Christ Centered Family

The Christian family. We're gonna start from the epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians chapter 6 and verses 1 to 4 Ephesians 6 verses 1 to 4. It says Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with promise that it may be well with you and You may live long on the earth and you fathers do not provoke your children to wrath But bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord This is Ephesians 6 1 to 4 St. Paul is Giving a few advises to the children and to the parents children obey your parents Be good to them be submissive to them for this is the commandment and this is the promise that God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai and Fathers do not provoke your children to wrath but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord Today we will look at how the Christian family should be in order to be successful and prosperous We're gonna look on how a Christian family should be in order to be successful and prosperous When we talk about family We go back all the way to the book of Genesis the garden of Eden That's where it all begins the garden of Eden is about family the Lord God The first thing he instituted on the face of this earth was marriage The very first thing God instituted on the face of this earth was marriage and through marriage His intention was to create a family now why because God himself is family God himself is family as Christians. We believe that God is the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit Well, since God is the Father and he has the Son therefore This is family and the bond between the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit so God is family the first thing he established on earth was family and God's Intention is for this family to be for him and him only we see this family in paradise in the garden of Eden The man is in the presence of God Genesis 2 15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend ie Cultivate and keep and keep it So the first thing God created was Adam and he put Adam in the garden of Eden in his presence in his holy presence And he said to Adam.

I want you to look after this garden. I want you to cultivate it and Tend it look after it work it and then we see the woman in Genesis 3 where she was walking alone, and that's when Satan came in the form of a serpent and Tempted the woman and made her fall and through the woman made the man Adam fall as well And she was walking alone in other words God is saying to the man that you need to fulfill the woman's needs otherwise, she'll be searching elsewhere for it if there is a gap in her life and The reason why Eve was walking alone because looks like Adam did not fulfill all the woman's needs That's why there was a gap in her and she started seeking a fulfillment elsewhere, and that's where the danger starts Now there are three important principles For the Christian family three important principles for the Christian family firstly Her principles do not come out of thin air We do not an example of that. We do not know love without a lover We do not know power without a powerful person.

We do not know justice without a just person Meaning All these beautiful values love power justice all these beautiful values without a person Embodying these values. They are absolutely meaningless If there is no person involved if there is no embodiment of these values by a person Then all these beautiful values mean nothing Love without a person loving you what's the point power without a powerful person protecting you? What's the point and the meaning of power? Justice without a just person looking after you and judging fairly and squarely. What will I do with justice means nothing? So it needs a person God intended for this person to embody all these values Now These principles and values we said they do not come out of thin air For the husband and the wife to pluck them out of that thin air They don't come out of thin air for the husband and wife to pluck them out of it You can't pluck love out of thin air.

You can't pluck justice out of thin air. You need to make it happen You need to make it happen Because these principles and values are supposed to be in the fabric of that personality in other words These values they do not come from without they come from within They do not come externally they come internally internally the Personality of that person should contain these principles and values These principles are formed and grow inside that personality Example Let's say and far from every family. Let's say in the event of a marital dispute Number one we need to understand the fault is not in the lack of principles, but rather in the personality itself when a dispute takes place it's not because of lack of principles, but because of a Unbalanced personality.

That's why a dispute occurs and Here the awesomeness of Christianity is revealed Christianity My beloved Christianity did not come to bring a law ie This is right, or this is wrong Christianity did not come to bring a law to teach you this is right, and this is wrong Christianity did not bring principles Capable of making marriage successful it didn't it did not bring principles to make marriage successful No, what did Christianity bring? Christianity came to create a new personality Christianity came to create not to bring laws not to make things happen, but to create a new creation Totally new from head to toe inside and out why because the old person is good for nothing I cannot teach the old person good values because the moment the human nature became corrupt The only thing I can do to it is bury it and create a new nature Christianity came to create a new human and This new human develops and grows and inside of him principles grow capable of success We can read from Ephesians 4 17 now look at st. Paul St. Paul is one of my favorite if not my favorite He's amazing in his teachings Ephesians 4 17 This I say therefore and testify in the Lord that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk in the futility of their mind I Read again this I say therefore and testify in the Lord that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles Walk ie the world do not walk like the world does in the futility of their mind So then the question is st. Paul How can we no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk he gives an answer in Ephesians 4 22 to 24 listen to this that you put off concerning your former conduct the old man which grows corrupt according to the Deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that you put on the new man Which was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness So, how can I stop walking like the world does by walking away from the old man? That was all corrupt and walking in deceit and put on the new man that is created According to God not according to you or anyone else but to God himself Now this new man according to God How does he walk in true righteousness and holiness This new man created according to God walks in true righteousness and holiness true righteousness holiness three things Righteousness is the work of God holiness means not earthly.

I Hope you're paying attention In the Greek language There is a word called Agios and I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly because I don't speak Greek So if my pronunciation is lacking my sincere apologies in advance, but if there is anyone of a Greek descent Please do correct me if I'm mispronouncing it. I love you. Somebody's smiling.

