Empowered - Ephesians 6:1-9
Pastor Aaron Green
November 7, 2021
Ephesians 5:33 – 6:3 (NIV) However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 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 go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.
Proverbs 22:6 (ESV) Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Your children
Making Disciples starts in the
Ephesians 6:4 (ESV) Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ways we provoke our children:
Ephesians 6:1-2 (NIV) Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”…
We
A society of
Ephesians 6:5-9 (ESV) Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with Him.
Galatians 3:28-29 (MSG) In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ…
Ephesians 6:9 (NLT) …remember, you both have the same Master in heaven, and He has no favorites.