Children Obey Your Parents Ephesians 6:1

As Paul the apostle concluded his directives to the “wives” and “husbands” within the Ephesian church, he turned his attention toward “children” in chapter six and verse one of his letter where we read:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

The verse begins, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord:” Paul began with the word, “Children” which refers to “offspring whether male or female who are dependent, possessed, desired, affected and addicted to mothers and fathers”, “obey” or “listen, harken, be obedient to and submit to” “your parents” which means “fathers and mothers” “in the Lord” which refers to “the anointed One, the Messiah and the Son of God”. Paul instructed those who are “offspring” of their “parents” to “listen to and be obedient to” them.

The verse continues, “for this is right.” Paul added, “for this” which means “children being obedient and listening to parents” “is right” or “upright, righteous, virtuous and keeping with the commands of God”. When “children” “harken and submit” to their “parents”, they have “obeyed” the “righteous” ways of God.

When we think through these words of Paul, we once again are reminded of God's perfect way of order and unity. When “children” “listen to and obey” their parents, they are “righteous” in the eyes of God, and peace and unity reside within the home. Contention, strife and chaos are the result of “disobedience” and much turmoil is the consequence of noncompliance and insubordination. If children was to be “right” before our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, let them “obey” their “parents” as unto “the Lord”.

Next time Paul will have more to say to “children”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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