Home Education, Why and How l Voddie Baucham — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Applause]
2. 0:01thank you
3. 0:07good evening there we go that's better
4. 0:11all right two things one look at this
5. 0:15head congestion thing going on so my
6. 0:16ears kind of plug up so if I'm screaming
7. 0:19at you
8. 0:20I ain't mad
9. 0:24here's the second thing supposed to talk
10. 0:26about home education why and how
11. 0:30I have a home education why message
12. 0:33I have a home education
13. 0:34how message
14. 0:36I'm going to give you both of them
15. 0:39here's the third thing I said there was
16. 0:41two
17. 0:42here's the third thing
18. 0:44well so now that means it has to be four
19. 0:46the third thing is you really don't
20. 0:49trust everything I say the fourth thing
21. 0:51is
22. 0:53that
23. 0:55I just forgot
24. 1:01here's some useful websites
25. 1:04votibrockem.org you can go there find
26. 1:06out stuff
27. 1:08gracefamilybaptist.net that's our church
28. 1:10website sermonaudio.com you can go there
29. 1:13and get sermons for homeschool price
30. 1:16which is free
31. 1:20if you if this is your first year
32. 1:22homeschooling you'll you'll understand
33. 1:24that more and more and more well
34. 1:27homeschoolers are good at a lot of
35. 1:28things but nobody can find free stuff
36. 1:31like we can amen
37. 1:33amen if there's a way to do it for free
38. 1:36a homeschooler knows how all right
39. 1:39for those of you who Facebook
40. 1:41facebook.com if you tweet
41. 1:44twitter.com all those things right there
42. 1:48just all that all that stuff please
43. 1:50don't send me 20 Page letters through
44. 1:52any of these venues all right
45. 1:55um home education why and how a couple
46. 1:59of trends
47. 2:01number one homeschool families are
48. 2:04abandoning home education you see this
49. 2:06and we're seeing it more and more
50. 2:08homeschool families that are abandoning
51. 2:09home education for a number of a variety
52. 2:12of different reasons two homeschool
53. 2:15children graduating without a vision or
54. 2:17a commitment to home education these two
55. 2:20things really got me to thinking over
56. 2:22the last several years seeing these
57. 2:25Trends seeing the trend of homeschool
58. 2:27families Championship deciding not to
59. 2:30homeschool or even the ones that do and
60. 2:32there are a lot of you and you know who
61. 2:34you are you came here this weekend
62. 2:36because you decided to homeschool
63. 2:39for now
64. 2:40for this semester you know what's
65. 2:43happening after this semester but you're
66. 2:44committed for this semester it's not
67. 2:46you're not committed to it as a
68. 2:47lifestyle you're not committed to it in
69. 2:49principle you're just going to do it for
70. 2:51right now
71. 2:53if you can't say Amen you ought to say
72. 2:54ouch
73. 2:55okay
74. 2:58and run into so many kids so many
75. 3:00homeschool kids who just have no vision
76. 3:02and no desire at all for for home
77. 3:04education and I think this goes to the
78. 3:07heart of the why and the how not
79. 3:10understanding the why and the how
80. 3:12families Jumping Ship why are they
81. 3:14strained marriages that cannot sustain a
82. 3:16long-term commitment to home education
83. 3:17one of the messages that I'm going to be
84. 3:19sharing this weekend is don't let home
85. 3:23education destroy your marriage it's
86. 3:25happening it's happening there are
87. 3:27people who homeschool their kids 20 25
88. 3:30years the last kid leaves they look at
89. 3:33each other and realize that without the
90. 3:34kids they got nothing because their
91. 3:36whole life was centered around
92. 3:38homeschooling those kids those kids are
93. 3:40gone their marriage is over
94. 3:42it happens
95. 3:44it happens okay
96. 3:47so that's that's one reason some people
97. 3:49abandon home education two a commitment
98. 3:53to the god of sport
99. 3:55a commitment to the god of sport we
100. 3:57can't homeschool because you know little
101. 4:00Junebug got to play football
102. 4:03and you can't play football if you
103. 4:04homeschooled so we can't homeschool
104. 4:06because
105. 4:07you know God knows he can't be a
106. 4:09well-rounded human being if he doesn't
107. 4:11play football
108. 4:16three
109. 4:17deception
110. 4:19um you know advanced placement courses
111. 4:21in the high schools you know you get to
112. 4:24high schools they offer these AP courses
113. 4:26with ap credit you know these advanced
114. 4:29placement courses and you're going man
115. 4:30this stuff is hard I don't understand
116. 4:32this stuff you know this calculus stuff
117. 4:34this trigonometry stuff over at the high
118. 4:36school they've got advanced placement
119. 4:38courses in you know geometry and
120. 4:41calculus and all that good stuff by the
121. 4:43way how many of you know that in order
122. 4:45to teach geometry or trigonometry or
123. 4:47calculus at a public high school in the
124. 4:49United States you don't have to have a
125. 4:51degree in mathematics
126. 4:52you have to have a degree in education
127. 4:55that's it
128. 4:56you don't have to have a degree in
129. 4:58mathematics if you have a degree in
130. 4:59mathematics and you try to go to public
131. 5:01school and teach math they'll tell you
132. 5:02you can't do that
133. 5:06well I mean I have a PhD in mathematics
134. 5:08I can't teach math the high school kids
135. 5:10no why well because you don't have an
136. 5:12education degree
137. 5:13so you have not been versed in the ways
138. 5:16of neo-marxism and socialism therefore
139. 5:20you can't teach our kids
140. 5:23[Applause]
141. 5:26what you think we're trying to teach
142. 5:28math around this camp
143. 5:33how many of you know that in these
144. 5:34advanced placement classes all over
145. 5:36Houston all over the state of Texas that
146. 5:40most of them are not doing the subjects
147. 5:42that they're giving credit for
148. 5:44they're not doing it why because the
149. 5:46kids aren't capable of it so the kids
150. 5:48come in to this advanced placement
151. 5:50geometry class
152. 5:52teacher gives a test most of the kids
153. 5:55fail the test I'm telling you a true
154. 5:57story here by the way most kids fail a
155. 5:59test so teachers like okay y'all made it
156. 6:02to AP geometry and what you really need
157. 6:06is some arithmetic
158. 6:08so now he's got a choice flunk everybody
159. 6:11and lose his job by the way
160. 6:13inappropriate sexual contact with a kid
161. 6:16and they might move you to another
162. 6:17school you flunked too many kids you're
163. 6:19out of there
164. 6:23they won't tolerate that
165. 6:25so if you're going to flunk too many
166. 6:28kids and they don't understand the
167. 6:30subject that you're teaching advanced
168. 6:32placement geometry calculus or whatever
169. 6:34what do you have to do
170. 6:36you have to not teach the subject that
171. 6:39they're going to get credit for which is
172. 6:41why when they go to Texas or to a m or
173. 6:44wherever and take their tests they get
174. 6:46in they get these wonderful scholarships
175. 6:47because they took AP Calculus they get
176. 6:50there and take a test to get placed in
177. 6:53math in college and end up in remedial
178. 6:55math
179. 6:57and then you get mad because my kid took
180. 7:00AP and you know the exemplary school and
181. 7:04then y'all gonna say that he did
182. 7:12the other one is the Trojan Horse not so
183. 7:15much here in Texas but all around the
184. 7:16country you're finding this all around
185. 7:18the country here's what they're doing
186. 7:19the government is getting smart
187. 7:20government gupmint by the way how you
188. 7:23spell that the government is getting
189. 7:25smart so here's what they're doing all
190. 7:28over the country they are coming in
191. 7:29there saying to people listen listen
192. 7:31homeschool mom we know it's hard here's
193. 7:33what we'll do for you
194. 7:35we're from the government and we're here
195. 7:37to help you
196. 7:39here's what we're going to do and they
197. 7:41go
198. 7:42we'll give you a laptop
199. 7:47we'll give you some cash
200. 7:50okay
201. 7:51and then here's The Clincher
202. 7:53we'll keep all your records for you
203. 7:56homeschool moms all over the country
204. 7:58you're like really for real for real
205. 8:00like I don't you can stop right there
206. 8:02don't sell it when it's sold You're
207. 8:03Gonna Keep my records for me I'm I'm all
208. 8:06over that the money the laptop that's
209. 8:08good but you're gonna keep my records
210. 8:09for me right
211. 8:10and so they go into a government program
212. 8:14so now the government gets to count the
213. 8:16child as being in the school system so
