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Speaker 1: This is my Bible, it is the standard I live
Speaker 1: my life by. I am a spiritfuled believer, sustained by
Speaker 1: my personal relationship with the Lord, empowered by my commitment
Speaker 1: to community and express throughout reach to others. Therefore, I
Speaker 1: can say, and all right, we're going to interrupt the
Speaker 1: series on Galatians for today, regalations for for next week.
Speaker 1: But I want to start with just a great video.
Speaker 1: The most Amazing Man Alive.
Speaker 2: The most Amazing man alive. Police often questioned him just
Speaker 2: because they find him interesting. He once counted to infinity twice.
Speaker 2: His picture is worth a billion words. He is both
Speaker 2: left handed and right handed. It only takes him twenty
Speaker 2: minutes to one sixty minutes. He can't judge a book
Speaker 2: by its cover. He uses to askos locks instead of
Speaker 2: by seeing. He can speak Braille. He once beat up
Speaker 2: the man who invented boxing. He once overthrew a Third
Speaker 2: World dictator by making a single phone call. His barbecue
Speaker 2: ribs are so good. He was given a Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 2: People come from miles around just to watch his beard grow.
Speaker 2: He was turned down for the Lead and Cool Hand
Speaker 2: Look because he was too cool. He never asked for
Speaker 2: directions because he has never lost. He had to walk
Speaker 2: to school, appeal both ways in the snow barefoot. There
Speaker 2: is no lufa in his shower. He uses an sosa.
Speaker 2: He has had a full time job since he was two.
Speaker 2: He is not afraid of the dark. The dark is
Speaker 2: afraid of him. His favorite food is steak. Sometimes he
Speaker 2: even cooks it. He won the Bulletser for a grocery
Speaker 2: list he scribbled out on an apple. He once was
Speaker 2: named Man of the Year on January eight. He does
Speaker 2: not lift weights. He cannot find any that are heavy enough.
Speaker 2: He knows what to do with a Klondike pack. He
Speaker 2: is the most amazing man alive. He is your father.
Speaker 2: Happy Father's Day, My friends.
Speaker 1: Come on thereby, let's give all the man a hand clap.
Speaker 1: Let's do yeah, you know, and rightfully so we celebrate
Speaker 1: Mother's Day, and it's awesome, and you get to Father's
Speaker 1: Day kind of like your dirty dog give You know,
Speaker 1: we need to celebrate men because men are awesome, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna make it special. They are, yes, yes, and
Speaker 1: don't forget at the close of service, we've got something
Speaker 1: special for every man in the house. You know, let's
Speaker 1: not make it just fathers. They have about Father's week.
Speaker 1: What if the man gets to control the TV remote
Speaker 1: all week long? Someone like that. As Sarah feared Abraham
Speaker 1: and called him lord, You're gonna be called lord for
Speaker 1: a whole week. I just went lordy, lordy. Okay, oh
Speaker 1: my hey, We're gonna look at a day in scripture
Speaker 1: that will help you. And I remember, God wants us
Speaker 1: men to think legacy. Everybody say legacy, very very important,
Speaker 1: very important. That men understand stand this, every man, every woman.
Speaker 1: So even though I'm addressed seeing men, this applies to
Speaker 1: the ladies just as much. Every single parent. Wherever you
Speaker 1: find yourself today, God wants you to be able to
Speaker 1: leave and create a venue for legacy. No matter how
Speaker 1: we have started, no matter how we have failed, no
Speaker 1: matter how much we've blundered, no matter how much we've
Speaker 1: maybe taken no responsibility God can change things and do
Speaker 1: things quickly in your life so that you finish well,
Speaker 1: finish well, So it's not just starting, it's finishing well.
Speaker 1: I've seen many people start something, a project or something spiritual,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, only to stop quickly. And I'd rather
Speaker 1: see someone start slowly and finish strong. So everybody say,
Speaker 1: finish strong. And while you have bread and you have
Speaker 1: this day, God, out of his mercy and his grace,
Speaker 1: can begin to create legacy from your life and just
Speaker 1: help you. Legacy is such a great word, and basically
Speaker 1: it's just something that's handed down by a predecessor, someone
Speaker 1: that is just giving you something of value for your life,
Speaker 1: to help you so that you can run your race
Speaker 1: in such an accurate way, godly way, and that way
Speaker 1: you can finish strong and keep this process going. The
Speaker 1: picture I think of is when you drop a pebble
Speaker 1: or rock in water and boom, Okay, there you are
Speaker 1: your legacy. But if you've done this correct, thinking about
Speaker 1: not yourself but those that are following and those that
Speaker 1: are going to take up your mantle, it begins to expand.
Speaker 1: The circles get bigger and bigger. Are you with me?
