Is your family worship time truly worship? The truth is that God would rather have no worship rather than false, hypocritical worship (Mal. 1:10). God requires his creation to worship him, but he does not need it - it is a privilege and a joy that he calls us into and it is a wonderful gift to worship him in the home. But has the worship in our homes become cold, lifeless worship with the heart separated from the outward actions? Love for God is the cure for empty worship. Cultivate this in your heart and life and lead your family in love to worship God.

The National Center for Family Integrated Churches welcomes Jason Dome with the following message entitled, Keeping Worship in Family Worship. In family worship. It's a bit daunting to to stand before you as a father who has to labor to live out these principles that I'll be preaching on this morning. So every dad in the room and the mothers in the room know what a challenge this is. So that I'm not misrepresenting, I am better on paper.

I preach better than I lead my family in this topic. So, I'm not proud of that, but it's true, and it probably always will be true the hope is is that god will give us light to walk by and we will bring a desire to be obedient to the things that we see in his word and make progress and so may the lord do that before us uh... The title of the message is keeping worship in family worship and as the title suggests it can be one thing to establish a routine with certain activities even wonderful activities then to do those activities day after day very consistently and then have it be an entirely different thing for a family to actually worship God in the home. In other words, family worship isn't magic. It's not pixie dust to be sprinkled to solve all your problems.

So you might have these wonderful activities and you might have established them in your home and you might have noticed that it doesn't automatically solve the problems of coldness and heart. It doesn't automatically mean that you're bringing a heart of worship even when you do these wonderful activities so fathers and mothers it's our duty before got to keep them together to keep the wonderful activities that god is calling us to his words wedded with a heart of worship a hot hearts towards god actually loving God from the heart and that one of these is intended to serve the other. That's all it is. The wonderful activities are just given to us, just intended to serve true worship for God in our homes. Let's pray.

Father, how we need you. If we weren't a needy people, we wouldn't come to consider your word and to desire to be taught on these things and to consider them. But we are, and so we pray. We have such confidence in you. We've seen you be so faithful and so kind to us so it's our privilege to gather around your word to consider the things that you've said to your people I pray that you would bless this time.

I pray that you would send your spirit among your people to help me to speak and to help us to acquire wisdom from your word. May all things be said to honor you. In Jesus' name, amen. Listen to Malachi chapter 1. Dr.

Craft started down this track last night I'm just going to keep pounding away at it this malachi chapter one verses ten and eleven where god says through the profit who is there even among you who would shut the doors so that you would not kindle fire on my alter in vain I have no pleasure in you says the lord of hosts nor will I accept and offering from your hands for from the rising of the sun even to its going down my name shall be great among the gentiles in every place incense shall be offered to my name and a pure offering for my name shall be great says the lord of hosts thank about what god is saying to his people here god in a verse ten is essentially saying Who will put a stop to people doing what I have commanded them to do? It's not a rebuke for not doing what's commanded. It's God pleading for someone to come and put a stop to people doing what the things that he's actually commanded them to do because of what doctor more craft said last night god would rather have no worship then false worship god would rather not be worship at all then to receive hypocritical worship in the tax actually says that god hates that kind of worship and he would rather we lock the doors and turn out the lights and then in verse eleven just to further develop this think about what god is saying now god is speaking through the profit malachi to his people israel he starts talking about Gentile worship pure Gentile worship and what God is saying is I do not need you to worship me God desires us to worship him he requires that we worship Him, but He doesn't need it.

And if we won't worship Him, He'll go find pagan, irreligious Gentiles and pour out His grace on them and raise them up as worshippers. God is always able to have compassion on whom He will have compassion and raise up other worshippers. If we won't worship him the rocks will cry out God will be worshiped and so we're being weaned away from a thought in Malachi chapter 1 that we're doing God a favor when we gather in our homes to worship Him. Do you understand the advantage is all on our side? Do you understand what a privilege it is to worship the living God?

