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Children, Obey Your Parents
Colossians 3:20-21
Volition: Genesis 2:15-17
Marriage: Genesis 2:18-25
Family: Genesis 1:28
Labor: Genesis 2:4-9, 15
Government: Genesis 9:6
Colossians 3:18-4:1
Rom 13:1-7; 1 Pt 2:13-15
Created to be a helper
Created to be in a position of voluntary submission
Created to be a picture of the Trinity
She has to do this in a fallen world
Example: God, the Covenant Keeper
Exhibition: Christ loving the Church
Exhortation: Do not become bitter
What is Obedience?
Why Obey?
Obedience and Sanctification
The Father’s Responsibility
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well- pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20
Be obedient (ὑπακουω hypakouō present active imperative) Be subject, v. 18 (ὑποτασσω present middle imperative)
To follow instructions, obey, follow, BDAG
Winds, waters, and demons OBEY Christ Matthew 8:27; Mark 1:27
Obey means obey
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well- pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20
Obedience leads to discipline Doing what you don’t want to do is good for you! Self discipline is necessary for life
Obedience prepares you for your future You will have to obey others as an adult
Obedience equals order Disobedience equals disorder God is a God of order, 1 Corinthians 14:33, 40
Punishment for dishonoring parents was severe in OT Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9; Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well- pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20
… the first commandment with a promise… Ephesians 6:1-3
The Fifth Commandment, Exodus 20:12 Would stay in the Land if their children obeyed
Generational importance
They were a redeemed people before the Law Exodus 12:7, 13
The Greatest and Second Greatest Commandments Loving God, and loving others, Matthew 22:36-40 First 4 Commandments, and last 6 commandments,
Exodus 20:1-17
Obeying the Law meant staying in the Land Leviticus 20:22
Obeying the Law is sanctification Israel, the redeemed nation disobeyed the Law All Believers are not Disciples, John 8:31-32, Ephesians
5:7-10; 1 Peter 1:14-16; Romans 6:12-14; all the commands of the NT
Children obeying parents pictures sanctification
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well- pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20
Sanctification equals reward Keeping the Law meant Israel could stay in the Land
Being sanctified equals reward at the Bema for Believers, 1 Cor 3:10-15; 2 John 8; Revelation 22:12
Sanctification is well-pleasing, Romans 12:1-2
Children fulfill God’s purpose for them at this point in their lives.
Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart. Colossians 3:21
Fathers (οἰ πατερες): can mean parents Hebrews 11:23
Do not exasperate (ἐρεθιζω erethizō) Stir to action, provoke, agitate Pick on them like a bully
Discouragement means no chance of lifelong obedience.
Still responsible to discipline Proverbs 13:24; 19:18; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:15, 17
What is Obedience?
Why Obey?
Obedience and Sanctification
The Father’s Responsibility
“This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of
Me.”
“This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as
you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
1 Corinthians 11:24-25
There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood, loose all their guilty stains;
Lose all their guilty stains, Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood, loose all their guilty stains.