Teaching Your Children In The Last Days

Every parent prepares their children for their future. There's no doubt about it. We prepare them for school. We prepare them for careers. We prepare them for their responsibilities, but the greatest preparation we can give our children is spiritual preparation for eternity. Thank God we prepared them for school. Thank God we prepared them for their careers. Thank God we prepared them for life, but I want to stand here today as your pastor and tell you and remind you that the greatest preparation we give our children is spiritual preparation for eternity. Everybody's gonna live forever. The only question is is where and it has to come from us. [00:02:22] (46 seconds)  #PrepareKidsForEternity

Let me tell you something, the devil as a child of God does not have the authority, authority means right, to come in your house and do whatever he wants. You have to allow him and the word devil translated into Hebrew and Greek means penetrator and he's constantly looking at penetration to get in and that old dog, if you give him an inch, he'll take a foot. You give him a foot, he'll take a yard and before you know it, he's got miles in your house. You gotta be careful with the atmosphere. The atmosphere controls the climate and the climate change the culture. If the culture of your child is changing, you need to go in there and you need to check their you need to check their climate. [00:26:51] (52 seconds)  #GuardYourAtmosphere

People become consumed with entertainment. We become consumed with success. We become consumed with comfort. We become consumed with technology and slowly our spiritual passion fades because we are in competition with all these other things and before I know it, we wonder why our used to be seven year old who was on fire for God is now 13 and not on fire for God anymore and we wanna fire the youth pastor and we wanna change our songs but what's really happened is entertainment, success, comfort, theology surround us around and we allow these things to distract us from the spiritual things of God. [00:17:45] (45 seconds)  #ProtectFaithFromDistraction

Your children must learn that the Bible is not just a book, but the Bible is God's revealed truth. He has revealed truth to us. We should know, we can know exactly what the end times are, we can know what's gonna happen in the end times, we can know what's going on with our life, what God wants us to do next through this book right here. This book is not a suggestion, this book is a commandment, it's a commandment of truth. If your children learn about end times from culture instead of scripture, they will be confused about God's plan. If they get it from culture, they then they're gonna be confused because culture does not always line up to what the word of God says. [00:06:51] (43 seconds)  #ScriptureOverCulture

Teach your families that these signs are not meant to cause fear, watch this, but awareness. We're not supposed to run to churches, oh, we're scared, we're No, we should be abated aware. We're aware of what's going on. We're aware, prepare them to recognize the times. Jesus rebuked people for not recognizing the time they were living in. In Matthew sixteen and three, he says, you know how to discern the face of the sky, in other words, you know how to look at the sky if it's gonna rain or not, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. Me tell you something, we are without excuse, it's right here. [00:13:06] (40 seconds)  #DiscernTheTimes

We're all built with it, we're all built with the capacity to handle it and the bible tells us the danger of the last days is not persecution, the danger is spiritual distraction and that's what the enemy is doing today, he's trying to distract our kids and let me go ahead and tell you, I mean he's he's definitely after the ones who's who doesn't come to church, who doesn't know any, who's not not exposed to spiritual things like these children are and he's after them, but let me go ahead and tell you, he's really after these guys. He really wants them and the danger isn't just persecution, the danger is spiritual distraction. [00:17:01] (44 seconds)  #GuardAgainstSpiritualDistraction

our authority comes on this word right here, the authority of almighty God and now more than ever, this generation has so many different avenues to receive so many different opinions on what is true. How do we But there's only one truth and that truth is the word of the living God and you have to start with that and let your children know this is your bible, it is the word of God, it is what God says and everything that is true can be tested by what this word says. Do you believe it this morning? Give God some praise in this house because I believe it. The [00:06:09] (35 seconds)  #BibleIsAuthority

Children today are surrounded by voices. Well, don't want to tell them that, I don't want to don't want to push them away, I don't want to bore them. Let me tell you something, children love leadership. They love instruction. No, you haven't been around my kid. No, I'm telling you, they're gonna rebel, they they're they're they're gonna turn you off and not listen to it, but let me tell you something, we are genetically created to receive instruction and when we do it, they receive it. To prove it, children today are surrounded by voices. You need to make sure that the main voice they hear is yours. [00:03:21] (38 seconds)  #ParentsArePrimaryVoice