Sermon
Text: Deut. 6: 7 Impress
them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk
along the road, when you lie down and when you get up
Sermon
Title: How to Raise a Fabulous Family!
Deut.
6: 3 – 9 - 3 Hear, 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 ancestors, promised you. 4 Hear, O Israel:
The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 Love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments
that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your
children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the
road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your
hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your
houses and on your gates..
Point
1:
There must be oneness between husband and wife Genesis 2: 24… 24
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and
they become one flesh.
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Oneness is knowing your roles
Ephesians
5: 24 – 29 … 24 Now
as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands
in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church
and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the
washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant
church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He
who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own
body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—…33
wives respect your husbands… 1 Pet 3: 1 – 7 - Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is
right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a
promise— 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on
the earth.”[a] 4 Fathers,[b] do not exasperate your children; instead, bring
them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Wives submit…win them over
with your holy life…inward beauty…submission to their own husbands…husbands be
considerate to your wives as the weaker vessel…so you won’t hinder your prayers
Point
2: One
accord is everyone singing off the same sheet of music Prov 22: 15 - 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline will drive it far
away. Prov 23: 13 Do not withhold
discipline from a child; if you punish
them with the rod, they will not die. Ephesians
6: 1 – 4 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor
your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3 “so
that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”[a]
4 Fathers,[b] do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the
training and instruction of the Lord. Assignment
1. Lead
your children to Christ…the only way you will see them for the rest of their
lives
2. Train
them to be successful
3. Turn
your family into a weapon to destroy the enemy and build the kingdom of God
Point
3:
The family must be in one place at some time during family life
1. Family
night must include God and faith interwoven
2. Recognize
the eight stages of family life
a. Beginning
families, no children
b. Families
childbearing years
c. Families
preschool years
d. Families
school age years
e. Families
with adolescence
f.
Families as launching centers
g. Families
in middle years
h. Families
in twilight years
Life
Application:
1. Connect
with a small group they will be dealing with various issues of family life
& sign up for family date night
2. Make
it a point not to miss Sunday or Wednesday this month
3. Invite
a family to church this month
Survey/Note
Taker
1. How do
you achieve oneness in your marriage?
a. Communicate
b. Attend
church together
c. Have
one checking account
d. Other/write
in your answer
2. What
is your family assignment?
a. Leave
a financial legacy/inheritance
b. Impact
others
c. Help
your children to be successful
d. Other/write
in your answer
3. How do
you spend family time?
a. Take
family trips
b. Game
night/movie night
c. Attend
church together
d. Other/write
in your answer
