021824...“Children” Pt. 2...Colossians 3:20

Colossians 3:20...“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”

Colossians 1:2...“To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse”

Who Does God Hold Accountable For A Child’s Faith?
-The child is accountable
-The parents are accountable
-The church is accountable

Mark 10:45...“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve.”

Matthew 20:26-28...“…Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant…”

Philippians 2:4-7...“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant”

Sermon In A Sentence: We must intentionally disciple our children while they are in our home, because that window is open only briefly before they grow up & leave.

Romans 10:10...“For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved”

“Do not flatter the child with delusive rubbish about his nature being good and needing to be developed. Tell him he must be born again. Don’t bolster him up with the fancy of his own innocence, but show him his sin. Mention the childish sins to which he is prone, and pray the Holy Spirit to work conviction in his heart & conscience.”-Charles Spurgeon, Come Ye Children, 1897

Psalm 139:13...“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb”

Genesis 1:26-27...“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness… So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Psalm 78:3-7...“Things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done… he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments”

Who Does God Hold Accountable For A Child’s Faith?
-The child is accountable
-The parents are accountable
-The church is accountable

Colossians 3:18-20...“Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”

Some Practical Applications:
-Pray for our MBC families & our children’s ministries
-Pray for Lucas Sullivan; in his added role overseeing children’s ministries
-Make it a priority to get your kids here to participate in every ministry
-Invest your life in the lives of kids
-Pray some more!

Sermon In A Sentence: We must intentionally disciple our children while they are in our home, because that window is open only briefly before they grow up & leave.