Building Your Family on Solid Ground

From Matthew 7:24

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1. If you want to be then Christ.

📖 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 ESV According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

A. Fires will reveal your . 

📖 1 Corinthians 3:12-13 ESV Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 

B. With loss comes .

📖 1 Corinthians 3:14-15 ESV If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

C. But how?

2. Marriage foundations.

A. What is a marriage?

📖 1 Corinthians 11:1-3 ESV Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.  Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. 

B. What causes in a marriage? 

📖 Ephesians 4:29 ESV Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

C. But how?

3. Children should a foundation, not it. 

📖 Psalms 127:3-5 ESV Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! 

A. Parenting happens .

📖 Proverbs 20:7 ESV The righteous who walks in his integrity blessed are his children after him! 

B. your kids with purpose.

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

C. But how?

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4. ! 

📖 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 ESV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.  The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

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