Kevin Swanson begins by speaking of the blessing of the preaching of the Word of God.

He then opens with Scripture from Colossians 1:12-20:

“Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.”

Wherever the Spirit is present, the Name of Christ will be praised.

In this message, Swanson desires to bring before his hearers the supremacy and the Lordship of Jesus Christ.  We must not only preach the Christ on the cross to the neglect of the Christ on the Throne. Jesus is Lord.

His two main points?

1.      We need to understand who and where we are.

2.      We need to understand who Jesus is, where He is now, and what He is doing.

Good morning. It's good to see you all here this morning. And, oh, I love the preaching of the word of God, don't you? It's a wonderful thing. I wish we would have more of it.

We don't get enough of it. I would love to have a conference like this in Denver, Colorado. And every other city around America. Amen. That would be a reformation or revival.

And do remember as the word is preached, whether it be here or in your church or anywhere else, preaching is a full contact sport. It's a full-orbed press. That means all the way from one court to the rest, we're engaging. And so it's not just the preacher, but we can't just be supplying the preaching. We need to be receiving the preaching as well.

So there's a symbiosis, there's a dynamic between the preacher and the congregation where we need to come together. We need to come together and worship and praise the God we speak of in our preaching. So just a lot of children in the room this morning and children let me explain to you how many of you are children raise your hand okay good we've got see all of you need to be raising your hands what's up with you um children the reason we're here today and the reason for this conference is we are talking about Jesus so children do you know who Jesus is do you know Jesus You sing of Jesus in your homes, don't you? Do you sing of Jesus in your home? Let's start out by singing Jesus loves me, this I know.

Can we do that for the sake of the children, the rest of us? Can we do that? Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong. He are weak but he is strong yes Jesus loves me yes Jesus loves me yes Jesus loves me the Bible tells me so can everybody say amen to that amen let's open in prayer father in heaven we thank you that we can know and we can believe and we can sing that Jesus loves me.

Father, without Jesus, where would we be? Oh, but Christ came. Oh, but you gave us the inexpressible gift. You gave us your son, the Lord Jesus, that he would save us from our sins, Father, in the condition where we were in, we needed a savior and we needed our Lord Jesus to come and he did. And he came and he died on the cross and rose again from the dead on the third day, Father, that he might receive the glory this day, not just from the the older people in this room but also the little ones the two-year-olds and the three-year-olds and the four-year-olds.

Father as as much as they can know as much as their little hearts can fill up with the praise of Jesus. We pray that there would be a response this day that would be glorifying and honoring to our savior. Holy spirit of God, this is your passion. This is your interest. This is your mission.

This is what you want. You want to see the people of God honoring Jesus in lip and heart and life and we pray this would happen today in Jesus name. Amen. Well let's go to Colossians chapter 1 brothers and sisters and I'd like to begin by reading the word of God from verses 12 through 19 of Colossians chapter 1. Now hear the word of God giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the son of his love, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him, all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things and in him all things consist and he is the head of the body, the church who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell and by him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

Amen. And everybody said, amen. Brothers and sisters, why are we here today? We're here to honor Jesus. This is the number one reason for a conference.

This is the number one reason for our existence. It is to glorify God, to glorify the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And this is the desire, the passion, the interest of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In John 17, Jesus gives us this prayer to his father. He lifted up his eyes to heaven, we read, and he said, father, the hour is come.

Glorify thy son that thy son also may glorify thee. This is Jesus' prayer. This is the desire of the Father as well. The Father wants to honor the Son today. The Father honors the Son in his baptism at the Mount of Transfiguration.

You remember the Father said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased hear him it's the Father's commitment that the Son be honored the Son be glorified that the Son be lifted up the Holy Spirit also John 16 speaks of the Holy Spirit whose desire and his mission is to honor Jesus, to glorify him and to magnify him. So therefore if there is Holy Spirit working in our churches, in our hearts, in our lives, in our families, Brothers and sisters, we will be honoring Christ. We will be speaking of him, we will be singing of him, we'll be lifting up his name with our children everywhere we are, everywhere we go, wherever the Holy Spirit is present, the name of Christ will be honored. Now what I want to do today is I want to present Jesus as he really is today in the present state. Where is Christ today?

