Do you remember what the angel Gabriel said to Zacharias the father of John the Baptist regarding his son?
Luke 1:17
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
| I don't believe our nation's clergymen have stressed this verse enough. Oh, they often speak of John making a people ready for the Lord, but they skim over "to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children" and the other part of the sentence which is directly related "and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just." | |
To become ready for the the Lord Yeshua Messiah and his Father, Yahweh, the God of Israel, what must first happen to the hearts of people? Read it again. Their hearts must turn to their children. What about the people who have no children as yet? They are the ones that are "disobedient" and must turn their hearts to the "wisdom of the just." Who should be the most wise in our culture? The adults. The parents. So, before coming to the Lord Yeshua, first you fathers must turn your hearts to your children, to teach them the wisdom of the just. And you children must turn to your parents and/or your respectable elders to learn from them the wisdom of the just.
Why do I seem to harp on this issue on this website? Because what I see in this society is a growing population of fatherless children, divorced mothers who struggle to raise their kids alone, and so called "fathers" who are literally "out to lunch." These so called "men" who simply impregnate women and then walk out of their lives, as they go to ball games, rock concerts, bars and so on, are fattening themselves up for their own slaughter on judgment day! The worst ones are the ones who actually got married with oaths to God in front of friends and family to stay true to the end, but renege on their oaths and dump their families with no thought about their oath to God, nor their commitment to their wives, nor their responsibilities to their children. Those are THE worst!
These so called "fathers" don't act like fathers at all. They act like sperm donors, that's all. They are as guilty as rapists, as common thieves (especially if they try to get around paying child support), and even as guilty as murderers (if their kids grow up depressed, turn to alcohol and drugs and wind up dead from that stupid lifestyle)! Am I too harsh? Was Paul too harsh when he stated the following?
1 Tim 5:8
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Why am I telling you this? You must be searching for the truth in the Word of God if you are reading this, so, you are probably a decent person. The problem in this modern society is that people feel no shame because no one expects to be "judged" by anyone. If anyone "judges" anyone, the are called a bad person. Today, it is worse to "judge" than dump your kids on your wife and leave. This is a disgusting lie that must have seeped out of Satan's lower intestines like the stinking, steaming, evil pile of dung that it is! Just read these verses:
1 Corinthians 6:2-3
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?1 Corinthians 5:13 (New American Standard)
But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.1 Timothy 5:20
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
Jude 1:23
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.Matt 18:15-17
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Let's bring shame back. If your relative or friend does evil to his wife and family, kick him out of your life until he repents. If he doesn't, you lost a friend or a brother or whoever the person was to you. Of course, women foul up their families too sometimes. They should be treated with the same seriousness as the men who choose not to lead their families by example.
I'm most concerned about the children. That being said, grown adults who should be serving Yahweh in Messiah's name can become very ill psychologically and spiritually from a family break up. Yahweh needs able bodied people to serve Him, not a bunch of self absorbed slobs walking around all depressed and sickly.
You want to love one another? Don't be an "enabler" supporting people who are disrupting the whole fabric of our society, leaving in their wake untold numbers of wounded babies, children and spouses. Yes, the children pay the highest tolls for their parents selfishness, but don't forget, your spouse feels pain too. Just because we are adults, if you cut us, do we not bleed?
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Messiah taught us to love our enemies. Do you think Christians can at least manage to love the spouse that they swore to God to love and honor until death do they part? And don't think that just because you didn't get divorced that you are holier than thou if you and your wife are turning your home into a battlefield day in and day out. Think what all that hate and screaming does to the children, not to mention the neighbors who call you a hypocrite behind your back because you profess following the Lord when they can plainly hear you screaming from next door. No, we must tell our own brains to love our spouses. "A soft word turneth away wrath." Read Proverbs. Proverbs will help us all to live peacefully with one another. |
Avoid causing problems. In a marriage, one should not deprive the other of normal relations, because that can make a person vaunerable to Satan's temptations:
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Charity begins at home.
So does everything else. The home is where you wake up and where you go to sleep
(generally speaking). Everything begins at home: love, charity, truth, lies,
hypocrisy. We are all being watched by Yahweh, the God of Israel. And if we
are judged by our behaviors in this life time, how we treat the family at home
makes up 90% of the picture. Don't kid yourselves.
Much more to come within
a few days...