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OUTLINE FOR SUNDAY MESSAGE, 5-10-26
“IT’S STARTS AT HOME,”
EPH. 5:22-6:4 (KJV)
Ephesians 5:22–6:4 (KJV)
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
FATHER, EPH. 6:2, DEFINED
Greek pater, Strngs. 3962, “a nourisher, protector, upholder.”
MOTHER, EPH. 6:2, DEFINED
Greek meter, pronounced may-tare, Strngs. 3384, a mother.
The agape of God is witnessed through the institution of the family. Provision, protection, security, love, companionship, fellowship, communion, are all part of the family experience. God is the God of order. Husbands are to love their wives like Christ loved the Church. The wife is to respect her husband. Children are to obey their parents, for this commandment comes with the promise of longevity. To honor them, respect them, obey them, is God’s order, the principle of authority. It starts at home. If we don’t teach our children the order of God at home then they will not respect authority anywhere else. Rebellion against God, the supreme authority, is the ultimate goal of Satan. No authority, no order, confusion, no God.
HONOR, EPH. 6:2, DEFINED
Greek timao, Strngs. 5091, “to honor,” Vines Expository Dictionary on Biblical Words.
OBEY, EPH. 6:1, DEFINED
Greek hupakouo, Strngs. 5219, “to listen, attend,” and so, “to submit, to obey.”
Proverbs 1:8–9 (KJV)
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.
Proverbs 6:20–23 (KJV)
20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment,
And forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart,
And tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee;
When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee;
And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light;
And reproofs of instruction are the way of life.
Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)
6 Train up a child in the way he should go:
And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 13:1 (KJV)
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction:
But a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs 22:15 (KJV)
15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child;
But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 29:17 (KJV)
17 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest;
Yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Malachi 2:11–17 (KJV)
11 Judah hath dealt treacherously,
And an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem;
For Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved,
And hath married the daughter of a strange god.
12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar,
Out of the tabernacles of Jacob,
And him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.
13 And this have ye done again,
Covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out,
Insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more,
Or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
14 Yet ye say, Wherefore?
Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth,
Against whom thou hast dealt treacherously:
Yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit.
And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your spirit,
And let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away:
For one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts:
Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
17 Ye have wearied the Lord with your words.
Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him?
When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord,
And he delighteth in them;
Or, Where is the God of judgment?
Raise up godly seed. Train children in the knowledge of the Lord and the kingdom. While they can be influenced, we must teach them the kingdom. Like wet cement, we’ve got to train them while we can and they’re conformable. The family institution is God’s idea so that children will be trained up in the admonition of the Lord that from an early age they know Him. Our young people are being pressured by the enemy through their peers, to fit in with the crowd, to fit in the click. Young people, you ought to make up in your mind, if Jesus is not the central focus then I don’t want anything to do with it. Dare to be different, not just for the sake of being different, but in order that I do what’s right by God. If being right by God means that I be different then let it be so. Eagles don’t flock anyway, chickens do.
THE FAMILY THROUGH SCRIPTURE
Be Fruitful and Multiply: Genesis 1:27–28 (KJV):
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And they shall be one flesh: Genesis 2:24–25 (KJV):
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, Amplified Bible: Deuteronomy 6:1–9 (KJV):
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Because He sought a godly offspring [from your union], Amplified Bible: Malachi 2:15 (KJV):
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit.
And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your spirit,
And let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Honor, esteem and value as precious, your father and your mother, Amplified Bible: Ephesians 6:2 (KJV):
2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;).
