Genesis chapter 18 verse number 19, God speaks and He speaks about a man like you and me. And He says about him, I know him. You know that God knows every one of us. Every one of us He knows inside out. He knows what's on our thoughts far off. He knows what's down inside. He knows our motives. He knows what drives us every day. He knows our sins of our heart that nobody sees. He knows our secrets. He knows everything. about us. In this series on Sure Foundations for the Home, we have learned about life's greatest foundation. We learned that last Sunday morning, and life's greatest foundation is Jesus Christ. On Sunday night, we looked at a family life verse in Ephesians 4, verses 1 through 3, and identified five foundational qualities that are needed in order for us to walk worthy of our calling in our homes. This morning as we continue, Sure Foundations in the Home, I want to preach on this thought, the chain of command. And this will be part one. I'll preach part two of the series this evening in the evening service. Our text oftentimes is overlooked in Scripture. It lies between the announcement of the child Sarah is going to have and it lies between when God says, I'm going to pour out judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah. But between those two events in Abraham's life, there's a small verse in verse number 19 that says, for I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him. Anyone who has read about Abraham knows that he was not a perfect man. None of us are. Neither was he a sinless man. He was a deeply flawed man as the best of men are. But by this time in his life, he had shown something to the Lord that the Lord was confident in about him. And the Lord testifies of his confidence in this verse, verse number 19, for I know him. Notice the position that Abraham held in this passage. He was the head of a household. He was the man of the home. We live in an era where men are brainwashed into believing lies about what God's men are supposed to be like and about what fathers are supposed to be like. We live in an era where men are pushed around and shoved into the back seat, so to speak, while the wife and children take the front seat and take over the steering wheel of the family, when God put man in the home to lead the home. The family begins with the man. Turn in your Bibles to 1 Corinthians 11 as we look at the chain of command in the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 11, and I want you to look at verse 3. In 1 Corinthians 11, verse number 3, the Bible says, and Paul's teaching on structure here. He's teaching on the chain of command in the home. And he says this, but I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ. And so man, and men here this morning, you need to understand you have an authority. And that authority in your life is Christ. He is the head of the man, the Bible says. and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. Man is given a position of authority in the home, and gentlemen, that's a big deal, because wherever authority is given, responsibility comes with it. Accountability comes with it. Maybe you're a lady here and you say, boy, I just wish I could be a man so that I could be an authority. Listen, it's not always fun to be an authority. Authority demands responsibility and accountability. It means that you're going to be held for how you use that authority that God has given to you to manage. The man of the home is the authority of the home. His plan here through Abraham was to bless the world through the man of the home, the father, the husband, Abraham. Throughout Genesis we see that phrase that through Abraham shall all families of the earth be blessed. Turn to Genesis chapter 2. Genesis chapter 2 and look at verse number 15. The Lord took man and He created man first and in verse number 15 He took the man and He put Him in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. God did not create man without responsibility. From the very beginning of man's creation, God created man with responsibility. In verse number 16, the Lord commanded the man, saying, that's God showing His authority. He's commanding him. He says, "...I commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." God didn't give Eve that command. God gave Adam that command. Evidently, it never got transferred. Evidently, Adam didn't do his job in transferring it to Eve or the importance of it that she would keep it. God gave man that command. And the Lord said, it is not good, verse number 18, that man should be alone. I will make him and help me for him. And Adam names the cattle and the fowls of the air in this passage. All of those things God gave man. When He created man, He gave him responsibility. And then He gave him the responsibility of a wife. In this passage, it opens up and God put Adam into a deep sleep, took a rib out of him and created woman. She was made for man. I want to give you four thoughts on the chain of command as I speak primarily to men this morning and young men in our church. I want you to understand this morning that I believe a man ought to be a loving husband. I believe he ought to be a loving father. I believe that he ought to be an example