We want to be careful we don't leave him on the cross in our minds. As we heard earlier in the conference Jesus is the lamb on the throne. It's a beautiful picture because we retain the idea of Jesus' humiliation. He is still in our minds and in reality the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world and yet he is also on the throne. So we have both aspects that we need to maintain in our minds at all times.

This is who Christ is right now and how he should be figured in our minds today and forever more. He is the lamb of God who took away the sins of the world, but on the throne, the lamb on the throne, He is the one who is humbled and the one who is moved into his state of exaltation. So let's remember we worship the whole Christ. We serve the whole Christ, the Lord, the Savior, the prophet, the priest, and the king. We need to speak more of his lordship.

So I'm burdened this morning to bring in the lordship of Christ because the Apostles understood it, received it, and preached it immediately in Acts 2, and we need to be doing the same thing. We can't just preach the Christ on the cross. We must preach that he has been made both Lord and Christ. He is exalted to the right hand of the Father, and that's how The Father wants you to perceive him, to understand him, and to receive him. So let's not forget the exaltation of Christ on the right hand of the Father.

The apostles spoke of him right away in Acts chapter 2, God has made this Jesus whom you have crucified both Lord and Christ. Paul speaks of his resurrection and that he is coming to judge the world in Acts 17 as he preaches the gospel on Mars Hill. The gospel is what? The gospel is the death of Christ, the resurrection of Christ, the ascension of Christ to the right hand of the Father and the heads up that one day he is coming to judge the living and the dead. So let's remember that Jesus is Lord.

Jesus is Lord. That's where he is today. He's on the right hand of the Father, exalted and ruling until all of his enemies are under his footstool. That's the metaphysical reality. That's the position that Christians must maintain as we perceive all of the world around us.

See, we understand certain aspects of reality. We perhaps know that we are married. We have five children. Donald Trump is President of the United States of America. There are aspects of reality that we are constantly conscious of that place us in a certain time and place in history.

But brothers and sisters, even beyond all that, we need to remember the overarching metaphysical reality of our existence is defined by the position of Jesus on the right hand of the Father. He is there, and he has been there for 2, 000 years and he is not inactive he is ruling until all his enemies are under his footstool this is your Christ this is the Lord who we honor who we worship who we serve so keep that reality in mind Now that's what Colossians 1 12 through 19 does. It gives us a sense of our bearings. So my message is two points this morning, just two points. Number one, we need to get our bearings in terms of where we are, in terms of who we are.

Don't forget who you are and where you are. That's verses 12 through 14. Let's read. Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of his love in whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins.

That's who you are. That's where you are. As Christians we tend to forget, don't we? I don't know how often we do it perhaps four times a day, 12 times a day, we lose our bearings. We forget who we are, we forget where we are.

We get deja vu and amnesia and dementia and all of it at the same time, if you're me. We lose our sense of bearings. What is our identity? Where are we as catalogically, metaphysically? Where do we stand?

Where are we standing? Again, verse 12, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. Hallelujah! Amen!

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. We are redeemed. We are set free. We have been released. We have been rescued from the dark castle of the dark one of the satanic forces out of the kingdom of darkness.

We have been pulled out of the kingdom of darkness. We have been redeemed. We have a new identity. We have a forgiveness of sins. We don't belong to Satan anymore.

He has nothing on us. This is who we are. And the devil will confuse us. The world confuses us. Our own thoughts confuse us.

The devil is doing this all the time in our minds, and we have a hard time refocusing. And the word of God comes through again this morning and reminds us what Jesus has done at the cross and releasing us from the power of darkness. Reality check, brothers, sisters, reality check. We are Christians. We belong to Jesus.

We're not foster children, we're his children. We're not cosmic dust floating around the universe of pure chance. There's no meaning, no purpose to anything. That's the other worldview that's imposed on us through every movie and every television program and all the media and all the news programs and such, constantly reminding us that there is no God, there is no purpose, there's no meaning, we're not here to glorify God, Jesus has not won the battle. That's that's message comes again and again and again but we come back to the Word of God giving thanks to the Father who's qualified us to be the partakers of the inheritance of the saints and the light.

We have a hope, we have internal hope. We are God's kids, we have God's children. He's written us into his will. We have a great inheritance, an inheritance that's concomitant with the goodness of God. We've already seen great aspects of his goodness.

