Family Life Togetherness Week DAY 1 - Pr. Elizabeth Mokoro || 5th September 2021 || Adventist Se...

god we thank god for yet another day that we continue with our family life together next week and we hope that we will be blessed and on this day we are going to start with a song service to lift our hearts to god even as we prepare to listen from the servant of god before we start let us pray our kind and loving father in heaven we are thankful because of this opportunity that we've come to your house we confess of our sins and lord we ask even as we start this service lord may you be with us may you prepare our hearts even as we wait to listen from your feet may thy will be done in this day because we have prayed in jesus name amen there is a song song number 476 burdens are lifted at calvary james mcfarlane who was born in september 1st 1925 in a place called kakintilock in scotland the batonshire county in scotland after high school he did a five-year apprenticeship in the field of electrical engineering but at the age of 15 years he had become a dedicated christian and involved himself in seoul winning work study at the uh while studying at the evangelical baptism fellowship bible which prepared him for his ministry and his career which includes us an assistant pastor in siemens chapel glasgow scotland he wrote this hymn in honor of what god did to lift up his burdens and he had this powerful conviction that god will lift his burdens because of calvary so we are going to start this afternoon with song number 476 burdens are lifted at calvary days are filled we sing days are filled with sorrow and care hearts are lonely and rare burdens are lifted at calvary jesus is very neat buttons are lifted at calvary calvary calvary jesus is very near cast your care on jesus today leave your worry and fear burdens are lifted at calvary jesus is very neat burdens are lifted at calvary [Music] calvary jesus is very neat trouble soul the savior can see every heart a county burdens are lifted at calvary jesus is very neat burdens are lifted at calvary [Music] [Music] jesus is very near amen you see some of us have faced a lot of burdens but we thank god that we can lift them at calvary song number 551 jesus savior pilot me it's our solemn prayer that god will pilot us even as we reflect on the family together next week save your pilot me we sing jesus save your pilot me over last tempest unknown waves before merely hiding raw contractual shoal chat we can do better church as a mother sing as a mother steals a child thou can't hush the ocean while boisterous waves obey thy will when thou says to them be still one resort reign of the sea jesus save your pilot me when at last when at last i near the show on the fifa breakers roar tweaks me on the peaceful rest then while leaning on thy breasts may i hear this say to me fear not i will pilot thee amen i also have a favorite song would you like to know my favorite song my favorite song is song number 198 and can it be amen and i particularly love stanza 3 which says long my impression spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night thine i diffused a quickening ray i walk the dungeon flamed with light amen my chains fell off my heart was free i rose i went forth and followed thee amazing love how can it be that thou my god should die for me power for him by charles wesley and can it be sin and can it be that i should get an interest the savior's blood died before me who caused how can it be that thou my god what you dies for me amazing love how can it be the though my god shoes died for me he left his father's throne his grace emptied himself over [Music] [Music] [Music] how can it be the though my god shoes died for me long long my priests [Music] [Music] my chains fell off my heart was free i rose went for oath [Music] unfortunately how can it be that thou my god shoes die for me no condemnation now i dread jesus and o in him is mine allah [Music] [Music] through christ my own is in love how can it be though my god should die for me [Music] [Music] for me i'm missing love how can it be the my god you start for me one more time i'm missing love how can the my god shoes die for me amen i hope i hope you are blessed with that song as much as i am song number seven five the wonder of it all there's the one there of sin face the wonder of sunset evening the wonder of sunrise i see [Music] by the wonder of wonder the thrills my soul [Music] is the wonder that god loves me [Music] [Music] just to think that god loves me oh the wonder of it all the wonder of it all just to think that god loves me face the wonder of springtime [Music] by the one arrow wonders the thrills my soul is the wonder that's only bigger [Music] just to think that god loves me [Music] oh the wonder of it the one i wrote vitor just to think that god loves me one more time the chorus oh the one i wrote it all the one that rovie told just to think that god loves me [Applause] all the one there of it all the wand i wrote it all just to think that god loves me amen song number 337 redeemed how i love to proclaim it so we will have two poses on there on the chorus [Music] to proclaim it written by the blood of the lamb read him through his infinite mercy is challenged forever [Music] written by the blood of the lamb redeemed [Music] is [Music] and so happy in jesus no language my rapture content i know that the light of his presence with me doth continually dwell redeemed redeemed written by the blood of the lamb [Music] is [Music] i know there's a crown that is waiting in yonder bright mansion for me and soon with the saints made perfect at home with the lord i shall be for i am redeemed redeemed written by [Music] is child and forever [Music] amen song number 524 it is so sweet to trust in jesus and vastly says yes it is sweet to trust in jesus t is so sweet to trust in jesus just to take my his word just to rest upon this promise just to know the say the lord praise god church praise god church it is so sweet to trust in jesus i think we can do it more powerfully amen pianist jesus oh sweet