In this audio message, Kevin Swanson explains that it is important to have a vision for the present generation. The children today will be the leaders of tomorrow. Are we being intentional in raising our children right now in the fear and admonition of the Lord? It is a weighty and serious responsibility. Let us not grow complacent or weary in raising them according to the commands of Scripture!

Proverbs 29:15 (NKJV) - "The rod and rebuke give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother."

Good morning. It's great to be with you all. I trust God is going to do something significant this weekend. Of course, that's all in His hands. But you know, there are great moments in history where history is set in a different direction, a new direction.

And I think of the launching of the Mayflower in 1620 when just a handful of pilgrims got on a ship and made it across the ocean and formed the basis for a nation. And they were godly people. This was the height of the Reformation. These people were willing to lay down their lives to do something significant. The nailing of the 95 theses on the Wittenberg Church door was significant.

Many of us would not be here today. The gospel of Christ would probably not have been all around the world through a mighty reformation missionary movement. But also some negative things happened with the first compulsory attendance law established in Massachusetts in 1824. That was a very sad day in the record of all of human history. Now of course not all socialists would agree with me on that, but the modern socialist secular form of education was formed in the early 1800s by people who had a vision, and they set a direction for many generations.

I pray that God would do something like that here today. I don't know if we're going to launch a Mayflower today, but I would like to see something like that happen. I speak of course metaphorically, but when people get a vision for the Kingdom of God, for their families, for future generations, And they set new directions in terms of how they're going to educate their children, how they're going to establish their social systems and their cultural systems. When fathers get a vision, sometimes it penetrates into the generations and whatever happens this weekend could very well affect generations after this. We could be laying down foundations that will help many generations, your great grandchildren and your great, great, great grandchildren, but of course all of that is in the hands of God.

Something significant happened to me in 1969. My father made a decision that was really important for my life, I know for my siblings as well, and for a movement that got its start in America in the 1970s and 1980s. My father decided to go to Japan to the mission field. I asked him a couple of years ago why he went to Japan, why he took us out there in 1969, And he said that he wanted to get the gospel to the Japanese, but there was something more fundamental that was important to him at that time that motivated him to take us to an island out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a rather small island, the island of Kyushu, the southern island in Japan. And he said that he was teaching in American public and private schools in the 1950s and 1960s, moved on to the Christian school movement in the 1960s, and he said he came to the decision in 1969 that he just did not want to raise his children in the American culture, he went off to an island in the middle of the ocean and raised his children out there.

He was concerned about two things. He said the first thing that bothered him was the increased secularism in American society and American schools. The teaching of evolution was a concern for my father. He really felt that if children were instructed day in and day out that God is irrelevant. God is irrelevant.

When people take God out of the curriculum now they might read a little verse here and there in the public schools in Australia I heard it happens from time to time, but when they take God out of the warp and the wolf of the educational material, out of the literature, out of the science classroom, out of the history classroom, when they refuse to teach the fear of God as the beginning of wisdom in the history classrooms, and when you drill it in to the consciousness of a child, God is not relevant. God is not relevant. God is not relevant. Over and over and over again, you construct for yourself a secular society. You make for yourself a society where God disappears from the consciousness of the average person.

Secondly, my father was concerned about what was happening with the young people. He could see that the hearts of the fathers were separating from the sons and sons from the fathers. He could see the teenage rebellion movement that was very, very common at that time. And you know what, this was fairly new in the history of mankind. Boys and girls had worked in their family economies for 5, 900 years, until Elvis Presley showed up, until the Beatles showed up, until the teenagers were segregated into their own junior highs and high schools, and the hearts of the children were more nurtured by their peer group, and more nurtured by their pop culture and their teen culture than they were by their own parents and by the pastors.

It was the Beatles that made such an impact. These men I call Nephilim because they were giants in the history of the world. They're like the the giants prior to the flood that did so much damage to culture, broke down the cultures and created a vast chaos on the earth. This is what has happened in the recent hundred years or so since the cultural nephilim, or the literary nephilim, or the philosophical nephilim took over and effectively set a new direction for the modern world. People were not influenced by their pastors.

Their pastors were irrelevant, why? Because they were plugged into public schools. Because their children were plugged into teen culture and pop culture. They were much more influenced by the Beatles. And it took the Beatles.

How do you get from one of the best songs, one of my favorite songs we learned as children, it was a top number one song in the nation back in the 80s, my grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf, but it stood 90 years on the floor. Has anybody ever heard that song before? It was number one back in the 80s, the 1880s of course. But how do you get from my grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf to my mother's a female dog? The sorts of songs that are sung in the present day by men like Eminem and of course lots and lots of encouragement to homosexuality from Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and these people sell hundreds of millions of albums.

Please understand Lady Gaga's album on homosexuality is number one in every developed nation around the world, including Australia. How do you get from my grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf, to Lady Gaga in the 2012s and 2013s, making such an impact 100 times, 1, 000 times the influence of the greatest evangelical pastors of the present generation. How do these apostates have such incredible influence but that you have a system that is imposed upon hundreds of millions of teenagers across the established world that hang out with their teen buddies and their pop culture and their youth groups and their day schools and they are so much more led and shepherded by the Beatles and Lady Gaga than by their own fathers and mothers. That wasn't the case with Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls or Farmer Boy, Almanza Wilder. They had no Elvis Presley.

They had no Beatles, but the Beatles had to take the masses through the 1960s, the great revolutionary decade where they started with I Wanna Hold Your Hand, a rather nebulous little song to Let's Do It in the Road Six or Seven Years Later, and then it comes all unglued over the next 30 to 40 years. You know, my father took us out of that culture. He took us completely out of that culture. Let me explain to you what he did. He put us on an island out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, separated from all of humanity except for the Japanese.

But There was a cultural distance there. The only movie we ever watched as children was Sound of Music, came over NHK, the Japanese broadcast channel. And I'll never forget, it was our first movie. We sat there all expected and excited. We have our popcorn out.

And we didn't make it through the whole thing because it got a little too romantic for Dad, about halfway through, where they start to sing I am 16 going on 17, and there really wasn't much of a courtship going on there. So my Dad just went ahead and turned off the television set, you're off to bed. So, that was the extent of American culture, or Western culture, that we had access to in the 1970s. I've come back stateside, of course, and eventually get into the junior college scene and then off to the university in California. And I was student body president of the university in my senior year, largely because my father prepared us, and this is important I believe, my father prepared us, there is a separation from the culture that is appropriate.

There's also sometimes an impact that needs to happen. We have a both and, there's a pastor I met here this morning that understands this completely, he separates his children from the culture and he's homeschooling in midtown Sydney, but there he is reaching out to the inner city at the same time. There's this tension going on in the Christian life where we come out from among them and be separate, sayeth the Lord, yet we're called to be salt, yeast, and light around us. My parents took it very seriously. To not just separate us and protect us and shelter us from the culture, but also prepare us, prepare us to be used by God for his kingdom in some area or another in our own lives.

So that's a little testimony concerning my own father and what he did. Let me ask you this, do you think he did the right thing? Do you think he did the right thing to pull us out of the mass culture in the 1960s? How many of you were homeschooled in the 1960s? How many of you were pulled?

Wait a minute, Nobody was pulled out of the culture as children in the 1960s. My father did that in the 1960s. Oh, we got one over here. OK, good. Well, let's have a little reunion, class reunion or something afterwards.

But see, my father, I think he did the right thing. Looking back, how many of you think my father did the right thing? In 1969, a little bit ahead of the game, but see in the 1960s there were only 6% of children born outside of wedlock in the 1960s, at least in America, Australia and New Zealand, very close to us. Now it's 42 percent, it's seven times worse shape than it was back then. The apostasy rate right now in churches all over the world, Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. The number of children walking away from the established churches in America now as high as 88%, and some say 97%. If you ask the mosaic generation in America, you believe in absolutes, only a half a percent say yes, down from 14% in their parents' generation. That's a 97% drop of anybody who's got the semblance of a biblical worldview in my country from the parents' generation. Friends, the faith is dying out in our country.

Entire churches are filling up with the gray hairs. We see this all over the place. In Japan they're losing almost everything of the next generation. I know something about Japan because my parents ministered there, but not so much with a family vision. Deuteronomy 6, 7, Ephesians 6, 4, the book of Proverbs, largely irrelevant to the missionary service of the last 120 years, at least since the incorporation of boarding schools.

So friends, the faith is not doing well. We're seeing things coming apart at the seams. The point is we have to react to this, I think, in a radical sense. We have to go to the root. And you know some people say, oh family integrated, the home schooling approach, pulling back as my father did much too radical.

Well, let me ask you this. What do you do when you have 88% of kids walking away from the faith? And you're only shot at salvaging them by establishing new churches that have a separation from the culture of the previous generation. So you have in America, you have so many churches where you've got the nose ring service for those kids that's got the nose rings, and then you've got the old fogey service for the older folks, and then you get the new churches, the Gen X church, the Gen Y church, the Gen Z, the element OP churches, and it goes on and on and on as the severance from generation to generation happens, and we see the breakdown of culture and effectively the breakdown of the church. These churches aren't gonna last for another 15 or 20 years because of the breakdown of the hearts of the fathers from the sons and sons to the fathers.

There is almost no connection left. And if the family breaks down, the faith breaks down, and it will be an RIP sign for the church in Australia in the years to come, unless you find a way to reform the family, amen, somebody? You gotta do it, It's got to happen. I don't see any other way about it. Two things happened, two things happened.

And I've tried to study what has happened in the greatest apostasy of the last 2, 000 years. We've never had so many people walking away from the faith, walking away from churches, not calling themselves Christians anymore in the history of the Christian church, including Europe, Australia, Canada and America. So I wrote my book, Apostate, to try to understand what happened because there are still some parents, some families that want their grandkids to be Christians. Did you know that? They're still around!

Like me! I want my grandchildren to be Christians in the greatest apostasy that has ever blown like a hurricane across the ship of the church of Jesus Christ. And I want to see that salvaged, my friends, by God's grace. I know it's going to happen by God's grace, but we've got to get to the root of it. It was the breakdown of truth and relationships in the modern world.

It was the breakdown of truth. Modern man doesn't go back to the Word of God as the sufficient Word. And I know that's been expressed many times already by Scott Brown, but when you take it out of the schools, when this is not being talked about in every single classroom, in every single hour of the day, if they're not on their knees, if your professors and your universities are not on their knees, the K-12, the primary school teachers, if they're not on their knees praying to God, glorifying Christ, reading His word, and tying it in to literature, history, and science, forget about it. You're losing the basis for truth in all of knowledge. The only possibility for truth is God's word anyway.

And the postmodernism has given up any possibility for truth. And so we gotta be teaching that. Secondly, it's relationships as well. The modern world began with Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 1700s. And I have to refer to him because he is the man.

Paul Johnson writes a book, I spend an entire chapter on it in my book as well. Paul Johnson, a great historian of the modern age, says Paul, Rousseau was the most seminal thinker and the most important philosopher of the modern age. He was a man behind the public schools, the modern secular schools, compulsory attendance laws of the 1800s, and he was a man who had a child in the 1740s, his first child showed up and the day the child was born, he deposited it on the steps of an orphanage, abandoned it there to die. He had five children, all five children, he left on the steps of an orphanage to die. Now this is the legacy of the modern world, okay?

You walk into modern social estates, these big buildings all over Melbourne and Sydney, you know, you walk into these big schools, you walk in the Department of Education, the Department of this, the Department of that, It's just Rousseau. Rousseau is the father of it all. It's the thing you need to understand. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is the father of the social contract, the most important book in the modern world. And he's also the modern father of education because he wrote a book called A Meal on how to educate a child in the modern age.

He wrote it after abandoning his five children on the steps of an orphanage. Later somebody came back and said, hey Rousseau, do you have boys or girls? He said, I forgot to check the gender. Now this is the madman that developed the modern form of education. This is what Paul Johnson says, Rousseau wanted a system of public instruction by the state.

He prescribed many years with an unmarried tutor who withdraw the child as much as possible from parents and relatives. Does anybody recognize that? Does anybody recognize a form of education where you gotta get the child into kindergarten? Gotta get the child into preschool. Gotta get the child into daycare.

Gotta get the mom working. Gotta get the dad working. Anybody recognize it? Rousseau's orphanage is a little bigger today than it used to be. All over the world!

You see, But it's a good system. It had a good father. A father that abandoned his five children on the steps of an orphanage to let the professionals raise them. I happen to believe that God is smarter than Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and better and more righteous and more loving. By the way, Rousseau thought he was the most loving man who ever lived.

He said, I'm the most loving man that has ever lived in the history of the world. It's a typical liberal. Typical liberal. Very generous with other people's money, but they're busy aborting kids in the afternoon. Typical liberal.

John Jacque Rousseau. John Jacque Rousseau said the best book ever written on education is Plato's Republic. If you know about Plato's Republic, you mean a horrible book, an absolutely horrible book. About the optimum country, the optimum state, where a man and a woman come together for a temporary liaison. They have a child.

The child comes out of the mother's womb under a conveyor belt. It's processed by professionals and according to Plato, no man shall know his father and no father shall know his son. What does that mean? There shall be no relationships. Relationships between fathers and sons, parents and children, meaningless, not important.

God doesn't know what he's talking about. When he established the family, Deuteronomy 6, 7, who cares? Ephesians 6, 4, who cares? Fathers and sons shouldn't exist. It's all about the state and their compulsory attendance laws.

And by the way, no nation really accomplished very much of Plato's agenda until the 19th century. Then you come to Karl Marx in the 1840s, writes the Communist Manifesto, the most influential document of the last 150 years, incredible, important document. And right in the center of it, if you read Communist, how many of you have read the Communist Manifesto? Okay, not very many, one or two of you. Okay, but it's very, very, very important.

I mean, you know, you walk around the schools, you walk around institutions, you check out the political states of all the modern world, Guys like Marx and guys like Rousseau, very, very influential. So you read the Communist Manifesto right in the middle that says, we've got to replace home education with social. Do you know that? Those words are in the Communist Manifesto. Any of you homeschool?

Quite a few of you do. Did you know that Karl Marx mentioned you? You're famous. You're famous. But he didn't like you.

See, that's the point. He didn't like you. He says we got to get rid of home education, replace it with social, because we need a government sponsored form of education where children feel like they belong to the state more than they belong to the family. This is a battle of world views, of social views. And it's producing a society where the faith is dying.

This is the agenda, Marx didn't like the faith very much. Understood what the family would do in sustaining that faith. You've got to abolish the family. He moves out, he says abolish the family, abolish them. It's not a very controversial statement because the capitalists are doing the very same thing.

The capitalists want to do the same thing with the wives and the children of these families. The capitalists are destroying family economies too. So we're going to get out there and destroy every family economy as best as we possibly can. And we're all going to destroy the family. The capitalists want to destroy the family.

The communists want to destroy the family. The family is history. According to Karl Marx in the 1840s, now let me ask you this, have they been successful? Have they been successful? Anybody?

42% of kids born outside of wedlock up from 6% in 1970, half of marriages end in divorce, up from like .1% back in 1850. In fact, I was looking at England's numbers, 26 divorces in 1846. 26 divorces, you know there are more divorces in England today than 26. Like 10, 000 times more! It is unbelievable what has happened.

At the hands of, I would say, The Nephilim, the apostates that led the modern world into destruction, they destroyed the family. Yes, they destroyed the family. Now some of you are probably saying, no divorce yet, not a lot of illegitimacy, and my family got some in my church, but you know, so far so good. Guys, we're just talking about the tip of the iceberg. The hearts of the fathers have severed from the sons in more ways than you can count.

Your sons are not where they need to be in relationship with fathers. It's just, It's hard, I know, for me to say that and explain it to you because it's sort of like, you know, your frogs sitting in 99.6 degree C water. You guys centigrade here, right? See, I'm pretty happy with myself. I didn't say 212.

You're in 99.6 degrees C water, and it's risen a degree a year since 1890, and most people don't have a clue what is happening. Somebody once said there are those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and then there are those who wonder what happened. Most people are wondering what happened. They have no idea what happened. I'm sorry, my friends, to be the first to tell you, perhaps, But the family and the faith have broken down terribly and they have been so incredibly successful.

I was interviewed on an Austin radio station. This liberal radio station wanted to interview me because I had said something controversial on my show. Can you imagine that? So they wanted to know my opinion, and they wanted to argue with me. And I said, it's devastation out there.

The family's falling apart at the seams. 44%, 87%, 88%, half of marriages. You know, I went through all of it. I said, it's a 10, 000 times worse than it was 100 years ago. And the guy said, it's an experiment.

We're just giving it a shot. We want to know if destroying the family is going to work out for civilization by the year 2060. Well, that's pretty neat. Let's all just sit around and see what happens when you destroy the family. You put a bullet hole through the head of the family.

Let's just see how that works out for the next, say, 60, 80 years. How many of you want to just hang out and participate in that experiment? You know, I'm going to go with God on this one. I'm going to go with Jesus on this one. God established the family and Jesus said, what God has put together, let no man, let no John Jacque Rousseau, let no Karl Marx, let no institutions, let no university systems, let no economic systems, let no nobody, let nobody separate what God has put together, let no man put asunder.

Do you think he meant it? What do you think? You think he meant it? See, again, I'm testing your commitment to God's work. Now, some of you may still be committed to Rousseau, and Marx, and the compulsory attendance laws, et cetera, et cetera, and the fragmentation of the family.

Some of you may be still committed to it. I'm challenging you here. If it's a question between Marx and his agenda and Jesus who said what God has put together, let no man put us under, Are you willing to just go with Jesus? Just say, yeah! That's English for amen.

Amen. Well, friends, To this world where relationships were so weak, broken down so badly, to the loneliest age in all of human history, seven times more people living alone today than were in 1900 in our country, I don't know what it is with you, but to this world that's so lonely, where people are so isolated, and the media itself, the media has become the medium whereby people have checked out and they just zone out. They're zoned out to their television sets, their iPods, their iPads, their computers, their games. They're just disconnected. Your average boy is so disconnected from his dad.

What do you think? Do you think it affects Australia as much as it affects my country? I'll bet it does. Okay, to this world that's so lost and lonely, God's word comes, Deuteronomy 6, 7, you shall teach your children my truth as you sit in relationship in your house, as you walk by the way, as you rise up, as you lie down, and we'll call that discipleship. My dad reads that, and it just means something to him.

You know? Now, I know a lot of Christians read it, but my dad read it, and it just, it went right through his heart, right through his heart, and he felt the word, And he said, oh, I've got to do something. I've got to bring my family back into my life. My dad so desires relationships. I know he does.

At 78 years old, he still emails me eight times a day. He's always reaching out to me. Always. His heart is so with me and with his children. He emails all of his children every day of his life.

Wherever they are, he emails every one of them every day of his life. Why? My dad is standing against 300 years of institutionalization in his own life, in his father's life. I asked him a while back, Dad, did Grandpa disciple you? He said, Grandpa read the word to us but he didn't have a relationship with us.

It's the first time he ever used the R-word. And that meant something to me because I know my dad is reaching out to me. He's trying to connect. And I'm trying to do the same thing with my children. I feel the blocks.

I feel the things that are getting in the way of that. But that, see that verse really meant something. And the traditions of men have made the laws of God of none effect. You know, it has made it so hard to disciple your children in relationship as you walk by the way, as you rise up, as you lie down. Why?

Because your kids aren't there. You look beside you, they're not there. You're walking along, you're doing your work, you're plowing your fields, they're not there. You go do a little entertainment, they're not there. You try to connect with them for 78 percent of time and they're not there.

The traditions of men have slowly but surely made the laws of God of none effect in our children's lives. So now as we restore relationships, we begin to see things changing in our own lives. By the way, I was homeschooled as I said and when I was student body president, I would be interviewed by these television stations and they'd come up to me and say you were homeschooled. What about socialization? You know, they asked me what the socialization is, first time I ever heard it.

It's like, and I'm, the thing that shocked me about it was I'm a leader in the community. I'm involved in like 70 clubs on campus. I got so many contacts. I'm student body president of the university. And some geek comes up to me and says, what about socialization?

You know, so I figured that's a really dumb question. But as I think about it some more, I realize, that's actually quite an intelligent question. Because it is true if you decide to get your kids out of public schools and say, I'm going to focus on relationships no matter how hard it is. And relationships are really kind of difficult. I've been homeschooling my son for a little while, and actually since he was 11 years old.

And my wife came to me at one point, she was having a little resistance, a little pushback from my son. You know, 11 year old son who knows it all. We had that problem. And so she was having a really hard time with him, and she said, honey, I can't continue doing this much anymore. You know, I was executive director of Christian Omejia Cares of Colorado, so I told her, we can't quit.

We have to stick with this. And then she came back to me and said, well, you know, you've been talking about homeschooling to all these people all around the world, how would you like to try it? And so I did. And I've been homeschooling my son for the last 10 or 11 years. It's been a real blessing.

