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Being A Loyal Person

Joel Osteen
October 21, 2021 30m 51s

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God rewards loyalty. If you'll stay committed to the people He placed in your life, He will pour out His blessings and favor.  Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.920 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.720 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.240 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.759 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.800 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:57.640 your life. God bless you always a joy to come 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.240 into your homes. We love you. You're ever in our area. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.680 I hope you'll stop by and see us. I promise 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.040 you will make you feel right at home. But thanks 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.600 so much for tuning in today. I like to get 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.240 started with something funny each week. And I heard about 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.160 this man. He came up to a Baptist pastor and 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.760 he said, Sir, my dog has passed away, and I 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.400 was wondering if you could come to my house and 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.480 have a funeral for him. The pastor seemed kind of annoyed, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.079 and he said, no, I can't do a funeral for 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.640 a dog. The man said, well, that's too bad, because 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.200 I was thinking about making a five thousand dollars donation 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.440 to your church. The pastor smiled and said, why didn't 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:36.040 you tell me your dog was Baptist? All right, hold 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.639 up your bible. Say it like you mean it's This 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.560 is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.679 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.480 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.760 taught the Word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.440 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.720 the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, end instructible, 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:05.040 ever living seed of the Word of God. I'll never 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.240 be the same, never, never, never, I'll never be the same. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.840 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.519 to you today about being a loyal person. If there's 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.840 one quality that seems to be lacking in our society, 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:26.880 it's loyalty. The words respect, honor, duty, integrity. We don't 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.440 hear too much of that anymore. And sadly, many people 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.440 are only out for themselves. They don't stick up for 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.080 their family and friends. They'll stab somebody in the back 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.640 in order to get ahead. They're not honorable. They think 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.080 nothing of criticizing people, bad mouthing their boss, bad mouthing 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.720 their country. They don't keep their commitments. They'll pack up 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.240 and leave their company of ten years overnight, high and dry, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.280 just because they got a better offer somewhere else. It 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.480 all boils down to a lack of loyalty. And the 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.000 Scripture says in Proverbs twenty one twenty one, he who 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:08.240 pursues righteousness and loyalty finds life. Notice how righteousness and 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.000 loyalty go together. In other words, if we're not being 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.600 loyal to our family, loyal to our friends, loyal to 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.560 our country, then we're not going to experience God's best. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.960 And I've seen people betray lifelong friends just to get 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.880 a promotion at the office. They may get ahead for 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.479 a little while, but in the end they're going to suffer. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:35.080 God rewards loyalty and loyal people are honorable people. When 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.599 you're loyal, you stick with somebody through thick and thin. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.480 When you're loyal, you keep your word even when it hurts. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.760 People can count on you. Loyal people are respectful of 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.280 their country and leaders. They don't go around bad mouthing 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:56.719 people in authority. Loyal people honor their parents, They defend 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.680 their family, they defend their friends. When you're life, you 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.360 stick up for people. For instance, if I hear somebody 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.720 start to talk about you, and I know you're a 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.520 part of the Lakewood family, even if I don't know 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.839 you by name, I can tell you this, I'm gonna 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.280 defend you. I believe the best in you, so I'm 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.520 gonna do everything I can to take up for you. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.960 That's what a loyal person does. Well, Joel, one of 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.560 your members tried to run me off the road last week. Well, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.400 I'm sure they didn't mean to. I'm sure they just 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.280 got distracted. Maybe they were looking for their cell phone. No, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.320 they were mad. They're hanking their horns. They had their 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.719 hands in the air, Oh, I'm sure they're just worshiping 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:40.080 the Lord. Lord. You are good. When you're loyal, you 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.440 will defend people even to a fault. Well, Joel, I 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.640 don't think that's right. Listen. I'd rather be too merciful 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.000 than too judgmental. And even if they were wrong, even 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.520 if they blew it, maybe they were having a bad day. