Raising the Next Generation

PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATIONFOR GLOBAL IMPACT IN THE EMERGING ECONOMIES

Responsible parenting carries a price Moses, Samuel ,John the baptist and Samson all had their parents sacrifice to make them great Judges 2 :  7-10 The people served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the Lord had done for Israel. Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten. And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. (‭Judges‬ ‭2‬:‭7-10‬ NIV) Malachi 2:15 Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. (‭Malachi‬ ‭2‬:‭15‬ NIV) God does not mass produce John Maxwell's son story TRAINING Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) 6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die. Punish them with the rod and save them from death. (‭Proverbs‬ ‭23‬:‭13-14‬ NIV) A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother. Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire. (‭Proverbs‬ ‭29‬:‭15, 17‬ NIV) SACRIFICES When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.” So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene. (‭Matthew‬ ‭2‬:‭13-15, 19-23‬ NIV) Inheritance Marriage Genesis 24:1-6 Abraham plans for Isaac Genesis 28:1-3 Isaac admonishes Jacob to marry back home Blessings Genesis 37:3 (KJV) 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. Isaac Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.” (‭Genesis‬ ‭27‬:‭4‬ NIV) Abraham through God Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.” So Isaac stayed in Gerar. (‭Genesis‬ ‭26‬:‭3-6‬ NIV) Jonathan Edwards and Max Jukes