thomasAuthor: Pastor Claude Thomas
Many consider the family the foundational human relationship for all other human relationships. I believe that is true. And since I believe it is, I must ask what I consider to be a very important question: How should we view and value the family? To answer that question our first move is not toward popular culture, psychological theories, or scholarly advice. Our first move is to the reliable, relevant, and absolute of Scriptures. A pattern of relationships within the family is found in a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians. This is what he said: And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything. 25 And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife. 29 No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church. 30 And we are his body. 31 As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 6:1 Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. 2 "Honor your father and mother." This is the first of the Ten Commandments that ends with a promise. 3 And this is the promise: If you honor your father and mother, "you will live a long life, full of blessing." 4 And now a word to you fathers. Don't make your children angry by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction approved by the Lord. NLT What did he say about the family relationships? First, the husband and wife are to submit to each other as unto the Lord. Second, the wife is to reverence her husband. Third, the husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it. Fourth, children are to respect and obey their parents. And fifth, parents are to respect and train their children to be like Jesus. If there is harmony in the home, it is because the members of the family allow the Spirit of God to enable them to live out those values given to us by Paul. So, for the sake of all other human relationships, let us give priority to getting this one right! Ask the Holy Spirit to enable you to live and experience these Scriptures… right now.
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Many consider the family the foundational human relationship for all other human relationships. I believe that is true. And since I believe it is, I must ask what I consider to be a very important question: How should we view and value the family? To answer that question our first move is not toward popular culture, psychological theories, or scholarly advice. Our first move is to the reliable, relevant, and absolute of Scriptures. A pattern of relationships within the family is found in a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians. This is what he said: And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything. 25 And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife. 29 No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church. 30 And we are his body. 31 As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 6:1 Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. 2 "Honor your father and mother." This is the first of the Ten Commandments that ends with a promise. 3 And this is the promise: If you honor your father and mother, "you will live a long life, full of blessing." 4 And now a word to you fathers. Don't make your children angry by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction approved by the Lord. NLT What did he say about the family relationships? First, the husband and wife are to submit to each other as unto the Lord. Second, the wife is to reverence her husband. Third, the husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it. Fourth, children are to respect and obey their parents. And fifth, parents are to respect and train their children to be like Jesus. If there is harmony in the home, it is because the members of the family allow the Spirit of God to enable them to live out those values given to us by Paul. So, for the sake of all other human relationships, let us give priority to getting this one right! Ask the Holy Spirit to enable you to live and experience these Scriptures… right now.
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