Ephesians 6:1-9
Psalm 127:3-5
Psalm 128:3
Obedience to parents V1
Foundamental to order in society.
How children benefits through obedience to their parents.
Honoring parents V2-3
Why is honoring parents closely associated with enjoying a long life ?
Modeling honoring our parents in our homes.
Fathers do not exasperate your children V4
Ways fathers exasperate their children
To provoke, irritate,
Feeling of anger and feeling exasperation - cause of rebellion
Failure to listen, unrealistic high expectation
Need time to spend time with our children
How do we communicate with your children ?
Bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord V4
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Our long term aim for our children
This is the mandate by God.
Traditions we want children to keep.
Instruction is not just transfer of information like story telling, it is modeling and setting examples to our kids.
God's mandate to fathers to train and instruction our children.
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