Speaker 1: How many men want something to outlive you and live
Speaker 1: way beyond you, and all the men say, yes, I
Speaker 1: think of qualities that create legacy, like trust and faith. Men,
Speaker 1: how about the word commitment and the effect of commitment
Speaker 1: a life of devotion. Are beginning to live a life
Speaker 1: of devotion or just deciding I'm going to live a
Speaker 1: dedicated life with God's principles. Legacy begins with all of that. Again,
Speaker 1: it's it's not how you started or what's happened in
Speaker 1: your past that always defines you. Because very often the
Speaker 1: people that have great impact in society, they had a
Speaker 1: very rough start, they had very poor examples, but somehow
Speaker 1: they were able to realize life wasn't just about them,
Speaker 1: it was about all those who would follow them. God
Speaker 1: could be giving you mercy today, giving me mercy today
Speaker 1: to defy a brand new future, something that's just awesome.
Speaker 1: To define a legacy you may not even see in
Speaker 1: your own life right now, but you're going to say
Speaker 1: I'm going to make decisions and quality choices so that
Speaker 1: legacy does follow. And everyone says, now, I'm honorative. Had
Speaker 1: a lot of men and have a lot of men
Speaker 1: in my life who have impacted me in ministry, in
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I have three overseers. My pastor, brother
Speaker 1: Larry Stockstill. We were texting and emailing each other throughout
Speaker 1: the week, thanking him for his impact in my life.
Speaker 1: And he will be here eventually, comes periodically every few
Speaker 1: years to other overseers, Mike ware and Jeff Tarbas. They're
Speaker 1: in periodically. You've met them whenever there's an emergency or
Speaker 1: a need or whatever. Right here to be here with you.
Speaker 1: Two men are who are now with the Lord, Brother
Speaker 1: Billy Hornsby. Some of you go back real far and
Speaker 1: remember Brother Billy and his impact on my life. Brother
Speaker 1: Larry's dad, Roy Stockstill, who passed away a year and
Speaker 1: a half ago. I think of my own dad, John Harrow,
Speaker 1: he passed away thirty three years ago, healthy at could be,
Speaker 1: and just the different things that he would do to
Speaker 1: help and serve in our community. He was also a
Speaker 1: volunteer fireman. My little community was kind of like Mayberry RFD.
Speaker 1: Anybody like to watch Mayberry RFD really kind of describes
Speaker 1: the community. The small community I grew up in Louisiana,
Speaker 1: everybody helping doing no matter what. My dad was a
Speaker 1: volunteer fireman and one of the rescues that trained to
Speaker 1: relm and he got some very toxic material on him,
Speaker 1: which led to a cancer that ended up taking his life.
Speaker 1: But he was a man of his word. Now, I
Speaker 1: remember as a kid going in our little bank because
Speaker 1: we had a farm, and all the things that he did,
Speaker 1: I remember this. I saw it. He would borrow money
Speaker 1: with a handshake, no paper signed ever, can't do that now.
Speaker 1: And then as selling the cows and all the things
Speaker 1: that would take place in the farm, he'd pay back always,
Speaker 1: I said always, because a man pays back his loans. Amen.
Speaker 1: That's just who he was. He would help the needy.
Speaker 1: I mean, he would help people up. Our phone would
Speaker 1: often ring throughout the night because Dad, even though he
Speaker 1: had great principles, had great mercy. So in the community
Speaker 1: when people got in trouble, and I grew up in
Speaker 1: the area where there was a lot a lot of alcohol,
Speaker 1: and so when people would be drunk or whatever get
Speaker 1: put in jail, inevitably they would call Dad, because my
Speaker 1: dad would go bail them out and he'd lecture them
Speaker 1: and he talked to them, and then he'd make them
Speaker 1: work on the farm and he'd witness to him. Now,
Speaker 1: that's what he did all the time. So when I'd
Speaker 1: hear the phone ring in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: and I go here, he goes again. If there was
Speaker 1: an he saw the need. Our community needed a golf course.
Speaker 1: My older brother played golf and was very very good.
Speaker 1: We need a golf course. He built one. He just
Speaker 1: did it. He got someone to draw plans, he got
Speaker 1: a few men, let's do it. You know, some people dream,
Speaker 1: some people do. I remember it destroyed our tractor built
Speaker 1: and it's there today, and it is a fine golf
Speaker 1: course that he built. We needed a school when all
Speaker 1: our schools were in rough condition and all kinds of
Speaker 1: things going on. He built a school, a private school
Speaker 1: that's still there today. So this was the man that
Speaker 1: I grew up around. And I found a picture of
Speaker 1: him when he was finishing college. So bring that picture
Speaker 1: of my dad there is when he's finished college. It's
Speaker 1: John Harrold, just trying to get you to think of
Speaker 1: people that have helped you. He and my mom got
Speaker 1: married shortly after this picture. Then, of course he died
Speaker 1: when I had just gotten married to and I had
Speaker 1: just gotten married. I sent my mom off to Bible College.
