Part 3 | Armor Your Children

From 2 Timothy 3:12-17

Parents, our call is not just to , but to our children to live lives in a world.

1. them for the .

📖 2 Timothy 3:12–13 ESV Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

📖 Micah 7:8 NIV “Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”

2. the way.

📖 2 Timothy 3:14 ESV But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it.

Faith is more than !

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

3. Build a .

📖 2 Timothy 3:15 ESV And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

📖 Deuteronomy 6:7–9 ESV 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.

📖 Proverbs 13:24 ESV Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

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📖 Exodus 20:12 ESV Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

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📖 Colossians 3:20 ESV Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

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📖 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.

4. Don’t in .

📖 2 Timothy 3:16 ESV All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.

Parent with the in mind!

5. them for a . 

📖 2 Timothy 3:17 ESV That the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

📖 Colossians 3:23 ESV And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men.

📖 Psalms 127:4-5 ESV Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.

Sermon in an Acrostic:

📖 Matthew 5:13 ESV You are the salt of the Earth.

Be the SALT in your child’s life.

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