THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6:1-9 SPIRITUAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN RELATIONSHIPS

Mike teaches today. 06/26/21

THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6:1-9
SPIRITUAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN RELATIONSHIPS

VERSES: Exodus 20:12; Proverbs 22:15, 23:13-14; Colossians 3:20; Matthew 5:5

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Read Verses 1-9… Chapters 3 through 6 are largely words of regulation and guidance from God on how Christ followers are to live on the Earth in their relationships. In the first place because it is ‘right’, and in the second in order that believers by loving faith and obedience be capacitated in Christ-likeness in the power of the Holy Spirit that they might obtain unto Christ’s promised Millennial Kingdom worthiness.

The ongoing practical guidance and warning of these verses continues to stem from the dominant statement of Ephesians 5:21… “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God Christ.” It is the perfect formula for relationships.

We were instructed in marriage in the previous Passage, where we went back to the Garden experience of Adam and Eve where Scripture reveals that God put the Husband over the Wife as it was the Man who came first and Woman came out of Man. The great missing of the mark of the couple is found in that Adam lacked ‘loving leadership’ for his wife, and Eve lacked ‘reverence’; that is to say obedience and loyalty. Responsibility in Leadership was the requirement of the Man and responsibility in Loyalty or Reverence was the requirement of the Woman. This is God’s pattern for government in the family (or in any relation where two or more people are connected). It is neither a democracy, where everyone has a vote, nor a dictatorship, where one arbitrarily commands all, that is God’s decree in Man’s relationships. Neither party, he who is leader or he that is led, is to speak of their ‘rights’ or chafe against the other, but they are to serve responsibly in the capacity in which they are. To be ‘responsible’ means that each person has the other’s well being always in mind, resulting in a harmonious outcome.

Now Paul is adding Children to the family relation and framework of leadership and reverence/loyalty. There is no mention of ‘rights’, but only of responsibilities. Note that the Holy Spirit speaks to Children directly, which is an affirming Word that Children are incorporated members of the ‘Body’ of Christ. Whereby making them responsible for their Godly actions in holiness and righteousness. At what Age? Now in the Jewish community, a Child of 12 is to be considered responsible for their actions. (Seen in how Jesus, at 12, was found in the Temple preaching.) But in New Testament understanding, we see that a Child comes into standing in Christ on the same ground as an adult; that is on ‘believing’ in Jesus as their Savior. Now regardless whether they have been properly reared or not by their parents, the Lord requires the standard set in the Old Testament to be applied to Children in the New Testament… “Children obey your parents… (Some might say that this is a sure example of Christians being under the Law of Moses Exodus 20:12, but New Testament Scripture disproves that false doctrine as can be seen in Romans 6:14-16, Galatians 3:24-25; 5:18, Colossians 2:14 as they are set apart in baptism. Romans 2:19; 6:3-4; 7:4-6 all confirming. The right attitude of a Christian towards the Law of Moses is summarized in this Epistle in Ephesians 2:11-22… “Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.”). What the Law is, is but a ‘standard’ for holiness and righteousness to a believer in Christ. It is not necessarily the ideal (as it often falls short of it). The quote, in standard, is not to be taken as a directive by the Holy Spirit that a Christian is to be obedient to the Law of Moses or is to aspire to Law-keeping as seen in the verse as it continues with; “in the Lord…” In this statement, in the Lord is where the ‘standard’ is no longer to be considered the command for a believer in that 1) it was only by the power of the will of flesh that the Law of Moses should be kept, the observer being void of the inward influence of the abiding power of the Holy Spirit 2) the command of the Law is accompanied by a disqualifying curse when not fully and continually kept. (Galatians 3:10)

The Child might ask when instructed by the Word of Christ: Why must I ‘reverence’ /obey my parents? The answer is seen in the rest of Verse 1, which is because… “this is right” or righteous says the Lord. No other reason is....

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