Ephesians 6:1-3
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-children, you are a blessing from God, we are to teach them to obey and respect
-obey your parents
-speak respectfully Exodus 21:17-
-obedience to parents was fulfilling one’s duty toward them
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
-For children to obey is not an easy task, in similar to how a wife may struggle to submit to her husband, or a husband love his wife as Christ loved the church - the reason it is difficult for a child to obey their parents is because of sin, its because of total depravity
-You don’t have to teach a child to disobey
8 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
9 for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.
-Parents, your children are watching you. They will follow your example
-What are they learning from you? What do they see? Do they see you valuing the Word of God over entertainment? Do they see you valuing ministry to others over money? repentance over hypocrisy?
-How much time are you spending with your children?
See also: Children; Parenting
The typical parent spends less than one hour per week in meaningful interaction with each of his or her children.
George Barna
-They are learning obedience and submission as they watch their parents submit to God
-Parents you must teach your children to obey
6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
John MacArthur - Parents are not infallible, but they are the child’s primary God-given authority
-you are teaching them to submit to your authority and they are watching as you submit to the authority of God
-Parents, we are not perfect, we fail in our obedience to God, but praise God that Christ stood in our place. Children too will not be perfect, and will not always obey their parents, and they need to know that in Christ they are forgiven, in Christ they can grow toward sanctification
The Gospel
The Gospel
-obey your parents in the Lord
-hear and do what your parents say
-What about when a parent tells you to do something that is not right? notice in the Lord, this is not a command to do whatever a parent tells you even if goes against God, but to obey parents who are faithfully teaching you about God, His Word, and values
-some manuscripts do not have the phrase “in the Lord”
-what does obeying your parents in the Lord have to do with the Gospel?
-It is through the Gospel that we are in the Lord
-obey your parents because of your relation to Jesus as your Savior
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
-Parents it is your responsibility to teach your children how they can be in the Lord
-Numerous places that refer to Christians as being in the Lord
21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
-You obey your parents because of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
-this goes back to Ephesians 5:21
21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
-Honor your father and mother Exodus 20:12-
-respect
-How? Attitude again back to 5:21
It is Right
It is Right
-Why should you obey your parents? It is right
-God decides what is right, not our society, not social media, not our friends, but God
-conduct that is fair and proper
-parents it is right for you to demand obedience from your children
-children it is right for you to follow the guidance of your parents
-obedience to parents was well-known, universally known
-it is only right for children to obey their parents since the parents have provided for them, directed them and reared them
-basic function of society
-the form of disobedience to parents reveals the depravity of sin
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
-recognize it as being right
The Promise
The Promise
-5th commandment - honor your father and mother
-sandwiched between the commands regarding relationship with God and relationship with others
-perhaps it is because parents stand in the gap to teach their children about their relation with God and then guide them how to respect others
-Paul highlighted that it is the 1st command with a promise
12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
-about obtaining Israel
-been confusion over this for centuries, it seems there is a promise to the 2nd commandment
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
-the implication could be - first of a series of commands with a promise
-or it is the 1st promise of a command in regards to how we treat others and not in reference to our relation to God
-two parts of the promise:
1 that it may go well with you
2 that you will live long on the earth
-what about this scenario - Jaxon has a friend named Johnny. They at a point come to faith in Christ, they are in the Lord. They are best friends. They are also obedient children, not perfect but they love Jesus, the love their parents and want to obey them. Little Johnny and his parents are in the car on their way home, a drunk drive hits the side of their car and little Johnny dies. And Jaxon comes to me and says daddy what about little Johnny. Perhaps he pulls up this verse and says little Johnny didn’t live long but he obeyed his parents? What about the promise?
-Well, if little Johnny is in the Lord, it has went well with him, and he is living forever in heaven, and one day he will live forever on the new heaven and new earth, so the promise remains
the wisdom of those who cared for them had a better chance of doing well and living long than those who despised their parent’s instruction
-the point is that those who deny the instruction of their parents, who do not obey, who do not submit to the guidance of their parents that they endanger themselves, that their lives will not go well because they did not heed the Biblical instruction of their parents
-Kids, this is the point: God rewards obedience, and this instruction is for all our relationships, how you submit to your parents, how a wife submits to the leadership of our husband, husband submits to his wife by loving her as Christ loved the church, servants submitting to masters, etc.
1 Trust Jesus
2 Trust that God rewards obedience
3 Obedience is right