and be tender and sensitive to the needs of his household. However, I'm not going to park on those things this morning. I'm going to park on the aspects of man that are more difficult in leadership as we look at the chain of command in the Scriptures regarding the man. This foundation is important to the home being what it should be. If we don't get this foundation right, gentlemen, then our foundation in the home is cracked The footers aren't set right and there's going to be trouble if we don't fulfill our role as the man of the home. First of all, the man of the home is a decision maker. Turn to Joshua chapter 24 and verse number 15. Joshua chapter 24 and verse number 15, the man of the home is a decision maker. As the man of the home, you can choose for your family to serve the Lord and serve God or you can choose to serve the world, the pleasures of the world, the flesh, convenience, your own belly. You can serve yourself or you can choose to serve God. But the man of the home is to determine that. He's the one that's to be the decision maker. We are going, family, in this direction. Joshua chapter 24 and verse number 15. The Bible says, and if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day. And Joshua is speaking as a leader at this point. He is challenging the people of Israel. Hey, you choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your father served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell. And now he speaks as a parent, and now he speaks as a husband, and now he speaks as the man of his home. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." He could not make that choice for everybody in the land of Egypt. But He could make that choice as a leader and as the man of His home. As for my home, we have made the choice. I have made the choice. We are going to serve God. Whatever anybody else does, that's your choice. I challenge you, choose you this day whom you're going to serve. But I'm speaking as the man of my home. I'm speaking as the head of my household. And as the head of my household, I've made a decision. Our family is going to serve the Lord. That was Joshua's decision. Men must be decision-makers. In 1 Kings 18, verse 21, and Elijah came unto all the people and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him. But if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. The nation of Israel answered him not a word. Let me continue to straddle the fence and be silent. That was their answer. Gentlemen, that must not be our answer when it comes to our homes. There must be a man that gets off the fence and says, we're going to serve the Lord. We're not straddling the fence. We're not going to worship the gods of our culture. We are going to serve the Lord. As the man of the home that God put me in charge of, I am going to make a decision for my home. We're going this way. get off the fence. How long halts you between two opinions? Man, I challenge you this morning to be a decision maker. Sometimes we're too sensitive to everyone's opinion on matters that are important matters that matter in our spiritual lives and the spiritual lives of our children and our mates. Sometimes we're too sensitive on those matters. Sometimes we open our ears to too many opinions. Sometimes we need to plant our feet and say, we are going to do this as the leader of our home. I've been in contact with God and we're going to take this spiritual step. That's my job as a man. That's your job as a man. Your job is to say, as for me, and as for my house, We are going to serve the Lord. Don't leave all the decisions up to your wife and put her in the place of making the difficult decisions as to whether or not I should give my child this freedom, as to whether or not we're going to attend these functions, these services in the church. You don't leave those decisions up for grabs. As a man, you make those decisions. As a man, you say no or yes. A man's a decision-maker. We can't let life come to our family and present whatever it wants to our family, and we sit back in a chair and watch it all happen without being a decision-maker. Joshua was a decision-maker. If a home's going to be right, the chain of command must be right, and the man must be a leader. He must understand he has to make decisions. When it comes to family devotions, gentlemen, you make that decision. You don't wait on your wife to have it with the kids when they go to school in the morning. You step up to the plate. You say, this is important. I've got to teach my children. I'll make that decision. You make that decision. Abraham didn't preside over his family as a democracy. He was in charge. I don't believe the Bible is saying he was a dictator here. I don't believe the Bible was saying that he was a mean man. He just was in charge of his home. Gentlemen, if you're not willing to make decisions, you may make it clear you are not in charge of your home. Men that are in charge make decisions. They're decision makers. Don't leave the decision of your children's education up in the air. You make that decision. You look at the options. You determine before God, God, I want to educate my kids so that they grow up to live for You, so that they