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When Fight Club Gets Personal Christmas FIGHT Club – Part 4 December 22, 2013 • Chris Goins 1 John 3:8, The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. Ephesians 5:18-22, 25-27, 6:1-4 (NLT), Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, 19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. 20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord… 25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 1 Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. 2 “Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise: 3 If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
7 PRINCIPLES: 1. God wants to use your ordinary, messed up, even broken ____________ to tell His story of _______________, _______________ and _______________ (Eph 5:18 — 6:4). 1 Corinthians 1:27-31 (NLT), God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29 As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God. 30 God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. 31 Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the LORD.”
Romans 5:20b (NLT), …where sin increased, grace increased all the more…
2. An essential key to a great relational life is maintaining a dynamic relationship with the __________ ____________. Galatians 5:22-23, But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, and self-control.
3. An attitude of ____________ _______________ is fundamental to dynamic family relationships (5:21). Ephesians 5:21, …submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
4. ________ who make major investments in their _______________ are simultaneously making major investments in the lives of their kids (5:25, 28). 5. The primary responsibility of a “Christ-like,” Spirit-filled kid is to ____________ our parents (6:1-3). “Honor means deciding to place high value, worth and importance on another person by viewing him or her as a priceless gift… It’s a way of accurately seeing the immense value of a person made in the image of God. It means t value another person highly as extremely important and of great worth. Honor is not earned. It is a gift and a decision we make daily…” — Gary Smalley, I Promise and Making Love Last Forever
6. Being a __________ is a really big deal. __________ have the primary responsibility of bringing children up in the “discipline and instruction approved by the Lord” (6:4). Headship is the divine calling of a husband / father to take primary responsibility for Christ-like servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home. — John Piper
7. The goal of “Christ-like,” Spirit-filled parenting is children who are fully devoted ____________ of Jesus Christ (6:4).
