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What Have They Seen in Your House? (2 Kings 20:15)
Introduction:
A. The Importance and relevance of the home to our society.
1. The ideas of “Broken Homes”, “Latch-Key kids”, and “single parent families” suggest to our society that we desperately need divine guidance in the home.
2. The words of Ps. 127:1 are so relevant to us today (Ps. 101:2).
3. The home was the first divine institution God created. It is older than any covenant, and the church.
4. God also formed the first family unity in Genesis 2. We need to go back to God to be the kind of home He wants.
5. Someone has rightly said, “as goes the home so goes the nation.” How true it is that the problems of our nation are the root problems of our homes. If your home were the basis for our nation, what shape would we be in??
B. Background of 2 Kings 20:15.
1. Verses 1-11 tell of Hezekiah’s miraculous recovery. 2. Verses12-19 tell of his ignorant diplomacy
§ He showed the Babylonians what was in God’s house. § Isaiah rebuked him for doing this.
3. The question of Isaiah is a question for the ages; “What have they seen in your house?” 4. The real question is not what have others seen in our house, but what has God seen in our homes (I Jn. 3:20, Jn. 2:25, Heb. 4:13).??
C. To determine if we have a godly home we are going to ask 3 questions. The way in which you answer these questions will determine if your home is built by the Lord’s standards.
I. Have they seen a Godly Home?
A. What is a home? What is a Godly Home? “Home is a place where all live for and love each other and where all live for and love God.”
B. Deuteronomy 6:4-15 gives us the most detailed analysis of what a godly home really is. From this text we learn four characteristics of a godly home:
1. One that hears the Lord constantly (Deut. 6:4). § The importance of hearing (Mk 4:24, Lk 8:18, 7 churches, Lk 9:44, Acts 7:51, 1 Sam. 3:9). § How do we hear the Lord? · Reading (1 Tim. 4:12, do you read Bible daily???) · Study (2 Tim. 2:15—devotional in home). · Practice—Quote a home without a Bible
2. One that loves the Lord fervently (Deut. 6:5, Mk. 12:30, Matt. 6:33, 1 Jn. 4:8, Jn. 14:15).
3. One were children are taught faithfully (Deut. 6:6-7). · Socrates once said “Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would life my voice and proclaim: ‘Fellow Citizens, why do ye turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all?”
· We need biblically taught children (2 Tim. 3:14-15, Eccl 12:1, behind every godly person is godly parents, Hannah and Samuel)
· This quote should emphasize the need to teach our children: INTROSPECTION
4. One that obeys the Lord Fully (Deut. 6:8-15; Rev. 2:10, 1 Cor. 15:58). · Dishonest parents make dishonest children. · Unfaithful to assembly (Heb. 10:25). II. Have they seen biblical role models in your house?
A. For the home be godly, it must have godly members!!
1. A beautiful lamb doesn’t give birth to a weasel. 2. Ungodly parents don’t raise godly children.
B. In Col. 3:18-20, God gives us a capsular version of the proper roles in the home.
C. Wives Submit to your husbands (Col. 3:18).
1. The value of a godly wife (Prov. 18:22—“thing”, 1 Pet. 3:7-9—“Lord”, Gen 2:16, Prov. 12:4—crown, 31:10, 1 Cor. 11:7).
2. Submission is nor at all inferiority!
· Submission does not mean you are a slave (Phil. 2:5-6). · Submission does not mean you are under the grunt rule. · Church to Christ, WE to God, To one another (Eph. 5:21).
3. Submission means that you lovingly and willfully allow the husband to lead the home because of the respect he has earned from you. Some husbands don’t have the respect to lead, but wives must still submit as is fitting to the Lord.
D. Husbands are to love their wives (Col. 3:19). They are not to act like a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. Not a dictatorship.
· Committed Love—Heb. 13:5-6, Mal. 2:16, Mk. 10:6, remember your vows, Gen. 29:20. · Sacrificial Love—Eph. 5:25 · Everlasting Love Jer. 31:3, till death, Song 8:6-7 · Active Love 1 Jn. 3:18
E. Children Obey (Ps. 127:3,5, Ex. 20:12, Deut. 27:16).
III. Do Common Sins in the Home reside in your house?
C. Sins of Husband and Wives.
1. Lack of Closeness—Home is a glorified Holiday Inn, 1 Pet. 3:7, Matt. 19:4-6, we used to be close, but… 2. Lack of Commitment—For Life (Rom. 7:2-4, Matt. 19:9, 5:32, Eccl. 5:4-5, Marriage license is a hunting license for only one deer. 3. Lack of Consideration—selfish, what do others do in the home 4. Lack of Communication—Eph. 4:29, a family that prays together stays together.
D. Sins of Children.
1. Disobedience—Ex. 20:12, Deut. 27:16, Eph. 6:1
2. Disrespect—Less respect now day, no more yes ma’am and no ma’am
DOES GOD DWELL IN YOUR HOME??
DO YOU HAVE A GODLY HOME??
WHAT DOES GOD SEE IN YOUR HOUSE?? |