New Testament Parenting
Pastor Josh Whitney
(josh@trc.life)

Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

1. New Testament parents (N.T.P.) know the

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   of their children’s obedience.

2. N.T.P. understand their job is to prepare their children for a

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Romans 1:29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

2 Timothy 3:2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

1. N.T.P. give
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   to be obeyed, not suggestions to be
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   .

1 Thessalonians 2:7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. 8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.

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1 Thessalonians 2:11 For you know how, like a father with his children, 12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

1. N.T.P.
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   on opportunities to exhort and charge their children.

Hebrews 12:5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” 7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

1. N.T.P. utilize

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   as a training tool.

2. N.T.P. do the

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   of parenting.

Verses for further study:
Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16, Proverbs 3:11-12

Resources for further study:
Parenting by Paul Tripp
Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp
The New Dare to Discipline by James Dobson
Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd and Margy Tripp
Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson
Bringing Up Girls by James Dobson
Growing Up Whitney by Rick Whitney
Premeditated Parenting by Steve Nelson
Loving the Little Years by Rachel Jankovic
Fit to Burst by Rachel Jankovic
The Collapse of Parenting by Leonard Sax