After the meetings that I had here in Murfreesboro, I have a whole list of sermon ideas. They continue to get emails with people giving lists of ideas of sermons that they would like to hear over the next year. A sermon idea that came up actually a couple of months ago and a couple of people talked to me about is a sermon or two or three over the next year on basic concepts of raising children.
Now, there's a lot of us who might say, well, I don't have children to raise anymore, but I know as a grandfather, my daughter and her husband are always trying to raise their children, and I don't interfere, but every once in a while there's some questions asked, you know, or I try to interact with the kids, and I have to think, okay, how do I interact with these kids now as granddad?
And there's certain principles that still apply, even if you're a grandparent. You can't interfere with the raising of your grandchildren, but at the same time, in most families, there's always some, hey, can you help out here? Or the kids start to figure out, okay, I can go to grandma, I can go to grandpa, and I can get some advice or some help, and there's relationship forms, and you have to support the values, you know, the same value system. One thing that's very important to children is to find out that their family basically has the same value system. Then they want to find out if the church they belong to has the same value system.
That's why they're so sensitive to what they consider hypocrisy, you know, because we're all supposed to have the same value system, and they haven't figured out yet that there's a difference between a value system and individual situations or individual behavior or all the other things we have to deal with. So we're going to talk about some basic concepts of one aspect of raising children, and one that's sometimes very misunderstood. We'll start, as so many of these types of sermons do in Deuteronomy 6, because I want to point out a couple points here that is very, very important.
Deuteronomy 6, you know, even the classes that are taught once a month in the congregation here, are called the Deuteronomy 6 classes, because this is the basis for really what is Biblical child ring.
And there's a couple points I want to bring out and then zero in on this one aspect. Let's start in verse 4 of Deuteronomy 6. Hear O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. This sentence leads into the next sentence, and what is important to understand here, it is a community statement. He's telling all of Israel that He's their God and that all of Israel is commanded to love Him. So this command is to everyone here, whether you're a parent or grandparent, or have no children.
All of us are to love God with all our heart and all our mind and all our strength. That leads into this next statement. For this to be carried on, God expected families to run a certain way. There are certain things that are supposed to happen in families. He says, and these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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