Who We Are In Christ: Redeeming Our Relationships
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22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
30 because we are members of his body.
31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Josh Buice
Marriage has been hijacked by sitcom writers, and many of our young people learn a false view of marriage through a screen as they watch movies and television sitcoms. They learn to laugh at it. They learn to disrespect it. They learn to disregard it.
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22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Eph 5:22-
There has been an 8% decline in the number of people getting married between 1992 and the present.
The number of Americans living with an unmarried partner reached about 18 million in 2016, up 29% since 2007.
Marriage is no laughing matter!
Eph
Marriage is not primarily about a couple it is primarily about the gospel.
Marriage is not primarily about a couple it is primarily about the gospel.
31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Danny Akin
Eph 5:
Marriage has been hijacked by sitcom writers, and many of our young people learn a false view of marriage through a screen as they watch movies and television sitcoms. They learn to laugh at it. They learn to disrespect it. They learn to disregard it.
Probably the most important biblical principle in relation to the institution of marriage is that it is designed and intended to present something beyond itself, namely the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Satan’s strategy is to distort and disrupt marriage and therefore distort and disrupt a glorious picture of the gospel.
Marriage visualizes the gospel union between Christ and His bride.
Marriage visualizes the gospel union between Christ and His bride.
“In , Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.”
My marriage does one of two things:
My marriage does one of two things:
It either clarifies the gospel or it confuses the gospel.
It either clarifies the gospel or it confuses the gospel.
Marriage is the joining of Man and Woman into a one flesh union.
Marriage is the joining of Man and Woman into a one flesh union.
He quotes and shows us the
Man did not create marriage - God did!
Man does not determine the purpose of marriage God does.
31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
When we talk about Marriage we must talk about gender.
Biological gender is a product of God’s good and wise design.
Biological gender is a product of God’s good and wise design.
4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
A rejection of biological gender is nothing less than a rejection of the creator.
God created all men and women in His image with equal dignity.
God created all men and women in His image with equal dignity.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
God created all men and women in His image with purposeful differences.
God created all men and women in His image with purposeful differences.
We are different by design!
Listen to Elisabeth Elliot
“Throughout the millennia of human history, up until the past two decades or so, people took for granted that the differences between men and women were so obvious as to need no comment. They accepted the way things were. But our easy assumptions have been assailed and confused, we have lost our bearings in a fog of rhetoric about something called equality, so that I find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to belabor to educated people what was once perfectly obvious to the simplest peasant.”
God’s good design of gender as male and female is complimentary.
Men Paul has much more to say about our responsibility than he does to our wives.
The man’s biblical responsibility in the home is headship.
The man’s biblical responsibility in the home is headship.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Key for us to understand is loving leadership.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Danny Akin speaking about many things that threaten marriage says.
Somewhat less jarring (but no less dangerous) are men who abdicate their role of leading and loving their wives in order to pursue leisure, laziness, or simple selfishness.
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Loving leadership means putting her needs ahead of mine. - Sacrificial.
ALS - took everything from her. Her ability to function, walk, talk, take care of the kids, earn a living, enjoy intimacy.
Biblical headship - looks like a cross!
It is her before me!
I want the way I love my wife and the way I serve my wife and the way I care for my wife, the way I sacrifice for my wife to point others to a savior who serves and loves and gave himself up for his bride the church!
I want the r
You were created to lead your home.
Please don’t confuse leadership with dictatorship.
The woman’s biblical responsibility in the home is helper.
The woman’s biblical responsibility in the home is helper.
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Biblical submission means putting his will in front of mine.
If marriage is a picture of Christ and his love for his church, then much more is at stake than my happiness. The world should long for what Christians have. If our marriages aren’t filled with kindness and joy, why would anyone want what we offer? But when they see in us a mutual delight, a gentle and easy trust in one another, they can’t help but ask, “What’s your secret?” And we can tell them that it’s no secret at all. It’s Jesus.
We must seek to have a cross-shaped
“Throughout the millennia of human history, up until the past two decades or so, people took for granted that the differences between men and women were so obvious as to need no comment. They accepted the way things were. But our easy assumptions have been assailed and confused, we have lost our bearings in a fog of rhetoric about something called equality, so that I find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to belabor to educated people what was once perfectly obvious to the simplest peasant.”
Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot
