In this audio message, Kevin Swanson discusses the biblical view of marriage and what the biblical roles of a husband and wife are. We need to prepare our sons to take dominion and take responsibility according to His standards and His law. When we neglect God's law, chaos ensues.

Genesis 1:28 (NKJV) - "Then God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'"

The National Center for Family Integrated Churches is pleased to present Gospel-Centered Marriages for a Glorious Church. This message is entitled, The Dominion Mandate and Marriage, by Kevin Swanson. My topic is Dominion and Marriage. And I come from a particular worldview. Some of you maybe have sensed that.

My worldview is a biblical worldview, but everybody has a worldview. And it's interesting how worldviews are conveyed. And social views, I see the social view as the derivative of the worldview. That is, the Bible gives us a certain form of a social view, how we are to interrelate with each other in family, church, and state. The Bible has an opinion on that.

Karl Marx has a perspective on that, and the Bible has a perspective on that. So I come from a biblical perspective, and I believe there's a war going on in the world views, in the social views. And the wars are fought out largely in education. That's one reason why in 1999 I quit my corporate job and decided I was going to go full time in the area of education. I became executive director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado and began to teach a Christian view of, well, everything through the homeschooling conferences in Colorado and around the world.

But see the world view, the social view is shared in all sorts of ways. It comes out when the fifth grade teacher turns to the classroom and says, What do you guys want to be when you grow up? And the little fifth grade, 10 year old girl in the back seat, she raises her hand and says, Ma'am, I want to see the Kingdom of God advanced. I want to have a family, 12 children. I want to disciple them for Jesus Christ.

That's my goal. That's what I want to be when I grow up." She says, No, no, no, no, no. I want to ask you, what do you want to be when you grow up? What do you want to be when you grow up? A little 10 year old boy says, Ma'am, I want to see the church of Jesus Christ established.

I want to be an elder in the church. I want to be a father. I want to disciple my children for Christ. I want to see an end of abortion in America. I want to see the Gospel go to Afghanistan.

I want to see the kingdom of God advance geographically, generationally, institutionally. I want Hollywood transform. No better yet. I'm going to San Antonio for the film festival there. And a woman says, No, no, no, no, no.

I'm asking you, what do you want to be when you grow up? What do you want to be when you grow up? You're not getting it. What do you want to be when you grow up? What is she asking?

She is asking, what do you want to be? Do you want to be a civil engineer or a mechanical engineer, do you want to make $67, 000 a year or $54, 000 a year? That's the question she's asked. She's saying, what size is your cubicle? What kind of a cog will you be in the gigantic industrial machine?

What cog will you play in this huge industrial machine? Well, we believe that life is more than financial. Life is more than money. This is exactly what Jesus said in Matthew 6. In verse 33, Life is more than what you will eat and what you will drink and your 87 stinkin' K's a year.

Life is more than that. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you." See, that's the perspective of the godly. Now that's not conveyed with the average homeschool, with the average private school, average public school, that's not what's conveyed. What's conveyed is you're here to get a good education so you can get into a good college, so you can get a good job and make your 87k a year. But Jesus says no.

You focus on what I'm interested in. You focus on the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. And if your children are going to need the 87k, I'll give them that. I'll give them whatever junk they need. You just forget about that and seek My Kingdom first and foremost.

Let's begin with the dominion mandate in Genesis 1 and verse 28. I'm going to read directly from the Word of God. And God blessed them, that is He created man in His own image, and blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Now, some have said that that's Old Testament. That's the creation mandate. And that has very little impact upon our lives today.

I'm here to say that the entire Word of God is here to equip the man of God for every good work. So, we've got to take into consideration Genesis as well as Deuteronomy, as well as Ezekiel, etc., all the way through the Scriptures, we get the dictates, the direction whereby we will be equipped for every kind of good work. That's what Paul says in 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17. But also 2 Corinthians 10, 4 and 5 give us our marching orders in the New Testament era. And that is we are to get out into that world and cast down imaginations in every high thing that exalts itself above the knowledge of God in Christ.

Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. And then, verse 6 of 2 Corinthians 10, we often neglect this, but it says, being ready to avenge all disobedience after your obedience is fulfilled. That is what he's saying here is we can be ready to avenge disobedience out there in the culture if our obedience is fulfilled. In other words, it's very difficult for me to be a pro-life candidate running for president of the United States if I've got another kid who's got another kid born out of wedlock because I have not been discipling my children as I walk by the way as I rise up as I lie down. Okay, so what Paul is saying is we have to be obedient ourselves before we can avenge any other disobedience out there in the world around us.

Okay, obey what? Obey the laws of God. What is dominion but ruling God's world according to God's system of government? When we say we are preparing our young men to take dominion, we're saying that we're preparing our men to rule over God's world. We're to rule over the dirt, over the natural resources, over the animals, over the chickens.

You start about 5, 6, 7 years of age, Your children learn how to rule chickens. And that's kind of basic. But you start early, and you show them how to work with sheep and goats and other things. But as they get older, hopefully they're going to learn how to rule over households. They're going to learn how to rule over churches and civil magistrates and governments, depending on calling, of course.

But rule according to what? If God wants us to be His vice-regents, that is, God is the ultimate ruler of the world, but He has delegated some of that management, some of that rule to us, He wants us to rule according to his standards, according to his law. That's why it's important to teach our children the laws of God, because that will equip them for dominion in the years to come. Our young men are to be, I believe, the heads of their households, the leaders in family and church and state. And their wives are help meets in the endeavor.

Now immediately you're going to understand we've got a different social system that we're discussing here. I'm going to get into that as we go. But dominion has to do with bringing God's law to bear. Now when we neglect God's law, we wind up with a system that we have today, which is effectively breaking down. Now, thanks be to God, Christians did some tremendous things in science over 200 to 300 years, from roughly 1600 to 1800, or 1850 or so.

