Today we face great challenges for parents and the Church in the Christian education of the new generation, increasingly complex and worrying challenges, in the face of these challenges, Oanse do Brasil sought to present to parents and churches opportunities for solid and healthy growth and maturation based on the truth of the Word of God, which reaches the heart of the New Generation.
In 2020, the Oanse Conference will bring together Dr. Tedd Tripp, author of Pastorating the Child’s Heart, and discuss the importance of bringing children to Christ.
- Unfortunately.
- Looking at the Old Testament.
- We have many examples of failed parents (Abraham.
- Isaac.
- Jacob.
- Aaron.
- Eli.
- And David).
- However.
- These stories were written for our instruction (1 Cor 10:5-10) in order to draw valuable lessons from negative examples.
- Let’s take Eli’s example.
- I call him the prodigal father.
Eli’s children despised God (1 Sam 2:12-17). They were priests, but they had neither the fear of the Lord nor the knowledge of God; they used the privileges of their trade in a truculent manner for their own benefit; In addition, they committed sexual sins in the tabernacle (v. 22) and have transgressed God’s people (v. 24).
Do not let the things of the Lord become useless to you and your family; do not let yourself be walked with the Lord only by inertia; Save your heart!
Eli stayed and became a spectator of what his children were doing (v. 23-25). Even in confronting his children, he did not execute the threats and took his children out of the priesthood or brought them due punishment for their sins, he was a passive father, who ended up being ignored by his children.
However, when God confronts him, He does not ask questions about children, but points the finger at Eli, saying that He despises sacrifice and honors his children more than the Lord. Eli was also involved in sin and was complicit in his children. Eli wasn’t an ineffective leader at home. Maybe I thought loving is not discipline.
When we are ready to compromise the truth, we are bad role models for our children. When we do not warn them of the error and do not do what we say, we become complicit in their sin.
Another terrible behavior we can observe was that Eli knew his children through third parties (v. 22 24). Even now, I wasn’t looking.
We must be present in the lives of our children, some parents give everything (gifts, walks), except themselves. We need to look, listen, pay attention, speak, and ask good questions. Indifference to our children is deadly!
Some only talk about “quality time. ” But you can’t plan quality time. Quality time? It happens when we have a lot of time.
Eli falsely tried Anne, calling Belial’s daughter, when Belial’s sons are actually in their own house. There is something very wrong with rebuking error in the lives of others, but we ignore sins in our homes.
The word of God was rare and Eli was blinded, not only naturally, but spiritually (1 Samuel 3:1, 2). We have a father who does not walk with the Lord, for whom God is not as real as he should be.
Our children need to see spiritual reality in us. As parents, we must love the Lord above all (Dt 6:5-7). Your love and devotion to God are the basis of all that you have to say.
Does the Lord bring condemnation by killing evil children in war and Eli on the same day (1 Samuel 1:36; 4. 5?22). Eli dies with a broken heart and neck, when her daughter-in-law gives birth, she calls her son Ihabo, the glory of Israel is gone, make no mistake: we make no mockery of God (Gal 6:7-9)!
There is a contrast in this text, amid the darkness of 1 Samuel 2 How can we learn God’s grace by reading Eli’s failure?
After reporting on the failure of Eli’s sons, the text says that Samuel exercised his ministry before the Lord and grew up before God (1Sam 2. 18-21, 26; 3. 1). As Eli’s sons fall further into wickedness, the boy Samuel grows in favor and grace before God as he ministers in God’s presence.
In the midst of the terrible story of Eli and her children, we have the story of the prayer response of a broken woman (Ana, 1Sm 1). Like Samuel, in the hours of darkness, we must say, “Speak, Lord, why hear thy servant?(1Sm 3. 19).
When we looked at Isaque and Rebekah’s family, we realized they were a dysfunctional family in the way they treated their children.
Jacob and Sau were twins, but God revealed that the eldest would serve the child, and Isaac may have used this revelation powerfully with his children, speaking and interacting with them. I could have encouraged Sau to believe that God always does the right thing, even when we don’t understand. He might have encouraged Jacob to be humble, saying that it was God who determined the blessing, not because he was his best brother.
In addition to the revelation, there is the problem of the twins, which are quite different. Esaú was adventurous and Jacob was a caretator. Isaac must take this into account and the fact that he was called to guide them both, giving them love and support, yet Genesis 25 says isaac loved Sau and Rebekah, Jacob, falling into the tragic error of patronage.
It is easy to favorite the son who looks more like us, with a personality that corresponds to ours, however, the differences between the twins were not moral and one was not necessarily better than the other.
The effects of sponsorship are terrible. Not having the approval of the parents generates great losses, this generates jealousy or anger for the abandoned child, in addition to a great void, also harms the preferred child, which leads to pride, all this leads to a breakdown of the relationship between brothers and tensions between spouses.
We must avoid these mistakes. All our children are different and were woven by God (Ps 139:13-16). As believers, we must believe that this is the child that God has conceived in a unique way for us, with his strengths and weaknesses, abilities, and responsibilities. We will be arrogant if we reject God’s plan.
Raising children is not about our preferences, it’s about guiding them properly as they are. We must understand that grace does not change personality, but changes the way sin affects personality.
Some children may be disciplined at a glance, others will need more. We must adapt to their needs and we should avoid the temptation to favor the children reflected in us.
