Adrian Rogers was a motivator, an encourager, and a leader of the faith.

He was also passionate about presenting scriptural application to everyday life circumstances,

and you'll hear that in today's message.

Now let's join Adrian Rogers.

Take God's precious word and find the book of Hebrews chapter 11.

In a moment, we're going to look at verse 20.

We're talking about champions of faith, and the champion that we're talking about today is Isaac.

When we first see him, however, he doesn't seem much like a champion. He seems like a failure of a father

who is leading a dysfunctional family.

Now the title of the message today is lessons from a dysfunctional family.

You say, Pastor, how did you know about my family?

Well, there are a lot of dysfunctional families.

The family is meant to be the seminary of heaven,

but I'm afraid for many it is an incubator of hell.

There is a war on the family,

and Satan is systematically trying to dismantle the family.

Twice in history has civilization come to the place where the idea of the

family totally disintegrated. One of those times was 300 years before Christ with the Greek

civilization and the second was in 33 AD with the Romans. Both times when the family disintegrated,

the institution of family was done away with in the hearts and minds of people, both times the community, the culture, disintegrated

because the family itself disintegrated. Now, there are some wars against the family and you say yes, tell me

about it. I know because it is against our family. How many of you know who Murphy was?

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