Children are deficient in four areas.

Mentally, we want to stimulate them to know the truth of God.

Physically, we want to nourish them so that they can grow up.

Socially, we want to teach them humility and the love of others spiritually we want to confront their

sin and bring them to the place of repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

If you've ever taken a philosophy class

you've probably heard the theory popularized by John Locke called Tabula

Rossa. The basic idea is that a child's mind and soul is a blank slate at birth. He's not

morally good or bad, only neutral. And that's a popular notion these days, but is it a biblical one?

Bottom line, what does the Bible say about our moral condition, even when we're babies?

It would be hard to overstate just how important that question is.

In fact, your answer affects every aspect of your parenting,

from the way you discipline to what you teach your kids about God and salvation. So stay right here as

John MacArthur helps you examine your child's nature through a biblical lens.

It's part of his current study, The Fulfilled Family. And here's

John with today's lesson. Open your Bible, if you will, to Ephesians chapter

6. Ephesians Chapter 6. The family, as we have been saying all through this series, is the critical

center of society. The family is the seed bed of economic skills, social skills,

morality, ethics, values, attitudes toward work, faith in God, you name it.

When things go well in the family, life is worth living. When they don't go well and the family life falls apart.

And clearly in our time and in our country life is falling apart. Children are largely the

devastated ones in this disintegration, without proper love, without proper discipline, we are

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