In Ezekiel 18:5-9, God gave us two lists of conducts. One list revealed what a man who lives for God would not do and another list showed the conduct he would be engaged in because He considers God in his life.
Having
painted the portrait of the righteous man, Ezekiel 18:10-13 affirms
how God would act with the man’s wicked son. Here we are told the kind of
outcome the wayward son of a righteous father would receive. God asserted here
that if this son lives wickedly, even if he has a righteous father, he would be
accountable for himself. If he has committed the list of evil activities that his
righteous father did not do, he would have to pay for the consequence of his wicked deeds. He would have to face
the penalty of death.
As
established, God holds each person accountable for his or her own sin because He
sees each of us as a separate entity. He does not make us accountable for the
sins of our father. While we may not be accountable for what our children do, we
are responsible for teaching and training them to walk in the ways of God. As parents who love our children, training
them to live right must be one of our priorities.
Proverbs
22:6 exhorts us to train up our children in the way they should go so that when
they grow up, they will not depart from the righteous ways. We must
train them while they are still young and pliable and are still not yet set in their
ways. It is true that good habits cultivated when a person is still young have
a higher rate of ensuring a person would live through life practicing them. For
God and our children’s sakes train them well so
that they will always walk in the ways of God.
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