The NXR Podcast - March 11, 2022


QUESTIONS - Are Christians Obligated To Have Several Children?


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00:00:00.000 Quick note, we are officially consolidating our Questions in Theology Applied podcast under one
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00:00:15.200 Hey guys, real quick before we get started, I have a small request. If you've been blessed by
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00:00:29.700 gets out to as many people as possible. Thanks. Hi, this is Pastor Joel with Right Response
00:00:38.840 Ministries, and you're listening to another episode of our show called Questions. Today's
00:00:43.220 question is as follows. Are Christians obligated to have several children? Are Christians obligated 0.67
00:00:51.400 to have several children? My answer is yes. Thanks for tuning in. No, I've got a little 1.00
00:00:58.440 bit more, but my answer is yes. I have a few caveats and I certainly want to also strengthen
00:01:04.160 my yes with scripture. So let's go ahead and start with scripture now. This is Psalm 127 verses 3
00:01:10.480 through 5. Psalms chapter 127 verses 3 through 5. Behold, children are a heritage or a blessing
00:01:19.000 or an inheritance from the Lord. The fruit of the womb, a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a
00:01:27.020 are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them. He shall not
00:01:34.080 be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. Psalm 127 verses 3 through 5. I want
00:01:41.460 to start with a quote from Doug Wilson, and then I want to start with another quote that I've
00:01:46.940 written myself as I preached on this particular text a few weeks back. So this is Doug Wilson.
00:01:53.240 He says this, we all love the fact that children are a blast and nobody should mind the fact that
00:01:59.300 we love it. But this psalm is not about the patter of little feet around the house. This is not about
00:02:05.760 your Christmas photo album. The ancient world, when they went to war, had a clearer view of what
00:02:12.080 was at stake than we do. A kindergarten class is a packet of warrior seeds. A quiver holds arrows.
00:02:20.220 The blessed man who has children in his youth is a man who has grown children when he is still
00:02:26.800 active and in the fray. But here is the difference between faith and presumption. Children are not
00:02:34.200 an automatic blessing. Samuel, the prophet, would not have been more greatly blessed if he had five
00:02:41.700 sons who took bribes instead of two sons who did. That's 1 Samuel chapter 8 verse 3. The city
00:02:49.840 council of an ancient city was found in their gates. It is where their elders sat. It is where
00:02:56.580 decisions were made and where transactions were conducted. If a showdown were ever to occur,
00:03:04.080 that is where it would occur. So there are two things to note about this text. The first is that
00:03:12.480 a man is contending with his enemies in the gate, and his sons are there with him. His sons are
00:03:20.760 present in the gates when this happens, and this is important, they are on their father's side.
00:03:29.540 He has not brought up soldiers for the enemy. The second thing is that these are not foreign
00:03:35.580 enemies, besieging the city from outside, but rather these are domestic adversaries
00:03:41.960 belonging to the opposition. A righteous man, together with his arrows, stands against all
00:03:49.160 enemies, both foreign and domestic. The issue is righteousness, not party, not tribe, not nation.
00:03:58.500 And a blessed father brings his children along with him in their shared loyalty to truth
00:04:04.460 and righteousness. The glue that holds such families together is a shared allegiance to
00:04:10.820 Christ. This is fundamental. Every attempt to get families or nations or churches to hold together
00:04:18.140 apart from Christ, according to Colossians chapter 1 verse 18, is idolatry. And according to this
00:04:26.680 Psalm, Psalm 127, verses 3 through 5, it is also vanity. It's vain, futile. It won't work.
00:04:37.180 That's a quote from Doug Wilson. Fantastic. Here's something that I wrote in addition to that.
00:04:42.420 God is the Father, and we have no other choice but to live in the Father's world. Therefore,
00:04:50.500 we are all subject to the father's rules, whether we agree with these rules or not. And one of these
00:04:57.540 rules is that God the father has determined to work through human fathers in this world. He is
00:05:04.080 appointed fathers in the home, that is husbands, fathers, fathers in the church, elders, pastors,
00:05:11.560 and fathers in the state, civil magistrates. A godly woman is called to joyfully serve as a
00:05:19.100 help me. The great lie of feminism is that it promised women that they no longer would be 1.00
00:05:26.140 relegated to the role of helping to build the house of a man. But in a tragic sense of irony,
00:05:33.780 women liberated by feminism stopped helping to build the house of one man, namely their husband,
00:05:40.740 and became enslaved to building the house of another, the man, their corporate employer. 0.87
00:05:50.100 A few more verses, and I'll tie it all together.
