Please grab your Bibles and
If you're a child
That can read and you don't have a Bible
Please help yourself to a Bible right now because I'm preaching to the kids all right if you need a Bible
Make sure you grab one you're gonna need one
This sermons tailor-made just for the kids all right
So make sure you get one if you need one if you if you can read that is all right if you can read
Otherwise the little ones will probably rip them apart
You can read it please turn there okay guys go to Colossians chapter 3 obviously we're
Brother Jason read from Colossians chapter 3 and verse number 20 Colossians chapter 3 verse 20
Colossians chapter 3 verse 20 the Bible says children
I'll bear your parents in all things for this is well and pleasing unto the Lord
So the title of sermon tonight is children obey your parents
Children obey your parents and yes, we're continuing the series on the family
And I said I've got a sermon lined up for the kids. This is the one okay
This is like sermon number nine on the family or something all right
So there's a lot more sermons, and I thought I originally had like planned, but that's okay
So even though this is tailored to the children even though it's folks to the children
I do believe it's relevant to everybody anyway, okay, because the Word of God
Is relevant to children to adults to parents to all alike, and so I'm sure there's going to be a lot that we can all take
from
tonight
But the first thing I want you to notice there in Colossians 3
Why is it important that children should obey their parents?
Okay, I'll bear your parents in all things for this is well pleasing unto the Lord all right so children
Yes, you know your parents bring you to church. No yes your parents read you the Bible yes
They teach you things that you find in the Word of God, and you might think well. It's dad's job
It's mom's job
And yes, it is it is their job to be the spiritual leader to please the Lord and to guide the house
But you know it's also your job
You get a commandment from God and God tells the children obey your parents for this is well pleasing to him
You know if you want to be children that please the Lord that make us bring a smile upon his face
He can look down and and and shine his glory and his blessings upon your life
Even as children your command from God is not go out and work
All right, so God's asking from the children because I'm saying go out there, and and you know
You know build a house. You know raise a family nice as children. I'll bear your parents
Okay, that's the key command that you're gonna have while you're under the house under the authority of mom and dad all right
This is a command straight to you from God all right now turn to Ephesians chapter 6 as well
Ephesians chapter 6
Because the first point there is if you obey the your parents you are actually pleasing the Lord all right
So Ephesians chapter 6 verse 1 the Bible says children obey your parents in the Lord
For this is right
Hey guys if you want to do what's right?
You don't want to do what's wrong you don't want to get in trouble and find yourself getting disciplined
What are you supposed to do?
Obey your parents God says this is right. This is righteous
This is what God commands from you right he says look in order for you to please me in order for you to know the
Righteousness of God you need to obey your parents
Okay kids you need to learn
What's right and what's wrong and one of the first things that you're going to understand about?
What's right is that obey my parents is right? It's the righteousness of God. It's what he wants in your life
Verse number two honor thy father and mother
Which is the first commandment with promise you know the Ten Commandments that God gives us the first commandment?
Where God promises something if you do it right is honor thy father and mother and what is that promise?
It's family verse number three there that it may be well with thee that thou mayest live long on the earth
I mean there's two promises there right that it may be well with thee that you can have a
Happy life a successful life. You know you can have a life where you can overcome
Trials and struggles you know and look back in your life and say well, you know I had a great life
How does that start by obeying mom and dad by honoring mother and father respecting them?
Okay, and that thou mayest live long on the earth
I mean wow you know if God gives you a long life well
God promises to give you a long life if you obey mom and dad
Now I'm sure part of that is just listening to your parents advice
You know mom and dad saying hey don't go to the kitchen and play with knives
Don't go to the kitchen and play with hot water. Yeah, it's gonna. Give you a long life
Just just by being safe, but you know God steps in and says look. I'm gonna give you a long life
I'm gonna give you a happy life, and you just have to obey mom and dad
I mean hey look that's what we want from you anyway
And God wants to reward you if you do it right if you be obedient to mom and dad
Okay, and there's nothing let me tell you it doesn't matter if your mom or dad are saved or not saved
It doesn't matter if you come from a broken home or whatever the thing mom and dad wants the most from their children is
Obedience for the kids do what is asked of them, okay?
