Two Ways Fathers Raise Children
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Turn With me to Eph 6:4
Two Ways Fathers Raise to Their Children
Michael Jordan’s father, James Jordan, was murdered in the summer of 1993. Before that happened, Michael said this to columnist Bob Greene:
My heroes are and were my parents.… It wasn’t that the rest of the world would necessarily think that they were heroic. But they were the adults I saw constantly, and I admired what I saw.
If you’re lucky, you grow up in a house where you can learn what kind of person you should be from your parents. And on that count, I was very lucky. It may have been the luckiest thing that ever happened to me.
To Michael Jordan, good parents meant as much to him as his incomparable basketball skill.
The Raising of Rebellious Children
The Raising of Rebellious Children
Lessons on Anger
Lessons on Anger
knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,
An angry man stirs up strife, And a furious man abounds in transgression.
Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child
Spare the rod, spoil the child is a modern-day proverb on the wisdom of discipline.
It means that, if a parent refuses to discipline an unruly child, that child will grow accustomed to getting his own way and develop an air of entitlement.
He will become, in the common vernacular, a spoiled brat.
He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.
The rod and reproof give wisdom, But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.
Promotion of Generational Sins
Promotion of Generational Sins
The Raising of Righteous Children
The Raising of Righteous Children
The Discipline of the Lord
The Discipline of the Lord
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
“Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. “You shall teach them diligently to your sons 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 up. “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. “You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord Or loathe His reproof, For whom the Lord loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
The Instruction of the Lord
The Instruction of the Lord
on effective nurture through praise rather than threats1
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Hear, my son, your father’s instruction And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;
Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
The True Father (God the Father)
The True Father (God the Father)
Even if your earthly father did not properly instruct you, your heavenly father can
Those who have trusted Jesus as their savior have a real Heavenly Father who desires only our good and never to harm us.
‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
He is “a father to the fatherless” (Psalm 68:5).
A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.
The Lord will use everything, even horrible acts, for good for those who love Him (Romans 8:28).
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
When we surrender our will to Him, we will see His work in our life.
Trusting God may feel disconnected or impossible for those who have never known what it is to love and trust.
Someone in this position need only take one small step toward God saying, “I want to learn to love and trust you—please help me.”
Jesus is “meek and lowly in heart” (Matthew 11:29),
“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
we can confidently go to Him and pour out our problems, knowing that He will hear and answer (1 John 5:14-15).
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
It will not be long before any child of God willing to trust Him will begin to sense the Holy Spirit at work in his heart.
God will take the heart that has been turned to stone by an abusive childhood and replace it with one of flesh and feeling (Ezekiel 36:26).
“Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
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3rd Possibility
3rd Possibility
A loving parent who did not raise you up to have a relationship with Jesus.
There are many parents who have a core understanding of the importance of Family
This is a strong foundational value in many immigrant families
Further Research
The Epistle to the Ephesians: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition 5b. Children and Parents (6:1–4)
Verse 4
Parents (for the plural pateres may mean this rather than simply “fathers”) have an obligation to their children as well as children to their parents; if children must obey their parents, parents should deserve their children’s obedience. It is possible, even for Christian parents, to be so unreasonable in their demands on their children that the children are irritated beyond measure and wonder whether it does any good to try to please their parents and do what they say. Children should be brought up “in the discipline (paideia) and instruction (nouthesia) of the Lord” (RSV); since they are a “heritage of the Lord” (
