Title: Don't Angry Your Children
do not anger your children
2006-05-14
Ephesians 6:4
I. text commentary
II. How to anger your children
When parents provoke their children, the mental/spiritual union between the two is broken, which blocks the pathway to educating their children, making it impossible for parents to teach them how to be truly human. The following two cases are possible.
A. Excessive discipline: This is due to two factors. The first is a case of disciplinary action due to false expectations for a child. Children are born in our bodies but forget that they are human beings, and this is a case of imposing their expectations without consideration for their children's tendencies or any deep personal persuasion. This breaks the relationship of mental union between parent and child, which is incomparably important to the many expectations of parents. A false expectation of forgetting this essential union relationship leads to excessive discipline. The second is a case of discipline with blood. The purpose of discipline is for the sake of children, but the moment of discipline is often done out of unbearable blood. Unrefined language or beatings leave indelible scars on children. Even though it may not be the immediate death of the physical body, it leaves a death-like flesh deep inside the child.
Ⅲ. way to raise children
So, how will you raise your children? There are too many times when we educate this child according to the current trend of the world and the desires of our parents, without thinking about how to make this child become a true human being and serve God purely. The purpose of raising children in the Bible is to make the child truly become a perfect human being, and furthermore, to make a person who has a bigger will and conquers the world. To conquer the world is to fix the broken world by using the position, authority, and material the Lord has given to us to accomplish God's will and order on this earth, not our own. The purpose of educating children is to raise them as people of God. Infuse them with such grand dreams. If so, what are you going to do with them? Satisfying the senses, such as eating, wearing, drinking, seeing good, etc., should not be made the main channel of our joy. It is our souls that have to be truly satisfied.
A. In the discipline and admonition of the Lord: The education of the Lord is concerned with the inner quality of the child, and the discipline of the Lord is concerned with the life of the child. Making the child's inner world good and beautiful, making him love God and people with all his heart, and allowing him to have an inner world that is constantly influenced by the love of the Lord should be the focus of child rearing. Even if we have many talents and outstanding abilities, if we do not have this kind of faith in God in our children, we are nothing. The most important thing parents should do for their children is to instill in them the faith to love and fear God with all their heart from an early age. Faith is everything.
Sharing 1. Let's share the life we practiced after listening to last week's message, 'Be reconciled to your parents' (Deuteronomy 5:16).
Sharing 2. Let's share the overall content of the sermon in Ephesians 6:4 and tell each other the parts that came to us deeply.
Sharing 3. When parents anger their children, what are the things that are easy to break in the relationship between parents and children?
Sharing 4. Let's share some reasons why parents provoke their children and how to teach them when they are young, when they are more mature, and when they are older. If there is a positive or negative part in your life that you have received through your parents' education, let's share it.
Sharing 5. What does the Bible say about children's education? What is the most important thing parents should do to educate their children in the Bible?IV. Conclusion and application 2006-05-14