On riots and the spawning of criminals...

The violence in London and other areas of England over the last four nights shows us how quickly and easily mob-rule can break out.

There are two issues to be dealt with. The first (and easiest) is to ensure this kind of violence is stopped immediately in its tracks. This will have to be done by ‘robust policing’ which should involve, in my view, water canons, tear gas and rubber bullets.

Furthermore, punishments for crimes should be re-instated (much of our legal system tries to deter crime, but a better way, and certainly a more Biblical way is to punish people). There is also a case to be heard for re-introducing the death penalty (but that will have to be a subject for a later blog).

The second issue is to change the welfare system so that this doesn’t happen again. A serious problem for Great Britain, especially evident in London, is the vast number of young men who have no fathers. The state welfare system is responsible for this, because it pays young women to have babies. If you’re uneducated and have little chance of finding a well-paying job (or a man to marry), it is no surprise that young girls decide to have sex outside marriage in order to garner the state money that comes from having a child (and when that child is a little bit older, to have another one, so the money keeps rolling in).

This inevitably leads to children growing up without fathers. It is the role of fathers to discipline their children, and absent fathers mean discipline is not applied. Where discipline is not applied, children run amok, and later, youths run wild. It will be interesting to find out, when these violent thugs are brought to trial, how many did not have a father while they were growing up.

Discipline is one very important form of loving a child. Children who are not disciplined aren’t loved.

Prov. 13:24 He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Heb. 12:7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10 Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

The Bible teaches us that we reap what we sow. If we pay women to have children (and the British welfare system does this) then inevitably large numbers of children grow up without fathers. The girl has had the child, not because she wanted to start a family, but because she wanted the state’s money.

If a girl gets pregnant, she should not receive welfare from tax-payers, she should be provided for by her family. If having children made you poor (instead of seemingly wealthy), if it meant you ended up on the street because your family home couldn’t contain you and your expanding brood anymore, then fewer children would be born without fathers. If this were to happen, very quickly the problem of young boys without fathers would go away.

We reap what we sow. For years now we have been paying girls to be sexually immoral. Undisciplined youths are the harvest we have reaped.

Don’t mishear me, I’m not saying any of these criminals should not be held responsible for their actions, just because they had no fathers showing them how to live or disciplining them for being rude to their mothers and teachers. I’m simply saying that if we don’t want this to happen again, then the welfare state will have to be transformed. We shouldn’t reward girls for bringing into this world children without dads. Because those children often grow up to be violent, angry young men, who think that violence is the answer to their problems.

It isn’t. Knowing Christ as Lord is the only way for life to have any real, long-term meaning.

The wickedness we’ve seen on English streets is not going to go away while the state continues to rebel against the commands of God Almighty. Children need fathers to show them what is right and wrong. As the Lord Jesus put it affirmatively:

John 5:19 Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.

Jesus imitated God, because God was his father. My sons imitate me. But boys without fathers imitate other boys – invariably other boys without fathers. Boys with fathers have someone to show them how to live, illegitimate boys do not have that role model.

The apostle Paul said the same thing as the Lord, but expressed it slightly differently.

Eph. 6:4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

I encourage British readers of this blog to contact their MPs and advise them you will not cast votes for any party which continues to support the birth of illegitimate children by financially rewarding their mothers.

As long as tax-payers continue to fund children born out of wedlock, as long as women receive money for having illegitimate children, this problem will not go away. Every family needs a father who acts, amongst other things, as the responsible adult instructing his children in the way to go.

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