But I will tell you, relationships are a little difficult. You know, as I was teaching my son, I would find myself sometimes raising my voice and getting a little impatient. Does that ever happen to anybody here? I mean, it just came out of me. It just, you know, I never used to get upset when I was teaching in public and private schools.

I mean, I was a teacher, and you know, I'm a pastor, I don't get mad at people, I hear them with my son, I'm you know, but see, relationships are challenging, and it is a difficult thing, and God uses relationships to sanctify us, I think that's the key, right? There's a verse in the Bible that says, the one way to keep the barns clean is to keep the cows out of it. Do you know that? Any farmers in here? Okay, we got one or two farmers.

Yeah, one way to keep the barns clean is just keep the cows out. Because if the cows come in, they're going to make a mess all over the place. And if you let your children into your life, or into your house, you know, you're going to look around after a while and you're going to find a lot of little, you know, little messes all over the place. Like, where did all this come from? Turns out, relationship.

That's why it has to be cross-work. We need to be working in relationship under the cross of Christ. So here's what happens. When you rearrange a domino, and you say, we're going to change the social fabric of our family. And 99% of society is not going to do that.

But you're going to say I'm going to change the social fabric. And we're rearrange the first social domino where keep our kids home. And all the other kids are going to do something different. Do you ever feel weird? Anybody in homeschool, do you feel a little weird?

You feel a little different. You sit in a church and you think, wow, I just feel really different than everybody else. And there's a lot of reasons for that. But the number one reason is that You are rearranging the first social domino. Do you think that's gonna affect the other social dominoes in a child's life?

Yeah. And homeschooling kids have to get over it. You know, we're just weird. We're strange. We're going to be strange.

It's not to say we can't serve God. It's not to say we can't reach out to communities. It's not to say we can't engage in the relational life, in other aspects of life, like in hospitality, in the church, and all these other things. But it's going to change a lot of things. And then we begin to talk about courtship and the reason why, of course, a lot of people in our group talk about courtship is because once you've established relationship with your children and you poured out to your sons and daughters, you know, all those years of walking to the side and talking to the side and you've got all that time and energy and emotion.

How many times did you cry over your children's sin and challenges and difficulties and you woke up at three in the morning and you prayed for three hours. And all of that, when you begin to establish relationship and the discipleship of your children, you know, when it comes to your daughter's marriage, Are you gonna toss your daughter out to the first young man that comes into the room with a bone in his nose and say, huh, I wanna date your daughter. We'll be back at four a.m. You know, are you just gonna say, yeah, have a good time. Whatever, change the channel, I'm trying to watch the sports game.

See, is that what you do? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You invest in your daughter's courtships, And perhaps the young man might need a little discipleship so you mentor him for three or four years, or whatever. You know, I mean, see that's a different approach. It's called discipleship.

Well, Here's another example of how this has changed in my life. Please understand, I'm 49 years old. I've been homeschooled for 44 years out of my life. So when I had the opportunity to exempt myself from Social Security, you can do that. Do you have Social Security here, where the government takes care of you?

At the end when you're old? Okay, we have that in America, it's called social security. And I got an opportunity to exempt myself from it. I got this form, because I'm a pastor and I get some income from it. It's like one last little exemption that's left in America.

If you're an Amish person, you can do exempt yourself too. But I went ahead and exempt myself, and I'm like, I don't need you. Forget you, I don't need social security. Take off, I'm serious, I'm serious. I don't need Barack Obama to take care of me.

I just don't. Do you know why? Do you know why? I have five Social Security programs and I'm raising them in my house and they eat breakfast with me every morning. And I don't dump them off to the state to educate and to feed and no, no, no, no, no.

For the last two, three generations, we've been doing that in our own family. You know, I just, you know, I just, I have a different social system. I don't need that system. I have children. Then I began to be concerned because I was thinking, this is about six years ago, I was thinking Obama, Barack Obama might be elected President of the United States.

And he had committed, he had committed ahead of time, He said, I want to tax inheritance. That was one of his goals. I want to tax inheritance. Now please understand that socialists want to destroy the family. Please understand that.

That's their social construct. Plato, Marx, and Rousseau. These are their teachers. This is what's shot through the universities. It runs through their veins.

And many of them are raised by single moms anyway. We've had two presidents, Barack Obama included, raised by single moms anyway, where they're used to dysfunctional families and they see no use for the family because they have the state. Okay, so that's what's going on out there and Obama was saying, I want to tax inheritance. I'm thinking, what if this guy gets elected? And so I turned to my wife and I said, by the way we do have some inheritance taxation, but the commitment on the part of many of these leaders, including Barack Obama, is to tax inheritance, tax and disenfranchise the family in terms of its economic strength and do it generation by generation by generation by generation.

So eventually the family is just decimated. Just decimated. And the state is massively aggrandized. As much as it possibly can be. Because that's their world view.

But that's not my world view. I told my wife, we have a gift tax exemption available to us, like $11, 000 per child, per year. I said, why don't we get ahead of them? And we'll start writing our money to our children now. And Emily was like 15 years old at that time, my oldest daughter.

And so we started with my oldest daughter, writing her some money, and then we cut into Rebecca Joy about four years ago. I cut into Bethany two years ago. We'll cut into Abigail in about another year or two. And so we're systematically moving our funds into my daughter's account. Putting off my son because I want him to cut a piece of a rock out for himself first and not cruise on any of dad's capital.

