THE GREAT DUTY OF FAMILY RELIGION BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD!!‪!‬ MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN BY BRINGING BACK THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF EARLY AMERICA: GEORGE WHITEFIELD

THE FAMILY CAN BE THOUGHT OF AS HORIZONTALLY SPEAKING A MINI NATION AND VERTICALLY SPEAKING AS A MINI CHURCH. TO OUR CHILDREN OUR FAMILY IS THE FIRST MINI CHURCH AND MINI NATION OR GOVERNMENT THEY WILL KNOW. AS WE HAVE MENTIONED IN MANY OTHER MESSAGES WE HAVE A CHOICE AS AMERICANS TO PUT OURSELVES UNDER GOD’S LAWS OF FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS OR MAN’S LAW WHICH EVENTUALLY LEADS TO TYRANNY. THE SAME IS TRUE WITH THE FAMILY: WILL WE PUT OUR FAMILY UNDER GOD’S LAWS OF FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS OR MAN’S LAWS OF TYRANNY? BY DEFINITION EVERY LAW HAS A CREATOR OR SUPERIOR OF THAT LAW WHO ENFORCES THAT LAW AND AN INFERIOR WHO OBEYS THAT LAW. WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, WHO WROTE A VERY INFLUENTIAL BOOK AT THE TIME OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ENTITLED COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, AND HE WROTE IN THAT BOOK THE FOLLOWING: “MAN, confidered as a creature, muft neceffarily be fubject to the laws of his creator, for he is entirely a dependent being. A being, independent of any other, has no rule to purfue, but fuch as he prefcribes to himfelf; but a ftate of dependance will inevitably oblige the inferior to take the will of him, on whom he depends, as the rule of his conduct.” SO IT IS OBVIOUS FROM THIS DEFINITION THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE THE INFERIOR, THE DEPENDENT AND WE THE PARENTS ARE THE SUPERIOR. NOW THE QUESTION IS, WILL WE AS THE SUPERIOR PUT OUR FAMILY UNDER GOD’S LAWS OF FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS OR OUR OWN LAWS THAT WE PRESCRIBE TO OURSELVES, AND OUR FAMILY, MAKING OURSELVES SUPERIOR OVER GOD’S LAWS OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM. BUT TO PUT OURSELVES AS THE SUPERIOR UNDER GOD’S LAWS OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM WE HAVE TO KNOW GOD’S LAWS OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM, AND KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN HOW THE LAW IS USED VERTICALLY AND HOW THE LAW IS USED HORIZONTALLY. BUT IF WE ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT NOT ONLY THE TEMPORAL NEEDS OF OWN SOULS WILL WE BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE TEMPORAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN’S SOULS AND LIKEWISE WITH THE VERTICAL. MOST OF US AMERICANS WILL TAKE CARE OF THE TEMPORAL NEEDS OF OUR CHILDREN, BUT WILL OUR HORIZONTAL LAWS FOR OUR FAMILY REST THEIR ULTIMATE AUTHORITY UPON DIVINE LAWS. SECONDLY IF WE AS PARENTS ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT OUR SOULS VERTICALLY WILL WE BE WORRIED ABOUT THE SOULS OF CHILDREN VERTICALLY SPEAKING? IF THEIR IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH CONCERNING OUR SOULS, THEN THEIR IS NO ABSOLUTE RIGHT OR WRONG AND THUS OUR GUESS IS JUST AS GOOD AS THE NEXT GUY’S GUESS, AND THUS WE ARE ALL AS AMERICANS JUST GUESSING ABOUT OUR SALVATION AS WELL AS THE SALVATION OF OUR CHILDREN’S SOULS. BUT IS THERE ANY WAY TO KNOW THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH FOR IF ONE OF US AMERICANS READS THE BIBLE, HE GETS ONE OPINION, AND ANOTHER OF US AMERICANS READS THE BIBLE, HE GETS ANOTHER OPINION, SO WHO IS TO SAY ONE PERSONS OPINION IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER’S OPINION. BUT COMMON SENSE TELLS US THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH, FOR JUST THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ALONE TELL US THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH FOR HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE PUT A MAN ON THE MOON. BUT IT IS ONE THING TO KNOW THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND ANOTHER THING TO “KNOW” THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, FOR MAYBE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS: “ALL THE LIGHT THAT WE CANNOT SEE.” SO AS WE LISTEN TO GEORGE WHITEFIELD’S MESSAGE ON, THE GREAT DUTY OF FAMILY RELIGION, MAYBE WE CAN KEEP IN THE BACK OF MINDS THE COMMENTS ON THE FAMILY WRITTEN ABOVE.