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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Parental Authority vs. State Control 0:10 Well, welcome to 1 more session, reversed from culturally woke to biblically awake. We're on chapter 14. And this topic, woah, is this important, parental authority.0:23 I gotta tell you that, when Joe Biden was in the White House, he made a statement 1 day that brought my blood to a low boil. I don't know why people tolerated this kind of thing. He said to a group of teachers on0:35 that occasion, when the students are in your classroom, they're your children. That is absolutely heretical, inexcusable. They0:46 are not the children of the teachers. They are the children of the parents who are caring for them. For him to say such thing was outlandish. Who has the0:58 authority? Is it the school or is it the parents? In my, previous book called Well Verse, Well Verse Biblical Answers to Today's Tough Issues, I told the story in1:10 there about an occasion when 1 of my children, I had 4 children, and, when 1 of my children, the school official said, we think he needs some1:21 counseling. And I says, I think that'd be good. So, when do I come? The school official also says, oh, no. No. It'll just be with him. It will not be you. I said,1:34 no. It'll it'll be with me as well. He said, no. We we we don't permit that. I said, well, we do permit that. I'm I'll be there if he's gonna be in counseling. I said, let me ask1:46 you a question. Does the child belong to the state, the public schools, or does the child belong to the parents? Well, he was very squeamish, and he didn't1:57 wanna say the child belongs to the schools state. So he said, well, child belongs to the parents, he sort of muttered. I said, no. No.2:09 That's not it. He thought that's what I wanted. I said, no. The child belongs to god, but god has assigned the parents to be responsible for that child until age they're on their own. So if you're gonna2:21 be having a counseling session with my child, I'll be present. They says, well, we won't do it then. I said, okay. That that's fine. No no problem. That works for me. I never had a big conflict with2:33 them. I just accepted that as their reality, and they didn't do it. Over the course of the years, we homeschooled. We had private school. We had what's called non public placement. We had them in Christian schools, and2:45 there was a duration in public schools as well. And we got along really pretty well most of the way. But the role of the instruction of that child belongs to2:57 me as the father and my wife as the mother. What does the Bible have to say about this whole role of parental authority? Well, the answer is a lot. Deuteronomy 6 is classic, and it says you you3:09 teach them. You develop them. Deuteronomy 6 is absolutely foundational. Teach them. It it it talks about teaching them in all kinds of life experiences. When you get up and you go down, you're3:21 traveling down the road, whatever. That's 1 of the great delights, by the way, of homeschool. You learn to be in a constant learning mode, a fun learning mode. And Proverbs 22 is another 1. Proverbs3:33 22 6. Train up a child in the way he should go. And by the way, in the scripture, Psalms 1 27, it views children as a blessing. I don't know3:45 why in our society we don't view children as a blessing. If somebody has 6, 7, 8 kids, oh my goodness. How do you do that? Well, admittedly, there's levels of sacrifice. We ought to admire that. We ought to applaud that.3:56 Children are a a blessing. They're not viewed that way today. That's that's so totally wrong. What about the role of teachers scripturally? Well, there is such a we have the right as parents to4:07 to deputize temporarily people to plug into our lives, the lives of our children. We we have the right to hire tutors. That that is that is appropriate. I I grew4:19 up with some wonderful teachers. I'm so thankful for them. And these teachers inspired me, and I have very positive memories of these kind of teachers who touched touched my life. And we as parents,4:31 though parents are ultimately responsible for the education of their child, they can bring other people into that educational process, but it's the task of the parent to educate the child, not4:43 the task of the government or the state or the public schools. What went wrong with our public school system? The original idea of a public school system actually could be very, very good. It's4:55 a noble cost to try to make sure there was education provided for all, even the poorest. So that that was a good incentive. But along the way came a man named John Dewey and many others. And the result was a5:07 secularization. An apostasy came in to public school system. We're no longer could we talk about biblical things, godly things, things of of biblical truth. And now the result5:19 is health care clinics that dispense contraceptives, abortion clinics that are run within the frameworks of schools, explicit sexual education.5:31 That's the task of the parents. Men using girls' bathrooms, drag queen story hours with kindergartners, all types of things, the corrupting5:43 of our minors. It's the task of the parent to know precisely what their children are being taught and who it is by. You see, the secularists, they have no understanding of sin,5:55 and there's no such thing as sin. And so because there's no such thing as sin, there's no need for spiritual regeneration. Christian parents, biblically based parents, understand their child was6:07 made in the image of god, but the sin nature is quite compelling. Original sin through the arrival of Satan or Lucifer on planet Earth and the harm he did through Adam and Eve's sin, through the cumulative sin6:19 of Earth by all of us, there is a proclivity towards evil, and that needs to be addressed in discipline, in loving disciplined ways in the life of a child to shape that child in the6:31 way that they should go. For under secularism, under Marxism, the state is God. God is not God. And so consequently, in a6:43 secularized Marxist system, there are certain things that must go. Love of God must go. Love of the family, respect of the family, love of children, love of the