 All right, we'll start this morning and we're going to continue to build on the Vince Lombardi-like Fundamentals of good parenting and then we'll start getting some deeper stuff Can anybody see these two kids here? That's that's my DNA right there Okay, those are two my two of my my three and a half grandkids Right out of the womb with these kids Tainted by the culture to make them evil or will they were they born evil? Raise your hand if if you think that they're born innocent and the culture just Makes them evil Good for you. That's what that's that's the answer evil right there. Okay, that's the devil incarnate But I go to churches and 50% of the people say oh, no, you know those those kids are innocent and and that's see That's part of the whole world view problem that the church has and so today. We're gonna talk about world view In this session and you're gonna see how it applies to everything else We're gonna talk about for the remainder of the our time together We touched on common sense a little bit yesterday last night, but Have we really stopped to think what common sense really is? What is common sense anyone want to tell me what common sense is If it's so common well in order to have common sense there has to be a common standard by which we Can go back to refer back to what is common sense when it comes to parenting? Well with common sense for life or for parenting is to be truly common that means again We have to have a common standard. So who or what should be that standard? We're about right right back here again, which you guys do the answer to that and for the first 200 years of American history common sense for the most part has always come through the lens of a biblical world view until the 1960s when we got smarter than God and Postmodern thought post a postmodern world view began to take over and from the 60s To the 70s to the 80s to the 90s now broom We just bought a hook line in the sinker and it's crept into a lot of our churches, which is why They think we who still here to this our cult No, we're called and they didn't love me. You know what cult is Yeah, someone calls your cult say you need to know what a cult is Tell me what a cult is and I'll probably say well It's a Satan worship and all it because the occult isn't cult. Okay whole other story didn't mean to go there. Sorry. No extra charge I Didn't grow up in a Christian home, but I probably Lived more Christian in my heathen home than most Christian homes do today Simply because the culture had influenced My family and our neighborhood in our entire society to live that way We had a common sense way of doing things which originated from This just like the Constitution did Our whole nation genuinely speaking Bought into a Judeo-Christian moral ethic for living life and raising kids and right here is the crux of all of our problems folks In our private lives and our church lives in our nation and I say our I mean the church at large Okay, so please I'm talking in generalities You plug it in where it needs to be plugged in or let it roll off your back like water in a duck and Certainly when it comes to parenting our kids And you're probably asking well What does world view have to do with parenting my kid? And I'm here to tell you it has everything to do with parenting your kid everything and we're gonna talk about that But for those of you who might be asking what's a world view? It's the lens by which we filter truth life and all of reality We all have these presuppositions and throughout all of Accumulated all of our accumulated knowledge in life of world view is created by and helps create All the presuppositions that we have about things like religion relationships morality people groups and how we parent our kids so Again, where's our world view come from back to Romans 12 to right World view should has start somewhere it can start with some doctor or some therapist or some witch doctor It's got to start somewhere. Why not? something in history has Substantiated as being very authoritative God has always had a way or he always has his way Looking at reality in all situations. He has a world view too Including how we should parent our kids and generally speaking He's revealed that in his word. He has a like a 30,000 foot view on things. Okay, he sees it all He's got the objective view from the standpoint of absolute truth We only have points of view. Okay, we're out here. We have we see things this way And that's why we have to bounce everything through the lens of him down on things from that 300 foot 3,000 foot view to to get The whole Romans 12 to View on on life and in our case parenting We have to understand folks that our kids because of their postmodern indoctrination by our culture filter reality much differently than we do We also have to understand it. They've been eaten up with postmodern thought they were born into it. They were postmodern natives and Some of us are postmodern natives even as adults if you were born say in the 60s and beyond And by the way, what does the devil do his best work I tell us to our shepherd's hill kids all the time church Now God does his best work in church too and that's where the confusion comes from So what what is a biblical world view we're getting a postmodernism in here in this a second It's a world view where all man's presuppositions about life truth reality and in our case parenting are filtered through the lens of scripture God isn't part of our life. He is our life. All right. He says I'm the way the truth in the life And I think that sometimes Christians have a tendency to think well, I got my agenda my plans God you can come along and endorse those plans and that's just 180 degrees out of whack As Christians, what are some of our presuppositions? Well, one is God exists. That's a presupposition. That's a given The word is his final arbiter of