JONELA ALVAREZ TASK

SECTION IX: Father – The House-Band

CHAPTER 34: FATHER’S POSITION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. What’s role of the father as the husband and also the house-band?

 The husband is the house-band of the home treasures, binding by his strong, earnest, devoted,
affection the members of the household, mother and children, together in the strongest bonds of
union. His name, “house-band,” is the true definition of husband. The husband and father is the
head of the household.

2. When the father-husband meets a lot of troubles in his business transactions or work, what’s the
advice for him from the spirit of prophecy and also from the Bible?

 The advice for him from the spirit of prophecy and also from the bible, “Resist the devil,” by firm
reliance upon God, “and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you.”
“Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace
with Me.” Look unto Jesus at all times and in all places, offering a silent prayer from a sincere
heart that you may know how to do His will. Then when the enemy comes in like a flood, the
Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard for you against the enemy.

3. What is a fitting prayer for a quick-tempered husband?

 “Help me, O God, to resist temptation, to put all bitterness and wrath and evils peeking out of my
heart. Give me Thy meekness, Thy lowliness, Thy long-suffering, and Thy love. Leave me not to
dishonor my Redeemer, to misinterpret the words and motives of my wife, my children, and my
brethren and sisters in the faith. Help me that I may be kind, pitiful, tenderhearted, forgiving.
Help me to be a real house-band in my home and to represent the character of Christ to others.

SECTION XIII: THE USE OF MONEY

CHAPTER 65: PROVISION FOR THE FUTURE

1. Even when children of God have income, why is home ownership and savings very important to
be practiced?

 We have a lesson to learn. It is to make a little go the longest way. When we neglect to learn the
lessons of economy our characters will not be found perfect in the day of God.

2. Why are God’s children advices to prepare for future needs of their children like education,
housing, and for themselves retirement, burial, health insurance and prepare inheritance for their
children?

 Every week you should lay by in some secure place five or ten dollars not to be used up unless in
case of sickness. With economy you may place something at interest. With wise management you
can save something after paying your debts
3. What’s the duty of Christians regarding the extension of help for God’s cause/missionary work
and workers?

 You might today have had a capital of means to use in case of emergency and to aid the cause of
God, if you had economized as you should. Every week a portion of your wages should be
reserved and in no case touched unless suffering actual want, or to render back to the Giver in
offerings to God

4. Why is savings necessary to form as habits useful for each family and training of children?

 Parents should have great fear in entrusting children with the talents of means that God has
placed in their hands, unless they have the surest evidence that their children have greater interest
in, love for, and devotion to the cause of God than they themselves possess, and that these
children will be more earnest and zealous in forwarding the work of God and more benevolent in
carrying forward the various enterprises connected with in which call for means.

5. Last Will and Testament – If a family has real estate or property, what is the advice for them
while still in good health about these preparations before they die?

 Let no one think that he will meet the mind of Christ in hoarding up property through life and
then at death making a bequest of a portion of it to some benevolent cause

6. Even if brethren leave wills to their immediate family members, why are we reminded not to
forget God’s cause?

 Some selfishly retain their means during their lifetime, trusting to make up for their neglect by
remembering the cause in their wills. But not half the means thus bestowed in legacies ever
benefits the object specified. Brethren and sisters, invest in the bank of heaven yourselves, and do
not leave your stewardship upon another.

7. As God’s stewards, what is our stand regarding the wealth He entrusts in our hands?

 They know not the value of the inheritance they have squandered. Had their fathers and mothers
set them a proper example, not in hoarding but in imparting their wealth, they would have laid up
for themselves treasure in heaven and received a return even in this world of peace and happiness
and in the future life eternal riches.

8. Even we are advice to save money, why is hoarding wealth becomes a curse instead of a
blessing?

 As what Ellen G. White says “Those who acquire wealth for the purpose of hoarding it leave the
curse of wealth to their children. It is a sin, an awful, soul-periling sin for fathers and mothers to
do this, and this sin extends to their posterity. That is why we should not be selfish, share as long
as you don’t need the money.

9. So sacred is the training of parents to their children about helping to forward the cause of God.
What will be its eternal consequences?
  It is a sin, an awful, soul-periling sin for fathers and mothers to do this, and this sin extends to
their posterity. Often the children spend their means in foolish extravagance, in riotous living, so
that they become beggars.

SECTION XIV: GUARDING THE AVENUES OF THE SOUL

CHAPTER 66: THE PORTALS WE MUST WATCH

1. What could be the reason why God gave us eyes, ears, mouth and other body parts, specially our
brain and heart?

 God gave men eyes, that they might behold wondrous things out of His law. He gave them the
hearing ear that they might listen to His message, spoken by the living preacher. He gave men the
talent of speech that they might present Christ as the sin-pardoning Saviour. With the heart man
believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

2. How does Satan gain entrance to our soul temple (our body)?

 All should guard the senses, lest Satan gain victory over them; for these are the avenues of the
soul. You will have to become a faithful sentinel over your eyes, ears, and all your senses if you
would control your mind and prevent vain and corrupt thoughts from staining your soul. The
power of grace alone can accomplish this most desirable work.

