New Life Baptist Church - Part 5 — Paul Washer

It's a tremendous privilege to be here this morning, and I feel like probably somebody else should be up here, because all of us have so much to learn about everything that has to do with being a man, everything that has to do with raising men.

And just for a moment before we get started, we have to realize that we live in a culture that knows absolutely nothing about manhood. Back in the 70s, we decided that people like Alan Alda and Phil Donahue would teach us what it meant to be men.

Biblical Manhood and the Image of Christ

Then there's all these misconceptions about what it means to be a Christian man. For example, if you look at most of the paintings, which in my opinion are an abomination anyway, if you look at most of the paintings of the person of Jesus Christ, what do you see?

Do you see any manhood there that you can identify with? Most of it is a very feminine, grotesquely feminine depiction of somebody that they call Jesus. Now, what is the reason for that? Well, most ideas of the way Jesus Christ looked comes from medieval 15th century, 14th century, 13th century art from the Catholic Church, primarily painted by artists who were homosexuals.

And that's why the pictures look the way they do. You see, we live in a culture that knows nothing about manhood. You say, yes, that's right. John Wayne was the last real man. Well, if you're spirit filled and you go back and you watch a John Wayne movie, you will see that the man was full of self, carnality, self-centered, rude, crude, and about everything else.

So he's not the picture of manhood either. Jesus Christ is the picture of perfect manhood. But we have to be very, very careful with the way we look at Jesus Christ. We have to look at him through biblical eyes and try, even though we'll never be able to do it, try to shed ourselves of looking at the Bible through eyes or glasses that have been remarkably painted by our own culture.

We have ways of looking at things because we are humanistic. We are man centered. We are many, many things that totally oppose scripture. And so when we go into scripture, we begin to interpret it wrongly.

I'll never forget a few years ago, a man by the name of Richard Owen Roberts, he was preaching in a conference where I preached the following year. And that's how I heard this story. Richard Owen Roberts is an old kind of Puritan reformed guy up in up in Chicago.

And he was teaching up in Canada. And he happened to make the remark that AIDS was the judgment of God. A woman stood up in the middle of the sermon, screamed out, that cannot be true. And he said, Dear Madam, why can it not be true?

And she said, God would never kill a bunch of babies. Babies die of AIDS. God would never kill a bunch of innocent babies. Richard Owen Roberts, an older man, looked over the pulpit and said, Madam, how many babies do you think God killed when he flooded the earth during the time of Noah?

The whole point is this, not that I want to portray God as mean or not just, but the point is we have so many concepts of the way we think God ought to be or manhood ought to be. And they're not based on scripture.

They're based on our humanism, our humanism. Now, another great problem, one of the greatest problems to becoming a man and raising men in this generation is this, it's the idea of adolescence. Adolescence is a lie.

There is no such thing as adolescence. Adolescence is based upon a false evolutionary formula. And it is used as a buffer in our culture today. You see, in almost every culture, even in our own prior to the advent of adolescence, you had simply this, a boy.

And I want to say it that way, a boy and a man. You were either a boy or you were a man. OK, and that transference, that change, that transformation usually occurred somewhere around 12, 13, 14 years old.

OK, now, how did a boy become a man? The boy became a man because he stood beside the other men and did what other men do. He could defend his farm. He could farm his farm. He could manage his farm. He could even take a wife because he was no longer a boy.

He was a man. Now, you have the advent of adolescence. And what happens? He's a boy till he's about 12 or 13. Then he's an adolescent. And adolescence is supposedly a time of finding yourself, of rebelling against authority in order to establish your own and all these other things that have been brought in.

And they never mature to manhood. Never. Until maybe after college and they get married and somewhere around 35 or 40, they start sort of entering into manhood. Up until that time, they're just a boy, plays video games, walks through malls.

I mean, no concept of responsibility. I love to hunt and I make bows and things like that. And when my little boy turned about, well, just about when he was born, I made him a bow. And he goes out even today when I get home.

One of the first things we'll do is we'll go out and shoot. He's four years old. My two year old is now starting to learn how to pull back a string. But he shoots field points. Field points, they're used for targets.

I shoot broadheads. My broadheads are so very, very sharp because wooden bows are not that fast. So the broadheads have to be so extremely sharp that you put them on with a broadhead wrench because you don't even want to touch them.

