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Dt6 9 Transm Spiritual Inher

1) The document discusses the importance of passing on spiritual teachings and faith to children as commanded in Deuteronomy 6:3-9. 2) Parents are told to discuss God, his commands, and their faith when at home, on walks, in the morning and evening. 3) They are to model Godly behavior through their actions and thoughts so that their faith marks their children. 4) The example of Jochebed preparing Moses spiritually through faith despite dangers exemplifies transmitting spiritual inheritance.

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Dt6 9 Transm Spiritual Inher

1) The document discusses the importance of passing on spiritual teachings and faith to children as commanded in Deuteronomy 6:3-9. 2) Parents are told to discuss God, his commands, and their faith when at home, on walks, in the morning and evening. 3) They are to model Godly behavior through their actions and thoughts so that their faith marks their children. 4) The example of Jochebed preparing Moses spiritually through faith despite dangers exemplifies transmitting spiritual inheritance.

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MARANATHA CHRISTIAN CHURCH – FROM THE PRESBYTERY IN BRAZIL

Transmission of the Spiritual Inheritance to Our Children _


Deuteronomy 6:3-9
"Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with
milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give
you today are to be upon your hearts. 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. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your
foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."

In verses 3-6 we read: "Hear that it may go well with you…" (v3); "The Lord our God, the Lord is One…" (v4); "Love
the Lord your God…" (v5); and "These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts." (v6).
Which commandments are to be upon our hearts? To love the Lord, our only Lord, with all our heart and
understanding. In verse 7 we also read that "Those same commandments we must diligently transmit to our
children." We are told to do this when we:

a. "When you sit at home": That is the moment when we stop to talk to our children about the Lord, about His
Work, about His power. That is when we show that the Lord has always the best for us. That is when we talk about
the "means of grace" (fastings, early dawn prayers, etc), when we tell our experiences with the Lord.

b. "When you walk along the road": Even when we are away from home, with our loved ones, we talk about the
Lord. What we understand is that we can't miss any opportunity to speak about the enormity and the love of the Lord.
And this must be done tenderly (Zech 4:6 "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD").

c. "When you lie down and when you get up": In the morning and at night. Those are the moments to pray with
them. Bringing their needs to the presence of the Lord. Many are the little ones and our prayers need to be short and
direct, so they can happily participate in them.

In verse 8 we read about the "…Symbols on your hands" which speaks of how our hands stand for
our work. In everything we do must be a testimony of the presence of the Lord. This will mark our children.
Continuing in this verse we also read "…bind them on your foreheads" which shows how all our thoughts and mind
must be in the Lord. We must be careful with what we see and think (pleading for the Blood of Jesus).

In verse 9 we also are told to "Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." In the limits and
entrance of our homes must be the sign of our Lord. Everyone who enters will feel the presence of the Lord. In this
moment that we are living we can not forget the pleading for the Blood of Jesus when we leave home and when we
get back.

Regarding the Levite woman Jochebed (Moses' mother - Exodus 2:1; 6:20), we wanted to make a quick comment,
that in order for her to deliver her son from death, she had prepared a basket (Exodus 2:3). In order to prevent the
water from leaking in, she used tar and pitch (prayer and fasting). We live by miracles. Miraculously after releasing
the basket into the river the child Moses later comes back to her hands, so she could transmit the spiritual inheritance
to him. (Exodus 2:1-10, Hebrews 11:23-26) This child belonged to the people of God (not Egyptian). His God is a
living God, the only God. The Egyptian gods are dead gods, and he was aware of that. Moses later had a living
experience with the burning bush in the Sinai, when he heard God's voice. The result:
1. Moses went to Pharaoh's palace as son of the Pharaoh's daughter – Pharaoh's grandson.
2. In the natural order of things, he would be also Pharaoh in the future.
3. He lived there but rejected the position, wealth and power. Rejected all the human glory that surrounded him.
4. He was sure that he was a Hebrew - a servant of the living God. An inheritance received from his mother, that was
well alive in his heart.

Later in Judges 2:8-9, after the events of the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt, after they reached the
promised land, after Moses and Joshua had died, there "Arose a generation that did not know the Lord." This was a
generation that did not receive this inheritance. Battles and failures for Israel were the result of a generation that did
not know the Lord.
In the New Testament we read in 2 Tim 1:5; 3:14-15 the name of youths such as Timothy who did receive this
inheritance. The apostle Paul describes this fact in his second letter addressed to Timothy himself. Timothy's
inheritance was transmitted by his grandmother (Lois) and his mother (Eunice). Materialism and corruptible things
are earthly and will stay here. The Spiritual is eternal. We may acquire and enjoy material things, but what stays is
what is in our hearts and is kept as heavenly treasure that will warrant us the eternity. We must therefore create a
mentality of the Work of the Spirit in our children - is our duty, and the fruit of this work surely will come

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