1. Sharp Arrows From Strong Quivers
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Sharp Arrows From Strong Quivers
Focus on the Family: Parents and Children
Deuteronomy 6:5-9:
“5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
The Devil’s Campaign – 1 Peter 5:8

2. Sharp Arrows From Strong Quivers
I. Problems & Challenges of Parents:
Living in an ungodly age (1 John 5:19)
Peer Pressure (1 Corinthians 15:33)
Gov’t trying to undermine God’s word (Acts 5:29)
Many baptized or convinced, yet few are converted (Judges 2:10, Acts 26:28, John 12:42)
Disrespect for Authority/ Discipline (Romans 13)
Unavailable Parents*/ excuse-making (Ephesians 6:4)
Lack of spiritual training/environment (Prov. 22:6)
Poor Example (Titus 2:7)
Divorce & Separation (Malachi 2:16)
Worldliness (1 John 2:15)

3. Sharp Arrows From Strong Quivers
“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3
Psalm 127:3-5
3Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; They shall not be ashamed, But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

4. Sharp Arrows From Strong Quivers
Solutions: Parent Responsibilities to children:
Setting the Right Example
Luke 6:39-42 (read)
2 Timothy 1:5, “when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.”
Jesus (John 13:1-17)
When we set and live the right example before our children, they will be motivated to follow our example and will listen to what we have to say. This good example helps the voice of the parent to be louder than the voice of their peers.
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5. Sharp Arrows From Strong Quivers
Solutions: Parent Responsibilities to children:
Training up your child
Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
2 Timothy 3:14-15, “But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Romans 10:17, “ So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Deuteronomy 6:5-9
Jesus, the Great Example: John 5:39, Matthew 10, Mark 16

6. Sharp Arrows From Strong Quivers
Solutions: Parent Responsibilities to children:
BE AVAILABLE
Luke 11:1
Matthew 5, Sermon on the Mount
3. The downfall of many parents, especially preachers, is that they aren’t available when their children need them the most

7. Sharp Arrows From Strong Quivers
Solutions: Parent Responsibilities to children:
LOVE
Discipline: Proverbs 22:15, Hebrews 12:3-11
Titus 2:4
PREPARATION FOR HEAVEN
Luke 10:38-42, Martha and Mary
1 John 2:15-17
Keep Children away from Spiritual danger
1 Cor. 15:33, Prov. 4:23,
Lot pitching His tent toward Sodom (Gen. 13:11)
Bad counsel: Amnon & Tamar (2 Sam. 13)

8. Sharp Arrows From Strong Quivers
III. Children Responsibility to Parent:
1 Timothy 5
Ephesians 6:1-3
IV. Individual Christian responsibility
James 1:27
Titus 2:1-8
1 Timothy 5:1-2
Matthew 5:16
Conclusion: God is a Faithful Father. Jesus was an obedient Son (Hebrews 5:8)