Now, my little boy, he does not, he does not use broadheads. The other day I was teaching him how to shoot a BB gun. And when I turned my back on him, I was holding this this can in my hand. He goes, Daddy, just hold the can in your hand.

I'll shoot it. I said, no, son. The fact of the matter is he cannot have broadheads because he's a boy. One day when he becomes a man, he can use broadheads, because until that point, if I give broadheads to a boy, he's going to kill himself.

Now, that's the culture we're in. We're in a culture where boys stay boys until they're in their 30s. And almost never really become men. And that's what we're up against. And then you throw this in just a few generations ago, not even a few generations ago, when a man went out to work.

He took his son with him. I have a rule in my house. I told my wife, I says, as long as they can't walk, they're with you. When those boys start walking, they're with me. You see, there used to be in culture that when the man went, left the home in the morning to go work, his boys went with him.

And they learned to be men. The the Mennonites, I have to go, I go to several lumber mills looking for good wood to build bows and other things, I build furniture or whatever I'm doing at the time. If it's for me, it's a bow.

If my wife gets a hold of me, it's for furniture. And I go up to the Mennonites and I'll talk to them and witness to them. You know what they say? From the time a child is born, a boy, until he's six years old, he's a drain on the family.

It will cost the family to have him. From the time he is six years old until he is 12 years old, he pays for himself. And after 12, he is a profit to the family. We're still putting them through college.

Do you see what's going on? In the Aguaruna tribe, where I worked in Condorcanqui in the northern Departamento Amazonas in Peru, it was very common for a man to get married when he was 14. Because he could go out with the other hunters, he could hunt, he could fight, he could do all the things he had to do.

Our primary responsibility as men is to raise men, to raise men. That's our primary responsibility. Now, if you don't want that to be your primary responsibility, don't have children. You know, some people ought to be neutered.

Really, they ought to be. I don't even know why they have children. I guess it's just what you're supposed to do. I don't know. But the whole goal of our life, gentlemen, when our sons and daughters are born, is to pour ourselves into them.

And here's the problem. We're also, those of you who are men here today and have children, we are also products of our culture. We know so very little about being men. So what are we going to pour into our children?

More of the same corruption? There is, I believe without a shadow of a doubt, persecution or national crisis is coming. And I'll tell you why. Not because I'm a prophet or anything like that. It's because I'm a student of history.

There has every time that there is coming persecution. Persecution. Or national crisis. A reformation occurs prior to that, it's almost as though God is getting his people ready to go through hell. Now, you might not know this, but I know this, it's a fact, the universities I go to and teach, the seminaries, the different places where I go, it is astounding.

I'm seeing young university guys studying in secular universities. I'll go speak. Two hundred of them show up and they're all reading Jonathan Edwards and the Puritans. It seems like all the truth that has been lost, historic.

Biblical Christianity that has been lost, there is a reformation, it's coming back and part of that reformation deals with family. Family. Family. Now, most people 40 years old and above are not getting it, really, theologically.

They're not even understanding what's going on. Some are, but most my age and up aren't. That there are so many things we have done in Christianity in the last 40 years that's no more biblical than a man on the moon.

The way we do church, the way we do our families, just about everything, I mean, rotten to the core. But changes are occurring and part of those changes are with family. Now, I have two boys. It is my responsibility, they were given to me that they become men, but I have to be a man.

I was raised in a culture that was not Christian. Yeah, I was in America and yeah, I went to church as a boy, that doesn't mean anything. It is my responsibility to go back into the word of God and discover what it means to be a man.

So that I can pour that into the life of my son. Much of the activity that used to be so important to me, even ministerial activity, is no longer important to me. One of the chief things in my mind is this, what does it mean to be a godly man and how is that supposed to be transferred to my children?

To my children, and I want us to open up our Bibles to Deuteronomy, chapter six, a passage that you probably are all familiar with before we get into that, let me say one other thing. We got some young men in here.

Mentoring Young Men Toward Responsibility

This is sometimes there'll be a young guy in a church or something that maybe his father's passed away or his father's derelict. And sometimes a mom will say, you know, Brother Paul, would you take him out to your wood shop and beat the living daylights out?

Now, will you take him out to your wood shop and build a bow with him or something? And just be around him a bit and say, sure. I'll never forget the last guy, a 14 year old kid, and I sat him down in my office and he was kind of scared.

