Well, Ephesians chapter 6, our verse I will preach on is verse 4. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. What Paul is doing here as he writes this letter to the church at Ephesus is he's giving a revolutionary new perspective on the social order. What he's actually doing is bringing the truth to bear on the social order of man. Restoring, if you will, what was lost when Adam and Eve in Vance Havner's words ate us out of house and home in the garden. We lost something there. In Christianity we gain it back and began a pilgrimage of implementing those high, divine truths that the world doesn't understand and scoffs at and mocks and ridicules.