00:05:53.160 Genesis 2, verse 18.
00:05:55.240 It is not good that man be alone.
00:05:57.600 I will make a helper fit for him. 1.00
00:06:00.780 If there are any married women listening to this episode, 0.96
00:06:04.000 your husband is not your helpmate.
00:06:06.480 You are his helpmate.
00:06:08.220 The Bible is very clear.
00:06:10.120 And it's not just a mutual helpmate.
00:06:12.160 Yes, your husband will help you with things,
00:06:14.280 But it's not an egalitarian, mutual, helping relationship.
00:06:23.020 It is not that Adam is the helpmate of Eve and Eve is also the helpmate of Adam.
00:06:27.900 No, Adam is given a dominion mandate, a mission.
00:06:32.340 A mission that is outside of himself and outside of Eve.
00:06:36.800 A mission to ultimately subdue the earth and all the creatures and to expand the garden,
00:06:42.680 to work and keep. That is, to work the ground, expanding, working towards its flourishing,
00:06:49.100 its increase, its advancement, that the garden would advance over the face of the earth.
00:06:54.820 Adam works the ground. He produces, he advances, and he also keeps the ground. That is, he defends,
00:07:01.300 he protects. He does this with the garden. He does this even more particularly with Eve,
00:07:06.060 or he was supposed to, with his family, with his wife first, and then with his children,
00:07:10.760 and children's children. And Eve is given to Adam as his helpmate in this particular mission.
00:07:18.840 Certainly, Adam is a blessing to his wife as well and will help her with various things.
00:07:23.860 But fundamentally, the woman is given to man as his helpmate. And that is not the curse.
00:07:31.440 Hear me. That's not the curse of sin. That is the good and righteous design of God.
00:07:39.140 That's not the curse. 0.99
00:07:40.720 The curse is that women wouldn't like this design.
00:07:45.180 When God gives the curse to the woman, specifically in Genesis chapter 3, 0.55
00:07:49.480 he says, your desire will be for your husband, but he will rule over you. 1.00
00:07:55.500 And an unruly woman might think at this point, see, there's the curse. 0.98
00:07:59.120 He will rule over you.
00:08:00.180 No, that's not the curse.
00:08:02.260 The curse is the first half.
00:08:04.260 Your desire will be for your husband.
00:08:06.680 And you might think, well, what's wrong with that?
00:08:08.180 my desire would be for my husband, that I would love my husband and be romantic toward my husband.
00:08:13.080 That's not what the language means in that context. It's actually just like the language
00:08:19.160 a little later on that we see in the case of God's words to Cain. God says to Cain when he was
00:08:27.480 bitter and angry, right after God had accepted his brother Abel's offering, but had rejected
00:08:34.300 Cain's offering. Cain is angry. He's bitter towards his brother and ultimately bitter towards
00:08:40.540 God. And God addresses Cain and says, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to have you.
00:08:50.160 It's the same language as Genesis chapter 3. Your desire will be for your husband. Sin desires to
00:08:56.740 have you. It wants to have you, is what God says to Cain. But you must master it. Ultimately,
00:09:05.900 what God is saying to Cain is this, sin desires to have you, meaning sin desires to rule you.
00:09:13.760 Sin desires to dominate you, to master you. But instead of allowing sin to master you,
00:09:20.860 you must rule over. You must master sin. That's the exact same sentiment, the exact same language
00:09:29.060 used in the curse given by God to the woman, namely Eve in Genesis chapter 3. Your desire
00:09:36.880 will be for your husband, meaning romantic affection toward it. No, not in this context.
00:09:43.340 Your desire will be for your husband, aka you'll want to rule over him. That's the curse. 0.99
00:09:49.980 You will want to rule your husband, the design, but he will rule over you.