And I said, son, look at me. He kind of looked up. I said, no, look at me. There's a proper way to look at someone. You look me in the eye when I'm talking to you. I said, now, here's the way it's going to be.

I am not going to treat you like a boy. I am going to treat you like a man, like a man with whom I would jump into a foxhole if there was a war, I am going to treat you like a man and I'm going to expect you to act like one.

Guess what? It's never failed. They do. I don't believe in adolescence. So make your choice. You're either going to be a little boy or you're going to be a man. Now, which do you want to be? Guess what?

They start transforming. But let me say something to the young men. I was I teach a lot. I'm 44 years old, which isn't old. I mean, compared to your pastor and stuff like that. But, you know, I I'll teach sometimes and I'll have these I'll have young guys.

They'll be sitting in there. I'll never forget. We were in this as a town or maybe I don't know, 10 ,000 people or something. And and there was this one whole section of young people and they just thought they were so cool.

I mean, it's unbelievable. It's like they thought they were like, you know, living in a ghetto in New York or something. They thought they were so street wise and they knew everything. And and I'm 44 years old, you know, and I'm dumb old man who's never seen anything.

And I'll never forget this one boy. He was just he was causing so much trouble trying to distract everyone and everything. And he had his pants, you know, how they wear their pants down where their underwear show and type thing and everything.

And I thought, Lord, how can I reach this guy? I mean, he just thinks I mean, he's from this little podunk town and he thinks he just knows everything that's ever to be known. And so I saw him over by himself one day and I kind of walked over and I sat down and I said.

How's it going? He said, all right, I said, I have a question for you, he goes, yeah, I go, do your parents know? And he said, no, what I said, come on, I've been around the world several times. Obviously, you're a guy who knows what's going on.

Do your parents know? He goes, no, what I said, look, man, I mean, I'm pretty open minded, all right, don't be embarrassed. I just I'm here to help you. Do your parents know? And he goes, no, what do they know about your alternative lifestyle?

He goes, what I said, come on, do your parents know you're a homosexual? I mean, I have dealt with a lot of guys that are homosexuals and I've really kind of helped them, you know, some of them have even been set free through Jesus Christ.

Do your parents know you're a home? I'm not a homosexual. I go, look, of course you are. Look, I know, you know, you're a guy of the world. You know, obviously, you know, you know, you've been around.

I'm a guy. We know these things. You're homosexual. Now, look, how can I help you? The guy's head almost exploded. He was so mad and he said, why are you saying this? And I said, listen to me, young man, you think you are so wise.

You think you are. You are a fool. You see the way you're wearing your pants. He said, yeah, I go, do you know where that comes from? Obviously don't, because you haven't been around as much as this old preacher who you think is so stupid that comes from prison, young man.

And when a man in prison who is a homosexual breaks up with his boyfriend and wants everyone else to know in prison that he's available, he drops his pants like that. That's where it comes from. You see, young man, in the name of being cool and following your culture, you think you know what's going on and you're going straight to hell following the devil there.

Now, why did I say that, young man? I'll tell you why. Because most of the things that's going to be thrown on your plate and put in front of you, even by your friends, that they think is so cool and you think is so cool, you don't even know where it comes from.

And you look at your father and you think he doesn't understand anything. Your father has been through things that would terrify you. He knows more than you could ever, ever know. And many of the reasons he will tell you no is because he's been there, done that and got the T-shirt and he knows how much it hurt him.

Never forget that. That is a lie the devil to tell you, my father is old and he doesn't understand what's going on. Your father does understand what is going on because he's been through a thousand times more than you've ever dreamed of.

And that's why you listen and not those stupid little friends of yours. Now, let's look at Deuteronomy chapter six. Now, I have seen a few different things in this return to manhood. Some several extremes you have on one side, these these guys who say, I want my son to be a Christian man and that Christian man almost looks effeminate.

On the other side, you have these guys that say, I want my son to be a Christian man, but their idea of a Christian man looks something like a carnal bully. The only way we're going to find out what it's like to be a true man is to study God's word and to seek to be conformed to the image of the only true man who ever walked on the face of the earth.

That's Jesus Christ. But here in Deuteronomy chapter six, there's some wonderful things that we can learn now. I'd love to go through the whole text, but let's just start in verse four. Hero Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.