truth About where man came from about why man is here About moral right and wrong and how man should live his life on earth and where man is going when he dies Origin meaning morality destiny those were four issues that every human being has to deal with like it or not Christian or not You have to deal with that As Christians we we also have some presuppositions We and we have some presuppositions about parenting and these come from scripture also like the fifth commandment which is honor your father and your mother and Must be pretty important because out of the ten the first four are Vertical it's how we should deal with God and the next six are how we should deal with man And the very first one is honor your father and your mother and Not honoring your father and mother it was a capital offense in the Old Testament before the institution's civil government So you can get stoned to death for being a rebel. Thank God for places like Shepherd's Hill So we're keeping your kids from being stoned to death Some other presuppositions in our Christian faith about parenting if you don't discipline your child You don't love your child, you know, don't exasperate your kids. Don't provoke on the anger train our kids in the way They should go not leaving them to fend for themselves Proverbs 29 15 Protecting them educating them providing them sustenance the question is do we really know what scripture says explicitly and Implicitly because it says probably more implicitly about raising kids and it does explicitly And this is why we need to be spiritually tuned to the voice of God Which is why I said last night the key to all this is getting to know Jesus And we have so much lukewarm Christianity today, don't we and I will say that lukewarm Christianity is probably an impediment Because some people say well some Christianity is better than none. I'm not sure about that. I I'd say it's an impediment to healthy parenting, especially in the day we live in today and Without knowing what scripture says about parenting. It's going to be hard to parent according to a biblical worldview Even for parents who think they're parenting according to a biblical worldview. There are still things to keep in mind Like, you know, most parents have no idea what postmodernism is and how it affects thinking How we filter truth Therefore most parents have no idea what postmodern thought has done there are kids worldview Which not only affects juniors thinking but his appetites his attitudes his habits actions his behaviors and his addictions and ours as well Very few parents have any idea just how how much the postmodern thought has tainted their own biblical worldview And how it affects their relationship with their kids and even what they think they know or believe about God When you look at George Barnes statistics, you see that of evangelical born-again Christians only 25 percent Even claimed to have a biblical worldview and of that 9% claimed to live by what they say they believe We're talking the evangelical born-again, you know the nutjobs like you and me and In the teenage population, it's 2% 2% I was to us speaking at a church Just about the subject of worldview up in Chicago and the pastor knew what I was gonna be talking about And so he went and had self-tested at a local college to see if he had a biblical worldview and he flunked This is the assembly of God Church and This man repented before his entire congregation It was just it was humbling to watch this, you know and and and and since then Got things turned around So what exactly is a postmodern worldview? Well started like I said in the 60s with the hippie movement Timothy Leary and all that stuff Much of what a person with a biblical worldview believes about God in his word the postmodern thinker believes about himself as an individual Basically puts himself as God. He's the arbiter of all truth and reality He believes he exists He believed that he's his own arbiter of truth Like I said with his own moral standards including how to parent his kids This could be an abandoning them or Abusing them or teaching them fallacious things about reality and life about those issues of origin meaning morality and destiny Hey, you know you evolved from a monkey, right? You're just an animal which public schools teaching her kids You're an animal just a more refined animal and guess what? We're living up to those expectations as kids, aren't we in here in America today? Now he doesn't really know why man's here on earth this postmodern thinker He doesn't know why other than to pursue his own personal desires So when you tell him that he's not supposed to be doing something you get and looked at as judgmental And he knows all the judgmental verses in scripture do not judge unless you be you know He knows that takes a lot of context, of course Doesn't know where a man came from with the exception of perhaps evolution like I said, and he has no idea what happens after death And other than turning to dust he really doesn't much care Now isn't that a foolish thing? You know there's one guarantee in life, and that's we're all gonna die You'd think you've got a whole lifetime to prepare for that and to not even think about it Kind of insane to me He has no answers to the questions of origin meaning morality and destiny To really complicate things. There are those people who claim to be postmodern Christians But that's way too thorny to tackle now. We're not gonna get into that But if you've ever heard of the the emergent church, okay, there you go. They raise much more questions than answers they won't plant their feet firmly on anything and It's a mess I won't even get into it the postmodern thinker would say follow your heart It feels good do it do your own thing truth is relative Which right for you may not be right for me. I have my truth. You have yours Truth is what you want it to be. There are no absolute truths Now this worldview is illogical and self-defeating, but it does rule our society the media particularly our entertainment industry And our kids are eating up with us. Okay, even if they're homeschooled. They're still getting some of this In their head and by the way that whole there are no absolute. What's wrong with that statement? See you guys have taught well, thank you for making my job easy here Have you ever heard this your kids argue this and maybe you haven't but I know most churches I go to they've argued I should be able to do whatever I want to do as long as it hurts someone You hear that one. I mean maybe a co-worker or something But in the very course of saying this They've Spoken an absolute I should I ought I must those are absolute those are imperatives so they're contradicting their own postmodern beliefs by Bringing the equation an absolute and this is where we as parents and Christians in general need to hold these postmodern thinkers accountable Because that's going to be their step toward the kingdom This has got to be their idea this got to be a work of the spirit God uses us to cultivate ground. I'm not responsible for saving anybody I'm responsible for making the ground cultivated or the seed of God's spirit can take root and bear fruit And that's what we have to be doing And I'm afraid that sometimes we go like a bull in China shop and go Jesus Jesus Jesus Then we've turned we'll turn people off to that and we get we've got to to Approach them what Jesus do he met them at the point of their need. He fed him He healed him. He did things like that and and then we can mention where the where our emphasis comes from Perhaps your kids wouldn't be so bold to make a statement like you know like that like you know I should be able to do whatever I want to do is long to hurt someone maybe they wouldn't say that but maybe they would say That's just your opinion mom That's just your opinion dad. You hear that Again, maybe you haven't but a lot do or whatever We heard that one And these are both classic responses from young people who are eaten up with postmodern thought All logic is thrown out of the window and sacrificed on the altar of emotions and feelings They add to their postmodern indoctrination the damage that digital technology is doing to their brain circuitry And what political correctness is doing to their ability to think outside the box for fear of ridicule from their peers Now you've got a recipe for conflict with a slim chance of resolution Because today's postmodern world view is nothing more than really the recycling of the biblical Passage that says that every man's doing what's right in his own eyes There's nothing new about postmodernism. It's new to America 1960 but everything recycles itself washes itself out and if Jesus doesn't come back and We don't get taken over by some rogue nation, which is very possible Um, we'll come around I got a feeling Jesus is gonna come back, but it's right here where we parents Have to what we call it Shepherd's Hill pushing the antithesis we have to push the antithesis. You know what I mean by that Means you take their illogical statements from their postmodern thought Take their illogical statements and their arguments and you push them to their logical conclusions But let them come to their conclusions themselves Don't push an answer on them It's got to be their idea then they're gonna own it It'll also stick by the way and one of the things that I do when I'm with the kids at Shepherd's Hill Is I'll ask them I'll say okay What what what your view of morality and how we should live life and your philosophy of life and world of you and all that stuff and They'll say I should be able to do whatever I want to do You know as long as it hurts someone you get that all the time and I'll say okay We'll put the weasel claws as long as it hurts someone on the side Okay, because they throw that one in which is an absolute In case I want to hurt them, you know But let's just go with I should be able to do whatever I want to do when I want to do it I Asked them I said how many people on the planet seven billion What's the logical outworking of seven billion people? Wanting to do what they want to do when they want to do it and this is a very honest generation They don't know how to blush. There's nothing to embarrass them and they'll say well chaos What's the logical outworking of that war? Hate Destruction death. Yeah, you're right. Here's my worldview. Remember. I'm not breaking Jesus into the equation at this point. I So I Think I should love my neighbor as myself and I should do on others as I had them doing to me Now, what's the logical outworking of seven billion people thinking that way? Love peace harmony Which world do you want to live in junior and Then they come to their conclusions and then they start thinking well, you know What are these ideas come from and then so we start exploring where these ideas come from and who these ideas came from? But they have to come to those conclusions and when someone says there are no moral absolutes I know you've heard that from people. There are no moral absolutes You see how that statement self-destructs before it even leaves their mouth It's like saying I'm the brother of an only child You know or I can't speak a word of English It's it's insanity. It's insanity We also have to make sure that we're defining our terms the same way our kids are defining their terms because another Biproductive postmodern thought is the redefinition of terms or the Deconstruction of language we touched on that a little bit last night. So many of our kids are using godly terms with the devil's dictionary Do you realize that love? Every every contemporary song virtually every contemporary song has a word love in it But they don't mean sacrificial agape