Marikina Foursquare Gospel Church

Membership MonthStep-Up-Children’s Sunday

Theme: Small Bundle of

Big Potentiality

Speaker: JUDITH P. GIGATARAS

October 9, 2016

Para sa mga stakeholders

Ilan kaya ang ideal o nararapat na dami ng anak ng isang mag-asawa?

John WesleyFounder of Methodist Church

A firm grip on their hearts while they are young and NEVER TURNING THEM LOOSE.

Dr. Ernie LagascaMag-anak ka kahit ilan ngunit tiyakin mo

lang na lahat sila ay madadala mo sa Panginoon.

Let us check what the Bible says regarding our children,

how (the process) we can see them STEP UP to the BIG POTENTIALITY within God’s Masterplan for their lives.

STEP 1Start them small

6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

Exodus 2:6-7

Stakeholders: Parents of Moses

Remember:Our children

arelike a

precious vase. Very

delicate.We should

take care of them.

STEP 2Give themgoodgifts

10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 7:10-12

Stakeholders: Fathers/Parents

Remember:Good gifts are not

necessarily BIG and EXPENSIVE

GIFTS. Sometimes, the more valuable are the ones that

do not require money. Give them a GIFT of a GOOD

EXAMPLE !

STEP 3Taketime

toteach

6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Stakeholders: Family

Remember:

Make each family time a teaching – learning moment.

Not just giving sermon!

STEP 4Keepgoing

6 Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Proverbs 22:6

14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:14-15

Stakeholders:

Remember:Habang may hininga, ituro ang dapat ituro kahit minsan ayaw magpaturo… we will reap the harvest.

If we taught them bad, they will also not depart from it. They will become a liability in the society.

STEP 5Be

Visionaryfor

them

3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”[a]4 Fathers,[b] do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:3-4

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—

Ephesians 6:1-2

20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Colossians 3:20

Stakeholders:Get Wisdom at Any Cost4 Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction;    pay attention and gain understanding.2 I give you sound learning,    so do not forsake my teaching.3 For I too was a son to my father,    still tender, and cherished by my mother.4 Then he taught me, and he said to me,    “Take hold of my words with all your heart;    keep my commands, and you will live.

Proverbs 4:1-4

Stakeholders:10 Listen, my son, accept what I say,    and the years of your life will be many.11 I instruct you in the way of wisdom    and lead you along straight paths.12 When you walk, your steps will not be hampered;    when you run, you will not stumble.13 Hold on to instruction, do not let it go;    guard it well, for it is your life.14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked    or walk in the way of evildoers.

Proverbs 4:10-14

Stakeholders:19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;    they do not know what makes them stumble.20 My son, pay attention to what I say;    turn your ear to my words.21 Do not let them out of your sight,    keep them within your heart;22 for they are life to those who find them    and health to one’s whole body.23 Above all else, guard your heart,    for everything you do flows from it.

Proverbs 4:19-23

Remember:Imagine these kids in their future. See them through the Father’s eyes … through God’s eyes.

Conclusion:BeWARE!21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

Matthew 10:21

Conclusion:BeWARE!The Little Children and Jesus13 People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. 14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.15 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” 16 And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

Mark 10:13-16

There are seemingly hopeless kids who later became influential and GODLY in their adulthood.

God bless the little children!

God bless us all!