don't become people that are agnostics and people that deny God and people that believe in evolution and people that, I don't want that. I don't want my kids to turn out that way. God, I'm before You. What is the best mode of education for my kids as I'm thinking about raising my kids up and those decisions are coming. God, I've got to get before you and God, I've got to make a right decision before you on this matter. It's going to affect my kids' lives for the next number of years in their lives. God, this one's got to be right. I've got to make that decision. You get before God and you make that decision. That's not a decision you leave up in the air. Have some spiritual leadership, some discernment, some direction for your home. There are areas in which your wife can help you in decision-making. My wife has valuable insight. My wife has valuable wisdom on some things. She has things that I don't think of. She has things that are my blind spots that she can bring in front of me to cause me to think through. Listen, I'm not saying you throw everybody back here and throw them in a ditch somewhere. I'm just saying the decision comes down to you. You listen to that. You hear your wife and you talk through things. But then you make a decision before God. You get with God. You find out the decision to be made and you make the decision. Don't be indecisive. Don't be passive. Don't be silent. Don't let something go forever. Be a decision maker. The man of the home is a decision maker. Number two, the man of the home is a teacher. He's a teacher. Turn in your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 6. Deuteronomy chapter 6. The man of the home is a teacher. We must get the chain of command right. The chain of command here starts with the man of the home. He's under Christ, he's submissive to Christ and His Word, but then he leads the home. The man of the home is a teacher. Look at verse number 3 of Deuteronomy chapter 6. Here therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thine soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children. Thou shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the post of thy house, and on thy gates. Teachers, get this, can't teach unless they are getting from God what they need to be getting from God. Here God said this stuff, these words, which I command thee. Again, it starts with God commanding. and then we get those words in our heart, gentlemen, and when we get them in our heart, now we have the potential, now we have the opportunity, now we have the responsibility to transfer that, to train, to teach, and to do it diligently, the Bible says. Spurgeon said this in his day. I want you to hear these words carefully. I fear that the decline of family godliness, which is so sadly remarkable in these days, is the source of a great many of the crying sins of the age. The church of God at large would have been more separate from the world if the little church in each man's house had been more carefully trained for God." You know, Spurgeon was pointing back to the increasing ungodliness even within the church. And he said, if the little homes would have done a better job of carefully training We wouldn't have the rise of ungodliness that we have even in the church, he said. In Hosea chapter 14 and verse number 9, Who is wise, and he shall understand these things, prudent, and he shall know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them, but the transgressors shall fall therein. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them. but the transgressors shall fall therein." Did you know that 53 times in Proverbs the word way is used? You say, preacher, what do I teach? I have a responsibility to teach. You're saying the man of the home teaches. What am I responsible to teach? You're responsible to teach the right way. the right way. 53 times in Proverbs the word way is used. 28 times the word ways is used. Over 80 times in Proverbs, a book written to young people, over 80 times the word way or ways is used. There's a lot of study there. I'd like to begin it with you, fathers, this morning. Turn in your Bibles to Proverbs chapter 1, verse number 28. Say, preacher, what do I teach? You teach about wrong ways and you teach about right ways. That's what we find in the book of Proverbs. Solomon, the father, was teaching his son, and he was teaching his son about, here's a right way. And son, here's a wrong way. Stay away from this path. Go this way. This is a right way. Hey, don't go this way. That's the responsibility of the man of the home. In Proverbs 22 and verse number 6, it says, train up a child in the way he should go, and when he's old, he'll not depart from it. Train is not a suggestion. Train is an imperative. We have a responsibility to train and teach. Look at this first way in Proverbs chapter 1. Look at verse 28. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. For they that hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would not of my counsel, they despised all of my reproof. Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices." Gentlemen, you want to train your young people in your home? You need to train them about their own way. Their own way is going to get them in trouble. Their own way is going to bring them to a point in life where God is unresponsive to them. That's a bad place to be in life. That's a bad path to be upon. Your own way. Clearly laid out here in Proverbs chapter 1. We train, we teach, we expose them to this teaching. We use the scriptures to teach them. In Proverbs chapter 1 in verse number 10, go back to verse number 10. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Look at verse number 15. My son, walk not thou in the way with them. That means there's a group of people that are going to lead you down a wrong way. That's what he's saying here. And walk not in the way with them. Avoid them. They are going to appeal to you. They are going to look attractive, but resist that. Don't go in that way. There's a way that will destroy you, and it's with sinners. They have a way. Stay off that path. Stay off that way. Proverbs chapter 2 and verse number 12. Proverbs chapter 2 and verse number 12. It says, "...to deliver thee from the way of the evil man." There's a way, and the way described is the way of an evil man. How will I know that evil man, daddy? I'll tell you how you'll know him. You'll know him by his words. He will speak forward things. He will be crooked. He will not be an upright person. He will speak secretly. He will speak with wicked devices and wicked imaginations. That's how you'll know Him and stay away from Him. That's a way. And it'll take you down a path that will hurt you in your life. Be aware of this way. In Proverbs chapter 2 and verse number 20, he says that thou mayest walk in the way of good men. Oh, here's a right way. Son, I want you to walk in the way of good men. Let's identify some good men that you can walk after. The other night, we were dealing with, in our family time, controlling your spirit, an important principle in Scripture. And you know what? I opened it up and I said, kids, tell me some people in the church that have great control of their spirit. They named some names. And I said, wouldn't you like to be a part of that group? That if it came up that you controlled your own spirit, that your name came up, because your spirit's good, your spirit's clear, your spirit's free all the time. They identified some people with good spirits in the church. And I said, follow that. Get to know those people. They have something. They have a key to life. of controlling their spirit. Walk in their way. That's what Proverbs is saying here. Walk in that way. Find some good men. Walk in the ways of good men. In Proverbs 4, verse 11, he says, In Proverbs 4, verse 19, he comes back and talks about the way of the wicked. What is Solomon, the father, doing? He's pointing right ways and he's exposing wrong ways throughout the book of Proverbs. In Proverbs chapter 5, he talks about the way of the strange woman. Her ways are movable. Verse number 6, that thou canst not know them. Should I go down that way, dad? No. Remove thy way far from her. What was daddy doing? He was doing some training. He was diligent in some matters. Because he understood as the man of the home, I'm a teacher. I'm a trainer. Talks about the evil way in Proverbs 8 verse 13. Men, I want you to get this this morning. There are those who are calling your child to follow their ways. In the passage of Scripture, in Proverbs chapter 9. The Bible talks about wisdom, crying on the highest places, and the Bible uses the same terminology to talk about a strange woman calling on the highest places. What is that saying? That's saying this, gentlemen, leaders of your homes, there are opposites that are always calling for your children to follow their ways. And if you don't teach it and you don't train it and you don't show them the difference, chances are you're going to lose them to a bad way. In Proverbs chapter 9 and verse number 6, forsake the foolish and live and go in the way of understanding. These were probably difficult words. These were probably words that met this son at stages in his life where those calls were coming in every direction. But there was a daddy. There was a man of the home. that was saying, hey, hey, hey, hey, let me have your attention, son. I know there's this call over here, and I know there's this call over here, but I want you to understand wisdom is calling for your life. There is a path that you can follow. You can go the right path, but in order to do that, you have to constantly be pushing away other calls, other ways, other paths in your life in order to stay on the right one. That's your job. You're the teacher. You're the trainer. Proverbs 22 where it says, train up a child. The word train, there's an interesting word. It means to narrow. It means that my sons and my daughters have all of this to look at. And training means I take all that they have to look at and I narrow it. This is what I want you to get. This is the path to follow. This is the way. Gentlemen, if we don't do that, we're going to lose our kids to all kinds of ways. There must be a leader in the home that's a teacher and a trainer and is determined on that and sticks with that and stays at it even when things aren't going good in the home or in the children's