How To Bring Your Children To Christ – Ray Comfort

A young man ran to Him (he was earnest), knelt down (in humility), called Jesus “good,” then asked how he could obtain eternal life. However, Jesus didn’t preach the cross, speak of God’s love, or lead this potential convert in a sinner’s prayer. Instead He corrected the man’s understanding of the word “good.” Jesus took him through the Ten Commandments to show him God’s standard of goodness, thereby exposing the man’s hidden sin.

This man had broken the First Commandment—his money was his god. This is what we must do with our children. We need to imitate the way of the Master when it comes to dealing with all of the unsaved, including our family. To check your child’s understanding of salvation, ask if he thinks he is a good person.

He will almost certainly say that he is, if he has no knowledge of sin (see Proverbs 20:6). This is because, without the Law, he has no understanding that in God’s eyes “good” is moral perfection—in thought, word, and deed. Then go through the Ten Commandments, opening up their spiritual nature, and show that none of us can be good as far as God is concerned. When we implement this incredible tool that Charles Spurgeon referred to as our most powerful weapon, we bypass the human intellect and speak directly to the conscience.

Scripture tells us that the human mind is at war with God, and is not subject to His Law (Romans 8:7). Therefore, to witness effectively, we have to find ground upon which there is agreement with the Law, so that we can reason with the lost about sin, righteousness, and judgment to come (John 16:8). That place of common ground is the conscience: “the work of the law [is] written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness …” (Romans 2:15).

Human understanding is “darkened” (Ephesians 4:18), but the conscience is the area where God has given light. The word con-science means “with knowledge.” The conscience is the headline, written boldly to warn of sin, while the Scriptures give the fine print. None of us can say that we don’t know it’s wrong to lie, steal, murder, or commit adultery; that knowledge is written in large print on our heart.

However, in the Scriptures we see the true nature of sin: that God requires truth even in the inward parts (see Psalm 51:6). The fine print reveals that lust is adultery of the heart, hatred is murder of the heart, fibs are bearing false witness, etc.

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Scripture quotations designated Amplified are from The Amplified Bible, © 1965 by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. OceanofPDF.com To my children: Jacob, Rachel, and Daniel & their children’s children OceanofPDF.com Contents Foreword by Kirk Cameron Introduction One: Perhaps a Six-Foot Drop Two: After Your Own Kind Three: What’s on Their Mind?

Four: What a Lovely Child Five: Ally in Your Child’s Heart Six: True and False Conversion Seven: The Mirror of the Law Eight: A Terrible Disease Nine: The Stopped Mouth Ten: The Monster Slayer Eleven: Worldly Guests Twelve: Your Greatest Weakness Conclusion Notes OceanofPDF.com Foreword THREE BOYS AND three girls … Chelsea and I have gone from “Growing Pains” to “The Brady Bunch.” We’ve often wondered what will happen when our kids all enter their teens.

Six teenagers—dating, driving, experimenting with life’s options—all at the same time. I admit I’ve had the thought, If it’s true that small children have small problems and big kids have big problems, then in ten years I’m going to fake my own death and move to Tahiti! Growing up in this world of ungodly values and immoral lifestyles, our kids are already facing difficult challenges, and it is our responsibility as parents to give them a solid foundation upon which they can build their lives, dreams, and convictions.

I find great comfort in this wonderful proverb: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). As much as I’d love for this verse of Scripture to be a guarantee of perfect Christian children as long as we raise them in a godly home, I know it doesn’t always work that way.

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