God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• When God provides then it is sufficient! (Ps
  6810-12, 18-19)

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• Psalm 6810-12 (NKJV) - Your congregation dwelt
  in it You, O God, provided from Your goodness
  for the poor. 11 The Lord gave the word Great
  was the company of those who proclaimed it 12
  Kings of armies flee, they flee, And she who
  remains at home divides the spoil.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• Psalm 6818-19 (NKJV) - You have ascended on
  high, You have led captivity captive You have
  received gifts among men, Even from the
  rebellious, That the LORD God might dwell there.
  19 Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with
  benefits, The God of our salvation! Selah

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• Our greatest need is to see life as God does.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• When we do that, then we will understand our need
  of help and our need of teaching.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• When we do that, then we will understand our need
  of help and our need of teaching.
• Satan is also aware of Gods provisions and works
  hard to deny men access.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• When we do that, then we will understand our need
  of help and our need of teaching.
• Satan is also aware of Gods provisions and works
  hard to deny men access.
• Satan cannot defeat Gods word once implanted in
  the heart. (1 Jn 214)

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• 1 John 214 (NKJV) - I have written to you,
  fathers, Because you have known Him who is from
  the beginning. I have written to you, young men,
  Because you are strong, and the word of God
  abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked
  one.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• Satan tries successfully to deny men access. (Lk
  811-12 2 Cor 43-4)

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• Luke 811-12 (NKJV) - Now the parable is this
  The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the
  wayside are the ones who hear then the devil
  comes and takes away the word out of their
  hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• 2 Corinthians 43-4 (NKJV) - But even if our
  gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are
  perishing, 4whose minds the god of this age has
  blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of
  the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the
  image of God, should shine on them.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• Sadly, many Christians let Satan deny them access
  to the bulwark of a godly home. This has always
  been a curse for Gods people.
  (Judges 27-12)

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• Judges 27-12 (NKJV) - So the people served the
  LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of
  the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all
  the great works of the LORD which He had done for
  Israel. 8 Now Joshua the son of Nun, the servant
  of the LORD, died when he was one hundred and ten
  years old.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• 9 And they buried him within the border of his
  inheritance at Timnath Heres, in the mountains of
  Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash. 10
  When all that generation had been gathered to
  their fathers, another generation arose after
  them who did not know the LORD nor the work which
  He had done for Israel.

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God has given us strong bulwarks for our good.

• 11 Then the children of Israel did evil in the
  sight of the LORD, and served the Baals 12 and
  they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who
  had brought them out of the land of Egypt and
  they followed other gods from among the gods of
  the people who were all around them, and they
  bowed down to them and they provoked the LORD to
  anger.

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The Home is a place of serving

• We should not be surprised that the home reflects
  the nature of God! (Mt 2025-28)

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The Home is a place of serving

• Matthew 2025-28 (NKJV) - But Jesus called them
  to Himself and said, You know that the rulers of
  the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are
  great exercise authority over them. 26 Yet it
  shall not be so among you but whoever desires to
  become great among you, let him be your servant.
  27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let
  him be your slave

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The Home is a place of serving

• 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be
  served, but to serve, and to give His life a
  ransom for many.

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The Home is a place of serving

• The world cannot understand the value of denying
  self.

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The Home is a place of serving

• The world cannot understand the value of denying
  self.
• Many enter the marriage relationship like a
  contact between two distrustful businesses
  seeking to gain an advantage. (Ex. Pre-nuptial)

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The Home is a place of serving

• Many reject Gods plan because they have seen
  Satans plan and think it is the same! (Ex.
  Feminist visit to our services, Patriarchal)

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The Home is a place of serving

• Many reject Gods plan because they have seen
  Satans plan and think it is the same! (Ex.
  Feminist visit to our services, Patriarchal)
• The husband and wife look to meet the needs of
  the other. (Gen 218)

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The Home is a place of serving

• Genesis 218 (NKJV) - And the LORD God said, It
  is not good that man should be alone I will make
  him a helper comparable to him.

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The Home is a place of serving

• As the head the husband is the leader, but what
  kind of leader? (Eph 523-25)

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The Home is a place of serving

• Ephesians 523-25 (NKJV) - For the husband is
  head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the
  church and He is the Savior of the body. 24
  Therefore, just as the church is subject to
  Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands
  in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just
  as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself
  for her,

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The Home is a place of serving

• If things are not going well in my home, the buck
  stops with me!