Speaker 1: She's around fifty years of age. She graduates, the school
Speaker 1: sends her overseas. She's a missionary for a year as
Speaker 1: a dean of women. Comes back and I kept telling
Speaker 1: my mom, you need to remarry. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you know she don't want to do that. Well, great
Speaker 1: man whose wife had died. Great friends in the family.
Speaker 1: There again, everybody knows everyone in the small community. And
Speaker 1: Bill's youngest daughter and I were good friends. We used
Speaker 1: to ride horses together. We had horses on our farm.
Speaker 1: So the Lord brought Bill into mom's life. And after
Speaker 1: she was a widow for four years, she married Brigadier
Speaker 1: General William Hogan. So bring up picture of Bill. Now,
Speaker 1: that's Bill right there, my stepdad on one of his missions.
Speaker 1: I don't know where, but I found that picture and
Speaker 1: I thought, well, let me bring that one in case
Speaker 1: you did know too. He played football for LSU. Come on,
Speaker 1: bring up the next picture. There he is when he's
Speaker 1: in college. He was center for several years. When he
Speaker 1: was a senior, he was quarterback for Lshoe. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we grew up. Well, of course I'm an adult then.
Speaker 1: But Bill was a great man. They were married for
Speaker 1: seventeen years and he was twelve thirteen years older than
Speaker 1: my mom, and he passed away twelve and a half
Speaker 1: years ago. Just showing you people of integrity and character
Speaker 1: and quality. Great leader, great, great leader. And then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring up another picture my great grandfather and his family. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is an old picture. Bring it up there it is.
Speaker 1: He died in nineteen fourteen. Okay, so this picture is old.
Speaker 1: Everybody say old. Okay. This is my great grandfather right here.
Speaker 1: He was a philanthropist. He just made things work. He
Speaker 1: owned banks and farms and houses and I don't know
Speaker 1: what'll Apparently he loved the Lord because you go around
Speaker 1: our community. He built this church, he built that church.
Speaker 1: He gave them my for this over here. That's what
Speaker 1: he did. Now, this is my great grandmother, Ellen Gray Harold.
Speaker 1: I'm Mark Gray Harrold. You just heard Andrew Gray Harrol
Speaker 1: and Declan Gray is running around here somewhere. So just
Speaker 1: showing ongoing. This is my grandfather's a little boy. This
Speaker 1: is his older sister. There's a big age difference. That's
Speaker 1: because five children died between them, not just in infancy,
Speaker 1: but at age ten twelve. All the diseases way back then,
Speaker 1: it took place. Now, the great man that he was. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: my grandfather became an alcoholic at an early age when
Speaker 1: the depression hit and he lost all the stuff that
Speaker 1: he had worked so hard to accumulate. So I'm so
Speaker 1: grateful when my day grew up he broke that curse.
Speaker 1: He broke that because he wanted to create something of
Speaker 1: legacy and kind of picked up the mantle that my
Speaker 1: great grandfather had. Now are you ready for his name?
Speaker 1: His name was Leonidas. It is Greek, and Jonathan my
Speaker 1: middle son. I mean, he's a family buff. They're getting
Speaker 1: ready to have their first child. Guess what his name
Speaker 1: is going to be Leonidas and they're gonna call him
Speaker 1: leon So someone who died over one hundred years ago,
Speaker 1: legacy is continuing. Men, What are you creating? What are
Speaker 1: you doing? When my great grandfather moved to Louisiana, it
Speaker 1: was four brothers from Harrowsville, North Carolina. You can go
Speaker 1: to Harrowsville, North Carolina. They're a very small community of men.
Speaker 1: I guess the family big old colonial home is still there.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was in pretty shabby shape the
Speaker 1: last time we were there. But my great grandfather came
Speaker 1: south and he began doing all that he did legacy
Speaker 1: legacy so many others. Men in the church who committed
Speaker 1: themselves to the vision, men who lead their family, men
Speaker 1: who have stayed devoted, men who could trust the Lord,
Speaker 1: not just their feelings, even if others were failing them
Speaker 1: in their lives, or family members were failing them or whatever.