We have nothing to add to Him. We're not doing him a favor when we Institute family worship we're doing ourselves a favor it is our privilege And so we have to ask ourselves, we have to ask ourselves, to what degree is this happening in my home? To what degree is there a separation between the wonderful practices that god has given us and actual worship in the heart to what degree are those things diverging and separating from one another so that it's really just hypocritical not is it happening and we have to think this way not is it happening it is happening there is a draft always happening that has to be fought against every day of your life in your home. A drift between going through the motions, making the wheels turn, and actual true worship in the heart you're always going to have to struggle we're not going to be done with the struggle to keep these things together were always be at war trying to keep these things together so that there's true worship so not is it happening or isn't it happening but how much is it happening how often is it happening I want the Word of God to strike terror in our hearts what God has said through Malachi so that we have a pressing sense of urgency to wage war against the separation between the practices that God has given us.

They're good practices. They're beautiful practices. They're helpful practices. We should give ourselves to these practices but we should not think that somehow just doing those things mean means that God is honored it's possible to do all those things and dishonor god in our homes if god said what he said to the people through malachi about your home think about if he called for a volunteer to stop the reading of the bible in your home because it was a hypocritical reading of the bible in your home think if god's a who will go and stop that family from praying make them stop because their hearts are not in it and I would rather not be worship inter receive what they're offering what was in this quote from john g pay john g pay was a bold missionary to the cannibals in the South Pacific. If you've not read his biography, I highly recommend it.

He's always just about to lose his life. So it makes for really exciting reading. Here's what John G. Paton said about his upbringing. He was brought up by in a godly home.

John G. Paton says this, It has been an amazing thing to me occasionally to meet with men who blamed this catechizing, this religious activity in the home, for giving them a distaste to religion. Everyone in all our circle thinks and feels exactly the opposite it laid the solid rock foundations of our religious life After years have given these questions and their answers a deeper or a modified meaning, but none of us have ever once even dreamed of wishing that we had been otherwise trained. Now here's the punchline. Of course, if the parents are not devout, sincere, affectionate, if the whole affair on both sides is task work, or worse, hypocritical and false results must be very different indeed understand what he's saying He introduces us to two groups and they've both been exposed to exactly the same activity, religious activity in their homes.

He's calling it catechizing, but it's learning about the things of god in the home so two different groups exactly the same activity and it's not that they'd get different results it's that they get diametrically opposite results completely polar opposite results so that this activity this religious activity in the home is for one set a blessing was intended to be a blessing and it is a blessing but there's this other group same activity but for them it's cars intended to be a blessing designed to be a blessing ends up being occurs so the effect was the exact opposite it gave them eight distaste bad taste in their mouth about the things of god brothers and sisters when this happens the members of the home have been inoculated against the gospel inoculated against vaccinated against the gospel you know what a vaccine is right you injected it's a little bit of the dead stuff and it keeps the live stuff from affecting you that's what back to me and not to late it in their homes against the gospel the religious activity in the home has become and obstacle to the members of the home receiving the gospel so you've set those members of the home up when they hear the gospel to say I've heard that before I've been down that road doesn't lead to somewhere good now let's go to our flagship text that we'll be spending a lot of our time in this morning.

It's Deuteronomy 6. Hopefully, you have a Bible. Hopefully, you'll turn there. Hopefully, you didn't come to one of these conferences thinking you weren't going to get preached out of due to ronnie six that is impossible here's here's why we're going there again for the umpteenth time here's why I don't think it's a waste of time to do so due to run a me six wages war against hypocrisy due to run a me six is eight total hypocrisy killer and we need hypocrisy killers you cannot obey do you want me six hypocritical e due to a lot of the six bills into the definitions that it's not hypocrisy that it is flowing from love for god hypocrisy can't live there so we have a lot to learn from due to a lot of me six even though you've heard it so many times there's still more good to squeeze out of deuteronomy six deuteronomy six is talking about vital religion alive religion living faith and deuteronomy six is making war on dead religion And so it's time to weed as we consider family worship for us. It's time to weed.

It's time to identify the weeds in the garden and pluck them out and Deuteronomy 6 will help us so we're gonna begin in the last verse of Deuteronomy 5 and then we'll read Deuteronomy 6 1 through 9 and then I'll make a few observations. So Deuteronomy 5 verse 33 You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess now this is the commandment and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess that you may fear the Lord your God to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command you you and your son and your grandson all the days of your life and that your days may be prolonged therefore here Oh Israel and be careful to observe it that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey here Oh Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your strength and these words which I command you today shall be in your heart you shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house when you walk by the way When you lie down and when you rise up You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates now what what is going to follow here is not a thorough careful exposition of deuteronomy six that's not my purpose it's mean noticing things that have a bearing on the subject which is keeping worship in family worship they're gonna be four things that I'm noticing out of the text here's the first thing number one The ways of God are for our good.

This is going to end up being a sermon of the obvious, I think. That's okay. The ways of God for our good, therefore our blessing, therefore our joy. They are that it might be well with us we steph why we started in the last first chapter five says that there and then it says that again what we read in the army six that it might be well with you the reason we're doing family worship the reason we gather to worship god almighty in our homes every day is not just because and it's certainly not because I said so it is because God is merciful there is a merciful god in heaven who loves his people he desires good for his people and has revealed himself to his people most fully through jesus christ and salvation that is only in the name of jesus christ but his ways lead us to still waters and agreeing pastures and fathers in their homes need to be pounding their pulpits their family pulpits every day to say there is a merciful good god in heaven and his ways are good god has never kept his people from anything good so his commandments are not to keep us from good things there to preserve us for the best if you miss that if you don't say that you just teach the law and teach the law and teach the law you will give your children at this case to religion that we should love the law of god and we should help our children see that beauty of the law of god the law of god for the people of god for those who have been born again is not a curse it's a blessing if you're living under the law and the penalty of the law and you need obedience to the law to be righteous it is a curse to you that is true if you've been born again it leads you to the still to the stillest waters into the greenest pastures so that you can say with david all how I love that law the law of god is because god is merciful he wants to take his people to good places fathers pound the pulpit in your home To say God wants the best for us, God wants it to be well with us and he's teaching us how we might be blessed, how it might be well with us.

So number one was the ways of God are for our good, for our blessing, for our joy that it might be well with us number two the fear of the lord is the target when you gather in your homes to study the Word of God the fear of the Lord is the target this is verse 2 that you may fear the Lord your God fathers and mothers we must saturate our homes with the Word of God so that our children would come face to face with the terrifying God who is. The Word of God must permeate your home. It must work its way into every nook and cranny of your home. You have to fill your home with the Word of God. Why?

So that they'll meet the God of the Bible. Because the God of the Bible is the only God that there is. Everything else is a false God. And the God of the Bible is not Santa Claus, And He's not a teddy bear. He is the God who called all things that you see and know into existence from nothing.

He is a righteous judge. He is a God who could kill you for your sins at any moment without explanation and without being unjust because He made you, He owns you. And I can't think of anything more harmful in the modern church than the declawing of God, than the taming of the God of the Bible that would make us ashamed of certain passages of Scripture. Fathers and mothers, don't you ever be ashamed of any passage of this book it is the word of God we need not be ashamed of it we should love it we should love every word of it we should teach it with confidence it is truth And the dumbing down of God has not helped us. It has harmed us.

