Preserving Our Families - Questions & Answers — Zac Poonen

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They didn't mention their name, but said that their mother passed away just a few hours ago and asked us to pray for them. I don't know if it's a man or a woman, but I did pray for you, whoever you are, and I'm sure that must be a difficult thing.

But praise the Lord that you were still able to join us, and I hope you are encouraged, whoever you are. And dear friends, if you think about it, please pray for this person. There was a question that was asked, and it's not necessarily related to this person who mentioned that their mother passed away.

Grieving the Death of an Unbelieving Loved One

How do we properly grieve and find comfort after the death of a close loved one, especially if that person was not born again?

Yeah, first of all, I want all of us to understand one thing, that God is the only judge of all men. And we are not called. Many times Jesus said that. You read that in John chapter 8. He says, I do not judge.

Even when he was on earth, he said, I will not judge. I'm here to be a witness to the truth. And Jesus told us we have to be witnesses. Think of a court scene. In a court scene, there's one judge, there's an advocate, and there are witnesses.

Which of these three are you? And me? We are not advocates. We're not lawyers. We're not attorneys. That's Jesus. He's the attorney, the lawyer, the advocate. Satan is the accuser. God is the judge. And we are witnesses.

We're not called to be judges. We're not to judge people when they're alive. We're not to judge people when they die. That saved me. I say, Lord, I don't know. So where a person has definitely known the Lord, and we are sure of that, then we can quote 1 Thessalonians 4 and verse 13 onwards, where it says, we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those.

We never, in the Bible, New Testament never speaks about people, believers having died. It always says they're asleep because they're going to be raised up in the resurrection day. Their bodies are asleep.

But they themselves are in the presence of Jesus. Philippians 1 teaches us that depart and be with the Lord. But we can be sure in the case of a person who's born again, we can assure that that person who's grieving, your loved one is right now in the presence of Jesus, free from pain, free from sickness.

Rejoice in that. But in the case of someone who we don't know, or we knew the person was an unbeliever, I'll tell you, I think of the story of the thief on the cross. Now, if someone who knew that person, that thief very well, but was not there at the cross in his last moments, he would have said, yeah, I know what type of life that guy lived for 30, 40 years.

That guy's definitely in hell today, burning in hell because he killed so many people. He stole so much money. He did so much evil in his life. I'm sure where he's gone. But if he had been there at the cross, when that man was being hanged and being killed for his crimes, and he heard how he repented in the last minute, and how Jesus told him, today, you and I will be in paradise walking together.

That's how we know when a person dies, he goes straight to be with Jesus. Today, you'll be in paradise with me. That man went to paradise. And all these people who were thinking that he had gone to hell, he had not gone to hell.

That warns me. I don't know what happened in the last moments of that man's life. I know he lived a very evil life, all right, like the thief on the cross. But I don't know what happened in the last moments of his life before he died.

So I don't want to say anything. I don't want to say that he's in heaven or hell. In the case of Jesus, he can say definitely. Jesus told a true story in Luke 16 of a rich man and Lazarus, his beggar, a beggar who was on earth.

And when they died, Jesus said the rich man went to hell, and he was burning, and Lazarus went to heaven. But Jesus being from heaven, he could see heaven and hell, and he could tell clearly who is there and who is here.

We don't know that. Let's leave that for God to judge. Let's not try to judge people. So that's the position I take. When we try to comfort someone who we know is an unbeliever, you don't have to say, oh, no, no, no, he's gone to heaven.

He may not have gone. But we comfort the person by saying, may God encourage you and comfort you at this time. It's a loss they have suffered. And if they ask you, where has this father of mine gone? Has he gone to heaven or hell?

I say, let's leave that with God. He's a fair judge. We don't know what happened in the last moments of his life between him and God. So let's leave it with God. Let's not live in remorse, thinking he's gone to hell.

Let's be careful how we live on earth, that we ourselves will go into God's presence. Otherwise, I will tell them, listen, you think because he lived a bad life, like the thief on the cross, he has gone to hell, and actually he's gone to heaven.

And you keep on grieving, grieving, grieving, grieving. That brother of mine or that father of mine, who was a thief, a thief, a thief, a thief, is burning in hell, burning in hell, burning in hell, burning in hell.

