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Brutally Honest: In Marriage
The pressure on marriages the past year and a half has been overwhelming. With many questioning should they stay married.
Are you watching this online or here in person and you have been sensing something is not right between you and your spouse?
Today we are going to dive into what it means to be brutally honest in marriage.
Brutally Honest means not holding back. Last wk 80%/20%
“The human tendency is to believe anything that comforts, and deny what discomforts, so that unpleasant truths are simply ignored.”
We can’t just put our head in the sand and ignore that things are not right in our marriage.
Set up: Something is not right… we need to talk.
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
Being brutally honest in marriage it takes two way communication you are now one.
My wife and I are not introduced as Jason Evans & Tammy Evans we are introduced as Jason & Tammy Evans. When we got married we became one.
33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Being Brutally Honest in marriage becoming selfless.
Q: I feel we are not okay.
18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Instead of telling wives to “obey” (Gk. hypakouō), as was typical in Roman households, Paul appeals to them to “submit” (Gk. hypotassō), based on his conviction that men have a God-given leadership role in the family.
4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
26 “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,
The needs for men and women are
3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/marriage/nine-questions-to-ask-your-spouse-to-strengthen-your-marriage/
Q: How can I be a better husband/wife to you?
I asked Tammy: What do you need from me in this season of life. Help take and pick kids from school.
If you could change one thing in our marriage what would it be?
What are some things that we used to do that you would like to do again?
What did you most enjoy about those things?
What things about our life together make you happy?
How frequently do you notice those things?
What’s something you’d like to do together that we’ve never done?
What makes it so inviting to you?
What was the last thing I did for you that you really enjoyed?
What made it so pleasant for you?
Which of our couple friends or acquaintances do you admire the most?
What is it about their relationship that impresses you?
What is the best part about being together?
How does that make you feel?
What makes us a good team?
What could we do to be an even better team?
When was a time you felt that I listened to you really well?
What would you like us to discuss but have been hesitant to bring up?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how am I doing as a husband or wife?
What one little thing could I do that would move that up a notch?
Years ago a friend told me he was no longer in love with his wife.
Do you or someone you know feel like they have fallen out of love with their spouse?
Earth, Wind, and Fire:
And oh, after the love has gone
How could you lead me on
And not let me stay around?
Oh, oh, oh after the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found?
Can love that’s lost be found? What a lyric. Well can if.
Brutally Honest Question: Have we fallen out of love?
Steps to fallen back in love?
Make the wrong right.
Brutally Honest Questions in Marriage:
