Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go and Go That Way Too (Proverbs 22:6)

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Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go," but as parents, we must ensure we go that way too. As Christian parents, we want our children to see the Gospel in us through our lives and parenting, which means we must strive to live it out before our kids.

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00:00 Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go and Go That Way Too
12:07 Lesson 1: Resist temptation so you don’t see your sins in your children.
16:37 Lesson 2: Don’t let past sins prevent you from disciplining your children.
22:18 Lesson 3: Model what you want from your children.
39:59 Lesson 4: Tell your children you're a sinner.

Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go By Modeling What We Command

Here’s what makes us hypocrites: if we’re going to punish our children when they do something wrong, we must ensure we aren’t doing those things ourselves:

If we’re going to expect our children to do certain things, we need to make sure we’re doing those things.
If we expect our children to see the seriousness of their sins, we must also make sure we know the severity of our sins.
If there’s some spiritual fruit we want to see in our children’s lives, we better make sure our children know that fruit in our lives.
I want to explain this lesson by looking at a passage in Romans 2 that can apply to parenting. The first verse might sound a little confusing, so I will try to explain it in two parts…

Romans 2:1a Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge,

Paul says we’re inexcusable – or without excuse – when we judge others because we’re showing that we know what they’re doing is wrong. Therefore, we have no excuse when we do the same thing.

If we apply this to parenting, if we know it’s wrong for our children to do it, we better know it’s wrong for us to do it. This is what Jesus meant when He said:

Matthew 7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

These are probably the most misunderstood verses in the entire bible. People love to quote these words like you can never say anything wrong. But that’s not what Jesus was saying! He said if you judge something as bad, make sure you’re not doing it yourself because you will be judged with the same standard you use in judging others.

To apply this to parenting, if you think something is a sin in your children’s lives, you better think it’s a sin in your life. If you believe your children shouldn’t be doing something, you must ensure you don’t do it. You tell your child, “Hey, stop your whining!” Then you walk around the house all day complaining about the weather, your job, neighbors, friends, or spouse. If we do this, what will our children think when they get older and look back on how we acted as parents? They’re going to believe we are hypocrites!

Romans 2:1b for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

Paul says you condemn yourself because you say others shouldn’t do things, but then you practice the same things. Again, taking it back to parenting, disciplining our children means punishing them for behaviors we’ve said are wrong. But if we discipline our children for something WE DO, our children will think we’re hypocrites. Continuing in Matthew 7:

Matthew 7:3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye (or you could say your child’s eye), but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother (or how can you say to your child), ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s (or child’s) eye.

Jesus isn’t telling us NOT to take the speck out of someone else’s – or our child’s – eye, in fact He tell us TO REMOVE it. But He says first to ensure the speck is removed from our eye.

Let me share something that has occurred with Katie and me. There have been times when we have been frustrated with our children only to sit back and hones...