Ephesians: Children and Parents

Listen as we look as Anthony Garcia walks us through Ephesians 6:1-4 and shows us how Jesus brings help and hope to both children and parents.

Sermon Quotes:

“God doesn't say, 'Honor your father and mother only when they're honorable.’ Theirs is a position. They hold an office. And even if they are unworthy of that office, the office itself is still to be honored.”  -R.C. Sproul

“Honor is the unsentimental moral nucleus within the complex relationships between any child and their parents. From the day the child is born to the day the parents die—and even reaching beyond their grave as a relationship to an ineradicable memory—everything in the relationship changes except the moral duty of honor. The rule of honor is probably as universal as any human duty. No child, young or old, ought to ever dishonor their parents. In every culture, parents believe in their right to be respect by their offspring. Plato probably registered a universal ethic when he said on the scale of human decencies honor to parents is second only to piety toward God. But absolute as we must admit it to be and universal as we imagine it to be, honor to parents is a duty that shifts and slips in our hands as we try to examine what it calls us, young or old children, to do. - Lewis B Smedes

“This means that my biggest, ongoing problem as a dad is not my children, it’s me. My children don’t cause me to do and say what I do and say. No, the cause of my actions is found inside my own heart. My children are simply the occasion where my heart reveals itself in words and actions. So I need much more than just rescue and relief from my children; I need rescue from me. This is why Jesus came, to provide us with the rescue that we all need but that we cannot provide for ourselves.” - Paul Tripp