From that point on, we've been riding on capital of previous generations. Understand chemistry, physics, astronomy, these modern day scientific subjects, many of which have been very helpful in designing rocket ships, computers, and other things, were established, these early forms of studies were established by Christians. But by the time you get to Charles Darwin and others, we begin to see the perversion of science. To the point now where the average engineering student in the average engineering school out there is getting some forms of science where he doesn't understand there's a difference between the form of science that looks at a rock and determines the radioactive decay rates the year 2011 assumes and assumes and assumes and assumes what the radioactive decay rates were a thousand years ago, ten thousand years ago, a hundred thousand years ago, a billion years ago, a billion years ago, and assumes what the starting conditions were, assumes uniformitarian conditions, assumes and assumes and assumes and says this rock is four billion years old. They say now that form of science is effectively the same thing as dropping a ball 99 times and concluding with 98% probability that gravity exists.

To a relationship of GM1 M2 over R squared. In other words, what they're saying is, these two forms of science, the one form of science that looks at something that's happening right now, and then assumes and assumes and assumes uniformitarian conditions for all of those years, That form of science is the very same thing as the form of science that develops these laws and these systems of probability that we use to design rocket ships. Well, that's just craziness. That's nuts. Also, they're using the same form of science to look at all of the different environmental conditions, all of the astronomical effects of sun spots and all of the geological effects of what goes on in the earth, etc., etc., etc., and assumes that global warming is happening.

I'm sorry, it's called climate change now. We're not sure if it's global cooling or global warming. It changes about every two years or so. But assumes that something terrible is happening because of man-made causes. And if you don't sell your SUV today and buy a moped, we're going to die by the year 2100.

OK, that kind of science is equated in the mind of the average person attending the average scientific university today as the law of gravity. And why is this? Why the breakdown of science? Because we're not beginning with the fear of God. We begin with the fear of man.

We begin with the fear of the state. We're assuming that man controls sunspots. Man is able to cool the sun down a little bit in order to somehow control whatever happens here. And if the sun gets a little too hot we'll send some refrigerator units up there and we're gonna we're gonna cool that baby down and and and and we'll somehow survive because man is in control of his own destiny that's what man has been taught that's humanism And if humanistic presuppositions are working in the craw of the average university professor out there and the fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom in the science classrooms across this state across America, guys, we're going to see science pervert itself in horrendous ways in the years to come. We're gonna see science perform some terrible things.

We're gonna see us all barking up the wrong tree in genetic engineering and creating some pretty weird things in the years to come. We might even see artificial wombs and other things that will ultimately destroy our social systems. And of course, we've already done a great deal to do that ourselves. Well, I'm just giving you examples of how our young men and our young women as help-meets for their husbands must get out there and do some godly science for the sake of the kingdom of God. I mean, you talk about economies.

Are our present economic systems set up according to God's laws? Did John Maynard Keynes ignore the proverb, the very basic proverb that says, the debtor is servant to the lender, when he established the fractionalized economic banking system we have today. Yes, he did. And when somebody came back to John Maynard Keynes, a homosexual by the way, one of the most famous homosexuals in all of history. And when they came to this homosexual economist that set up our economic system today, and they said, what happens in the long run when you have nations that are in $75 trillion of debt?

What happens then, John Maynard Keynes? He said, in the long run, we're all dead. Because that's what happens to homosexuals. In the long run, we're all dead. Could it be that our present macroeconomic systems are going to break down the debt-based systems that have established the major corporations.

These corporations would never exist without this form of banking. It would not exist without the favor of indebted governments. Man we've got all kinds of work to do. We're going to decentralize our economies. And I've said already that we have got to establish family-based economies, and I'm going to deal with that later on in this presentation because that's part of Dominion.

We have got to develop a biblical-based economic system from the micro all the way up to the macro. And if we don't, we won't have a civilization, we won't have an economy in the years to come. Do we have dominion work for our sons, our daughters to engage in the years to come? Absolutely. And by the way, if we're going to decentralize economies, we have got to find ways to decentralize energies.

Now, the only form of decentralized energy I can find is wood right now. I cut my own wood, and I decentralized energy on my property. But I don't believe that's the final solution for decentralized economies in the years to come. I'm saying, guys, if we are going to take dominion of that world according to God's social systems, God's economies, and God's law systems, we have got to bring our innovation, our technology to bear in the years to come. And may God deliver us from what we have right now and if we can somehow develop a decentralized form of energy in this form of dominion we will see tremendous advance for the cause of decentralized economies and free economies in the years to come.

What about medicine? What about medicine? Modern medicine is becoming increasingly socialistic. Roughly 42% of medicine is controlled by Medicare and Medicaid in this country and by local state governments that control medical choices that are made by families. Remember what the government funds, the government controls.

And when we began to see this socialized medicine approach pass through the Congress, we were amazed that God exempted out the Christian medical sharing ministries like Samaritan. I'm amazed that God would do that. The same way He exempted out home schoolers. That is home-based, decentralized educational systems in the 1980s and 1990s. It was incredible that God enabled us to maintain freedom for the average homeschool family in every state, all 50 states thanks to the work of HSLDA and of course the grace of God.

At the same time that parents who sent their kids to the public schools were losing freedom after freedom, right after right, through decisions like the Brown decision in the 1980s, the Palmdale decision about six or seven years ago, another decision that went up to the Supreme Court, I can't remember what it was, two or three years ago. Every single decision relating to kids, Christian kids or families who sent their kids to the public schools, every single case they lost their freedoms. These parents lost their parental rights if they checked their children into the public schools. Clarence Thomas in one decision also noted that if parents want freedom, they can homeschool their children. Why?

Because they've got the freedom. They've got the island of freedom. Now what about the area of medical care? Can we bring the principles of God's Word to bear in the area of medical care? I believe we can.