Now, take that in the context of verse two, so that you and your sons and your grandsons might fear the Lord, your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you all the days of your life and that your days may be prolonged.

Now, look at this, gentlemen, your son and your grandson, there is a sense in which we need to be talking about leaving a legacy. A legacy. Most men are all about them getting the most out of life. Our goal is to leave a legacy, not just of our own life, but of the lives of our sons and our grandsons.

We are thinking about, you know, we always hear back in the 70s and 80s, multiplication of disciples, multiplication of disciples. Well, this is the real thing. I can leave a legacy. It's like I decided a long time ago I could go around doing evangelism everywhere.

I could plant churches. You do evangelism, it's here today, gone tomorrow. You plant a church, it could be there for 150 years. It's the same way. If I can pour my life into my two boys. And if they are the elect of God.

Leaving a Legacy of Faith Rather Than Possessions

And God has grace and God regenerates their heart and calls them to himself, I have given them a wealth of biblical information, a wealth of biblical experience. I knew one fellow, it's the Dickman family in St. Louis, and it's a man who has done everything that he could to raise his children.

One of his boys was not converted until he was like 23. But I was talking to the boy, a man, and he said, he said, you know, it's amazing. I was not converted until I was 23. But the moment I was converted, everything my father had taught me for 23 years, it turned on.

And in that moment, I knew more than most pastors. My father, see, here's something, gentlemen, even if you cross all the T's, dot all the I's and raise your children by the book, homeschooling and everything else, it does not mean that child's going to be converted, but you're still commanded to do it.

And if you do do it and then they are converted, my goodness, what a jump start they've got. Why? Because I can go around the world teaching stuff, but I have the opportunity for at least 18 years to not just teach things to my sons, but primarily model them.

In every aspect of life. And the desire is to leave a legacy. You see, I hear men all the time that are working a lot and they say, well, I just want to give my children the things I never had. God never commanded you to give your children the things you never had.

As a matter of fact, it's the things you never had that's made you the man you are. Things you don't have never hurt your character. It's the things you do have. So my father went off to fight World War Two, he would be in his early 80s right now if he had lived.

I want to tell you something, I'm not sure we could fight World War Two again. My father grew up. Dirt poor Kentucky and then streets of Detroit selling newspapers. Those men, what made them men was not all the things they had.

They had nothing. It was the things they did not have. Your job is not to give your child the things you never had. Your job is to give your child you in Christ's name to leave a legacy. Now, verse four, let's look at that legacy.

Hero Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord is one. The one thing I am to transfer to my child, I mean truly transfer to my child, is that there is a God and he is Lord. Now, here's something that's very, very important.

You will hear, you know, fathers or hear something like this and they'll go home and just start giving lectures and all these different things and Bible studies and counting it into their kids head. And that's not what I'm talking about.

My child needs to be able to look at me and realize my dad knows there is one God and he is Lord. I can look at it in my father's face. I can see it. He knows it. He lives it. My sons, like sons should when they're little, they think that their dad is Superman.

You know, dad, did you go wrestle a bear? I'll come in from hunting, have all my dad, did you did you kill a bear today? No, son, not today, but he thinks I can. He thinks I can, but it was a few months ago I was praying and the Lord really moved upon me and I started crying and crying and crying because the Lord had showed me his goodness to me and my sin.

And my little boy walked over to me and said, Daddy, why are you crying? Why are you afraid? Because of him, son. And I began to explain to him and sat down with him and he started crying, not that I pound into his head, there's a Lord, there's a God, no, that he looks at me and goes, whoa, dad, fear something when dad talks, you know, dad laughs and dad talks about, you know, beating up bears and everything else.

But when dad talks about God, his voice changes. It's really serious. Yes, this is not a game. This is not make believe. This is not Santa Claus. It's not Easter Bunny. Whenever dad starts talking about him, his face changes.

Greatest gift you can give your child is have your child wake up at three o 'clock in the morning, go downstairs to get a glass of water and they see you in your study with the light on down on your knees, crying out to God.

That's the greatest gift you can give your child, because I want to tell you something that. There's a man I don't agree with, you know, you never agree with everything every man says because men are fallible.

