Not be angered by anything in the sermon or offended, but that rather they would take
to heart the truth, the words of God, the true things that are being taught here from
the Bible.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Now I want to focus on a few verses that we've read here in Proverbs chapter 22.
Look at verse number 6.
I'm going to show you about three or four verses that I want to emphasize.
Bible says in verse number 6, train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old
he will not depart from it.
Boy, isn't that a great promise from the Bible?
Isn't that a great promise that God gives us when it comes to child rearing?
Look at verse number 8, the Bible says, he that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity, and
the rod of his anger shall fail.
Look down if you would at verse number 15, the Bible reads, foolishness is bound in the
heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
So we see a lot of talk in this chapter about raising your children, training up your children,
rearing your children.
God says here in verse number 15 that a child is born foolish.
Isn't that right?
I mean children aren't born with wisdom, knowing what is right and wrong, knowing how to act,
knowing how to live.
They must be trained up how they should go or else the foolishness will rule them.
Now it says here that the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
What's it talking about?
It's talking about spanking.
It's talking about discipline.
It's talking about spanking them with a rod.
But then in verse number 8 he says the rod of his anger shall fail.
You see, people who don't use a physical rod to spank their children and to raise their
children, what do they use?
They use the rod of anger, right?
Think about kids.
Think about it.
You're out in public, right?
You can tell the people who don't spank their kids because they scream at their kids, right?
Parents who don't spank their kids scream at their kids.
I'd scream at their kids too, the way they're acting, but that's often the alternative.
And God says it's going to fail.
It doesn't work.
Stealing at your children is never taught in the Bible.
It's never helpful to scream at a child.
The Bible doesn't teach that anywhere.
Now this is what we're talking about this morning.
And before we get into the message, let me give you one more verse.
The Bible says in 1 Timothy 6, 10, you don't have to turn there, but just take this to
heart.
Let this sink down into your ears.
For the love of money is the root of all evil.
Okay, now when God makes these kind of superlative statements, he isn't just lightly throwing
them out there.
When God says all, he means all.
And he says in the Bible here, the love of money is the root of all evil.
He doesn't say money's the root of all evil.
There's nothing bad about money.
But he said the love of money is the root cause behind any evil in this world.
You can trace it back where money, someone loving money is involved.
We're going to talk this morning, this is the title of my sermon, ADHD is the title
of my sermon.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is the title of my sermon, ADD or ADHD.
Let me, by way of introduction, read to you something from the National Institute for
Mental Health, which is a government agency of the United States of America, okay, nimh.gov
is the website.
This is the government's website.
This is your tax dollars, they're putting this website on the internet.
This is not information off some kookish website.
This is the government's information on ADHD.
This is what they say.
And bear with me for the first part of the sermon as I read this information to you,
and listen carefully, obviously it's not as interesting as the Bible, but it says here,
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, parentheses, ADHD, is a condition that becomes
apparent in some children in the preschool and early years.
It's hard for these children to control their behavior and or pay attention.
It is estimated that between three and five percent of children have ADHD, or approximately
two million children in the United States.
Now remember that figure, okay?
They're saying that they're estimating three to five percent of all children have this
disease of ADHD, and that accounts to two million children.
Well, that means that in a classroom of 25 to 30 children it's likely that at least one
will have ADHD.
Diagnosis.
This is how you can make the diagnosis whether your child has ADHD, according to the government.
Some parents see signs of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity in their toddler long before
their child enters school.
Listen to the first example.
The child may lose interest in playing a game or watching a TV show.
So this is how you know if your child has ADHD.
If they don't want to just sit in front of the TV and watch TV, if they don't want to
just sit and rock their brain in front of the garbage that's on TV, if they actually
want to get up and go do something, Johnny, sit down and watch the TV.
And he gets up and wants to go play outside, he may have ADHD.
Listen to how stupid this is.
Some parents see signs of inattention.
The child may lose interest in playing a game or watching a TV show, or may run around
completely out of control.
But because children mature at different rates and are very different in personality, temperament,
and energy levels, it's useful to get an expert's opinion of whether the behavior is appropriate
for the child's age.
Parents can ask their child's pediatrician or a child psychologist or psychiatrist to
assess whether their toddler has an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
This is the government's website, okay, so, uh, Doc, is it normal for my child to run
out around out of control?
Or do they have ADHD?
Can you imagine going to the pediatrician, is this normal?
My son runs around out of control screaming, he tears things apart, he breaks things, is
that normal?
He won't watch TV, I try to get him to watch TV, I try to put him in front of TV, he won't
watch it.
Is he normal?
No, he's not.
He has ADHD.
Disorders, here are some disorders, and this is the introduction of the sermon, disorders
that sometimes accompany ADHD.
Tourette syndrome, who's ever heard of Tourette syndrome?
And this is right off their website, you can look at this when you get home.
A very small proportion of people with ADHD have a neurological disorder called Tourette
syndrome.
People with Tourette syndrome have various nervous ticks and repetitive mannerisms, such
as eye blinks, facial twitches, or grimacing.
Disorders may clear their throats frequently.
Snort, sniff, or bark out words.
These behaviors can be controlled with medication.
Can you believe this?
They bark out words, they snort, they sniff, give them drugs.
Okay, listen to this.
It says, while very few children have this syndrome, many of the cases of Tourette syndrome
have been associated with ADHD.
In such cases, both disorders often require treatment that may include medications.
Now, you've heard of Tourette syndrome, you've seen people who walk down the street, and
I've seen these non-violent offenders in Orangevale, California, they would walk down the street
and scream profanity.
Have you ever walked in a downtown area and somebody will walk by you just barking and
snorting out cuss words one after the other, just blankety, blank, blank?
You will know that if you read the Bible as being demon possessed.
People who are out of their mind, blurting out strange things, and blurting out cursing,
they're demon possessed.
They don't have Tourette syndrome.
Tourette syndrome does not exist.
It's called being demon possessed.
Here's another one, and this one cracks me up.
Forgive me for laughing.
It's not funny, but it's funny that anybody actually believes this stuff.
Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
I like this one, ODD.
Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
Listen to this one.
As many as one-third to one-half of all children with ADHD, mostly boys, have another condition
known as Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
These children are often defiant, stubborn, non-compliant, have outbursts that temper
or become belligerent.
They argue with adults and refuse to obey.
Duh, that's every child.
How about this one?
Conduct Disorder.
This is the next one.
About 20 to 40 percent of ADHD children may eventually develop Conduct Disorder, CD.
That's what CD stands for.
I was wondering about that.
A more serious pattern of antisocial behavior.
These children frequently lie or steal, fight, bully others, or get in trouble at school
or with the police.