now
The fact that God has to tell us twice in Colossians and Ephesians
Children obey your parents the fact that God has to tell us twice
You think he's telling us because it's easy for kids to obey parents or because it's challenging
It's challenging right it requires you to give up your flesh a little bit for you to say okay
Not my will but my parents will I'm gonna do what they ask of me
Okay, God says it twice because he knows the kids need to hear it twice at least right and normally when God commands something from us
It's because God knows it's challenging
God knows that it's not going to be the easiest thing to do always to obey mom and dad all right
now
You guys go to the book of Proverbs, please we're gonna spend most of our time in the book of Proverbs
So if you don't know where that is open up your Bible to halfway
You should get to Psalms somewhere in Psalms, and it's the book after Psalms. Okay. It's Proverbs
Turn to the book of Proverbs, which is after Psalms
Proverbs chapter 23 go to Proverbs chapter 23
Proverbs chapter 23 verse 22
Proverbs chapter 23
verse 22
Let's read there the Bible says Harken
that's listen to
unto thy father that beget thee and
Despise not thy mother when she is old what does God want from you to listen to your parents, right?
So if you listen to them you'll be able to obey them and despise not thy mother
When she is old you know it's possible for children to both love their parents
And it's also possible for children to despise or hate their parents, and we're going to look at this as we go through tonight
But look at verse 23
by the truth and sell it not also wisdom and instruction and
Understanding hey, this is the instruction for children
God wants you to increase in wisdom and
Understanding in learning and a big part of that is listening and obeying mom and dad huge part of it
Okay, huge part of it look at verse 24
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice you know that means when you do
What's right which is obeying parents when you listen to them and do it hard?
You know we um you know quickly and obediently it says it gives your father
Joys he's going to rejoice when you do what's right?
And then it says and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him
Alright, so if you want to make mom and dad happy
What do you have to do obey mom and dad learn and grow right when you get disciplined when you get corrected?
Don't get angry don't despise your parents say hey
This is an opportunity for me to learn wisdom to learn understanding, so I don't make the same mistakes again
And this isn't just about your childhood guys
This is about your future the lessons you learn today as a child
Are going to be relevant to you in the future when you grow up as an adult if you'd love if you don't learn certain lessons
Now as a child you're going to struggle as an adult okay. We'll go into that later on
Verse 25 thy mother sorry thy father and thy mother shall be glad and she that bear thee shall rejoice
Mom and dads we love it when our kids you know obey us
Children if you want to bring a smile to the face of your mom and dad you might say hey mom and dad have been
A bit you know depressed lately. They've been a bit cast down lately. You know what's going to make them happy
You go to mom and dad say mom and dad
What do you want us to do and you go and do exactly what they want that's going to bring them great joy?
All right, maybe one of the one of the reasons they're cast down depressed is because their children have not been obeying them
Okay, so children you ought to have the mindset
I'm either going to give joy to my parents, or I'm going to despise them
Okay, and obviously we want to make sure we bring them joy
All right now you stay there in problems
I want you to turn anywhere else, but the question comes up is there ever a time that I should disobey my parents
Is there ever a time that I should disobey my parents, and I'd like to say no
There's never a time
But there could be a time there could be a time acts 5 29 says we ought we ought to obey God
rather than men
Okay, we also obey God rather than men now we as adults we apply this in many ways right you know
You know when when dad goes to work
You know the employer might ask him to do something
That's dishonest might ask him to do something that is wrong and then dad will have to decide well
Do I obey man I know this is wrong
I know God's not going to be happy when I do it or do I obey the Lord and in that time the right thing
To do is disobey the employer and do what's right in the side of the Lord all right?
You know wives should obey God rather than their husbands now
I would like to say wives always obey your husbands
But sometimes just like the employer the husband might ask you to do something. That's wrong. That's sinful right you might say
Hey, I don't want you go to church. Hey, but you'd rather the bosses. We'd rather obey God than men
Okay, my point is whatever authority God has put over you. Yes obey them a hundred percent
Except when their instruction is to disobey the Lord when their instruction is to commit sin
You know we should obey God rather than governments right government asked us to do something
That's ungodly or wicked we should say no, and if the pastor of your church me
Asked you to do something. That's sinful. You should say no you should know better all right
I'm going to obey God rather than man. Okay. It's always the case whatever authority
God has given over you and so children you ought to obey God rather than man
But what does God say to obey your parents all right?