00:09:56.500 Now, certainly because of the curse of sin, men can abuse this rulership.
00:10:02.960 I would argue in our context today, in our culture today, 90% of the time, if not even more,
00:10:10.380 the primary way that men abuse their design, their call by God to rule,
00:10:18.660 is by abdicating responsibility.
00:10:21.980 Most men today, the way that they fail in the leadership that God has assigned them
00:10:31.420 is not by abuse, but by apathy.
00:10:35.320 Most men today, the problem in their marriages, the problem in their parenting, the problem in their lives is not that they are overly dominating, taking advantage of the leadership that God has assigned to them, the headship that God has assigned to them.
00:10:53.960 but rather they are actually abdicating their responsibility and apathetic and complacent,
00:11:00.300 leaving a vacuum in their homes, leaving a vacuum in their vocation, leaving a vacuum 1.00
00:11:06.760 in evangelical churches that feminist women are all too happy to fill. So Genesis 2, 18, 1.00
00:11:18.060 it is not good that the man be alone. I will make a helper fit for him. So that's first,
00:11:23.140 the woman is the helpmate of the man, not the other way around. Now, what does a woman do to 1.00
00:11:29.440 help this man? Well, the quote that I already read from myself, we'll go back to the Doug
00:11:34.120 Wilson one here in a moment, but the one that I wrote regarding feminism is that one of the great 0.98
00:11:38.740 lies of really third-wave feminism and even second-wave feminism in some regard was that 0.88
00:11:44.880 It was going to liberate women from the man at home, the shackles of a domestic life in the home.
00:11:54.880 But what it ironically and tragically did was it shackled them to not a man, namely their husband at home, but the man, namely the corporate man at work.
00:12:08.400 And now today, a few decades later, I know hundreds of women that I've heard their testimony.
00:12:17.740 And some of them aren't even Christians saying, I wish I could stay home with my kids.
00:12:22.500 But we can't afford to live on a single income.
00:12:25.880 Why is that?
00:12:27.020 There's a number of reasons why our economy no longer can sustain, in most cases, a single income family. 0.95
00:12:34.360 where a wife stays home and they have multiple children
00:12:37.000 and the husband alone works outside of the home
00:12:39.860 and brings home the bacon.
00:12:41.260 That is incredibly rare for that to work these days.
00:12:45.140 A number of economic reasons as to why, 1.00
00:12:48.500 but one big reason is feminism. 1.00
00:12:51.900 You know who loves feminism? 1.00
00:12:54.200 Not women. 1.00
00:12:55.160 It destroys women. 1.00
00:12:56.980 The people who love feminism are wicked men. 1.00
00:13:01.180 Perverted men love feminism 1.00
00:13:02.760 because all feminism does is it allows them to sleep with multiple women. 0.97
00:13:07.760 It allows them to go Dutch on the date and not have to pay for her meal, 1.00
00:13:10.860 not have to commit, not have to raise any children 0.95
00:13:14.260 where they can support her choice to murder a child if she is impregnated. 1.00
00:13:20.560 Wicked, perverted men love feminism. 1.00
00:13:22.920 Now that's on the sexual side of things. 1.00
00:13:25.320 But on the economic side of things, in terms of financial wealth, 0.96
00:13:29.860 wicked men, once again, love feminism 0.99
00:13:32.080 because feminism allows them now to employ two people for the price of one. 0.99
00:13:37.400 If a husband goes to his employer and says,
00:13:39.900 look, I feel like I'm doing great work,
00:13:42.360 but I have a wife and four kids at home,
00:13:46.040 and I need to own property and not just rent
00:13:49.620 and build someone else's wealth for the rest of my life,
00:13:51.940 so I want to own a home.
00:13:53.620 This is what the interest rates are.
00:13:55.500 This is what the principles are.
00:13:56.780 This is what a mortgage would be.
00:13:57.980 We want to save for our children and their future,
00:14:00.740 whether it be college or whether it be starting a business, these kinds of things. This is my
00:14:04.860 budget. This is my pay. It's not cutting it. I need a raise. I feel like I've been faithful.
