Romans 5:19
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
PP 48
…Adam, the father and representative of the whole human family.
CG 475
The inheritance of children is that of sin… As related to the first Adam, men receive from him nothing but guilt and the sentence of death.
HS 138, 139
Selfishness is inwrought in our very being. It has come to us as an inheritance…
Ed 29
The result of the eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil is manifest in every man’s experience. There is in his nature a bent to evil, a force which, unaided, he cannot resist.
RH Jan 4, 1881
…we must remember that our hearts are naturally depraved, and we are unable, of ourselves, to pursue a right course. It is only by the grace of God, combined with the most earnest efforts on our part, that we can gain the victory.
MLT 52
If you will battle against selfish human nature, you will go forward steadily in the work of overcoming hereditary and cultivated tendencies to wrong.
RH Nov 29, 1887
From the cross to the crown there is earnest work to be done. There is wrestling with inbred sin; there is warfare against outward wrong.
Phil 4:7
and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
ST March 17, 1887
We may have the peace which passeth understanding; but it will cost us battles with the powers of darkness, struggles severe against selfishness and inbred sin.
5BC 1128
The first Adam was created a pure, sinless being, without a taint of sin upon him; he was in the image of God. He could fall, and he did fall through transgressing. Because of sin his posterity was born with inherent propensities of disobedience.
Exodus 20:5
For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
2T 62
You have transmitted to your children a miserable legacy, a depraved nature rendered still more depraved by your gross habits of eating and drinking.
Psalm 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
MLT 261
The natural heart is full of hatred to the truth, as it is to Jesus. Unless parents shall make it the first business of their lives to guide their children’s feet into the path of righteousness from their earliest years, the wrong path will be chosen before the right.
RH Oct 14, 1875
Children are the lawful prey of the enemy, because they are not subjects of grace, have not experienced the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus, and the evil angels have access to these children; and some parents are careless and suffer them to work with but little restraint. Parents have a great work to do in this matter, by correcting and subduing their children, and then by bringing them to God and claiming his blessing upon them. By the faithful and untiring efforts of the parents, and the blessing and grace entreated of God upon the children, the power of the evil angels will be broken, a sanctifying influence will be shed upon the children, and the powers of darkness will be compelled to give back.
2T 360
Let me tell you that children are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He takes possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted.
AH 202
Eternal vigilance must be manifested with regard to our children. With his manifold devices Satan begins to work with their tempers and their wills as soon as they are born.
3T 564, 565
Our youth want mothers who will teach them from their very cradles to control passion, to deny appetite, and to overcome selfishness. They need line upon line and precept upon precept, here a little and there a little.
AH 205
You cannot bring up your children as you should without divine help; for the fallen nature of Adam always strives for the mastery.
Prov. 22:15
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
ST April 8, 1886
“Foolishness,” says the wise man, “is bound in the heart of a child.” The love of folly, the desire to do evil, the hatred of holy things, are some of the difficulties that parents must meet in the home mission field.
Rom 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
CG 249, 250
The iniquity that is bound up in the heart of a child must be met and overcome by parents and teachers. Wrong must be dealt with promptly and wisely, with firmness and decision. Hatred of restraint, love of self-indulgence, indifference to things of eternity, must be met and overcome by parents and teachers. Wrong must be dealt with promptly and wisely, with firmness and decision. Hatred of restraint, love of self-indulgence, indifference to things of eternity, must be carefully dealt with. Unless evil is eradicated, the soul will be lost. And more than this: he who gives himself up to follow in Satan’s lead seeks constantly to entice others. From our children’s earliest years we should seek to subdue in them the spirit of the world.
Prov. 22:15
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
Prov 29: 15
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Gal 6:7, 8
7) Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
8) For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
Eccl 8:11
Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
RH May 4, 1886
Oh, the sin of parental neglect! How many children are lost to God and become a source of sorrow and distress to their parents, because they are not trained according to God’s express directions! What a history the Judgment will reveal of affliction and misery produced by the children of parents who professed to be Christians, but who did not make the word of God their standard, their rule of life! What a record of crimes of every magnitude will then be opened to the view of parents, and traced to their lax discipline! Their children, like Eli’s, did wickedly from childhood; but instead of firmly restraining them, they caressed and indulged them. The inborn evil of the natural heart was permitted to grow and strengthen.
5MR 206
If parents neglect their duty, and leave their children to indulge in wicked, evil passions, the destroying angel will cut them down, and you parents will have an awful account to give for the neglect of your children. You, who have not done your duty, now awake and redeem the time. It is but short, but you can work faithfully and can do much for your children. God corrects us when we err and go astray from Him, and you should correct your children when they do wrong. It will be for their happiness here and hereafter.
RH Sept 19, 1907
Parents, be loyal to God. Represent him in the home life. Look upon the training of your children as a sacred work, entrusted to you by the Most High.
ST May 4, 1888
If we desire them to love and reverence God, we must make him the theme of our meditations; we must speak of his goodness, his majesty, and his power. If we would have them love and imitate the character of Christ, we must ourselves represent Christ in our homes.
2 Cor 5:14, 15
14) For the love of Christ constrains us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
15) and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
1 John 4:19
We love Him because He first loved us.
CG 475
The inheritance of children is that of sin.
ST May 19, 1890
We have reason for ceaseless gratitude to God that Christ, by his perfect obedience, has won back the heaven that Adam lost through disobedience. Adam sinned, and the children of Adam share his guilt and its consequences; but Jesus bore the guilt of Adam, and all the children of Adam that will flee to Christ, the second Adam, may escape the penalty of transgression.
Exodus 12:3, 6, 7, 12, 13
3) “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
6) Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
7) And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
12) For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13) Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
John 6:51, 63
51) “I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
63) “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”
RH March 28, 1893
The destroying angel is soon to go forth again, not to destroy the first-born alone, but “to slay utterly old and young, both men, women, and little children” who have not the mark. Parents, if you wish to save your children, separate them from the world, keep them from the company of wicked children; for if you suffer them to go with wicked children, you cannot prevent them from partaking of their wickedness and being corrupted. It is your solemn duty to watch over your children, to choose the society at all times for them. Teach your children to obey you, then can they more easily obey the commands of God, and yield to his requirements. Don’t let us neglect to pray with and for our children. He who said, “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me,” will listen to our prayers for them, and the seal, or mark, of believing parents will cover their children, if they are trained up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
DA 512
Even the babe in its mother’s arms may dwell as under the shadow of the Almighty through the faith of the praying mother.