I wish to remind you that when we think of some
of the songs that we sing, we fail to realize
the power and the victory in them. Earlier, after
our gospel reading, we sang the glory potray,
and the story of that is simply this. There were
enemies of the triune God on one side of the
river, and they were shouting insults to the
faithful Christians, and this was their response,
the glory potray. No, we're praising all of the
triune God and it was this match back and forth
across the river There is victory in singing
to the Lord and praising him and worshiping him
As you're all aware we've been in a season of
Christian foundations we've spent all kinds of
time discussing God's creation of man and woman
and how that affects us in the world. We've spent
quite a bit of time discussing what marriage
is for, for the glory of God and the benefit
of the world. And we, of course, have looked
at the different roles that husbands and wives
play and what your callings are. We're going
to spend the next three Sundays talking about
Christian parenting. Today we're just getting
the starting point of Christian parenting. Our
text is from Deuteronomy chapter 6 beginning
in verse 1, but let us now pray and ask for God's
blessing of it. Heavenly Father, by your mercies
and the work of your Spirit, reveal your law
of life to us. We beseech you to make the words
of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts
pleasing in your sight for the sake of Jesus
Christ, our risen Redeemer. Amen. Once again
our text is Deuteronomy chapter 6 beginning in
verse 1. Now this is the commandment and these
are the statutes and judgments which Yahweh your
God has commanded to teach you that you may observe
them in the land which you are crossing over
to possess that you may fear Yahweh your God
to keep all his statutes and his commandments
which I commanded you and your son and your grandson
all the days of your life, that your days may
be prolonged. Therefore, hear, O Israel, and
be careful to observe it, that it may be well
with you, and that you may multiply greatly,
as Yahweh, God of your fathers, has promised
you, a land flowing with milk and honey. Hear,
O Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one. You
shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart
and with all your soul. and with all your strength.
And these words which I command you today shall
be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently
to your children, and shall talk of them when
you sit in your house, and when you walk in 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 frontlets between your eyes.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of
your house and on your gates. These are the words
of Almighty God. Receive them in your hearts.
As parents, we're instructed to do, and this
is what I want us to focus on today, three things.
Three things that God is teaching us here this
morning. That we are to teach God's law diligently.
We are to teach God's law diligently. The context
is parenting. But it does go beyond that We are
to bind God's law to our hand we are to bind
God's law to our hand and We are to let or allow
God's law to be as frontlets to our eyes We are
to let God's law be as frontlets to our eyes
Now I'm going to say the first one makes a lot
of clarity, right? You have some frame of reference.
The other two may be a little murky. Don't worry.
We're going to look at what God's word says to
give us understanding. My mentor Steve Wilkins
makes this point on parenting. He says this,
the family is one of the primary institutions
of society. Long -term reformation of culture
is impossible if families which make up the culture
are not growing more and more in conformity to
God's Word. For those of you that are presently
in the midst of training children, the relevance
is obvious. For those of you who do not have
children yet, or have never had children, or
those whose children are adults, this is still
immensely relevant. Saints of God, children,
are you listening? Look up this way. Listen to
me. At every child's baptism in this church,
your parents and you children as well, take the
vow. And I'm going to read it to you. Do you,
the congregation of Christ Reformed Evangelical
Church, promise to undertake the responsibility
of assisting these parents as they nurture their
children in the Christian faith and practice
to the glory of God? And then I ask you, if you
agree to this, say amen. And children, I know
you're saying amen too, right? Young and old
alike, we must be instructed in God's word. As
Psalm 109 teaches us all, that all of God's laws,
testimonies, decrees, precepts, statutes, commandments,
ordinances, and promises, those are all the words
used to describe God's law in Psalm 119. It's
176 verses, by the way. Right? They are to be
known. They are to be loved. And these laws,
commands, statutes, et cetera, they are to be
lived. This is exhaustive. God's Word is exhaustive.
Not it is exhaustive to us like we're tired,
but rather His Word is comprehensive. It covers
everything. In fact, 2 Timothy 3 .16 tells us
this. of scripture is given by the inspiration
of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
for correction, for instructions in righteousness
that the man of God may be complete, that is
mature, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Sermon like these, regardless of what stage you
are in, makes all of us able to be conformed
to Christ as the individual. So when you hear
these things, the first application is to yourself.
