“Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy — The Great Transition, The Glorious Sweep of God’s Abundant Grace — Part 24, Blessings Untold for the Ephesians But As Always, Grace Rules — Part 8”

Ephesians 5-6 — Walking by the Spirit Is the Key to Godly Living — Part 2:Living Grace — Parent - Child Relationships Are Transformed (6:1-4)Living Grace — Relationships In the World Outside Are Ennobled (6:5-9)Living Grace — Our Warfare Against Satanic Foes Will Continue (6:10-24)Paul here goes back to Moses’s Law because some principles of God’s administration over his creation are trans-dispensational.  One of these is the God given relationship ordained between parents and their children. Another he addresses is that between the believer and those outside the Body of Christ.  He picks for the latter from our point of views the rarely found relationship between slaves and their masters.  What is true in that extreme case can easily be applied to many human relationships.  Satan has always sought to harm and destroy those relationships, whatever the dispensational plan of God.  Finally Paul defines the spiritual warfare every believer is part of by necessity.  Indeed, our warfare is spiritual and heavenly and not essentially of this earth however may appear.