PARENTHOOD
a divine stewardship

II. Revelation:

A. The family is the unit of God's creation - Genesis 2:18.

B. The family is the unit of God's salvation - Exodus 12:3, 7.

C. The family is the unit of service - Joshua 24.15.

D. The family is the unit of the church life - Acts 2:46.

III. Basic Practices:

A. Being conformed to the death of Christ - denying (putting to death) your self natural man, disposition by birth, flesh, preference, and ambition - Philippians 3:10b; Matthew 16:24; Galatians 2:20; 5:24.

B. Walking and having your being strictly according to the mingled spirit - Romans 8:4.

C. Setting your mind on the mingled spirit - Romans 8:5-6

D. Magnifying Christ by living Him through the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ - Philippians 1:19-21.

E. Living with Christ, walking, working, and moving with Him.

F. Letting Christ make His home in your heart by your inner man being strengthened by the Father according to His glory with power through His Spirit unto the fullness (expression) of the Triune God - Ephesians 3:16-21.

G. Working out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure - Philippians 2:12-13.

IV. The Practice Of Building Up A Family:

A. The General Principles:

1. Brothers should not be male chauvinists and sisters should not be too picky - Ephesians 5:22.

2. Not taking good or evil and right or wrong as the standard but the peace of Christ as the arbitration - Colossians 3:15.

3. Adjusting yourself to accommodate others rather than being dominate to gain people - 1 Corinthians 9:22.

4. Accepting each other that he/she would become useful to you - Philemon 11.

B. The Details:

1. For the brothers: (1 Peter 3:7)

a. Recognizing that sisters are weaker vessels.

b. Assigning honor to her, appreciating her, encouraging her, respecting her and be polite to her, treating her as though you are treating the new believers.

c. Fellowshipping often, praying much, and serving together with your wife as fellow heirs of the grace of life

2. For the sisters (Genesis 24):

a. Be keen yet not sensitive (Genesis 24:19). Keenness is the issue of exercising the spirit and makes one understand the work of the Holy Spirit. Sensitivity is the self-consciousness of the soul which brings people into good and evil

b. Diligence (Genesis 24:20) - Keenness with diligence helps the churches to advance.

c. Honor the elderly people - Genesis 24:18

d. Absoluteness - Genesis 24:55-58

e. Head-covering - Genesis 24:65

V. Conclusion:

A. Today's world is flooded with many teachings of the "Perfect Marriage ". Most of them are the teachings of good conduct without life.

Almost all aspects of what we have shared here require experiences of being conformed to the death of Christ and living and walking with Him. This is completely a matter of life.

B. A family in which the husband and wife practice PSRP* together, and even practice PSRP* with their children daily, will manifest the aromatic virtues of Christ which attract and captivate people - Deuteronomy 11:18-20.

C. The result will be twofold if the husband and the wife practice PSRP* together under God's ordination, you have received the burden, and the practice must begin with you, although it will be toilsome and difficult you and your family will be under God's blessing because such a practice will have long-term value.

[* The letters PSRP stand for Pray-reading, Studying, Reciting, and Prophesying. These practices are components of a specific way to enter into the burden of the New Testament ministry. Space in this publication does not allow us to expand on the actual practice. Anyone seeking further information may write us at the address presented below. Editor]

Therefore you shall lay these words of mine on your heart and on your soul, and you shall bind them on your hand as a sign, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes; And you shall teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit in your house, and when you journey on the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates. Deuteronomy 11:18-20