The sermon explores the blessings and importance of the biblical family. It emphasizes the role of the family in manifesting the transformation brought by the Holy Spirit and the need for family discipleship. The speaker discusses the manifestations of sin in family life and the devastation caused by societal changes that undermine the family economy. The sermon calls for the restoration and reintegration of the family economy based on biblical principles, highlighting the importance of work, gratitude, and worship in the family vision.

Let's go. We're going to talk about the blessings of the biblical family. The family is a tremendous area in which the gospel will shine more than in any other aspect of our lives today. We will see the manifestation of the transformation that the Holy Spirit of God brings into our lives through the family, through the Christian family. Here is where we find redemption, reconciliation, the things that Jesus has come to bring to our church and to the family.

The Great Commission begins at home, so that's why it's so critical that we encourage families to family discipleship. The church is going to be strong if the family is strong. And as far as we disciple our own children in the word of God, we will see more and more pastors discipling the churches around this country. Our sons will become the new pastors and deacons for the church in the next generation as we begin to see more and more families discipling their children. We're seeing it all around the world today.

Most beautiful thing we have experienced as Brenda and I have traveled the country and the world is more and more we're seeing the family discipleship movement just exploding around the world. Roots are growing deeper and deeper for the gospel of Jesus Christ in Africa and Brazil, in Mexico, Malawi, Nepal, Korea, we've been all over the place and by God's grace we're seeing the roots of a Christian worldview and a Christian discipleship sink in and by generations we're seeing the transformation of the nations. So exceedingly exciting things going on around the world today. Marriage and family life is great place to see the fruit of the Spirit. Family can be a great opportunity, of course, for humbling and a primary context in which love really manifests itself.

And this, of course, is the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. Our marriage and family also is a great area in which we can see the real faith come and manifest itself. You can't fake it in front of your family and your wife and children for 10, 15, 20, 25 years. The facades always come down in family life. Family makes it real.

Family life also reveals as we restore relationship we're with each other 724 we reveals the problem of sin in these relationships at times it can be shocking and difficult for us perhaps heartbreaking for the first time when your two-year-old says I hate you or when a teenager begins to manifest some rebellion. So we begin to see the manifestation of sin in our children's hearts and our own lives as well. But family life is also a wonderful place in which the gospel shows up and the Holy Spirit begins to do that work to cleanse and make us new. And so not only do we see the shock of sin and the devastation and destruction that sin brings into our lives, but we also see the amazing gospel power of the Lord Jesus Christ, bringing transformation. I look into the eyes of my children and I see them today and the faith that they manifest and I say to myself that wasn't anything that I did, that was the amazing work of God.

The Holy Spirit has done a work in my children's lives and I give all the praise and the honor and glory to to God for what he has done. So brothers and sisters family life is a beautiful beautiful opportunity in which we can see these things operating. We've also see that there's great devastation that's come about in the family over just the last 50 years. The nuclear bomb has gone off in the nuclear family in America. Now, 57 percent of little boys and girls born to millennials are born outside of wedlock, 57 percent, up from 6 percent in 1960 and barely 1 percent in 1900.

So we're seeing the utter devastation of what has happened in terms of what the world has done to the nuclear family, largely encouraged by our institutions. My father went back into the word of God and the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 6, blew off the dust and found that God wanted us to reintegrate, that he wanted us to be discipling as we sat in the house, as we walked by the way, as we rise up, as we lie down. It was, of course, the Industrial Revolution that brought fathers out of the home, eventually took moms out of the home, segregated the family into age-segregated classrooms, age-segregated churches, and all the rest, and you know the devastation that was brought about by all of that. It came largely through the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, even before Karl Marx. Jean-Jacques Rousseau had five children, abandoned them on steps of orphanage until the day they were born, and then told the whole world how to educate children.

And that was the beginning of the compulsory attendance law and all the rest of the socialist-based educational systems. The great institutions you see today were formed by John Jacques Rousseau, a man who abandoned five of his children and said that the government is responsible for the raising of the children in the modern age. He said the best book ever written on education was Plato's Republic and Plato suggested a form of education in which, or a form of social societies in which a man and woman come together for a temporary liaison and they have a baby, that baby goes in the arms of professionals who will take over from there. And according to Plato, No son shall ever know his father, and no father shall ever know his son. The derelationalized world we live in today is exactly what Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Karl Marx suggested in the Communist Manifesto as well.

In fact, right in the center of the Communist Manifesto is the statement, we must replace home education with social. That is really the commitment of Karl Marx from the beginning. So, of course, what we've seen today is an implementation of a satanic agenda, as you all know, and by God's grace, we go to Deuteronomy 6-7 and find that God wants us to reintegrate the family such that we will have opportunity to disciple our sons as we sit in the house, as we walk by the way, as we rise up, as we lie down. And if we live in an industrial age in which there is no opportunity for any of that to happen, brothers and sisters, we're going to be very much impoverished. So we live in an age where we have seen a disintegration of the family, but by God's grace, we're starting to see a reintegration.

