Downloads from the Lord: Let’s Cancel the Cancel Culture! Part Three
To refresh your memory, here are those seven areas of influence:
1. Academia/Education
2. Family
3. Government
4. Media/News
5. Arts/Entertainment
6. Business/Finance
7. Church/Religion
In the last post we looked at how a biblical view regarding Academia/Education could cause the Powers-that-Be to try to cancel any dialog about said subject. On this post we are going to see how a biblical view regarding Family could cause the Powers-that-Be to try to cancel any discussion about this very important area.
2. Family
Genesis 2:23-24 (NIV)
23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
3 John 1:4 (NIV)
4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Ephesians 6:4 (NIV)
4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
Proverbs 29:17 (MSG)
17 Discipline your children; you’ll be glad you did— they’ll turn out delightful to live with.
Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)
6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Proverbs 1:8-9 (NIV)
8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 9 They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
1 Corinthians 7:1-2 (MSG)
1 Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, is it a good thing to have sexual relations?
2 Certainly—but only within a certain context. It’s good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder.
Exodus 20:12 (NIV)
12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Proverbs 10:1 (NLT2)
1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child brings joy to a father; a foolish child brings grief to a mother.
1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV)
8 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 John 4:19-20 (NIV)
1 Peter 4:8 (MSG)
8 Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything.
Next time we will take a look at Government and discover how the Bible views our governing leaders.