{"id":10818,"date":"2017-08-12T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T19:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2017-08-29T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:47:19","slug":"devils-philosophy-in-lawless-and-wicked-age-do-as-you-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/devils-philosophy-in-lawless-and-wicked-age-do-as-you-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil’s Philosophy in Lawless and Wicked Age: ‘Do as You Please’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Devilsby Michael W. Chapman –
\nOur children are growing up in a \u201clawless and wicked age,\u201d infused with the \u201cphilosophy of the Devil, who says, \u2018Do as you please.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

World renowned evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, the founder and chairman of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said that our children are growing up in a \u201clawless and wicked age,\u201d infused with the \u201cphilosophy of the Devil, who says, \u2018Do as you please.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Further, rearing children in this culture is difficult because \u201cwe have taken God out of our educational systems and thought we could get away with it,\u201d said Rev. Graham. \u201cWe have sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind. We have laughed at God, religion and the Bible.\u201d <\/p>\n

We have sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Reverend Graham\u2019s commentary, first broadcast in August 1955, was published in the November 4, 2014 issue of Decision magazine, under the headline \u201cRaising Children in a Godless Age.\u201d \u201cMany Christian parents are becoming fearful that they cannot properly train their children in this lawless and wicked age,\u201d and are asking, \u201cWhat can I do with my son? My daughter?\u201d said Rev. Graham.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are beginning to reap what has been sown for the past generation,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have taught the philosophy of the Devil, who says, \u2018Do as you please.\u2019 Behaviorism has been the moral philosophy of much of our education in the past few years.\u201d<\/p>\n

educational leaders sneer at the old-fashioned idea of God and a moral code<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rev. Graham continued, \u201cMany of our educational leaders sneer at the old-fashioned idea of God and a moral code. Movies feature sex, sin, crime and alcohol. Teenagers see these things portrayed alluringly on the screen and decide to go and try them. Newspapers have played up crime and sex until they seem glamorous to our young people.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the fundamental problems, according to Rev. Graham, is the failure of parents to fight \u201cthe Devil in the home\u201d through discipline and, as a result, \u201cchildren are allowed to go wild.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parents must spend time with their children, set a good example for them, discipline them, and teach them to \u201cknow God,\u201d said the pastor, who has five children and 19 grandchildren.<\/p>\n

The Bible says that if you fail to discipline your children, you actually hate them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIf you fail to discipline your children, you are breaking the laws, commandments and statutes of God,\u201d said Rev. Graham. \u201cYou are guilty not only of injuring the moral, spiritual and physical lives of your children, but of sinning against God. The Bible says that if you fail to discipline your children, you actually hate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The best way to influence your children, he added, is to set a good example because \u201cthe majority of children acquire the characteristics and habits of their parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for teaching your children to know God, Rev. Graham said, \u201cVery seldom do parents have trouble with children when the Bible is read regularly in the home, grace is said at the table and family prayers take place daily. Most trouble with teenagers comes from children reared in homes where prayer is neglected, the Bible is never opened and church attendance is spasmodic. Christ gives the moral stability, understanding, wisdom and patience needed to rear children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christ gives the moral stability, understanding, wisdom and patience needed to rear children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There is only one solution to combating the problems afflicting young people, concluded Rev. Graham, and that answer is Christ: \u201cChrist in the home, in the lives of the parents, is the only permanent solution to the menacing teenage social problems in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Church every Sunday and daily prayer \u201cwill solve 90 percent of the problems you have with your children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For teens who want true joy and happiness, and not the temporary intoxications of today\u2019s sinful culture, they should turn to Jesus Christ. He \u201ccan give you the greatest happiness, the greatest adventure and the greatest thrills you have ever known,\u201d said Rev. Graham. …<\/p>\n

HT: CNS News<\/a><\/p>\n

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