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.800 Why don't you give them the benefit of the doubt. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.200 After all, if you've never blown it, go ahead and 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.520 throw the first down. See, when you're loyal, stick up 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.080 for each other. You believe the best in people. Anybody 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.920 can jump on that old negative, critical, fault finding bandwagon. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.719 That's easy. But I don't know about you. I don't 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.400 want to be a fair weathered friend. I'll be with 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.960 you in the good times, but God bless you, and 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.359 good luck and the tough times. You're on your own now, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.880 I'm gonna stick with you through thick and thin. When 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:26.120 you're loyal, you'll be with somebody on the mountaintop celebrating 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.719 their victories, and you'll still be with them in the valley, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.800 defending their honor, fighting for them. That's what it means 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.120 to be loyal. I heard something that Kevin mchel said 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.320 he was a famous basketball player with the Boston Celtics, 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.920 and after somebody made a game winning shot or they 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.640 did something really unbelievable to help win the game, the coach, 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.680 Casey Jones would never come over and congratulate that person. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.440 He'd just go about his business. But anytime somebody missed 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.360 a game winning shot, did something that caused the team 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.640 to lose, Casey Jones would be the first one to 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.200 go to the person and encourage them, say hey, don't 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.520 worry about it, we'll get them next time. And one 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.280 day Kevin mchel asked him. He said, coach, how come 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.840 you never come over and congratulate us when we do 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.560 something good, but you're always the first one over when 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.720 we mess up and lose the game. He said, here's why, Kevin. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.120 When you win, everybody's teering your own fifteen thousand people 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.559 are screaming your name, shotting your praises. But when you lose, 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.680 when you're down, when you've blown it, when you've made mistakes, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.200 that's when you need a true friend. And really that's 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.440 the way it is in life. It's easy to cheer 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.880 people on when they're on the mountaintop. It's easy to 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.280 tear them on when everything's going their way. But a 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.600 loyal person, a person of honor, a true friend, is 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.240 going to be their teering, your own, even when nobody 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.960 else is around. That's the kind of people we need 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.000 to strive to be true friends. The scripture says in 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.880 Galatians six', one whenever you see a brother or a 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:59.920 sister that has, fallen you who are spiritual should gently restore. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.679 Them notice it doesn't say you who are spiritual should 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.600 look down on them and sit around the table at 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.239 lunch discussing their. Failures it doesn't say that we should 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.160 be critical in. Judgmental it says we're supposed to gently restore. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:19.120 Them that's what a loyal person. Does there are too many, 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.680 fair weathered friends these. Days you even see it in 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.800 the sports. World one moment you're the. Hero a couple 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.200 of weeks, later you have a couple of bad, games everybody's, 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:28.840 boo and you're trying to run you out of. Town, 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.680 now we need to let our friends and our family 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.920 know we're with them for the long. Haul we're going 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.800 to be by their, side committed to them through thick and. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:42.839 THIN a true friend, defends a true friend restores and 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.080 a true friend is. COMMITTED i was in a grocery 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.560 store one time and there was this little boy looked 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.520 to be about three or four years, old and he 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.960 snuck around the corner where his mother couldn't see, him 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.200 and then he reached up and he pulled a whole 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.480 stack of cans off the, shelf must have been about 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.400 fifteen or twenty of. Them they hit the, ground started rolling, 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.079 around and about thirty seconds, later his mother came around the, 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.280 corner and at the same, time another man that had 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.959 been stalking the, shelves he came around the corner as. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.679 Well you could tell he's a little. Aggravated and he 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.560 came over to this lady and, said, ma'am you're gonna 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.599 have to keep your son under better control than. That 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.319 you cannot let him do this in our grocery. Store 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.800 and this mother was just a little, lady but she 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.559 rose up like a. Tiger she, said let me tell, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.600 you how dare you accuse my. Son you didn't see 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.719 him do. IT i didn't see him do, It and 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.959 even if he did do, it it's. Okay he's just 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.520 a little. Boy AND i, thought, man, mister you were 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.599 messing with the wrong. Woman don't ever get between a 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.719 mother and her. Child and WHAT i loved about that 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.920 was the way she rose up to defend her. Son 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.200 AND i, thought if we could just have that same 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.079 attitude toward the people in our. Lives when somebody starts 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.439 accusing and talking about somebody we, love we should, say, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.840 hey wait a, minute that's my, son that's my, friend 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.679 that's my, neighbor that's my. Coworker they may have made a, 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.360 mistake but you better give them a little, mercy because 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.200 when you're messing with, them you're messing with. Me they 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.000 may not be, perfect but neither of. You so you 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.720 needed to back. Off you need to give them a little. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:17.200 Slack that's what it means to be. Loyal you stick 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.079 up for. People and it's funny this society has a 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.920 way of kicking people when they're. Down it seems like 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.280 we love to build people, up only to enjoy even 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.360 more seeing them torn. Down but when you're, lawyer when 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.559 you're honorable and you see a, friend a, brother or 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.079 sister that's, down instead of talking about them being critical, judgment, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.360 well really you're getting what you. Deserve, now we're supposed 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:45.199 to lift the. Falling we're supposed to restore the. Broken 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.520 instead of saying too bad for, you we're supposed to 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.640 go to them and pour the healing oil onto their. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:57.000 Wounds the scripture, says a gentle tongue brings. Healing do 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.920 you know kind words can get people back up on 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.440 their feet. Again, really mercy is simply loyalty in. Action 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.280 when you're, merciful when you're, forgiving when you help, restore 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.000 that is loyalty at. Work let me ask you, today 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.640 are you being loyal to your, friends loyal to your? 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.880 Family do you stick with them through thick and. Thin 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.960 it's so easy when people are, down when they made, 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:25.680 mistakes to be, critical to condemn, Them but really that's 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.920 when our friends need us the very. Most, now a 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.160 true friend is going to be by your side when you're, 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.520 hurting when you're, falling when you've made. Mistakes when we 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.719 see somebody in, need our attitude should be they're on my, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.360 team they're a part of my, family they work at my, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.320 company they're a part of my. Church i'm not gonna sit. 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.679 Back i'm gonna step up and defend. Them and they 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.680 may have made. Mistakes i'm not saying that they're. Perfect 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.679 maybe they are, guilty but understand only the guilty need. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.120 Mercy and if you're a spiritual, person you won't be 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.720 a part of the problem and, say oh, yeah that's. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.280 Juicy let me tell you something. ELSE i know, now 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.920 when you're, loyal you will put a stop to. It 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.959 when you're, loyal you'll be. Merciful there's a scripture In. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.439 Proverbs it, says have you heard a word against your, 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.439 neighbor then let it die within. YOU i like. That 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.000 it's saying you heard any good gossip? Lately you heard 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.200 anything bad about your, neighbor your, friends your, family your. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.680 Pastor here's what you need to. Do bury, it don't spread, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.360 it don't pass it. On you have a duty to 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.360 keep it. Quiet you have a duty to put a 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.120 stop to. It and they may be, wrong but a 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.880 loyal person doesn't go around bad. MOUTHING a loyal person 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.040 helps RESTORE i. Know years, ago one of the prominent 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.800 ministries was involved in a big. Scandal it was all 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.760 over the news and the men was. Guilty he admitted, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.160 it and it seemed like the whole world had turned against. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.160 Him the, media the late night talk show, hosts they 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.280 were having a heyday with. Him and when my father passed. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.520 Away we were going through his files and we found 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.959 a letter that he had written this man during that. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.360 Time daddy, SAID i know you are, hurting but we 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.080 want you to know we here At lakewood are on your. 