LIE #4: ''MY CHILD SHOULD THINK SHE/HE IS MORE IMPORTANT TO ME THAN ANYTHING ELSE.''(4 OF 10)
Scripture: Matthew 6:24, Mark 10:28-31, Luke 14:26-27
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Lie #4: ''My Child Should Think She/He Is More Important to Me Than Anything Else.''(4 of 10)
Series: Lies Parents Tell Themselves
Wyman Richardson
Matthew 6:24; Mark 10:28-31; Luke 14:26-27
John Bunyan's book, Pilgrim's Progress, is rightly heralded as one of the truly great works of English literature. In it, Bunyan, the Baptist tinker of 17th century England, chronicles the journey of a man, Christian, to the Celestial City. It is an allegory of the Christian life that is so compellingly constructed and articulated that people to this day read it to great profit.
The journey begins when Christian comes to see himself as a sinner and comes under conviction concerning his need to flee the just wrath of God and enter the Celestial City. So Christian sets out to journey to his salvation, encountering fascinating characters along the way, but first he goes home to plead with his wife and children to come with him. The scene is pitiful and heart-rending:
Wherefore at length he brake his mind to his wife and children; and thus he began to talk to them: ''O, my dear wife,'' said he, ''and you the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me; moreover, I am certainly informed that this our city will be burnt with fire from heaven; in which fearful overthrow, both myself, with thee my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found whereby we may be delivered.''
Tragically, his wife and children refuse to believe him and determine not to follow him to the Celestial City. His response is shocking in its intensity:
So I saw in my dream that the man began to run. Now he had not run far from his own door when his wife and children, perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on crying, Life! life! eternal life!...So he looked not behind him...but fled towards the ...
Series: Lies Parents Tell Themselves
Wyman Richardson
Matthew 6:24; Mark 10:28-31; Luke 14:26-27
John Bunyan's book, Pilgrim's Progress, is rightly heralded as one of the truly great works of English literature. In it, Bunyan, the Baptist tinker of 17th century England, chronicles the journey of a man, Christian, to the Celestial City. It is an allegory of the Christian life that is so compellingly constructed and articulated that people to this day read it to great profit.
The journey begins when Christian comes to see himself as a sinner and comes under conviction concerning his need to flee the just wrath of God and enter the Celestial City. So Christian sets out to journey to his salvation, encountering fascinating characters along the way, but first he goes home to plead with his wife and children to come with him. The scene is pitiful and heart-rending:
Wherefore at length he brake his mind to his wife and children; and thus he began to talk to them: ''O, my dear wife,'' said he, ''and you the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me; moreover, I am certainly informed that this our city will be burnt with fire from heaven; in which fearful overthrow, both myself, with thee my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found whereby we may be delivered.''
Tragically, his wife and children refuse to believe him and determine not to follow him to the Celestial City. His response is shocking in its intensity:
So I saw in my dream that the man began to run. Now he had not run far from his own door when his wife and children, perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on crying, Life! life! eternal life!...So he looked not behind him...but fled towards the ...
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