Sermon Tone Analysis

Well, good morning again.

It is a privilege to be here with you this morning as Pastor Mike, and his family are on vacation.

So continue to keep them in prayer that they would have rest and renewal over this past week, coming up and plastic, actually last week, too.

So, we are going to continue our study in Colossians.

I'm going to pick up right where Pastor Mike left off last week.

And you remember last week he was helping us to meet with the Lord so that we can let the Peace of Christ rule in our hearts, okay?

So that's what we're coming off of and then Paul kind of turns a corner.

Now he focuses on marriage, right?

And verses 18 and 19.

He talks about husbands and wives.

So that's what we're going to talk about this.

Morning.

This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart as I meet with couples regularly for counseling and a lot of times it is on this particular topic as you can.

Well, imagine for good reason, right?

For good reason.

So today, I am looking forward to to just spending a little bit of time with you looking at verses, 18 and 19 but then expanding on that as we look at other passes of a scriptures.

So if you have your Bibles, please turn to Colossians chapter 3 and will begin reading vs 18 and 19 together.

Wives submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Husbands love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Well, there you have it.

Right?

That was easy shortest.

Sermon ever.

If only though, right?

If only our hearts would cooperate with God's design for marriage but they oftentimes don't they oftentimes don't see.

We we often find ourselves leaning more towards selfish love, right?

Love of self.

May have selfish desires, that were battling, rather than a Selfless Love.

Looking out for the interest of our spouses more important than our self, right?

So that's why sorry, you're not going anywhere.

We're going to spend the rest of the morning this morning together.

Trying to meet with the Lord and grow in these particular ways.

And as we do that, I think we're going to focus on answering three questions together.

The first question will dress is what is God's design for marriage?

Type that will seek to understand why it's so imperative that we follow this design and then finally will answer the question.

How do we functionally live out God's design for marriage from day-to-day?

What is this look like for us for a husband and a wife?

So three points.

What is God's design for marriage?

Why is it important and how do we live it out?

Now I realize that not everybody here is married and you may have the temptation to kind of check out for the next 30 minutes thinking that this message is not for you but please don't do that.

Just God may be preparing you for a marriage in the future, right?

But he also may be preparing you to come alongside a married couple and speak truth and love to them as you grow today and your knowledge of God's word and how it pertains to marriage.

So so please all of us, let's lean into God's word together, right?

And really see cam this morning so that we can grow and be helped and then also be a help to others, okay?

But before we can do that, I think it's really important that we take some time and seek the Lord this morning because we can't do any of this left ourselves.

We need his help.

So would you play with me?

Father, thank you for this morning and the opportunity that we have together together, or we just ask that you would reach into our hearts and our minds that you would make the changes in our hearts that that, you know, need to be made.

And that you would renew our minds in ways that that line up more with our lord Jesus, father, we need you, we are weak and needy people and we need you to do this work in us and then threw us.

So for asking you this morning to do all that and be all that.

We thank you and us in Jesus name we pray.

Amen.

So, where do we go in the scriptures to find out what God's design for marriage?

Really is?

Why can't think of a better place than Ephesians chapter 5, beginning and verse 22. So, if your Bibles again, please, let's turn to Ephesians 5 and I will begin reading in verse 22.

Wives submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body of which he is the savior now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

To make her holy cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.

Get the present her to himself as a Radiant Church Without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

in the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies and he who loves his wife loves himself, After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body just as Christ does the church.

For, we are members of his body.

For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be United to his wife and the two will become one flesh.

This is a profound mystery but I am talking about Christ and the church.

However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself and the wife must respect her husband.

See?

This passage on paxar versus of Interest back in Colossians verses 18 and 19.

It gives us more insight into what a Biblical marriage is, right?

See Paul explains that wives are to submit to their husbands as to the Lord because the husband is the head of the wife.

Just like Christ is the head of the church.

A wife submission to her husband is likened to the church's mission to Christ.

So, therefore Christ is the head of his bride.

The church and husbands are the head of their wife.

But wait a minute.

What about in verse 24?

Where it says that a wife should submit to her husband in everything and everything.

We need to look at this.

There are moral limits here.

A wife is only to submit to her husband as she does unto the Lord.

What does that mean?

According to God's will?

if something clearly doesn't line up with scripture God's character his attributes,

then a wife is not obligated to submit to her husband.

Wives submit to their husbands leadership as the husband as the husband follows and submits to the Lord's.

Will that he's obedient to him?

I let me just add this in no way, does a wife submitting to her husband make her inferior to him.

In fact, we seeing 1st Corinthians 11:3 that, Jesus submitted to the father and yet he is completely equal with the father.

But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ and the head of the woman is, man.

Right?

And the head of Christ is God, the Father.

The members of the Trinity are one and each one of them have their own roles.

And a husband and wife are made one in a marriage, and each one have their own roles.

God has given wives and husband particular roles and responsibilities to carry out.

And when a married couple fill these requirements through obedience, it is an act of worship unto the Lord.

Paul then turns to the roles and responsibilities that God gives to the husbands.

Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

This is a selfless and sacrificial.

Love that requires a husband to seek His Highest to seek his wife, highest good at all times.

He used to care for her.