And one day when Christ comes back, you see that guy is in heaven. You say, why in the world did I grieve so much? He was all along in heaven. So that is why I say, let's not be judged. Let's not judge anyone.

Let's, where we are sure, we comfort them with one Thessalonians 4. Where we are not sure, we say, we leave it in the Lord's hands. Okay.

Thank you. Here's somebody who's written sincerely saying that they tend to shout at their children out of frustration. And then they find that the children take advantage of that and complain to the spouse and turn them against, the parents against each other.

Repentance and Unity in Marriage

And has asked, did you and Sister Annie have quarrels, disagreements, strong debates in your early married life? How did you resolve them?

Well, I did not have victory over sin when I was born again. I'll be honest. It took many years before I came to victory over sin. So I was a good husband in every way. I think we were humble. We didn't have much money.

We struggled together financially. And I have to say, I lost my temper often. I was defeated by anger. It took me many years after marriage before I really overcame that. It's about seven years at least after I got married that I finally began to overcome my anger and struggled to it till it is gone completely now.

But I had to fight it. So we did not start life as perfect. I failed. I acknowledged my failure. I asked forgiveness. And if I slipped up, I would be quick to say, now I'm very quick. I'm not saying I never slip up.

Supposing I misunderstand something or say something, not deliberately. I think deliberate hurting people has gone out of my life completely. But sometimes, you know, we say something which can be misunderstood.

It can happen to any of us till the day Christ comes. And immediately, you must say, I'm sorry. Please forgive me. And so that makes our life more like heaven on earth. Immediate. See, it's like, to me, it's like the difference between a child in the early days, the child does not know how to walk.

It's eight months, nine months. It's trying to walk, but it cannot walk. And the early years of our married life can be like that. We are trying to learn how to live together. We fall, we get up. But a day must come when the child walks.

If the child is 10 years old and still not walking, something is seriously wrong with that child. If the child is five years old and not walking, something is seriously wrong with that child. By the time a child is two years old, most children are walking.

And in a few years, they're running. And that's the way our marriage should also develop. In the beginning, I mean, there can be falls, getting up, fall, getting up. You don't lie down. No, we don't give up completely.

We get up, get up. But I believe in God's economy. By the time your first child comes to understand, by the time your first child is one or two years old, which means the earliest about three years after you're married, you should have come to some level of at least apologizing.

Quick to apologize. That's easier than getting victory. Victory is the second stage. First, get into the habit of apologizing immediately. Don't aim for victory first. Aim for being humble enough to apologize.

Then victory will come. If you earnestly seek for it. And don't give up. There's nobody, no marriage starts off perfectly. We are imperfect people. And we work towards perfection. But we must have a longing.

The Bible says, Hebrews 6, 1, let us press on to perfection. And don't give others the impression, a false impression. I'm not saying you must confess your sins to others. No, if you have a difference of opinion, you don't have to express that to others.

Within yourself, discuss it. Now, I want to say one more thing. We will never come to a perfect unity of opinion in everything on this earth. They are imperfect. And I've never expected, even in the church, when I work with fellow elders, I don't say you must agree with me 100%.

I don't tell my wife, you must agree with me 100%. We have got our own minds. And a husband who says, my wife agrees with me 100 is a dictator. And I never want to be a dictator. She must be given freedom to have our own opinion.

But we are united. I work with elders with whom we disagree, but we are united. So that's even more wonderful, where we can disagree and be united, never have a conflict, even though some areas we disagree.

Because we are imperfect. If I were perfect, my wife were perfect, we disagree in nothing. But neither of us are perfect. So there may be disagreements, but disagreement does not mean disunity. Remember, disagreement and disunity are two completely different things.

You can disagree on many, many things which are unimportant. We agree on the Bible. We agree on God. We agree on Jesus Christ. We agree on salvation. We agree that our children must be following the Lord.

The most important things we agree on. But other things like who's going to win the cricket match or who is a better batsman or a bowler, these things are unimportant. I'm talking about trivial things like that.

There could be many, many areas on earth. Which food do you like? Which food do I like? What does it matter? Unimportant. In the essentials, we're going to be united. So if you follow that rule, I believe that you can have a wonderful married life in other areas.

