| What is it that a stop sign is saying to a driver when | | | | been made perfect, the mother is the Church. The |
| a driver pulls up in front of it? Of coarse the obvious | | | | seed of God, (His word) when it is sown into the |
| communication is that the driver must stop. But what | | | | Church (which then brings to pass the evangelism of |
| is the reason for needing to stop? Nothing on the | | | | the unconverted) brings forth new children to God. |
| sign speaks of the reasoning for the command. The | | | | When the actions of a child are in disobedience or |
| reason why a person is to stop is supposed to be | | | | rebellion to his or her parents and this goes |
| understood by the driver or he should not be driving. | | | | uncorrected, this action brings forth the picture that |
| The purpose for the stop sign is for the driver to be | | | | the Lord will tolerate the actions of disobedience and |
| able to have sufficient time to carefully consider the | | | | rebellion in His own children and never correct them. |
| traffic and thus proceed safely. Therefore, the value | | | | Which suggestion is a lie. For God is a consuming fire. |
| of the stop sign is in the more important reasoning | | | | He does not wink at sin, as if it does not matter. |
| behind it. | | | | Therefore, when defiance and rebellion in a child are |
| God's laws pertaining to how children must honor and | | | | left uncorrected this is slanderous to the greater |
| obey their parents are like the stop sign. The | | | | truth that marriage and family are to illustrate in the |
| greatest importance of them is in the reasoning | | | | world. In fact, I often ask my eight year old son this |
| behind them, this reasoning goes beyond the | | | | question. "Son, if you can not honor and obey your |
| immediate sphere of men's lives. Undoubtedly there is | | | | father and mother whom you can see and hear, for |
| extreme importance in men's lives for God's laws | | | | they are right here in front of you, how do you think |
| pertaining to family life, and the rearing of children to | | | | you will learn to obey your spiritual Father and |
| be fulfilled, for this allows for the possibility (or even | | | | Mother?" (God and the Church) Therefore I conclude |
| provability) of stable and happy lives for children | | | | that to allow disobedience and dishonor of children to |
| when they grow to adulthood. Yahweh's laws related | | | | their parents is to promote the almost guaranteed |
| to parenting have not only an earthly need for | | | | open dishonoring and disobedience of that soul some |
| fulfillment, meaning they are needed to properly | | | | years down the road toward both God and the |
| direct the affairs of man on the earth for his | | | | Church. |
| immediate good and protection, but also they | | | | So what we find in modern America is that the |
| represent heavenly and eternal realities at the same | | | | humanistic thought pattern that have sprung forth |
| time. The following is an explanation of the heavenly | | | | from man's wisdom (versus obedience to God's laws) |
| realities that are reflected by the practice of children | | | | have created a society filled with unruly and |
| obeying their parents, therein, defining the reason for | | | | disobedient children that do not honor their parents |
| the most extreme cause of Yahweh's hatred in | | | | or authority in general. This fact reflects that our |
| regards to rebellion found in children. For to violate | | | | generation is in itself rebellious toward God. It is that |
| Yahweh's laws pertaining to children honoring their | | | | simple. It is no more complicated then that. Yes, we |
| parents is to directly slander the Heavenly realities | | | | might boast that we are Christians, but Jesus said |
| that a faithful life was created by God to picture. | | | | that "a tree will be known by its fruits". And in the |
| Disobedience To Parents: | | | | end, the real values of a person are known by what |
| In other articles we have spoken of the truth that | | | | that person does or allows. |
| the human persons, that of the man and the woman | | | | The disobedience of children to their parents and the |
| were created by Yahweh to be living mortal | | | | Church, and other rightful forms of authority |
| illustrations of both Himself and the chief object of | | | | misrepresents God and His purposes, and is in direct |
| His affection: the Church. Chiefly this is seen in the | | | | violation to Yahweh's laws, and is hated by God. |
| marriage relationship. The very nature of marriage | | | | Therefore parent, you can not wink at your child's |
| speaks of the obvious provable eventuality of | | | | rebellion, but it must be overcome by both the grace |
| children. In like manner the intimacy that the Lord | | | | of God, and the disciplining of the child. |
| shares with His own (the Church) brings forth new | | | | America, turn from the wisdom of men back to the |
| life. (new Christian believers) So we find that the | | | | wisdom of the God that birthed you as a people. It |
| relationship, and the laws that govern the relationship | | | | has been that same wisdom that has brought you |
| between parents and children are meant of God to | | | | both honor and prosperity in the past. But know this, |
| be a picture of the relationship that the Lord has to | | | | if you will not repent and turn from the way of men, |
| His own. God is the Father of every soul who has | | | | then your sins will become your undoing. |