Why? Because the raising of children and the control of families is not given over to the state. Yes, it is by Plato. Yes, it is by Marx, but not by God. God gives that freedom to the family.

And when we turn that control over to the state, here's what happens in the year 2025. I want you to think about this. The guy from Samaritan Ministries shared this with me a couple of years ago. In the year 2025, we've got socialist medical systems in place. And it makes perfect sense.

The nation is moving more and more towards more infanticide, more euthanasia. Why? Because, well, we've got the most pro-infanticide president of the United States right now serving as president, who voted against the Born Alive bill in Illinois, something that every other liberal, every other mainstream liberal would never ever ever do. Barack Obama, he stood against the Born Alive bill in the Illinois legislature when he was there. We've got a pro-infanticide president.

We've got a bankrupt social security system. We've got 80 million retiring baby boomers who aborted about 80 million of their babies in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Guys, I think we've got a perfect storm for the future when it comes to medical care. And in the year 2025, a young Christian couple has their first child. They do the amniocentesis on that little child in the womb of that mother.

And they find out that child has downs. What happens? What happens is some guy in the 26th story of some building in New York City, he takes a look at it and says, you better abort that child. If you don't abort that child, not a dime for its pre-medical care. Not a dime for its birth.

Not a dime for every year that child lives on planet earth. We will not give a dime for that child. You will abort that child. In 95% of the cases, these young Christian parents will abort the children. Why?

Because what the government funds, the government controls. It will not be decided by parents anymore. As we move more and more towards socialist medicine, friends, and that's the direction of the nation, we will see more and more breaking of the laws of God, the slaughter of the innocents, that will happen. Hey, they've got numbers on what happens with Down syndrome in children anyway. Right now, England has the most accurate numbers.

Upwards of between 90 and 95 percent of children conceived with Down syndrome are aborted in England today. They've got the numbers. That's already happening. Now, what happens when we turn the rest of the control over to governments? Come on!

What happens when parents say we're going to socialize the medicine? Turn it over to government? What happens? Governments will call the shots, not parents. Now what do we do?

What do our children do? If you're a dominion-taking, God-fearing, biblically-based Christians, what do you do in the year 2011? What do you do? Men, what do you do? You take dominion!

You take responsibility! You say, I will not turn an ounce of the education of my children over to the states. I will not turn a minutia part of the medical care of my children over to the states. You'll say, I am going to do this in a biblical way. You say, what's a biblical way?

Families make the decisions. 1 Timothy 5. It's very clear. But where are we today when it comes to charity? Where are we?

We're hardly where we need to be. Listen to me. Euthanasia is coming. No question in my mind about it. Euthanasia is coming.

Unless the church gets a grip and revives itself according to God's Word, according to 1 Timothy 5, we are in big trouble. Somebody wrote me an email a week ago. It chilled me to the bone. To the bone. He said, he's working on a book on the diaconate.

And I spoke with him on the phone earlier. And He's a pastor. He's a guy who's trying to build the church of Christ through discipleship and discipling men. But he said, is there a widow on the list in America? Is there a widow on the list in America?

You know, 1 Timothy 5, 60 years old, she's washed the saints' feet, she's a widow, she has no family to care for. Is there a widow on the list anywhere? I could not think of one. Not one. Why?

They're on Social Security. They're on the state. They're taking state charity. And the state will control those dollars. They will control the future of our grandparents, our own parents.

You know that's going to happen in tens of millions of cases. Why? Because the family is irrelevant, the church is irrelevant, not one friends, not one, And you think that the Social Security Fund is going to be just fine. You think that this euthanasia thing is not going to be coming. Right now it's time to get back into 1 Timothy 5 and say, what Does God have to say about social systems, about what we do with the care of the elderly?

What does God have to say about this? 1 Timothy chapter 5 is very clear. We've got to build our diaconess now. I'm talking about dominion at every single level. Now number one, my first point is this, God created man for dominion.

My second point is this, God created man to be free. Freedom. And I hope that you can wake up to this principle because it's very difficult to wake people up on this one. You know we are in seven times more debt for the average family, household debt, than we were in 1900, adjusted for inflation, seven times. There's seven times more families, mortgage to the hilt in their houses.

They're in seven times more debt. By the way, they've got twice the square footage. Twice the square footage for half the children, and seven times the debt. Okay, what does that tell you about a worldview? I think number one, people like drywall more than kids.

Okay, just in terms of values, I'm not telling anybody that, you know, they should have had five children instead of two. If God has given you two, praise be to God. But I'm telling you, if the average number of children is two down from four a hundred years ago in the average household And they have double the square footage it seems to me that the average American likes drywall more than kids And they're also in debt up to here, which means they're in slavery. The Bible says that the debtor is servant to the lender. That's Proverbs.

I know that's the old book. I know that has nothing to do with modern age because we're beyond that now. It's a whole new age And we don't have to worry about all these old principles. We can just careen off the cliff at 180 miles an hour, and we have a parachute that's going to work. Okay, I know all of that.

I've been told all of that. But I'm betting on the fact that God is really smart. And that old book that goes back 4, 000 years, that book of Proverbs, is important for our children. And they better learn the book of Proverbs cover to cover because what's to come is going to be horrendous, horrendous for that world out there. It won't be for those who understand, who've read the book of Proverbs and understand these principles.

Well, friends, we're in seven times more debt than we were in 1900. We're also in six times more government bondage as a percentage of the GNI. In fact, it's probably more than that right now. It's hard to get the right figures because we're spending a trillion here, a trillion there, another trillion over here, and the GNI is dropping like crazy. It's really hard to know exactly where we are.

But understand in 1913, the governments on all levels in America were taking 10% of the GNI, now it's up to about 65%. So 65% of our lives are government. About 60% of Americans are on the public goal, 48% on welfare. And by the way there's about 10 times more men working for the big corporations than they were when they were the family farms and the family businesses back in the 1900's or early 1900's. So, we're in 7 times more debt, 6 times more government, slavery as a percent of the GNI, and ten times more corporate slavery.

Guys, the average person is tied down with a thousand little oputions. And it's very difficult for us to be free in the present day. What does the Word of God have to say about this? 1 Corinthians 7 verse 21 says, Are you called being a servant? Care not for it.

If you may be free, use it rather. This is the overarching principle. Never forget this. God has created us to be free, and the Kingdom of God languishes. The Kingdom of God that is decent dominion according to the laws of God will languish because we are tyrannized, and we will not see the kingdom of God established because of the disobedience.

Our own disobedience is a problem. We can't correct the disobedience of our systems because our own systems are broken down ourselves. We need to be free in order for us to see substantial work done for the sake of the kingdom of God. It is God's will that we be free. Now, as our founders said, either you'll be governed by God or by God you'll be governed.

That was Benjamin Franklin. And William Penn said something very similar to that. That is, either you'll be governed by God's laws, self-governed by the principles or the morals of God's laws, or you will be governed. God will see to it that you will be governed. You will be tyrannized.

And if you cannot self-govern by the laws of God, you will not run your life by the laws of God. Your families are broken down. Your kids are having kids out of wedlock. And you're breaking down the strength of the family. There's not a lot of discipleship going into your family because you're violating Deuteronomy 6, 7 and Ephesians 6, 4.

You will be tyrannized. And that's exactly what we have seen over the last 200 years. This is a pattern of America. No question at all. That is because of the breakdown of the character of the nation, the breakdown of fatherhood, the breakdown of families, because 42% of kids are born without fathers.

Because 95% of Americans confess to premarital sex. We are tyrannized and we will be tyrannized. And the tyranny will be ugly. And it will not be an expression of true dominion. It will be ultimately a breakdown of our systems which is what happens.

Anarchy plays against tyranny. Tyranny plays against anarchy until these things come crashing down. Until, until, until the people of God get their pants on and go out there and start taking dominion according to the laws of God. Well, that's where we are today. Now if you read down in 1 Corinthians 7 and verse 23, there's a concluding remark here that's I think very important.

Paul says in verse 23, he says, you are bought with a price. Be not the servants of men. What does he mean by that? He means, listen to me, you are supposed to be free. And here's what Jesus did to make that happen.

In order for you to be a self-governing man, in order for you to overcome the porn problem in your life, the slothfulness issue in your life, the reticence to disciple your sons, in order to overcome the sin in your life, in order for you to become the self-governing man, in order that you will not be tyrannized by the unnecessary servitude of men. Verse 21, you have been bought with a price. You say, what is the price? The blood of the Son of God! The blood of the Son of God!

Now let me ask you this, Is freedom worth fighting for? You were bought with a price. Be not the servants of men. Is freedom worth fighting for? Yes.

Is there anybody here who believes in the blood of the Son of God and Counts it precious then you fight for freedom for all your work You say what is freedom freedom from sin and By the power of the blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection, I declare you are free from that bondage. And if you are free from that bondage, you are a free man. Free from sin, yes. But free from banks, Corporations, governments, a thousand Lilliputians that will tie you down and disable you from taking care of your own parents and euthanize your parents in the year 2045 and see to it that 95% of your children are indoctrinated by a social estate that monopolizes education to the tune of 1 trillion dollars a year and these corporations that won't allow you to bring your sons to work with you. You say, well, what kind of a big deal is that?

I say one text, Deuteronomy 6.7. How in the world can you disciple your sons if they're not walking in the way with you? For 5, 000 years, for 5, 800 years, men had the opportunity to disciple their sons. That's what John and James were doing with Zebedee. So Joseph was doing as he was taking care of his father's sheep.

David, same thing. They worked with their fathers. That was what was happening with the little boy in the story of Elisha, who got the headache in the fields. What was he doing? He was working with his father in the fields.

This is what people have been doing from the beginning. But we haven't been doing it for the last 100 years. And our sons, our sons are paying the price. Friends, America's in trouble. 48% of Americans on welfare, 60% on the public dollar.

What's the solution to this? The freedom that we have in Christ. The freedom from the unnecessary servitude of men. But I'm sitting on a plane outside of Salt Lake City. We're flying into Denver.

A Mormon attorney is sitting next to me. I'm talking about some of the things I talk about in my homeschooling conferences. And I mentioned that character's important in education. He says, I believe that. And that's why I'm raising my daughter to be independent.

And as he said that, I thought to myself, Well, I'm not doing that. You know, because the word independent doesn't appear in the Scripture when it comes to family life. What we do read is in 1 Corinthians 11, the man is not independent of the woman, and the woman is not independent of the man. Literally, that's what you read. It's not in independence.

There's not in independence. But what is he doing? What is he saying when he says, I'm raising my daughter to be independent? By the way, a lot, a lot of dads, not just Mormons. My guess is they're Christian dads out there who would say the very same thing.

I'm raising my daughter to be independent. And by the way, if you look up raising daughters on Google, you're going to find that's number one pretty much. You know in terms of articles written on it, Christian sites, non-Christian sites, independent-minded, independent-acting women. That's what we want to create, you know, the character of independence in their systems. What are they saying?

What they're saying is, I'm raising my daughter to be independent of the family, of me. I want my daughter out of the house. I want her out. I want her gone. And she's going to marry some loser who's probably of the 70% not grown up by 30 years of age.

And he'll divorce her eventually. So she's going to have to be on her own, she's got to be able to make her own living, et cetera, et cetera. Independent, independent of the family. But you know what? The largest socialist voting bloc in America are single women.

In fact, I just saw another survey that surveyed all sorts of Americans as to who is still in favor of Barack Obama. And you'll never believe this, but just about every single special interest, et cetera, in America opposes Barack Obama to like a 60-40, 70-30, 80-20, et cetera. But single women still there saying, I like the guy. I like the guy. Why is that?

Why is the largest socialist Marxist voting base in America single women? Why? And by the way, the majority of households are led by single women today. The majority of women are not getting married today. They're living alone and they're living off of the state.

Or they're living off of the promise of the state. Their social security programs, etc., etc. That's what they're counting on. That's what they're depending on. So in an honest moment, the man ought to say, I'm training my daughter to be independent of the family.

I'm training them to be dependent upon the government. That's what they should be saying here. I was in an airport, I think it was Chicago Midway, and saw this great big old sign that shows a picture of an African woman. And the byline read, the world's greatest untapped natural resource. And you know what they're saying?

What they're saying, and I've been studying what Hillary Clinton's doing, they're doing everything they possibly can to destroy family economies and to establish independent economies for women in Africa. This is what UNICEF does. This is what the United Nations is busy doing. This is what Hillary Clinton is advocating. Because what's happening, this really bothers the Hillary Clintons of the world, what's happening is these family economies still exist in some of these very rural areas in some places around the world and that is unacceptable to the socialists.

Unacceptable, because remember the goal of Marx, he says destroy the family. That's the goal and the way you destroy the family is by destroying the family economy. And yes, the Communist Manifesto said replace home education with social. In other words, destroy home education. Because they knew that home education would be the one thing it would take to salvage home economic systems.

And so the Communist Manifesto has been very, very careful to destroy family economies since the 1840s. And that's what's happened. We hardly see family economies that are still extant today. What they're saying is, the world's greatest untapped natural resource means that there are governments and large fascist-driven, that is government-controlled corporations out there that are just wanting women to plug into their systems. They want to control women.

They want women to be sucked into their systems, and they want to be the slave masters such that your daughter will have eight levels of management above her and 65% of the GNI controlled by governments that control every single aspect of her life. Enslave the daughters. Enslave the daughters. That's what Hillary Clinton is saying. That's what the Mormon attorney, that's what the Christian evangelicals are saying when they say, I want my daughter independent.

I want her to be a slave of the state. But I'm here to say if the Son will make you free, you will be free indeed. I'm here to say maximum liberty comes by the law of liberty. You say what law? God's law!

Do you understand? That's why when Christians abandon the law of God, as so many do in the seminaries, I'm talking Reformed people, I'm talking fundamentalist Baptist people, they abandon the law of God as the standard for the social systems and every other aspect of life, they will be the cause of the enslavement. And by the way, I hear the majority of the professors at Wheaton College and conservative seminaries support Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. Why? They want your sons and daughters enslaved to the state!

65% of the GNI controlled by government. Not enough! Not enough! Let them kiss the chains that bind them. Let them kiss the chains that bind them.

I'll have nothing of it. I am bought by a price, the blood of Jesus Christ. Be not the servants of men. I will not be the servants of these mega governments, and I will fight with every ounce of blood in my body, every breath that God gives me against the unnecessary servitude of men, because I am bought with a price. May God forgive us for destroying His world.

Because that's what happens when you abandon God's principles. By the way, God considers any government taking more than a tenth of people's income a tyranny. It's 1 Samuel chapter 8. And by the way, that one equips me to be a man of God for every good work. Okay, it may not be equipping seminary professors at Wheaton College or somewhere else, but it equips me.

And any time our government is taking more than a tenth, more than God takes in the time, it's a tyranny, and it's claiming itself to be greater than God Himself. And I will fight, and I will fight, and I will fight to bring our civil governments down to biblically assigned proportions. And I trust your families will do the same. God's law empowers families and churches. Now, here's what we need to do.

We need to build family-based economic systems because your choices are one or the other. A state-based, tyrannical, government-driven economic system or a family-based economic system. Now, we're not talking about the libertarian approach, the An Randian individualism. That's just as evil as socialism. You all understand?

The free market, An Randian individualistic approach to free market is just as evil as the socialist corporate system. What's God's system? God's system is not individualistic, and it's not statistic. What is it? It's family-based.

It's family-based. It's families looking out for each other. It's families doing the mentorship and discipleship and raising up the character of the next generation. It's families teaching the Word of God as they sit in their houses. It's families with their own charitably based economic systems.

It's churches with their own economic systems, with their own charitable systems. This is a biblical system. We reject the free marketers in their economic systems. We reject the Marxists in their economic systems. We believe the Bible has it right.

Empower the family. Empower the church. That's good dominion. And you'll have your best social system if you bring God's law and establish your social systems by means of God's laws. Somebody say amen to that.

The biblical system is the oikonomia system. Economics comes from the biblical word oikonomia. Nomia is law, oikos is family. So it's a family-based law, family-based vision. The basic economic system is the family, not the individual.

And when that family came together in the garden, God brought that woman to that man as his helper for what? His helper for dominion. Adam staked out that part of the garden, said, this is what we're going to do. They went to work together. They took dominion.

It was the axe head on the axe handle. You have an axe head, how many trees can you knock down? Axe head, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. How many trees with just an axe head? Not very many.

Try the axe handle. Whack that tree a few times. Come on, whack the tree, whack the tree. How many trees would Justin Axe handle? Maybe one a year?

Put the head on the handle. Now what do you get? Serious dominion, amen? You're cutting trees, you're making log cabins. The woman was made for the man in order to help him in dominion.

He's not going to accomplish it as an axe handle. She's not going to accomplish it as an axe head. Put the head on the handle. And Proverbs 31 is the one verse I need to give you. I told you this family-based economy is all the way through.

Aquila and Priscilla, they were tent makers in the New Testament. They worked together. They were a team. But there's one verse in Proverbs 31 that just seals this whole deal. The heart of her husband does safely trust in her, for he shall have no need to spoil.

There it is. Not the heart of her corporate boss will safely trust in her, so he will have no need to spoil. Not the heart of Barack Obama. The heart of the hospital administrator will safely trust in her so he will have no need to spoil. No!

She works with, slash, for the husband. And it's the husband's economy that this is all about. She is his loyal person. She is with him. She is his economic helpmate.

And that's the principle you get from Proverbs 31. There is no way around the principle. People ask me, what are you a one income family or two income family? I tell people we're a seven income family. Because that pretty much crushes all of their preconceived notions about all of this.

Seven incomes flowing into one, Yes. We have it on one spreadsheet. I mean it's more than seven now It's like 18 different. I mean we have so many things going on in our household economy. It's just nuts I can't even keep track of it I mean it's the whole house has gone to the dogs recently And the reason is because my one of my daughter says I'm gonna be taking care of dogs dad She got a thousand dollars to take care of a couple of dogs for six weeks.

And so they have to be in the house because that's part of the $1, 000 deal, the contract she signed. So I'm tripping over dogs now all the time, constantly. Dogs everywhere, all over the house. And that's just one. We have so many household projects going on, it's just absolutely nuts in our home.

But friends, I just saw an article that said it cost $227, 000 now to raise a child. By the way, I did the numbers and found it was more like $60, 000 or maybe even less than that. We don't feed our kids a lot. But it was way less and then I began to figure out, and this made me feel sort of bad, I didn't want to share this with the child labor organizations or anything, but I began to figure out how much income we were getting, or just ministry income, not so much going directly into our household, but into the ministries, how much my son has produced with me over the last 10 years since he's been helping me over 10 years and found out that his productivity has been like five or six times what the cost was. So it was a great return on investment there.

Good ROI, you know. But you know these people don't understand. Children are part of the household economies. They always have been. This is what it is to take dominion.

And by the way, the reason 70% of young men aren't grown up by 30 years of age, up in 30% in 1970, is because they're not working on their father's economy. They're not being trained. They're not being mentored to work. They don't understand business. They don't know how to use their hands, their heads to actually take dominion and lie.

And guys, as you build your family economies, it can go One of two ways. One way it can go is you may have a very low income for the family, which is just fine. Families can get by on very little. I mean families in Mexico can get by on $4, 000 a year, $5, 000 a year. I've met them.

There are families in America getting by on $24, 000 a year. I remember running into a family in Southern California, bought a house in 1990, paid it off on a salary of $26, 000 a year. One income, $26, 000 a year. They had a few other things going on. But I mean, they were just eking it by.

And it was a very kind of a low maintenance household. They didn't send their kids off to private schools. They had one little car that they worked on all the time. They were very simple. They didn't eat very fancy.

They didn't go out to restaurants. They didn't have daycare. They didn't have all the expenses that make up the $227, 000 for these families that are having .8 kids per family. You follow me here? They're having .8 kids per family on $227, 000, very expensive, but we have little dinky families in Southern California having five, six kids paying off their house in 20 years on $26, 000 a year.

And then you have family incomes that are up around $300, 000 to $400, 000 a year. These families are worth, their net worth are somewhere between $6 and $7 million and they're breaking in some $400, 000 a year on family alone. On family alone. They have no employees. What am I talking about?

I'm not talking about being Bill Gates and developing more slave based systems and putting more of the millions and millions of slaves to work, I'm talking about pushing power downhill, which is what dominion is all about, which is what the kingdom of God is all about, men and women getting married, plugging into their own family economies And not getting enslaved by the massive corporations that destroy the family, disintegrate families everywhere. And you know what? I did a great program on young entrepreneurs a while back. And this young entrepreneur, he's 22 years of age, he's a millionaire. His net is about 1.2 million a year.

And he started out just with his mom. He was 14 years old. His mom had to take him to the post office. He didn't have a driver's license yet in order for him to mail his products and all that. But now he's up 22 years of age.

He's married. He has a couple of children. And like I say, he's netting about $1.2 million a year. And I interviewed him. It just was so beautiful.

The guy said, you know what? I'm mentoring now myself. I'm mentoring others. I'm just so touched by that, because here's a guy. He has the potential to go to billions of dollars.

He's turning back, and He's empowering others. He's empowering others! He's not building the big pyramids. Not building the big towers, the big empires. No!

A thousand no's! Christians don't do that! Christians empower others. They turn around and they invest in others right away. You've got a 22-year-old young man empowering other young men to do the work.

Amazing. He said others have mentored me. I need to mentor others. I mean, this is true blue dominion. Proverbs is the book you need.

It's why I wrote my three part series in the book of Proverbs. It's basic, core curriculum for every family here. Your children need to know every single verse. The Proverbs give the character of the dominion-taking man and woman. First 30 chapters focuses, I think, more on the man.

Last chapter focuses more on the woman. Now it's good for men and women alike, but see, The Proverbs is the book to raise up dominion-taking, God-fearing, kingdom-advancing men and women, not the slave-based educational system that has its own form of character, raising the independently-minded woman, but will destroy the character of our men and women eventually. And our socioeconomic systems will not survive because they are not building their character-based systems and their education on the rock, which is Christ, and his word, Proverbs. Now quickly, Proverbs 31. I did an extensive study on Proverbs 31 in my series of books.

Proverbs 31, who can find a virtuous woman? The word virtuous is the word kayil, it's a military word for valiant, highly effective. This is not the anorexic model you see on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. This is more like Vermeer's milkmaid. Okay, if you don't know what I'm talking about, get a picture of Vermeer's milkmaid and put it in your daughter's bedroom.

She has arms like this. She's pouring the milk. She strengthens her arms. She's physical. She's able to do the work.

She takes care of her health. She maximizes her health, her diet, to provide careful management of her household duties. She's economically productive, she's a good investor, she's a can-do person, she works best and most productively with her husband's capital, her husband's trust, and her husband's resources. Get her out of the corporations, bring her home, she'll be the most productive, she'll do the most work, she'll be the most loyal, she'll put her life on the line, she'll accomplish so much more and be happier for it in the freedom of her own household instead of working under eight layers of corporate slavery. She's optimistic and hopeful in her economic endeavors.

