Playlist: Parents, Submitting to (topic)
WHAT?! Me Submit to Someone Else?
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsChildren's obedience to parents is one of three applications of the general principle of submitting to one another in the fear of Christ, alongside wives to husbands and servants to masters. Paul restated the fifth commandment as applied to children, and he adds "in the Lord" to the command in Ephesians 6:1: "Children, obey your …
Parenting (Part 4): Discipline
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughChildren must honor and obey their parents, because parental authority is the divinely ordained chain of command. The fifth commandment (Deuteronomy 5:16) stands directly after the four commands about God and carries the promise of long life and well-being. Paul repeats it in Ephesians 6:1-3, and honor includes obedience. …
Parenting (Part 2): Fathers
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughGod has set the family in an order of father, mother, and children, and the father holds ultimate authority and responsibility under Christ. Children are to obey and honor their parents in the Lord, as Ephesians 6:1-4 commands, and the children of church leaders especially must be kept in submission and reverence to both father …
A Heritage and a Reward
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsChildren's submission to parents is one example of the mutual submission Christians owe one another (Ephesians 5:21), and Paul names two duties: obedience and honor. Obedience is the fundamental relationship of child to parent. It is right by natural law, which all cultures recognize, and it is a Christian duty grounded in the …
Remember the Rechabites!
Sermonette by Ted E. BowlingJonadab, who demonstrated his zeal toward God by assisting Jehu in ridding Israel of idolators, is one of the finest examples of fatherhood in the Bible.
The Commandments (Part Eleven)
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughHonor of parents is the basis for good government. The family provides the venue for someone to learn to make sacrifices and be part of a community.
The March Toward Globalism (Part Eight)
Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Satan is cultivating vessels of destruction by turning God's principles of child-rearing upside-down, encouraging permissiveness and destroying the family.
Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part One)
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsWives are admonished to submit to their husbands, children to their parents, servants to their overseers, and we all are admonished to submit to one another.