WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR KIDS?
The consequence of America's parents abandoning our children, who are our sacred trust from God, to the godless public school system was powerfully forecast by the father of the Protestant Reformation:
I AM MUCH AFRAID THAT SCHOOLS WILL PROVE TO BE GREAT GATES OF HELL UNLESS
THEY DILIGENTLY LABOR IN EXPLAINING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, ENGRAVING THEM IN THE HEARTS OF YOUTH. I ADVISE NO ONE TO PLACE HIS CHILD WHERE THE SCRIPTURES DO NOT REIGN PARAMOUNT. EVERY INSTITUTION IN WHICH MEN ARE NOT INCREASINGLY OCCUPIED WITH THE WORD OF GOD MUST BECOME CORRUPT.
Martin Luther
Dr. Luther thus summarized the biblical mandates from God Himself to parents:
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it (Prov. 22:6).
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might (Deut.6:5). And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart (Deut. 6 :6) And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up (Deut.6:7). And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates (Deut.6:9).
It is imperative that "love" is not understood to be a term denoting soft sentimentalism. Rather, it is a full-action mandate from God to all believers known in contemporary terms as "tough love".
This is love, that we walk after His commandments (2 John 6). To make God's definition of love absolutely clear, the Lord exhorts: He that saith, I know [love] him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth [Christ] is not in him (1 John 2:4).
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Prov. 4, 20-23).
Without the Word [truth] of God being instilled in the hearts of youth, they will be no match for the corruption and misery brought by the devil:
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8).
The famous theologian, D. James Kennedy, DD, summed up the consequences of the abandonment by parents of America's school system, which resulted in the disarming (of vigilance) of our youth:
"Little wonder that the Dewey-ite secular humanists who have led education in this country for the past 50 years have helped to produce a veritable slime pit of immorality, drug addiction, sexual perversion, permissiveness, and diseases of every sort...Effects that, according to the eminent educator, Professor Jacques Barzun, have resulted in turning the once proud and efficient public school system of the United States "into a wasteland where violence and vice share the times with ignorance and idleness".
The above described tragedy and travesty to America's youth and school system and to the national security of America itself, is what the Christian home-school associations are desperately attempting to counter.
Sources of quotes upon request, most from the book America - A Call To Greatness
I AM MUCH AFRAID THAT SCHOOLS WILL PROVE TO BE GREAT GATES OF HELL UNLESS
THEY DILIGENTLY LABOR IN EXPLAINING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, ENGRAVING THEM IN THE HEARTS OF YOUTH. I ADVISE NO ONE TO PLACE HIS CHILD WHERE THE SCRIPTURES DO NOT REIGN PARAMOUNT. EVERY INSTITUTION IN WHICH MEN ARE NOT INCREASINGLY OCCUPIED WITH THE WORD OF GOD MUST BECOME CORRUPT.
Martin Luther
Dr. Luther thus summarized the biblical mandates from God Himself to parents:
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it (Prov. 22:6).
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might (Deut.6:5). And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart (Deut. 6 :6) And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up (Deut.6:7). And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates (Deut.6:9).
It is imperative that "love" is not understood to be a term denoting soft sentimentalism. Rather, it is a full-action mandate from God to all believers known in contemporary terms as "tough love".
This is love, that we walk after His commandments (2 John 6). To make God's definition of love absolutely clear, the Lord exhorts: He that saith, I know [love] him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth [Christ] is not in him (1 John 2:4).
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Prov. 4, 20-23).
Without the Word [truth] of God being instilled in the hearts of youth, they will be no match for the corruption and misery brought by the devil:
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8).
The famous theologian, D. James Kennedy, DD, summed up the consequences of the abandonment by parents of America's school system, which resulted in the disarming (of vigilance) of our youth:
"Little wonder that the Dewey-ite secular humanists who have led education in this country for the past 50 years have helped to produce a veritable slime pit of immorality, drug addiction, sexual perversion, permissiveness, and diseases of every sort...Effects that, according to the eminent educator, Professor Jacques Barzun, have resulted in turning the once proud and efficient public school system of the United States "into a wasteland where violence and vice share the times with ignorance and idleness".
The above described tragedy and travesty to America's youth and school system and to the national security of America itself, is what the Christian home-school associations are desperately attempting to counter.
Sources of quotes upon request, most from the book America - A Call To Greatness
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