The Revelation by Morris Cerullo

Author:Morris Cerullo [Cerullo, Morris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B0006XR2L6
Publisher: World Evangelism
Published: 1975-02-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

DOMESTIC CHAOS

"And, the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." (Matthew 7:27)

Let's talk about our homes.

Looking at the home situation that already exists in America...the one-out-of-three-marriages divorce rate, the rebellious children, the letters of heartbreak about family situations that daily pour into my headquarters in San Diego, California...it's hard to realize that this shaking I am talking about has not already taken place. But we've only seen the beginning. Homes are going to be shaken as never before.

ONLY THOSE HOMES AND THOSE FAMILIES WHICH ARE TIED TO THE WORD OF GOD ARE GOING TO MAKE IT.

We've had the crises of young people, of rebellion, of hippies and dope addicts even in Christian homes. God has spoken to me about this that one of the reasons these things have penetrated the Christian home is because the Christian home is compromising.

A youngster in a Christian home decides he wants to change the rules. He rebels against his parents and the way he has been brought up. His parents don't know where to turn. They throw up their hands and say, "What shall I do?"

They look around to see what other parents are doing, and so they say, "Well, other parents are permitting this. If my son wants to do that, he should have the right to do it also." Or they say, "Well, he's 18 years old now" or "She's 17. She should have the right." And compromise is born.

Rather than looking to see what other families are doing and letting them set the standard, that mother and that father should be looking at the Bible and uncompromisingly holding up God's standard.

I don't speak as an outsider, an observer. I have three children of my own. I speak as a Christian father. I can look back in my own life and see times when I was tempted to permit the spirit of the age and the spirit of the hour to dictate to me rather than my saying, "Look, this is what God says. This is His standard for the home. Now that's it."

If you do that, take that stand, you're a thousand times better off, but that's hard, you see, and our parents haven't done it.

They've gone to this psychologist or that psychiatrist or that counselor asking "What can I do?" God tells them what to do, but they won't follow that. They won't discipline the children. They won't take authority over the spirit of the age and over their children. There is no one to blame but themselves.

Don't blame God if you won't train up that child in the right way. Don't blame God if you won't discipline that child. Don't blame God if you won't set a standard down for that child and say, "Look, this is God's standard for us in this home and you must obey it!" Don't blame God.

You may think we have a revolution with the young people now, but we haven't begun to feel it yet.

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