If You Really Want to Rescue America...

Banjo

Senior Member
If You Really Want to Rescue America
by Dr. Richard A. Jones


Parents: Be sure you homeschool for the right reason. Just because the public schools have failed spiritually, morally, and academically is only a minor part of the reason. God desires that you do it. In addition, only in the loving, dedicated environment of a home will the great leaders (as youths) be nurtured; those who’ll be re-supplying a world devoid of leaders. Try to name a nationally respected, inspirational, God-honoring leader today. Men like Luther, Calvin, Knox, Jonathan Edwards, Patrick Henry, Washington, William Wilberforce, William Carey, Charles Spurgeon. Even our young women have been “feminized” to their own and to our hurting nation’s peril.

These verses will give you resolve, direction and comfort as you go through the daily challenge of homeschooling. Demonstrate their importance to your children by having them memorize them. As parents themselves (all too soon) they’ll be passing these “messages” on to your grandchildren. Remember that you’ll eventually be judging your own parenting record based on how the grandchildren turn out. These will help.

Matthew 12:30 & Luke 11:23: Jesus said, “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.”

Comment: Are the public schools for Jesus? If not, they are against Him.

Hebrews 11:6: “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek Him.”

Comment: Per Hebrews 11:6, the government schools cannot please God because they do not believe nor do they teach students to believe that He exists.

Romans 14:23b: “Everything that does not come from faith is sin.”

Comment: The government schools are not teaching from a position of faith in God.

Matthew 10:32-33: “Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.”

Comment: John 1:3 and Colossians 1:16 declare that Jesus made the world. Government schools refuse to acknowledge this fact. Therefore they are disowned by Christ.

Matthew 18:5-6: “And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But, if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”

Comment: Studies show that 65% to 88% of all churched youth who attend public schools leave the faith by their freshman year in college. There is a direct connection between a godless education and a godless life. There will be a judgment for those who turn children away from Christ.

Jeremiah 10:2a: “Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen.”

Comment: What part of “Learn not the way of the heathen” do we not understand?

Luke 6:39-40: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.”

Comment: A Christian parent must not turn the leading of their child over to a system that is spiritually blind. Education is discipleship and students will become like the teacher. Do you want your children to become like their (often atheist) teachers?

Psalm 1:1-2: “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.”

Comment: Children and their parents are blessed when they avoid the ungodly counsel in the government schools. The same is true for the sinful socialization with sinful classmates and the mocking, scoffing attitudes invariably picked up at school. How can a child meditate day and night on God’s law in a government school? Contrast “blessings and cursings” in Deuteronomy 28, and see which one you want to receive.

2 Corinthians 6:13-18: “I am talking now as I would to my own children. Open your hearts to us! Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can goodness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and the Devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: ‘I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God and they will be my people. Therefore, come out from them and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. Don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you. And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

Comment: We are forbidden to partner with unbelievers in the education of our children.

Proverbs 9:10: “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in understanding.”

Comment: Government schools lack the fear “of the Lord,” and therefore cannot teach wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.

Psalms 34:11: “Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.”

Comment: How can are children supposed to learn the fear of the Lord? Parents teach it to them by instruction and example!

Colossians 2:8: “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.”

Comment: Education must be predicated on the foundation of Christ, not on humanistic thought.

Exodus 20:3: “You shall have no other Gods before me.”

Comment: Evolution and humanism are substitutes for the true and living God.

Exodus 20:12: “Honor your father and mother.”

Comment: Government schools dishonor parents (and, by example, teach children to do the same) by claiming the State can nurture children better than the parents.

Exodus 20:15: “You shall not steal.”

Comment: Government schools take money forcibly from property owners (who often have no children left at home) to pay for other people’s education. This is legal plunder and is immoral. It’s hypocritical that schools expect Johnny not to cheat on a test (taking answers that belong to Billy), while pretending to see nothing wrong with taking money from Billy’s dad (who may be wealthy) to pay for Johnny’s education. Public schools do not operate on a biblical ethic which states that giving is to be voluntary. 2 Corinthians 9:7 says that “Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

Deuteronomy 6:6-7: “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”

Comment: This describes a full-time, 24/7, daily, 365 discipleship paradigm.

Proverbs 1:8: “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.”

Comment: It is assumed that the father and mother are doing the teaching. No one else is mentioned in scripture as having that role.

Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”

Comment: It is the father’s job to train and instruct his own children.

Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is grown, he will not depart from it.”

Comment: There is a way a child should go. Parents need to be training the child in that direction, not in the world’s sin-attracted direction.

Proverbs 13:20: “He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”

Comment: Children should not be allowed to have foolish companions. Proverbs 22:15 tells us that foolishness is “bound up” in the heart of a child. Ecclesiastes 4:12 states that a “chord of three strands is not easily broken.” It is hard to break a bond of foolishness once friendships are made.

Isaiah 54:13: “And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.”

Comment: Children who are taught of the Lord will be peaceful. The converse is also true.

Proverbs 16:25: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.”

Comment: This pretty much speaks for itself.

James 4:17: “Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.”

Matthew 7:6b: “Neither cast your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and then turn again and tear you to pieces.”