We must give freedom to one another to disagree agreeably. That's the way. And then we preserve the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. That's true in the church. It's true in the home. Don't be a dictator forcing the other person to agree with you and everything, but preserve the unity of the spirit at any cost.

Because a lot of things we disagree on are unimportant in terms of eternity. Always ask yourself, what will this matter 2 ,000 years from now? What will matter 2 ,000 years from now is your unity and what your children saw for unity in your home.

God bless you.

Repeated Sin, Repentance, and Peter's Restoration

Thank you. Somebody's written, I'm a husband and father and sometimes fall into repeated sin. At those moments, a great fear comes upon me that God is going to allow Satan to do something bad to my children because of that.

Is that possible?

One of the great examples I would say is Peter. What is the greatest sin a man can commit? I don't have time to show you all the verses, but you know, Jesus once said, if anyone denies me before men, I will deny him before my father.

To me, that is the greatest sin. He never said, if you murder somebody, I'll deny you before my father. If you commit adultery, I'll deny you before my father. If you tell a lie, I'll deny you before my father.

He said, if you deny me before men, I will deny you before my father. What sin did Peter commit? It was not murder. It was not adultery. It was denying Jesus Christ, the greatest sin of all. All your sins are less than that.

Did Jesus forgive him? Not only forgive him, filled him with the Holy Spirit and made him an apostle. But you know why? Because he wept, repented. You read in Luke chapter 22 that when he denied the Lord, the Lord from the very standing in the court turned and looked at Peter and says, what was there in the Lord's eyes at that time?

What do you think? It was not like we sometimes look at somebody who did something wrong, not the look that says, I told you he would do that. No, it was a look which said, don't worry, Peter, you're forgiven.

Remember what I told you, you will turn again. And when you turn again, strengthen your brothers. That was what the look of, it was a look of forgiveness. When you look at people who have denied you, hurt you, give them a look of forgiveness.

So don't ever give up, even if you've committed some terrible sin. I want to say to you, the Lord turned and looked at Peter and the Lord turns and looks at you. You committed some terrible sin. He says, I forgive you, my child, come back to me.

Your life can be different from today. And did he, was he just forgiven? No, he became the leading apostle on the day of Pentecost. But because of his failure, he could never be proud. That's what failure accomplishes.

On the day of Pentecost with a 15 minute sermon, he brought 3000 Jews to Christ. How many Jews have you and I brought to Christ? It's difficult to bring one Jew to Christ. 3000 Jews in 15 minute sermon under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

And some of the other apostles came to Peter and slapped him on the back and said, hey, Peter, great work, man. Imagine so many people. He said, no, no, no, no, I know what I did six weeks ago. I denied my Lord.

I'm nothing. I'm a failure. But the Lord has had mercy on me. That failure in his entire life, he never forgave me. He never forgot. That's kept him humble. God allows failure to come to keep us humble for the rest of our life.

That we don't lift up our heads thinking we are somebody that we don't exalt ourselves over others, but never get discouraged. Okay.

Yeah. Somebody's written. I seem to have been a very joyful Christian devoted to the Lord prior to marriage. But after marriage, my life's become very dysfunctional. I seem to cry constantly to the point where I feel like the only option would be to leave or separate.

Faithfulness in a Troubled Marriage

Can you guide me?

I don't believe you should ever think of separation. If your partner is physically harming you, there's danger to your life or threat of physical injury. Even then, never divorce. Never, never, never.

God hates divorce. You read that. We read that in Malachi chapter two. You can live separately, go and live with your parents or something like that, but never even think of divorce. But otherwise, I think we can ask ourselves whether we had certain expectations in marriage.

What were you expecting when you got married? Maybe you were not born again. So you just married whoever you liked. You were born again later. Okay. It doesn't matter. Wherever you started from, from the time you were saved, say, Lord, I want to try and live for your glory.

I want to live an overcoming life. And God does not hold you responsible for your partner's failures. Please remember, if you are seeking to live a godly life and your wife or your husband is not interested in that, pray for them.