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.040 Side and when we. Hurt my father went on to 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.560 tell him how he loved, him and he encouraged him 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.480 That god could still. Restore, see everybody has a bunch of. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.160 Friends when they're on the, mountaintop they get all kinds 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.280 of praise and appreciation up. There your friends really needs 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.120 you when life has taken an unexpected, turn when they've made, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.600 mistakes when they're in those difficult. Times AND i want 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.319 you to have a bigger vision. Today the people in 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.160 this church are on your. Team defend. Them the people 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.800 in the church down the, street they're on our. Team 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.040 let's stick up for each. Other you hear somebody talking 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:50.440 about them knocking their pastor knocking why they do. Something don't, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.599 say oh, YEAH i don't understand it. Either that's kind of. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.079 Weird no stick up for. It put an end to. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:14:00.559 It your coworkers at the, office your, friends your, neighbors your. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.040 Team and these, days more than, ever we need each 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.439 other and we need to make, sure especially that we 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.760 are loyal to our own family. Members stick up for your, 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:17.000 brothers your, sisters your, aunts your, uncles your. Relatives you 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.800 may not agree with everybody in your. Family you probably. 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.800 Don't some of them may get on your. Nerves some 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.000 of them may be a kind of. Loose maybe some 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:26.360 of them their elevator doesn't go. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:26.840 All the way. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.800 Up but if somebody is talking about one of your family, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.160 members it is your duty to put a stop to. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.000 It don't you? Dare let them get you all stirred 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.160 up to where you join in and before long you're 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.360 air and out all your family's dirty. Laundry, no we 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:47.040 should always be positive and honoring toward our. Family it 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.360 doesn't matter if they're the, laziest most undisciplined scoundrel. Around 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.720 you should never portray them in a negative. Light that's your. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.560 Blood And i've seen people when somebody starts talking about their, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.760 family they just jump on the. Wagon oh, yeah, MAN 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.240 i know what you. Mean they've been a jerk for. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.080 Years you should see What i've had to put up. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.480 With let me tell you some more stories about. Them, 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.920 no you have a responsibility to put a stop to. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.000 It And i'm not saying make excuses for, them but 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.280 you can say something, like you, KNOW i know they've 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.240 got some. ISSUES i know they're a little bit, different 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.880 but they're, growing they're making. PROGRESS i love them down. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.120 Deep they're a good. Person see that's your. Family be, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.920 loyal take up for. Them always be positive in honoring 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.240 toward your own. Family and no matter how tempted you 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.360 are to get upset at, them no matter how different 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.920 they may, be never make the mistake of airing out 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.840 your dirty laundry from your family with other, people because 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.480 if you tell it to, somebody they're going to tell 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.240 it to somebody, else and before, long the whole world 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.640 will be talking about your family's. Problems that only makes it. Worse, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.280 well you, Say, joel you don't understand my. Situation my 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.800 brother borrowed money from all of, us now he can't 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.640 pay us back and we're all. Upset or my father 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.240 ran off and married another lady messed our family. Up 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.640 well that's, unfortunate but it's still your. Family and it's 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.600 easy to kick people when they're. Down it's easy to 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.480 be judgmental and SAY i told you, so and just 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.160 shut somebody out of your. Life but the honorable thing 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.320 to do is to help restore that. Person the honorable 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.160 thing to do is to help bring peace back to your. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.040 Family after, all they've got enough people pushing them. Down 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.400 the least they should be able to count on is 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.200 their own. Family AND i hope you have a good, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.800 Family but if you, don't start sowing some, SEEDS i 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.680 Know i've been blessed in my. FAMILY i BELIEVE i 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.400 have people around me that would die for. Me my, wife, brothers, 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.480 sisters brother in, law sister in. LAWS i really believe 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.800 they would defend me to their dying. DAY i MEAN 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.960 i could go out here and rob a bank this, 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.600 afternoon steal a, car and they're gonna tell you, All, 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.960 joe he's just borring. It he's wanting to help somebody. Else, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.880 now behind closed, doors they're gonna tell me to get 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.760 MY i act. Together but in front of, you that's my. