OUR TEENS--THE DEVIL'S TARGET!   DO 2525  1988
--A Tough Talk to Teen David

         (Intro: In this Letter, Dad focuses his attention on an encounter David had with a Family boy in a Teen Combo he briefly attended, who was a very bad influence on David by his foolishness, shallowness & love for the World, & actually eventually backslid. The Enemy can use any kids, System or Family, to adversely influence our own, which we as parents & Shepherds must be vigilant about!--1Pet.5:8: "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour!")
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         1. I warn you, David, if that Teen Combo doesn't do you good, we're not just going to bring you back home temporarily, but permanently! Just remember that, if you're not there for the right reasons & doing the right things & associating with the right people, your time there is finished. So you'd better watch your step.

         2. I'm a little disappointed in you, Son. We've had reports for some time now that you've been associating with the wrong kind of people! If you gravitate toward that kind of people, it's not good news, it's bad news. I don't see what you find interesting in people like that, I never cared for such people when I was in school, in fact I avoided them like the plague! They didn't have anything at all for me, they didn't want what I had to offer. You need to learn how to lift people up to your level & not let them drag you down to theirs.--Either that or just disassociate yourself.

         3. I told Mama they shouldn't leave those bad apples in our Schools & Teen Combos so long. My policy at TSC & any other school I ever had was, "Bam!", just like that, I got rid of them! When I heard they were going the wrong way or causing trouble or causing other people to be dragged down, out they went, bam, like that!

         4. Let me tell you, if you want to know how hard & tough your Grandfather can get, you'd better keep that in mind! That rotten apple fellow's out of that Combo now, we're fed up with him! And if you don't follow the right direction this time, you're going to be out too! Is that clear? If you don't associate with the right people, I'll yank you out just as quick as any of them! You're no special privileged character. You either go the right direction at that Teen Combo, or you'll go someplace else, is that clear? (Maria: It's even worse for you to misbehave, Honey, because people look to you as an example.)

         5. What the Hell attracts you in evil guys like that, anyhow? Don't you understand, the Devil's people like that are looking for people like you to try to drag you down to their level! That's why he was so nice & befriended you & everything else. He wanted to infect you with his evil, & apparently he did!

         6. When your Teen Shepherd warned you to stay away from that rotten apple, a bad guy like that, you didn't think it was serious. Well, if I hadn't gotten busy with too many other things & thought the thing had gotten straightened out, I would have sent word to have that rotten apple kicked out immediately! He'd have been long gone out of there!

         7. Now you find somebody who's a good example to hobnob with & somebody you can respect & look up to & who you know is going the right way, or you're in the wrong Teen Combo! Is that clear? I don't want my son to be a bad example to the whole World when they hear about the way he misbehaves in this Teen Combo because he's following evil influences, letting a rotter like that guy drag him down instead of either lifting him up or leaving him alone!

         8. What attracts you about such evil? Why do you have this fascination for evil?--A rotter, a rotten apple, a bad boy! My God, that kind of boy never ever fascinated or appealed to me at all, I avoided them like the plague, evil, wicked boys who loved sin & loved the World & loved wickedness & all that worldliness!--2Cor.6:17.

         9. Now I want to throw the fear of God into you, Son, & I want to tell you something! I'd better find out that that Teen Combo is having a good influence on you & you're having a good influence on that Teen Combo, or I won't spare you any more than I will any other offender! I'll send you out along with them & you can go out & rot someplace else with the rotters!

         10. You had better start obeying those teachers & listen to them & follow their advice & counsel & go the right way & follow the right kind of friends or it's going to be finito with you at that Teen Combo! If you're going to hobnob with people who are a bad influence on you, that's the end of Teen Combo life for you! If you like that kind of people, how'd you like it if we sent you to public school where you can get your fill of all the kind of rot that this guy's been filling you up with!

         11. Of course he wanted to attack you, because he knew you're close to us! He's full of the Devil, he's Satanic, he's diabolical!--To grab on to you & try to influence you, of all people! I am disappointed in you, & so is the whole Teen Combo, for your hobnobbing with a boy they all know is a bad boy! And you were warned about it several times, weren't you? (David: Yes.) Then why did you keep going back to him? Huh? (David: I don't know.)

         12. I am very disappointed in you & I am ashamed of you, that you associated with the worst guy around in spite of warning after warning! I've been waiting for you to make the decision & to change your mind & to listen to good advice, but you haven't done it! Well, I want to tell you, you'd better listen to this advice & you're going to do it, or it will be the end of you in that Teen Combo!

