Lesson 3
Making Jesus Lord of my life
Making Jesus Lord of my family life
Introduction:
God created marriage, and the family, and organized it in a way that is best for us. He knows what we need. If our family life is right, everything is better. If family life is messed up, nothing else is really good. We can probably serve Jesus in and through our family more than any other way. Our families can really be happy if we let Jesus as lord direct them.
A. Before marriage, one should be guided by
Christ’s teaching in the way you treat people of the opposite sex. Choose a mate who will completely share with
you in serving the Lord through your marriage.
1. Who does God want a Christian to marry? 1 Cor. 7:39; 2 Corinthians 6:14
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2. To accomplish #1, who should a Christian date? ______________________
B. In Marriage, what is the main thing the
Lord Jesus tells the husband to do?
Eph. 5:25-29________________________________________________
1.
Who is the example of the husband’s love for his
wife? Eph.
2. Christ’s love for the causes him to do what for it? ___________________
3. The relationship between the husband and the wife is compared to what
other relationship? Eph.
4. What is to be the husbands attitude as he leads his wife. 1 Peter 3:7 _______
5. What will happen if he does not have this attitude? 1 Peter 3:7 ___________
6. What is another thing Jesus tells the husband to do? 1 Tim 5:8 __________
7. What decision is the husband and father responsible for. Joshua 24:15
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C. What is the main thing Jesus as Lord tells the wife to do? Eph. 5:22-24 & 33
1.
What is her example in this? Eph.
2. How important is leadership to success of the family or any other
Organization? __________________________________
3. Whom has God placed in leadership in the family _____________________
4. Do you think that they wife is to submit to the husband because he is right or
because he is her husband? ________________________
5. When we disobey God’s appointed authority, whom do we also disobey?
6. If a wife submits to her husband only when she thinks he is right is this
submission? ________________________________________________
7. If the wife obeys her husband but resents it and takes out the resentment in nagging, coldness or in some other way, do you think she is submitting in
the spirit that the Lord Jesus teaches? ______________________________
8. Who, as our example, won the greatest victories and the greatest honor through humility and submission? Philippians 2:5-11; Matt. 16:24-25
9. Why was Eve given to Adam as a wife? Gen. 2:18-25
10. What is the basic family role that God has given the wife? 1 Timothy 5:9-14; Titus 2:4-5; and Proverbs 31:10-31
11. How can a wife help her husband if he is not a Christian? 1 Peter 3:1-4
D.
What are some other things that Jesus
teaches husbands and wives? Eph.
Titus 2:4
1. Do you think that the love that is commanded is a feeling or a decision? (can feelings be commanded?)
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2. What will
this love always cause a couple to do?
1Cor. 7:1-5
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3. How does God feel about a married person flirting with or allowing oneself to day dream about someone beside their mate? Job 31:1 & Mat. 5:28-30
4. What does the Lord teach about sexual immorality & adultery (marital unfaithfulness)? 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8; Hebrews 13:4
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5. Is sex within lawful marriage unclean or dirty, of something to be enjoyed?(who made our sexual nature?)
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6. If a husband or wife withholds
sex from the other, he or she is ______________
their mate. 1 Cor. 7:3-5; Mark 10:2-9
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7. When a couple marries what
should be their intentions?
8. Is divorce an option for Christians? Mark 10:9 & Malachi 2:13-16 ____________
9. If a person divorces his mate (except for the cause of immortality) and marries another, what sin does Jesus say that he or she commits? Mat. 19:9
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D. What is the main thing that Jesus tell a
child to do in the home? Eph. 6:1-3 _______
1. Who did the Lord place as authority over children?
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2. Disobeying or disrespecting our parents is disobeying whom?
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E. What is the main thing Jesus tells parents
to do? Eph. 6:4 & Proverbs 22:6
1. Who has the primary responsibility for teaching children God’s way, the church or the home? Deuteronomy 6:5-7
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2. How often should children talk to their children about God and his way?
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3.
What do you think will happen to children if
parents do not seriously live and practice Godly beliefs and values before
them?
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4. What does 1 Samuel 3:12-13 suggest about the Lord holding parents responsible for correcting their children?
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5. What is the purpose of parental discipline? Proverbs 22:15; 29:15
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6. What does it say about a parent and his children if he does not discipline?
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7. What is one way God shows his love for His Children? Heb. 12:5-11
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8. If a child does not learn to submit while at home with his parents, how do you think this will affect his ability to submit to teachers, church leaders, employers, government authorities and to God?
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9. If a child does not learn by discipline to control himself and do things that he doesn’t want to do, how do you think it will affect his ability to stick and to cope with life’s pressures?
10. What characteristics must parents have in order to make discipline strengthening to a child rather than damaging.
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