Train Up A Child

IT IS hard to ~witness~ of “The Gospel” OF Christ or of God’s Kingdom in this day and time. Not that IT IS any harder today, than IT was in the days when Jesus walked this earth, ~Preaching~ of God’s Kingdom, and ~Teaching~ the people of the things that they *MUST* do to enter into IT… But, if you want to see a tempers flare, or have a hand thrown up in your face today, just make a simple Biblical Statement, that shows someone that what they are doing, which `they` perceive as ~Good~, IS In Fact wrong, and you have made an enemy…. YET, this is what Jesus commissioned His Faithful followers to do, not to draw back and accept the fake or false teachings as truth, but TO Share The True Gospel with ~~ALL~~ nations of people… AND YES, He warned that as He had been hated for this we also would be hated, *IF* we stood on God’s Holy Written Word and followed HIS Will and Way, and warned of the paths that lead to destruction in the ways of a lost and dying world…..
TOO many “licensed” by men, qualified by secular teachings, peach that ~ALL~ one has to do IS: invite Jesus into our hearts, be Baptized, and live life here on earth to the fullest of mans offerings presented by Satan…. Jesus hops on board and rides along and won’t let us do wrong in anything that we do, in fact He hides it from the Father and we are saved… by God’s Grace…
IT IS pitiful to hear and see adults teaching this to little ones, and leading them to believe that they are saved by just getting into the water, with a preacher and the deal is done…
Little ones do not understand, the aspect of; “Praying with a repentant heart”, OR “Leaving ~ALL~ the world behind to follow Christ”, the act OF: “Personal sacrifice”, “fasting, praying, declaring THE Gospel”, unless they are taught these things…
How many that color pictures of man’s version of Jesus, then paste on manmade tattoo’s, color eggs and are taught that this has anything to do with the, “Resurrection of God’s Son, Jesus Christ”, OR decorated trees, all in the guise of being taught in God’s Will and Way, can come to understand the responsibilities of being a willing follower of Christ… AND YES! In spite of those walking around, led by Satan with the rings in their nose, that bangles of his world, and the tattoos of the dead painted al over them claiming to be good, IT IS A Responsible Position that we enter into IF we profess to be followers of Christ..
YET! And still folks, lead them to do these things, while telling them that this is good, this is righteous, HOW? WHY?
In (Mark 1:17).. Jesus said, “Come ye after Me, and I will make you, “To Become”, fishers of men… Paul understood, taught, wrote:
(Romans 6:4) .. Therefore, we are buried ~with~ Him by Baptism into death: that like AS Christ was raised up from the dead, BY The Glory OF The Father, even so we ~Also~ should walk in the newness of life…
NOW, ~Think~… Most pulpit messages are based upon, a series of: thou shalt not drink alcoholic beverages, or have affairs with another’s wife. Any other message will Make the congregation uncomfortable and their money will walk out the door, or the preacher will lose his job…you very seldom hear a word about free sex outside of marriage anymore, because so many sitting on the Church benches are in this position, you will never hear the Gospel of thou shalt not have false gods before ME, or bear false witness either.. Because, so many of the teachings are in fact false, mixed all up in men’s traditions, pagan customs, and worldly celebrations, and this IS What *THE People* want! SO the children are ~NOT~ gonna be given the message that they must walk like Jesus in “The Newness of Life.”
Little ones rejoice anytime that they have achieved something that makes their parents of teachers, proud of them and that brings a vocal praise of ~Their~ accomplishments, so the praise that they get from the people around them, makes them believe that they have done great by being Baptized…BUT do they actually show a different walk as though being ~born again~?
(John 3:3) .. Jesus Said: “Verily, Verily, I SAY, unto thee, Except a man be, “Born again”, he cannot ~See~ the *Kingdom of God*…
This IS NOT to dispute the calling of The LORD, through Jesus, By The Holy Spirit to the hearts of a little child, teenager, young adult, or even an old person, but it is to clarify that our works prove, where we are walking, whether in Christ or in the world led by Satan… AS IT IS Written!
Reckon that is why so many that fill the Church pews, think that the U.S. Government IS God’s Kingdom? And that the soldiers provide our freedom by the wars and rumors of wars that they are involved in.. The killing, which God Said, “Thou shalt not do”!, The fighting, the unrest? AND we teach our little ones to lift up and march the flag of the nations into God’s House of Prayer, instead of Lifting up the ~~Only Flag, Standard, Ensign~~ that stands FOR God’s Kingdom Before them and that IS Jesus Christ, God’s Only Begotten Son…. Surprise! IT IS Not even “The Christian” flag, because there are many that profess to be Christian, that are not of God’s Kingdom! AND there can be NO, competition in the following of Christ, Believing on His Name, Lifting UP The Son… IT IS Either Jesus OR IT IS NOT! Straight forward!! IT IS either God’s Kingdom OR It is a worldly nation.. There is no in between, and, or, also, with toooo.
