Ephesians 6:1
1 Children, [teknon] obey [hupakouo] your [humon] parents [goneus] in [en] the Lord: [kurios] for [gar] this [touto] is [esti] right. [dikaios]
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. NASB
The husband is the head
of the home and is commanded to love his wife as Christ loves the church. Love here is based on principle, and
therefore the husband is the driving force for the principles of truth within
the family.
The wife is commanded to
submit to her husband, which establishes the principle of authority and respect
which too is commanded of the wife.
Now, the children are
commanded to obey their parents.
Obedience here means to listen, to be attentive, to heed, to hearken,
and thus to follow instruction.
It is presumed here that
the parents are knowledgeable in life and thus have the wisdom to lead and to
teach their children in the ways of the world and of life and especially of doctrine,
which ties all of life together, making everything clear and understandable and
discernible.
Children, is a reference
to those who are living under the roof of their parents. Those children who have grown up and are off
on their own, again, presumably learned what they have needed to learn and are
thus prepared to lead their own families.
One of the objectives of
the family, is to raise their children such that while they are under authority
and responsibility to their parents, will soon learn to be independent from
their family and able to function autonomously in life apart from their
parents.
And so it is with the
spiritual life.
God raises us all up in
doctrine, so that we are not only complete, but so that we will be independent
from the entrapments of this world, but so too that we will be able to live
autonomously from this world, looking to God alone for guidance and safety in
faith.
Likewise, the parents
have been successful when their children grow up and are able to live life and
function independently from them. They
make their own decisions, they fall, they get up, they forge ahead with their
own plans and goals and discover for themselves the purpose that God has
designed for them personally.
This is right, means just
that. There is but one way to live life
and that is in accordance with doctrine.
For through doctrine all
things come to us from God, and life comes to us in a phenomenal way, even
beyond our imagination.
Bible doctrine is the
foundation for all of existence, authority is the structure that promotes
growth and containment within reality, and obedience is the discipline that
leads us to great accomplishment.
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