They violate the basic rights of other people, are aggressive toward people and animals,
destroy property, break into people's homes, commit thefts, carry or use weapons, or engage
in vandalism.
They're not criminals.
They just have Compliance Disorder.
They just have Conduct Disorder.
They need drugs is what they need.
That says here, these children or teens are at greater risk for substance use, experimentation,
and later dependence and abuse.
They need immediate help.
The treatment of ADHD.
This is the next section in this article.
And remember, this is from the government's website.
The treatment of ADHD.
Medications that seem to be most effective are a class of drugs known as stimulants.
Following is a list of the stimulants, their trade or brand names, and their generic names.
Approved age means that the drug has been tested and found safe and effective in children
of that age.
Adderall, generic name, amphetamine, three years and older.
You listen to this?
Ritalin, methylphenidate, six and older.
Siler, pemaline, six and older.
Dexedrine, dextro amphetamine, three and older.
Dextrostat, dextro amphetamine, three and older.
And I'm not going to read the whole list, it's a very long list.
Ritalin, methylphenidate, six and older.
Ritalin SR, Ritalin LA, on and on.
Listen to this.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a medication for ADHD that is not
a stimulant.
Okay.
And what they're saying is 99% of the drugs that they give to kids with ADHD are stimulants.
This new drug, Strattera, works on the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, listen to this, whereas the
stimulants primarily work on dopamine, period.
Now did that word sound familiar to you?
Dopamine?
Have you ever heard of somebody taking dope?
People being a dope-head?
You know where that word comes from?
Dopamine.
Dopamine is a chemical that's released in your body.
Now I want you to understand this, and you say, why are you preaching all this?
Look, I'll get to the Bible.
Hold your horses.
I use more Bible than any church that I've ever been to, okay?
Let me rant and rave for a little while first.
The stimulants work primarily on dopamine.
Dopamine is a chemical that's released in your body that goes to what's called the reward
center of your brain, okay?
If you smoke marijuana, if you snort cocaine, if you take morphine, if you take Vicodin,
if you take codeine, if you take morphine injections, if you take heroin, is another
extreme example of this, these go to the reward center of your brain and make you feel high.
They make you feel good.
That's why it's called dope.
That's why people who take it are called dope-heads, okay?
This is what Ritalin is working on.
This is the premise that these stimulants are working on.
They're going to the neurological reward center of the brain and releasing chemicals in their
body exactly the same as taking street drugs.
That's what it is.
It's the same stuff by their own admission.
Listen to this.
Off-label use.
Sometimes the doctor may...
Now, remember, all of these were set up to start at age six, except a few that were age
three and older.
Ritalin starts at age six.
Sometimes the doctor may prescribe for a young child a medication that has been approved
by the FDA for use in adults or children.
This use of the medication is called off-label.
Many of the newer medications that are proving helpful for child mental disorders are prescribed
off-label because only a few of them have been systematically studied for safety and
efficacy in children.
Medications that have not undergone such testing are dispensed with the statement, safety and
efficacy have not been established in pediatric patients.
You say, what does that mean, Pastor Anderson?
This is what it means.
They give it to children that are under six all the time, and it's totally legal for them
to give it to kids that are under six.
They just have to hand them a statement that says, it's never been tested.
Here you go.
Even though technically it's not supposed to start until age six, they do it all the
time.
Let me read you one more thing before I get into the sermon.
Physicians concerned about Ritalin being forced on school children by Linda Kirk, M.A., L.P.C.,
B.C.I.A., C.Q.E.
These are all her degrees.
I'm not even going to read all of these letters.
It's like the whole alphabet.
This woman is a physician who has a lot of credibility, apparently.
Dare to say no to drugs.
How many times have you seen the familiar black t-shirt with the red logo on our elementary
school kids?
I've always smiled as I thought, I'm so glad to see that we're educating our kids about
drugs at this crucial age.
Now I shake my head in disbelief and wonder at the irony as I read the recent chilling
report of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the use of Ritalin and other
psychotropic drugs...
I don't know if you know what that word means.
I've studied that word psychotropic.
It's like L.S.D.
It's considered a psychotropic drug.
It says other psychotropic drugs have increased two to three fold in the years 1991 to 1995
among two to four year olds.
The package insert for Ritalin, however, states Ritalin should not be used in children under
six years old since safety and efficacy in this age group has not been established.
The JAMA article was not the first critique of Ritalin treatment for the attention deficit
disorder.
As early as 1973, the U.S. Congress began holding hearings on the overuse of stimulant
drugs in our nation's schools.
Twenty-five years ago, there were over 200,000 children using Ritalin and other amphetamines
to treat ADHD.
Ironically, today in our public schools, which are being promoted as drug-free zones, many
of our students are routinely being given legal, mind-altering drugs.
These current estimates are that an excess of six million children are taking Ritalin
on a daily basis.
Did you hear that?
Now remember, at the beginning of their website, how many kids did they say were estimated
have ADHD?
Two million.
Now on the same page, I didn't even click to a different web, this is the same page,
you know, linked me over to this, now they're saying six million children are taking Ritalin
on a daily basis.
It says here, nearly 90% of all Ritalin sales worldwide are in the United States.
Did you know that kids are forced on Ritalin in public school?
Did you hear the title of the article?
Physicians concerned about Ritalin being forced on school children.
Can you believe that?
Forcing a psychotropic drug, forcing a mind-altering drug on a child that's two to four years old,
five, six, seven, eight, nine years old.
Why?
Because they run around uncontrolled.
Why?
Because they can't sit still and pay attention.
Why?
Because they're running around and wild and out of control and they're naughty and they're
disobedient and they've got defiance disorder where somebody tells them to do something
and they say, no, I'm not going to do it.
What are you going to do about it?
So let's force them on dope.
Let me give you, I think about the world that we're living in, isn't that amazing?
That's the United States of America.
Let me give you the three causes that I see, the real causes of what we would call ADHD,
which does not exist.
I'll say it point blank, out in the open, ADHD does not exist, period.
That is just an unequivocal statement.
I'm not putting any disclaimer with that.
There is no such thing as ADD.
It's a lie out of hell to force kids on dope.
You know, when I was a kid, I would have been put on this.
I was a wild kid.
My kids are wild.
Have you been to my house and watched my kids in the backyard?
They run around out of control.
They're wild.
Now they're sitting still in church this morning, but they are the wildest kids I've ever known
in my life.
I mean, when I was a kid, I was wild.
You know, I was talking, I was talking to Scott Carpenter, you know, I was over there
in Ohio and this is what he said about ADHD.
He said, when I was young, they used to just call that being a hard, that guy's a hard
worker.
