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It can apply to our relationship with our heavenly Father. God will allow us to go through seasons of testing so to make our relationship with him stronger, and us more wiser.and when he is grown he will NEVER depart from it.
What does this scripture mean to you?
How can you apply it to your walk?
What other parent/child relationship can this refer to?
and when he is grown he will NEVER depart from it.
It can apply to our relationship with our heavenly Father. God will allow us to go through seasons of testing so to make our relationship with him stronger, and us more wiser.
As for the "NEVER", yeah, if the child was a good student, he will not turn away from what he was taught.
If the purpose here is yet another arguement for OSAS,
I'd like to point out that the child should be yours to begin with, is he not?
So here we have the possibly of one being a child of God, but if not trained up correctly, departing from it. So in order to be sure that child of God wont depart from it you must train him up correctly.
Thanks Balance.
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The scripture doesn't say that it dependant upon the child being a good student...rather it focused on the parent doing their job.
No, but I believe in bad students. Doesn't matter how good your teacher is, if the student doesn't want to learn, and in fact refuses to learn, he is not going to.You caught me
From before the foundation of the world through adoption.
That's right. And God being the perfect parent? Do you think he'd ever fail in training us properly as his children?
Deu 20:5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
1Ki 8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
2Ch 7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
1Sa 1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
1Sa 1:28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
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And the scripture doesn't say "NEVER" either.
No, but I believe in bad students. Doesn't matter how good your teacher is, if the student doesn't want to learn, and in fact refuses to learn, he is not going to.
Deu 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
1) The Hebrew word "Chanac", which we translate "train up" or "initiate," signifies also "dedicate," and is often used for the consecrating of anything, house, or person, to the service of God.
"Dedicate, therefore in the first instance, your child to God; and nurse, teach, and discipline him as God's child, whom He has entrusted to your care" (Adam Clarke, Commentary On The Bible; Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press, 1967, 546).
"In The Way He Should Go"
2) The phrase, "in the way he should go," is often misapplied. The assumption is that it means "in the way of righteousness and the true religion," -- a course which all, both young and old, ought to follow -- but his is not what Solomon meant here.
The Hebrew phrase from which the words in the way he should go," means "according to the tenor of his way," that is, in harmony with his disposition, his natural talents, and his individual character.
Taught here is the obligation of parents to study the nature and disposition of their children and to train them accordingly. This is in harmony with Paul's instructions to the Ephesians and Colossians (Eph. 6:4; Col. 3:21). Instead of giving all the emphasis to a rigorous standard to be applied "indiscriminately," each child's "temperment" is to be closely considered and the teaching is to be done so as to achieve the greatest possible adaptation to the childs need.
3) Strangely, the words, "when he is old," are usually interpreted these days to mean, "when he is grown" -- has reached adulthood -- but this the passage neither says nor teaches.
The affirmation of Solomon deals with the fruits of training in old age; and, the meaning is, that an individual who has been trained properly in the principles of truth and has lived in harmony therewith until he reaches old age will not then abandon that which has become "second nature" to him. Seldom indeed do people who have followed the course of rectitude and devotion to God abandon this life-long mode of living in their declining years.
A better translation, IMO:
"Dedicate a youth to the mouth of his path, so that when he grows old he will not stray from it."
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