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INTRODUCTION:
As we begin here, I want to wish all the Dad’s happy father’s day and we truly hope you have blessed Father’s day today.
But as we begin - I would love to ask...
If you were to consider your lives this morning – If you could do one thing for God, what could you do that would bring Christ the most amount of glory?
We may have different thoughts on that perhaps.
For some it might be the missions field
others, and might be something here at the church.
Some might say, caring for the hurting and the brokenhearted.
We almost always think that it is got to be something big and massive.
There are certainly many things we can add to on this list, But what amazes me is that we almost never mention the one area that is closest to us.
Our homes.
According to our text - The spirit led life is one that honors Christ with our family relationships.
Our passage is a little longer this morning - but I hope to provide a broad challenge to how we can honor Christ with our family relationships.
As we look at this passage, I am trying to give us a mile-high view.
And so if I don’t go into every detail - is because I can only say so much in an 1/2 hour.
And so really I am preaching on the main verb and theme of each section this morning rather then the individual details.
And it is not by accident I choose this passage for Father’s day and not mother day.
Because I believe that Dad’s bear the greatest responsibility for honoring Christ with our families.
Romans
Eph 5:216:4
As we begin to look at our text,
We have to remember that this flows out of a spirit lead a life.
We have to remember that this flows out of a spirit lead a life.
talks about submitting, but that verb is subordinate to verse 18.
Eph 5:18
And then flowing out of that text - Paul tells us how that Spirit lead life should impact our family relationships.
>>>> It is adding to and modifying what it means to live a spirit filled life.
If the Holy Spirit is leading and guiding you and shaping your life,
then it ought to be leading and guiding and shaping your family for Christ.
From our text,
The people in my life who admire the most for their Christian service have a surprisingly common story.
Their fathers went out of their way to teach them the Christian faith.
If you take time to listen to why they do what they do –
they'll say what my dad always thought,
or my dad always said.
Is not to say that
– if you didn't have a dad like that
Or you were too foolish to listen to dad
then all is lost.
This morning I hold the sharpest teaching tool in the world – one that easily overcomes the failures of our dad's.
This morning I hold the sharpest teaching tool in the world – one that easily overcomes the failures of our dad's.
Yet if I was honest, which is the greatest teacher of the Christian faith?
The church?
Certainly Sunday school teachers, pastors, and fellow Christians have done much for the work of Christ.
The church is a great tool in God's arsenal - to train us.
And yet in many cases - Dad’s power far surpasses anything a Sunday school teacher or pastor could do.
> Even if we were to send our kids all off for four years of Bible college - they could not replace the influence of dad.
Our dads have the power to shape heart minds of their children,
to bring the teachings of the faith beyond mere head knowledge,
and to truly cause children to consider what the power of the cross can do with their lives.
Being a dad is one of the gravest and most important responsibilities we can ever have.
This morning, I come to you with a passage.
If you think I am overstating the case
Have you ever heard a child pray
Just Like Daddy
A teardrop crept into my eye as I knelt on bended knee;
Next to a gold haired tiny lad whose age was just past three.
He prayed with such simplicity “Please make me big and strong,
Just like Daddy, don’t you see? Watch o’er me all night long.”
“Jesus, make me tall and brave, like my Daddy next to me.”
This simple prayer he prayed tonight filled my heart with humility.
As I heard his voice so wee and small offer his prayer to God,
I thought these little footsteps someday my path may trod!
Oh, Lord, as I turn my eyes above and guidance ask from Thee;
Keep my walk ever so straight for the little feet that follow me.
Buoy me when I stumble, and lift me when I fail,
Guard this tiny bit of boy as he travels down life’s trail.
Make me what he thinks I am is my humble gracious plea
Help me ever be the man this small lad sees in me!
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And - in fact, the responsibility goes to ways.
Children
I mean, consider - According to our text this morning
PROP: We ought to honor Christ in our family relationships.
TRANS: And this text gives us 4 principals for how to do that.
Principal #1, following the order of our passage.
Wives Should Subject Themselves to Their Husbands.
1) Wives Should Subject Themselves to Their Husbands.
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I realize this is perhaps one of the most difficult passages for ladies to hear.
And if I was in the business of avoiding discomfort and controversy – I certainly would not bring this up on Father's Day.
I do not wish imply that ladies are inferior by any means.
But I cannot talk about honoring Christ in our families and not talk about the role of mom.
My my goal is not to be demeaning or imply the ladies are inferior.
Interestingly, if I was to talk about being led by the Spirit.
Nobody would object.
In fact, might even lean in and listen more because you want the power of the Holy Spirit in your life.
And why wouldn't you?
The Holy Spirit -
Gives Joy.
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He Convicts us.
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He takes our prayers to the father.
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He Strengthens us.
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And no one gets mad if I say the Holy Spirit does that for us.
May I challenge us – if you want the Holy Spirit's work in your life, then you must understand the Holy Spirit empowers the Christian wife to subject herself to her husband.
((((Again, this teaching on submission is flowing out a verse 18, where we are told to live a spirit led life.))))
Observe in your text – what that spirit led wife looks like.
Eph 5:2224
So according to this passage.
- The husband is to be the head of the home.
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