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Biblical Child Training

I was in a doctor's office one day reading the magazines there. I looked in three separate magazines that supposedly had advice on how to discipline children that misbehave. Friends, if you follow the advice I read that day, your children will become heathens! There is a proper way to discipline a child. It is called the rod. I am not saying a child should be beaten severely for every minor infraction. However, there are times when so called "corporal punishment" is called for. This is not just my opinion. This is ordained and directed by God.

How do you think a child that misbehaves should be punished? Do you think the proper punishment is "time out" or some other silly notion like that? Do you think you know what is best for your child? Let's see what the Bible has to say about that.

God Knows what is Best

"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" (Proverbs 3:5, 6)

"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Proverbs 16:25)

Parental Authority is God Given

"And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death...
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death" (Exodus 21:15, 17)

"If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Then shall his father and mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place:
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear" (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)

"The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it" (Proverbs 30:17)

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God" (Romans 13:1)

"Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord" (Colossians 3:20)

Rebellion and willful disobedience are to be chastised

Note: Chastisement means to use a rod to inflict pain sufficient to correct a child's rebellion or to restrain a child from willful disobedience.

"I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men" (2 Samuel 7:14)

"He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24)

"Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying" (Proverbs 19:18)

"Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him" (Proverbs 22:15)

"Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell" (Proverbs 23:13, 14)

"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame" (Proverbs 29:15)

"For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons" (Hebrews 12:6-8)

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent" (Revelation 3:19)

The Results are Worth It!

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6)

"The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice" (Proverbs 23:24, 25)

"Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul" (Proverbs 29:17)

"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby" (Hebrews 12:11)

If your children do not obey YOU, how will they learn to obey God? If they never learn to obey God, he will give them eternal punishment. Is that what you want for your children?

"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" (John 3:36)