Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share ScriptureStream
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
ScriptureStream
ScriptureStream episodes
- Godly Families, Part 19
- Introduction
- What about marrying yourself or inanimate objects?
- Leviticus 18:22-25 – Warning against perverting God’s marriage plan.
- (Grand)parenting applications: training children to love others
Specific Goal
Passage(s) to discuss & guide
Ways (grand)parents can exemplify and teach
Temptations and hindrances
Behaviors to correct
Be generous
Luke 10:30-37; Ephesians 4:28
Budged for others; Speak of others’ needs
Consumer culture; prosperity; constant ads
When gets money, never thinks of others
Forgive like God
Nehemiah 9:16-17; Luke 23:33-34; Matthew 18:21-35
Stop holding grudges; truly forgive children; Explain: “I’ve needed forgiveness myself many times.”
It’s hard to forgive! Peers may encourage revenge.
Bitterness
Serve like Christ
Matthew 20:25-28; Luke 17:7-10; John 13:12-15
View self as servant; point out opportunities to serve; praise service like we would performance.
Not valued by many, must be taught at home; me-first culture
Lack of initiative for others; habit of expecting others to do for self.
Encourage others
I Thessalonians 2:8-12; Acts 11:23-24; II Corinthians 2:6-8
Encourage the child; Make aware: “He looks like he needs some encouragement.”; “Thank you for saying that to him.”
Easy to kick someone when they’re down; too busy to even notice others’ problems.
“He wouldn’t do the same for me.”
Speak the truth in love
Ephesians 4:15, 29; Proverbs 15:1-4
Read Bible prophets and preachers; explain effort it takes (“I’m trying to word this email to …”).
Tempers flare; we don’t know what to say due to little practice, Bible knowledge
Insults, gossip, meanness
30 min - Becoming the New Me!
- Ezra 7:10
- My spirit is empowered!
- I must believe that change is possible.
- Genesis 4:4-8 – Cain could choose to do good!
- “Repent!” – Acts 17:30; Matthew 3:2; 11:20-21
- Old self – new self: Romans 6; Ephesians 4; Colossians 3
- My mind is informed!
- I must learn what the goals are!
- Colossians 3:16-17
- Ephesians 5:10, 17
- Romans 7:7
- Please read your Bible!
- My goals are planned!
- I must make a map to my goals!
- Example: Nehemiah – Nehemiah 6:15
- Get specific: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
30 min - Godly Families, Part 18
- (Grand)parenting applications: training children to love God (continued)
Specific Goal
Passage(s) to discuss & guide
Ways (grand)parents can exemplify and teach
Temptations and hindrances
Behaviors to correct
Find peace, contentment, and joy in God
Proverbs 2:1-10; II Corinthians 1:1-7; I Timothy 6:17-18
Live for God instead of just “going to church”; train attitude to revolve around spiritual truths.
Emotions revolve around peers, fashion, sports, grades, entertainment
Knows sports stats or latest hairstyles, hasn’t prayed since Sunday …
Prioritize God over peers, career, wealth …
James 4:4; Matthew 16:24-26; I timothy 6:6-11
“Did you make God happy today?” > “What grade did you make on …”
YouTube kid! Busy schedules
Cares about school, not about Bible class.
- Train children to love others
- Love your neighbor as yourself
- This is the second greatest command (Matthew 22:39)!
- Suppose Barnabas was your dad (Acts 4:36-37; 11:22-26; 15:2)
- Would you grow up thinking he loved others?
- Would you grow up learning how to love others yourself?
- Take God’s perspective
- What do the following passages teach about how to view our fellow humans?
- Genesis 1:26-27
- Genesis 9:6
- Jonah 4:11
- Acts 17:24-29
- I Peter 3:7
- Consider the contrast with how Adolf Hitler viewed human life.
- Brothers and sisters in Christ should hold a special place in our hearts.