3. What’s Satan’s purpose why he wants to entice our senses?

 Satan's work is to lead men to ignore God, to so engross and absorb the mind that God will not be
in their thoughts. The education they have received has been of a character to confuse the mind
and eclipse the true light. Satan does not wish the people to have knowledge of God; and if he can
set in operation games and theatrical performances that will so confuse the senses of the young
that human beings will perish in darkness while light shines all about them, he is well pleased.

4. Whose side we can abide safely? What do we need to do so that we stay safe and secure in His
side?
 We should present before the people the fact that God has provided that we shall not be tempted
above what we are able to bear, but that with every temptation He will make a way of escape. If
we live wholly for God, we shall not allow the mind to indulge in selfish imaginings.

5. We have the authority over our mind and body. What is it?

 All who name the name of Christ need to watch and pray and guard the avenues of the soul, for
Satan is at work to corrupt and destroy if the least advantage is given him.

6. What’s our only CAPITAL in going to heaven? p. 404

 They should shut their eyes, that they may see and learn no evil. They should close their ears, lest
they hear that which is evil and obtain that knowledge which would stain their purity of thoughts
and acts. And they should guard their tongues, lest they utter corrupt communications and guile
be found in their mouths.
 7. Who are our helpers – unseen yet constantly working to uphold God’s BANNER or
STANDARD?

 Good angels are ministering spirits, exerting a heavenly influence upon heart and mind; while the
great adversary of souls, the devil, and his angels are continually labouring to accomplish our
destruction.

SECTION XVI: THE HOME AND ITS SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

CHAPTER 73: OUR SOCIAL NEEDS

1. How far our social influence is be felt when our youth join different associates?

 Everyone will find companions or make them. And just in proportion to the strength of the
friendship will be the amount of influence which friends will exert over one another for good or
for evil. All will have associates and will influence and be influenced in their turn.

2. What are the blessings of Christian sociability?

 Christian sociability is altogether too little cultivated by God's people.... Those who shut
themselves up within themselves, who are unwilling to be drawn upon to bless others by friendly
associations, lose many blessings; for by mutual contact minds receive polish and refinement; by
social intercourse acquaintances are formed and friendships contracted which result in a unity of
heart and an atmosphere of love which is pleasing in the sight of heaven.

SECTION XVI: THE HOME AND ITS SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

CHAPTER 74: SAFE AND UNSAFE ASSOCIATION

1. Parents are to guide their children whom they should provide as friends by exposing to them their
friends. What are the blessings when joining Christian associates and the curses when joining
ungodly or evil associations? Think of the consequences for heaven or for hell?

 If we place ourselves among associates whose influence has a tendency to make us forgetful of
the high claims the Lord has upon us, we invite temptation and become too weak in moral power
to resist it. We come to partake of the spirit and cherish the ideas of our associates and to place
sacred and eternal things lower than the ideas of our friends. We are, in short, leavened just as the
enemy of all righteousness designed we should be.

2. Learn from Solomon’s downfall. What was it?

 Those who in the way of duty are brought into trial may be sure that God will preserve them; but
if men wilfully place themselves under the power of temptation, they will fall sooner or later.

3. What’s the danger of going and associating with the ungodly? Read and later memorize Psalm
1:1-6

 If children are with those whose conversation is upon unimportant, earthly things, their minds
will come to the same level. If they hear the principles of religion slurred and our faith belittled, if
sly objections to the truth are dropped in their hearing, these things will fasten in their minds and
mold their characters.
4. Do you remember your parents praying for you? What remains in your mind that they prayed for
you? What’s the effect in your mental and emotional health and perspective?

 Yes, I become more avoid in many possibilities of worldly deceptions.

5. Why are children of God admonished to beware of those who are indifferent to religion? Those
who are underestimating us because we always talk of faith, prayer, and Bible study topics.

 If children are with those whose conversation is upon unimportant, earthly things, their minds
will come to the same level. If they hear the principles of religion slurred and our faith belittled, if
sly objections to the truth are dropped in their hearing, these things will fasten in their minds and
mold their characters.
6. When there will be family reunions, why should we not focus or center our affection on worldly
relatives?

 We cannot serve God and the world at the same time. We must not center our affections on
worldly relatives, who have no desire to learn the truth. We may seek in every way, while
associated with them, to let our light shine; but our words, our deportment, our customs and
practices, should not in any sense be molded by their ideas and customs.

7. Many friends also who have low standards and low morals need to be shunned. What could be
our reason for avoiding them?

 It is wrong for Christians to associate with those whose morals are loose. An intimate, daily
intercourse which occupies time without contributing in any degree to the strength of the intellect
or morals is dangerous. If the moral atmosphere surrounding persons is not pure and sanctified,
but is tainted with corruption, those who breathe this atmosphere will find that it operates almost
insensibly upon the intellect and heart to poison and to ruin.