214. 8:19they get the full Freight of the tax
215. 8:21dollar per child for that kid they hand
216. 8:25off the curriculum to you so you do the
217. 8:27work at home by the way not your
218. 8:29curriculum but theirs they give you a
219. 8:32kickback 30 pieces of silver
220. 8:40and everybody goes off smiling
221. 8:46so some people are leaving for that
222. 8:48what about these unconvinced children
223. 8:50some of them are unconvinced just
224. 8:52because of the hypocrisy hypocrisy that
225. 8:54they see
226. 8:56home education will reveal the hypocrisy
227. 9:00in your life
228. 9:02and in your family
229. 9:04amen hallelujah praise the Lord somebody
230. 9:07it will do it okay it will do it and
231. 9:10these homeschool kids they're they're
232. 9:11seeing it they're figuring it out we're
233. 9:13doing this for people on the outside
234. 9:14it's not real
235. 9:16secondly legalism this unsustainable
236. 9:19legalism which is rampant in The
237. 9:22Homeschool movement rampant when I
238. 9:26entered into this world I thought this
239. 9:28is a homeschool movement these are
240. 9:29pioneering people right not so much
241. 9:32not so much the number one question that
242. 9:35I hear at home school conferences
243. 9:36everywhere I go is uh is there
244. 9:38curriculum for that
245. 9:42because God forbid
246. 9:44that we should have to actually just
247. 9:45sort of think through how to adapt
248. 9:47something for our family
249. 9:49we want paint by numbers kit
250. 9:52and we want to evaluate the paint by
251. 9:54numbers kit not by whether or not it
252. 9:57matches our Biblical theological
253. 9:59philosophical approach to education but
254. 10:02by what do your kids look like on the
255. 10:04outside
256. 10:06so if you wash the outside of the cup
257. 10:08real good
258. 10:10you can sell stuff to homeschoolers
259. 10:14and we end up mired in legalism
260. 10:18worldliness
261. 10:20worldliness
262. 10:21and I'll explain that in a moment
263. 10:25a lack of vision we just don't have a
264. 10:27vision for what we're doing that's why
265. 10:28we say yeah I'm homeschooling for this
266. 10:30semester we're doing it now we're doing
267. 10:32it because it kind of works for us right
268. 10:34now but if something else comes along it
269. 10:35works better then we'll jump ship and
270. 10:37we'll do that a complete lack of vision
271. 10:39for what we do what's the problem two
272. 10:41problems one we have the what without
273. 10:43the why
274. 10:44that's one problem we have the what
275. 10:46without the wire what are we going to do
276. 10:47we're going to homeschool why
277. 10:52because
278. 10:54I don't know we tried other stuff
279. 10:58or we have the wrong why that may be
280. 11:00worse
281. 11:01you know you're gonna have the what
282. 11:02without the why that's a problem you can
283. 11:04have the wrong why you can be doing it
284. 11:06for the wrong reasons the what without
285. 11:08the why
286. 11:09listen to this Proverbs chapter 20 verse
287. 11:1125. it is a snare to say rationally it
288. 11:15is Holy and to reflect only after making
289. 11:18vows
290. 11:22what are you gonna do we're gonna
291. 11:23homeschool why I don't know I'll get
292. 11:25back to you on that one
293. 11:27snare
294. 11:28again Proverbs 2 1-5
295. 11:31my son if you receive my words and
296. 11:33treasure up my Commandments with you
297. 11:35making your ear attentive to wisdom and
298. 11:38inclining your heart to understanding
299. 11:40yes if you call out for insight and
300. 11:43raise your voice for understanding if
301. 11:45you seek it like silver and search for
302. 11:47it as for Hidden Treasures then you will
303. 11:49understand the fear of the Lord and find
304. 11:52the knowledge of God
305. 11:54that's how we seek after it what about
306. 11:56the wrong why
307. 11:57there there are some wrong whys out
308. 12:00there
309. 12:01and this is where we get to the
310. 12:02worldliness by the way this is the irony
311. 12:04so you have people who can have legalism
312. 12:06and worldliness all at the same time and
313. 12:08you see it in homeschool homeschool
314. 12:10movement you got the legalism because
315. 12:11we're just watching the outside of the
316. 12:13cup our only goal is that our children
317. 12:15behave in a way that they don't
318. 12:16embarrass us okay
319. 12:19but then you can have worldliness why
320. 12:21why are you homeschooling well so that
321. 12:22we can get higher test scores
322. 12:24so they're going to higher GPA
323. 12:28so that they can do better in college
324. 12:31and all those things are true but
325. 12:32they're the wrong reason that's wrong
326. 12:35or we just want to escape the evil of
327. 12:37the government school campus
328. 12:39that's the wrong why
329. 12:42that's the wrong why I I always think I
330. 12:44love to do this you know people say well
331. 12:46I'm bringing my kids home why well
332. 12:48because of all the sin in the public
333. 12:49schools really what are you doing about
334. 12:51Sin in your house
335. 12:55because I don't know about you my kids
336. 12:57parents are sinners
337. 13:07and so people jump ship because if I can
338. 13:10find some higher test scores somewhere
339. 13:12else then I'll go there
340. 13:14if I can find higher college gpa through
341. 13:17another means then I'll go there
342. 13:20and that's what I mean by worldliness
343. 13:22why are you doing this higher scores
344. 13:24better grades better job more money
345. 13:28better feel that's worldliness
346. 13:30we're not seeking God we're seeking
347. 13:32stuff
348. 13:34that's the wrong why what's the right
349. 13:37why well I'm glad you asked
350. 13:40here's what we're going to deal with are
351. 13:42these not if he's not projecting for you
352. 13:44I ain't wrong for that because I mean I
353. 13:46got it plugged up over here it should be
354. 13:47projecting for you y'all want to fix
355. 13:50that
356. 13:53don't make me come back there it's
357. 13:56okay all right there we go
358. 13:59so here's the right why
359. 14:02number one we do it because we're
360. 14:03convinced by scripture
361. 14:05we do it because we're convinced by
362. 14:06scripture and I hear you you go well
363. 14:08education the word education doesn't
364. 14:10appear in the Bible nor does the word
365. 14:11Trinity
366. 14:13hope you believe that one
367. 14:17because we understand our role in
368. 14:18responsibility as parents because we
369. 14:20desire to advance the kingdom of God and
370. 14:22we desire to bless the kingdom of man
371. 14:25that's why we do this one convinced by
372. 14:28scripture what do we mean by this folks
373. 14:31home education is not just preferable
374. 14:34but it's it's biblical
375. 14:36though not everyone can or must
376. 14:38homeschool Christians are obligated to
377. 14:41give their children a Christian
378. 14:42education
379. 14:44and that's you you'd be amazed at how
380. 14:47controversial that statement is
381. 14:49I've made that statement publicly I've
382. 14:52made that statement in a couple of books
383. 14:54and there are people out there who just
384. 14:55get all kinds of mad at that statement
385. 14:58right there that Christians have a
386. 15:01Biblical obligation to give their
387. 15:03children a Christian education
388. 15:04I don't say that everybody has to
389. 15:07homeschool I I don't by the way even if
390. 15:10we did how would you define it everybody
391. 15:12has to homeschool that's great can they
392. 15:14go somewhere for piano lessons
393. 15:16can you be part of a co-op can you be
394. 15:18part I mean we could just go on and on
395. 15:20and on and on and on just defining that
396. 15:22right
397. 15:24thirdly therefore government education I
398. 15:27know I misspelled it right there
399. 15:29government education
400. 15:31which is anti-christian by federal
401. 15:33mandate by the way is not a viable
402. 15:36option for a Christian parent
403. 15:40government education is not a viable
404. 15:42option so I'm not a pastor who you will
405. 15:45hear say public school private school
406. 15:47homeschool whatever the Lord leads you
407. 15:49to do I do not believe that those are
408. 15:52morally equal options
409. 15:56and the government education option
410. 15:58is not an acceptable one for Christian
411. 16:01parents because the government education
412. 16:03system is anti-christian by federal
413. 16:06mandate and was designed to destroy the
414. 16:10Christian faith
415. 16:12the American education system
416. 16:16so where do we get this from well
417. 16:19scripturally we must view education as
418. 16:21discipleship
419. 16:23thank you Deuteronomy 6 6 and 7.