You know, these people who have all this energy and run around and stuff, because they said
as soon as that guy would get hired at a job, he was working really fast and would work
hard and everything.
They used to call it being a hard worker, where I came from.
I liked that.
And I remember when I was a kid, I was wild.
I was out of control.
I had a lot of energy.
That's why I'm a leader right now, okay?
Because kids sometimes that are a little bit wild, they don't just take every brainless
thing that they're taught in the public school system, they don't just mindlessly
receive everything that's put to them on a TV screen, they think outside the box that
government wants to dope them up, so that they won't do anything, so that they'll
just mindlessly fall in line and mindlessly listen to what they're being taught in that
public school system.
I'm going to tell you something.
If there were two, before I get into the message, I'm still in the introduction, if
there were two institutions that I would control in this country, if you wanted to run this
country, two things you control.
Is it the House of Representatives and the Senate?
No.
Is it the White House and the Governor's Mansion?
No.
It'd be two things.
It'd be the public school system and the media.
If you control the public school system and the media, you would control the minds of
the United States of America, and the public school system and the media are both controlled
by radical liberals and homosexuals, that's a fact.
Number one cause for ADHD, which doesn't exist, but what is known as ADHD, is number
one, a lack of biblical discipline, which is spanking.
Look in the Bible.
Are you still in the book of Proverbs?
Look over, if you would, to chapter number 23.
You're in chapter 22.
We saw that foolishness is bound in the heart of a child.
I think probably more than three to five percent kids have ADHD.
I think it's probably more like 90 percent of kids have ADHD that I've known.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, period.
That's what God says.
But the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
Well, in our day, when people are compromising the Bible, trying to pervert and change what
the Bible says, I've been increasingly confronted with people who said, when the Bible talks
about sparing the rod and the rod of correction, it's not talking about spanking, it's talking
about the shepherd's rod.
And the shepherd, he had this big cane with a little hook on the end of it, and he would
take the sheep and pull it in the right way and lead it, and the rod was just a tool he
used for leading.
Well, let's see what, let's look at a more unequivocal verse here.
Chapter 23, verse 13.
The Bible reads, Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest him with the
rod.
Hey, maybe it does have a hook on the end of it, I don't know.
But whatever it is, pick it up and beat the child with the rod.
That's what the Bible says.
It says, beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
Look at verse 14.
Thou shalt beat.
Put that, do you have the Ten Commandments on the wall in your house?
Add number 11, underneath, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not
commit adultery, thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, thou shalt not
covet, take a pencil and write in, thou shalt beat him with the rod.
The eleventh commandment, my friend, thou shalt beat him with the rod and it shall deliver
his soul from hell.
Look if you would at verse number 24, chapter 13, go back to chapter 13 in Proverbs.
Proverbs 13, 24, the Bible reads, He that spareth his rod, listen to the strong language
that God uses here.
Proverbs 23, I'm sorry, Proverbs 13, 24.
He that spareth his rod, hateth his son.
Did you hear that?
He that spareth his rod, hateth his son, but he that loveth him, chasteneth him betimes.
The word betimes means early, look it up in the dictionary, it has one definition, early.
He that loveth him, chasteneth him betimes.
You see, if you love your child, you say, you know, spanking is abuse.
God says if you love your child, you're going to beat your child.
If you hate your child, you'll let them do whatever they want.
If you hate your child, you'll force them on dope, is what he's saying.
If you love the child, spank the child.
Now a lot of people, you say, why does God keep using the word beat?
I mean, beat him with the rod?
Now in 2007, when we hear the word beat, you know, we think of somebody taking their fist
and bam, you know.
That's not what God's saying.
God's not talking about a baseball pad like we would think of a beating.
But at the same time, I don't think we should ever change the Bible.
Should we ever change what God's, we shouldn't change that, well, what he means is spank.
That's not what he said, he said beat, okay.
Now he doesn't mean a beating like with your fist or with a baseball bat, he said beat
him with the rod.
I believe that God has designed a place on the human body to receive the beating, okay.
He put extra padding there so that a child could receive the beating in this particular
area.
I don't believe in hitting your kids and pummeling them, use the area that God designed for the
beating.
Now look, tell me if this, tell me if you would describe this as a beating, okay.
No, no Johnny.
Now does that sound like a beating to you?
No.
This is the way most people spank their kids.
This is the way most Christians spank their kids.
I can't even feel that.
I mean, literally.
And you say, why are you being like, look, I have to break it down because a lot of people
don't understand what I'm talking about.
So I'm trying to make it very clear and very simple for people, because a lot of people
think that this is spanking, come here son, come on up here Isaac, look at this, did that
hurt?
No.
He doesn't, he's smiling, he's happy, he likes it, okay, look, hey, a little pat, a
little pat on the behind is not biblical discipline.
It's not a real spanking.
It's worthless.
It's a joke.
Have you ever seen parents spank their kids and then the kid smiles at them and laughs
in their face?
I've seen it many times.
When I spank my kids, they're never laughing and they're never smiling.
When I was spanked growing up, no, I didn't smile for a few hours when I was growing up
in the kind of spanks that I got, okay.
That is not a spanking, this is not a spanking, a little pat on the behind, you wait, look,
I've seen parents who spank their kids 25 times in one day.
If you're spanking your kid 25 times, you know, maybe when you just start spanking,
you might have to do that, but if you're spanking your kids perennially 25 times a day, 15 times
a day, you're doing something wrong, because if you spank them correctly, it should last
a little while.
I mean, when I got spanked, you know, I got spanked by my mom growing up a lot, but when
my dad spanked me, I was good for days.
For days I was just, I remember just thinking, what must I do, what do I have to do, Lord,
what will they have me to do?
I just wanted to be perfect for a couple days, because I dreaded and feared the next spanking.
But even my mom's spankings, I feared my mom's spankings enough to where I said, I better
not do this, because I don't want that spanking.
Let me show you the right kind of spanking, okay?
This is called a belt, okay?
This is made out of leather.
This is something that I have with me every day, all the time.
I never don't have a belt, I always wear a belt, okay?
Well sometimes when my kids act up, I take off my belt, and I take my belt and I fold
it in half like this, and I hold the buckle in one hand, and the other end of the belt
in the other hand, and this is how I spank my kids, like this, okay?
That is a real spanking.
Now I'm not going to demonstrate it on Isaac, because he's being a good boy right now.
There's a big difference.
No, I'm not going to spank anyone in the audience either.
Look, the reason I'm illustrating this to you is because you have to spank a spanking.
The goal is never to injure your child.
God never says he wants you to injure your child.
I don't injure my children.
But the goal is to inflict pain, that's the whole point of a spanking, not injury.
You don't want them to be injured, but you want them to feel a sharp, stinging sensation
of pain.
