(Matthew 23:24)… Jesus SAID: “Ye ~Blind~ guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel” ……
How often do you hear: “I will not spank my child, because it puts bruises on him,” but in the next breath you hear: “MY child is gonna grow up to be a football player, I’m gonna make him tough so that he can take the punches”… Gnat & Camel?
Observing moms, dads, even grandparents, that will not call their little ones down and give them a spank on the rear or their hand to make them understand that they must learn and remain in A ~disciplined manner~… for their own good, will give this same child a swift punch on the shoulder with a fist, a slap on the back that almost knocks the breath out of them, to toughen them up make them into fighters… Gnat OR Camel?
Which does the most damage, a light whack on the back of the leg with a switch, that as IS The excuse for not disciplining the child, will cause bruises and could even damage the blood vessels… OR… A fist to the shoulder that could dislocate the shoulder, tear cartilage, and do permanent damage… OR a slap to the tiny back that could injure the lungs even crack a rib? Where IS Adult ~~Logic~~? LOST in the *Darkness* of misplaced values!
(John 8:12) … Jesus said: “I am The Light of the world: he that ~~Followeth~~ Me shall NOT walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” … (Notice that there IS an action that we must take to stay IN THE LIGHT! We MUST Follow Jesus, NOT the ways of the world of Satan.
*IF* we would enter INTO THE *LIGHT* and find the ~Righteous Path~ WE Must SEEK the Honest Counsel that the LORD God Almighty had penned down for us to follow and get our heads out of the misguided world of Satan the devil.. The serpent, Lucifer, the dragon, that paints a pretty picture of ~Grandeur~ and ~Fame~ , setting *IT* before the eyes of the weak that want to be ~Big in The World of mankind…
(Proverbs 23:13-14) .. Withhold ~NOT~ Correction from *The child*: FOR *IF* thou beatest him with the rod, he ~Shall NOT Die~ … Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell….
(Proverbs 13:24) .. He ~That Spareth~ his rod… *Hateth* his son: BUT he that *Loveth* him chasteneth him betimes…
(Proverbs 19:18).. Chasten thy son while there *IS Hope*, and let ~NOT~ thy soul spare for his crying….
(Proverbs 23: 10)… “Remove ~NOT~ the ~Old Landmark~; and enter ~NOT~ Into the fields of the fatherless:”…
ALL TO Often, I have seen IT happen IN Congregations, that ~The Youth Movement~ gets TO educated to study God’s Word any more… The ~Discipline~ IT IS Decided can be found on their own terms, and the offices are taken away from the old sages that are seasoned in the righteous way, (not that any one no matter the age ever has or ever will learn and know all that is to be learned), BUT they have learned to be disciplined in the need to be ever learning the Truths OF The Written Word, and not mans way…
Right away there IS reflected A Need TO Change the agenda TO Include MORE things that appeal to the youth… SO we get into the worldly trends, music, celebrations, parties, fun-times become more and more prevalent and the ~True Teachings of God The Father and HIS Kingdom, The Guidance of The Holy Ghost, and the Gospel OF The Son Jesus Christ, becomes ~~MORE ABOUT~~ good times in the world than about: Sincerity of Serving our Maker, through ~Respect and Godly Fear…~~~
IN Fact *IF* you look at the ~~Youth Rallies~~ today, LOOK Hard and see IF there IS Really any Respect of God there? IT IS ALL About the head-banging music of today’s fads, a very few words of God interlaced into the phrases, and this IS The guise of teaching…IT IS MORE About SELF gratification… Where IS THE Sincere Learning? The Kind THAT Jesus did when He walked this earth setting the ~Examples~ for us to follow… ~~ALL OF US~~ children, parents, men, women, of ~~ALL~~ walks of life… WE teach the childhood stories in ~SOME~ Sunday School Classes, BUT! Do we really get into the true teachings that are Written Here in them?
(Proverbs 19: 26) .. He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, *IS A* son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach…
(Proverbs 23:17).. Let ~NOT~ thine heart ~~Envy sinners~: BUT ~Be~ thou in the fear of The LORD ~ALL Day Long….
(Proverbs 23:12) Apply ~thine heart~ unto *Instruction*, and ~thine ears~ to the *Words of Knowledge*… What DID Jesus Do? WE gladly wear the bracelets and banners that have the letters: --WWJD-- imprinted on them… BUT then having put God’s Written Book of ~ALL~ Instruction on the shelf and taken on the ways of the world, how can one know what Jesus Really DID… EXCEPT THAT, we read the events of Jesus LIFE that The Father HAD Penned Down for us to read and learn of HIS Son… That IS ALL WE Need to read… NOT the stories of the world, the bright ideas of some fantasy of man… and there are many tales filtered into the Churches that are nothing more than ~Tales From The Darkside!~…
IF you Read From THE Book of ALL Instruction into the LIGTH OF God’s Will and Way you find that Jesus, DID Not join the youth movements, the modern ways, (Ways that were modern at that time) the Cesar Plans, the clans and clubs, BUT!
(Luke 2: 42 & 46-49)… ~~When He (Jesus) WAS~ *Twelve* years old, they went to Jerusalem… & After three days they found Him ~IN THE Temple~, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both **Hearing & Asking them Question**.. AND when they found Him He SAID: “How IS IT That ye sought Me? Wist ye not that I Must Be about My Fathers Business?”
Many people read this and take IT To mean that we turn our children loose to do as they please at the age of twelve, because they are learned and smart…some younger… WRONG! Our children are NOT AS Jesus WAS, they are mere mortals with fleshly weaknesses.. AND are apt to be misled by the lures of Satan the Devil… Then another mistake that folks make IS THAT Jesus won’t turn them aloose and let them fall to unbelief or bad things… tell that one to the parents of those who walked into the schools and killed fellow students, tell that to the parents of ones who followed the ways of the world to become avowed atheist… DID we teach them:: ~~TO FOLLOW~~ Jesus IN order to Receive His Guidance, OR To blasé their own trails in the ways of the world To satisfy their self pleasures? Gnat OR Camel? Duty OR Chance? LIGHT OR Darkness?
(Luke 4:14-17) … Jesus ~~Returned~~ *IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT* … (Not the way of the world then)… INTO Galilee… AND He ~~Taught~~ IN Their Synagogues.. (Not the customs of the world, their celebrations, their music and games BUT) He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up: ** AND AS His Custom WAS,** He went ~Into~ the Synagogue on the Sabbath Day, AND Stood up TO READ: .. The Book OF Esaias, and when He had opened THE BOOK, He found the place where IT IS Written:… (V’s 18-19) read AS IT IS Written in the Book of: (Isaiah 61: 1-2) ,,
He wasn’t reading His daily horoscope, or the latest fairy tale of Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, OR passing out the brightly colored dozen eggs that supposedly represent: His life and death here on this earth… NO! He read from the Scrolls that His Father HAD Penned down by the Prophets of old…. What has changed about God’s Teaching? Nothing! But mankind has attempted to change IT to suit themselves.. Turned the youth aloose to follow the adversary, because the parents gag at the gnat, of discipline and swallow the camel, of destruction….
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