Most of you will become fathers someday. Not all of you, not all of you will marry.

Most of you will. And those who marry, most of you will have children, not all of you, because there are choices

not to have children, and then there are reasons you don't have children that are not your

own choice. But whether you're married or whether you have children you will all be

men for the rest of your eternity. And you're called upon to assume certain roles, I believe, in the family and in churches and in society that are different from women.

That's a very controversial thing to say.

I've taken more flack for that than anything I've said in the last two

hours. I've written a couple of things on it and it's not a popular view in our

egalitarian age to say that men have unique and peculiar callings from God that are different

from what women have but I believe that I think it'll come out in what I say.

And my goal in this time is in large measure to help you become fathers, you might say fathers in Israel, fathers to Christians, whether you're married or whether you're single, whether you're biological fathers

or adoptive fathers or fathers of nephews, every man should be a father.

And fathering takes a certain amount of maturity and responsibility,

and you're on your way there, and I'd just like to give you a booster. I'd like to put a rocket under your

maturity level this morning because I think most of us get forced into growing up. We don't choose to grow up. We just get forced into it because you finish school after high job or you you've

whether you finish high school or finish college or whatever you get for you.

I'd like you to embrace it, to choose it. So, you're 18, Barnabas is 18, just got accepted to Wheaton College, and that's probably where he'll go.

And I have a son who's 21 and a son who's 25 and a son who's 28. The 28 year old teaches English at Worthington, Minnesota at community

college and the 25 year old is a student at Moody having done some military stuff in between and gotten a practical

jury and plastic mold making and Abraham is not walking with the Lord and breaking my heart.

And when I finish talking and I told Neil, I finish I walk off over there and I go around behind and I watch you worship and everything

in me can only think about one thing, put Abraham out there, worshiping.

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