Slide2: Despite its Christian heritage, the United States leads the industrialized world in the:
percentage of single-parent homes (23%)
abortion rate (22.9 / 1,000 women aged 15-44),
sexually transmitted diseases
teenage birth rate
use of illegal drugs by students (44.9 % in ‘98)
size of the prison population (327 / 100,000)..
Source: "Lost in America" by Tom Clegg and Warren Bird
Slide3: Is America’s Great Moral and Social Crisis From 1970 to 2000:
Rate of marriage declined by one third
Divorce rate has doubled
Married couples with children declined by one third
Out-of-wedlock births have tripled
Cohabitation (couples living together without marriage) has increased 1000 %
Source: U. S. Bureau of the Census
Current Population Reports, 1970-2000
Slide4: A national survey of Christians indicates that
Born-again Christians have a slightly greater
probability of divorce (27%) than the rest of
society (24%). (George Barna)
Slide6: 1) Be fruitful (individual) 2) Multiply (family) 3) Have Dominion (natural world) Genesis 1:28 “And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." God’s Purpose for Creation
Slide7: The Three Blessings - Genesis 1:28 Be Fruitful Have Dominion Multiply God’s Purpose for Creation James 1:22 “Be ye doers of the word…
Matthew 5:48
Slide8: “Have you not read, that He who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said for this reason… the two shall become one flesh, so they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder… for your hardness of heart Moses allowed divorce, but from the beginning it
was not so.”
Matthew 19:4-10b Jesus on Marriage
Slide9: Why is God’s Plan For the Family So Difficult to Realize, Why is the Church Challenged?
The Family that God was planning to Bless Became Cursed…
Adam and Eve’s marriage and family life took place outside the garden.
Slide10: GOD’S COMMANDMENT:
Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
THE RESULT OF DISOBEDIENCE:
Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
Slide11: Satan’s sovereignty God’s sovereignty John 8:44 “You are of your father, the devil. And your will is to do your father’s desires.” Man Changed from the Lineage of God To the Lineage of the False Father
Slide12: Adam Eve Children God
Slide13: satan
Slide14: satan
Slide15: The Bible The Bible Important parts: symbolism and metaphor Book of Revelation The Parables of Jesus
Slide16: John 16:25 “These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.”
Slide17: 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God Archangel Adam
Slide18: 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God Archangel “god & ruler” Cain =
1st Born = Abel
2nd Born
Slide19: 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God
Slide20: 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God = Abel
2nd Born Genesis 4:6-7 Cain
1st Born
Slide21: True Family Ideal Jesus & John the Baptist
Judah (south) & Israel (north)
Moses & Israelites
Perez & Zerah
Jacob & Esau
Isaac & Ishmael
Shem & Ham
Abel & Cain
Slide22: God 2. Elder Son’s Dominion Cain
1st Born = Abel
2nd Born Esau Jacob
Slide24: Deuteronomy 11
Deuteronomy 28 Law
Covenant Israel Prepares For Christ
Isaiah 18 7-10
Slide25: Tenants Owner Matthew 21:33-43 Servants Son ISRAEL JESUS PROPHETS GOD “Surely they will reverence my son.” VINEYARD
Slide26: Words of Jesus John 6:28-29 “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent..” Matthew 23: 37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”
Slide27: Spiritual Salvation Original Sin Rom. 7:21-25 Rom. 8:23 Christ’s Return: The Mission SALVATION Jesus Mission: Spiritual & Physical Salvation
Slide28: Romans 7:21-25 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. Spiritual Salvation
Slide29: O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Slide30: SERVE THE LAW OF GOD WITH MY MIND BUT ….
SERVE THE LAW OF SIN WITH MY FLESH ?
WHY?
Slide31: 2Corinthians 12:7: “…. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.”
Slide32: THE THORN MUST BE REMOVED FROM OUR FLESH FOR OUR MARRIAGES TO BE BLESSED AND THE KINGDOM TO COME
Slide33: Romans 8:23 “…and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”
Slide34: Spiritual Salvation Original Sin Rom. 7:24-25 Rom. 8:23 Christ’s Return: The Mission Jesus and the Holy Spirit – SPIRITUAL TRUE PARENTS TRUE PARENTS
Spiritual Rebirth through Jesus and the Holy Spirit: Spiritual Rebirth through Jesus and the Holy Spirit When we believe in Jesus as the Savior through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Spiritual True Father Spiritual True Mother We receive the love of the spiritual True Parents, generated through the give and take between Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
BLESSING OF MARRIAGE – Breaking the Curse: BLESSING OF MARRIAGE – Breaking the Curse Spiritual True Father Spiritual True Mother TRUE PARENTS TRUE PARENTS
BLESSING OF MARRIAGE – Breaking the Curse: BLESSING OF MARRIAGE – Breaking the Curse Spiritual True Father Spiritual True Mother TRUE PARENTS TRUE PARENTS Matthew 19 4:6
What God hath
joined together let
no man put asunder HOLY WINE
Blessing of
Marriage
Slide38: Pastor & Mrs. Barrett reconciled
Slide39: REBUILD THE FAMILY
RESTORE THE COMMUNITY
RENEW THE NATION AND THE WORLD
Slide40:
RENEW THE NATION AND THE WORLD
Slide41: God The Sons of Abraham Esau
1st Born = Jacob
2nd Born First Israel Second
Israel
Christianity Sacrifice for
Esau
Slide42: September 14th Blessing, New York, Manhattan Center
Slide43: God The Sons of Abraham Esau
1st Born = Jacob
2nd Born ISHMAEL
ISAAC Sacrifice for
Esau
Slide44: Reconciliation of the Sons of Abraham
Slide45: Revelation 3:21
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Slide46: I Peter 5:4
And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Slide47: THE OLD RUGGED CROSS
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown
Slide48: Now The Time Has Come to Come and Claim Your Rightful Inheritance -
As The Children of
The King!!!