420. 16:26these words that I'm commanding you
421. 16:28today should be in your heart you shall
422. 16:30teach them diligently to your children
423. 16:31and shall talk to them when you sit in
424. 16:32your house when you walk by the way when
425. 16:35you lie down and when you rise I had a
426. 16:38public school administrator once true
427. 16:41story when I talked about this I was
428. 16:44just doing a worldview conference at a
429. 16:46church and I talked about education
430. 16:47because you can't separate education and
431. 16:48worldview education is the number one
432. 16:51shaper of worldview period and so I
433. 16:53talked about this and talked about this
434. 16:55passage and she came up to me again
435. 16:56Public School administrator committed
436. 16:58her whole life to public education
437. 16:59system absolutely committed to public
438. 17:01education just could not believe that I
439. 17:03had the audacity to say the things that
440. 17:05I was saying about the education system
441. 17:07in worldview and she talked about this
442. 17:08passage in particular she said I just
443. 17:10always thought that referred to
444. 17:11non-school hours
445. 17:18uh
446. 17:23yeah I'm just I'm just wondering if I
447. 17:25can ask you two questions ma'am number
448. 17:28one what hours are not covered there in
449. 17:30that Passage
450. 17:33and and number two where was Moses
451. 17:34sending his kids to school
452. 17:39Luke 6 40 a disciple is not above his
453. 17:41teacher but everyone when he is fully
454. 17:43trained will be like his teacher
455. 17:49not only that we must protect our
456. 17:51children from ungodly influence we must
457. 17:53protect our children from ungodly
458. 17:54influence can we eradicate ungodly
459. 17:58influence no we can protect our children
460. 18:01Psalm 1 1 and 2.
461. 18:03this is one of those that you can be
462. 18:05looking at the back of your Bible like
463. 18:06was that in my Bible before and did it
464. 18:07say what it says
465. 18:08blessed is the man who walks not in the
466. 18:10counsel of the wicked nor stands in the
467. 18:12way of Sinners nor sits in the seat of
468. 18:13scoffers but his Delight is in the law
469. 18:15of the Lord and on his law he meditates
470. 18:17during non-school hours
471. 18:24I mean anybody who's been to college
472. 18:26reads that passage and you go
473. 18:28he's talking about the University
474. 18:33Psalm 14 1 the fool says in his heart
475. 18:35there is no God they are corrupt they do
476. 18:38abominable Deeds there is none who does
477. 18:40good there are no good Public Schools
478. 18:44by definition
479. 18:45they're not good why because they're
480. 18:48fools who've said in their hearts there
481. 18:49is no God their curriculum says that
482. 18:52they're mandated by federal law to say
483. 18:55that therefore there are no good Public
484. 18:58Schools
485. 19:00Proverbs 1 7 the fear of the Lord is the
486. 19:02beginning of knowledge fools despise
487. 19:04wisdom and instruction
488. 19:07Proverbs 13 20. whoever walks with the
489. 19:09wise becomes wise but the companion of
490. 19:12fools will be Salt and Light
491. 19:15oh my bad that's that's not what it says
492. 19:19right there
493. 19:23Matthew 18 7. I love this because there
494. 19:26are people who always say things like
495. 19:27you know your children you you're going
496. 19:30to shelter your children and you're
497. 19:31going to send your children out in the
498. 19:32world and they're not going to know what
499. 19:33to do and you need to see your children
500. 19:34out there so they can learn how to how
501. 19:37to interact with sinful people and do
502. 19:39like say I already told you they get
503. 19:40that at home
504. 19:45but here's the other problem when you
505. 19:47say that here's what you're saying
506. 19:49the body of Christ
507. 19:52is incapable of bringing a Believer to
508. 19:56full maturity Only Sinful men can
509. 19:59complete your sanctification
510. 20:04Matthew 18 7 woe to the world for
511. 20:07temptation to sin for it is necessary
512. 20:09that Temptations come but woe to the one
513. 20:11by whom the Temptation comes I do not
514. 20:13want to be that one in my child's life
515. 20:14temptation is going to come in my
516. 20:16child's life I do not want to be the
517. 20:18source of it I do not want to force them
518. 20:21into settings where they will be tempted
519. 20:23woe to the one by whom the Temptation
520. 20:25comes hey I don't write the mail I just
521. 20:27deliver it that's Bible right there
522. 20:29y'all okay
523. 20:32we must avoid unbiblical teaching
524. 20:36Romans 12 2. here's another one
525. 20:38so familiar that we completely miss it
526. 20:40do not be conformed to This World by the
527. 20:43way
528. 20:44what can you think of a more conforming
529. 20:48exercise than education from
530. 20:50kindergarten through 12th grade A Child
531. 20:52spends 14
532. 20:54000 seat hours in school 14
533. 20:58000 instructional hours you tell me what
534. 21:00is a more conforming exercise than that
535. 21:03there is none
536. 21:05do not be conformed to this world but be
537. 21:07transformed by the renewing of your mind
538. 21:09that by testing you may discern what is
539. 21:11the will of God what is good and
540. 21:13acceptable and perfect
541. 21:16second Corinthians 10 5. you heard it
542. 21:18earlier we destroy arguments in every
543. 21:20lofty opinion raised against the
544. 21:22knowledge of God and take every thought
545. 21:24captive to obey Christ is math a thought
546. 21:27is science a thought it's History of
547. 21:29Thought it's political science of
548. 21:31thought
549. 21:33taken captive to obey Christ
550. 21:36Colossians 2 8 see to it that no one
551. 21:38takes you captive by philosophy and
552. 21:40empty deceit according to human
553. 21:41tradition according to the elemental
554. 21:43spirits of the world and not according
555. 21:45to Christ how do we read that in our
556. 21:47Bibles and say it's okay to send a kid
557. 21:49to the government for their education
558. 21:51I don't get it
559. 21:54First Timothy 6 20 and 21. oh Timothy
560. 21:57guarded the deposit entrusted to you
561. 21:59avoid the irreverent Babel and
562. 22:01contradictions of what is falsely called
563. 22:02knowledge for by professing it some have
564. 22:06swerved from the faith
565. 22:08we must also teach God's law we have to
566. 22:10we have to teach God's law but by the
567. 22:12way I love this because people always
568. 22:13use the Salt and Light argument by the
569. 22:15way the Salt and Light argument is the
570. 22:17only argument that Christian people have
571. 22:19when it comes to discussing home
572. 22:20education there is not another argument
573. 22:23that's it it's the Salt and Light
574. 22:25argument they used to use the
575. 22:26socialization argument but that one you
576. 22:29know they don't even it's not even fun
577. 22:30anymore because they don't even do that
578. 22:31you know
579. 22:35what about socialization like I know
580. 22:39that's why we homeschooled
581. 22:43[Applause]
582. 22:45I'm not a socialist
583. 22:54there's only one only one we got to be
584. 22:56honest right we got to be honest you
585. 22:58can't just like build up straw man and
586. 23:00destroy your opponent you got to be fair
587. 23:02there is one one good and very necessary
588. 23:07social skill that a kid can learn in
589. 23:09school
590. 23:11um and it's only one
591. 23:13um and that's how to stand in a line
592. 23:17um but if you have enough kids you can
593. 23:19teach that one at home too
594. 23:21um
595. 23:23so