household of faith, or6:55 that means the the church. All of this must go. Consequently, biblical values are driven out of a state institution or a state public school when the obsession7:07 is with anti biblical constructs? How does Jesus view children? The answer is He valued them a great deal. Let the children come unto me, He said in Mark chapter 10. In fact, the fiercest condemnation7:19 that Jesus ever stated was those who would do something that would wrongfully wound or hurt a a child. So parents, what can you do in the environment you find yourself in? NumberBiblical View of Children and Schools' Decline 7:30 1, make sure you are completely attentive to their education. If at all possible, and I I didn't take this approach till recent years, exit the public school system.7:43 I tried to be an advocate for it, stay within it as long as I could until the corruption, the rottenness got so severe. I could give so many examples. I7:55 don't think I need to. I suspect, you know, I'm not condemning teachers, Christian teachers who stay within the system. I do not affirm parents who take this view, well, my children will be a8:07 missionary in the system. Not when your kid is 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grade. No. That's the wrong time. You're to shape that child in the things of God, not throw them into an8:19 environment that's antithetical with the very values you're trying to teach them. Christian teachers staying in the public school system, I affirm that. I admire you as long as you're able to do that and not8:30 compromise 1 bit of your biblical understanding. Get your child into a public a private school, if at all possible, a Christian private school. Even then, make8:42 sure it is distinctively, clearly Christian to the core. Let me tell you what a Christian school is not, a school that simply teaches classes and has prayer at the beginning. That's not a Christian school. A8:54 distinctly Christian school integrates biblical truth all the way through every aspect of their curriculum. And let me give a plug or a commercial, so fasten your seat belt. If you possibly can, homeschool. My9:06 wife and I were so hesitant. We were way early on the homeschool movement, way early. We didn't know of anybody doing it. I heard about it on the radio on a James Dobson radio broadcast when our daughter was 5 or so.9:17 Didn't have the courage to do it, was intrigued by it, finally decided to do it. And we certainly had plenty of education in our home, but, we were still hesitant. Didn't know for sure how to do that. So we ventured out.9:29 It was absolutely the joy and delight. And virtually every 1 of you as parents, you have the ability to homeschool. You think you don't. You there's all kinds of creative ways to do it. You can help9:41 cross tutor. Like, maybe you maybe you have friends that they're good at math. This one's good in science. All kinds of way you can cross tutor, work together in homeschool networks. There's homeschool sports programs.9:53 There's homeschool science programs, science competitions. There is so much now that was not available when we homeschooled. But here's why we loved homeschooling with a passion. It turned every10:04 experience into a joyful learning process. I grew up in a home, and my dad and mom really valued education. I mentioned before in a previous video, my dad and mom did not have college degrees. They went10:16 as far as high school. And my grandparents before that, I don't think ever finished high school. It was normative to go to work when you were coming out of the 8th grade, my grandfather, mind you. But we I grew10:28 up in a home where the joy of the learning was so the joy of learning was so treasured. My parents were always learning, and they made learning fun. Along the way, my 4th and 5th grade teacher, in particular,10:40 ignited something within me. Missus Hinthorne, Ethel Hinthorne was her name. And she gave me the joy of learning. It was just exciting. In fact, I think part of heaven heaven is gonna be getting to learn.10:52 And the purpose of education, I went to school a long time, got a bunch of degrees. Purpose of education is not to learn stuff. Purpose of education is to create within you a passion, a joy, and a delight in learning.11:03 You become a lifelong learner. And that's what homeschool does. It turns every experience into an actual joyful learning experience. Whatever11:15 you're doing at that time as a family, you stop and you explain to your children. Make sure they understand. And and it gets fun. Homeschooling is a joy and delight. Is it hard at times? Is there work involved? Of course11:26 it is. But it is a delight. You you turn your child into 1 who's just joyously learning all the time. And, you will see the results of that, and you will be encouraged.11:38 And what we're doing today? Well, we're going from culturally woke to biblically awake.11:45 Let us pray for our children. Lord, please guide our children in your ways. Grant us the wisdom to know how to raise them. Help our children to honor their parents and to be11:57 obedient to their commands. May they learn the importance of respect for authority and understand all the ways in which they are to honor you.12:09 We entrust them fully into your hands. Guide them into your work and relationships and every decision that they make according to your will and purposes for their lives.12:21 Lord, guard our children from temptation and place godly friends in their path to influence them for good. Open the eyes of our children to the truth and changeJesus' Love for Children and Action Steps 12:33 their hearts to conform to your will. May they be fixed on that which pleases you. We thank you for the great gifts they are and blessings to us, and we release them12:45 into your destiny, And we thank you in Jesus' name for our children. Amen.12:53 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey. Don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying, and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 Parental Authority vs. State Control7:30 Biblical View of Children and Schools' Decline12:30 Jesus' Love for Children and Action Steps
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