1 Kings 2:3, And keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn
In this passage we have the loving heart of a father set before his son in terms of going forward with the plans and the purpose and the maintenance of a heart after God that would bring forth ultimate success and fulfillment in that obedient and dedicated life after Jehovah. 
This is something that every godly parent wants for their children. It is the substantiated fulfillment of what it means to be a parent whose heart is after the growth and development of that living and vital relationship of the children unto God. The utter culmination of a successful parentage is that the progeny are filled with that love and trust and obedience unto The Lord. This will see them through all the storms and gales that this world hurls upon them with such ferocity and such determination to drag them down into the miry pit. 
However, as God’s Word declares, there will be that successful conclusion through it all if the children will hold to The Lord, and if they seek Him with all their being, and if they follow His precepts. They will know Him with delight and joy in the every Word that the Holy Spirit opens livingly in their day to day walk before Him. Such is the course that needs to be set before our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren, as well as nieces and nephews and all the like. The testimony that we present to each one will be seen and evaluated and confirmed as our lives show forth that which is so so vital as each year rolls on.
We are brought back to the very establishment of the Children of God as a nation in Deut 6:1+2. It is here that Moses laid forth the very same encouragement for the sake of the people as well as for their children. The entire focus of the familial relationship, as ordained by The Lord, is that there is a living relatedness among the people for the sake of that continued growth into all the fullness of the Love of God. This will be expressed as the children learn from their parents and grandparents and great grandparents what it means to live in the faith and the trust and the obedience unto Jehovah.
Deut 6:1+2, "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. 
There is a further aspect that is fully in place within this matter of what the parents are to instill as good and right before their children. It is the reality that the home is to be the place where the entire family shows forth utter and absolute devotion to Jehovah. It is not enough to just mention God in passing to the children. There is the required commitment for the entire household to be a place where The Lord comes first, above all other priorities and influences and desires and daily routines and obligations. It is incumbent upon the parentage to show, in word and in deed and in thought, that this house will serve The Lord and The Lord only!
When issues arise, the first place that the family goes is to The Lord in prayer and in seeking after His Word for the manner of dealing with the problem. When there is a time of rejoicing in the accomplishments at hand, it is to The Lord that all thanksgiving is presented. When it comes to finances, the entirety of what is at hand is seen as belonging fully to Jehovah for His application of those resources as He determines and allows. 
Foremost, there is the matter of tithe and offerings which show that everything we have belongs to God. It is vital that our actions, in making sure that our token pledge of tithe is always met, will be instilled in our hearts and minds and in the hearts and minds of our young ones.
As our walk together in familial relationship develops, it is in The Lord that we place our hope and our trust and our obedience. The parentage show to the progeny exactly how much God means to the entire household as each day progresses. There is the offered prayer of worship and praise and adoration. There is the ready song of joy in The Lord on each tongue and in each heart. The scripture is cherished and read individually and together as a family. The young grow up on the precious stories of God’s grace and mercy and love as detailed in the Bible stories that are relayed over and over again. There are the recounted testimonies and living illustrations of God’s provision detailed with all adoration and thanksgiving. The priority of the family is centered, above any other activity or obligation, in Christ, Alone! 
The family goes together to worship the Lord with all the gathered saints. This is where the children are taught by those fellow devout ones of the love of God. They recount the need for complete surrender to the Holy Spirit as He opens His Word into hearts and minds and makes spirits alive by the resurrection power of Jesus Christ. It is in the church that the obedience of baptism is taught and presented as well as the other doctrinal realties of what it means to be a Christian in the walk that we have on this earth. There is the joy of corporate fellowship that is instilled in the young as they play, and study, and work together in an environment of total commitment and dedication to the precepts and the love of God.
When illness strikes, the prayers of the saints are sought even as we go to doctor appointments, and as we are given advice and counsel in the matter of how to deal with the illness, and the disease, and the hardship of care and keeping unfolds. The family works together, by the grace of God, to overcome the obstacles of daily living and each mounting problem and concern. 
All of this is highlighted in the concise instruction to the parentage as detailed in verses 4-9 of this 6th Chapter of Deuteronomy. This makes the entire fellowship responsible to carry forth that pledge and that devotion to show each of the children, as well as fellow members, how much it means to be part of the family of the Most High Lord God Almighty!
Our everything is entailed in response to the Shema as it directs us to show forth, in our homes, and in our lives, the full measure of how committed we are to this living relationship with Jehovah. That is how our children will learn the walk that is open to them with Our God through the resurrection power of the Only Begotten Son of Our Heavenly Father.
Deut 6:4-9, "Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 
This is the encouragement to a constant and steady dedication to the way of the Lord in the midst of the every moment by moment daily walk that we have with God! There is nothing and no one who should take greater priority and honor than seeking to please Jehovah in the manner of how we live before Him as individuals, as a family, and as a fellowship! 
