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What Is Slavery Like Without Threatening? Ephesians 6:5–9, Part 6
What does it mean that masters are to stop their threatening? And how did that revolutionize the slave-master relationship?
Should We Be Motivated by Degrees of Reward? Ephesians 6:5–9, Part 5
How could heaven be perfect and yet some people get more (or less) rewards? How could there be degrees in perfection?
Every Christian Serving with the Whole Soul: Ephesians 6:5–9, Part 4
True Christian love and service spring from within. People-pleasers may sometimes serve, but not from the heart.
Does the New Testament Legitimize Slavery? Ephesians 6:5–9, Part 3
Does the Bible condone slavery?
Can Slaves of Christ Have Another Master? Ephesians 6:5–9, Part 2
The apostle’s words to slaves commanding them to obey their earthly masters apply to all of us — but how?
Let All Earthly Obedience Be Obedience to Christ: Ephesians 6:5–9, Part 1
What can we learn about the lordship of Jesus Christ when we consider the relationship between slaves and masters in the early church?
Fathers, Aim at Trusting, Obedient, Happy Children: Ephesians 6:1–4, Part 2
Fathers, have compassion on your children. Do not provoke them to anger. Be firm in discipline and instruction, but don’t break them.
Do Obedient Children Always Live Long? Ephesians 6:1–4, Part 1
If a child professes faith in Christ and honors his mother and father, yet dies at a young age, has the promise of God failed?
Should Wives Fear Their Husbands? Ephesians 5:31–33, Part 3
What does it mean when Paul writes, “Let the wife see that she fears her husband”?
How Great Is the Mystery of Marriage? Ephesians 5:31–33, Part 2
In a culture that downplays and undermines marriage, we need to know why marriage is worth protecting and cultivating.
What Does It Mean to Become One Flesh? Ephesians 5:31–33, Part 1
What does it mean that a husband and wife are “one flesh”? Is it only a reference to sexual intimacy?
What Does a Husband’s Headship Mean? Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 8
What does it mean for a husband to be a “head” of a household? At least eight things.
Is Christ Selfish to Die for His Own Joy? Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 7
Does it undermine love to have self-interest as a main motivation in caring for others?
First the Church, Then Marriage Follows: Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 6
The model for the first marriage was modeled after Jesus and his bride; not vice versa. This is the meaning of marriage.
The Purpose of Election Is a Church Beautified: Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 5
What did it mean for Christ to wash the church in water with the word?
How Paul Motivates Impossible Love in Marriage: Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 4
The best way for a man to pursue more joy for himself in his marriage is to make it his business to give her all he can of Christ.
What Is Peculiar About Married Love? Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 3
What makes marriage unique among all human relationships? God has made a husband and wife one flesh.
How Did the Divine Husband Love His Wife? Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 2
How did Jesus, the divine Husband, love his wife? He gave himself for her.
Christ Loved Himself in Loving the Church: Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 1
Husbands, don’t settle for imitating the best human husband you can find. Love your wife as the Lord Jesus loved his bride, the church.
Finite, Sinful Headship in Marriage: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 7
Jesus is the perfect leader, the perfect supplier, the perfect protector. How could an imperfect husband possibly imitate him?
How Is Christ Head of the Church? Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 6
Why is the husband called the “head” of the wife? What does the word mean biblically?
Why Aren’t Pre-Fall Adam and Eve the Model for Marriage? Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 5
If Adam and Eve were married and without sin before the fall, why are they not our primary model for Christian marriage today?
Submissively Not Following a Husband: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 4
What does it mean that the wife is called to submit to her husband “in everything”?
Wives, Submit ‘As to the Lord’: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 3
What does it mean for a Christian wife to submit to her husband “as to the Lord”?
Factors Feeding a Wife’s Submission: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 2
Wives take their cues from the church as she submits to the Lord. Husbands take their cues from Christ as he loves the church.
The Most Glorious Relationship Among Humans: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 1
What makes marriage the most glorious relationship on earth? Because it is uniquely modeled on the relationship between Christ and his church.
The Sweet Experience of Fearing Christ: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 9
Our fear of Christ is not only a fear. We do fear him, but we also trust him and love him and delight in him.
Submit to One Another, Full of the Spirit: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 8
How do we count others better than ourselves, even when we might be more gifted than they are?
Give Thanks for Everything — Really? Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 7
God does not command us to give thanks for some things, or even most things, but for all things. How could we do that?
How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 6
How do we obey the passive command to be filled with the Holy Spirit?
Sing! Sing! Sing! — To Each Other and the Lord: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 5
When we gather together, we not only sing to God. We sing to one another in order to build one another up.
The Root Problem with Drunkenness: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 4
Drunkenness is anti-living. It wastes time. It wastes wisdom. It wastes our ability to honor the Lord.
Don’t Let Evil Days Make You Stupid: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 3
We live in evil days. Therefore, walk wisely, purchase time, and seek to understand the will of God.
Be Shrewd and Buy Up Time: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 2
Do you just let life happen to you, or do you pray, do you plan, do you act, do you consider how you spend your time?
How Does Gratitude Serve the Will of God? Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 1
Are you a thankful person? When we are truly filled by the Spirit, we increasingly give thanks for everything.
How to Speak to the Spiritually Dead: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 8
God uses our voice to do the impossible. He sends us to open the eyes of the spiritually dead through our words.
What Kind of Speech Is Shameful? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 7
How do you confront and expose works of darkness without speaking in ways that dishonor Christ?
How Do We Expose Works of Darkness? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 6
To expose unfruitful works of darkness means the uncomfortable work of confronting them, rebuking them, and showing them to be wrong.
Can Imperfect Christians Please the Lord? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 5
Is it true that we are so sinful that nothing we can do could please the Lord?
The All-Nourishing Fruit of Light: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 4
The lifestyle of those who walk in light is full of fruit and goodness. The lifestyle of those who walk in darkness is barren and full of evil.
How Being Becomes Doing: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 3
All the effort of holiness flows from the new birth, the new heart. If you reverse the order, you don’t have Christianity; you have legalism.
What Makes Christianity Different as a Religion? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 2
Once we were lost in darkness as children of darkness. But now, we are light in the Lord. Therefore, walk as children of light.
A New Argument for How to Live: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 1
How do you think of yourself? If you are in Christ, do you consider that he already calls you “light” in the Lord?
How to Escape the Coming Wrath of God: Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 6
No one is justified because they stayed sexually pure. But no one inherits the kingdom of God while living a sexually impure life.
How Does Thankfulness Clean Up the Mouth? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 5
Foolish talk, crude joking, and shameful speech have no place to grow when our communities are filled with explicit thankfulness to God.
How Is Something Not Proper for Saints? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 4
The apostle Paul rarely, if ever, calls believers “Christians,” but he often calls us “saints.” What does the name mean?
Sexual Immorality Is Not Even to Be Named: Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 3
What does it mean that sexual immorality should not even be named among Christians?
How Is Covetousness the Root of Sexual Idolatry? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 2
If Christ is not the King of your heart on earth, he will not be the King that satisfies your heart for all eternity.
Should Saints Be Warned About Wrath? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 1
Those marked by sexual immorality, impurity, and covetousness will not inherit the kingdom of God. Are such warnings aimed at Christians?
Was God Pleased with the One He Cursed? Ephesians 5:1–2, Part 3
If the Father crushed the Son on our behalf, could he also be pleased with his Son while he died?