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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?
Christian Love Is Sacrificial Love: Ephesians 5:1–2, Part 2
Loving others as Christ loved us is not a safe or convenient enterprise. It is a sacrificial love that bleeds.
The Effects of Being Greatly Loved by God: Ephesians 5:1–2, Part 1
The love of God is too great to leave us as we were. Anyone who has experienced the love of God has been transformed by the love of God.
Can You Forgive Those Who Do Not Repent? Ephesians 4:30–32, Part 5
Can you forgive someone who doesn’t repent of doing you any wrong? Can there be real forgiveness?
How Do the Easily Angered Become Tender? Ephesians 4:30–32, Part 4
If you are a Christian, you are a new person. You are not what you were. You are fundamentally, profoundly, deeply new.
The Fruit and Root of Bitterness: Ephesians 4:30–32, Part 3
Whenever we get hurt, we become vulnerable to bitterness. But God calls us to be kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving.
How Does the Spirit Seal Us for Eternity? Ephesians 4:30–32, Part 2
God seals us with his Holy Spirit to ensure we make it home. And this sealing by the Spirit leads to a life of love on earth.
Is God Above Being Grieved? Ephesians 4:30–32, Part 1
What does it mean that God can be grieved? Isn’t he unable to feel human feelings?
Giving Grace with Our Mouths: Ephesians 4:25–29, Part 8
Keep your eyes on fellow Christians. Are they worn out, discouraged, downcast? Ask God for an upbuilding word.
What Is the Christian Alternative to Stealing? Ephesians 4:25–29, Part 7
What does stealing reveal about our hearts? It shows a lack of love for people and a lack of contentment in the Lord.
How Not to Go to Bed Angry: Ephesians 4:25–29, Part 6
Falling asleep with anger is an invitation to the devil to sow bitterness into your life and relationships.
How Does Anger Give Place to the Devil? Ephesians 4:25–29, Part 5
Going to bed angry is dangerous. It invites bitterness into your life, but more than that, it invites the devil.
Does ‘Be Angry!’ Mean, ‘Make Sure You’re Angry’? Ephesians 4:25–29, Part 4
When Paul says, “Be angry, and do not sin,” does that mean we should be angry?
Don’t Lie to Christians, Because They Are You: Ephesians 4:25–29, Part 3
He who loves the church loves himself because he’s a part of the church. Take care how you love your fellow members in Christ.
Christian, Be Passionately Speaking Truth: Ephesians 4:25–29, Part 2
If you don’t love the truth, you don’t love the gospel. If you love the gospel, you will love being a truthful person.
Take Off the Old Uniform, Put On the New: Ephesians 4:25–29, Part 1
Christ does not simply tell us to put off our old lives. He tells us to put on his character.
Renewed in the Spirit of Our Mind: Ephesians 4:17–24, Part 9
Our minds must have more than new ideas to be made new. It must have a new inclination, disposition, and ruling principle.
Deceit Shaped the Old Self: Ephesians 4:17–24, Part 8
Are you still living according to your old sinful life? Put to death old desires and be transformed by truth in Christ.
How Does Truth Free Us from Sin? Ephesians 4:17–24, Part 7
What can save us from our suicidal desires for sin? The truth as found in Christ.
Why New Clothes in Christ? Ephesians 4:17–24, Part 6
The Christian is not just one inwardly. We put on a new man, a new uniform, a new identity that others can see.
How Do We ‘Learn Christ’? Ephesians 4:17–24, Part 5
What does it mean to learn Christ? And if you were studying Ephesians for yourself, how would you answer a question like that from the Bible?