Parenting 101 Part 2 - 7.6.25

Joshua Boyd

How To Have Successful Kids

Parents, imaging that you are away on a trip talking to your kids on FaceTime or phone. There are things that you want done around the house before you get home so you give your kids instructions and expect them to carry them out. What you find when you return depends on how well you’ve trained your kids and how well they obey. 
In order for the will of God to be carried out on this earth before He returns, He needs people to carry out His instructions, obey His voice. Multiply the coordination and obedience by billions of “kids” that need to listen, trust and obey. This shows us how important obedience is to God and why He emphasizes it for parents to teach our kids. 
You want successful kids? Teach them to be obedient. This goes against so much of the way of the world which emphasizes “be your own person” and “don’t listen to ‘the man’”. 
Our message today in Parenting 101: How to Have Successful Kids. In light of the dual purpose of the topic, we could also subtitle it “how to be a successful Christian”. 

Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.” Scriptures say that when we honor God, He will honor us. Here are two ways He will honor you: things go well and you live long. How many want that? How many want that for our kids?

Joshua 1:8
Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.