1. Household Rules for the Household of God
Ephesians 5:21-6:9
Twin City Fellowship
Ryan Habbena

2. The Context of the Commands
We are of the Household of God
 Ephesians 5:19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household,
We Are to Be Subject to One Another
Ephesians 5: and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

3. Wives Be Subject to Your Husbands
Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  For 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. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

4. Fighting the Effects of the Fall
Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband”
1 Peter 3:1 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives

5. Husbands – Love Your Wives
Ephesians 5:25-30
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body.

6. Fighting the Effects of the Fall
Genesis 3:16:b Yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
1 Peter 3:7 You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

7. Christian Marriage: An Earthly Reflection of the Eternal Reality
Ephesians 5:31-33: 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. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 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.

8. Honor Your Father and Mother
Ephesians 6:1-2
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the first commandment with a promise), SO THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH.

9. Discipline and Instruction
Ephesians 6:3-4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

10. Instructions to Slaves
Ephesians 6:5-8 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; not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men, knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

11. One “Master” for All
Ephesians 6:9 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.

12. When Commands Collide
Matthew 10:34-37: Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW; and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. .

13. #1 Always Remember that Christ is the Head of the Household
Ephesians 5: and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
Ephesians 1:22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church. :

14. #2 Whatever Situation You Are In – Serve the Lord
Colossians 3:23-24
Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.