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Proverbs - Lesson 7

Ken JonesProverbs, Session 7 of 10Recorded 202040 min
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  1. 0:00We're still dealing with families, and we're going to be talking tonight about children, and then we're going to try to talk about parents. I don't know how much time we'll have. I really need to finish all of this tonight. The reason being, we only have three class periods left on Wednesday nights in the book of Proverbs, and we have more material left than time. And so we need to move as quickly as we can. I'm going to talk first tonight about children.
  2. 0:28and then I'm going to talk about the kind of parents that we need to be to have the kind of children that we're going to describe. But I want to give you a hint or even make a request of you. I think it would be good, regardless of the age of your children, at least if they're old enough to understand, that you would take these outlines and go over them with your children. Now, even if your children are married, even if your children are gone from home, it might be a neat family time.
  3. 0:57if when you could find them coming back home, you sit down and talk to them about parents and children. Because there are some concepts that we're going to be talking about tonight that I think are kind of timeless. That means that no matter how old you are tonight, you're still a child to some parents. And so these principles are going to apply to you. And that may mean that you're still a parent to children tonight, regardless of the age of your children.
  4. 1:26And so all this is going to have some bearing, and maybe you ought to talk to your children about it, and it might make some good times between the two of you. It might explain some things. It might help you explain the reason why you acted the way you acted in years gone by. It might help you explain the reason why you're so concerned with your children right now. It might open their eyes and your eyes also. So let's begin talking about children. You'll probably want to do it the other way in your family.
  5. 1:54You probably want to begin by talking about parents and then talking about children. But I'm going to do it this way, kind of on purpose tonight. All I want to do is begin to look at some scriptures. Let's read some scriptures, look at your outline, and then we'll make some applications, then we'll move on. What the Proverbs says about children, at least what I could dig out of the Proverbs saying about children. Look at Proverbs chapter 1, verses 8 and 9. I'll go through these quickly, then we'll come back and look at them.
  6. 2:23Listen, my son, to your father's instruction. Do not forsake your mother's teaching. There will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. Chapter 10 and verse 1. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. 1520. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
  7. 2:53Chapter 23, verses 22 through 25. Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy the truth, and do not sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding. The father of a righteous man has great joy. He who has a wise son delights in him. May your father and mother be glad, and may she rejoice who gave you birth.
  8. 3:25on his family will inherit only wind. 1721, to have a fool for a son brings grief. There is no joy for the father of a fool. 1725, a foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the one who bore him. 1926, he who robs his father and drives out his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace. 2824, he who robs
  9. 3:56his father and mother, and says, it is not wrong. He is a partner to him who destroys. Now, I'll make a little note there. Notice the rationalization. Notice the self-deception. I rob them, but I'm thinking in such a way so that I justify my thoughts and I begin to say, it's not wrong. It's okay to do what I'm doing. Chapter 20 and verse 20. If a man curses,
  10. 4:27His father and mother, his days will be snuffed out in pitch darkness. Well, those are the verses I could find that apply primarily directly to children. And so I want to go through and make the observations, the points that I think that we need to remember tonight. The first observation, part A, second page, is one that we talk about all the time. In fact, when you talk about children, and you're going to give some direction to children, this is probably the first thing you come forth with.
  11. 4:58Children need to obey their parents. And we read that in the New Testament in Ephesians chapter 6. It's just something children ought to do. They are to respect the authority that God has given through parenthood, and they're to obey their parents. Now, that's not too tough. All of us understand that, don't we? Don't we understand the role of a child to obey those parents? So we can get past that one fairly quickly. Part B says children ought to honor their parents.
  12. 5:31even when they are old. Now, I think that's for both parties. We are to continue to honor our parents when they get old, and we are to continue to honor our parents when we get old. Now, why would I need to make a statement like that? Why would I need to make a statement like that? There may be a feeling, what he's saying is, when I'm living in their house,
  13. 6:06that maybe I need to honor them, but when I go beyond their house, maybe I'm kind of free from that obligation. I don't think you'll ever find that in the book of Proverbs. I don't think you can read that into it, that you're free from the obligation, because we're going to keep talking about when they get old, how you honor your parents. And so my responsibility to honor my parents continues, I think, forever, so long as you live.