God is the essence of all goodness. So a God who is the essence of all goodness, who wouldn't hold back his son for us to pay for our sins on the cross, what would he hold back from us if he hasn't held back his son as a gift to us? This is our inheritance. We're heading to a tremendous inheritance. We are partaking in this inheritance.

We already have the down payment of the inheritance as well. We've been delivered from the power of darkness, we've been conveyed into the kingdom of his son, and we have the forgiveness of sins. Praise God. That's who we are. Now the next part of the passage refers to Jesus.

Who's Jesus? Who is Jesus? Come on, let's get this straight. Who is Christ? Where is he now?

What is he doing? Who is this one who was in the manger? Children, you remember Jesus born in the stable and placed in the manger. And he grew up in the town of Nazareth, Joseph and Mary, and he eventually went around the entire area of Israel and He healed the blind and the lame, the deaf, and he raised the dead, an indication he was the resurrection and the life. The life just flowed out of him.

The healing just flowed out of our savior as he ministered in Galilee and up in Judea for those three years of his ministry, the light came into the world, the great salvation of God appeared, and there he went and he sweat the great drops of blood and Gethsemane and then off to suffer on the cross at Golgotha. Who is he and where is he today? Well, he is the Lord. God has made this one both Christ and Lord. He is our Lord.

He is alive. He is active. He is not disconnected. He's very much engaged. He knows what's going on right now in your family, in your life.

He's following what is happening in his churches. He understands the pain and the agony that the persecuting church is feeling. He was bothered when Saul, you remember Saul is persecuting God's people and Jesus stopped him on the road down into Damascus and he said Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me? Because he's alive. He's involved.

He's engaged. He's interceding for us on the right hand of the Father. So this is Christ today. But let's read from verses 15 through 20 from our passage. Speaking of Jesus, again, who is Jesus?

Where is he? What is he doing? This is what Paul opens up for us here in verses 15 through 20. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible, invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, All things were created through him and for him.

He is before all things. In him all things consist. He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell and by him to reconcile all things to himself by him whether things on earth or things in heaven having made peace through the blood of his cross and I think more than anything else brothers and sisters I want you to see the significance of Christ the exaltation of Christ and and and He is worthy of our praise and our honor and our worship this morning. Let me read from Philippians 2, a parallel passage to this.

I think this ties in directly to our passage. Speaking of the exaltation of Christ, Paul in Philippians chapter two speaks of His humiliation, that he humbled himself even to the cross and then he speaks of his exaltation beginning in verse 9 therefore God also has highly exalted him So this is where Christ has come to. This is where he is today. He has been highly exalted. The Father has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name.

Now why is this? What is the purpose of the Father in this? What does he want for his son? That he has highly exalted him, given him a name that is above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Now what does the name connote?

That the name Jesus, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord. The Father has exalted him in order that every knee will bow, every tongue will confess. God the Father will not be content With 6, 999, 999, 999 people worshipping Jesus, bowing the knee to Christ, he will have everyone, every one of the 7 billion around the globe, from every tribe and nation bowing the knee and confessing that Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. We see Jesus. We say his name comes from the Hebraic Joshua, and the Hebraic Joshua is a reference to a commander, a military commander, that wins his battles.

Joshua of course winning the battles against the Canaanites as the Israelites take the Promised Land in the Old Testament. Children, you remember that, the great Joshua leading the people of God to victory over and over and over and over again. That's the picture. Joshua is the military commander that always wins his battle. The one who overcomes, the one who goes up against the great enemies and overcomes those enemies.

That's that's the connotation for the name Jesus. So whenever we say the name Jesus, think of Joshua, think about a mighty warrior, a mighty commander of armies That brings about a great victory that conquers his foes and has overcome the devil at the cross, overcome sin, he's overcome the power of sin, he sets the captives free, he really sets the captives free. He doesn't just barely set the captives free. If the Son will make you free, you will be free indeed. He accomplishes his salvation in an efficacious manner.

He doesn't come short of it. Your perception of Jesus, your perception of the gospel of Jesus is essential. We live in a day in which, well, there are conferences for LGBT Christians to empower them, to encourage them in their LGBT Christian life. Brothers and sisters, our Jesus accomplishes more than that. Amen.

Our Jesus is Joshua. Our Jesus is powerful. Our Jesus gives new life. Our Jesus really sets the captives free. The power of the gospel is essential.