Don't judge them. Pray for them. God has had mercy on you. Be merciful to them. You know, the Bible says, Jesus said, blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. I'm absolutely convinced that many people don't get mercy from God because of one reason.

They are not merciful to other people. Because the law is that only the merciful will receive mercy. If you want to mercy from God, be merciful to others. Matthew 5 is very clear. Blessed are the merciful.

They will obtain mercy. Ask yourself whether you're merciful to your partner or you're judging her constantly in your mind. Because if you keep judging him or her in your mind, one day you will express it in words and there'll be conflict.

By mercy, I don't mean that you tolerate wrong. If you're the head of the house as a husband, you must not tolerate wrong in your house because you have a responsibility for your children. And if there is to be some disagreements, let that be.

But you're going to say, I'm standing up for the Lord. You have to stand up for the Lord. And sometimes you need wisdom, how you do it. Make sure you're not standing up in arrogance and make sure the Lord is on your side to support you.

Even if you feel that the devil is working through your wife or your husband, fine. If you've got the Lord on your side, you're going to win. Definitely. Win means what? Not crush your partner, but win that person over to the Lord.

So make sure the Lord is on your side always, even if the devil is on the other side. It's the worst possible scenario where the devil is 100 with your partner. You make sure the Lord is 100 with you by keeping your conscience absolutely clear, by having a thirst to be filled with the Holy Spirit all the time.

And the Lord is able to overcome every enemy. Not the way you expect and not in the time frame that you have prescribed. This will happen in one year. Leave it to the Lord to decide. But you say, Lord, even if it takes 50 years, I'm going to make sure all these 50 years that you are on my side, that I'm on your side.

I'm with you. I'm with you all the time. More than asking the Lord to support you, you say, Lord, I want to be with you. You know, I often think of that question that I don't have time to show you. Read that in the book of Joshua, the early chapters, where he, before they went to conquer Jericho, he saw a man standing with a sword.

And Joshua asked him the question, are you on the Lord's side? Are you on our side or enemy's side? The man said, neither side. I've come to represent the Lord. Are you on my side or not? That's the question.

Not asking the Lord, are you on my side? But you ask him, are you on the Lord's side? He's the captain. You're not the captain. You make sure you're on his side. Say, Lord, I want to be on your side wherever you are.

And Jesus has taught us the way of humbling ourselves and judging ourselves. There's nothing wrong in humbling yourself before your wife or your husband. Without giving up your headship, you can be humble enough to say, I was wrong.

I'm sorry. And say it gently. Don't speak rudely. There are things we have to conquer in our own way of speech. And so don't ever give up hope. That's what I would say. Don't ever think of divorce. Don't ever think of breaking up.

Say, Lord, I have faith that you will do a miracle in my marriage. And you'll be amazed to see what God can do.

Rebuilding Marriage After Infidelity

It's another question. How can a wife go back to her husband and live in submission after there's been a period of separation due to unfaithfulness on his part? Are there any practical safeguards to rebuild a marriage?

This is very difficult.

If a husband has been unfaithful sexually and etc., it's very common nowadays, I'm sorry to say, because I get a lot of emails from unknown people who I won't even let know who they are, of unfaithful husbands.

It's become, it's the days of Noah. Unfaithfulness in marriage, very common. It's the last days, the signs of the end. I say, Lord Jesus, come soon. So, I believe that the Lord's word, my grace is sufficient for you, is true in every situation.

In every situation, there are a couple of verses which are always true. One is the word I just quoted from one Corinthian, I'm sorry, second Corinthians in chapter 12 and verse 9, my grace is sufficient for you.

In every situation, say my grace, the Lord's grace is sufficient for me. And another verse I would say to you, you know, the word of God has got tremendous power. And Jesus quoted the word of God even to the devil.

Every time, the three temptations in the wilderness, Jesus did not argue with the devil, he just quoted scripture. Read Matthew 4, all he did was quote scripture. Quote scripture to the devil and quote scripture to yourself.

The other verse is Romans chapter 8 and verse 37. In all situations, we will be more than conquerors through Christ who loves us. Jesus loves me, that's enough. Through that and through that knowledge, I will be more than a conqueror, Romans 8, 37 in every situation.

