Well, brothers and sisters, we're going to talk about education in the next 20 minutes. And I do believe that this is the catalyst to the destruction of our civilization and the breakdown of the faith everywhere around the world. So the thing that has been most destructive really has been the form of education that's been imposed upon the masses through the state. The state is our enemy to a great extent because the principalities and powers that rule seem to have such control over the state and effectively bringing a wrong worldview into just about every home in America today and around the world. And so this is a reformation that needs to happen.

And I think to the extent that pastors are not speaking to this, Jesus said it would be better for them that a millstone be hanged around their neck and they be drowned at the bottom of the sea. And I'm talking about tens of thousands of evangelical pastors in America need to have a millstone hung around their neck and they should be drowned at the bottom of the sea. So I'm cutting right to the chase right now. I believe this is deadly serious. And to the extent that American evangelical Baptist, Presbyterian, Charismatic pastors will not warn their church about the public schools in which it is against the law to teach the fear of God as the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.

It's against the law for teachers to give God the praise and the glory and the honor for his sovereign control over all things and that he is the creator of all things to the extent that they do not warn their congregants about this and protect the lambs in their congregations. It would be better that a millstone be hanged around their neck and they be drowned at the bottom of the sea. These are the words of Jesus Christ. They are I think some of the more severe words that Jesus ever used in his ministry and they apply directly to the American church today. Do not attend a church where the pastors are not warning the flock about education.

I believe it's been extremely destructive to the faith. This is the reason why the faith has been destroyed in the Western world over the last 800 years in Europe and now America. And this is why we've lost, I believe, half of the attendance in a Christian church over the last 10 years. This is the cause for the breakdown of the Christian faith in the Western world. And whatever remnant remains in the next 20 to 30 years is the remnant that will pull together what the Bible says about education, and they will seriously apply it to each other, and they will abandon the college and the university that refuses to acknowledge the fear of God as the beginning of all knowledge, and they will establish a biblical form of discipleship and education for their children.

This, I believe, to be the issue of the day today. And unless we bring a reformation about in the area of education, not just in America, but in Brazil and Mexico and Africa and Asia and anywhere else the Christian faith has gone, unless we bring out a Christian paideia, a Christian form of education back into these areas in which status education and humanist education has infiltrated we will see the loss of the faith in these continents we will see whatever has been established by missionaries over the last hundred years utterly decimated so brothers and sisters I believe this is the issue of the day I wrote at POC the rise and fall of the West because I believe we're going through the most significant event of the last 1500 years since the fall of Rome in 8475 That's what we're going through right now And it's important for God's people to wake up and realize that we are headed for the most extraordinary undermining of all of civilization worldwide in the next 20 to 30 years that we've seen since the fall of Rome. It's a highly significant event. And the catalyst to bring about the destruction of our civilization, our socioeconomic systems and the rest, as well as the Christian Church, has been the corruption of education that's occurred since Aquinas some 800 years ago.

And I outline it in my book, Epoch, the rise and fall of the West. And I encourage you to read that book to understand where we are. We need to understand the times. Why? We need to understand the times so we will know what to do.

It's important for us to have visionary books that step back and look the major picture as well as the videos that our brother Curtis has brought out to understand the times. But why do we need to understand the times? So that we as fathers and pastors and mothers and homeschooling parents will know what to do, the men of Ishkanah stood the times, so that they would know what to do. And it's important to be visionary people. There are some who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen, and then there are those who wonder what happened and you don't want to be those who are sitting around wondering what happened so I encourage you to to understand the times as best as you can so as we understand what the Word of God says about education we're not going to Aristotle we're not going to Socrates Biggest mistake being made by a large percentage of the homeschooling movement in America is the devil always shows up, gets his foot in the door, and anytime there's a reformational movement, he's going to bring in a means by which he will curtail the good thing that is happening.

I've been part of the homeschooling movement in America for 50 years. I was doing the first homeschool presentations for me in 1986 in California, So I've been speaking to homeschool audiences for nine to 40 years now and And what has happened is since the 1990s the devil showed up and said let's talk to Aristotle and Socrates Let's not go to what the Bible says about how to educate children. Now I think we're in a position in which we are so desperate, we are so much losing everything that we're going to have to go beyond Aristotle, we're going to have to go to God. We cannot appeal to the Greeks. We have to go to God.

