The doctrine of this hour is it’s more about what you believe than who you are and what you do.  Biblical Christianity is about who you are and what you do, not about what you intellectually assent to.  “Well, we believe that.”  Then why aren’t you doing it?  It manifests itself in every area of doctrine.  If Jesus is the Lord of your life, then He’s the Head of your home.  We can’t set any course for our homes, for our marriages, for our children, that the Head, Jesus Christ, has not already mandated; amen?  That has to do with the fact that we cannot let our children live a cross-less life.

We’re living in a society—it was on a school sign I drove by the other day, “Children are first.”  No, God is first.  In a husband-and-wife relationship, a true marriage, where two become one, spouse is first.  If you want to go back to us old guys, "Children are to be seen and not heard."  Or let’s just say it another way, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord.” maybe that’s a better, biblical way to say it.  That does not say, “Dialog with your parents and have them justify to you why you should obey them.  Give them a long dissertation as to why they should be obedient to the Lord Jesus Christ and not live according to their own wishes and their own flesh.”  We’re raising our children to absolutely, without flinching, recognize the authority of the Word of God.  When God has spoken to us through His Word, the next action is obedience; amen?  

When God says “Jump!”, jump as high as grace will take you, hallelujah!