day no. 16,645: a covenantal requirement and a generational necessity

Psalm 78:4-7

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.

God commands fathers to teach their children to teach their children to teach their children. It is a covenantal requirement and a generational necessity. God commanded our fathers to keep the law. One of those laws was the obligation to teach their children the law. Another obligation was to teach their children to teach their children the law. Implicit in this is an obligation to teach your children how to teach their children to teach their children. The love of Christ is a communicable cure. It can be conveyed and spread by personal contact, particularly when those persons are parents and especially when they open their mouths.

We must teach our children to teach their children to teach their children.