Train Up a Child

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Recognize the need to work together in the home. Psalm 127:1 (NKJV) 1 Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it…

Recognize the need to work together in the home. Psalm 133:1 (NKJV) 1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!

Recognize the need to work together in the home. Colossians 3:20 (NKJV) 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

Recognize the need to work together in the home. The home environment is up to every member of the family to determine: Proverbs 10:1 (NKJV) 1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Recognize the need to work together in the home. The home environment is up to every member of the family to determine: Proverbs 17:25 (NKJV) 25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

Recognize the need to work together in the home. The home environment is up to every member of the family to determine: Proverbs 19:13 (NKJV) 13 A foolish son is the ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

Parent-Child: A Symbiotic Relationship

Parents: children are a blessing. Psalm 127:3–5 (NKJV) 3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; They shall not be ashamed, But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, (Proverbs 22:6) Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. A Sobering Thought: Which Way Will Your Child Go? Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you must be, Prepare for death & follow me. To follow you I’ll not be content, Until I know which way you went!

Parents: You have a responsibility to train up a child. Raising them in a “Christian home” is not enough! 1 Samuel 3:11–14 (NKJV) 11 Then the Lord said to Samuel: “Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. 12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them. 14 And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”

Fathers: Recognize your “patriarchal” duties. 1 Thessalonians 2:11 (NKJV) 11 as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,

Fathers: Recognize your “patriarchal” duties. Ephesians 6:4 (NKJV) 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers: Recognize your “patriarchal” duties. 1 Corinthians 11:3 (NKJV) 3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Fathers: Recognize Your responsibility to discipline. Ephesians 6:4 (NKJV) 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers: Recognize Your responsibility to discipline. Proverbs 29:15 (NKJV) 15 The rod and rebuke give wisdom, But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Fathers: Recognize Your responsibility to discipline. Proverbs 29:15 (NKJV) 15 The rod and rebuke give wisdom, But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Fathers: Recognize Your responsibility to discipline. Proverbs 13:24 (NKJV) 24 He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

Fathers: Recognize Your responsibility to discipline. Proverbs 22:15 (NKJV) 15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

Fathers: Recognize Your responsibility to discipline. Proverbs 23:13–14 (NKJV) 13 Do not withhold correction from a child, For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. 14 You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul from hell.

Fathers: Recognize Your responsibility to discipline. Hebrews 12:5–7 (NKJV) 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; 6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.” 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

Fathers: Recognize Your responsibility to discipline. Deuteronomy 21:18–21 (NKJV) 18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. 20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

Mothers: The Helper By His Side Genesis 2:18 (NKJV) 18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Mothers: The Helper By His Side 2 Timothy 1:5 (NKJV) 5 when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

Covenant (i.e. “Contract”) "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, "because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness ..." - Acts 17:30-31

Multigenerational Covenants Exodus 20:5 (NKJV) 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me

Church Membership is Important! Acts 2:47 (NKJV) …the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved. Colossians 1:24 (NKJV) 24 …Christ…His body, which is the church Ephesians 5:23 (NKJV) 23 …Christ is … the Savior of the body