New Millennium Children

Introduction: I have heard it said many times, “I’m sure glad I’m not raising any kids the way the world is today. Or, “I wouldn’t bring any children into the world today for a million dollars.”

But here they are. A brand new crop of beautiful babies. Soft, cuddly, powdered, lotioned and diapered. We can’t send them back. We have no choice but to raise them the best way we can.

We do have a reason and right to be concerned with our new millennium generation. Much of it has to do with the “culture wars” that have been raging for forty years, claiming the innocence of our young people and children, and smearing our nation with corruption and moral chaos.

Hollywood, America’s babysitter, nanny, mentor and teacher has succeeded in thoroughly turning our culture inside out. Profanity, overt sexuality, perversion, occult practices, hostility against Christianity, paganism, violence, rebellion, terror, sympathy toward socialism, dismantling of the tradition home, and switching, criss-crossing and confusing gender identities—-all these and more have given America a culture transplant.

More and more, the state in encroaching into the domain of the homes of America. (Read Robert Holland, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 9-99)

And what is the state going to teach our children? More of the same set of values that allowed the breakdown to occur in the first place. Our Day Care staff attended a required training session this past week in which the same secular idiocy was spoon-fed to day care workers all over the area. “Don’t let your children play with crayons and scissors, because not every child can afford to have these things at home and we don’t want anyone to feel bad or deprived.”

(Other examples)

Job 27:14 If his (the wicked man’s) children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

If you raise your children according to the philosophy of this world, you are raising them for the sword.

We do have a culture to transfer to the new millennium generation. If they are going to learn the truth, they will have to learn it from us.

Ps 78:1-4 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:  8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

The children who sat in the lap of Jesus were brought there by their parents.

Matt 19:13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.

You must not allow these precious truths to accidently, occasionally or randomly strike your children. They cannot see Jesus unless you bring them. They cannot experience the presence of God unless you provide them with the opportunity.

A popular book was recently written by a popular person entitled, “It Takes A Village.” In other words, parents can’t do this without the community and the state to show the way.

It doesn’t take a village.

It takes a Bible.

It takes a loving and faithful Mom and Dad.

It takes a godly home.

It takes a good church.