Ephesians (Page 2)
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 Two
Ladies, you are to be revered, not consumed. You are to be treated as sacred, not common. 1 Timothy 2:9-10 – I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
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……
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…
“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,…
But that conversation is too scary!
There are zero good reasons not to reconcile with a brother… immediately. Ephesians 4:3 – “being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” Matthew 5:23-24 -“Therefore, if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there…
Sorry, not sorry!
True repentance is completely selfless. 2 Corinthians 7:8-11 – For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according…