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#Fight4yourfamily!Nehemiah 4:13-14, :20!He is saying if you will fight for your family then God will fight for you!!Subject: Fight 4 Your Family!The attack today, yesterday, and tomorrow will be an attack on the family. It always has beenand always will be. !Fight for your family values that we cherish. !Marriage and it’s sad that I have to define marriage between a man and a woman. !Children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren!These values are worth fighting for. Our homes for our children. !Nehemiah 2:20 warned his enemies and said you have no portion, no right, no memorial!We need to look the enemies in the face and tell them they have no portion – right or memorials!Nehemiah 4:14 fight for your homes, fight for your brothers, fight for your sons, fight for yourdaughters, fight for your wife and fight for your houses. !Young Couples Need To:!1. Be committed to God!2. Be committed to your family!Any looseness to God or your family the enemy will divide and conquer!Nehemiah 4:20 if we fight for our family then God will fight for you!!Don’t be afraid to raise kids in this environment – the word still works!Before the nation, there was a town before the town was the church before the church was thefamily.!The enemy is after the family!If the home is the number one priority of the devil then we need to make it the number onepriority in our lives. !I thank God for my home: Celeste and Paul (the happiest time of your life is with them)!The enemy wants to destroy the family unit. !Fight with Love!Ephesians 5:25 Husbands love your wife as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.!This Ressurection Sunday 2021 don’t think about Jesus giving Himself for you think about Himgoing through the death of the cross. The burial in the tomb and the resurrection from thegrave for your family. !The husband fights with loveHe is the “house” “band” the “band” around the “house” house band-husband!Nehemiah 4:20 if we fight for our families God will fight for us!!It cost to fight. It’s not easy. It’s a costly commitment to keep your marriage together. It cost tokeep your family together. !Illustration: The CEO and his board doesn’t want him to care for his wife with Alzheimer’s!It’s a costly commitment. Until death due us part. !Nobody wins in a divorce!!1 Corinthians 11:3 I would have you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the headof woman is a man and the head of Christ is God!1 Peter 3:7 likewise you husbands dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor untothe wife as a weaker vessel…!Illustration: an expensive crystal vase versus a glass mug!Fighting means protection!Noah protected his family!2 Peter 2:5 a preacher of righteousness!the eighth person!3 sons!3 daughters-in-law!Wife!Make sure your family is on the ark!You are called to make sure your family is on the ark!Don’t leave it to the pastor!Don’t leave it to the youth leader!Don’t leave it up to your wife’s father. You pray for your family!Job had a job!Job1:2 seven sons and 3 daughters!:5 he rose up early in the morning and called them. Each one of them and a made a sacrifice inthe event they had sinned. !Job had a job to keep his family covered. Every morning in Job 1:5 he rose up early everymorning and took an animal and made sacrifice for each of his 10 children – 7 sons and 3daughters. !Charlie King had 9 children!Charles!Joann!Mary!Corbell!Clarestine!Alice!Maxine!JE!Baby Johnny!Plead the blood over your children.!It’s not old fashion!It’s not old school!The old principles work. Put enough blood on them and they will not be raised by Hollywood!World Flesh the devil!When you fail to fight you give in to the devil!!Ahab and Jezebelle didn’t fight for their family. !70 in the household of children grandchildren and great-grandchildren!2 Kings 10:1 70 sons!2 Kings 10:7 70 killed and beheaded because of Ahabs rebellion!Obed Edom!I Chronicles 26:8 NKJV All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom, they and their sons and theirbrethren, able men with strength for the work: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.!Philemon 1:1Greeting!1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,!To Philemon our beloved friend and fellow laborer, 2! to [a]the beloved Apphia, Archippus ourfellow soldier, and to the church in your house:!Fight for your family!Keep God’s presence in your home!Beware or dangerous distraction (sports, Pageants, gangs, clubs!Addictions, drugs, sickness disease,!Fight!!!!Up to 15 years old they do what you tell them to do but after 15 they do what you showedthem to do. !Illustration: prominent Attorney waking in the snow. !
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If your children have to ask you if we are going to church today then you are not fighting foryour family. !If your husband or wife or grandkids have to ask if you are going to church today then you arenot fighting for your family. !
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