And this, I think, is a restoration of something. God is reviving a social system, an opportunity for us to actually pull together a discipleship program, much like what he had suggested to us or commanded to us in Deuteronomy chapter six. So this is the integration of the family. Now, if you've homeschooled, you heard that statement, what about socialization? I'm sure you've heard that before.

You homeschool your kids, what about socialization? And our answer to that is, well usually that's another reason why we homeschool our kids, but I was shocked by that question when I received it for the first time. I had graduated from a home school in 1980 and gone off to be student body president of a major west coast university and someone said you you you were home schooled well what about socialization was a strange question to me because I was very much involved in all these things but it turns out to be a very intelligent question because we are rearranging the first domino in the social context of a child if we're going back to a Deuteronomy 6-7 concept and we're actually incorporating what God intended for the family life, not just in the 30th century BC but also in the 21st century AD where we are today. So it is a very intelligent question, what about socialization? Ultimately, the socialist system intended for us to disintegrate the family, and yes, we are reintegrating the family.

And the idea of socialism is to individuate the individual away from the covenantal units of family and church, and then plugging them into a gigantic social system in which they will function as somebody who is plugged into the socialist state. So it's individuation and socialization at the same time, ignoring the importance of covenantal relationships in family and church. I was sitting next to a Mormon attorney out of Salt Lake City a number of years ago talking about what we do as presenting on home education. I said faith and character are very essential and we integrate that into every aspect of the discipleship or the education of our children. And he said, yes, that's very important.

Character is so important, and that's why I'm raising my daughters to be independent. At which point I said, well, I wasn't exactly what I was thinking, because as I look into God's word I don't find that one of the objectives of character in our daughters is to raise our daughters to be independent. That's actually you find just the opposite in 1st Corinthians chapter 7. The wife is not independent of the husband and the husband is not independent of the wife. And so man is not created to be independent.

The idea of independence is the idea of an individuation of the individual to plug into the gigantic corporate driven state or the corporations and so their belonging is in the gigantic social system of the day. That's not what God has for his people. All of our institutions, our universities, our media, every K-12 school virtually in America, including private schools, is dedicated to abolish the family economy. So the whole intention is to abolish the family, to abolish the family economy, which was the very centerpiece of the communist manifesto. The death tax, the inheritance tax, the destruction of the family economy, Social Security, displacing the family's responsibility for loving their own elderly, and of course euthanasia as provided by the state very free by the year 2035 since eventually we're running out of other people's money, K-12 education, mandatory preschool, mandatory government-funded daycare, All of this is intended to destroy the family, to disintegrate the family, government-funded abortifacients, as well as mandated and abortion funding through Obamacare that came in roughly 2015, 2014.

All of this is intended to take away the family jurisdiction, the area of medical care, government funded, controlled medical care, and of course, preventive medicine provided by the state. If government funds your medicine, the government will have the responsibility to mandate vaccines for you as well. So here we are standing against all of this. There's not many who stand against it to try to reintegrate the family and bring the family in as an important aspect of human society in the 21st century, but we're standing against 50 trillion dollar programs, the universities, the government programs, the entire corporate structure of the nation, all of it intended to undermine the family economy. But Jesus said this, God put a man and a woman together and what God has put together, let nobody, let no institution put that asunder.

And so that's what we need to stand on today, is that we have responsibility brothers and sisters to reintegrate the family in the present day. Homeschooling restores a context for that. Family economy is the wider vision for the household and the word economy of course comes from oikonomiya. Oikos is family, nomiya is law or vision. So economics is the vision of the family, not the individual.

So the idea that we're pushing towards individualization, we're pushing towards anarchical, individuated form of society is not right. We're not pushing towards individualization, we're not pushing towards socialism, we're pushing towards covenantal family life, as well as covenantal church life in these conferences. In Proverbs 31, we find the heart of her husband, or was it the heart of a corporate manager safely trusts in her so that they shall have no need of spoil is that What it says in Proverbs 31 be sure you give your children the book of Proverbs as a means of bringing back God's standards for life in the 21st century No, it says the heart of her husband safely trusts in her so that he shall have no need of spoil. The family economy is so basic to the way that God wants you to live in your marriage in your family. We cannot individuate our wives and our daughters away from the corporate family that God has put together.

The family comes together with the husband and the wife as the axe head upon the axe handle. This is the basis for a family economy. An axe head cannot take down very many trees, children, if you chop away at a tree with an axe head. If you take the handle and whack the tree for six billion times, it will take you years to chop down a tree. But if you put the head on the handle, If a man gets married to a woman, amazing things begin to happen in that family's life.

They begin to take serious dominion of God's green world. So put the axe head on the axe handle. It's absolutely God's way. It's not God's way to fragment the family economically. It's God's way of bringing the family together for maximum economic benefit for the family and for the nation.