00:14:10.900 I'm doing good work. I need to be paid a livable wage to have a family. Now, the employer may
00:14:17.900 never say this, but if we could strap him down and give him a little bit of truth serum to hear
00:14:22.480 what he actually thought, he would say something along these lines. What in the world has made you
00:14:28.940 so entitled as to think that your wife could have the luxury of staying at home? What makes 0.89
00:14:36.300 you, conservative Christian man, so entitled to think that you should be able to provide for a
00:14:43.240 family off of a single income? That's what employers think today. How did that come about?
00:14:51.580 women leaving the home and joining the workforce was a big part of it. So women have been liberated 1.00
00:15:00.700 from being the helpmate of one man, namely their husband at home, and now have been shackled to
00:15:07.880 being, ironically, still a helpmate of another man, namely the CEO of that company. But in both
00:15:17.280 cases, notice what a woman is always doing. What is inescapable because of God's design is that a 1.00
00:15:24.700 woman is always helping a man to build a house, whether it be a domestic house or a corporate 1.00
00:15:32.480 house, whether it be a man who loves her and has made vows to her, namely her husband, or whether
00:15:38.080 it be a man who just wants to exploit her in the working world and doesn't care at all.
00:15:44.460 But in either case, a woman is a helpmate to a man building his house.
00:15:53.020 That's Genesis 2, 18.
00:15:55.220 Proverbs 14, 1 says this, 1.00
00:15:57.020 The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. 1.00
00:16:05.340 See, according to the Proverbs, a wise woman builds her own house.
00:16:10.180 And when I say her own house, I mean the house that she lives in with her husband, her husband's house.
00:16:16.480 But her husband's house is also her house because her husband cares for her and loves her.
00:16:24.620 Whatever she builds for him is, in a very real sense, something she is building for herself because the two are one.
00:16:34.120 But that relationship of the two becoming one, two made one flesh,
00:16:38.840 this covenant relationship of building your husband's house
00:16:41.580 and all the benefits that you're bringing to him,
00:16:44.400 you get to experience and receive all those benefits yourself.
00:16:47.900 That is unique to the relationship, the covenant that exists in marriage.
00:16:51.800 That is not what occurs when you build the house of another man who is not your husband,
00:16:57.420 who is simply a pimp or a corporate employer.
00:17:01.920 Then no, when you build his house, you are not building your house. 1.00
00:17:05.980 But Proverbs 14.1 says, the wisest of women builds her house. 0.97
00:17:11.160 And that doesn't mean independent woman.
00:17:12.720 No one can tie me down.
00:17:14.360 I'm not bound to any man.
00:17:15.660 I'm going to remain single lifelong.
00:17:17.200 No, the implication from Proverbs 14.1 is that this woman, this wise woman is married.
00:17:26.340 And so she is ultimately building her husband's house.
00:17:29.020 but by virtue of building her husband's house, it is, of course, the building of her own house,
00:17:36.200 because all that is her husband's is hers as well. But folly, with her own hands,
00:17:44.080 tears it down. A foolish woman, a rebellious woman, a feminist, we might say, tears down her 1.00
00:17:52.000 own house and ironically builds up another man's house all while saying, I am woman, hear me roar. 1.00
00:18:02.860 Continuing, Ruth. So how does a woman build her own house, namely her husband's house, 0.90
00:18:08.100 a man, her husband, and not the man, her corporate employer? How does she do this? 0.79
00:18:12.780 Ruth chapter four, verse 11 and 12. Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said,
00:18:19.620 we are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, namely Ruth, who is coming into your house like 0.93
00:18:27.200 Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel, that is Jacob. And may your house be 0.75
00:18:35.440 like the house of Perez, who Tamor bore to Judah because of the offspring that the Lord will give 0.81
00:18:42.960 you by this young woman, the you being Boaz, the husband of Ruth. Essentially, what's being said 0.62
00:18:52.320 in the book of Ruth, chapter 4, verse 11 through 12, is that the whole village is gathered together
00:18:56.760 in the gate, right? The place where decisions are made, where there are witnesses that Ruth is being
00:19:03.840 given to Boaz and that her closest of kin has forfeited his rights. And Boaz is now going to
00:19:10.740 have the right to marry her and to make her his bride that the people are gathered in the gates
00:19:17.620 the decision is being made they are witnesses and they are giving their encouragement and
00:19:25.420 celebratory remarks to Boaz and to Ruth saying may the Lord make this woman who is coming into
00:19:32.620 your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Jacob. So how does a godly
00:19:41.900 woman build up her house, which is also her husband's house? Well, the same way Ruth did, 0.91
00:19:50.080 which is the same way that Rachel and Leah did, which is what? Bearing children.
