Teaching God's Commandments To Children

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Deuteronomy 6:7-9

Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Matthew 10:14

We believe in the eternality of the Law (Matthew 5:18).

We also understand that the Law was not given as a means to righteousness before God (Romans 3:20, 10:3, Acts 13:39) but as a rule for living (Romans 7:10) as established by God. Adam by sin forfeited the benefits of the covenant of works (Genesis 1:28), and instead earned its curses (Genesis 3:17), Christ came by divine decree to accomplish the perfection demanded by the Law (Matthew 5:17), and redeem Adam's seed, by this we mean that seed that pertained to the woman's, the elect, by faith, from its curse (Galatians 3:13, Titus 2:14) Therefore by this we declare that Christ is the very righteousness of God (John 14:6).

And where once we were hostile against the law of God (Romans 8:7), separated from God (1 Peter 2:9), Christ redeemed us yea not only (Revelation 5:9), but renewed us (2 Corinthians 5:17), and aligned us once and for all to conform  to the very same Law (Romans 3:31). The Law is good (1Timothy 1:8), because the Giver of the Law is good (Matthew 5:18). It is spiritual, as it is holy. (Romans 7:12, 14)

This is the skin of what we are pleading to teach these precious children, whom on any given day you would hear cursing each other like adults. But God hath clearly endeared us to them leading up to this. They instantly go silent, or tone down, once they see us looking at them, or as they pass by our house. 

Alas, most parents teach nothing about God to their children except the usual prayer before meals. The diligent imparting of true doctrine is critical in raising up the next generation who would come to know and worship the Creator of all in the way that is pleasing to the Almighty.

 

The recitation of the Decalogue will be a staple each week. Catechism will be taught, but the kind that is made for children to understand. The Puritans were insistent and intentional when they implemented family worship and catechism in their homes every morning and evening. And it is only proper that this is also where we start.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the families that call not on your name,
Jeremiah 10:25

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment;
Genesis 18:19