And then when he gets married maybe we'll help him to pay off a house or something like that. So all of this is to try to get some really healthy family economies going with my children up front. And if other people get the vision, maybe we'll get together and we'll talk about marriage and things like that. But then as we begin to write these checks, I'll never forget, I just, for a moment, I had a little panic session. I thought, what am I doing?

I've written away social security, I'm getting rid of all my savings, you know. What am I doing? So I called everybody together, I said, okay kids, come on, we're going to have some family worship time, and let's turn to Matthew chapter 15. So we turn to Matthew chapter 15, and I said, Matthew 15, you know the Pharisees had this really neat system called Corban. It was a social security program where you could write all your money off to the state, and you didn't have to take care of your parents in their old age.

And Jesus hated it. He said, you dirty rotten Pharisees, you have displaced my law with your traditions. Kids, we're coming to live with you. Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, group hug. Let's hug and kiss.

So, see, we're knitting the generations by every means available to us. Why? Because I am committed to the biblical family. I know I'm up against trillions of dollars of institutions, of universities, education, and economics, and politics, and inheritance taxation. I know I've got all of the powers of principalities and powers of the evil world against us, and there's very few people talking like this, anywhere in Australia today, but by God's grace, I want to have a family in 2100.

So then we began to talk about family economies. Now, you see what's happening? See, step by step by step, we're moving towards a family economy. The family economy is the basic economic unit. The word oikonomia is the word for economics.

Oikos, it's a Greek word. Oikos means family and nomia means vision or law. Oikonomia, economics is the vision of the family. The basic economic unit is not the individual. Let me say that one more time.

The basic economic unit is not the individual. The basic economic unit is the family. See, is that a shock to some of you? Because we raise our children for their own career job. Raising our son for his career.

Raising the daughter for the career so that they can plug themselves into the gigantic corporate, communist, fascist state and have their little relationship with a machine. Oh, how warm and affectionate and loving that can be. Or we can revive the covenantal units of families and churches and say goodbye to all welfare, all state funded charity, all state funded education and all the rest. Okay, which world view are you a part of today? Are you part of this biblical concept of an oikonomia?

You know, Rachel was feeding her father's sheep. Rebecca, feeding her father's sheep. Joseph, feeding his father. David, feeding his father's sheep. Aquila and Priscilla in the New Testament, they were tent makers.

They were tent makers. Okay? This has been a reality from the beginning. Proverbs chapter 31, what do we have? The Proverbs 31 woman, She's working the family economy.

The heart of her husband does safely trust in her so that it shall have no need to spoil. What does it say? What does the Bible say? Does the Word of God speak to you? Does it have any authority today in your life?

The Bible says the heart of her husband does safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil." The fourth commandment! Six days you shall labor to all your work, seventh day is the Sabbath, the Lord your God in it you shall do no work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, nor the stranger that is within your gates. Where does the son and daughter show up in the fourth commandment, but that the assumption is there is a family economy going on in your house. This is basic biblical stuff. It's a shocker to most people's systems because we haven't done family economies for about 70 or 80 years.

Back in 1930, 70% of 10-year-old boys were working on the family farm. Today, it's a half of a percent. It was 70%, 70 years ago, we got a better way to do it today. We give a boy six hours of study work, which they really like. They really like it.

They set them at desks for six hours. They're bolted to the desk and they vibrate. And then what we do is we fill them full of drugs. That kind of settles them down. We give them some riddling.

Okay, so you give them a desk for six hours in a day, and then you let them play computer games for six hours, all the way till they're 18 or 19 or 20 years of age. That vision really works well for boys. Oh, boys, it's great to the point where of course now 70% of young men aren't grown up by 30 years of age up to 30% in 1970. You know, things are falling apart at the seams when it comes to boys today. 80% are hooked on porn.

In America, 80% of boys are hooked on porn. 18 to 25 year old boys. Oh yeah, that's like a thousand times worse than it was in 1960. Oh, it's terrible. Boys have fallen off the edge, have fallen off the cliff.

But you know, at least we have child labor laws. At least we have compulsory attendance laws. Friends, let me tell you what happened. I saw a sign in an airport Chicago a couple years ago, the world's largest untapped resource. They had a picture of an African woman.

Okay, it's one of the most degrading signs I've ever seen in my life. The world's most untapped resource, an African woman. Now what does that mean? What that means is that corporations and governments are salivating over these women. We gotta hire them, we gotta get them into our networks, we gotta control them, we gotta establish power centers that can control all of these African women all over the continent.

We'll send Hillary Clinton out there to destroy every little tiny family economy out there, and we'll be sure that they won't be part of any family economy in the years to come. See what's happened is back in the 1800s, the children belonged to families. But the corporations took the children and worked them really hard. So the children were passed off to corporations. The government showed up and said, oh we're here to save you kids.

Child labor laws and compulsory tennis laws. Now we own the kids. Which is exactly what they say by the way. We've argued this at our State Department of Education meetings out in Colorado. And we've had people actually turn to the homeschoolers and they look at a judge, turned to us one time and said, all of Colorado's children belong to us.