  14. 6:36I believe that I even have a responsibility. This is just Ken Jones' thought. But I think I have a responsibility to honor my parents even when they're gone. Even when they're gone, I think I still have a responsibility to honor my parents. And I'll explain that more a little later. Well, part C through F, I think, tells me how to honor them. Obedience, I think we can understand that. And by the way, I'll tell you this.
  15. 7:08I think I still have, in part, a responsibility to obey my parents even today. I still think there's a little part of Ken Jones that needs to consider obedience to his parents even today. So that if my parents made a request of me today, that I would think very seriously about their request. That doesn't mean that I just do everything they say and that I'm a puppet to my parents at this time. I'm a full-grown man. I have my own family. I have my own wife. I have many responsibilities and so forth.
  16. 7:41But I think I still need to think about their request and be very careful. Now, all of this will kind of come to light in a moment. Part C, the Proverbs prohibit children from robbing their parents. And I make a statement. It's kind of a common problem today. In our nation, as the average age increases and materialism becomes more pressing, parents may well fall victim to greedy children.
  17. 8:17Now, is that an exaggeration, or do you know of any background that might seem to think that's true, make you think that it's true at least? Well, is it a fact that our society is becoming older? We have more and more people who are in the senior citizens' bracket. We have more and more demand for retirement villages, more and more demand, it seems, for nursing-type homes. Our people are becoming older.
  18. 8:50Is materialism increasing? Materialism continues to increase at a rapid rate. We are becoming more and more materialistic, if that's possible, but I think it is. And guess who still has the wealth in America, according to many things that you'll read? Who has the wealth? An older generation. Our parents still have the wealth. And maybe that's the way it's always been. But maybe now, because there's more of these older people, it's becoming more evident.
  19. 9:25And maybe now because of more and more materialism, those of us who are younger don't save very much money. And maybe our desire for things keeps us in financial trouble a great deal of time, and the ones who still have the money are our parents, the older people. And so if my eyes are never satisfied, as I've said in the past, and I'm lacking resources to get what I want, and my parents have the resources, what might I choose to do? Well, I might choose to borrow from them.
  20. 10:02I might choose to simply ask for gifts, or I might choose in my quest to take more and more of what they have. Apparently, the writer of the book of Proverbs knew that there was something going on like that even back then, or that there might be a tendency for children to have an inordinate desire for what their parents had and want to use it. And so he says, I think you're never going to honor your parents by taking away what they have.
  21. 10:36That's not a very good way to try to honor them. Well, let's keep going. D, notice a little statement at the end of 1926, and drives out his mother. What would it mean to drive out your parents? Anybody have any ideas? All right, maybe not have anything to do with them. What happens the older your parents get? All right, they may need someplace to live. What else happens? They need some assistance. They need someone to care for them. Do what?
  22. 11:22They may even need financial assistance. A reverse role. And that happens all the time. All those things happen. You've heard me talk about my granddad, who's 91 years old next month. He worked full-time until he was 89 at a bank. Drove many miles every day. And right now he lives in a house by himself. And last time I talked to him, last time I was at home, in fact, I was going to Oklahoma City to give a talk, and he...
  23. 11:51got a hold of me and said, you're taking my car to Oklahoma City. And I said, no, I can take mine. He said, you're taking my car to Oklahoma City. So I went and got his car. Spent a little time with him, took his car, bought it back, and filled it with gas, and he chewed me out for filling it up with gas when I got back. And you know, there was a tendency for me not to fill that car up with gas. You know, a thought went through my mind, I don't need to fill this up. Granddad can take care of it. But I thought, I think I'll show him the respect that I need to show him. And I went down and put the $15 in or whatever it was, the gas.
  24. 12:21But I noticed something about my granddad. Now, there's no way you're going to put him in a nursing home until he just has to go. They have a nice little retirement village in that little town where he lives. He says, I'm not about to move up to the village. I'm not going. I want to stay here. And I notice that he's having a more and more difficult time getting around. I hate to tell you this, but he loves to chew tobacco. I was going to take some people with me in his car.
  25. 12:51What do you think I have to do first thing? Wipe off the seats. You know, it's a new car, but it's got tobacco leaves everywhere. He's been chewing at the back as long as I've known him. He always had this cup in his hand, you know, and when we're driving down the road, and I tried that stuff, and it doesn't work for me. I mean, I grew up with beach nut everywhere, and it just didn't work. But anyway, I've noticed that he needs more and more attention.
