The sermon discusses the importance of family worship in maintaining and revitalizing Christian civilization. It emphasizes that adoration should be a joyful, eternal practice that begins at home through family worship. The speaker highlights the transformative power of family worship, citing examples of fathers who lead their families in daily scripture reading and prayer. This practice not only strengthens family bonds but also prepares individuals for communal worship. The sermon underscores that many societal issues stem from the lack of family worship and encourages parents, especially fathers, to take the lead in this spiritual practice. The speaker also shares personal experiences, noting that despite a strong Christian upbringing, the concept of family worship was unfamiliar until later in life. The sermon advocates for a simple pattern of singing, scripture reading, and prayer, emphasizing love and consistency. It highlights the role of fathers in exemplifying Christ-like love and leadership, urging them to be affectionate and spiritually engaged with their families. The sermon concludes by reinforcing the idea that family worship lays the foundation for a worshiping church and a godly society.

We are talking about the Christian civilization that begins to disappear with the end of family cult. We will be glorifying and adoring Him. Adoration is for eternity. Let's do this now. Let's do this now and let's do it right.

We must see adoration as something we want to do as pious men and women? This will occupy us for all eternity. Ha ha ha. So... So here on Earth, we should be, let's say, tuning our hearts, tuning our voices.

This is just a rehearsal. And therefore, we should already be finding great joy in worship. The family that worships together. Episode 3 Worshiping at home. Adora Junta.

Episode 3 Adoração em Casa. Welcome to the session on Adoração em Família. I saw miracles happen in families where a father decides to do the simplest thing in the world, which is to take his Bible and read it in his family every day, and pray and centralize the thoughts of this family in God. I am impressed with how powerful this is. This almost completely changes a family, but it changes a man.

It is remarkable what happens when a father says, I will gather my family to worship. And then what does he do? He does what the guy in Psalm 78 does. He declares the praises of the Lord. He speaks about the great deeds that God has done.

And there he is, every day, singing the praises of God. He is really bringing perfect words to his house. He is bringing words that are pure. They make the wise the simple. They convert.

They bless. They make people happy. They correct. They terrorize. They do all the things that every family needs.

Family cult is one of the most powerful things that can happen in a family. Besides, It is perhaps one of the most powerful things that happens in the world, because it prepares for the true worship of God in the congregation. Now, in the introduction to the catechism of Westminster, There is a really remarkable idea presented there and it is this idea. What is the reason for the corruption in the generation that is emerging? What is the reason for all the problems in society?

It is the parents, parents who are not gathering their families in worship. And at the same time, it is the most revigorating thing that a father can do. Well, let's talk about family worship. The importance of family worship When I give pre-marriage advice to someone who is about to get married, I tell them that the most important thing they can do in the marriage from the first day is to have family worship, even if it's just the husband and wife from the first day, as many nights as possible. So the wife cooks a good meal.

She is nutritious. She has a good taste. The table is well set. The husband, fortunately, brought some flowers to put on the table. They keep a civilized conversation while they are eating.

The children learn to be educated. So, before someone gets up and helps the mother clean the table, the father picks up the Bible or something like Morning and Evening by Spurgeon and reads the Bible and explains it. And they praise and maybe sing. In our house we sing. And then ask the children.

And if someone wasn't listening, they would get hit. Read it again, because they only need to get hit once or twice to realize that this is important. Now, what did I just describe? The father was working all day, The mother was at home. Now the mother has prepared a good meal.

The table is well set. There are flowers on the table. Everyone is wearing a shirt, hair combed, face washed. They are sitting, talking about important things. The father leads the cult.

What are we talking about? We are talking about civilization. We are talking about the Christian civilization that starts to fail when the family cult disappears, then what happens? Well, what do mothers and wives complain about? They complain, my husband doesn't talk enough with me.

Now, sometimes the husband complains that the wife talks too much, but the wife complains that he wants her to talk more with him. Wow! When he performs a service of worship with the family, she hears his voice, I mean, this satisfies the wife in a certain way. The children hear him talk about important things. He is not just giving orders.

And he talks about things of spiritual substance. We ought to see worship as something we want to do as godly men and women. It's going to occupy us for eternity. So here on earth we ought to be, as it were, tuning our hearts, tuning our voices. This is but a rehearsal.

And therefore we ought to already be finding great joy in worship. That they eagerly await. The moment when, as a family, you gather to worship God. Likewise, the people of God, the day before the Lord's Day, should be getting ready, the engines heating up. They can hardly wait to flow from east, west, north and south to that place where their hearts can't stop giving thanks, worshiping and praising the living God.

I grew up in a Christian home, and I graduated from high school in a Christian school. And I went to a Christian college and got a diploma in ecclesiastical ministries. And until that point, only after I graduated and left, do I remember hearing the term family worship years later? And now, my parents, we had a devotion, but I never heard this expression adoration in family. Never, until much later.

And I grew up in the Church. I grew up going to school and Christian college, so I had these three different aspects of my Christian life through the Church and college school, and in all Christian, and I still never remember hearing about the pulpit, I never remember hearing discussed in the Bible class, in the Middle School. I never remember being taught, in my years of training in the Church, about parents leading families and family cult. I never heard of this concept. And then...

You know, you were carried away with all this information about how to do things when you're in the life of the church. And then you hear about family cult and you're like, What are we talking about? You mean, the parents consistently meeting the whole family to open the scriptures and teach? I didn't know what they were talking about. Now I understood the expression silent time, and I understood the word devotion, and where the father sat.

But as for this phrase, I had never heard. I always emphasized personal devotion, I heard a lot about it. Time of silence, personal devotion. But as for the family meeting, which should be done daily, or at least consistently, that was strange to me. And...

And I grew up like that. And we are like fifth generation believers. There is no divorce in my family. Since someone has knowledge in the Dellinger family. And my father is a music minister.

My father was an icon. I'm not a new guy in this. I've been in this for a long time, in this sense, but I had been through all this and I never heard of family worship. And so it is essential that parents understand that family worship is something that allows us the opportunity, and on a personal note, it is a great time to train children for the collective worship. Because as our youngest children need to attend the worships, If you are trying to teach a child to do something and only dedicate one day a week for it, it will take years to get to that point.

But if you do this consistently throughout the week to teach small children to sit, listen and stay quiet, But many parents will say, I fail at this, I don't master it. But if you are constantly returning to this, we will be sitting still, calming our hearts, ready to listen. We have a younger generation that will be ready to receive the teaching of the pulpit and the family of the church? Why? They saw this happening in their own homes.

On Tuesday nights we call it a night of praise with the family, and we worship God together. If we have guests, and most of the time we have, I don't remember any Tuesday without a guest in our house. And these guests will also see what we do on Tuesdays. We stand before the Lord, sing songs and praise our Lord. And we sit down to pray together.

I'm saying Tuesdays, but we don't do that only on Tuesdays, but on Tuesdays, all of us together. Playing the piano, coming before the Lord, and it's a night of worship. We don't do anything else. After all our work, we stand before the Lord and only exalt His name. And I would highly recommend to the pastors, the Presbyterians, to do this.

Do it with your children, do it with your wife and children, and not just one day, but do this daily. Read the scriptures and pray with your children and sing with your children. Sing. Sing participatory songs in the family. They unite the family.

Ahm, I'm not a great singer. Some of my children sing very well and others not so well. But when we sing together, we worship Christ together. And so we participate in this worship together before God. This edifies us and takes this worship to the Church.

And others see this, and we know that other families are also doing this. Families and single people and others. And this builds the Church, and the church becomes a worshiping church. The Revelation Apocalypse is a curtain that opens before your eyes and you are seeing things you have never seen before. And John, the Apostle John, is showing us things we have never seen before.

And he is giving us this Gospel. He tells us that we will be praising God for everything, everything, everything and everything, always. This is our eschatology. In our eschatology, on the last day, even after that, there is worship of Christ. We will be glorifying Him and worshiping Him.

Let's do it now. Let's do it now and let's do it right. Comece a eternidade agora. Ela já começou. Vamos apenas aprender a fazer isso.

Se não fizermos, aprenderemos de qualquer forma no céu. Vamos apenas tentar fazer isso direito aqui. Ainda existem algumas culturas hoje em dia. If we don't do it, we'll learn anyway in heaven. We'll just try to do it right here.

There are still some cultures today, although they are minority, as in the Netherlands and South Africa, where I was there many times and saw it with my own eyes. Where the father begins the meal with a blessing Africa do Sul, onde eu estive lá muitas vezes e vi isso com meus próprios olhos, onde o Pai começa a refeição com uma bênção e conclui com a ação de graças. Não é só uma oração inicial, há uma no início e no final de cada refeição. Deus abençoe este alimento. Depois de comê-lo, Deus obrigado por este alimento.

It's not just an initial prayer. There's one at the beginning and at the end of each meal. God blessed this food. After eating it, God is obliged to this food. And when you see things like this, which are just a normal part of life, You realize that there will be many differences in all other aspects of family life.

This is the source from which the water of life flows in each part, it is humid and it saturates each part of that family. So the father takes the family to the church. When he comes back from church, he sits at the table on Sunday, and we do this in our church, and I've been doing this since the first days of my children, who are now in their thirties, we ask about what the preacher said. And they have to say something. It's worth it.

They have to show that they were listening. But I want to say, the goal is to have regular family worship. Now, if the father will lead the worship of worship, in his house, this means that he will have to do some prayers on his own. He will have to listen to some of these sermons. He will have to read the Bible alone.

He will have to read some books about the Bible of authors inspired by God to keep themselves in front of your wife and your children, who are growing up in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus, so that he can be the spiritual leader. But unfortunately, in many reformed homes, the person who really knows the word of God is the wife. And the older children? The father knows the football statistics. But in fact, it is ignorant when it comes to understanding the word of God.

In the end, he is a Christian. And in the end, simply, he wants to be a Christian, but he has to be more than that. If he's going to be a pious father, that's going to take his family to the future. You know, I learned in the Bible, in modern culture, we think that the wife is the one who must be sweet, affectionate and affectionate. And the father must be severe and rigid, and only up to.

You look at verbs, which are sensitive, affectionate, affectionate, Kisses in the Bible. And most of the time, the father is the subject of the words. This doesn't mean that the mother should be less affectionate. But it means that a very important part of a father's life is to be affectionate with his wife. Let the children see him as affectionate and affectionate with their children.

I have two children. In their thirties, they kiss me on the cheek every time they see me. This is a bond that they remember. When they are out and surrounded by the enemy, then if a father will make his family worship God, he must love Christ and let his family know that he loves Christ. How to lead the family cult?

Love God with all your heart and soul. And the only way to do this is by believing in Christ and giving your life to Him. Adoration is out of the question. Until you do this. Until you believe in Jesus Christ as your only Lord and Savior.

And until you dedicate yourself to Him. You can't. It's not that you can't. You can't. Adore God in Spirit and in truth.

So what would I say to the parents? Yes, give your life to Christ. Surrender unconditionally in all areas of your lives to Christ, as businessmen, as husbands, as parents. And become a powerful warrior in the kingdom of God, so that your children may love you and you may be their hero, you may be their model, you may be their authority in their lives, because everyone is eager to be the authority over their children. Thus you will be the authority, you will be the heart of the family.

And for those men who do this, who stand in front of Him, who are trying to diminish so that Christ may increase, here is one of the things I always teach them. If I'm walking down a street in New York, I'm walking down a busy sidewalk, New York, Chicago, somewhere, there are thousands of people on the sidewalk. If I want to draw everyone's attention, I just need to do one thing. I don't even need to open my mouth. All I have to do is stop on the sidewalk and look up.

And keep looking up. And if I do, I did it. I did it. And just look up. And what happens?

Soon people pass by and see me looking up, and then they go... And they try to look where I'm looking. And then, eventually, all who look at me are looking where I'm looking. That's what it means to lead worship. That a man so full of the Holy Spirit, so full of compassion and love for Christ, he's just looking up and you look at him, and immediately you pass him to...

What is he looking at? It must be glorious. It illuminates your face. It attracted your heart. I want to see what he is seeing.

And I believe that there is a role in leading people in worship. I have no problem with that. But I think this is a very good example to follow. Now, all this has to be done with love. The father, of course, could be a little tyrant.

Ha ha! And do something unpleasant, uncomfortable, and, hum, and regimented from the family cult. None of this needs to be the case. Everything must be done with love. A very simple pattern.

Sing a hymn. Read the Word of God. Pray together. Three elements that are all in the scriptures. This can be a very simple pattern for family worship.

And this is the pattern that we follow in family worship in our own house. Very simple. Sometimes it can last 15 minutes. There is much more time when someone is inspired by a question or specific statement in the scriptures. And so we want to research that or talk about that, apply and discuss.

Therefore, it can last longer. But our typical family cult would be very short in relation to these elements that I mentioned. Singing, reading the word of God, and praying together. Very simple. When it comes to the parents leading the family, when, if, If you are convinced that we should lead our families, that we should have collective worship, that we are faithful and participate with our family and that we should also see this alicerce established through family worship, I think one of the great things that our children have difficulties with is if the father does all these things correctly, if he is consistent in leading the family, if he is consistent in having them under the pregation of the word on Sundays, If the Father is doing a great job in this, and is not loving the Mother as Christ loves the Church, but the Father does the other things, then the message will be contradictory.

And then when they understand this, wait a minute. Of all the relationships in Scripture, not of father-son, not of brother-sister, not of friend-to-friend, of all the relationships we have on this earth, there is only one relationship. What does God say? It is as it seems the way I love you, and it is the husbands loving their wives. And this will speak a lot to our children when they become a father who loves his wife, as Christ loves the Church, and then he comes back to teach these truths.

We give them a double portion of teaching. One that will be based on the word, and another that will be based on the experience they saw between their father and mother, and the love of the father for the mother. Because of all the relationships in the Scriptures, this is the only one that God says. This is how Christ loves the Church. What is the value in the world of a father whose heart is so full of good news that he speaks of it in his house.

By pouring the glory of the Gospel, he becomes a voice of God. His heart is connected with the heart of God, and he is liberating it. This is really the essence of worship in the family, and how important it is. Richard Baxter used to say that if you neglect this, you destroy everything, you ruin everything that happens in the church, because there is no foundation. In the people who come to your church, but if you have parents who really practice the discipline and the joy of the family worship, then what you have is a group of people who come to worship and whose hearts were prepared.

They were previously warmed up to come and worship God. To gather their family in front of God to worship is an act of love. It is an act of love for God and an act of love for their children. When Jesus Christ was explaining the greatest commandment, he was quoting Deuteronomy 6. And see how Deuteronomy 6 is structured.

Where there is this commandment to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind, and then these commandments would be in your heart. And what do you do? When you love them, what do you do when they are in your heart? Well, you teach your children diligently. When you sit down at home, when you walk down the road, when you lie down and when you get up, we are defending the proclamation of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in the homes.

From the morning until the hour when the sun sets, the hour when everyone falls asleep. What a blessing it will be to have homes so full of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.