The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Proverbs 1:8-15, “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching;
9 Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head and ornaments about your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause;
12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth, we will fill our houses with spoil;
14 Throw in your lot with us, we shall all have one purse,”
15 My son, do not walk in the way with them. keep your feet from their path,
16 For their feet run to evil and they hasten to shed blood.”

There was an interesting Congressional hearing on YouTube yesterday. The House of Representatives’ Ethics Committee, having met numerous
times, was seeking to remove from Congress a member whom the committee had investigated with respect to activities worthy of expulsion.

Solomon addressed a similar situation in the verses quoted above. He warns against fellowshipping with evil doers. If they do wrong and are not
punished for it, they will do wrong again; and the second time, they will be
worse than the first.

Learning to behave correctly should be first taught in the home. Parents, who engage in nefarious activities, set an evil standard for their children. When those children become parents, they will set the same, low standard
for their children, and “wrong” will quite easily become “right.”

Solomon warns against such activities! To fail to heed his instruction is to
jeopardize society as a whole. What we are is what our parents taught us,
unless we learned in vain.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom