When Sin Is No Longer A Sin! : Part 4

WHEN SIN IS NO LONGER A SIN! : PART FOUR

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Published On : June 14, 2001

Last Updated : April 22, 2009

Public School System, School Parents vs Biological Parents,
Abuse Of Authority, Children Spies In Our Midst, Destroying
Dependence On Parents, Questionable School Questionnaires,
Well-Meaning Teachers, Ecumenism And Globalist Propaganda, A
Global Neighborhood And New World Order, The Spirit Of God
vs Spirit Of The World, The Public Schools Are Under Attack,
"Remember The Titans" - A Quick Gay Kiss, School Conflicts,
Burden Of Being A Witness, Train Up A Child, RCC Doctrines,
Contend For The Faith, The Dead Animal On The Road, Hardened
Through Sin, Paul's Self-Righteousness & Stephen's Martyrdom,
Danger Of Being Stiff-Necked, God's Approach To Chastisement,
God Deals With Paul's Stubbornness On The Road To Damascus

In addition to using different forms of mass media, such as
movies, television, comic books, etc., another vehicle which
is being utilized for their re-indoctrination program is the
public education system. Unbeknownst to many parents, is the
fact that our school-aged children are subtly being rewired,
or reprogrammed, by way of school library books and videos
which contain sexually-suggestive messages; by way of school
counseling sessions; by way of classroom lessons, projects
and guest speakers; by way of collective peer pressure and
character remolding, and by other means which can ultimately
result in our little ones beginning to question and doubt
their home-taught Christian beliefs and values. In fact, it
seems that the overall objective of some school initiatives
is to persuade our children to trust more in what they are
taught and told at school by their "new parents", than in
the instruction they receive from us their real, biological
parents. They are subtly being taught to rebel against our
God-given authority, and to embrace the school staff, no
longer just as educators of reading, writing and arithmetic,
but also as trusted friend, adviser, family psychologist,
and "parent".

The hidden, driving mentality seems to be "Your parents do
not always know what is best for you, but we, your school,
do". If you doubt that this is so, consider the fact that on
one certain occasion a number of years ago, when my daughter
was still in elementary school, she went on a field trip to
the Middle School which she would be attending the following
school year. During the course of presenting his opening
remarks, the Vice Principal told the visiting children "We
are your parents; we are your parents when you are not at
home". It was such an odd statement to make, that even my
young daughter couldn't help but realize that it was wrong
to say this, and so she told me about it. It really made her
sit up and take notice, that the school staff has taken upon
themselves more responsibility than is their right to do as
educators. They have gone beyond just being educators.

Now obviously, we can all recognize that a certain level of
structured discipline must be maintained at all times in a
school environment; as otherwise, there would undoubtedly be
total anarchy. This is particularly true in this current day
when there is so much school violence, including homicides,
gang violence, etc. Nevertheless, can you see the potential
for abuse of authority which can be masked in such a remark?
While today they may be saying "We are your parents; we are
your parents when you are not at home", tomorrow, they could
very easily be telling our impressionable children "We are
your parents"; period! It isn't very difficult to imagine a
situation where they could even begin to say "Forget your
parents at home. They are old-fashioned and out of sync with
the times. They still embrace those odd, hateful religious
ideas of the past. They no longer know what is best for you,
but WE do! In fact, your own parents may even be a danger to
you. You need to trust us, and inform us of anything unusual
which is happening in your home. We love you. We just want to
help you. Trust us!" Frightening, isn't it? But let us not
forget that it has happened before.

On a related note, it might also interest you to know that
some school questionnaires, which are never brought home in
order to acquire parental consent, but which are only filled
out by the student in the classroom, contain trick questions,
which are purposely designed to cause our children to unknow-
ingly reveal personal information about their families, which
we parents may be more hesitant to reveal. Perhaps there will
be ten innocent-looking questions on that survey, but one of
them will be designed to extract a specific piece of informa-
tion from the unknowing child, who freely provides it without
giving it further thought. Allow me to give you an example.
In one survey my daughter was asked to fill out during this
past school year, (which I of course never saw), the question
was asked: Where do you feel the safest? The three multiple
choice answers were a) at school, b) while walking to school,
or c) at home. My daughter was wise enough to answer in the
order c, a, b.

Why in the world did the school ask such a prying question?
What does it have to do with my daughter's academic develop-
ment? Yes, we can offer some valid reasons for asking this
kind of question, such as the school staff's desire to know
exactly how safe the children feel while they are at school,
but stop and consider for a moment what might happen if a
student were to place "at school" before "at home". Maybe he
didn't quite understand the question; or maybe he was just
in a hurry, so he just filled out a quick answer not even
realizing how serious the question was. Now do you see my
point? If any child does not answer "c" first, the school
officials, and perhaps the Child Welfare Services as well,
are going to raise their eyebrow and think to themselves:

"Uh-oh; something is wrong at home. We need to investigate
this. Maybe the child is in danger. Maybe the child is being
abused. Maybe mommy or daddy is an unfit parent. Maybe we
need to take some legal action here."

And the next thing you know, we, their Christian parents,
are being harassed unnecessarily by the State, because they
are bored with their job, or with their life, and they need
to go out and play the hero. In short, they are using our
very own children to spy on us, and to invade, and in fact
to infringe upon, our right to privacy.

Allow me to also add that I suspect that some questions on
these school questionnaires are being used to create a
psychological profile of our children, in order to measure
and determine how well they are accepting and adapting to
the multi-culturalist, globalist thinking propaganda which
is being thrown at them. Going by my own experiences with
the American Public School System, it seems to me that part
of their strategy is to demote our Christian faith in the
eyes of our children, so that they begin to view it as just
one among so many different religions, which is no better
than the others. It is an attempt to create an ecumenical
atmosphere where all religions are treated as equals, and
the role of Jesus Christ is reduced from being the Savior
of the world, to simply being just another prophet, holy
man and teacher, no different than Confucius, Buddha or
Mohammad. New Age advocates do the very same thing.

Allow me to give you another clear example which also exposes
the clash which exists between our authority as parents, and
that of the school staff. On one particular occasion about
eight years ago, I was helping my daughter with her homework.
As I recall, she was doing some math problems which required
that she convert some fractions, so that they had a common
denominator for the purpose of adding them together. While it
has been over four decades since I was in elementary school,
I was still able to remember the steps required to help her
complete her assignment. Well, to my surprise, the very next
afternoon, my daughter arrived home from school and informed
me that her teacher had told the class that they should not
ask their parents for help with their math homework, because
we, the parents, would become frustrated and confused.

Why did the teacher give her students such odd instructions?
According to what my daughter told me, this teacher does not
always teach by the book. Sometimes she invents her own ways
of doing things, such as math, which in her view, are easier
and less confusing for the children to understand. Now on the
surface, this teacher's motivation seems innocuous; just like
the Vice Principal who said "We are your parents; we are your
parents when you are not at home"; but if we look deeper, we
can detect something more troubling.

Consider the following. If some of these teachers begin to
employ non-standard methods for teaching our children in the
classroom, if they decide to not teach by the book, that can
place those of us who have learned by the regular standard,
at a disadvantage. In fact, whether it is intentional or not,
this method of teaching can foster dependence on the school
teachers, instead of on the parents. In short, it gradually
shifts authority away from the parents, and it also gradually
shifts the child's dependence upon their biological parents,
towards dependence upon the self-proclaimed "school parents";
and I suspect that this is exactly what some of them want to
happen. They want our children to become more subservient to,
more obedient to, more loyal to, and more dependent upon the
State, than to their own flesh and blood parents. Alarming,
isn't it?

It seems to me that this kind of mentality is the very same
motivation that fuels the "International Rights of the Child"
agenda, which is sponsored by the United Nations, which, as
you may already know, is a clear advocate of, and vehicle for
globalism and multi-culturalism. Everything is geared towards
the creation of a so-called "Global Neighborhood". Well, such
a "neighborhood" is certainly going to require some kind of a
strong, charismatic leader who will be capable of keeping all
of the squabbling neighbors/nations together, united by one
common political view, one common approach to solving all of
the world's economic problems, one common spirituality, etc.
It doesn't take too much effort to figure out who this might
be. Our own children will bear this New World Government upon
their very shoulders, and willingly so, after they have been
properly indoctrinated, beginning at the grade school level.

At this point, I think that it is important to mention that
I am not trying to demonize all teachers. I am not saying
that all teachers are evil, or that they all have some kind
of a hidden agenda. I know that some teachers, in fact, many
educators, are very serious, and very sincere, regarding the
career which they have chosen in life. They have invested a
lot of personal time, money, energy, study and hard work in
order to excel in their chosen profession, and to be a help
to children. They love children, and they are trying to help
give them a better life by providing them with an education,
so that they will be better prepared to face the future, as
well as adulthood, and the responsibilities that come with
it.

