It’s Your Job
For those who have been to “The Fort” and those who haven’t but personally know the four of know one of the biggest issues we talk about is legacy. Multigenerational Legacies to be exact. Our God makes generational promises, so in turn we must plan generationally.
Deuteronomy 6:1-2 “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.
Moses is preparing to read the law to Israel so that they may go into the promised land. He is also setting an example for the men. He basically said in verse one God told me to teach you these things, and “you and your son, and your sons son”
That is MULTIGENERATIONAL.
Deuteronomy 6:6-8 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
Here is the answer to the how of verse one “fear the Lord your God….keeping all his statutes”
TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY TO YOUR CHILDREN.
NOT your pastor, NOT the youth pastor, NOT Fort Iron, NOT the Awana Staff YOU.
YOU.
It is your job to teach the fear of the Lord to your family.
Matthew Henry said “Turn your families into little churches”
I believe he was right. The more I study to teach my wife and children the more I see men absolutely failing their families. The proof is in the statistics of the modern church.
I’ll post some links for you to see yourself.
Think about the last time you and your family intentionally set down, prayed together, read the scriptures together, and sang a song of praise to God.
Those 3 small things are the art of Family Worship. It has been of vital importance since before Benjamin Keach edited the 1677 London Confession of Faith, but it goes back further than that.
I can show you real quick in genesis. Remember when Abraham was to sacrifice Issac. They get up there, and Issac says
Genesis 22:7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
How did Isaac know at such a young age what was required for a burnt offering?
BECAUSE HE WAS TAUGHT BY HIS FATHER.
Take a moment and ask your family what their views are on
View of God
View of Man
View of Truth
View of Knowledge
View of Ethics
These 5 basic elements and your thoughts on them make up your worldview. If your families or your thoughts on these do not link up with scripture you’ve got work to do.
So to close us out. Take the example above to “feel out” your family to figure out where to start. Take the time to discuss, and lead your family, hopefully, daily in the things of God.
When you do this you are raising the statistical numbers that if your children grow up to leave the church it will be because of rebellion on their part not lack of commitment to The Lord on yours.
I know a lot of men have given up. Now is not the time to roll over. Now is the time to take back our families, and instill sound doctrine into their lives NOT the filth they get filled with on a daily basis.
In Christ,
Palmer