Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it, okay?

Training him up. Now training doesn't mean talking, training means showing.

It includes telling, but it means living in front of.

I'm gonna train you, sit there and watch me. I'm gonna train you how to do this. That's training. Sit there and watch me.

I'm gonna do it, and I'm gonna talk to you, but I'm gonna show you how to do it. Okay, talking is teaching. It's not training.

Train your children up. Show them how to live successfully, and

and when they become mature, they'll return to what you showed them. The mean you won't have challenges, and it doesn't mean there won't be some

some difficult moments in the meantime, but if you train them up, you have to have faith

that if you do the right thing in front of them, they'll return to that one day.

Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans, co-host of the Marriage Today podcast. Today we have a great teaching for you that I pray,

that it grows your marriage, and blesses you as you seek to center your marriage on Christ.

Be sure to subscribe to this podcast channel to be notified of every new show. God bless you.

This session is called Raising Great Children as you build a great marriage, and the trick is doing both.

Is we want to have great kids, but if you have great kids at the expense of your marriage,

that's not success, and there are people that do that. There are people that just have terrific children,

and when their children leave home one day, when they're 17 or 18 or 35 or whenever they finally leave,

and the goal is to have them leave around 18. That's success. But when their children finally leave,

their marriage literally is a shell. They just don't have a marriage left, because the children consumed

the time and energy for their marriage. Now there are other couples that have a great marriage,

but they don't have great kids. They're not investing in their children properly, and so even though their

marriage is doing well, their children aren't doing well. Well, we need to do both. And so this session,

Raising Great Children as you build a great marriage, we're going to talk about three principles,

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