596. 23:25but the Salt and Light argument okay you
597. 23:27need to send your kid to the public
598. 23:29school so they can be Salt and Light
599. 23:30there's so many problems with this but
600. 23:33for the sake of time let me just cut to
601. 23:35the chase a couple of problems let me
602. 23:37help you with this indicatives versus
603. 23:39imperatives indicatives imperatives
604. 23:41indicatives I'm indicating what
605. 23:43something is imperative I'm telling you
606. 23:45something to do indicative that is a
607. 23:47chair I'm indicating what it is
608. 23:48imperative sit in the chair there's a
609. 23:51huge difference between indicatives and
610. 23:52imperatives we've got to understand this
611. 23:54okay so people tell us you need to send
612. 23:56your kid to school so you can go be Salt
613. 23:58and Light we're commanded to go be Salt
614. 24:00and Light so Salt and Light is supposed
615. 24:02to be and imperative right okay let's
616. 24:05just read the Bible you are the salt of
617. 24:08the earth um that would be an indicative
618. 24:10not an imperative
619. 24:13but if the salt has lost its taste how
620. 24:16shall it's saltiness be restored it is
621. 24:18no longer good for anything except to be
622. 24:20thrown out and Trampled Under people's
623. 24:21feet
624. 24:22okay so not only do I have an indicative
625. 24:25here and not an imperative but I also
626. 24:28have a warning here that would move me
627. 24:30toward home education not away from it
628. 24:33but wait
629. 24:34you are the light of the world uh oh
630. 24:37another indicative it's not an
631. 24:39imperative it's an indicative it's not
632. 24:41an imperative which means that wherever
633. 24:43you are this is what you are we have not
634. 24:45been told to go anywhere
635. 24:47a city set on a hill cannot be hidden by
636. 24:49the way a city set on a hill is a city
637. 24:51that is separate and distinct which is
638. 24:54why we homeschool
639. 24:56um
640. 24:57nor do people light a lamp and put it
641. 24:59under a basket but on a stand so that it
642. 25:03gives light to all in the
643. 25:08is really bad for them y'all
644. 25:12in the same way let your light shine
645. 25:15before others so that they may see your
646. 25:16good works and give glory to your father
647. 25:18who is in heaven there's an imperative
648. 25:21well what does this have to do with the
649. 25:22training of the Mind what does this have
650. 25:24to do with children
651. 25:26nothing whatsoever so we rip this
652. 25:28passage kicking and screaming out of
653. 25:31context
654. 25:32it's not even the worst part y'all
655. 25:36there's more that comes after this
656. 25:39do not think I have come to abolish the
657. 25:41law the prophets I have not come to
658. 25:42abolish them but to fulfill them for
659. 25:44truly I say to you until Heaven and
660. 25:45Earth pass away not an Iota not a DOT
661. 25:48will pass from the law until all is
662. 25:50accomplished therefore whoever relaxes
663. 25:53one of the least of these Commandments
664. 25:55and teaches now we've got teaching
665. 25:58and teaches others to do the same what
666. 26:00we call least in the Kingdom of Heaven
667. 26:03but whoever does them and teaches them
668. 26:06what we call Great in the Kingdom of
669. 26:07Heaven not only do they rip this passage
670. 26:10out of context and turn indicatives into
671. 26:12imperatives not only do they insert the
672. 26:15idea of educating our children where it
673. 26:18doesn't exist but in the very next
674. 26:20paragraph their argument is refuted
675. 26:23again
676. 26:26in other words
677. 26:28that dog won't hunt
678. 26:31Matthew 22 34-36
679. 26:35Pharisees heard that he had silenced the
680. 26:38Sadducees they gathered together and one
681. 26:39of them a lawyer asked them a question
682. 26:42to test him teacher which is the great
683. 26:44commandment in the law now this is a
684. 26:46legitimate question okay sometimes we
685. 26:47forget this it's a legitimate question
686. 26:49there were several schools of thought
687. 26:51let me give you at least three one
688. 26:52school of thought was that the first
689. 26:53commandment was the greatest commandment
690. 26:56okay
691. 26:57that the first commitment was the
692. 26:58greatest commandment and and it was sort
693. 27:00of the overarching Commandment for all
694. 27:02the Commandments some argue that the
695. 27:04fifth commandment was the greatest
696. 27:05commandment because it was a bridge
697. 27:06between the first table of the law and
698. 27:08the second table of the law first four
699. 27:10Commandments vertical Commandments first
700. 27:11table of the law last six Commandments
701. 27:13second table the second table of the law
702. 27:15the horizontal Commandments and so some
703. 27:17argue with that commandment number five
704. 27:18honor your father and your mother was a
705. 27:20bridge between the first and second
706. 27:22table of the law and therefore it was
707. 27:23the great commandment others argued that
708. 27:25the tenth commandment was the great
709. 27:26commandment because ultimately coveting
710. 27:28is what led to the breaking of any of
711. 27:30the commandments so this is a legitimate
712. 27:32question Jesus what are you going to say
713. 27:341 5 10 which school of thought do you
714. 27:37hold to so
715. 27:40and notice in the law the Ten
716. 27:43Commandments
717. 27:45and he said to them
718. 27:46you should love the Lord your God with
719. 27:48all your heart with all your soul and
720. 27:49with all your mind this is the great and
721. 27:51first commandment
722. 27:52um you see that right there is basically
723. 27:56a summary of the first table of the law
724. 27:59Jesus what's the greatest commandment
725. 28:01I'm gonna have to say one through four
726. 28:07and the second is like it you shall live
727. 28:09your neighbor as yourself
728. 28:11by the way that's five through ten
729. 28:16on these two Commandments depend all the
730. 28:19law and the prophets
731. 28:21we must teach the law of God
732. 28:23we must
733. 28:26we must be gospel-centered the law is
734. 28:28not an end in itself the law is a tutor
735. 28:30the law points us somewhere the law
736. 28:32condemns the law makes us know that we
737. 28:35need something else what is that
738. 28:36something that we need it's the gospel
739. 28:37you're not going to get the law in our
740. 28:40government schools you're certainly not
741. 28:42going to get the gospel let me take that
742. 28:43back you are going to get the law you
743. 28:44don't get nothing but law in our Public
744. 28:46Schools it won't be
745. 28:48as obvious but if you don't have the
746. 28:51gospel all you got is law
747. 28:54I'll put enmity between you and the
748. 28:56woman in between your Offspring and her
749. 28:58Offspring he shall bruise your head you
750. 29:00shall bruise his heel the first
751. 29:01proclamation of the Gospel Romans
752. 29:041 16-17 I'm not ashamed of the gospel
753. 29:07for it is the power of God to Salvation
754. 29:09to everyone who believes the Jew first
755. 29:10and also the Greek for in it the
756. 29:12righteousness of God is revealed from
757. 29:14faith for Faith as it is written the
758. 29:16righteous shall live by faith
759. 29:20again
760. 29:22Galatians 1 6-9
761. 29:26we must be good stewards we have to be
762. 29:28good stewards again all of these I'm
763. 29:30just giving you the biblical Arguments
764. 29:31for why we owe our children of Christian
765. 29:33education
766. 29:35this is the why part
767. 29:37of what we are doing this is why we
768. 29:39homeschool
769. 29:42Mark 12 15 to 17.
