OUR NOT SO PERFECT FAMILY – 3
A Family of First’s
Joshua 24:14-15 (NIV)
14 “Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Let’s begin with some Kid facts…
Psalm 127:3 (NLT)
Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Joshua 24:15 (NIV) 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
We have a hard time raising kids God’s way when:
1. We make them more important than .
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 22:37 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Matthew 6:21 Wherever your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
2. We make them more important than our .
Ephesians 5:31-32 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
True authority is balanced by .
True authority creates an atmosphere for .
“Every single house should have a sense of A.W.E. in it.” – Jim Burns
Affection, Warmth, Encouragement.
• We never take time to .
3. We make them more important than our .
Proverbs 21:20 (KJV) There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man spendeth it up.
DEUTERONOMY 6:1-3 “These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you.”
3 SOURCES OF AUTHORITY IN SOCIETY:
Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord.
2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.”