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The single most important relationship with that child has in their life aside from a relationship with Jesus is the relationship that they have with their parents.
We all have the same desire for our families.
We want to be strong and have the ability to endure through life together.
The word of God is full of instruction about family and God’s expectation for the family.
We don’t ever have to question God’s purpose for the family.
And yet… The family is struggling big time.
In our country, 1 out of 2 marriages end in divorce.
Divorce in subsequent marriages are even higher.
In terms of church life, we see struggle in the family through several areas.
Children simply talk to adults differently than they should.
Adults talk to children differently than they should.
In my opinion, the number one issue in the family is that most families in church rarely read the bible together.
We don’t know what the bible says and we aren’t teaching it to our children.
One of the great struggles in the family right now is biblical illiteracy.
Why?
Many of us haven’t been trained.
We’ve been trained but we aren’t teaching what we have been taught.
We don’t see it as our job to teach our children.
It’s hard to make scripture relevant to this modern generation.
If we are truly honest, we don’t have the desire to know the scriptures ourselves.
We make excuses.
Parents, if we don’t want to make excuses any more and we want to move forward with Christ at the front of our family, we must take intentional steps forward.
It all starts with the motive of our heart and whether or not we want to be obedient to God.
Let’s talk about God’s word to children about their relationship with parents.
Ephesians
Few passages are more clear than this instruction.
As children we do two things.
Obey the people who nurture and raise us.
Honor our parents.
Paul’s writing is based on two scriptures from the Old Testament:
Exodus
Proverbs
is found in the 10 commandments.
Jews broke them up into two parts.
The commandment about honoring our father and mother is found in the 2nd part that is based upon human relationships.
Paul is shedding light on the fact that the law of God was and is still relevant to honoring God.
He also wrote that children please God whenever they obey their parents in .
What do we learn whenever we expand upon each verse in ?
What are seeing about
1. Obey Your Parents So That You Can Obey God.
(v. 1)
Roman law declared that children had no choice in the matter.
They had to obey their parents or face major trouble with the law.
This law was strictly enforced.
Parents and namely the Father had complete authority to lead his family.
There was no discussion in the matter.
Paul was writing with a Christian home in mind in this letter.
Homes that didn’t revere Christ would struggle with living out these concepts.
Culture can change but the forming of the family will always we the same.
Children are joined to their parents.
The created order tells us that parents are to lay out a foundation for their children to follow.
Children are commanded to obey their parents.
Obedience is a strong word.
Wives are not called to obey their husbands, they are called to submit.
Obedience is more unreasoning and implicit.
Submission is to willingly be in subjection to a higher authority.
What am I trying to tell you?
When God commanded children to obey their parents, He did this with the knowledge that parents are not people who deserve to be obeyed.
That’s not the point.
When I am told to obey my parents, I don’t have a right to question their authority.
Children are called to obey their parents “in the Lord, for this is right”.
The motive for our obedience to our parents is to be obedient to the God that has commanded us to be obedient.
Our parents are vessels to our relationship with God.
When we obey them, we obey God.
When we please our parents, we please God.
Paul wrote to the church of Ephesus and explained the importance of their obedience.
Children can hear this message, but they find it hard to carry it out.
We are born with a sinful nature in our heart.
This means we struggle with doing what our parents want us to do.
Kids groan when their parents tell them to clean our their room or take out the trash.
Teens don’t understand why their parents want to know who they are with and what they are doing.
Adults get frustrated when their parents meddle in their lives.
It’s a common theme through life.
We are born to question the authorities in our life.
The way children talk to their parents on television is insane?
Children, you have to understand that your parents must be obeyed.
Plain and simple.
Why?
Because God commands you to.
The way you listen to your parents today will determine how you listen to other authorities in your life like teachers, coaches, etc.
If you can’t obey your mom and dad, you are being sinful before God.
Children who don’t listen to their parents are living out despicable lives.
When we lie to our parents, we are mocking God.
When you obey your parents, you are honoring God in an amazing way.
You are telling Him that you love Him.
Parents, are we too easy on our kids?
Do we allow disobedience too often?
Be the bad guy so that your child will stop sinning.
Do our children struggle with obedience in the Lord because we haven’t taught them about the Lord?
Talent, intelligence, and good fortune mean nothing if our children don’t know the Lord.
It is our duty to teach our children to learn obedience or we are setting them up for failure.
2. Christian Children Respect Their Parents (v. 2)
What a simple statement that is rarely spoken of today.
The 5th commandment rings just as true today as it did when it was written on the stone tablet.
In 1st century Graeco-Roman society, children were required by law to submit to the authority of their parents.
Paul’s instruction, is based on the principle of mutual submission.
While the natural law stated that children were to obey their parents, the holy law commands much more.
Honor - To voluntarily give value to something.
Set a price of honor on someone.
Children were to look at their patriarch and matriarch of their family with high honor and value.
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