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Teach the Law to Your Children
Aug. 5, 2020
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So there in Deuteronomy 6 we have some real clear directions that we're to teach the law of God to our children when we sit and when we walk along the way and we lie down at night and we rise up. And it's every day all day long and obviously that means they must be with us, and we must be with them. You know, in a Greek setting for education, the ideas are philosophical and not practical, in a sense. You learn knowledge for knowledge sake and you just fill a child's brain with things. They take a test and say, oh you did good.

But in the Hebrew scenario, when you've learned something new or gained knowledge, it meant you live differently. You

How can we better teach our children about the things of God?

Tom Ford explains in this video that we are to continually be talking of the things of the Lord with our children. When you gain knowledge, you act differently. You don't just sit on that knowledge. Parents, as they live life alongside their children, can help to model what this looks like for their children.

Speaker

Tom Ford is an elder at Grace Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, and is additionally the owner of a family-owned and operated business - Ford Physical Therapy.  Tom has been married to his wife Leigh for twenty-two years and they have eight children.

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