Now, this is going to save them from the pain that they're going to feel their whole life
from living the life of sin, from living the life of debauchery, living the life of no
rules.
Who's heard about this Paris Hilton thing, right?
It's in the news every day, right?
It's on the cover.
I don't have a TV, I don't listen to this, but you can't help but see it just on every
newspaper, and I see it every time I turn on the internet and the news stories come
up.
It's not fair!
It's not right!
It's not fair!
It's just not fair!
It's not fair!
whole life and they never find a boundary. Nobody ever tells them no. Nobody ever punishes
them for what they've done. And the first time in their life they find a boundary is
when they're 14 years old and the policeman finally shows them a boundary and says no
and they end up going to jail and actually getting some real punishment. It's the first
punishment they've had in their whole life because mom and dad didn't correct it. You
say it's abusive to spank your kids. Hey, it's abusive not to spank your kids because
you're destroying their life. You're setting them up for a life of pain and misery and
hurting. Hey, the Bible says the way of transgressors is hard. Have you ever heard somebody say
about a woman? They say, boy, she looks like she's lived a hard life. Have you ever heard
somebody make that statement? Hey, the way of transgressors is hard. The sinful, ungodly
lifestyle of a person who has no boundaries, no right and wrong, they've never been punished
for what they've done. Hey, it's a hard life. I don't want my kids to go down that hard
road. I want them to go down the life of blessing and life and joy and peace so I'm
going to spank them with the belt. Yes. Why? Because I want them to grow up and love God
and live a happy life and I thank God that I'm standing here. I'm 25 years old. I thank
God for every time I was spanked growing up. Every time my mom and dad spanked me, I praise
the Lord for it. Why? Because that was the time when they said I love you. That's what
it was. Every time my parents spanked me, I measured the love that my parents had for
me by how many spankings I got growing up. That's how I measured the love. Your mom loved
you a lot, didn't she? I could tell by your face. Oh, some of us have been more loved
than others in life. And so spanking, God says, is a sign of love. Spanking, He said,
let me use a word just because I know you're going to be a pansy about it. Let me just
use the word beat. Beat him with the rod. Thou shalt beat. Boy, that judge that got
thrown out for having to take commandments, he should have had that on the wall. Thou
shalt beat. Then he really would have got kicked out fast. The Bible says on and on
throughout the Bible, you know, he that spareth his rod, hated his son, spare the rod, spoil
the child. You've heard people say that. What's it mean to spoil? It means to ruin them, to
destroy them. You know, attention deficit disorder. And I want to tell you another thing
quickly before I move on from that point. Look at chapter 22 again and look at verse
number, you know, I'm having trouble finding the verse. I'll just quote it to you. Oh,
no, here it is. I'm sorry. Verse chapter 29, verse 15. Sorry about that. Chapter 29, verse
15, the Bible says the rod and reproof give wisdom. What's reproof? Reproof is when you
say no. That's what reproof means. Reproving someone is when they do something and you
say no, you're wrong. Change. It says the rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left
to himself bringeth his mother to shame. It's funny, my wife is from Germany. When she first
came to the United States and she heard about attention deficit disorder, ADD, this is what
she thought it meant. She thought it meant that the kid is not getting enough attention.
In reality, they mean that the kid can't pay attention. He can't stay focused. He wants
to run around and play like a normal kid. She thought it meant attention deficit, like
he's suffering from an attention deficit. People aren't spending time with him. And
people laughed at her and said, it's silly. That's not what it means. But really that
is what it is. You know, the parents are spending the time with the child. They're too lazy
to take the time to discipline and beat the child. They're not taking the time to train
up the child, to spend time with the child, to sit down and explain things to the child,
to teach the child right and wrong, to bring the child to church. You say, why should I
come to church Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night? So your kids will be
there Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night? That's a pretty good reason. Because
every time you lay out at church, the kids aren't in church. And so get your kids to
church and take the time to teach them and to train them yourself. Don't rely on church.
And take the time to spank your children. Take time to be with your children. A child
left to himself who has an attention deficit is going to bring his mother to shame. So
number one reason I see attention deficit disorder is number one, it's a lack of biblical
discipline. It's timeouts. We never use timeouts, ever. We never ground our kids. I'm never
going to ground them as teenagers. I was never grounded growing up. My parents never grounded
me. All the other kids around us were getting grounded, never got grounded one time. I didn't
know what it meant to be grounded. I mean, it never happened. It was just always a spanking.
It was always God's method of discipline in my house when I was growing up. That's the
way it is in my house. No timeouts, no groundation, biblical discipline. Spankings, spank them,
and then you know what? I don't bring it up to them. I don't say, I'm mad at you. I don't
get angry. I don't yell at them. I just spank them, and five seconds later I'm smiling and
everything's fine, and we can move on. That's Bible discipline. Take care of the problem
and be done with it. Don't hold a grudge, don't yell, don't be angry, but just deal
with the problem, discipline them, move on. But number two, here's the number two reason
why attention deficit disorder affects so many children. Number one was lack of biblical
discipline. Number two, overstimulation by television, movies, video games, rock music,
flashing images, et cetera. That's part of the problem. You wonder why kids can't sit
still in church. You wonder why kids can't sit still in front of a book. You wonder why
kids can't behave and listen in school. You wonder why kids run around and act like a
monster and act like an animal. I'll tell you why. Because they're constantly overstimulated
by all the flashing images. Have you ever turned on one of these child cartoon stations?
It's unbelievable. The flashing images changing every two or three seconds. All the bright
colors, all the loud noises, and everything is just loud, loud, loud, loud, loud. You
say, stop it, you're annoying me. Hey, it's annoying these shows. That's what I'm talking
about. Here, let me demonstrate overstimulation. Let me overstimulate you. You want to listen
to that all day? That's what their music's like? That's what their TV is like? Hey, I
only expect you to listen to screaming three times a week for an hour. Hey, they listen
to it all day long. Their music is screaming, beating drums, loud, rambunctious music. They
go to the gas station, it's loud music. They go to school. I remember on the public school
playground they blasted rock music when I was a kid. Lunch time, blasting rock music.
