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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher 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 ten messages.

So if you want more of the word of God and more depth and breadth, you can go back, you can go to the Grace to You website

and you can download the Ephesians, 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.

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