QUESTIONS - Can Christians Send Their Children To Public Schools？
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In this episode, Pastor Joel answers the question, "Can Christians send their children to public schools?" What does God think about public schools? Is public education a good or bad thing? What is the difference between a Christian education and a secular education?
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Hi, this is Pastor Joel with Right Response Ministries,
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and you're listening to another episode of our show called Questions.
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can Christians send their children to public schools? Can Christians send their children
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to public schools? The answer is no. Thanks for tuning in. The answer is no, but I'll flesh it
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out a little bit more. Matthew 22, verses 17 through 21. Matthew 22, verses 17 through 21
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says this, tell us then what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? But Jesus,
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aware of their malice, said, Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the
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tax. And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, Whose likeness and inscription
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is this? They said, Caesar's. And he said to them, Therefore, render to Caesar the things
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that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. Whose image is on the coin?
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all the way 2,000 years later, and in our culture on the other side of the world,
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still to this day, when it comes to our currency, whose image is on the coin? Whose image is on the
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dollar bill? Caesar. Washington. Benjamin. But it's Caesar. It's man. It's the civil magistrate.
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it's the civil officer the ruler but it's man the answer is man well then render to man render
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to caesar render to the civil magistrate what belongs to him but render unto god what belongs
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to god i think that we could very easily look at this text and just ask one further question
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Jesus said, whose image, whose inscription, whose likeness is on the coin?
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But what if we asked whose image is on your son?
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Jesus says, render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, but render unto God what belongs to God.
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Whose image is on our children? It is God's. Who do our children belong to, therefore?
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It is to God. So when it comes to their education, who do we render our children unto?
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God. Public schools, we must never forget, are state schools. Who is the head of the state?
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Caesar. When you send your child to a public school, you are sending them to a state school,
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and our state has a religion. Our state has an ideology. Our state has a philosophy,
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and it is not neutral. It is not morally neutral. And our state has a ruler, namely Caesar. So when
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we give our kids to public schools, we are giving them to state schools. Who runs the state? Caesar
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runs the state. We are rendering our children to Caesar. It is one thing to pay taxes to Caesar
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because Caesar's image is on our coin. It is quite another thing to pay the cost of our children
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to Caesar. Caesar's image is not in our children. It may be on our coin. It may be on the dollar
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bill, but it is not on our sons and daughters. Our sons and daughters were not made in the image
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of Caesar. They were made in the image of God. Therefore, we must render them to God. So in
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terms of education, we must render them to a Christian education, not a state education run
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by Caesar, but a Christian education that is submissive to the will and commandments of God.
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And listen, there is a difference between Christians in education and a Christian
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education. Rendering your children to God in regards to the category of their education means
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rendering your children, handing them over to a Christian education, not a state secular pagan
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education where certain Christians happen to be employees, aka, well, Joel, I'm in this certain
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town in Texas or in Idaho or in Arkansas, and there are a lot of good Christian men and women
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who work at our public school. Yeah, Christian men and women, God bless them, but Christian men
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and women in your public school teaching your children a state education, because that's their
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job. And if they are faithful to go against the secular indoctrination that the state demands,
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then guess what they won't be doing for much longer? Working at that public school.
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they will be fired promptly. So, there may be Christians in public education,
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but those Christians in the public school are not giving a Christian education. They are Christians
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in education giving a secular education. Because if they were Christians in education,
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in state education, giving a Christian education, they would be what we might call unemployed.
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the state would not tolerate that caesar would not tolerate that so when you send your kids
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to public school you are sending them to state school the state is run by caesar you are rendering
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your children who bear the image of god not caesar they bear the image of god but you're rendering
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them to caesar you must render them to god and in terms of their education that means giving them
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a Christian education, not just surrounding them with Christians in education, but a Christian
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education. That means a Christian worldview. That doesn't just mean a Christian portion
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of their lesson plan, right? 30 minutes of their daily lesson plan is about the Bible.
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That's great. Do that. But it also means, and then we go to literature and math and science,
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And all of these things are taught with a Christian foundation, with a Christian worldview.
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They are being given a Christian education because in that way, by giving our children
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a Christian education in the realm of education, that is what it looks like for us to render
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And they belong to God because they bear God's image.
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Our money may be made in the likeness of Caesar, but our children are made in the likeness
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