Family Renewal Colossians 3:18-21

Renewal “Keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” - Col. 3:1 (NASB-U) “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” - Col. 3:3 (NASB-U)

Renewal Col. 3:10 (NASB-U) put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— A Deep-Seated Change: 1. A New Identity 2. New-found Ability to Relate: To God To the Body of Christ To the Family… 1 Tim. 1:5 (NASB-U) But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Family Renewal 1. Only a Snapshot: Complexities exist outside this passage… 2. Applies to singles and without children. 3. Leave room for God’s Growth and Grace. 1. Get Up! “ put on the new self who is being renewed” 2. Grasp God’s Power for Change

Col. 3:18-21 (NASB-U) [18] Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. [19] Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. [20] Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. [21] Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

Family Renewal Respect & Authority: “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.” Col. 3:18 (NASB-U) Authority is necessary in a fallen world. Submission does not mean inferiority: “and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.” Ephes. 5:21 (NASB-U) “…and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life so your prayers may not be hindered.” 1 Peter 3:7 (NASB-U)

Family Renewal Respect & Authority Means: Listening to one another. Receive Correction. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” Genesis 2:24-25 (NASB-U)

Family Renewal Respect & Loving Authority Means: Listening to one another. Receive Correction. Servanthood: “Husbands, love your wives…” Col. 3:19 (NASB-U) “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her” Ephes. 5:25 (NASB-U)

Words Tokens of Love Working Alongside Quality Time (Understanding the other’s viewpoint) Physical Affection

Family Renewal Respect & Loving Authority Means: Listening to one another. Receive Correction. Servanthood Without Bitterness: “…and do not be embittered against them.” Col. 3:19 (NASB-U) Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 (NASB-U)

Family Renewal Respect & Loving Authority Means: Listening to one another. Receive Correction. Servanthood Without Bitterness

Family Renewal Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses Respect & Loving Authority with Children: Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart. Col. 3:20-21 (NASB-U)

Family Renewal Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses Respect & Loving Authority with Children: Make Them Feel Loved: But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. Having so fond an affection for you… you had become very dear to us. 1 Thes. 2:7,8a (NASB-U)

Family Renewal Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses Respect & Loving Authority with Children: Make Them Feel Loved …With Proper Discipline You know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children 1 Thes. 2:11 (NASB-U)

Family Renewal Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses Respect & Loving Authority with Children: Make Them Feel Loved …With Proper Discipline Child-Centered, not Parent-Centered Encouragement and Explanation: Rational Not an External Focus: Attitudinal Change Not Guilt-Motivated Not While in Anger

Family Renewal Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses Respect & Loving Authority with Children With Christ at the Center “Keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” - Col. 3:1 (NASB-U) “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” - Col. 3:3 (NASB-U) “Put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him.” - Col. 3:10 (NASB-U)

Family Renewal Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses Respect & Loving Authority with Children With Christ at the Center Same for Singles: NOW is an Opportunity! For the Whole Family "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.” - Luke 9:24 (NASB-U)