to trust in jesus just to take him out his word just to rest upon his promise just to know god said the lord jesus jesus how i trust him how i've proved me all and all jesus jesus precious jesus all for grace to trust in more oh how sweet to trust in jesus just to trust this cleansing blood just in sin but faith to plunge me near thy land cleansing flood jesus jesus how i trust him how i've proved me more and more jesus jesus precious jesus oh for grace to trust him more yes to sweet to trust in jesus just from sin non-self to sins just from jesus simply taking life and rest and joy and peace jesus jesus how i trust him how approved me more and more jesus jesus pray says jesus oh for grace to trust him more i'm so glad i learned to trust him precious jesus savior friend i know that thou art with me will be with me to the end jesus jesus how i trust him how our fruit be more and more jesus jesus precious jesus oh for grace to trust him more amen i know there are many people who can give testimonies of what god is able to do i can tell you for example that there are things i still trust jesus to do like now i'm not able to to see well the words a bit of a struggle but i trust that god will one day you know come through for me and i know there are many prayers in the congregation that we need to trust in jesus the more so we we just turn uh we just stand a few pages back and do song number 520 he hideth my soul amen [Music] a wonderful savior raise jesus my lord a wonderful savior to me he hideth my soul in the glet of the rock wherever pleasure i see he hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock that shadows are dry thus still land he hideth my life in the depths of his love uncovers me there with his hand uncovers me there with his hand [Music] our wonderful savior is jesus my lord he taketh my body away he hold me up and i shall let me move he giveth me strength as my day he hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock that shadows i drive us still he hide that my life in the depths of islam uncovers me there with this hand [Music] uncovers me there with his hand with numberless blessings each moment he crowns and filled with his fullness david [Music] i sing in my rapture o glory to god for such a redeemer as mine he hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock that shadows are dry the still land he hides my life in the depths of islam uncovers me there with his hand and covers me there with his hand when in brightness transported i rise to meet him in clouds of the sky his perfect salvation is wonderful love i'll shout with a million sauna it hide at my lawn in the cleft of the rock the shadows are driveth us still land he hides my life in the depths of his love uncovers me there with his heart uncovers me there with his hand [Music] amen god bless you i think we can do one more as we wait uh for the pulpit party let's do song number five to six because he lives so [Music] god sent his son [Music] they called him jesus he came to love [Music] an empty grave is there to prove my savior lives because it lives i confess to morrow because it lives all fear is gone because i know he holds the fuel and life is worth the living just because he lives how [Music] come on church but greater still but [Music] greatest sure this child confess on saturn days because he lives [Music] because it lives i confess to morrow because it lives all fear is gone because i know the future on life is worth the living just because he lives amen god bless you [Music] hallelujah good evening god is good and all the time yes we serve a wonderful god i just want to welcome all of us loving to next day church family life week of prayer i'm very happy to see that many families are already represented here can i just see your hand if you belong to a family if you belong to a family just wave it yes you see that amen i think that our god loves us to give us so many families and the smiles that i'm seeing from here it's definitely wonderful i know that we also have a big online audience following us so if you are online whether in youtube facebook i just want to greet you and welcome you in a special way to the loving tones the church family life week of prayer i want uh to welcome in a very special way if we have someone here who is visiting maybe you don't [Music] belong to adventist church but someone invited you to the week of prayer or you don't belong to loving to next day church you you worship in another fellowship but today you are here physically can i see such a vista who is among us today because we have encouraged that you know visitors can come okay if you support a vista please let us know otherwise feel very much welcome you are in your father's home ah there's a vista here please please my sister just stand and wave like this if you don't mind yes in fact we have a special gift for you you know just for you because you're a visitor yes thank you very much members who are here this kind of week family life week of prayer it cuts across faith's religions churches because the kind of lessons we are learning tips of good family life it doesn't matter which kind of persuasion but you will benefit therefore let us invite our neighbors our friends our colleagues in the office our acquaintances because they are all children of god and they will benefit my name is elder joshua nino and i'm one of the servants in this church serving in the family life department it is my pleasure also to introduce those who are serving together with me today we have the sign language my sister i don't know how you greet in a sign yes how many welcome her yes thank you very much we also have our chorister for the day pharah please he was here you know he was giving us very beautiful songs welcome very much we have our brother in the piano eric yes welcome very much we have also um other serving i've seen our decons are here with us and they're ministering and serving as well as our elders quite a number of them within so feel very much welcome may god bless your service now up front i want also to welcome