Goals of Parenting
Posted 3/18/2006 7:11:28 PM
Goals
- Teach the Law De 6
- De 6.2; 4:10; 11:19
- Fear the Lord your God
- Keep his statutes and commandments
- For a prolonged life
- So the child can know:
- Fathers and mothers
- Eph 6:4 - Instruction
- 2Ti 1:5, 3:15 - and grandmother!
- Teach History
- The Passover Ex 12
- Ex 12:27 - He spared our lives
- The sacrifice of the firstborn Ex 13
- Ex 13:15 - God claims the firstborn
- The monument in the middle of the Jordan Jos 4:6-7, 22-24
- An unusual location - draws attention
- Take great pains to make a big deal of remembering God's great works in our lives, to make Him real for them Ps 71:18, Is 28:19
- They should be aware of God's works in their own lives Ps 71:17
- Teach by Example
- De 6:17 - Diligently obey God
- De 6:18 - Do right
- De 6:20 - Your children know:
- The laws of God
- They are precious and valuable to you
- You can explain what they mean
- You've decided to follow God Jos 24:15
- De 11:20 - Write them on your doorposts (or fridge?)
- Raise them right
- Eph 6:4 - In the discipline and instruction of the Lord, without provocation to anger
- Pr 4:2 - Give sound teaching
- Pr 19:18 - hope in life
- Pr 23:14 - Rescue them from hell with discipline
- Pr 29:15 - Give wisdom in rod & reproof
- Heb 12:9-10 - To be consistent with God's treatment of His sons
- 1Ti 3:4, 3:12 - Keeps children under control
- Love them
- Mothers:
- Fathers
- Learn to love God
- And accept Him as Savior
- Begs Personal Responsibility
- I have to know the law
- I have to live the law
- Illustrate with a lawn
- Requires water
- Requires food
- Requires cutting
- Requires weeding