CHOOSE THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE. AMEN.
AMEN means "so be it." Every day we have a choice whom we will serve (Joshua 24:15). Our awesome, holy and righteous God, which leads to eternal life with Him in heaven? or, Satan, the great liar, deceiver, false accuser, who will lead the lost unto eternal damnation in Hell? It truly is our choice, every day of our life. Amen.
Satan wants our children, he wants them to believe that sin is ok, that sin is normal, just a phase, or some other lie. He is teaching them that evil is good and good is evil (Isaiah 5:20). The works of the flesh are learned every day our kids are in school in this world that is in enmity with God (James 4:4). This world where Satan is the prince and power of the air (Ephesians 2:2). This world where Satan is prowling around looking for and devouring our lost, weak and unprepared children (1 Peter 5:8).
It seems like the life of a Jr. and High School student is all about lack of self-control, provoking each other, selfishness, conflicts, envy and other sinful things. Then they graduate to fornication and partying, drunkenness, etc. This does not have to be. Their words, their lives, can be blessing, kind and gentle, not harsh, obscene and dirty (James 3:9-11). They can be Righteous and Holy, not sinful and lost. God gave us all we need to raise godly children if we persevere every day they are with us from birth to leaving the nest. Open the Word of God with them, read, come to truly KNOW what God has planned for those that love Him and live in Him. You cannot KNOW (John 17:3) our God and Jesus His Son if the Word of God is never opened and studied, if there is no prayer, if there is no fasting. And if parents do not KNOW the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, then the kids are lost already and without hope.
Parents please, if you are Christian, these lusts of the flesh are not "normal" behavior, not "just part of growing up". These things are sin and will keep your child out of heaven. Teach them how a Christian should live and breathe and be. Teach them the fruits of the Spirit, teach them Love as Jesus loved, as God loved, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, John 3:16. Teach them the condemnation that comes when we do not accept Jesus John 3:19, and that it is an eternal condemnation of which there is no escaping once there, if they do not repent and live a life worthy of who we are in Christ Jesus. Teach them the road to the Cross.The road to life. The narrow road that few will find (Matthew 7:13-14). Make your house a house that chooses to serve the Lord every day, amen.
"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another." Galatians 5:18-26
It seems like the life of a Jr. and High School student is all about lack of self-control, provoking each other, selfishness, conflicts, envy and other sinful things. Then they graduate to fornication and partying, drunkenness, etc. This does not have to be. Their words, their lives, can be blessing, kind and gentle, not harsh, obscene and dirty (James 3:9-11). They can be Righteous and Holy, not sinful and lost. God gave us all we need to raise godly children if we persevere every day they are with us from birth to leaving the nest. Open the Word of God with them, read, come to truly KNOW what God has planned for those that love Him and live in Him. You cannot KNOW (John 17:3) our God and Jesus His Son if the Word of God is never opened and studied, if there is no prayer, if there is no fasting. And if parents do not KNOW the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, then the kids are lost already and without hope.
Parents please, if you are Christian, these lusts of the flesh are not "normal" behavior, not "just part of growing up". These things are sin and will keep your child out of heaven. Teach them how a Christian should live and breathe and be. Teach them the fruits of the Spirit, teach them Love as Jesus loved, as God loved, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, John 3:16. Teach them the condemnation that comes when we do not accept Jesus John 3:19, and that it is an eternal condemnation of which there is no escaping once there, if they do not repent and live a life worthy of who we are in Christ Jesus. Teach them the road to the Cross.The road to life. The narrow road that few will find (Matthew 7:13-14). Make your house a house that chooses to serve the Lord every day, amen.
JESUS SAVES
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