Posted on 11/19/2014 7:15:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
World renowned evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, the founder and chairman of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said that our children are growing up in a “lawless and wicked age,” infused with the “philosophy of the Devil, who says, ‘Do as you please.’”
Further, rearing children in this culture is difficult because “we have taken God out of our educational systems and thought we could get away with it,” said Rev. Graham. “We have sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind. We have laughed at God, religion and the Bible.”
Reverend Graham’s commentary, first broadcast in August 1955, was published in the November 4, 2014 issue of Decision magazine, under the headline “Raising Children in a Godless Age.”
“Many Christian parents are becoming fearful that they cannot properly train their children in this lawless and wicked age,” and are asking, “What can I do with my son? My daughter?” said Rev. Graham.
“We are beginning to reap what has been sown for the past generation,” he said. “We have taught the philosophy of the Devil, who says, ‘Do as you please.’ Behaviorism has been the moral philosophy of much of our education in the past few years.”
Rev. Graham continued, “Many of our educational leaders sneer at the old-fashioned idea of God and a moral code. Movies feature sex, sin, crime and alcohol. Teenagers see these things portrayed alluringly on the screen and decide to go and try them. Newspapers have played up crime and sex until they seem glamorous to our young people.”
One of the fundamental problems, according to Rev. Graham, is the failure of parents to fight “the Devil in the home” through discipline and, as a result, “children are allowed to go wild.”
Parents must spend time with their children, set a good example for them, discipline them, and teach them to “know God,” said the pastor, who has five children and 19 grandchildren.
“If you fail to discipline your children, you are breaking the laws, commandments and statutes of God,” said Rev. Graham. “You are guilty not only of injuring the moral, spiritual and physical lives of your children, but of sinning against God. The Bible says that if you fail to discipline your children, you actually hate them.”
The best way to influence your children, he added, is to set a good example because “the majority of children acquire the characteristics and habits of their parents.”
As for teaching your children to know God, Rev. Graham said, “Very seldom do parents have trouble with children when the Bible is read regularly in the home, grace is said at the table and family prayers take place daily. Most trouble with teenagers comes from children reared in homes where prayer is neglected, the Bible is never opened and church attendance is spasmodic. Christ gives the moral stability, understanding, wisdom and patience needed to rear children.”
There is only one solution to combating the problems afflicting young people, concluded Rev. Graham, and that answer is Christ: “Christ in the home, in the lives of the parents, is the only permanent solution to the menacing teenage social problems in America.”
Church every Sunday and daily prayer “will solve 90 percent of the problems you have with your children,” he said.
For teens who want true joy and happiness, and not the temporary intoxications of today’s sinful culture, they should turn to Jesus Christ. He “can give you the greatest happiness, the greatest adventure and the greatest thrills you have ever known,” said Rev. Graham.
Billy Graham, 96, has been preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ for the last 60 years in the United States and around the world. Over the decades, his message reached an estimated 2.2 billion people through 400 preaching crusades in 185 countries on six continents.
Although Rev. Graham is retired and spends most of his time at his home in Montreat, N.C., he and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association recently released the film Heaven: A New Message From Billy Graham, as another step in his life-long mission of evangelization.
Franklin Graham, also a pastor and one of Billy Graham’s sons, says that his father has good days and bad days and is still reading the Bible every day and praying frequently. Bill Graham turned 96 earlier this month on Nov. 7.
Secular Humanism (do as thou will atheism) is a religion as well. It’s what Barry Obama subscribes to.
He sure as hell isn’t a lifelong Christian as his “Fight the Smears” website once claimed.
He or she still has a profile page, but since getting righteously kicked
off the Religion Forum by the Moderator, perhaps he or she has left
us to continue the discussion with no accusations of being morons.
THE DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM
Pope Benedict XVI
A conversation with Peter Seewald
In his futuristic novel Brave New World, the British author Aldous Huxley had predicted in 1932 that falsification would be the decisive element of modernity. In a false reality with its false truth – or the absence of truth altogether – nothing, in the final analysis, is important any more.There is no truth, there is no standpoint. Today, in fact, truth is regarded as far too subjective a concept for us to find therein a universally valid standard. The distinction between genuine and fake seems to have been abolished. Everything is to some extent negotiable. Is that the relativism against which you were warning so urgently?
It’s going to get worse with every passing logon, there’s no doubt there.
Watch your PM, ‘Lady.
Liberalism is the political expression
of the Religion of Humanism,
which began with the lie
“you will be as gods, knowing good and evil”.
This statement is the basis for the religion of Humanism,
which places human understanding as the source of all truth.
The problem is, each human will have a different understanding, and the definition of right and wrong will be imposed on others by means of force.
ALWAYS.
You’re going to be fun to watch. I wonder how long you’ll last.
When candidate Obama was asked by “God’s Girl” on some Christian network/website what sin was, he said that which went against his (own) values.
He also didn’t believe that Jesus was the only way to salvation.
I seem to recall that he also didn’t believe much in eternal damnation for what is done here. He certainly didn’t hold a concept of Heaven.
FALSANI: “Do you believe in sin?”
OBAMA: “Yes.”
FALSANI: “What is sin?”
OBAMA: “Being out of alignment with my values.”
FALSANI: “What happens if you have sin in your life?”
OBAMA: “I think it’s the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if I’m true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward; when I’m not true to it, it’s its own punishment.”
1) So, HE defines what sin is by his own value system (he knows good and evil, just like Satan told him).
2) And there is no judgement from the Creator, but “being out of alignment with [his] values” is its own punishment.
And liberal “good people” really don’t see this as a problem? Seriously?
Humanity hasn't changed. There are just TONS more of us and we get to know, in agonizing detail, all the problems of the world.
We are healthier, richer and more educated than ever before, but that HASN'T made us better--or worse.
We STILL need the saving grace of Our Lord.
Republicans were asked question in presidential debates about creationism and how a faithful Christian treats his wife.
Barry Obama should have been asked at a debate (since he identified himself as a Christian, who admittedly came to it later in life which he said was superior to having been born in it) if he believes that Jesus Christ died and was resurrected for his sins.
You’re the second person in two days to draw my attention to the Religion forum.
Greetings, please try not to act trollish in the Religion forum, it draws attention away from the discussion, gets me agitated, and then it turns into a brawl.
And we don’t want that.
Thanks!
Amen
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