July 16, 2004
(ML #3500, GN 1087)
FD/MM/FM June 2004
(ML #2059:53, 55-56, 58, 97-99, Lifelines 16.)
53. WHAT DO YOU THINK IT TAKES TO BE AN ADULT? WELL, I'LL TELL YOU, IT'S THE SAME IN BOTH THE SPIRITUAL & IN THE PHYSICAL.
55. SO THE ANSWER TO BEING AN ADULT ... I'LL NEVER FORGET WHEN I FIRST READ THAT IN THE READER'S DIGEST! I read that when I was about 12 years of age. I used to be an avid Reader's Digest reader because it was brief & easy to carry in your pocket & I took it with me everywhere. I was in Junior High School & I thought & thought & pondered over that saying. Guess what it was?
56. "YOU WILL NEVER BECOME AN ADULT UNTIL YOU HAVE CHILDREN OF YOUR OWN!" I'll drop that bomb & let it sink in for awhile, & some of you are already thinking of objections! You say, "Well, I'm an old maid & I've never had any kids yet, but I consider myself an adult!" This doesn't always necessarily have to mean physical children of your own. As one of you so aptly pointed out, your "children" can sometimes be adult responsibilities. What are children? They're a big responsibility! What's a responsibility anyhow? (Techi: A job.)—A job! She hit the nail right on the head, that's exactly what it is! It's your job, your work, your burden, your share of the load that you have to carry. And as far as I'm concerned, having children is the greatest thing that any woman can do, the thing that God made them for & ordained them for!—Outside of being in some way an even greater handmaiden of the Lord & doing a job for Jesus, your Jesus job, whatever job God has given you to do for Him.
58. THIS LITTLE BIRTHDAY TALK IS ALL ABOUT CHILDREN, HAVING CHILDREN & CHILDREN GROWING UP & THEN HAVING MORE CHILDREN! So that's very important, isn't it? It's almost the most important thing in this whole World! In fact the most important thing in this whole World that you can possibly do is have children of your own!—Whether they be physical, flesh-&-blood children, or spiritual flesh-&-blood children. Every time you win a soul to Jesus, that soul is your babe in the Lord & you have to nurse it & care for it.
97. EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY HAS CHILDREN! We don't have a barren woman in the Family! We haven't got a childless woman in our whole Family! You all have children! Behold, these are your children! Who is your father or your mother, your brother or your sister? As Jesus said, "Behold, these that do the will of God!" (Mat.12:48-50) They're your children, amen? Praise God! These are your children. You've all got children. There's not a man in this Family that hasn't got children, children of his own! Every Home I know of has got children & there are very few of our Homes that don't have children. We call them Family Homes, if you'll notice in the stats.
98. WHERE THEY HAVE CHILDREN, THAT'S A FAMILY! Just a husband & wife, that's not a Family, & certainly single adults are not families.—Right? But a Home is a Family & it takes children to make a Family! And that's what we've got, thank the Lord!—Lots of Homes & lots of families & oodles of children! The Lord surely knew what He was doing, didn't He? Praise God!
99. THAT'S WHAT GOD WANTED MOST OF ALL, MORE CHILDREN FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD! There's nothing He likes better than more children for the Kingdom of God! "For ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of God except ye be as a little child!" (Mat.18:3) Praise God? The Kingdom belongs to the children, praise God, & only those that are like children & are childlike at heart, "for of such is the Kingdom of God!" (Luk.18:16)
(ML #2322:11-13,18-22, Lifelines 18.)
11. God made sex irresistible and the women irresistible, and I guess to the women, the men irresistible, so whether you wanted to or not, you are going to have fellowship and an exchange of emotion and get it together, and as the World says today, get it on, no matter what. And you are going to have children whether you like it or not and whether you want to or not!
12. Look‚ there's another thing the Devil has done now in these Last Days‚ he's finally figured out ways to prevent conception, prevent having children. They've devised all these gadgets and whatnot and finally the pill. That was the Devil's own concoction if ever there was one to try to defeat conception and the creation of children, which seems to be one of God's greatest pleasures, creating more souls for His Kingdom! Now the fact that some of them don't make it is not His fault, right? But at least He's giving them a chance, He's creating them. But they finally figured out a way to interfere with His creation. First of all they denied His creation, and now they've figured out a way to stop His creation of children. Isn't that terrible? Women take pills to keep from having babies. Isn't that awful?
