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A Father’s Commandment a Mothers Law
A Father’s Commandment a Mothers Law
Parenting is a tough business (expand); the sorrows (expand) the joys (expand) the instruction. The primary place we get our pearls of wisdom, our instruction is from God’s Word.
(Illustration) - parents dusty bible or a well broken in one? Which is it going to be?
(Slide) From the Bible we learn a Father’s commandments and a mothers law.
I. The Command ()
I. The Command ()
20 My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother; 21 Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
A. (Slide) The object
(Slide) The Fathers command - in generations past the bible was a center of many families, the Father would read, tell you God’s Word. The hope was that you would go from your Fathers Bible and His teaching the commands of the Bible to your heart where you can apply God’s Word.
(slide) The mother’s law - for the most part the mother was the person who daily took care of you, gave you the law of the land in the household and helped you to learn to adhere to the fathers commands. Both your earthly father and your Heavenly Father.
(Slide) The Mothers Law - your mom cared for you daily, making sure your needs were met, she gave you instruction the law of the land in the household and it was best to adhere to a mothers teaching. - Remember in Proverbs wisdom is referred to in feminine form. So it is wise to listen to the wise teaching and follow the commands of the father.
B. (Slide) Application of the command
Keep (adhere to closely and earnestly)
Forsake not (The warning)
Bind (the thing to do)
Tie (the way to do it)
Now there is too much to just gloss over this so let’s spend a little time on the application of the command.
(Slide) Keep - adhere to closely and earnestly
Keep the commands so all will be well with you () - scripture below
Keep the commands to prove your love () - scripture below
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40 “So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
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21 “He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”
(Slide) Forsake not - (the warning)
We are not to turn aside from the commands (2Chr24:20)
We can also look at Pro4:5-7 too
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20 Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus God has said, ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, He has also forsaken you.’ ”
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5 Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding! Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth. 6 “Do not forsake her, and she will guard you; Love her, and she will watch over you. 7 “The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire wisdom; And with all your acquiring, get understanding.
(Slide) Bind - bind them write them on your heart
Put them before you always (Deut6:8)
Write the on your heart (Pro3:3)
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8 “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.
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3 Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
(Slide) Tie - tie them around your neck
(Slide) When something is around your neck it is around you and with you always.
(Slide) We are to take the fathers commands and the mothers teaching and apply them to our lives
(Slide) Taking God’s Word and making it our life
II. The Reasons (Pro6:22-23)
II. The Reasons (Pro6:22-23)
Three-fold benefit of the Word
Guidance
Protection
22 When you walk about, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when you awake, they will talk to you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of life
22 When you walk about, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when you awake, they will talk to you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of life
(Slide) Three-fold benefit of the Word
(Slide) Guidance
(Slide) Protection
(Slide) Provision
(Slide) Guidance - the Lord will guide you
Guides you on paths of righteousness (Slide) ()
3 He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
For His namesake He will lead you (Slide) ()
3 For You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name’s sake You will lead me and guide me.
Let’s not leave out any N.T. guidance, God uses people to help guide us through the Word - (Slide)
31 And he said, “Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
(Slide) Protection - while sleeping He keeps us
Building the word in your life, in your heart will protect you in the times of storms -
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
(Slide) Provision -He will provide for you through His Word.
He will meet your needs -
9 The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
He provides for creation and will provide for you -
8 Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who provides rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
God’s Word written on your heart helps you in life situations. You know when you recall a scripture to help you in situation? Like when feeling anxious you remember -
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
(Slide) Three-fold description of the Word
A Lamp
A light
Way of Life
(Slide) A Lamp - gives us clarity so we can see -
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
(Slide) A light - clarifies and brightens the path
(Slide) Way of life - the word corrects, rebukes us, it encourages us with positive instruction on the path of life we are to be on. -
28 In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death.
III. The Result (Pro6:24)
III. The Result (Pro6:24)
24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
(Slide) It will keep you from evil
It will keep you from specific evil
(Slide) Keep you from evil in general - this would if filled with evil, evil being defined as against God. (if you are not for Him you are against Him)
(Slide) Keep you from specific evil - in this scripture it is speaking of the adulterous woman, but . . .
Can’t the adulterous woman be anything that detours you, distracts you, derails, discourages you in your walk with Christ?
The Word will remind you of who you were and who you are in Christ. Who God is and what He did for you in sending the Son. What the Son did so that you could be in Christ (in Him).
(Slide) - Invitation The Word, the command, the teaching all is to help lead us to eternal life, and the assurance of that life, when you walk in the Light!