our sister kathryn kirabira who is going to give us a special prayer thank you very much for that how many welcome her thank you thank you now the special guests who is with us this whole week during this time and who has really prepared a beautiful menu for us is none other than pastor elizabeth mukhor and when her time comes she's going to stand here and greet us but for now i want to invite mr mokoro who is also among us here also just to wave because he's the one that's forced behind behind every leading lady he's always a man who is energizing yes thank you very much brother for the good support that you have given i now invite our brother for her to lead us in the theme song sda hymnal number six 655 five thank you happy the home when god is there let's please rise up song number six five five [Music] happy the home when god is there and love feels we start again please sing happy the home when god is there and love fills every breast when they wish on when they pray and when their hair flew red faster pianist happy the home where jesus name is sweet to every where children are lispy's fame and parents who limb deep happy the home where prayer is heard and praises one to rise where parents love their sacred word and all its sweet storm price lord let us in our homes agree this blessed peace together unite our hearts in love to thee and love to all will reign [Music] [Music] god is good and all the time i welcome you all to this service and [Music] to all those who are online may god bless you i would request we let me just read since you're standing i'm reading from isaiah chapter 44 verse 3 which says for i will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground i will pour my spirits upon thy seed and my blessing upon dying of spring will best bless our prayer upon that verse i request we kneel down let's pray father god in heaven in the mighty name of jesus christ we come before a throne of grace once again because we are thirsty father and these are the throne of grace that we formed feeling further for the thirst we have heavenly father we thank you for this opportunity given us again to come to be healed to be restored to be comforted to be guided and lord for your spirit to be up poured upon us lord thank you we thank you for pastor elizabeth you've brought back again to give us your word for guidance and direction how i pray that lord you pour your holy spirit upon pastor power your protection lord still upon her family we ask lord to put your words into her mouth above all lord shield her from all evil lord i thank you for all the families which belong to this lovington church and every family watching online how i pray lord you put your holy spirit upon us pour your blessings upon our children and upon our spouses and upon everyone was not yet getting married heavenly father in a humble way i request for your forgiveness we have sinned against you as brothers as fathers as children and as a grandparents father forgive us remove hearts of stone from our hearts refill us with hearts of give us hearts of fresh lord and fill us with the holy spirit guide us in this spiritual work further we are struggling with the various struggles but with you holding our hands lord we shall be victorious this evening lord we commit this service before your throne of grace may your holy spirit come upon and guide and touch our hearts and visit each and every family in a special way i commit families and marriages which are struggling in one way or another lord please come through for them come through for each and every one father we pray for mothers and fathers who are jobless lord open doors we open heavenly father for children who are struggling in various ways lord whatever i've not prayed for how i pray that you humbly give us to us father this is my prayer believing father that you have heard and you've answered through the might and precious name of jesus christ have prayed and believed [Music] lord is good and all the times it's a sunday i know everyone is preparing for the week those of us that found time to be here we praise god for you those that are viewing us from whom it's my prayer the lord will speak to all of us the approach i want to give this presentation this week is a little bit different it's a series that would take us almost 20 days so i will try and pick what i feel would help all of us there are key ones that i would love to discuss so i'm really trying to see which ones so that we all benefit but if we were to do the whole series we'd need about 20 presentations i want us to look at marriage and family as a spiritual battlefield i believe strongly with the little experience i have in marriage that the only two reasons why marriage and family might not work for you just two reasons and one of them is about understanding the principles that safeguard marriage and you must live in obedience to those principles the other beat is understanding that it's a warfare and when you have experienced an attack how do you go about the warfare probably before we we get into that because that is what we should be looking at the whole week so normally when i discuss marriage as a battlefield i never get to finish so i'd say in lovington i will pick the end layer foundation and that we have never finished we will finish it from lovington praise god let us pray father god your word is truth a double aged sword that cuts through our hearts deep into the bone marrows when hearts are so hard and tough your hard word is like a hammer it will always hit us and soften our hearts now speak to us through your word and i pray that it will find a place in our lives and this evening it might be the one message someone was longing to listen to and have a turnaround in their lives now let your holy spirit work in us and through us is our prayer in jesus name amen ellen white says these words in the book patriarchs and prophets page 46 paragraph three she says that when the divine principles are recognized and obeyed in this relation marriage is a blessing it guards the purity and happiness of the race