God’s Design for the Family (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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What does it mean for children to honor their parents? And how can parents foster loving, godly relationships with their children while disciplining them appropriately? Explore the answers when you study along with us on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The What is it mean for children to honor their parents? And how can parents |
| 0:29.6 | foster a loving godly relationship with their children while still applying an appropriate measure of discipline. |
| 0:37.0 | We'll look at the answers to those questions today on Truth for Life as Alistair Begg opens the Bible to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 5. |
| 0:45.0 | We're looking today at verse 16. If we're going to obey God in relationship to the responsibilities within our home, |
| 0:57.0 | then we pay heed to our dads and we don't despise our moms. |
| 1:01.0 | If we're going to fulfill this obligation what is involved. |
| 1:05.0 | Well it involves real love. It involves real love. Not slushy stuff not sentimental stuff not |
| 1:14.3 | 364 days of disobedience and then a Mother's Day card |
| 1:18.7 | genuine love |
| 1:20.6 | genuine affection the kind of expression that you find in Genesis 46 when Joseph links |
| 1:28.0 | up with his dad after a period of absence. |
| 1:30.7 | One of the most moving pictures in the book of Genesis. All dads can identify with this. |
| 1:36.1 | Genesis 46 verse 28 now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. And when they arrived in the region |
| 1:45.8 | of Goshen, Joseph at his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. He got his car ready as it were in 20th century terms. |
| 1:56.3 | He got it cleaned up, he got it shined up, he got it gassed up, he got it ready because he was going to use that for one express purpose he was |
| 2:06.7 | going to see his dad and when he appeared before him. He threw his arms around his father and he wept for a long time. |
| 2:21.0 | There is no son ever able to do this without that the years of togetherness and the years of separation have built into life that which will make such an embrace possible. |
| 2:39.0 | Good relationships between dads and boys are forged in the experience of life, in the |
| 2:44.6 | incidences of life, in the margins of life, in the apparent trivialities of life, |
| 2:51.8 | and life goes by awful quick does it not? |
| 2:57.0 | Quick I mean. It involves real love so often adolescence has a problem with this, doesn't it? |
| 3:05.0 | I'm not kissing my dad, heck, I'm not even kissing my mother. |
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