Hillside Assembly of God

Reason 1: ___

Reason 2: ___

Under Old Testament law, anyone who cursed his parents... was to be ___.
If we can't honor our parent's authority, how can we honor ___?

The promise is that if you honor your parents, you may experience a ___ life and a ___ life.

How to honor our parents:

Reason 3: ___

William Barclay: “A Roman father had absolute power over his family. He could sell them as slaves, he could make them work in his fields even in chains, he could take the law into his own hands, for the law was in his own hands, and punish as he liked, he could even inflict the death penalty on his child.”

The Oxford Classical Dictionary: a Roman father had “a full right of disposal over his children, as over slaves and things.”

The positive way to say this: "Be your child's ___"

How do you provoke or discourage your child:

Praise is recognizing something ___. Encouragement is about who they ___.

Greek verb means to ___.

Dr. Lloyd-Jones: “When you are disciplining a child, you should have first controlled yourself … What right have you to say to your child that he needs discipline when you obviously need it yourself? Self-control, the control of temper, is an essential prerequisite in the control of others.”

John Stott: “False education is indoctrination, in which parents and teachers impose their mind and will on the child. True education... is stimulation, in which parents and teachers act as a catalyst, and encourage the child to make his own responses. This they cannot do if they leave the child to flounder; they have to teach Christian values of truth and goodness, defend them, and recommend their acceptance, but at the same time abstain from any pressure [or] coercion.”

We need to teach our children the ___.

God designed the church to be a ___.
We need real ___ relationships with other Christians to help us grow healthy homes.