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Doodle Bible School
Lesson 11
Were you able to watch the entire lesson?
1. What is the theme of Numbers 15?
2. Can you doodle the picture clue?
3. What color of cord were they supposed to put on the tassels? (15:38)
4. Can you quote the memory verse?
5. Where we they supposed to place the tassels? (15:38)
6. How long were they to keep this command? (15:38)
7. What was the purpose of the tassels? (15:39)
8. What was the intended result of the tassels? (15:40)
9. God commonly reminds them that He brought them out of where? (15:40)
10. What do you do to remind yourself of God’s commands?
Application Sermon Questions
Lesson 11
Were you able to watch the entire lesson?
1. What later passage expands on the idea of tangible reminders?
2. What was the first point of this lesson? (Deuteronomy 6:7)
3. What New Testament passage supports the first point?
4. What was the second point of this lesson? (Deuteronomy 6:8)
5. What was the third point of this lesson? (Deuteronomy 6:9)
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Home Church Worship Guide – Numbers 15
The Joy of Doodling Assignment
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Reading Assignment
Lesson 11
Roles Within the Home:
Husband, Wife, Parent
The Role of a Husband
It was 2:00 a.m. when Mrs. Smith thought she heard a prowler in the living room. “Tiptoe downstairs,” she told her husband. “Don’t turn on the lights. Maybe you can sneak up on him before he knows what is happening.”
Dutifully, Mr. Smith put on his robe and grabbed a baseball bat from the closet. Just as he reached the bedroom door, his wife added, “And when you come back, bring me a glass of milk.”
Experts suggest that conflict over roles in the family is a leading cause of divorce. As head of the house (Ephesians 5:22-33), it is the husband’s responsibility to make sure these roles are clearly understood and executed.
Since the time of Adam, a man’s primary responsibility to his family has been to go out and bring things in and a woman’s primary responsibility to her family has been to go in and bring things out. In I Timothy 5:8, God gives a stern warning to men who fail to provide. “If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” God classifies the person who refuses to provide for his own family as one who has “denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” Men must provide.
Most hard-working Christian men become very angry when they hear stories about other men who lazily refuse to provide for their family. Yet sadly, these same Christian men hardly react to stories of men who refuse to provide for their family’s spiritual wealth.
In I Corinthians 14:34-35, Paul says that men are to be the spiritual instructors of their wives. If women want to “inquire about something,” they are to “ask their own husbands at home.” Men must provide more than just physical security. Men must provide their wives with spiritual wealth.
Perhaps, the greatest spiritual gift a man can give to his wife is the opportunity to fulfill her own God-given role within the home. God has called her to be a homemaker (Titus 2:3-5), but materialism often threatens her ability to complete this assignment. If Christian men will reclaim their role as head of the family, they then can trim away all unnecessary luxuries and a woman’s need to work outside the home will most likely become unnecessary. Wives will then be free to be “busy at home” (Titus 2:5) and complement their husband’s responsibility to bring up the children “in the training and instruction of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4)
Christian men simply must throw off the chains of materialism and worldly priorities and again claim their God-given position as provider and head of the family. Someday, men everywhere will stand before God and give an answer for the way they have encouraged or discouraged their family’s spiritual development. Nothing should be more important to a man than his family’s spiritual well-being. His children and wife may die penniless, but if they spend eternity with God, he has been a success. On the other hand, his wife and children may become wealthy, powerful, and famous, but if they miss Heaven, he is a failure and God will require an answer for his mismanagement.
The Role of a Wife
An aging man called the Social Security office to inquire about his wife’s benefits after retirement. “She has worked all her life to make me happy,” explained the man. “That’s nice,” said the government worker, “but has she ever worked under the Social Security system?”
“No” said the elderly gentleman. “We made an agreement when we got married. I would make the living and she would make the living worthwhile.”
In Titus 2:3-5, the Holy Spirit sets forth a formula that defines a woman’s role in the family and promotes a society in which God is honored. “…teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind and to be subject to their own husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.”
The Greek text translated “busy at home,” in verse 5, is defined by W.E. Vines as “working at home…watching or keeping the home.” Perhaps the greatest insult one could ever use against a homemaker is to suggest that she does not work, has no initiative, or lacks ambition to pursue her own career. Being “busy at home” is her career. The greatest, most honorable career a woman can ever have is to be a homemaker. Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance defines this Greek text as “a stayer at home, i.e. domestically inclined.” He also suggests that this text is closely associated with another Greek word that means “guard.” In other words, God has called women to make a career out of homemaking and guarding this institution as one who is responsible for its wellbeing.