Children, are you listening to me? There's going
to be a lot of interaction today. The first thing
is you hear this sermon or any sermon. It's about
me. And then how am I teaching it to others?
I have a responsibility to my parents, for sure.
You know that. But you also, children, have a
responsibility to you younger brothers and sisters,
and to the other children in this church. Those
of you who are oldest boys out here or oldest
girls out here, you must know and understand
that the smaller ones amongst us are looking
to you. So it matters if you were singing with
vigor. It matters if you stood low and served
them. It matters. if you say things that build
them up and edify them. So we are to study God's
word so we can teach and admonish and edify others
in their Christian life to the pleasure of God.
All of us, we must submit ourselves to obedience
of the whole of scripture or as one commentator
puts it, if our children do not grow up to be
faithful men and women who fear God and keep
His commandments, then all we have labored for
is lost. Children, I want you to hear. There's
a secondary reason today that I want you to pay
attention. Children and young people, hear me
now. You see, this morning as I teach on parenting,
It is so that you can know the basis for what
your parents are doing for you, and so that you
can begin learning how to be a good father and
mother. Children, young people, you know this.
You are often confused about why your parents
are doing certain kinds of things to you and
for you. Sometimes you question if it is really
for you. Pay attention this morning. the Word
of God taught, preached to you, so that you can
understand what your parents are trying to accomplish,
so that you can lean into Christ Jesus yourself
and more joyfully submit to what they're asking
of you. As all of you know, the Book of Deuteronomy
is largely a single sermon given by Moses to
the people of Israel. Its timing is this, right?
They have just left the 40 years of wilderness
wandering, of judgment, that God had purposed
for them to be humbled and to know what was in
their hearts. Are you listening? He purposed
them to go through 40 years of wandering so he
could keep providing for them so he could demonstrate
to them what was in their own hearts. Parenting.
is the exact same way at times. Sometimes it
feels like we're wandering around in the wilderness,
not getting anywhere. And as we undergo being
a parent, God humbles us and reveals truly what
is in our own hearts, as much as he reveals what
is seemingly in the hearts of our children. Parenting
reveals our ability to stoop low. patiently longsuffering,
so that our children may know our God. It's interesting
that in Colossians chapter 3 verse 21 it says,
it tells us that fathers are commanded not to
provoke their children, but children are told
to obey their parents in all things, for this
is pleasing to God. So you have two things, father,
and this applies to both parents. Don't provoke
your children. Children, obey your parents. I
want to give one caveat here. For those of you
that are oldest children out here, right? There's
a handful of you out there. You're the oldest.
Guess what? This is the first time that your
parent has trained up someone in following God
at your age. And then if you have a family where
there's boys and girls, guess what? There's a
difference of how they're gonna address the girls
and how they're gonna address the boys simply
because remember how we've talked about this
before? God created you male and female and there's
design differences, origin differences, orientation
differences, all of these things are true. But
children, young people, be gracious to your parents.
They are figuring this out trusting in God and
Lord willing seeking God's word For truth and
admonition and how to help you Now back to this
about not provoking our children too often our
reactions to our children are not based upon
their sin Let me say that again too often our
reactions to our children are not based on their
sin But much more in our inconvenience our dislikes,
our unrelated aggravations, home or marriage
or work, and oftentimes because we're keeping
a record of wrongs. In moments like these, parenting
reveals our own hearts before God and our families.
Do not fall into the trap of self -loathing and
failure. but repent before God and to all those
in whom you've sinned against and in front of
and as Jesus tells us in John 8, go and sin no
more. Returning to our text Deuteronomy chapter
4 and 5, in those chapters God reminds Israel
that they are His covenant people. Now this morning
you may have noticed particularly if you're visiting
with us I said Yahweh instead of Lord. That's
the covenant name God gave for himself to his
people every time you see Lord capitalized I
say this to you all the time, but I'm trying
to remind you. Why do I do this? Because I want
you to be startled into thinking wait This is
my covenant God to me and to my children and
as it said in the text today our grandchildren
and as both in Genesis to Abraham and Peter quotes
it in Acts to all of those who were far off He's
a covenant God who keeps his promises. He wants
us to be robust. He wants us to be joyful He
wants to help us do the trials of life that come
to us He gives us his law And we reject it and
have so much trouble But he tells God tells his
people his covenant people that he's delivered
them from his enemies and part of chapter 5 We
have a reader a reiteration of the ten commandments
through the ten words God repeats His promises
throughout all of Deuteronomy to be their God
and the God of their children. God has named
His people and He has put His covenant sign upon
them, circumcision. And then God lays out blessings
and curses to His people. Now this is the commandment
and these are the statutes and judgment which
Yahweh your God has commanded to teach you, that
you may observe them. And He goes on and talks
about these commandments. It talks about the
blessings, right? Blessings in your life, that
your days may be prolonged for you and your son
and your grandson, it says. And it says, therefore,
hero Israel, and be careful to observe it, that
it may be well with you, that you may multiply
greatly, as Yahweh, your God of your fathers,
has promised you, a land flowing with milk and
honey. Dearly beloved, Passages like this are
sometimes a barrier for those who struggle with
questions of grace alone as opposed to grace
and obedience. For the church, God has made the
covenant sign of baptism for us and our children.
