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their existence, and suffer physical debil–
ities, handicaps, sickness, and carly
death!
Most fat people wc:re not force-fed.
You "are:" what you eat. And God
has LAWS involving foods, believc it or
no
t.
You may CHOOSE to train your chil–
dren Goo's WAY, according to the lov–
ing conditions of Scripture, and accord–
ing to the EXAMPLES of God's Word,
and they will be greatly BLESSED - their
lives protected and preserved.
But then, you are AI.SO free to choose
the way of modern "child psychology,"
or the current way of "situation ethics"
and permissiveness which encourages
DISOBEDIENCll in children, and which is
a
DIRECT cause of MUCH youthful
rebellion of this age.
For thc most part, mc:n and women
have choscn the linc of
LeaJt
effort in
child rearing, and our enormous prob–
lem of juvenile delinquency, disrespect
for authority, mere youths 15, 16 and
17
accounting for .MOST of the major
crime categories, are thc DIRECI' RESULTS
of a CAUSL The CAUSE? The unwill–
ingness of man to obc:y His Creator.
Proof? To suggest to a modern fam–
ily they should actually LOOK INTO THE
BIBLE to see HOW to rear childrcn is
proof enough. Snorts of ridiculc, dis·
dain, and angcr are thc usual reply.
God said, "... [ COMMAND thce
this day to love the Eterna] thy God,
to walk in His ways, and to keep
His commandments and His statutes
and His judgments, that thou maycst
live and multiply: and the Eterna! thy
God shall bless thee in the land whither
thou goest to possess it .. .
I
call heaven
and earth to record this day against you,
that
1
have set before you LJFE and
DEATH, BLESSING and CURS!NG: there–
fore
CHOOSE
LIFE, that both thou and
thy seed may
1
ive" (Deut.
30:
16-1
9) .
God says CHOOSE.
He reveals we are creatures of FREE
CHOICE in relationship to HJM, and to
His Jaws, that we are free moral agcnts.
God commands us to make the RIGHT
choice - but He will NOT FORCE that
right choice upon us.
Little Tommy was as yet
Joo
yotmg
to MAKE serious choices for himself
and SHOULD have been protected with
the safeguard of loving discipline -
first,
perhaps a protected place to play,
and
seconcl.
protccted with thc REMOVAI.
OF ALL THOSE OTHER CAUSES OF THE
accident. Just like that young boy -
whose dccision to
run
into the street
was only one tiny
part
of the wholc
"choosing" situation which resulted in
his dc:ath -
EACH PERSON MUST
CHOOSE.
The whole SOCIETY JJAS o-lOSEN.
The
fmitr,
the
evidence
of that
CHOICE are al! around you.
Man has always
chose11
the way of
disobedience. Thc way of vanity, jeal–
ousy, lust and greed. He has delitx:rat<:ly
CHOSEN the wa}' of compctition and
strife, believing it the BEST way.
In momentary triumph, he: congrat–
ulates himself.
In failure, he: blames God.
God Keeps H ands Off
Humans act unrcasonably.
But then, human naturc, with thc
Satanic inAuence of this age and this
society, is
mo.rt
unreasonable.
Humankind wants God to "keep His
nose out of our business" and NOT
intcrfere in our daily lives. To
tx:
met
with the "invisible spiritual straight–
jacket" described earlier would abso–
lutcly ENRAGE most humans.
Still, even though feeling ANJMOSITY
toward God, and RESENTING His laws,
wc want God to SUSPENO THE PEN·
ALTY for breaking His Jaws!
God sa}'S, "the carnal mind is
cnmity against God: for it is not
mb–
jecl
to the law of God, ncither indc:cd
can be"! (Rom.
8:7.)
Humans RESENT God's way - the
ONLY WAY to achieve "goodness."
Goodness of character and cooo THINCS
happening al! through life.
Human nature wants to "appear"
tiJ
"good," it wants to
think
of itsclf as
"good," but it doesn't want to DO that
which
is
good. It wants to BE "good"
and to HAVE GOOD RESULT$, without
LIVING IN A WAY WHICJI PRODUCES
cooo!
God is not PRESENTLY interfering in
a powerful way with this world.
The horrible consequenccs of man,
living man's chosen way, are self–
cvident.
Crime, divorce, horrible disease epi–
demics, war, pollution, utter immorality,
vcnereal disease
all are H' FECTS of
man's OWN CHOICE$, his OWN BULL·
HEAOEO. STIFFNE<KED OETERIIIINATION
TO t.IVE CONTRARY TO Goo's LA\X'S,
ANO INSIST
Gon
REMOVE THE
PENAL.TIES.
But only whcn man has learned the
birterest of lessons, only when human
beings can look back over the entirety
of blood-staincd
11
UMAN HISTORY ami
say with deep conviction, man's way is
UTTERL\' EVIL, will God step
111
and
RESCUE man
frum
himself.
lt is a hcartbreaking shamc that little
chiltlren must suffer the consequences of
careless, sinning parents, neighbors, :tnd
sometimcs even gr:tndparents. But God
W'ARNED us it would be this way. He
spokc of allowing the conse<Juenccs for
sin to be visitetl from the fathers
"... upon thc chiltlren unto thc third
and fourth generation of thcm that bate
me" (Ex.
20:5).
YOUR Freedom of Choice
Ycs, God ALI.OWED little Tommy to
die. He ALLOWf:D World War
IT.
He
ALLO\X' ED more than
50,000
Americans
to be killed in automobile accidents last
year.
And He Al LOWS you to make
EVERY dc:cision for yourself.
He permitted each of the parents,
neighbors, and fricnds of Tommy to
contribute to his little personality. He
permittcd whatevcr sequencc of events
that
lt.!d
to Tommy's trip into thc: street.
He allowed thc automobilc to con–
tinue on the path chosen for it by its
driver.
That is toSa}', HE OOES NOT STEP IN
ANO IMJ>OSE HIS \XIJI,L ON ANY PEOPLE
AT ANY TIME.
Frankly - YOU OON'T WANT Htm
to. You woulJ strongly RESENT thc sud–
den impositioo of the will of God
into your daily, prívate Jife.
God makes available to you
the
IUl)
of lifc which CAUSES happiness, succcss,
rewards, excitement, fun, good health,
and eventual ETERNAL
LIFE.
He com–
mands you to CJIOOSE TO LIVE THAT
\X'
AY.
But He doesn't
force
you to make the
right choice.
God will
aliou•
you to choose LIFE -
or he'll aUow you to choose death.
The choice is YOURS. O