         13. Next time I'm not going to just use my voice, you're going to get it worse. You've never had me really chasten you with the rod, boy, but I can do it! If you won't listen to warnings, just like God does, He loves us & He warns us, but if we won't listen He has to do something to wake us up! Is that what you want?

         14. We're sick & fed up with this boy poisoning our own son, think of it! You've just got one salvation, & that is to go back there & straighten it out & make it right & tell'm you're sorry, & seek the right people after this, not the worst people on the campus, not the so-called "cool crowd"!

         15. Let me tell you, those "cool" guys are going to be the first to be scorched by the Devil's fire!--And you're going to burn right with'm if you don't straighten out! Is that what you'd like to do? Do you want to go with him where he's going? Let me tell you, brother, if you ever got into that cesspool of the System & had to go to System school & see what the Devil's children are really like, it's like Hell on Earth, & you'd come running back to Mama & Daddy with your tail between your legs, saying, "God help me! I don't ever want to be with people like that again, it's like living in Hell!"

         16. (Maria: The whole purpose of what that boy was trying to do to you, Honey, is lie to you that the System is better than the Family & get you to go there with him. That's the whole thing the Devil's trying to do, don't you understand?) Poisoning you! How could you have gotten mixed up with a guy like that? (David: Well, I guess I just wanted to see what the other side was like.) Why? Brother, let me tell you, I was raised around the other side & I knew what it was like, & it was Hell on Earth!

         17. Well, I want to tell you, I don't want to ever hear of you hobnobbing with the wrong kind of people again, & I don't ever want to hear we've got any rotten apples in our Teen Combos, or I'm going to throw'm all out! Is that clear? (Maria: Yes, Sir.) I'm not going to be absolutely sacrificing & giving & even suffering for a bunch of rotters who are poisoning each other & poisoning our own children! We do not tolerate that kind of poison in our Teen Combos, & furthermore, we're not going to tolerate it in our Family! Is that clear?

         18. And if I see this fascination for evil cropping up in you any more, Son, you are never going to dream how tough your Grandfather can get with you! Is that clear? (David: Yes, Sir.) Do you believe it? (David: Yes, Sir.) Well, you'd better believe it, & you'd better straighten out, too, & seek better company & be a good influence & show the other kids that you're repentant & sorry that you hobnobbed around with that rotter, & let's see a little good influence from you.

         19. I have thrown out whole Colonies, whole Homes, oodles of people! I'm an expert at it! Because I won't tolerate that kind of behaviour in this army! That's how I've run it from the beginning & that's why we're where we're at! And I'm not going to tolerate you any more than I tolerated Deborah, & she was my own daughter too!

         20. I cracked down with Mene & I've done it with a lot of other people!--And you know what? It's done'm good! It did most of them good, they began to realise the seriousness of it all. Did you know that now Mene is thankful? Now she's sorry for what she did, now she realises she had Heaven on Earth. But God usually gives you one chance like this, Son, & if you don't make it, if you muff it, He seldom ever repeats the opportunity, He doesn't trust you.

         21. I've never had to really get tough like this with you before, Son, but I am going to get tough with you, the time has come! Unless you can show a shining example & be the right kind of product of your Mother & me & show others what we've taught you & how we taught you to be & what we taught you to be, we can't let you attend that Teen Combo. If you can't be a good example, I don't want you there! It's better for you not to be there than to be there & be a bad example, & I mean it!

         22. (Maria: You need to start sticking up for your convictions a little bit, Honey. They expect you to.) After all these years of teaching, haven't you got any guts? I was a fighter, Son! I wouldn't let other kids talk that way! I fought! I fought guys who were bigger than I was till I got beat up! But let me tell you, I'd rather fight & die for the Truth & stick up for my convictions instead of being willy-nilly, weak as water, string for a backbone, ice water for blood, & not stick up for what I know is right!

         23. Maybe that's the trouble with you, you never had to really fight for it! I was thrown out in a pool of sharks & I had to fight for my existence, both in public school & in the army! But brother, I stuck up for what was right & what was the Lord & they all admired me for it, they all respected me for it.--And the very guys who used to throw their shoes at me in the dormitory & all the rest & threatened to beat me up, later came crawling to me on their knees begging for prayer because they knew I was a fighter for the Lord & I meant it & I was not going to compromise one iota!

         24. You compromised! You let down your standards & you let that guy lead you around by the nose, & the whole Teen Combo is ashamed of you for it! How come you let an evil guy like that drag you into his mire, his shit? You're a pretty weak character if you haven't got the guts to stand up for what's right! You should have rebuked him when he told you all that shit! I can't do the subject justice, you'd better pray, Mama.

         25. (Maria: Amen, in Jesus' name. Lord Jesus, forgive us for letting this go on so long, Lord. Forgive us for not seeing that it needed to be cut off immediately. We just ask You right now, Lord, to help us to undo this damage & help us to root out the evil, Lord, & cut it all out, Lord, cut out the sore & the infection & really help us to make things clean again. Cleanse & purify David's heart, Lord, & the others who have been infected by this, & help us to get rid of the problem. And Lord, give all our Teens everywhere some guts to stand up for their convictions, Lord, to really fight for the Truth & the Right & not be taken in by such lies of the Enemy!

         26. (Lord help us to realise that we're an Army & we've got to run this thing like an Army. We've got to apply the discipline needed to make Thy Family pure & keep it pure & doing the job that You want it to do & not wasting our time & wasting others' time with fiddling around & foolishness & Worldliness & infection creeping in to weaken us & weaken our kids, Lord, the Teens & the children. So help us, Lord, to do what needs to be done.--In Jesus' name, amen.)

         27. Doesn't anybody ever get angry at the Teens in our Homes when they misbehave? If I hear of this sort of situation being allowed in our Teen Homes anywhere, I'm going to close down their Teen operations & Junior High Schools completely & kick out all the Teenagers, send them back where they came from! Is that clear? (Maria: Yes, Sir!) We've got too many other important things to do than to be wasting our time & money on people who don't appreciate it.

         28. I warn you, I'm through talking! Next time it's going to be action! Is that clear? (David: Yes, Sir.) I want to hear things that are going to make me proud of you from now on & not ashamed of you. Are you going to try? (David: Yes, Sir.) All right, you think about it. Good night, Son.

DAYS OF AFFLICTION WILL SOBER UP THE TEENS!

         29. What is ever going to make these kids really get on the ball & really get serious & really sober up & realise how important it is to get serious for the Lord? It just reminded me of the night I was coming home with 9 kids in the car as a teen, & I was thinking, "Lord, what is ever going to sober these kids up & make them take life seriously & You seriously & make them really get desperate? I wish there was something I could do to sober them up."--Then all of a sudden a car hit us & rolled us over! Boy, I'll tell you, there was no foolishness after that! They got serious then & they stayed pretty serious from then on. It's just a miracle of God we didn't all get killed!

         30. That's what came to me, that's the only thing that's ever going to get them really sober. They've got it too easy right now, & in some ways we've made it too easy for them to be good. That's why they don't really appreciate it. But things are coming that are going to make them quit all this foolishness & get deadly sober, deathly serious about the Lord, because He's going to be their only hope. Then they'll seek the Lord! David said, "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but in my affliction I cried unto the Lord!"--Psa.119:67; 34:6.

         31. That's when they're going to cry to the Lord with weeping & moaning & wailing & gnashing of teeth, when the affliction comes, when the hard times come! They're going to look back on these days right now that they think are so hard, they're going to look back on them like they were days of Heaven on Earth! Then they'll seek the Lord & realise that the Lord is their only hope! It's not merely a matter of attitude & trying to be spiritual, they'll be desperate for help! They'll get sober then.

         32. There's a Scripture that keeps trying to come to me, I can't quite get it, but it's something about great affliction, sort of like, "In the days of affliction, then shall they cry unto Me with a whole heart!"

MERCY ON THE TEENS

         33. So that's what I got out of it, that there's coming a time when they'll really turn to the Lord & get serious & sober & desperate, when He's their only hope. The Scripture says that there's a day coming when men shall seek death & shall not find it.--Rev.9:6. The days will be so bad that they'll want to die! (Tongues:) "Lord have mercy on the children of Your Father! My God, save the children of David, in Jesus' name!" Amen.

         34. "I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy."--Rom.9:15. Amen. So there will be some mercy on His Own. TYJ! (Tongues) "I will temper the wind to the shorn lambs, & I will have mercy on thy little ones for their Father's sake." TYJ!--Amen.

         35. --What's it gonna take, Teens?--Parents?--GHU!--In Jesus' name, amen.


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