Today is Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Hi. My name is Adam Burton and you are listening to the Daily Devo, a short devotional designed to help you apply God's word to your life. The content comes from the Gospel Project.
Take a few moments and read Philemon chapter 1 verses 8-22. This week's essential doctrine is family relationships. God has ordained a family as the foundational Institute of Human Society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption.
Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman and covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God's unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His Church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage, the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation of the human race. The husband and wife are of equal work before God, since both are created in God's image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to his people.
A husband is the love his wife as Christ loves the Church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, protect, and lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband, even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. He, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.
Children from the moment of conception are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God's pattern for marriage. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them through consistent lifestyle examples of loving discipline to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.
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