Speaker 1: They stayed committed as a man, as a husband, as
Speaker 1: a dead someone who could stay steady in a moment
Speaker 1: of testing our trial, that when others maybe couldn't do
Speaker 1: it or wouldn't do it, you decided I'm going to
Speaker 1: do the right thing. May we be men who do
Speaker 1: right even others don't. John twenty, verse twenty nine. And
Speaker 1: then we're going to look at our theme someone we're
Speaker 1: going to study just briefly in the scripture. But John
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine, I want you to see this. And
Speaker 1: this is after his resurrection, and Thomas was doubting the
Speaker 1: whole appearance of the Lord, and Jesus appeared to him.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus told him, Thomas, because you've seen me, you
Speaker 1: have believe. And that's one thing that's great. You've heard
Speaker 1: the frame. If I see it, I'll believe it. That's
Speaker 1: kind of where this guy was at the moment. But
Speaker 1: look at this. The rest of the verse blessed her
Speaker 1: those who have not seen and what you believe yet
Speaker 1: have believed. So God wants to raise up men, women,
Speaker 1: dad's fathers that are willing to be devoted even before
Speaker 1: even before they see the outcome, willing to have faith,
Speaker 1: even before they see the result of that faith. Oh
Speaker 1: it's quiet in here today. Come on, ma'am. Anybody can
Speaker 1: believe when they see. But the Bible says there's a
Speaker 1: blessing that comes on a person that can actually make
Speaker 1: the right step before they see the outcome, right, the
Speaker 1: right decision, staying committed, staying devoted, staying loyal. So let's
Speaker 1: look at a man in scripture. Turn to Matthew chapter one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look through a window of his life because
Speaker 1: he's not talked about a lot throughout the scripture. We
Speaker 1: don't know a lot about Joseph. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about the Old Testament Joseph. I'm talking about Joseph the Guardian,
Speaker 1: the earthly dead of Jesus. Joseph. Can I say, the
Speaker 1: foster dead of Jesus, And you don't hear much about him?
Speaker 1: He gets a cameo appearance at Christmas time. You don't
Speaker 1: think of all the bathroodramas and so forth. Here comes
Speaker 1: Joseph and do you have any room at the end? No, bam,
Speaker 1: off to the manger, they go. That's about all you
Speaker 1: really see or here. But let's look at a few scriptures,
Speaker 1: and I hope men especially let this rivet you something
Speaker 1: you can talk about. Think about in regards to your legacy,
Speaker 1: not just your biological family, but your spiritual family people
Speaker 1: you know, your community and so forth. Think all that
Speaker 1: Joseph was up against. Just think about it. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine the task of being the dead of Jesus? How
Speaker 1: do you direct or correct something that's perfect? I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, put yourself in that place. So think with
Speaker 1: me the task God gave Joseph in the legacy God
Speaker 1: gave him through his adopted son that he was responsible
Speaker 1: to raise Jesus Matthew Chapter one, beginning verse eighteen. This
Speaker 1: is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. His
Speaker 1: mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but
Speaker 1: before they came together, she was found to be with
Speaker 1: child through the Holy Spirit. Now would you stop and
Speaker 1: think about that conversation for a few moments. Please, Joseph,
Speaker 1: I have something to tell you. I'm pregnant. Who's the dead?
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit? I haven't met the Holy Spirit? Think,
Speaker 1: come on, think with me for a minute. He is
Speaker 1: aware of this news pre dream. Okay, hadn't had the
Speaker 1: dream yet. He's aware of this pre dream verse nineteen.
Speaker 1: Because Joseph, her husband, You said, well, wait, I thought
Speaker 1: they were engaged. Well, back then, when you got engaged,
Speaker 1: you had to go through divorce or a form of
Speaker 1: divorce to break up an engagement, So engagement was legally
Speaker 1: binding at that time. Are you with me? Because Joseph,
Speaker 1: her husband was a righteous man. Everybody say righteous man,
Speaker 1: and he did not want to expose her to public disgrace.
Speaker 1: He had in mind to divorce her quietly. He's going
Speaker 1: to do this quietly, in an honorable way, when he
Speaker 1: felt Mary had been unhonorable to him. He's just doing
Speaker 1: the thing that you would do, except he's doing it honorably,
Speaker 1: and he's trying to still protect Mary. Thank man, think
Speaker 1: of qualities here. But after he had considered this, that's important.
Speaker 1: But after he had considered this, that's probably one of
Speaker 1: the most important raises as it relates to Joseph, because
Speaker 1: he's thinking, he's contemplating, trying to figure this out, trying
Speaker 1: to understand what's going on, trying to do it in
Speaker 1: an honorable way, not try not to make Mary become
Speaker 1: a disgrace in the community. An angel of the Lord
Speaker 1: appeared to him in a dream. Now just stop for
Speaker 1: a minute. I've had a lot of dreams, and I've
Speaker 1: had some spiritual dreams as well. All of us probably have.
Speaker 1: But still it's a dream. It's not an appearance. It's
Speaker 1: a dream. Okay, there is a difference. But after he
Speaker 1: considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him
Speaker 1: in a dream and said, Joseph, son of David, do
Speaker 1: not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife,
Speaker 1: because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: She will give birth to a son. And you, Joseph,
Speaker 1: you have the responsibility. You're to give him the name
Speaker 1: what's his name? Because he will save his people from
Speaker 1: their sins. Of course, they were looking for a a
Speaker 1: side that would be a political redeemer and deliver them
Speaker 1: from the Romans. But right here, even the angels saying
Speaker 1: he's going to deliver people from their sins verse twenty two.
