SERVICE TIMES

You don't have to remain who you used to be. Through Jesus Christ, we have the opportunity to experience new life, freedom from our past, and a transformed future. In Made New, discover the hope of a fresh start and what it means to walk in the new life God has made available through Jesus. No matter your past or what you're facing today, God's grace has the power to transform your life. Join us at Highest Praise Church in Shallotte, North Carolina, for biblical teaching, encouragement, and a message of hope. 📍 Highest Praise Church | Shallotte, NC 🌐 https://highestpraisechurch.com Subscribe for weekly sermons, worship, and biblical teaching from Highest Praise Church. Seeing lives changed. God's Kingdom advanced. #HighestPraiseChurch #MadeNew #NewLifeInChrist #ChristianSermon #PastorJordanLancaster ## [32:35] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=1955s) Youtube Chapters • [00:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=0s) - Welcome • [00:27] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=27s) - Made Ready • [01:16] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=76s) - Decisions Determine Destiny • [04:23] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=263s) - Vessels in a Great House • [06:56] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=416s) - Clean, Empty, and Available • [08:51] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=531s) - The Invitation Is for Anyone • [12:37] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=757s) - Condemnation Versus Redemption • [14:59] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=899s) - Faith Like a Mustard Seed • [17:50] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=1070s) - Trusting God Without Knowing Everything • [19:10] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=1150s) - The Boy With the Lunchbox • [22:26] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=1346s) - Decisions That Change Generations • [24:50] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=1490s) - Leaving a Spiritual Legacy • [29:37] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=1777s) - The Value of What a Vessel Carries • [33:12] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=1992s) - Poured Out and Filled by God • [35:22] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHpTCuUiXM&t=2122s) - A Call to Be Made Ready

You were never meant to live defeated. In Part 1 of Victory Over Darkness, Pastor Sherwood Lancaster begins a powerful new series about walking in the victory, freedom, and authority we have through Jesus Christ. No matter what darkness you’re facing, God has given you what you need to stand firm, overcome the enemy, and live from a place of victory. Be encouraged to know who you are in Christ, recognize the truth of God’s Word, and refuse to allow darkness to define your life. Subscribe for weekly sermons, biblical teaching, worship, and encouragement from Highest Praise Church. 📍 Highest Praise Church | Shallotte, NC 🌐 highestpraisechurch.com Seeing lives changed. God’s Kingdom advanced. #HighestPraiseChurch #VictoryOverDarkness #PastorSherwoodLancaster

Luke’s account of the widow at Nain starts at a gate, a place of transition. Jesus comes into the city with a crowd full of life and miracles, while a widow walks out with a crowd following death. Death has already taken her husband, and now it is carrying her only son away. What looked finished was walking toward the cemetery, but it ran into Somebody death had never defeated. Jesus sees the woman in the middle of all that noise. People see what is being worn, but Jesus sees what is being carried. People may hear, “I’m doing fine,” but Jesus knows what kept a heart awake all night. The Lord does not run from brokenness. He runs toward it. His compassion is more than feeling sorry for pain. Compassion says pain moves Him into action. Jesus tells the widow, “Do not weep,” not because her grief does not matter, but because her situation is getting ready to change. Faith trusts what Jesus knows even when the eyes cannot see it yet. The widow did not invite Jesus, schedule an appointment, or ask for a miracle. Compassion brought Jesus right to the thing that was breaking her heart. Jesus touches the open coffin, and the people carrying the dead man stand still. Death had determined their direction. Grief had determined their destination. But one touch from Jesus stopped the procession. Fear, bitterness, shame, rejection, sickness, addiction, and disappointment can carry a life in the wrong direction, but Jesus does not merely help people carry heavy things. Sometimes Jesus stops the whole thing. Jesus then speaks directly to the dead boy. He does not speak to the crowd, the pallbearers, or even the mother. He speaks to the dead thing because every dead thing has to listen when Jesus speaks. His Word carries what people cannot carry. His Word tells storms to be still, tells Lazarus to come forth, tells withered hands to stretch out, and tells dead places to arise. Luke’s account ends with restoration. Jesus gives the young man back to his mother, showing that He is not only the God of resurrection but also the God of restoration. Joel’s promise says He restores the years the locust has eaten. Christ does not only cleanse and forgive. He makes whole, restores what was lost, and removes the evidence the enemy thought would always stand against a life. ## [27:40] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=1660s) Youtube Chapters • [00:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=0s) - Welcome • [00:11] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=11s) - Holding On When Opposition Comes • [02:17] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=137s) - The Gate of Transition • [03:04] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=184s) - Two Crowds Meet at Nain • [04:46] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=286s) - Jesus Sees the Brokenhearted • [07:42] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=462s) - Compassion Moves Into Action • [11:27] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=687s) - Do Not Weep, Change Is Coming • [13:54] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=834s) - Jesus Touches the Coffin • [16:45] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=1005s) - Jesus Stops What Carries You • [19:06] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=1146s) - Jesus Speaks to Dead Things • [25:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=1500s) - A Different Ending Than Expected • [27:40] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=1660s) - The God of Restoration • [30:13] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=1813s) - Cleansed or Made Whole • [32:38] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26keGLqFGOA&t=1958s) - Restoring the Evidence

