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Part 5 | Be A Parent

From Ephesians 6

Four Problems Facing Parents:

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📖 Romans 5:12 ESV just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned

Scripture gives parents to be .

📖 Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

📖 Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV 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.”

The 5 Stages of Parenting:

Stage 1: .

📖 1 Samuel 1:27-28 ESV For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition that I made to him. 28 Therefore I have lent him to the LORD. As long as he lives, he is lent to the LORD.” And he worshiped the LORD there.

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

Stage 2: .

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

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

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

📖 Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 14 If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

📖 Proverbs 19:18 ESV Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Stage 3: .

📖 Ephesians 6:4 ESV …bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

📖 Deuteronomy 6:4-6 ESV “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.

📖 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.

📖 Judges 2:10 ESV And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.

📖 Judges 2:11 ESV And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

📖 Judges 17:6 ESV In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Stage 4: .

📖 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.

Stage 5: .

Sermon in a Sentence:

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