Parents Discipline Your Children
by Brandon Lunsford - 5/9/03
Key Scripture: 1 Samuel 3:10-14
God called Eli to be a priest. Eli was very anointed and God made covenant with him and his household. God promised that He would bless them forever. Eli was obedient and did everything God told him to except for one vital commandment. Eli did not discipline his children.
His children ran ramped and sinned against God. They became so evil that they began to bring other people down with them. God repeatedly warned Eli and revealed to him the dangers that were developing. Eli saw the works of his children but he hardened his heart. Eli let his pride and his own embarrassment get in the way of disciplining his children. It got so bad that the covenant was broken and God's wrath fell on Eli and his family.
God is saying to his people that we MUST not become too busy with jobs, responsibilities, and even ministry to the point where we can't take care of her children SPIRITUALLY.
The very first and most important ministry that parents are obligated to take care of is the HOME. If our household is not in tact, our ministry elsewhere will be hindered and less effective. If our children are not covered and protected daily, if our children are not trained up in the way God wants them to be, they will be destroyed. Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
This scripture clearly states that we are obligated and commanded to raise up our children the right way, God's way. Proverbs 22:15 says, "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him".
This clearly states that correction is essential to keeping our children focused and pure. If you train up a child in the way they need to be, they will have a strong foundation that won't fall. When they get into difficult situations they will go back to what was instilled in them to get out of the situation. When they are hurt very deeply, they will go back to the source of their foundation for comfort and healing.
To train means to initiate or to discipline. If we do not train our children we are making 7 big mistakes:
1.) We are not initiating what God's will is for their lives.
2.) We are not initiating a desire and zeal for God.
3.) We are not initiating a dependency on God.
4.) And ultimately, we are not initiating the process that will lead to their salvation.
5.) We are not disciplining our children from being of the world.
6.) We are not teaching them right from wrong.
7.) We are allowing them to take part in all the evil that is in this earth because if a person is not disciplined to follow God, they will follow the enemy.
To correct means to instruct. If we are not correcting our children, we are not instructing them how to live right, how to stay alive, how to get into heaven, how to stay pure, how to stay away from evil, how to live in this corrupted world and not get effected, how to survive. All of these things are what will save your child. If you love your children, you wouldn't keep it from them.
Depart means the following things:
1. To be dislocated.
2. To be perverse.
3. To withdraw.
4. To turn off.
5. To send away.
6. To release.
7. To be discharged.
8. To desert.
When a person departs, they are being dislocated from the body of Christ. When a person departs, they are perverse to the point where they are tainted, in the flesh, unholy. When a person departs, they withdraw from the kingdom of God. They withdraw from any affiliation with the only person who can save them. When a person departs, favor, mercy, protection, and grace are often turned off. That voice that normally gives you good advice about what to say, do, and think which is the Holy Spirit, stops speaking. But the Holy Spirit never really stops talking to you; you stop talking to the Holy Spirit. You don't make your self-available to hear His voice. God never forsakes you, you forsake Him. When a person departs, they are asking to be sent away from the presence of God. Lucifer departed and he got sent away from God's presence forever.
Parents
Discipline Your Children
Brandon Lunsford
The writer of this article is an anointed man of God who happens to be my son.
Brandon wrote this article when he was 17 years old and in his last year of high school.
Today, Brandon is 24, a graduate of Lincoln University with a Bachelor Degree in Political Science, to God belongs all the glory!
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And all your [spiritual] children shall be disciples [taught by the Lord and obedient to His will]
Isaiah 54:13
It is written in [the book of] the Prophets, And they shall all be taught of God [have Him in person for their Teacher].
Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me-
John 6:45
Children,
obey your parents
in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother;
which is the first commandment with promise;
Ephesians 6:1-2
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers,
provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:3-4
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