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Godly Discipline

Godly Discipline. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say. “Well, how 'bout that?... I'm lost! Looks like we'll have to stop and ask for directions.”. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say. “Can you turn up that music?”. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say.

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Godly Discipline

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  1. Godly Discipline

  2. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say

  3. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “Well, how 'bout that?... I'm lost! Looks like we'll have to stop and ask for directions.”

  4. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “Can you turn up thatmusic?”

  5. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “You know Pumpkin, now that you're 15, you'll be ready for un- chaperoned car dates. Won't that be fun?”

  6. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “You don’t want your peas? Go ahead and just throw them away!”

  7. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “Here's a credit card and the keys to my new car -- GO CRAZY.”

  8. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “Your mother and I are going away for the weekend ... you might want to consider throwing a party.”

  9. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “The more body piercings, the better!”

  10. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “I know, let’s watch High School Musical again tonight!”

  11. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “You’re 21. You don’t need to get a job. I make plenty of money for you to spend.”

  12. Top 10 Things Dads Rarely Say • “I LOVE your tattoo. Next time, we should both go get one.”

  13. “Before I got married I had 4 theories about bringing up children; ...now I have 4 children, and no theories.”

  14. What is the goal of parenting? To enable a child to handle life in this world while preparing for the next.

  15. Discipline = bringing to maturity by training and correction

  16. “disciple” “student” “follower”

  17. “What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.”

  18. Proverbs 3:11-12 My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, 12 because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

  19. 3 Prerequisites to Biblical Discipline: • Love

  20. “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

  21. Revelation 3:19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.

  22. 3 Prerequisites to Biblical Discipline: • Love • Authority

  23. Job 5:17 Blessed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

  24. Psalms 94:12 Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD, the man you teach from your law.

  25. “The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.” ~Edward, Duke of Windsor

  26. 3 Prerequisites to Biblical Discipline: • Love • Authority • Trust

  27. Proverbs 22:17-19 Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, 18 for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips. 19 So that your trust may be in the LORD.

  28. Two sides of discipline: • Training • Correction

  29. Training = instruction/guidance to show a person the right path

  30. “Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.” ~Haim Ginott

  31. Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

  32. Titus 2:2-5 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live…

  33. Titus 2:2-5 4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure…

  34. Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

  35. Deuteronomy 6:5-7 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

  36. Deuteronomy 6:5-7 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 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.

  37. Getting someone back on the right path when they diverge from it Correction =

  38. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  39. Jeremiah 10:24 Correct me, LORD, but only with justice — not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.

  40. 2 Timothy 4:1-4 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct , rebuke and encourage — with great patience and careful instruction.

  41. 2 Timothy 4:1-4 3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

  42. As Children, We get the punishment Now, rather than Later

  43. 1 Peter 4:17-18 For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

  44. How does God correct us? • Consequences

  45. Galatians 6:7-9 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked . A man reaps what he sows. 8 The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

  46. How does God correct us? • Consequences • Conviction

  47. Psalm 38:1-4 O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. 2 For your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down upon me.

  48. Psalm 38:1-4 3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin. 4 My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.

  49. Psalm 32 Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 2 Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not count against him and in whose spirit is no deceit.

  50. Psalm 32 3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

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