Ephesians 5:23-28 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

Ephesians 5:23-28 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

Ingredients for a successful marriage in the home. Maturity When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11

Ingredients for a successful marriage in the home. Unselfishness Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12

Ingredients for a successful marriage in the home. Unselfishness Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; Romans 12:10

Ingredients for a successful marriage in the home. Trust & Loyalty The heart of her husband safely trusts her; So he will have no lack of gain.12 She does him good and not evil All the days of her life. Proverbs 31:11-12

Family & the Home We need to love one another in the home. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred. Proverbs 15:17

Family & the Home We need to love one another in the home. I drew them with gentle cords, With bands of love… Hosea 11:4a

Family & the Home Mom & Dad are to love one another. Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter." Genesis 29:18 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her. Genesis 29:20

Family & the Home Mom & Dad are to love one another. that they admonish the young women to love their husbands… Titus 2:4a

Family & the Home Mom & Dad are to love the kids Then He said, " Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love… Genesis 22:2a

Family & the Home Mom & Dad are to love the kids Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward. Psalm 127:3

Spiritual Factors for the Home Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.6 "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Employment Relocation Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left."10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar. Genesis 13:9-10

Employment Spiritual Environment But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord. Genesis 13:13

Employment Spiritual Environment and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) 2 Peter 2:7-8

Employment Time Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self- control. 1 Corinthians 7:3-5

Conclusion 1. The Christian will recognize the importance of the Christian family. 2. The Bible tells us how to succeed as a Christian family. 3. We would do well to heed it’s teachings so that we all can get to heaven, including our families.