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Col.3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

In a world of rebellion and entitlements obeying parents, that is, if there are two parents seems to be lost for most families. Society has been pushing for many years now for equality within the family arrangement and peer pressure is so great that each word must be carefully chosen or a person could lose their mate and their children.

Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Proverbs 28:2 In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

However, God did not create all things equal, but why if he is love? The first children to rebel was God's own spirit children, which effected the new created human's in he Garden of Eden, and it was over a push for equality with God; being on equal footing, not under God's authority. Unforunately, since than, and now, we find written in the history of the human race; when freedom is sought from authority there comes greater oppression, and greater wickedness, and not more freedom and rights. This pattern is written everywhere in the history of the human race, and it has not changed. Equality in power, and position, does not solve the sinful nature of mankind to rebel aganist autority, it only increase lawlessness, why?

Isaiah 1:23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

God's creation is a great teacher for thousand's of years parents have had a role it did not have to be educated into them or earned, by news media, or entertainment, or someone governmental agenda, it has happen for survival of the young! It was not many years ago the natural order of things, children were not smarter than parent if they wished to survive in hostile world? If they chose to eat, and grow up having a trade. Parents could not be their "best friend" pampering their every whim; parents must be respected because the childs survial depended upon their obeying rules. Nor could a parent lean upon their child because they wanted to get read of their mate, using the child for emotional support replacing their mate with because they didn't want to work through problems or give up something material; making the child dependent upon them because they could not keep mate because of their own disrespect for authority.

Malachi 2:16 For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

Matthew 19:8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Proverbs 10:5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

Society has grown into entitlements where children can have most everything they want and parents are slaves to the needs of the children, this relationship was not known just a hundred years ago at all! Children today can disrespect parents, because society itself disrespect parents, and their decision, why? Because just as the bible predicted people have become lovers of pleasure instead of lovers of God. This has lead to entitlement society, if a person cannot have what they think they deserve, they get read of and/or replace their mates allowing the government to become their caretaker. Let us remember less than a hundred years ago divorce was unheard of, and if it happen, it was not spoken out loud, and considered normal.

Proverbs 11:29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Parents themselves have set the example of commitment and loyalty for the child, by showing disrespect for each other. Subsequently, obeying any human in a family is considered evil in our enlighten society. Paul's words than have very little meaning to most people today. However, to God who cannot change like humans from light into darkness he did not create all things equal, each person as a Christian's has a position before God. God created headship and without it, society and mankind corrupts into lawlessness, were disrespect is shown to anyone having authority.

Proverbs 15:12 A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Ecclesiastes 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Jeremiah 4:22 For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

If we plant evil, evil comes up, buts once it has become full bloom and people see the fruitage of their ways it is too late for that generation. So to we are now seeing and eating the fruitage of disobedience on every level of society. We find the highest divorce rate in the history of mankind, we find the greatest corruption top down in society the greatest amount of adult children living at home unwilling to give up life style of laziness, the greatest disrespect every shown to parents. This corruption has spread into all of society from family up as each generation takes the position of power. Let us not be surpized of why such a balanted disrespect now plagues mankind!

1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

2Tim.3:1 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3:3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, 3:4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; 3:5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also. 3:6 For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 3:7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Titus.3:1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 3:2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men. 3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

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