- I Corinthians 8:11-13; II Corinthians 12:19-20; I Peter 4:8-10; I John 4:20 – 5:2
30 min - I Corinthians, Part 28
- I Corinthians 14:23-35
- I Corinthians 14:23 – So far, Paul has been talking about regulations regarding the use of spiritual gifts. Now he explains the reasoning behind some of these regulations.
- I Corinthians 14:32 – Their spiritual gifts could be controlled.
- I Corinthians 14:33 – This is one of the reasons for the regulations on spiritual gifts that Paul was describing. The gifts were not to be used to bring about confusion.
- I Corinthians 14:34 – This is specifically directed at women who were married to men with spiritual gifts. They were not to interrupt while their husband was speaking or prophesying. Women were to be in subjection, as was the rule all the way back to Genesis.
- I Corinthians 14:35 – Here the rule for women is expanded to speaking in the assembly in general.
30 min - Overseer-Overseen Relationship
- Ephesians 3:15
- Overseers:
- Oversee the flock – Acts 20:28
- Shepherd the flock – I Peter 5:1-3
- Watch for souls of the flock – Hebrews 13:17
- Lead the flock – Hebrews 13;17
- In teaching – I Timothy 3:7
- By example – I Peter 5:3
- Overseen:
- Know the overseers – I Thessalonians 5:12
- Esteem the overseers – I Thessalonians 5:13
- Follow shepherds’ lead – I Peter 5:1-3
- Follow shepherds’ good example – I Peter 5:3
- Eagerly accept shepherds’ feeding – Acts 20:28
- Support – I Timothy 5:17-18
- Honor overseers; do not bring unproven accusations – I Timothy 5:19-20
- Galatians 6:1
- If an elder does get out of line, you are showing him honor if you do rebuke him in the right way.
30 min - Beyond Bethlehem
- Luke 1:31-34
- Luke 2:10-20
- John 6:59-60
- Out of 89 chapters in the New Testament, only 4 deal with Jesus’ birth or life as a child. Ninety-six percent focus on Jesus’ life and teaching near the end of His life.
- When Jesus grew up, what did He teach?
- Matthew 20:27 – We must be prepared to serve.
- Matthew 20:21-28
- Matthew 5:43-44 – Love your enemies and pray for them.
- Matthew 7:21 – Jesus expects people to obey. It is not enough to just say, “Lord, Lord.”
- Matthew 7:24-29 – Parable of the two foundations.
- Matthew 10:34 – Jesus did not come to bring peace.
- Matthew 10:35-37 – Jesus brought peace with God, but not necessarily with other people.
- Matthew 6:24 – You cannot serve God and wealth.
- It is ironic that the holiday of Christmas has become so materialistic.
- Matthew 6:19-21
- I Corinthians 11:24 – Jesus taught us how to remember Him.
- I Corinthians 11:23-26 – the Lord’s Supper
- Mark 16:15-16 – baptism commanded
30 min - Summary of the Bible
- Salvation!
- The story of the Old Testament
- Genesis 1 – Creation
- Ecclesiastes 7:29 – Man chooses to do wrong even though God made him upright.
- I John 3:4 – Sin is transgression of the law.
- Isaiah 59:2
- Romans 5:12 – Death spread to all men because of sin.
- Ezekiel 18:20 – We do not inherit sin.
- Within the first few chapters of the Bible, we have been introduced to the problem:
- Genesis 12:1-7 – God makes 3 promises to Abraham
- Nation – Old Testament
- Land – Old Testament
- Universal blessing
- Genesis 50:26 – Joseph dies with the Israelites still in Egypt.
- Exodus 12:37-40 – Israelites leave Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 4:1 – Deuteronomy repeats the law and urges the Israelites to obey it this time.
- Judges 2:8 – The next generation was not faithful. Judges are brought in to rule the people.
- The Israelites desire a king. Saul, David, and Solomon are the first three kings, ruling for 40 years each (the united kingdom).
- The Israelites fall into idolatry and the kingdom splits.
- II Kings 17:5-6
- The northern kingdom falls to Assyrian captivity in 721 B.C.
- In 586 B.C., Judah falls and is taken into Babylonian captivity.
