WE SHOULD TEACH OUR CHILDREN ABOUT GOD

Proclamation:

"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)

Explanation:

These words were written by the Prophet Moses under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God.  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.

Application:

As parents we are to teach The Word of God to our children.  If the children and the grand children don't know it, then it is our fault, the fault of the parents and the grandparents. (Deuteronomy 6:1-2)  If the parents don't know it, then it is our fault for not teaching 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.  We should make sure that no child sees or hears us, behaving or speaking, in a 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, and Luke 17:2)  We do not have to be Bible scholars in order to teach our children The Word of God.  That which we know we should share.  It would also be helpful if they saw us reading The Bible.  Children learn what they hear and what they see.  Let’s make sure that we are Christ-like role models for our children and grandchildren.  Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)