1. Seven Keys to Raising Godly Children

2. Key #1 : PURPOSE What do you consider to be your goal as a parent?
What would it take to make you feel that you had been a success or a failure as a parent?

3. Parents Must Set Goals
You must recognize that You are Responsible to Raise Your Children Properly
You brought these Children into the World-
Government did not do it
The church, school, parents, etc. did not do it

4. God Holds You Responsible For Raising Your Children
Titus 2:4,5 “love their children”
Ephesians 6:4 “training and admonition of the Lord.”
Genesis 18:19 “command his children and his household after him,”
1 Samuel 3:12-14 “judge his house forever for the iniquity”

5. Some Goals Proper but Not The Main Goal
Various Goals in Raising Children – may emphasize goals that of little importance
Physical Beauty, Athletic Achievement, Popularity, etc.
1 Timothy 5:8 “provide for his own.”
Matthew 7:9-11 “good gifts”

6. Some Goals Proper but Not The Main Goal
Too Concerned about Physical Pursuits
Luke 12:15, “beware of covetousness”
Matthew 16:26 “what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Deuteronomy 18:10 Idolatry
Colossians 3:5 “covet = idolatry”

7. Main Goal to Train Children to Serve God unto Eternal Life
God’s Goals for Parents
Proverbs 22:6 “train up a child”
Ephesians 6:4 “bring up”
Genesis 18:19 “keep way of the Lord.”
Psalm 34:11 “fear of the LORD”
Joshua 24:15 “choose”
Malachi 2:15 “godly offspring”

8. Seriousness of This Responsibility
Determine Children’s Eternal Destiny
Proverbs 23:13,14 “deliver soul from hell”
Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child”
Proverbs 20:28; 21:2; 22:7,11
General Statement of Truth

9. Seriousness of This Responsibility
Determine Parent’s Eternal Destiny
1 Samuel 3:12-14; 2:22-25
Ecclesiastes 12:14
Raise Children to Serve God
Not Forget Life’s Real Purpose
Philippians 4:13 “do all things”