God places his triune name upon us and our children
in baptism. Satan slithers in though with his
fiery darts of doubts in conditions Do not fall
prey to this deceit. Conditions do not nullify
grace. For the only way to fulfill any law of
God is by the grace of God in Christ Jesus by
the power of the Spirit. We must begin by knowing
for ourselves and teaching our children that
their identity is a Christian. God sovereignly
and graciously chose who your parents are. Children,
are you listening? Older adults with angst with
your parents? God chose that for you. You say,
how can this be? Some of this is so terrible.
He's working in your life to His glory, the benefit
of the world. God chose whether each one of us
were male or female God chose that you would
be baptized and have his name placed upon you
and so it is true that it is mighty sovereign
mercy and grace that Christian children must
bring their children for baptism and then teach
them and treat their children as Christians a
people who belong to God We are truly not our
own, but we belong to God. Most of you in this
church have the Child's Catechism book, I Belong
to God. And in answering question 105, it says
this, the question is this, why was I baptized
as an infant? And the response is this, because
God chooses to love the children of his people
and includes them in his covenant. In baptism,
He makes their children His own. Because I am
baptized, I must be faithful to God my whole
life. My baptism binds me to God and His people
forever. In this, people of God, we truly know,
as 1 John 4, 19 tells us, speaking of God, it
declares, we love Him. because he first loved
us. Returning to Deuteronomy 6 verse 3 tells
us that through the commands and statutes that
we are to learn the fear of God so that the blessings
of the promised land would be experienced by
parents, children, and grandchildren in a prolonged
life in God's joy and providence. Again, he says
in verse 4, hear O Israel, Yahweh your God is
one, you shall love Yahweh your God with all
your heart, with all your soul, with all your
strength. So God speaks to His covenant people
as their covenant God, and He is one. Children,
are you listening? Adults, are you listening?
There is only one God, the triune God, in three
persons, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
There is no other God, there is no other path
to God, but in Jesus the Son, by the administrations
of the Spirit. All these words, in verse six
it says, all these words which I command you
today shall be in your heart. In the scriptures,
the heart is the center of thought, emotion,
and life. God is commanding parents to make the
Word of God the center of your life centered
first by God himself then in the worship of God
and Then gratitude towards God and then it reflects
the glory of God to others by Conformity to the
words of God in every single aspect of life children
adults There is nothing that you're going to
come across in your life where the Word of God
doesn't speak. Nothing. You say, how can that
be? We've got all this new AI stuff. There's
new technologies here and there. At the base
of it, there's nothing new under the sun. There's
some basis. There's some truth that God has in
relevance to every single thing in life. And
all of this reminds us, confirms what it says
in Deuteronomy 8, man does not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceeds from the
mouth of God. Now God now directs his people
as how to pass on this teaching of the living
God. We're reminded of this in Ephesians 6 -4,
and you fathers, I'm doing this again, different
text. The first one was Colossians 3, now we're
in Ephesians 6, and you fathers, Do not provoke
your children to wrath, but bring them up in
the training and admonition of the Lord. Although
it applies to both parents, men, you are the
thermostat of your household. If you are not
joyfully obedient to God, if you are not delighting
in your wife and cheerfully enjoying your children
and who they are and what interests they have,
You will exasperate your children You will provoke
your children if you murmur complain are irritable
impatient or inconvenienced or unavailable To
your children You are discouraging them and even
Driving them away from God God graciously gives
us clear directions How we see the Word of God
made true for our children There God here in
this passage gives us Four actions four actions
you shall teach them diligently to your children
the laws And you shall talk of them when you
sit in your house when you walk by the way when
you lie down And when you rise up all that's
part of one you shall bind them as a sign on
your hand They shall be as frontlets between
your eyes and you shall write them on the doorposts
of your house and on your gates God's law is
authoritative and comprehensive You can see this
in Psalm 119 160 or Psalm 19 verse 7 We hear
it very clearly in Proverbs 30 beginning with
verse five. Every word of God is pure. He is
a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
Children, are you listening? Adults, are you
listening? Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke
you and you be found a liar. People of God, your
feelings and opinions are not authoritative.
