It now becomes necessary to remind ourselves again how this Righteous Spirit filters down to our children as we as parents fulfill our command to watch and guard our children in bringing them up in the admonition of the Lord.

The word righteous is dikaiosune: meaning, justified = (guiltless and blameless), innocent = (free from evil) and holy = (pure and set apart unto God). This is the picture that God has of us the day we became His child. This picture that God has of us never changes no matter whatever we do after we commit our lives to the Lord. We may choose not to participate in His Spirit of Righteousness, but God never changes His mind and gets fed up with us. The definition of this word has to be interacted in our daily walk with the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 3:8 tells us that, “Adam and Eve used to walk with God in the cool of the day and they would have daily conversations with Him.” This word cool in the Hebrew text means, He would weave His spirit into their bodies and totally purified their being. It’s us allowing the Holy Spirit to flow in us as He did with Adam and Eve, as they stayed naked in the Garden of Eden before they disobeyed God by eating from the Tree of Good and Evil. Righteousness is the Spirit of God that came into our being the day we became born again believers. This Righteous Spirit has a drawing power that if it flows in us; it will attract and cause our children to seek after it.

Healthy parents who understand this principle and live in communion with God like this can protect and guard their children and equip them for their relationship in the Lord. It’s us functioning in this Spirit that gives us the promise in scripture that, our children when they get old, they will not depart from the faith.

In Eph. 5:25-27 Paul the Apostle tells us that; “Christ so loved the church that He gave up His life on the cross for it. This act makes us pure because, the water of the word washes us. In turn this sacrifice makes us presented to God with no spots and wrinkles and His sacrifice makes us faultless.” Jesus is the Word and His Spirit of truth as we partake of it reminds us constantly that, we are spotless and without wrinkles in His sight. This without spot meaning that, He put a white robe on us the day we were saved and we only get it spotted because we believe wrinkled ideas that God only loves us on conditions. As someone once told me, there are many ifs in the bible. If meaning, are we allowing God to have full access to our hearts and are we staying naked before Him and allowing Him to love us in spite of ourselves. We are not to look under our robes and see our old nature and sins that we once lived in. Unless we as parents see our selves as Christ sees us, we cannot pass on to our children the rock solid anchor that they will need to deal with the everyday decisions of their lives and for them to obtain God’s mercy in their time of need.

In John 4:10 Jesus says that, “If His people know His voice they will follow Him.” It’s us living in this Righteous Spirit that enables us to know His voice and follow His leadings. In addition, it acts as a sonar beacon with a magnetic drawing power that causes us to abandon ourselves to His love. This Spirit operating in our lives is what draws our children to the Lord Jesus. In John 12:32 Jesus states, “If He is lifted up He will draw all men unto Himself.” We know that Jesus was lifted up on the cross to die for our sin.

We see here that, God’s perfect plan of raising His own spiritual family as a loving father is not only by us having the ability to bring physical beings into the world. We as parents are also able to nurture them so that, we will all be together for eternity in a city that will come down from heaven, where we will live on the earth forever. The first thing we all have to do is make a decision if we want to all be together and live in wholeness in our family gatherings now.

Why there are people that want to live outside of God’s protection and not follow His divine plan is beyond me. The only thing I have been able to come up with is, they haven’t been taught God’s ways or they have not run into a born again believer that really knows and lives in the love of the Lord. You have to be a complete fool to not want to hangout with the Holy Spirit everyday. People may say that they love the Lord but there is a difference in loving the Lord and being in love with the Lord. When you’re in love with someone you hangout and interact with that person and they completely dominate your life.

I am convinced that if we as parents love our children as Jesus loves us the Church, we will function with the love that is needed to be obedient to God’s command, which is found in Ephesians 6:4 telling parents to, raise their children in the admonition of the Lord. This word admonition is noutheteo: meaning to caution or reprove gently or to remind one of something. Let me point out that children should always want to seek the advice of their parents whether they’re living at home or living out of the house.

A child needs to become grounded while he is living at home under the careful eye of his parents and have a hunger with in himself to walk in obedience to the Holy Spirits voice, without always being told what to do.

Obedience and experiencing the inward feelings of being obedient will create a feeling of self worth within the child, which will cause them to always be available and looking for every opportunity to co-operate and conform to God’s ways and their parent’s leadings.

Unless we have planted the seed of them willingly wanting to be obedient by the time they leave our house, we have failed at preparing them to face a hostile world being controlled by seducing spirits of the Devil, which comes to rob them of God’s inheritance, which they received the day they became saved.

Unless we as parents make our children our top priority in our lives, not our ministries, our job, or our hobby etc., we have failed the foundational purpose of Christian maturity.

Proverbs 13:24 tells us “He who spares his rod (of discipline) hates his son; however, he that loves him, diligently disciplines and punishes him early.”

Proverbs 22:15 “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”

A child is a slave in having a lack of good judgment. He was born that way. When we drive something, we have to compel through unpleasant conditions and take on a responsibility because of what we were invested by God to do as an authority over our children.

A child is a slave in having a lack of good judgment. He was born that way. When we drive something, we have to compel through unpleasant conditions and take on a responsibility because of what we were invested by God to do as an authority over our children.

Proverbs 19:18 “Discipline your son while there is hope, but do not (indulge your anger resentments) by undue chastisements and set yourself to his ruin.”

Proverbs 23: 13 “Withhold not discipline from the child, for if you strike and punish him with the (reed-like rod), he will not die”

Proverbs 29:15-17. “The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left undisciplined brings his mother shame. When the wicked are in authority, transgression increases, but the (uncompromising righteous) shall see the fall of the wicked. Correct your son and he will give you rest; yes he will give delight to your heart.”

If we are determined to bring up our children in the admonition of the Lord, then here are some principles that will help in forming a foundation that can build their lives. Many parents build the character of the child, habit by habit with no purpose or unity.

If the child has a messy room, the problem is how to get him to keep it clean, not a problem of grounding the child in him learning how to exercise a pattern of healthy thinking. It is as if, we feel we have a duty to get them to perform some ritual of obedience and not let them become independent and decide for them self if they want to obey just for the satisfaction with in themselves.

When they do not learn this before they leave their parent’s house, his actions when he is an adult is founded on a weak foundation of countless unrelated habits and desires, which waver and conflict with one another. This produces no apparent direction in their lives and they have no resolve within themselves against the turmoil and fears that beat against our minds daily. Our whole being has to be disciplined and focused on seeking a clear and direct course of action with a vision given by the Holy Spirit.

Instill in the child the firm belief that there are great spiritual principles that he can learn from God through a relationship with a living God within him and if he will participate with Him, it will give him the power to handle the cares of life. Then develop in him a natural characteristic and quite desire to discover these principles. Our example as parents who show that we meditate on the word day and night and us talking about the Lord daily as we gather together is absolutely imperative. Teach him to believe that whatever happens to him is in accordance with God’s plan for his life.

In addition, if he can discover how this plan works, he can prevent evil and achieve a life filled with joy no matter what circumstances exist with in himself or the people he encounters in life. Let him make this the total dominating purpose for his life. This is what Heb.10: 38 means when it says, “the just or righteous will live by faith.” Observe that all of this is a habit of thinking, not focusing on our behavior like keeping their rooms clean etc. Then teach the child that the universe is fatherly. Teach him that this principle of fatherliness is the great spiritual power of the universe. As a parent meaning father and mother working together, roll model this example not only in word but also in deeds and he will become sensitive to his needs and the needs of the people around him.

In turn, this will give him a desire and clear path of understanding of the conflicts that tear people apart with fear, agitating passions and moral conflicts. Challenge him to be willing to sacrifice his own ideas of how to deal with the cares of life by not leaning towards his own understanding by giving him a vision of Gods intended purposes for him to become fulfilled by the leaning of his whole personality on God’s mercy and grace.