Episode 371: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 337

Episode Summary:

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. (Proverbs 22:6,15)

48 Sometimes I wonder if we intellectual Americans has enough discernment to discern right from wrong. Especially, the juvenile courts prove that we haven’t got it to discern right and wrong, for our children, and they seem to have a good psychologist’s answer.

49 For instance, like this. If junior comes up to his papa and stomps his little feet, and screams out and shakes his head, said, “Dad, I don’t care what you say. I want a hot rod.” That’s typical America.

And the father says, “All right, junior, I’ll buy it for you.”

You could say to that dad, “Why did you do it?”

“Oh, I love him.”

50 You remember, dad, junior is going to grow up to be a man, someday, and he’ll marry and have a family. God help that wife that lives with a boy that’s been brought up like that, to have his way about everything he wants. Can’t discern right from wrong. That’s not love. That’s pure ignorance. The Bible is right. “Spare the rod, and you spoil your son.”

51 Little Fanny will come up to mother, and she’s going to go at the rock-and-roll. Mother tells her she can’t do it. “But, oh, mother, you’re cruel to me.” Of course, you love Fanny, and you let her go. She’ll get out amongst that bunch of hoodlums, on all that nonsense; come in, and pucker up her little painted lips and tell you a lie, that, “There’s no harm in it.” God have mercy to the man that will marry something like that for a wife. Discerning right from wrong, we can’t discern our own.

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Rev. William Marrion Branham

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