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Discipling The Nations Starts At Home

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You're not wise in your own eyes fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It'll be healing to your flesh
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Refreshment your bones, and I'll teach my children You need to love the
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Lord with all your heart Need to trust him with everything that you have you need to take times where you've sinned
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Mom dad had to punish you You need to trust in God to forgive you for those things
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Don't think that you can handle it by yourself And then we'll sing that song the song that says
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My foes are out to get me Son your so your foes are at this point sin
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But God can punch teeth out of that sucker You'll find forgiveness in Christ in Christ alone and If that's all it is who is that 45 seconds?
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If that's all they hear they hear you've heard the gospel Christ will can redeem you from your sin, and then they hear that every single day a little question a
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Little bit about God little something to remember so if somebody asks you a question or you're thinking What do I do in this situation?
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I can remember this answer. I know that I've heard stuff from the Bible. I Know I can trust in the
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Lord I know I can sing praises to him. I know I'm gonna hide his word in my heart, so I won't sin against him
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And then we'll pray together usually we'll
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Put him in the bathtub and send him on the bed. It's important because Too many times there are there's there's always discipleship going on especially in our children
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There's always discipleship going on a lot of times. It's a school The school will get them and they'll try to cram whatever
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Ideology in their head that they want if we're not counteracting that by showing them the truth of the gospel
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Our kids are gonna be in a world of hurt. It doesn't take much time
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It is hard to do take some effort but the benefits are incredible Because you're introducing your children to a holy righteous
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God you don't Jesus Christ who can forgive them of their sins. I've got
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I brought a couple of resources. I wanted to just point out That might be able to help folks this one it's the
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Bible Have it have it on hand good stuff This Is It's called the
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Children's First Catechism is put out by Great Commission Publications It's a arm is a publishing arm of the
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Orthodox Presbyterian Church in America I don't know if they have an American in their name either way.
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Are there a solid group of people? They are going to teach you to baptize your children So it's paid special attention to those portions
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Paid special attention to those portions Yes But no, it's a solid resource.
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It teaches on first few questions. You heard young Santiago talk about Some of the questions going, you know, why do you need
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Christ as your priest? Why do you need Christ as your king? What happens that to believers when they die
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And it goes through the once there's like 150 and this is for children
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Right and here's here's the thing. This was done. This one was done because Our culture is dumbed down of the
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Westminster shorter catechism Originally was made for children his age Larger catechism was made for adults.
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Well, there's several catechisms. I would suggest This one the
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Westminster shorter and larger catechism if you're coming from a from a Presbyterian background The Baptist catechism is basically the
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Westminster shorter catechism only they put in Baptist type stuff The Heidelberg catechism starts off with a wonderful question.
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You know, what is your only hope in life and death? Oh goodness. The answer is like nine miles long, but it's so good
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You know basically says that um, my only hope in life and in death is that that I know
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Christ and he's redeemed me Only it's much longer It's very good. I Don't know the
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New City catechism put out by I Forget who it's solid as far as it goes to If you're having to get older children
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Preteen teenage years, maybe it's just you and a spouse at home This work this book was put out by Reformation Heritage Books.
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It is called family worship Bible guide What it does is it starts off It says
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Psalm 110 which we went on today and it reads
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Just a couple things a little devote two little sections of devotion in order to get you
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Motivated if you're having trouble coming up with something to say This will help you. This will help you you go along For instance our
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Savior reigns Jesus is Lord of all he wields the scepter of his word across the world and we are either made his subjects
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We remain his enemies Those who claim to be Christ should be distinguished by true holiness
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The power of Christ's spirit causes his true people to willingly offer themselves To him as a living sacrifice and it goes on and there's other sections different prompts just to get you get your brain working
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If you're having trouble coming up with something it kicks you in the right direction Well, if you'd like to learn to sing the
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Psalms the book of Psalms took for worship is Fantastic. It's put out by Crown and Covenant There's an older version that's read called the book of Psalms for singing
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It's really good to Trinity There's a Trinity Psalter out there book of our day
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Psalms of David and meter Is great, too Those are mostly and you can put whatever tune you want you to in fact the one that we sang today
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You can sing to the tune of Gilligan's Island because it's also it's also in common meter So if you only know
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Gilligan's Island, you can sing like half of these It's great I'm also there's a lot of good
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Materials. I just had this one in my bag. This is put out by This is put out by the associate reform
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Presbyterian Um There they are being This is their quarterly.
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It just goes through the Psalms. It picks a psalm. I mean, there's only like like 12 lessons
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But it's like a page and a half per one It tells you daily readings Gives you a little question has a scripture right in there and some thoughts on it.
