ATTITUDES TOWARDS OUR CHILDREN

  1. (LORD to Abraham) ... that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice;... (Gen 18:17-19)
    (Note: Employees, household servants, even beasts are included.)

  2. (LORD to Moses) Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children so. (Deut 4:9-10)

  3. (Ancient Israelites sojourned in Egypt. The Egyptians dealt harshly with them (Ex 1:11-16, Ex 5) and even killed their male children upon birth. And LORD was about to requite them with 10 plagues.)
    (LORD to Moses) ...that I may show these signs of mine among them (refer to Egyptians) and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your son's son how I have made sport of the Eqyptians... that you may know that I am the LORD. (Ex 10:1-2)
    (Note: Bible history as bedtime/meal-time/leisure-time stories to our children. Word of LORD/Jesus, including Law, Commandments, Ordinances, Statutes as inheritance to our children.)

  4. Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. (Jer 6:16)
    Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD. (Jer 8:7-9)

  5. I will chasten you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished. (Jer 30:11)
    (LORD to Ancient Judah when LORD destroyed them by the Chaldeans and let them be captive slaves) Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you. All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.... because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you. (Jer 30:12-15)
    (Note: To punish more than one deserves, or to punish less are both wrong. To find fault mercilessly is wrong too. Is it TRUE love if we let our children break loose?)

  6. (LORD allowed Satan kill all children of Job, take away all his belongings, afflict him with loathsome sores from foot to head. Job was a blameless man.)
    (Job to LORD) If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why has you made me thy mark? (Job 7:20)
    (Job) ... For he (refer to LORD) is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both (Job 9:32-33)
    (Job) I will say to GOD, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me. Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands... (Job 10:2-3)
    (Job) He (refer to LORD) leads counsellors away stripped, and judges he makes fools... He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste (Job 12:13-25)
    (See also Job 21:6-9, 21:19-33, 23:6-9, 24:1-12, 24:21-23)

    (Note: Job said that LORD wronged and oppressed him. His 3 friends said that LORD could not be in the wrong and that Job or his children must have sinned. LORD approved of Job even Job spoke such things, but punished his 3 friends with 7 bulls and 7 rams. LORD wants us to use our conscience to think consciously and independently. LORD may even test us to see if we follow RIGHT/WRONG or blindly follow his word, (Num 22).
    Was LORD really wrong in his dealing with Job? When we can fully answer LORD's questions to Job on Job 38-39, we may understand better.)

    There are many good examples of teaching our children in the Bible

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