Basic Training for Parents [44:38m]:
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Deuteronomy 6:1-15 [+/-]Deuteronomy 6:1-15
[6:1]"Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the
rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you,
that you may do them in the land to which you are going
over, to possess it, [2]that you may fear the LORD your
God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all
his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all
the days of your life, and that your days may be long.
[3]Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them,
that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply
greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised
you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
[4]"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
[5]You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your might. [6]And these
words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
[7]You shall teach them diligently to your children, and
shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you
walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
[8]You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they
shall be as frontlets between your eyes. [9]You shall write
them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
[10]"And when the LORD your God brings you into the land
that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give you--with great and good cities that you did
not build, [11]and houses full of all good things that you
did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and
vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant--and when
you eat and are full, [12]then take care lest you forget
the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of slavery. [13]It is the LORD your God you shall
fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.
[14]You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the
peoples who are around you-- [15]for the LORD your God in
your midst is a jealous God--lest the anger of the LORD
your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from
off the face of the earth. (ESV)
; Proverbs 22:6 [+/-]Proverbs 22:6
[6]Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
and Ephesians 6:1-4 [+/-]Ephesians 6:1-4
[6:1]Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this
is right. [2]"Honor your father and mother" (this is the
first commandment with a promise), [3]"that it may go well
with you and that you may live long in the land."
[4]Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but
bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the
Lord. (ESV)
Richard Land who leads the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for Southern Baptists may well be along with Albert Mohler the two who most have their finger on the pulse of how the culture is shaping both the church and families in the church. Both are deeply concerned. So concerned that they conclude that if families in our churches do not return to biblical basics so that the biblical order is maintained, the churches that seek to maintain biblical order in the way they operate are on a collision course with families that are out of order and the end game will be out of order families that shape the life of the church or churches that maintain biblical order at the expense of losing families to churches that are as much out of order as the families that are in them. Richard Land, for example, in a recent article in which he was reflecting on our dilemma reminded his readers of the true reading of the famous passage in Proverbs, “where there is no vision, the people perish, but happy is he that keeps the law” (Proverbs 29:18 [+/-]Proverbs 29:18
[18]Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast
off restraint,
but blessed is he who keeps the law.
). Land reminds his readers rightly that the word for vision points to the right proclamation of the message of God in His Word and the word for “perish” means to “cast off restraint.” Put together the wisdom writer is painting a picture of a time when people will no longer listen to the word of God because they are driven in their doing by their desires. And Land concludes that in our culture and in most of the families that are in our culture, we are already there. And it is getting worse. Listen to his words, “we have ignored God’s Word—the owner’s manual for our lives, our marriages, and our families—and we wonder why we are broken down by the side of the road. We ignore the traffic signs and wonder why the landscape is littered with accidents. We ignore the maps and wonder why we have lost our way. Our society has broken down by the side of the road because it has lost a vision for who we are and why we are here. Life itself has become for us simply a means for achieving our own selfish ends.”
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