Author: barbaramcox

I am the author of The Step-Father’s Step-Son. The book is available through Family Matters Publishing at www.stepfathersstepson.com and Amazon.com. The book covers subjects such as: adultery, family, relationships, and parenting. The book is written primarily for the first family and the children of the parents of the first family.

The Next Generation

Children need both their mother and their father. This is the reason that Jesus said to let no man separate what God has joined together. When people move in with someone else or remarry; they are letting another person separate the family. Children are tossed from household to household with unrelated strangers living in both houses with their parents. Sometimes they are even abandoned by their father and sometimes their own mother for another adult. These unrelated strangers will sometimes use their hands to force these little children to do what they want. As a result, many children are neglected, abused emotionally and physically, and sometimes even killed in these dysfunctional houses.

These are the offences that Jesus was talking about. Adultery is very confusing to our little children. Our children need their parents so that they can know themselves. Otherwise, these adults many find themselves responsible for the offences that the next generation commits. God is the one that holds the adulterers accountable for what they do to the next generation. Protect your next generation. Do not commit adultery! (Luke 17:1-4)

The Next Generation

Children need both their mother and their father. This is the reason that Jesus said to let no man separate what God has joined together. When people move in with someone else or remarry; they are letting another person separate the family. Children are tossed from household to household with unrelated strangers living in both houses with their parents. Sometimes they are even abandoned by their father and sometimes their own mother for another adult. These unrelated strangers will sometimes use their hands to force these little children to do what they want. As a result, many children are neglected, abused emotionally and physically, and sometimes even killed in these dysfunctional houses.

These are the offences that Jesus was talking about. Adultery is very confusing to our little children. Our children need their parents so that they can know themselves. Otherwise, these adults many find themselves responsible for the offences that the next generation commits. God is the one that holds the adulterers accountable for what they do to the next generation. Protect your next generation. Do not commit adultery! (Luke 17:1-4)

Offences and How They Affect Us and Our Children

The freedom to repent without punishment is a great thing. But, how often, is that opportunity given without punishment being administered? Repentance is the beginning for many to find the kingdom of God within. And, as Jesus said, it may take time. For this reason, when someone repents that we must forgive.

This is also the reason that Jesus repeatedly said, Do not commit adultery! Adultery requires repentance too. Furthermore, it may require much repentance because of the offences that came from it. Children living in households where adultery has been committed, are very likely to be hurt and to become fearful. Offences cause a shift in perception that only repentance with love and forgiveness can turn around. Adults must stop committing offences against children by committing adultery! Adultery is the root cause of many of the sins that our adult children are committing today. Save the first family!

Jesus said, “It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he be cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.”(Luke 17: 1-4)

 

 

Every Child Has A Father

Who was Lazarus? In the scripture before Jesus starts talking about the rich man and the beggar, Lazarus, he reminds us about the law regarding family. “Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.” (Luke 16:18)

Could it have been that Lazarus was related to the rich man and his five brothers? He could have been their father’s firstborn son with his first wife. A man’s family is complicated enough until he abandons his first wife and first family for another woman. When this happens, the father starts working against his first family in favor of his second family. In the end, the second wife and her children will work against the first family too.

A wise man does not abandon his first family for another woman. In Abraham’s family, Hagar and her son Ishmael, resented Isaac who was ten years younger. In Jacob’s family, Leah’s sons thought about killing Joseph, Rachel’s firstborn son. What would have happened if Abraham and Jacob had abandoned their first family for their second family? There would have been no father to protect their firstborn children from a second husband and his children with the firstborn child’s mother. There would have been no father to protect their firstborn children from a second wife and her children with the firstborn child’s father. This adultery! Save the first family!