Ephesians: Lecture 39

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Speaker Notes

Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians 6:1-4    Children & Parents

6.1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”

4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 30:19b

19b Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.

Deuteronomy 5:16

16 “Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Paul’s Letter to the Colossians 3:20-21

20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

21 Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

Book of Common Prayer – For a Blessing on the Families of the Lord

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who settest the solitary in families; We commend to thy continual care the homes in which thy people dwell. Put far from them, we beseech thee, every root of bitterness, the desire of vain-glory, and the pride of life. Fill our homes with faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness. Knit together in constant affection those who, in holy wedlock, have been made one flesh; turn the hearts of the parents to the children, and the hearts of the children to the parents; and so enkindle fervent charity among us all, that we be evermore kindly affectioned one to another; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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