Inculcate God’s words and speak of them

6 These words that I am commanding you today must be on your heart, 7 and you must inculcate them in* your sons+ and speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.+ .—Deut. 6:6-7.

6 And these words that I am commanding you today must prove to be on your heart;+ 7 and you must inculcate them in your son+ and speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down+ and when you get up.(Ref.B.)

inculcate them in: Or “repeat them to; impress them upon.”

your sons:

• Genesis 18:19: 19 For I have come to know him in order that he may command his sons and his household after him to keep Jehovah’s way by doing what is right and just,+ so that Jehovah may bring about what he has promised concerning Abraham.”

• Deuteronomy 4:9: 9 “Just be careful and watch yourself closely,* so that you may not forget the things that your eyes have seen and so that they may not depart from your heart all the days of your life. You must also make them known to your sons and to your grandsons.+

• Proverbs 22:6: 6 Train a boy* in the way he should go;+ Even when he grows old he will not depart from it.+

• Ephesians 6:4: 4 And fathers, do not be irritating your children,+ but go on bringing them up in the discipline+ and admonition* of Jehovah.*+
• Proverbs 13:24: 24 Whoever holds back his rod* hates his son,+ But the one who loves him disciplines him diligently.*+
• Proverbs 19:18: 18 Discipline your son while there is hope,+ And do not become responsible for* his death.+
• Proverbs 22:15: 15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a boy,*+ But the rod of discipline will remove it far from him.+
• Hebrews 12:6: 6 for those whom Jehovah* loves he disciplines, in fact, he scourges* everyone whom he receives as a son.”+

when you lie down and when you get up:

• Deuteronomy 11:19: 19 Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.+

Generally, children love their parents, and parents love their children. This is especially true in Christian households.

Although parents and children yearn to be close to one another, communication is sometimes difficult. Many families find that it is challenging to have enough time for meaningful communication. That was not always the case. In ancient Israel, children spent the day either with their mother at home or with their father in the fields or at his workplace. There was plenty of time for children and parents to be together and converse. Consequently, parents were in a position to get to know the needs, desires, and personality of their children. Likewise, there was time and sufficient opportunity for children to get to know their parents well. How different life is today! w13 5/15 4:2-4

Keep the Lines of Communication Open

It is important that children early on become accustomed to communicating with their parents. Otherwise, when the children are adolescents and perhaps face problems, they will not think of their parents as friends whom they can talk to.

How can you help them to open their hearts? (Proverbs 20:5) says:

“Counsel in the heart of a man is as deep waters, but the man of discernment is one that will draw it up.”

By using viewpoint questions, such as “What do you think?” parents can encourage their children to express their thoughts and feelings.

What will you do if your child makes a serious mistake? That is the time when he needs kind consideration. Control your emotions while you listen to your child. A father says this about his way of dealing with such a situation:

“When the children make mistakes, I try not to overreact. I sit down and listen to what they have to say. I try to grasp the situation. When I find it difficult to control my spirit, I wait a while and calm down.”

If you control your emotions and listen, the correction you give will more readily be accepted.

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In other languages:

Gods woorden inscherpen en erover spreken

God se woorde inskerp en daaroor praat

Gottes Worte einschärfen und davon reden

Inculques les paroles de Jéhovah et en parles

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Additional reading:

1. Exhortation -Exhortatie of uiteenzetting
2. Foundation to go the distance
3. Control and change
4. Malefactors becoming your master
5. Be ye angry and sin not
6. Patience is the ability to count down before blasting off
7. He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger
8. Illusion of control
9. How to make sustainable, green habits second nature

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Further reading:

• Consideration
• Overthinking
• Fret Not Who? – Don’t Trip What
• Always give con…
• I Don’t Care About Your Sexual Orientation And Neither Should Anyone Else
• What Really Grinds My Gears [2]

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Jehovah can make him stand

4 Who are you to judge the servant of another?+ To his own master he stands or falls.+ Indeed, he will be made to stand, for Jehovah* can make him stand. (Romans 14:4)