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.800 FAMILY i can do no. Wrong they're, loyal they're gonna defend. 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.960 Me they're gonna stick up for. Me and if we 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.679 can't count on our own family to be with us 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.879 in our times of, need who can we count. ON 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.159 i remember one, time years, AGO i went through a 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.800 difficult time in my life a little set. BACK i 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.760 was kind of down in, discards thinking that everybody was against. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.120 Me and about that TIME i got a note from 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.280 my Brother, paul and he, said, JEL i just want 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:33.600 to tell you how incredibly proud of aiming. You he. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.639 SAID i love, YOU i respect, YOU i believe in. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.440 You he, SAID i know this time is, difficult But 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.160 i'm going to be there to do ANYTHING i can 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.120 to help you make it through. It the scripture says 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.480 a friend loves at all, times but a brother is 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.080 born for. Adversity that's saying your friends are, great we 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.360 all need, them but there's something special about your own. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.879 Family your, brothers your, sisters your, mom your, dad your, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.879 aunt's your. Uncles they were born to be with you 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.480 in the tough. Times and when things get, difficult we 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.200 have to learn to pull together as a. Family the 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.600 enemy would love to bring. Division he would love to 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.960 use strife and, conflict jealousy and bad attitudes to pull us. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:19.840 Apart but we've got to rise above. That, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:24.440 Relatives quit bickering over things that don't. Matter get over 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.840 those petty little. Differences soon we're all going to be, 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.240 gone don't waste years of your life being mad at each. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.359 Other your family needs. You you have something that only 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.399 you can give as a, brother a, sister an aunt and, 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.320 uncle a. Relative be there for your family when you're 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:48.320 a loyal. Person when you're a loyal, person you respect 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.320 and honor your. Parents you listen to what they have to. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.520 Say you make them a part of your, life and 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.200 when they get, older you do your part to help 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.000 take care of them at. It when you were a, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:05.080 child they watched after, you they fed, you they clothed, 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:09.120 You they made incredible sacrifices for your. Sake and, really 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.440 life is a big. Cycle most likely there'll be a 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.640 time when your parents need you to watch after, them 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.000 to help feed and clothe them as. Well they did 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.080 it for. You it's your duty to do it for. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.280 Them do you know how many lonely parents there are 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.800 today sitting up in a nursing home. Somewhere nobody comes 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.040 to see. Them children too busy working all the time 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.160 building their. Careers know the honorable thing is to take 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.000 time for your, parents make them a part of your, 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.240 Life call them and let them know what you're. Doing 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.399 honoring our parents is the only commandment that comes with a. 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.520 Promise it, says if you will honor your mother and, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.600 father you will live a long. Life AND i know 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.280 this takes, time it takes, commitment and, REALLY i don't 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.080 think the best thing to do is to just pay 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.920 somebody to take care of your. Parents it's our, duty 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.640 our responsibility to spend time with, them to watch after. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:09.920 Them and if you have brothers and, sisters it should 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:13.159 be a team. Effort don't make one child do all the, 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.160 work one brother pay all the, bills one sister spend 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.920 all the. Time, no pull your. Load be responsible and 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.399 honor your parents by taking care of. THEM i believe 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.120 one reason That god has blessed me is Because i've 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.720 always done my best to honor my father and my. 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:32.159 Mother And i'm not, perfect but anybody that knows me 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:34.960 will tell you THAT i always treated my father like a. 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.760 KING i used to go over to my parents' house 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.440 Every saturday night And i'd pick out a suit and 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.159 a tie for my father to Wear Sunday morning on. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.320 Television seventy five years, old AND i was still picking 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.600 out his. CLOTHES i remember One SATURDAY i was running. 