Well, Galatians chapter 6, and there's no one visiting here for the first time or the 2nd time, so you all know then that we're doing a Verse by verse study through the book of Galatians and as we continue. In our study of this book, we come this morning to Galatians chapter 6 verse 11, and my goal this morning is to cover verses 11 through 17, and the title of the message, for lack of a better one, is see what large letters I am writing. See what large letters I am writing. I was pondering yesterday the fact that as a parent God has given to me and to all parents an amazing gift, and that is the ability to speak at various levels of volume to our children, and we get to make those decisions over what volume level is necessary given the circumstances that we are confronted.
with our children may not appreciate that particular ability or capacity that God has given to us, but nonetheless it is essential if your child is playing in the street and it's time to come in for dinner and there's no urgency, you might go out front and calmly say to your child and say, Billy, it is time to come in and eat, so come inside and get your hands washed and be ready for dinner. However, if you see your child playing in the street and there is a car that is hurtling down the street towards your child very rapidly, you certainly would not say, Billy, it's time to get off of the street because there is a car that is speeding towards you very rapidly and it just might kill you if you don't get off the street. No, you would not speak calmly. You would deliver an exclamation.
You would raise your voice. In order to arrest your child's attention from whatever it is that they are doing so that they would sense the urgency of the moment and respond immediately. And also, ideally, our children should obey whenever we give them a command the first time. That is the ideal.
That's actually how we should train our children. We should train our children to obey when we give a command without raising our voice, right? However, in the course of parenting, it is inevitable that we give a command to our children. For example, we say get upstairs and go to bed....