Verse 25, she's gracious, motivational in her language. She's focused, loyal, competent, committed, steward of the household economy. She's charitable. And if you want an example, Abigail Adams. Now somebody needs to write the book on Abigail Adams.

I haven't seen it yet, but just get McAuliffe's book and just try to find all the stuff on Abigail. That's what I've done. It turns out she is an amazing Proverbs 31 woman. While her husband was in the gates, man, she was buying more land. When he finally made it back, the household economy was way bigger than whatever he had left.

She was great! Go Abigail! I'm a great fan of Abigail, And she was charitable. She looked out for five widows, at least five, might have been six widows in the neighborhood. In other words, again, it was the household charitable responsibility.

You need to have a charitable department in your home. And she administered funds every month to five to six widows. And When she went to France, she left a note for the steward of the household economy, be sure you give $1 a month to widow Jones and $1 a month to widow Smith and $1 and $2 a month to widow so and so. She was administering the entire household economy. And guys, I have never seen anything quite like Abigail Adams in the present day.

You've got to go back again 200, 300 years before you find a Proverbs 31 woman who has taken dominion, who wasn't as enslaved and processed through the meat-packing plants, the educational systems today where they have no clue what it is to be a Proverbs 31 woman. No, we've got to relive the Word of God in these various areas. Sometimes history can help us. It's been a learning curve for us, guys. Everybody's got their own journey.

Everybody's going to have their own journey. Hopefully you've got a vision at the top of the hill. You're going to wind up that hill in different directions. I'm not imposing any particular direction on you. I've talked about debt-free.

I've talked about charity. I've talked about your women coming home. I've talked about this. I've talked about that. How are you going to take dominion in your homes according to God's word?

Guys, launch out onto the journey. May God be with you. Go in faith and go the direction that God leads you here. Let me give you my story. My wife and I were married in 1990.

My wife was an RN at the time. She had none of this. I had none of this. Stuff I'm teaching you, I didn't have a clue. Not a clue.

My wife was an RN. She was doing home health visitation work. She came back from the slave labor camps in 1991. 1991, hallelujah, my wife was free. We brought her home.

And by the way, we had our son shortly after that, and it's been wonderful. We have five children. God has blessed our household economy in unbelievable ways. In 1994, though, and this was critical, we were debt-free. We were debt-free on June 13, 1994.

I remember, it was the day before my birthday. I turned 30. I wanted to say I was debt-free in my 20s. So the day before I turned 30, I was debt-free in my 20s. That is, we paid off our mortgage in a three-bedroom, two-bath house in a neighborhood in Aurora, Colorado.

1994, I ran for governor that very same year. I announced my governorship immediately after paying off my mortgage. Why? I was a free man. Free men can run for governor.

Amen? Free men can run for governor. I was free. Now, I wasn't free from the state. That was one thing I couldn't do.

I could get out of the mortgage. With everything I had, praying to God, moving ahead in faith, I could get out of my mortgage. But that was about all I could do. In 1999, I quit the slave labor camps myself. So my wife got out in 1991.

I was out in 99. And from that point on we built a family economy together. Over 20 years guys, it's been a blessing. God has blessed us with amazing freedom, amazing ability to seek God's kingdom. We have been involved in so many aspects of the kingdom of God because of the vision that God has given us through his word to take that kind of dominion.

I ran for governor. I was the pro-life candidate for governor in Colorado in 1994. I was the pro-life candidate for U.S. Senate in 1998, running against Republicans and Democrats, all of which were avid, rabid, pro-abortion, kill the kids, they said, kill the kids, get government money to pay for them. I mean, that was what was hot, that was what was really driving the Republicans in 1994.

1998, we have far less of that in the Republican Party now, actually, in Colorado since some of us have been pushing from the Constitution Party and the U.S. Taxpayers Party and these other third parties to get a little conscience back into the Republican Party in our state. Well, that's what we did. I lost, but it's all right. We were on all kinds of radio stations.

We were all over the state. We were able to get the message out. Praise God. Since then, we've published tens of thousands of books. We've been raising five children with an amazing kingdom bent.

They love the kingdom of God. They're involved in, guys, I mean, it has been, of course, crying out to God and discipling them and walking beside them, and it's just been an amazing amazing experience for us But our children love God. I mean there's been ups and downs You know we've struggled big time, and it's a different time but our children love God And this is the greatest desire in my heart, that my children walk in the ways of God. And they're willing to throw their lives down on a hand grenade for Jesus. And I see that with my children.

Our radio program, Eight years ago we started that. We have a million five hundred thousand downloads. And my son has been working with me on that in an amazing way over all these years. And I thank God for my son. I would never have been able to do the radio show without my son.

I would never be able to have sold hundreds of thousands, probably close to a million dollars worth of books, over 50 states, over four or five countries, if it hadn't been for my son traveling with me, over all those miles since he was 10 years of age. I mean, guys, I wouldn't have been able to do the ministry without my family. Now let me talk to you about my wife. I could not have done any of this without my wife. My wife is a woman of faith.

She has faith in God. She's not sure about me sometimes. She trusts in God. I mean, and she's pretty scared about some of the things I'm planning to do next. She teases me, she says, I never read the small print.

I didn't realize you were going to do all of this. But she just keeps her nose to the grindstone. She just doesn't want to be a big famous person or anything like that. We're just going to be a small little teeny weeny family doing little teeny weeny things. And 26k a year, that's fine.

Whatever. We'll sew stockings or something. That's what we can do. That's the kind of woman she is. Just kind of a small woman living a small life, but just trusting in God and just helping me along the way, she's unbelievably industrious, unbelievably industrious.