Yet, at the same time, as a Christian parent, I realize that
their world perspective, and their priorities and goals in
life, not only for themselves, but for our children as well,
are not the same as mine. In fact, to be quite blunt, I know
that we Christian parents are at odds with public educators,
because we are trying to build our children's lives upon two
very different foundations. One is based upon the spirit of
the world which promotes self-confidence, competition, being
proud of one's accomplishments, and becoming a useful pawn
in the global economic system, while the other is based upon
the Spirit of God which teaches us to walk humbly before our
Maker, to give Him glory, credit and thanks for everything,
and to choose a life of meaningful service to Him, as well
as to others. So what these well-meaning teachers think is
best for our children, is not necessarily the same as what
we Christian parents know is best for them. How can some of
these teachers and school staff claim to know what is best
for our children, when they do not even have the Spirit of
God to guide them in their decision-making? They have made
themselves friends of the world, and they teach the ways of
the world, and not the ways of God. Consider these verses:

"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever
therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of
God."
James 4:4, KJV

"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out
of the world, therefore the world hateth you."
John 15:19, KJV

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit
of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he
know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
1 Corinthians 2:14, KJV

So then; because many of these educators are a part of the
worldly system, and are in tune to the spirit of the world,
and not in tune to the Spirit of God, they cannot possibly
begin to know, and much less understand, what is truly best
for our Christian children. We are simply on two different
wavelengths so-to-speak.

To reiterate my main point, there is a hidden agenda at work
within the public school system; the goals of which are to
cultivate our children's minds and hearts in the ways of the
world, to win their trust, obedience and loyalty, and if
necessary, to even turn them against us, so that they become
de facto wards of the State. Allow me to remind you again
that the public school system does not cultivate or nurture
faith in God; it does the exact opposite, as we all know. It
teaches children to place their trust in modern science and
man's achievements. It teaches children that the answers are
to be found within themselves. It cultivates the spirit of
national pride and patriotism. It teaches multi-culturalism,
tolerance towards non-Christian faiths, and globalism. It is
a very secular, humanistic, ungodly, liberal environment.

Sadly, as I pointed out earlier, the gay and lesbian crowd
is not satisfied with their current achievements; they still
desire more. They want to totally eradicate the thought that
homosexuality is a blatant sin against God's Laws; and they
are using every means at their disposal in order to succeed
with their goal; including political means, religious means,
scientific means, (they now claim that sexual preference is
genetic in nature), and even academic means. These people
are fully aware of the ungodly, secular, liberal attitude
which pervades the environment of the American public school
system, and they are using it to their full advantage. They
are using that liberal environment to target our children.
Forty years ago, who would have possibly imagined that our
schools and university and college campuses would be flooded
with gay and lesbian rights groups as they are today? To my
dismay, a number of years ago, I also discovered that even
elementary schools have not remained immune to their ungodly
onslaughts.

Allow me to share one more real-life story with you. In my
view, as a concerned Christian parent, I consider this the
most serious and shocking incident of all; and I hope that
it will wake up some of you, and help you to realize what is
really happening within the American public school system,
and undoubtedly in other countries as well. After all, this
is a global effort.

One morning about eight years ago, while my young daughter
was preparing herself for school, she casually mentioned to
me that the day before, her class had been watching a video
called "Remember The Titans". She informed me that the movie
was about Whites and Blacks, and reinforced the lesson that
prejudice is wrong. My daughter also told me that they were
going to watch the second half of the video that day. Up to
this point, I didn't see anything nothing wrong with it; but
then, to my surprise, she also mentioned to me that in one
brief scene, which probably lasted a second or two at best,
the movie showed two school boys kissing each other on the
mouth.

As you can imagine, when my daughter told me this, I really
exploded. It made me extremely upset, because I immediately
realized what was going on. Why in the world did they show
this video to young, impressionable, fifth-grade children?
Didn't the teacher, or the principal, or someone screen it
first? Were they simply too busy to do so; or is it possible
that they did screen the movie, but didn't find anything in
it objectionable? Or might it be something more sinister?

I tried to explain to my daughter the subtle message which
was being projected by this video about prejudice, but due
to her young age, and her naivety, she simply wasn't able to
understand. In fact, she began to argue and say that I could
be wrong. Well, my daughter knew that as soon as the school
opened, I would call them up and lodge a complaint, because
I was really mad; so she pleaded with me not to, being as
she was afraid that she would get in trouble, or that some-
one at the school would yell at her, or at the very least,
that she would be further ostracized from the rest of the
children, as a result of her Christian beliefs.