And you have to be desperate to the point that you will go to God's word and believe, as Scott said, that it is sufficient for how to educate your children in the 21st century. You've got to believe God on this one. And I know it's a challenge to your faith because people want to go to Aristotle. But brothers and sisters, I think there's a point at which you have to say the wisdom of the world and the philosophy of the world is something that will rob you of the knowledge of Christ. And so there is a point at which you're just going to have to be so desperate That you're going to have to go to God's Word to identify how to educate your children in this generation.

So, so when we go to God's Word, we come directly to Deuteronomy 6, 7 to 9. That's it. That's the locus classicus as we say for the education of children. So what does it say? Well let's turn there.

Let's go directly to Deuteronomy 6, 7 to 9. I usually say it from the front without reading it, but I'm gonna read it to you because this is the word of God. Now listen, let's stand up. Everybody stand together. We're going to respect the word of God and hear it not from Aristotle, but from God himself.

Verse six, in these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, shall talk of them when you sit in your house, When you walk by the way, when you lie down, when you rise up, you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as a frontlet between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Amen. Let's pray.

Father in heaven, oh God, we pray that as we come to your word, we respect it, we receive it today. Please help us to understand it now and to apply it, Father, in this generation. In obedience to you, this is your will, this is your word. In Jesus' name, we pray, amen. Be seated, please.

What does this word say? It says three things. The first thing it says is you shall teach your children as you sit in your house. I went to a Christian school out in the Denver metro area, the largest Christian school out there. We've had a couple of people from our church wander back into some of these schools.

So I went to visit and there at the administration desk, because I walked in, there was this verse, you shall teach your children my words as you sit in your house. And I looked around and said, this doesn't look like my house. That's a problem. Anybody agree that's a problem? That's a problem.

That's not what the word said. The word said, you shall teach your children as you sit in your house. So the first we get out of this passage is that The teaching, the education, the discipleship of children is parent directed. That's what the word says. It's not delegated.

It is your responsibility, fathers and mothers, to teach your children God's word as you sit in your house. That's number one. Now, what do we see in the word? The book of Proverbs, chapter one, chapter two, chapter three is a father. The father, oh my son, hear my voice.

Listen to these words. Oh Son, give me your heart. Come close, observe my ways. What do we find in the book of Proverbs? The father is involved for 30 chapters.

Mom shows up in chapter 31. And then we see in Ephesians 6, 4, fathers, bring your children up in the nurture and the ammunition. You look it up in the concordance, every reference to children, what do you find? Fathers, mothers involved, not pastors, not Sunday school teachers, not day school teachers. Parents, this is the word of God.

I understand you say, yeah, but Rousseau, Rousseau has directed the state professionals to do the work. Yes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau did that. Abandoned five of his children on their birthday at the steps of an orphanage and then told the entire world how to do compulsory state-funded education. I get it. Yes, we as a society are committed to Rousseau.

We love Rousseau. We love Mark. We love compulsory attendance, state-funded education, professionals doing the work. We embrace Rousseau. We love the man who abandoned five of his children on the steps of an orphanage to die We love Karl Marx who starved his children to death.

We love these people. I understand that But God didn't abandon his children on the steps of an orphanage Please abandon the institutions you have received over the last 150 years to state-funded institutions of education. It's not the responsibility of the state. Rousseau was wrong. God is right here.

God's got it right here. Who are you going to trust? The systems? The institutions? I realize you've been raised in institutions.

I understand that. And I understand that we've been trained to embrace Rousseau and Marx and the compulsory attendance state-funded educational programs. I get it. But at this point, would you trust God on this one? Please?

Would you go to God? What does God's Word say? It's a matter of faith. You see, yes, but I'm not a professional. I'm not good at this.

Turn it over to the youth group leader. Turn it over to the Sunday school leader, turn it over to the day school person trained as a professional teacher in the system. I just don't have the abilities, the competence. What does God's word say? What is God saying to you right now?

Teach your children as you sit in the house. As you walk by the way. As you rise up, as you lie down. There's nothing about delegation. There's one adoption.

Eli adopted Samuel. Typically raised by Christian schools. We've got an example. Eli adopted a son. Okay, I'm okay with adoption.

Praise God, some of you have adopted, praise God. Well then, what do you do? Teach your children. As you sit in the house, amen? Those of you who have adopted?

Okay, number two, what's the second thing we find in this passage? Teach your children the Word of God, put it as a frontlet before their eyes on the posts, on the gates, integrate it. Education is parent integrated and secondly education is word integrated. We want the Word of God, hundreds of Bible verses in the history curriculum, the science curriculum. We take this very seriously as a front-lit before our eyes, such that our children don't get the impression that we get a little God on Sundays.

