Teach Your Children Well Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Proverbs 22:6 Proverbs 19:18 Proverbs 13:24 Proverbs 29:17 Ephesians 6:1-4 Proverbs 3:11-12 Hebrews 12:5-11 01.22.16

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL

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4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 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. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.   Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NIV)

6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.  Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)

18 Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.  Proverbs 19:18 (NIV)

24 He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him. Proverbs 13:24 (NIV)

17 Discipline your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul.  Proverbs 29:17 (NIV)

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 ‘Honor your father and mother’--which is the first commandment with a promise-- 3 ‘that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.’ 4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.   Ephesians 6:1-4 (NIV)

11 My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, 12 because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.   Proverbs 3:11-12 (NIV)

5 “And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: ‘My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, 6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.’  7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10 Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”   Hebrews 12:5-11 (NIV)

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“Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is place in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her.”  JR Miller

“The majority of children acquire the characteristics and habits of their parents.  What are they learning from us?”  Billy Graham

“This is our first duty, we are to begin at the family hearth:   he is a bad preacher who does not commence his ministry at home.  The heathen are to be sought by all means, and the highways and hedges are to be searched, but home has a prior claim, and woe unto those who reverse the order of the Lord’s arrangements.  To teach our children is a personal duty; we cannot delegate it to Sunday School Teachers, or other friendly aids, these can assist us, but cannot deliver us from the sacred obligation…mothers and fathers must, like Abraham, command their households in the fear of God, and talk with their offspring concerning the wondrous works of the Most High.”   Charles H. Spurgeon  

“In an age where families are falling apart, we need a wakeup call to the truth of God’s Word.  God’s ways are perfect.  He has given us His plan for our good and for the good of our families.  We need only heed His instruction.  Our families are precious and worthy of the effort to bring forth what God has planned.  As He states in Jeremiah:  ‘For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’  May those who come behind us find us faithful.”   BHY

“I want to teach others what you are teaching me and train them how to correctly study and obey your Word and how to effectively use their spiritual gifts to bear lasting fruit so you are glorified.”   Bert Banzhaf

HEART SAVOR

• ·       We are to train our children in the knowledge of the Lord.  We train more by example than words.  Our actions can mute our voice.
• ·       God disciplines those He loves and punishes everyone He accepts as a son.  We are to endure discipline as He is treating us as sons that we may share in His holiness.  No discipline seems pleasant at the time but painful.  Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those trained by it.
• ·       Training our children is our responsibility and is not to be left up to others.