THANK GOD FOR OUR CHILDREN!      DFO 1682         11/83

         1. (TO TECHI WHILE STIRRING TEA AT FAMILY DINNER:) WE LIKE TO PLAY A TUNE, DON'T WE? My Mama wouldn't allow me to do that, she said it wasn't polite, but I think it makes such a pretty sound! When I was a little boy there were so many things that were impolite & not nice! My mother was very particular. I think most of it was very good though, teaching us to be considerate of each other & not to be offensive to others.
         2. I SORT OF LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT NICE BEHAVIOUR! I was taught to say "Yes, Sir" & "Yes, Ma'am" to my parents & older people, that was just polite. And anyone besides my relatives who each had their particular appellation, older people who were particularly dear to us or lived with us, we used to call them Uncle & Aunt, even if they weren't related.
         3. SO I SORT OF LIKE THAT OLD EUROPEAN DISCIPLINE & ORDER & RESPECT OF ELDERS, but of course even the Europeans are getting away from it. I sort of like those old-fashioned ways, I guess I'm too old-fashioned. Well, at least you need to know a little bit about it if nothing else, & I do think our children should be taught respect for their elders.
         4. I THINK WE HAVE THE NICEST CHILDREN OF ANY CHILDREN I HAVE EVER SEEN! They are the most respectful & best-behaved. I've never known'm to fight. They might argue a little bit once in awhile, & if they even do that I hardly ever hear'm. I suppose they have a difference of opinion once in awhile. And they're so unselfish with each other, it just amazes me how they're willing to share!
         5. MOST OF YOU WERE REARED IN GOOD HOMES BY GOOD PARENTS, AS FAR AS THE SYSTEM GOES. I don't think we've got anybody here whose parents were criminals, robbers or cutthroats of any kind, nearly all of you had what would be called by the System good parents, most of them with some religious background at least. And nearly every one of you had some original religious training. You went to church or you went to religious school or you had a religious parent or grandparent that you learned from.
         6. SO SOME DO THE SOWING & SOME WATER & I THINK I JUST CAME ALONG & REAPED WHEREON I HAD BESTOWED NO LABOUR (Jn.4:37,38), because somebody already started you off in the right direction, even if you went astray. Somebody was praying for you--even if not here they were praying for you in Heaven--& you were just ripe & ready when I came along. I just came along like the Grim Reaper & reaped the harvest on which I really bestowed no labour. It was a surprise to me! I was absolutely amazed how all our early disciples went for what I preached & for me & our way of life! It was all the Lord. He prepared you for it & He prepared me for it, to be the Reaper & the Shepherd & King of the Beggars!
         7. AND NOW WE HAVE A WHOLE COMPLETELY NEW NATION, NEW CULTURE, ALMOST A NEW LANGUAGE!--Not really a new religion, it was God's religion in the beginning, although the Church sure has gotten away from it! But we've gotten back to good old Garden-of-Eden religion, thank the Lord, & we can enjoy all the creations of God & its beauties--all of you beauties--& its pleasures, so that we virtually have Heaven on Earth right now in our Home!
         8. WE HAVE GOTTEN TO BE LIBERATED & FREED & HELPED BY THE LORD & HIS SPIRIT & THE RIGHT DOCTRINE & RIGHT INTERPRETATION TO ENJOY WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY GIVEN, & I think that's why our children are such unusual children, so unusually happy & good & obedient & well-rounded. It's notorious that in the most restrictive families, especially where it comes to sex & that sort of thing, that often when the children finally get their freedom they just go wild! So your background & upbringing has a lot to do with the way you turn out, & only the Lord really can change that. You who had some kind of good religious background have a head-start on everybody else.
         9. AND WHAT BETTER DISCIPLES CAN YOU HAVE THAN CHILDREN if you really rear them in the faith from the beginning to be absolutely truly pure examples & samples of a pure & total Love religion! I think our children are good examples of being good products, good samples, proof of the pudding like I've always said! SO THANK THE LORD FOR OUR CHILDREN! I think they have had superior training, background, teaching & experience above any children perhaps that have ever existed on the face of this Earth!--Pure doctrine, real enlightenment, freedom & a natural attitude toward the natural things of life.
         10. Whereas most American homes particularly, once the kids get out of the house & are able to have a car & go to the drive-in & God knows what, all of a sudden, boom!--[Sex is] a great big thing & it's a mania & they go sex-crazy because they've been so prohibited & so restricted & repressed & oppressed. Once they've got their freedom they just go wild!
         11. So once again I think we have reared our children in the most normal, natural, free & liberated way possible, where they're living naturally according to God's laws & God's rules, freedom, love & liberty, normally & naturally the way God originally created man to live.
         12. SO I THINK WE HAVE A MORE HEALTHY, NORMAL, SANE RELATIONSHIP & RELIGION THAN ANY OTHER THAT I KNOW OF, & I THINK OUR CHILDREN ARE BECOMING THE LIVING PROOF OF THAT!--Smart, well-educated, well-behaved, understanding, wise, full of faith in the nurture & admonition of the Lord, with wise training. I think our children are just going to be the best kids on Earth & I think they already are!
         13. OURS ARE SOME OF THE FIRST REAL CHRISTIANS & IT LOOKS LIKE ALMOST SOME OF THE ONLY REAL CHRISTIANS OF THIS GENERATION with the real Christian training that is the best I've ever known any children to have, thanks to Maria & Sara & Dora & all of you parents who have had a part in their upbringing, training, etc. I think you girls ought to be so proud of these kids! They are your handiwork, your craftsmanship, examples of your art in having moulded these little lives & taught them. They're so smart! They can read, they can write, they know the Bible, they know our religion, they know the Truth. Our kids are far more enlightened & adult than adult Christians in the average church! They know the Lord better & know more about the Lord & His Word & normal life than most Church Christians, so I think we can be very thankful & very proud of them!
         14. SO PRAISE THE LORD FOR OUR KIDS! That may be a good title for this little talk: Thank God for our kids! They're the best kids. Like our religion, it may not be perfect, I don't know, but it sure is the best one I know of & they're the best kids I ever saw & thank the Lord for them! PTL? (Family: They've got the best Grandpa & Mommy!) Well, when I see those videos I figure I must have done something good!
         15. BUT ANYHOW, THANK GOD FOR OUR CHILDREN! PTL! I THINK WE'VE GOT THE BEST KIDS ON EARTH! I'm sure they know they're not perfect & I know sometimes they probably know they haven't been right & they may have even been naughty, but I haven't known about it. I just never saw such good kids in my whole life & I think they are a shining example to the World!
         16. THEY HAVE FULFILLED WHAT I WOULD COUNT AS A REAL PROPHECY, & THAT IS SOME TIME AGO I SAID THEY WERE GOING TO BECOME OUR GREATEST TESTIMONY! The greatest proof of the pudding is our children & that's exactly what they've become! I even said that they were going to become part of our ministry, & they have become much more than I ever dreamed! Almost the chief ministry of many of our families is their children! That's what attracts the crowds & the people, to see those little tots standing up there singing away & happy & playing instruments & preaching the Gospel! What better example could you have than that of a religion that works? If it works on your children, let me tell you, it works! PTL?
         17. THAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH THE WORLD TODAY, THEY KNOW THAT WHATEVER THEY'VE GOT HASN'T WORKED & THEIR KIDS ARE A MESS & they're just absolutely in chaos & frustration as to what to do about their kids. The kids are rising up in this generation against their parents, & for good reason too. They realise their parents haven't taught'm right, they haven't satisfied'm. Their parents are destroying the Earth, polluting it & haven't given them what they need, so they're angry at their parents because they know their parents have deprived them of something, they don't know what, but they're just not happy. So this World is reaping what it has sowed in its children, with all the chaos, anarchy & terrorism! But it looks like their children, sad to say, are going to reap what the parents have sowed in the horrors that are coming.
         18. THANK GOD FOR OUR CHILDREN, AMEN?--THE BEST KIDS ON EARTH & WONDERFUL! THEY'RE GOING TO BE THE SALVATION OF THE FUTURE! They're going to be the teenage--I started to say terrors--God's Terrorists of the Tribulation rising up in opposition to the Antichrist government & defying it & performing miracles, God doing mighty signs & wonders to protect them & keep them & help them to continue to preach the Gospel in spite of everything. God's going to take care of them right through to the End & they're going to see Jesus when He comes!--Along with lots of other Christians in the World, thank the Lord, who do have faith & who are saved, but I think who are going to be a little bit ashamed to face the Lord one of these days when they see how far behind us they were & what poor examples their children were because they themselves were such poor examples.
         19. BUT THE REASON OUR CHILDREN ARE SUCH WONDERFUL CHILDREN IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN SUCH GOOD EXAMPLES TO THEM, & DON'T FORGET IT! I give credit where credit is due. You especially, their teachers & mothers, have been their shining examples & they believe in us & the Lord & what we believe, because they believe in you & know you live it & you are it & they don't doubt it & they love, respect & admire you & have faith in you.
         20. IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO CONCEIVE HOW POWERFUL THEY COULD BE WITH JUST WHAT THEY'VE ALREADY GOT IN THE LORD & KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD! And when you can keep your children & your teenagers & they're sold on your religion, let me tell you, you've got something! That's one reason I made it through school & all the unbelief & persecutions, I was convinced of my parents' religion. I knew they had the real thing & I believed in it, & nothing the atheists & the anti-Christs of school & education & evolution could say could shake that faith.
         21. THERE WAS A VERY FAMOUS ATHEIST WHEN MY PARENTS WERE YOUNGER WHOSE NAME WAS BOB INGERSOL. My Father & another young man were listening to this famous atheist who attacked the Bible & God & tried to sweep it all away. They came out from that lecture & this young fellow, another Swede that was with him, said to him, "Well, I guess he just swept it all away, didn't he? He just wiped it all out. There's nothing left. He debunked the whole religion & the Bible, God, the works." And my father said, "Yeah? Well, he didn't sweep away my mother & father's faith & the reality that I saw in their religion." So you having lived it before them has instilled it in them, being true & faithful & genuine, & they know it!
         22. SO THANK GOD FOR OUR CHILDREN! AMEN? LORD, BLESS OUR LOVED ONES AROUND THE WORLD! Thank You for all the faithful, loyal followers You've given who follow Thee & who preach the Gospel in all the World to every creature, in Jesus' name. Amen! PTL! Hallelujah! TYJ! GBY all! Thank you for your attention & I hope it's helped you to be thankful for our precious children. You were my subject tonight, you precious children, the best on Earth!


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