IT ISN'T THE KIDS THAT NEEDS THE WHIPPING, IT'S PAPA AND MAMA

It--it's too bad that mothers don't take their children today and tell them Bible stories. Hard to get a pastor that'll do it, let alone a mother. I think there's--there's five Gospels. You only know four of them in the Bible. But it's Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and mother. Mother gets them when they're young.She ought to start them right there before they know anything about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And mothers would take more time to talk to their children about God and pray for them, we would have less juvenile delinquency. First of all, it's parent delinquency before we have juvenile delinquency. If mothers would take their place in the house, and a Bible, and pray for their children, and lead them to Christ; instead of going out to some stitch and sew party and play cards, and drink, and carry on, and smoke and... Well, I don't want to get started on that. But however... I... It--it's terrible the way we--it's doing.Today I laughed at my poor little wife. We was up to Howard Johnson's to get us one of those three D's. You know that's, usually I don't eat very much during these kind of service. And we were up there. And she seen the--a lady up there that had this here manicure on, you know, ever what the stuff is.~ Be Not Afraid P:31  [61-0311]

You talk about juvenile delinquency, I say it's parent delinquency. You talk about the ignorance of the Kentucky people, some of them old mammies out there... Let their daughters come home of a morning with lipstick all over their face, and hair all twisted up, and clothes half off of them, half...?... with a cigarette in their hand, they'd take a barrel slat, or one of them hickory saplings out there, and she'd know when she went out the next time. Then you say illiterate. They can teach this bunch of hoodlums how to raise children. That's... Oh, maybe I oughtn't to have said that. Well, no. I don't take it back. I said that when the Holy Spirit was anointing me. That's right, exactly right. Yes, sir. Uncertain Sound P:104  [62-0714]

Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you're really beating us women." All right. Here you men are. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear clothes like that, it shows what he's made out of. He's not much man to him, a man that would do that. God give us old fashion, borned again, sainted, godly homes. Juvenile delinquency will be no more. It isn't juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. They had the old wood shed and the big hickory limb laying over the door. That's discipline in our home.All right. You say, "Now, Brother Branham, I... We shouldn't hear that kind of stuff." You should hear it. That's right. You don't let God in that private life. You won't let Him in that little cell of yours on the inside. "Now, don't you tell me what I'm to put on, what I'm to wear. Don't you tell me how I'm to act. And if I want to smoke a cigarette, that's up to me."
Go ahead. "If--if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you," the Scripture says. ~Jesus At The Door P:38  [58-0529]

This old man over there the other day said, "Well," he said, "I tell you." He said, "Here's what it is, sir." I told him I was a minister, the reason I didn't smoke and drink, and so forth. He said, "Well, I--I admire that." He said, "That's right." Said, "When I was on the police force, everything," said, "but juvenile delinquency. That's all we got today."I said, "Sir, I don't want to disagree with you." But I said, "It's not juvenile delinquency. It's parent delinquency. The parents is the delinquents (That's right.) letting their kids do like that." They need a... They... You... What did you do? You put a "True Story" magazine on your table instead of the Bible. Instead of prayer meetings you had to run out somewhere and do something else. That's what's the matter with the world today. That's what's the matter with our called Christians: dancing, parties, and social drinking, and, oh, everything. See? It's parent delinquency, not child delinquency. The parent is delinquent; that's the one.~ World's Falling Apart P:103  [63-0412M]

Now, He was on His road down to Jericho. Jerusalem sets on the hill; Jericho sits in a valley. He was going to Jericho, but He had need to go by Samaria. Now, that's a city of Sychar. He stopped. He sent His disciples in to get something to eat, must've been about noontime.While they were gone, there was a pretty woman come out there. She was of a ill-fame. We know what you mean there, the red-light type. But she might've been a lovely girl. No doubt but what she was a lovely girl, but maybe she had something to cause that. Maybe her mother turned her on the street when she was a kid. You know, we talk so much in America about juvenile delinquency. It ain't juvenile delinquent; it's parent delinquency. Sometimes a girl goes wrong because her mother don't make her do right. That's exactly right, so... Lot of times it's parents' fault, not children, a juvenile delinquency.~Sir We Would See Jesus P:68  [62-0724]

And let me say this with reverence and with respect: If these American mothers and fathers would put more time praying for their children like Job did, there'd be less juvenile delinquency. The trouble of it is, our modern American mothers and fathers lead them to drinking, and to card playing, and to cigarette smoking, and things of that sort, which makes juvenile delinquency. It really isn't juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. Neglecting to come to God and find Him, then trouble strikes.When trouble struck Job, he'd offered a burnt offering, come up on the only grounds that God will receive a believer, that's on the burnt sacrifice and the blood. So when trouble struck his house, God was a present help in the time of trouble.
When they accused him of being a secret sinner, he knew that he was righteous with God, because he met God's requirements. Then he could say, "I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last day He will stand on the earth. Though the skinworms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I will see God." He... Why? He knew that he'd come God's provided way. He didn't come by the membership of his church; he come by God's sacrifice. That was what God required. Certainly. ~Thinking On Our Ways P:25  [59-0706]

It isn't the kids that needs the whipping, it's papa and mama, for letting them do like that. That... It isn't juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. And I think a lot of pulpit delinquency, for they just let them get by and say nothing about it, when there it is in the Word.Now, now the Bible... Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath (past tense) committed adultery with her in his heart already." And when that sinner goes to the judgment to have to answer for an adultery, it'll fly right back: Who did you commit it with? With you. Though you never done the act, but the Bible said you're guilty anyhow. Who's to blame then? "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." ~ End Time Evangelism P:49  [62-0603]