it provides for man's social needs it elevates the physical the intellectual and the moral nature look at the beauty of marriage that which the world has turned into so dark and ugly thing but look at what marriage can do in our lives and family and that is the beauty i want us to look at this week and how to protect that beauty i believe strongly we are children of god who already have victory because we keep on saying that victory belongs with the lord so if if we already have victory why do we need to fight for what why do we engage in battle when victory is already ours for what reason and we already when you have victory why do you go to the battlefield and you already have it then you realize we are not fighting for victory because we have it we are fighting to protect our victory that is why we fight and so we are fighting to protect the beauty that is in marriage that the devil has tannished and the lord will help us throughout this week and learn how to go about it so white according to that except marriages are failing because we do not recognize the divine principles in marriage and number two we do not live in obedience to these principles every game has its own rules we know it marriage too has its own rules there's no one that plays a game without understanding the rules equally said no one wins a game by violating the rules that forms another 10 part series and we will not look at it this week i want to look at marriage as a battlefield that you can recognize and you can live in obedience to these principles that safeguard marriage and your marriage can still prove to be an uphill task so when you fail to understand marriage as a spiritual battlefield and with eternal implications then you're bound to quit even before you move an inch it has eternal implications what do i mean if i asked all of us that are seated here today why you got into marriage or why you intend to get married young people really in a hurry to get married one time i was sampling all the reasons when they asked me to speak about marriage and family they're not married but they wanted to know how do we move into this thing and i told them first all of you will give me why you want to go into this thing so everyone was writing and i am picking them as i go the whole church round and i will not pass you until you give me a reason and the reasons are many you read and you say god are these people ready for marriage then you realize they're not from their responses so if i asked us the same question the reasons are as varied as we are all seated here today marriage and family must work listen to me carefully it must work not because of the reasons we have but it must work because of the of the reasons god the originator has did i say something it will not work for the reasons you have some of us got into marriage because we wanted to raise children now they are there but marriage is proving to be difficult that but children are there that is what we wanted some people wanted financial stability now they have it they can't stick through marriage so it must work not because of the reasons you have but it must work because of the reasons that god has and once you understand that reason you're good to go have we all ever understood why god instituted marriage and family the day you understand it your perception and attitude toward marriage and family will be altered in totality the day you get it we are handling a godly institution and so the bible normally when churches see me with my bible this bible is 20 years old when they see me with it and now it's time to go back to kisumu they give to me with the new bible and i've always thought probably they looked at my bible and they said this pastor is preaching with a very old vibe a friend of mine a theologian was saying if you if you're called to the gc to go and preach you'll need to change your bible i know why i hold tight to this fire this is what changed my life so i have so many bibles in my house but this one i will not leave it someone said a dirty bible it means a clean heart [Laughter] because the clean one is never opened and read so don't be mistaken to gift me with a but this is enough for me so we are handling a godly institution so the bible will seek to inform our understanding because it transcends our culture this book transcends our culture it transcends our traditions so we are not looking at at this institution and the unit the way lures look at it we are not looking at it the way kisses look at it and that is the problem we have we are not looking at it the way kikuyus look at it i hate it when people say you bring a girl home akikuyu and a mother says bring me anything but not a word okay i don't like those stereotypes but when you bring a chinese they're ready to accept when you bring them they're ready to accept those are stereotypes for me what matters is true conversion are they converted that's all it transcends our philosophies it transcends our ideologies it transcends our worldview this will seek to informers part of genesis chapter 2 is an account of how marijuana family was instituted and as that account comes to a close verse 24 says therefore man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become what one flesh so the question would be why did god seek to make them one in this institution called marriage what was god's intention from the beginning is what we are asking what was he aiming at i love malachi malachi has an answer for many years it didn't make sense to me but malachi gives us the answer malachi let's move to malachi chapter 2 verse 15 malachi 2 verse 15 we are answering the question why did god make them one in this institution called marriage malachi says in verse 15 but did he not make them one having a remnant of the spirit and why one he seeks godly offspring did you hear what i read why one why did god make them one malachi says he seeks godly offspring in other words god made them one flesh god instituted marriage because he needed children or what offspring children is it he needed children he needed a generation