Sons and Daughters
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Introduction
Introduction
Biblical Marriage and Family - Continuing in the series
The Parent TV Show - Parenting Styles on Trial
They say their focus is to determine which parenting style:
Raises emotionally whole and healthy kids
Creates a close family unit
Lays a foundation for successful relationship
Sets kids up to navigate this bid world
Today we are going to look at what the Word of God says about the relationship between children and their parents. As we look at Ephesians 6:1-4.
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians Recap
Ephesians Recap
Segmenting of the Letter - Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy
Paul places and Emphasis on
God
Walk
Unity
Sprit-Filled
Formula
Audience
Command
Reason
Children
Children
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Christian Children
Obey Your Parents
This is Right
Definition
Definition
Obey - To obey on the basis of having paid attention to ...
- to do what one says
- to carry out someone’s orders
3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
7 Therefore do not become partners with them;
8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
Reference
Reference
2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
Decalogue (Ten Commandments)
Applying to Ephesus
Promise
16 “ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Promise
Promise
3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
May Go Well, May Live Long in the Land
Bringing Forward to Christlike Living
God’s Will still Trumps All
16 “ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Fathers and Provoking
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Relationships go Two Ways
Applies to Both Parents
Do Not Provoke
Definition
Definition
Provoke - Make Angry (BDAG)
Provoke - to cause someone to become provoked or quite angry
21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Definition
Definition
Provoke - to become disheartened to the extent of losing motivation, be discouraged, lose heart, become dispirited
26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
27 and give no opportunity to the devil.
31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Fathers and Rearing
Fathers and Rearing
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Bring Them Up vs. Provoke
Discipline and Instruction
Of the Lord
Definition
Definition
Discipline - the act of providing guidance for responsible living (BDAG)
Instruction - counsel about avoidance and cessation of an improper course of conduct
20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!—
21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
Conclusion
Conclusion
The Parent Test is Missing Something
Children Obey Your Parents
Parents Realize you are Raising Children in and for the Community of christ