"Love The Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates." Deuteronomy 6:5-9 (NIV)
After presenting them with the ten commandments, Moses told the people that they were to love The Lord completely. They were to teach The Word of God and the commandments to their children. They were to live them, talk of them all the time, and display them in their homes and on their persons.
Parents are to teach The Word of God to their children. If the children and grand children don't know it, then it is the fault of the parents and the grand parents. (Deuteronomy 6:1-2) If the parents don't know it, then it is our fault for not telling them. If we tell them but they refuse to listen, or refuse to believe, then we have done our part. The Word of God should be so ingrained within us that it should show in our daily lives, in our conversations, in our behavior, in our homes, and in our attire. We should make sure that each day we tell someone about The Lord. Make sure that no child sees or hears us, behaving or speaking, in an non Christ-like manner. We do not want to cause a child to stumble into sin or be led astray. (Matthew 18:6 & Mark 9:42 & Luke 17:2)
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