Watch the TV, it's flashing images, explosions, blah, blah, blah. Overstimulation, flashing
images. That's what the Bible says. Be still and know that I'm God. Be still and know that
I'm God. You know, many times God speaks in a still, small voice, the Bible says. But
we live in a society that just overstimulates your senses all the time. You wonder why a
child can't sit down and read a book with white pages and black ink is because all they're
ever used to is bright colors, flashing, loud, extreme everything. That's why they don't
know how to be quiet. That's not why they don't know how to sit down. The Bible says
in Romans 1.20, for the invisible things of Him, talking about God, from the creation
of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even as eternal
power and God heads so that they're without excuse. God says you can look at the natural
world. You can look at God's creation and you can learn something about God. You can
go out into the forest, you can go out into the desert, you can go to the ocean and sit
down and quietly contemplate and look around, look up at the stars, look at the nature and
God says you will learn something about God. Isn't that what the Bible said? It says
that His power and His God are understood by the things that are made. Where in nature
do you find these kind of loud, extreme, flashing, you know you try to take these kids
that have ADHD, try and take them to the zoo. They can't just sit and look at the animals
and enjoy it. They can't just go to the aquarium and just look at the fish and just
walk around and enjoy the nature. They can't just go on a long drive and look out the window
and see and enjoy the natural world. Why? Because they're so blasted, their senses
all the time with loud noises, flashing images, they're overstimulated. That's why they
have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. What mom and dad need to do, number one, spank.
Number two, turn off the TV, turn off the wild music, sit down and read with their kids,
take their kids on a walk. You say, well that's work. It's work, yes, that's why
people don't do it because they're lazy. Take them on a walk, take them to the nature
park, take them to the zoo, take them to the aquarium, take them somewhere where they
can see something and learn something about God, where they can learn to be still and
know that I am God as God said. But not only that, number three, first we saw a lack of
biblical discipline. Number two, we saw overstimulation by TV, movies, video games, rock music, flashing
images. Let me say something about video games. Do I think it's a sin to play Pac-Man? I don't.
I do think it's a sin to watch what's on TV because of the ungodliness. But I'll
tell you something, I don't think that Millipede is a sin. I don't think Mrs. Pac-Man
is a sin. I don't think that Missile Command is a sin. I know I'm talking about the
really old games because some of the games nowadays are a sin. So I'm having to go
back to the good clean games of Pac-Man, Mrs. Pac-Man, Eat and Run. Do you remember these?
Millipede, Centipede, Missile Command, come on, pole position, right? Does anybody know
what I'm talking about? You know that you're just driving on the road and stuff like that.
I was at a pizza place in Los Angeles with my son Solomon. We stopped and went to my
favorite pizza place in the world, Round Table Pizza. It's only in California though. Really
good pizza. Round Table Pizza, there's nothing like it. I've searched and tried to find
something here that doesn't exist. There's one in Arizona, it's in Yuma. It's only
Round Table in Arizona of all places. Well we sat down at Round Table Pizza, we ate some
pizza together, and it was just me and Solomon. And I looked over and there were video games.
And one of the video games was pole position. Nothing bad, I mean it's just a road and
a car. And I thought to myself, you know, maybe I'll just let Solomon, he'd really
enjoy sitting down and playing some pole position. You know, I grew up playing it, but you know
I didn't have him play it. Now would it be a sin to play pole position? No. Would I have
liked to go over and sit down and play pole position? I could have played it for hours.
I used to love video games growing up. But there's a reason why I never play video games.
Never. Never, never, never. My kids have never played video games. There's a reason why.
Because I'm just trying to teach them not to just sit down and stare at a screen all
day and pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Because video games are too fun. They're
too fun. They suck you in and you waste your life in front of a computer screen. And I
don't want my kids to get all overstimulated where everything is about racing a car all
the time, blowing things up all the time, just wild flashing loud images. I'm trying
to teach them to understand that you don't have to have all that to have fun. My kids
know how to have fun by playing outside, by running around, by swinging on the swing set,
by looking at nature, by doing things that are productive and right and clean. I don't
want to even introduce them into the world of video games. Not everything has to be just,
well, is it a sin or not? Is it wrong or not? I don't go through life wondering whether
things are a sin or not. I don't sit there and ask myself before I do something, hmm,
is this a sin or technically am I allowed to do this? No. I go through my life trying
to be the best that I can be. Not trying to be as close to the line of what's wrong. I
try to go through life saying what would be the best thing for me to do right now? Not
what clothing can I wear that's not wrong, that's not a sin. I think what's the best
possible clothing that I could wear right now? What's the best activity I could do with
my son? Not just what's not a sin, not what would God approve of, but what would God think
is the greatest thing for me to do? That's the way you got to go through life. And so
just because it's not a sin doesn't mean that I want to do it. Paul said all things are
lawful unto me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful unto me, but all things
edify not. And so that's why I just wanted to bring that up about overstimulation. Part
of the reason why my kids can sit still and behave is because I don't let them watch
all this loud, boisterous stuff, all the flashing and rah, rah, rah all the time. I teach them
to enjoy things that are a little more normal than that. But number three, I think that
the problem with why we have so much ADHD is that church and school programs cater to
a short attention span. They've thrown up their hands, the school, the church has thrown
up their hands and said, well, and I've heard it said, I heard it in Bible college, I heard
it in churches my whole life, well these kids, I mean, they watch the TV all day, they listen
to rock music all day, that's what we're competing with, so we got to be just as wild, just as
loud, just as flashy for these kids because that's what we're competing with. And so you
get on the bus and it's just ahhh, you know, the music, don't sing the old hymns in the
junior church, what do they do? They sing the wild, loud, somewhere in outer space God
has prepared a place for them who trust Him and obey, false doctrine by the way, trust
Him and obey or believe on Jesus Christ. Jesus will come again and though we don't know when,
the countdown's getting lower every day, ten and nine, eight and seven, you say, is that
a bad song? I'm not saying that these kids' songs are necessarily bad songs, but what
we've done in our churches is we've catered, we've dumbed down the service for kids. My
kids are right now in an adult preaching service, right? They're sitting in the front row, they're
listening to every word I'm saying and I'll guarantee they are learning a lot more than
if they were in some little kid's class somewhere. You say, why don't you have Sunday school
class for kids? Is it because you're too small? Because we don't have the laborers, we don't
have the workers to do it? That's not why. We will never have Sunday school classes for
kids in this church. We will never have Sunday school classes for kids in this church. Our
kids will always be listening to preaching by a preacher, adult preaching by a man who's
preaching like a preacher, not some little dumbed down Sunday school class. Now don't
get offended with what I'm going to say right now, but the Bible says, train up a child
in the way he should go and when he's old he'll not depart from it. Let me illustrate
something to you, and I don't want you to take this the wrong way when I explain this
to you. I'm not saying that Sunday school classes are bad or that the kids' songs are
bad or that the junior church is bad and horrible, but let me just illustrate to you something.
I just want to open your mind to something. Can you just think about this if I put this
out there for you? But you know, in the 1960s when we had the children's Sunday school big
movement and all these big Sunday school programs came out back in the 1960s, all the children
who went to those classes, they didn't get preaching like you're getting right now. This
preaching is not geared toward children, is it? Are any of my messages geared toward children?
