#127: Disciplining Our Children

On episode 127, Tim discusses Proverbs 13:24 and talks about the importance of disciplining our children.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome into episode one hundred and twenty seven of Bring
Heaven Down. My name is Tim and I'm the host
of this daily devotional podcast. If this is your first
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is released. And if you have any questions, comments, disagreements, thoughts, topics,
email the show Bring Heaven Down number seven at gmail
dot com. That's Bring Heaven Down number seven at gmail
dot com. If you've missed the last few episodes. I've

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been on a parenting slash children series because my wife
and I had our third baby just over two weeks ago,
almost three weeks ago now, and because of that, it
has inspired some podcasts on how much children are a

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blessing and how to train our children, And today we
are going to discuss how to discipline our children and
the importance of it. The episode series started with one
twenty four, and then it's one twenty five, one twenty six,

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and today's one twenty seven. If you want to go
back and listen to any of the previous podcasts. In
Proverbs chapter thirteen versus twenty four. It says this, whoever
spares the rod hates their children, but the one who

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loves them is careful to discipline them. And here's what
my study notes By has to say about this verse.
It says, who spares the rod hates his son. Parents
are encouraged to apply the rod of punishment to drive

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out fully so that the child will not follow a
path of destruction. The rod imparts wisdom and promotes a
healthy and happy family. Discipline is rooted in love, probably
a figure of speech for discipline of any kind. Now,

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we have to be careful because we can't take the
discipline and make it abuse. But we also have to
be careful the other way around too. We can't be
afraid to discipline because of abuse. And I'll just talk
to you about what our family does. As the leader
of this family, I think one of the main objectives

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of my responsibility is to set the standard of how
discipline should look. And just this morning, my wife and
I had to discipline our son, who is twenty one
months old, because he threw a fork across the table

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as we were eating breakfast, and I didn't take out
my belt and whip him on the butt. Although that
is what happened to my dad when he was a kid,
and he'll tell that story. But I looked at him
in the eye, I flicked him on the cheek and
I said, no, we do not throw the fork across

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the table. That is not okay. And guess what happened.
He didn't throw his fork across the table anymore. So
discipline is rooted in love because it needs to happen
to change one's behavior. And one of the things that

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I really work on and try to encourage my wife
to do. It's something that we really work on as
a family is to be stern, is to discipline, but
not to lose our temper while we are disciplining, because
when your child does not listen or does something wrong,

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it can become very easy to lose your cool and
get emotional about it. But I think where my conviction
is is that, yes, it's important to discipline, it's important
to be stern, it's important to be tough, but you
can separate those things with the emotional side of it.

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Of course, you can raise your voice, but there's been
times where I've raised my voice at our kids, and
I've turned towards my wife and smiled because I was like, ooh,
that was a good one, meaning I didn't lose my
emotion in the discipline. Disciplining our children is a very

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godly thing, and tomorrow I'm going to read some verses
on how God disciplines us. And if God can discipline
us and it's holy, well then we should discipline our

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own children as well so that they can grow wise
and healthy. Thanks for joining the show today and for
being a part of the series, and I hope this
podcast was encouraging to you today