Trust God and do good. In contentment, parents
joyfully obey and teach God's word to your children.
How often and to what extent should we teach
God's word? Every conversation should be foundationally
set in and through scripture. And if you don't
know how to do this, I understand. Come talk
to your elders. But let me also tell you this.
Study God's Word. Read the book of Proverbs over
and over again. There are a ton. It's so deep.
You're never going to reach the bottom of all
that just Proverbs can give you in these truths.
Everything from a flower in that pot over there,
to the biggest tree, to the sun in the sky, to
science and math, and how you drive a car, and
how you enlist what you do in your strength in
your work. All those conversations are foundationally
set in God's Word. Now, I've been studying God's
Word earnestly since about the middle of high
school, and I still have so much more to learn
and to know, right? Get after it. You gotta be
reading God's Word. You gotta be looking for
application. We need to be talking with our children
about life as understood in the light of God
and His holy word. We're told that we're to do
it when we're sitting. This word sitting means
where you dwell and abide. Now I know right now
you're thinking it particularly like your house,
where you're sitting in your house. But if it's
where you dwell and abide, let me explain that
just as a little bit. Parents, where do you dwell?
Are you dwelling, that is abiding, Jesus. Do
you desire to be fruitful in all of your endeavors
especially your call to see your children faith
as faithful Christians in every area of life?
Jesus said this in John 15, abide in me and I
in you as the branch cannot bear fruit itself
unless it abides in the vine neither can you
unless you abide in me. in our daily lives, we
must ourselves as parents abide in Jesus so that
we may actually take dominion and be bountiful
in the fruit of the Spirit. You yourself cannot
be bountiful in the fruit of the Spirit unless
you abide in Christ, unless that is your dwelling
place. And then by extension it becomes a dwelling
place for your children. We're not just to teach
in our homes, but also as we walk along the path
of life you make observations One of my favorite
one even for me. I still have to work on this
driving down the road All right, can you believe
how those people are driving what morons? How
about this I mean if we're honest, how about
this Lord Jesus have mercy on them watch over
them. I don't know what's going on May they know
you. May they learn how to drive in a competent
way for the safety of others and themselves.
We are to teach our children, not just in something
simple like that, but do we teach our children
to trust in God and what seems like all the challenging
paths and moments? Do we do that? When difficulties
come, when real hardship hits us, look, you gotta
practice on the little things like driving, how
you speak to those things, so that you're prepared
and you've laid the groundwork for when the real
troubles of life happen. Psalm 37, remember this,
we studied it the first Sunday this summer. Verse
23, the steps of a good man are ordered by Yahweh,
and He delights in His way. Though He fall, He
shall not utterly be cast down, for Yahweh upholds
Him with His hand. Hold on to that because we're
coming to hand in just a few minutes. Do the
inconveniences or true adversities of life cause
us to teach our children to turn to God, to rely
on God, or do these adversities cause us to despair?
complain, and to be irritable. Do we center the
life of our household by morning and evening
prayers? Do we start and end our days in prayer
and meditation and thanksgiving? We often do
not live to teach that the purposes of the Christian
life is to glorify God by pleasing him and pointing
others to an abundant life. in Christ Jesus.
God's word should be so much instructing in every
set of circumstances, in every idea, in every
action. We do them. Children, are you listening?
God's word in all this. Your parents ask you
and teach you and work on memorizing God's word.
Accept it with joy. It's the way of life. The
next three steps that God gives here in Deuteronomy
6 gives us more clarity for the first step. God
tells us to bind His commands and ways of life
to our hand as a sign. I do this frequently.