But then we get into secular school, math, science. I'm putting hundreds of Bible verses in the math curriculum. I know it's odd, but I'm personally writing the math curriculum for generations and it seems very awkward. It seems, what are we doing this for? Because the Word of God wants the Word integrated into everything.

Our children are not these dualists. They have a religious experience on Sunday, but then on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, it's a secular life. They walk into a secular world of science, history, and entertainment, and all of this separated from the glory of God, the fear of God, the word of God. No, no, there can't be that separation. I understand it's Aquinas.

I understand the university's been doing that for 400 years since the separation of the seminary and university occurred in the early 1700s with Christian Wolf. You read about that in Epoch. I understand it all changed in 1720. And it became against the law to stand up and stand on your desk and sing How Great Thou Art in the chemistry laboratory. They don't do that.

They don't worship God. That's not where you worship. You worship on Sunday. But not on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. We separate these things.

There's a vast separation going on in terms of natural and special revelation in the way that people view classical education today. But not for us. Aquinas, when he separated two forms of knowledge, sacred knowledge built up on the word of God and secular knowledge, secular philosophy built up on human reason. Gotta keep an eye on that thing. That thing's out to kill me, or I'm gonna kill it one way or the other.

I know there's this silent battle going on, a little wound right here, wounded me yesterday. Okay. But brothers and sisters, we can't allow for that separation, that dualism. We bring it together. The Word of God, the eyeglasses through which we see science, interpret science.

We look at history, we look at the bubonic plague, we interpret the bubonic plague by the Word of God by the judgments of God the mercies of God that's the way we look at wars that's where we look at human history we don't allow ourselves to to see it apart from the activity of God the sovereignty of God and so forth okay so we have the word integration as well. Then thirdly, what do we see? But the integration of life, because we bring the Word of God, we do the teaching as we sit in the house, but also as we walk by the way, as we rise up, as we lie down. Very important that education not be confined to a classroom. I made that point yesterday.

This is very essential, very basic. Now these principles are an upgrade that tends secrets to the best education for your child. Because we're trying to bring about what we believe to be something of a Copernican revolution or reformation and the whole way we look at education today it needs to be more of a discipleship orientation which means what which means that we are very much life integrated we teach in the boat now of course education has been very much separated into the classroom where they say A students wind up teaching and B students will eventually work for C students. But that's because there's such a lack of integration of the knowledge into life itself. Sadly, it's applied into area of the seminary and the preparation of pastors as well, which is the absolute worst possible condition.

But we need to be in the context of real life. This came home to us one night. Emily was 10 years of age, and I think it was 11 o'clock at night and Brenda pops up and says, Emily forgot to do her grammar today. And I thought to myself, well let's get Emily out of bed to do her grammar. What's the State Department of Education going to say?

Emily forgot to do her grammar today. Now we're in trouble. So, but I thought for a moment, maybe as the Holy Spirit coming upon me, and I asked my wife, why did Emily forget to do her grammar today? What was she doing? And my wife said, she was writing a letter to grandma.

And I got to thinking, why do we do grammar? Why have we done it year after year after year after year? Is it so that when she's 24 years of age, she wakes up and says, I'm gonna do more grammar today. I have prepared all my life to do more grammar. No, no, the reason why you do grammar is to write letters to grandma.

That's the reason you do it. And education needs to come something like studying bike-ology. Bike-ology. For 18 years out of your life. And you've never quite gotten on the bike.

So we have all the theoretics. We study bike, bike statics, bike dynamics, bike accident recovery workshop, bike everything. And it's not until they're 18 years old now they get to get on the bike. So the separation of knowledge and life has been utterly devastating. God's word says what?

God's word says we can't just be hearers of the word but doers. Those who are hearers of the word they sit in their classrooms. They never do anything. They're hearing the word, but they never really do the word. Are like the guy who sees himself in the mirror and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.

So 98% of education is not life integrated and therefore pretty much useless. Remember I was 24, 25 years of age. I'd been in through college and I had you know got engineering physics all the physics that I ever needed, and I was drilling a well on my property in Oregon and we had very, very low pressure, static pressure, And we were getting maybe a quarter minute. But it appeared that the water was pretty high up the well. I thought maybe I could live on that in any given day.

So we were putting a mobile home on this property. And my dad was standing right there. My dad's a very practical man. And I said, here, let me go get a string and see how much water, you know, I'll just lower the string and see how low the water level is in the well. My dad said, why don't you just drop a rock?

Is that rock? Now you have to understand, I mean, I know engineering, I know physics. But what my dad realized immediately was this is a 1 half GT squared moment. You follow me? I mean if you've taken physics, anybody ever took physics?