13. The most wonderful thing a woman ever does physically is have a baby, create a new person, a new creature for the Kingdom of God!—The most marvelous thing, the most marvelous ministry that women can have, unless it's taking care of somebody else's babies. PTL! GBY!
18. So for some people in some situations, there are some things more important than having physical babies, and that's doing the Lord's Work and having spiritual babies, or being instrumental in having them. Right? Well, I hope you got the point! Anyhow, back to the Word. Well, that was the Word!
19. How many people would even have children? Today especially when the World is so selfish‚ self-indulgent, they want sex‚ they want the fun without the work, they want sex without children‚ so they finally figured out a way to do it‚ by taking the pills. Of course the pills can have all kinds of side effects and God knows what, and have had, but they're willing to risk their own lives to keep from having children, to keep from having the burden of bearing children, the pain of bearing children, the hard work of taking care of children.
20. I've heard several women say, especially after they had the first one and then they began to come so easy, "If all my children came that easy, I wouldn't care if I had dozens! It wasn't having them that hurt if I didn't have to take care of them." For some women it gets so easy to have babies, it's just as easy as can be‚ just an hour or so and that's it. But then you've got a lifetime to take care of them, and that's when the job begins, not just when you're delivered of the child. You're never delivered if you're a good mother, unless the Lord delivers you for some special reason. You've got that job to do from then on until they're grown and maybe till you're dead!—Constantly thinking about that child. You're caring for it physically at first and spiritually and even after the child is departed and married and gone somewhere else you never get over thinking about it and praying for it and loving'm, etc.
21. I could paraphrase Edgar Guest when he said what he said about building a home. He said‚
"Building a home, well I reckon that's fun,
Because it's a job you never get done!"
He wasn't just talking about the house.
"Building a child, I reckon that's fun,
Because it's a job you never get done!"
22. So having children is a marvelous ministry! Whether they're yours or somebody else's, they're yours. If they're God's and you're the Lord's, they're your children.
(ML #2433:9,13,23-26, 28-29, DB 9.)
9. I have always advocated mates, marriages, fathers‚ mothers & children! Just read my Letters!—Not promiscuity!—Not just this new wave of thinking that the Family is so sexually free, they don't have to be married, they don't have to be fathers or mothers, they don't have to have any mate responsibilities, they don't have to have any child responsibilities, that our boys can just pick up & take off‚ desert their families, desert their wives, desert their children & do as they please! Somebody didn't teach the Love of God to people who do that sort of thing!
13. Help us to develop a program that doesn't just encourage teenage sex, but encourages teenage marriage & legitimate sex within the confines of faithful, loyal matehood & marriage, in Jesus' name! So they can have wonderful babies who have a mother & a father who love them & love each other & are an example to them of what real love is like, & to be thankful for them, proud of them.
23. If you say that you don't want them to get married—then you're defying the laws of God, & God's plan & God's order & God's rules & God's Own idea! The whole idea of sex is to have a couple that loves one another & cares for one another & is concerned about each other & the welfare of each other first of all, & then is concerned about the babies that result therefrom, & knows that they're responsible to take care of them & provide for them!
24. So I expect our older teenagers to start looking around for a suitable husband or a suitable wife, some woman they love & would like to take care of.—Or a husband they love & would like to take care of.
25. I still believe in real old-fashioned Love & falling in Love & wanting to take care of somebody & help somebody & be their mate, be half of them, & have their children! I'm that old-fashioned! Maybe you think that's systemite‚ all this romantic idea of the movies. Well, it's still the World's ideal. They still know that that's Heaven, that's the ultimate, that's Love‚ for you to finally find somebody you really love, who loves you & you live happily ever after together. Those are still the happiest movies & the happiest love stories, the ones where they finally find each other‚ the love of their life‚ & finally decide they want to live together for the rest of their life & have each other's children & take care of each other & take care of their children, have a home, a happy home of Love!
26. It certainly seems like as soon as our teenagers find out which one they like the best & which one they would like to live with, that it's then time to knuckle down to the hard work & the responsibility of taking care of each other!
28. Let's not give our teenagers the idea that the Family is just a place of free love & total promiscuity where anybody can do as they please regarding sex, & you don't have to be loyal to anybody, you don't have to take care of anybody, you don't even have to take care of your babies! You can litter them all over the place here & there like some of our people have. I don't think that's a very good example.
29. Just look back over history, thousands of years of history have proven that marriage of husbands to wives, having children & making a home is the ideal situation & the ideal plan of God.
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