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Ephesians 5:15–6:4 NLT

15 So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. 16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. 17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. 18 Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, 19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. 20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. 25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body. 31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 1 Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. 2 “Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise: 3 If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.

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Wisdom is about more than money

Ephesians 5:15 NLT

15 So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise.

We look for wisdom in what job we choose

We look for wisdom in what investments we make

We look for wisdom in how we deal with hard situations.

Paul writes that wisdom is something we should emulate until we actually have it.

He doesn’t say be wise…He says live like those who are wise.

Find wise people and copy what they do until it becomes natural!

_______ Relationships Require Wisdom

The wisdom that Paul talks about here plays out in very practical ways.

Don’t get drunk (overindulgence)

Be filled with the Spirit

The practical next step for a wise christian is to have wisdom in their relationships.

When’s the last time you viewed your associations through the lens of wise and unwise

NOT: FUN AND NOT FUN.

The wise household consists of…

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A wife who is submitted

As Paul lays out the life of a Christ follower who is acting wise…He shows us the relational responsibility of husbands and wives.

Wives submit to your husband.

This verse is not popular in 2025…but it is still in the Bible.

Understand the submission to your husband is secondary to your submission to God.

If your husband is asking you to do something that breaks God’s law than it is secondary to what God is asking.

This nullifies the ability for man to manipulate this verse for abusive means.

Paul makes this assertion that the submission of the wife is not as to the husband but as to God.

It is not possible to be right with God and in rebellion to your husband.

__________ 2. A husband who is sacrificial

Paul goes on to say that husbands are to “love their wives” in the same way that Christ loved the church.

The wife is called to submit and the husband is called to sacrifice.