A sermon on obedience to parents by David Camera.

Application questions:

• Describe your home-life growing up.
• What was most important to your parents?
• How did they discipline, or not?
• What did you learn from their example, either positively or negatively?
• Were you an obedient or rebellious child and how did your parents deal with you?
• How do you see the influence of your parents on you today?
• What is the command given to children here, and what are the reasons/motivations provided?
• How are we to understand and apply the promise attached to the fifth commandment?
• Look up Romans 1:28-32; 2 Timothy 3:1-5. How important is the fifth commandment and why according to Paul?
• What can we infer about our children from the fact that Paul addresses children in the church at Ephesus?
• Look back to Ephesians 5:15-21. How is the order of the Christian home connected to Paul’s overall point in this section?
• What are the commands given to fathers in this section?
• How can fathers provoke their children by their parenting?
• What are to be the priorities of Christian parenting? (nb. “bring them up” is the same verb translated “nourishes” in 5:29)
• Read Deut. 6:4-8. What does Paul mean by the discipline and instruction of the Lord?
• How has this passage impacted your view of the importance of family for the church and society?
• If you are a parent, what changes can you make to your parenting in light of this passage?
• How is obedience to parents and act of faith on the part of children?