And if I am faithful, Romans 8, 28, God will make everything work together for my good. Maybe not bring a very peaceful marriage, but Romans 8, 29, make me more like Christ. So when it says in Romans 8, 28, God makes everything work together for good.

It's not the good we think, it's the good is that I'll become more like Christ. And hopefully, the partner will also become more like Christ. So you make that your goal. Lord, I want to see that I behave in a Christlike way.

And as far as possible, I want my marriage to be restored. You pray like that. And if your husband has been unfaithful, you don't have to be unfaithful. And you need wisdom to whether you should live with your husband or live separately.

That depends on the situation where if he's, if your husband is repeatedly unfaithful, you could get sexual disease, sexually transmitted diseases through living with him, if he's fooling around with other women.

So you may be wise to stay separately for the sake of your children. That depends on your circumstances also. So you must ask God for wisdom, whether you should move in with your parents or some situation like that.

Some act like that by which you can avoid. I cannot give you an answer for each situation, but I'll tell you one thing. There is no situation for which God has no answer. If you're a child of God, you make sure that your relationship with Christ is right.

And you're walking in the light. I guarantee in all your ways of knowledge. Here's a promise for you from Proverbs and chapter three. It doesn't matter which situation it is. Proverbs chapter three verse five and six.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Don't depend on your own understanding. Verse six, in all your ways, acknowledge him, make him Lord. And he will definitely make your path straight, which way you should go, even if he does not change the other person.

That's a promise. Amen. Okay. I'll move on to some questions about parenting. And I wonder if you could answer this question two ways. This is regarding wisdom on how to guide and discipline children at different ages.

Say children who are 12 and younger and teenagers.

Training and Disciplining Children

First of all, 12 and younger. As I told you earlier, one of the first words that a child should understand from you is no, or don't do that. Or if they started speaking, you must never speak like that to anybody.

These are words that we have to frequently use with our children because our children have got a nature from Adam, which they got from us. You must be merciful to your children because they've got this nature from you.

Where did they get that bad nature from? From you, as parents. So you must be merciful to them. But at the same time, you must be strict with them because that nature will lead them astray into hell. So you must be merciful and strict and find a balance there.

So from ages one to 12, we must speak strongly to them, correct them. And, you know, in Proverbs 22, it says, train up a child. That means you must first guide them and teach them. Teach them the principles of God's word from childhood.

Teach them to pray and fold their hands and pray every time you eat food. To recognize from a little age that I've seen little children pray to Jesus. I know one missionary lady who was a God-fearing missionary who's dead now, who went to many years as a missionary, who said that she was converted when she was three years old.

And the calling from God to serve him when she was, I don't know, before she was 10 years old. So it's amazing how early children can come to know the Lord. And I believed it from her because she was beyond 80 when she died and she was a fantastic missionary.

So I can see that God does, you know, get a hold of a person very, very young age. But here it's another verse, Proverbs 22, 15. Train up a child is one word, Proverbs 22, 6. 22, 15 says, foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child.

What is inside your child's heart? I'll tell you, foolishness. Every imaginable type of foolishness is in the heart of your lovely, sweet child. But the rod of discipline will remove it far from him. It's amazing.

The rod of discipline. Now, there are many ways in which discipline must be done. We read in Hebrews chapter 12. We had fathers, Hebrews 12, 9. We had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them.

And they disciplined us for a short time. God also disciplines us, Hebrews 12, 10. Now, the way we discipline our children, it doesn't always have to be with a rod and spanking. It may need to be that.

But it can be by depriving them of certain pleasures. Like my children love to play cricket when they came back from school. And if they misbehave badly, I would say, go and lie down in your bed. You can't play cricket today.

That was such a severe punishment for them that they would almost say, dad, give me a spanking rod and let me go and play. It was a severe punishment that they had to lie down in bed and the others were playing cricket.

I'm just saying that you don't have to use the rod. There can be other ways of withholding. But don't punish them in cruel ways saying, you can't eat the ice cream today. Sorry, that's a punishment. No, in food matters, please don't punish your children by withholding enjoyable food.

There are other ways. Go and sit in your room. Go and sit in the corner. Sit on a chair facing the wall for half an hour or one hour. There are ways of disciplining without using the rod. I would say the best way is to avoid using the rod as much as possible.

