Children's Rights
Jim Henry
Proverbs 1:5-8
Our parental responsibility is to teach our children. In teaching our children we need to remember that ''folly is bound up in the heart of a child,'' as the writer of Proverbs says. The word folly means ''foolishness,'' which can be driven out by the ''rod of discipline.'' That rod of discipline doesn't always mean a spanking with a hand or a belt or something else; it can mean other forms of discipline. But we need to remind our children that they are part of a fallen race, and have inherited an evil heart, but that Christ can make them right and cleansed, and forgiven, and good.
Our society says you're good, and then you may become evil. God's Word says you have a sinful heart but by the help of Christ you can be good. So it's important that we teach them about their fallen nature and that their hearts are foolish. That doesn't put them down, that doesn't make them seem less of a person; it helps them basically to understand the way God looks at the world, to understand how God thinks about who they are.
I don't have to tell you; everyone of us knows that our child's heart 4 5 wrpped and bet toward-sin-. Dr. Frel Sampson, one of my favorite preachers, a wonderful black preacher, said that one time he had to discipline his little boy. The little boy disobeyed his daddy and he had to punish him, and he was mad because he had been punished. He said, ''All right now, son, you go up to your room and you get on your knees and you talk to God. You tell God you're sorry that you sinned.'' He said, ''I don't want to do it!.'' He said, ''Yes, you're going to. Now you go up to your room and pray.'' He said, ''Can I do it by myself?'' He said, ''No, I'm going to go pray with you.'' ''I don't want you tol'' ''Well, I'm going to. I want to make sure you and the Lord get this straight.'' ''All right.'' So they went upstairs to his room, and Dr. Sampson said the little boy got down beside his bed and said, ''Dear Lord, tod ...
Jim Henry
Proverbs 1:5-8
Our parental responsibility is to teach our children. In teaching our children we need to remember that ''folly is bound up in the heart of a child,'' as the writer of Proverbs says. The word folly means ''foolishness,'' which can be driven out by the ''rod of discipline.'' That rod of discipline doesn't always mean a spanking with a hand or a belt or something else; it can mean other forms of discipline. But we need to remind our children that they are part of a fallen race, and have inherited an evil heart, but that Christ can make them right and cleansed, and forgiven, and good.
Our society says you're good, and then you may become evil. God's Word says you have a sinful heart but by the help of Christ you can be good. So it's important that we teach them about their fallen nature and that their hearts are foolish. That doesn't put them down, that doesn't make them seem less of a person; it helps them basically to understand the way God looks at the world, to understand how God thinks about who they are.
I don't have to tell you; everyone of us knows that our child's heart 4 5 wrpped and bet toward-sin-. Dr. Frel Sampson, one of my favorite preachers, a wonderful black preacher, said that one time he had to discipline his little boy. The little boy disobeyed his daddy and he had to punish him, and he was mad because he had been punished. He said, ''All right now, son, you go up to your room and you get on your knees and you talk to God. You tell God you're sorry that you sinned.'' He said, ''I don't want to do it!.'' He said, ''Yes, you're going to. Now you go up to your room and pray.'' He said, ''Can I do it by myself?'' He said, ''No, I'm going to go pray with you.'' ''I don't want you tol'' ''Well, I'm going to. I want to make sure you and the Lord get this straight.'' ''All right.'' So they went upstairs to his room, and Dr. Sampson said the little boy got down beside his bed and said, ''Dear Lord, tod ...
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