Sermon Tone Analysis

The Church as Marriage

How difficult is this passage!

Not only challenging to decipher

But also countercultural!

I take you, [blank] to be my husband, and I promise before God and all who are present here to be your loving and faithful wife, as long as our lives shall last

Marriage Vows for the Bride:

I take you, [blank] to be my husband, and I promise before God and all who are present here to be your loving and faithful wife, as long as our lives shall last

Vss.22

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

I take you, [blank] to be my husband, and I promise before God and all who are present here to be your loving and faithful wife, as long as our lives shall last

I take you, [blank] to be my husband, and I promise before God and all who are present here to be your loving and faithful wife, as long as our lives shall last

I will love you and submit to you, as the church loves and submits to Christ.

I will serve you with tenderness and respect, and encourage you to develop the gifts that God has given you.

Story of Someone I know who crossed her fingers during this part…

Decluttering issues:

Decluttering issues:

Two things going on:

Two things going on:

Falls within the context of the Church: Mutual Submission

Falls within the context of the Church: Mutual Submission vs. 21

Submission vs. Sacrifice

Submission vs. Sacrifice

Why should we be mutually submission?

Because the Church is the Bride of Christ.

Wives=Submission

Christ=Sacrifice

Marriage is an analogy:

Family isn’t a microcosm of the church, but is a symbol/metaphor of the church.

Family isn’t a microcosm of the church, but is a symbol/metaphor of the church.

Luke 28:21: “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

Wives=Church

Wives=Church

Wives LIKE the Church

Wives=Church

Wives LIKE the Church

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Husbands LIKE Christ

Just like in baptism this morning:

We didn’t see salvation, we saw the illustration of how salvation works!

We just exist and resist, and Christ transformed and daily reforms.

Husbands LIKE Christ

We didn’t see Millie become a Christian, we got to witness what becoming like a Christian looks like:

Karsey shared with me this past week that she was baptized with her dad on the same day:

Same sealed promises.

For her dad, he owned them as his own, and today experienced the full effect of his promises as he is with Jesus.

Karsey has owned those promises.

Millie’s baptism today is a symbol of God’s amazing grace, with the hopes that she will be presenting the next generation someday…

So this text is an analogy: Marriage

Walking through the Text:

vs. 18: Don’t be drunk wine- that’s wrong

Wives, husbands, church and Christ

Wives: Submit to your husbands as to the Lord

But be filled with the Spirit.

How? Worship, Thanksgiving, Mutual Submission

1. Worship

Thanksgiving

Mutual SubmissionThrough worship!

Through thanksgiving!

Through mutual submission

vs. 23: Why? Husbands is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the Church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

How does this worship, and thanksgiving and mutual submission work within the church?

How are we supposed to know what that looks like?

Look at Marriage: vss.22-33

Theme of Submission launches Paul into a way to understand marriage:

vs. 22: Wives submit to their husbands as to the Lord.

Why?

Because wives are like the church.

SO CLOSE TO THE WAY THE CHURCH NEEDS TO OPERATE, the words “SUBMIT YOURSELVES” isn’t even in the text!

It borrows the verb from vs. 21.

No need to put a paragraph break, because they belong together.

vs. 24: Church submits to Christ

vs. 22: Wives submit to their husbands as to the Lord.

Why?

Because wives are like the church.

vs. 22: Wives submit to their husbands as to the Lord.

Why?

Because wives are like the church.

vs. 23: Husbands are the head of the relationship.

Why?

Because husbands represent Christ in this analogy.

THEY AREN’T Christ, they are like Christ.

You can’t pull the “I am the Christ

vs. 24: Natural Conclusion: Church submits to Christ, wives submit to everything in husbands.

We need to submit everything to Christ.

By overstating the fact that wives need to submit everything to Christ, we forget that the point is that we need to first of all submit to one another, and then submit everything to Christ, and that husbands need to give up everything for their wives, and wives need to submit everything to their husbands.

It’s like a complete total surrender of all our needs, wants and desires for the other person both within the church and within marriage.

vs. 25: Husbands: Agape your wives as Christ agapied the church and gave himself up for her.

Agape love: Sacrificial love

vs. 26-27: Why?

To sanctify her

Slips into church: “Having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that Jesus might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot and wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.”

vs. 27

Church application: Christ desires you to grow, mature, develop into holiness.

Role of husband is to present his wife as a princess, as something he is proud to present.

Role of husband is to serve her in order to help her feel beautiful, because that’s what Christ does for us!

vs. 28-30: Goes back to analogy: Husbands love your wives as you love yourself.

Take care of it.

Feed it.

Invest in it.

Don’t be a slouch, lazy, but take the investment and desire to live well and direct that towards your wife.