2. Be Subject to One Another – Ephesians 5:21-6:9 [Marriage- Christ and the Church; Parents and Children; Slaves and Masters]
Ephesian Series Pt. 7

3. Ephesians Sermon series
1. All Spiritual Blessings In Christ – Eph. 1
2. Our Walk – Ephesians 1-5
3. A Portrait of the Church – Eph. 2:19-22
4. Revelation of the Mystery – Ephesians 3
5. Spiritual Maturity – Eph. 4:11-32
6. Be Imitators of God – Eph. 5:1-21
7. Be Subject to One Another – Eph. 5:21-6:9
9. The Christian Warfare – Eph. 6:10-20

4. “…and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ”
Ephesians 5:21 [NASB 95]
“…and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ”

5. “…and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ”
Ephesians 5:21 [NASB 95]
“…and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ”
Submit yourself to
reverence

6. Be subject to one another – Eph. 5:21 – 6:9
Submit
Use Authority Properly
1. Wives (:22-24)
2. Children (6:1-3)
3. Slaves (6:5-8)
1. Husbands (:25-33)
2. Fathers (6:4)
3. Masters (6:9)

7. 1. Husbands & Wives // Christ & the Church
Be Subject to One Another
1. Husbands & Wives // Christ & the Church
Ephesians 5:22-33

8. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]

9. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]
Submit yourself to

10. Because He commanded it
I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
As you would to the Lord
Because He commanded it
Col. 3:18
Titus 2:5
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]
Submit yourself to

11. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]

12. There is an order (1 Cor. 11:3)
I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]
There is an order (1 Cor. 11:3)

13. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
Eph. 1:20-23
Has the right to direct/control the church
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]
There is an order (1 Cor. 11:3)

14. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]

15. Christ has all authority – Mt. 28:18
I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]
Christ has all authority – Mt. 28:18
Eph. 1:22-23
Col. 2:9-10

16. Christ has all authority – Mt. 28:18
I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]
Christ has all authority – Mt. 28:18
Eph. 1:22-23
Col. 2:9-10

17. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church A. Submission & Headship
 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. [Eph. 5:22-24 NASB95]
Christ has all authority – Mt. 28:18
Eph. 1:22-23
Col. 2:9-10
In all things not contrary to the word of God
(Acts 4:19)
However, an unbelieving husband may be influenced by her submission and reverence for him – 1 Pt. 3:1

18. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church B. Love & Purity
  25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. [Eph. 5:25-27 NASB95]

19. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church B. Love & Purity
Authority cannot be without love
Col. 3:19; 1 Pt. 3:7
  25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. [Eph. 5:25-27 NASB95]

20. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church B. Love & Purity
The greatest example of love – Jn. 15:12-13
  25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. [Eph. 5:25-27 NASB95]

21. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church B. Love & Purity
Parallel between a virgin purified/prepared for her husband
2 Cor. 11:2-4
Sanctified by the truth – Jn. 17:17
  25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. [Eph. 5:25-27 NASB95]
Presented Holy & Blameless
Col. 1:21-23; Eph. 1:3-4

22. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason A man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she  respects her husband. [Eph. 5:28-33 NASB95]

23. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason A man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she  respects her husband. [Eph. 5:28-33 NASB95]

24. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
The same love and care he has for himself
I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason A man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she  respects her husband. [Eph. 5:28-33 NASB95]

25. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
The same love and care he has for himself
I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason A man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she  respects her husband. [Eph. 5:28-33 NASB95]

26. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
The same love and care he has for himself
I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason A man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she  respects her husband. [Eph. 5:28-33 NASB95]

27. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
The same love and care he has for himself
I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason A man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she  respects her husband. [Eph. 5:28-33 NASB95]

28. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
The same love and care he has for himself
I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason A man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she  respects her husband. [Eph. 5:28-33 NASB95]
The similarities b/w marriage and Christ & the church was not obvious

29. I. Husbands and Wives // Christ and the Church C. Membership & Unity
 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason A man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she  respects her husband. [Eph. 5:28-33 NASB95]

30. Be Subject to One Another
2. Children & Parents
Ephesians 6:1-4

31. Children and parents
 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 be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.  4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. [Eph. 6:1-4 NASB95]

32. If the commands agree with God Obedience = submission
Children and parents
As the Lord commands,
If the commands agree with God
Obedience = submission
 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 be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.  4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. [Eph. 6:1-4 NASB95]

33. Children and parents
Because God commanded
It pleases God – Col. 3:20
 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 be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.  4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. [Eph. 6:1-4 NASB95]

34. Children and parents
 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 be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.  4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. [Eph. 6:1-4 NASB95]

35. Children and parents
 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 be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.  4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. [Eph. 6:1-4 NASB95]
Ex. 20:12; Deut. 5:16

36. Don’t discourage your children!
Children and parents
 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 be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.  4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. [Eph. 6:1-4 NASB95]
Don’t discourage your children!
Col. 3:21

37. Children and parents
Train your children
Gen. 18:19
Deut. 6:6-9
Prov. 22:6
2 Tim. 1:5; 3:15
 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 be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.  4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. [Eph. 6:1-4 NASB95]

38. Be Subject to One Another
3. Slaves & Masters
Ephesians 6:5-9

39. Slaves and Masters
 5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;  6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,  8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. [EPH 6:5-9 NASB95]

40. Obedience = submission/ reverence
Slaves and Masters
 5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;  6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,  8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. [EPH 6:5-9 NASB95]

41. As if you were serving Christ
Slaves and Masters
 5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;  6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,  8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. [EPH 6:5-9 NASB95]
Col. 3:22-24
1 Tim. 6:1-2
1 Pt. 2:18-20

42. Slaves and Masters
 5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;  6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,  8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. [EPH 6:5- 9 NASB95]
Mt. 16:27
2 Cor. 5:10

43. Slaves and Masters
 5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;  6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,  8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. [EPH 6:5-9 NASB95]
Don’t abuse your power!

44. Slave or master, both serve the same Master in Heaven!
Slaves and Masters
 5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;  6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,  8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. [EPH 6:5-9 NASB95]
Slave or master, both serve the same Master in Heaven!
Col. 3:25
Deut. 10:17
Ac. 10:34-35

45. Be Subject to One Another
Conclusion
Be Subject to One Another
Husbands & Wives // Christ & the Church
Submission & Headship
Love & Purity
Membership & Unity
Parents & Children
Slaves & Masters