The Family Unit

^{Ephesians 5:22 thru Ephesians 6:4:}

²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy,cleansing^[a] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” ³² This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— ³ “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”

⁴ Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Verse 22 is one of the most misused verses from the Bible. Yes it is true that wives must submit to their husbands as the husband must also submit to God. Also, in verse 28, it says that husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. This only applies in a Christian family, which God created in Genesis. 

A husband leaves his own family to be united with his wife. The two will become one flesh. Paul speaks of this as a profound mystery that he does not explain.

As in the Ten Commandments, chapter 6 verses 3, children must obey their parents in the Lord, as Paul says, this is right to honor your mother and father which has a promise of long life if one does so. 

Fathers: do not cause your children to sin. What I mean is if you use profanity - they will use profanity, if you drink unto drunkenness, so shall they. But bring them up in the training of the Lord. 

I know that in today's society, women are having children without being married, and the baby is fatherless. This breakdown is as it tells us of the last days in Timothy 3:1-9:

 3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

⁶ They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, ⁷ always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. ⁹ But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

This is why I say that this is an indication as men today are proud lovers of themselves. Lovers of money, unthankful, and unholy. This is what parents are teaching today. We have become a God-less society, where some day soon, chaos will be our end. 

Yet, if America would just repent and turn back to God, it could be a shining light to the world and may lead other nations to do the same. Yet I know America is not moving in that direction, instead it is leading itself to chaos.