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THE FAMILY STRUCTURE AS ORDAINED BY THE FATHER
WALKING IN THE FULLNESS OF OUR INHERITANCE
june 15th
THE FAMILY STRUCTURE AS ORDAINED BY THE FATHER
….”Hear, O son, the instruction of a father, and give attention that you may gain understanding, for I give you sound teaching; do not abandon My instruction. When I was a son to my father, tender and the only son in the sight of my mother, then he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments and live;”….
Proverbs 4:1-4 NASB
One area in the church where godly wisdom is much needed is the family. Many Christians ignore, to a great degree, the absolute revelation of the family structure that the Father has placed before them in His Word. From the beginning God has ordained that the mother and father of a child were to be His “representatives” to that child in the earth. He commanded the Israelites to pass His Word down to their children from a very early age and, consequently, Hebrew children were nourished and weaned from the age of three or four on the Law. As they grew up they were taught the elementary fundamentals of education such as reading and writing through their study of the Law [Torah]. They learned to both read and write through the reading and writing of the Law and the Covenants of promise, and all of their education was derived through experience - that experience coming as a result of their fulfilling [or not fulfilling] the requirements of the Law. Gradually, the Israelites grew slack in their obedience to God and, thus, they began to experience [to the degree they had gotten outside the covenant] a breakdown within their families. The exact same thing has happened in our society today! Many send their children off to schools where for the most part the Word of God has been pushed aside altogether and, thus, there is a strong and perverse influence “inundating” the minds of the children - an “influence” that causes a deep drawing into the worldly attitudes and the “doctrines of self” that pervade the anti-Christ system. We must thank God continually for the men and women who continue to feed the children the Word of God at every opportunity - regardless of any oppressive regulation set forth by the ungodly. It is time to drive Satan out of our families and out of our schools, and begin to put the Word of God in His rightful place - both in our lives and the lives of our children. It is time for every Christian parent to truly make Jesus the Lord over their families, and stop trying to raise their children in the darkened wisdom of their own fear and understanding. For, in this final hour, the Father is going to accomplish great and miraculous healing and restoration within the family structure - both His family [the Church], and the families of His children. It is a time when children will be restored to their parents and parents to their children, and the strongholds of Satan will crumble and vanish as if they never existed. Indeed, how important it is for every one of God’s children to walk in and depend upon the wisdom of God and His counsel alone in this most critical and glorious hour.
Related Scriptures: Deuteronomy 6:1-9; Joshua 1:8; Proverbs 3:1-7; Proverbs 12:7; Proverbs 13:24; Proverbs 22:6; Proverbs 24:3-4; Proverbs 29:15,17; Malachi 4:5-6;
“inundate” - to overwhelm with abundance or excess; to cover by overflowing; flood;
“critical” - exhibiting careful, precise judgements;
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