So obviously that's the main thing that you need to do
But when they ask you to do something that's wrong or sinful it would be right of you to disobey and say mom dad
That's wrong. God would not be happy to do that for me to do that. That's right, okay?
But I do recognize this I recognize that obviously children are children
Okay, and they're developing and growing and parents are supposed to have absolute authority over a child
I mean, that's you know because if parents are believers trying to follow the word of God it works out perfectly
But every now and again mom and dad might fail okay?
They might be backslidden, or you might grow up in a Christian home or whatever
Then you know you may cave in you may do something that is wicked or sinful that your parents have asked you to do
Okay, that might happen okay, because obviously
You might be afraid to disobey your parents, so you decide to do what's wrong okay?
Maybe you've done that in the past or maybe an opportunity like that might come up in the future
But let me just say this something that I've learnt in the Bible is
That God is more merciful to children than he is to the parents
Okay, I mean if this church failed God would hold me accountable more than the church members all right
And when the when if your parents asked you to do something wicked or sinful
He's gonna hold mom and dad accountable especially dad over the children
Let me give you one example of this you don't need to turn there
But I'm sure you're familiar with the story of Israel when they came out of Egypt
They went into the wilderness and God was leading them into the Promised Land remember that into the land of Canaan
and
When they sent some spies into the land they they said they saw
Giants and certain of the spies was a I guess
Mindful to warn Israel about going in you know they brought fear and say look these men are powerful these men are mighty
They're like Giants that were like grasshoppers in their sights
And then the people were afraid to go into the Promised Land in disobedience to God
except for Joshua and Caleb
and
You remember what the punishment was God was upset because he told Israel to go into that land
They could have inherited that land straight away, but I'll just quickly read to you in Numbers 14 verse 28
this is the the the
The wrath that God pulled upon Israel at that day
He says say unto them as truly as I live saith the Lord as he have spoken in my ears
So will I do to you your carcasses
That's your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness and all that were numbered of you
According to your whole number from 20 years old and upward which have murmured against me
Doubtless you shall not come into the land
concerning which I swear to make you dwell therein save Caleb the son of
Jepuni and Joshua the son of none, but your little ones so your little ones
You're your children that are 20 years old and under or 20 and under 20
Which is you said should be a prey then will I bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised
So something we see with God is that he's more merciful with children than he is with the adults
Okay because God knows that mums and dads have the authority they're the ones that ultimately make the decision and
So my point is if you have done something that is sinful wicked because of your parents instructions
Well, you know you should you should say sorry to the Lord, but remember keep in mind that God is going to hold your parents
Accountable to that more so than you God will be more merciful to you and may have to chastise your parents for making you do
Okay, so there is a bit of leeway there as a child you do get away a little bit more because God knows you're learning
You're growing and you're under the authority that that's our of mum and dad there, okay?
So you know we should be mindful as parents
You know while our kids are young while they're under 20 that we can
Influence their lives that God holds us accountable for their actions if they're disobedient kids or blame the kids well
Blame mom and dad all right if the kids don't know how to sit still and you know and be quiet
You know is it the kids fault no
It's mom and dad that needs to instruct them these things and if the kids go to the shops and and and take you know
Things from the from the from the aisles and throw them on the floor
Well, it's the kids fault look how naughty no it's mom and dad mom you know God always holds mom and dads accountable for the children
But does that mean you just get away with it
No God gives you a time right God gives you to grow up as a child and then when you turn 20
Guess what God holds you fully accountable for your actions once you're over 20 years old
You can't turn around to God and say but but God my parents. No. It's too late. Whatever you do
You're accountable 100% for those actions
All right, so use this time as a child to learn yes to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes
Okay, so that way when you grow up
You're not making those same mistakes or learning those same lessons that you should have learned as a child
all right and
You know what I've seen people
30 years old 40 years old 50 years old 60 years old parents are dead ah
My life is a ruin because of my parents and I grew up in a broken home
And look you've had plenty of time to grow mature
Okay, and God's holding you accountable for the mistakes that you make
Now let me talk about some life lessons because as a child guys you have an advantage all right
The lessons you have to learn are going to come into your life frequently
Okay, there are things look a child's mind is made to absorb information to learn
You know a child picks up when things you know when there's hypocrisy
More than a parent that an adult does kids pick up double standards more often than what an adult does you know because kids come
From usually a bit of a blank slate, and they're learning things as they go okay, whereas adults