Speaker 1: All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had
Speaker 1: said through the prophet, the Virgin will be with child
Speaker 1: and will give birth to a son, and they will
Speaker 1: call him Emmanuel, which means God with us. When Joseph
Speaker 1: woke up, he did what the Angel of the Lord
Speaker 1: had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. Wow,
Speaker 1: next verse very important. But he had no union with
Speaker 1: her until she gave birth to a son, and he
Speaker 1: Joseph gave him the name what Jesus. So here we are,
Speaker 1: two thousand plus years later, singing songs about Jesus, rejoicing
Speaker 1: in our spiritual heritage because of Jesus, because a man
Speaker 1: named Joseph created legacy. And you don't hear much about Joseph.
Speaker 1: Think about what Joseph was up against. Think about the pressure,
Speaker 1: the shame, the accusation. And let's think about our time today, everybody.
Speaker 1: I've never seen a time such as now where people, families,
Speaker 1: men are under such pressure. Many of you. The pressure
Speaker 1: is robbing you of sleep at night. You have anxiety,
Speaker 1: pay the bi raise the kids, answer to the boss,
Speaker 1: deal with the situations, fix the problems, fix the broken
Speaker 1: stuff around the house. Everybody say stuff that pressure on
Speaker 1: you of trying to figure out life and land it.
Speaker 1: Think of the pressure on Joseph when all this went
Speaker 1: down and he has to take a whole new direction.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he had a nice condominium picked out somewhere
Speaker 1: that they were going to live. I mean, he had
Speaker 1: all these plans and now it's chaos. Come on, chaos,
Speaker 1: And with all those pressures, Joseph did the right thing,
Speaker 1: even before he had a full revelation. Come on, ma'am.
Speaker 1: Of course, you've got to know the word to know
Speaker 1: what the right thing is. You've got to know the
Speaker 1: heart of God. You've got as Andrew was talking about
Speaker 1: listening to the Holy Spirit. You've got to know that
Speaker 1: to know what the right thing is. Joseph was a
Speaker 1: man who did the right thing, and because he did,
Speaker 1: he got the revelation from God. Because he was going
Speaker 1: to do the right thing, and because he got a
Speaker 1: revelation of God's plan and of being committed and devoted,
Speaker 1: God gave him a legacy that speaks today, delivering men
Speaker 1: and women of their sins no matter what country we're from,
Speaker 1: aren't you glad we celebrate the nations of the world
Speaker 1: got people out all over and we have guest missionaries
Speaker 1: in today. It's awesome and I believe that is the
Speaker 1: heartbeat of every person here. It's not in your notes,
Speaker 1: but write it down. God wants your life to outlast
Speaker 1: your few moments here on earth. Got to thinking about
Speaker 1: that earlier, and I wrote it down. God wants your
Speaker 1: life to outlast your few moments here on earth. So
Speaker 1: let me just quickly give you four things we can
Speaker 1: see from the life of Joseph as we just take
Speaker 1: a glimpse through this window that can help us create legacy,
Speaker 1: fine legacy, or expand the legacy that we're already working on.
Speaker 1: Number One, Joseph was a man of marrows, but he
Speaker 1: was also a man of mercy. Okay, can you see
Speaker 1: that what we've just read? It's a great combination. I
Speaker 1: love combinations. Anybody go to dairy Queen occasionally? I like
Speaker 1: a strawberry cheese quake blizzard. Do I hear an amen
Speaker 1: in the house? Combination? I love a combination peanut butter
Speaker 1: and no, not chocolate. Jeanet. Gosh, she's got one track mine,
Speaker 1: don't she. Peanut butter and jelly. Yes, I like my
Speaker 1: pizza with pepperoni and Canadian bacon combination and cheese. Of course,
Speaker 1: I like a combination of things going on all at once. Now, look,
Speaker 1: this is an amazing combination for Joseph, Marls and mercy.