4 Who are you to judge the house servant of another?+ To his own master he stands or falls.+ Indeed, he will be made to stand, for Jehovah* can make him stand.+

to judge the servant of another:

• Matthew 7:1: 7 “Stop judging+ that YOU may not be judged;
• James 4:11-12: 11 Quit speaking against one another, brothers.+ He who speaks against a brother or judges+ his brother speaks against law and judges law. Now if you judge law, you are, not a doer of law, but a judge.+ 12 One there is that is lawgiver and judge,+ he who is able to save and to destroy.+ But you, who are you to be judging [your] neighbor?+
• Luke 6:37: 37 “Moreover, stop judging, and YOU will by no means be judged;+ and stop condemning, and YOU will by no means be condemned. Keep on releasing, and YOU will be released.+
• Romans 2:1: 2 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man,+ whoever you are, if you judge;+ for in the thing in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, inasmuch as you that judge+ practice the same things.+
• Romans 14:10: 10 But why do you judge your brother?+ Or why do you also look down on your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment+ seat of God;
• Romans 14:13: 13 Therefore let us not be judging+ one another any longer, but rather make this YOUR decision,+ not to put before a brother+ a stumbling block+ or a cause for tripping.
• 1 Corinthians 4:5: 5 Hence do not judge+ anything before the due time, until the Lord comes,+ who will both bring the secret things of darkness to light+ and make the counsels of the hearts manifest,+ and then each one will have his praise come to him* from God.+
• Isaiah 33:22: 22 For Jehovah is our Judge,+ Jehovah is our Statute-giver,+ Jehovah is our King;+ he himself will save us.+
• Genesis 18:25: 25 It is unthinkable of you that you are acting in this manner to put to death the righteous man with the wicked one so that it has to occur with the righteous man as it does with the wicked!+ It is unthinkable of you.+ Is the Judge of all the earth not going to do what is right?”+
• Psalm 9:16: 16 Jehovah is known by the judgment that he has executed.+ By the activity of his own hands the wicked one has been ensnared.*+ Hig·gaʹion.* Seʹlah.
• Psalm 50:6: 6 And the heavens tell of his righteousness,+ For God himself is Judge.*+ Seʹlah.
• Psalm 58:11: 11 And mankind will say:+ “Surely there is fruitage for the righteous one.+ Surely there exists a God that is judging* in the earth.”+
• Psalm 75:7: 7 For God is the judge.+ This one he abases, and that one he exalts.+
• Psalm 98:9: 9 Before Jehovah, for he has come to judge the earth.+ He will judge the productive land with righteousness+ And the peoples with uprightness.+
• Hebrews 10:30: 30 For we know him that said: “Vengeance is mine; I will recompense”;*+ and again: “Jehovah* will judge his people.”+

he stands or falls:

• 1 Corinthians 4:4: 4 For I am not conscious+ of anything against myself. Yet by this I am not proved righteous, but he that examines me is Jehovah.*+
• Proverbs 21:2: 2 Every way of a man is upright in his own eyes,+ but Jehovah is making an estimate of hearts.+
• Romans 14:10: 10 But why do you judge your brother?+ Or why do you also look down on your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment+ seat of God;
• Hebrews 4:13: 13 And there is not a creation that is not manifest to his sight,+ but all things are naked and openly exposed to the eyes of him with whom we have an accounting.+
• Acts 10:42: 42 Also, he ordered us to preach+ to the people and to give a thorough witness that this is the One decreed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.+
• Acts 17:31: 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge+ the inhabited earth* in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee* to all men in that he has resurrected+ him from the dead.”
• 2 Corinthians 5:10: 10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of the Christ,+ that each one may get his award for the things done through the body, according to the things he has practiced, whether it is good or vile.+

for Jehovah {“Jehovah,” J^18,23; P⁴⁶אABC(Gr.), ho Kyʹri·os; DVgSy^h, “God.”} can make him stand:

• Jeremiah 35:19: 19 therefore this is what Jehovah of armies, the God of Israel, has said: “There will not be cut off from Jonʹa·dab the son of Reʹchab a man to stand*+ before me always.”’”*+
• Psalm 5:5:  5 No boasters may take their stand in front of your eyes.+ You do hate all those practicing what is hurtful;+
• Jeremiah 15:19: 19 Therefore this is what Jehovah has said: “If you will come back, then I shall bring you back.+ Before me you will stand.+ And if you will bring forth what is precious from valueless things, you will become like my own mouth. They themselves will come back to you, but you yourself will not come back to them.”
• Luke 21:36: 36 Keep awake,+ then, all the time making supplication+ that YOU may succeed in escaping all these things that are destined to occur, and in standing before the Son of man.”+
  Jehovah can make him stand.—Rom. 14:4.

God’s evaluation of us is what counts. Jehovah values our devotion and faithfulness to him; he does not measure us by our accomplishments. And it could well be that you have accomplished more for Jehovah than you realize. There likely are ones in the congregation whom you have affected for good, as well as those in the territory who have been exposed to the truth through your efforts. View each assignment from Jehovah as proof that he is with you. (Jer. 20:11) You might be discouraged because your service seems fruitless or because some spiritual goal seems unattainable. Yet, you still share the greatest privilege that any of us can now have—that of preaching the good news and bearing God’s name. Remain faithful. Then, in a sense, the words in one of Jesus’ parables can be said to you:

“Enter into the joy of your master.”—Matt. 25:23.

w14 3/15 2:17, 18

Saam sterk verenig in die deel met mekaar van die Waarheid van God, vol durf om daar op uit te trek om die Goeie Nuus te verkondig – samen sterk in de verkondiging van het Goede Nieuws en bekendmaking van Gods Heilige Naam en Zijn Plan van wereldvrede – Together people can be strong witnessing in the Holy Name of the One True God, the God of Israel, who has a plan with the world and takes care of His people

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Preceding:

Words to push and pull

Belonging to or being judged by

Different approach in organisation of services #3

Our openness to being approachable

Good or bad preacher

Jéhovah peut le faire tenir debout

Jehova kann veranlassen, dass er steht

Jehovah kan hem staande houden

Jehovah kan hom staande hou

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Additional reading:

1. The Right One to follow and to worship
2. Jehovah steep rock and fortress, source of insight
3. Our relationship with God, Jesus and each other
4. Incomplete without the mind of God
5. The possibilities of faith: A Faith that can move mountains
6. God’s hope and our hope
7. Working of the hope
8. God’s salvation
9. Atonement And Fellowship 4/8
10. Salvation, trust and action in Jesus #3 as a Christian
11. Hope for the future
12. Reasons to come together
13. A Living Faith #3 Faith put into action
14. Necessity of a revelation of creation 10 Instructions for insight and wisdom
15. Preaching to an unbelieving world
16. Proclaiming shalom, bringing good news of good things, announcing salvation
17. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #5 Prayer #2 Witnessing
18. Looking for True Spirituality 7 Preaching of the Good News
19. Missionary action paradigm for all endeavours of the church
20. Not all ability to preach
21. Breathing to teach
22. Looking for a shepherd for the sheep and goats
23. Perishable non theologians daring to go out to preach
24. Using the name Jehovah but not a witness of that name
25. To remove the whitewash of the Jehovah Witnesses as being the only true Bible Students and Bible Researchers
26. How to Choose a Bible for Preaching
27. Fools despise wisdom and instruction
28. It is Today
29. When discouraged facing opposition
30. A Society pleading poverty
31. What Should I Preach ? + What Should I Preach ?
32. How should we preach?
33. Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism
34. Manifests for believers #5 Christian Union
35. Those who love Jesus
36. Biblereading statue
37. Holland Week of billing

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