Household Rules for the Household of God

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Household Rules for theHousehold of God

• Ephesians 521-69
• Twin City Fellowship
• Ryan Habbena

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The Context of the Commands

• We are of the Household of God
•  Ephesians 519 So then you are no longer
  strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens
  with the saints, and are of God's household,
• We Are to Be Subject to One Another
• Ephesians 521 . . . and be subject to one
  another in the fear of Christ.

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Wives Be Subject to Your Husbands

• Ephesians 522-24
• Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to
  the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the
  wife, as Christ also is the head of the church,
  He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as
  the church is subject to Christ, so also the
  wives ought to be to their husbands in
  everything.

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Fighting the Effects of the Fall

• Genesis 316 To the woman He said, "I will
  greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain
  you will bring forth children Yet your desire
  will be for your husband
• 1 Peter 31 In the same way, you wives, be
  submissive to your own husbands so that even if
  any of them are disobedient to the word, they may
  be won without a word by the behavior of their
  wives

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Husbands Love Your Wives

• Ephesians 525-30
• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also
  loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so
  that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her
  by the washing of water with the word, that He
  might present to Himself the church in all her
  glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such
  thing but that she would be holy and blameless.
  So husbands ought also to love their own wives as
  their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves
  himself for no one ever hated his own flesh, but
  nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also
  does the church, because we are members of His
  body.

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Fighting the Effects of the Fall

• Genesis 316b Yet your desire will be for your
  husband, and he will rule over you.
• 1 Peter 37 You husbands in the same way, live
  with your wives in an understanding way, as with
  someone weaker, since she is a woman and show
  her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life,
  so that your prayers will not be hindered.

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Christian MarriageAn Earthly Reflection of the
Eternal Reality

• Ephesians 531-33 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL
  LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED
  TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.
  This mystery is great but I am speaking with
  reference to Christ and the church.
  Nevertheless, each individual among you also is
  to love his own wife even as himself, and the
  wife must see to it that she respects her
  husband.

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Honor Your Father and Mother

• Ephesians 61-2
• Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for
  this is right.  HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER
  (which is the first commandment with a promise),
  SO THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY
  LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH.

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Discipline and Instruction

• Ephesians 63-4
• Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger,
  but bring them up in the discipline and
  instruction of the Lord.

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Instructions to Slaves

• Ephesians 65-8 Slaves, be obedient to those who
  are your masters according to the flesh, with
  fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your
  heart, as to Christ not by way of eyeservice, as
  men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the
  will of God from the heart. With good will render
  service, as to the Lord, and not to men, knowing
  that whatever good thing each one does, this he
  will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or
  free.

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One Master for All

• Ephesians 69 And masters, do the same things to
  them, and give up threatening, knowing that both
  their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is
  no partiality with Him.

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When Commands Collide

• Matthew 1034-37 Do not think that I came to
  bring peace on the earth I did not come to bring
  peace, but a sword. For I came to SET A MAN
  AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER
  MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER
  MOTHER-IN-LAW and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE
  MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD. He who loves father or
  mother more than Me is not worthy of Me and he
  who loves son or daughter more than Me is not
  worthy of Me.

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1 Always Remember that Christ is the Head of
the Household

• Ephesians 521 . . . and be subject to one
  another in the fear of Christ.
• Ephesians 122 And He put all things in
  subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head
  over all things to the church.

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2 Whatever Situation You Are In Serve the
Lord

• Colossians 323-24
• Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for
  the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from
  the Lord you will receive the reward of the
  inheritance It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.