Honor God by honoring your family

by brother Steven Chan

Children:
I am
I will
You can honour God by honouring your parents

Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged on the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Engage them for their advice and opinion in your decision making.

Consider their heart's desires in your planning.




Father:
Awesome role with great responsiblities as a father

Every conception that brings a child to life, is planned by God, nothing is coincidental or accidental.

Honour God by responsible fathering

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child [a]in the way he should go, Even when he grows older he will not abandon it.

Represent Abba Father to your children. Watch speech, action, behaviour as a husband, father. Show children off, on the way they should go, and even when they .....

Provide a Godly example by being humble and real.

Husband:
Honour God by becoming lovers for life

Ephesians 5:25-28
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church [a]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28 So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

Love your wives, just as Christ loved the church
Present her, to himself, as a radiant church, holy and blameless
Love their wives, as their own bodies

Husbands: treat your wife as worthy of your honour and respect.

Wives: don't just be a wife, be the lover to your man

Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

As the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Rebellion is opposite of submission. Submission is required by God. Paul said this in the context of christian household. Husbands don't just expect wives to submit only, it has to be out of reverence for Christ in mutual submission.

Before you are married, you must not have sex. Once married, you must have lots of sex ....

Question:
Why is sex such a big temptation for man or why is husband always
1. God created men and women, biologically differently.
2. Women do not desire less sex than men.