The message we present a message a gospel where Jesus is a Joshua. Jesus really does win his battles. Jesus did overcome sin. He overcame death at the cross and he is the firstfruits of those who rose from the dead. This is our Jesus.

And when we say the name of Jesus, the Father would have it that every knee should bow and every tongue should confess that Jesus is Lord. Why? Because the Father has declared it to be so. That's his purpose. That's what he wants.

That's what he demands. So let's acknowledge the Lordship of Christ. Let's follow through on this. Let's confess Jesus as Lord this morning. This is the Father's intent.

He has raised him to the right hand. He has made him both Lord and Christ, and he wants us, he commands us to acknowledge him, to bow the knee to him and to confess ourselves Jesus is Lord. So let's do that. Our Father in heaven, we praise you, O God, that you have sent your son to die on the cross, that you have raised him from the dead, and you have put him on your right hand, and Jesus Christ our Lord is ruling now as he brings his enemies under his footstool. Father you have made us willing in the day of your power By the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, the power of his death, his blood, his resurrection, in this day, O Father, we confess that Jesus is our Lord.

Jesus is Lord. Jesus is Lord over all of the nations Jesus is Lord over the Empire's Jesus has command of everything in heaven and earth he is far above all principalities and powers but more than all of that father he is our Lord he is my Lord And I submit to Him and I worship Him and honor Him this day. And Father, We receive Jesus as Lord of our families. Jesus is Lord of our churches. Jesus is Lord of our entertainment.

Jesus is Lord over the education of our children. Jesus is Lord of our politics. Jesus is Lord over our voting next week. Jesus is Lord over all. We declare him to be our Lord and we receive him as our Savior and Father we praise him, we honor him, we lift up his name and we would have him more honored, we would have him more praised and more glorified in the assembly of the saints and in our homes and in all of life.

Praise be to the name of Jesus, we give him the glory this day, in his name, Amen. Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord. It will happen now or it will happen on the day of judgment. Amen. So why do we honor Christ?

Well, this is the Father's commitment that Christ will be preeminent in everything. That's the message of Colossians chapter two, that Christ will be preeminent. He must be preeminent in our lives, in our families, in our homes, in our schools. About five years ago, I began to see that Christ was not spoken of very much. I started listening to myself.

I started reading the Christian magazines that were coming into my house, and the Christian homeschool magazine, the Christian homeschool curriculum, the science textbooks, and the history textbooks, and I would go on for pages and pages and pages, and I wouldn't see a single mention of Christ. And sometimes I'd go through an entire magazine that comes from some great and wonderful and spectacular Christian ministry that was trying to distinguish themselves as even better than other Christian ministries and just would find so little, Sometimes no mention whatsoever of Jesus. I'm just asking myself, are we speaking of him? Are we recognized? I mean, not even are we honoring him, but do we even mention his name?

And there's so little in terms of a recognition of Christ, an acknowledgement of his significance and importance in the area of science or history or our lives or entertainment or any other aspect of our lives. I just wasn't seeing it. Wasn't an acknowledgement of Christ's preeminence and lordship in so much of Christian education. You could read for 300 pages, 300, I kid you not, 300 pages in the best Christian homeschool curriculum and say the field of science and not see a single mention of Christ. I began to see that.

We speak of him with our lips, but we don't honor him in our lives We speak of him on Sundays But not on Monday Not on Tuesday not on Wednesday not on Thursday not Friday So little in terms of the preeminence of Christ in life. So why must Christ be preeminent? Because the Father will have it this way. Because He is preeminent. He may not be preeminent in our minds or our lives, but that's just the deceit of the evil one.

That's just our minds trying to trick us into thinking he's not preeminent, but he is preeminent. Jesus is already preeminent. It's just that he must be preeminent in us, in our minds, in our homes, in our families. But why? And the passage gives us reasons.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. We glorify the Son and we glorify the Father because the Son has the very essence of the Father. They're equal in the power, in the glory. They're essentially God, both persons. Secondly, by him all things were created that are in heaven, that are on earth.

Look outside, look around you, look at yourself, look at your children, look at your families, look at the chairs you sit on, Look at all these things. He created it. That's relevant. That's significance. He made it.

He made it all. He made the galaxies. He made all the animals. He made all the life forms. The amazing life forms that scientists have yet to figure out.

