Parents And Children
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
As most of you know we have been studying “The Glorious Church Of Christ” within the pages of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians in our Prison Epistles Series and so far we have determined..
The body or church of Christ is that which has been eternally planned ().
When we are “outside of Christ’s body” we are dead in our trespasses and sins which is why it is so important to be a part of the “body of Christ” ().
God made it possible to “enter into the eternally planned church” through the blood of Christ and His Law it created which unified all the peoples both Jew and Gentile ().
This “unity of the spirit” keeps the bond of peace through adhering to the “calling to which you have been called” through proper leadership in the “The Glorious Church Of Christ” ().
Those under proper leadership those that are “made new in Christ” are expected to walk “not in futility of mind” but “according to truth and love (:-5:21) as well as sacrifice and submission to one another” ().
God’s discourse on sacrifice and submission, through Paul, is where we continue today after already looking at the “Husband/Wife Relationship.”
That brings us to God’s short excerpt on the relationship between “Parents & Children.”
With that in mind let’s examine our lesson.
God Fearing Fathers
God Fearing Fathers
Fathers are to care for their kids physical needs.
Fathers are to care for their kids physical needs.
It is a father’s responsibility to care for his family’s physical needs.
This includes, but isn’t limited to, providing their shelter, clothing, food, safety.
8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
We have far too many “dads” abandoning the family they helped create.
“According to the 2017 Census Bureau, out of about 12 million single parent families with children under the age of 18, more than 80% were headed by single mothers.” (http://bit.ly/2Q9y3sz)
Fathers are to care for their kids spiritual needs.
Fathers are to care for their kids spiritual needs.
Fathers, not mothers, are responsible for leading children in spiritual matters.
It is disturbing to know, as many families as I do in the Lord’s church, that have only mothers truly “providing real spiritual guidance.” However, this isn’t what Paul told the church in our text.
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
It’s the father that is to “bring the children up…in the Lord.”
It’s the father that is to “bring the children up…in the Lord.”
This means fathers are responsible for making sure their kid are getting...
i. Fathers, not mothers, are responsible for leading children in spiritual matters.
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It is disturbing to know as many “families” as I do in the Lord’s church that have only mothers “providing real spiritual guidance.” However, remember what Paul told the church in Ephesus in our text.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
However, remember what Paul told the church in Ephesus.
The proper answers to life’s greatest questions.
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
“Who am I.” They are God’s creation.
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
It is the father that is to “bring the children up…in the Lord.”
“Why am I here?” To be loved by God & love God.
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
“Is there anything after this life?” Yes, a home with God.
2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.”
Jn 14:
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Father’s are more than “bread winners” they are the spiritual leaders of the home.
Anything less is not living up to the expectations of God the Father.
God Fearing Mothers
God Fearing Mothers
Mothers are to care for their kids physical needs.
Mothers are to care for their kids physical needs.
They are the real “home-makers.”
It is a mother that makes the place where her children live into a “home.”
She does this by providing a safe and comfortable place.
In reality she lives by Jesus’ words in .
35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’
This commitment to making a home isn’t always known or easy to a young mother but a good mother listens to those that have been there and done that.
3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
A good mother cares for her kids physical needs.
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Mothers are to care for their kids spiritual needs.
Mothers are to care for their kids spiritual needs.
Though fathers are expected to lead their families in the right spiritual direction, it is the mothers that often have the greatest impact on kids.
This isn’t to say dad’s don’t, they should, but mothers are often around more and more emotionally connected with kids than dads.
5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
Spiritually minded mothers will always hold a special place in their children’s hearts.
Remember the children of the Virtuous Woman?
“Her children rise up and call her blessed” ().
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Blessed indeed is the mother that loves her children enough to care for their physical and spiritual needs.
Blessed indeed is the mother that loves her children enough to care for their physical and spiritual needs.
God Fearing Children
God Fearing Children
Children are to honor their parents.
Children are to honor their parents.
Honoring one’s parents means to obey one’s parents.
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
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Obedient children...
Listen to their teaching and training.
8 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, 9 for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.
5 A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
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Are grateful for what their parents have done for them.
32 “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord. 33 “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
11 There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
11 There is a generation that curses its father, And does not bless its mother.
32 “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord. 33 “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
11 There is a generation that curses its father, And does not bless its mother.
Pr 30:11
Do not mock or treat their parents shamefully.
11 There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
32 “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
17 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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11 There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
17 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
Children don’t pick their parents.
Children don’t pick their parents.
First, let me make this point, parents are those that raise you not biologically create you.
Second, if one’s parents are not godly that is not an excuse to “dishonor them.”
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Honor only if the person is personally perceived as deserving.+
Honor only if the person always reciprocates.
Honor only if it is pleasing to you to do so.
Honor only if it “feels right.”
Honor only if other people also do.
Consider for a moment with me.
10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’ 11 See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.
Notice, even though Saul was trying to kill David, he showed Saul great honor.
However, respecting and honoring parents does not mean following them into sin.
A parents authority over their child is granted by God () but the one who is adopted by God must obey Him over his/her earthly parents.
29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Respect for a parent must not exceed respect for God.
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It is most proper for a child to love, honor, and respect his/her parents as God would have them do.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Parents train your children to be better parents and workers for the Lord than you even are.
Give them the fighting spiritual chance they need to get to heaven.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.