One of the things that when I had when my child was born, I was thinking, OK, you know, I'm going to have this regiment of all these different things. And I read a guy down Tennessee by the name of Michael Pearl, and he said something that just stunned me.

He said that he really didn't have much, you know, like. Devotion times with each of his kids every day or or this regimented process, but that all his kids went off by themselves and studied the word on their own.

And and what he said was basically this. That the word of God was in every aspect of his life and everything he did, so his kids would watch him and just see it. You know, I don't want to just sit there and go, OK, you know, we're having our 20 minutes today in the word and we're doing this and we're doing this and we're doing this, even though part of that is very important.

But it's more of a thing of your child just looks at you and knows. My dad believes there's a God. And believes that he is sovereign lord of all things. And my dad fears him. This is real, there should be a sense in which your boy goes, my daddy isn't afraid of anything except except God.

And that fear is a healthy fear. He goes on and he says here, oh, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

These words which I am commanding you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons. Now look at this. Look at the context. Even though in the in the greater context, he's talking about teaching your son all the commandments of God.

Isn't it amazing that he comes to this one command, which is the primary command, the great command, Jesus says, and then right after said, that's what you're to teach to your son. You're not to teach your son to be a Pharisee.

You're not to just lay out rules for your son. Do this, do this, do this, do this, do this, do this, and you'll be spiritual. No, if you're spiritual, you will do this, do this, do this. The rules never make anybody spiritual.

You desire to follow the commands because you are spiritual and it flows out of a heart that loves him. What is the primary thing to teach your son? To love the Lord, his God with all his heart, soul, mind and strength.

And how do you do that? Again, by example, my dad not only fears God, my dad loves God. I say this quite often and and it's true. Another gift that I can give my son is for him to look out the window one day and see me out there by the wood shop or standing in the in a bean roll someday.

Or out there in the cornfield. Pair of overalls and dancing with all my might. Say, mom, what's dad doing? Well, son, your dad was a very wicked man. And he was going to hell. The Lord, his God saved him through the death of his only begotten son.

And your dad is just happy in the Lord. He just loves him for what he's done for him. He shed his blood for your dad. Your dad loves him. Now, sometimes your dad gets a bit carried away and I'm glad we live on a farm.

No neighbors can see him. But that's why. You know, if if if this Christianity thing just becomes a moral regiment, it's puke, it's horrid, it's grotesque. Now there is a regiment. There are rules, but that's not the main thing.

And here's the thing, you know, it's like Song of Solomon, OK, the the. The king comes and knocks on the door, she's already in bed, she doesn't want to get out of bed and dirty her feet again, so she gets so she does she says, no, no, I know I'm not going to answer the door.

And so he goes away. She gets up and decides, well, yeah, I need to answer the door. She goes to the door. He's not there. So she starts running around in the streets and she finds these these other virgins in Israel and she bumps into them and she says, please, you know, help me look for my for my beloved.

Where has he gone? And their attitude is, well, why should we look for him? I mean, he can't be all that special. He came knocking at your door and you wouldn't even open the door. So why should we go look for him?

It's the same way, gentlemen. Tell your sons, you need to love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. The child might be looking and saying they'd probably never say it, but they'd go.

Well, why? I mean, you don't. I mean, he can't be he can't be all that great if a pair of some golf clubs that aren't even alive. I mean, more to you than that or fishing or hunting or your job or I mean, why should I go out of my way to seek this God?

He can't be all that great. You know him and don't even want to seek him. You see. So it's more than a commandment to, hey, you need to love the Lord, your God. Why? He can't be that big a deal. I look at your life.

He really can't be that big a deal. You see, one of the most dangerous things that can ever happen, pastors, I've heard of pastors. I've talked to them about this and they'll say, you know, someone's not in church anymore.

And so you go visit them. And since you're in the Bible belt, you know, you go visit them. You knock on the door. They're very polite to you. Come on in, you know, and start talking to him. You say, you know, you need to be in church.

The person puts their head down, go. You're right, pastor. I need to be in church. I need to get back in church. I need to start reading my Bible. I need to do this. It's the right thing to do. Whenever I hear that type of language, you know what I know?

I know I'm talking to a lost man. Their Christianity is nothing more than it's like, yeah, I need to take this really bad medicine so that I don't get sick. Yeah, I need to go back to church because it's the right thing to do so I don't go to hell.