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.000 Late my father, said Oh, joe don't worry about. It 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.240 let me pick out something on my. Own i'll pick 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.560 out something. Good daddy showed Up sunday. MORNING i, thought Dear, 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:02.000 lord the cameras can't even handle. That you better. Believe 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.240 the Next, SATURDAY i made SURE i made it by his. 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:07.639 House later in my father's, life when he went on, 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.760 DIALYSIS i was able to take him to the clinic many. 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.000 Times in, fact the last day of his, LIFE i 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.040 took my father to dialysis at four o'clock that. Morning 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:21.240 What i'm saying is sometimes you have to make sacrifices 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:24.359 to honor your. PARENTS i didn't necessarily like getting up 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:26.720 at four o'clock many of those, mornings but that's. Okay 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.359 that's our duty as a, son as a. Daughter if 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:33.080 your parents live close, by swing by and check on, 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.920 them mow their, lawn take them out to, dinner change 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.560 the oil in their, Car let them be involved in your. 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.359 Life watch after. THEM i know this young lady that 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.639 gets up early every morning and before she goes to, 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.520 work before she gets her kids off to, school she 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:52.840 makes lunch and dinner for her elderly. Parents then after 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.760 she drops her kids, off she swings by and takes 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:58.640 her parents that, food and then she goes to, Work 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:00.920 she'll get up the next day it all over. Again 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:03.359 let me tell you that young lady is going to be. 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.800 Blessed she's going to live a long. Life god sees 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:11.200 those seeds of. Loyalty AND i realize some of you 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:14.399 don't have your parents any, longer or maybe you were 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.120 raised by parents that didn't necessarily treat you very. Good 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:19.520 and you're, Thinking, joe the last Thing i'm gonna do 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:21.879 is honor my parents after what they did to. Me 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.119 BUT i want to challenge. You it may be, difficult 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:27.320 but you've got to do whatever you can to make. 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.639 Amends and you may not ever be best, friends but 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:33.760 the fact Is god chose that man and woman to 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:36.880 bring you into this, world and you have a responsibility 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:39.600 to show them respect and. Honor and even if you 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.440 don't do it for, them number, one you should do 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:44.680 it for yourself so you can live a long. Life 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.119 and then number, two you should do it for your. 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:50.840 Children don't keep passing all that junk. Down set a new. 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:55.000 Example your children are watching. You they're watching how you 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:58.000 treat your. Parents and if you're cold and rude and 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:00.119 you just blow them off and you don't let and 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.000 be a part of your. Life then those same seeds 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:06.080 are being planted in your. Children now you've got to 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:09.000 swallow your pride and do whatever it takes to make 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:11.600 amends if you want to live a long. Life we 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:14.600 need to honor our. Parents we should learn to be 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:18.240 loyal to our, family loyal to our, friends and then 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:21.040 let's make sure that we are loyal to our. Country 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:25.080 be loyal to that place wherever you. Live it may 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.480 not be, perfect but that's Where god has. You and 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.040 REALLY i don't know of one perfect. Country you have 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:33.399 to look for the good and then be grateful for. 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:37.439 That and we should never demean and bad mouth our. 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:42.040 Leaders god has placed those people in. Authority we may 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:45.399 not like what they, do but the scripture tells us 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:48.600 to pray for our. Leaders and there's so much hatred 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:52.320 and mean spiritedness in the world, today especially in the 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:55.560 area of politics and toward our. Leaders and we may 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:57.879 not agree with, them we may not see eye to 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:01.439 eye on their. Policy when it comes to name calling 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:05.280 and these personal, attacks it's not only dishonoring to that, 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:09.280 person it's dishonoring to our. Country and my prayer is 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:12.840 that we'd see a rebirth of, patriotism that we would 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:14.960 not focus so much on what we don't agree, on 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:18.440 but rather what we do agree. ON i, Know victoria 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:22.000 and all the national, holidays we hang the flag outside our. 