Family Focus Part2

Jeremiah 29:5–6 NKJV

5 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. 6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished.

Recap

Marriage is the first institution God instituted.

Genesis 2:15–25 NKJV

15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” 18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” 19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: “This is now 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 mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Family came out of the marriage.

Genesis 4:1–2 NKJV

1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the Lord.” 2 Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

The nation came out of the family.

1. When The Lord sent the Children of Isreal into captivity He did it to bring restoration. Passing our faith to our children is priority.

2. One of the things we do in our families is to teach our children to be fruitful.

Proverbs 22:6 NKJV

6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

No one is born without gifts and talents. (1 Corinthians 12:7)

No one is born without purpose. (Genesis 1:27)

There was variety of occupation even in the first family:

Cain was a farmer. Genesis 4:3 “3 And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord.”

Able was a shepherd Genesis 4:4 “4 Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering,”

To properly raise Cain and Able Adam and Eve had to understand the differences in talents in their Children.

3. We pass our spiritual life to our Children.

Psalm 145:4 NKJV

4 One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.

We can Pass our faith on through our testimony.

Deuteronomy 11:18–19 NKJV

18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

We need to know the Word of God for ourselves so we can teach it to our children.

To often people don’t know the difference between cliche and the the Word. to often we know more cliche then we do bible verses!