Speaker 1: You say why because most people have a tendency to
Speaker 1: dominate on one or the other. Come on, men, thank
Speaker 1: God for Marls. Please, but listen, if you are just
Speaker 1: totally driven by Marls, which we need, I mean, it
Speaker 1: doesn't move. But if you just dominate that and just
Speaker 1: communicate that, you can create an atmosphere where God's forgiveness
Speaker 1: can't flow. Yes, yes, see, because the Holy Spirit is
Speaker 1: going to want to minister mercy and compassion. The lady
Speaker 1: caught an adultery. She should have been killed, but Jesus
Speaker 1: had mercy. He wasn't condoning sin. He was trying to
Speaker 1: bring an answer so that there could be a change
Speaker 1: in her situation. Are you with me? You know? And
Speaker 1: we have to be very careful because remember last week Galatians,
Speaker 1: we talked about the evil eye. We can cast that
Speaker 1: evil eye of judgment on someone if their morals aren't
Speaker 1: just like ours. How we're going to reach someone unless
Speaker 1: they feel the love coming from your heart you're not
Speaker 1: condoning sin, you're bringing Jesus to them. Then there's a
Speaker 1: person who's all mercy, mercy, mercy. But if they don't
Speaker 1: have marls. Now listen to me, please, If you are
Speaker 1: overly mercy, if you're if you've got that degree, when
Speaker 1: someone else doesn't do that like you do, you can
Speaker 1: be offended at someone who doesn't flow like you. Because
Speaker 1: I've seen mercy people be offended a bunch. Are you
Speaker 1: hearing me? Okay, no matter where it is, what what area? Oh,
Speaker 1: there's so much mercy. When this one doesn't do it
Speaker 1: just like them, well, they end up mad at them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the n a ditch. They just end up in a ditch.
Speaker 1: Joseph had morals, but he had mercy. He knew what
Speaker 1: was right, he knew what was pleasing to God. But
Speaker 1: in the middle of wanting to please God and still
Speaker 1: honor Mary and do this right, he had a wonderful
Speaker 1: merciful spirit. After he had the dream, God give us
Speaker 1: dads fathers. Spiritual fathers will have strong morals. But with
Speaker 1: strong moral moral excuse me, strong mercy mercy as it
Speaker 1: relates to people, especially people walking through tough stuff, it
Speaker 1: would be nice if the only people in your life
Speaker 1: were exactly like you, then you could just stand around
Speaker 1: with them and be right. But the people around you,
Speaker 1: even family, maybe especially family, they're not like you. And
Speaker 1: everybody says number two. Something else we can see about Joseph.
Speaker 1: Joseph was logical, but he believed in the supernatural. Come on,
Speaker 1: don't quit believing in the supernatural. God has not lost
Speaker 1: his recipe for miracle. Church. Even this Saturday, our Encounter service,
Speaker 1: We're just going to pray and pray in the spirit
Speaker 1: and believe God from all of his presence to invade
Speaker 1: all of our lives. He still has a miracle for
Speaker 1: your life, a miracle for your home, your marriage, a
Speaker 1: miracle for your children. If you will step up and
Speaker 1: believe old pastor, let's be logical. Let's get a logical
Speaker 1: plan and figure it all out with good old common sense.
Speaker 1: Thank God for common sense. And I think you need
Speaker 1: to get a plan. You need plans in your life.
Speaker 1: But please make room for God to mix it all
Speaker 1: up and just come in with a miracle and do
Speaker 1: something of that nature. This is an area my father
Speaker 1: had to grow in because of just the way he
Speaker 1: was wired. He was a self made man, if he
Speaker 1: touched it, it worked. If he touched it, it just
Speaker 1: would prosper in Doo. I mean, people in the community
Speaker 1: come to him. He help them with their budgets in life.
Speaker 1: And so he had a tendency to lean on that.
Speaker 1: So as he grew in the Lord and my mom
Speaker 1: and praying for miracles and things happening in the family
Speaker 1: and all this type of stuff, he had to grow
Speaker 1: and develop that side. And he did. I said he did.
Speaker 1: He chose to men, don't forget we serve a supernatural God,
Speaker 1: the supernatural power of God, Almighty God can do anything. Amen.
Speaker 1: And he wants to Number three. Third thing about Joseph life.
Speaker 1: That helps to remind myself and hopefully you about legacy.
Speaker 1: He was a great thinker, but he was a great dreamer.
Speaker 1: All these are very similar. Just trying to write down
Speaker 1: different thoughts that I can see from those few passages
Speaker 1: in Matthew. He was a thinker and he was a dreamer. Men,
Speaker 1: we have to think through things, and please think, use
Speaker 1: your brain. Think, get up and think that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Don't be passive aggressive, don't do that. How about this Manja,
Speaker 1: just calm down, you just calm down. Think, but also dream.
Speaker 1: Joseph did not react think about it. He did not react.
Speaker 1: When he gets the news from Mary, he starts devising
Speaker 1: a plan that would be honorable and just and rework
Speaker 1: his life. He wanted to do, not disgrace Mary. He
Speaker 1: thought it through, but he received a dream. He made
Speaker 1: way for a dream. He made way for something bigger
Speaker 1: than what he was thinking about. And God can give
Speaker 1: us all that. God helped me to just dream your
Speaker 1: dreams from my family in life, and greater yet, for legacy,
Speaker 1: things that live on beyond us. Lord, help me to
Speaker 1: be sensitive to your dream. And please remember a dream
Speaker 1: is never just for you, It's for all those who
Speaker 1: follow Amen. Number four last thing is a reminder I
Speaker 1: see from the life of Joseph all very similar. Joseph
Speaker 1: could refrain and do right, but he was also a
Speaker 1: man of revelation because he had a revelation through the
Speaker 1: Angel for our plan and this son is going to
Speaker 1: save people from sins. Can you imagine just trying to
Speaker 1: figure all that out, folks, Come on, we read the
Speaker 1: end of the book. It's just right there being written.