Jeremiah puts the question straight: “Is there anything too hard for me?” God made the heavens and earth by great power and an outstretched arm, so nothing has ever reached the end of His power. The Old Testament keeps showing ordinary people in situations they cannot fix, seas they cannot cross, enemies they cannot defeat, fires they cannot survive, and walls they cannot tear down. God allows those places not only because people need a miracle, but because He wants to reveal His character. The Red Sea reveals that God makes a way. Israel stood trapped, unable to go back, unable to go forward, and unable to fight Egypt, but God saw an opportunity to show His power. Exodus tells Israel to stand still, hold its peace, and see the salvation of the Lord. God tells Moses to use what is already in his hand, and the staff becomes part of a miracle that opens dry ground through the sea. God does not always remove the obstacle. God sometimes makes a path right through it, so His people come out knowing Him better than they did before. The wilderness reveals that God provides and sustains. Israel quickly romanticizes Egypt after God delivers it from bondage, because discomfort makes the past look better than it really was. Manna comes every morning from a source Israel cannot manufacture, grow, purchase, or explain. God provides daily bread for forty years, showing that His provision is not a one-time touch but a continuing supply. The rock reveals that God can bring help from the place least expected. God intentionally chooses what cannot naturally produce water so nobody can take credit except Him. God does not need the source people have picked out, the door they want opened, or the person they thought would come through. God can bring water out of a rock, because God gets the glory for what only God can do. Jericho reveals that obedience can look foolish until it works. Israel receives unusual instructions: march, wait, blow the trumpet, shout, and trust God with the walls. God calls His people to do their part, while refusing to surrender His part to human strength. The walls fall flat because Israel obeys, and the final lap becomes a warning not to quit when breakthrough may be closer than it looks. Hope becomes a rope in the story of Rahab. God lowers hope into impossible situations, even when the past looks horrible and nobody else understands what God is doing. Nothing is too hard for God. Nothing, not even that. ## Youtube Chapters • [00:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=0s) - Welcome • [00:18] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=18s) - Nothing Is Too Hard for God • [01:33] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=93s) - Miracles Reveal God’s Character • [05:16] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=316s) - Stand Still at the Red Sea • [08:26] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=506s) - Use What Is in Your Hand • [11:44] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=704s) - God Makes a Way in the Wilderness • [14:19] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=859s) - Do Not Romanticize Egypt • [17:41] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=1061s) - Manna Every Morning • [22:27] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=1347s) - Water From a Rock • [26:54] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=1614s) - Facing the Walls of Jericho • [30:33] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=1833s) - Obedience Before Results • [32:27] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=1947s) - Walls Fall Through Trust • [39:05] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=2345s) - Do Not Quit on Lap Six • [42:08] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTyeMYb1lY&t=2528s) - Rahab’s Rope of Hope

