Teach Your Children
A message to fathers
Fathers,
This is a very important message for you about the importance of teaching your children about God’s word.
(Psalms 78:4) “We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.”
What should we NOT hide from our children in the above verse? God’s word:
(Psalms 78:1-3) “Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. {2} I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: {3} Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.”
God commands fathers to teach their children his word.
(Psalms 78:5) “For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:”
And why does God want fathers to teach their children his word?
(Psalms 78:7-8) “That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: {8} And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.”
If you don’t teach your children God’s word then they are apt to be stubborn, rebellious, forget about God, and have their heart in the wrong place.
We can see an example of this in the children of Ephraim.
(Psalms 78:9-11) “The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. {10} They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; {11} And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.”
It wasn’t God’s fault the people turned from him. He did many miraculous works for them. He tried to do everything to get them to follow him. I’m not sure what more he could have done.
(Psalms 78:12) “Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.”
He divided the sea for them to escape Pharaoh.
(Psalms 78:13) “He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.”
He gave them exact instructions on where to step via a cloud in the day and fire by night. What could be easier?!
(Psalms 78:14) “In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.”
He gave them water out of rocks.
(Psalms 78:16) “He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.”
He literally gave them angel’s food and meat to eat.
(Psalms 78:24-25) “And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. {25} Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.”
He even served up the meat right to their door step!
(Psalms 78:27-28) “He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: {28} And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.”
I don’t think God could have made it any easier for them. What was their response to all these blessings God gave them?
(Psalms 78:32) “For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.”
Predictably, when you continually turn your back on God there are severe consequences. The people had much trouble and were slewed.
(Psalms 78:33-34) “Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. {34} When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.”
All this happened because fathers wouldn’t teach their children God’s word. It is so unnecessary. All this could have been avoided if the father would simply tell his child what God said. It’s even easier today to do that because we have all kinds of access to God’s word. If you don’t know where to get God’s word you can simply read it here:
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/
Or you can get your only King James Bible on Amazon for only a few dollars. If you live in the US or Canada, you can even message me and I’ll even mail you one for free.
However, you want to get access to God’s word, I highly suggest that you do and start teaching it to your children. I know you care about them deeply and teaching them about God is the number one thing you can do for them to set them up for success, not only in this life, but more importantly in the life after death.
At the very least, teach your children that we are all sinners and that sin condemns us to hell for eternity. Then give them the good news that Jesus died to pay for that sin, was buried, and then rose again thereby defeating death, and all they have to do to obtain eternal life with Jesus is to simply believe he died for us.
How To Get Saved
If you are not saved yet by Jesus Christ for all of eternity, God wants you to know that you can be. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done. God loves us so much he gave his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins on the cross even though we don’t even deserve it. He was then buried for 3 days, and then gloriously resurrected 3 days later.
This is what the Bible says about how you can be saved:
(Acts 16:30-31) “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? {31} And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
If you want to know more about salvation and how to live a victorious Christian life after you get saved, I have a salvation guide on profile or here: