Preparing Our Children

1. Preparing Our Children Dr. Jobe Martin www.biblicaldiscipleship.org www.evolutionofacreationist.com www.creationproclaims.com www.slideshare.net (Jobe Martin)

2. The modern university is a hostile environment for Biblical Christians. It is imperative that our children know and be able to defend and live the foundational Biblical Lifeview (worldview). We will address the importance of relationship as a basis for imparting truth about God and life. We parents should be equipped to approach this aspect of our task by preparing our child to have a Biblical goal, plan, and focus as he/she seeks to fulfill 1 Peter 3:15 and Colossians 1:10 upon leaving the protection of our homes. 

3. Are we sending our children out as missionaries or as mission fields?

4. For Christian home school families teaching must be centered around our Lord Jesus—He is the inventor and author of science, true religion, ethics, law, history, economics, etc…. • Our Children must be taught who they are as saved, Bible-believing Christians.

5. JUDE 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

6. 1 PETER 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.

7. COLOSSIANS 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

8. HOSEA 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

9. PROVERBS 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

10. 2 CORINTHIANS 11:3 3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety [craftiness], so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

11. 2 CORINTHIANS 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

12. MATTHEW 22:37   Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

13. 1 PETER 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. Lions attack the weakest, the slowest, the youngest and the ones that are grazing alone.

16. Mountain lions can spring-leap ahead 24 feet from a stand still position.

17. Lions can leap off a cliff down onto a prey from 65 feet up!

18. Satan goes about like a roaring lion looking for human prey to devour! Our kids are the youngest, the weakest, often the sickest, and many times grazing far away from the flock!

19. EPHESIANS 6:10-13 10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

20. We must teach our children to stand up in and contend for our Bible-based Christian faith!

21. We must equip our children for the spiritual battle that is intensifying in their generation!

22. One of the first steps that we must take is to decide who it is that determines what is true. Who determines truth: Is it man or Is it God?

23. If it is the God of the Bible Who determines what is True, then we must examine everything through the filter of His Word! And we must teach our children to do the same!

26. 1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.

27. Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God

28. Let’s keep a few things in mind….

29. I Chronicles 12:32: And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment

30. In general children do not rebel against rules. Children in rebellion are, for the most part, rebelling against a lack of relationship with the rule maker/enforcer/giver.

31. Created to Live by the Rules • Why do our children love to play games like Monopoly, card games, yard games, etc…? • Why do people worship sports and make all kinds of sacrifices of time and money to be involved with sports?! • We are designed to love rules. Our Creator made us to desire boundaries. • Rules and boundaries grant us freedom. • Limits give us peace!

32. Why Am I Home Schooling? “Education is the most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday Schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?” Charles Francis Potter Humanism: A New Religion, (New York: Simon and Schuster), 1930, p. 16 Potter was a Unitarian minister, theologian and author who changed, over half a century, from an evangelical Baptist to a radical Humanist.

33. John Dunphy: “A RELIGION FOR A NEW AGE” “The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. . . .

34. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level—preschool day care or large state university.

35. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new—the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never realized Christian ideal of “love thy neighbor” will finally be achieved….humanism will emerge triumphant. It must if the family of humankind is to survive.”~John Dunphy, The Humanist, (Jan. 1983, pp. 23-26)

36. THE BATTLE OF CREATION VS EVOLUTION IS REALLY THE BATTLE FOR THE GOSPEL. • G. Richard Bozarth writes (“The Meaning of Evolution”, American Atheist, Sept. 20, 1979, p. 30): • “Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science to the desperate end over evolution because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the [S]on of [G]od. …

37. If Jesus was not the [R]edeemer that died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing.” G. Richard Bozarth Atheist Bozarth understands this issue much better than the average Christian!

38. The Family Unit is the basic foundational aspect of the Creation to accomplish God’s purposes in this world. If God created the family, then HE can make it work! We cannot turn our children over to the Canaanite Schools and not suffer varying degrees of consequences. We must be responsible stewards of the “gifts” God has entrusted to us.

