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