Honor thy father and thy mother: Exodus 20:12 (KJV):
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
OUTLINE FOR BIBLE STUDY MONDAY, 5-4-26
“THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER,”
JAMES 5:13-15 (KJV)
James 5:13–18 (KJV)
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
The Greek word for effectual, interestingly enough, I found in several commentaries, is the word “energeo,” which in turn could read, “Prayer, when energized by the power of the Holy Spirit, causes things to happen. It means to be active, efficient:-do (be), effectual (fervent), be mighty in, shew forth self, work (effectually in). Elijah was a man in the natural just like any other man, yet he stopped the rain for 3 ½ years because of his praying, then prayed again for rain and the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. We’ve noted scriptures that reveal prayer at different times, different postures, the different kind of prayers, as well as the formula for answered prayer. I want to examine the scriptures on prayer from a totally different angle yet still encompassing the spirit of “effectual fervent prayer.”
Psalm 51:1–17 (KJV)
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions:
And my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,
And done this evil in thy sight:
That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
And be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity;
And in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:
And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness;
That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins,
And blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God;
And renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence;
And take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
And uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
And sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:
And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips;
And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it:
Thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
This Psalm has been attributed to king David, and in particular when he sinned with Bathsheba, but the level of intimacy, communion, fellowship, honesty, repentance, relationship, and the heart of David being revealed to his God in prayer highlights the power of prayer in the soul of a man. Throughout scripture we witness the strength of the human spirit in relationship with the Father of spirits. We also witness relational discourse between David, whose heart is troubled because of his sin, and His God who obviously he has as best of a relationship you could have under the Old Testament, but David always comes off to me as close to a man under grace as you can possibly be in the Old Testament times. There’s power in prayer, but not just for getting our needs met, but even more importantly, in having a personal relationship with the God of our salvation.
Luke 18:9–14 (KJV)
9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
I wrote a little pamphlet whereas I encourage new converts that more than religion, outward formality, and mechanical worship, Christianity is a personal relationship with God. But I’ve learned a powerful thing since those days and I have come to the conclusion that it is even more important as we mature spiritually and as we become more involved in the work of the ministry, maintaining a personal relationship must be priority. We can’t get so busy in the work of the ministry that we neglect our personal relationship with the Lord.
Isaiah 58:1–11 (KJV)
Cry aloud, spare not,
Lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
And shew my people their transgression,
And the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily,
And delight to know my ways,
As a nation that did righteousness,
And forsook not the ordinance of their God:
They ask of me the ordinances of justice;
They take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?
Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure,
And exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate,
And to smite with the fist of wickedness:
Ye shall not fast as ye do this day,
To make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen?
A day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
And to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Wilt thou call this a fast,
And an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
To loose the bands of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
And to let the oppressed go free,
And that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry,
And that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?
When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him;
And that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
And thine health shall spring forth speedily:
And thy righteousness shall go before thee;
The glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer;
Thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am.
If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke,
The putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry,
And satisfy the afflicted soul;
Then shall thy light rise in obscurity,
And thy darkness be as the noonday:
11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually,
And satisfy thy soul in drought,
And make fat thy bones:
And thou shalt be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Isaiah 1:1–19 (KJV)
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth:
For the Lord hath spoken,
I have nourished and brought up children,
And they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner,
And the ass his master’s crib:
But Israel doth not know,
My people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity,
A seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters:
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger,
They are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more?
Ye will revolt more and more:
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it;
But wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores:
They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire:
Your land, strangers devour it in your presence,
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,
As a besieged city.
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant,
We should have been as Sodom,
And we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom;
Give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord:
I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;
And I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me,
Who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me;
The new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
It is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
They are a trouble unto me;
I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you:
Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear:
Your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well;
Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.
The disciplines of prayer, meditation, and fasting, all are an awesome spiritual arsenal to maintaining and prioritizing our personal relationship with the Lord. It’s for our own spiritual benefit to ensure that we are, in fact, putting God first in our lives. It’s in our prayer closet, like David, we open up our hearts in transparency to Him. It’s also our hiding place, our secret place on the altar of our hearts where fellowship, communion, and intimacy is between us and the God of our salvation. It’s a place where we talk to God and He talks to us in that still small voice. It’s where we’re revived, restored, refocused, encouraged, strengthened, built up, edified, comforted, experiencing that deeper spiritual relationship with God.
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