They believe this. But they've owned the children for 150 years with the child labor laws and compulsive tennis laws. Well, the same thing is happening to women. Women now, at least in my country, are going to work. 64% of kids under 6 years of age are latchkey today and the number is just growing because 61% of households in America are paid for by women who are the major breadwinners.

And it's only 19% of households are led by men who are the major breadwinners now. Western civilization is over. It's done. We've lost the family. We've lost fatherhood.

There won't be another generation. We're, I think we're done in terms of where the next generation's going to go in social and economic senses. But that's another subject. The fact is we have moved our children and our wives onto the corporations with Social Security and the other systems. Right now we have socialized medicine that is putting all the women on the socialist systems for medical and so we're going to have an almost perfectly fragmented family within the next five or six years in our country because the women haven't passed off to the corporations and then on to the state as well.

Well, the family economy is the way in which we're going to retain this kind of thing. Nehemiah chapter five, Nehemiah comes unglued with the people of God because the fathers were first of all going in debt for their houses, which has happened everywhere, by the way. The whole world view of the left is all about a deeded approach. In America, we're in about between 10 and 15 times more debt as a percentage of the GNI than we were in 1900. We're in seven times more taxation as a percentage of the gross national income than we were in 1900.

So the average person is completely bound down by these systems. So we have all kinds of debt, but Nehemiah was also very, very upset about the fact that these men were enslaving their daughters and their family economies were operating such that the fathers were engaged in the economy themselves and Nehemiah was pulling out beard hair over that kind of stuff. So throughout scripture we have instances where the families were working together. Families served together. Families ministered together, like Stephan is.

Families were baptized together. We have a little debate on how families are baptized together, but the families tended to do stuff together. And they tended to get saved together. Instead of losing 97% of your kids to the world, they wouldn't lose 97%. They would have a family integrated approach much like the second book in Pilgrim's Progress.

Not the first book, the second book where the entire family traveled together. Okay, so that's the kind of thing that those scriptures bring out to us. And for our daughters, I think this is the best way in which we bring our daughters back into the household, integrate them back into the home, and and give them a biblical approach. It's also the way in which we keep our daughters free from all the layers and layers and layers of bureaucracy that might supervise them in their career-minded jobs. I was sitting next to a guy out of Salt Lake City a couple years ago, he was a Mormon attorney, talking about homeschooling, home discipleship.

I said we focus on character, that's very, very important. And he said, I believe in character too, that's why I'm raising my daughter to be independent. And I was thinking, independent? You know, have you ever heard that before? I want my daughter to be independent.

That word used out here? We want her to be independent. Well independent of what? You ever think about that? See, what he's saying is, I want my daughter to be independent of the family.

And the largest socialist voting block in America happens to be single moms, single women. This is why Barack Obama is elected. This is why socialism grows in Australia. This is why you're gonna have total government, total communism across most of the developed nations. Why?

Because fathers are raising their daughters to be independent of the family, but dependent upon the state. The father doesn't have a relationship with his daughter. The daughter winds up marrying a loser, and she gets divorced. Now he doesn't want to take care of her. By the way, that's normative in the Bible.

The Bible actually in the Old Testament refers to the daughter coming back. A priest's family was the example used, and the daughter comes back after a divorce or she's widowed, she comes back to the father's house and she participates in the father's house. Normative in scripture, but today, today you can hardly find a family who's thinking in those terms. Hardly find a family. And that's why I think we're destined to see a growth of the social estate step by step by step by step.

May God deliver us from that kind of thing. We raise our daughters to be home makers, home keepers, home managers, and also help meets for their husbands as an axe head and an axe handle. If my daughter has a little bit of skill in the area of medical work, I want to train her first and foremost to be the home manager. That's central. That's key, Absolutely key.

But if she has some skills, do we prevent her from studying biology? Not necessarily. If she's got some skills and she loves to dissect frogs at two years of age, she's working on her brother's appendix when she's nine, and she just has special abilities in an area, we give her a little medical training. Now, the problem is, this can happen, by the way, if a father is a doctor or chiropractor, we've had examples of that in our home schooling movements out in Colorado, but you know what, it's very difficult today, because the university isn't saying, we are training daughters to be home managers. We're training daughters to be help meets for their husbands.

Never comes up. Why? Because the whole idea of the university is to plug the woman into her career job. And to segregate her from the family and to destroy the family and the faith in the next century, the next three to four generations. That's the idea.

They don't have the vision. But why would my daughter need to have a little medical training but that her husband may be out on the mission field? And she's preaching the gospel in Africa, and from time to time people come in and they have a pain in their appendix, and that's okay, she's been working on appendixes since she was nine years old, and she can take care of it there. So that's just an example. I realize that's a little bit of a wild-haired example.

We're starting to find some very creative ideas coming out of homeschooling families all across America, building the family economic systems. We have conferences with thousands and thousands. We'll have about 3, 500 people at conferences this year. We had 2, 100 at a conference about three weeks ago. Scott Brown was there.

And we have all these ideas, it's a burgeoning movement that I think is going to really bring a huge blessing to our world in the years to come. It's going to have tremendous influence in doing all sorts of things. I think establishing something of the kingdom of God. Enabling fathers to work beside their sons. Sons are crying out for this.

Friends, right now, our society is breaking down. Unless fathers can find some way to bring their sons into their lives, we're gonna be in trouble in the years to come. People ask me if we're a one income family, a two income family. I tell them, we're a seven income family. And that's a shocker to them.