- Ezra and Nehemiah: Israelites allowed to return to rebuild under Cyrus.
- Nehemiah 9:1-3, 30-37
- It is important to follow God’s law!
- God shows us the need that mankind had for a system of salvation. The stage is set for that 3rd promise.
- Jeremiah 31:31
- The story of the New Testament
- Matthew 1:1, 17
- John 1:1, 14-18 – John comes to prepare the way for Jesus.
- Matthew 4:23
- John 18:36 – Jesus was not the kind of earthly leader many were expecting.
- Jesus rebukes the Pharisees, who were esteemed as religious leaders. This angers the authorities.
- Matthew 27:50-54 – Finally the authorities are so angry that Jesus is crucified.
- Matthew 10:4
- Hebrews 9:22 – Bloodshed is required to atone for sin.
- Acts 2:22-41 – Peter preaches the gospel for the first time, encouraging people to be baptized for forgiveness of their sins.
- Colossians 2:14 – The Old Covenant is no longer in effect.
- Ephesians 4:4 – Jesus is the head of one body.
- Colossians 1:18 – This body is called the church.
- Ephesians 5:23 – Jesus it the Savior of the one body.
- II Corinthians 5:10
- Romans 10:2-3
- I Corinthians 15:52
- Romans 14:12
- Matthew 25:46 – Heaven awaits the obedient and Hell awaits the disobedient.
- Hebrews 5:9
30 min - 1 Corinthians, Part 27
- I Corinthians 14:11-40
- I Corinthians 14:11-19 – Paul is trying to put the spiritual gift of speaking in tongues in its proper context. The gift does no good if there is no one available to translate the message into a language understood by all who are present.
- I Corinthians 14:20 – Be like children in forgiving and forgetting wrongs.
30 min - Self-esteem
- Self-esteem mandates that a Christian purge his mind so he will be fit for the Master’s use.
- II Timothy 2:19-21 – Christians are the Lord’s instruments, so they must be pure to be fit for His purpose.
- Christians must be pure in order to be fit to live with.
- II Corinthians 10:4-5
- Proverbs 23:7
- Thinking on godly things lays the foundation that allows us to have self-esteem.
- Self-esteem mandates that a Christian purge his emotions so he will be fit for the Master’s service.
- Hebrews 13:1
- Proverbs 23:23
- Ephesians 4:15
- Psalms 119:104, 128
- Proverbs 6:19-20
- James 1:27
- Philippians 4:4 – Joy is an emotion we should have in the Lord.
- I Peter 1:8
- Self-esteem mandates that a Christian purge his speech so that he will be fit for the Master’s use.
- Ephesians 4:29
- James 3:8
- I Thessalonians 1:8
- Self-esteem mandates that a Christian purge his functions so he will be fit for the Master’s use.
- Romans 6:12-13, 4
- I Corinthians 6:19
- II Corinthians 8:5, 12
30 min - Religious Persecution
- Daniel 3:1, 4-6, 17-19, 26-29
- God saves Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the furnace.
- Daniel 6:4-7, 14-22
- God saves Daniel in the lions’ den.
- Old Testament
- Psalms 23:4
- Proverbs 29:7
- Amos 5:10
- Habakkuk 1:13
- Psalms 119:157
- Jeremiah 15:10
- Psalms 119:61
- Jeremiah 20:7
- Proverbs 29:10
- Psalms 119:10
- New Testament
- I Timothy 3:12
- John 15:18
- Matthew 5:44
- I Peter 4:12-14
- I Peter 3:17
- I Peter 3:14
- 2016/2017
- Religious persecution coming to America?
- The new tolerance
- We must learn to appreciate what we have that allows us to worship God as easily as we do.
30 min
About ScriptureStream
From the publisher's feed
Just the gospel, plainly spoken. ScriptureStream compiles lessons presented at the Benchley church of Christ, located just north of Bryan, TX. Visit ScriptureStream.com for full notes on each lesson…
and additional resources for Bible study.