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The Home is a place of serving

• If things are not going well in my home, the buck
  stops with me!
• A good leader must listen and find the real needs
  of those under him.

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The Home is a place of serving

• If things are not going well in my home, the buck
  stops with me!
• A good leader must listen and find the real needs
  of those under him.
• Have you ever worked for a boss that would not
  listen?

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The Home is a place of serving

• If things are not going well in my home, the buck
  stops with me!
• A good leader must listen and find the real needs
  of those under him.
• Have you ever worked for a boss that would not
  listen?
• What is your mate struggling with right now? Do
  you have a plan to help and provide?

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The Home is a place of serving

• Are you too busy for your home? What kind of
  servant are you?

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The Home is a place of serving

• Are you too busy for your home? What kind of
  servant are you?
• The wife, while not the head, has the same goal
  of serving. (Eph 533)

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The Home is a place of serving

• Ephesians 533 (NKJV) - Nevertheless let each
  one of you in particular so love his own wife as
  himself, and let the wife see that she respects
  her husband.

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The Home is a place of serving

• Some have been overcome by depression and have
  become ego-centered. The whole world revolves
  around their personal needs.

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The Home is a place of serving

• Some have been overcome by depression and have
  become ego-centered. The whole world revolves
  around their personal needs.
• Have we forgotten this goal?

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The Home is a place of serving

• Some have been overcome by depression and have
  become ego-centered. The whole world revolves
  around their personal needs.
• Have we forgotten this goal?
• Ask yourself some serious questions.

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The Home is a place of serving

• Some have been overcome by depression and have
  become ego-centered. The whole world revolves
  around their personal needs.
• Have we forgotten this goal?
• Ask yourself some serious questions.
• Some do things in entering their marriage that
  makes this goal unlikely.

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The Home is a place of teaching

• The primary teaching of my children is done in
  the home. (Deut 67-10 Eph 64)

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The Home is a place of teaching

• Deuteronomy 67-10 (NKJV) - You shall teach them
  diligently to your children, and shall talk of
  them when you sit in your house, when you walk by
  the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
  8You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
  they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9
  You shall write them on the doorposts of your
  house and on your gates.

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The Home is a place of teaching

• 10 So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings
  you into the land of which He swore to your
  fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give
  you large and beautiful cities which you did not
  build,

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The Home is a place of teaching

• Ephesians 64 (NKJV) - And you, fathers, do not
  provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up
  in the training and admonition of the Lord.

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The Home is a place of teaching

• There are great things that can be taught in a
  bible class that meets twice a week. Sadly, that
  is where many children learn what they will learn.

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The Home is a place of teaching

• There are great things that can be taught in a
  bible class that meets twice a week. Sadly, that
  is where many children learn what they will
  learn.
• Many raised in the church have learned from the
  assemblies alone. The church must not supplant
  the home!

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The Home is a place of teaching

• Many within the church do not posses a biblical
  faith and therefore do not know how to instill
  it.

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The Home is a place of teaching

• God has no grandchildren. How often do you talk
  with your children about the nature of God? (Heb
  116, Josh 46-9)

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The Home is a place of teaching

• Hebrews 116 (NKJV) - But without faith it is
  impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God
  must believe that He is, and that He is a
  rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

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The Home is a place of teaching

• Joshua 46-9 (NKJV) - that this may be a sign
  among you when your children ask in time to come,
  saying, What do these stones mean to you? 7
  Then you shall answer them that the waters of the
  Jordan were cut off before the ark of the
  covenant of the LORD when it crossed over the
  Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.
  And these stones shall be for a memorial to the
  children of Israel forever.

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The Home is a place of teaching

• 8 And the children of Israel did so, just as
  Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from
  the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD had spoken
  to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes
  of the children of Israel, and carried them over
  with them to the place where they lodged, and
  laid them down there.

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The Home is a place of teaching

• 9 Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst
  of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the
  priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood
  and they are there to this day.

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The Home is a place of teaching

• Some of the worst influences to building a
  biblical faith to my children have been children
  of other Christians!

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The Home is a place of teaching

• Some of the worst influences to building a
  biblical faith to my children have been children
  of other Christians!
• Moving to Virginia has brought enormous blessings
  to our home.

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• We need a place to go to be built up when we are
  hurting. If I was hurting I would call out for
  daddy or mama!

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• We need a place to go to be built up when we are
  hurting. If I was hurting I would call out for
  daddy or mama!
• It is not just a place but it is people who will
  help us heal. (Heb 1212-13)

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Hebrews 1212-13 (NKJV) - Therefore strengthen
  the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
  13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that
  what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be
  healed.

