One of the chief areas of grief in dealing with a RASN (reviler, abuser, sociopath, narcissist) is when children are involved. Most of you have experienced this very thing – how the RASN uses the children as property, as a weapon for control. How he/she abuses the children. In these three messages, especially in the second one, you will hear examples of these very tactics.

But there is also a huge amount of wisdom for everyone in these sermons by Martyn Lloyd-Jones as he speaks on Ephesians 6:1-4,

Ephesians 6:1-4  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  (2)  “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),  (3)  “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”  (4)  Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Here are the links to these messages, or if you have MLJ’s set of books on Ephesians, they are chapter 19-21 in the volume “Life in the Spirit.”

  1. https://mljtrust.org/sermons/book-of-ephesians/discipline-and-the-modern-mind/

    2. https://mljtrust.org/sermons/book-of-ephesians/balanced-discipline/

    3. https://mljtrust.org/sermons/book-of-ephesians/godly-upbringing/