THE LEGACY WE LEAVE

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THE LEGACY WE LEAVE
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I. A Legacy of Godliness

• Ephesians 518-21 Do not get drunk on wine,
  which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled
  with the Spirit. Speak to one another with
  psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make
  music in your heart to the Lord always giving
  thanks to God the Father for everything, in the
  name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submit to one
  another out of reverence for Christ.

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1. Be Filled With The Spirit

• Ephesians 518 Do not get drunk on wine, which
  leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the
  Spirit.
• Galatians 516-17 So I say, live by the Spirit,
  and you will not gratify the desires of the
  sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what
  is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is
  contrary to the sinful nature. They are in
  conflict with each other, so that you do not do
  what you want.

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2. We Should Be Singing

• Ephesians 519 Speak to one another with
  psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make
  music in your heart to the Lord.

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3. We Should Be Satisfied

• Ephesians 520 Always giving thanks to God the
  Father for everything, in the name of our Lord
  Jesus Christ.
• Unthankful dads are bad advertisements for the
  Lord.

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4. We Should Be Submissive

• Ephesians 521 Submit to one another out of
  reverence for Christ.

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II. A Legacy of Love

• Lead Your Wife.
• Ephesians 522-23 Wives, submit to your
  husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the
  head of the wife as Christ is the head of the
  church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

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A. Equality

• Galatians 326-28 You are all sons of God
  through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who
  were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves
  with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek,
  slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all
  one in Christ Jesus.
• The ground is level at the cross!

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B. Authority

• I Corinthians 113 Now I want you to realize
  that the head of every man is Christ, and the
  head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ
  is God.
• John 638 For I have come down from heaven not
  to do my will but to do the will of him who sent
  me.

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C. Responsibility

• I Timothy 34 He must manage his own family well
  and see that his children obey him with proper
  respect.
• Intimacy.

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2. Love Your Wife

• Ephesians 525 Husbands, love your wives, just
  as Christ loved the church and gave himself up
  for her.
• An unconditional Love.
• An Unreserved Love.
• Ephesians 525b Just as Christ loved the church
  and gave himself up for her.

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John 1513 Greater love has no one than this,
that He lay down His life for His friends.
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C. An Undefiled Love

• Ephesians 526-27 And gave Himself up for her
  to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing
  with water through the word, and to present her
  to himself as a radiant church, without stain or
  wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and
  blameless.

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D. An Understanding Love

• Ephesians 528-29 In the same way, husbands
  ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He
  who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no
  one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and
  cares for it, just as Christ does the church-for
  we are members of his body.