Like, whoa, you mean you guys are doing stuff? Yeah, all the time. We have all these things going on. My son's been working side by side with me for about 10 years now, and I would not have the radio show by the way. We would not have it unless my son had put hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of time into that radio show.

If he hadn't sold my books, I would never have sold about a million dollars worth of books over the last 10 years or so. My son has done most of that work. Most of that work. It's amazing. Working side by side with my son has been a tremendous blessing.

I would never have been able to do half of what I have done in my ministries without my son doing that work with me. So I praise God for that. It's also, I think, gonna bring back something of a generational vision. I mean, friends, the generational vision was gone when the first Hawaiian missionaries left their kids in boarding schools. It's where it happened, 1820s and 30s.

They got the whole Rousseauian vision. They got it. They left their kids in boarding schools and they taught the nations how not to do Deuteronomy 6-7. Huh? So you say, well, why is everything dying out?

Why is the church dying out in all the mission fields? Why does it feel like the church is dying out in Australia? Why are we so outnumbered? No generational vision. Vody Baucom, a great preacher out in our country, one of the very best.

I think he's top five greatest preachers in America. He comes out with this great example of 30 million evangelicals in America. He says they're gonna be down to 250, 000 just like 70 years from now. According to his statistics, 88% of the kids are walking away, and the birth rate's like 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and so many American Christians have just adopted the whole existentialistic birth control, whatever, and they're cursing their own families and cursing the future. They have no generational vision.

It's just dying, dying, dying, dying. So Evangelicalism, 30 million down to 250, 000 by 2100. So I was sitting there going, that's really depressing. And so I got my calculator out. Well, I have five children.

If we walk beside, talk beside, do this disciple thing, by God's grace they love God, and they walk with God and the next generation, they might have five children themselves, and their five children, they get the message, they get the vision, and the vision kind of penetrates by a daily walk beside, talk beside, and by God's grace, they have five children that walk in God's ways. And if that happens over six to seven generations, you know what, I've got 250, 000 followers of Jesus Christ, and I've beat 30 million evangelicals all by myself. It's just me versus the 30 million, you know? Me, just me. Can I get a few others here to say, yeah, that's my vision?

Okay, 500, 000, somebody else. 750, 000, we're cranking. A million, oh man. You see, see what a generational vision could bring about. If somebody would say, I don't really like the vision we have inherited from previous generations, I need to see that we knit the hearts of generation by generation and find a way to do this.

I think family economies, friends, is one of the most important ways. Moreover, here's the last reason why it's important. 2011 was an important year for us in America because it was the first year that the Social Security Fund went into the red. Our nations are in terrible shape financially. Just terrible shape.

John Maynard Keynes' indebted vision is terrible. Terrible. It would drive the nations into bankruptcy. And that's what's happening. Okay?

Now you can believe whatever the pundits are saying, or you can believe God. Deuteronomy 27, 28, debt is a bad thing. And they're just running everything into debt. And so in 2011, we wound up with the Social Security Fund going into the red. That is, they were spending more than they were taking in.

And it was also the first year the baby boomers started retiring. Over the next 18 years, 80 million baby boomers will retire, and they happen to be the 80 million baby boomers who aborted 80 million babies over the previous years, which by the way is not very good if they want to stay alive at 65 or 70 years of age. Euthanasia is coming to all over countries. There's no question in my mind about that. But here we have a nation in bankruptcy.

And here we have a nation that's not able to replace itself. Our birth implosions are resulting in one-third the worker to retiree ratio in 20 years from now than what we had 50 years before. One third. Well, one third the worker-retiree ratio and one tenth in many other nations because of the birth implosions in 80 countries around the world. The birth control pill has done unbelievable damage to socioeconomic systems.

Demographics are being turned upside down in the next 30 to 40 years. So one-third the worker to retiree ratio. We have more debt than any other nation. We're in all kinds of trouble in terms of retirees, retiring. But you say, well, we have really, really good workers.

I realize it's one third the workers, but they'll be really good. Well, all except for the fact that 41% are born outside of wedlock and have no fathers, no discipleship, no mentorship in their life. All except for the fact that 75% of young boys aren't grown up by 30 years of age, up to 30% in 1970, and only 19% of boys are actually breadwinners for their homes in our countries. All except for that fact, all except for the fact that 80% are hooked on porn, all except for the fact that we have the most characterless generation ever. Even Time Magazine, the biggest magazine in America, came out last week and said, we have the most narcissistic, laziest, me, me, me generation and the unluckiest generation that has ever lived in this country.

All except for the fact we are headed for the most horrific socioeconomic collapse we have ever seen in the history of the world, not unlike the fall of Rome in 8475. That's where we're headed. You read about it in my book, Apostate, but I will tell you, how in the world are we gonna deal with this? Here's how we'll deal with it. We'll get back to the word of God and build our socioeconomic system on this.

You say, can I trust this? What do I do with my kids? Teach them the book of Proverbs. How will we salvage the next generation? You want a civilization?

You want your children to be in a halfway decent situation as we're coming off the Titanic and we're trying to build our life rafts? You want a pretty decent life raft? Read the book of Proverbs. Teach your children the book of Proverbs, inside and outside, backwards and forwards, teach them every verse, every principle in the book of Proverbs, work it into their lives, and they will be just fine. I believe that, do you?

Amen. I'm out of time.