Ephesians 6:1-4
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
A true education is founded on the fact that true Israel is the Christian church.
Galatians 6:14-16
God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
The promises of God apply to gentile children in Ephesus and the land of Canaan is now the entire earth. The Israel of God is the Christian church and includes all the nations, their peoples and their places.
Galatians 3:27-28
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ephesian fathers are to bring their children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord because the promises of God now apply directly to them and all their neighbors.
"There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, 'Mine!'" — Abraham Kuyper
Because of Christ, true Israel is no longer genetically or geographically limited.
Psalm 24:1
The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof;
the world, and they that dwell therein
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