1. Strong Families Raise Good Decision-Makers Deuteronomy 6:4-7

2. God’s Template for Teaching Children

3. Deuteronomy 6: 4 – 7 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

4. Deuteronomy 6: 4 – 7 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

5. God’s Template for Teaching Children Step 1: Love God. Step 2: Live His Word. Step 3: Teach your children to do the same.

6. An Old Testament example = Daniel Daniel 1: 20 “In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom”

7. A New Testament Example = Timothy 2 Timothy 1: 5 “I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice...”

8. 2 Timothy 3:14 –17 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

9. 2 Timothy 3:14 –17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

10. God’s Template for Teaching Children Step 1: Love God. Step 2: Live His Word. Step 3: Teach your children to do the same.

11. Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

12. WISDOM 1. The roots of wisdom begin with God. 2. The results of wisdom come from His Word.

13. Psalm 119:97 – 99 Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.

14. Psalm 119: 100 – 102 I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts. I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word. I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.

15. Psalm 119: 103 – 105 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

16. WISDOM 1. The roots of wisdom begin with God. 2. The results of wisdom come from His Word. 3. The rewards of wisdom are wise children.

17. Proverbs 23:15-16 My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad; my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

18. How Do You... ? 1. …Love God? 2. …Live His Word? 3. …Teach your children to do the same?