The making of God into a God that does not need to be feared, does not want to be feared has not helped us it has harmed us there isn't almighty god there is a righteous judge and he is terrifying And until you've grappled with the God of the Bible, you don't know the God of the Bible. Until you've wrestled with him and made peace that he's everything and you're nothing and he can do with all of his created things whatever he wants to do and there is no injustice in him then you do not know the true and living god now why does this matter because this vision of god the biblical vision of god drives us to the cross and I'm not talking about to be saved yes may we be driven to the cross to be saved you do you need that again after you've been saved anybody here find that they you're not done with the cross after you've been born again every day he need to go back there you need to go to the well of god's mercy for you every single and by teaching this vision of a just god who is to be prostrated before you should fall down before this living holy god And the Bible brings us face to face with this God and it makes us go to him for mercy.

It makes us go to Christ to do all the things for us that we're unable to do for ourselves. Brothers and sisters, we are desperate for a big vision of god the lord's people have such a shrunken of god because we've not just not studied our bibles as we ought Give a big vision of God to your families. Bring them to worship the living God. Give them the God of the Bible. The fear of the Lord.

The biblical fear of the Lord never harmed anyone. It always helps it always is a source of blessing bring the word of god to bear to help your family fear Almighty God number three number three and all-consuming love for god is the core of keeping worship in family worship I think about this the commandment is to love god with all your heart all your soul all your strength people skim over the top of that and they think shallowly about it and they say that's neat Brothers and sisters, that is not neat. That is crushing. You spend just five minutes thinking about God requiring of us that we love him with all of our hearts and all of our souls and all of our strength and then you just hold yourself up against that standard you will be crushed by it. Guess what?

God wants you to be crushed by it. God is helping us by holding up a standard of righteousness that crushes us. Why? Because the law is a tutor that brings us to Christ. Because people who don't think they're sick don't seek a physician.

And so God has given us this great commandment. This is what Jesus calls it in Matthew 22. When he's asked which is the great commandment and the law, he quotes that verse, love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. This is the first and great commandment. The law of god is a tutor to bring us to christ and this is the great law this is the great law that crushes us and sends us to jesus christ for mercy so here's the progression that we see and it begins with this all-consuming love for god and then it goes in verse five putting the commands of god in your heart acquiring wisdom from god and hiding these things in your heart and then it goes to teaching them diligently okay see out the progression love for god in the heart personal love for god in my heart as a dad or if your mother as a mother personal all-consuming love for god in the heart which leads to acquiring wisdom in hiding these things in your heart putting the commands of god in your heart which leads to teaching your children diligently if you skip one and two and go straight to three and just start teaching diligently to your children do you think that's lost on them it said we think we're fooling our children that there's really no significant love for god in our heart we have it really hidden these things in our heart and we just go right to three were supposed to do some religious things in our home and we just start teaching your family has to know that this is flowing out of your practices in your home are flowing out of love for god okay that's at the core you cannot come to do to run a me and not come away with that due to run a six and not come away with your family has to get a sense that this is not checking off something on the list for you when you gather to worship God in the home.

It's not just another activity in the day, but you are compelled by consuming love for God in your heart to gather those that you care about to worship the living God because you love this God. Number four. Number four. Worship in the home is not any event it is a life vitally important worship in the home is not an event it is a life now you better have an event you better have a worship event and it had better be the immovable rock in your schedule so I'm not speaking against the event I'm just saying an event by itself is just what is going to get us all in a lot of trouble if the rest of the day is inconsistent with the event yourself a lot of time in a day not much time not a very small proportion of it is going to be spent in the event the worship event in your home small proportion of the day if the rest of the day is incompatible inconsistent with the event you might as well the event so I have two questions but I think we need to be asking ourselves all the time as fathers and mothers who are trying to rally the troops to worship the living God in our homes day after day.

These two questions will help us. Number one, is godwardness reserved for the event today has got word best then reserved for the event there hundred ways to make the rest of your day God-ward. And if you haven't employed some of them, so you're coming to the event where nothing else in the day has been God-ward, and now we've got our segregated, separated slice of time to do worship. Do you understand how destructive that is? This is what gets us in trouble.

