Break Out 6- Dan Self

You're not wise in your own eyes fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It'll be healing to your flesh

Refreshment your bones, and I'll teach my children You need to love the

Lord with all your heart Need to trust him with everything that you have you need to take times where you've sinned

Mom dad had to punish you You need to trust in God to forgive you for those things

Don't think that you can handle it by yourself And then we'll sing that song the song that says

My foes are out to get me Son your so your foes are at this point sin

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?

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

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?

I can remember this answer. I know that I've heard stuff from the Bible. I Know I can trust in the

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

And then we'll pray together usually we'll

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

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

Ideology in their head that they want if we're not counteracting that by showing them the truth of the gospel

Our kids are gonna be in a world of hurt. It doesn't take much time

It is hard to do take some effort but the benefits are incredible Because you're introducing your children to a holy righteous

God you don't Jesus Christ who can forgive them of their sins. I've got

I brought a couple of resources. I wanted to just point out That might be able to help folks this one it's the

Bible Have it have it on hand good stuff This Is It's called the

Children's First Catechism is put out by Great Commission Publications It's a arm is a publishing arm of the

Orthodox Presbyterian Church in America I don't know if they have an American in their name either way.

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

Paid special attention to those portions Yes But no, it's a solid resource.

It teaches on first few questions. You heard young Santiago talk about Some of the questions going, you know, why do you need

Christ as your priest? Why do you need Christ as your king? What happens that to believers when they die

And it goes through the once there's like 150 and this is for children

Right and here's here's the thing. This was done. This one was done because Our culture is dumbed down of the

Westminster shorter catechism Originally was made for children his age Larger catechism was made for adults.

Well, there's several catechisms. I would suggest This one the

Westminster shorter and larger catechism if you're coming from a from a Presbyterian background The Baptist catechism is basically the

Westminster shorter catechism only they put in Baptist type stuff The Heidelberg catechism starts off with a wonderful question.

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

You know basically says that um, my only hope in life and in death is that that I know

Christ and he's redeemed me Only it's much longer It's very good. I Don't know the

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

Preteen teenage years, maybe it's just you and a spouse at home This work this book was put out by Reformation Heritage Books.

It is called family worship Bible guide What it does is it starts off It says

Psalm 110 which we went on today and it reads

Just a couple things a little devote two little sections of devotion in order to get you

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

Savior reigns Jesus is Lord of all he wields the scepter of his word across the world and we are either made his subjects

We remain his enemies Those who claim to be Christ should be distinguished by true holiness

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

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

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

It's really good to Trinity There's a Trinity Psalter out there book of our day

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

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

Gilligan's Island, you can sing like half of these It's great I'm also there's a lot of good

Materials. I just had this one in my bag. This is put out by This is put out by the associate reform

Presbyterian Um There they are being This is their quarterly.

It just goes through the Psalms. It picks a psalm. I mean, there's only like like 12 lessons

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.

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

I'm familiar with I just kind of wanted to encourage all of that It doesn't take much to disciple your children

But it needs to be intentional. It needs to be Focused and you need to have an end goal in mind.

My children will know the faith That my family will be a family

That is marked off by their Their Devotion to God and his word

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.

I don't have anything else. Y 'all got any questions? Okay Y 'all have any questions?

Yeah, I've heard And I don't know either like 86 % of statistics are made up.

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

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

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

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

Either wasn't that important to them or they never really understood so There's two things there.

One, we need to teach our children the faith and two, we need to teach them the importance of the faith

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?

Why is Why is it that When I'm telling you that Christ is the only answer

And somebody else is telling you that you descend from water that fell on the rock that turned into dinosaurs

What is the difference there? Why is that important? That we believe what the

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

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.

What was the saying? A mile wide and an inch deep, whereas we should have been

Like parable of the seeds We should have been worried about getting the weeds out of the garden making sure the roots grew deep

We had good soil, and then we planted the gospel Right where it lay, right where it should have been.

Then pray We want your children to grow up. Who has the power of God under salvation?

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?

God. Question inaudible

You didn't say anything else? You're right. No, shouldn't be

Here Question inaudible

Question inaudible Yeah, one of the one of the psalms

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

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

I'll offer you and on the Lord's name call the vows I promised to the

Lord I'll keep and pay them all before the people of the Lord within his temple courts.

They're in your midst Jerusalem give praises to the Lord Christ was singing this about paying

The vow of keeping the promise of God as he knew that in just a few hours

He was going to his death And he's saying the psalm looking

You know at those he was going to die for knowing that these were written about him many many years ago

It was incredible and very good So we've got some people trickling in does anybody have any any questions or anything

We don't want to get a psalm singing together. Yeah, let's punch some teeth out

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

God It's saying God is our refuge and our strength the present help in our distress

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

Luther had to rewrite it in German's way. Oh, yeah Another thing that helps you with you when you're singing the

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Remember who you are and give you the honor and glory that you do that. We talk about your word and your law

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

Heads and our forehands and everything else to remember who you are And keep you in front of us at all times