How Much Filth Is Acceptable? NONE.
Parents are required to protect their children from all moral filth.
Get them out of the public schools.
Do not let them watch and listen to entertainment with profanity, nudity, sexual activity, blasphemy, whether tv, movies, radio, music, internet, concerts, plays.
Do not let them hang with people who accept such low standards.
Woe to those who offend, whether parents or strangers.
SOME OF THE DANGERS...
The dangers are numerous.
It violates them.
It corrupts them.
It misleads them.
It weakens them.
It imprints them with destructive thoughts and ideas.
It rings a bell that cannot be un-rung.
It sings a song that cannot be un-sung.
It hangs a picture that cannot be un-hung.
It opens some doors that should never be opened and some doors that can never be closed.
1 Peter 3:15-17
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Some one will say, “But they are going to see it anyway.” Jesus said,
Matthew 18:6-7
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
7 Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but WOE TO THAT MAN BY WHOM THE OFFENSE COMES!
Parents make mistakes, but I am not talking about mistakes or errors or surprises. I am talking about deliberate choices to expose children to filth. We need a ZERO TOLERANCE LEVEL when it comes to exposing our children to moral corruption.
Call it legalism if you are so deluded, but there is no regret in not offending children.
Whenever a lower level is reached, it leads to a lower level. We must lead them to higher ground, not into the sin pits of life.
Yes, they will be exposed to filth in this life, but they don't need it as children and they don't need it to be approved by parents.
Call it Old School if you choose, but God commends the Old Paths.
Isaiah 58:12
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Jeremiah 6:16
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
If they must be introduced to filth, DO NOT LET IT BE YOU and DO NOT LET IT BE WITH YOUR BLESSING.
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
7 Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but WOE TO THAT MAN BY WHOM THE OFFENSE COMES!
Parents make mistakes, but I am not talking about mistakes or errors or surprises. I am talking about deliberate choices to expose children to filth. We need a ZERO TOLERANCE LEVEL when it comes to exposing our children to moral corruption.
Call it legalism if you are so deluded, but there is no regret in not offending children.
Whenever a lower level is reached, it leads to a lower level. We must lead them to higher ground, not into the sin pits of life.
Yes, they will be exposed to filth in this life, but they don't need it as children and they don't need it to be approved by parents.
Call it Old School if you choose, but God commends the Old Paths.
Isaiah 58:12
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Jeremiah 6:16
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
If they must be introduced to filth, DO NOT LET IT BE YOU and DO NOT LET IT BE WITH YOUR BLESSING.