Looks like they Greek Agios is a compounded word two-in-one agi not yos earthly That is a holy man. That's holiness. What is holiness agios? So if somebody asks you who is holy holy is the one who is not earthly Holy is not someone that you can imagine and say Oh, well, a holy person is the one that does miracles raises the dead and does wonders in everything in life.

That's not holiness Holiness literally means not earthly agios Well, who is not earthly is the person that lives on earth, but for God I'll say it again. Who is holy is the person that walks on earth, but lives for God I'm here, but all of me is in heaven Meaning I'm on earth, but nothing earthly affects me because I'm not earthly. I'm heavenly God sent me to represent him on earth.

My role is not to imitate earth, but to change earth into heaven Now that is holy Now that is holy The work which is holiness not earthly is that That is the true Thing which is above time true means above time which has come from God the creator of time this new man Created according to God. He walks in true righteousness and holiness true means above the time Righteousness does the work of God holiness not earthly living for God walking on earth Now verse 24 of Ephesians 4 and that you put on the new man It's an order put on the new man Now the word putting on Here it does not mean same as putting on clothes when st. Paul talks in Ephesians 4 24 that you put on the new man putting on is not the same as putting on clothes, but rather Like a bird putting on its feathers and the earth putting on its greenery This is the meaning of putting on like the bird that puts on its feathers and the earth its greenery Here we observe the following The putting on comes from the inside not the outside Feathers are not glued on the bird from outside feathers come from inside the bird Outside this is putting on so it's an internal action Not an external one put on the new man meaning let this new man Be born in you Created in you in order to Come out of you to the outside.

This is putting on the new man being born into this new man and That you put on the new man meaning there is a true renewal from inside a true renewal We said Christianity did not come to bring laws What is right and what is wrong? Christianity came to create a new man This new man in him Develops and grows principles are that are capable of making that Christian family a successful one now why? We have to be Born into this new man Because my beloved any external principles What do external principles do to the person it conquers the person They do not create a person Conquers the person principles from outside are heavy unwanted because they are imposed upon us Anything that comes from outside We Don't like why because it is imposed you have to do this You have to follow this rule you have to go over there You have to come over here anything that I have to I have to I have to is uncomfortable I do not want it. I reject it. So external principles are laid heavily upon me They do not create me.

They enslave me. In fact enslave me. That's the best and the ultimate they can do Christianity did not come to impose principles from outside Christianity came to create a new human being a new human being this new human produces Beautiful behaviors because the inside is created It's not imposed anymore.

It's a new creation. It comes from within and anything anything that comes from within is natural It's not unnatural anything that comes externally is unnatural uncomfortable, but when it comes from within it is natural I'll explain it more to you for you to understand where I'm coming from Imagine this with me You know and especially in the Middle Eastern countries years back. There was what they called arranged marriages The parents choose your partner in life.

Whoa The poor guy the first time ever he would see what kind of a looks his future wife has is When he's already married tough luck too late He lift up the veil and hope for the best if she is Mariah Carey or some other one kind of scary Imagine you don't love this person. You don't know this person but mom and dad especially dad He will say you listen to your dad and you will do accordingly. I'll whatever I say goes you will marry this person and tough luck Imagine you are living with someone you do not love.

How are you going to last? It's hell Why because it was a principle given from outside to you ie imposed upon you Weighs heavily. I can't breathe. I'm imprisoned.

I don't know what to do anymore But when you choose your Rosella Juliet oh la la possible. It was a jolie. It's a jonti when you choose.

I was in French when you choose Well, I have to speak all these channels because I've gotten people from taxonomic Sweden. I'm getting people from Switzerland I've yet to learn a few words in and that language. I have to learn more So I'm trying my best Habit, I'll be that one easy But imagine you choose the person You fall in love with that person freely naturally.

You see it's an internal principle It's an internal principle internal principle is light internal principle is freedom internal principle is you Not someone you are pretending to be which you can never be why because God never created you to be someone else but you Christianity came to set you free not impose upon you laws in order for you to do him And if you don't you are doomed no This is why Christianity is based on love and that's why Love is associated with a person not a law Law doesn't love you you break the law the law breaks you But the person that loves you even if you break them they will forgive you Because they love you The law has no mercy You break me. I'll break you Not negotiable, but a person know this is why Christianity is totally different to every other religion out there with all love and respect There's no comparison Because all all religions are to do with laws the only faith in existence on earth That is to do with love is Christianity. Why because we're dealing with a person and this person is the new creation Jesus Christ of Nazareth All glory to his holy and mighty name you come to love this person and you when you accept this person This person is born in you.

This person comes out of you from inside outside the principles grow Are from within that it is a natural natural instinct. It's a natural reaction That's why with Jesus there is freedom with Jesus. There is prosperity with Jesus There is enlightenment with Jesus.

There is everything good that you could ever imagine