Children, look at me. Look at your hand right
now. What is it for? It is for strength. It is
for rule. It is for the glory of God. The next
time you ball it up, go to pop somebody, ask
yourself those questions. The people of Israel
mistook this instruction and attempted to fulfill
this literally by taking the edges of their prayer
shawl, the tallit, and having the end threads
tied in knots representing the commands of God.
And what they would do is they would take and
wrap this around their hand. Right? You know,
they could almost go down like a rosary, like
counting each one of the knots reminded them
of a law. There's some practical part of that.
But they failed to take it to what God's intent
was. You see, God's intent was not this, but
rather that the scriptures in the hand See in
the scriptures the hand represents power and
authority. We see this in Psalm 110, 1 Samuel
5, 1 Samuel 23, and 1 Samuel 26, just to name
a few. And that went out in your notes yesterday.
The hand represents the delegated power of God
to us in this world. We need to teach our children
how God has given us life, strength, authority,
and responsibility, and how they are to treat
people, how they are to work, how they are to
speak, and how they are to play and do recreation.
Parents, you must not have rules in your house
that simply exist for your convenience and ease,
but rather that are based on sin or righteousness
or wisdom or folly. or childlikeness or maturity.
As we spoke of last week, we are given a throne
in our household, and it is likened to Christ
Jesus' throne. And we must remember that as Christ
is to us, we desire that our children be able
to come to our throne of grace, finding mercy
and help in a time of need. We must be patient.
long -suffering, kind, here's a big one, consistent
and wise as we determine if a situation with
our child is willful disobedience, ignorance,
general folly or foolishness, or merely childish
ways. Parents, we need to imitate Christ and
stoop low. considering not our rights as authorities,
but rather, or really even your inconvenience,
but as Jesus who for the joy set before him endured
the cross, despising the shame for our benefit.
Moms, dads, stop what you are doing and give
your full attention to your child to train them
in the Lord as children of the Lord. Too often,
we're gonna be late. So we're going to be shamed,
or more importantly, I'm going to be shamed.
No, no, no, no. Stop and deal with it. Just like
if you're having an argument on the car or the
way to church, go get it right out there and
then come in here. There ought to be a lot of
ways to make that quick. But don't make it about
the shame you're going to feel. No, no. Lovingly,
righteously, turn to your kids, deal with the
situation. Right? How often do we sit somewhere
and we just holler at them from a distance instead
of getting up and going and dealing with what
we see? And do we go there thinking about where
they are, how old they are, what they know, what
you've already talked to them about? How do you
need to remind them? Do I need to spank them?
Do I need to talk to them? How do I help them
with this? I promise you this. Parents, if your
children are really paying attention today, guess
what's gonna happen on this? They're gonna start
struggling if you're not faithful to this. They're
gonna look at you and they're gonna say, you're
not being consistent. You're not doing what the
pastor said. You better step back. Don't just
say, I got the seat of authority, but say, hmm,
let's talk about that. Maybe you need to go away.
Maybe you need to say to your older kids. Hey,
hold on a minute I need to go pray and read my
Bible on this I'll come back to you Right, don't
don't be prideful in your seat of authority be
prepared And I'm gonna tell you something else
if your parents if your children parents never
come to you Not one time or hardly ever to say
I got questions about how you're doing this You
don't have a throne of grace that they can boldly
approach. We should welcome it as an opportunity
to teach them, to train them. Children, be respectful.
Don't be more disobedient because you think your
parents are doing something wrong. Your charge
by God is to be obedient to God. For God's sake,
be obedient to your parents. But parents, welcome
the questions. God tells then tells Israel that
the laws of God shall be as frontlets and their
eyes So basically all their power their strength
all that has to do with they should see their
hand It is governed that power that responsibility
that strength is governed by God's word So then
God tells Israel that the laws of God shall be
as frontlets between their eyes Frontlets what
in the world is a front? Right once again The
people of God took his instruction, God's instruction,
and they misapplied it, totally missing the great
truth given to them. And in this way of totally
doing it in their own fashion, they sued their
conscience by fulfilling the letter of the law,
but not God's intent. See, what happened was
is that the men of Israel would take... The especially
the spiritual leaders they would take God's Word
they'd write it on a little piece of skin or
a piece of papyrus and then they'd roll it up
and Then they'd stick it in a little wooden box
and then they strap the box to the front of their
forehead near between their two eyes I Got that
figured out All right, I'm ready to go right
these boxes were called phylacteries Jesus in
his declaration against the woe declaration of
woes against the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew
23 says this He says for they bind heavy burdens
hard to bear and lay on them men's shoulders
But they themselves will not move with one of
their fingers But all their works they do to
be seen by men They make their phylacteries broad
and enlarge the borders of their garments. That's
back to the holding the law of God in their hands.