David fed his father sheep, Rebecca fed her father sheep, Rachel as well. Aquila and Priscilla, They were tent makers together. You can't walk into a Walmart today and say my family is a family integrated economy and we are applying for a job together. They will say leave right now because we individuate. We've been individuating families, corporations, governments have been individuating families for nine to 80 years now, destroying the family economy, the family farm, and everything else.

So friends, we need to find a way in which we can bring together the family economy in the 21st century. This is a clarion call for just a few of the remnant who want to rebuild a civilization in the years to come to build a family economy on biblical principle from here on out. The best thing we can do for our daughters is to have a family economy and train them with that unified concept of a family economy in a fragmented age to prepare them for their marriage, for a unified economy in the years to come. A recipe for disaster. What would you do for a 12-year-old boy?

I would say this is probably the stupidest thing anybody could ever do for a 12 year old boy is to give him four or five hours of boring schoolwork and then reward him for five to six hours of computer games for the rest of the day. What are you going to do with your 12 year old boys? You absolutely need a family farm. You need something to do. By the way, homeschooling is just a small portion of the overall family economic vision that we need to be incorporating for our children.

So friends, I think this is the time that we need to bring this together more than at any other time. The problem of course with socialism, the problem with destroying the character of our young men and fragmenting our women away from the family, destroying the marriage, destroying the unity of family and marriage is that you are destroying a society. Our society will not survive. As we have seen it constructed over the last 100 years, by the destruction of the family economy, by bringing in social security, and eroding every part of the family economy by socialism, We simply will not survive economically or in any other way as a human society. So what would I do if I was to build a family economy?

I would first strengthen my family by paying for my children's food and education. Number two, I want my economics to be debt free. Number three, incorporate my family into my family economy, which we've done. We don't have just one or two incomes. We've got an eight income family.

Make that a 14 income family. We have lots of streams of income that flow into our family life. We raise our sons and daughters with the idea that we will have a unified family economy in the years to come. I decided to forego social security about 20 years ago where government is supposed to take care of me in my old age. I said no, I signed it off, I haven't paid into social security as a pastor and I don't need social security, I will depend upon my children.

We take care of our own parents. We took my wife's mother into our house for care for seven months. Instead of turning her over to the government, it would have cost us $350,000 for the 724 hour care when she was comatose and unable to care for herself at all. She had all the tubes everything going on. Our daughters were working six, four hours or four, six-hour shifts over a period of a number of months and we took care of her ourselves.

They weren't turning her every four hours, or two hours, etc, etc. And so for three hundred fifty thousand dollars the state would offer that we did it ourselves. We don't need the state to provide medical care. 724 hour medical care for our own parents, we'll do it ourselves. We take care of our own parents.

I've saved inheritance for my children and I'm not planning to retire. So these are the sorts of things that I think we need to think about as we build a family economy. In close, work is the best way to teach character for our boys. Let's do it. Let's make sure we've got lots of projects.

Remember, homeschooling should only make up about a 15 to 20 percent of your family vision. The other 80 to 85 percent of your family vision needs to be something of a family economy where your children are learning how to work. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work, you nor your sons nor your daughters. Implication of course is that your sons and daughters are working six days with you.

Families are a blessing to many when they provide ministry, hospitality, and service to others, We'll share on that later. Our daughters avoid the trap of independence and the value the nuclear family has retained in the minds of our children for the next generation. Now the first step here is to restore relationship, restore love of parents and children, restore honor, restore the gospel, restore family discipleship, and restore the kind of life that God wants for your family. But the most important thing when it comes to your family vision is to restore gratitude, worship, and singing. Remember, our families are not academic families.

We are not busy working families. We are not to be rich families. We are not entertaining families, enjoying leisure and hedonism. The vision for our families is what then? If it's not work, if it's not entertainment, if it's not academics, what is the vision for our families?

The vision for our families is worship. We are worshipful families. We are celebrating the grace of God every day. We sing the praises of God. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord, and whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Jesus Christ.

Amen. And amen. That's the vision for the Christian biblical family in the 21st century. Catch the vision today, brothers and sisters. It's right here in the book of Colossians.

Amen, let's pray. Our Father, we pray that you would open up these words as brief as they are. We pray your Holy Spirit to do a work. Father, we know that we are in trouble. We know that the world is not doing this rightly.

We know we need your help. Give us a vision, give us the means. Give us a way, show us the way. Oh God, we pray you'd salvage our families in this very desperate age in which so many families are going to hell, but mostly we pray the gospel would be known in our families, and we would be families in which we are enjoying the gifts of God. And we are giving grace, and we are showing grace, and we are singing the songs of grace and gratefulness to you, oh God, for all that you're doing in our homes.

We pray this to be the vision for every family gathered here today. In the name of Jesus, I pray, amen.