770. 29:45bring me into Denarius and let me look
771. 29:47at it
772. 29:48and they brought one and he said to him
773. 29:50whose likeness and inscription is this
774. 29:52they said to him Caesars Jesus said
775. 29:54render deceased are the things that are
776. 29:55Caesars and to God the things that are
777. 29:57gods and they marveled at him now you
778. 29:59might go now what in the world does this
779. 30:00have to do with education bring me a
780. 30:03child
781. 30:04whose image is on the child
782. 30:07Gods then you must not render him to
783. 30:10Caesar
784. 30:16unless the Lord builds the house those
785. 30:18who build it labor in vain unless the
786. 30:20Lord watches over the city The Watchman
787. 30:22stays awake in vain it is in vain that
788. 30:24you rise up and go late to rest eating
789. 30:27the bread of anxious toil for he gives
790. 30:30to his beloved sleep
791. 30:32behold children are a Heritage from the
792. 30:34Lord the fruit of the womb a reward like
793. 30:36arrows in the hand of a warrior who
794. 30:39sends them to his enemy to have them
795. 30:41honed and turned on him I think not
796. 30:46are the children of one's youth
797. 30:48blessed is a man who fills his curve
798. 30:49with them he shall not be put to shame
799. 30:51when he speaks with his enemies in the
800. 30:53gates
801. 30:57let me get to number two
802. 30:59your role and responsibility is his
803. 31:00parents this is why we do what we do
804. 31:02because of our role and responsibilities
805. 31:04as parents
806. 31:05Ephesians 6 1-4 we know there's children
807. 31:07obey your parents in the Lord for this
808. 31:08is right honor your father your mother
809. 31:10it's the first commandment with a
810. 31:11promise by the way it's the only one
811. 31:12with a promise they may go well with you
812. 31:14you they may live long in the land
813. 31:15fathers do not provoke your children to
814. 31:17anger but bring them up in the
815. 31:18discipline and instruction of the Lord
816. 31:21we have a duty and obligation to bring
817. 31:22up our children in the instruction of
818. 31:25the Lord
819. 31:27parents represent God's Authority in our
820. 31:29children's lives we model Christ's
821. 31:31relationship to the church in our
822. 31:33marriage we bring them up in the
823. 31:35discipline and instruction of the Lord
824. 31:36and we preach the gospel to them with a
825. 31:40view toward their conversion this is our
826. 31:43job
827. 31:45I want those fourteen thousand hours
828. 31:48I don't want to give them to someone who
829. 31:50doesn't understand these four things the
830. 31:53sake of time I'm going to move forward
831. 31:55here just a bit
832. 32:00three advancing the kingdom of God
833. 32:03we do this because we want to advance
834. 32:05the kingdom of God this is really
835. 32:06important this is huge because we miss
836. 32:09this in The Homeschool movement and this
837. 32:10is one of the reasons that our kids
838. 32:12oftentimes want to leave The Homeschool
839. 32:14movement because in The Homeschool
840. 32:16movement here's what you hear from
841. 32:17people not we want to advance the
842. 32:19kingdom of God but we want to run away
843. 32:21from the kingdom of man
844. 32:24we want to run we want to hide we don't
845. 32:27want to be around them and so we advance
846. 32:30the kingdom of God by going and hiding
847. 32:32somewhere and outbreeding them and
848. 32:34waiting until everything is in Rebels
849. 32:37and then we come out with all of our
850. 32:38children and then we take everything
851. 32:40over
852. 32:44that's not biblical Christianity it is
853. 32:47not it is not it is not listen I got
854. 32:50nothing at all against stretching your
855. 32:53legs and having a more Rural Life or
856. 32:55whatever if that's what you want that's
857. 32:57fine it's one thing to desire those
858. 32:59things
859. 33:01purposeful reasons it's another thing to
860. 33:03try to get away from people some of
861. 33:04y'all will have a problem in heaven
862. 33:06because heaven ain't the country it's a
863. 33:08city
864. 33:15there are two and a half million
865. 33:17unchurched people
866. 33:19in the Greater Houston area
867. 33:21there's countries that aren't that big
868. 33:24I want this city
869. 33:27I want all of it for Christ I want this
870. 33:30city I don't want to run from this city
871. 33:32I don't want to hide from this city I
872. 33:34don't want my children to run from this
873. 33:35city or hide from this city I want my
874. 33:38children to pour out their life for this
875. 33:40city because God brought us to this city
876. 33:43I educate my children at home not
877. 33:45because I'm scared of this city but
878. 33:48because if my city knew what I was doing
879. 33:49it ought to be scared of my kids
880. 33:52that's the idea we advance the kingdom
881. 33:56that's what we're doing we're not right
882. 33:58stop running stop hiding your children
883. 34:01are to be Warriors you are to be a
884. 34:04warrior don't run from the world
885. 34:07do you know who is in you the power that
886. 34:10raised Christ from the dead and do you
887. 34:13know what's wrong with the city that
888. 34:15we're so trying to run away from they
889. 34:17need what you have
890. 34:19and because they need what you have you
891. 34:21run from them
892. 34:23shame on us for having this kind of
893. 34:25mentality
894. 34:26shame on us and what's sad is our
895. 34:29children equate it with homeschooling so
896. 34:32when they're out from under
897. 34:33homeschooling if they have a passion for
898. 34:35Christ and a passion for the city guess
899. 34:37what they think they can't be
900. 34:38homeschoolers
901. 34:43because a lot of them have never seen
902. 34:45one with a passion for Christ and a
903. 34:48passion for the city and a desire to
904. 34:51advance the kingdom of God all they've
905. 34:53seen is people who are scared who run
906. 34:56away
907. 34:58that's not who we are that can't be Who
908. 35:01We Are
909. 35:04we are residents of the Kingdom he has
910. 35:06delivered us from the domain of Darkness
911. 35:09and transferred us to the kingdom of his
912. 35:11beloved Son and whom we have Redemption
913. 35:12the Forgiveness of sins we are Heirs of
914. 35:15the Kingdom
915. 35:16listen my beloved Brothers has not God
916. 35:19chosen those who are poor in the world
917. 35:21to be rich in faith and Heirs of the
918. 35:23Kingdom which he has promised to those
919. 35:25who love him
920. 35:26we're seeking the kingdom therefore do
921. 35:29not be anxious saying what shall we eat
922. 35:32or what shall we drink or what shall we
923. 35:34wear
924. 35:35or how should we protect our kids or how
925. 35:37should we keep them this or how should
926. 35:39we keep them that for the Gentiles seek
927. 35:41after all these things your heavenly
928. 35:43father knows that you need them all but
929. 35:47seek first the kingdom of God and his
930. 35:49righteousness and all these things will
931. 35:52be added to you
932. 35:54preach the kingdom this Gospel of the
933. 35:56Kingdom will be proclaimed throughout
934. 35:57the whole world as a testimony to All
935. 36:00Nations and then the end will come you
936. 36:02don't do that by hiding
937. 36:04anticipate the consummated Kingdom and
938. 36:07the seventh angel blew his trumpet and
939. 36:09there were loud voices in heaven saying
940. 36:12the kingdom of the world has become the
941. 36:15kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ
942. 36:17and he shall reign forever and ever
943. 36:23unfortunately we desire to bless the
944. 36:26kingdom of man again we don't run away
945. 36:30we desire to be a blessing to the
