Aim: To encourage church family life—for the good of all.
Doctrine: Churchmen glorify God by treating each other with proper and due regard. Baptized children are blessed, as they keep the fifth commandment; baptized fathers are wise, as they train the church's next generation.
Exegesis: How children and fathers enhance the whole church (and the world): children's obedience models the grace of the gospel (v. 1); all believers' obedience spreads gospel happiness all over the place (vv. 2-3); fathers' obedience helps secure a hopeful future (for, and through, the church) (v. 4).
Further application: Necessary conditions that produce fruitful children and fathers: we must be covenanted in the church, and animated by grace-laden faith.
Key verses: vv. 2-3 '''Honor your father and mother,' which is the first commandment with promise: 'that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.'''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.