Respect for children: Why adults are deserving of none

 Many parents think they deserve respect from children, meaning they feel entitled to respect for themselves as parents. This is our entitlement problem, meaning parents feel entitled to things from children, namely respect, honor, and glory, from children and everyone else, just because they popped out a baby. The fact of the matter is that you are not entitled to anything from a child or others around you just for having a glorified title.

It says in Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things, as is well-pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest and trust in the love and grace of parents, with children being able to be themselves and confide anything into parents, with children owing nothing in return to parents, yet nonetheless with children listening to parents out of gratitude for Christian love leading to a secure bond with parents. Christian love for parents is denoted by the Greek root word αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to being convicted of one's wicked depraved sin nature inherent of all adults, leading to submission from a parent to God through one's child, leading to bondservice and indentured servitude towards a child, blissfully paying due penance for one's wretched and entitled existence in relation to children, sacrificing for children just as Christ sacrificed for His children, rendering oneself beneath children, devaluing oneself as their caregiver and servant from that vantage point, leading to good works and being grateful for all acts of kindness and service towards children, but in secret and without bragging, expecting absolutely nothing in return, giving to children without receiving. I am deserving of everything bad and "nasty" from children, and nothing good and respectful, for I am a sinful, depraved, and wicked adult. No adult truly means well around children, and should be struck with reverent terror about their sin nature in relation to children and their power and control over children. I deserve the hatred from children merely for existing in relation to them, and am grateful when children do trust me, as I don't deserve even that. 

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to the offenses in the Bible, meaning the torts and damages imposed by the Eighth Commandment, including assault and battery laws which treated punishing a child as kidnapping, meaning hostage taking of any kind (i.e. "in his own hand"). Child punishment would have been seen as taking one's child hostage, thus falsely imprisoning or kidnapping them. All of this is summed up in the New Testament as the slightest of offense taken by a child in relation to entitled adult behavior, meaning anything that offends a child is objectively a form of child abuse, regardless of the secular laws, aa God's Law is the law of the land, and parents must respect children first. Children first, parents last.

The mothers and fathers alike in ancient Israel were convicted adults, meaning they did not demand respect from their children, but earned it. The attitude is that you deserve, as an an adult, everything bad, mischevious, and disrespectful from your child just for existing, and the only way to remedy this was to give to children without receiving anything in return. Giving without receiving is the central tenet of attachment parenting, which was the normative parenting in ancient Israel.

The depraved and entitled parents will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn and rot in the ever burning lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!