In Person Relationships: Parents and Kids

It is a wonderful experience to know you are doing what is right, to have a God called, experienced individual at your side that can help guide you and direct you in Biblical, practical, social issues.

In God’s eyes the children of the home are to answer to their parents for their actions.

Proverbs 22:6 KJV 1900

Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 20:11 KJV 1900

Even a child is known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Children are not the governments responsibility, nor are they the church’s. They are first and foremost the parents.

“who are your parent’s”

“where are supposed to be?”

I must remind you that as an individual that has believed on Jesus Christ as Savior, you are a child of God. And your are God’s responsibility. You answer first and foremost to your Heavenly Father.

Matthew 18:1–4 KJV 1900

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Parents

Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations 2904 How to Raise Delinquents

How to Raise Delinquents

The police department of Houston, Texas, issued a leaflet giving rules for raising delinquent children: (1) Begin with infancy to give the child everything he wants. In this way he will grow up to believe the world owes him a living. (2) When he picks up bad words, laugh at him. This will make him think he’s cute. It will also encourage him to pick up “cuter” phrases that will blow off the top of your head later. (3) Never give him any spiritual training. Wait until he is 21 and then let him “decide for himself”. (4) Avoid use of the word “wrong.” It may develop a guilt complex. This will condition him to believe later, when he is arrested for stealing a car, that society is against him and he is being persecuted.

(5) Pick up everything he leaves lying around—books, shoes, and clothes. Do everything for him so that he will be experienced in throwing all responsibility on others. (6) Let him read any printed matter he can get his hands on. Be careful that the silverware and drinking glasses are sterilized, but let his mind feast on garbage. (7) Quarrel frequently in the presence of your children. In this way they will not be too shocked when the home is broken up later. (8) Give a child all the spending money he wants. Never let him earn his own. Why should he have things as tough as you had them?

—Wesleyan Methodist

The text says “fathers,” because in the first century Greco-Roman culture, the father was the autocratic authority of the home.

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 NKJV

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

He chose the punishment for the child’s misbehavior. And legally his punishment could not be overruled by any other individual or entity.

Paul was warning the fathers that desired to be Christ honoring and a living testimony of God’s grace, that they needed to be careful to use discipline as a tool to correct the child onto a path of righteousness, not onto a path of unwilling submission to ease the father’s circumstances.

The Lord knows how to discipline us.

Hebrews 12:5–7

5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

How to cause people to be angry in a way that brings them to Him.

Romans 10:19

19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

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