Sharing the Gospel while Disciplining your Kids (Part 3)

3. Show them what God has done about their sin. This is the crux (the "cross" point) of the discipline session. After showing them what God says about their sin we can tell them how God feels about sin. In short, He hates it and fully intends to destroy it. Though He is patient now toward sinners, He will not be as patient forever. There will come a day when He will take vengeance against sin. It is called justice and it will last forever.

Further, our sin has caused us to be an enemy of God, the one who created us. God wants to be our friend, and He wants us to be His friend. But sin separates us. The solution is to destroy the sin. The question I lead them to is this: do you want your sin destroyed, or do you want to be destroyed along with your sin? Do you want your sin judged, or would you rather be judged along with your sin? Since sin must be dealt with justly, how do you want to handle that?

The crux here is in the faith, the belief, the hope to which we lead them. Faith is not believing that the testimony of the Bible about Jesus is true. No, it is believing that the truth the Bible says about Jesus is something God did for me. His work on the cross in judging Jesus for my sin instead of punishing me was a work for me. His act of rising from the dead to free us from the power of sin was an act He did for me. That is the essence of biblical faith. And leading our children there means leading them to a proper knowledge of their sin.

[Source]: Rob Wilkerson III on Miscellanies on the Gospel