7 Foundations of a Healthy Marriage Part 11
Raising Children
Sunday, November 3, 2019
I.7 Foundations of a Healthy Marriage
Foundation verses: (Ps. 127:1-5; Matt. 7:24-27)
A.Raising Children
1.(2 Tim. 3:1-5 NLT) Perilous times for raising children.
a.(Isa. 59:7-15, 21 all NLT) “…truth is gone…”
2.(Eph. 6:1-5) Obedience and honor
a.Obey your parents in the Lord. (action/behavior)
~For this is right.
b.Honor your mother and father. (heart)
~Honor – revere, respect & value.
c.The 1st commandment with promise.
~Things will be well and live long.
d.Bring them up in the training…
~Paideia – the whole training and education of children (which relates to the cultivation of mind and morals, and employs for this purpose now commands and admonitions, now reproof and punishment) it also includes the training and care of the body.
~(Prov. 22:6) “Train up a child in the way…”
e.Admonition of the Lord
~Exhortation, calling attention to, mild rebuke or warning.
3.Disciplining children (3 R’s – relationship, rule & restraint)
a.(Prov. 6:20-23)
b.(Prov. 13:24 AMP)
c.(Prov. 19:18 NLT)
d.(Prov. 22:15)
e.(Prov. 23:13-14)
f.(Prov. 29:15, 17 AMP)
4.Fathers don’t provoke your children to wrath.
a.Physical or verbal abuse
b.Disciplining in anger (Jas. 1:20)
c.Spanking too hard, too often, too young, too old
d.Inconsistency in discipline (good or bad mood)
e.Disciplining for mistakes or forgetting vs. disobedience and defiance.
f.Disciplining in public or in front of other children
g.Neglect
h.Being unreasonable and legalistic