Biblical Principles for Parenting (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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We impart many lessons without speaking a single word! Learn how values—both good and bad—are transferred to the next generation, and consider what kind of legacy and heritage you’re leaving to your children, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The You're going to do you. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you do you do you do you do |
| 0:15.0 | do you do As a parent, you are always teaching your children, whether you're speaking or not. Today on Truth for Life we'll look at how we transfer both |
| 0:35.4 | good and bad values to the next generation. Alistair Begg asks the important |
| 0:41.1 | question that we should be asking ourselves, |
| 0:44.0 | what kind of legacy and |
| 1:05.6 | heritage I will leave to my children. Now I was 1980 on that occasion we had one |
| 1:12.4 | child a boy he was a year and a half. It seemed then, |
| 1:17.8 | rather premature to ask the question and yet necessary, and now all of this time has gone through our fingers. |
| 1:27.0 | So now I am officially middle-aged, at least. At least |
| 1:40.0 | Fiddler on the roof has an even greater impact and it did 20 years ago. Then you could at least stave off the thoughts by recognizing that this is all a long way away from here. |
| 1:50.0 | Suddenly it's here. |
| 1:52.0 | Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play? |
| 1:58.0 | Sunrise, sunset? You find yourself saying, oh dear me, let me say this as well. God is the one who |
| 2:10.4 | will finish all the stories. And for some of us, one of the great joys in heaven |
| 2:20.3 | will be to discover in heaven what we did not discover on earth, namely that our children or our |
| 2:26.0 | grandchildren actually came through and that he was able to restore even the years that Locust had eaten. |
| 2:35.0 | So I don't want anyone this morning to go away here feeling absolutely miserable and wretched |
| 2:41.0 | on a sort of guilt trip that is self-induced or man-induced. I mean |
| 2:47.2 | God can prompt us in whatever way he chooses, but that's certainly not my motivation |
| 2:51.1 | rather I want to speak to those young couples who are here |
| 2:54.9 | who are in the very threshold of these things. And also I want to remind us of the wonder |
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