Part 2 | 7 Sentences that Train a Child for Life
From Isaiah 59
Parents don’t just children. They them, , and make who they will be.
📖 Isaiah 59:19 NKJV So shall they fear The name of the LORD from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.
📖 Isaiah 59:20-21 ESV “And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD. 21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.”
Through God’s , parents speak that will live on for .
1. “ .”
📖 Hebrews 12:6 ESV “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
📖 Hebrews 12:8 ESV If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children…
📖 Hebrews 12:11 ESV For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
📖 Proverbs 29:15 ESV The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
2. “That’s .”
📖 Isaiah 5:20 ESV Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
📖 Hebrews 5:12–14 ESV For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
3. “You are the of the .”
📖 Philippians 2:3–4 ESV Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
📖 Romans 12:3 ESV For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
4. “Call them / / / .”
📖 Leviticus 19:32 ESV You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.
5. “You are a .”
📖 Romans 8:35–37 ESV Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Children can be taught to or taught to , but not .
6. “ , and I always .”
📖 1 John 4:19 ESV We love because He first loved us.
7. “I’m of .”
📖 Zephaniah 3:17 ESV The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Sermon in a Prayer:
“Lord, fill my body with Your , my mouth with Your and my heart with Your . Let my home be a training ground for , , , and . Anoint me to fight my children.”
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