love It's lost It's not nothing sacrificial about the love that our kids are getting crammed under a throat to Hollywood Madison Avenue and their entertainment industry It's lust. It's selfishness. It's how you make me feel. Why do you think these these? Hollywood stars have you know, 15 marriages and then they go on Oprah or some You know late night talk show. Oh, you know, they talk about the romantic interlude This is my 15th one and I know this one's gonna last but it never does truth is another word truth is Relative it's not absolute. So when you Talked to your kids about truth You're thinking of absolutes Objective truth not not not our kids necessarily now your kids again like I said many be But out there, it's relative if it's true to me. That's when it's true Grace Grace is now licensed You know, we've within the church we we've Redefine that freedom freedom is no longer the freedom to do what you you ought which implies an absolute It's the freedom to do what you want and see our founding fathers fought to defend our freedom to do what we ought Pre-supposing God in the equation, but now it's the freedom to do what you ought saying godly term Define the devil's dictionary faith presumption. We talked about that last night marriage my gosh What we've let this happen. Does anyone have enough sense to say marriage is between a man and woman? Like h2 h2o is water All right, h1o is not water. It's something, but it's not water All right, you can't have dry water Whenever you can be glass that dry water over there or a cold fire. Let's burn a cold fire ridiculous family Three men and a goat, you know six women and a pigeon. I mean it where where is this stuff stop? friends, I got 300 Facebook friends You don't know what a friend is junior These kids these people stab you in the back the Bible says there's a friend that sticks closer than a brother You want Facebook and everyone's saying how I got the biggest this I got the best that I got the most this They're all I am you know, it's one big embellishment fest and the adults are just as bad heroes Ask the kid what a hero is. Well, it's a raps wrecks a bit of rap star rock star Maybe a sports star if you're lucky And you ask a kid well, why is he hero? Why is this person a hero? They are cool Really cool cool didn't land Armstrong on the moon cool didn't Didn't make the guys climb those bluffs at Normandy cool didn't make Soldiers stand shoulder-to-shoulder from here to that wall with muskets Fighting for freedom to do what we want You see how all these terms get messed up And so we have to be very careful that we're defining terms the same way when we're dealing with our kids And you got to keep in mind Your kids have no cognitive recollection beyond the Bill Clinton years That's the only world they know Bill Clinton was the first hippie generation parent our president rather and parent This is a guy who had the audacity to look America in the eye With his postmodern thinking to a postmodern brainwashed public and Says that's that depends on what the meaning of sex is So he's gonna redefine what sex is and so ever since Bill Clinton is in an office Kids have been having all kinds of crazy sex and redefine it. Well, that's not sex because it's not you know But it is and it's messing with their heads their brain chemistry and their body chemistry just as much as full-blown sex and Then to really insult us And then we elect them twice, right, okay Because that's not an indictment against Bill Clinton as much as an indictment against a citizen citizenry that would vote to something on end twice Okay, we get the government we deserve He looks in the camera and says well, that depends on what the meaning of is is With that bird eating grin that he had on there And I'm thinking my gosh Now our kids know no other world in a postmodern thinking world. That's my whole point I'm saying this just like it pertains to digital technology Again, they're natives were immigrants. I Talked with schoolteacher the other day who said that Adolf Hitler did what was right in his eyes We can't say that what he did was wrong because he thought it was right in California schoolteachers and we have California kids at Shepherd's Hill Schoolteachers cannot tell a kid that two plus two equals five is wrong They have to say well that could be an answer But let's explore further junior because we don't want to hurt your feelings Because postmodern thought is all about feelings All right, we make life decisions based on feelings rather than the logic and truth behind it These are the times Skew that we live in and the other thing they can't refer to in California is they can't refer to their parents as mom and dad Nope You got to refer to them as your parents Why because the transgender homosexual thing going on political correctness Ramak. It's absolutely insane So between the virtual world our kids live in with all the digital technology the postmodern thought and the political correctness our kids are now Very good at creating their own reality And that's really the truth they create their own reality as they see it they filter it through the worldview that has been They have been brainwashed with but yet we're the ones who get accused of brainwashing our kids because we we want to raise them from the standpoint of absolute truth pretty nuts and This is precisely why our kids need to be brought back to reality regularly by being allowed to experience the natural consequences of their actions and not being bailed out of everything all the time And I'm sure you guys Don't do that, but man a lot of parents. They just go to their kids rescue all the time. They need to know that everyone is not a winner Okay, at least not all the time and that they don't deserve the best of everything just for showing up Because a real world doesn't work that way it only breeds