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Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing
to the Lord.
Colossians 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become
discouraged.
An ideal is defined as:
1) A conception of something in its absolute perfection.
2) One that is regarded as a standard or model of perfection or excellence.
3) An ultimate object of endeaver, a goal.
4) An honorable or worthy principle or aim.
I. A PICTURE PERFECT WIFE.
Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person; it is being the right
person.
1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ,
the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
It’s plural leadership, singular headship.
Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
II. A PICTURE PERFECT HUSBAND.
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
She married him because he was ‘strong and masculine’;
She divorced him because he was a very ‘dominating male.’
He married her because she was so ‘fragile and petite’;
He divorced her because she was so ‘weak and helpless.’
She chose him because ‘he knew how to provide a good living’;
She left him because ‘all he thought about was the business.’
He married her because she was ‘steady and sensible’;
He divorced her because she was ‘boring and dull.’”
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church
and gave Himself for her,
Ephesians 5:28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies;
he who loves his wife loves himself.
Genesis 2: 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of
my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined
to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
III. A PICTURE PERFECT CHILD.
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing
to the Lord.
IV. A PICTURE PERFECT PARENT.
Colossians 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become
discouraged.
Psalm 127:3 Children are a gift from the LORD ; they are a reward from him.
Proverbs 17:6 Grandchildren are the crown of old men …
The goal of parenting is godliness.
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Luke 2:51 Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject
to them …
Luke 2:51 Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject
to them …
A perfect husband is a man who does not demand a perfect wife.
A perfect wife is a woman who does not demand a perfect husband.
A perfect child is a child who does not demand perfect parents.
Perfect parents are those who do not demand perfect children.
Only perfect people can enter God’s heaven and there are no perfect people.
We needed a perfect life and Jesus lived the perfect sinless life for us.
1 Peter 2:22 “Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth’;
1 John 3:5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and
in Him there is no sin.
2 Corintians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that
we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
