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John MacArthur.

Open your Bible to Ephesians 6, Ephesians 6, and this is the continuing of our study

on the book of Ephesians, and we come now to God's design for the family. God's design for the

family. We've been working on the issue of marriage over the last few weeks, and by the way,

I spent two weeks going through the section prior to this one today, two weeks, and I think in the past when I did a series on Ephesians,

there's probably at least 10 messages.

So if you want more of the Word of God in more depth and breath, you can go back, you

can go to the Grace to You website and you can download the Ephesian sermons from

the past on the husband and the wife as well as much more extensive messages on even the

family, the children, and the parents.

We're just going to hit some highlights this morning. There's

a lot more at the Grace to You website. Now, when we talk about the divine design for the family,

it's really summed up in four verses. They're really very simple and direct. Children obey

your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, so that it may

be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.

Fathers do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and

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