Isaac’s lack of love for his son had a terrible impact on his life. He became a deceiver, who stole his brother’s offspring and blessing. He has become a negotiator, that even when God comes with unconditional blessings, he responds conditionally (“God, “then I . . . ; see Genesis 28. 10-22).
Jacob had no one who loved him except his mother, who was far away, so he tries to meet his need, believes that a relationship will meet his needs and desperately seek to satisfy his desires and passions. his work for seven years for Rachel, who was a much greater dowry than usual. When time runs out, he can’t wait to live with his wife, but at dawn he saw it was Lia.
Jacob, the deceiver, asked a question that we find ironic: “Why did you deceive me?And Laban gives a great answer: “here we do not favor the younger ones without the elders. “
Every mistake Jacob made is his
This man in need put all his hope in Rachel, but in the morning he saw Lia. We also place our hopes on relationships, possessions, positions, positions, and when we reach them, we realize that in the morning it is always Lia. Only God will meet our needs.
Now, she thinks about Lia’s situation, and even when she gets married, her husband despises her. I read the forgotten ones. However, God did not forget her and gave her children.
However, when she has children, she tries to get her husband’s attention through their names: Rubem (see), Simo (listen), Levi (call). Her hope is to be seen and heard, she wants to be connected to her husband. .
However, between the third and fourth sons she understands that even if her husband does not listen to her, God has not forgotten her, so he appoints the fourth son Judah (praise): this time I will worship the Lord. This removes the deepest desires from your heart and transports them from Jacob to the Lord. The Lord who loves him placed him in the messiah’s lineage.
What are the desires of your heart?He understands that only God will meet our deepest needs. The love we so desperately need is not in others, but in the Lord.
Lia is an image of grace. God does not love us for something in us, but for His mercy. We often try to climb stairs to reach God with our efforts, but God has come to us in Christ. Jesus is the ladder that connects heaven and earth and brings god’s blessings.
When we read Genesis 34, we have an embarrassing scene, full of sexual and physical violence. We often ignore this passage, but 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says that all Scripture was given to equip us, including this terrible scene.
Looking at the text, Jacob’s passivity in the face of his daughter’s rape is shocking. We must remember that Dina was lea’s daughter, the despised woman. Thus, when Simeon and Levi, who were also lea’s children, see Jacob’s act of hatred and passivity, they act violently.
Jacob didn’t protect his daughter. It allowed him to enter a pagan culture in search of companionship and friends, yet each father is called to be a faithful guardian of his children.
Parents, you have been called to protect your daughters from the shameless culture around you The world does not seek to dress in a gentle and calm, modest and discreet way as Scripture teaches (1 Tim 2:9-10; 1P3,3 -5), but sensually.
Jacob was indifferent?Naïve? As parents, we must ask ourselves what drives us to take a step back and not protect our children.
In addition to not protecting his daughter, Jacob also did not teach his daughter to interact piously with her culture. We raise our children in the culture of visual stimulation (?Look at my style?) And we must teach our children to interact with the world with our ears open to God’s revealed truth, to God’s standards. We must constantly help them evaluate culture by questioning their assumptions. Cultural criticism must be a daily task in our lives.
Be sure to get involved in your work or leisure and end up letting your children be attracted to a culture of values contrary to the Word of God. We need to vaccinate our children against the dangers of culture.
The third failure is that Jacob was not passive in the face of his daughter’s abuse. What kind of leadership does nothing when their precious daughter is raped? Jacob knew God, but he passively failed in the face of abuse.
Jacob did not help or comfort his daughter Dina; he didn’t help his children respond properly. he did not teach how to live in a fallen world; He did not lead his family to seek God’s help; and didn’t ask for justice.
Dinah needed to listen to the counsel of (1) knowing God in agony, dishonor, and loss; How to think about your experience (3) how to interact with others you knew; (4) how to avoid self-contempt and shame; and (5) how to avoid being cynical and severe; how to prevent it from closing and cooling down.
Simeon and Levi needed to hear advice on (1) constructive ways to deal with anger; (2) how to trust God in relation to them and their sister; (3) how to be wise and insightful; (4) how to seek justice; and (5) how to get angry without siding.
Parents need courage to protect their families! Passivity is a big problem for men. They often do nothing because they don’t know what to do; and end up acting like Jacob: shut up. However, the scriptures teach that there is room for holy anger in wickedness, to be angry, and not to sin (Ephesians 4:26). Dude, are you passive when there are situations where I should act?
Jacob’s fourth failure was his autonomous response to the massacre. Faced with the perverse and unbearable response of his children, Jacob cares for himself, he is not talking about the glory of God and the violation of divine law, but only about his safety.
What we can see in Jacob’s life is that the blessing of the past does not replace the obedience and faithfulness of the present. Jacob met God in Betel, but stopped in Shechem (a day’s trip to Betel).
Have you ever, like Jacob, been close to God, but now he’s far away?Lack of complete devotion to God will result in selfishness and broken relationships.
After this terrible episode, God gently takes Jacob to Betel, the place where he first met the Lord, to build an altar. God does not respond to failures in the same way as we do.
How can God ignore such a failure? God’s righteous judgment of our sins is found in Christ. God’s grace is based on the merits of Jesus Christ. God is faithful to His covenant and does not reject us even when we fail. The message to our children is the hope of the gospel. So look at your sin once and ten times on the cross.