Parenting Through a Family Crisis

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

If we’re going to parent well through family troubles, we need to know, first, that our own sin is our worst problem, and second, that Jesus’s blood covers it all.

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0:00.0	How do we parent through family crisis?
0:08.6	In today's scenario, a husband and a wife are at odds.
0:13.2	Son is pitted against father.
0:15.8	Daughter is pitted against her mother.
0:18.2	Even the daughter-in-law sides with the daughter against mom and all of the compounded animosities
0:24.6	towards the mother way heavy on the father.
0:28.6	It all appears that a man's worst enemies are inside of his own home.
0:34.7	So when a family breaks apart like this, what is a man to do?
0:41.0	This scenario is what makes the seventh chapter of Micah so bleak.
0:45.4	It's the worst of times.
0:47.6	The culture is fracturing a part due to sin.
0:50.6	No one can trust anyone closer to home, families are falling into crisis.
0:55.4	It is a time warns Micah to, quote, put no trust in a neighbor.
1:00.7	Have no confidence in a friend.
1:03.4	Guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms from a wife that is.
1:10.0	For the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother,
1:15.6	the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
1:17.8	A man's enemies are the men of his own house.
1:23.5	It's Micah 7 verses 5 to 6.
1:26.9	Considering the pain of such chaos in society and in the home, Micah models two things in
1:31.3	verse 9.
1:32.6	He honestly reckons with himself and he lays hold of his hope in God.
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