he needed a production that fears god we look at what that one means the next question would be what does god want to do with this production that is god fearing what does he want to do with it you'll be shocked at the revelation let me get you into a story we all know we all aware that there was war in heaven at some point and the son of god and the prince of heaven and his loyal angels engaged in that conflict with the ackerable and those who united with him so we are talking about two-thirds of the angels with christ engaging in a battle with a third of the angels with who lucifer then he was called lucifer michael and the loyal angels prevailed we know the story it's in revelation and saturn and the sympathizers had to be expelled from heaven that bit we understand i want you to take note that at this point which will differ with many people but you'll be shocked that that is the truth at this point creation as we see in genesis has not taken place so i love to ask when lucifer was expelled from heaven had god created the world as we see it or the world was created after lucifer had been expelled how do you understand it was this world created before the fall of lucifer or after the fall of lucifer after yeah to end the life i'm waiting for your answer someone i said after after hey okay who believes a different thing ah there's a discussion a debate going on here looks like the other person sitting next to you does not believe it after listen to what spirit of prophecy says about this i'm reading from the book truth about angels page 47 paragraph three spirit of prophecy says this i'll read it very slowly the loyal angels mourned the faith of those who had been their companions in happiness and bliss and i want you to take note of something there the fall of lucifer and the third of the angels god still mourns it to date and i want to remind you some of us will make it to heaven some of us will be lost as we celebrate our victory the lord will mourn those that have been lost eternally so when you read lucifer as the devil you need to know it was a creature fresh from god's hands and when he lost him the entire heaven mourned that loss so when you engage with lucifer in a battle you need to be very careful because we are talking of a being that had guts and strength to contend with his creator and manage to pull out thousands and ten thousands of angels that is not a small time person he's not so ellen white says the loyal angels mourned the fate of those who had been their companions in happiness and bliss their loss was felt in heaven the father consulted jesus in regard to at once carrying out their purpose to make man inhabit the earth do i read it again the father consulted jesus in regard to at once carrying out their purpose to make man inhabit the earth it is clear therefore that creation of earth as we know it in genesis came as a result of the expulsions that were done in heaven because someone is saying is that an afterthought it is not because god has a full knowledge he foresaw the fall of lucifer made provisions for it they consult with a son after the expulsions that now we need to make man inhabit the ass for what reason so the statement says that the father consulted jesus in regard to at once carrying out their purpose to make man inhabit the earth which is this purpose that warranted the creation of man sop continues to say god created man for his own glory that after test and trial the human family might become one with the heavenly family beautiful are you are you listening he created man for his own glory that after test and trial the human family might become one with the heavenly one firmly that accept continues it was god's purpose i love this bit it was god's purpose to repopulate heaven with the human family did you hear what they say god's intention was to repopulate heaven with a human family where we have a repopulation there must have been a word at the population now do you understand where the population comes from where does the population come from the fall of what lucifer and the third of the angels so you need to know that as we sit on us this is not our home we are actually meant to live where in heaven so there is a depopulation in heaven and quickly god has a strategy to repopulate that same heaven with the human family and he has a clear structure of how these numbers are to be achieved he needs numbers of a human family to be able to take up those vacancies man and wife in a binding covenant that is his strategy and genesis 1 28 says then god blessed them and god said to them be fruitful and multiply feel the ass and do what subdue it so we have god with a very specific structure in mind and strategy on how to get these numbers and uses the institution of what marriage and family and he tells them go now and multiply when i sit down to think about this he's putting us on the earth to multiply to be able to get the numbers he requires to fill up on heaven so earth becomes our multiplication arena malachi summarizes the statement in genesis 1 28 that we have read malachi summarizes it very nicely by asking and why one why did he institute marriage he says he seeks a godly offspring he needs a family of humans a generation or a production of humans that will repopulate heaven and not just any humans he's saying a godly people because it is disobedience that expelled lucifer from heaven so god needs a people to repopulate and these people must be people who are what godly who does it ask that godliness to the mother and the word the father so why do you want to get married let me ask again or why did you get married to make money if this is not our home if this is where we multiply so why why did you get married now with this understanding to build a take kids to briber then that tells you what makes you a good parent is not that your kids are in the best schools no it's not that they have this big mansion no it's not that they dress well what makes you the best parent is that you have produced godly what children and the lord is entrusting you with that