Our desire and our commitment as fathers and mothers and grandparents and great grandparents, if not great, great grandparents, given the charge to teach, encouragement, admonish, correct, and establish the Love of God within our family is further commanded by The Lord as declared by Joshua. In Joshua 24, verses 14 and 15, the clear choice of how we are to set forth that determined and dedicated service unto God, Alone, is so manifestly proclaimed. 
Josh 24:14-15, "Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." 
Then, we come to the truth of how we are to stand in the strength of God in the midst of everything that comes our way. When there is all the influence of this age set against our foundational commitment to live as God has so ordained, we need to focus our minds and our hearts and our strength of endurance on the fact that we are devoted and steadfast in the reality of pleasing and honoring God, Alone! This was the promise of God’s support that was given to the Children of Israel as they were entering the Promised Land, as recorded in Josh 1:7. It is just as vital and filled with truth for us today.
Josh 1:7, Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. 
It was also voiced to Solomon by his father in the second verse of this morning’s reading. 1 Kings 2:2, "I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man. 
It was the preparation to the following encouragement of this morning’s passage that Solomon should be very careful to keep the charge of The Lord. He was to follow God’s path and keep the ways of Jehovah continually before him in order to complete that which was set before Solomon as the next king of the nation of God. 
Solomon had to be strong and courageous and careful to do that which was commanded by Jehovah as it would be The Lord’s people over whom Solomon would reign. He was directly responsible to Yahweh for the manner in which he ruled the nation. Solomon needed to always seek The Lord’s guidance and direction in the care to be given to this precious flock of God.
Again, this is the consistent and continual encouragement that all the people, including you and me, are given throughout the Word of God. It was voiced in earnest encouragement by Joshua to the people as they were in the process of inhabiting the land of God’s promise. Please refer to Josh 22:5 wherein the Shema is reiterated in a manner that would make it all the more forceful and fruitful.
Josh 22:5, Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul."
In 1 Chron 22:12+13, we have the expanded declaration of King David to his son Solomon, this with regard to the house of The Lord that was to be the heritage of David through his son. He was detailing the manner in which Solomon was to obey the every precept and commandment of God in order to bring to a most successful conclusion the building of the Temple as the dwelling place of Jehovah within the heart of the nation of His people. 
1 Chron 22:12+13, Only the Lord give you discretion and understanding, and give you charge over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God. Then you shall prosper, if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be dismayed. 
There is instilled within this encouragement that fatherly hope that his son will complete that which the father could not accomplish because his hands were covered with the scars and the remnants of war and battle and blood. Therefore God would not allow David to fulfill the very desire of his heart that Jehovah would have that place of honor and recognition and prominence within the capital city of His Chosen Nation. That task would be left for Solomon to complete. That was the most earnest desire of the father for his son to accomplish. Solomon had to be strong and courageous in The Lord in order to bring his father’s utmost aspiration to completion before God!
David further emphasized this to Solomon, as recorded in 1 Chron 28:8+9, in the presence of the assembly of the nation as a witness of just how important it was for Solomon to honor and to obey God as he was to sit on the throne of all Israel. Solomon, as the kingly heritage of the Davidic lineage needed to so bless the Lord and thus bless the people with a heart that sought Jehovah in the every decision and working power that he would wield as unto God. The construction of the temple could only take place if Solomon served Jehovah wholly and with honor and respect and the determination to obey the every precept of The Lord. 
1 Chron 28:8+9, "So now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek after all the commandments of the Lord your God in order that you may possess the good land and bequeath it to your sons after you forever. "As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
Then, as every parent is want to do, David, along with the direct encouragement of his son, went to The Lord in prayer and supplication. This is recorded in part in 1 Chron 29:18+19. With the nation as witness, David sought after God to direct the steps and the heart of Solomon to be ever vigilant to the ways of Jehovah and to honor The Lord with all his heart and with all his mind and with all his strength.
1 Chron 29:18+19, O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, preserve this forever in the intentions of the heart of Thy people, and direct their heart to Thee; "and give to my son Solomon a perfect heart to keep Thy commandments, Thy testimonies, and Thy statutes, and to do them all, and to build the temple, for which I have made provision." 
It is the place of parents to stand for their children and their grandchildren and their great grandchildren before God, seeking His working might and wisdom and presence in their lives every day of their walk on this earth. We beseech The Lord to make Himself very real and completely known as the focal reason that we live on this earth. We entreat Him to make us and our heritage His more accurate witnesses in the ways and means and testimony of how one is to tread the path of our sojourn in the world. We pray for their well-being, their safety, their sustenance, and their continued and growing relationship with The Lord God Almighty all the days of their lives, now, and forevermore! So be it!
And keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn… Amen.

This morning’s benediction is Isa 9:6+7. For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this. Amen.