Parents Seeing Their Children For Who They Are

➡ Paul, the voiceover for a ministry called Your Daily Bread, discusses the importance of family and raising children according to biblical teachings. He criticizes societal views that undermine the traditional family structure and the use of medication on children. He emphasizes the need for children to obey and honor their parents, and for parents to guide their children in their spiritual, mental, physical, and social development. Paul urges a return to biblical principles in parenting and family life.
➡ Parenting is crucial for a child’s growth, including mental, physical, social, and spiritual development. It’s a parent’s duty to guide their children, who are seen as needing guidance and growth. Unfortunately, some are choosing medication over parenting, which is seen as harmful. The importance of faith and staying strong is also emphasized, with a reminder to visit GodIsGovernment.com for daily devotions.

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 parents seeing your children for who they are.

Now, when we talk about the divine design for the family, it’s really summed up in four verses. They’re really very simple and direct. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. That is a minimalist approach to the family, and yet it covers everything.

There are plenty of places you can go and get bad advice about the family. This is the foundation of all God’s design for the family, directed at children and at parents. I don’t need to belabor the point. We all know that the family is being assaulted. I mean, it’s just wholesale. Men are being assaulted by the culture and have been for a long time. Men are recast as toxic, a toxic patriarchy that has had a destructive impact on society. Women are the abused targets of this toxic patriarchy by being forced to stay home and have children, and never find their real fulfillment, which would come to them in the corporate location, because that’s where women need to be fulfilled.

That’s the deception of this culture. Marriage is a form of bondage to this society, much of it. Marriage is a form of bondage that needs to be ended so that all can be free to pursue whatever personal desires they desire to fulfill without being encumbered by another person. So this leads to singleness. Singleness is sexual freedom and personal freedom. And of course, the children are obviously the victims of all of this distortion of God’s design. Children have the right to live if they’re not going to be a bother to you. They’re not going to intrude on your freedom.

Otherwise, you can kill them in the womb. Even after they’re born, if they irritate you, you can medicate them, which is a horrendous thing. It should be considered a criminal act. People are in such a hurry to do that. I heard today that there are new medications for puppies to tone down the puppy irritations. If you don’t like a puppy, don’t get a puppy. But when you have a child, to use medication on a child is a short-term act of irresponsibility that can lead to a long-term total disaster in a life.

So we know all of this, and we’ve talked about the war on children. I did a series on it, so I’m not going to belabor all of that. But it’s time for us to look at the simplicity of what scripture says. And the Bible gives us here the formula for raising our children. We know what’s wrong with the culture. We understand that. And we know how perverse it is to the degree that the medical profession, who are supposed to be the people that protect us from death and do no harm, basically are medicating our children into disastrous futures, as well as mutilating them for the ideology of transgender insanity.

We understand the horror of all of that, and we understand that the education system is perverting our children, exposing five-year-olds to drag queens. I mean, you know it all, because it’s all out there. We have to get back to the Word of God and get our sights set on how God views this relationship between parents and their children. And by the way, in Ezekiel 16 the Lord says, concerning the children that were being offered to Molech, they were being offered as human sacrifices to the God Molech. He says, they are my children.

In that sense, all children are God’s children. Psalm 127 says, children are a gift from the Lord. Children are a gift from the Lord. In Mark 10, Jesus said, permit the children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. So you have to start with that. The children belong to the Lord, and you’re given the responsibility to steward them for Him, so that you can return them to Him. That’s why you want to raise your child in the nurture, or the discipline, and instruction of the Lord. They belong to Him.

Now, in order to successfully carry out the responsibility of raising children, there are two duties here. One, on the part of the and then on the part of the parents in verse four. And as I said, there’s so much more that can be said. I’m just going to give you an overview with a few select emphases. So let’s look at verse one, the duty of the children. This is obviously children who are old enough to understand obedience and to take responsibility for acting in an obedient way and acting in honour of their parents.

So we’re not talking here about infants. Children is tetechna. There is a Greek word for infants that’s not used here. This is the word of just generally offspring, children. It has reference to anyone, from small children through young people, before they start their own adult life. Any who are still under the care of their parents, all inclusive. And they have two commands. One, obey your parents in the Lord. Obey. Verse two, honour your father and mother. It’s obey and honour. Those go together. Obedience is an action, and honour is an attitude. We’ll say more about that in a moment.

But basic to civilisation, I mean basic to civilisation, is the instruction to children to be obedient. The fifth commandment is to obey your parents, Exodus 20 verse 12. But I don’t know if you recall this. Disobedience to parents was basically a prescription for an execution. In Exodus 21, 15 and 17, and also in Leviticus in verse 9, the death penalty was prescribed for rebellious children. They are a devastation to a society, and so the law of God was severe at the point of child rebellion. The death penalty came with it.

Now the fact that children are to be commanded is Old Testament, to start with. So go back to the book of Proverbs, and let’s just hear a few simple statements. Chapter one, verse eight. Hear my son, your father’s instruction, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. That’s a command. Listen to your father and your mother. Chapter two, my son, verse one. If you will receive my words and treasure my commandments within you, make your ear attentive to wisdom. Incline your heart to understanding. Again a command, my commandments. Chapter three, my son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments.

Chapter four, hear, O sons, the instruction of a father, and give attention that you may gain understanding, for I give you sound teaching, do not abandon my instruction. And then down in verse four, let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live. This is parental duty to command. Chapter five, my son, verse one. Give attention to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding. Chapter seven, again, verse one. My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you, keep my commandments and live. And it goes on like that, instruction to be obedient.

The parent is in the position of the commander. That is parental responsibility, and children are to obey. Now this is a challenging reality, and there’s a good summarization of the challenge of this in Luke chapter two, and it’s related to our Lord. Luke two and verse 52 says concerning Jesus, he kept increasing in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and men. Now without sin, perfectly righteous. As a man, nonetheless, he needed to increase in wisdom, he needed to increase in stature, he needed to increase in favor with God, and to increase in favor with man.

Now these are the four categories in which children develop. Wisdom is mental, stature is physical, favor with men is social, and favor with God is spiritual. Now our children are not perfect, our children are not righteous, they are not sinless like the Son of God. So we have to take on this reprobate that showed up disguised as a tender baby, and we have to understand what we’re dealing with. They have to grow mentally, physically, socially, spiritually, and we have to care for them in all four categories. We teach them how to think, we teach them how to work, we teach them how to relate to people, and we teach them how to relate to God.

We make a place for them in the world in this instruction. This is our responsibility. And I would just emphasize again, the last thing you ever want to do is dull your child’s understanding, dull your child’s responses with medication. You need to see the full force of that child’s fallenness, and parenting is the solution to that. Parenting, you have the responsibility not to somehow tranquilize your child, that accomplishes absolutely nothing. It provides no mental growth, no physical development, no social skills, and no spiritual development at all. This is the challenge of parenting, and it’s being set aside for medication in many, many cases.

And as I said earlier, that should be criminal, that should be disallowed, along with all the horrific transgender puberty blockers and surgeries that are popular. You have a responsibility to your children to see them for what they are, sinful, in need of the Gospel, in need of development that parenting is designed to provide. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of parents seeing your children for who they are. 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 GodIsGovernment.com.

Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way. [tr:trw].