Discipline in other ways. And if there's no other way, there's nothing wrong in using the rod. Proverbs 22, 15 says that. So that's up to the age of 12. Beyond the age of 12, I would say we cannot use physical punishment.

I would not do that. They become teenagers. You must plead with them. There are, again, once again, we can restrict certain things. We cannot, we will not allow you to do this because you need to be disciplined.

But more than that, I think we also need to show our love for them. Put your arm on their shoulder. Kneel down with them when they've done something wrong. And say, let's ask Jesus to forgive us. What you did was wrong, my son, my girl.

Let's ask Jesus to forgive us. And when you're praying for that child, you also pray for yourself. Lord, please forgive me if I failed as a father or mother and help me to be a better father or mother.

That'll make a world of difference if you mean it. Don't be a hypocrite to try some technique to change your child. No, we're not teaching psychology here. Genuinely, don't ever pray to God something which is not true.

You can honestly say that, Lord, I want to be a better father or mother. That'll make a lot of difference to your child to recognize that you're also a failing human being trying to live a godly life like your child.

Yeah.

Homeschooling and Biblical Formation

Nowadays, school curriculums are starting to include many things that are unbiblical. Example, gender related issues. Do you think homeschool is a better option? And can you suggest any good Christian homeschool curriculum or other options?

See, I don't know enough about Christian homeschool curriculum, but I'm sure there are, because there are many people using them in many parts of the world. So I'm sure there are, and you can make some investigation or probably write to some Christian leaders and they'll tell you.

But our children grew up in India and we did not homeschool any of them. But I suppose in a situation in many foreign countries, in other countries, in Europe, in America, in some situations, homeschooling becomes necessary because of various factors.

Not just because of what they are teaching in school, but because of the vile, filthy atmosphere among the other children in the school from a very young age, with all that filthy pornographic pictures being shown to your children from the time they are seven or eight years old and evil.

So it's not just from the school and the teachers, it's also from children, the things they are teaching. So we need to ask God for wisdom. There's no standard answer for this, but a lot of correction can be done at home when we tell them from a very early age, we are living in an evil world, which is controlled by the devil, but we are not to fight with them.

We have to be witnesses for Christ, not by going around telling other students that you belong to the devil or any such thing. No, we have to be witnesses to them. They've been led astray by the devil.

Let's look at them mercifully, but don't join them in their bad activities. We must teach our children, don't indulge in just ganging up against some person. Everybody gangs up sometimes against one student or sit and keep on speaking evil of the teacher.

Say, don't ever get involved in all that. It may make your child a little unpopular with the others because they don't join with all the evil conversations, but that's better. Tell them Jesus was also unpopular.

He would not do certain things that other people did and they even killed him. So we're ready for that, but these days they may not kill you. They may just put you out of their society. So we have to teach our children to take a stand and in each situation is different.

So you must ask God for wisdom. Should I send my child to this school or should I try and teach children at home? Some people don't have the ability to teach their children at home. So there's no other option.

We need to give our children an education so that they can get a job and ask God. There's one thing I'll tell you. There is no situation to which God does not have an answer. 1 Corinthians 10 verse 13 is a great promise.

No trial has taken you, which is not common to all people. 1 Corinthians 10 verse 13. But in every trial, God will show you a way of escape. Is that way of escape homeschooling? Is that way of escape strengthening your child to be more bold in school?

Follow that and you'll be able to endure it. Not enjoy it. You'll be able to endure it. That means you'll be an overcomer. That's the main thing. And so I can't give a standard answer. In particular situations, you could ask some godly person near you or some other family who's godly in your home.

Sorry, in your area and they can help you. Yeah.

Can you give some advice to young people who live in homes where the environment is bitter? The parents are always threatening divorce and constant fighting, even with the extended family. And they even claim to be Christians.

The parents do. How would you advise a young person?

Wisdom for Children in Conflicted Homes

Yeah. Before I get to that, just one more thing to the last question. You know, our children studied in schools where they would teach some things about Hinduism. Well, there's nothing wrong in studying about Hinduism or Islam, what other religions believe.