From the Upper Room to the Living Room
Pastor Erickson closes the From the Upper Room to the Living Room series with a message on passing the fear of the Lord to the next generation, drawing on Moses' charge in Deuteronomy 6 and on Proverbs 22:6. He calls parents to see their homes as training centers and to train their children on purpose, by word and by example, to love and reverence God.
The message in 6 points
The transfer of fear
Pastor Erickson calls this last session of the series the transfer of fear. Beside the call to have no fear of the enemy, he says there must be a reverence, a constant awareness that we live before a holy, righteous and all knowing God.
54:07Promises to those who fear the Lord
He reads a run of verses from Psalms and Proverbs on the blessings that come to those who fear the Lord. Fearing God is not dreading punishment or keeping a list of dos and don'ts, but a heart that wants to please him.
58:34Training, not only teaching
Using how he trained his dog by daily routine, he says children must be trained by repetition. Moses charged the new generation in Deuteronomy 6 to teach God's words diligently at home, so parents should talk of God everywhere and share their testimony with their own children.
1:02:18Faith that keeps its children
He describes researching which religions keep their children most and finds that families who train on purpose keep them. He warns that the church must not let the world's free thinking culture into the home, which is the real training center.
1:14:32Parents are the trainers
Children watch every move their parents make. From Proverbs 22:6 he says training narrows the path with boundaries and guard rails, and while the proverb is not a promise, even a prodigal never forgets what was instilled at home.
1:26:02Intentional homes and three generations
He admits he is convicted to be more intentional, since keeping children from wrong is not enough without putting God into them. He warns that faith not passed on goes from passionate to polite to perverted, and charges parents to train their children on purpose.
1:48:14
In his words
“And I believe when we truly fear the Lord it's not about his commandments any longer, it's not about the law any longer, it's, it's a heart that wants to live for God and to please God.”
“The saddest thing would be for us to have a testimony and everybody know it except for our own kids.”
“God help us to be transfers of fear. I want my girls to fear God. I don't want them to fear me or their mother, I want them to fear God.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
Psalms 128:1-4
1Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. 2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. 3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. 4Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
King James Version.
Deuteronomy 6:2
2That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
King James Version.
Proverbs 16:6
6By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
King James Version.
Psalms 34:9
9O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
King James Version.
Proverbs 3:7-8
7Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 8It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
King James Version.
Proverbs 10:27
27The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
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Proverbs 28:14
14Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
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Proverbs 22:4
4By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
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Psalms 34:7
7The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
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Psalms 145:19
19He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
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Deuteronomy 6:4-9
4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
King James Version.
Proverbs 22:6
6Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
King James Version.
Luke 15:17
17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
King James Version.
Deuteronomy 6:13
13Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
King James Version.
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