Six Ways Parents of Rebellious Children Fight for Faith

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🗓️ 9 November 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Every believing parent longs to see their children walking with the Lord. But what can a mom or dad do when their son or daughter rebels?

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0:00.0	Kelly, a mom, writes and asks this, Pastor John, I'm wondering if you would speak on the
0:10.1	subject of dealing with rebellious children.
0:13.2	How do you keep trusting God when you see no evidence of His working in a child's life?
0:18.8	Well, this is exactly the right question to ask.
0:22.4	How do we keep on trusting God, the crucial need for every parent is to trust God.
0:29.9	God, to trust God that He has worked for us in Jesus to save us from our sins, to trust
0:38.5	God that He will fulfill all of His promises to His children, to trust God that He will uphold
0:47.5	us.
0:48.5	Fear not for I am with you, be not dismayed for I am your God, I will strengthen you,
0:52.3	I will uphold you, that He will keep that promise, to trust God that He will withhold
0:58.6	no good thing from those who walk up rightly, to trust God that He will give us only what
1:04.6	is good for us and that all His ways are just and wise.
1:09.7	What our children need from us most is to see joyful, hopeful, peaceful, obedient, trusting
1:21.9	God, resting in God.
1:25.8	The biblical answer to the question, how do we keep trusting God in this and every situation
1:31.4	is surely given clearly, probably most clearly, in Romans 10, 17.
1:39.2	So faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ.
1:46.6	And I think that means not just you get converted and get faith the first time by hearing
1:54.0	Christ, but you get faith strengthened every day by hearing.
2:01.4	Faith comes daily by hearing.
2:05.0	Right now in this podcast, faith doesn't come from John Piper.
2:09.4	Faith comes from John Piper's reading the Bible and applying the Bible, or it doesn't
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