This is a culture that is the breeding ground of rapists, pornographers, predators, and misogynists. I really take no joy in painting such a bleak picture of our society, but I'm just calling a spade a spade (as I see it). This is a dark and wicked American way of life and it is being invisibly manipulated and engineered and focused at the complete and utter ruination of that which is closest to the heart of God: the family. I suppose what I’m trying to say is that this environment is poisonous to God’s family and it revels in perversion, disorder, and chaos—just look at the (managed corporate) news or what some refer to as “reality” television. For the Christian father to see his family endure the evil of this hour, he must fight as hard as this society is coming for him, his wife, and his children. This culture wants your wife to be rebellious, your sons to be effeminate and passive, and your daughters to be whores.
The Christian father is in the fight of his life, but not for his own independence or freedom to worship Christ—he’s in mortal combat for the heart of his own daughter. Fortune 500 corporations know absolutely nothing of what true competition is; they squabble over profit margins, market shares, and exclusive proprietary rights and trademarks, but the Christian father is in bitter combat for the eternal soul of his daughter. My brother, if you have a daughter you can’t afford not to know the nature of the war in which you are right in the midst of and you dare not be found sleeping or unarmed! We dare not be found not in constant vigilance!
This may step on a few toes, but Beyonce and Cardi B., Tiffany Haddish and The Real Housewives and Planned Parenthood are coming after our daughters with breakneck ferocity to reduce them to whores and pleasure seekers who aspire to nothing more than applause, public approval, hearts, likes, and “Retweets” on social media. What is there that aligns with God’s written Word in the aforementioned “artists”? Do they have the right to pursue what they’d like to pursue? Of course they do, but every Christian father has to say in unison, “But not my daughter!” These women are the high priestesses of the superficial, of the vulgar, and of the whorish—and they are certainly not the only ones, they are but the head of the spear, the tip of the iceberg. They are hyenas, stalking in ravenous packs, the precious lionesses that are our daughters.
And for God's sake, Christian soldier—protect your daughters from the men-with-minds-of-boys! Protect them from the boys in whom this pornographic society has stirred up such storms of lust that they can barely control themselves! There is a reason why music is so sensual; there’s a reason why movies are becoming more graphic, even glorifying pedophilia (i.e., Call Me by Your Name, American Beauty); there’s a reason why public schools stamp out creativity; there’s a reason why the move to remove gender differences is so strong; there’s a reason why something as vile as Slutwalk is allowed! We are raising our daughters in the most depraved environment that has ever existed, therefore our vigilance must be even more pronounced. My brother, don't let them turn your daughter to a prostitute—which will happen if you allow television and radio, the internet, and public school to have more influence over your daughter than you; it will happen if you fail to love and honor your wife before her as Christ commands, showing her how a man is to treat a woman.
I guess what I’m trying to get us all to do as Christian men is to “circle the wagons” and protect our girls from the physical and spiritual predators that are surrounding us at all times. Our daughters are the most beautifully precious things God could ever put into our hands to care for, and we had better take raising them as seriously as God does. My wife and I have five children, and I’ve realized a long time ago that this society is trying to kick in every door that allows access to our children, especially our daughters, to try to steal them away right under our noses, right beneath the roofs of our own homes. This world loves Jezebel, but hates Sarah; this culture idolizes Delilah and Athaliah, but reviles Mary and Elizabeth; the natural tendency of this world system is toward the “strange woman” (of Proverbs) rather than the Virgin Bride of Jesus Christ.
So we have to do everything in our power to guard our daughter’s heart, but to cherish it as we do. We ought to tell them they are beautiful and precious often, to highly esteem their virginity and chastity, to praise them for their purity though the world mocks and scorns them, to restore and forgive them when they stumble, and to keep before them God’s high standard and the hope that rests only in Christ to live a life that pleases Him. Watch how they dress; watch how they think, know where they are and who has access to them. Most of all, keep the Word of God before them. And this is a 24/7/365 job, and you can’t do it trying to be their friend—you have to be their father!
Fathers and Sons
There’s actually a ridiculous term thrown around among media referred to as “toxic masculinity”. The idea at its core is laughable. We have watched this culture become increasingly effeminized and demasculinized for the sake of a “perfect” society full of so-called men who are nothing more than empty-headed slaves whose mental faculties are to be used only for taking orders to mindlessly follow them. To stand tall and strong, with honor and Christian nobility is shunned and derided, and this is to keep a Christian man from being a truth-teller in a world gone Satanically mad. This world despises the Christian who calls a man born a man a man who puts on a dress and calls himself “female”. This culture will not allow a man to live in peace who lives purely and righteously, free from dissipation, fornication, and covetousness. This society does its infernal best to make unattractive the Biblical family and a man’s desire to love his wife and children and to act like Christ’s man should, protecting his family, providing for his family, and being the pastor of his own house.
The Christian father isn’t just to raise up men, but to raise up threats to this kingdom of darkness that we must sojourn through for a short time. This culture is crumbling faster than we can keep up with, from the election of Donald Trump, to the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, to men wearing dresses and make-up, to men wearing rompers, etc., etc., etc. We even live in such an upside-down culture where Cover Girl has a male to advertise their products now.
Making men effeminate and passive is one aspect of the warfare against our children, but another is to simply kill them through urban violence, through overdoses of behavior-altering prescription medication (in the public schools), and to kill them before birth through the monstrous abortion industry. It’s dark right now, brothers; they are doing their best to force our sons to adopt the covetous, self-absorbed, lust-driven way of life in the United States. There’s a reason why sensuality and pornography is being so aggressively pushed and made more easily accessible for young boys. I have been in education for 21 years, and my heart breaks at how young boys are now that have interaction with pornography, and who, after being confused and incited, direct their energies toward girls who are being taught to dress provocatively even at the middle school ages. The world needs godly fathers!
Finally
I think Sportscenter can do without us for a while. I think turning the phone and the computer off would do our families some good because most of us don’t even realize that many entertainment outlets are used to sedate us, at least to distract us, to taint our minds and to stain us before our God. (And I’m talking about the side doors to darker stuff that “harmless” entertainment leads to.) If you are Christian, you must accept that we are in battle with spiritual forces because the Bible says we are, and these forces are out to kill and destroy the family.
The good news is that we have God on our side and we have available impenetrable spiritual armor and an invincible offensive weapon of prayer.
My brother, you must understand that being a father in this hour is among the highest callings a person can have and it also one of, if not the most serious and potentially earth-changing roles in existence. The Christian father stands in stark contradiction to the confusion and perversion that marks this hour. The Christian father has to understand that he is locked in battle not with people, but with Satan himself. I understand that not everybody believes this; unfortunately, many have come to believe that “everything will be alright”, that if you choose the right neighborhood with the “right” school and if you land the “right” job, that somehow you can grant some kind of immunity to your family from the spiritual and moral blight sweeping across this nation that is bringing it to its knees. My friend, my King James Bible says that the entire world is under the control of Satan; he sits as god over every institution, municipality, and government (I John 5:19; Ephesians 6:12) and an improper view of the nature of this world is akin to handing over your family to Satan on a silver platter!
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