High school, college, yeah. But the average person is like, what? You see, my dad knew that you drop a rock, one half GT squared, one second, two seconds, three seconds squared, Half of that times 32 feet per second, you've got it 147 feet down. So my dad knew at the moment that this was a point at which we take what we have heard, what we have seen in the horizontal, in the theoretical, we have, We have looked at it in the two dimension, but we've never applied it in the three dimension. And so most of the education I ever got was a total waste of time.

You see, to get knowledge, You can't just get the fact. There's a two-part step in knowledge. According to a biblical epistemology, James 1, you've got to receive the Word, you have to hear the Word. That's number one, the first step. Second step is you have to plug it into something.

You have to apply it to something. You have to not only know the thing, but you have to know how to apply it. It's a two-stepper. And The only way to get to the second step is to get education off the island. We're very highly educated people in sterile clothing or imparting knowledge to your children.

We have to get education off the island and teach the Word of God as we engage the family economy As we walk by the way as you rise up as we lie down So some of you are very academically minded and you say that's hard to do. To take knowledge and teach it as you walk by the way, as you rise up, as you lie down. Yet that's a very powerful, extremely powerful, extremely useful form of education. The Apoc, the rise and fall of the West, I have the rise of Western science which by the way has brought 99.9% of all the technology all the science has come through a through a Christian worldview by exclusively Christians Who broke through every single one of the most important? Technological and scientific breakthroughs in all of history.

And the way they did it, two things. I don't have much time here. So two things, I'm trying to boil this down, Scott, as best as I can, okay bro? Number one, they worshiped God. I'm gonna get to that in just a moment.

That's number one, they were the most worshipful, God-fearing, considering God most awesome and amazing in his creation, the most amazing and awesome thing they had ever, ever seen. They were always constantly blown away by God in his creation, that's number one. And Number two, and by the way, this is the most exciting chapter in Epoch, number two, they were, without exception, in the laboratory, life integrating everything they ever learned. It was life integration. And they broke through every time, because they were practical men, without exception, the great inventors, the great scientists, were not theoreticians.

They were not Charles Darwin who sat there coming up with a stupid theory, I'm sorry, hypothesis, I'm sorry, wild guess, not even an hypothesis, that was never proven, that was never applied. Meantime, George Washington Carver, one of my favorite in all of American history, is out there in the fields working with peanuts and coming up with 800 applications for the peanut. Well, Charles Darwin, all I got from him was a stupid t-shirt. Didn't even get an hypothesis from him. So the two forms of science, very obvious.

And this is, of course, the destruction of science in the modern world. Computer modeling, environmentalism, evolution, etc. Just garbage, just waste of time. People sitting in in ivory towers coming up with stupid ideas that have no more benefit than Alchemy did in the Renaissance. And by the way, it wasn't the Renaissance that brought about anything.

The Renaissance brought alchemy and astrology back. That's all they did. Read about in that pocket, the rise and fall of the West. But it was the Reformation that brought Isaac Newton. It was the reformation that brought Robert Boyle.

It was the reformation that brought all the sciences we have today and all the technology that we are appreciating, including the light bulb, was invented in the latter part of the 1700s, not the later 1800s, by another Christian. Glasses invented by Christians, wristwatches invented by Christians, I can go through all the lists. Pretty much everything we have appreciated today that's useful has come from Christians because of the application of this principle. But I need to end with Proverbs. So let me just wrap this up by going to the book of Proverbs.

If you get desperate enough, you're gonna say, what does the word of God have to say about education? And you look it up, nothing about education, nothing about school. It's not even in the concordance. Nothing on school, nothing on education. But you'll find that there's a great deal on giving knowledge, wisdom, and understanding to a young man or young woman.

There's an entire book of the Bible that's dedicated to this. It is the book of Proverbs. Well, I know, I know, John Jacques Rousseau didn't come up with it. I understand this is not the American education system. I understand that most teaching colleges, Christian colleges teaching about teaching, Book of Proverbs, who cares?

They don't have their teachers to be memorizing the Book of Proverbs. My son, give me your heart. Come close, observe my ways. No, no, they don't care about the Book of Proverbs. But it is God's book of wisdom.

And if there's one part of our curriculum I recommend, it is our study gods in the book of Proverbs. That's all you have, that's enough. I think you would start right there with the book of Proverbs. But people have a problem with the book of Proverbs. They say, well, it doesn't have anything to say about geometry.