  26. 13:18That you look on his shirt, and there's tobacco juice on his shirt a little bit more all the time, and he doesn't handle his food quite as well. And he can't get up and down the steps like he used to get up and down the steps. Now, you could choose to kind of put him away or forget about him or whatever, but probably what he needs is what? More than ever before. More attention. In some way that you can still preserve his dignity.
  27. 13:51in some way so that you can still make him know that he's a very special person. And you understand what I'm talking about? The book of Proverbs says, as a child, you may have a tendency to drive out your parents, but don't even think about it. Don't do it. I have a little article here, and I don't know that I can read it well enough for you to understand it. It's kind of written in a poem, but it kind of speaks to the heart of older people. And so I'm going to try to read part of it. If I can't read it, we'll just quit, and you can get a copy of it sometime.
  28. 14:25what do you see nurse what do you see are you thinking when you look at me a crabbed old woman not very wise uncertain of habit with far away eyes who dribbles her food and makes no reply when you in a loud voice say i do wish you'd try who seems not to notice the things that you do and forever is losing a stocking or a shoe who resisting or not lets you do as you will with bathing and feeding the long day to fill is that what you're thinking
  29. 14:56Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see? Then open your eyes, nurse. You're not looking at me. I'll tell you who I am as I sit here so still. As I move at your bidding, eat at your will. I'm a small child of ten with a father and a mother. Brothers and sisters who love one another. A young girl of 16 with wings on her feet. Dreaming that soon a love she'll meet.
  30. 15:24a bride at twenty my heart gives a leap remembering the vows that i promised to keep at twenty-five now i have young of my own who need to build a secure happy home it goes all the way on through and i'll read the last paragraph to you i'm an old woman now and nature is cruel tis her jest to make old age look like a fool the body it crumbles grace and vigor depart there's a stone where i once had a heart
  31. 15:52But inside this old carcass, a young girl still dwells. And now again, my bitter heart swells. I remember the joys. I remember the pains. And I'm loving and living life all over again. I think of the years all too few gone too fast and accept the stark fact that nothing can last. So open your eyes, nurse. Open and see. Not a crab girl woman. Look closer. See me. What do you think that's talking about? What do you think it's saying?
  32. 16:27I'm still young at heart. I'm still a person. And though the skin is kind of wrinkled and though I can't handle the fork like I used to and though I don't see like I used to and though I don't remember like I used to, I still am a person. And I can remember when I was a little girl and when I was a young mother and I can remember all those things. I'm still a person. And sometimes we treat them too much like they're children and so much in the way.
  33. 16:58and so forth. Anyway, don't you drive out your parents when they're old. Part E, cursing your parents. Chapter 20, verse 20. God will not tolerate, says your lamp will be snuffed out. What does it mean to curse your parents? What does that mean? All right, speak harsh to them, dishonorable your tongue. Could it mean to argue with them?
  34. 17:42Okay, it could be in your heart and never make a word and still God would know it. Could be speaking even of them without them knowing it or with them knowing it. Well, I just take it as literal as I can take it, just with the word curse. To speak a vile thing to your parents. Call them a bad name. How do you think anybody does that? Those of you who teach school, do those young people ever speak like that about their parents?
  35. 18:16And maybe we've been guilty of that at times. Something about you doesn't understand everything that you understand right now. But young people need to be taught, don't you curse your parents. How can you possibly curse someone that you're trying to honor and keep honoring them? Same thing is true with God. We better be careful how we talk about God in His presence. We're always in His presence. Better be careful how we talk about God.
  36. 18:51And this stuff of using God's name in vain and using the name of Jesus in vain and using the name of God and using the name of Jesus in little slang terms, we better be careful. You know, we talk about our own parents and call them the old man or the old lady and never like those terms. They don't seem to fit in what we're talking about tonight. We watch our tongues as we talk about our parents. Part F is the one I like best.
  37. 19:23There's a tremendous implication in these scriptures that we've read about making our parents happy. The wise son brings what to his father? Joy. May the one who brought you into this earth rejoice because she brought you into this earth. Don't you understand that? I need to go out of my way to make my parents happy. Now, how do I do that?
