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Speaker:James de Costobadie
Date:June 1, 2008
Passage:Ephesians 6:1-9
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Outline:

Children, obey your parents (v1-3)
Fathers, do not provoke your children (v4)
Slaves, obey your earthly masters (v5-8)
Masters, stop your threatening (v9)

Readings:

Ephesians 6:1-9

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

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