Allow me to inform you that prior to that particular time,
we had experienced a number of problems with that very same
school, due to our Christian faith; and in each instance, my
daughter had either been painted as the villain, or else the
principal had come to the defense of the teacher in question.
In short, it is useless to argue with the System, because you
can rarely ever win. Those people have their agenda, and they
will follow it no matter who opposes them. They will likewise
defend their own, before they will admit any wrongdoing. I've
seen this happen a number of times over the years, and maybe
you have too.

Now, my daughter sincerely loves the Lord, but because of her
past conflicts with school officials, it became increasingly
difficult for her to even express her beliefs at school. She
was a very sensitive young girl, and would easily break out
into tears. While I wanted her to stand up for her faith, I
was wise enough to know that I could only push her so hard,
and so fast. She had to learn to operate according to her own
level of faith, and not according to mine. I also recognized
that she had a burden on her little shoulders which I most
certainly did not have when I was her age. I didn't know the
Lord as well, or His Word as well, when I was at that age. I
didn't receive the same Bible-based Christian upbringing that
she has been given. The only thing I had was the catechism
doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. As we are taught in
the Scriptures:

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

Sadly, whether or not that training is sound, Bible-based
indoctrination, it will remain with a child for years to
come. This seems to be particularly true in Roman Catholic
families. Once they receive their CCD, (Confraternity Of
Christian Doctrine), classes, many of them become staunch
Roman Catholics for life; and that includes blindly trust-
ing in their totally unScriptural doctrines such as Mary's
supposed "Immaculate Conception", (born without sin); and
her supposed "Assumption", (being raised to Heaven without
suffering bodily decay); as well as "Transubstantiation",
(the Eucharist actually becoming the physical Blood and Body
of Christ); and other doctrines. I discuss some of these
issues more fully in the Roman Catholicism articles section
of our Endtime Prophecy Net website, if you care to read
them.

To continue with my story, after giving it further thought,
I decided not to call my daughter's school; not only because
she would be the one who would feel the repercussions, but
also because, as I stated a moment ago, from previous experi-
ences with them, I knew that it would be to no avail. They
might appease me by taking her out of the class temporarily
while the rest of the video was shown -- which would only
serve to ostracize her even more -- but they would continue
showing the video to other classes in spite of my protest;
just as her teacher had continued reading "The Chronicles of
Narnia" to his other classes, after I had strongly voiced my
objection. In short, we would be viewed as an inconvenience,
and the source of the problem, due to our Christian faith,
and not the video itself. Do you see my point? In addition
to this point, I also chose not to confront the school staff
directly, because this incident occurred during the final
month of the school year; and this was to be my daughter's
last year at that school; so I decided that it would just be
better to let the incident pass. While Jude does instruct us
to earnestly contend for our faith, we must choose our
battles wisely:

"Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the
common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you,
and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the
faith which was once delivered unto the saints."
Jude 1:3, KJV

In the end, my daughter left that school and entered Middle
School; and I knew from the start that we would have bigger
and greater spiritual battles to contend with. I did not
anticipate the situation getting any easier for either of
us, and it most certainly didn't. In fact, to make a long
story, let me just tell you that the situation came to a
head rather quickly; and that in spite of our very limited
income, the Lord worked a miracle so that my daughter was
able to attend a private Christian school for the final six
years of her education. Unlike the public school system, her
new school had a very Bible-centric curriculum, where God,
and His Word, were incorporated into every subject.

But let me finish the story that I began a few moments ago.
Well, it took me until later that night, but I was finally
able to help my daughter to understand what was really going
on. To do this, the Lord inspired me to use the example of a
dead animal on the roadside. The first time that we see an
animal carcase on the road, with all of the maggots crawling
about, and the frenzied flies swarming madly in the air, our
stomachs are sickened. When the smell of rotting, putrefying
flesh hits our nose, it really repulses us; doesn't it? But
then what happens? As that scene continues to be repeated in
our lives, over the years, we begin to accept the fact that
dead animals on the road are a normal part of life. Maybe we
are still repulsed by them, and perhaps we still hold our
fingers over our nose as we quickly walk by, but there is a
certain degree of acceptance that this is now normal; it is
to be expected.