00:19:56.420 Now, I'm perfectly aware that some women cannot bear children. 0.99
00:19:59.300 but what we do is we look to the exception we make it the norm it's not the norm for those
00:20:07.240 who cannot bear children the lord has something to say to you as well you still have value you
00:20:12.920 still have purpose the lord loves you and cares for you so long as you have faith in christ but
00:20:19.740 reality is that many women can have children and don't want to but having children is the way
00:20:28.980 one of the primary ways, not the only way, but it is one of the primary ways that you can be a 1.00
00:20:34.700 helpmate to your husband and build up his house. Now, sadly, a lot of men aren't on board with
00:20:40.620 this. A lot of men want their wife to build up their house by getting a job and working out of 1.00
00:20:46.480 the home and providing a second income. But according to scripture, God gives a wife to a 0.89
00:20:53.420 man as his helpmate to build up his and her house together, not by working out of the home,
00:20:59.620 but ultimately by bearing children and rearing them, training them up in the fear and admonition
00:21:06.660 of the Lord within the home. All of these things are biblical and right. So taking that all the way
00:21:15.180 back to the quote from Doug Wilson, that children are a blessing, right? Psalm 127 verses three
00:21:22.660 through five, behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward.
00:21:26.800 They are a blessing, but the blessing being spoken of in Psalm 127 verses three through five is not
00:21:33.520 primarily the sweet blessing of the pitter patter of little feet on the tile floor in the kitchen
00:21:41.140 in the morning. No, the blessing in view of Psalm 127 verses three through five is arrows in the
00:21:50.100 hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. And blessed is the man whose quiver is full.
00:21:58.660 So the original question, which you probably forgot by this point, I will refresh your memory
00:22:02.940 now. Are Christians obligated to have several children? Children are not just blessings. 0.55
00:22:09.540 Children are artillery. Children are weapons. Children are arrows. And blessed is the man
00:22:16.440 whose quiver is full. So we want to have many children, but Samuel, the prophet would not have 0.98
00:22:23.440 benefited by having five sons who took bribes rather than two, having 10 arrows instead of three.
00:22:34.360 And yet these 10 arrows being bent and dull does not benefit a man. The whole point of children
00:22:44.200 being arrows, as the text says, Psalm 127, three through five, like arrows in the hand of a warrior
00:22:50.040 are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them. He shall not
00:22:55.700 be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. There will always be enemies in the
00:23:03.300 gate, not just outside of the gate, not just foreign enemies coming and trying to storm the
00:23:09.480 castle, but enemies within. There are enemies within the church, within evangelicalism.
00:23:14.940 There are enemies within our nation, within America. There are enemies within every major
00:23:21.960 institution in our society and culture today. And the last two years, if they've taught us anything,
00:23:29.040 it's that these enemies are not far off out there, but they are much closer to home than we would
00:23:35.620 like to admit. And we need, if we're going to face them, if we're going to expose them, if we're
00:23:42.520 going to win and fight against these enemies within, not just the enemies without, but the 0.52
00:23:48.320 enemies in the gates, the domestic enemies. If we're going to win, we need people on our side.
00:23:55.620 And the best teammates a man will ever have, according to this verse, is his grown sons.
00:24:03.480 Blessed is the man who has children in his youth.
00:24:06.540 Why?
00:24:07.360 Because the idea is that by the time his children are grown
00:24:11.920 and able to fight for the same cause that he did,
00:24:16.680 this man, if he had those children in his youth,
00:24:19.520 he won't be on his deathbed.
