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Church of the Nazarene – Harrisonburg
Family Values Part 2
God’s Word as the foundation of family
Today we continue our teaching series called “Family Values” where we are taking a deep dive into strengthening our family relationships.
Family is so important. Though often challenging, family can be some of our deepest and closest relationships- and those matter!
We believe your family matters, and perhaps most importantly, your family matters to God.
Family Values is about walking out faithfulness to God within our families. Over the next few weeks we will consider what it takes to build strong family relationships.
Whether you are a son or daughter, husband or wife, brother or sister, aunt or uncle, your family relationships matter to God.
Throughout this series, we are clinging to two truths that we believe can change everything for our family relationships.
There is hope and there is help.
Today as we continue in Part 2 of our series, we are looking at the truth- literally. Today is about the importance of God’s word for our families.
A family is only as strong as its love for and commitment to the Word of God.
IS YOUR HOME BEING BUILT ON A SOLID FOUNDATION?
Matthew 7:24-27
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 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 on 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 doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
There are three commands here in quick succession:
1.Love God with everything you are
2.Keep the commandments on your hearts
3.Teach them to your children.
What actions are you taking right now to make God’s Word (His truth) a foundation of your family?
James 1:21-25
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
In our families we are called to:
-LOVE GOD’S WORD
-LEARN GOD’S WORD
-LIVE GOD’S WORD
Deuteronomy 11:20-21
Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
Kent Hughes
“You can never have a Christlike mind without reading and listening to the Scriptures, the Bible, regularly – because you cannot be profoundly influenced by that which you do not know!”
Look for opportunities to engage your family
This looks different according to your context
– Reading the word together
– Reflecting on the word together
– Encouraging each other with the word
– Using God’s Word as the lens when you’re processing what’s happening in your life
Seeing the word of God as a family value is a commissioning, a commitment to shape your life after the word of God. Today, will you take that step of faith by engaging his word in your family relationships?
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