(Ephesians 6:4)

 

Parorgizō: “to anger alongside, i.e. enrage: anger, provoke to wrath”  

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” 

 

I. Don’t Anger the Kids to Exasperation

1. Luke 4:22-30

2. Acts 19:24-32

 

II. Discipline (The shaping of the will through training)

1. Hebrews 12:5-11

2. 2 Timothy 3:16

 

III. Instruction (The shaping of the mind through teaching)

1. 1 Corinthians 10:11

2. Titus 3:10

 

IV. Epilogue –– Keep your Eyes on the Prize

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it(Proverbs 22:6)