It's All About Family Series

+We would start helping her cut out things for her Sunday School Class

+We would make candy crosses with her for Easter Service

+We would be greeters and when we proved we could obey we could join the choir.

+If we acted out - then we got a special blessing that I don't have to tell you about this morning.

I really can't think of a time when I was not working in the church - cleaning, mowing the yard, fixing the sign, dusting, spending time at the altar, visiting with the pastor when I got old enough or working in VBS or Sunday School. It was just second nature in our family. We were believers - we went to church when the doors were open and we volunteered for every job imaginable.

When the windows needed to new putty and paint - it did not matter if you were six or sixty - we all worked together. The older men were our mentors - showing us how to do it and then allowing us to have a part.

When the church needed a new organ - four of us young boys under the guidance of our parents and the church would go and pick up pop bottles on the sides of the road to take back to the store so we could get 2 - 3 cents that we would give on the organ. Adults helped us and over time we raised over 200 dollars - that is a lot of pop bottles.

This morning, how is it with you and your family?

+As parents, as grandparents, as even great-grandparents - are we making sure that they hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

+Are we living like a committed believer - or one that has lost their first love or that has become a little luke warm. If we are lukewarm this morning, we need to repent and get right with our LORD.

+Do our children know more about sex and drugs, more about Marvel Comic heroes, more about sports and hunting or shopping than they do the Bible?

+Is it more important for us that they know how to make money than how be an intercessor in prayer?

+Have we done more to get them ready to live in this world than to live in the world to come?

+Are we a family involved - a family that is working in the church and around the church or are we just a drive by family?

This morning - this jailer had an opportunity to just close his ears and run away or commit suicide. Instead, he obey the wooing of the Holy Spirit and his family was transformed.

This morning as we close - how is it with your soul this morning? How is it with your family?

Have you been washed in the blood of Jesus - have you repented of your sins and asked Jesus in your heart and life?

Are you a man or woman of faith - have you committed like Joshua - as for me and my house we are going to serve the LORD.

Is He LORD of Your Life this morning?

Or have you been playing church?

As we sing this morning - allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you. If you need God to forgive you - if this morning you are unsure of your salvation - then come down to this altar and ask Jesus in your heart and life.

As we sing this morning - if you know in your heart you are not on fire for God - then by all means get on fire - come down and get it all right with God. Be a man of faith - be a woman of faith - God desires that for you and your family needs you to be an all out committed sanctified wholly man or woman for God. They need you to be the prayer warrior for your family.