Because verse seven says, Deuteronomy 6 verse seven, you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, when you rise up, it's not event driven. Okay, God-wardness in Deuteronomy 6 is not event driven. Now, I don't know how you satisfy Deuteronomy 6 without an event. So again I'm not preaching against the event I love the event I want the event I need to nurture the event my home so we're not talking about getting rid of the event we're talking about integrating the event so that our lives are godward not just this little sliver of time first question is godwardness reserved for the event Second question, are your interactions generally characterized by love not perfectly characterized by love I can't do that you can't do that we know that But are they generally characterized by love as the Bible defines it? Love might call for a rebuke.

So we don't want to say, well, your interactions with me were not characterized by love because you rebuked me. You might have rebuked me because you love me. So love as the bible defines it not sentimental love that jesus christ laid in your life kind of love our interactions characterized by that if that's been off set off to the side all day and now we're going to gather to worship god almighty that's hypocrisy there to great command that's loving god with all your heart soul mind is straight to loving your neighbors yourself you set that aside all day and now we're gonna have family worship time that's called hypocrisy it's exactly what we need to make war against so our interactions are going to have a bearing on the event if we set aside love paul says the goal of our instruction is love from the pure heart paul says love is the film of the law if we set aside love all day and now I want to come try to worship god together in the home it's gonna be very difficult to do I'm not saying you shouldn't have the event if you've had a bad day in the category of love I was just saying it should probably start with repentance okay brothers and sisters I'm talking to married people in the room now conduct in marriage has more to do with your children's disposition towards the faith than your Bible reading time ever will.

Why? Because God has designed marriage to be a picture of the gospel where a man plays the role of Jesus Christ and the woman plays the role of the bride and if you put forward a distorted picture morning noon and night and think you're going to overcome that with a little bible reading you are deceived won't work and so we need to be very conscious as married people who are supposed to be living out who are living out a gospel in front of our children you are living out a gospel in front of your children and you might be preaching a false gospel and to think you will overcome the false gospel that you're preaching in the conduct of your marriage through a little bible reading at night you will not so here is something to be considered is their joy and affection in great abundance in your home? The home where God is honored is Chock-full of joy and affection these homes that lack enjoy an affection and have religious activities are blasphemous they are blasphemy against almighty god god doesn't do that way where god is honored there is joy where god is honored there is a lot of cities lifeless loveless joyless homes have all this religious activity are blasphemous somebody should lock those doors and shut out those lights okay let's talk about the event the event family worship The time where you gather together, you prioritize to gather together to worship god in your home what precious moments these ought to be in our homes like to make four uh...

For observations about this Worship is the purpose. Jason Dome, master of the obvious. Worship is the purpose. That's not as stupid obvious as it sounds. We do well to go into the event thinking about that, that worship is the purpose of our gathering because your days are like my days they are filled with activity and your brain is in another state normally when you approach this time and the slow down and to say worship is the purpose for what's getting ready to happen here wouldn't hurt us a lot it might help us a lot it's not the transmission of information that were after although there will be transmission of information people ought to be learning about the ways of god people ought to be learning about god but primarily it's not transmission of information that were after and so the setting of the tone is a very important for this time and dads you set the tone Don't make your wife have to set the tone.

Fathers, have a heart. Cultivate a heart full of love for God. White, hot love for God. And then come set that tone for your family for worship you come you gather together to worship God Almighty and you're not just there to get something off your list. And Dad is acting like these are the most precious, important minutes of the day.

Okay, Dad, you have to act like that. When we do family worship, every day in our homes, every day when we do family worship, you have to come and act like these are the most precious important of the day you don't have to act you don't have to act isn't technique uh... Okay it is a technique there is a whole war there is a heart to be brought to the worship of Almighty God where it's not worship you're gonna leave saying he didn't tell us what to do exactly join your hearts together and worship god you know what it means to do that do that join your hearts together bring warm hearts that love god to held down before him together worship number two it should be consistent consistent meaning every day every single day very few exceptions should be the immovable rock in your schedule it should be the sun in the solar system that the other things revolve around okay family worship is the sun in the solar system the other things in your schedule revolve around yet it doesn't fit well with the sun, it's out of here. If you've got something that won't revolve around this sun, then you get rid of it.

