QUEEN OF THE HOUSE

Ephesians 6:1–4 NKJV

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Main Idea: Moms should be honored inside and outside the home.

Key Question: Are you honoring the mom in your life?

1. Simple directions for kids are best. (v. 1-2)

Ephesians 6:1–2 NKJV

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise:

Proverbs 6:20 NKJV

My son, keep your father’s command, And do not forsake the law of your mother.

Colossians 3:20 NKJV

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

Proverbs 23:22 NKJV

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

2. Simple order of relationships is best. (v. 1-2)

Ephesians 6:1–2 NKJV

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise:

Ephesians 5:22–32 NKJV

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

3. Simple promises are a blessing. (v. 3)

Ephesians 6:3 NKJV

“that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”

Deuteronomy 5:16 NKJV

‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

4. Simple discretion is best. (v. 4)

Ephesians 6:4 NKJV

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Colossians 3:21 NKJV

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Proverbs 22:6 NKJV

Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.