Sermon Tone Analysis

Children

Obedience is the first duty of Children.

It is a wonderful experience to know you are doing what is right, to have a God called, experienced individual at your side that can help guide you and direct you in Biblical, practical, social issues.

In God’s eyes the children of the home are to answer to their parents for their actions.

Children are not the governments responsibility, nor are they the church’s.

They are first and foremost the parents.

“who are your parent’s”

“where are supposed to be?”

I must remind you that as an individual that has believed on Jesus Christ as Savior, you are a child of God.

And your are God’s responsibility.

You answer first and foremost to your Heavenly Father.

Parents

How to Raise Delinquents

The police department of Houston, Texas, issued a leaflet giving rules for raising delinquent children: (1) Begin with infancy to give the child everything he wants.

In this way he will grow up to believe the world owes him a living.

(2) When he picks up bad words, laugh at him.

This will make him think he’s cute.

It will also encourage him to pick up “cuter” phrases that will blow off the top of your head later.

(3) Never give him any spiritual training.

Wait until he is 21 and then let him “decide for himself”.

(4) Avoid use of the word “wrong.”

It may develop a guilt complex.

This will condition him to believe later, when he is arrested for stealing a car, that society is against him and he is being persecuted.

(5) Pick up everything he leaves lying around—books, shoes, and clothes.

Do everything for him so that he will be experienced in throwing all responsibility on others.

(6) Let him read any printed matter he can get his hands on.

Be careful that the silverware and drinking glasses are sterilized, but let his mind feast on garbage.

(7) Quarrel frequently in the presence of your children.

In this way they will not be too shocked when the home is broken up later.

(8) Give a child all the spending money he wants.

Never let him earn his own.

Why should he have things as tough as you had them?

—Wesleyan Methodist

The text says “fathers,” because in the first century Greco-Roman culture, the father was the autocratic authority of the home.

He chose the punishment for the child’s misbehavior.

And legally his punishment could not be overruled by any other individual or entity.

Paul was warning the fathers that desired to be Christ honoring and a living testimony of God’s grace, that they needed to be careful to use discipline as a tool to correct the child onto a path of righteousness, not onto a path of unwilling submission to ease the father’s circumstances.

The Lord knows how to discipline us.

Hebrews 12:5–7

5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

How to cause people to be angry in a way that brings them to Him.

Romans 10:19

19 But I say, Did not Israel know?

First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.