Man is always trying to correct God. It is as old as creation itself. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve allowed the serpent to redefine what God said and what God meant, regarding the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The result was the entrance of sin, the fall of man, and the terrible effect on the nuclear family. Adam lost some sense of biblical masculinity and leadership as he blamed Eve, the serpent, and God. Cain substituted obedience with bitterness, killing his brother rather than repenting to God. Not much has changed in six millennia.
Marriage and family were the first two institutions that God created, giving specific parameters and responsibilities to each. While the intensity of the attacks has ebbed and flowed throughout history against these two bulwarks, they are always in the enemy’s scope. In the 1960’s Satan unleased a great assault known as the sexual revolution. In the 70’s and 80’s we heard some women roar with feminism. I guess pain in child-bearing wasn’t enough of a curse; they wanted to work by the sweat of the brow as well in order to experience the double curse. (Of course, this prompted some men to stay home and let the woman have all the responsibility. Who knows, with all the technology and our bent towards transgenderism, perhaps men will get to enjoy the pain of child-birth someday. Yes, this is sarcasm) The prosperity of the 80’s and 90’s created a hyper-consumerism culture that expected women to go to work—and men to work even longer hours—to help pay for all the family indulgences. The new century has only added to the familial burden with the political and corporate promotion of the LGBTQIA+ agendas. (I realize this smorgasbord of letters has grown, but at some point we must ask, “Why keep going?”)
In Rod Dreher’s book, “Live not by Lies,” he compares what is going on today in Western Civilization with what happened in Russia when the Red Terror of Communism took over, not just in the Mother Land but also in the satellite countries as well. How did people, unique cultures, traditions, and religion survive this sixty-year assault before the wall in Berlin fell? Many sociologists have credited the family unit for passing on the history and future vision to children and grandchildren. Sadly, not every family did this as many of their children fell prey to the propaganda and the surrendering embrace totalitarianism and its religion of atheism. Still, there was a remnant who remained faithful, and their children carry on heartbeat today.
As our culture slips deeper into the insanity of Wokism, CRT, transgenderism, and all the other perverse ism’s against God’s design, the complementary yet separate institutions of the family and church are vital to the passing of the torch to the next generation. The church’s job is to equip fathers and mothers (Eph. 4:12), who must be intentional in engaging their children to see through and stand against all the culture’s lies. Yes, we do math, but it isn’t a futile exercise to get our children into college. Instead, it is a way to glorify our Savior because without His exactness, math would be only a theory. The same is true for the sciences. Without Christ in creation, all we would have would be educated guesses about evolutionary fate that changes without reason. The only way we can know true science is to have repeatable experiments that are based on the assumption that a Designer made certain principles to always work certain ways every time—like males will always be males and females will always be females. There is no other reason to have a seven-day work week or buy seed corn five months early in the belief that there will be a seedtime and harvest.
As you begin you 2023 school year, may God grant each of you the deep conviction that discipling your children at home is the greatest thing you can do, not only for the next generation, but for our country’s health as well. It is not about what kind of car you drive or where—or even if—you vacation. In keeping your children with you, you are protecting your family from the indoctrination of lies from social media, the internet, and public education so- called. Additionally, you are teaching them how to know when wicked man is trying to redefine God’s holy design. If this isn’t enough to encourage you to constantly guard the institutions of marriage and family (and the church), remember, there is also an eternity where our children, grandchildren, and our unseen great grandchildren will one day enter. May God’s glory and your descendants’ eternities motivate you like never before.
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