You, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4)
Tell your children about it. Let your children tell their children, and their children, and another generation. (Joel 1:3)
Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
…what we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from our children. Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. He has established a testimony in Jacob. And appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; that the generation to come might know them. The children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children. That they may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments. (Psalm 78:1-7)
We, clearly, are under instruction to teach our children about the laws our God has established, His love and compassion, the power of our God and the wondrous truth about the death and resurrection of Jesus
We can do that by bringing them to church on Sunday where they can see other children and adults singing praise to God – and hear the Word of God in the children and youth ministry. We, essentially, can immerse them in a GOD atmosphere on Sunday….and that’s a good thing.
However, the Bible expands that thought to include the home life of the children. The book of Ephesians speaks to You Fathers; and the book of Joel says: Tell your children. Basically, we are asked to actively participate in teaching our children about God, the Father; and about Jesus Christ – the Messiah – who went to the cross and shed His blood to pay the price for our sin.
Why are we given this duty?King David tells us in Psalm 78: That they [our children] may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments. That is our goal. If we tell our children – and we ask them to tell their children – then the truth about God; and the truth about salvation through the death and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ, will be remembered and relevant and alive throughout all Generations of our Descendants.