All right, Pastor Mark, here, special, special sermon this week.

A couple years ago, I was in Genesis, hit a dude named Laban, who's a loser,

and talked about toxic family and when to walk away and not go back for the family dinner or the holiday.

It was the second most popular sermon I have ever preached. And so what we're going to do we're going to show you that sermon today clips from that sermon went nuts upwards of 60 million total views and that led to a brand new series leave and cleave

that I'll start next week where we pick up on family

family systems with a workbook to help you have a great family

family and leave a great legacy. And it all started with this sermon so go ahead and

enjoy. All right in just a minute I'm gonna preach I'll just tell you this one's

gonna hurt this one's gonna hurt like crazy. Here's the question.

The question is, when do you need to sever ties

with toxic family members?

And if you're a first-time guest

and a relative brought you, now you know why.

Okay, and if you're like, I don't have any toxic family members, it's you.

I'll just give you a moment to process, just to process that emotion.

All right, so we find ourselves in this incredible book of the Bible, Genesis, and it's this multi-generational

case study in marriage and family.

And what tends to happen is we tend to put up with things from our relatives that we would never

put up with anyone else and we tend to endure a lot longer and a lot more but

eventually there comes a point oftentimes in a relationship with friends but oftentimes with family where we're asking

the question is this the time to walk away right are we done now is this is this where

we go are separate ways We find that in the life of a guy today named Jacob.

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