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The Importance Of Family


A Family’s responsibility is to protect

The Importance Of FamilyFamily’s responsibility is to protect

Exodus 1:1-22(KJV) 1Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

The Importance Of Family7And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

The Importance Of Family11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

The Importance Of Family15And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

The Importance Of Family19And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 21And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. 22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

The Importance Of FamilyExodus 2:1-10(KJV) 1And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. 4And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

The Importance Of Family5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

6And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. 7Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

The Importance Of Family8And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. 9And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.


Family is usually more than one household – 1:1-7


Life is often difficult – 1:8-14


Life is full of hard decisions – 1:15-16


Hard decisions do not always mean universal agreement – 1:17-18


God has given them to us – 2:2


They are special – 2:2c


They are important – 2:2c


They are a blessing to be found – 2:5


They are a blessing to be cared for with love, devotion and wisdom


A Family’s responsibility is to prepare

The Importance Of FamilyFeed and nourish – 2:9


Challenge and strengthen



Teach and train

The Importance Of FamilyDeuteronomy 6:1-8(KJV) 1Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

The Importance Of Family4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

The Importance Of FamilyProverbs 22:6(KJV) 6Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Isaiah 38:19(KJV) 19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.



Teach and train

To correct and guide

Proverbs 13:24(NKJV) 24 He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

The Importance Of FamilyEarly

Proverbs 19:18(KJV) 18Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

The Importance Of FamilyWith love (instead of an uncaring jailer)

Proverbs 23:12-14(KJV) 12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. 13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. 14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

I think with just enough pressure as needed to guide


A Family’s responsibility is to prop up family

(in godliness)

The Importance Of FamilyDeuteronomy 4:9-10(NKJV) 9Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren, 10especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

The Importance Of FamilyAs the first example


As a believer


As a believer

As a joyous family

The Importance Of FamilyDeuteronomy 31:11-13(NKJV) 11when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, 13and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”


As a believer

As a joyous family

As a CORRECT changing force in their lives


A family’s key responsibility is to precede in the ways of the Lord

The Importance Of Family1 Kings 9:4(NKJV) 4Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

2 Chronicles 17:3(KJV) 3And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

The Importance Of Family2 Chronicles 26:4(KJV) 4And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

2 Timothy 1:5(NKJV) 5when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

The Importance Of FamilyWe as family can help…

Make their footsteps easier



Make their paths clear




Make their way straight




Make their way straight

Make their stand strong


Families ARE

important!

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