Now, what do you suppose would happen if one day, a new boy
in your neighborhood accompanies you to school, and there is
a dead beast on the side of the road; yet to his surprise,
you walk by without offering the slightest evidence that you
even realize that the animal is there? Remember; you've seen
these dead carcases lying on the roadside year after year,
but this is his very first time. Obviously, your friend would
look at you rather strangely, as he is immediately sickened
by the sight and smell of the dead animal. You see; this is
exactly how some people choose to react to sin in their lives.
While a God-fearing, Bible-believing Christian will hopefully
react to sin; repent; and attempt to make things right with
God, as we have already seen, some people, such as gays and
lesbians, choose the easy path of deception instead. In other
words, they choose to harden their hearts against the Lord's
Spirit and Voice which is trying to work in their lives; and
the Apostle Paul warned us against doing this very thing when
he wrote:

"But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day;
lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin
. . . To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts, as in the provocation."
Hebrews 3:13, 15b, KJV

The word "hardened" is derived from the Greek word "skleruno"
which means to become stubborn or obstinate. While Paul is
discussing faith and unbelief in those verses, and using the
example of the children of Israel, who were forced to wander
in the wilderness for forty years, until thousands of them
had died, due to their provoking the Lord by their constant
complaining and sin of unbelief, how much this lesson applies
to the gay and lesbian community as well. Rather than humbly
admit their blatant sexual sins against God, and repent of
the same, they have hardened their hearts; they have become
stubborn and obstinate in their ways; and I don't doubt that
it is because of this, that the Lord has allowed so many of
them to be plagued with such things as the AIDS virus, much
more so than the general population. God is trying to send
them a message, but because they have hardened themselves
through the deceitfulness of sin, they just don't get it.

Amazingly, that is precisely what Paul had done earlier in
his life when, in his self-righteous, pharisaical delusion,
he was persecuting the nascent Christian church. There is
Scriptural evidence which suggests that when Stephen was
lambasting the false religious leaders of the Sanhedrin in
Acts chapters six and seven, Paul, then known as Saul, was
among that group. Just prior to being stoned by that mob
of self-righteous wolves, notice what Stephen said to them:

"Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do
ye."
Acts 7:51, KJV

You see; Stephen is accusing the Jews of the very same things
which Paul spoke about in the verses I shared a moment ago;
and Stephen is using the very same example of the forefathers
wandering in the wilderness because of their sin of unbelief.
The word "stiffnecked" is likewise derived from the very same
Greek root as "hardened". To give you an example, sometimes
when we correct our children, how do they react? Or to make
this an even better lesson, what do we sometimes do when God
is trying to correct us about a certain sin which is plaguing
our life?

Imagine that God is symbolically looking down from Heaven
and saying to you, "Look at me; I want to talk to you about
something"; but instead of looking at Him directly in the
eyes, because you know that you just won't be able to bear
the conviction of His Spirit, you stubbornly look to the
side, and your neck is kind of stretched and stiff. Just as
Stephen and Paul state, you're being stubborn, stiff-necked,
obstinate and hardened; not only physically with your neck,
but in your heart and spirit as well. You are acting in a
very rebellious manner. The Lord inspired the Prophet Isaiah
to describe the descendants of Jacob in the very same manner
when he wrote the following verse:

"Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an
iron sinew, and thy brow brass;"
Isaiah 48:4, KJV

The problem is, if in our foolish pride we act this way long
enough, we may end up in very serious trouble with the Lord,
and it won't be fun. As we read in the Book of Proverbs:

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit
before a fall."
Proverbs 16:18, KJV

God will try to get through to us gently at first; but if we
are too stupid to take a hint, then He allows the axe of His
judgments to fall upon us, until we learn our lesson, and
cry out to Him for His Mercy. We see this happening over and
over again in the Old Testament stories of the children of
Israel. Returning to the link between Stephen and Saul, when
Stephen was martyred that day, after giving his God-inspired
witness in the Sanhedrin, we are told that the two required
witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man
named Saul, before they began to stone Stephen. In the very
next chapter, we discover Saul, later to be known as Paul,
unleashing his full fury against the Christian church, as
we see here:

"And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the
witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet,
whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon
God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he
kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not
this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell
asleep. And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that
time there was a great persecution against the church which
was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad
throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the
apostles. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and
made great lamentation over him. As for Saul, he made havock
of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and
women committed them to prison."
Acts 7:58-8:3, KJV

So you see, just as Paul had written in his Epistle to the
Hebrews, due to the deceitfulness of sin in his own life, he
was acting very rebelliously, and very stubbornly, by perse-
cuting the Christian church; at least until the Lord knocked
him to the ground, and knocked his pride out of him as well,
in Acts chapter nine, where we read:

"And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly
there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he
fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul,
Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou,
Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:
it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he
trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me
to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the
city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. And the
men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a
voice, but seeing no man. And Saul arose from the earth; and
when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him
by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. And he was three
days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink."
Acts 9:3-9, KJV

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