We sort of seen the world we've seen how corrupt the world is and sometimes our minds not fully
Established you know and not fully aware of what's going on, but children usually pick things up pretty quickly all right
So you've got an opportunity to learn things now. Let me talk about a couple of things here all right because kids
You're gonna have conflicts at times with other kids all right, and if you haven't then you haven't been a kid yet
All right, or if you have a sibling you have you know you know our brothers and sisters that you you grow up with
You're gonna have conflicts with your brothers and sisters
I mean show of hand kids tell me if you've not had any conflicts with your siblings
Not have just Brody. He's perfect
We'll talk about the perfect child later on the generation that thinks they're pure
We've all gone through conflicts all right now as a child when you go through conflicts when you fight with your friends or whatever
That's like the most important thing in the world for you. That's like wow this is this is more important than
You know some war that's going on you know or the persecution of Christians in some places in the world
You know it's more important than you know that the abortions that have taken place in the earth
you know the the conflicts you have a child just just consume your mind, and you're thinking about it and
You know it eats you up and can cause you to be bitter
You know God allows guys conflicts God allows
tribulations and trials
Just like an adults so you can learn
Okay, so you can grow up and say hold on you know what there's going to be conflict in life
And I need to learn from this I need to learn how to improve myself
I need to learn how to improve my social skills with others
I need to see where things have gone wrong and make peace
All right now
Let me say this if you can't work it out now as a kid and let me say your conflicts are like this small
Next to what the world you know as an adult you're going to go through if you can't solve
Conflicts as a child you're going to struggle as an adult
You're going to struggle, but this is now the time to learn to get wisdom to get learning to get understanding all right
Conflict is an opportunity for you to learn that you won't always get your way in life
That's life
Okay, and you might be like it's not fair
That's life we live in a sin-cursed world okay, we
We're all sinners we all come short look if God was fair
He just let us all die and go to hell
All right the fact that he can step in and give us the Lord Jesus Christ show us love and show us mercy
Or to teach us that when we have conflicts and look the things your friends have done to you is nowhere near
What we've done to the Lord God the sins that we've committed against him if God can show us love and mercy
Then you can learn that as well all right. Yeah, it's not always going to go your way
You got to learn that okay, and you can't always get upset when things don't go according to your way
You know the way you want it to go
With conflicts it gives you an opportunity to learn to apologize to say sorry
You know and even if you think well, I don't know maybe I wasn't at fault, but I'm gonna apologize anyway awesome
Step in you know Jesus loves the peacemaker
Jesus loves the one that steps in and says you know what I don't know why we had a fight
But I'm sorry can we be friends can we just put that behind us and move on
This is your time kids to learn these things if you don't learn it now
You're gonna struggle as an adult and the conflicts and as an adult are going to be much greater
Okay, and if you can't solve them now you're not going to be able to solve those greater problems
You know learn to be a peacemaker. God loves it Jesus Christ loves it
Don't be a sore winner
You know what a sore winner is or a sore loser. Let's talk about the sore loser right you're playing a game and you lose
And you get all upset and all angry you know I lost I lost again
You know maybe you're playing with a big brother or something. They're always beating you because they're a bit smarter
They've learnt a bit more
They're a bit more experienced and you get upset and you have a tantrum and then and then all of a sudden
Why doesn't anybody want to play with me now?
Well it's because you're a sore loser. You know learn to lose with dignity
You know when you lose something that's a chance to put your hand out and say well played well done. You did great
okay learn to
Rejoice in the success of others that's important
Okay, but also if you're the winner don't be the sore winner
The sore winner is worse than the sore loser the sore winner is like say I'm so good
You know you can never beat me. I'm better than you. You're just going to annoy
The other kids around you and they're not going to want to play with you
And you're gonna be like well
Why does anyone want to play with me is it because I keep winning no because you're a sore winner
All right, and you need to learn when you win
You know that you stick out your hand and say well played maybe next time you win right
Encourage the person that lost bring them up to your level train them and teach them as well all right
Your conflicts are small kids. They're small. They're tiny, but I know it's always on your mind. Okay, but they're small all right
And
You need to learn the lessons if you find yourself constantly clashing you know constantly clashing at church
Constantly clashing at home, and you and it's just always happening, and you're never learning to make peace
Then you're going to grow up to be an adult. That's always in conflict
That's always fighting that can't make friends. That's always angry
That's always frustrated and always thinking about other people and being a busybody
Rather than being focused on your own life and making sure you can be a blessing to others
Okay, this is the time to learn your lessons all right?
