3. What do you think about when you hear
“Godly Family”?
4. But what if I am not part of a typical family?
• We need to restore the family from the beginning NOT from a time from
our own culture.
• Jesus points to beginning concerning marriage – Matthew 19:3-5
• Biblical Families were in all different types of situations
Grandmom
Mom
Son
Lois
Eunice
Timothy
5. But what if I am not part of a typical family?
• We need to restore the family from the beginning not from a time from
our own culture.
• Jesus points to beginning concerning marriage – Matthew 19:3-5
• Biblical Families were in all different types of situations
Mordecai
Esther
?
Boaz
Ruth
Naomi
6. But what if I am single?
•You can please the Lord and perhaps
have a greater ability to do so
• 1 Corinthians 7:32-35
•“Do not give your strength to women,
Nor your ways to that which destroys
kings.”
• Proverbs 31:3
7. The Helper
• God made Adam a helper comparable to him.
• Genesis 2:18,21-24
• Her husband rules over her
• Genesis 3:16, Eph. 5:22-24
• Her family has much to gain by her presence and her actions
• Proverbs 31:10-21
• I may be filled with joy, when I call to remembrance the
genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your
grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am
persuaded is in you also.
• 2nd Timothy 1:5
8. The Provider
• Has to work
• The ground was cursed to make Adam’s toil more difficult - Gen.
3:17
• The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
Whether he eats little or much;
But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep. - Ecc.
5:12
• The husband submits to his wife needs
• Ephesians 5:25-29, 33
• A man needs to be the spiritual leader of his
household
• Ephesians 5:23