Parent Series

I. EXORDIUM:

Do you have a parent?

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show what parents must be according to the Bible.

IV. TEXT:

Matthew 10:21 (Amplified Bible)

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will take a stand against their parents and will have them put to death.

V. THESIS:

Parents must be according to the Bible.

VI. TITLE:

Parent

Word Study: Parent from New Testament

VII. EXPLICATION:

Parents came from the Greek word: "goneus" meaning "a parent"

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. Some Biblical facts about Parents

1. Children will rise up against their parents to put them to death

Matthew 10:21 (Amplified Bible)

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will take a stand against their parents and will have them put to death.

Mark 13:12 (Amplified Bible)

And brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; and children will take a stand against their parents and [have] them put to death.

2. Parents dedicate their child in the temple in his early years

Luke 2:27 (Amplified Bible)

And prompted by the [Holy] Spirit, he came into the temple [enclosure]; and when the parents brought in the little child Jesus to do for Him what was customary according to the Law,

3. Parents celebrate Passover feast

Luke 2:41 (Amplified Bible)

Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year to the Passover Feast.

4. Parents are amazed when miracle are done for their child.

Luke 8:56 (Amplified Bible)

And her parents were amazed, but He charged them to tell no one what had occurred.

5. You can leave your parents for the sake of the kingdom of GOD.

Luke 18:29 (Amplified Bible)

And He said to them, I say to you truly, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

6. Parents can betray their children

Luke 21:16 (Amplified Bible)

You will be delivered up and betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and [some] of you they will put to death.

7. Parents are blamed for the sickness of their child.

John 9:2-3 (Amplified Bible)

His disciples asked Him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?

Jesus answered, It was not that this man or his parents sinned, but he was born blind in order that the workings of God should be manifested (displayed and illustrated) in him.

8. Parents are consulted or are responsible for what happened to their child.

John 9:18 (Amplified Bible)

However, the Jews did not believe that he had [really] been blind and that he had received his sight until they called (summoned) the parents of the man.

9. Parents know their child and their sicknesses.

John 9:20 (Amplified Bible)

His parents answered, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind.

10. Parents can no longer be responsible for their child when he is of age.

John 9:22-23 (Amplified Bible)

His parents said this because they feared [the leaders of] the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should acknowledge Jesus to be the Christ, he should be expelled and excluded from the synagogue.

On that account his parents said, He is of age; ask him.

11. Parents can be disobeyed.

Romans 1:30 (Amplified Bible)

Slanderers, hateful to and hating God, full of insolence, arrogance, [and] boasting; inventors of new forms of evil, disobedient and undutiful to parents.

2 Timothy 3:2 (Amplified Bible)

For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.

12. Parents lay up treasures for their child not the other way around.

2 Corinthians 12:14 (Amplified Bible)

Now for the third time I am ready to come to [visit] you. And I will not burden you [financially], for it is not your [money] that I want but you; for children are not duty bound to lay up store for their parents, but parents for their children.

13. Parents need to be obeyed in the LORD.

Ephesians 6:1 (Amplified Bible)

CHILDREN, OBEY your parents in the Lord [as His representatives], for this is just and right.

Colossians 3:20 (Amplified Bible)

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

14. Parents are cared for by their children.

1 Timothy 5:4 (Amplified Bible)

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, see to it that these are first made to understand that it is their religious duty [to defray their natural obligation to those] at home, and make return to their parents or grandparents [for all their care by contributing to their maintenance], for this is acceptable in the sight of God.