Judging the Parenting of Others is a Sin

There are those who preach that we are responsible for how our children turn out. This cannot be further from the truth. I have known many parents who were good parents, whose children hated the teachings of their parents.

We are responsible for what we do as parents, but the children are responsible for whether or not they receive it. We are not responsible for the results. Remember David and Absolum? David was a man after God's own heart, and yet his own son wanted to kill him to take his throne.

 
Ezekiel 18:19-21 "19 Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live. 20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him. 21 But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die."

We are not robots programmed by others, we are presented with the truth and we make a choice, each one their own choice. I am always appalled by the judgments made against parents solely based on how the children turn out, without evidence of how the parents were raising them.

 
No one has the right or even ability to judge properly how others are raising their children.

 
I have also seen children who appeared to be raised badly who became born-again and turned out better than their families. Those who love to judge others about these things are sinning. This is the judgment God told us not to engage in, and definitely not pass on our ideas to others; this would be called gossip.

Our culture and extended families have much pull on our children; it is impossible to completely isolate them from the culture. In our day, culture often has a greater pull on children than parents do.

 
Also, let's not forget that the spouses of the children have tremendous influence when the spouses become the most important person in the lives of the children.
I have known children who loved and admired their parents until the children married, and suddenly, the children developed anger against the parents that was not there before, influenced by their spouse.

 
There are so many life variables with family that it is impossible to judge why a child becomes what they become. Also, keep in mind that parents cannot take the credit for the good behavior of their children. Their behavior is based on their choices, not on the quality of their parents.

 
There are bad children who were raised by good parents and there are good children who were raised by bad parents.

 
Yes, parents are responsible before God to do what is right, they are accountable for themselves, but they are not responsible for the choices of their children.

 
So, let's stop judging the parenting of others; instead, we are to come alongside and be supportive of the parents when the children are not respectful. Coddling disobedient adult children is a sin, fostering dishonor toward the parents.

 
Ephesians 6:1-3 "1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3 that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

Power Tends to Corrupt by Larry Jones

Exciting Times Full of Purpose for the Born Again Believer

Think about it!!!

The thing that excites me is that Christians can reach other believers and the lost all over the world from their own homes without traveling and the expense and exhaustion of the process of evangelism. God has made it so easy for us in these last days, we should take advantage of it.

Many believers I know are reaching people they have never met and may not meet until the marriage supper of the Lamb. They are encountering unsaved people who have never heard the gospel of Christ. And, even those who have heard a false gospel can now hear the real one.

 
Every born-again believer ought to be excited as we accelerate toward the end, ramping up the ability to share the gospel and to edify the saints even in our old age from our own homes.

 
There are those who will hate that we can influence others through social media, mocking what we do without knowing what it is that we actually do. Pay no attention to the nay-sayers who are sent by the devil attempting to make us feel foolish for doing what pleases God.

 
There will always be pretenders who love their form of religion that allows them to be nothing and do nothing as they pretend a false Christianity full of deceit and unkind gossip to undermine what God has called us to do.

 
Ignore the scoffers and jealous people who hate that we are full of joy and purpose.
Psalm 1:1 "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;"

Isaiah 57:4 "Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,"

Never take seriously anyone who works to undermine what God has given us to do, ignore them and continue in obedience to Christ.

 
Proverbs 15:12 "A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise."

Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

We will be tested to see how far we have come and how much work in ourselves is necessary. God will continue His work in us as we obey Him.

Power of the Holy Spirit Over the Gathering of Believers

God's direction for the congregation of believers should be as follows:

1 Corinthians 14:29-30 "29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should stop.…"

When was the last time you saw anyone from the audience allowed to interject when the speaker is speaking in a church gathering? It is discouraged in our modern churches, and yet it is a command from God that others participate, evaluate,e and correct or add to what is being said. One man should not be in total control of what goes on in the congregation.

 
Think about it, something in the gatherings is forbidden by men that God commanded to practice.

 
1 Thessalonians 5:20-21
"Do not treat prophecies with contempt, / but test all things. Hold fast to what is good."

1 John 4:1
"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world."

Acts 17:11
"Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true."

No one man should have power over the gathering; only the Holy Spirit is to have this power.