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:25.159 Home we loved our. Country this is a great place to, 0:24:25.280 --> 0:24:31.119 live And i'm all for having freedom of. Speech but the, 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:36.080 anger the, hostility it's not doing anything. Productive it's divisive 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:39.080 rather than unifying. Us and we need to learn to 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:42.640 honor those that serve. Us learn to honor the people 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:45.520 in our. Military when you see one of our service 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:49.760 men or, women thank, them buy their, dinner express your. 0:24:49.880 --> 0:24:55.320 Gratitude let's be loyal. CITIZENS i think about this. Church 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:58.960 it was built by loyal, people people that have stuck 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:02.280 with us for thirty or forty, years through the exciting 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.440 times and the not so exciting. TIMES i ran into 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:07.960 a lady last. Week she, Said, JOEL i remember when 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:10.639 you were. BORN i used to change your diapers in the. 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:13.760 NURSERY i, said that's, great but you can go ahead 0:25:13.760 --> 0:25:18.800 and keep that to. Yourself but it was built by faithful, 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:22.600 people people we could count. ON i See robin around 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.240 here all the. Time i've known, him since he was this. 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:29.440 Big he and his family have been here, forever serving. 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:33.160 Faithfully they are. LOYAL i could Give robin the keys 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:36.360 to my, car my, house give him my. Wallet i'm 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:40.200 not going To he's not that. Loyal but they are true. 0:25:40.320 --> 0:25:43.320 Friends they are committed, people and that's the kind of 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:46.280 PEOPLE i want us to, be not high maintenance. Friends 0:25:46.840 --> 0:25:49.359 where if you do everything just right and you never 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:51.400 let me down and you never offend, me Then i'll 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:54.560 stick with, you. Man but the moment you don't perform 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:57.159 perfectly and you make a mistake and you don't come 0:25:57.200 --> 0:25:59.399 to my birthday, party That i'm out of. Here, now 0:25:59.520 --> 0:26:02.400 let's be bigger than. That lest they committed to each 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:05.639 other through thick and. THIN i heard a story about 0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:08.600 two young, Men jim And. Philip they were the best of. 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:12.080 Friends they did everything. Together they went to high school 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:16.480 and college. Together they played sports. Together even after, college 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:20.199 they both joined The. Marines they were, inseparable and one 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:23.119 day they were out on the battlefield In germany in 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:26.760 the midst of a very fierce. Battle gunfire was, everywhere 0:26:26.920 --> 0:26:30.240 bombs were. Exploding it got so bad they were giving 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:33.520 the order to. Retreat as the men were running, Back 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.639 jim noticed that his Friend philip wasn't with. Him his 0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:41.080 heart was gripped with. Fear he. Panicked he rushed over 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:44.520 to the commanding officer and requested permission to go back 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:47.440 into the battle. Zone the officer, said are you. Crazy 0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:50.560 you don't have a. Chance they'd be committing suicide going 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:54.640 back in. There without missing a, Beat jim turned around ran, 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:58.200 back defying the. Orders in a few, minutes the officer 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:02.800 Saw jim hobbling back across the field carrying a lifeless 0:27:02.960 --> 0:27:06.240 body in his. Arms it was his, Friend. Philip he 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:08.879 squeamed at. HIM i told you not to. Go you 0:27:08.960 --> 0:27:11.640 could have been. KILLED i knew your friend was already. 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:15.440 Dead jim, said, no, sir you were. Wrong he was 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:18.240 still alive WHEN i got, there and his last words 0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:21.600 WERE i knew you would come. Back and that's the 0:27:21.720 --> 0:27:27.480 kind Of that's WHAT i want my friends in my 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:31.720 family to be able to say about. Me be, loyal stay, 0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:35.800 committed stick up for each other when somebody falls when they're, 0:27:35.840 --> 0:27:39.920 down don't kick, them don't criticize, them restore, them go to, 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.399 them pour the healing oil onto their. Wounds, remember mercy 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:46.639 is loyalty in. Action and when you're loyal to your, 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:50.760 family to your, country to your, friends then in your 0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:53.399 time of, need you can be Assured god will have 0:27:53.560 --> 0:27:57.159 somebody there for. You god rewards, Loyalty so let me 0:27:57.280 --> 0:28:00.440 challenge you. Again be a person of. Honor don't be 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:04.160 a fair weathered, friend stay, committed stick up for each, 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:07.600 other defend your, family honor your. Parents if you'll keep 0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:11.280 sowing these seeds of, Loyalty god has promised he'll pour 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:14.320 out his blessings and favor and you'll find that life 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:17.000 of victory That he has in. Store, amen do you 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:20.280 receive it this? MORNING i know you. Do we never 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:23.760 like your cars our broadcast without giving you an opportunity 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:26.359 to Make jesus the lord of your. Life would you 0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:30.879 pray with? Me just, Say, Lord, JESUS i repent of my. 0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:36.160 Sins come into my. HEART i make you My lord and. Savior, 0:28:37.320 --> 0:28:39.680 friends if you've prayed that simple, prayer we believe you 0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:42.600 got born. 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