00:24:21.480 His children will be grown and able to fight
00:24:23.820 and he'll still be in the fray himself.
00:24:26.000 He'll still be able to fight with his sons.
00:24:28.840 but the other implication what's assumed is that his sons they're not just able to fight
00:24:35.220 but they're able to fight and willing to fight on their father's side not against him the reason
00:24:42.920 why this father is blessed this man who has many arrows his quiver is full of arrows is because
00:24:49.780 what's assumed is that these arrows are his arrows. They will fly where he aims them.
00:24:58.960 They will do what he sends them out to do. These are not boomerangs. These are arrows. Meaning when
00:25:05.820 a man sends an arrow flying, it doesn't come back and actually pierce him, which is what so many 0.97
00:25:13.080 arrows, namely our grown children, the grown children of evangelical Christians, have done 0.84
00:25:19.560 today. Much of the fight that we're currently fighting within evangelicalism is this new crop, 0.91
00:25:26.080 this new generation, which is the children of believers, all going apostate, leaving the faith,
00:25:33.380 and some of them staying in the faith in terms of their label, in terms of a profession, 0.96
00:25:39.380 but not with their hearts, so they're within the gates, domestic enemies within, but they're
00:25:45.160 ultimately against us. They're against orthodox doctrine. They're against fidelity to the
00:25:51.240 scripture and the sufficiency of scripture, introducing new ideologies, new opinions and
00:25:57.300 lofty ideas, different doctrines that ultimately contradict sound doctrine and the word of God
00:26:05.240 as it's been passed down to us.
00:26:08.480 What I'm saying is this.
00:26:11.500 Evangelicals, past generations,
00:26:13.460 having lots of children 1.00
00:26:14.880 has not served us well.
00:26:18.360 Because these children
00:26:19.740 have turned out just to be arrows
00:26:23.060 not for their fathers,
00:26:24.900 but arrows for the enemy.
00:26:27.680 And they're within our gates
00:26:29.880 by virtue of being our children. 0.96
00:26:31.420 it's it's not a positive thing it has not been helpful a big part of this is because evangelicals
00:26:41.300 previous generation sent their children to rome for their education they handed them over to
00:26:50.260 caesar and now we're shocked when they come back as romans as votibakum once said
00:26:55.780 aka we use public schools state schools we bought into the lie that that there
00:27:03.820 was such a thing as moral neutrality and that education could be neutral so in
00:27:12.460 bringing it home my answer to the question are Christians obligated to 0.97
00:27:16.540 have several children yes but you should only have as many children as you can 0.53
00:27:22.180 have and still maintain biblical, righteous quality. Quantity is in the text. Blessed is the
00:27:33.380 man whose quiver is full. That speaks to quantity. We want to have as many children as we possibly
00:27:39.420 can, but we only want to have as many children as we can while those children are righteous.
00:27:47.140 It does us no good to have families with eight children who go off ultimately and play for the other team.
00:27:56.660 These children are only a blessing insofar as they are with their father in the gates and not against their father in the gates.
00:28:06.920 so quantity yes have many children but only as many children as you can raise
00:28:15.240 in the fear and admonition of the lord and there are many things to consider when making that
00:28:22.440 decision how many children can i as a dad as a man how many children can i raise in the fear
00:28:28.780 and admonition of the lord how many children can i homeschool or how many children can i send to a
00:28:36.080 classical Christian school and afford the tuition? How many children can I have with,
00:28:43.320 yes, it'll be hard. The more children I have, there will be certain difficulties and challenges,
00:28:48.040 but how many children can I have and maintain righteousness and the fruit of the Spirit and
00:28:53.940 not constantly be losing my temper or constantly stressed out? How many children can I shape and
00:28:59.840 mold as arrows that ultimately, ultimately will be on my side. It does me no good to have eight kids
00:29:07.880 if half of them play for the other team. Might as well have had zero kids. It's a wash at that
00:29:14.000 point. Four for the kingdom of God and four for hell. Now we want to have kids who love the Lord.
00:29:22.380 So we want to have as many as we can, but we better be working for quality and not just
00:29:28.280 quantity. Have a lot of kids, but raise them well. And don't you dare think about handing them over
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