and
Yeah, if you if you're having conflicts non-stop you don't solve them
You're gonna have conflicts with your spouse you know with your husband with your wife
You're gonna have conflicts with your children with your extended family with your friends
It's never going to end until you learn the lesson and the lessons are to be learnt now all right
But if you learn that life
Yeah, life is not fair if you learn that you're not always going to get your way if you learn to make peace
move on
Recognize that everybody has faults recognize your own faults and go you know what sometimes. It's me as well
All right, if you can learn that then you're going to be a successful person in life
You're going to live a happy life
You're going to be able to you know when things go bad you're going to be able to overcome those things
Or things that don't matter you're just going to be able to overlook and go whatever
I'm just going to move on with my life, and that's important
That's important because the generation you guys are growing up in guys. There's no obedience
This stuff is not being taught by moms and dads
Moms and dads think the the public school is going to teach them. It's not the public schools making things worse
It's teaching them to be self-entitled. It's teaching them to be selfish. It's teaching them to look after number one
All right, and not to you know not to even consider. God pleasing the Lord all right
You guys are blessed to have to be in a Christian home
You guys are blessed to be in a good church
And you're blessed to have the Bible you know learn what God says if you want a successful happy life
You mess up now guys. It can cause you to mess up in the future. Okay. It's so important and
You know another lesson if mom and dad's mom goes to you. You know who can I use that example?
Easy
Isabelle all right, let's just use you don't get upset, but if mom says to you
you know Isabelle go and clean three windows of the house and
Mom has asked Matthias to clean one
You know that's not fair. You know I clean three and he's cleaning one
Is that being obedient?
No, is that having a good attitude?
No, that's talking back isn't it it's talking back. Hey look you need to learn the lesson mom says go clean through windows
Yes, mom big smile on your face. Go and do it straight away. It doesn't matter if life's not fair all right
It doesn't matter if someone else didn't do as much as you did look. There's a lesson to be learnt. I'll tell you now
And look you can take it in two ways you can either get angry and frustrated
Life's not fair why is this my mom and dad you know mom loves this one more than that one blah blah blah
and then you grow up to be an adult and you'll be whinging whinging whinging as well or
You put your head down and go yes, mom you just do it you clean the windows
Then guess what when you're an adult you're going to be three times more successful
You're going to be three times more productive and people are going to say how do you how do you manage to do all these?
things
Manage to do all these projects. How do you manage to have so many kids and keep things in order?
How do you manage to you know do this project and do that blah blah?
So you know why because when mom asked me to clean those three windows?
I just put my head down, and I just did it you know I learned to be a hard worker. I learned to be
Respectful to authority I learned to do the job done. You know do it quickly and do it well
And when you're an adult it's going to pay off. You're going to be better off than those that didn't have this kind of instruction
Okay, so it's all about your attitude. It's all about your obedience the Bible says you can turn there guys Proverbs chapter 22
Proverbs chapter 22 verse 6
It's a it's a very popular passage verse train up a child in the way
He should go and when he is old he will not depart from it
Hey, that's the good things yes all the good things you can learn now as a child
You're not going to depart from that when you're old you're going to carry on and have those good characteristics by yourself
But same thing if you learn the bad ways if you learn to be disobedient you learn to be a whinger
You learn to talk back you're going to grow up and be the loser
You're going to grow up and your life's going to be destroyed and you're going to wonder how come how come my life so bad
Why is God so angry at me?
He's not it's just that you've not learned your lesson
You've not grown up, and you're still carrying the same problems that you carried when you were a child
All right turn to Proverbs chapter 10 Proverbs chapter 10
Proverbs chapter 10 verse 1
The Bible says the Proverbs of Solomon a wise son maketh a glad father
But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother you see this verse talks about these two things
Making your father glad hey you have a choice in your life as a child. Do I make my parents happy or?
