Generations, Part 4

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Generations, Part 4

October 10, 2010 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Let's see if we can continue along and the Lord minister to us on this subject. Let me ask a question before we get started. How many of you, growing up--young people, middle to later teens and twenties--how many of you, looking back now, really thought you were smarter than your parents? How many of you readily sought counsel and advice from your parents? Let me see your hands. Two? That's about right. How many of you had your parents try to give you advice and you resented it? How many of you wish you had done it differently? Let's go home. We're all the same, every generation; amen? It's the condition of the fall of Adam's children, this pride, the independence, the tendency of every man to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, is what we're battling. It's nothing unique. When people approach us, and really we never get beyond that in our lives--the need of counsel and the multitude of counselors--it brings us a safety.

We're never going to get to the place where we can become independent, self-sufficient. The Scripture says, "No man lives to himself [especially of those of us in the community of the kingdom of God] or dies to himself." The question we're asking is: do we have a teachable spirit? Are we a people who have a teachable spirit or are we prideful, rebellious, independent, self-willed--all of those ugly words, that we like to call, "Well they're adults now, so I'll let them choose. They're adults now; they need to make their own decisions." There is a time when they do need to make their own decisions, but, listen closely, not without counsel; amen? There's a time when they need to make their own decisions, but not without counsel. For many of you teenagers and young adults--when I talk about young adults, I'm talking about those under thirty...

Generations, Part 1

September 26, 2010 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Hallelujah! Amen. Let's turn to Genesis. I want to go over some areas that we teach on, of course, a lot in so many different ways, but it's been a long time since we've specifically taught on this subject, and [I'm] just trying to be prayerful and see where we are as Father is directing our course. You know, we've shared so many times the emphasis here in the ministry of committing to faithful men, those that are able to teach others also. One of the first responsibilities that we have in that mandate is to teach our children and to make sure that they're trained up and raised up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord, and just to go back and evaluate where we are as a fellowship, where we are in our individual homes. You know, it's very obvious what's been done in our midst in the political realm, especially here in our nation, but it's pretty obvious to me that with all that we've done politically, militarily, we've lost. We've become socialists as a nation, and frankly, the generation that voted this leader in was raised up through the ranks and through the schools to believe in it. It's how they think. And we sit here and we're so differently programmed that we find it hard to believe that somebody could be that naive or accept that ideology, and yet here we are all these years later; they won...

Generations, Part 2

September 26, 2010 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Let's see if we can pick up where we were this morning. We are dealing again with a very sensitive area, and we're very aware of that. I think we can begin to see that the real issue we are trying to address, as it pertains to our fellowship here, is arriving at the biblical order of God in our homes and in the fellowship. It is an awareness, so that we are not ignorant of Satan's devices. I don't think it takes a genius. We can look around and see what is going on in the secular realm today. Children are taught to question authority. Things that sound ludicrous to you and me-I heard some of the information from people among us that work in the secular arena, in education. They were sharing of the different things that they were privy to. I think it is interesting. How do you feel about a college student's parent calling the dormitory that the child is living in, so they can address the authority there on a daily basis to make sure that their child is making their bed? I am not making this up. Does anybody think that is strange? What about the parent that will fly across country, to contend with a child's counselor on campus because of a grade that was given? You and I are sitting here thinking that this is nonsense, and this is foolishness. It is the world that we live in. If we think that it is not going to have some kind of an effect on us, then we need to rethink that. The fact of the matter is this: we are living in a realm, in a society, where we have been taught for generations that authority is the "bad guy," and authority is always wrong. We, the individuals, are always taken advantage of and oppressed. We have and bear no responsibility. We can sit here and see it very clearly in some cases. We realize we're dealing with a spirit because, beloved, here is the issue that we have talked about from the very beginning, time, and time again. Satan is after the order that God has established, because truth thrives the best in order, in unity, in humility, and in an environment of humility or teachability...

Generations, Part 3

October 10, 2010 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Amen! Let's turn to Ephesians 6. We want to continue along the lines that we were on. Just looking at the hour that we're in, and the need to really--I think, probably escalate all that we've done over these last years in trying to prepare our children to stand in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation. But you know, we've been talking a lot lately about the gospel being generational and the responsibility that we have to give the emphasis to this generational principle in the midst of living in a society, really, that promotes independence of each generation. We've seen it, you know--it's a natural thing for young people to want to be independent; we have the youth culture, and we see it in the secular, you know, everybody--every generation kind of just mocks the way the younger generation dresses or the music they listen to, even in the secular realm. And so, the natural tendency, because of the Adamic nature, is for independence, separation; you know, identifying our generation, our way of doing things. But in the kingdom, there's only one way to do it, amen? The Lord's the same yesterday, today and forever; so there's no new way; there's no twenty-first-century way; there's no... I've always felt strongly about this where the emphasis of the youth culture--we've always had in our ministry "youth ministry" but never separated it from the whole community. You know, we're all one; the body of Christ is one. We've drifted away from the role of the patriarch in our society today. I want to talk about that a little bit, and yet I don't want it to be seen as abusive, because when we teach on the patriarchal principle--you know, the true patriarch isn't going to try to micromanage his children's family. Because we're all separate entities, we have separate gifts and separate calls. But the patriarch is responsible to see that his children and his children's children remain faithful to the Lord, amen?...