No, I mean it's just Bible preaching. I mean a child could definitely profit from the things
I'm preaching, but it's just Bible preaching. Is the music program here at Faithful Ward
Baptist Church geared toward children? No, it's the hymns out of the hymn book. But when
you have, in the 1960s you have all these children's churches and junior churches and
Sunday school and take the kids out of the service, put the babies in the nursery, put
the kids in the children's class, well, what do you have? A bunch of wild music like I
brought up. Well, what do those kids, now that they're adults, what do they want? What
does that generation want? They grew up in the 1960s. Well, what does 99% of churches
in America in 2007 have? Wild, loud, flashing music. Isn't that the truth? Go to the average
Baptist church, go to the average community church, it's all the loud, radical music.
The music at the liberal church is more similar to what was going on in the Sunday school
40 years ago than it was to what was going on in the adult service 40 years ago when
they were singing the same songs that we sung this morning. Think about the short sermon.
In the kids' classes, they always had a shorter sermon. And I know what I'm talking about
because before I started this church, you know what I was doing two months before I
started this church? I was teaching a class of kids ages 7 through 10 for three years
straight every Sunday. Inner city kids from the worst ghetto in America, the murder capital
of America, Chicago, I had a class, sometimes I had 41 kids in my class with, I was the
only person running the class. Me in a room with 41 kids lined up and I even teach that
class for how long? Two hours I had to teach these kids for because that's how long the
Sunday school and the adult service was. I had them for the whole time. Two hours. Can
you imagine entertaining and preaching to 41 kids from the inner city who have never
been disciplined for two hours every Sunday? It was painful. It was bad. Now I got very
good at it. I had to get good at it. My life depended on it. I had to survive. And usually
I averaged about 20 kids in the class. 41 was the highest. We had that twice. Usually
I had about 20 kids in the class, truth be told. It was about 20. It sounded as low as
maybe 10 or 12, as high as 40, but right about 20 was pretty consistent with that. And so
I understand these things. I know what's going on. And people said, you've got to preach
a short little sermon because you're going to lose their interest fast. So what did they
do? They go to a Sunday school program where they have loud, wild music. A short sermon,
15 minutes, 20 minutes. Usually the teacher's a woman. Isn't that the truth? In Sunday school
classes, if you go to most churches, the Sunday schools are being taught by women. Now, also
the sermons are usually all positive. Usually they don't get up and scream and yell and
rip face in some Sunday school class. Usually it's like, now boys and girls, Noah got on
the ark, he has a story about Noah's ark. None of it's about God destroying the whole
world and killing everybody. When you learn about Noah's ark in Sunday school, it's all
about the animals. It's all about the animals getting together two by two and then they
float around and then they get off the ark. Nothing about the other millions of people
that died in the flood. It's just an all positive version. If you learn about Adam and Eve,
it's all about naming the animals. You learn about any story, it's toned down, it's changed,
it's mellowed out. So it's an all positive sermon. Just tell me if this sounds familiar
to you. All positive, twenty minute sermon, loud boisterous music and a female teacher.
You can find that at any United Methodist Church this morning. You can find that at
the community church. You can find that at the big liberal charismatic church. You can
find that at the Assemblies of God church. You'll find that all over this area. Why?
Because those kids were programmed that way when they were little and when they train
up a child in the way he shouldn't go, when he's old he's going to go the wrong way. And
so why do you think that back in the old days, big independent Baptist churches had three,
four, five, six thousand people was very common. Churches that had hard preaching, old fashioned
music, yelling and preaching and straight down the line and point out the sin. Boy it
was every city in America had a lot of churches like that. Big churches like that. But what
happened is they sold their youth a different brand of Christianity and when the kids grow
up they go to that brand of Christianity. They go to hear Joyce Meyer, the woman preacher.
They go to a church where the pastor's a woman. They go to the church where the sermon lasts
for twenty minutes long. They go to the church where it's all about the music and the music's
loud and funky. Hey, they go to the church that's like what they grew up with as a little
tiny kid because that's what their idea of church is. If my children don't understand
a word that I'm saying right now, which is ridiculous because they understand every word
I'm saying right now, but let's say they didn't understand a word that I said. Let's say my
baby in the front row, my four month old Miriam doesn't understand what I'm saying right now.
She's learning one thing. She's learning what church is. She's learning that church is the
old hymns. She's learning that church is a man who stands up like a man and preaches
the Bible without apology that thunders forth and shouts out the word of God. She's learning
what church is. She's not getting a soft-soaked, soft-sailed sermon by some Sunday school mom.
She's getting a real preaching service and when she grows up, I promise you she will
be at a preaching service when she's twenty-five years old. I promise you. You think she's
going to go to some limp-wristed, sissified Baptist church? Do you think she's going to
go to one of these churches where you're not even sure whether the pastor is even straight
or whether he's a queer? No. She's going to go to a church where the pastor is a man.
She's going to go to a church where the music is God's kind of music. She's going to go
to a church where the sermon has substance and content from the Bible. It's not just
a feel-good, all-positive sermon. Listen to this. Let me illustrate this for you. This
was in the June 2006 issue of the North Valley newsletter from North Valley Baptist Church
in Santa Clara. There's a piece in this newsletter and this came to me, this newsletter, you
get on these people's mailing lists somehow and they send you stuff all day long. How
to lead children to Christ. This is from North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, California.
How to lead children to Christ. And it goes through the different points of how to win
a child to the Lord. This is point two. Point two. Sin must be punished, for the wages of
sin is death. Explain hell. Refrain from using frightening, offensive descriptions of punishment
and hell. So if you describe the punishment and hell according to this man, you're being
offensive. This is the guy who runs Junior Church at Treeburst Church up in Santa Clara.
It says, refrain from using frightening, offensive descriptions of punishment and hell. Parentheses,
these are children after all. I can just hear his faggot voice saying it that way. These
are children. Come on. These are children, you know. You don't mention hell and finally
fire. This guy needs a beating. Or put him on a riddle or do something with him. Explain
hell. Refrain from using frightening, offensive descriptions of punishment and hell. Instead,
focus on the worst part about hell. What? So don't talk about the punishment and offensive
frightening. Don't talk about anything scary. Talk about the worst part. Now look, if I
were talking about the worst part, that seems like the scariest part. Like all the fire?
Like you're going to be there forever? That sounds very scary, but listen to what he says.
Instead, focus on the worst part about hell because you don't want to scare him. What
sense does that even make? Focus on the worst part because you don't want to scare him.