Do I despise my mother there? Oh, sorry, but the foolish son is heaviness to his mother it says there
What does it mean to be heavy to be a burden you know to be a heavy weight that mum has to carry around
And often the Bible talks about the mother here because the mother is usually a lot more emotional
You know has that softer heart to the children and when the children fail it usually hurts mum more than it hurts dad
All right, I'll just quickly read to you from Proverbs 15 20. It says a wise son make it for glad father
That's what we want
You know your actions as a child affects your parents it affects their joy
Okay, it affects their sadness as well their sorrow if you're disobedient and not
Pulling your weight not being helpful not being happy not being cheerful not being obedient
You can have an effect on your parents you need to understand this
You need to understand this
Your role as a child does play a huge part in the
The dynamics as a family okay huge part you can turn
Sorrow into joy very quickly children you can okay
Now of course mum and dad should be owning this you know mums and dads should be driving the joy
The unity in the family, I'm just trying to be honest with you
You know mums and dads should be driving the joy the unity in the family
I'm just trying to say guys sometimes mum and dad are weak as well
You know we have a sinful nature as well. We can do the wrong things
But sometimes when mum and dad are a bit down the kids can turn that
I remember once I was having I can't remember why I was upset
I was just having just a bad day and I went to bed and this wasn't even real this was just a dream
I had a dream that Jonathan came up to me. He was little you know like maybe three years old
And he said in my dream he goes papa hold me hold me so I hold him and he goes you know papa
I'm high and I just remember waking up from there like and I was so happy
I know I had this sorrow this this burden on my mind
And then just thinking about holding my child up and him being so happy at just being held by dad
It's just a dream it wasn't even happening in real life how much more bad I would have been if he was in real life
You know what I'm trying to say guys
You know your positive attitude your obedience
Your love to mum and dad can change the dynamics in a family as well can bring great joy. All right
Go to proverbs chapter 28
proverbs chapter 28 verse 24
proverbs 28 24
We're now looking at some bad examples of children
Proverbs 28 24 it says who so robbeth his father or his mother and sayeth it is no transgression
The same is the companion of a destroyer
You know what
children
You can rob your parents
All right, and it's not just money
All right, this is probably an example of money, but you can rob your parents of joy
You can rob your parents of time
All right, if mom says hey, can you clean up your room in the next 10 minutes?
In the next 10 minutes, you're not doing it. You're doing something else and then it's not done
So you need another 10 minutes to get it done
You're robbing your parents of time right there when you could have been doing something more productive more useful with your time
Okay, you know usually moms are busy trying to prepare meals usually busy trying to homeschool
Usually busy with all the other
Household tasks that need to be done the laundry the ironing whatever else you guys do, you know
and when kids waste time
From their parents. They are robbing their parents of time. You don't want to be that way
Okay, you don't want to be a companion of a destroyer
And
You know possessions you could you could uh destroy possessions in your house
You don't look after the things that mom and dad have worked hard to to to bring right, you know
The new couch or a table or chairs or whatever and you you know, you jump on those tables you jump on the couches
You ruin them, you know, you write on the walls or whatever. Hey, all that stuff is robbing your parents
Okay, be mindful. You don't want to be a companion of a destroyer
Okay
If if you don't respect your parents, then you're going to surround yourself with people that will ultimately destroy your own life
Okay, you need to grow up and learn
Now go to proverbs 29 15
Proverbs chapter 29 verse 15
Proverbs 29 verse 15 now kids when you disobey mom and dad, what should you expect?
Anyone brodie
A discipline. Yep discipline. Yep. Absolutely. Proverbs 29 verse 15
the rod and reproof give wisdom
Now you say no no, the rod gives me a sore bottom. No god says it gives wisdom
Like god says you he wants you to learn right to learn from your mistakes
You know when mom and dad get that rod and give you that smack
It's giving you a bit of wisdom. It's going. Uh-oh if I do this. I know i'm in trouble
All right, and I better make sure I don't do it again
It's giving you a bit of wisdom right but look what it says but a child left to himself
The child that does not get the discipline
Bringeth his mother to shame
Guys
You shouldn't be begging your parents. Please. Please don't don't smack me
No
You're not going to get the wisdom if you don't get the smack
all right
and
You bring your mother to shame
Okay, because you're not learning your lessons you're not taking the discipline and you'll think you'll grow up thinking wow
I can get away with things and not get disciplined
All right, and you'll think that for mom and dad and then you're going to think about that with the government with police
Right. I can just speed I can just do this. I can just whatever I want in my life
And think you get away with it
You could end up killing yourself
You could end up being put in jail because you've not respected the authority that god has first given you with mom and dad
Okay, if you can't respect the authority of mom and dad, you're also going to be a poor worker
You're not going to be making good money because you're not going to respect your employer the one that gives you instruction on your job
If you couldn't listen to mom and dad, how are you going to listen to a stranger that you don't even love and respect?
