1. RESPONSIBILITIES OF A CHRISTIAN DAD

2. I. To Be a Provider

3. Ephesians 5:25-33 The Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. A. For your wife I. To Be a Provider

4. Ephesians 5:25-33 The Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 1. To love her I. To Be a Provider

5. Ephesians 5:25-33 The Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. a. Love your wives ( αγαπατε τας γυναικας ) = satisfy her needs I. To Be a Provider

6. Ephesians 5:25-33 The Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. b. The words that describe love: I. To Be a Provider

7. Ephesians 5:25-33 The Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. “gave himself up” - v25 I. To Be a Provider

8. Ephesians 5:25-33 The Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. “make her holy” - v26 I. To Be a Provider

9. Ephesians 5:25-33 The Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. “present her radiant” - v27 I. To Be a Provider

10. Ephesians 5:25-33 The Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. “as their own bodies” - v28 I. To Be a Provider

11. Ephesians 5:25-33 The Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. “feeds and cares for it” – v29 I. To Be a Provider

12. 2. To remain faithful to her. I. To Be a Provider

13. 2. To remain faithful to her. The divorce rate in the United States is close to 50%! I. To Be a Provider

14. 2. To remain faithful to her. The single most important legacy to your children is faithfulness to your wife! I. To Be a Provider

15. I Timothy 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. B. For your family I. To Be a Provider

16. I Timothy 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1. Provide ( προνοέω ) = foresee or set your mind toward their needs. I. To Be a Provider

17. I Timothy 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1. Provide ( προνοέω ) = foresee or set your mind toward their needs. 2. Faith is denied because it is summed up in love. I. To Be a Provider

18. I Timothy 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Hebrews 6:4-6 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. 3. You crucify the Son of God afresh. I. To Be a Provider

19. II. To Be a Professor

20. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. II. To Be a Professor

21. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. 1. The ways to teach: II. To Be a Professor

22. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Instruct & demonstrate – v7 II. To Be a Professor

23. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Visualize – v8-9 II. To Be a Professor

24. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. 2. When to teach II. To Be a Professor

25. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. While sitting in your house – at mealtime with your family. II. To Be a Professor

26. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. While walking on the road – witnessing in your daily activities. II. To Be a Professor

27. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. While lying down to sleep at night – evening devotions. II. To Be a Professor

28. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. When waking up in the morning – early morning quiet time. II. To Be a Professor

29. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. 3. Who to teach II. To Be a Professor

30. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Your children – v7 II. To Be a Professor

31. I Corinthians 14:35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. Your wives. II. To Be a Professor

32. Romans 2:21 You, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? Yourselves. II. To Be a Professor

33. B. Children’s primary instruction needs to come from dad. II. To Be a Professor

34. B. Children’s primary instruction needs to come from dad. This teaching is accomplished by Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4 II. To Be a Professor

35. B. Children’s primary instruction needs to come from dad. This teaching is accomplished by Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4 Discipline ( παιδεία ) = train by action.... because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. – Proverbs 3:12 II. To Be a Professor

36. B. Children’s primary instruction needs to come from dad. This teaching is accomplished by Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4 Instruction ( νουθεσία ) = train with words. Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. – Proverbs 1:8 II. To Be a Professor

37. B. Children’s primary instruction needs to come from dad. This teaching is accomplished by Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children. – I Thessalonians 2:11 II. To Be a Professor

38. I. To Be a Provider II. To Be a Professor III. To Be a Priest But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood. – I Peter 2:9

39. A. You are to be the spiritual leader of your family Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. – I Corinthians 11:3 III. To Be a Priest

40. A. You are to be the spiritual leader of your family Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. – I Corinthians 11:3 Ephesians 5:22 & 33 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord... However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 1. Your wife is to submit to your authority. III. To Be a Priest

41. A. You are to be the spiritual leader of your family Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. – I Corinthians 11:3 Ephesians 6:1-2 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” — which is the first commandment with a promise... 2. Your children are to obey & honor their parents. III. To Be a Priest

42. B. You are to offer spiritual sacri- fices to God on behalf of your family III. To Be a Priest

43. B. You are to offer spiritual sacri- fices to God on behalf of your family You do this by surrendering your life to the Lord. How? III. To Be a Priest

44. B. You are to offer spiritual sacri- fices to God on behalf of your family Renew your mind Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will. – Romans 12:1-2 III. To Be a Priest

45. B. You are to offer spiritual sacri- fices to God on behalf of your family Deny yourself & follow the Lord Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. – Matthew 16:24 III. To Be a Priest

46. B. You are to offer spiritual sacri- fices to God on behalf of your family Prayers of intercession & praise Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that confess his name. – Hebrews 13:15 III. To Be a Priest

47. Dad! Take on the role God has assigned you. He has given you all you need to be successful!