All of the cells that constitute human life, sentient life in the world, every little bud that comes out of the ground, the life has come from the life itself. That's Christ. All things were created by Him and through Him and for Him, all creation for His glory. All creation, all of this, everything that's created, Everything that happens, every event in this world is for the glory of Christ. Everything for His glory, everything created for Him.

All creation will function for His ultimate purpose and delight. Nothing is out of place, not a single rogue atom in the universe, but every single atom, every action and reaction is intended for the glory and the pleasure and the delight of Jesus Christ. It's beautiful. All things were... He is before all things, and in him all things consist.

This is an extraordinary concept. All these ecosystems, how do they work together? Humans have tried to put ecosystems together inside of some large canopy somewhere. They've failed again and again because there's too much complexity to see that. All of the various aspects of the ecosystem will feed off each other and there be replenishing and reproduction and the ecosystem continue from generation to generation of those life forms.

These ecosystems can only exist with all of the complexities by the power of the providential sovereign working of Jesus Christ in the heavens. It all comes together. That's why every page of the science book should be giving glory to Christ. But they don't. For the most part, there needs to be a new science that develops.

We're far too secularist. We're far too connected to the little cause and effect relationships that we can identify, but we never get down to the fundamental cause itself, and that's Christ. We think governments can somehow hold together these environments, And then through top-down systems, they attempt to enforce environmental control over all things so that somehow we can perpetuate this environment. Friends, it is far beyond what human governments can do. It's a joke to think governments can do anything but further wreck the environment.

You can just talk to Cal Beisner if you want to know how they do that. Every empire, every nation, all the fragile political systems held together by Christ, the social systems, these marriages of many, many thousands and millions and billions of unsaved people. How in the world can a marriage survive with all of the selfishness and all of the hatred and all of the anger and all of the abuse and all of the sinful tendencies in humans, the social systems hang together by the power of the living Christ. I can't believe our nations continue with all of the undermining of social systems going on. It's Christ that keeps them together.

NASA did a study, an entire conference on why do we spend a trillion dollars on space exploration? They came down to one conclusion to why governments are spending a trillion dollars plus on space exploration. And this was the conclusion, the survival of the human race in case a stray meteorite might careen into our solar system and knock out all sentient life on earth. That's why they're doing it. I'm here to tell you they can't do it but Jesus can.

Because he controls all of the solar system, all of the meteorites and all of the universe. He holds all things together by the word of his power. He is before all things and in him, all things consist. This is our Christ. His power is exercised by a sovereign decree that extends to every minute detail.

The largest galaxies down to the smallest atom, he is intimately involved in every detail, every hair on your head. He knows how many hairs on your head were there an hour ago. Those of you 50 plus, you lost four last night. Jesus is counting them. He knows how many hairs are in your head right now and has decreed that you will lose 10 hairs later on today.

Every sparrow that falls, every trial you face, the number of Cheerios in your children's cereal bowl this morning. He had that worked out carefully. And Jesus is in control of all of these things. He's in control, of course, of all of the demonic hordes, every demon from hell. He is Lord of all.

He is head of the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead. He's the beginning of the new humanity, the new creation. Revision B for human existence into all eternity. He is the first of the new humanity, and He is head over all things to the church.

It pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell. That means all the infinitude of God's attributes, all the majesty of His glory is in Christ. By him to reconcile all things to himself, by him whether things on earth or things in heaven having made peace through the blood of his cross. A beautiful picture of the final eschatological perfection of all things. He's going to bring about a total salvation.

He doesn't just save our souls, he saves our bodies. He resurrects our bodies. He resurrects an entirely new heavens and new earth. He's bringing together a plan that will turn every evil that has ever happened, every evil event that has ever occurred to a good end. And 100 billion expressions of evil in the world will work for good and for his own glory.

And he will be 100% successful in reconciling all things to himself. We look around us and know that there are so many things that go wrong about our lives. We wake up and there's 17 things wrong with our family and 147, 000 things wrong with the world around us. Jesus is gonna make all that right. That's amazing.

This is our Christ. This is how significant He is. And He will do this to the glory of God and provide content for praise for all eternity for us. Now, I want you to think of three of the greatest events in all of human history. I want you to think about this.