Keep believing means believing for the miracle while staying faithful in the waiting. Faith gets easy when the Red Sea opens quick, Lazarus walks out, or the healing comes the moment somebody reaches for Jesus. Faith gets harder when nothing has moved yet, when somebody else gets the answer, and when the situation goes from bad to impossible. Jairus shows that kind of faith. Jesus agreed to come to his house, but the woman with the issue of blood stopped the journey. Jairus had to watch somebody else receive what she needed while his own daughter died. Jesus did not explain the delay, apologize for the stop, or give Jairus all the details. Jesus simply said, “Don’t be afraid. Keep believing.” The waiting does not mean Jesus has forgotten the house. Jesus never stopped walking toward Jairus’ situation, even when He stopped to help somebody else. Somebody else’s breakthrough is not proof that God passed a person by. Jesus is still coming. The fruit of the Spirit puts some strength in the waiting room. Longsuffering, patience, and forbearance mean refusing to give in, give up, or let go when life gets hard. God can give that fruit without limit. Grace gives the ability to keep standing when the answer has not shown up yet. John 11 shows that love and delay can sit in the same place. Jesus loved Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, therefore He waited. The delay did not mean He did not care, had not heard, or had forgotten. Mary and Martha wanted healing, but Jesus was setting up a revelation. God may use the very thing that needs fixing to reveal more of who He is. Daniel 3 shows miracle faith and mature faith. God is able to deliver from the fire, but even if He does not, He is still God. Mature faith worships when the door stays closed, serves when the circumstances stay hard, and refuses to change its confession about who God is. Paul received grace when his thorn was not removed. Sometimes God takes a person out; sometimes God carries that person through. The waiting room must not destroy worship. Waiting on the Lord is not God doing nothing. God can do something in a person while that person waits for Him to do something for them. Jesus is still on the way to the house. Keep praying, keep serving, keep worshiping, and keep believing. ## [29:17] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=1757s) Youtube Chapters • [00:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=0s) - Welcome • [22:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=1320s) - Believing for Miracles While Waiting • [01:45] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=105s) - When Others Get Their Answer • [03:59] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=239s) - Jairus and the Interrupted Journey • [05:43] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=343s) - Don’t Be Afraid, Keep Believing • [07:28] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=448s) - Celebrating Another Person’s Breakthrough • [09:46] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=586s) - Patience as Fruit of the Spirit • [12:31] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=751s) - Jesus Loved Them, Therefore He Waited • [16:45] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=1005s) - Miracle Faith and Mature Faith • [23:42] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=1422s) - Grace Instead of Immediate Deliverance • [26:15] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=1575s) - Finding God in the Furnace • [28:08] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=1688s) - Do Not Waste the Waiting Room • [30:11] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8h04WA9k&t=1811s) - God Works in the Waiting

• 1. Jesus is still Jesus today. Jesus does not lose power because generations change. Christ remains the One who brings light into darkness, healing into sickness, and freedom into bondage. Faith begins by looking at who He is before looking at how big the need feels. [62:27] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=3747s) • 2. Miracles point beyond the need. A healed body, a calmed storm, or multiplied bread should never become the main point. Every true sign directs attention to Jesus and reveals something about His authority and character. The gift is wonderful, but the Giver is the revelation. [63:12] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=3792s) • 3. Storms do not mean turn around. The disciples encountered a storm while obeying Jesus exactly. Difficulty can meet a person in the center of God’s will, not merely outside of it. The storm calls for confidence in God’s word, not panic-driven retreat. [69:32] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=4172s) • 4. Revelation defeats fear and panic. Peter’s confession came from the Father, not from popular opinion or natural reasoning. Revelation that Jesus is the Christ gives believers solid ground when fear starts talking loud. Panic loses its grip when Christ’s authority becomes more real than the storm. [73:18] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=4398s) • 5. Salvation is the greatest miracle. Grace changes the direction of a life that could never save itself. Repentance is not cosmetic improvement but a real turning from death toward life. A redeemed life gives living evidence that God still does the impossible. ## [76:12] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=4572s) Youtube Chapters • [00:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=0s) - Welcome • [59:05] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=3545s) - Why Jesus Performed Signs • [60:01] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=3601s) - Creation and Old Testament Miracles • [62:01] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=3721s) - Wherever Jesus Went, Things Changed • [63:12] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=3792s) - Miracles Point to Jesus • [63:54] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=3834s) - Jesus Speaks Peace to the Storm • [65:08] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=3908s) - Peace, Be Still • [66:28] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=3988s) - Jesus the Christ, the Anointed One • [68:20] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=4100s) - The Gates of Hell Will Not Prevail • [69:32] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=4172s) - Obedience Does Not Prevent Storms • [71:40] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=4300s) - Revelation at the Rock of Pan • [73:18] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=4398s) - Defeating Panic Through Revelation • [74:48] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=4488s) - Miracles Still Ahead • [75:28] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fpTjBJoJw&t=4528s) - Salvation, the Greatest Miracle

