Church of Christ at Medina Learning from David March 27 th, 2011

Discipline is a Parent’s Responsibility – and it’s important! Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Lesson # 1 1.David’s failure as a parent was seen in at least three of David’s sons. Amnon Absalom Adonijah 2.David was not the only faithful man who failed to restrain his children. Eli (1 Samuel 3:13) Samuel (1 Samuel 8:3) 1.David’s failure as a parent was seen in at least three of David’s sons. Amnon Absalom Adonijah 2.David was not the only faithful man who failed to restrain his children. Eli (1 Samuel 3:13) Samuel (1 Samuel 8:3)

Discipline is a Parent’s Responsibility – and it’s important! Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Lesson # 1 3.Failing to restrain children only leads to problems. Proverbs 29:15 – “The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.” 3.Failing to restrain children only leads to problems. Proverbs 29:15 – “The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.”

Discipline is a Parent’s Responsibility – and it’s important! Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Lesson # 1 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4

Discipline is a Parent’s Responsibility – and it’s important! Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Lesson # 1 3.God’s word is very plain – failing to provide discipline and direction is a lack of love for your children. Hebrews 12:5-8 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 3.God’s word is very plain – failing to provide discipline and direction is a lack of love for your children. Hebrews 12:5-8 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Discipline is a Parent’s Responsibility – and it’s important! Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Lesson # 1 3.God’s word is very plain – failing to provide discipline and direction is a lack of love for your children. Proverbs 13:24: 24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. Proverbs 19:18: 18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death. 3.God’s word is very plain – failing to provide discipline and direction is a lack of love for your children. Proverbs 13:24: 24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. Proverbs 19:18: 18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Discipline is a Parent’s Responsibility – and it’s important! Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 Lesson # 1 4.God’s word is also very plain – disciplining our children includes “corporal punishment” or spanking. Proverbs 22:15: Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. Proverbs 23:13: Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 4.God’s word is also very plain – disciplining our children includes “corporal punishment” or spanking. Proverbs 22:15: Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. Proverbs 23:13: Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Love Your Wife! Lesson # 2 2 Samuel 12:8-9 “And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. Why have you despised the word of the L ORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.” 2 Samuel 12:8-9 “And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. Why have you despised the word of the L ORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.”

Love Your Wife! Lesson # 2 Proverbs 5:18-23 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? For a man's ways are before the eyes of the L ORD, and he ponders all his paths. The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. Proverbs 5:18-23 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? For a man's ways are before the eyes of the L ORD, and he ponders all his paths. The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.

Love Your Wife! Lesson # 2 Ephesians 5:25-31 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” Ephesians 5:25-31 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Love Your Wife! Lesson # 2 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

Love Your Wife! Lesson # 2 Hebrews 13:4 “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.” Hebrews 13:4 “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”

Actions speak louder than words! Lesson # 3 1.Words are very important. We must teach, instruct, edify and discipline. But, our example could be the most influential way we teach our children. 2.Our actions must be consistent with our words! James 2:14-17 Luke 6:46 Titus 1:16 1 John 3:18 1.Words are very important. We must teach, instruct, edify and discipline. But, our example could be the most influential way we teach our children. 2.Our actions must be consistent with our words! James 2:14-17 Luke 6:46 Titus 1:16 1 John 3:18

Actions speak louder than words! Lesson # 3 3.Some of David’s actions were wrong, but many were right. It was David’s continual willingness to humble himself before God, admit his wrong, and turn from his sin that caused the Lord to hold David in such high regard. 1 Kings 9:4 2 Chronicles 17:3 3.Some of David’s actions were wrong, but many were right. It was David’s continual willingness to humble himself before God, admit his wrong, and turn from his sin that caused the Lord to hold David in such high regard. 1 Kings 9:4 2 Chronicles 17:3