Comment: The swine is the secular humanist foundation of the government schools in combination with those who knowingly deliver it to the innocent. The pearls are your children. Torn to pieces are the children, the parents, the family and the nation.

http://www.americanvision.org/articlearchive2008/10-22-08PRINT.html

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gordon 2

Senior Member
"Try to name a nationally respected, inspirational, God-honoring leader today. Men like Luther, Calvin, Knox, Jonathan Edwards, Patrick Henry, Washington, William Wilberforce, William Carey, Charles Spurgeon."


You are right there is a great big black hole in the national galaxy. Men like Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorn and the women that loved them are sadly missing.
 

Huntinfool

Senior Member
IF we were to go to a voucher system, would you accept the money in an effort to send your children to a Christian school?
 

rjcruiser

Senior Member
IF we were to go to a voucher system, would you accept the money in an effort to send your children to a Christian school?

They need to make it so that if you homeschool, the parent gets the money.:bounce:

Banjo,
I admit, I didn't read the whole article. Read the first couple of questions and then didn't need to read the rest. I agree with most of your posts, but it seems as if you'd like to live in a vacuum that has no outside influence. That is impossible in today's society, just as it was in Bible times as well.

If we take this articles approach, how do you explain Daniel and his three buddies? They lived in an evil empire that didn't have a God focus. Their names were changed from names that honored God to names that glorified the Babylonian gods. Did they refuse to go to school in the public school system? No. They held to their morals and ethical standards, but they didn't just refuse to participate or pull-out all together.
 

gtparts

Senior Member
Hi Banjo,

Got two questions.

First, what does this mean?
Even our young women have been “feminized” to their own and to our hurting nation’s peril.

And second, several of the first scriptures given in your post are clearly addressed to individuals (particularly as pertains to faith) while the comments following them refer to government schools, public schools, etc. These government institutions and quasi-government institutions are soulless constructs and are not capable of faith and legally bound to show no partiality as to matters of religion. While I would agree that God will hold those accountable on an individual basis, the collective unit is under no compulsion of scripture. Do you think God is going to collectively hold the BOE accountable based on Matt. 12:20 and Luke 11:23?

A Christian board member who pushes a blatantly Christian agenda is just as wrong as a Scientologist pushing a Scientology agenda in the context of board membership. The United States was founded on Christian principles, but was never intended to be a theocracy, much less a Christian theocracy. Our incredible experiment in self-government allows for belief in God, nothing at all, everything including Mickey Mouse, and even three termites found in a wood pile. The government is forbidden to direct a state religion and yet burdened with the protection of individual rights to worship as one chooses with certain civil limits.

Throwing rocks at public education will not solve the problems therein. Pulling your children out of public school will not solve the problems. The best one can hope for and work towards is to solve the problems within the system and within the laws of the land. Perhaps the biggest problem in public schools is that which the students bring from their homes in the way of little or no training in civility and descency, a disrespect for authority, a sense of entitlement, an no appreciation for the value of education and the hard work of teachers, administrators, and support people. Home schooling may be the appropriate solution for you and I applaude your efforts in that regard; however, many public school students get no discipline or training at home to establish a base upon which public school teachers can build.

God bless those who choose to teach in public schools under the worst of conditions without being crushed under the weight of onerous testing, political manipulation, and the responsibility of successfully imparting knowledge and its application to young people, many of whom could not care less about being there.
 

Banjo

Senior Member
If we take this articles approach, how do you explain Daniel and his three buddies?

Well...did Daniel and his "three buddies" have a choice in the matter? Do we have a choice as to how we educate our children?
 

rjcruiser

Senior Member
Well...did Daniel and his "three buddies" have a choice in the matter? Do we have a choice as to how we educate our children?

I think that some (not all) have as much choice in the matter as Daniel and his friends. What about the single mother...must work to provide for her family. It would be impossible for her to home-school her family while working full time.

Daniel and his friends didn't have to participate. Look at their level of participation in bowing down to the statue of Nebuchadnezzar. That is where they drew the line...and they took the penalty for it. But they didn't put up a fight or take a stand when it came to their "Public" education.
 

Jeffriesw

Senior Member
How bout those vouchers?

Huntin, I am not sure if I would accept the vouchers or not, Do we really want the gubermint putting money in private Christian schools? Would they then have a measure of control over the Christian schools? Would the Christian schools even want to accept it? Not sure how that would shake out:huh:.
Would the radical muslim (Madrassas, sp) schools be eligible as well?

Not sure we would want gubermint money involved, But then again, it's our money to start with.:banginghe


What about a tax credit instead of vouchers?

Whole lot of questions involving this.

But what the heck, I am leaving today form a weekend of hunting:cool:, I will think more about it later.:bounce:
 

Banjo

Senior Member
I think that some (not all) have as much choice in the matter as Daniel and his friends. What about the single mother...must work to provide for her family. It would be impossible for her to home-school her family while working full time.

I know...My heart goes out to these women in these types of situations. I think that in these cases, the church should help her.

But they didn't put up a fight or take a stand when it came to their "Public" education.

Again, most of us have a choice in our children's education. We don't have to send them to "Babylon."
 
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