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Well, there's other Resources other people out there. You don't have to look for Presbyterians. It's just ones that I had the ones
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I'm familiar with I just kind of wanted to encourage all of that It doesn't take much to disciple your children
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But it needs to be intentional. It needs to be Focused and you need to have an end goal in mind.
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My children will know the faith That my family will be a family
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That is marked off by their Their Devotion to God and his word
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Then we trust for trusting Christ for the rest So, I don't know how much time we have or what we're trying to do, but I figured 15 minutes.
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I don't have anything else. Y 'all got any questions? Okay Y 'all have any questions?
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Yeah, I've heard And I don't know either like 86 % of statistics are made up.
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So I'll make one up, too It's somewhere between between two -thirds and three -quarters of Of Teenagers when they leave and I think this is right
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If I'm wrong, don't quote me on it. I think it was I think it was the Southern Baptists that did a study on it
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I think they said somewhere between two -thirds and three -quarters when they leave Youth group, youth group age, when they go off to college, you don't see them again
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And if you see them again, you don't see them again until they have children to bring them back into the church What that says to me, and each situation is different, what that says to me is that their faith
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Either wasn't that important to them or they never really understood so There's two things there.
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One, we need to teach our children the faith and two, we need to teach them the importance of the faith
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So show them what is it that we're doing in this world? Why is it important that you know this? Why is it important?
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Why is Why is it that When I'm telling you that Christ is the only answer
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And somebody else is telling you that you descend from water that fell on the rock that turned into dinosaurs
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What is the difference there? Why is that important? That we believe what the
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Bible says So I mean it'd be hard to speak into each situation But I think a part of it is discipleship because I mean discipleship has been something the church has done terrible on for a while now adults, children, everybody
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Because we wanted to see numbers. We wanted to see the church grow, but we didn't And I don't want to say that about everybody but We wanted to bring people in.
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What was the saying? A mile wide and an inch deep, whereas we should have been
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Like parable of the seeds We should have been worried about getting the weeds out of the garden making sure the roots grew deep
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We had good soil, and then we planted the gospel Right where it lay, right where it should have been.
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Then pray We want your children to grow up. Who has the power of God under salvation?
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The gospel. Where does that come from? God. So if we're gonna see our children saved, who do we need to ask to save our children?
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God. Question inaudible
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You didn't say anything else? You're right. No, shouldn't be
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Here Question inaudible
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Question inaudible Yeah, one of the one of the psalms
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That they would sing during the Passover season. They would sing It's probably one of the psalms that Christ sang when he instituted the
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Lord's Supper, which is they sang a hymn And then they left. They went out One of the verses says my gifts of thanks
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I'll offer you and on the Lord's name call the vows I promised to the
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Lord I'll keep and pay them all before the people of the Lord within his temple courts.
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They're in your midst Jerusalem give praises to the Lord Christ was singing this about paying
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The vow of keeping the promise of God as he knew that in just a few hours
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He was going to his death And he's saying the psalm looking
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You know at those he was going to die for knowing that these were written about him many many years ago
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It was incredible and very good So we've got some people trickling in does anybody have any any questions or anything
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We don't want to get a psalm singing together. Yeah, let's punch some teeth out
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Yeah, we got all sorts of stuff. You got a Psalm 45 talks about It's the original version of Luther's 46 46 is the original version of Luther's mighty fortress is our
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God It's saying God is our refuge and our strength the present help in our distress
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And it's sung to the same tune as a mighty fortress is our God. It's the original it was better So I don't know why
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Luther had to rewrite it in German's way. Oh, yeah Another thing that helps you with you when you're singing the
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Psalms it goes through the full gamut of human emotion There is Psalms that make you feel like you are on top of the world
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And Psalms that will remind you just how much of a worm you are and in all of them that points you to Christ Anybody have anything else to add and it doesn't let's pray and then we'll take a short break
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Lord God in heaven we thank you for your grace for your goodness to us and pray this we look to Discipleship as we look to the nations that need to be discipled.
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We know that at home We have been given a mission field of our children Those of our family the ones that you've given to us raise up in the nurture and admonition of the
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Lord Those of you that you have called to to be close to the gospel God, we pray that we wouldn't take that lightly that we would
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Teach our children diligently would raise our families Well that even if we were older and have no children home that we would still as families
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Remember who you are and give you the honor and glory that you do that. We talk about your word and your law
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If we sit by the side as we get up and go out rather than the doorposts of our house and bind it to our
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Heads and our forehands and everything else to remember who you are And keep you in front of us at all times