You don't understand our situation. We all have hard things in life we're dealing with. We all have challenges. Some have greater challenges than others. I concede that.

Some have more difficult schedules than others what are you here for are you here to worship your god if you are it is the immovable rock in your schedule it is the sun in your solar system and there can't be any compromise nine there will be able to use sports youth that is going to be the new borac in your schedule you spent some more time to do to ronnie six my work schedule vacillates okay well you've got a schedule You know when you're working and not working. Worship God when you're not working. Families organize around dad's schedule. But they'd have to go to bed at ten and get up you know ten at night okay then go to bed at ten we're talking about worshiping god here you'll not be sorry that you shifted your family schedule if I just want to say this with complete confidence you won't be sorry for the sacrifices that you make to worship god you'll not look back and say that was a bum deal you look back at six thank you god made the changes necessary to prioritize this in our home as if you were a god worthy of praise that's really at the bot when you get to the bottom of the well that's what you find is god worthy to be praised he is he is He's great and greatly to be praised.

He is worthy of any sacrifice that we'll make in our schedule to prioritize it. Number three, it should be reverent. Family worship should be reverent. Family worship should be reverent. This is a challenge for the domes.

I'm a dome, by the way. I'm Papa Dome. And we're cut-ups. So we like to interject funny comments into about any conversation, pretty much. That includes Bible reading time.

Papa Dome has to sit on that in family worship just because that's how I am and that's how my wife is an art our children key off of uh... So we have to rex to restrain them to not be like a string family worship because family worship should be a reverend So we try to keep it to a minimum. You're acting like these are the most precious important minutes of the day and that you're before a holy God. And so the tone of the time is according to that you're coming reverently before God I had a mentor years ago he had been a pastor for 40 years and one of the things he liked to say was you don't come into god's presence chewing gum with your hat on I think you can have family worship and she got so it's not really about the government happen the point is you don't just rush in as if you know you're going to meet with one of your buddies god is so kind of us he's so gentle he's so fatherly that it's it can be easy to presume upon that and not be as reverent as we ought to be in the presence of this god I think a lot of that just stems from how good he is and how kind he's been makes us think that we are free you know to not be reverent but he's also god number four it should stir up joy these things are not in opposition to one another at all reverence and joy go together so well they they don't trample on each other's turf in any way shape or form and so it should be reverent that it should stir up joy he should be the happiest times in your home he should be the most tender times in your home they should be the snugly s that were not my because waiting a word here today you can say you're here the snugly est times in your home should be family worship brothers when our children think back on their life in our homes we want them to think of these times and we want them to think about togetherness we want these to be precious memories not memories that give them eight distaste to religion and become and obstacle that they have to overcome to accept the gospel how different the results really are will they look back on our times in the home and have these be the sweetest most precious memories when I would just sidle up to my dad my mom we would study the things of god together we would worship god together or will they look back on these with a bad taste in their mouths may never be okay should stir up joy because god is amazing because we ought to have to lay in god every minute of every our of every day of every week of every month of every year of every decade of every century every millennia study the word of god what's not to be happy about jesus christ has comma and he's paid the debt for sinners so they could be relieved of the penalty of sin and death this is a time to absolutely rebel in god fathers and mothers lead your families to revel in god to rejoice in the lord during these times go read the book of daniel read about these three men who stood toe-to-toe with a king of kings and when he said who will rescue you from my hand they said our God can save us but even if he doesn't we won't bow down to your idols and he threw them into a furnace that had been heated seven times over and then there's a fourth one in the furnace who looks like the son of god what's not to rejoice in dot did that read your bible rejoice there's a thousand stories as good as that in the bible to be a source of joy for us These times don't have to be sterile.