946. 36:33kingdom of man we have what they need
947. 36:35and so we turn outwardly to bless them
948. 36:39with what we have that's our desire
949. 36:41that's our desire
950. 36:44some of you quite frankly need to become
951. 36:47more worldly in another way not worldly
952. 36:50like we talked about earlier but worldly
953. 36:53in another way so he just learned you
954. 36:55learned how to appreciate common Grace
955. 36:58some of you just need to learn how to
956. 36:59look out and appreciate a building
957. 37:02that's built
958. 37:04in an excellent way
959. 37:07not just good they weren't built by a
960. 37:09Christian therefore I can't celebrate it
961. 37:11really
962. 37:12the image of God is in the individual
963. 37:15who built that building whether they
964. 37:16know it or not
965. 37:17something you need to just be able to
966. 37:18watch the Olympics right now no we can't
967. 37:20watch the Olympics
968. 37:22because
969. 37:24our kids might
970. 37:27catch something
971. 37:29now you know what
972. 37:32some of you just need to sit there and
973. 37:34Marvel
974. 37:35at what men and women made in the image
975. 37:38of God are able to do with their bodies
976. 37:42because of the commitments that they've
977. 37:43made
978. 37:44to Excellence
979. 37:46some of you just need to go to the
980. 37:47museum
981. 37:48and sit there and look at a piece of art
982. 37:50that wasn't done by a Christian
983. 37:53and say you know what it's magnificent
984. 37:57some of you just need to listen to a
985. 37:59complicated piece of music and then
986. 38:01listen to it again and again and again
987. 38:03and again and again until you begin to
988. 38:06get it and unfold it with your mind just
989. 38:09because you appreciate the beauty that
990. 38:11God has placed in creation
991. 38:18we desire to bless the kingdom of man
992. 38:22worth blessing
993. 38:24the image of God resides there
994. 38:29I I want to go to a good school and make
995. 38:32some good money so that I can live
996. 38:34someplace and hide from the world no uh
997. 38:37how about this
998. 38:39I want to use the gifts and talents and
999. 38:40abilities that God has given me
1000. 38:43so that I can turn outward and be a
1001. 38:46blessing to the kingdom of man that's
1002. 38:49the mentality we need to put into our
1003. 38:51children
1004. 38:52not you need to run and hide but you
1005. 38:54need to be a blessing to the kingdom of
1006. 38:56man for the sake of time let me move
1007. 38:58forward let me let's let's get into the
1008. 39:01how
1009. 39:02and specifically how do we educate our
1010. 39:04children with with a Biblical worldview
1011. 39:07perspective or from a Biblical worldview
1012. 39:10perspective toward a definition
1013. 39:12everybody talks about worldview let's
1014. 39:14define it here Ron Nash in his book
1015. 39:16faith and reason right a worldview is a
1016. 39:18conceptual Theme by which we consciously
1017. 39:20or unconsciously place or fit everything
1018. 39:22we believe and by which we interpret and
1019. 39:25judge reality
1020. 39:27James sire in his book naming the
1021. 39:30elephant
1022. 39:31best-named worldview book ever probably
1023. 39:33naming the elephant our ground floor
1024. 39:36assumptions ones that are so basic that
1025. 39:38none more basic can be conceived
1026. 39:40compose our worldview
1027. 39:42it's our most basic assumptions and then
1028. 39:45hear from the late Chuck Colson and
1029. 39:47Nancy Piercy who just came to Houston by
1030. 39:49the way teaching at HBU
1031. 39:51um
1032. 39:52a worldview is the sum total of our
1033. 39:55beliefs about the world
1034. 39:56here's the key the big picture that
1035. 39:59directs our daily decisions and actions
1036. 40:02folks your daily decisions and actions
1037. 40:04are directed by your worldview
1038. 40:05if if I homeschool from a from a
1039. 40:08standpoint of legalism okay giving my
1040. 40:11children rules and laws but not from a
1041. 40:13worldview perspective then while my
1042. 40:15children are in my home under my rules
1043. 40:17and laws they will abide by my rules and
1044. 40:19laws but when they leave they'll live by
1045. 40:20their worldview if I didn't give them a
1046. 40:22Biblical worldview but gave them rules
1047. 40:23and laws then what happens when they
1048. 40:25leave my home
1049. 40:28we've got to shape worldview
1050. 40:30we have to shape worldview how are
1051. 40:33worldviews formed
1052. 40:35um
1053. 40:36it's interesting worldviews are formed
1054. 40:38informally uncritically
1055. 40:41intergenerationally and
1056. 40:42intergenerationally and over time this
1057. 40:45is how worldviews are formed always
1058. 40:47amazes me now everybody's trying to do
1059. 40:48these you know these worldview things in
1060. 40:51in a couple of days and whatever it
1061. 40:52takes time to to form a worldview basic
1062. 40:57functions of a worldview they function
1063. 40:58like eyeglasses you know you ever heard
1064. 41:00the term looking at the world through
1065. 41:01rose-colored glasses
1066. 41:04or a map some of you use the map to get
1067. 41:07here today you look down at your map and
1068. 41:09then you looked at the world around you
1069. 41:10to see if it corresponded to your map
1070. 41:12your worldview is like the map that
1071. 41:13governs you in that way or a puzzle
1072. 41:15picture you put together a 5 000 piece
1073. 41:17puzzle you don't dump the five thousand
1074. 41:19pieces out and then throw away the box
1075. 41:20with the picture on it
1076. 41:22right you have the box so that you can
1077. 41:24gauge where this picture looks like it
1078. 41:26fits in the puzzle so those are just
1079. 41:29three illustrative ways to understand
1080. 41:30worldview two main components of a
1081. 41:33worldview or
1082. 41:35two main competing worldviews of our day
1083. 41:37Christian theism and secular humanism
1084. 41:40two approaches to world view one is the
1085. 41:43worldview metanarrative the other is
1086. 41:44worldview elements let's look at this
1087. 41:46the Christian worldview metanarrative or
1088. 41:50overarching story
1089. 41:52here it is creation fall Redemption
1090. 41:55consummation that's the story that
1091. 41:58explains Our worldview God created the
1092. 42:00world
1093. 42:01there was okay so what's wrong with the
1094. 42:04world well what's wrong with the world
1095. 42:06is that man has fallen
1096. 42:09um well how can that be fixed through
1097. 42:10redemption in Christ but that didn't
1098. 42:13even fix everything because ultimately
1099. 42:15there has to be the consummation of all
1100. 42:17things in Christ and so you look at
1101. 42:20every issue in world in the world and in
1102. 42:23life through this meta narrative or this
1103. 42:25story that explains who we are and why
1104. 42:27we're here now compare that to the
1105. 42:30meta-narrative of secular humanism
1106. 42:31instead of creation they've got big bang
1107. 42:34instead of the Fall they've got
1108. 42:35evolution
1109. 42:37instead of redemption they've got
1110. 42:38therapy
1111. 42:40instead of consummation they have Utopia
1112. 42:42okay
1113. 42:44this is the world viewer of our culture
1114. 42:47we need to understand the overarching
1115. 42:49metanarrative the overarching story
1116. 42:52the elements of worldview our view of
1117. 42:54God our view of man
1118. 42:57our view of Truth our view of knowledge
1119. 43:00and our view of ethics
1120. 43:02comprise our worldview look at the two
1121. 43:04side by side and here we go if we had
1122. 43:06time we could walk through these and
1123. 43:08look at certain issues of our day and
