1. Building the Family from the ground up
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Building the Family from the ground up

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Deuteronomy 6:1-9 – “Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers

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hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as

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frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”

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Psalm 127:3 – “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward.”

6. Home Improvement I. Parents Must Live Right – vs.1-3
A. He Speaks About Reverence
• v.2 – Mentions the “fear of the Lord”
• We are to be aware of His glory, holiness, and majesty

7. Home Improvement I. Parents Must Live Right – vs.1-3
A. He Speaks About Reverence
B. He Speaks About Reactions
• When we fear God, we obey His Word
Joshua 24:15 – “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

8. Home Improvement I. Parents Must Live Right – vs.1-3
A. He Speaks About Reverence
B. He Speaks About Reactions
• When we fear God, we obey His Word
Colossians 3:16 – “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

9. Home Improvement I. Parents Must Live Right – vs.1-3
A. He Speaks About Reverence
B. He Speaks About Reactions
C. He Speaks About Rewards
• God promised Israel that He would bless them if they obeyed His Word
• God still blesses obedience
Psalm 1:1-3 – “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, not standeth in the way of sinners, not sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he…

10. Home Improvement I. Parents Must Live Right – vs.1-3
A. He Speaks About Reverence
B. He Speaks About Reactions
C. He Speaks About Rewards
• God promised Israel that He would bless them if they obeyed His Word
• God still blesses obedience
Psalm 1:1-3 – “…meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season, his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

11. Home Improvement II. Parents Must Love Right – vs.4-5
A. Our Love is to Be Focused on the Lord – v.4
• Too often children see their parents put everything ahead of God
• If you love things more than God, don’t expect your children to be different

12. Home Improvement II. Parents Must Love Right – vs.4-5
A. Our Love is to Be Focused on the Lord – v.4
B. Our Love is to Be Fixed on the Lord – v.5
Psalm 57:7 – “My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed.”

13. Home Improvement III. Parents Must Learn Right – vs.6-9
A. We Are to Study the Word of God – v.6
Colossians 3:16 – “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.”

14. Home Improvement III. Parents Must Learn Right – vs.6-9
A. We Are to Study the Word of God – v.6
II Timothy 2:15 – “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.”

15. Home Improvement III. Parents Must Learn Right – vs.6-9
A. We Are to Study the Word of God – v.6
B. We Are to Share the Word of God – vs.7-9
• Diligently: “To whet or to sharpen”
I Thessalonians 2:11 – “As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children.”

16. Home Improvement III. Parents Must Learn Right – vs.6-9
A. We Are to Study the Word of God – v.6
B. We Are to Share the Word of God – vs.7-9
1. Exhort: “To call to one’s side” – This speaks of an effort to get your children on your team
2. Comfort: “To encourage” – We are to seek to bring out the best in our children
3. Charge: “To call a witness or to protest” – There are times when we cannot condone their behavior and must witness against it

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Proverbs 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”