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• In my home my occasion for hurting was also an
  occasion to gain wisdom! (Prov 18, 10, 15 21)

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Proverbs 18 (NKJV) - My son, hear the
  instruction of your father, And do not forsake
  the law of your mother

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Proverbs 110 (NKJV) - My son, if sinners entice
  you, Do not consent.

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Proverbs 115 (NKJV) - My son, do not walk in
  the way with them, Keep your foot from their path

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Proverbs 21 (NKJV) - My son, if you receive my
  words, And treasure my commands within you,

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Sometimes the hurting came from my parents so
  that I might learn! (Heb 129-11)

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Hebrews 129-11 (NKJV) - Furthermore, we have
  had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid
  them respect. Shall we not much more readily be
  in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
  10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as
  seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that
  we may be partakers of His holiness.

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the
  present, but painful nevertheless, afterward it
  yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to
  those who have been trained by it.

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Have we forgotten this purpose of the home?

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• I have seen mothers talk publicly about their
  children in front of them in inappropriate ways.
  Some have instilled failure and not faith! (Prov
  1129)

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Proverbs 1129 (NKJV) - He who troubles his own
  house will inherit the wind, And the fool will be
  servant to the wise of heart.

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• There is no place for uncontrolled anger, harsh
  words and intimidation in the home. (Prov 171
  219 2524)

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Proverbs 171 (NKJV) - Better is a dry morsel
  with quietness, Than a house full of feasting
  with strife.

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Proverbs 219 (NKJV) - Better to dwell in a
  corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with
  a contentious woman.

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Proverbs 2524 (NKJV) - It is better to dwell in
  a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared
  with a contentious woman.

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The Home is a place to heal and to grow

• Some of the most humbling lessons have come from
  seeing the fruits of these kinds of homes in the
  church.

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The Home is an introduction to God

• It is true that a childs first impression of
  what his Heavenly Father is like comes from his
  earthly father.

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The Home is an introduction to God

• It is true that a childs first impression of
  what his Heavenly Father is like comes from his
  earthly father.
• Does this message sink in with you as a parent?
  What does my child see?

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The Home is an introduction to God

• It is true that a childs first impression of
  what his Heavenly Father is like comes from his
  earthly father.
• Does this message sink in with you as a parent?
  What does my child see?
• Hopefully he will see a humble person seeking to
  be taught of God and in turn leading the way to
  heaven for his family. (1 Cor 415-16 111)

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The Home is an introduction to God

• 1 Corinthians 415-16 (NKJV) - For though you
  might have ten thousand instructors in Christ,
  yet you do not have many fathers for in Christ
  Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16
  Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

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The Home is an introduction to God

• 1 Corinthians 111 (NKJV) - Imitate me, just as
  I also imitate Christ.

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The Home is an introduction to God

• Satan seeks to pervert the image of the one true
  God.

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The Home is an introduction to God

• Just like the dishonest politician, he tries to
  lie about what God is like. (Jn 844)

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The Home is an introduction to God

• John 844 (NKJV) - You are of your father the
  devil, and the desires of your father you want to
  do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and
  does not stand in the truth, because there is no
  truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks
  from his own resources, for he is a liar and the
  father of it.

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The Home is an introduction to God

• Do you have these kinds of conversations with
  your children? Do you ever talk about the
  character of God? If you wont then Satan will.

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The Home is an introduction to God

• Do you have these kinds of conversations with
  your children? Do you ever talk about the
  character of God? If you wont then Satan will.
• When good things come into our home, I try to
  talk about God. Is your home a house of praise?
  (Ps 286-7)

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The Home is an introduction to God

• Psalm 286-7 (NKJV) - Blessed be the LORD,
  Because He has heard the voice of my
  supplications! 7 The LORD is my strength and my
  shield My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped
  Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my
  song I will praise Him.

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The Home is an introduction to God

• What is the driving purpose of your home?

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The Home is an introduction to God

• It is never too late to start over. God will help
  you and so will your spiritual family!

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The Home is an introduction to God

• It is never too late to start over. God will help
  you and so will your spiritual family!
• Let each of us make our homes a taste of heaven!

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The Home is an introduction to God

• It is never too late to start over. God will help
  you and so will your spiritual family!
• Let each of us make our homes a taste of heaven!
• Where does a strong church come from? elders
  come from?