Children Who Curse THeir Parents

➡ Paul, the voiceover for a ministry called Your Daily Bread, discusses the importance of teaching children to obey their parents as per the teachings of the Bible. He emphasizes that obedience should be taught not just through words, but also through discipline, which can sometimes involve punishment. However, he clarifies that parents should not obey commands that defy the teachings of the Bible. The ultimate goal is to help children understand the difference between right and wrong, and to live a life that pleases God.
➡ The text emphasizes the importance of disciplining children with love and respect to ensure they grow up to be respectful and obedient. It suggests that children who are not disciplined may cause grief and disappointment to their parents. The text encourages parents to raise their children with truth and discipline, promising them a blessed and long life. It concludes by urging everyone to stay strong in their faith and continue to make a positive impact 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 focused discussion will be children who curse their parents. In chapter 30 of Proverbs, verse 11, there is a kind of man who curses his father and doesn’t bless his mother.

Verse 17, the eye that mocks a father and scorns a mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out and the young eagles will eat it. That is just graphic language speaking of a rebellious child, a child who mocks his parents. You have the responsibility to teach your children to be obedient. That’s also in Colossians 3.20, obedient because it’s pleasing to the Lord. This is what parenting is. It’s not developing their fashion sense. It’s not turning them into some kind of highly motivated scholar. It’s not making them into some kind of a great athlete.

It is to elevate them mentally, physically, socially, and spiritually by training them with the full faculties that you have, confronting the full faculties that they have. And you are all those things. You are mature physically, you’re mature mentally, you’re mature spiritually, you’re mature physically. You’re the model, you’re the example. You get it, you understand it, and your job is to pass that on to your children. And it starts with teaching them to obey, who paco, from which we get acoustic. It starts with them listening. Teach your children to listen and to submit to what you say.

It’s a present imperative. Keep on doing this, keep on obeying, obey your parents all the time and everything. And then it adds, in the Lord. In other words, because this is what pleases the Lord. The same thing is said about submitting to the government in 1 Peter 2.13, do it as unto the Lord. Same thing is said about slaves in Colossians 3 and their masters. Slaves serve your masters in the Lord. This is because all of this is God’s design for the most productive life. And you do it without any caveats.

You just obey all the time in the Lord. Why? This is so good, for this is right. Can I stop here for a minute and say your children need to know what’s right? That’s the best answer you’ll ever give your child when your child asks, why do I have to do that? Why do I have to do this? Why don’t I get to do this? It’s right or it’s wrong. That’s all and that’s enough. What you’re doing is showing them that in the world in which they live, there are absolutes. You don’t need to give a philosophical defense of any behavior you require if it’s consistent with the word of God.

And having your children obey is consistent with the word of God. So you do what God says because it’s right. Let me just give you an illustration of that in Nehemiah. I was reading this the other day, Nehemiah 913. It’s not in the context of parenting, but it’s an interesting statement. This is a bit of a rehearsal of Egypt’s, of yeah, Israel’s exodus from Egypt and coming to Mount Sinai. And in verse 13 we read this, then you came down on Mount Sinai. This is looking at God’s appearance on Mount Sinai to give the law.

And you spoke, this is Nehemiah 913, and you spoke with them, that is with the people, from heaven you gave them just ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, and you laid down for them commandments, statutes and law. They are good, they are true, and they are just. Why? Because God said so, and he establishes what is right. Psalm 119.75 says, your judgments are righteous. Hosea chapter 14, and I think it’s verse 9, same thing. Your commandments, your judgments are righteous. They’re righteous because they come from you. So children are to obey righteous commandments from God passed on through their parents.

Is there ever a time when you don’t do that? Well, there’s one explicitly laid out in the Scripture, explicitly laid out in the words of Jesus. Listen to what he said, Luke 14, if you don’t hate your father and mother, you can’t be my disciple. At what point do you hate your father and mother? When your father and mother forbid you to come to Christ. For centuries Jewish children and others have been forbidden to believe in Christ. They’ve been asked to curse Christ. That’s where the break comes Matthew 10. If you don’t love me more than father or mother, you can’t be my disciple.