I mean, I have to grab her and say, we're going to bed now at 1130 at night. Now, hun, now, Stop, stop now. Let me get you a cup of tea. Let's relax for a moment. My wife, if I said we gotta get that grand piano up to the 23rd story of that building, honey, we gotta do it.

She'd go, okay, hon, okay, hon. And she'd grab that thing with the teeth like a little chihuahua, and she'd just pull that thing up the first light, and then she'd get it up the second light, she'd kill herself! She'd kill herself! Try to get that piano up to the 23rd story! Praise God for my wife, she is unbelievably faithful.

Unbelievably faithful. Last week, let me just give you an example. See, I'm busy just tearing around the house doing all sorts of things. Last week she fixed the drywall. She repaired the central vac.

I mean, by herself. Now, I had to look over a little bit, but she was there, you know, retwisting the wires and all that. She sewed curtains for the chicken coop. Because evidently, the chickens like privacy when they lay their eggs. So I caught her sewing the curtains for the chicken coop.

She provided hospitality for a pastor's family. This is a funny deal. Last Saturday night, I kid you not, I'm stacking some wood in the back and I get a phone call. And this guy said, I'm two hours away and I'm just really looking forward to spending the night with you guys. And you know, we'll be there in about two hours.

I had no idea who he was. I go, OK, we'll look for you. Thanks, bye. And I went tearing into the house, honey, there's somebody coming over tonight to stay the night with us. And it was beautiful.

She just accepted it. I mean five years ago would never happen She would have had conniption heart attack on the spot. You know I would have been in the chicken coop little curtain thing there But she just took it in stride. She's okay, hon. Let's go make some beds Anyway, I had so many things that she's doing She spends hours working on my manuscripts that she did last week, hours praying with me, assuring me I'm not crazy, moving there but not entirely.

Let me close with this. I just have a minute left. Give me a thousand families who take on this dominion vision, and we will save America. We'll change this country nationally. If we can get a thousand families like this.

Listen to me, the Sarah Palins will not do the job. Okay? The Joyce Myers will not do the job. We are going to need more than that. We have extremely difficult days ahead for us.

That's why it's important you're here. I believe God has set you up for a time like this. The future, guys, is going to be intensely difficult for our children. The reason? Nothing.

Nothing is mitigating the 42 percent of children born without fathers. Nothing is mitigating the 70% of boys playing video games while Rome burns, while 80 million baby boomers are playing golf. Nothing is mitigating that that I can see in the horizon. Nothing else. Nothing is mitigating the fact we have seven times more kids born without fathers, the foundations are destroyed.

Nothing substantial in America, focus on the family included, nothing is mitigating the overarching macro problems of a nation. Nothing is mitigating the trillions of dollars that George W. Bush and Barack Obama are paying into the debt-based system in order to keep the dying cadaver alive for another 5 minutes and another 10 minutes. Nothing is mitigating it. It's only putting off the economic disaster that is coming to this nation.

Why? Because we are ignoring the book of Proverbs. And you ignore the book of Proverbs again and again and again. Nothing is changing our schools. It's more pro-homosexual, it's more pro-evolution on the macro scale than it was 10 years ago, 20 years ago.

The macro is far worse. Nothing is mitigating it, guys. We're only going faster over the cliff. The future doesn't look good for our socioeconomic systems. What we need are men.

We need our boys to be men. We need boys who have vision, men who see the destruction ahead, Men who see the broken economies. I mean the average American Christian can't understand what we're saying in this conference. What? Broken economies?

Broken social systems? 42% of the kids born without fathers up at 6% 1970? Who cares? But we have broken cultural systems. Our music is horrific.

Our Christian music, borrowed from the typical dregs of society out there, is just as bad. Our culture is going off the edge. Our social systems, our economies are broken, broken, broken, broken. Who is going to fix them? Men who get a vision for it, a vision for dominion.

Men who have faith, faith to take on the future, courage to act, courage to take on dominion, to reform our technology into a biblically based technology, as I said already, to redevelop economies, to rebuild our social systems. I'm not talking about survivors. Pioneers, maybe. You're raising boys to be dominion-taking pioneers! Noble men.

Vice-regents for the Almighty. Listen, what we're dealing with is the ashes of Western civilization. Humanism is burning out our economies. And listen, people like Africans and Asians and others are copying us. And they're coming over the cliff too.

So unless we as Christians change the way we do things and start rebuilding household economies here and rebuilding household economies in Africa, according to biblical principle, ignoring the materialistic, corporate-based, fascist, socialist systems, and just build things in a biblical sense, we're not going to have social systems anywhere in Africa and America or anywhere unless we have men who are willing to do this. The tidal waves of humanism have already destroyed. They've already rolled over. They were coming in the 1700s through the Enlightenment, through the 1800s, through the 1900s. They rolled over us in the 1900s.

We are right now in shambles. Now granted, we have the big towers still because they were raised up on debt, but guys, it's done. It's over. The character, the fiber of the people is utterly corrupted. Everywhere!

Everywhere! And the future looks terrible for the kids who are born without their fathers and not raised with their fathers, with our present educational systems. No, we've seen the destruction. The tidal wave has already rolled over us. And you know what?

When we were seeing the tidal wave coming, it was formidable. There was almost nothing we could do about it. But when that thing comes in and destroys everything, what do we have? You say a lot of mud. Yes, a lot of mud, but praise God, we've got men, and we will have men with the vision to say, it's mud, but I can do something with it.

And they're gonna put stakes in the ground, and they're gonna say, we're gonna start rebuilding. We're gonna do something for the kingdom of God. We're going to disciple the nations. Now I can do something, hun. Let's stake this out." She says, it's mud.

He says, yes, but by God's grace we can do something. We can rebuild. That, my friends, will be the future for our families. And I pray to God that those of you here will get the vision for this. The National Center for Family Integrated Churches is dedicated to proclaiming the sufficiency of scripture for church and family life and to the establishment of biblically ordered churches.

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