The Challenge of Bringing Others to Christ

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Except the LORD build the house, they labour in
vain that build it . . . Psalms 1271a
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To Have a Godly Home
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God's Design for the Home
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Husband Wife Relationship
God's Design for the Home
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Husband Wife Relationship

• God created male and female. Matt 194,5

And He answered and said to them, Have you not
read that He who made them at the beginning 'made
them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason
a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, and the two shall become one
flesh' ?
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Husband Wife Relationship

• God created male and female. Matt 194,5
• One man for one woman for life. Rom 72 1
  Cor 739 Matt 196

For the woman who has a husband is bound by the
law to her husband as long as he lives. But if
the husband dies, she is released from the law of
her husband.
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Husband Wife Relationship

• God created male and female. Matt 194,5
• One man for one woman for life. Rom 72 1
  Cor 739 Matt 196

A wife is bound by law as long as her husband
lives but if her husband dies, she is at liberty
to be married to whom she wishes, only in the
Lord.
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Husband Wife Relationship

• God created male and female. Matt 194,5
• One man for one woman for life. Rom 72 1
  Cor 739 Matt 196

So then, they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together, let not
man separate."
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Husband Wife Relationship

• God created male and female. Matt 194,5
• One man for one woman for life. Rom 72 1
  Cor 739 Matt 196
• Two reasons for dissolving this union
• fornication. Matt 199
• death. Rom 72-3

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Husband Wife Relationship
And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife,
except for sexual immorality, and marries
another, commits adultery and whoever marries
her who is divorced commits adultery.

• God created male and female. Matt 194,5
• One man for one woman for life. Rom 72 1
  Cor 739 Matt 196
• Two reasons for dissolving this union
• fornication. Matt 199
• death. Rom 72-3

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Husband Wife Relationship
For the woman who has a husband is bound by the
law to her husband as long as he lives. But if
the husband dies, she is released from the law of
her husband . . . (Rom 72-3)?

• God created male and female. Matt 194,5
• One man for one woman for life. Rom 72 1
  Cor 739 Matt 196
• Two reasons for dissolving this union
• fornication. Matt 199
• death. Rom 72-3

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Resolve to Serve God
God's Design for the Home
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Resolve to Serve God

• Consider Abraham and Joshua. Gen
  1819 Josh 2415

For I have known him, in order that he may
command his children and his household after him,
that they keep the way of the LORD, to do
righteousness and justice, that the LORD may
bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.
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Resolve to Serve God

• Consider Abraham and Joshua. Gen
  1819 Josh 2415

And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD,
choose for yourselves this day whom you will
serve, . . . But as for me and my house, we will
serve the LORD.
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Resolve to Serve God

• Consider Abraham and Joshua. Gen
  1819 Josh 2415
• The love of the father like the love of Christ.
  Eph 525-28

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Resolve to Serve God

• The way that the father will present his family
  acceptable unto God will be by leading his family
  in the commandments of God and teaching his
  family the law of Christ.

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Teach the Children
God's Design for the Home
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Teach the Children

• Parents must not leave the teaching of their
  children to the bible classes and worship
  services alone.
• Talk to your children daily about God's word.
  Deut 65-9

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Teach the Children

• Parents must not leave the teaching of their
  children to the bible classes and worship
  services alone.
• Talk to your children daily about God's word.
  Deut 65-9
• Diligently study God's word. 2 Tim 215

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God,
a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth.
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Set the Right Example
God's Design for the Home
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Set the Right Example

• Let your light shine before your children. Matt
  516

Let your light so shine before men, that they may
see your good works and glorify your Father in
heaven.
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Set the Right Example

• Let your light shine before your children. Matt
  516
• Consider the case of Timothy. 2 Tim 15

When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that
is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother
Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded
is in you also.
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Set the Right Example

• Assemble with the saints as much as possible.
  Heb 1024-25 2 Tim 42
• Do not subject the family to wicked influences.
  Psa 1013 1 Cor 1533

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Set the Right Example

• Taught to use proper language. Eph 429
• Taught to know how to discern right from wrong.
  Heb. 512-14
• Your family must revolve around God.
• Living sacrifices. Rom 121,2 Eph 210 1 Pet 29

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Conclusion

• To Have a Godly Home . . .
• Built on a husband wife relationship.
• A resolve to serve God.
• Teach children God's word.
• Set the right example.