August 3, 2025 Fighting for the Children Notes

Part 1 | Target Acquired: Why the Devil Wants Your Kids

From Psalm 127

📖 Ephesians 6:12 ESV For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

The home is the of the .

parenting creates – .

📖 Proverbs 22:15 ESV Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

📖 Ephesians 6:1 ESV “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.”

📖 Ephesians 6:4 ESV Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Psalm 127 Theme:
If God is not at the of the , it doesn’t what society .

📖 Psalm 127:1 ESV Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

1. The without the will be ..

📖 Joshua 24:15 ESV as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

2. The without Godly will be .

📖 Psalm 127:1 ESV Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 127:2 ESV It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

The blueprint for :

1. Families without . (Verse 1)
2. Cities without . (Verse 1b)
3. Workers without . (Verse 2)

3. survives through Godly .

📖 Psalm 127:3 ESV Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

A. Children are God’s – plan to save .

B. Children must be for life’s .

📖 Psalm 127:4 ESV Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.

C. children will the .

📖 Psalm 127:5 ESV Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.