….thinking we are wiser than God. Or maybe it’s because we just aren’t aware of God’s council? No matter, in both cases, there is no excuse. Thinking you are wiser than God is folly, and ignoring the council (the Bible) that is virtually ubiquitous is also folly. Let me say again…there is no excuse. I see it in parents all the time. They withhold discipline. In doing so, they allow the children to rule over them. When they do, they do a disservice to their own children and to themselves as well. Kids need to be trained up by God fearing, and God believing parents. Yes, I said ‘fearing’. Politically incorrect…I know…but truth shouldn’t be political. Truth is truth, no matter what your political affiliation. God is wiser than man, is wiser than YOU. If you don’t believe it, go ahead and do things your way. Please, though, no complaints.
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[Proverbs 23:13] Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die. Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.
[Proverbs 19:18] Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.
[Proverbs 13:24] He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.
[Proverbs 22:15] Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
[Wesley: Have not you been present when a father or mother has said, "My child, do so or so?" The child, without any ceremony, answered peremptorily, "I won't." And the parent quietly passes it by, without any further notice. And does he or she not see, that, by this cruel indulgence, they are training up their child, by flat rebellion against their parents, to rebellion against God? Consequently they are training him up for the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels! Did they duly consider this they would neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, till they had taught him a better lesson, and made him thoroughly afraid of ever giving that diabolical answer again.
Let me reason this case a little farther with you parents that fear God. If you do fear God, how dare you suffer a child above a year old to say, "I ~will do" what you forbid, or, "I ~won't do" what you bid, and to go unpunished? Why do not you stop him at once, that he may never dare to say so again? Have you no bowels, no compassion for your child? No regard for his salvation or destruction? Would you suffer him to curse or swear in your presence, and take no notice of it? Why, disobedience is as certain a way to damnation as cursing and swearing. Stop him, stop him at first, in the name of God. Do not "spare the rod, and spoil the child." If you have not the heart of a tiger, do not give up your child to his own will, that is, to the devil. Though it be pain to yourself, yet pluck your offspring out of the lion's teeth. Make them submit, that they may not perish. Break their will, that you may save their soul.]
Romans 13:1... Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
Daniel chapter 3….When not to submit.
Exodus 20:12 ¶ "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 21:18 ¶ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard." Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
Proverbs 30:11 "There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers; those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth; those whose eyes are ever so haughty, whose glances are so disdainful; those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth, the needy from among mankind.
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1 ¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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1 Timothy 3:4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)
1 Timothy 3:12 A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.
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Isaiah 66:2 Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" declares the LORD. "This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.
Contrite: Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.
Deuteronomy 6:6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.
Proverbs 7:1 ¶ My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Exodus 21:15, 15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.
Exodus 21:17 "Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death."
Leviticus 20:9 “If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood will be on his own head."
Prov. 30:17 "The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures."
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