• 1. Turn hearts before the gap widens Malachi’s warning reaches deeper than differences in age, music, technology, or culture. Spiritual inheritance requires older believers to give what God has formed in them, not merely criticize those coming behind them. Younger believers must also desire more than independence, receiving the faith, scars, wisdom, and endurance that can carry the assignment forward. [04:32] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=272s) • 2. Burn the plows behind the calling Elisha’s sacrifice was not emotional hype; it was a clear decision that his old life would not remain his backup plan. Calling becomes fragile when a person keeps an oxen-and-plow escape route ready for every hard season. Faithfulness often means placing the former identity on the altar so the new assignment can be obeyed without constantly looking back. [09:20] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=560s) • 3. Speak life in Jericho places Jericho represents more than trouble; it pictures devastation that tempts a person to conclude that God has abandoned the journey. God sometimes leaves His people in desolate places because He intends for His life to be spoken there. A difficult place can become the very training ground where faith learns not merely to survive, but to bring life into what looks dead. [15:50] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=950s) • 4. Receive an inheritance for the assignment Elisha asks for a double portion because he recognizes that God’s work requires more than borrowed admiration for another person’s anointing. Spiritual inheritance is not nostalgia for famous names or old moves of God. Spiritual inheritance is the grace needed to continue God’s assignment in the hour and place where God has positioned His people. [23:18] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=1398s) • 5. Pick up the mantle and believe The mantle falls at Elisha’s feet, but it does not automatically become active in his hands. Elisha must pick it up, return to Jordan, and exercise faith when Elijah is no longer beside him. God calls every generation to move beyond someone else’s testimony and trust that the same God can still divide the waters. ## [29:02] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=1742s) Youtube Chapters • [00:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=0s) - Welcome • [00:52] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=52s) - The Danger of Generational Change • [04:04] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=244s) - Malachi’s Turning of Hearts • [05:44] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=344s) - Elijah Calls Elisha • [08:04] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=484s) - The Mantle and the Burning Plows • [10:04] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=604s) - Elisha Refuses to Leave Elijah • [11:09] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=669s) - Gilgal: Breaking Out of Cycles • [13:01] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=781s) - Bethel: Vision and Wrestling • [14:15] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=855s) - Jericho: Speak Life in Desolation • [17:32] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=1052s) - Jordan: The Place of Separation • [20:03] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=1203s) - Elisha Asks for a Double Portion • [25:41] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=1541s) - Keep Your Eyes on What Matters • [27:34] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=1654s) - My Father, My Father • [29:47] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=1787s) - Where Is the Lord God of Elijah? • [33:01] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=1981s) - God Has Not Changed • [35:17] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6c0q9vnFQ&t=2117s) - Worship the God of the Mantle