Speaker 1: They're trying to understand what's going on. So he was
Speaker 1: able to refrain himself. But he was a man of
Speaker 1: revelation and continuing revelation about this son that he's raising.
Speaker 1: Because he had a revelation, he could refrain himself, and
Speaker 1: he kept himself refrained from Mari until after she had
Speaker 1: the baby. He saw listen, and he was handpicked to
Speaker 1: be the earthly dad of our Savior, the earthly dead
Speaker 1: of the Son of God. Wow, how special is that
Speaker 1: God saw stuff in him? And I believe every man
Speaker 1: in here, God sees stuff in you that you don't see.
Speaker 1: Right now, don't let the devil beat you up and
Speaker 1: limit you and cause you to be defeated in the stop.
Speaker 1: God sees stuff in you, just like he saw in Joseph,
Speaker 1: and I want you to take him off. Just think
Speaker 1: about some men. Think about men who have impacted you.
Speaker 1: Whether it's a family member, a teacher, a coach, a neighbor,
Speaker 1: a relative. Just think from it. Ladies should do that
Speaker 1: as well. Think about men who have impacted your life.
Speaker 1: You need to if there's still a little you need
Speaker 1: to thank them. If they've gone on to glory, you
Speaker 1: need to thank God for them and what they've taught you.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of a man the precious man that could
Speaker 1: have been my father as well. And I've mentioned him before.
Speaker 1: Roosevelt Norris down in Louisiana, one of the most godly,
Speaker 1: quiet men of character you could ever meet. He worked
Speaker 1: for my grandfather. My grandfather that was an alcoholic, so
Speaker 1: he dealt with all that. Now he had his other job,
Speaker 1: but my grandfather did have rental properties and so forth,
Speaker 1: and he would manage that and take care of that.
Speaker 1: And then after my grandfather had died, he worked for
Speaker 1: my dad when my dad still had all that property
Speaker 1: and so forth. Worked for my dad after my dad died,
Speaker 1: And I'm still now minister and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: On my day off, I'd go up to the farm
Speaker 1: and the property, trying to manage your property. Then mister
Speaker 1: Roosevelt worked for me. So I'm the third one in
Speaker 1: line that he's working for. Then. An elderly man, just
Speaker 1: strong as an ox and godly, godly to the core.
Speaker 1: He and his wife. He just lived it. He just
Speaker 1: lived it. One time he had taken the chainsaw home
Speaker 1: to do something with it, and he left it in
Speaker 1: the back of his truck and someone stole it out
Speaker 1: of his truck, and he came to me immediately to
Speaker 1: tell me. He said, now I'm going to replace it.
Speaker 1: I said, no, you're not. You're not going to replace that.
Speaker 1: And I said, he said, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 1: to pray and God's going to show me who has it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he did, and he went right to a certain
Speaker 1: house and up under the porch, under the steps, and
Speaker 1: there it was, and he grabbed it and took it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the type of man that he was,
Speaker 1: and the respect this man would work in. Now, growing up,
Speaker 1: I'm my little boy, called me Mark, and so forth.
Speaker 1: After college, as soon as I made the declaration I'm
Speaker 1: going to Bible College, I'm going to be a minister.
Speaker 1: The moment I said that, and he found out about it.
Speaker 1: The next time he saw me, it was no longer Mark.
Speaker 1: He called me reverend. I said, mister Roosevelt, you don't
Speaker 1: need to call me that. He said, yes, sir. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to describe this man to you. We
Speaker 1: were working hard. One time, we had removed the stump.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm skinny as can be, but I can
Speaker 1: work hard. Okay. He is a big, old, just muscle guy,
Speaker 1: and I mean he picked up this stump put it
Speaker 1: in the back of the truck, and it was hot,
Speaker 1: and we sat on the tailgate and I said, mister Roosevelt,
Speaker 1: won't it be good when we get to heaven and
Speaker 1: we won't have all this work? And he took his
Speaker 1: cap off and he looked at me. He says, Reverend,
Speaker 1: I believe they're going to be so few of us.
Speaker 1: We's all going to be working overtime. I wrote it
Speaker 1: down so I wouldn't forget it. It was just, oh, listen, then.
