Gen. 1:27-28

“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them” Col. 3:19

Harsh = rsvHarshly , cross

1. The Termites

“without natural affection” Rom. 1:31

Hard hearted toward kinHatred instead of love

1. The Termites

“As the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering” Col. 3:12

Gentleness

1. The Termites

“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.” Eph. 4:32

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1. The Termites

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

1. The Termites

drinking, cursing, lying, stealing

physical lust, adultery

money, popular, powerful

1. The Termites

“And the LORD said to her: "Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated from your body; One people shall be stronger than the other, And the older shall serve the younger."

“Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob”

1. The Termites

“Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman” Prov. 21:9

“It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman” Prov. 21:19

“A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger allays contention” Prov. 15:18

1. The Termites

“Be angry and do not sin": do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil”

1. The Termites

Children Split

DivorceSeparation

“Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it”

Ps. 127:1

2. The Damage

Husbands abuse wives

Mothers abort their babies

Aged parents neglected

Euthanasia

2. The Damage

"The soul who sins shall dieThe soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.” Eze. 18:20

2. The Damage

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3. The Solution

3. The Solution

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”

Ps. 119:105

“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life” Jn. 8:12

3. The Solution

3. The Solution

To God – Jn. 14:15

Wife to Husband – Eph. 5:21; Tit. 2:5

Children to Parents – Eph. 6:1

3. The Solution

Prov. 22:15 “rod of correction”

Prov. 23:13-14 “Do not withhold correction from a child...”

3. The Solution

Prov. 31:26 “law of kindness”

Eph. 4:32 “be kind one to another”

3. The Solution

Prov. 22:6

2 Tim. 3:15 “from a child”

3. The Solution

Eph. 6:4

“bring up rightly”

Education - training

3. The Solution

3. The Solution

GOD’S SIMPLE PLAN FOR SALVATION

hearhearbelievebelieve

repentrepentconfessconfess

baptismbaptismACTS 3:22ACTS 3:22

JN. 8:24JN. 8:24

LK. 13:3LK. 13:3

JN. 12:42JN. 12:42

Acts 2:38Acts 2:38Rev. 2:10Rev. 2:10