39. WE DON’T KNOW OUR HISTORY • Since 1859: Darwinian Evolution----Feminism----Humanistic Psychology--- Organized Sports and Public Education have all exploded. John Dewey, a founder of the modern government school system, said, "Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.”http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Dewey.Quote.579A

40. WE DON’T KNOW OUR HISTORY • Dewey's philosophy was called instrumentalism (related to pragmatism—what is practical). • Instrumentalism believes that truth is an instrument used by human beings to solve their problems. • Since problems change, then so must truth. [Living Constitution] • Since problems change, truth changes, and therefore there can be no eternal reality. • Ultimately: the Bible means what it means to you=no eternal truth!

41. With this idea of no absolute Truth=“I have my truth and you have your truth” Secular Humanism has dropped into postmodernism.

42. POSTMODERNISTS CLAIM: There are no “truths” which apply to all of us. There are no absolute moral standards. There are no absolute ethical concerns. There is no God. There are personal opinions. There are personal perspectives. See the writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard, Ricouer, Foucault, Rorty, Baudrillard, etc. Most Postmodernist thinkers are/were disillusioned Marxists.

43. Disillusioned Marxists became PostModernists and now gain strength through Multiculturalism and its stepchild, Political Correctness, which is rightly labeled, “Cultural Marxism”. • Marx and Lenin taught that, given the chance, European workers would overthrow capitalist governments and replace them with communism. • But after the Russian revolution of 1917 the Western European workers did not support the Communist revolution or ideas. • Why not?

44. Christianity and its moral and ethical absolutes was the roadblock to the expansion of Marxism in Europe. • This roadblock was noticed by two Marxist theorists in 1919: Italian, Antonio Gramsci and Hungarian, Georg Lukacs. • These two men decided that the spread of Communism could only be accomplished if Western Christian culture was destroyed. Gramsci

45. So Lukacs introduced sex education into the public schools of Hungary,1919, believing that if children knew more about sex their lust for it would overpower their Christian morals! • So Gramsci and Lukacs laid the groundwork to change communism from economic terms (ownership of private property is evil) into cultural terms. (tolerance, sex ed, drug ed, Have-nots vs Haves, etc.)

46. Then in 1923 at Frankfurt University in Germany the Institute for Social Research was established=The Frankfurt School. • The Frankfurt School moved to New York City in 1933 when Hitler came to power. • Theorists like Wilhelm Reich, Eric Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, etc.

47. The Frankfurt School invented “Critical Theory” which had the goal of demonizing all traditional institutions such as family, fatherhood, patriotism, Bible-believing churches, etc. • The Frankfurt School published “Studies in Prejudice” which taught that anyone who believes in traditional Western Christian culture is prejudiced, a “racist” or “sexist” or “fascist” or is mentally unstable.

48. Mixing Freud with Marx, they perfected the technique of psychological conditioning—thus, for example, TV=homosexuality=normal. • TV=Christians are crazy, intolerant fools • Herbert Marcuse, working with Hollywood friends, became a leading “evangelist” of Cultural Marxism (Political Correctness) especially on the university campuses of USA.

49. “In his book Eros and Civilization, he argued that by freeing sex from any restraints, we could elevate the pleasure principle over the reality principle and create a society with no work, only play (Marcuse coined the phrase, “Make love, not war”). Marcuse also argued for what he called “liberating tolerance,” which he defined as tolerance for all ideas coming from the Left and intolerance for any ideas coming from the Right.

50. In the late 1960’s Marcuse became the chief “guru” of the New Left, and he injected the cultural Marxism (PC) of the Frankfurt School into the baby boom generation, to the point where it is now America’s state ideology. • The next conservatism should unmask multicul- turalism and Political Correctness and tell the American people what they really are: cultural Marxism. Its goal remains that Lukacs and Gramsci set in 1919: destroying Western culture and the Christian religion.[see: Wm. Lind, “Cultural Marxism” The Schwarz Report, vol. 46, No. 4, p 4. www.schwarzreport.org]