Hello Family
Everyday Christians: Relationships • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 51:45
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46 While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. 48 But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Thesis:
The family carries the responsibility of promoting and teaching the word of God to build disciples.
Introduction:
It is good to be back with you in person
Our relationship has suffered due to the absence one from the other.
The cares of this world and it’s culture has driven down stream to common worldly concerns and dilemmas.
Dilemmas of Politics and Careers
Concerns of Faith and Discipleship
Now we can once again resume with all fervency the work set before us, to sow the seed of God’s Word and to mature and grow from it as we make our way to Heaven
Thank God for the Church and for Families
The Institution of the Family
The Institution of the Family
Family at home
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
23 Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Family in Church
48 But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
We Regard No one by the Flesh
16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Beware of our Cultures Drift
Beware of our Cultures Drift
Many are rightfully concerned about the cultural drift our society has taken
drift in values
drift in morals
belief in God
These things should be defined, practiced and modeled at home, and the family in Church.
Unfortunately today screen time has replaced, “table time”
Alexa; Google; Siri; and YouTube have replaced the dominion of parents
I asked Alexa this morning if there was a God
she said, “people have there own religious views”
I asked Siri if there was a God
she said, “it’s all a mystery to me”
Our children today are more astute and diverse at
Academics
Politics
Sports
than they are about faith
Right and Wrong for them is determined by social media and the internet
is it ok to lie, cheat and steal is a matter of screen time for them
they have been told that religion is the problem and if you want a world where everybody gets along and everyone prospers, then you need to get away from religion
new atheists embolden by the 9/11 attacks have taken advantage of a world leary of religion and has done a good job steering the world away from it’s tenets.
however they have run into a big problem of spiritual truths and morals
they have driven a culture that is irreverent and self motivated
they have driven a culture that wants to cancel everything and remake it in their own image
so they now promote altruistic methodologies in order to some try to have religion without having religion
Probably the first scripture Jesus was taught was...
1 “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2 that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.
Beware of cultural influence that leads away from God. The threat of armies was minor in comparison to the more serious and prolonged threat of “going with the flow” of Canaanite culture.
10 “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, 12 then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 13 It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you— 15 for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
Illustration:
picture a river following downstream
Culture is a down stream experience
God is an upstream experience
Christians are to swim upstream to the source not go with the flow to the common earthly reward
The Family is Responsible for Making Disciples
The Family is Responsible for Making Disciples
There was a radio program that offered over a hundred dollars to the third caller if they would honestly tell them what the first words were that they said that morning. As you might imagine, many of the responses were profanity laced realizations of people who overslept, stepped on their dog, or realized they left the garage door open. But one man called in with a strong Jewish accent and said: “Shema...
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
After an awkward pause the DJ said, “Wrong number” and hung up.
Jesus would have grown up saying those words every morning and every evening.
They were God-pointed counter-culture words then and now.
And this passage of Scripture, more clearly than any other, instructs us to make the most of the opportunities we have at home as a family.
God is of primary importance.
Love the Lord with all.
Rob Rienow - The biblical purpose of parenting is to do all in our power to impress the hearts of our children with a love for God.
6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
You can’t lead where you won’t go— “on your heart”
Don’t miss “prime time”
moments for teaching and talking about God and his ways
(home time, driving time, bedtime, and breakfast time, dinner time)
There is no other teaching that will effect our children for good than teaching them about God
8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Don’t forget the Lord your God
Literal application: frontlets/symbols - gave rise to the use of the phylactery (small leather containers to hold the texts of Ex 13:1-10; Deut 6:4-9; 11:13-21 inscribed on scrolls)
Metaphorical application: subject of your thoughts, on your mind and heart, remembered at all times : hand and forehead, doorposts and gates
Where have you placed God’s Word?
Do all in your power to impress on your heart and the hearts of your family members that which is #1: God. (Revelation and response)