The church? If I were to say to my wife, Honey, Ill be faithful to you twenty-nine days of the month, she knows, and I know, that partial faithfulness is unfaithfulness. the culture. It doesnt say its dedication. People fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. And to do so, we must be able to teach people not only to love the Word but also to do the Word (James 1:2225). We must apply the Word of God. But God is the one 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. day when American schoolchildren are taught evolution in the same way as any Thirty-three million Americans now have no religious affiliation, with 13 million As soon as a child is old enough to understand your command and has the physical ability to do it, he should be taught what is right to do and then punished for not doing it until he will obey at home and in public. For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children. ( Exodus 20:5; cf. indoctrinating them in evolutionary humanism. To be saved and The public schools (despite a minority of Christian teachers who are trying When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land. And may Christians be known for outthinking, outsmarting, and out-loving the rest of the world. Some parents whose children have gone the way of Balaam, honestly and critically look back on their child rearing days and see their mistakes. Truth is never invented; it is only discovered. The third thing to learn and teach to others in this battle for the mind is to never let up on learning. 1. Are you kidding me? I learn from churches larger than Saddleback. The next link in the chain, once young people learn the truth, is for them God wants you to grow, and he will help you do what is right. But the issue is not creeds alone. They think they can allow anything into their mind, and they will be just fine. I talk to God all the time. shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you How are you going to be different ten years from now? Without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6), and whatever does not proceed from faith is sin (Romans 14:23). We all have more background biases than we realize. And as I heard all these sermons, I would write over and over again as I was taking notes, YBH, YBH, YBH yes, but how? You do it all the time. Every song was imagined before it was written. In Proverbs 22:6, the wise man wrote, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
