Raised

Raise

Raised Raising children is a challenge.

We face both our children's natural resistance to authority and pressure from a culture that prizes autonomy.

But God gives us grace as parents to meet the challenge. And today on

Truth for Life, we'll learn why godly discipline is more loving than hands-off rule-free parenting.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Colossians chapter 3.

Well, let me say a word or two about the responsibility of the parents. Parents are to bring

their children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. But how can children be expected

to know their boundaries if their parents are clueless? How can they be expected to know their boundaries if their parents are clueless?

How can they be expected to know what they're supposed to do or what they're not supposed to do

if their parents are neglectful of their responsibilities, clear responsibilities, as delineated in the Bible?

And whatever decision Christian parents make about the ongoing education of their children, and there are many within our congregation that

adopt all kinds of approaches, and we understand and recognize that. But whatever that

decision is, one thing is true of every

mom and dad in the congregation, and that is that they are responsible for the instruction

of their children in the Word of God. It is their responsibility. The task is to be exercised

by the parents in the face of all of the challenges of a world that doesn't agree.

The insinuations of the evil one that come to us and say, you know, you shouldn't listen to all this stuff. It's old-fashioned.

It's the Bible, if somebody had written the Bible at this point, they would never

have included this. That's the kind of thing you hear. Or they'll say, but you need to

be a pragmatic person. You just need to be as realistic as you can, and frankly, this doesn't

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