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2. A Family’s responsibility is to protect

3. The Importance Of Family Family’s responsibility is to protect Exodus 1:1-22(KJV) 1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

4. The Importance Of Family 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

5. The Importance Of Family 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

6. The Importance Of Family 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

7. The Importance Of Family 19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

8. The Importance Of Family Exodus 2:1-10(KJV) 1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

9. The Importance Of Family 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

10. The Importance Of Family 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

11. The Importance Of Family Family is usually more than one household – 1:1-7

12. The Importance Of Family Life is often difficult – 1:8-14

13. The Importance Of Family Life is full of hard decisions – 1:15-16

14. The Importance Of Family Hard decisions do not always mean universal agreement – 1:17-18

15. The Importance Of Family God has given them to us – 2:2

16. The Importance Of Family They are special – 2:2c

17. The Importance Of Family They are important – 2:2c

18. The Importance Of Family They are a blessing to be found – 2:5

19. The Importance Of Family They are a blessing to be cared for with love, devotion and wisdom

20. The Importance Of Family A Family’s responsibility is to prepare

21. The Importance Of Family Feed and nourish – 2:9

22. The Importance Of Family Feed and nourish – 2:9 Challenge and strengthen

23. The Importance Of Family Feed and nourish – 2:9 Challenge and strengthen Teach and train

24. The Importance Of Family Deuteronomy 6:1-8(KJV) 1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

25. The Importance Of Family 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

26. The Importance Of Family Proverbs 22:6(KJV) 6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Isaiah 38:19(KJV) 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

27. The Importance Of Family Feed and nourish – 2:9 Challenge and strengthen Teach and train To correct and guide Proverbs 13:24(NKJV) 24 He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

28. The Importance Of Family Early Proverbs 19:18(KJV) 18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

29. The Importance Of Family With love (instead of an uncaring jailer) Proverbs 23:12-14(KJV) 12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. 13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. I think with just enough pressure as needed to guide

30. The Importance Of Family A Family’s responsibility is to prop up family (in godliness)

31. The Importance Of Family Deuteronomy 4:9-10(NKJV) 9 Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren, 10 especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

32. The Importance Of Family As the first example

33. The Importance Of Family As the first example As a believer

34. The Importance Of Family As the first example As a believer As a joyous family

35. The Importance Of Family Deuteronomy 31:11-13(NKJV) 11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, 13 and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”

36. The Importance Of Family As the first example As a believer As a joyous family As a CORRECT changing force in their lives

37. The Importance Of Family A family’s key responsibility is to precede in the ways of the Lord

38. The Importance Of Family 1 Kings 9:4(NKJV) 4 Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, 2 Chronicles 17:3(KJV) 3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

39. The Importance Of Family 2 Chronicles 26:4(KJV) 4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did. 2 Timothy 1:5(NKJV) 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.

40. The Importance Of Family We as family can help… Make their footsteps easier

41. The Importance Of Family We as family can help… Make their footsteps easier Make their paths clear

42. The Importance Of Family We as family can help… Make their footsteps easier Make their paths clear Make their way straight

43. The Importance Of Family We as family can help… Make their footsteps easier Make their paths clear Make their way straight Make their stand strong

44. The Importance Of Family Families ARE important!