So the assumption then is that children are to obey their parents in the Lord because their parents are in the Lord. You don’t obey parents who are defying the commandments of Scripture. So what is a child’s responsibility to obey? Because the parents are passing down the Lord’s commands. And then in verse two, honor your father and mother. That is the attitude that corresponds to the act of obedience. It’s not reluctant, it’s not rebellious, it’s not unwilling, it’s with honor to mar. It actually can be used to mean awe or respect. It’s used in John 5.23 of honoring God and honoring Christ.

So this is how you obey, with honor. This means the attitude and the action. And then the Apostle Paul says this is the first commandment with a promise. This is the fifth of the ten commandments, but this is the first one with a promise because it’s unique. And it’s the first one in the human relationship section. The first four commandments have to do with your relationship to God. The last six commandments have to do with your relationship to each other. The first of those human relationship commandments has a promise. And what is the promise? Verse three, so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

That’s quoted right out of Exodus 20, verse 12, the ten commandments that God wrote in stone on Mount Sinai. It’s absolutely essential that children both obey and honor their parents. Absolutely essential. Now it’s not natural, it is not natural. They are born reprobates, they are born rebellious, they are born with a fallen nature, they have to be taught obedience and honor. And go back to Proverbs with me for a few moments, and I’ll give you some quick insight into how you develop that. Proverbs 3 11, my son do not reject the discipline of the Lord or loathe his reproof, for whom the Lord loves he reproves, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

The Lord disciplines, the Lord reproves, and he does it because he loves, and so does a father. So there you see discipline and reproof. That’s part of the training. I’ll expand on that in chapter 10 of Proverbs. Gets really specific, verse 13, a rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding. Anybody unclear on that? A rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding. Chapter 19 and verse 18, discipline your son while there is hope and do not desire his death. You have a choice. You can discipline your son or desire his death.

If you don’t discipline your son, he’s headed for disaster and death. So you have the choice. Do you want him dead? Do you want her dead or disciplined? In chapter 22 verse 15, foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child. Some of it’s cute, some of it’s not, but it’s foolishness. Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child. The rod of discipline will remove it from him. That is a promise, folks. Get out the rod. They need to associate pain with misbehavior. Chapter 23 verse 13, do not hold back discipline from the child.

What do you mean by that? Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die. You shall strike him with the rod and rescue his soul from Sheol. Do you understand? Spank your kids and save them from hell? Wow. And even in chapter 29, a couple of verses, verses 15 and 17, 29, 15, the rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother. Verse 17, correct your son and he’ll give you comfort. He will also delight your soul. So what do you do? How do you train the child to obey and honor? With discipline.

What does that discipline look like? It looks like telling them what is right and forcing them to conform to what is right, both in attitude and action by discipline that is painful. It’s not sending your child to your room to think about something. You don’t want to prolong it. A few whacks and it’s over. But they remember. If you don’t discipline your child, and by the way, this is where, again, you don’t want to medicate a child because you never ever get to the issue of being able to correct them in their worst moments.

You don’t do this with a child. And Proverbs says, a child who is disobedient and dishonoring to parents is a grief to his mother, a rebel to his father, a sorrow to his parents, a disaster to his parents, a disgrace to his parents, a humility to his parents, and an abuser of his parents. That’s Proverbs 28, 24. He robs his father and mother. Children can abuse their parents. How? By their rebellion and dishonour being tolerated. Why do you do this? Verse 3. Because you want it to be well with them, and you want them to live long on the earth.

Godly children will be living a blessed life, that’s quality, and they will be living a long life, that’s quantity. You want your children to have a rich, full, joyous, happy, peaceful, rewarding life, then discipline them to obedience and honour. And if you want them to live long, a long, full life, not short-cutted because of their sin and transgression and lack of self-control, then you discipline them. And we see that explicitly then in verse 4, don’t we? Parents, what is your job? Do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

This is the duty of the parents. It is essential to raise a child with truth and discipline, truth and discipline, so that the promise of a blessed life may become a reality, truth and discipline, so that the sins of the fathers aren’t passed on to corrupt the subsequent generations. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of children who curse their parents. 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 be brave. [tr:trw].