Speaker 1: I believe God responds to us when we respond to
Speaker 1: him in obedience and truth and faith. Even before the
Speaker 1: dream comes about, I watched mister Rooseveld have to bury
Speaker 1: a child and do it with such dignity one of
Speaker 1: his teenagers who died. Oh, I'm serve God, life's going
Speaker 1: to be perfect. It's not, folks. And if someone tells
Speaker 1: you that they're lying to you, now it's the thief
Speaker 1: that comes to steal. Jesus comes to give us life,
Speaker 1: and he'll give you life even through something hard. Are
Speaker 1: you with me? Okay? Now? I believe God is pleased
Speaker 1: when you and I make good decisions and we stay
Speaker 1: devoted and dedicated to doing the right thing, even before
Speaker 1: we receive the outcome of a dream. Joseph did not
Speaker 1: live to see the fulfillment of Jesus paying for the
Speaker 1: sins of the world world. We don't know what point
Speaker 1: he died, but when Jesus is dying on the cross,
Speaker 1: he looked at John and said, behold you. You know
Speaker 1: my mother is now your mother, and so forth they
Speaker 1: did that exchange. He wanted to make sure that his
Speaker 1: mother was taken care of. Obviously, Joseph was deceased. God
Speaker 1: help us to be dedicated and devoted even before we
Speaker 1: see the full outcome. You know, I started talking about
Speaker 1: my dad, and like I said, if he touched it,
Speaker 1: it worked. I mean, it's just what he did, all
Speaker 1: the different things, from developing subdivisions to this, that and
Speaker 1: the other. I don't know. He just he had a
Speaker 1: knack and making something work. He had plans that we,
Speaker 1: he and I were going to do together when I
Speaker 1: finished college in architecture. I meant he had bought a
Speaker 1: lot of property. I said, a lot of property, and
Speaker 1: we were going to develop this property and we were
Speaker 1: going to build houses. I'll tell you, he bought a
Speaker 1: lot of property. I'm in hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 1: of acres that we were going to develop, and we
Speaker 1: put down the water lines. We did all this stuff.
Speaker 1: So when I have this call now that I know
Speaker 1: I have to follow in Bible College and so forth,
Speaker 1: I had to break that news to my dad, the thinker, Hello,
Speaker 1: and so I put some tension there. Jenne said, yep,
Speaker 1: he didn't fully embrace that at that moment. He was
Speaker 1: excited about it because he could see what God was doing,
Speaker 1: but didn't fully embrace it. But we still loved each
Speaker 1: other deeply. Of course, in after Bible College and Jeanette
Speaker 1: and I got married and the doors opened for ministry,
Speaker 1: you would have thought it was his idea all along.
Speaker 1: Isn't that right? Because you know, he could see what
Speaker 1: God was doing and he was excited. So he got
Speaker 1: to witness one year of our lives in ministry before
Speaker 1: he died. Now, man, listen to me. He left everything
Speaker 1: in order. Are you hearing me? I said, he left
Speaker 1: everything in arder when he knew was sick. He already
Speaker 1: had it in order. But I was to be the
Speaker 1: executor of his will. And that was hard doing all that,
Speaker 1: but just meeting. But I meant I had from boom.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just need to follow each each thing
Speaker 1: to make this work so Mom was secure and could
Speaker 1: keep going on in life and not have to liquidate everything.
Speaker 1: Everything was in arder, everything thought through, everything in place. Everything.
Speaker 1: When I go back to my little town, and I
Speaker 1: will at some point this summer to check on my
Speaker 1: mom and help her with a few projects around her house,
Speaker 1: like we want to do even for our widows, I
Speaker 1: feel the responsibility to go do that. My brothers they're helping.
Speaker 1: But I will always do this because my little town
Speaker 1: is Maybury RFD. I'm serious. So I will go downtown
Speaker 1: park on one end of the street, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go jogging because it's just a good prayer time, beautiful
Speaker 1: little town. It's a little historic town, old homes on
Speaker 1: a lake, gorgeous where I grew up, a lot of
Speaker 1: architecture and so forth. I will jog. I haven't lived
Speaker 1: there in thirty four years? Are you here? And I
Speaker 1: will have people stopping waving Haymark, Hey Mark, And inevitably
Speaker 1: somewhere on the route, I will be stopped and somebody's
Speaker 1: going to tell me a story about my dad and
Speaker 1: something he did for them and something he taught them
Speaker 1: in some way, he helped them, something he gave them,
Speaker 1: or my stepdad as well, something he did because legacy
Speaker 1: is to live on. Now. Man, we can be selfish
Speaker 1: and self centered and just I'm gonna do this and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have my way and I'm gonna live contrary
Speaker 1: to the word of God and you'll be miserable, or
Speaker 1: can say, Lord, I surrender it all create a legacy
Speaker 1: through me. Can we stand? Thank you for listening. We
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