They love the best places at feasts, the best
seats in the synagogue. Jesus rebukes the leaders
and the supposed fathers of Israel for laying
heavy burdens hard to bear upon their children
and the people of Israel. Are you laying heavy
burdens too hard to bear? Imagine this, it says
that they won't even lift a single finger to
help them. So the smallest part of the hand where
authority and power to deliver and help They
don't do any of that. There's no grace. There's
no mercy. There's no joy and restoration and
making people disciples of God Instead they do
things to glorify themselves Jesus here specifically
points out that they had made these boxes on
their heads broad I want people to see, I got
God's work. Think about this. If you make that
box really broad and wide that you're holding
all these laws on this external thing, you're
going to have to do two things. You're going
to have to make it really, really tight. This
constraining your head, making it heavy. Or.
You're going to have to let it fall down in front
of your eyes. And your way of trying to obey
God blocks your vision. You know, they were shouting,
declaring to everybody around them, look at all
my knowledge of God's word. But they had no mercy,
no kindness. Men, especially in a Reformed church,
you need to listen to me now. I do not care how
much you know about church history, church doctrine.
Have all the scriptures of God memorized. If
you are not full of mercy and kindness, fall
on your knees and beg for forgiveness before
God. Don't go to the feasts of the church. and
be boasting, I've got this seat, I've got these
hearers, I'm so good, look how smart I am. Who
cares about how big your phylactery is, it's
strapped to your head. You see, Jesus cries out
against them, declaring that they shut up the
kingdom of heaven against men. and that they're
not going to the Kingdom of Heaven, and more
than that, that they are blocking people from
getting into the Kingdom of Heaven. Lord, have
mercy upon us. When we parent from pride and
arrogance and anger and our judgments, we are
shutting up the Kingdom of Heaven to those whom
we are charged with their care. So what's the
practical application? What's the right way?
As you know, the eyes are the organ of judgment,
right? So we are, if they're to be frontlets
to our eyes, they are to be the lens with which
we judge and make decisions and how we are to
interpret everything that we see. You see, if
we are to interpret things, Rightly, we must
be tethered to God's word so that we can make
right judgments and decisions and take right
actions. We must study God's word so that we
can tend and guard our households for the glory
of God and the good of the world. Finally, God
commands us to write the law of God on the doorposts
of our house and on our gates. Again, we can
get carried away and talk about all the ways
that the people of Israel did it in principle
but didn't understand what God was doing. You
see this is simple that the words of God are
for our lives in our homes and our lives in the
world. What is true inside our homes and outside
our homes are both regulated in the same manner
and our comings coming in and are going out.
Dearly beloved our homes are to be gardens of
righteousness. It takes the grace and wisdom
of our God to parent to the glory of God and
the benefit of our children. You might be feeling
overwhelmed. You might think, man, I've got a
lot of mistakes I got to work on. Turn to Christ.
Boldly approach God's throne and ask for mercy,
grace, and wisdom. Ephesians chapter two says,
but God who was rich in mercy because of his
great love with which he loved us, even when
we were dead in trespasses made us alive together
with Christ. That in the ages to come, that he
might show the exceeding riches of his grace
and his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
Turn to Christ, right? Make these changes, right?
So in what? The ages to come and the rest of
the life that you have with your children. Right?
You'll show the exceeding riches of His grace
and His kindness. Turn to Jesus, ask Him for
help. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, You've given
us all. You've given us all that we need in Christ
Jesus. We humbly ask that You grant us wisdom,
grace, joy, and patience to train up our children
in the nurture and admonition of Your Word. We
are weak. but you are strong. Please use your
mighty hand to help us and deliver our children
to faithfulness to your glory and the benefit
of the world. We ask all this for the sake of
your son Jesus who reigns with you in the Holy
Spirit forever and ever. Amen. Let us continue
our worship by the giving of our tithes and offerings.
All hail the... Would be for your glory and for
service in your kingdom blessed be God forever
and ever amen