(Isaiah 11:10).. “IN That Day, there shall be a ~Root of Jesse~, which shall stand for an *Ensign* of the people, to *IT* shall the Gentiles seek: and His ~Rest~ shall be glorious…
Can one ~~SEE~~ *THE Kingdom OF God*, through the ~Vail~ of false teachings, which have been laced into the Blessed events of: The Birth of God’s Son, Jesus Christ, The Crucifixion, AND The Resurrection? HOW many have actually been ~~Born Again~~? And yet *IF* you speak of these things, how angry can folks become, because ~~Their~ belief has been challenged, the things that have been accepted as righteous has been shown to be questionable before mankind, and God’s Written Book of ALL Instruction…
(I Peter 1:23) Peter wrote, “Being ~Born Again~, *NOT* of corruptible seed, BUT OF *Incorruptible, ~~BY~~ *THE WORD OF GOD*, which liveth and abideth forever…
NOW, there are those who ~Will~ protest this very statement, to claim that Peter referred to Jesus as The Word here and NOT to the Written Book of ALL Instruction, The Bible, and That Jesus, Himself does The ~cleansing~.. AND IT IS True that Jesus IS The Way, The Truth, The Light, and NO one can come unto the Father but by Him and IN Him IS Righteousness, BUT, we gotta have a ~~willingly obedient~ heart and mind TO Follow His Will and Way, *NOT* mans tradition, not our own way of thinking that this is right and this is wrong, BUT, God The Father HAD Written A Book with which to teach us, and bring to memory the things that we ~MUST~ do in order to please HIM…
Think about this, the flag of a nation IS corruptible, IT will rot in time, IT’S leaders are corrupt, as many will testify to in God’s Houses of Worship, But we still display IT, sing TO/OF IT, before The LORD… Jesus and God’s Written Word IS Incorruptible, They ~Both~ Will Stand Eternally, *Forever*… NOW, where do we want to be found standing, with our blessed children, which God gave us to be responsible for teaching of HIS Truth? AS Jesus Said:
(Luke 21:33) .. “Heaven and earth shall pass away: BUT My words shall not pass away…”
(Ephesians 2:10).. Paul Said, Speaking OF God The Father, “For we ~ARE~ HIS Workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them….”
The Father made the plans, ordained the way before time that we must walk… we weren’t ordained, but the works that we Must do was ordained, we must humbly obey and follow, the works that Jesus Christ set before us.. We weren’t sent out to blaze new trails, invent new ways of teaching, learning, invent new traditions for God’s people to follow, FOR Jesus already did that.. He set the path, paved the Way, Laid The Track, we just gotta stay on IT, and not falter.. And how can we do that?
(Ephesians 6:) Explains IT Well, as Paul Wrote: “Children”, obey your parents =in The Lord= For this IS ~~Right~~.(Parents, Please BE Sure That what you teach you little ones IS ASGod would have them taught in The Lord.) Honour thy father and mother, parents, ~Provoke NOT your children to ~Wrath~, BUT bring them up in the *Nurture & Admonition* OF THE LORD! (Admonition means: give ~Sound~ advise, rebuke them of the bad ways.. Nurture means: help them to ~Grow~, in a caring manner….) Be Strong in the Lord, and in The Power of His Might.. Put on ~~The Whole Armour~ of God, that ye (they) may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil… (Wonder why our children get into so much trouble, when we teach them to mix the world into the things that should belong to only God, thus teaching them to ~Step OUT~ from under HIS Wing of Protection and into Satan’s lost and dying world… We don’t teach them by ~Example, word of mouth instruction, or God’s Command, TO BE soundly clothed in The Whole Armour OF God… In fact Paul Warns of this)
(Romans 3:12) ..They are ~ALL~ gone out of The Way, they are together become unprofitable: there IS none that doeth ~Good~, no not one….
AS IT IS Written: STAND, therefore, having your loins girt about with **TRUTH**, (Not the fabrications of the pagan cultures, & worldly ways)… Having on the ~Breastplate~ (To protect their heart).. OF Righteousness… your feet shod with ~The Preparation of The Gospel~ of Peace.. (Peace isn’t placing a BB gun in the hands of a two year old and telling them to shoot at anything that moves.. Teaching them that weapons of war are good, shoot the enemy, laughing when they kill birds, but not for food, just for the ~thrill of killing, shoot cats or dogs for the sport, this is not Biblical, yet, you can hear folks bragging about their child for doing this, and then wondering ~WHY~ did that child go on a shooting rampage in the school?)… ~ALL~ taking the shield of *Faith*, wherewith ye shall be able to ~Quench~ ~ALL~ the fiery darts of the wicked… Take on the ~Helmet of Salvation~ (The helmet of salvation protects your thoughts from straying into the world, which IS: the deliverance of sin through Jesus Christ, if we keep the Helmet over our head, our minds set on Christ, He will keep us…) AND THE ~Sword~ of The Spirit, which IS The Word of God, (The Written Word of God)… Praying ~~Always~~ with ALL Prayer and supplications in the Spirit, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the Gospel…as I ought to speak… not sitting quietly, smiling at the abominations carried on around me, accepting them rather than make waves in the waters of the world, or enemies of the ones who are telling me that these things are right and acceptable to God..
(Titus 1:16).. They profess that they ~Know~ God; but in works they *Deny* Him, being abominable, disobedient, and unto ~Every Good Work~ reprobate..
(James 2:20) .. BUT Wilt thou ~Know~, O Vain man, that *Faith* without *Works* IS Dead?
(Ephesians 5:11).. Have ~NO~ fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather ~~Reprove~~ them……
Can you, Will you, do this for your children?