responsibility i want to repopulate heaven i entrust you the man and the woman to help me bring up a people that are godly is a solemn responsibility it is it is very solemn very solemn this is not our home i don't know what it takes to raise a godly child i'm not sure but it's not easy if you understood what it takes to raise a godly child you will decide to only have one child not five like mine just one just one and so a family should be essentially a product of marriage i am choosing my words today family means anything and i am sensitive to the dynamics that are in families today i am sensitive the fact that we have many types of families but i am making reference to the word of god and saying a family should essentially be a product of what marriage so when i see a young girl saying i want to raise a family but i don't want commitment with a man i just want a sperm donor and they'll say give me a sperm that is of a dark guy tall brilliant then that's all a family should essentially be a product of marriage for it is within the confines of marriage that family marriage and family that godly children can be raised you know how hard it is to raise children where it is only one parent don't you yes you will see single people out here they look great but they never tell you what lies behind behind the curtains no one tells you and it has made women demean men the it has made women you know demean the importance of a man in the family unit and today we feel like we can still move forward without the male figure it is not easy ellen white continues to say this the vacancies made in heaven by the fall of saturn and his angels will be filled by the redeemed of the lord amen amen i want you to take note that god has no backup plan for this there is no plan b for repopulating heaven it's not there and so marriages and families must work whether we like it or not they must work there is no backup plan for repopulating heaven this has to work we like it or not it began well in eden they had a beautiful home and before it could go for even before they gave birth to their first child their marriage already fell apart and at times i feel for a marriage that begins three months down the line it has fallen apart us is not the first one adam and eve even before they got their first child it had already fallen apart and some people would say this once that we used our money to to organize for a wedding and it's only one year down the line their thinking divorce it should not worry you even adams and eve was like that shouldn't worry you and believe you me the lord will restore this institution because he has no plan no other plan for repopulating heaven he will bring a restoration like it or not you see this this this argument we are having and these discussions we are having that marriage today cannot work families cannot work i assure you god is bringing a restoration because he has no backup plan for a populating heaven this should inform your reason for marriage and family and that's why i keep insisting understand your family as the first church don't get too busy here get too busy in the first church if they say you are an elder here and they say you worked with us so well repeat year three repeat year four repeat and you like must be the first held up the good one they are lying to you give them one year at most there are many men that can leave the church take a break pay attention to your family or you think being an elder is easy it is not much of your time is spent in church when do you have time with your family let no one lie to you give them one year tell them now i must become the first elder in the first church it needs me and you'll hear some people say we have donated him to the church the wife is saying we have donated him to the church this church is important but the one of the family is more important than this one because families are the building blocks of the church you see unkemptness in the house of god it reflects the unkemptness that is in the family societies are what they are ellen white says because of what the heads of families have made it to be so if you see evil in our society you don't blame our president you don't even blame the deputy president if you see evil in society you blame the heads of war families fathers a solemn responsibility lies with you to raise godly family and that's why you are the priest of the home saturn has been expelled with a third of the angels and they begin to feel the effects of rebellion sop continues to say that saturn stood in amazement of his new condition his happiness was gone strife discord and bitter recrimination were among them that is page 46 paragraph 1 the same book page 48 paragraph 4 says this as soon as the lord through jesus christ created our world and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden saturn announced his purpose to conform to his own nature the father and mother of all humanity i will cause them to rebel just like we did for what reason to thwart the plan of who god so he's not just bitter with god he's bitter with you who is going to take his place that's why he's bitter with you he couldn't imagine man taking his place in heaven to enjoy that eternal bliss and because he understands why god instituted marriage and family better than you and i understand it he has constantly attacked this institution since eden in an effort to thwart the plan of god and he equally knows that god has no backup plan he knows it so as young people intend to get into marriage and family what informs that decision is it that you're now grown and you have all the money and now someone must help you enjoy the money we see marriage and family as an earthly affair when it is actually a plan with eternal implications and interest god is using this as a vehicle to occupy heaven i'm repeating there is no other plan this is the vehicle this institution is a spiritual battlefield with spiritual beings engaged it may seem to fail but the simple fact that god has no backup plan to repopulate

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