20141207 Fill Family with love

Fill the family

with love

让爱彰显在家庭

Ephesians 5:22-28

7th December, 2014

Fill the family with love 让爱彰显在家庭

GOAL: Finding ways to put family together again

Family is meant to be together


Divorce Statistics in America

Current divorce statistics in America is

estimated at 50%. The Americans for Divorce

Reform estimates that "Probably, 40 or possibly

even 50 percent of marriages will end in divorce

if current trends continue", which is actually a

projection.

Commonly said, 50% of all marriages in

the America end in divorce.

* Source: Jennifer Baker, Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, Springfield


Divorce Statistics in China

Nationwide, China's divorce rate is 2.20percent, but statistics drasticallyincrease in the nation's major cities.

Beijing – highest at 39%Shanghai – 2nd place at 38%Shenzhen – 3rd place at 36%.

Source: International Business Times


One divorce in Malaysia every Ten minutes

Divorce rates:

•17.5% for Muslims

•12.9% for non-Muslims.

Christian marriages and

families are falling apart too


Let’s Go Back to the Bible to find the

solutions

回归圣经寻找解决方法


Husband Wife

Basic Family Unit

Husband & Wife家的基本单元 :夫妻


Marriage & Family instituted by God

Genesis 1:27-28

So God created mankind in his own

image, in the image of God he created

them; male and female he created them.

创1:27 神就照着自己的形像造人,乃是照着他的形像造男

造女.


God blessed them and said to them, “Be

fruitful and increase in number; fill the

earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in

the sea and the birds in the sky and over

every living creature that moves on the

ground.”

创1:28 神就赐福给他们,又对他们说,要生养众多,遍满地面,治理这

地,也要管理海里的鱼,空中的鸟,和地上各样行动的活物.


Important Biblical Truth

1. Marriage (family) is God’s

idea

2. God blesses family – He

intends us to enjoy it.


God institutes marriage (family) to bless us, the devil tries to destroy it

上帝设立婚姻来祝福我们,

魔鬼竭力要破坏它

A wife’s role in marriage妻子在婚姻中的角色

Ephesians

5:22-24


Ephesians 5:22-24

Wives, submit yourselves to

your own husbands as you do to

the Lord. For the husband is the

Head of his wife as Christ is the head of the

church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also

wives should submit to their husbands in

everything.

A wife’s roles in marriage


Wife wears a gentle and quiet spirit

clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self,

the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit,

which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is

the way the holy women of the past who put their

hope in God used to adorn themselves.

1 Peter 3:1-5

Your beauty should not come from

outward adornment, such as

elaborate hairstyles and the wearing

of gold jewellery or fine


He needs to be respected

ADORE & ADMIRE HIM


He needs to be respected

ADORE & ADMIRE HIM

1.Respect him from your heart -

unconditionally

2.Attend to him, honour him,

admire him, praise him, desire

him

3.Give him space

A husband’s role in marriage

丈夫在婚姻中的角色

Ephesians

5:25-28


Ephesians 5:25-28

Husbands, love your wives, just

as Christ loved the church and

gave himself up for her, to make

her holy, cleansing her by the

washing with water through the


word, and to present her to himself as a

radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or

any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

In this same way, husbands ought to love


弗5:25-28

你们作丈夫的,要爱你们的妻子,正如基督爱教会,为教会舍己.要用水借着道,把

教会洗净,成为圣洁,可以献给自己,作个荣耀的教会,毫无玷污皱纹等类的病,乃

是圣洁没有瑕疵的.丈夫也当照样爱妻子,如同爱自己的身子.爱妻子,便是爱自

己了.

their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his

wife loves himself.



彼得前书 3：7

你们作丈夫的, 也要按情理和妻子同住. 因他比你软弱, 与你一同承受生命之

恩的, 所以要敬重他. 这样便叫你们的祷告没有阻碍.

Husband loves your wife

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way be

considerate as you live with your

wives, and treat them with

respect as the weaker partner

and as heirs with you of the

gracious gift of life, so that

nothing will hinder your prayers.


She needs to be loved

PAMPER HER


She needs to be loved

PAMPER HER

1.Hearing: Learn to listen to her

2.Saying: Praise and affirm her,

acknowledge her feelings

3.Acting: Embrace her and share

in doing house chores


Sons & Daughters

Father & Mother

Extended Family Unit

Parents & Children家的延伸单元 : 父母与儿女


申命记 5:16

当照耶和华你神所吩咐的,孝敬父母,使你得福,并使你的日子在耶和华你神

所赐的地上,得以长久.

But, how to?

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor your father and your

Attitudes to Parents

mother, as the LORD your God has

commanded you, so that you may

live long and that it may go well

with you in the land the LORD your

God is giving you.


1. Obey your parents in the Lord

2. Be there to honor your parents

3. Provide for your parents

4. Remember and practice your

parents’ good values and

teaching

How to honor your parents?


Obey (listen to) your parents in the Lord

以弗所书 6:1-3

你们作儿女的,要在主里听从父母的话,这是理

所当然的.要孝敬父母,使你得福,在世长寿.

Ephesians 6:1-3

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 go well with you

and that you may enjoy long life on the

earth.”


Proverbs 23:22; 30:17

Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not

despise your mother when she is old.

“The eye that mocks a father, that scorns an aged

mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the

valley, will be eaten by the vultures.

箴言 23:22 ; 30:17

你要听从生你的父亲, 你母亲老了, 也不可

藐视他.

戏笑父亲,藐视而不听从母亲的,他的眼睛,必

为谷中的乌鸦啄出来,为鹰雏所吃.



Obey them in the Lord is

God’s will for you

Rebellious and dishonoring

them hinders God’s blessings

from pouring forth unto you



Be there to honor your parents

Proverbs 4:3

For I too was a son to my father, still tender, and

cherished by my mother.

箴言4:3

我在父亲面前为孝子,在母亲眼中为独一的娇儿.

Chinese translation:

For I am a filial son in front of my father, a tender

child in my mother’s eyes


Honoring your parents needs

to be there and spend time

with them.

Remote control will not do it!

Be there to honor your parents


Provide for your parents

1 Timothy 5:8

Anyone who does not provide for their

relatives, and especially for their own

household, has denied the faith and is worse

than an unbeliever.

提前 5:8

人若不看顾亲属, 就是背了真道, 比不信的人还不好. 不看顾自己家里的人, 更是

如此.


Provide for your parents is

God’s command

It is a mark of a true

devout Christian

Provide for your parents


Remember & practice their good

values and teachings

Proverbs 4:4

Then he taught me, and he said to me, “Take

hold of my words with all your heart; keep my

commands, and you will live.


Remember and practice

your parents’ good values

and teaching –

We pass them on to future

generations

Remember & practice their good

values and teachings


Forgiveness

Colossians 3:13

Bear with each other and forgive one

another if any of you has a grievance

against someone. Forgive as the Lord

forgave you.


Commitment


家

Family

A family is not a place to reason

A family is a place to love

家不是講理的地方

家事講愛的地方


Lord! I cannot do it.

Congratulations!

Acknowledge your

helplessness is the first

step to receiving God’s

grace and help.

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