Part 6 | Getting God’s Best in Every Relationship
From Ephesians 5:22-6:4
Getting God’s best out of my relationships involves:
1. Seeing from .
📖 Genesis 1:26 (ESV) Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
📖 John 3:16 (ESV) “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
Every I have as a Christian must be on Christ.
📖 Ephesians 5:22 (ESV) Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord…
📖 Ephesians 5:25 (ESV) Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
📖 Ephesians 5:28-30 (ESV) In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body.
📖 Ephesians 6:1 (ESV) Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
📖 Ephesians 6:4 (ESV) Fathers bring (your children) up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
My spouse, child, parent, boss, employee is:
1. Made in God’s . (Genesis 1:26)
2. by God. (John 3:16)
3. Assigned to God’s . (Acts 17:26-27)
When I them – I see someone in God’s image, by my and here for a .
Getting God’s best out of my relationships involves:
2. from the .
📖 Proverbs 27:17-18 (ESV) Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. 18 Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
TRUTH: beats .
📖 Ephesians 5:31-32 (ESV) “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
1. “become one flesh” – that involves change.
2. “refers to Christ” – that involves representation.
📖 1 Peter 3:1-2 (ESV) wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
📖 Ephesians 6:2-3 (ESV) “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
📖 Ephesians 6:4 (ESV) Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
📖 Ephesians 6:5 (ESV) Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,
📖 Ephesians 6:6-7 (ESV) not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man
Getting God’s best out of my relationships involves:
3. for the .
📖 Ephesians 5:31 (ESV) “the two shall become one flesh”.
📖 Ephesians 6:3 (ESV) “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
📖 Ephesians 6:8 (ESV) “knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord.”
TRUTH: is a .
📖 Galatians 6:9 (ESV) And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
What is good?
📖 Proverbs 18:22 (ESV) He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
📖 Song of Solomon (NLT) My lover is dark and dazzling, better than ten thousand others!
📖 Proverbs 4:1 (ESV) My children, listen when your father corrects you. Pay attention and learn good judgment,
📖 Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 (ESV) I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.
