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Do you know Jesus already has our little children?
Romans 7:9; 4:15
Yes, there is the verse on ye are of your father, the devil, etc.
but our kid's sin is not imputed to them - yet!
They get to that point eventually!
They must die spiritually...
Goals of the devil with our kids:
Get them away from those
words of the King James Bible! Luke 8
Become their 'most high!'
Isaiah 14:12-15
Blind them and keep them
blinded! II Cor 4:1-6
Keep them when they die
spiritually, yet allow them to think they are saved...!
The devil has no problem with 'church,' SS, etc., parents - even the
'message' of Jesus Christ - it those WORDS!
(take those words away)
(take kids from them)
(replace them with self, images, music, lies, etc.)
Christian kids - godliness but without the power
thereof - they actually should be our examples... I
Timothy 4:12: Let no man despise thy youth;
but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity,
in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Some know their bible memory
stuff, etc. but they grow up hating it all.
Some know their bible memory
stuff, etc. but they don't know what to do with it.
Some know their Bible memory
stuff, etc. but don't have any example to follow.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not
depart from it.
Many are trained but trained wrong - vain babblings
have led them to an increase of ungodliness. (some even just do right
wrong)
To many, their life is only all about their
own righteousness.
They were cute marvelous obedient kids, but one
day suddenly, they find out they are sinners... and they don't like.
They become little Jews!
Many had been shown how to claim Jesus too
soon
They have no clue about God, sin, etc. let alone
trust - they just had invited Him into their heart!
... they grow up deceived
about their salvation, and they are clue less about understanding what
Christianity really is.. they become religious, baptistic church goer with
their suits and dresses (unless they go modern...) (unless they go pentecostal
tv).
They don't even know the way of God in the first place - how can they learn it more perfectly! Acts 18:24+
YOUNG ADULTS
not interested bible - 'maybe
church' if...
career oriented
worldly affection
increased unto more ungodliness
if anything, Book "users."
relying on their own wisdom
(typical, eh!)
GROWN CHILDREN
check their kids and HOW they
are taught and WHAT they are taught.
(parents both working, etc.
etc. and more etc.)
Jeremiah 33:11 - The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Kids will follow any doctrine they are around - yes, even your little kids!
Don't just say no! Feed them the rightly divided truth 100% of their life! Grace and truth! joy, riches in full assurance of understanding, deliver them from AND to...
Be careful - it isn't that easy, parents - Colossians 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
(example from Claude - little to unlearn)
I Corinthians 14:10,11 There
are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them
is without signification. Therefore if I know not the meaning of
the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh
shall be a barbarian unto me.
Question: Would you give your children
over to a barbarian? (or would you let someone treat them like a
barbarian?) (Florida child killer...)
Most parents still allow barbarians get to their children today - even Christian parents!
Do you understand the voices your kids hear?
relatives
TV
Videos
school
SS / Church
your own?
Question: Why is there so much music today?
and in the church and the kids SS materials
Question: Why is there so much KIDS music
today? and in the church and the kids SS materials
I know, Deuteronomy
31:19-22. But the music of the old
days was MELODIC - not rhythmic. (see Shem, Ham & Japheth)
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and
admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Music, like a preacher, can be a tool, but it can't become the main point! You know, follow the preacher but miss the sermon! (Mark 8)
And what is the purpose of that 'tool' of music?
Music can overtake and even replace the book - and it has - just like church has today - just like 'programs' and 'gymnasiums' and etc. The pillar has become more important than than the truth! I Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Jesus tells the Holy Spirit to tell us in that
Book and using Paul as our apostle & example - the pastors & teachers,
etc. - TO US!
And if we respond... Philippians
4:6-9
...and that goes for our kids, too!
See part II - come back tomorrow!