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Examples from media that kids are the intelligent brains behind everything while moms are manipulative and dads are, well, simply dumb!
Text:
Text:
Main Idea: Hey Children and Parents!
Do You Follow Christ’s Rules for Your Roles?
Introduction
Examples from media that kids are the intelligent brains behind everything while moms are manipulative and dads are, well, simply dumb!
What is the Hearer’s problem?
What is the Biblical Solution?
What do the hearers need to know?
Main Textual Idea:
Main Idea: Hey Children and Parents!
Do You Follow Christ’s Rules for Your Roles?
Interrogative:
Transition:
Body (Satisfaction)
1. Christ’s Rules for Children (vs.
20)
Lead in…Of anyone on the planet, kids are least likely to love the idea of rules.
Unless, of course, they benefit from them in some way.
Yet this is the next focus for the Apostle Paul.
Children in a Christian home need Christ’s rules!
And Paul makes this abundantly clear!
What does it mean to “obey your parents in everything”?
Why is this pleasing to the Lord?
What if the parents are ungodly?
What if the parents command a child to do something contrary to the Word of God?
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Explanation -
God commanded Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply.”
And of course, children are the glorious result.
It is fun to see young women on facebook and instagram with newly forming “Baby Bumps” along with their husbands in wide-eyed (and naive) expectations for their new little one that will soon be joining their ranks.
“It is going to be so wonderful!”
“This child is going to be such a delight!”
“They will bring such joy to our home!”
“I know other parents have trouble with their children, but this baby, this child will be different!
He or she will be the personification of perfection and I will be lauded as the best and most patient parent on the planet!”
And then the poor young women goes through 40 hours of labor and delivery, her body, mind and spirit brought to a level of exhaustion she has never experience and will not recover from for the next 18 years.
In those intervening 18 years she and her husband quickly lose the idea that this child is the personification of perfection and sometimes wonder if, in fact, this child is the spawn of Satan himself.
By the second and third child their naiveté has vanished and they are prepared for the reality of what they face.
Raising children is not for the faint of heart!
There are two tools in God’s toolbox that He uses on individuals to grow them and conform them into the image of Christ.
Tool #1 - Marriage
Tool #2 - Raising Children!
Both have the potential to humble you to the place of authentic repentance!
This is especially true of childrearing!
And so, Paul’s challenge first goes to the children.
The children in the Christian home need to realize very clearly that they are not in charge.
They are not the final authority.
They are not the center of the universe.
Rather children are a vital part of a social structure created by God to give stability and consistency to culture itself.
Children are a vital part of the family, but they are not the only part and they are not the primary part.
And so Paul wants them to understand that their primary responsibility in the home is obedience!
Yes, children, those living under the authority of their parents are to OBEY their parents!
The word OBEY is hupakouo (ὑπακούω).
This is not like the word used in verse 18, SUBMIT which is hupotasso (ὑποτάσσω) which is a willing submission to higher rank.
hupakouo (ὑπακούω)
hupotasso (ὑποτάσσω
Hupakouo - simply means unquestioned obedience.
W. E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White Jr., Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Nashville, TN: T. Nelson, 1996), 438.
Now Paul does say that Children are to “obey your parents in everything”?
Well, what if the parents ask the Christian child to do something that is contrary to God’s revealed Word?
Don’t do it!
In those situations it is clear believers are to obey God rather than man.
What does it mean to “obey your parents in everything”?
And this idea is proved out even more in the last part of verse 20 which says, “Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”
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Why is this pleasing to the Lord?
Simply stated, obedience to the Lord is pleasing to the Lord!
Obedience to the Lord…shows TRUST in the LORD
Obedience to the Lord…proves LOVE for the LORD
What if the parents are ungodly?
Obedience to the Lord…renounces MYSELF as the LORD!
These are all very important points, but the last one is really necessary and powerful for us to understand.
The Christian child’s ultimate authority isn’t his or her parents, it is the Lord Himself.
Now, keep in mind the culture of Paul’s day.
The father of the home was in absolute control of the home.
The father had the right to put to death any one of his children for any reason whatsoever.
And while it was true of the Jewish home, it was especially true of the Greco Roman world.
The Jewish parents at least had some perimeters.
But in the culture of the Colossians - The fathers had complete rights to do whatever they pleased to their children.
Young girls had little value to the Roman father and could be easily forfeited or eradicated!
The point in this, there was a life or death incentive for a child to obey his or her father.
But notice the cultural shift Paul is making.
The child’s main motivation for obedience is now, not to please His father but God himself.
And for the Christian Child, there is not higher joy than to do the will of the Heavenly Father!
Christian Kids, this is something you must get a hold of in your thinking.
The world has an entirely different approach to being a young person.
In fact, Paul warns Timothy about it in...
What if the parents command a child to do something contrary to the Word of God?
Why does Paul expect this of Christian Children?
The point of this text is to remind Timothy and us that the world functions on an entirely different wavelength than we do!
And there are two things we can learn from this.
Don’t expect the world to act Christian!
The Christian who lives like a Christian will be profoundly distinct from the world!
As a Christian, when you act like a Christian, it will give God great glory and you great opportunity to share WHY you live like you live.
Worldly children don’t obey - they get away with whatever they can because they are in charge of their lives.
Godly Children - obey because they understand their obedience is ultimately directed to their God.
Paul reiterates this in his letter to Ephesus...
Kids, your obedience is in the Lord and this is right!
And when you honor your father and mother (a repeat from the Ten Commandments), it will go well with you!
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