Introduction

• Ephesians 6:1-4
• I Timothy 3:4-5
• You can’t expect your wife to do your job for you!

Be there.

• Genesis 26:3
• Exodus 33:14-16
• Joshua 1:5 – God would be with him.
• Psalms 38
• Matthew 28:20
• Luke 13:25-29 – Hell is being away from God’s presence.
• Everything we read about what a family needs requires the father to be there.
• Philippians 3:17 – Follow good examples. How can our kids follow our example if we aren’t there?
• Surveys show that if the father is the first to become a Christian in a family, there is a 93% chance that others in the family will follow. If a child or the mother is the first, the probability is significantly lower.

Discipline them in a way that yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

• Hebrews 12:7-11
• Proverbs 13:24 – Sometimes tough discipline is necessary.
• Proverbs 19:18
• Proverbs 23:13-14; 29:15

Exhort and encourage and implore them to follow God’s path.

• I John 3:16
• Matthew 18:21-35
• I Thessalonians 2:5-12