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Family Relations
Marion Clark
Ephesians 6:1-4
Introduction
This is one Bible passage that talks directly to children and so this sermon will directly address them. Hopefully, the adults will listen in and learn something as well.
Text
''Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.''
You know what ''obey your parents'' means. When they tell you to do your homework, or to put your dishes away after supper, or to make your bed in the morning, you should do what they say. They should not have to tell you twice. They should not have to threaten to punish you. You should just do it.
What does it mean to obey your parents ''in the Lord''? Think of it this way. Right now, when your parents ask you to do something, you might think only about them and how you feel about them. So, when your mother says you need to clean your room or your dad wants you to rake the leaves, you think about whether or not you want to obey them. But what the Bible is saying here is to think about obeying the Lord. When you obey your parents, you are really obeying the Lord.
Do you remember the parable that Jesus gives about the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25? He says there are people who will be rewarded for taking care of him when he was sick and in prison. They will reply, ''When did we ever help you like that?'' And he will tell them that as they helped other people in those conditions, so they were helping him. In the same way, when you treat your parents right by being obedient, you are really serving the Lord.
And when you think in this way, about how God, how the Lord is involved, you will find it actually easier to do what is right. One young person had this to say about the same thing: ''I used to argue with my family and at the time I felt it was a nice thing to get anger out.... I started to think about what God would be thinking of all the arguing that I had done.'' And that is when he began to change.
So, you are to ''obey your par ...
Marion Clark
Ephesians 6:1-4
Introduction
This is one Bible passage that talks directly to children and so this sermon will directly address them. Hopefully, the adults will listen in and learn something as well.
Text
''Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.''
You know what ''obey your parents'' means. When they tell you to do your homework, or to put your dishes away after supper, or to make your bed in the morning, you should do what they say. They should not have to tell you twice. They should not have to threaten to punish you. You should just do it.
What does it mean to obey your parents ''in the Lord''? Think of it this way. Right now, when your parents ask you to do something, you might think only about them and how you feel about them. So, when your mother says you need to clean your room or your dad wants you to rake the leaves, you think about whether or not you want to obey them. But what the Bible is saying here is to think about obeying the Lord. When you obey your parents, you are really obeying the Lord.
Do you remember the parable that Jesus gives about the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25? He says there are people who will be rewarded for taking care of him when he was sick and in prison. They will reply, ''When did we ever help you like that?'' And he will tell them that as they helped other people in those conditions, so they were helping him. In the same way, when you treat your parents right by being obedient, you are really serving the Lord.
And when you think in this way, about how God, how the Lord is involved, you will find it actually easier to do what is right. One young person had this to say about the same thing: ''I used to argue with my family and at the time I felt it was a nice thing to get anger out.... I started to think about what God would be thinking of all the arguing that I had done.'' And that is when he began to change.
So, you are to ''obey your par ...
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