Fight For Your Famiy | Healthy Family Series | Pastor Christian De La Rosa
Channel: The Way World Outreach
Date: 2023-06-01

God created the family, but no family is ever perfect.
There are principles in scripture that teach us about family, and today we’re going to learn about the fight for our family!
1. God created the family
A. The first institution ever established by God was the FAMILY unit
Genesis 1:27-28 (NLT) 27 “So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 Then God blessed them and said, ‘Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it.’”

Before there was ever a church, a nation, businesses, governments, or any form of an institution, the family existed.
A Godly family is the most durable institution in the world!
Matthew 7:24-25 (NLT) 24 “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. 25 Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock.

Countries and empires rise and fall but the family unit has survived many calamities: the family survived sodom and Gomorrah the family survived the great flood with God, the family can survive anything!
God did not create your family to fail! But built on Bedrock!
Build: (ōkodomēsen) to build a house, to build (up from the foundation), to restore by building, to rebuild, repair, to grow in wisdom.
All societies depend on the strength of the family unit
Matthew 7:26-27 (NLT) 26 But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. 27 When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.” 

Stats in fatherless homes:
1. 85% of of youth who are currently in prison grew up in a fatherless home
2. 75% of adolescents treated for substance abuse come from fatherless
homes
3. 85% of all children who have a behavioral disorder come from a fatherless
home
4. 90% of youth who runaway from home, or become homeless come from
fatherless homes
5. 63% of youth suicides come from a fatherless home
PROBLEM: THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO REDEFINE THE FAMILY
But remember: before the government existed, the FAMILY was established by God!
Your family is being kidnapped by the government as we speak.
Kidnap: to abduct, carry off, take away illegally by force when the enemy is trying to raise your kids, they are illegally trespassing against the laws that God designed for your family.
Our job is to disciple our children.
B. The Family was designed by God to operate a certain way.
Ephesians 5:22-33 22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. 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. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body. 31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”[b] 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1. Wives submit to husbands - God will honor your submission
2. Husbands love your wives - giving your life for your wife is the correct way to love your wife.
Anytime we are operating out of this order, we are heading for collapse.