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Psalm 127:3: “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: And the fruit of the womb is his reward.”

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The issue of education loomed large in last year’s Virginia gubernatorial election, especially after the Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe said on the debate stage “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

WHAT, THEN, DO OUR CHILDREN NEED FROM US?

KEN HAM:

President Joe Biden is wrong, anti-biblical and escalating the war on children and the war on the family—which is ultimately a war on God. A recent news report stated: “"There is no such thing as someone else's child. No such thing as someone else's child. Our nation's children are all our children," Biden said, quoting a former teacher during a speech in the White House Rose Garden honoring the 2023 national and state teachers of the year.”

Let’s judge Biden’s statement against Scripture: “Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward” (Psalm 127:3). Children are a gift from God to parents. Children belong to parents and ultimately to the Lord. Our children do not belong to Joe Biden or the Government of the USA. Who is given authority to educate children? “the father makes known to the children your faithfulness” (Isaiah 38:19). “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). “…he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God,” (Psalm 78:5–7). God gives parents" the authority to educate children, and in particular fathers as the spiritual head of the house.

Now the family is the first and most fundamental of all human institutions God ordained in Scripture. The family is the educational unit God uses to transfer a spiritual legacy from one generation to the next and to impact the world for the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s why the devil so hates the family and stirs people to a war on the family. So sad but the President of the USA is escalating the war on children and the family in many ways including supporting allowing immature children to make decisions (without their parents) to mutilate or poison their bodies to supposedly change their gender. But one can’t change one’s genetics. Humans are either male (XY) or female (XX). The secular education system has also been used to brainwash generations of kids with an atheistic world view. If you reject God and his Word, as secular education does, then anything goes—there’s no absolute standard on which to base your thinking. In this view, children are just biological machines, the product of millions of years of evolution. They aren’t given to parents—they are just a “choice” parents made. And now we have the President of the USA basically claiming the government owns all the children. But when we start with God’s Word as shown above, we learn that children are a gift from God—given to parents. He has given parents authority over their children and the responsibility of training, teaching, and raising children. They are not just “choices,” nor are they the government’s responsibility—children are parent’s responsibility because God gave children to their parents to train them up for him. You see, the family unit didn’t evolve. God created the family when he created marriage (Genesis 1:27 and 2:24) and told the first couple to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28). He entrusted children to parents to raise them in accord with the principles he has laid down for us in his Word (e.g., Psalm 127:3). And we must remember: the most important part of education is the spiritual upbringing of children, as that affects their eternity: "Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ. "(Ephesians 3:8) Parents—take this responsibility seriously! You are responsible for their education, not Joe Biden or the Government. God has given you a big job, and there’s no job more important than discipling your children in the Lord. If you aren’t thoughtfully and purposefully parenting in the Lord, I urge you and your spouse to sit down and discuss your “game plan” as a family for how you can be purposeful about this job with an eternal impact. As our world gets darker, it’s more vital than ever that you and your spouse be purposeful in how you raise your children. Many families homeschool their children. At

Isaiah 45:6: “That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, That there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.”