Teaching the Way of LOVE Part I
Proverbs 22:6
Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Parents remember all the training, all the instruction, all the commands, must narrow down to one path
Jesus narrows all commandments down to ONE in Mark 12:29…
The most important one"
Love God, love others.
To dedicate our children to the way they should go
is to understand the way is the way of LOVE.
In the end, when our children are old,
we want them to never depart from love.
Teaching the Way of LOVE Part I
6 Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
The word ‘train’ in Hebrew is “Chanak.”
It is used five times in the Old Testament.
In Proverbs 22:6 it is translated…
“Train or Train up”.
The other four times it is translated…
“Dedicate”
"A new house, and hath not dedicated it?
let him go and return to his house, lest"
"In the battle, and another man dedicate"
"And all the Children of Israel
dedicated
the house of the LORD."
"So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God."
It means to “narrow”,
to “Initiate or Discipline”.
It is compared to “chanaq” meaning…
To be narrow by throttle or to choke oneself to death.
The KJV uses the words hangself, strangle.
I know as parents we might feel at times
like strangling our kids…
But this is not the point.
As parents, we are to dedicate a child
in the way they should go.
To dedicate, to get to a desired goal
the path must be narrowed.
Like the saying says…
“If you aim at nothing
you will hit it every time.”
It takes training…
It takes discipline to stay on track.
Jesus said…
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Matthew 7:13-14
These verses fall on the heals of the Golden Rule.
So in everything,
do to others what you would have them do to you,
for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12
So what sums up the Law and the Prophets?
Look at what Jesus says…
29 "The most important one (Command)," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
There is no commandment greater than these."
Mark 12:29-31
Love God, love others.
Jesus narrows it down to ONE in verse 29…
The most important one"
To dedicate our children to the way they should go
is to understand the way is the way of LOVE.
In the end, when our children are old,
we want them to never depart from love.
Scripture Reading
Proverbs 22:6 NIV
6 Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
1 Corinthians 13:4-13
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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