Paul adds an ordered life as another response from those who receive God's blessings of salvation. (Eph. 5:22-6:9)

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Ephesians
An Ordered Life
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Mike Mazzalongo
BibleTalk.tv

2. Review
Obligations of the church in response to God’s
offer of Spiritual Blessings:
1. Unity
2. Righteousness
- Loving Attitude
- Life Beyond Reproach
- Piety
- An Ordered Life

3. An ordered life includes:
1. An ordered family

4. 22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to
the Lord. 23 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.
- Eph. 5:22-23

5. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the
wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
- Eph. 5:24

6. 25 Husbands, love your wives
- Eph. 5:25a

7. Greek words for the English word-Love
Eros: Physical/Sensual
Phileos: Friendship
Storgos: Family
Agapao: Sacrificial

8. 25b 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,
- Eph. 5:25b-26

9. 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. 5:27

10. Jesus’ Love Included:
1. His death to save the church.
2. His teachings to guarantee her life.
3. His care to draw her near to him

11. 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,
- Eph. 5:28-29

12. 30 because we are members of His body.
- Eph. 5:30

13. Questions Before Marriage
1. Is she willing to submit to me?
2. Am I willing to lead?
3. Am I willing to sacrifice for her?

14. If men knew how to be the head of their
wives as Christ is the head of the church–
women would happily submit themselves
to their leadership.

15. 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.
- Eph. 5:31

16. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking
with reference to Christ and the church.
- Eph. 5:32

17. 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. 5:33

18. 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.
- Eph. 6:1-3

19. 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to
anger, but bring them up in the discipline
and instruction of the Lord.
- Eph. 6:4

20. An ordered life includes:
1. An ordered family
2. An orderly society

21. Order in Society
Slaves & Masters
Slaves:
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;
- Eph. 6:5

22. 6 not by way of eye service, as men-
pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the
will of God from the heart.
- Eph. 6:6

23. 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.
- Eph. 6:7-8

24. Order in Society
Slaves & Masters
Masters:
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. 6:9

25. Obligations of the church in response to God’s offer
of Spiritual Blessings:
1. Unity
2. Righteousness
- Loving Attitude
- Life Beyond Reproach
- Piety
- An Ordered Life
- In Family
- In Society