2. The Prison Epistles A Study of the Letters Paul Wrote While Imprisoned in Rome Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, & Philemon

3. Outline of Ephesians All spiritual blessings are from God and available to man “in Christ” (1:3, Chapters 1 - 3) God showed his favor toward man, He gave his Son to purchase the forgiveness of our sins, and He provided a plan for our salvation and fellowship with Him. Walk worthy of your calling (4:1, Chapters 4 - 6) Because of what God has done for us, and because of the great price that was paid for our sins and the great benefit we have as Christians, we must follow God as children, living as our Father instructs us.

4. Ephesians 5:22 – 6:9 Wives and Husbands, Children and Parents, Servants and Masters Good lesson material: http://www.rdsermons.com/page.html#Series: The Church In Ephesians http://www.rdsermons.com/page.html#Series: The Church In Ephesians James 3:1-2 Eph 5:22-33 Husbands and wives 5:32-33 Paul reveals much about Jesus’ relationship to his church by comparing it to the husband and wife relationship: –The husband is head of the wife as Christ is head of the church (23) –Wives are to be subject to their husbands as the church is subject to Christ (24) –Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church (25) –Husbands nourish and cherish your wife as Christ does the church (29) –We are members of his body, his flesh, his bones (30-31)

5. Ephesians 5:22 – 6:9 Wives and Husbands, Children and Parents, Servants and Masters Eph 5:22-24 Wives 5:22 Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands (ex. I Peter 3:1-6) 5:22 As unto the Lord (compare Eph 6:5, 7) 5:23-24 The husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church Eph 5:25-29 Husbands 5:25-29 Love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church –and gave himself for it (John 15:13) –love his wife as his own body (I Cor 7:33) Eph 5:31-33 Summary

6. Ephesians 5:22 – 6:9 Wives and Husbands, Children and Parents, Servants and Masters Eph 6:1-4 Children and Parents (Col 3:20) Eph 6:1-3 Children Examples: Esther (Est 2:10, 20), Jesus (Luke 2:51) Disobedience (Rom 1:30) Promise (ref. Ex 20:12, I Tim 4:8) Eph 6:4 Fathers Discouragement (ex. I Kings 12:13, Gen 37:3-4) Don’t be as Eli (I Sam 3:13) Be as Abraham (Gen 18:19) Instruct them about friends, their mate, their work (Proverbs “my son...”)

7. Ephesians 5:22 – 6:9 Wives and Husbands, Children and Parents, Servants and Masters Eph 6:5-9 Servants and Masters Eph 6:5-8 Servants (Col 3:22-25) slave, bondman, servant Could involve choice (Rom 6:16-17) Involves obligation (Phm 14-16) It is not now / was not then right to violate I Tim 1:10 or Matt 7:12 (Eph 5:11) With fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto Christ, not with eyeservice, doing the will of God from the heart, with good will. Eph 6:9 Masters (Col 4:1) forbear threatening (I Peter 2:18-19)