Parents Instuction To Children

➡ Paul, the voiceover for a ministry called Your Daily Bread, discusses the importance of teaching children obedience and respect through discipline. He uses Proverbs 30 as an example of what happens when children are not disciplined, leading to rebellious and unkind behavior. He emphasizes that discipline should reward obedience and punish disobedience, and should also address attitudes, not just actions. Paul also warns about the negative influence of society, which can warp a child’s understanding of right and wrong, and stresses the need to instill the word of God in children to guide their conscience.
➡ The MTV generation often denies the concept of the Seven Deadly Sins, with some even seeing them as positive traits. Society is trying to create a system of values that goes against traditional morality, telling people not to listen to their conscience and blaming others for their actions. This leads to a potential disaster as it undermines the function of conscience and rewrites moral values. The message encourages us to stay strong, keep faith, and continue to be a positive influence in the world.

Hello. My name is Paul, and I am the voiceover for a ministry provided to you by Jim Pugh at God Is Government Called Your Daily Bread, taken from Christ’s teaching of the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6, verse 11. This is a daily devotion ministry focused not only on uplifting Scripture, but Scripture that will grow your spiritual connection with Christ. We hope that you receive these devotions to uplift you, encourage you, but most importantly, advance your knowledge base of the Holy Scriptures. Today’s focus discussion will be parents’ instruction to children. There are some samples of how we are to instruct our children, how our children are to respond.

Go to Proverbs 30 and you see the opposite. Here is the opposite. When a child does not respond, does not obey, is not properly disciplined, verse 11. There is a kind of person, a man, a woman, a kind of person who curses his father and does not bless his mother. There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes, yet is not washed from his filthiness. That’s so typical of children who are rebellious and against their parents. They’ve got their own way, their own wisdom, their own approach to everything.

You’re not going to tell them what to do. They think they’ve got all the answers and the fact is they’ve never been washed from their filthiness. There is a kind, oh how lofty are his eyes, and his eyelids are raised in arrogance. This is the proud, selfish, self-centered, rebellious child who listens to nothing that his parents say. There is a kind of person whose teeth are like swords and his jaw teeth like knives, to devour the afflicted from the earth and the needy from among men. They’re unkind, they’re merciless, they’re brutal children. They’ve never been taught kindness, they’ve not been taught the graces that make them loving people.

Verse 15, the leech has two daughters, give, give. That’s talking about a horse leech that had two teeth, if you will, or two prongs that came out of its mouth and it sinks it into the horse and sucks the blood. And he says these kind of children are like a leech that sticks both of his teeth in and sucks the blood out. They’re blood-sucking rebel children. There are, in verse 15, three things that will not be satisfied, four that will not say enough sheol and the barren womb. That’s very, very graphic language.

Hell never has enough. The barren womb is never satisfied. Earth that is never satisfied with water and fire that never says enough. And you can add to that, that leeching child, no matter what you give him, no matter what you give him, he never has enough. And that’s good word, you know, to those people who have rebellious children and think they can buy their loyalties or buy their obedience or buy their respect. You cannot do that because they never are satisfied. They’re like the grave, they’re like the barren womb, they’re like the fire that never says enough.

It is the eye that mocks a father and scorns a mother. And what is God’s response? The ravens of the valley will pick it out and the young eagles will eat it. Pretty graphic language. Where you have a child that doesn’t get the discipline and training and instruction about obedience and honor, you have that kind of leech, blood-sucking child who in the end with all of his merciless unkindness, all of his animosity and filthiness is going to feel the judgment of God. And how sad, how sad. How many parents, how many of you, have a child that has fallen under divine judgment? Some have even perished.

It’s absolutely heartbreaking. Now, how do you do this process? How do you bring a child to obedience and respect? Let’s go back to Proverbs chapter 3. Proverbs chapter 3 verses 11 and 12. My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord, or loathe his reproof, for whom the Lord loves he reprooves, even as a father, the son in whom he delights. And by the way, that is quoted in Hebrews 12 verses 5 to 11, where it talks about chastening. The category here is one of discipline. The father who really loves his son, you say you love your child, then you’ll discipline your child.

Every son you love, you’ll scourge. That’s what Hebrews says. If the And it’s grievous for the moment, but it has the effect of the peaceable fruit of righteousness. So first of all, we learn here that the process of teaching obedience and respect is a process of discipline. Discipline can simply be defined in these terms. Discipline is that function by which parents reward obedience and punish disobedience. That is discipline. Nonconformity to the divine standard results in negative consequences. Conformity to the divine standard results in positive consequences. That is exactly how God disciplines us.