lives. You just keep teaching. You just keep training. You just keep showing them the right way in their lives. The man of the home is a teacher. Part of training is bringing them up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord. You can't bring up children without nurture, disciplinary correction, chastening and admonition as part of your training. You have to call things to attention. You have to expose. You have to rebuke. You have to warn. Well, preacher, I just believe in all positive reinforcement. I don't want to hurt my child's self-esteem or give them a low self-image. The problem with your philosophy is it doesn't line up with Scripture because it says, Fathers, bring your children up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord. Those are negative things in order to train right things into them. That's part of teaching and training. Thirdly, the man of the home is a leader. He's a leader. Genesis chapter 18, if you go back there, I want to reread that verse in Genesis 18 verse 19. The Bible says, for I know him, that He will command His children and His household after Him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord." If these words had not been inspired by the Holy Spirit, we'd be inclined to dismiss them as legalistic and harmful, even abusive. A dad that commands? Are you kidding me? He has the right to command me? Yes, he does. In fact, I looked up the word command. You know what I found it means? Abraham was known for being a commander. He was known to be the kind of father who charged his children, who commanded his children, who ordered his children to do what he wanted them to do in the right direction of life. And by the way, he didn't just do it with his children, he did it with his household. Abraham had servants. He had people under him in his house that were not part of his family. Guess what? He commanded them the same way. The Bible says he commanded his children and his household. You say, preacher, it's probably all easy commands, right? No. No. In fact, if you look in chapter 17, Ishmael and all of his household were circumcised. That's not an easy command. But Abraham said, we're going to do it. It pleases God. In Genesis chapter 22, God said, take your son up to Moriah. We're going to offer a sacrifice. And Abraham got up in the morning. Servants, let's go. Son, Isaac, let's go. God was confident. I know Him. No matter the difficulty of the step spiritually, Abraham will command his household. He was a leader. It takes faith in God to lead in that way. It's not popular. It's certainly not popular in our society today as the television shows make mockery of the husbands and fathers of the home today. But a man of God that is a man of his home will command his home. He will be a leader. When it comes to sports, a father will Put pressure on his son, two practices a day, strict diet, proper hydration, watching game tape, learning from mistakes, cardio workouts, weight training. Come on, boy, give your all to it. Sunday rolls around and Johnny wants to stay home from evening church. Okay, son, rest up for next week's practice. That, my friend, will kill your son, spiritually. It'll kill him. Men of the home are integral to keeping the way of the Lord alive on earth. Look at verse number 19. For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. Gentlemen, do you understand the weight of this verse? We as men of our homes are a big part of helping to keep the way of the Lord on this wicked earth. Men of their homes are a big part of that. If we'll command our homes and our kids will follow and our wives will follow the ways of the Lord, we can help keep the ways of the Lord right on this earth. That's what a father does. That's what a head of a home does. Gentlemen, if you push your child in sports or something else, remember that there's just as much discipline needed to live for God as there is to be a good football player. We ought to be pushing in that realm. We ought to be pushing, hey son, make sure you get up early enough before you go to work. Make sure you're having your devotions. Hey, that's important. Well, I don't want to make my son do anything that he doesn't want to do. Don't send him into the military then. Commanding is part of the job. Charging is part of the job. It's to help instill habits. There are some things that I've been commanded to do as a child, and it didn't hurt me, even though my heart wasn't all the way there. I had somebody over me that loved me and was looking out for my direction and put some good things in that I'm glad he did. He commanded me. You know what? I got the heart later, but at least I got the habit. because somebody was working with me and instilling those things and working on those things in my life. God forbid that our kids would become everything great at everything else, but terrible as a Christian, terrible in their faithfulness, terrible in their commitments in life. God forbid that. But unless we have fathers that will lead and say, I've got to command some things, I've got to take charge, I've got to charge my kids in some things, my family in some things. And this is the chain of command that God has given us. I'm not