Sermon Tone Analysis

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.

Accroding to Pew Research -

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.

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.

“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:

It either clarifies the gospel or it confuses the gospel.

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.

When we talk about Marriage we must talk about gender.

Biological gender is a product of God’s good and wise design.

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 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.

Key for us to understand is loving leadership.

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.

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