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having drunk old wine

Luke 5:36-39
And he spake also a parable unto them; 
No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; 
if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. 
No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, “The old is better.”
(whilst drunk they cannot perceive the difference between the holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean Leviticus 10:9-10)

emotional manipulation

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Colossians 3:21


And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4

Correction of children is a good thing.  A child may not like correction, and they may even get angry when corrected, but this is not talking about this kind of anger.

However, emotionally manipulating children to get them to do something or change behavior does not accomplish intended results.  Moreover, instead of training a child in the right way to go, it discourages the child from desiring to doing the right thing.

Emotional manipulation includes snarky comments, put-downs, name-calling, demeaning, humiliation, yelling/screaming, profanity, provocation, guilt, pleading, threatening, etc…

Children should feel conviction to do the right thing, and sorry/contrite for having done wrong – but not chided and have excessive guilt pushed on them.

Children should be embarrassed by their behavior, but not publicly humiliated and demeaned.

Children should be advised of consequences, but not screamed at with emotional threats that are never carried out.

As adults, we have to face consequences for our mistakes and bad behavior.

While parents should “buffer” consequences for children so that they are not permanently scarred, children should still experience consequences for bad behavior so that they learn this principal in a safe way.   If they fail to learn the lessons while they have their parents as a covering, they stand to learn the lesson in a costlier way later on, even costing their life or the life of another.

Firm follow through on consequences is the nurturing response.

It actually makes children feel secure when children know their boundaries and know that their parents follow through in a measured controlled response without the unpredictability of emotional chaos and moving targets.

Not following through “rewards” and reinforces the bad behavior.

Children do not have to be taught bad behavior.  They are born with it.

Children have to be trained in good behavior.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov 22:6

Training involves consistency and repetition.   At first training may involve continual oversight and follow up, then eventually as the good behavior becomes a habit you can back off and trust them more and more.

Trust before training leads to disaster.   Train first, then trust.

13 things in the heart of man

Be careful when new-agers say “awaken what is inside of you”

John 2:25

And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

Mark 7:20-23

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

How to recognize false convert

7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:7-11

that which is perfect

1 Cor 10-12

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Rev 22:4-5

And they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads.  And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever

divers kinds

Leviticus 19:19

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 

Deuteronomy 22:5,9-11

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together

Genesis 1 (excerpts)

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.  

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.  

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.