Walking Worthy: Submission and Sanctification.

Introduction

Ephesians 5:21 NASB95

21 and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

Husbands and Wives Eph 5:22-33

Children and Parents Eph 6:1-4

Slaves and Masters Eph 6:5-9

What is our purpose?

Message Title: Walking Worthy: Submission and Sanctification.

Bible Passage: Ephesians 5:21-33

Submission in Marriage.

Wives

Be subject (vv. 22-24, 33)

Colossians 3:18 “18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”

1 Peter 2:21-3:6

Titus 2:3-5

Husbands

Love (vv. 25, 28-31, 33)

Colossians 3:19 “19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.”

1 Peter 3:7-12

Sanctification in Sacrifice.

Eph 5:25-27 - He gave himself...(5:2)

He might sanctify her...

Hebrews 10:10 “10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”

Washing of water

John 3:5 “5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

Acts 2:37–38 “37 Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” 38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 22:16 “16 ‘Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.’”

Titus 3:3–5 “3 For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, 5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,”

1 Peter 3:18-21 (Romans 6, Matt 28:19)

John 13:8–10 “8 Peter said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” 9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.” 10 Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.””

with the word. Rhema=spoken specifically to a circumstance

John 15:3 “3 “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.”

Romans 10:8 “8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,”

He might present her...

Colossians 1:21–23 “21 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, 22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach— 23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.”

2 Corinthians 11:2 “2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.”

Holy and Blameless

Ephesians 1:4 “4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love”

Conclusion

Ephesians 5:31–33 “31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.”

Genesis 2:24 “24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.”

“Marriage is therefore a living parable of the gospel”