  38. 19:52Well, we're going to find that out in a moment. But I want you to think for a moment before we go any farther about making them happy. I don't know in practical terms what it means for you. But it may mean a letter. It may mean a phone call. It may mean visits when you don't have time to visit. You understand what I'm saying? It may mean those kind of little things. But look what Proverbs says really works. Go back to 1st chapter 23, verses 22 to 25.
  39. 20:26The father of a righteous son finds joy. And he goes on to say the father who has a wise son delights in him. I may be wrong, but I think the greatest joy you'll ever bring your parent is to live the best life that you ever could imagine living. When your parents look out and they see you righteous.
  40. 20:55When they see you wise, remember wisdom is viewing things as God views them and doing things as God wants them done. And when your parents look out and see you doing that, they'll be happy. Now, all of you who are parents, what happens when you see your children doing that right now? What happens when you see them standing up for what's right? What happens when you see them making a decision that reflects the values that you've been training them, teaching them all your life? How do you feel?
  41. 21:27Well, you feel proud, and you feel all warm inside, and you feel happy, and you feel good, and you're delighted. So the number one thing we do as children is to be righteous and to live good lives, and that honors our parents. That helps our parents. And then along with that, you keep doing the little things like the cards and the notes and the letters and the phone calls and the visits and the special gifts and sending them money.
  42. 21:58when they need money and whatever. And there are a lot of cultures, apparently, that know a lot better how to do that than we know how to do it. There are some Eastern cultures, for example, that truly know how to honor the silver hair and take care of people throughout their old age. And at one time, I think we did better at that. But at one time, we were a farm nation. And at one time, we had...
  43. 22:28mom and dad's house, and down a little ways, some would build his house, and they would kind of take care of each other through the years. But we have become urban, and we have become commercialized and industrialized, and we've moved away, and our sons and daughters move off to New York City and to Hawaii and all those places, and sometimes we get left by ourselves. Your parents may be by themselves. Still need to honor them. Take care of them best you can. Everybody understand that?
  44. 22:59I might make some statements down to conclusions about mistreating your parents and what will happen about you losing your inheritance and what will happen to your position as a child and what happens with your position with God. I don't see how any of us, any of us can claim, that's the last statement I make, can claim to be right with God and abuse our parents along the way. It just doesn't make sense. That's like claiming that you're going to be right with Jesus.
  45. 23:30And you're living in the house of Satan four days out of five. Any questions about that? Now, that's the kind of child that we need to be. But that's the kind of child every one of us wants to have, isn't it? No, you want to have a child that will honor you all through their lives? Never have to worry about them taking your money away? Not afraid to sign over your accounts when you get old? My granddad I was talking about?
  46. 24:03I guess everything in this world that he has, and he has a little bit, is in my dad's name. Everything that he has. He told me the other day, he said, won't you just write some checks on me? I said, why would I write checks on you? He said, everybody else does. I said, what are you talking about? He said, well, Kenny, that's my dad. He calls my dad Kenny. He says, Kenny writes them, and my daughter Betty writes them, and Nick and Steve can write them. Nick and Steve are my brothers. I said, well, you know, I don't need to write any checks on you right now. No problem.
  47. 24:35Now, nobody abuses him, okay? Nobody abuses him on those checks. He's just saying when I need something, they know if they have to buy it, just write a check on me. But he knows he can trust those people, not to rob him, not to misuse that money. Well, that's the kind of son we want, the kind of daughter we want, and kind of trying to make us happy, kind of not talk bad about us, all those kind of things. How do we get them? How do we get that child? Well, it's kind of interesting.
  48. 25:10Because the book of Proverbs doesn't talk about a lot of things in regard to parents. It doesn't say a whole lot of things. In fact, it only says two things about parents. And you would think that it would start off talking about, now, sons and daughters, you love your parents. And you think it would start off talking about parents, now, you love your children. But it doesn't really say that at all.
  49. 25:40Maybe the writer is taking for granted that there is that kind of love relationship between parents and children and children and parents. And I think, as we get into what we're about to say, that the writer understands that if you are willing to fulfill what he's about to ask of you, then you really love your children. In fact, the implication is it takes a whole lot of love to fulfill what he's fixing to tell us to do. And I don't believe...
