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Home: Laboratory for applied theology
*deut 6:1-12*
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INTRODUCTION
1. Today is a special day on our calendars and in our hearts.
We remember our Mom.
None of us would be here without her.
Having said that, I want us to look at this passage from both mom and dad’s point of view.
2.
We used this passage a few weeks ago when we dedicated Hannah Logan McPherson.
It had application then.
It has application now.
Let’s put this passage into context as Moses delivered it to the Israelites and bring it into context of our family.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see our families are in bad shape.
Families are broken by divorce at about a 50% rate.
Families are torn by abuse.
All too often we hear of a parent or step parent abusing their children.
Several weeks ago Frankie told me about an account she read of a man, high of some drug, bit his 2-year-old child’s thumb off and had it in his mouth for 6 hours or so.
He wanted their DNA to mix.
We’re hearing all too often this abuse ending in the death of the child.
Families are torn by violence.
Two high profile cases here in tx of a mom drowning her 5 children and an estranged father killing his 2 daughters while on the phone with their mom.
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Homes should be a secure peaceful refuge but too often becomes a battleground.
Our passage speaks to the issue of making families safe and secure.
It speaks to developing responsible God fearing, obedient children who grow up to become mature believers in Christ.
It speaks of families as a place of heritage making where God’s values are taught, caught, and passed from one generation to another.
This passage, when diligently applied to your home and mine, will drastically change the landscape of the home for the better.
If we apply what is contained in this passage, we’ll restore family to a wonderfully safe, secure and sacred environment.
! I. MANDATE
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CONTEXT*
1. Moses and the Israelite people are camped on the edge of the promised land.
They have wandered for 40 years.
Those 20 and older have died off because they disobeyed.
They refused to possess the Promised Land.
This new generation is about to enter the Promised Land.
Moses had led them thru the deliverance from Egypt and the wandering.
Along the way, he too disobeyed God.
As result, he could not enter the land but would only see it from afar.
Deut is the re-giving of the Law.
Deut means “repetition of the law”.
In ch 5, Moses delivered the core of the law—the 10 Commandments.
In ch 6, he continues re telling the law but gives this mandate.
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*These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
Impress them on your children*.
In doing so, Moses declared every home is to be a school of applied theology.
It is to be a place where God’s teachings are taught, lived by, modeled and passed from one generation to another.
Parents are seminary professors.
Children are the learners, students, disciples.
The home is a religious laboratory where truths of God are taught, learned, and applied to daily lives in such a way God is obeyed.
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Moms and dads, I submit to us this morning that Moses hit the nail on the head.
The mandate he gave to these Is parents is the mandate for your home and mine.
This portion of Scripture calls upon Xian parents to be xian parents and to teach their children overtly, consistently and unashamedly to become xians.
There is none of that I’ll expose my child to a variety of beliefs and let them chose for themselves hogwash.
Take these commandments to heart, live by them and impress them upon your children.
This passage establishes religious training and development where it should be—squarely upon the parents.
Although this is mother’s day, I suggest that the dad is held accountable for this because God designates him as leader of the home.
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Moms and dads, teaching your children about God and leading them to faith in Christ is your responsibility.
It is not the church’s job.
It is not the school’s job.
It is your job.
If your child doesn’t turn out the way you’d hoped, don’t blame the church.
Look in the mirror.
We must take this responsibility seriously.
We can never forget, we are just one generation from paganism.
The church supplements on a regular basis what you do every day.
If the church teaches on sun the priority of God, that is, to love God with all your being and you teach that by example through the week, they get the point.
If the church teaches on sun the priority of God but during the week, you give God no time, your children will get the point as well.
Which example do you think they will follow?
5.
We lament loudly that prayer has been taken out of school.
As result, our children are faithless.
I wish there was freedom of prayer in school but I fervently disagree that this is the cause of our children’s condition.
I had much rather see prayer in our homes than our schools.
Prayer is still in our schools through the hearts of those Xian teachers and children.
I heard one person say it like this: as long as there are tests, there will be prayer in school.
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Here’s the point.
Christian parents, you cannot, you must not, delegate religious teaching to any organization including the church or to any other person including a SS teacher.
That is a God given mandate.
As X parents, we cannot be obedient to God and ignore this responsibility.
No matter how wonderful your child’s SS teacher is, your teaching or lack of it will fashion your child and largely determine if they are Christian or not.
I admire children and teens who come w~/o parents.
They are exceptional and the exception.
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Our mandate as X parents is to take the commandments of God live by them and impress them upon our children.
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MESSAGE
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What are we to teach?
We have the mandate to teach.
What’s the message?
Look at v 4,5.
There is 1 God.
We are to love God with all our being.
Since there is only 1 God, we are to give God our top priority.
There is one God.
Just as Is was entering a land filled with people who believed in many gods, so do our children.
We live in a very pluralistic society.
They may have classmates who believe in Mohammed to Buddha; from witchcraft to nothing at all.
They may be bombarded from their teachers to fellow students, their god is just one of many.
They may hear it doesn’t make any difference what you believe just as long as you are sincere.
All gods are the same.
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How will they know the difference unless you teach them from cradle to the diploma there is 1 God?
He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
He is the God of the Bible.
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