I’m not good at this! And maybe you’re not either. And that’s the goal Paul is aiming for in this passage-Christians actually living as Christians in the home. But part of that following is staying home and living as if Christ is real in your own homes, with your own families. And part of that following means going out on mission to the world. And I wonder in light of this passage today, how many of us stop believing in Christ’s redemption when it comes to our families? How many of us believe Christ can change the world but can’t do much in our own living room? We think, “God could never change this.” We may not say it, but our actions and our inactions say it loud and clear. It means we’re willing to believe in Christ’s redemption only so far, and then we stop. And I think it’s possible for us to believe Christ can transform the world over before how could transform our families. Families bring much joy, but they can also bring much pain. That’s what we want, isn’t it? So, in his kindness, God shows us what it looks like to live as Christians in our families.īut when we talk about families, there can be a lot of complications. Being filled with the Spirit means we actually live as Christians, that our Christianity actually has an impact on our relationships. This passage flows out of the command in 5:18 to be filled with the Spirit. Here in Ephesians 6:1-4, the focus is how Christ transforms the child-parent relationship. And throughout the letter to the Ephesians, we see how pervasive that transformation is. Jesus lived and died and rose again not to make our lives a little more tolerable but to change us entirely into his image. When the gospel lands on us, we begin to change in surprising ways. Today, we are going to see how the Christian family is a picture of the Christian gospel. Over the past two weeks, we’ve seen how the Christian marriage is a picture of the Christian gospel. 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. 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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