Happy Mother’s Day
1. Raise Godly Kids
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Malachi 2:15
Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking Godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
1. Raise Godly KidsHow do we Raise Godly Kids?
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Proverbs:16:3 commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans
will succeed.
7 Steps for Raising Godly KidsStep 1. Being a Godly Example Yourself
Mark 12:30Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind…
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7 Steps for Raising Godly KidsStep 2. Know & Obey God’s Word Yourself…
John 14:21Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
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7 Steps for Raising Godly KidsStep 3. Tell Your children frequently of God’s Works
Ps 78:3-7what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done. He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children, so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children. Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
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7 Steps for Raising Godly KidsStep 4. Teach Your Children God’s Word
Deut 6:6-9These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress 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. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
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Step 4. Teach Your Children God’s Word
2 Tim 2:15Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
7 Steps for Raising Godly KidsStep 5. Lead them to an understanding to Accept Jesus as
their Savior
Rom 10:9-10That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
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7 Steps for Raising Godly KidsStep 6. Teach them to Bring God into every situation and
decision in their lives
Prov. 3:5-6Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Prov.16:3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will
succeed.
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7 Steps for Raising Godly KidsStep 7. Encourage and train them that nothing is more
important in life than loving and serving the Lord
Deut 10:12what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
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2. Pass the Baton (Your Legacy of Faith)
Psalm 71:17-18O God you have taught me from my youth:And to this day I declare your wondrous works.Now also when I am old and gray-headed,O God do not forsake me,Until I declare your strength to this generation,Your power to everyone who is to come.
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3. Chair One LivingA First Chair Person: Is not only saved, but knows the Lord as a personal friend and
savior and displays a meaningful growing relationship with Him for himself and those he’s responsible for. He willingly puts himself/herself under Christ’s authority and direction. The apostle Paul would call this the “spiritual state”.
The First chair the Chair of Commitment
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3. Chair One LivingThe Second Chair Person:
Represents someone who has received new life in Christ but hasn’t decided in his heart how much or how little they want to follow Him.
The Second Chair the Chair of Compromise
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3. Chair One LivingThe Third Chair Person:
Represents someone who has not committed their heart and life to the Lord. A Third chair person may have always known he wasn’t a Christian, he may have consciously rejected God or he just may be confused about his spiritual state.
The Third Chair the Chair of Conflict
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3. Chair One LivingFirst Chair Second Chair Third Chair
Committed Compromised Conflicted
Saved Saved Unsaved
Spiritual State Carnal State Natural State
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First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Knows God
Relates to God
Serves God
First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment
Knows God As a Close Friend
Relates to God
Relationship
Serves God God FirstSelf Second
How Each Chair Relates to God
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First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment Compromise
Knows God As a Close Friend As an Acquaintance
Relates to God
Relationship Responsibility
Serves God God FirstSelf Second
Self FirstGod Second
First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment Compromise Conflict
Knows God As a Close Friend As an Acquaintance
Is aware of God
Relates to God
Relationship Responsibility Religion
Serves God God FirstSelf Second
Self FirstGod Second
Self Only
How Each Chair Relates to the WorldFirst Chair Second
ChairThird Chair
Characteristic
Shaped by
Lives by
Sees Work As
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First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment
Shaped by The Scriptures
Lives by Convictions
Sees Work As
God’s Calling
First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment Compromise
Shaped by The Scriptures Other Christians
Lives by Convictions Beliefs
Sees Work As
God’s Calling God’s Blessing
First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment Compromise Conflict
Shaped by The Scriptures Other Christians Society
Lives by Convictions Beliefs Opinions
Sees Work As
God’s Calling God’s Blessing A Proving Ground
First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Approach to Marriage
Approach to Parenting
Parenting
First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment
Approach to Marriage
Unconditional Covenant
Approach to Parenting
Apply Biblical Principles/ Confident
Parenting Raise Godly Kids
First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment Compromise
Approach to Marriage
Unconditional Covenant
Conditional Contract
Approach to Parenting
Apply Biblical Principles/ Confident
Influenced by Principles/Hopeful
Parenting Raise Godly Kids Raise GoodChristian Kids
First Chair Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment Compromise Conflict
Approach to Marriage
Unconditional Covenant
Conditional Contract
Legal Convenience
Approach to Parenting
Apply Biblical Principles/ Confident
Influenced by Principles/Hopeful
Chooses Own Approach/ Confused
Parenting Raise Godly Kids Raise GoodChristian Kids
Raise Good Successful Kids
How Each Chair Relates to Marriage & Family
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First Chair Second Chair Third Chair
Commitment Compromise Conflict
Picture of the Generations
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First Chair Second Chair Third Chair
Commitment Compromise Conflict
Joshua The Elders The Elder’s Children
First Chair Second Chair Third Chair
Commitment Compromise Conflict
Joshua The Elders The Elder’s Children
David Solomon (David’s Son)
Rehoboam (Solomon’s Son)
Picture of the Generational SlideFirst Generation Second
GenerationThird Generation
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First Generation Second Generation
Third Generation
First Chair
Knows God
First Hand Faith
Has Works
Submits to the Bible
First Generation Second Generation
Third Generation
First Chair Second Chair
Knows God Knows “OF” God
First Hand Faith Second Hand Faith
Has Works Saw the Works
Submits to the Bible Respects the Bible
First Generation Second Generation
Third Generation
First Chair Second Chair Third Chair
Knows God Knows “OF” God Doesn’t Know God
First Hand Faith Second Hand Faith No Faith at All
Has Works Saw the Works Doesn’t Believe in Works
Submits to the Bible Respects the Bible Owns a Bible
3. Chair One LivingJoshua 24:15
But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."
Joshua 24:31….Israel served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced everything the Lord had done for Israel.
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3. Chair One LivingJudges 1:27-30
Judges 2:1-3The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I swore to give to your forefathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you, and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.' Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this? Now therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before you; they will be [thorns] in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you."
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3. Chair One LivingJudges 2:10
After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. 11 Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals.
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3. Chair One LivingExamples of generations in the Bible that shows how the Chair
1 Position passing on the Baton of Faith….
2 Timothy 1:5 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
Ruth, Obed and Jesse (Who was King David’s Father )(Book of Ruth)
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3. Chair One Living
The Key to Raising Godly Kids and Passing the Baton of Faith is which Chair you Sit in…..Sit in a Chair – Choose a Destiny!!
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