Deuteronomy 6:1-9 1 These 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 6:1-9 2 so 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 6:1-9 3 Hear, 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 6:1-9 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These command- ments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.

7 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. Deuteronomy 6:1-9

8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Practical Principles for Passing on Faith part 1

 Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the L ORD your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, D e u t e r o n o m y 6:1

 so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the L ORD 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. D e u t e r o n o m y 6:2

 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 L ORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. D e u t e r o n o m y 6:3

 Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the L ORD is one! You shall love the L ORD 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. D e u t e r o n o m y 6:4-6

 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. D e u t e r o n o m y 6:7

 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. D e u t e r o n o m y 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 L ORD, 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)

 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.

 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