A The Baptist Deacon

Train up a child.

deaconfarley | April 11, 2008 08:30

Ephesians 6: 1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

What are we teaching our children today? There is an article in our local paper this morning with the headline “14 People cited for underage drinking”.  The youngest was 19 years old a legal adult. They were old enough to know the law and to know that they were breaking it because they were underage. You may think well this happens all the time. There are children younger than 18 that have developed drinking and even drug problems. This does not make it right.

Proverbs 22:6 teaches us to train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Children will follow there parents example(s)! How we live before our children will help to mold and shape them into the adults that they will become. It is our responsibility, not the school teacher or the school system. You can send you children to church and they will learn, but as soon as they get old enough they will not return to the church. Take your children and they may still leave, but they will have a better chance of staying because you took them instead of sent them.

I didn’t attend to go this way this morning. I started out to quote Ephesians 6: 1-3 and then tell you about a conversation I had with my children the other night. We talked about obeying your parents for this is right. I stressed that it is right. It seems that I have to have a talk often with my sons because they tend to not listen to there mother. I try to teach them by example but there are times when a bit more is necessary. I have made the statement more than once that when I stepped out of line I was corrected. It was not child abuse even though I might have thought so at the time. There is a difference between correction and child abuse.

The bottom line; it is your responsibility to teach your children. Do not expect the baby sitter, the day care owner, the School system or anyone else to train your children. It is your responsibility! How do you want them to turn out?

May God Bless You!

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Re: Train up a child.

Frank | 04/11/2008, 20:47

Very interesting, brother. The blog, "Ephesians - Verse by Verse" http://versebyverse.christianblogsites.com/blog/ has a post on verse 6:1 also. I will share with you my comment to her… [Our culture has done more than just "complicate" commands (God's). It has perverted, corrupted, distorted, and changed the Divine imperative. The great assault on children, in my opinion, began in the 50's… at least in this (my) generation. They have since, for the most part, been savagely and overwhelmingly conquered by the world. No one arena proves this more than MySpace.com. Even the (many) so-called "professing" Christians there, especially the very young, are lewd, vulgar, profane, disrespectful, and irreverent. "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof" 2TIM. 3:5. To me, being obedient and complying to the authority of parents goes beyond a (minor) "child's" moral interpretation of what is right or wrong - it is righteousness, or else it is evil.] This "fifties" generation (mine) has grown up to have kids and grandkids. Anyone not shy about "calling a spade a spade" can see discipline, morals, respect and Godliness have gone down the toilet. It is very difficult today, even for a Christian, to raise up children with righteous morality. I'm done raising kids. I'll pray God grants you the wisdom you need.

Train up a child

Brent Farley | 04/12/2008, 06:29

Thank you my brother for you comments and your prayers.

Curious

Frank | 04/12/2008, 21:32

Hi Brent, Isn't it funny how your "Could Be My Last Post" entry has gotten such readership? Have you noticed that the "Most Read" column only has about 10% specifically about Bible/Scripture study? That to me is sad! I hope you don't get thre of theses comments. This is my third try. Peace

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deaconfarley | 04/14/2008, 07:26

deaconfarley You are correct it is sad that only about 10% of the people who post are here for the word of God. No I do not get tired of the comments. I had a busy weekend and was only able to log onto the site once on Saturday morning. My prayer is that those who are here for the word of God are having there souls fed and those who just wonder onto the site are taking something away that might make them think. God Bless you.
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