1.Families experience chaos because they are unwilling to submit to one another in love.
Ephesians 5:21 (NLT) "And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ."
1.Many people refuse to operate in a team mentality. Family is teamwork.
Team-people that come together on one side to achieve one common goal.
1.No camaraderie, no unity, no common goal to achieve with families running so solo, singular, and selfish.
2.Family is not about you getting your way.
3.Stop creating your own chaos.
2.If families worked together they would have God's favor and protection.
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 (NLT) "And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. [6] And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. [7] Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. [8] Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. [9] Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."
3 essentials for a Christian home.
1.Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Meditation.
2.Commit wholeheartedly to the commands. Be careful and exact.
3.Repeat again and again to your children, talk about God's Word, tie God's Word to your hands, wear God's Word on your foreheads, and write God's Word everywhere you are.
2. Children honor your mother and father for this is right in God.
Ephesians 6:1-3 (NLT) "Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. [2] "Honor your father and mother." This is the first commandment with a promise: [3] If you honor your father and mother, "things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth."
1.I feel so sorry for parents who refuse to stand up to their children.
2.God will never bless that family because they are out of order.
3.Order is the mother and father are to be men and women of God who raise Godly offspring through love, correction, discipline, and encouragement.
1.If you treat your parents with disregard, and disrespect and you expect God to honor and bless you, you are sadly and sorely mistaken.
2.You will never be all that God has designed you to be.
3. God will never honor disobedience because the scripture says, 1 Samuel 15:23 (NLT)Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the Lord, he has rejected you as king."
1.People say well you don't know what I've been through.
2.You don't understand you don't know my parents at home.
1.Complaining and blaming come easy.
1.The writer of the Book of Deuteronomy said the problems of his generation were the result of the sins of the previous generation.
1.Israel blamed their suffering on their parent's sins.
2.Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
1.They believed that the sins of the parents are paid for in the lives of the children.
2.Not true.
3.In this chapter of the bible it says, "Righteous people will be rewarded for their own righteous behavior, and wicked people will be punished for their own wickedness." vs.20
2.It was a popular belief in Old Testament times and was summarized in a proverb:
Ezekiel 18:1-5 (NLT) "Then another message came to me from the Lord: [2] "Why do you quote this proverb concerning the land of Israel: 'The parents have eaten sour grapes, but their children's mouths pucker at the taste'? [3] As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, you will not quote this proverb anymore in Israel. [4] For all people are mine to judge-both parents and children alike. And this is my rule: The person who sins is the one who will die."
1.They thought that meant the misery of the present is punishment for the sins of the past.
1.That is a cowards view of history and sometimes ours to the extent that we blame those who have gone before us for the trouble we face in our time and in our personal lives.
Perspective-a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something.
3. Do what is right God will honor that.
Colossians 3:17 (NLT) "And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father."
1.I honor people because it's right.
1.I honor people because it's holy.
2.I honor people because it's what God commands, instructs, and encourages me to do.
3.I honor those who are not worthy of honor, worthy of respect, or worthy of mercy because in doing so I am a living, breathing, example of Jesus Christ into their lives.
2.You're not responsible for the way things are in this world.
1.You are responsible for what you do with the way things are.
3.If you are not happy, it's not because of the life that has been given to you.
1.It's because of what you've done with the life that has been given to you.
Ezekiel 18:30-32 (NLT) "Therefore, I will judge each of you, O people of Israel, according to your actions, says the Sovereign Lord. Repent, and turn from your sins. Don't let them destroy you! [31] Put all your rebellion behind you, and find yourselves a new heart and a new spirit."
1.The important question is: What are you going to do now with the present that is given you?
1.You are free only when you can accept the past for what it is and only when you can accept your parents for who they were -- and let it be.
Romans 14:12 (NLT) "Yes, each of us will give a personal account to God."
December Series
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