Raising Children in Today's Reality

 Don’t fight reality.

You are not likely to change it. Lay a foundation. Give them the Truth to take with them. Show them how to use the shield and the whole armor of God. Equip them with the difference between right and wrong, righteousness and sin. Teach them what genuine compassion really is. What true love really is. If you do not teach them what they need to know, the world will teach them what it wants them to be.

I understand it is very frustrating. You are raising kids in today’s reality. If you believe in God, and you read the Word of God or the Bible, and raise your kids without passing that on, once they leave your house, usually at about age 5, the world will start teaching them what the world wants them to be. When this happens, they will simply accept what the world says and they will start believing what the world says because that is what everyone they are surrounded with, believes.

I really want you to think about this. The world is a confusing and becoming more confusing place based on mental illness, delusion, and sin. Used to be most agreed that God belongs in public education and society. Used to be most believed that marriage was to be between one man and one woman. Used to be that most would agree that biology is correct and if you are born a male you are male and if you are born a female then you are a female. Used to be that most agreed that Homosexuality was against God and nature and not something to be praised, supported, and protected.

We are going to dive into today's reality and how we need to raise our kids to keep them safe and protected by God. The sad truth is, if you do not lay a good enough foundation and or educate your child well enough, you stand little to no chance. They will accept the lies, the delusions, and the sin as good, right, and even in some cases, holy.

The word says this.

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

Our children are a gift from God. Look here.

“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.” Psalm 127:3-5

We read this in Isaiah.

“All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.” Isaiah 54:13

How are our children taught by God? His Word. This {Holding up the Bible} This is how you can have God, teach your children.

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,” 2 Timothy 3:16

It really does not matter what we are talking about. God’s plan for families. God’s plan for us to live. God’s plan for salvation. God’s diet for us. God’s wisdom on, well, anything. What about removing God from schools and society? Is it compassion? Is it just? Is it in the Constitution? Is Abortion murder? Is Homosexuality ok? Is Transgenderism normal and good? What about bestiality? What about pedophilia? Is age just a number? These are the things that we will be discussing coming up here at TAG. Let’s start today with this. Is it really in the Constitution that we must have a “Wall of Separation of Church and State?” NO! First, let’s settle the truth of this matter.

We live in a Nation where we have "One Nation Under God," as a stated belief. "In God We Trust," on our money. Our Declaration of Independence starts out like this.

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

U. S. Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

AMENDMENT I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Today? We do not even know who God is. We have removed Him from our schools. We have forbidden Him in government, and we have forbidden Him in public life. We attack those that have faith in God, and the Gospels, as simpleton, racist, bigoted, chauvinistic, "homophobes." Who are just too stupid to understand what is best for them and the country.

We live in a country where we call sin good, and good sin. We live in a country where we teach our young, that from nothing, came one single cell of something, and from that, came all life as we know it today. Setting aside that the theory of evolution is both scientifically and mathematically impossible, there is no God.

As a nation, we also violate the Ten Commandments daily. So to recap. We violate God's Laws. Remove God from public life. We have stopped teaching Him in our schools. We attack those that are His children and those that believe in Him. We declare "One Nation Under God," and "In God We Trust." Yet, we do all these things, and we wonder WHY there is a moral decline in this country. Seriously?

The problem is, when you remove God, something else will take His place. It was never intended to be this way. It did not need to be this way. No, there is NO “Wall” in the Constitution. Read it again with me.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” Stop. This does not say, “Putting one religion over another.” It does not say, “You cannot have religion in public.” “You cannot teach God in Schools, nor have Prayer in Schools.” NO!!! Many of the founding fathers were Christian. Christianity is a part of our country’s heritage.

In John Quincy Adams’ 4th of July address, Adams is speaking to the fact that the United States is the only nation in history established by mostly Christian people, founded upon Biblical principles.

“Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? – that it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? – that it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?”

While most of us remember Patrick Henry for seven little words, “Give me liberty or give me death!” He said this as well.

“Righteousness alone can exalt [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others… the great pillars of all government and of social life: I mean virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.”

John Adams made this statement in an October 13, 1789 address to the military.

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

So what about that “Wall” Thomas Jefferson was a big supporter of religious liberty. Because of this, he made sure that church and state stayed separate in American politics. He said this.

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

He advocated for this “Wall” to be there to protect the church from the federal government. Not the federal government from the church. In Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, he wrote this now infamous line.

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ʺmake no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,ʺ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation on behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”

The whole purpose of this “Wall” was to prevent the Federal Government to create and or take over religion and force with laws on the people of this country to follow what the “religion" or “Church” says. Remember that of which we fled to come here. Remember why we founded this country, to begin with. Religious FREEDOM!

As a matter of fact, the government removing God from school and trying to remove Him from society is actually AGAINST that constitution. Against this very clause that so many like to point to ignorant of the point that it is actually, “prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

What happens when you remove God? You get what we have now. A moral decline in this country. In this series, we will be looking at this moral decline and the “reality” of society today, and how we must live and raise our children. Without God? Without His Word? Without Jesus? We do not stand a chance. Neither do our children. Remember, whosoever controls the youth, controls the future. If you believe that Jesus is the answer and is needed in your life, then say this Prayer. Right now. Wherever you may be. Say it in your own words, and do not doubt in your heart. God will hear you. He will send the Spirit of Life to you. Let us Pray.

"Oh heavenly Father, Lord God. I am a sinner. I know this. I know there is nothing I can do to change that. But I know you can. I accept Jesus's sacrifice for me. I believed He rose from the dead. I repent my sins. Please send the Spirit of Adoption into my life. Help me to get to know the real you. Save me. Please. In the name of Jesus, Amen!"

That's it. It really is that simple. Now go tell someone what you have just done. "That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in your heart that God hath raised him from the dead, You shall be saved." Romans 10:9. You need to find a Church that God leads you to and be Baptized the way Jesus said to be. You are now a Child of God. A New Creature. You "have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him."Colossians 3:10

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May the comfort of the Holy Ghost, and the peace of our Lord Jesus, be with you all. May God bless and be with you, always.

Until next time, be blessed, be a blessing, and Jesus is Lord!