Parenting on Purpose
April 28, 2024 8:24 PM
Our responsibility as parents is to take God's truth that is in our hearts and impress His truth on our children.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NIV) 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 on 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.
What are we doing wrong?
1. We risk too little.
Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) And without faith it is impossible to please God.
2. We rescue too quickly.
Galatians 6:7 (NIV) Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
2. We model too weakly.
Your children don’t just become what you say; they become what they see.
Mark 7:6 (NIV) “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Who and what you expose your children to will shape who they become and what they believe.
Luke 23:20-24 (NLT) 20 Pilate argued with them, because he wanted to release Jesus. 21 But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” 22 For the third time he demanded, “Why? What crime has he committed? I have found no reason to sentence him to death. So I will have him flogged, and then I will release him.” 23 But the mob shouted louder and louder, demanding that Jesus be crucified, and their voices prevailed. 24 So Pilate sentenced Jesus to die as they demanded.
85% of people who receive Jesus will do so before they turn 18.
We can’t force our children to love God, but we can expose them to the people and experiences that increase the likelihood of spiritual growth.
What two experiences should we expose our children to?
1. Expose them to the presence and power of God in His church.
Psalm 92:13 (NKJV) Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
2. Expose them to the joy of knowing God personally.
John 17:3 (NIV) Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NIV) 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 on 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.
What are we doing wrong?
1. We risk too little.
Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) And without faith it is impossible to please God.
2. We rescue too quickly.
Galatians 6:7 (NIV) Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
2. We model too weakly.
Your children don’t just become what you say; they become what they see.
Mark 7:6 (NIV) “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Who and what you expose your children to will shape who they become and what they believe.
Luke 23:20-24 (NLT) 20 Pilate argued with them, because he wanted to release Jesus. 21 But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” 22 For the third time he demanded, “Why? What crime has he committed? I have found no reason to sentence him to death. So I will have him flogged, and then I will release him.” 23 But the mob shouted louder and louder, demanding that Jesus be crucified, and their voices prevailed. 24 So Pilate sentenced Jesus to die as they demanded.
85% of people who receive Jesus will do so before they turn 18.
We can’t force our children to love God, but we can expose them to the people and experiences that increase the likelihood of spiritual growth.
What two experiences should we expose our children to?
1. Expose them to the presence and power of God in His church.
Psalm 92:13 (NKJV) Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
2. Expose them to the joy of knowing God personally.
John 17:3 (NIV) Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God.