entitlement narcissism No sense of gratitude and you can't be emotionally or spiritually psychologically relationally healthy Until you're grateful for something And when you give our kids everything all the time, which is what America does now How can they be grateful? They just expect it You have to teach our kids to attach reward to Achievement They also need a starting point by which to determine moral right and wrong and that's what you're giving them When you give them the word of God a starting point a place to plant their feet Now you want to hear something scary You guys remember who Chuck Colson was right Well, Chuck Colson Colson did a little study and he asked I forget how many there were but a bunch of 18 to 25 year olds And he asked them I Want you to give me your greatest moral dilemma in the last five years What do you think this generation's? greatest moral dilemma in the last five years was I Want to raise your name someone tell me No Okay, they didn't have a moral dilemma No one had a moral dilemma in the last five years now. That's perfectly congruent with a biblical worldview Because when you think that you're the arbiter of your own moral standards There are no moral problems. The only moral problem is violating your own conscience And if your conscience isn't shaped and formed and tempered by the spirit of God Guess what Hitler didn't violate his conscience either and our kids don't violate theirs either when they're having Buddy sex and smoking the dope and doing all the crazy stuff that they do they're not violating their conscience What are you on my case for mom and dad? Postmodern is postmodernism is also the reason our kids are so good at compartmentalizing their lives and their faith Have you guys noticed this they can look and act one way in one setting and then look and act just the opposite another they're like chameleons This is a security thing Because when you live your life under a postmodern worldview Where are you getting your security from you are your own only security you're gonna make your own security and For a kid who's 15 years old He's 10 years removed from his frontal lobe and his brain being fully developed He's gonna find security in one strange form another. He's gonna find it It's not gonna look like you think it should look like it's not gonna look like what you know God wants it to look like and folks trust me. I go all out of place I know I know what I'm talking about here again may not happen here But the same kids who are raising their hands in worship on Sunday morning Are the same kids fornicating in the parking lot Sunday night? I had a guy just a few days ago. Call me Want to get a kid shepherd till he's the worship leaders 16 year old guitar phenomenon worship leader at his church stealing guitars Break it into businesses stealing sound equipment and stuff like that and yet worse worship leader That's sick. I That's beyond sick Our Bible quiz winners whether a Bible quiz winner, you know, they know scripture inside now Well, yes, who else knows scripture inside now the devil Same Bible quiz winners dealing drugs out of the church lobby seeing those things to slandering people on Facebook sexting When I see all the proud parents of the honor students, you know, you've seen those Honor student stickers proud parents. I just want to pull them over and say, you know I pray that your kid genuinely is an honor student But if you look at the statistics 80% of kids today cheat to get their grades 80% And they largely use these things to do it Again, I'm not I'm not making an indictment. I'm not trying to indict every kid Uh as being a cheater who makes the honor roll. I'm not saying that at all But I do think that we need to be aware that this is these things are going on And this is why it's so important for us as parents not to be lukewarm in our faith You might look strange in the eyes of your kids. Do you love them enough to look strange in their eyes until they're out of the house? Our kids need to be See consistency in our walk in our talk Model it made by their see a sermon and hear one any day because our actions speak so loudly that they can't hear what we're saying Anything less on our part makes us look like hypocrites and and our god powerless No kid wants to submit to a powerless god And the funny thing is that hypocrisy breeds hypocrisy Our kids don't need to see themselves Our kids don't see in themselves what they are so quick to see in us Again, I just showed you how postmodern thought is very hypocritical. It's very illogical. They don't see it And it's largely because we're not really trained to argue it and to to expose it for what it is and again strictly Raising my kid up with a biblical worldview isn't going to guarantee that Everything's going to turn out all right, but the question is what's the alternative? What's the alternative? Is there a better option? And some people might be thinking well, you know, why can't I you know, uh, raise my kid up to be happy and, uh Can't be a good parent without believing in all this god and bible stuff and without all this worldview stuff Well, let's address that I believe the greatest parent without god The greatest parent without scripture can be infinitely greater with him And why because without scripture again, what standard do we use to determine what a good parent is to begin with? What standard do we use to teach our kids more right and wrong? With god the power through prayer in the church body We have to tap into infinite intelligence Power strength and wisdom isn't a bit arrogant to to think that we have all the answers all the time Isn't it a bit scary to think that billions of other people Will all have their answers as well And when kids see us submit to an authority greater than ourselves It makes it a whole lot easier for them to submit to our authority It gives