Building A Godly Home
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
The bible is full of illustrations of families that, obviously were not perfect, but sought to have a godly home.
There was Elkanah & Hannah’s family with Samuel.
21 The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the Lord and dwell there forever.”
There was Amram & Jochebed.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
They raised the first leader of the Israelites out of Egypt and through the wilderness (Moses).
They raised the first High Priest of the Israelites and lineage of the Israelites priesthood (Aaron).
They raised the first prophetess of Israel (Miriam).
There was of course Joseph and Mary.
They raised Jesus to be both spiritually and socially successful.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
What is the point of pointing these families out?
My point is each of these families built a godly home even when it was thought to be too difficult by many in the world.
Joshua built a godly home when most of the nation he loved constantly discounted God.
Amram & Jochebed built a godly home while slaves.
Joseph & Mary built a godly home after Joseph first thought Mary was an adulterer and then married her knowing he could have a sexual relationship with her until after their first born child.
When we talk about the home we often focus on the negative, but today I want to focus on the positive aspect of building a godly home.
Building A Godly Home takes God…
Psalm 127:1 (ESV)
1 Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain…
A Godly home…
Is Found In Its Origin
Is Found In Its Origin
God First OR World First?
God First OR World First?
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
11 Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Joshua 24:15 (ESV)
15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Summary
Summary
Unless God is the origin of the home, the home will collapse.
24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
Building a godly home…
Is Found In Its Purpose
Is Found In Its Purpose
Companionship.
Companionship.
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Malachi 2:14 (ESV)
14 But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Procreation.
Procreation.
22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. 5 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
Escape Temptation.
Escape Temptation.
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Summary
Summary
When a husband and wife start building their home it rise and fall based on “their companionship.”
This companionship is what allows for procreation and escaping temptation.
Building a godly home…
Is Found In Its Outcome
Is Found In Its Outcome
Seeking Heaven For All Members.
Seeking Heaven For All Members.
Unfortunately, not all families are actually actively seeking heaven for their entire family.
I don’t mean to say they are not desiring that as the outcome, more that they are not actively doing what it takes to achieve it.
As we discussed last week, the training of children, husbands their wives, and wives their husbands takes a lot of time and effort.
We can’t expect for us to simply “bring our families to church” most services and our children and spouses will be spiritually good.
No if the outcome of family is a true desire for heaven then nothing will come in the way of putting God first.
Not video games, boys state, sports, the Super Bowl, cattle shows, etc…
Godly homes seek godly children that will seek godly children.
15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
7 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. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
3 Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
Summary
Summary
There is nothing wrong with seeking to raise our children to be productive citizens of our country as this is certainly expected of us parents.
But being a productive citizen is not focusing on our earthly citizenship but our heavenly one.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Building a godly home…
Is found in its origin, its purpose, and its outcome.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