8. Children yield to temptation because they fear to be ridiculed. How will the mother instruct her
children to be upright amid scorn and ridicule?

 Children should have companions who will not ridicule what is pure and worthy, but will rather
advocate what is right. The fear of ridicule leads many a youth to yield to temptation and to walk
in the way of the ungodly. Mothers may do much by example as well as by precept to show their
children how to be upright amid scorn and ridicule.

9. How will we behave in front of strangers? Why are we to think always that angels are around us
recording all what we are doing?

 Do nothing before strangers that you would not do before your father and mother, or that you
would be ashamed of before Christ and the holy angels.

10. What can we learn from Daniel and his companions as they associated with those who dishonor
God?

 Sometimes God in His providence may bring our youth into association with those who are
impure and intemperate. He will give them strength of purpose and power to resist temptation,
even as He did Daniel and his associates in Babylon, if they will co-operate with Him.

11. What kind of companions will we choose to nurture our spiritual growth?
  Choose companions who will help them in right doing, and will shun society that gives no aid in
the development of right principles and noble purposes.

SECTION XVI: THE HOME AND ITS SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

CHAPTER 75: PARENTAL GUIDANCE IN SOCIAL AFFAIRS

1. How will parents’ guide their children in choosing companions or associates, especially if
children have not yet formed their character at a young age?

 Parents, your sons and daughters are not properly guarded. They should never be permitted to go
and come when they please, without your knowledge and consent.

2. What is the peril or danger of unlimited freedom granted to children by permissive parents?

 The dangers of the young are greatly increased as they are thrown into the society of a large
number of their own age, of varied character and habits of life. Under these circumstances many
parents are inclined to relax rather than redouble their own efforts to guard and control their
children. Under the cover of darkness boys collect in groups to learn their first lessons in card
playing, gambling, smoking, and wine or beer sipping.

3. Who should choose children’s associates? And what could be the reason if they allow their
children to associate with youth of questionable morals?

 Parents should remember that association with those of lax morals and coarseness of character
will have a detrimental influence upon the youth. If they fail to choose proper society for their
children, if they allow them to associate with youth of questionable morals, they place them, or
permit them to place themselves, in a school where lessons of depravity are taught and practiced..

4. Some children tell lies to their parents where they are when evenings are spent somewhere. What
can be done with these dishonest reports to their parents?

 Every son and daughter should be called to account if absent from home at night. Parents should
know what company their children are in and at whose house they spend their evenings. Some
children deceive their parents with falsehoods to avoid exposure of their wrong course.

5. What do you notice when a field is uncultivated? Thus, it is the same with our youth. What
should parents do with this situation?

 Leave a field uncultivated, and it will grow up to thorns and briers. You will never see a lovely
flower or a choice shrub peering above the unsightly, poisonous weeds. The worthless bramble
will grow luxuriantly without thought or care, while plants that are valued for use or beauty
require thorough culture. Thus it is with our youth. If right habits are formed and right principles
established, there is earnest work to be done. If wrong habits are corrected, diligence and
perseverance are required to accomplish the task.
6. Describe how restraint to children should be done.

 The parents should not concede to the inclinations of their children, but should follow the plain
path of duty which God has marked out, restraining them in kindness, denying with firmness and
determination, yet with love, their wrong desires, and with earnest, prayerful, persevering effort
leading their steps away from the world upward to heaven.

7. If the youth are not willing to submit to authority, what is the indication of this?

 Guard your children from every objectionable influence possible; for in childhood they are more
ready to receive impressions, either of moral dignity, purity, and loveliness of character, or of
selfishness, impurity, and disobedience. Once let them become influenced by the spirit of
murmuring, pride, vanity, and impurity, and the taint may be as indelible as life itself.

8. Chaperons or guardians vs. unaccompanied visits to other places. Which is advisable to young
people? Why?

 Indeed, because some parents mistake in giving their children too much liberty. They sometimes
have so much confidence in them that they do not see their faults. It is wrong to allow children, at
some expense, to visit at a distance, unaccompanied by their parents or guardians. It has a wrong
influence upon the children.

9. How do parents counteract unwise advice from people? pp. 470 – 471

 Keep your children at their home; and if people say to you, “Your children will not know how to
conduct themselves in the world,” tell your friends that you are not so concerned about that
matter, but that you do want to take them to the Master for His blessing, even as the mothers of
old took their children to Jesus. Say to your advisers: Children are the heritage of the Lord, and I
want to prove faithful to my trust.

10. What is the correct way of training children to say “no” to temptations?

 My children must be brought up in such a way that they shall not be swayed by the influences of
the world, but where, when tempted to sin, they may be able to say a square, hearty no.” ...Tell
your friends and neighbours that you want to see your family inside the gates of the beautiful city.