the ability to to move the rock he didn't have enough strength to move the rock you knew the only way I'll break the rock is to take a sledgehammer and just bust it into pieces but he hit and he hit and he hit and he hit he got to where he was counting the times and he hit and he'd get a little weary cuz all he could see on the surface was a few nashes where the sledgehammer was hitting but on the 100th time of hitting that Rock that Rock split wide open you say was it the 100th time that did it no the first time he hit that rock deep in the core of that rock it be to crack in the core of that rock and when he was looking at it giving up and going in for a few days inside that rock that crack was getting larger and larger and larger until he finally hit it his last time and it cracked open can I tell you said brother Caron we've done this before we have we come down to the altar before yes Wednesday night Sunday morning Sunday night yeah we do it over and over and over again but I got news for you it is making a difference the rock is C cracking from the inside out brother Dove it is making a difference brother Barry it is making a difference men it is making a difference today come on let's keep swinging today let let's keep trying today I know I've got Hang-Ups and I know I've got failures and I know I fall many times but God I'm getting back up I want to pray over our men today Lord Jesus God as a pastor of this church as a spiritual leader God the number of homes that are gathered in this altar right now in the name of Jesus Christ I pray over every man right now I pray God for wisdom I pray God for knowledge I pray for determination I pray for a refilling of zeal I pray for a reeal a refilling of Burden today I pray God that we step back lord I know that I missed some seasons of my life Lord I know that I was asleep while they were in elementary school and I was asleep spiritually when they were in high school and now my children are far from God it's not over sayth the Lord of hosts it's not over right now I'm going to start swinging again right now I'm going to start trying again right now Lord forgive me Lord I was I wasn't at my post of Duty but God you're not going to fire me I'm back in the game now I'm back in the play now I'm I'm back in here here now Lord I want you to help me God I want you to bless the men I want you to touch the men today come on men lift up your hands and lift up your voice today God is going to make a leader out of you God is going to make God is going to put the masculine he's going to put that masculine leadership in you come on man lift up your voice one more time the rock is tracking the rock is cracking right now The Rock rock is cracking right now you're going longer without without that out Outburst the rock is cracking right now you're going longer without that that that situation that Rock that Rock is cracking that rock is cracking right now you're going longer you're going longer you're identifying it you're identifying it right now you're going longer you're going days you're going days you're identifying it right now you're identifying it right now I will not let this Rob my family I will not let this Rob my leadership I am a holy ghost fi man I am a Holy Ghost Field man today I am the spiritual leader of my home I pray over my wife right now I pray over my helpmate right now I pray over I pray over them right now listen to me today did it not strike you strange did it not strike like you a little strange in the Bible when I read this morning my opening text God said it's not good for man to be alone that then it goes into the animal kingdom Adam named this and Adam named that and God brought this and Adam named that and all this and then it says but unto Adam there was not found a helpmate do do you know that what God wrot had that written for is for we men to understand today cars material things four-wheelers shotguns golf clubs best buddy clubs will never take the place of what God made for you in your wife she'll be your best friend she'll help you become a better man if you'll let her speak into your life she'll help you to become a better man men don't get a and know you said man you're you're grilling the men today you brother Hy you better believe I'm grilling the men today because the leadership is us the leadership is US she'll make a better man out of you when she points out a character flaw in you don't get mad when she count when she picks out a character flaw in you don't say things like you're not my mama I'm tired of you tell me what to do when she picks out a character flaw be man enough I said be man enough be man enough it doesn't make you a weaker man it makes you a stronger man to be man enough to say I know it I know it I need to work on that thank you for calling it to my attention thank you for keeping me accountable thank you for that right there she'll make you a better man she'll make you a better man now right now women today women today you're going to be the you're going to be the backbone you're going to be the supporter you're going to be the helpmate for your family you're going to be the helpmate right now first lady lift your hands upay ladies lift your hands up right now God lord you called us Lord you made us to be the help meat to our husbands God I ask you Lord Jesus to help me Lord be that feminine counterpart to my husband's masculinity that together we become more history how to I'm theck that we will be GL I'm that together help us Lord to be oh God to his strength God God you've made us the weaker vessel not mentally but physically Lord Jesus I ask you Lord help me Lord to be that one that sets the atmosphere of calmness and kindness in our homes oh God that we will lead our children that we will guide the home God that we will instill the fear of you in the hearts of our children that we will be strength under control that we will be women under submission such a beautiful place just as you've told our husbands to love us as youve loved the church and what did you do you came and you died for the church God help us Lord as our husbands are dying out and being that example and strength to us that we will be the calmness and the submission of such a beautiful place God that we will guide the home homes oh God and make it an atmosphere of love and of kindness that we're not busy bodies in the business of other families that we're not tail bearers that we will be women that fear you and that we will guide our home as a place of God that we fear you that we will train our children submission Lord and that will teach them your ways oh God anoint every lady in this place that we truly will abide in our home although many of us work jobs outside the home may we have a spirit that we love our home and that we want it to be a place of calmness and kindness Lord give us wisdom to train our children to fear you Lord help us to be that example to our children oh God that we fear you and that we love you and that we serve you touch every sister in this room that we will be a light in a dark World anoint our minds and anoint our Spirits as we are women that profess godliness God help us to betray that to be that light to our children and to all those that are around us in Jesus name we pray come on men Amen in Jes come on women let's lift our hands up right now let's give God praise oh yes God I love you Lord oh yes God oh yes God my god oh yes God yes God yes God for in my house for in my for in oh yes God yes God God God God God yes God my my thank you I be fre thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord you because you said I am freee I am free no matter how I feel no matter what I I see your word is my authority in every season of life so as for me in my house going to be oh so I will stand up fight for my fre I will stand up I stand up take what I will worship I will in my situation I will my head voice my voice I am free in my house in my house in my house my we going to be fre my house be in my house my house be in my house my house be I declare for my family for my heart for my for for myself when your word is spoken no matter what I feel see every chain is broken I declare I declare it for my I declare it for my heart for my no matter what I feel no matter what I see I declare I stand upon the word of God I declare my daugh I I see I declare iare everything the word of God no matter what I I going to be free we going to be free going to the freedoms will we believe in come on one more time just's love the Lord your God before you dismissed today Jesus we thank you for family God we thank you for husbands and WI eyes we thank you for strong marriages because strong marriages and strong families make a strong church and we are the Church of the Living God we're going to leave here today Lord God come back tonight ready to worship you ready to praise you ready to lift up your name and hear your word in Jesus name we pray somebody said amen God bless you dismissed today in Jesus