I shall never forget when the modem tide struck our home. It began when my sister, an artist, got music and some other ideas in her head, and went to college. After her first year she came home, and the morning after she came back when we had prayer after breakfast, she rose sweetly and excused herself and went upstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She \u2018got by\u2019 with it that morning, but father \u2018took note of it\u2019; and the next morning, when she excused herself, he said, \u201cSit still.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut really,\u201d she pouted, \u201cI don\u2019t care to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat doesn\u2019t make any difference-stay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think a person should have some liberty in religion,\u201d she said.
\u201cYou can have all the liberty you please in religion,\u201d father told her, \u201cbut I run this house; I paid for your grub, I bought the clothes you have on, I paid for your education. Sit down there quietly and listen while a father who loves you reads and prays.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My big brother came home one day. He had made money for himself and had a big fat cigar in his mouth. He smoked it awhile on the back porch. Father came out, reached out his hand, took the cigar and, throwing it into the garden, said, \u201cDon\u2019t smoke them around here any more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI would like to know what right you have to throw that cigar out,\u201d my brother complained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou know my idea,\u201d my father answered. \u201cThis is my house, I am rearing boys and making a specialty of it, and you don\u2019t get by with that kind of stuff. When you are working for a man he can tell you whether to smoke in his office or in his warehouse. I am running this house. God gave me the command to do so.\u201d
\u201cI will go somewhere else,\u201d my brother threatened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am sorry; I love you,\u201d my father replied quietly, \u201cbut if you want the cigar worse than you do the home, you can go.\u201d He went away three weeks and came back and said: \u201cDad, you are all right. I submit and will play the game according to the rules.\u201d
Most people say, \u201cWell, you have to let children have their own way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is that so? Then good-bye to home, to government, to everything. God will not stand for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had a father who stood by the river of life, thank God, an old pile-driver, and smiled while he drove down the jetty. He never licked me in his life, but I always knew I had one coming if I needed it. He raised ten children and he did it as an undermaster to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He smiled back as he answered, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t matter a bit. It was settled long ago. I brought them up as He commanded me. They will every one be in. They are a strong-headed group, but God will lead them. He will bring them in.\u201d God talks to fathers and mothers, and God stands behind fathers and mothers with all the army and navy of Heaven when they stand Godward with their children! I tell you; God hears them. He hears!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I shall never forget when the modem tide struck our home. It began when my sister, an artist, got music and some other ideas in her head, and went to college. After her first year she came home, and the morning after she came back when we had prayer after breakfast, she rose sweetly and … Continue reading When The Modern Tide Struck Our Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa5oei-103","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
God intended parents and children to live together in the unit He ordered. He commanded parents thus, and with a covenant attached, \u201cTrain up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it\u201d<\/strong> (Proverbs 22:6).
I thought I was getting away with something. I left my Father\u2019s Christ and the Bible because of the teaching in the universities into which I went. The antichrist spirit of plunder in modem \u2018culture\u2019 clothes attracted me. I lost my faith. My father died, and before he died, he turned his face heavenward with the happiest, most beautiful smile. Someone leaned over the bed and said, Dr. Rader, how can you smile like that when there is not one of your children that is serving the Lord?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, every last one of them is in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul Rader<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"