Can Disciplining My Child Provoke Them To Disobedience?

FamilyParenting

Can Disciplining My Child Provoke Them To Disobedience?

25 min

FamilyParenting

Can Disciplining My Child Provoke Them To Disobedience?

25 min

Episode 536 Show Notes

From the Show

In parenting, we don’t let our own frustrations bleed through and as a result respond harshly, sinfully toward our children. I think when we do, that’s when we begin to provoke them. And it has a negative and adverse effect.

–Adriel Sanchez

Questions in this Episode

1. I accepted Jesus many years ago, but I still sin. How will I make it to heaven when I still sin? I do not always perfectly obey. What if I am not close enough to God? I am still sinful. What if I don’t read my Bible and pray enough; or have enough good works?

2. What does Paul mean by “my gospel”in 2 Timothy?

3. In Ephesians 6:4, Paul tells fathers not to provoke their children. What does this look like? How do I know I’m provoking my child instead of disciplining and instructing them?

4. In 2 Corinthians 5:21, what does it mean that Christ became sin? Other places in Scripture affirm Jesus was sinless, and that he was God, so I am having a hard time understanding what Paul is trying to say here.

Resources

Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing The Heart Of The Gospel by Michael Horton

Devoted to God: Blueprints for Sanctification by Sinclair B. Ferguson

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Michael Horton (Ph.D., Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Coventry University) is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California and Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Sola Media.

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