Family Love

February 11, 2024

Family Love
WHERE HUSBANDS TREAT THEIR WIVES…
1. With love and without bitterness, as Christ loved the church – Col 3:19
2. Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
WHERE WIVES RESPOND TO THEIR HUSBANDS…
1. With love and obedience – Tit 2:4-5
WHERE FATHERS RAISE THEIR CHILDREN…
1. Without provoking them to wrath – Col 3:21; Ep 6:4a
2. In the nurture and admonition of the Lord – Ep 6:4b
3. With proper discipline when needed – Pr 13:24
WHERE MOTHERS RAISE THEIR CHILDREN…
1. With love – Tit 2:4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,
WHERE CHILDREN REACT TO THEIR PARENTS…
1. With obedience – Col 3:20; Ep 6:1 Children, aobey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2. With honor – Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
WHERE ALL ARE DEDICATED TO SERVING HIM…
1. Having a genuine faith from one generation to another – cf. 2Ti 1:5
2. I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.
Where love is ACTION not emotion!