You don't want to offend him. And he says, focus on the worst part about hell, being
separated from God. I mean, come on. The Bible says that God's in hell. That's what the Bible
says. If I meet my bed in hell, the whole thou art there. It says they'll be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. It says that they
shall be tormented day and night with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and
in the presence of the lamb. Clear violation of Bible teaching to even teach that hell is
separation from God when Jesus Christ is the one punishing you in hell. He's the one who made the
place. He's the one who's there tormenting. Focus on the worst part. So don't talk about anything
offensive about it like Jesus did. He doesn't talk about it like the Bible did, about the screaming,
the gnashing of teeth, the fire and brimstone, and the pain and torment and destruction.
Just focus on the worst part. Separation from God. This is what I'm talking about. You think
the kids who grow up in Sunday school teacher Sodomites class, you think that they're going to
grow up and you think that they're going to go to a hellfire breathing damnation Baptist church?
No they're not. They're going to go to some... and some of you don't like the way that I'm preaching
right now. You belong at Sissified Baptist Church down the street. You belong at Queer Little Sissy
Baptist Church. This is a Baptist church where you need a Bible preach. You say, I don't appreciate
the way you call names. Hey, I don't appreciate the way that our country is going to hell.
I don't appreciate the fact that six million kids are on dope right now. Huh? That makes me mad.
Doesn't that make you mad? Huh? Does it make you mad to know that six million kids are being
forced on drugs in our public schools right now? Because that makes me mad. Does it make you mad
that those kids are going to grow up and even by the government's own admission are going to
thieve and rob and steal? Isn't that what it said they'd do? Remember they've got CD and ODD.
They're going to steal. They're going to break into your house. They're going to hurt your
family. They're going to break your things. They're going to lie to you. They're going to
do everything to hurt you and destroy America, destroy your family, destroy churches. They're
already doing it. Wake up and smell the coffee. You want me to get up and preach to you right now
about love thy neighbor as thyself? You want me to get up and preach a 51 week series on tithing
right now? When our country is being destroyed around us? When our youth is being forced on dope
and nobody cares? When 3,000 babies are being aborted every day and nobody cares? When I can't
go to a gas station without some filthy sodomite flaming queer standing behind me in line like
happened to me yesterday at the gas station, wiggling his stupid little booty in the gas
station? Huh? And nobody says a word to him. Nobody has the guts to say anything to him.
You know, I say something to them when I'm in public and you know what? If everybody did,
they'd be back in the closet. If everybody treated them like I treated them, they'd be back in the
closet, my friend. You think I let him just wiggle his little booty in front of me and limp his wrist
in front of me and not say anything? No, that's what you do. That's what the United States does
and that's why they're taking over the airwaves. That's why they've already taken over the public
school. You say, where's all the anger from? Hey, the Bible says God's angry with the wicked
every day. The anger is from the stories that I heard this week from people that I love that
were abused and harmed by people like this. That's where the anger's from. The anger comes from love
for the victims. The anger comes from love of America and what America used to be. The anger
comes from a love for kids, for love of my own family, for the desire that my kids would have
in America to grow up in where everybody's not on drugs and everybody's not a pedophile and a
sodomite. Now, if you don't like this kind of preaching, nobody's forcing you to be here right
now. You can just scoot your little booty out of this church and go to that queer little sissy
church and sit next to him, but I'm going to tell you something. This church isn't changing.
People try to change this church. People try to intimidate me and tell me what they don't like
about this church. Tell me what you don't like about this church all day long. This
church is going to be the lone voice in the wilderness, the voice crying in the wilderness
that will cry out against the queers in this country. Yes, it will. That will cry out against
the dope dealing in this country by the federal government and by the public school system and
by the pharmaceutical companies. Yes, it will. I'm not going to turn a blind eye and watch my country
go down to hell without a fight. And so that's where the anger comes from. My anger is directed
toward the independent Baptist who won't stand up and tell somebody not even to preach like
I'm preaching, but good night. Can he at least preach about hell? I mean, one of the most basic
doctrines of the Bible. I mean, can he at least preach about salvation? I mean, good night. Can
he at least teach kids the real songs out of the hymn book instead of his little dumbed down,
sugar coated little service? And so I'm going to tell you something. The reason why ADD runs
rampant is because number one, no biblical discipline of children. Number two, it's because
of all the flashing wild images. It's because of all the overstimulation 24 hours a day,
watching the television, playing the video games, looking at the bright colorful magazine.
And number three, it's because of a school system and churches who dumb down their service for
little kids. They make a special service where they segregate people by age and they put this
little kid over here. He never hears real preaching. He never hears the Bible thundered
from the pulpit. And all he ever hears is some soft coated little sugar stick message for 15
minutes. And then it's treat time. When I taught those kids up in Chicago, you know what I did?
I preached to him like I'm preaching right now. I preached the Bible. I preached like a man.
I didn't just get the flannel graph and show a little story. I got up and screamed and yelled
and preached to those kids. And they got the message and I guarantee they'll remember the
things that they were taught in that class for the rest of their life. And when they grow up
to look for a church someday, they'll look for a church where they're actually learning the Bible
and hearing the truth preached. Now you say, why do you preach? Why do you preach like this pastor?
That's in several reasons. Number one, I want my kids to hear the preaching that I'm preaching
right now. You say, well, I don't like this kind of preaching. Well, they like it and they're
going to grow up and believe what's right. Number two, the reason I preach this way is to keep the
freaks and weirdos out of this church. Anybody's welcome in this church. I want everybody to be
here, but you know what? When you preach hard on sin, all the freaks and weirdos leave. We had a
guy call us yesterday. There's a guy who's called us like eight times and he pretends to be asking
about our church. He always starts with the same statement. Oh, hi, what time are your Sunday
services? Well, I figured out he was a little weird because first he's calling on the church
number. Then he's calling on the home number. How did he even get my home number? Right. He's
calling on the home number. Hi, what time are your Sunday services? It's like, well, if you know my
home phone number, you probably know what time the service starts since it hasn't changed in last
year and a half. And this guy, you know what he keeps asking? So do you guys have a lot of,
I have kids, you know, do you have a lot of kids in your church for my kids to play with?
How old are they? He asked questions about how old the kids are, how many kids there are. Why?
Because he's a pervert, because he's a pedophile. That's why. I wish he would have been here last
Sunday night. You could have heard me preach about that. Maybe if you were here on Wednesday night,
you probably heard me preach about it, about what the Bible teaches. I went through every verse of
the book of Jude in 2 Peter chapter 2. And I went through biblically and showed you the danger of
pedophiles that are out there after your kids. So he's a pedophile. He's calling up. Why? Because
he wants to come here. If he were here this morning, he'd never come back. Praise God from
whom all blessings flow. Praise him, ye creatures here below. You say, don't you want everybody to
come to church? No. I don't want the freaks and weirdos to come to this church. Did you know that
there was a gay guy in our service the first Sunday night that I ever held, December 25th, 2005?
