1 John 2:12-13 I write to you little children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His Name. I write to you fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I write to you youth because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you children, because you have known the Father. I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of Elohim stays in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
This NT verses tell us little children knew the Father and is why their sins were forgiven. The Youth defeated the wicked because were strong in the Word of Elohim (Torah) well enough to stay in them. Fathers you have known Him from the beginning (Genesis), Creation... even if we say but I did not know; now you know.
Ask your Son or Daughter about the Scripture they learned today or about the Torah Portion. The Torah portion is not just a Jewish way of study the Scriptures every year, it is also a way to be in one same Scripture every week. They can be top in their class and great in sports, ballet or show kindness, compassion and greace toward others. We have to ask the tough questions because Scripture says they have to overcome the wicked one. If our Son and Daughter give in to peer preasure in clothing, music and behaviour; How they are going to stand when drink, drugs and sex is pressed to them?
In My own words. I write to you fathers so you show the way from the begining to your children so when they become youth they can defeat and overcome the wickeness of their flesh, heart and this world. I know some of us have children that where raised in the church with a different understanding of Salvation and Grace. We have to chisel through to get to their hearts with the Truth before is too late. This is why I said in previous blogs that we have to watch their actions and ask tough questions regarding Scripture and understanding of Truth. To teach them how to walk as Yeshua walked they also have to develop teachable hearts and love for their earthly father as they love their Heavenly Father and Yeshua.
1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world nor that which is in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Because all that is in the world- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and pride of life- is not in the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but the one doing the desire of Elohim remains forever.
We are His children and our children and our children, children. Generations Set-apart for YHWH. Do not leave it for tomorrow, ask the questions today. Tell them you need to know because you love them. We must change the mentality of the world that says that they need to learn from their mistakes, that they need to have their own identity away from their father, that they need to be acountable for themselves because they are teens and teen are rebelious. A child unto Elohim is a teen for Elohim that when He is old will not depart from the Ways of YHWH. In Yahshua HaMashiach they are also a new creature and grafted in to Yisra'el.
Shalom