It is written, “Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children, to observe to do all the words of this law. For it is a not vain thing for you, because it is your life.” Deuteronomy 32:46-47a

The subject of what and how to teach your children is in the news even today. No one believes you should beat your children into submission, but you should teach them the words of the laws of GOD and you should live by them yourself so that they learn by example how to live their lives. The Scripture above makes it plain that the words of GOD are “your life”. 

I am living proof because I barely survived a marriage to a man who knew no discipline as a child and turned out to be a devil in disguise. The moral of the story as they used to say in children’s books, is  that when a person who was not disciplined grows up and marries he is a terrible man to live with because he has no respect for any body or any thing, disregards the civil laws and the laws of GOD and creates misery everywhere he goes. JESUS said, that he who is not with HIM is against HIM. In other words, there is no side of the fence to sit on. IF you don’t teach your children while they are little the laws [Commandments, Statutes, judgements ] of GOD and teach him or  her or them [hope you have several children–they are the greatest of GOD’s blessings] then what they learn is atheism, ungodly vile behaviours that are destructive and deadly. JESUS said, “the thief cometh not but for [the purpose] to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; [but] I AM come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” [John 10:10]. If you do not teach your children not to steal, the world [ as run by the devil and his agents]  will teach them to steal. If you don’t teach your children not to commit adultery,and not to fornicate,  the world and the devil’s agents will tell them to have s-e-x * with any person, male or female,of any age, anywhere in any manner, at any time, for any reason and with no sense of committment or boundaries on the relationship. If you don’t teach your children that having children is the PRIMARY reason for relationships in the first place, the world and the agents of the devil, will teach them to abort their babies and focus only on themselves. If you don’t teach your children to love GOD, the world and the devil’s own will teach them to make gods of themselves, doing whatever makes them happy with no sense of moral duty or obligation to either the family, the nation or the world for the kingdom of GOD.  If you don’t teach them what is right,the devil will teach them what is wrong and he will hiss in their ear, that they ’shall be as gods” ** IF only they will defy GOD and ignore HIS Commandments and HIS laws. If you read the whole Biblical record of what happened when Eve disobeyed GOD, then you will know that GOD punished Adam the most and also Eve– she and her family suffered very much because of it. It is also written, ‘be not deceived. GOD is not mocked.For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7.

  There is some good news in America. The California Court of Appeals for the Second Appellate District in a 3-0 decision, reversed themselves from their previous decision, in order to allow California residents to home school their children. I am sure it was the prayers of Christian people that turned the tide, and because of the words of the Holy Scriptures compelling parents to teach their children right from wrong. Home schooling is necessary because the public schools do not teach right from wrong and instead teach a secular humanist [atheist] approach to life that teaches disrespect for GOD’s HOLY NAME, and that teaches the false doctrine that there are no consequences to disobeying GOD. But the Bible teaches that there are consequences  to sin in this life and in the world to come, where a person will be judged by GOD on HIS JUDGEMENT DAY and sent either to heaven or to hell, depending upon the way the person lived and believed while alive on the earth. There is no repentence in hell.  Therefore it behooves you to teach your children what is right and what is wrong, and expect them to comply with righteous authority. Righteous authority is any authority that GOD sets over you according to Scripture, and that would be an earthly daddy, a mother, the Pastor of your Church, and civil governments. Contrary to public perception, public schools do not equal Churches’ authority.

I want to thank the California Court of Appeals’s Judges for coming to their senses! Thank you for allowing righteous parents to teach their children their beliefs and right from wrong by teaching them at home when the schools do not.

Footnotes: 

* That word spelled in an effort to prevent my inbox from being flooded for ads for s-e-x! Robots scan for particular words and that is one of them. Learn from me, that if you don’t want your inbox flooded with offers for you to pros-ti-tute yourself,then hyphenate certain words in ways to try to bypass the bad guys.

**That phrase ’shall be as gods” is the very words of the devil in the disguise of the serpent in the Garden of Eden as he persuaded Eve to defy GOD.Read it at Genesis 3:5, King James Holy Bible.

signed gloria poole, RN and artist, Denver Co 80203