Parents

Relationships: Parents

Last Week

Both we and our parents have parts

in the relationship that when done

right, great benefits result.

Today

The Parent’s part/responsibility

The Children’s part/responsibility

The Benefits

The Parent’s Part/Responsibility

Summary

Our parents have the difficult responsibility of

1. modeling a lifestyle of worship

2. Training, Teaching and Instructing

3. giving wisdom

4. Correcting and Disciplining

5. not Provoking

Summary

6. Praying

7. Encouraging obedience to God

8. warning of God’s judgments

9. loving

10. Providing

11. making holy connections

12. launching

The Children’s Part/Responsibility

Summary

Our part in the relationship

includes:

1. Hearing Instruction

2. obeying and fearing God

3. Obeying and Submitting

Summary

4. Honoring and Respecting

5. taking care of our parents when they are aged

6. modeling godly parents

7. not modeling bad parents

We demonstrate our love for our

parents when we chose to do these things

The Benefits

For our Parents

1. we won’t be a cause of grief to them

Pro 10:1

Pro 17:25

2. we will be a blessing to them

Pro 23:15

Pro 23:24-25

Pro 15:20

Pro 29:3

Pro 29:17

3. we won’t disgrace them

Pro 19:13

Pro 28:24

Pro 30:11

For Us

1. long life

Pro 3:1-2

Pro 4:10

Eph 6:3

2. peace

3. guidance

Pro 4:11-12

Pro 2:1-6

Pro 2:9

4. joy

5. glorifies God

6. won’t sin and incur discipline by God

C.A.R.E.

1. Confess to God and to others (parents)

2. Ask for Forgiveness

3. Repent

4. Eliminate

Summary

When we have good relationships with our parents:

1. we won’t be a cause of grief to them

2. we will be a blessing to them

3.we won’t disgrace them

4. we will have long life

Summary

5. we will have peace

6. we will have guidance

7. we will have joy

8. we will glorify God

9. we won’t sin and incur discipline

by God

Application

1. are you bringing joy or grief to your parents?

2. if we want long life, we should not forget our parent’s teaching

3. are you looking to your parents for godly counsel and guidance?

4. how is your relationship with God and your parents?

5. are there things that you need to change to improve your relationship?

The Parent’s part/responsibility:

Our parents have the difficult responsibility of Training, Teaching and Instructing then launching us out

The Children’s part/responsibility:

We demonstrate our love for our parents when we chose to hear, obey, honor and respect them

The Benefits:

When we have a good relationship with our parents and when both we and our parents do our parts in the relationship, great benefits result for us and our parents.

If you want to improve your relationship with your parents then first fix your relationship with God.

First time Commitment

Re-Commitment