Sermons on Ephesians (Page 2)
But My Personality Type Isn’t “Submissive”
Submission may feel more unnatural to some, but it remains God’s requirement, nonetheless. Ephesians 5:21-22 – Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
The Mutinous Wife
A wife leading her Christian marriage is actively destroying it. Ephesians 5:22-24; Luke 10:40-42; Genesis 4:6-8
When Your Wife is Hurting
When She is in pain, He is in pain. Ephesians 5:22-33; John 11:17-44
Submission Ain’t Weak!
Ladies, submission is not about what you do, it’s about who you are. Ephesians 5:22 – “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as to the Lord.”
Modesty – Part One
Satan is the enemy, not the opposite sex. Ephesians 5:3-21 (exc.) – But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed… Let no one deceive you with empty words… Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil……
God’s Will on Alcohol
Whether you drink or don’t, do so with sober gratitude. Ephesians 5:18 – Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit
The World’s Kool-Aid
If you drink the world’s Kool-Aid, you will get the same stomachache. Ephesians 4:17-23 – So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of…
The Fearless Child of God
Fear is the belief that God is either absent or evil. Ephesians 4:14 – Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.
“Well That’s Compelling!” (Thoughts on Spiritual Gifting)
Your Spiritual gift is found in how the Holy Spirit compels you. Ephesians 4: 7-13 – But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it says, “When He ascended on high, He led captive the captives, and He gave gifts to people.” (Now this expression,…