“Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.” (Col. 3:20) The primary responsibility God gives to children is to obey their parents. The word “obey” is literally “to hear under.” It means not...
Whenever we see a moral and spiritual decline in society, one of the contributing factors to such apostasy is disobedience to parents. Paul lists this as one of the characteristics of the Gentile world prior to the call of Abram (Rom. 1:30). He also tells Timothy that...
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter toward them.” (Col. 3:19) The husband’s primary responsibility is to love his wife. The question is: What kind of love does God have in mind? There are four different Greek words for love: eros, storge,...
In Colossians 3, Paul begins by specifying the primary responsibility that the wife is to focus on in marriage. “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.” (Col. 3:18) The word “submit” means “to place or arrange...
Paul begins with marriage, the foundation of the home. Marriage was instituted by God in the very beginning. We read in Genesis 1 and 2 how God created all things in six days and rested from His work on the seventh. At the end of each day we read: “And God saw...
“Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it…” (Psalm 127:1) While this expression might apply to anything that God’s people build, when you read the following verses of this Psalm (vs. 3-5), it seems clear that the word...
