Title: How to Do Homework? (1 Timothy 5:8)
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※In the social structure in which we live, the family is the smallest unit, but the most important
This is an institution that becomes
※In terms of how each family is built, what kind of country is it?
It is decided whether or not to be established as a nation.
※The same applies to churches. It depends on what families are in the church.
The degree and level of the church vary.
Ⅰ So, family ministry is one of the ministries that all believers should give importance to.
It is a ministry to
1. However, for various reasons, family ministry is neglected.
1) Those who leave work early in the morning and return home late in the evening are exhausted from work all day.
I have no time to look around my family due to the stress I get from my high-school relationship.
do.
2) A mother is like a mother, and children are like their children.
They say they can't afford one.
2. But we need to put family ministry first.
Because when the family is broken and collapsed, even if everything else is ready,
Because that doesn't mean much to the family.
3. Look again at today's text (1 Timothy 5:8).
“If anyone does not take care of his relatives, especially his family, he has betrayed the faith.
Worse than you unbelievers.”
1) Not taking care of one's family is a betrayal of faith.
2) And he said that a person who does not take care of his family is worse than an unbeliever.
3) Among unbelievers, there are many people who devote themselves and make sacrifices for their families.
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4. Look at what happens because you don't look after your family.
1) Abandoned children (due to parents' refusal to raise them), daycare centers, orphanages, other households or other countries
children adopted into
2) The elderly and sickly elderly are neglected even though they have several children, and the government's welfare for the elderly is provided.
Phenomena that are protected from harm
3) Indifference to family members who have not been saved spiritually and the result of neglect and resignation
The phenomenon of becoming a separated family on a Sunday
4) Various phenomena that occur when families go out with each other's selfishness and do not become one
field
5. God gives sincere consideration to family members, service and sacrifice, and
He sees his sincere love as the same as for God.
1) Otherwise, it is considered that you have betrayed your faith in God.
2) Therefore, he is regarded as a worse person than an unbeliever.
3) So, those who do not love their visible neighbors, brothers, or family cannot be seen.
He is saying that even God cannot love (1 John 4:20-21).
“If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar, and he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. Let him also love his brother.”
Ⅱ. Then, how do you actually do family ministry?
1. First, start your family ministry by praying for your family and family members.
1) The first member of the family who believes in Jesus has the responsibility to take care of the family spiritually.
I did.
2) Among them, prayer ministry for family is essential.
3) In Luke 23:26-28, Jesus went to Calvary to be crucified.
Seeing the people and women beating their breasts and weeping, Jesus said,
“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for you and your children.
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4) To those who saved and raised their families through prayer ministry (Canaanite woman, Hannah) (Matthew 8:5~)
A centurion was praying for his servant, and he was healed of paralysis.
All.
5) Pray every day for family members (for them, more than daily bread
More family prayers are required.)
2. The restoration of the family comes from the restoration of the relationship of the family members with God.
loses.
1) Believers must first restore their relationship with God at home.
do.
2) Restoring our relationship with God comes from the restoration of the gospel life.
* The gospel life is about nailing yourself to the cross of Jesus for your sins.
* It is no longer I who live, but the life that Christ lives in me.
* It is a life used by God as a weapon of righteousness. (When there is such a life, it is good for the family.
affect.)
3) Restoration of relationship with God means that I fear and fear God, and I am a servant of Him.
As the master, obeying His word and walking with God in unity with the will of the Lord.
will be
3. Family work must be done with God-given love.
1) Love endures for the object of love before being forced into it.
2) Love unconditionally forgives the object of love. (Because love covers a multitude of sins
as God did to us.)
3) Love sacrifices and gives everything for the object.
4) Love believes in all things and does not fall away forever and does not seek its own.
is. Put the interests of others first.
4. Faithfulness to one's duty is a great help in family ministry.
1) Duties of husband and wife, mutual obligations of parents and children
2) When duties are respected and harmonized as a student as a head of a household and a housewife
It becomes trustworthy.
※We are brothers and sisters who make up the community of the church in Christ.
Knowing that you are a member of the family of the house of God, you can do the same in this family.
Home ministry should apply.