Lie # 1 Freedom means Forgetting
High School is an exciting time. You are growing up
and becoming an adult and learning to make decisions
on your own as your parents begin the process of letting go of
their little child. You get your driver’s license, your first boyfriend or girlfriend,
you’re spending more time with friends and less with
family. A lot of changes are taking place and there is a
freedom that has never been there before. Graduates,
when you go away to school, or move out and get your
own place and a job, suddenly, you answer to yourself.
That’s exciting, freedom is fun. It can also be incredibly
dangerous if the exercise of your freedom leads to the
setting aside of all that your parents have built into you.
Andy Illustration: Our dog obeyed inside, but if he got
loose, it was a different story. He was a different dog
but it took a near tragedy (getting run over)to bring
about that change.
So many teens equate freedom with throwing off the
and discipline of their parents to find their own way
in the world. Without realizing it, in exercising their
freedom, they are stumbling back into the bondage
of sin that comes from an undisciplined life.
Teens, listen to these words in Proverbs that show
the importance of your parents teaching and correction.
PR 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
PR 1:9 They will be a garland to grace your head
and a chain to adorn your neck.
PR 6:20 My son, keep your father’s commands and
do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
PR 6:21 Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten
them around your neck.
PR 6:22 When you walk, they will guide you; when
you sleep, they will watch over you;
when you awake, they will speak to you.
PR 6:23 For these commands are a lamp, this
teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are
the way to life.
Parents, never stop teaching and training your teen
and teenager, be thankful for the parents God has
given you and honor and keep near to you the things
you are taught. Satan would have you believe as you
leave the house that freedom is about casting off and
on. True freedom is found in clinging. Clinging to
what you were taught, clinging to faith in a depraved
world, and clinging to Christ who alone can give you
freedom from the lies and tricks Satan has planned for you.
High School is an exciting time. You are growing up
and becoming an adult and learning to make decisions
on your own as your parents begin the process of letting go of
their little child. You get your driver’s license, your first boyfriend or girlfriend,
you’re spending more time with friends and less with
family. A lot of changes are taking place and there is a
freedom that has never been there before. Graduates,
when you go away to school, or move out and get your
own place and a job, suddenly, you answer to yourself.
That’s exciting, freedom is fun. It can also be incredibly
dangerous if the exercise of your freedom leads to the
setting aside of all that your parents have built into you.
Andy Illustration: Our dog obeyed inside, but if he got
loose, it was a different story. He was a different dog
but it took a near tragedy (getting run over)to bring
about that change.
So many teens equate freedom with throwing off the
and discipline of their parents to find their own way
in the world. Without realizing it, in exercising their
freedom, they are stumbling back into the bondage
of sin that comes from an undisciplined life.
Teens, listen to these words in Proverbs that show
the importance of your parents teaching and correction.
PR 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
PR 1:9 They will be a garland to grace your head
and a chain to adorn your neck.
PR 6:20 My son, keep your father’s commands and
do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
PR 6:21 Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten
them around your neck.
PR 6:22 When you walk, they will guide you; when
you sleep, they will watch over you;
when you awake, they will speak to you.
PR 6:23 For these commands are a lamp, this
teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are
the way to life.
Parents, never stop teaching and training your teen
and teenager, be thankful for the parents God has
given you and honor and keep near to you the things
you are taught. Satan would have you believe as you
leave the house that freedom is about casting off and
on. True freedom is found in clinging. Clinging to
what you were taught, clinging to faith in a depraved
world, and clinging to Christ who alone can give you
freedom from the lies and tricks Satan has planned for you.