You say, do you believe in positive reward? Absolutely, absolutely. I also believe in negative reward. You say, should you try to motivate your children, though, with a positive reward? Absolutely. Doesn’t God motivate us with that? Doesn’t he promise good to us? Doesn’t he promise blessing? Didn’t he say that the child who obeys will live long on the earth? In fact, the whole motivation, the only motivation given in Ephesians 6, is a positive motivation. There isn’t a threat there. It’s good to say to your child, if you do this, I will reward you in this way, knowing that the child desires that reward.

Discipline involves both. Discipline is very simple. It is giving the appropriate reward for the conduct. And when I say conduct, I don’t mean simply what they do. I mean also what they say. And I also mean their attitude. I can tell you, and so can my children, they were disciplined far more for their attitudes than what they did. And if you start with the attitude, it doesn’t work its way to the act as readily. We tried to catch the discipline at the initial point of attitude. Now look at chapter 6 of Proverbs, and let’s talk some more about this disciplining process.

In 620, My son, observe the commandment of your father. Do not forsake the teaching of your mother. Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. When you walk about, they will guide you. When you sleep, they will watch over you. When you awake, I love this. They will talk to you. For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching is light, and reproofs for discipline are the way of life. What you do is pour the word of God into them, so that it informs their conscience and it talks to them.

Now you remember when we were studying conscience at the beginning, at our look at 2 Corinthians, and I explained to you that the conscience has no morality. The conscience is only a warning system. It’s a buzzer, it’s a red light, it’s a bell, it’s a whistle. That’s all. The conscience reacts to the moral system in the mind. It reacts to your highest moral standard. Now a child born into the world has the law of God written where? In the heart. Romans 2, the law of God is written in the heart.

It’s there. They understand right from wrong, they just love wrong, and they must be trained to do right. Now that law of God written in their heart can be negatively, listen carefully, can be negatively affected by the messages coming from the culture. The culture wants to reconstruct that moral code. It wants to come in with lies. It wants to reform their whole moral system, their whole moral ethical system. And if it succeeds in doing that, then the conscience, which is the warning device that should go off when you violate that, is misinformed.

It’s misinformed. Because if you have a warped theology, if you have a warped moral ethical system, then your conscience will react to that warped system. So when you come into the world, what happens? This little kid is exposed to television, radio, movies, music, education, the whole process of the culture, and it re-informs the great truth that has been placed in that little heart from birth about God and about what is right and what is wrong. Romans 1 tells you they can know about God. They can know his eternal Godhead, his power, and something of his attributes.

Romans 2 says they know right from wrong, and then the society blasts that. It blasts that with evolution, so that all of a sudden they come to a place where they no longer believe that God created everything. They come to the place also because they’re blasted with the immorality of the system, to the point where they no longer know what is right and wrong, and relativism takes over. There are no longer any absolutes, and the conscience is helpless. All conscience can do is react to that ethical system, and if that ethical system is warped, then the conscience is going to get misinformed.

So what do you have going on in our culture today? Two things. A massive effort to sell children and young people a non-Christian ethical system. It’s massive. Get rid of God. There’s no creator, there’s no God, there’s no moral law. Whatever you want is for you. Everything is purely a lifestyle choice. I told you when we went through that in 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 that even MTV had a two-hour series, which showed on PBS, where I saw it and got the material. And that was on the Seven Deadly Sins, and they interviewed the contemporary sort of MTV rock generation about the Seven Deadly Sins, and they basically denied them all, totally reversing everything.

In fact, one rock singer was asked if he thought lust was a sin, and he said, lust a sin. Are you kidding? That’s what I get into this business for, to lust after little girls. They asked rock singers if they thought pride was a sin, another of the deadly sins listed by medieval monks, and they said pride a sin, the problem with our society is we don’t have enough pride. Everything twisted, everything perverted. They asked another, is greed a sin? Greed a sin, that’s what makes us rich. Everything perverted. So what the society wants to do is create an ungodly, satanic system of values.

First of all, so that what is being said in the heart is wrong. Second thing it wants to do is dull the conscience. How does it do that? By telling you, you shouldn’t listen to your conscience. In effect it says, you shouldn’t feel guilty, you shouldn’t feel shame, you didn’t do anything wrong. What really happened was you were abused. Your mother did something to you, your father did something to you, you’re just a victim. It’s not your fault. You shouldn’t feel guilty, you shouldn’t feel responsible. Society is to blame for this, and dispossess the person of any need to listen to the voice of conscience.

So you assassinate, as it were, the function of conscience, you rewrite the script for moral values, and you have a potential disaster. And that’s the kind of young people we have in our generation. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of parents’ instruction to children. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way. [tr:trw].