They don't have to be mechanical. They don't have to be lifeless. Everything would take us in the other direction if we're reading our Bibles and coming before the God that we love. Everything should take us in the direction of joy and life. Here's a few things that can fan these flames.

Sing with gusto. Wow, the domes don't do enough singing. We're gonna fix that. Sing with gusto. It'll help you stir up joy during this time don't you allow for that lifeless singing so often is present among us especially with little boys.

Okay, their daddies don't like to sing. They watch their daddies sing lifelessly so they sing lifelessly. Shame on us. Don't sing if you're going to do that. Dads learn to sing with gusto.

Why? Just because God is good. Just because we're praising him and we sing so let's praise him with gusto he should be praised with gusto or not at all number two adult uh... We're still in the category of its it should stir up your way just a second recommendation uh... Don't allow the time to be tedious tedious in town or in length we'll have to reproduce all of the Lord's Day in every family worship.

Most dads aren't prone to this anyway, but there are a few that are. I've sat in on some of that family worship and I've been looking at my watch too and really embarrassed about it but I couldn't help it we don't have to read reproduce the whole board today in every family worship and I think sometimes we can exasperated our children by doing this don't don't tempt them to say that they have enough temptations to sound Be kind to these children that God has given us. Don't allow it to be tedious in tone or length. The tone should be warm. It should be gentle.

Hey, if you have to discipline during family worship, we've all been there. It has to be done sometimes. You be the most cheerful spanker that you've ever seen. Because you don't need to be mad about your children's and you just have it yours your children's and just obligate you to your duty as a parent so we don't have to spank mad in fact it's in it's sinful to spank mad We should spank cheerfully because God has put us there to constrain the children, constrain the sin of our children, and to help them with their sin. That's all we're doing.

That's actually a happy event if you think of it that way. So I've preached on this many times. There's a member in our congregation who now instead of calling me Jason, he calls me Chasen the Happy Spanker. You can now know me as Chasen the Happy Spanker. A few concluding remarks.

Fathers, we stand before God Almighty. God has put us in our homes to lead these families into joy in his presence okay that's why you're there to be a source of joy and blessing for your wife and your children they're not there to serve you you're there to serve that purpose okay we all got that straight now This is that terrible doctrine of biblical patriarchy. Patriarchs are put in place by God to lead families into joy and and worship to serve them that way uh... Sound half bad actually sounds wise it is your duty but it's your privilege there's nothing sweeter and have times where you rally together under the roof that God has given you to come before Him to praise Him and to rejoice in His goodness. It's pretty, that's pretty much it.

It's as simple as that. That's all we need to do is to rejoice in his goodness together studies were to learn his ways repent saying there's a real version there's a counterfeit version of course everybody in the home knows the difference the counterfeit as usual is a cheat and a disappointment and the real genuine authentic source of joy and blessing and it cost you almost nothing more the cost of more time why would we not do this why would we not rally these families that God has put under our home to worship the living we ought to last exhortation wherever you are double down wherever you are with family worship double down do better you're doing doing horrible okay make progress you're doing great okay make progress is anybody then it could should we have a show of hands of people who have arrived here Be consumed by love for God and then just take that into your times together. It's that simple. To know God is to love him. Be a student of God.

Be a theologian. Go study God and then you'll love him and then bring it to your times of worship together. Let's pray. Father you are great greatly to be praised. The foundation of all these things is your work you are worthy we're not even worthy to bring you worship that you have determined because of your great mercy to purchase the people and stand put yourself on display display yourself to us of god We thank you for your mercy and your compassion.

We pray that you would help us. In Jesus' name, amen. For more messages, articles, and videos on the subject of Conforming the Church and the Family to the Word of God and for more information about the National Center for Family Integrated Churches where you can search our online network to find family integrated churches in your area log on to our website ncfic.org FIC.org