Ephesians

Ephesians

When a Mother and Son Get Along

To damage a parent or child, all you must do is crush their voice. Ephesians 6:1-4 – 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. Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up…

Women Must Be SILENT!?

An upright woman will never grasp for authority not given her by God. 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them…

Conclusions from 12 Sermons on Gender

The devil never submits of his own will, but when we play our God given gender roles, he must. Ephesians 5: 22-27 – Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 2For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything…

The Husband as “Prophet”

A husband’s job is to be a picture or “prophecy” of something greater.   Ephesians 5: 25-33 – Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church 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…