All right
And it will bring your mother to shame
It'll bring your mother, you know moms and dads we need to smack our kids. That's what the bible says
Okay, that's what we need to do
Go to proverbs chapter 30 proverbs chapter 30
Proverbs chapter 30 verse 11
And we're almost done now proverbs chapter 30 verse 11
I want you guys to pay attention to this one now proverbs 30 verse 11
There is a generation
That cursive their father
And doth not bless their mother
You know what curse means to desire harm to want to hurt your dad
To hurt your parents the bible says there is a generation like that. You might say well, that's not us
I hope I hope so. I hope that's not you. Okay, but there is a generation like this and let me say to you guys
As a child I grew up in a really bad generation
Okay
But I feel sorry for you
You know because I love you guys. I want to see you serve the lord with all your heart
But the generation you're growing up in is even worse even worse
And if the lord does not come back your children are going to grow up in a generation even worse than your own
Okay
I believe we're in this generation today
You know you just go out there and you'll see children cursing their parents
You see children not listening not obeying not blessing their mother
You know, have you ever said these words leave me alone mom, you know
You're not blessing your mother you don't want to spend time with your mom
That is a generation. We're seeing today get away from me. I've got my computer games. I've got to play this
You know, i'm not coming to the dinner table or whatever because I've got to finish this game
Hey, look we live in a generation right now that is so selfish
Does not care about family does not care about siblings or their parents
We need to be careful
Verse 12 there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes
Brody, that's the one I was joking about that. I won't say that to you, but
Pure in their own eyes. They think there's no they don't do anything wrong. They think they're always right
All right, even when they do wrong they have excuses
You know, oh, but you know blah blah, you know
Talking back or whatever just take the blame
Stop thinking you're pure in your eyes
Moms and dads. We know you're not pure. You know, you're not pure and I know i'm not pure
Okay
But there is a generation like this they think they're always right and they're never wrong
And look and yet is not washed from their filthiness
They're filthy in other words, they're dirty they're disgusting children it's a disgusting generation, but they don't see their own filth
All right, I would say they didn't get the smack. They didn't get the rod. They didn't get the wisdom
They still got the filthiness in their lives
verse 13
There is there is a generation
Oh, how lofty are their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up. What's that full of pride?
They think they're the best there is they're the best generation that's ever come they're better than moms and dads
You know moms that you don't know me. You're of another generation
Prideful
Okay, don't think there's anything wrong with them. There's a generation like this guys. I'm telling you it's here now
It's here in australia. It's your
It's out there in the schools right now. It's happening
Okay, and I don't want you children
In this church and I love you very much my own kids and the kids of the other parents
I love you all. I don't want you to be part of this generation
Okay, we don't want to but it'd be very easy to be that generation. All right
verse 14
There is a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jaw teeth as knives
To devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men. Hey, they're destructive with a speech
They pull down people they destroy others because they think they're so good
Look, they seek to harm who devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men
They seek and harm the easy targets
All right, the poor and needy the cowards they won't go up against real authority
They won't go up against people that can stand up to them. They would rather go to the poor and needy and be just bullies
All right, that's a generation that is here today
Look at 15 verse 15
The horse leech, you know what that is the horse leech. It's a leech. You know what leeches are they're blood suckers
All right. I never forget when I went to the rainforest
In milani and there was a leech on sebastian's head, right?
Thank god, you know, I mean christina was struggling to take it off. It was like being put it was getting like really long
Thank god, he didn't attach to his head yet, but we got a leech off
It's it's hard enough to get a leech off you even when they're not attached, you know, sucking blood
But leeches are blood suckers
They're disgusting, you know slimy animals, right? They suck blood
It says the universal thing the horse leech have two daughters crying give give
You know, it's like like this this generation. They're never satisfied. I want more. I want more give me this
Give me that they go to the shops. Mom. Can you buy me this? Can you buy me that?
