This document discusses relationships in the church according to Ephesians 5-6. It contrasts walking in love, light and wisdom versus sin, darkness and foolishness. It then discusses the relationship between Christ and the church, husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and servants. The key ideas are that Christ is the head of the church and loves/sacrificed for it; wives should submit to husbands as the church does to Christ, and husbands should love their wives as Christ loved the church; children should obey and honor their parents; and servants should serve their masters, knowing they will be judged and rewarded by God, not humans.

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2. Three Sets of Contrast
 Walk in LOVE – not in
unloving sin – Ep 5:1-7
 Walk in LIGHT – not in
darkness - Ep 5:8-14
 Walk in WISDOM – not in
foolishness - Ep 5:15-21
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3.  Christ is the head & Savior - (5:23)
 Therefore . . . the church is to be
subject to Christ in everything – (5:24)
 Christ loves the church & gave
Himself for it – (5:25)
 Christ sanctifies, cleanses and
washes the church – (5:26,27)
 Christ nourishes & cherishes it – (5:29)
 The church is one with Christ, as a
husband & wife – (5:30-32; cf. Rev.
19:7,8; 21:2)
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4.  Wives, submit to your own husbands,
as to the Lord in everything - (5:22,24)
 The husband is head of the wife, as
Christ is head of the church – (5:23)
 Husbands, love your wives, just as
Christ also loved the church – (5:25)
 Husbands ought to love their own
wives as their own bodies - (nourishing
& cherishing)– (5:28,29)
 The husband & wife are one – (5:31)
 Importance of love & respect – (5:33)
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5.  Children, obey your parents in the
Lord, for this is right - (6:1; cf Col. 3:20)
 Children, . . . “Honor your father and
mother," which is the first
commandment with promise: - (6:2,3)
 Fathers, do not provoke your children
to wrath – (6:4; cf. Col. 3:21; Prov.
22:15; 23:13,14; 29:15-17)
 Bring them up in the training and
admonition of the Lord. – (5:25; cf.
Prov. 22:6; Deut. 6:7; 2 Tim. 3:15)
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6.  Bondservants, be obedient to those
who are your masters . . . - (6:5-7; cf
Col. 3:22; 1 Tim. 6:1-3; Tit. 2:9,10)
 Knowing that whatever good anyone
does, he will receive the same from
the Lord - (6:8; Prov. 11:18; Col. 3:22-
24)
 Masters, do the same things to them,
giving up threatening, knowing that
your own Master also is in heaven,
and there is no partiality with Him –
(6:9; Col. 4:1; Luke 6:31; Col. 3:25)
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7. Jesus Christ & His
Church
A Husband & His Wife
Parents & Their Children
Servants & Their Masters
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