Key Takeaways • 1. Boundaries protect the promise The promise given over Samson did not arrive without limits. God’s gifts carry a holy shape, and the boundary line keeps the promise from being handled like common ground. A home that keeps the same reply, even after pressure comes, teaches children that consecration is not confusion, but clarity. [04:05] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=245s) • 2. Compromise accelerates hidden destruction The honey in the dead lion shows how compromise can feel sweet while carrying death in it. Samson did not fall all at once in Delilah’s lap; the line had already been shifting before the final cut came. A small surrender can become gasoline on the fire that a family was trying to put out. [08:33] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=513s) • 3. The secret place reveals hidden places The hidden place can look fine on the outside while something raw, divided, or dangerous remains underneath. The secret place is where God gives light enough to turn the cake over and expose what still needs His fire. Accountability without prayer can become control, but prayer without accountability can leave deception untouched. [14:34] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=874s) • 4. Children are entrusted, not owned The parable of the talents turns parenting into stewardship before the Master. A child is not mainly a project for reputation, achievement, or control, but a gift that must be invested toward God’s purposes. The real question is not whether the child gained every earthly opportunity, but whether the Master’s desire shaped the investment. [26:37] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=1597s) • 5. Jesus transforms what life cannot Athletics, academics, and relationships can develop real parts of a child’s life, but none of them can transform the soul. The soul needs Jesus, Scripture, prayer, worship, repentance, and the ability to recognize God’s presence without someone else standing there. That kind of investment outlasts trophies, grades, teams, and hometown connections. [35:10] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=2110s) Youtube Chapters • [00:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=0s) - Welcome • [01:30] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=90s) - Returning From the Wall to the Home • [03:14] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=194s) - The Three Lines of Parenthood • [04:05] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=245s) - Samson’s Promise and Boundary Line • [06:59] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=419s) - Samson Finds the Path of Compromise • [08:33] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=513s) - Compromise as an Accelerant • [10:42] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=642s) - Wisdom, Accountability, and Hard Conversations • [12:29] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=749s) - Hidden Place Versus Secret Place • [14:34] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=874s) - Ephraim as a Cake Not Turned • [18:08] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=1088s) - Taking Back What Was Stolen • [20:47] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=1247s) - Conquered by the Blood of the Lamb • [23:35] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=1415s) - Children as God’s Reward • [25:50] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=1550s) - The Talents and Parenting Stewardship • [33:43] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=2023s) - Raising Children Who Know God • [42:58] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=2578s) - Deuteronomy 6 in the Home • [47:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=2820s) - What Godly Investment Looks Like • [50:16] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_P075h_B4&t=3016s) - God Helps Parents Steward His Gifts

Hebrews 11 starts Moses’ story before Moses ever makes a decision. The text says, “By faith, Moses’ parents hid him,” not by fear, not by panic, but by faith. Moses’ parents, Jochebed and Amram, saw that he was “no ordinary child,” and their faith protected him from the king’s edict before Moses ever had faith for himself. Their ceiling became his floor, and the faith that hid him as a baby became the faith that later made him refuse Egypt, choose disgrace with God’s people, and look ahead to his reward. Faith-filled parenting sees children differently. Moses did not look special to everybody else, and he even had struggles, including trouble speaking. But his parents saw by faith what culture could not see. That same child who looks precious as a newborn still has to be seen by faith when behavior gets hard, when attitudes rise up, and when teenage years bring resistance. The call is not to ignore correction, but to speak life over purpose while still addressing the behavior. The Nile becomes the picture of the world around the next generation. Moses’ parents did not deny that the Nile existed, and they did not pretend Pharaoh’s edict was not real. They put Moses in the same Nile where other children were being destroyed, but they built him an ark. That basket was protection, not fear. That ark says not everyone deserves access to a child, and parents have wisdom that children do not yet have. Decisions about friends, phones, school, church, and environment are not control when they are rooted in faith. They are ark-building. Jesus puts children at the center of kingdom life. Mark 10 shows Jesus getting irate when the disciples push children away, because no one should ever get between children and Christ. Children’s ministry is not babysitting. It is gospel ministry on their level, where kids can worship, be saved, and encounter the Spirit of God. The faith of the parents must also be taught and modeled. Moses was educated in Egypt, but he received faith from his parents. Children do not simply inherit convictions, because the Holy Spirit brings conviction. Children inherit priorities. If worship, prayer, serving, giving, church, forgiveness, and the house of God are optional in a home, they can become unnecessary in the next generation. Exodus says children will ask what all of it means, and that question becomes the open door to tell the story: God saved, God delivered, and God is worthy. Youtube Chapters • [00:00] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=0s) - Welcome • [00:32] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=32s) - Moses’ Parents Hid Him By Faith • [02:32] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=152s) - Every Child Needs Faith From Home • [04:20] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=260s) - Moses’ Story Started With His Parents • [06:08] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=368s) - Jesus Welcomes The Children • [08:31] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=511s) - The Next Generation Changes The World • [10:11] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=611s) - See Children Differently • [15:51] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=951s) - Saying No To The King’s Edict • [17:36] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=1056s) - Building An Ark In The Nile • [20:31] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=1231s) - Parents Make Faithful Decisions • [22:27] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=1347s) - Teach Children What Matters • [25:06] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=1506s) - What Do Children Think Is Important • [28:27] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=1707s) - Optional Becomes Unnecessary • [30:15] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=1815s) - Children Will Ask Why • [34:36] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNXaxQigI&t=2076s) - A Church For The Next Generation