I. EXORDIUM:
Do you have a godly family?
Yes. It's established by GOD.
Ephesians 3:15
For Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named [that Father from Whom all fatherhood takes its title and derives its name].
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that we have been established by GOD as a family and we acknowledged GOD as the Center of our family and the characteristics are discussed in details from an SM (secret message)
IV. TEXT:
Deuteronomy 6:11
And houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You have established us as a godly family.
VI. TITLE:
Characteristics of a godly family
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Name derived from: 2 Greek words: "deuteros" meaning second and "nomos" meaning law.
B. Author: Moses (commonly accepted)
C. Date written: 1407 - 1406 B.C.
D. Purpose: The former generation of Israel had died in the wilderness; hence it was important that the law should be repeated and expounded to the new generation before they entered the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
E. To whom written: The children of Israel, the generation which would enter and conquer the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
F. Main Theme: A rehearsal of the laws proclaimed at Sinai, with a call to obedience, interspersed with a review of the experiences of the old generation.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
G. Key word: Remember
H. Key verses:
Deuteronomy 6:1-4 (Amplified Bible)
6:1 NOW THIS is the instruction, the laws, and the precepts which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess it,
6:2 That you may [reverently] fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be watchful to do them, that it may be well with you and that you may increase exceedingly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
6:4 Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord].
VIII. MAIN BODY:
A. Characteristics of good family
1. Full of good things that we have not filled
"And houses full of all good things which you did not fill,"
2. Cistern hewn which we did not hewn
"and cisterns hewn out which you did not hew,"
3. Vineyards and olive trees that we have not planted
"and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant,"
4. We eat and are full
"and when you eat and are full,"
B. Discussion of these characteristics:
1. Full of good things that we have not filled
Not all things that we received from this world are good. why? because the god of this world is not the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Even the food that we received are bread of wickedness and wine of violence so still we need to pray for it to be cleansed.
2 Corinthians 4:4
For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers’ minds [that they should not discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God.
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Romans 14:20
You must not, for the sake of food, undo and break down and destroy the work of God! Everything is indeed [ceremonially] clean and pure, but it is wrong for anyone to hurt the conscience of others or to make them fall by what he eats.
Romans 14:6
He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
1 Timothy 4:3-4
Who forbid people to marry and [teach them] to abstain from [certain kinds of] foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and have [an increasingly clear] knowledge of the truth.
For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be thrown away or refused if it is received with thanksgiving.
Now the question is: "How come Apostle Paul said everything is indeed clean and pure in Romans 14:20 but in Proverbs 4:17 they are called bread of wickedness and wine of violence. Yes, these verses are both true and does not conflict each other. Because these bread and wine came from the earth or this world which has not been blessed by GOD because the god of this world is not the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Therefore, in order for it to be clean and pure, we need to receive this food in prayer of thanksgiving to GOD when we do, GOD does a quick cleansing of these food so we can eat it without damage to our body. The big obvious problem is unbelievers don't even pray before and after their meal, they are full of quarrells and strife on their tables, they promote wickedness, they promote self-belief on their selves which are all cursed. But we as believers we promote GOD in our lives.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus says the Lord: Cursed [with great evil] is the strong man who trusts in and relies on frail man, making weak [human] flesh his arm, and whose mind and heart turn aside from the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:7-8
[Most] blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is.
For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, nor shall it cease yielding fruit.
It it not our own effort and work when our houses are filled with good things, it never came from us, it came from GOD Himself not us, don't be deceived.
Philippians 4:19
And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord—it makes [truly] rich, and He adds no sorrow with it [neither does toiling increase it].
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all [that gives] light, in [the shining of] Whom there can be no variation [rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [as in an eclipse].
That's why we have good success and good blessing, it also means there are bad success and bad blessing that tends to become a curse, because it removes our focus from the LORD to these earthly wealth.
Proverbs 23:5
Will you set your eyes upon wealth, when [suddenly] it is gone? For riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
Genesis 24:12
And he said, O Lord, God of my master Abraham, I pray You, cause me to meet with good success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.
Don't be so desperate for success that even if it kills you, you will do it.