Is it wrong for a woman to work outside the home? Not always! However, throughout history, God’s primary role for men and women has remained constant. Since the time of Adam, a man’s primary responsibility to his family has been to go out and bring things in. Since the time of Eve, the woman’s primary responsibility to her family has been to go in and bring things out. We see from Proverbs 31:10-31 that a woman who creates a secure God-centered home is a woman whose “children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her”.
But being “busy at home” does not just refer to the rearing of children. According to this passage, it is also the woman’s role to guard the home and herself for her husband. Every week, many working couples spend more of their waking hours with someone else’s spouse, while on the job, than they do with their own spouse, while in the home. Is it any wonder that adultery is at epidemic levels in our nation? Since God gave women the assignment of being homemakers, every Christian woman should strive to guard that home and provide a place to which her husband will always want to come. Her home should be a place of solace, shelter, and peace. It should be free from materialistic clutter yet filled with spiritual harmony. Her home should be an expression of love to her husband and worship to her God.
The Role of a Parent
The little boy rushed into the living room and excitedly asked his father, “Dad, how much do you make an hour?” Agitated at being interrupted from reading the evening newspaper, the man growled, “Oh, I don’t know! About $12 an hour!”
At that, the boy walked out of the living room and up the stairs to his bedroom.
Moments later, the father was again interrupted by a loud crash on the bedroom floor above him. Angrily, he stomped up the steps to investigate. When he reached the boy’s room, he found his son sitting in the middle of a pile of change and broken pieces from his piggy bank. “Son! What are you doing?” asked the father in an angry tone. The boy answered, “I’m trying to see if I have $12 so you can spend an hour with me.”
The average child in America today spends more of their waking hours in an institution than they do with their own parents. The popularity of non-parent childcare is exploding across the nation. According to ABC News, over 60% of four-year-olds are already in some form of daycare. Many are rushing their children into the arms of near strangers because they have been convinced that two salaries are necessary to survive in today’s world. Is it a necessity or is it materialism? Many families require two salaries, not because they have too many needs, but because they have too many wants.
Too many parents have embraced Satan’s politically correct propaganda that “quality time” is enough to rear a child properly. But true quality time cannot easily be scheduled or fit neatly into a space on your planner. Real quality time comes as a result of life and using unexpected opportunities to train children how to live. It comes when they watch dad change a lightbulb in the kitchen or when they see mom react to stubbing her toe while taking a walk. Quality moments happen while rinsing shampoo from a child’s hair or while tying up a trash bag that is too big for one person to handle. Life is the training ground and parents have access to this training facility for only a few short years. Do not waste this precious time by chasing after materialism!
The greatest gift you can give your child is you. Your presence is essential. Make sacrifices to be together. Fathers should choose to work less over time so they can have more family time. Mothers should choose to stay at home so children will have a parent to come home to. If you use childcare because you believe that a two-salary income is the only way to get the bills paid, please take time right now to consider the following questions. How much of the second parent’s salary is used up paying for the baby-sitter, for the extra fuel to reach the childcare provider and then to reach the job, for the extra vehicle (bank note, repairs, license, insurance, etc.), for extra work suits and shoes, for meals out during lunch break, etc.? When all the expenses are finally taken into account, one finds that the second parent’s job must pay extremely well in order for it to be worth having at all. And, even if it does provide a good profit margin, one still has to wonder if the money is worth having since both parents are forced to be away from the home in order to earn it.
Absolutely nothing is more important than the spiritual well-being of your family. Men and women must return to their God-given roles within the home. Fathers must be providers and mothers must be homemakers. Your child may have straight A’s, be named homecoming queen, or be voted most likely to succeed, but if they miss Heaven because of your lack of parenting, you are a failure. Plan for eternity. Make sacrifices now to ensure that you will be together then.
Marital Blissters Questions
Lesson 11
1. Besides Bible study, make a list of three other things a husband can do to help his wife grow spiritually. (1 Corinthians 14:34)
2. Do you agree or disagree with this statement: “The greatest spiritual gift a man can give to his wife is the opportunity to fulfill her own God-given role within the home”? Why? (Titus 2:3-5; Ephesians 6:4)
3. How do each of the following terms relate to a wife’s relationship to her husband? (Titus 2:3-5)
self-controlled
pure
busy at home
kind
subject
4. What is the significance of the phrase, “so that no one will malign the word of God,” and how does this phrase relate to a woman’s role as a wife? (Titus 2:5)
5. Define the word “respect” and give three examples. How does a parent teach respect? (1 Timothy 3:4)