There's no geometry in the book of Proverbs. Well what's the deal with that? Well there's a lot on money, economics, character, relationships, other things, but no geometry in the book of Proverbs. Why is that? Well, that's because it's not that important.

And this is the point at which your 14 year old son's going, Amen. Amen. I'm so glad we're here. Mom, take notes. This is a good talk.

I'm really, we're drawing into this. But ultimately, it's not really about geometry, is it? It's not about geography. It's not about geology. The book of Proverbs is about character.

Faith and character. That's what matters in the math class, in the math class. Keep your eye on the ball. That's the thing that matters more than anything else. Your son's doing math.

He's up against an obstacle. He can't get over it. There's a lion in the street. What do you do? You shoot the lion, go plow your fields.

What you do? It's obvious, right? Guys in Missouri, you're allowed to have guns, right? That's what you do. Or he's just overwhelmed.

He's lazy, he doesn't wanna do the work, whatever. Well, he needs faith to overcome prayer. These are the things we're teaching in the math class. This is the greatest opportunity to teach diligence and faith, absolutely. Apply yourself to that.

It's not about the math. It's the fact that he's come up against the obstacle in the family economy. He's come up with an obstacle in the math book. He hates math now. Great.

Better opportunity yet. Teach more faith. Teach more character, work, etc. Amen. This is what it's all about.

It's not about the academics. It's about faith and character more than anything else. And then finally, here's the very most important point in the entire book of Proverbs, and you know what I'm gonna say, don't you? Proverbs 1-7. We have seven verses saying, first, this is a book about giving knowledge, wisdom, and understanding to young men, young women.

Education. Anybody interested? Knowledge. Let's give this to all the universities that teach teaching in America today. This is the most important book for education.

A book designed by God for this purpose, and then we get Proverbs 1 and verse 8. The beginning of knowledge, the beginning of knowledge, the foundation of all knowledge, is the fear of God. So The very most important thing in the education of a child is the fear of God, the recognition, and here it is, the recognition of the awesomeness of God and a response of reverence and worship before God. In science, in the math, in the history. The bubonic plague killed a third of Europe, preparing us for the Reformation.

Look up and say, kids, God did that. Fear Him. I was in the Wyoming Capitol a number of years ago, a team pact. This is a training class for young people who want to get involved in the civil magistrate. So we're up in the Wyoming Capitol in Cheyenne.

There's all these dead fossils all over the floors, embedded into the capital of Wyoming. And I said, guys, come around, come on, let's look at this right here. There was a period of time in human history where there was so much killing, there was so much violence on the earth, there was so much abortion and fantasized, the mass killing of hundreds of millions. And God finally was up to here with that said, that's it, pulling the plug, we're bringing judgment upon the entire world, I'll save eight. I said, everyone in these fossils, they speak to us right now.

And whatever's happening in these Cheyenne committee rooms, they better be fearing God. Because if they don't repent of the bloodshed that's going on in our country today, God is gonna bring a judgment down upon this nation like you've never seen. Here's the lesson, here's the history lesson for ya. Fear God. Reverence God.

And of course, ultimately at the cross of Jesus Christ, that's where we're fearing God, because here his only begotten son is on the cross. Bearing the curse, the judgment of sin. Not many of us would roll our own son under the wheels of a semi for anybody else. But God sent his only begotten son because of his wrath, because of his judgment. And so that his son would bear the wrath for us.

It's at the cross that we love God and we fear him more than anywhere else. I had to cut right to the message. Is that okay, Scott? Amen and amen. Thank you, thank you.

Oh, I got one minute, Scott, stop. Stop, just stop right there. We put together an economics course for 14 year old kids. It's called How the World Runs and You're Part in It. And wow, it's a practical course, 90% practical.

How to pay off your first house, how to get your first job, how to get along with others in the workplace, how to be a good Joseph in the workplace, et cetera. Super, super practical. But we also have a great deal in macroeconomics. What is this quantitative easing? Eight trillion dollars poured into the economy three years ago, and now we're dealing with nine percent inflation?

How did that work out? 99% of Americans are going, what? 9% inflation, we got STEMI checks three years ago. I don't understand. I think 14 year olds should understand this.

How many of you agree? 14 year olds should understand this kind of stuff. Absolutely. I'll put this in, how the world runs in your part in it, and put it in the form of parables. There was a king, printed a lot of money, et cetera, et cetera.

So, encourage you to, how the world runs in your part in. Actually, this is really good for 40 year olds as well. As 14 year olds, if you wanna get up to speed on some of this. So thank you, thanks Scott, thanks for letting me come to your conference, appreciate it.