our kids a conscience Monitor called the holy spirit that gives us And them a greater assurance that they'll do the right thing Because they'll actually know what the right thing is Especially when they're not around us Another thing is as parents we don't have to bear the burden of having to be right We can blame it on god My daughter allison told me she's a dad one of the greatest things That I had going to school and I sent her to a christian school, which I've had to do all over again. I wouldn't She says when my my friends want to do crazy stuff She said I always had you to to blame My dad wouldn't let me do that. He's a jerk Yeah I'll take it fine. Just don't do that go engage in that So she's able to say a little face with her friends and had a reason why she couldn't go to that party or go to this particular thing Even though god's general principles will work In general even for the unbeliever The unbeliever can't claim god specific promises for eternal and earthly blessings Another reason because without god We give our kids no reasonable answers to the questions of origin meaning morality and destiny They're just basically our our own ideas. We're pulling a lot of thin air But not only is it important to have a biblical worldview when it comes to pairing our kids It's also important to know just how a postmodern worldview affects our relationship with our kids And how it adversely affects our own thinking as parents because Even in this room it has affected us to one degree and you know say we'll give me an example And give me example how it affects my relationship with my kids and again May not affect you like a lot of places, but It will affect to some degree and here's one way it affects us as far as our relationship with our kids if truth is really Relative and not absolute then juniors truth is as good as yours He feels justified in arguing his point with fervor Who are you to tell me what to do? That's just your opinion mom and dad Another thing is because of postmodern thought good and evil are no longer absolutes Who are we to say that all the sex and violence and entertainment industry is is necessarily a bad thing? We're just being judgmental. We have no objective point of moral reference to fight against it. It's legal must be okay Well, guess what else was legal slavery abortion Now they're legalizing pot Just like ancient Rome folks the state becomes our god And if you disagree Then you're labeled an intolerant religious relic out of the stone age And that's why we have to have answers to these arguments to legitimize our faith The way we do things in our home And the god of the universe without making a big long list of things postmodern thought has helped Create a culture where what is abominable in god's eyes is now acceptable even hip in man's eyes And not just any man's eyes. We're talking people of prominence and influence our politicians school teachers Coaches professors folks like bruce Jenner and other heroes You know rock stars doctors news anchorman talk show hosts politicians athletes teachers and even preachers As parents we have to deal with all this as we raise our kids Culture no longer backs us up as parents as they did when I was growing up It works against us kids are now expected to have sex by appointment When I pass it out or the light's going down You guys know there's organizations in colleges now And in some high schools The acronym is lug l u g You heard of it Lesbian until graduation Sex sells hamburgers automobiles toothpaste. I mean you name it Toilet paper, and maybe I don't know And why not it feels good do it Postmodern thought has given birth to political correctness Offending someone is now the new un-pardonable sin The criminal gets more rights than the guy who's been violated But this is all this is all our working of postmodern thought folks And consequently as christians we become peacekeepers rather than peacemakers and I'll explain what the difference in a little bit This makes it easy for our kids and us to be taught believe and perpetrate lies ourselves And if you don't accept the politically correct notions of the day Then you're a bigot a racist a hater a right-wing religious nut job And all this is being taught to our kids in their public schools Their music and entertainment their tv the internet on and on and on Christians are one of the few if not the only socially accepted entity to be discriminated against today Even in the mainstream media it's okay to put us down Maybe we need to lop off enough heads over there in the mid-east Maybe the media will get on board with us All this is because postmodern thought puts an emphasis on the individual's desires Or the desires of the masses Individual rights over community rights How else does postmodern A postmodern worldview affect my relationship with my kid well as parents we no longer Can pull the common sense card that's just common sense junior I don't a counselor at shepherd's hill about 10 years ago I said I said, you know, that's just common sense, man. He says You're assuming that this is common sense And I'm like, you're right You're right It deconstructs language semantics and euphemisms rule the day if you notice that You can't say someone is Fat they're Cellularly challenged or what I mean Or whatever. I mean all kinds of stuff words like ought should Must Good bad right wrong family marriage and center virtually meaningless anymore Certainly sin You can say god you just can't say jesus These words are too absolute and exclusive for the postmodern thinker So what faith our kids still do have they're afraid to admit to admit it for fear ridicule Because most of our kids just to be honest aren't Prepared to defend The their faith and the issues of logic and reason and whatnot It's why apologetics is a must for the church today. It's an absolute must And if