The Place of Children in the Family
Miles Seaborn
Ephesians 6:1-4
INTRO. God uses the family to illustrate the relationship between us and God and between us as God's children. 397 times he refers to Father - Mothers - Children in their human relationship. God mentioned children and this earthly relationship so often because he meant them to be! They are a blessing of God and are to be treated as such. They can add the spice and joy to life or they can make a home hell on earth. They do not do it; right or wrong by themselves, but are guided - influenced and controlled through their parents.
We urgently need to know what is God's plan for children and therefore, parents. Our world literally infected with the cry, ''What do we do with our children?'' No new problem, God's Word reveals -
Micah 7:6 - ''For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.''
Deut. 21:20 - ''And they shall say unto the elders of his city, this our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton, and a drunkard.''
Prov. 30:11 - ''There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.''
Romans 1:30 - ''Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.''
- a part of the general spirit that destroyed Rome.
I. THEY ARE A HERITAGE OF THE LORD. Psalms 127:3-5 (Something passed on by God)
1. To regulated don't have more than you can provide for (not just natural provision) - God give you a mind and a will use it. Difference between faith and presumption.
2. As something given by God, parents to whom God has entrusted children have a tremendous responsibility - responsibility for children begins at home - not with the school or the police, but with parents.
ILL. Of the effects of new law making parents responsible for teenage child ...
Miles Seaborn
Ephesians 6:1-4
INTRO. God uses the family to illustrate the relationship between us and God and between us as God's children. 397 times he refers to Father - Mothers - Children in their human relationship. God mentioned children and this earthly relationship so often because he meant them to be! They are a blessing of God and are to be treated as such. They can add the spice and joy to life or they can make a home hell on earth. They do not do it; right or wrong by themselves, but are guided - influenced and controlled through their parents.
We urgently need to know what is God's plan for children and therefore, parents. Our world literally infected with the cry, ''What do we do with our children?'' No new problem, God's Word reveals -
Micah 7:6 - ''For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.''
Deut. 21:20 - ''And they shall say unto the elders of his city, this our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton, and a drunkard.''
Prov. 30:11 - ''There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.''
Romans 1:30 - ''Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.''
- a part of the general spirit that destroyed Rome.
I. THEY ARE A HERITAGE OF THE LORD. Psalms 127:3-5 (Something passed on by God)
1. To regulated don't have more than you can provide for (not just natural provision) - God give you a mind and a will use it. Difference between faith and presumption.
2. As something given by God, parents to whom God has entrusted children have a tremendous responsibility - responsibility for children begins at home - not with the school or the police, but with parents.
ILL. Of the effects of new law making parents responsible for teenage child ...
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