Illustration: A man got promoted but it will mean that he will not have to attend church anymore on Sundays because he needs to work on Sundays. This is bad success. Learn to discern if it's good or bad, embrace the good and reject the bad.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to My name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have already turned them to curses because you do not lay it to heart.
Your blessings are already there but if you will not acknowledge and give glory to JESUS who brought you all these riches then it is cursed for you.
Deuteronomy 8:18
But you shall [earnestly] remember the Lord your God, for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
2. Cistern hewn which we did not hewn - pure marriage relationship
"and cisterns hewn out which you did not hew,"
Proverbs 5:15
Drink waters out of your own cistern [of a pure marriage relationship], and fresh running waters out of your own well.
Well, cistern or "bor" in Hebrew meaning:
1. pit hole
2. cistern or prison
3. cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well
Wells or pit are the same during those days, it's a source of water. In our time, it will mean a well - source of water, or deep well, and a trash can or garbage pit where we can burn or exterminate our wastes. The only way to clean the wastes of these animals and poultry animals is to have a well for the source of their drinking water and pit for throwing their wastes.
1 Chronicles 11:18
Then the Three [mighty men] broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate and brought it to David. But David would not drink it; he poured it out to the Lord,
2 Chronicles 26:10
Also he built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowlands and in the tableland. And he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile fields [of Carmel], for he loved farming.
Nehemiah 9:25
And they captured fortified cities and a rich land and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, olive orchards, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in Your great goodness.
Psalms 30:3
O Lord, You have brought my life up from Sheol (the place of the dead); You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit (the grave).
Psalms 40:2
He drew me up out of a horrible pit [a pit of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps and establishing my goings.
Yes pits are horrible, because of it's smell and all the dead materials (wastes) of human beings and animals thrown into it. But wells are a source of revitalization for it houses clean water.
Proverbs 5:15
Drink waters out of your own cistern [of a pure marriage relationship], and fresh running waters out of your own well.
It can also symbolizes clean marriages or pure marriage relationship.
Illustration: We saw a great huge beautiful house, beautiful children but the father and mother are divorced individuals who are now married. It's not a blessed house. It's a cursed house.
Psalms 68:6
God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in which to dwell; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Malachi 2:14
Yet you ask, Why does He reject it? Because the Lord was witness [to the covenant made at your marriage] between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously and to whom you were faithless. Yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant [made by your marriage vows].
Malachi 2:16
For the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I hate divorce and marital separation and him who covers his garment [his wife] with violence. Therefore keep a watch upon your spirit [that it may be controlled by My Spirit], that you deal not treacherously and faithlessly [with your marriage mate].
3. Vineyards and olive trees that we have not planted - GOD (FATHER, SON and HOLY SPIRIT) is the center of the family.
"and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant,"
Vineyards are source of food. We bear fruit because of the Vineyard owner. - the FATHER GOD
Olive trees are source of olive oil which symbolizes the HOLY SPIRIT.
John 15:5
I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.
John 15:1-4
I AM the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.
Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.
You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the word which I have given you [the teachings I have discussed with you].
Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me.
Judges 9:9
But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, by which God and man are honored, and go to wave over the trees?
1 John 2:27
But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides [permanently] in you; [so] then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is true and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in, never depart from) Him [being rooted in Him, knit to Him], just as [His anointing] has taught you [to do].
4. We eat and are full - godly contentment and satisfaction
"and when you eat and are full,"
1 Timothy 6:6
[And it is, indeed, a source of immense profit, for] godliness accompanied with contentment (that contentment which is a sense of inward sufficiency) is great and abundant gain.
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and make himself enjoy good in his labor. Even this, I have seen, is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:13
And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is for one to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in all the labor in which he labors under the sun all the days which God gives him—for this is his [allotted] part.
Only GOD can give you satisfaction and contentment. That's why our delight is in the LORD not in the things that we own.
Psalms 37:4
Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
The prosperity of fools destroy the fools not to bring comfort and satisfaction. Why? because they have rejected GOD's knowledge and promoted themselves instead.
Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the careless ease of [self-confident] fools shall destroy them.
Isaiah 32:6
For the fool speaks folly and his mind plans iniquity: practicing profane ungodliness and speaking error concerning the Lord, leaving the craving of the hungry unsatisfied and causing the drink of the thirsty to fail.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You have established us as a godly family.
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