That's the generation we live in right now. They're blood suckers
There are three things it says here in verse 15, there are three things that are never satisfied
Yay, four things say not it is enough
What are these things in verse 16 the grave the grave is something that's never satisfied?
Why because people keep dying, you know generation after generation every day people are dying. The grave is never satisfied
You know death will continue until the lord jesus christ restores all things and then it says and the barren womb
You know ladies that can't fall pregnant, you know, they're never satisfied in a good way because they want children, right?
And it's such it brings such sorrow and sadness when a barren woman can't fall pregnant and have a little baby
That's number two number three the earth that is not filled with water
It's never satisfied, you know, because if there's no water if there's a great drought on this earth
Nothing can grow
Okay, we need water to sustain life
And if we don't have the water, you know
The desire for growth can't come there'll be no growth and then it says and the fire
And this is interesting the fourth one and the fire that say if not it is enough
It's a fire that burns forever. It's never satisfied. It reminds me of hell fire. Okay?
That's a fire that will never be quenched
It's comparing all these things to this wicked generation
Okay, and it's generation now, it's this generation that you were in right now
Say well, are you sure this is about children and general? Look look at verse 17
Ties it all together now the eye that mocker fad his father
And despises to obey his mother
The ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it
You know, this is comparing that generation guys to the young eagles of the valley
Comparing that generation guys the generation that's never satisfied. It's never happy. It's never content. It always wants more
And it also
Despise mocks father, you know laughs at dad. What do you know dad? What do you know old man?
Right and chases away his mother mums get away from me
I don't want anything to do with you, you know, mom trying to come lovingly with advice mom. I don't want to hear that stuff
That's this wicked generation
And what does god say about the eye that mocker fad his father says the ravens of the valley shall pick it out
And the young eagles shall eat it
Okay, they're going to go blind. It's a generation. That's that's blind. That's unloving. That's filled with pride
God's going to bring his judgment one day upon that generation. Okay, and I don't want you guys to be part of it
Okay, you have all the advantages more so than what we had as your parents
You you're in a good church
Okay, you've got the word of god the king james bible. You're learning good doctrine
Okay, and yes, you got your conflicts learn from them good
Grow mature, you know show the lord that you're learning and that you want to be an adult that pleases him
Do it now guys while god gives you much more mercy than he will give you when you're an adult
Okay, now's the time to learn
You start making these same mistakes as an adult boy your words are going to come crushing down, okay?
Proverbs 19 verse 26 proverbs 19 verse 26
Proverbs 19 verse 26
What's the
What's the ingredient guys? How do we fix this generation?
Proverbs chapter 19 verse 26
Says he that waste of his father and chaseth away. His mother is a son
Sorry, I think I've got something mixed up there before did I
Yeah, sorry. I think I missed mixed that
Missed up a few references, but that's okay. He that waste of his father and chaseth away
His mother is a son that cause of shame and bring a free approach
What's the solution verse 27
Cease my son stop it
Right grow up mature learn get wisdom take the punishment take the discipline
Cease my son stop to hear the instruction that cause us to err from the words of knowledge
You want to know how to make sure your generation that you grow up to be someone that is knowledgeable
That have wisdom that is not like this wicked generation stop listening to the knowledge and the advice of the world
You know stop listening to uh, ungodly teachers ungodly counsel
Stop taking in the peer pressure that come and you know
You're doing wrong, you know, but you do it because of the peer pressure
All right
Do what the lord word of god says put away those that are trying to destroy you
And turn back to the words of knowledge words of knowledge are right here
All right, and the words of knowledge said obey your parents
Okay, if that's what you're meant to do obey your parents turn to proverbs chapter 6 verse 20
Proverbs chapter 6 verse 20 we'll wrap it up here proverbs chapter 6 verse 20
And i'm sure these are the words of every parent to their child
Okay
These are the words of solomon to his son
You know, and i'm sure any christian father or mother wants the same thing for the kids. Let's just read it
I won't go into it. Let's just read it proverbs 6 20. It says
My son keep thy father's commandments and forsake not the law of thy mother
Bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck
When thou goest it shall lead thee
When thou sleepest it shall keep thee and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee for the commandment is a lamp
And the law is light
And reproofs of instruction are the way of life
That's just the closing word of prayer