Part 6
The Heritage of the Home
Psalms 127:3 Lo, children are
an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
A. The
Command to the Head of the Home
·
Ephesians
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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Colossians
3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and
be not bitter against them.
B. The
Command to the Help of the Home
·
Ephesians
5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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Colossians
3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
C. The
Command to the Heritage of the Home
·
Ephesians
6:1 Children, obey your parents in
the Lord: for this is right.
·
Colossians
3:20 Children, obey your parents in
all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
The Children – The
Heritage of the Home
I. The Definition of Children
A.
an olive tree – evergreen, beautiful, beneficial, wealth,
·
Psalms
128:3
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy
children like olive plants round about thy table.
B.
a heritage
·
Psalms
127:3a Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD:
C. his
reward
·
Psalms
127:3b ...and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
D. arrows
in the hands of a mighty man – which way are you pointing them?
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Psalms
127:4
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
II. The Development of Children
A. God's Plan - Deuteronomy 4:10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before
the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people
together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me
all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their
children.
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Involves
Exposure – I will make them to hear my words
·
Involves
Experience – you can’t teach what is not in your own heart
·
Involves
Explanation – that they may learn
B. God's Procedure - And these words, which
I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in
thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and
when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and
they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon
the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
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Extensive
Teaching – teach them diligently – full time job (Christian education)
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Expressing
Token – sign upon thine hand and frontlets, write them upon the posts.
NOTE: What you
teach your children will be evident in their hands, (their deeds), their face
(frontlets), and the minute someone walks into your home (posts of thy house,
and on thy gates).
