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Ephesians 6:1-4

Every Child Should Honor and Obey.

Every Parent Should Provide the 3 Components Every Child Needs

1. “Bring Them Up” - Nourish / Gentleness

Provide for their

Physical

Mental

Emotional

Spiritual Needs

2. “Nurture” – Training / Discipline / Reward / Punishment

Luke 23:16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.

Proverbs 19:18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Proverbs 15:32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

3. “Admonition” Verbal instruction, Verbal warning.

The word “instruction” literally means “to place before the mind.”

It implies Counsel, exhortation, and correction.

What should you place before their minds?

1. Creation

God created everything.

God created them.

2. Jesus

Virgin Birth – Sinless

Loves them

Died for the them

Rose again

3. Sin / 10 Commandments

Sin hurts – God and them.

Sin take you farther than you want to go, cost you more than you want to pay, and keep you longer than you want to stay.

Sin can be forgiven.

Application

Read the Bible to them and with them.

Pray for them and with them.

Take them to Sunday School and Church when the doors are open.

Encourage them to walk with the Lord on their own.

Refuse to let them miss the things of God.

Don’t let them goof off during church.

Pray for them to saved early and live for Jesus all their days.