07.27.2025 | Spirit-filled Families
Spirit Filled Families
Eph. 5:8 (NIV) For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.
Eph. 5:16 (NLT) Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
Eph. 5:18 (NLT) Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
Eph. 6:1-3 (NLT) Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. “Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise: If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”
1. CHILDREN CHOOSE HONOR
Eph. 5:8-9 (NIV) For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)
- We choose honor by giving value
Mark 6:4 (NLT) Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family.”
Mark 6:5 (NLT) And because of their unbelief, he couldn’t do any miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick people and heal them.
- Your failure to honor a person, may be the reason you are missing the miracle God has for you
Eph. 6:4 (NLT) Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
2. PARENTS PARTNER WITH THE LORD
Right relationships with their children are more important than right performance by the children. - J Wesley Adams
Deut 24:16 (NIV) Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.
Discipline should always be an invitation to intimacy
Eph. 6:4 (NIV) Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
Instruction is training about Him but only made possible through partnership with Him.
Prov. 22:6 (NJKV) Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Mal. 4:6a (NJKV) And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Questions for discussion/reflection
1. Share one of the most difficult aspects of being a child
2. Share a time you witnessed dishonor of a child toward a parent
3. What does honor look like when expressed from you to your parents?
4. What’s the most difficult aspect of honor for you? Why?
5. What’s a helpful guiderail for healthy parenting in your family?
6. Take time for repentance and seeking forgiveness before the Lord and possibly one another where there have been failures in these areas in your family.