Teach Them To Your Children

Deuteronomy 4:8-10 – And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today? Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”

Psalm 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.

Psalm 97:2 – Clouds and thick darkness surround him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Deuteronomy 6:25 – And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”

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

Exodus 10:2 – Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord.”

Application:

• ·         Righteousness and justice are the foundation stones of God’s throne.
• ·         God rules by his power, but His reign is founded on righteousness and justice, which also the heavens proclaim.
• ·         Righteousness refers to a true, personal relationship with the covenant Lord that manifests itself in the daily lives of God’s people.
• ·         Fathers must surrender any right they may feel they have to act unreasonably toward their children.
• ·         The memory of God’s redemptive acts is to be kept alive by reciting them to our descendants.
• ·         The divine call to Israel to remember the Lord’s past redemptive acts—especially how He delivered them from slavery in Egypt—is a common theme in Deuteronomy and is summarized by “Remember the days of old”.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV