DOCTRINE: Fathers are to train up their children for the glory of Jesus, in the ways of Jesus, through faith in Jesus, in order to fire them like arrows into the world for Christ’s name’s sake.

I. FATHERS AND FUTURE FATHERS, THE FOUNDATION OF TRAINING YOUR CHILDREN MUST BE CHRIST (Ephesians 6:1, 4).

I) You have to train up your children for the glory of the Lord Jesus (Colossians 1:15-18).

II) You have to train up your children in the ways of the Lord Jesus (Isaiah 8:20).

III) You have to train up your children through faith in the Lord Jesus (Psalm 127:1-2; John 15:5; Philippians 4:13).

II. FATHERS AND FUTURE FATHERS,YOU MUST NOT PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN (Ephesians 6:4a)

III. FATHERS AND FUTURE FATHERS, YOU MUST TRAIN UP YOUR CHILDREN (Ephesians 6:4b)

Fathers and would be fathers, you have to train your children up in:
I) Personal Stewardship, by buffeting your body and making it your slave.
II) Bodily Stewardship, by using the body God has given you, fueling, exerting, and resting it for His glory.
III) Familial Stewardship, by proving and protecting.
IV) Financial Stewardship, by earning, budgeting, staying free from debt, saving, and investing.
V) Creational Stewardship, by taking being fruitful and taking dominion.
VI) Vocational Stewardship, by learning how to glorify the Lord in vocation whether as a man outside the home or a women in the home.
VII) Marital Stewardship; boys, how to be men who love their wives and lead their families; girls, how to be women who submit to the husbands, loving their husband and their children.
VIII) Chronological Stewardship, by making the best use of the time.
IX) Relational Stewardship, by treating older men, younger men, younger women, older women like the Scriptures say.
X) Spiritual Stewardship, by private, family, and public worship.

I) You have to train your children to be disciplined (Ephesians 6:4c).

(I) You have to set the example, men! Teach your children to be disciplined. This is formative discipline. (II) You also have to use the rod, men! Teach your children there are consequences when authorities are disobeyed. This is corrective discipline.

II) You have to train your children by instructing them (Ephesians 6:4d).

(I) You have to instruct your children in the Law of God for salvation (Romans 7:7). (II) You have to instruct your children in the Gospel of God for salvation (1 Peter 1:23-25; Acts 2:38-39; John 6:40). (III) You have to instruct your children in the Law of God for sanctification (Romans 7:12). (IV) You have to instruct your children in the Gospel of God for sanctification (Galatians 2:20; 2 Corinthians 3:18).

Daily Family Worship must not be neglected. Most of this instruction happens in that time.

CONCLUSION

Fathers and future fathers, you and I are to train up our children for the glory of Jesus, in the ways of Jesus, and dependent on Jesus so that we may fire our children like arrows into this world for Christ’s name’s sake (Psalm 127:3-5; Psalm 78:5-7).

We must train up our children in these ways so that, through them, God would destroy the kingdom of Satan, advance the Kingdom of grace, and hasten the Kingdom of glory.