What happened in those three great events in all of human history? Who was there and how important a part did he play? Especially as it touches the way we talk about history and the way we teach it in our home schools, the Christian schools. The three greatest events in all of human history, 4004 BC, the creation of the world, who was there? Christ was there.

Without him was nothing made that was made. He was there and did he play a major role in 4004 BC? Absolutely. Second major event in human history, the redemption of the world in 30 AD. In time and space, Under the auspices of Pontius Pilate, who is a procurator for the Roman Empire, in a place called Jerusalem, he hung on a cross, paid the price for our sins and redeemed the world, reconciling all things to himself.

Who was there and how significant of a role did he play? Jesus was there and his role was significant. Third most important event in the history of the world hasn't happened yet. It will be the judgment of the world at the end of time. And Jesus will be there and he will play a significant role.

In the three most important significant events in all of human history that frame our understanding of everything that's important in our world. Jesus Christ was there and he played the most significant role. So therefore, if Jesus Christ is important in the scheme of things, is Jesus important to you? That's the question this morning. How significant is Jesus to you?

It is not enough to render him lip service in a worship service. If Jesus is significant and important and to be Lord of anything, he must be Lord over everything. Paul says, if anyone loved not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema marinatha. Jesus said, if you love me, you'll keep my commandments. He wants us to express our love in real life.

It's not enough to just confess it. Brothers and sisters, let's live it. He wanted to know if Peter loved him. Do you love me, Peter? Do you love me?

Do you love me?" Peter said, I love you, Lord. He said, well then feed my sheep. Do something. Moms and dads, do you love Jesus? Then feed his sheep.

Feed the little lambs. He's telling you to love the little ones that are around and feed them with the Word of God, with the words of Christ. And may they dwell richly in you. In hymns and songs, spiritual songs throughout the day. I could end there, but let me close with some applications.

Brothers and sisters, if Jesus is Lord and you're bowing the knee to the Lord now, bring your children up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord. Of the Lord. Surround them with Jesus. Saturate them in Jesus. Constantly, every day, all day long.

Deuteronomy 6, 7 says, the word of God needs to be a frontlet before their eyes, on the posts, on the gates. They turn around, they run into Jesus. They run into his word constantly. There shouldn't be a square inch of your home. There shouldn't be an area of life in which Jesus isn't preeminent.

Be a fanatic about God. Get out of control when it comes to talking about Jesus. We don't talk about him enough? If anybody says, oh, we don't need him in our class on Aristotle's logic. Forget that.

Let that be anathema, maranatha. And why do we have to read 100 pages of our science books and history books and not see a single mention of Christ. He holds the world together. He's the most famous person in all of history and needs to be the most famous person in your history book. And 95% of the church in America disagrees with what I'm saying, because the Lordship of Christ has been almost summarily rejected and ignored by the church in this country.

They give him lip service, but they don't serve him in their schools. They don't bring him in their textbooks, they just don't think he's that significant. He's just not preeminent. Well, that's why we would encourage you to bring Jesus in. Don't give them children's readers that don't have a mention of Christ, that don't speak of his stories, that don't speak of the gospels.

Don't give them those readers. They'll read about moralistic stories where there's no sin, no Christ, no redemption. Isn't that beautiful? No, it's not. It's a demonic deceit from hell.

You purge your libraries from these moralistic children's stories that have no mention of Jesus and why he came. When it comes to the news, I'm sick of Fox News. I just repudiate it. There's no mention of the lordship of Christ in Fox News. And some of you would laugh at that.

Why? Because you thought that the news was supposed to be a neutral territory and there was to be no mention of Christ as king of kings and lord of lords. No, no, no, no, no. Brothers and sisters, Christ is the chief cause of all things, and he needs to be recognized in the news. These things happen by the providence of God.

God's providence in Christ's rule must be in the news, otherwise repudiated. It's just foul deceit, and it's setting your worldview in the wrong way. It's time to purge us of the secularism and start acknowledging Christ as Lord. He is Lord indeed and he's Lord of all. Let's bring him into news And that's why four years ago we started The Worldview in five minutes, a five-minute daily news program that gives you an update on the news from the perspective of Christ and a biblical worldview.

We also are redoing the whole way we look at world history. Master's books came to me and asked for a world history textbook for ninth or tenth graders. I sat down and started to write. I gave Caesar about three sentences and then talked about what Christ's apostles did for the next 25 pages. I gave Napoleon a paragraph and then talked about what the Moravians did for the next 30 pages.

