Deuteronomy 6:1-9Deuteronomy 6:1-9 1These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

1These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

Deuteronomy 6:1-9Deuteronomy 6:1-92so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.

2so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.

Deuteronomy 6:1-9Deuteronomy 6:1-93Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you.

3Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you.

Deuteronomy 6:1-9Deuteronomy 6:1-9 4Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6These command-ments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.

4Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6These command-ments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.

7Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

7Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

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8Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

8Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

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Practical Principles for Passing on Faith

part 1

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Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you,

that you might do them in the land where you are

going over to possess it,

Deuteronomy

6:1

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so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the

LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments

which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your

days may be prolonged.

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6:2

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O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be

well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the

LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land

flowing with milk and honey.

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6:3

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Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God,

the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God

with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

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6:4-6

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You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of

them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way

and when you lie down and when you rise up.

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6:7

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You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as

frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the

doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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6:8-9

The idea that good parents always produce good children and bad parents always produce bad children is simply not true.

Scripture gives us governing principles for

training children, not guarantees.

1. Your child is a gift from God!

Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the

hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is

full of them; they will not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

(Psalms 127:3-5)

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They are a worth the struggle.

They are a gift from God even with they

act like the devil!

2. Your love has to be unconditional…

2. Your love has to be unconditional…

model God.

I Corinthians 13 isn’t just a good idea,

it’s foundational.

3. Your child has natural bents that you have to recognize and work with.

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The root word of “train up” in the Hebrew is a word used to describe

the palate or roof of the mouth. A Hebrew mid-wife after helping

deliver the baby would dip her finger in a paste made of dates and rub it on the baby’s gums to create thirst and start the

baby’s feeding instinct.

Our job is to

create a thirst in

our child

for the right

things.

Five steps to training.

1. Exposure

2. Imitation

3. Encouragement

4. Repetition

5. Refinement