This message isn’t for everyone. If the truth be told, most Christians don’t have their act together enough, spiritually, to consider homeschooling their own children. Christian, if you aren’t homeschooling your child, it doesn’t mean you are sinning. It simply means that, thus far, in your spiritual walk, you haven’t worked out this important biblical issue.

First of all, I am not speaking about your child(ren) learning the three R’s (Reading, wRiting, and aRitmatic).  The issue is who do your children belong to?  Well, the obvious answer is, your children belong to you!

Be Fruitful and Multiply…

Whether your child ever learns it or not, two plus two always has and always will equal four.

Worldly knowledge is not the issue, here. The issue is who should be teaching your children. The Devil? The Devil’s crowd? The world? The public? The Church? A Nanny? A Sitter? Or, should the ones that sired that child teach them? Christian, who brought that child into the world, to begin with? You did, remember? Who is responsible for your child? The obvious answer is you. You made that baby and it’s your responsibility to nurture it and raise it to maturity. But, alas, we are too far, already.

When the Lord said to Adam and Eve “…Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth…” (Genesis 1:28), who do you think He had in mind to teach, guide and instruct those multiple children? Here's another question... What degree, from what university, do you think Adam or Eve needed to teach those little souls they were both soon to produce? Moreover, who started the first university? Adam and Eve needed a university to teach their children, right? Well, maybe that’s stretching it, a little. Maybe not a "university." So, let’s just call it a “think-tank.” Here, is the revised question… Who started the first “think tank?” There, that's a better question.  

This question can best be answered by reading Genesis chapter two.  This chapter provides us with a summary of chapter one. God gives us a second look, if you please, in what just transpired, in writing, right before our eyes, in chapter one. To get the answer to our question, let’s read a few verses from this chapter... 

“And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.” (Genesis 2:19-20)

Just before the Lord describes His method of creating the first woman (Genesis 2:21-25), he puts Adam to work, by bringing him “every living creature” and asking him to name them. Why am I making such a big deal about this? Simply, to prove that Adam had a mind that could (literally) name each and every animal that God created.  Then, doesn't it stand to reason that he had the credentials to teach his own children? 

With the judgment of God pending (Genesis 6:5-6), some fifteen hundred years after the fall, God found a man whose three son’s supported his ministry by helping him build an ark of safety. [Don’t forget that Noah was five to six hundred years old at this point, when it was being built (Genesis 7:6), so I'm sure he must have needed some help.] Did you ever read the mathematical plans that needed to be studied and then expertly reproduced, by constructing it, in order to save the human race from extinction? (Genesis 6:14-16) These four men (and their wives) were called upon, by a holy God, to use their knowledge, not only to build an ark that needed to stay afloat for at least a year, but to save two of “every living creatures” (not to mention seven of every clean animal, for sacrificing, once they were safe, again, on land). Did you miss it? If you did, I’m going to say it, again. These boys went to homeschool! They not only learned  the knowledge and practical training they would need to assist Noah with the building of the Ark, but they learned about the holiness of God from their father.  He taught them that the Lord refused to tolerate men's wickedness.  Where did they learn these things?  At home, with their father!

Once they safely departed the Ark, God issued the same command to Noah as He did to Adam…

“And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” (Genesis 9:1)

You might be saying to yourself, “Well, there was no one else to teach them, back then. There were no public school teachers to give these boys an education, so Noah had to do it. And, besides, today, in our modern world, we have others who are hired by the state to teach our children.” All that might be true, but remember, all who were outside of Noah’s family perished. There was a benefit, then, for sure, of being part of this homeschooled family. These children had knowledge and holiness, combined, which achieved the one thing that an outside education couldn’t produce. Salvation. In this case, salvation of the whole race, including all the animals.

Time and space will not permit me to say much more on this subject, but I would like to include what the Lord said about Abraham…

“For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.” (Genesis 18:19)

Someone, who doesn’t understand that our children’s education is connected to their very soul and being, has given the church of Jesus Christ the idea that it can somehow divorce their children's education from their spiritual life and that it can be taught in a separate venue. This idea, friend, didn’t come from God.

Last, listen to who Moses, taught under the finest state training in Egypt, said should teach God's children…

“Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.” (Deuteronomy 6:1-7; 11:18-19)

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)

Pastor Bob