Children, Obey Your Parents

Colossians 3:20-21

Volition: Genesis 2:15-17

Marriage: Genesis 2:18-25

Family: Genesis 1:28

Labor: Genesis 2:4-9, 15

Government: Genesis 9:6

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Rom 13:1-7; 1 Pt 2:13-15

Created to be a helper

Created to be in a position of voluntary submission

Created to be a picture of the Trinity

She has to do this in a fallen world

Example: God, the Covenant Keeper

Exhibition: Christ loving the Church

Exhortation: Do not become bitter

What is Obedience?

Why Obey?

Obedience and Sanctification

The Father’s Responsibility

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well- pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20

Be obedient (ὑπακουω hypakouō present active imperative) Be subject, v. 18 (ὑποτασσω present middle imperative)

To follow instructions, obey, follow, BDAG

Winds, waters, and demons OBEY Christ Matthew 8:27; Mark 1:27

Obey means obey

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well- pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20

Obedience leads to discipline Doing what you don’t want to do is good for you! Self discipline is necessary for life

Obedience prepares you for your future You will have to obey others as an adult

Obedience equals order Disobedience equals disorder God is a God of order, 1 Corinthians 14:33, 40

Punishment for dishonoring parents was severe in OT Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9; Deuteronomy 21:18-21

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well- pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20

… the first commandment with a promise… Ephesians 6:1-3

The Fifth Commandment, Exodus 20:12 Would stay in the Land if their children obeyed

Generational importance

They were a redeemed people before the Law Exodus 12:7, 13

The Greatest and Second Greatest Commandments Loving God, and loving others, Matthew 22:36-40 First 4 Commandments, and last 6 commandments,

Exodus 20:1-17

Obeying the Law meant staying in the Land Leviticus 20:22

Obeying the Law is sanctification Israel, the redeemed nation disobeyed the Law All Believers are not Disciples, John 8:31-32, Ephesians

5:7-10; 1 Peter 1:14-16; Romans 6:12-14; all the commands of the NT

Children obeying parents pictures sanctification

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well- pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20

Sanctification equals reward Keeping the Law meant Israel could stay in the Land

Being sanctified equals reward at the Bema for Believers, 1 Cor 3:10-15; 2 John 8; Revelation 22:12

Sanctification is well-pleasing, Romans 12:1-2

Children fulfill God’s purpose for them at this point in their lives.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart. Colossians 3:21

Fathers (οἰ πατερες): can mean parents Hebrews 11:23

Do not exasperate (ἐρεθιζω erethizō) Stir to action, provoke, agitate Pick on them like a bully

Discouragement means no chance of lifelong obedience.

Still responsible to discipline Proverbs 13:24; 19:18; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:15, 17

What is Obedience?

Why Obey?

Obedience and Sanctification

The Father’s Responsibility

“This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of

Me.”

“This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as

you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

1 Corinthians 11:24-25

There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins;

And sinners plunged beneath that flood, loose all their guilty stains;

Lose all their guilty stains, Lose all their guilty stains;

And sinners plunged beneath that flood, loose all their guilty stains.