Parenting With Eternity in View

Here are the completed notes from the Sunday Morning service August 16, 2015:

Scripture:  Deuteronomy 6:4-7

Temporal/Eternal

  • Temporal – Deals with the here and now
  • Eternal – Deals with God
  • Two judgments:  Great White Throne (for the unsaved – Revelation 20), Judgment Seat of Christ (for the saved – Romans 14)

Your child, your grandchild will spend eternity somewhere forever – You have a responsibility:

  • To mold and shape that young, tender heart to be receptive to the things of God.
  • To instill God’s truth in their lives.
  • To model the reality of an authentic relationship with Christ before them.

“You can’t give a child (no matter how much you love them) something you don’t have yourself – An authentic relationship with Jesus.”  –Pastor Peyton Fitzgerald

The Greatest Commandment – verse 5

  • According to Jesus in Matthew 22:37
  • Evidenced by our obedience – John 14:21a, 23a, 24a

These Words – verse 6a

  • Today we not only have the writings of Moses buyt the complete Word of God (II Timothy 3:16)

In Your Heart – verse 6b

  • Begins by having a relationship with God through His Son Jesus – Allow Him to transform your life.
  • Place the truths of God’s Word in your heart – read, heard, memorized, meditated upon and appropriated.
  • Make the truths of God’s Word a part of your everyday living (See verses 17, 18a)

Teach them Diligently unto thy Children – verse 7a (Spiritual Education)

Ephesians 6:4 – “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

  • Nurture means discipline (systematic training)
  • Admonition means putting in the mind (instruction)
  • Teaching the Lord’s ways through His Word.

Teach God’s Truth as a Natural Part of Life – verse 7b

  • God and His Word a natural topic of conversation
  • Times of non-conflict

Caution Against Forgetting the Lord – verse 12

  • Priorities – What’s first and most important
  • Dependence – What you are relying on
  • Investment – What is your life contributing toward