things keep heading in this direction You won't be able to say male or female anymore And I'll talk about that a little bit later too You ought to be your appearance Postmodern thinkers says who? Well culture used to affirm christian parents values now we have to fight not just our kids, but the entire culture as well Now our culture justifies and helps accommodate our kids in nature Did you know that if your 12 year old girl tells Their guidance counselor in a public school? I don't know the laws are in florida, but I'll say most states That guidance counselor can take your 12 year old daughter take her down to the local planned parenthood Get her an abortion bring her back to school and legally you never have to know about it And the scary thing is is it may have happened? How are you going to know about it? It's beyond wicked All these things are why we have to know this stuff ourselves and challenge our kids to challenge the culture And their peer groups by teaching them to push the antithesis And expose the illogical and destructive outworking of this kind of illogical incongruent line of thought Because it is dangerous beyond dangerous And every church again ought to be teaching this stuff in addition And by the way, you can go to license the parent.org And you get a ton of resources either off our website or we'll give you resources to go to their websites To get all the stuff you need in this in this area. So instead of sitting down and watching modern family, you know Take 30 minutes and give them A little apologetic train. I'm going to tell you something. I was talking with can ham. You guys know what can ham is? And I said can I said Everyone says you look kids. They just want any more entertainment and they don't want to sit down and listen to the good bible stuff And and I said that's bull hockey I said When I talk to kids about this stuff, they They're hungry hungry for the truth. He says they're he says yesterday He says they're on the edge of their seat when you when you when you talk about this stuff They want truth. I have a lot of hope for this generation. They really do want truth They're not hearing it and and the church doesn't Know how to to to teach it to them. I guess I don't know So in addition to challenging our kids to pray for our nation and for our church, we also have to teach them To become peace makers rather than peacekeepers now. Here's the difference Peacekeeper sees me coming out of a hotel room with someone other than my wife And the peacekeeper says well, that's not my business. I'm just you know, that's a peacekeeper They're basically prolonging the inevitable explosion. That's a bound bound to happen Okay, it's like a A peacemaker says trace trace trace I gotta tell beth and we gotta get this right That's a peacemaker. That's a Proverbs 27 six man. It's called accountability folks Left to ourselves We know what we're capable of doing. I know what I'm capable of doing left to myself Look what king david a man for god's own heart. Look what he did violated every one of the 10 commandments in one fell swoop Because he's in the wrong place at a wrong time until someone held him accountable Nathan was a peacemaker may have cost him his job or his head But he was willing to be a peacemaker Jesus Said I didn't come to bring peace. I came to bring a sword Yet he's called the prince of peace Blessed are the peacekeepers, right? No Blessed are the peacemakers Bible says nothing good about peacekeepers We have to quit believing the lie the conflict is antichrist Kids really want something to fight for they really do So let's be intentional to train them to rebel against the rebellion Rebel against the rebellion But here's the deal and I know we only have it's the few minutes left So I'll try to rush through this but lest you think that this kind of thinking hasn't influenced you And your family more than you think Let me ask you a few questions Where'd we learn most of our moral values and parenting skills? Well, usually it's our parents, right? I mean Then once we leave our parents Then it should be scripture and again in here, it's probably the case but There's so many Christians who Have just bought into this stuff And I'll ask them I'll say but was it your parents who taught you that premarital safe sex was acceptable and even wise and commendable? Your parents teach you that That living together without being married was prudent for financial reasons That nudity and profanity and tv and movies was just an entertainment art form That anyone who slept with multiple partners wasn't a whore or a whoremonger Call someone a whore today and see what happens I mean, you can do it politely Minister to them Doesn't matter. They don't want they don't want the label that their lifestyle identifies with Again another out working postmodern thought that our parents teach us that drugs should be legalized because so many kids are just doing It's just kind of stays they go through Our parents teach us that spanking a rebellious foul mouth child was child abuse By killing an unborn baby was a woman's choice What about the kids choice What about the dad's choice That our president should be able to do you know what with you know who you know where And we should trust him for His effectiveness as a president That music that glorifies misogyny satanism violence rebellion is just an art form That adultery may actually spice up a marriage and lying about it is just the acceptable thing to do Our parents teach us that You can go on the internet and you can you can Google frank Sinatra and you can see a mugshot of him. He was arrested in new jersey. You know, he's arrested for adultery As far as I'm concerned, it still should be illegal Our parents teach us that sassing an adult is just a child's need for self-expression Or that everyone's a winner and that everyone deserves