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Psalm 24:1-6 and Neh. 10:30
We invite you to join us for worship each Sunday morning at 9:30. You can also download our service at Baptist-Christian at iTunes. Last week we discussed the spiritual, moral and marital purity. Dad must be able to give his unconditional blessing on any dating relationship because God has established him as the head of the family. As God’s representative in the home, Dad is responsible and accountable to God for teaching, maintaining, and protecting the spiritual, moral, and marital purity of his family. A Godly father can sense danger to his family. God makes that happen to protect the family. When anyone attempts to deceive (God or anyone else) they are immediately in danger before God. Deception is premeditated, planned lying to intentionally mislead another person to satisfy the evil desires of an ungodly heart – usually through the destruction of the other person. This week and next I want to share some principles that every parent and grandparent should teach and model to their children and grandchildren as prerequisites to any dating relationship. They are
I. GOD’S PRINCIPLES IN CONTROLLING INTIMACY!
1. Fathers must teach their sons and daughters to be men and women of God, The Word, and prayer. If we don’t start there, we are starting on the wrong foundation. What is the best way to teach this principle? Show them in your daily life! Children live what they see, not what they hear! When adolescence springs on your child, you had better taught them sound Biblical principles by which to control those feelings or Satan will have a hay-day leading your child into immorality.
2. Parents must teach their children how to dress, and act like men and women of God. The fine art of being a gentleman and a lady is becoming extinct today. Teaching our children proper “etiquette and manners” to avoid provocative and sensual behavior is one of the first steps to avoiding trouble. Most young people today have no idea how to behave as “proper” gentlemen and ladies. We need to tell our children when they do something improperly, then in a gentle, loving way teach them the right way to act. Remember, you can’t just stop doing something wrong, you must at the same time replace the wrong action with a right one, or Satan will fill the hole with another (often worse) wrong!
3. Our children must be taught never to allow themselves to be in any situation where they would be embarrassed, afraid, or guilty if The Lord, Dad or Mom were to see them. Then teach them Heb. 4:13. The best way to stay out of trouble is to avoid it! Often until it’s too late, young people have no idea of the power of sexual feelings and drive. Almost all of the teens I’ve talked to believe those feelings can be turned off at any time without consequences! They don’t understand the danger.
4. Parents need to teach their sons and daughters that women are the “weaker vessel.” Read 1 Peter 3:7. We would say women are fragile, delicate creatures to be treated with loving, dignified, respect. Young men must be taught that God sees women as “very valuable with a price far above rubies.” If we expect to save our children and our homes, we as men must take seriously God call to us as men and women of God to teach our children to be the same. Reread Ps. 24:1-6.
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