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Does the New Testament Legitimize Slavery? Ephesians 6:5–9, Part 3
29 maart 2022
Does the Bible condone slavery?
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Can Slaves of Christ Have Another Master? Ephesians 6:5–9, Part 2
26 maart 2022
The apostle’s words to slaves commanding them to obey their earthly masters apply to all of us — but how?
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Let All Earthly Obedience Be Obedience to Christ: Ephesians 6:5–9, Part 1
24 maart 2022
What can we learn about the lordship of Jesus Christ when we consider the relationship between slaves and masters in the early church?
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Fathers, Aim at Trusting, Obedient, Happy Children: Ephesians 6:1–4, Part 2
22 maart 2022
Fathers, have compassion on your children. Do not provoke them to anger. Be firm in discipline and instruction, but don’t break them.
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Do Obedient Children Always Live Long? Ephesians 6:1–4, Part 1
19 maart 2022
If a child professes faith in Christ and honors his mother and father, yet dies at a young age, has the promise of God failed?
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Should Wives Fear Their Husbands? Ephesians 5:31–33, Part 3
17 maart 2022
What does it mean when Paul writes, “Let the wife see that she fears her husband”?
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How Great Is the Mystery of Marriage? Ephesians 5:31–33, Part 2
15 maart 2022
In a culture that downplays and undermines marriage, we need to know why marriage is worth protecting and cultivating.
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What Does It Mean to Become One Flesh? Ephesians 5:31–33, Part 1
12 maart 2022
What does it mean that a husband and wife are “one flesh”? Is it only a reference to sexual intimacy?
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What Does a Husband’s Headship Mean? Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 8
10 maart 2022
What does it mean for a husband to be a “head” of a household? At least eight things.
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Is Christ Selfish to Die for His Own Joy? Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 7
8 maart 2022
Does it undermine love to have self-interest as a main motivation in caring for others?
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First the Church, Then Marriage Follows: Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 6
5 maart 2022
The model for the first marriage was modeled after Jesus and his bride; not vice versa. This is the meaning of marriage.
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The Purpose of Election Is a Church Beautified: Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 5
3 maart 2022
What did it mean for Christ to wash the church in water with the word?
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How Paul Motivates Impossible Love in Marriage: Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 4
1 maart 2022
The best way for a man to pursue more joy for himself in his marriage is to make it his business to give her all he can of Christ.
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What Is Peculiar About Married Love? Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 3
26 februari 2022
What makes marriage unique among all human relationships? God has made a husband and wife one flesh.
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How Did the Divine Husband Love His Wife? Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 2
24 februari 2022
How did Jesus, the divine Husband, love his wife? He gave himself for her.
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Christ Loved Himself in Loving the Church: Ephesians 5:25–31, Part 1
22 februari 2022
Husbands, don’t settle for imitating the best human husband you can find. Love your wife as the Lord Jesus loved his bride, the church.
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Finite, Sinful Headship in Marriage: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 7
19 februari 2022
Jesus is the perfect leader, the perfect supplier, the perfect protector. How could an imperfect husband possibly imitate him?
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How Is Christ Head of the Church? Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 6
17 februari 2022
Why is the husband called the “head” of the wife? What does the word mean biblically?
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Why Aren’t Pre-Fall Adam and Eve the Model for Marriage? Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 5
15 februari 2022
If Adam and Eve were married and without sin before the fall, why are they not our primary model for Christian marriage today?
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Submissively Not Following a Husband: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 4
12 februari 2022
What does it mean that the wife is called to submit to her husband “in everything”?
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Wives, Submit ‘As to the Lord’: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 3
10 februari 2022
What does it mean for a Christian wife to submit to her husband “as to the Lord”?
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Factors Feeding a Wife’s Submission: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 2
8 februari 2022
Wives take their cues from the church as she submits to the Lord. Husbands take their cues from Christ as he loves the church.
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The Most Glorious Relationship Among Humans: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 1
5 februari 2022
What makes marriage the most glorious relationship on earth? Because it is uniquely modeled on the relationship between Christ and his church.
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The Sweet Experience of Fearing Christ: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 9
3 februari 2022
Our fear of Christ is not only a fear. We do fear him, but we also trust him and love him and delight in him.
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Submit to One Another, Full of the Spirit: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 8
1 februari 2022
How do we count others better than ourselves, even when we might be more gifted than they are?