And I preached. And I yelled about the Sodomites and the queers. And he went.
So you know what I did? I said the exact same thing again. And then he went like this.
The whole rest of the service. Did he come back? Nope. And my kids are safe.
My kids will never be defiled by his filthy hands. Why? Because we run them off with the truth. We
run them off with Bible preaching. And so we nipped it in the blood right there. I called
a friend of mine from Bible college. And he asked, how'd your first day go? How'd your first Sunday
go? I said, boy, it went great. We had all these visitors Sunday morning, all these visitors Sunday
night. And I said, hey, I learned something. He said, what'd you learn? I learned that you have
to preach on the queers every single service at least once for even if it's just for 10 seconds.
Because that keeps it clean. That cleans it. That cleans house. It keeps them out.
Because I said, I already ran one out on my first Sunday. And you know what? I'll be running about
20 years from now. You're not going to change me. Nobody's going to change me. Nobody's going
to change this church. If you like this church, hey, you're in luck because it's not going to
change. If you don't like it, go choose from all the other compromises and sissies and wimps out
there. And the wimps are the reason why the country's in the state it's in right now.
Because nobody will stand up to me. I stand up to them in public. I stand up to them in the gas
station. I stand up to them in the post office. Right, Isaac? He can tell the story about that.
I stand up to them. I don't let these queers push me around. It's time for America to push back.
It's time for Bible believing Christians to start pushing back when they get pushed. I don't walk
around with my tail between my legs when they're out with their big t-shirt and their gay pride.
I saw a lesbian in the gas station the other day that said, we are everywhere. And it had a rainbow
symbol. We are everywhere. Boy, they're yelling it from the mountaintops. They got the stickers
all over their car. They'll make sure that you can tell within five seconds and listen to them
talk that they're a homo because they've laid it on so thick because they're taking over America.
And you think I'm nuts right now? You think I'm a fanatic right now? Come see me in five years.
We'll see who's nuts. It won't. That's all it's going to take. Come see me in five years.
Sit down with me and say, did you think I was a fanatic? You still think I'm a fanatic?
Now that you see the country and the condition it's in right now, you know, when
when our president's going to be some lesbian, you know, a couple of years from now, probably
when's it going to be too far? That's what I'm wondering. I'm wondering when people are going
to just say enough in this country. It's too far. If they're not doing it when they're killing the
unborn at 3000 a day, if they're not doing it, when the homos are just rampant, if they're not
doing it now, when are they going to do it? They're never going to do it. I'm going to do it.
I'm ready to stand up and fight this thing because I love kids because I love my family
because I love my country. Now, ADHD, let me just close the sermon. ADHD does not exist.
What exists in this country is a lack of spanking, a lack of loving parents who love their kids
enough to discipline them and teach them what's right and spend time with them and give them the
attention that they need. What's lacking is legitimate entertainment in this country that
doesn't involve things exploding and people being killed and dying every five seconds.
What lacks is legitimate entertainment like going for a walk, playing basketball,
sitting down and playing a board game, going outside and riding your bike, swinging on the
swings. And what's lacking is a church service that says, suffer the little children to come
unto me for such of a kingdom of God. Look, a church that won't put up with a kid crying,
my kids act up occasionally in the service. Other people's kids act up sometimes in the service.
That doesn't bother me at all. Kids are welcome in this church because they need the preaching
more than anybody. They need what's being preached. They need real preaching. Not just,
oh, okay, well, you can take this class and teach them. You've been in church for two weeks,
go teach them. You're a woman. You're not even a preacher. Go ahead and teach them anyway. No,
they deserve to hear a man of God who knows the Bible preach the word of God, just like everybody
else should be hearing it. They should be hearing it. If you don't agree with that, you're entitled
to your opinion. But I want my kids to hear the right kind of preaching that we love kids in this
church. I don't want you to ever get upset at people because their kids act up either,
okay? Because you ought to suffer the little children and put up with it because they're
important too. And I taught my children, I've helped other people that have come to this church
and their kids acted up a little bit. I took them to science forums and would help teach them.
Never criticize. I taught them and said, let me help you. This is how I taught my kids to sit
still in church. Get this how I did it. I sit them down, I line them up, and I read them the Bible.
My wife sits them down, lines them up, and reads them through the Bible a half hour.
And they're not allowed to move. They're not allowed to talk. They're not allowed to get up.
This is training them for church. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
we sit our kids down, line them up in a row, and read them the Bible for an hour, for 45 minutes,
for 30 minutes, whatever the case may be. We have the belt right there. We have the cooking spoon
right there. We have the rod right there. Do they act up? Yes. The second they act up,
they get a spanking. Pretty soon they learn that they have to sit still and listen. Now
they're to the point where we can go a whole time without any spankings. They'll all just sit there.
They're listening to the Bible. You're reading the Bible. That's great for you too, doing the
reading, because you're getting the Bible too. They're getting the Bible and they're learning
how to behave in church. I've told that to people and their kids' behavior in church started to
improve because they put that into practice at home. It's going to take work, not drugs,
not psychotropic drugs, not dope, but it's going to take work by you, the parent, of loving your
kids enough to read them the blessed Word of God, the powerful Word of God, so that they can learn
to come to church and sit still and know that God is God. Be still and know that I'm God, so that
they can sit in church and listen to the still, small voice of God through the Word of God being
preached. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, I thank you so much for Faithful
Word Baptist Church. I'm glad. I don't know about the people that are here. I don't know about
everybody feels, but I just praise the Lord that there's a church, Faithful Word Baptist Church,
that doesn't pander to the fundamental popes and liberals, doesn't pander to the queers,
doesn't pander to the federal government and their ADD demonic drug program that they're
cramming down the throats of six million kids with Ritalin alone, let alone the other 12
drugs that were listed there. God, help us in this country. Father, please help the Christians
in America to wake up. Help us not to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
but rather reprove them. And God, help us not to be naive about what's going on. There's real
dangers out there. Help us to stand strong on the Bible, stand firm on what we believe,
and thunder not be afraid of some child protective service worker to where we're
afraid to spank our kids or preach spanking. When they come to my door, God, I'm going to tell them
to go to hell. And so Father, I just pray that you would give everyone in this church the boldness
to stand up for what's right, spank and discipline their children according to their scriptures,
not abusively, but lovingly in the padded place that God has provided. Please just help us to
love our kids enough to put everything else aside and say, kids are number one in Faithful
Word Baptist Church. Kids are number one in our three services. Kids are number one in our homes
and with our time. God, we love you.