1124. 43:11talk about how these issues are viewed
1125. 43:13differently based upon your worldview
1126. 43:14okay
1127. 43:16view of God second of humanism as
1128. 43:18atheistic which is ironic it's the
1129. 43:20dominant worldview of our culture and
1130. 43:22it's atheistic but most people in our
1131. 43:24culture say they believe in God how does
1132. 43:25that work well hold on Christian thieves
1133. 43:27and theistic view of man secular
1134. 43:29humanism Evolution Christian theism
1135. 43:31special creation view of Truth secular
1136. 43:33humanism relative ours objective view of
1137. 43:36knowledge here's the key naturalistic
1138. 43:38materialism is the view of knowledge and
1139. 43:40secular humanism which means that nature
1140. 43:42is a closed system and matter is all
1141. 43:43that matters if there's nothing outside
1142. 43:45of nature that means there's nothing
1143. 43:46that is Supernatural so if a secular
1144. 43:49humanist says he believes in God he
1145. 43:50believes in a god that is not
1146. 43:52Supernatural
1147. 43:53which is not a theistic view of God okay
1148. 43:57Christian theism
1149. 43:59reason in Revelation there's no war
1150. 44:01between science and faith in fact it's
1151. 44:04faith that gave us the hard Sciences
1152. 44:07you understand the history of science
1153. 44:09you know that view of ethics secular
1154. 44:11humanism says that they're cultural and
1155. 44:13that they're negotiated what's true here
1156. 44:15is not necessarily true there what's
1157. 44:17true now not necessarily true then
1158. 44:19Christian theism objective and Universal
1159. 44:23okay all right teaching worldview
1160. 44:27all right got a few minutes teaching
1161. 44:29worldview we do this through what we
1162. 44:31teach why we teach and how we teach what
1163. 44:34we teach our philosophy of education
1164. 44:37our philosophy of education always kills
1165. 44:39me if you want if you want to ask me a
1166. 44:40question that I will not answer ask me
1167. 44:42what curriculum we use
1168. 44:45I will not answer that question for you
1169. 44:46I won't
1170. 44:48because there's a more fundamental
1171. 44:49question to that you got to determine
1172. 44:51your philosophy of education if you
1173. 44:53don't understand your philosophy of
1174. 44:54education and you're trying to pick
1175. 44:56curriculum God help you
1176. 44:58even if you do understand your
1177. 45:00philosophy of education and you're
1178. 45:02trying to pick Curriculum by the way new
1179. 45:04homeschool families here's here's always
1180. 45:06my rule of thumb the new homeschool
1181. 45:08family they come and they go we're just
1182. 45:09beginning to do this and I don't know
1183. 45:10what to do here's what you do just walk
1184. 45:12through there and grab something that's
1185. 45:13pretty
1186. 45:15because whatever you get this year
1187. 45:17chances are you're probably not going to
1188. 45:19be using it next year so just go grab
1189. 45:21something that's pretty so it looks good
1190. 45:23while you're figuring out why it doesn't
1191. 45:24work for your family all right okay
1192. 45:28curriculum which flows from our
1193. 45:30philosophy of education our curriculum
1194. 45:32choices must flow from our philosophy of
1195. 45:34education not by what kind of scores
1196. 45:36that family got
1197. 45:41our schedule
1198. 45:45by the way all of these things go to
1199. 45:47shaping our children's worldview
1200. 45:49your philosophy of education will shape
1201. 45:51your children's worldview the curriculum
1202. 45:53you choose will shape your children's
1203. 45:54worldview and why you choose it will
1204. 45:55shape your children your schedule will
1205. 45:57shape your children's worldview I'm
1206. 45:59amazed at how many families start school
1207. 46:02on the same day that the school system
1208. 46:04starts school
1209. 46:06if you do that you just might be in sin
1210. 46:12you need to start like the next week
1211. 46:14just on General principle man
1212. 46:20why on Earth do we start you know
1213. 46:22everybody tell me we're on summer
1214. 46:23vacation why are you on summer vacation
1215. 46:25why you got to have a vacation in the
1216. 46:26summer who told you you had to have
1217. 46:28vacation in the summer
1218. 46:30and then we get all these people and
1219. 46:31they're like you know and I just I just
1220. 46:33don't do because of my schedule and we
1221. 46:35visit with that and little this is a
1222. 46:36true story and I get this family and
1223. 46:39they come and we just don't know what to
1224. 46:40do we so want to homeschool and we got
1225. 46:42this and we've got that and we just we
1226. 46:44just don't know what to do but we really
1227. 46:45want to homeschool and I'm like why
1228. 46:47don't y'all teach us you know teach your
1229. 46:49children in the evening
1230. 46:51because their schedule is kind of free
1231. 46:52for them to do it in the evening
1232. 46:55and the God just went
1233. 47:01and I said you don't have to say it sir
1234. 47:03let me say it for you because here's
1235. 47:05what your face is saying
1236. 47:06we can do that
1237. 47:14see some of y'all somebody when you
1238. 47:16start some of you like sharecropper
1239. 47:18homeschoolers you know sharecroppers
1240. 47:21emancipation comes slave's free a lot of
1241. 47:24them didn't want to leave the plantation
1242. 47:25stayed right there and sharecroppers
1243. 47:27doing the same thing they did when they
1244. 47:28were slaves that's some of you
1245. 47:31you're doing the exact same thing that
1246. 47:33you were doing before y'all started
1247. 47:34homeschool you do a public school at
1248. 47:35home because it's the only thing you
1249. 47:37know you when do you start when they say
1250. 47:39start you free
1251. 47:42start acting like it
1252. 47:46I go on vacation when they start school
1253. 47:54why we teach
1254. 47:55why should Johnny learn how to read well
1255. 47:58well Johnny needs to learn how to read
1256. 48:00because you know if Johnny learns how to
1257. 48:01be a good reader then he'll make good
1258. 48:03grades and good scores and he'll get
1259. 48:05into a good school wrong answer when
1260. 48:08Johnny asks you why he needs to learn
1261. 48:09how to read you look him in his face and
1262. 48:11you say because the God of this universe
1263. 48:13has communicated himself to us through
1264. 48:16language and if you learn how to read
1265. 48:18you don't have to depend on other people
1266. 48:21to tell you what God has said it's
1267. 48:23important for a man to learn how to read
1268. 48:24so that he can read the very words of
1269. 48:27God that's why Johnny needs to learn how
1270. 48:29to read and if that's not your answer
1271. 48:31you're shaping Johnny's worldview
1272. 48:35do you see this
1273. 48:38because a lot of people like well
1274. 48:39they're just teaching subjects at school
1275. 48:41I'll teach the Christianity stuff at
1276. 48:43home no when the school teaches Johnny
1277. 48:45why it's important to read the school is
1278. 48:48shaping Johnny's worldview and if their
1279. 48:50answer is not the one that I just gave
1280. 48:52you they're shaping his worldview away
1281. 48:54from Christ
1282. 48:57Johnny why should Johnny learn how to
1283. 48:59write
1284. 49:00well because you're made in the image of
1285. 49:02God and God communicates you're also
1286. 49:04commanded to communicate the gospel on
1287. 49:07behalf of the God who saves us and you
1288. 49:10to do that in a Winsome fashion you need
1289. 49:13to learn how to communicate so that you
1290. 49:14can communicate the gospel winsomely
1291. 49:17that's why