that trophy just for showing up our parents teach us all that Our culture did guarantee you that The parents have have to encourage sloth and mediocrity so they don't hurt juniors little self-esteem But tattooing body piercing body modifications was you know just a Form of self-expression and I got two sons who got tattoos and they think because they you know, they didn't get them at home They got them when they moved out and I think because they're bible verses that you know And I don't know how you feel about that I know it's an in-house debate and I'm not saying it's sin or not sin I have my own convictions on it. I think I heard someone say I don't have the right to put graffiti on someone else's body We are bought with a price. This body is not my own You know, and if you got a tattoo, I'm not condemning you. You know, it's there Might remind you of where you came from. I don't know and and maybe you'd get 10 of them tomorrow You're still my brother or my sister or Today's world he might be both. I don't know Gender fluidity is what they call it gender fluidity So you can have triplets now And you say, you know, what do you have boy or girl one of each It's all rodney danger field joke Did our parents teach us that adolescence should last until junior is 30? That animals have the same rights as humans The truth is relative and what you believe it to be regardless of the facts There are parents teachers that a career woman should be more esteemed than a domestic engineer Used to call a state or stay at home mom stay at home moms You are helping create the success of our nation's future I tip my hat to stay at home moms. You're brave you're wise and you're overworked And underpaid There are parents teachers that pornography is an art form and should be an elective in college Because you can go to most colleges and pornography as a class that you can take Yeah, so the next time you Want to shell out all these thousands of dollars to send junior off to college? You might want to rethink that one a little bit That's okay for public schools to pass out condoms to kids, but not bibles That's okay for public schools to abort your daughter's baby without informing you Like I just told you Our parents teaches that that breaking an eagle's egg is a greater crime than killing an unborn baby That recycling is a greater faux pas than losing your virginity before marriage Boy, you got to be peer pressure You got to recycle Nothing wrong with recycling. I'm all for it But to think that that's a greater problem than losing your virginity before marriage Our parents didn't teach us that At homosexuality was just an alternative lifestyle harmless And socially and should be socially acceptable And two people of the same gender could possibly constitute a marriage that our parents teach us that That an eight-year-old has this has the right to choose his own gender Did our parents teach us that That the public school system should make unisex bathrooms a law Or that the police are evil and can't be trusted did our parents teach us that No, but our culture has Your parents probably didn't teach you any of these things But like I said our culture has and dare I say in most cases Um A lot of the church have bought have bought into these things And if if the adults in the churches haven't bought into these things their kids don't sure have So as parents until we get very intentional With ourselves and with our kids Back to romans 12 too. We risk being a part of america's problem rather than Being part of the solution to america's problem And we also risk suffering the same heartaches and headaches As the garden variety heathen Why because when we conduct our affairs in the same foolish sinful and rebellious way that many americans conduct their affairs today Then we're messing with god's ecosystem Just like they are And there are consequences To following the wide road that leads to destruction And there are blessings for entering through the narrow gate Again, like I said last night, we can't live like hell and expect heaven for a reward just not going to happen And if we must impress an audience again, let's impress And encourage our kids to impress that audience of one Despite the times that we live in You know guys if you're doing a piano recital and the whole crowd yawning because you're you're born in the tears Except the master who taught you he's on his feet and he's he's he's applauding To what he hears is satisfying music to his ears Because you're playing his music like he taught you There's no need to impress the rest of the crowd So the only one that matters in life is the one who has the authority and the power to secure our eternal destiny And really because of the cross he already has Used to be easy to be a christian in america lukewarm as we may have been But I think that that was actually part of our problem And again, these are the days of god's pruning to see who really is The genuine article I'm not questioning anyone's salvation. Okay. I'm not even the lukewarmers. I'm not their judge, but I would like to see an assurance of my salvation And I'm not judgmental and either was jesus when he said that we're to be fruit inspectors You'll know them by their fruit and that implies a judgment Not hypocritical self-righteous judgment, but one of assessment And so we need to be assessing our families. How are we raising our kids? Are we allowing the world to train them in their thinking? Are we allowing the world to help them process thought the way the world process is thought? Are we training them the process thought the way Thought is supposed to be processed Next session. I'm going to be talking more about the other parent. We're in digital technology specifically And then how to regain preeminence and authority in our kids lives. Okay. We have any questions? Yes, ma'am Okay. Okay. Thank you