  50. 26:14Those ideal children can be brought forth without some of what we're about to say or maybe all of what we're about to say. So let's go ahead and look at the statements. The most famous one from Proverbs, maybe the most famous proverb of all, is chapter 22 and verse 6. Train a child in the way he should go, and when he's old he will not turn from it. Everybody knows it. Train up a child in the way he should go. When he's old he'll not depart from it. Hold that statement.
  51. 26:47Let's look at the others fairly quickly because they all say about the same thing. 1324, he who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him. 1918, discipline your son, for in that there is hope. Do not be a willing party to his death. Now, underline that or record it somewhere in your mind. Do something with it. Do not be a willing party to his death.
  52. 27:1522, 15, Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him. 23, 13, Do not withhold discipline from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. 29, 15, The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother. A child left to himself disgraces his mother. That means left to go the direction he wants to go.
  53. 27:4315, 20, 23, 24, 27, 11, 29, 3. Each verse speaks of the joy a child can bring to the parent. And we've already talked about that. What two things has he said? Maybe they go together. Maybe he just said one thing. But if he had to pick two, what would you say? Discipline and train. And maybe what he's saying, according to the way I put the outline together, you need to love your children enough to train them and love your children enough to discipline them.
  54. 28:18And so I want to talk for a moment about the idea of training. What does it mean to train? Or tell me what's involved in training someone. All right, instruction. Someone says example. Supervision. Spending some time with them. Repetition. Pain. Communication. How many of you have ever been trained for a job? How many have ever gone through a training program of any kind? Some kind of training. Did it take a lot of time?
  55. 29:05Did it take someone kind of along beside you for quite a while teaching you and showing you and providing the example? Did it take someone letting you go out then and test the water by yourself and then you come back, they come back and they check on you? Training. Well, he says you've got to train a child in the way that that child needs to go. Now the reason why it takes a lot of love is because it's going to take a lot of sacrifice on your part.
  56. 29:38Are any of you in the business of training new employees? Anybody ever train another person? Did you enjoy that? Do you like that job? In fact, there's a tendency in Ken Jones that says, I'd rather do it myself than to wait on Mitch. You understand? There's a tendency to say, I can get this done more quickly by myself. Training takes a lot of time. Training takes a lot of energy. Training takes a lot of sacrifice.
  57. 30:17And a lot of sacrifice takes a lot of love when you're doing it because you love. Understand what I'm saying? I can think of a lot of things in which I've been trained. And it took hours and months and years. I have something in my heart that will never leave my heart. Never, ever, so long as I live. And that's a love for farming. It'll never leave. I'll always love.
  58. 30:48the wheat, and I'll always love the cattle. Can you guess why that is? Every once in a while, we'll be driving down the road, and I'll see some kind of old tractor sitting out there, and I'll say, look over there, Jenny, or look over there, Mitch, or look over there, Suze. That's the kind of tractor that I first learned how to drive. You don't see many of those anymore. And I can remember spending countless hours riding between the legs of my dad on this little old tractor, hour after hour after hour.
  59. 31:23Now, what was he building inside of me? Love for that particular thing that was so important to him. And he would tell me the story. I know this story very well, how he bought his first farm. My granddad, I talked about before he went into the banking business, owned a general store. And that general store, he owned the ice house, and he owned the laundry, and he owned the feed store, and he owned the gasoline station, and he owned the bulldozers. And my dad did a little bit of all that. But when my dad was 17,
  60. 31:53He talked to his granddad, and his granddad said, I want to sell a quarter of land, and I want $17,000 for it. And they went downtown, and the guy at the bank said, how much do you want him to put down, Mr. Tretaway? And my granddad looked at my dad, or my great-granddad looked at my dad and said, you got $100? He said, yeah, I got $100. He said, that's what I want down. And my dad bought that farm that way. Now, I've heard that story over and over again.
  61. 32:22And I grew up looking at that one farm. We call it the home place. Do you know why it's in my heart? Do you know why I like it? He built it into me. I grew up with it. He trained me in that direction. So that though I've been away from it for a long time, I can still go back. Well, my brothers don't think so. But I can still go back and drive that tractor a little bit and do a few of those things. And do you see what he's doing to me? Training?