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Give Thanks for Everything — Really? Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 7
29 januari 2022
God does not command us to give thanks for some things, or even most things, but for all things. How could we do that?
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How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 6
27 januari 2022
How do we obey the passive command to be filled with the Holy Spirit?
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Sing! Sing! Sing! — To Each Other and the Lord: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 5
25 januari 2022
When we gather together, we not only sing to God. We sing to one another in order to build one another up.
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The Root Problem with Drunkenness: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 4
22 januari 2022
Drunkenness is anti-living. It wastes time. It wastes wisdom. It wastes our ability to honor the Lord.
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Don’t Let Evil Days Make You Stupid: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 3
20 januari 2022
We live in evil days. Therefore, walk wisely, purchase time, and seek to understand the will of God.
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Be Shrewd and Buy Up Time: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 2
18 januari 2022
Do you just let life happen to you, or do you pray, do you plan, do you act, do you consider how you spend your time?
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How Does Gratitude Serve the Will of God? Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 1
15 januari 2022
Are you a thankful person? When we are truly filled by the Spirit, we increasingly give thanks for everything.
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How to Speak to the Spiritually Dead: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 8
13 januari 2022
God uses our voice to do the impossible. He sends us to open the eyes of the spiritually dead through our words.
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What Kind of Speech Is Shameful? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 7
11 januari 2022
How do you confront and expose works of darkness without speaking in ways that dishonor Christ?
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How Do We Expose Works of Darkness? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 6
8 januari 2022
To expose unfruitful works of darkness means the uncomfortable work of confronting them, rebuking them, and showing them to be wrong.
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Can Imperfect Christians Please the Lord? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 5
6 januari 2022
Is it true that we are so sinful that nothing we can do could please the Lord?
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The All-Nourishing Fruit of Light: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 4
4 januari 2022
The lifestyle of those who walk in light is full of fruit and goodness. The lifestyle of those who walk in darkness is barren and full of evil.
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How Being Becomes Doing: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 3
1 januari 2022
All the effort of holiness flows from the new birth, the new heart. If you reverse the order, you don’t have Christianity; you have legalism.
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What Makes Christianity Different as a Religion? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 2
30 december 2021
Once we were lost in darkness as children of darkness. But now, we are light in the Lord. Therefore, walk as children of light.
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A New Argument for How to Live: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 1
28 december 2021
How do you think of yourself? If you are in Christ, do you consider that he already calls you “light” in the Lord?
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How to Escape the Coming Wrath of God: Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 6
25 december 2021
No one is justified because they stayed sexually pure. But no one inherits the kingdom of God while living a sexually impure life.
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How Does Thankfulness Clean Up the Mouth? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 5
23 december 2021
Foolish talk, crude joking, and shameful speech have no place to grow when our communities are filled with explicit thankfulness to God.
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How Is Something Not Proper for Saints? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 4
21 december 2021
The apostle Paul rarely, if ever, calls believers “Christians,” but he often calls us “saints.” What does the name mean?
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Sexual Immorality Is Not Even to Be Named: Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 3
18 december 2021
What does it mean that sexual immorality should not even be named among Christians?
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How Is Covetousness the Root of Sexual Idolatry? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 2
16 december 2021
If Christ is not the King of your heart on earth, he will not be the King that satisfies your heart for all eternity.
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Should Saints Be Warned About Wrath? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 1
14 december 2021
Those marked by sexual immorality, impurity, and covetousness will not inherit the kingdom of God. Are such warnings aimed at Christians?
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Was God Pleased with the One He Cursed? Ephesians 5:1–2, Part 3
11 december 2021
If the Father crushed the Son on our behalf, could he also be pleased with his Son while he died?
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Christian Love Is Sacrificial Love: Ephesians 5:1–2, Part 2
9 december 2021
Loving others as Christ loved us is not a safe or convenient enterprise. It is a sacrificial love that bleeds.
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The Effects of Being Greatly Loved by God: Ephesians 5:1–2, Part 1
7 december 2021
The love of God is too great to leave us as we were. Anyone who has experienced the love of God has been transformed by the love of God.
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Can You Forgive Those Who Do Not Repent? Ephesians 4:30–32, Part 5
4 december 2021
Can you forgive someone who doesn’t repent of doing you any wrong? Can there be real forgiveness?