talking about raising a boy who will drink the Kool-Aid. I'm not referring to raising mindless zombies whose every thought and action is controlled by an authoritarian or an oppressive dictator. I don't think Abraham was a maniac. I believe he loved his kids. I believe he loved his family. He just was firm where we're going, and He didn't let it go anywhere else. What's wrong with being a Christian? What's wrong with giving a kid a stern look, a strong reproof, a swift correction? What's wrong with being in charge? There's nothing wrong with that, my friend. All of those things are taught in the Scriptures, the responsibility of a father who's a leader. A man's the leader. Abraham was interested in the ways of the Lord flourishing in his family after he was in the grave. My kids got it. My kids will continue on the ways of the Lord. My grandchildren will be able to have that. Commanding is important to keeping. He will command, in the verse, they shall keep. God's confidence in Abraham was that he would command his children. and that they would keep. In contrast, Lot didn't do that. God couldn't speak the same words about Lot because Lot didn't command. Lot couldn't command because Lot's life wasn't right. There's a great contrast if you study those two. Lastly, I want to give you the man of the home as a restrainer. Turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 1 Samuel 3. Look at verse number 12. He's a decision-maker. He's a teacher. He's a leader. And He is a restrainer. Verse number 12, it says, in that day, I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house. When I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquities which he knoweth, because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not." Men of the home, part of the foundation, part of the chain of command, means that you are a restrainer. They hold the people in their home accountable for following the ways of God. Eli didn't do that. Eli was a priest. Eli was a leader in the church back then, if we could use that terminology, but he was not a restrainer. The man of the home is attentive to when someone gets out of line and he brings them back in line. That's a restrainer. A restrainer is, oh, somebody stepped outside the boundary, we got to bring them back in the boundary. When sin is in the home, the man of the home rises up to deal with it biblically, to confront it with scripture. to plead for repentance, to issue the consequences and reproof necessary to get the young person back on the right track. When a man of the home sees dangers, sees little deviations away from the truth, sees a slackness in commitment and responsibility, sees a loose tongue developing in one of his children, sees a wrong spirit, sees a standard slipping, the man of the home acts as a restrainer. At least he should. He should be able to say, whoa, whoa, stop, we've got to have a family session here. I've got to talk to you one-on-one about something here. We've got to get this right. Come on, son. Let's look at the Scriptures together. Pulls him back. Pulls that child back. Gentlemen, if we don't do this and we don't do this in the small things, there are going to come big things. that you're not going to pull them back from. You must be a restrainer and you must be a restrainer in the small things, in the little things. Eli, his kids got to a point where they made themselves vile. Vile is a strong word. Vile means completely, they've given themselves over completely morally to the world. and he restrained them not. I guarantee you there were steps that they were taking before they became vile. But Eli never went, whoa, Hophni and Phinehas, come here. We've got to put some boundary lines down. We've got to address some issues. Sons, you have hurt the name of God. You have hurt your family name. We've got to walk through these things. We've got to talk through these things. You've got to get this stuff right. You can't live your life like that. Gentlemen, I'll tell you what's keeping us from all this. One big word, fear. We're scared half to death what's going to happen if we operate and live by the book in these areas. But we are leaders. We are restrainers. We are teachers. We are decision makers. And all of those are found clearly in the book. Therefore, we can't just push it under the carpet. We have to operate that way. Young men of young homes, you've got to build this strength up in your life. Lord, help me to be a decision maker. God, help me to be a teacher. Help me to train. Lord, I've got to learn those ways, the wrong ways, the right ways. You've got to teach me. I've got to get in the book to find those things out so I can teach my kids. Lord, help me to be a leader. Lord, my decisions won't always be popular. But Lord, help my family to know that I am committed to following you and I want them to follow you. Lord, help me to be a restrainer. I'm speaking to the men of our homes, speaking to heads of households. The chain of command that God set up is that Christ is the head of the man. Man is the head of the woman and by extension your household. Thank you for joining us by way of the internet today. 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