Shaping The Family Series

Relationship series #2

Shaping the Family

Good morning everyone, glad to have you join us as we continue in our series “Relationships”

Really the Bible is far from silent on how we connect and the plan God has laid out for us being in a relationship and how we connect not only to others but also the dynamics of a godly family.

Remember last week I set a foundation that if our relationship with the Lord was not strong that it will affect all other relationships we are in.

He is the rock that we build all of our connections upon.

The first and most important relationship is with Him.

We also established from God’s word that there has to be an authority that we stand on to set our moral compass.

As a believer, we stand on the word of God that has already been spoken to us and we base our relationships upon what He said.

You have someone that does not believe the word of God as authority and I will show you someone that does not care what God has to say about connections and relationships.

I stand on the word of God

I trust the word of God

I am obedient to God’s Word and His direction.

If someone is standing on their own opinion and only their feelings, anytime the word goes against their thoughts or feeling, they will be combative.

Because it is their authority instead of the Lords.

The word of God is my guide!

My perspective, purpose and my meaning in life will line up with the authority of His word so that when He speaks into our lives we have a point of reference.

We can make sure we have not taken a side road that will take us away from Him instead of closer to Him.

When our paths cross with the Lord and there is an intersection, we will make sure that we are listening and not missing what He has for us.

So again we have to go to Scripture and find out what the shaping of the family is suppose to look like.

Matthew 19:8 Jesus points us towards marriage as being male/female, one flesh union “From the beginning”

The Scripture also says that sexual intimacy is to occur between a man and a woman who are married and they will begin to have a family.

In the scriptures, a family is begun by a man and a woman leaving their parents and cleaving to each other in marriage and starting a family as Christ is the head of that family.

Genesis 2:24- “Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh”

Leave and cleave-

Leave the umbrella of your parents protection and support and move into a new relationship with each other.

Cleave- means to “stick to or join with”

So right from the garden, man was supposed to leave his father and mother and cleave to his spouse. It was designed from the beginning to be a man and a woman that constitutes a godly and upright family.

We see that God instituted the family and we quickly messed it up after the fall.

Adam and Eve with blame game after each eating the forbidden fruit-

Cain killing his brother-

Abraham could not have children with Sarai, so Abraham and Sarai had a great idea that he would lay with Hagar to have a child. We all know how well that went and learn quick what a blended family looks like and the challenges that come with it.

King David as Shepherd/King/ liar/murderer

What we won’t do to cover up bad decisions in wrong relationships.

God desires for us to have the right family dynamics and wants us to have a strong family under his leadership and his guidance.

So we are going to look at some ways we can have a stronger family under the direction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 6:3-9 Read from Bible

You want to have a strong family! Teach the word of God to your family.

You want the blessing of God, you need God in your life!

Teach your kids, live the life that has been instructed to us

Have reminders for yourself of the goodness and greatness of the God that you serve.

This world is trying desperately to tear down the godly family the way God intended it to be and how we can be blessed with His presence.

His desire is for us to raise our children both husband and wife together with the reverence and guidance of God’s word active in our lives.

Everywhere we go, the Lord desires to go with us.

Work

School

Entertainment

If you go, He desires to be involved in it and that it would line up with his word.