The Parent Trap Proverbs 22:6

Parent Trap Purpose of this series 1. Give us the Biblical picture of the modern family 2. Emphasize our role in loving this lost culture 3. Highlight God’s redemptive hand in the midst of sin and confusion

Parent Trap Deuteronomy 6:4-9 4 “Hear, O Israel: The L ORD our God, the L ORD is one. 5 You shall love the L ORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

Parent Trap Deuteronomy 6:4-9 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. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Parent Trap Deuteronomy 6:4-9 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Parent Trap Ephesians 6:1-4 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), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Parent Trap Ephesians 6:1-4 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Parent Trap Proverbs 22:6 6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Parent Trap Parenting Practices for any age Parent 1. Own your responsibility as a parent -Deut. 6: Apply a Biblical filter for their values -Deut. 6:4-9

Parent Trap Parenting Practices for any age Parent 3. What you wear influence what they wear -2 Tim. 2:2, Eph. 5:1 4. Talk with your kids, not at them -Eph. 6:1-4

Parent Trap Parenting Practices for any age Parent 5. Remember, your child is a sinner -Prov, 22:6, Rom What’s rewarded is repeated -Eph. 1:15-19