Yeah, I need to read the Bible. I mean, I really don't want to, but I know it's good for me, just like taking really bad medicine. That's not what you want to portray to your children. That Christianity is the right thing to do.

To hell with religion. That's where it's going anyway, to hell with morality. And all these guys want to put the Ten Commandments back in schools. I mean, what's that? Tell me, what is that? Ten Commandments going to save somebody?

I know some of you probably disagree with me, but please understand the point I'm trying to make. You can put the Ten Commandments, you can wallpaper it all over the room of your son if you want. The question is this, do you love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, mind and strength?

Does he see it in your face? Is your Christianity a wonder? Something they would desire to look at. Let me let me talk to you about Harry Potter. Very, very important. And you all, I guess, familiar, at least know about the Harry Potter books and how they've everything and we as Christians rightly point out that it's all wrong and no one should watch it or read it.

And that's true. Let me just tell you something. First of all, it's very interesting that all the witches in Harry Potter are Christian witches. Now, what do I mean by that? Real witches eat babies, OK?

But the witches in the Harry Potter books and the Harry Potter movies, you know, it's amazing. They all have Christian virtues. I find that quite amazing, quite hypocritical that they're portraying witches.

But these witches. I mean, basically bear the fruit of the spirit, most of them, they're kind, they're loving all the things Jesus commands us, see, they hate Jesus, but they cannot deny that what he says is right.

And the things that's attractive to your kids in there are really Christian virtues that they've stolen. But that's not really my point, I mean, I got a whole thing on just doing Harry Potter, but I want you to think about something for a moment.

A kid gets to look at a Harry Potter movie, which hopefully never will happen, but he gets to look at a Harry Potter movie. What does he see? He sees wildness, wonder, adventure, the miraculous life. An explosion of excitement.

And then what does he see out of your Christianity Sunday morning, Sunday morning, getting to church late, you and your wife have a spat in the car. Get out of the car, you put your religious mask on.

You walk in, most of the time, Sunday morning is nothing but a long prayer for lunch at some restaurant. Well, we got that over, well, the sermon's over, let's talk about fishing, let's talk about the football game.

I mean, goodness gracious. The other day, my little boy was looking at something, it had a picture of a dragon on it. He goes, Daddy, you ever seen a dragon? I said, yeah. So you ever you ever fought a dragon?

I said, yeah. Did you have a sword? Yeah. Was it hard? Yeah. Can you tell me about it? He thinks his daddy fights dragons because his daddy does fight dragons. I do fight dragons, fight them every night.

I fight them in the morning, I fight them when I preach. I fight them when I fast. I have armor, it's the most beautiful sort of armor. Strong. I have a shield, I have a helmet. I'm in a war. I've got scars, I've got stories that would make the hair on the neck of a little boy stand up straight.

Christianity as Spiritual Adventure and Warfare

Christianity is all too tame and civilized, very proper, has no attraction to a boy, you see. You say, well, no, the way you're saying that, that's not right. I'm saying it just like the Bible says it.

You're not right. Christianity is the wildest thing. Makes a Harry Potter book look like a dull piece of boring literature. See, the point is, it's like Michael Card said one time, there is a joy in the journey, a light we can follow on the way.

There is a wonder and wildness to life and freedom for those who obey. There should be a sense of wildness and wonder to follow him. To follow him. We're out in the woods one time. We live where the sloughs come up off of the Ohio River and go down there.

I used to as a boy, I just basically lived in those swamps catching snakes and about every other thing. Take my boy down there. We wade through that stuff. And I say, son, maybe one day. Maybe one day you'll have to wade through the mud and yarn to preach the gospel to someone in the jungle.

Daddy, have you ever done that? Well, let me tell you about the time I drug a boat through the Blackwater. We were just out of a keep those in the jungle, we were trying to make it to a place to preach the gospel and your daddy was scared to death because it was midnight and I didn't know what was in that water with me.

You see, it what we want to portray is, first of all, something we can't portray unless it's a reality to us. A reality that we are more. More than what you let me get this example, do you know, if you take a baby, a baby eagle.

And you it never sees another eagle and you put it with a bunch of turkeys or chickens, it will never fly. Did you know that it will never fly? Not only will it never fly, it will begin to eat, walk and everything just like the chickens or the turkeys it's with.