1292. 49:20why should Johnny study math and science
1293. 49:22well so all the good jobs don't go off
1294. 49:24to Johnny
1295. 49:30that's the world's answer right no no no
1296. 49:33no no Johnny the heavens declare the
1297. 49:36glory of God and day by day they pour
1298. 49:39forth speech through studying math and
1299. 49:42science
1300. 49:43you learn to read God's General
1301. 49:45Revelation as well as his special
1302. 49:48Revelation that's why it's important
1303. 49:52why should Johnny learn history
1304. 49:56is the study of God's Providence over
1305. 49:59time
1306. 50:00that's why
1307. 50:01you want to know who God is look at the
1308. 50:04way that he has dealt
1309. 50:06with people through history
1310. 50:09do you see the difference in these
1311. 50:11answers
1312. 50:13the difference between these answers and
1313. 50:14what you and I were told and how our
1314. 50:16worldview about education was shaped by
1315. 50:18the way that's one of the reasons that
1316. 50:20we're sharecropper homeschoolers because
1317. 50:21our worldview was co-opted
1318. 50:24we don't even know how to think about
1319. 50:25education okay
1320. 50:28how we teach shapes our children's
1321. 50:30worldview
1322. 50:31attitude and Christian character shapes
1323. 50:34our Christianity it shapes our
1324. 50:35children's worldview
1325. 50:36how do we teach
1326. 50:38your attitude toward teaching
1327. 50:43believing what you teach
1328. 50:45that's why curriculum matters and you
1329. 50:47don't want the curriculum that I use
1330. 50:48because you don't believe it
1331. 50:53and expecting excellence
1332. 50:56This Is How We Do It
1333. 50:59This Is How We Do It
1334. 51:01why do we do it because it's biblical
1335. 51:04because we understand our role as
1336. 51:06parents
1337. 51:07because we want to advance the kingdom
1338. 51:09of God and bless the kingdom of man
1339. 51:10how do we do it
1340. 51:12we do it in a way that shapes our
1341. 51:15children's worldview and bends it toward
1342. 51:18Christ in every aspect of what we do
1343. 51:25of what we teach
1344. 51:27when we teach
1345. 51:29and how we teach
1346. 51:31all of these things are important
1347. 51:34this is not just about what works for
1348. 51:36the semester
1349. 51:38if that's your attitude you missed it
1350. 51:41from the get-go
1351. 51:42you don't just do this in hopes that it
1352. 51:45might work
1353. 51:47you do this
1354. 51:49because it's right
1355. 51:51you do this because of your commitment
1356. 51:52to make an investment in discipling your
1357. 51:55children over the Long Haul
1358. 51:57if you do not have that attitude you
1359. 52:00will quit
1360. 52:02this will test you in so many ways
1361. 52:05this will test you number one you're if
1362. 52:08you're just now getting ready to
1363. 52:09homeschool and your children are coming
1364. 52:10from another school especially if it's
1365. 52:12government School here's what I need you
1366. 52:13to know your children are not as smart
1367. 52:15as you think they are
1368. 52:17that's the first thing that you're going
1369. 52:19to run into because you think your kids
1370. 52:21are smart because all kids are making
1371. 52:22good grades in school kids who are not
1372. 52:24making A's and B's in school are the
1373. 52:26ones who don't show up don't try they're
1374. 52:29problems and they have attitudes
1375. 52:30everybody else not everybody everybody
1376. 52:32else making agent everybody okay the
1377. 52:35honor roll is for everybody all right
1378. 52:40you bring your kids home you realize
1379. 52:42they're not as smart as you think they
1380. 52:43are here's the second thing you realize
1381. 52:45they're more sinful than you thought
1382. 52:47they were
1383. 52:48there's stuff you don't see
1384. 52:50they get the Good Conduct report and all
1385. 52:52that sort of stuff
1386. 52:53because it is much easier to be
1387. 52:55respectful for those people out there
1388. 52:57than it is for you you bring your kids
1389. 53:00home and you're going to uncover things
1390. 53:02that you had not seen and that you did
1391. 53:04not know were there thirdly you're going
1392. 53:06to learn that you are not as patient as
1393. 53:10you thought you were
1394. 53:16and that you're much more sinful
1395. 53:18than you thought you were
1396. 53:21amen somebody
1397. 53:24home education will do that to you
1398. 53:27you can't you can't homeschool
1399. 53:28effectively until you have a little
1400. 53:30Revival okay
1401. 53:36but watch this
1402. 53:37if I'm just sort of trying this out for
1403. 53:40a semester my kids come home they're not
1404. 53:43as smart as I thought they were they're
1405. 53:45more sinful than I thought they were I'm
1406. 53:46not as patient as I thought I was and
1407. 53:48I'm more sinful than I thought I was
1408. 53:50guess what I'm going to learn in that
1409. 53:52first semester
1410. 53:53it was a lot easier when they weren't
1411. 53:55home
1412. 53:56if that's what you're doing just quit
1413. 53:58now
1414. 54:02you either believe in this or you don't
1415. 54:05if you believe in this you got to be in
1416. 54:07it for the Long Haul
1417. 54:09you got to be in it because it's right
1418. 54:11here's the other thing if you're just in
1419. 54:13this because you heard that it makes
1420. 54:16kids more well behaved and get better
1421. 54:18grades then here's what I'm going to ask
1422. 54:20you I'm going to ask you to go check
1423. 54:22yourself
1424. 54:24because if that's your goal in raising
1425. 54:27your children you've missed the mark
1426. 54:30if your only goal
1427. 54:32is to wash the outside of the cup
1428. 54:35if your only goal
1429. 54:38sees certain level of performance you
1430. 54:40missed it
1431. 54:42that's not why we do what we do
1432. 54:47not sit our children to us
1433. 54:51he has entrusted us with them
1434. 54:54and we have the privilege
1435. 54:57the authority and the opportunity
1436. 55:00to invest everything we can
1437. 55:03into their lives
1438. 55:06that's why we do what we do
1439. 55:09some of them may end up being a rocket
1440. 55:11scientists
1441. 55:14others of them may end up being yard men
1442. 55:18but praise God that all of them will be
1443. 55:22well thoroughly discipled
1444. 55:27that's our goal
1445. 55:29let's pray
1446. 55:33father
1447. 55:35thank you for the incredible privilege
1448. 55:37that you've given us of just being
1449. 55:39parents
1450. 55:41and then on top of that
1451. 55:44you've given us a place where we have
1452. 55:46freedom
1453. 55:47and the opportunity
1454. 55:49to invest in the education and
1455. 55:51discipleship of our children
1456. 55:55this is an overwhelming
1457. 56:00concept
1458. 56:04and we cannot accomplish this in and of
1459. 56:07ourselves
1460. 56:09therefore we ask that you would Grant by
1461. 56:11your grace
1462. 56:13that we might serve our children well
1463. 56:17with a view toward them coming
1464. 56:20to know you in Repentance and faith and
1465. 56:22serving you well in turn
1466. 56:26remind us that this is not about test
1467. 56:28scores
1468. 56:29and outward Behavior
1469. 56:33this is about the investment of Our
1470. 56:35Lives
1471. 56:37in the lives of Those whom you have
1472. 56:39given us
1473. 56:43this is about the advancement of the
1474. 56:45kingdom of God
1475. 56:47this is about blessing the kingdom of
1476. 56:49man
1477. 56:54give us Grace
1478. 56:57give us patience
1479. 56:59give us long-suffering
1480. 57:01give us wisdom
1481. 57:06give us everything that we need
1482. 57:09to do everything that you ask
1483. 57:13that we might make much of Christ
1484. 57:16in whose name we pray
1485. 57:18amen