You said, who are the Moravians? I know who Napoleon is, but who are the Moravians? The most significant people of the 18th century. And if you don't know who they are, you have the wrong worldview and you've been studying the wrong world history, period. And listen, if he is head over all things to the church, the Church of Jesus Christ is more important than Napoleon.

At the end of Napoleon's life, in fact, I have it in this book, he acknowledged that Jesus Christ is the greatest person that ever lived. He has overcome all of his enemies, and He has a people and a kingdom and an empire that will never fall. And Napoleon admitted that the Galilean had conquered again. Darwin also admitted that he failed when he began to support the missions work, the Foyjians. If you don't know about the Foyjians and how the Darwinistic evolutionists attempted to purge out an entire tribe because they were of a lesser breed, and they were purged out.

There isn't a single Foyjian alive today. However, some missionaries made it by sacrificing some 15 lives in attempting six or seven voyages, and they finally were able to disciple some of the voyages. And towards the end of Charles Darwin's life, he finally admitted that Jesus did something that no human could have ever done. And that was bring the Phuagians, who he thought were beyond all intellectual capability and beyond all redemption. Jesus brought them to salvation and to redemption.

Darwin failed and Jesus won again. Forget Darwin, forget Napoleon, forget the Caesars. What is Jesus doing in history? Jesus needs to be on every page of your world history course. We need a radical change in how we're teaching history.

Moreover, God's Word, the words of Christ need to be a frontlet before our eyes. We set out to write an American history textbook. We began to put a Bible verse on almost every single paragraph so that God's word would be a frontlet before our children's eyes. So at the end of reading a thousand pages of American history, our children will say, I know so much more about God's word and the relevance of God's word than I've ever learned. In fact, I have learned more about God's word in this American history course than I've learned about American history.

That's the preeminence of Christ. Let's bring the preeminence of Christ back. And beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit. My father sent me a classical education magazine from some Roman Catholic organization, very popular with homeschoolers, Catholic schools, and especially reformed Baptists and reformed Presbyterian families because they tend to be more interested in some of these more intellectual approaches. But again, the classical magazine was glorifying classical humanism.

Here's a quote. Humanism is exactly what is not wrong with the modern world and modern education. We need to be more humanist. This is what they're teaching. The article spoke of Aristotle as the master of all those who know.

And there are a few poets equal to Homer. These are... These were the quotes. But I go into history and I find that Martin Luther called Aristotle a devil. I find that Chrysostom called the Greek philosophers as worthless as dogs.

And Augustine called Homer's writings a torrent from hell. He says that the sons of men pay fees for learning such things. Ridiculous. And Jerome called the poets the food of the demons. This resurgence of humanism and paganism amongst homeschools is almost total.

They have virtually captured the entire homeschooling movement in America to the point now where only 16% of homeschoolers homeschool for religious reasons, according to NCES, National Center for Education Statistics, numbers. And the fall off has been about 30% in just the last nine years. There is a massive apostasy going on in Christian home education today. It is being utterly wrecked, utterly destroyed by humanism. And brothers and sisters, what's the real issue?

The real issue is somebody needs to love Jesus again. Somebody needs to love Christ. Somebody needs to place Christ as preeminent. Somebody needs to say, I love Jesus And I speak of Jesus and I want Jesus's laws against Aristotle's laws. I want Jesus's truth and Jesus's categories of thought over all of the categories of these philosophies and these vain deceits that are out to rob you.

I want Jesus to be permanent because he is the fount of all wisdom and knowledge. It's just, here's the issue. I just don't think American Christians really consider Jesus to be Lord of all. They just aren't serving Christ. They don't love him with their heart and their soul and their mind and their strength.

And they're apostatizing and their children will do even worse than they did. So may God bring back a centrality of Christ, a love for Christ, the lordship of Christ, the worship of Christ. Jesus needs to permeate. He needs to be above us, under us, on the right, on the left, inside and outside. May the people who speak of us speak of Christ.

May we be speaking of Christ in front of our children. May Christ be central. May Christ come back on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, as well as on Sundays. I think this is the issue of the day. Christ plays the major role in history.

Christ plays the major role in science and Christ must play the major role in our families. Amen. Thank you.