  62. 32:54Now, you as parents train up that child in the way they should go. Now, he's talking about the way spiritually they should go, the way the wisdom of God says go. How do I do that? How do I do that? I start living that same life, and I have that little child propped up here on my lap as I live it, and he sees it day by day by day. But guess what? It wasn't enough.
  63. 33:28It wasn't enough for me to sit in my dad's lap all the time. There were times when I got a little older and he said, here's how you've got to do it. And here's what it takes. Now you go do it. And sometimes I would turn that tractor too sharp and I would run that back wheel into the plow and tear up the tire or almost tear up the tire. And he had to say, not so sharp and don't stomp that brake so hard. And what was he doing? He was teaching along the way, showing how and why and what.
  64. 34:00And so as that little child rides on our lap through the years, as we walk with God, we have to teach how and why and what. And that's why I said you ought to take these outlines home and go over with your children, no matter how old your children are. So maybe they'll get the whole picture too. We have to keep telling them along the way and spending some time. And then finally, they begin to catch on to the concepts, and it becomes a part of their heart and a part of their way of life. And so that when they get older, there's no question about it. They'll always love the farm.
  65. 34:33There's no question about it. They'll always love God. That's why back in Deuteronomy, remember the famous passage back in Deuteronomy? Chapter 6, he says, I want these laws to be in your heart, and I want these laws, in fact, to be in your children's heart, and here's how you get them from your heart to your child's heart. How? Talk about them. When?
  66. 35:02When you wake up, when you go to bed, when you're walking down the road, all the time, you just keep them before them. You show them how important it is. And I'll guarantee you right now, there are values which your parents held that you still hold to. And even if they don't make sense at this point, you still hold to them. Is that right? You're likely what you are politically because of what your parents were all through the years. You likely have opinions about Ford cars because of what your parents felt about Ford cars.
  67. 35:35You understand what I'm saying? Those things are made a part of us. We train children. Now, second thing we do is we discipline children. That's also a part of training. That's why I said maybe it's all one thing. Why is there a need for discipline? Folly, he says, is bound up in the heart of a child. Now, what does that mean? By the way, I don't think it's just the heart of a child. I think it's a part of all of us. But I do believe this.
  68. 36:13The child who goes through those early years not understanding the training and not understanding the discipline has little or no chance in adulthood, at least to grasp the concepts then. Because folly is bound up in the heart of the child. It's that idea that I want to do as I please and go where I want to go and I want as much of that as I want and I don't want anyone slowing me down. Do you remember those feelings? I don't want anyone telling me no.
  69. 36:46You started off in the crib screaming and yelling, but when someone told you no, when you couldn't even talk. We don't like to be told no. And somewhere along the line, parents have to set those limits as they're training. And then when the child steps outside the limits, no matter how hard it is, you have to discipline that child, apply punishment consistently. And I think it's trying to say maybe severely, not to the point that you abuse or you damage, but you...
  70. 37:17apply it so they know that they've had discipline, so they know as a child how to live within the limits, and they'll grow up living within the limits. I'll almost guarantee you right now there is a part of you that likes to get outside of the limits, and there might be a part of you right now if all the limits were removed or given the right opportunity so that Satan could work his temptation into your heart that you might step beyond all the limits.
  71. 37:50And people are stepping beyond the limits every day in the city of Lubbock because a lot of times those doors are open too wide and Satan is working vigorously. And you know the ones who are most likely not to go beyond those limits when the doors are open and when Satan's working? You know the ones most likely to stay where they're supposed to be? The ones who, as children, were trained and disciplined to walk like they're supposed to walk. Those are the ones that have more of a chance of making it.
  72. 38:25even when they're old. Now, we want to be children, like the book of Proverbs says, and we want to have children, like the book of Proverbs says. I don't believe we'll ever have them until we have the concepts of parenthood like are written right here. What do you think? Well, what she's saying is that a lot of psychology today is putting emphasis on whatever problem you've got is because you didn't get it at home.
  73. 39:05Or you did get it home. You got a problem back at home. And I understand how that happens. But I am not in the camp that blames parents for everything. Okay? Parents do the best they can along the way. And children, that's why I said you ought to go back and study these lessons with your children no matter how old they are. Children need to understand parents did the best they could with the circumstances they were given, hopefully. So we all need to be doing. And then children need to understand their parents, in other words.
  74. 39:34And then children need to realize they have some control over their own lives. Start living.

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