Sermon: Christian Marriage, Part 2

“Christian Marriage” (Part 2)

Ephesians 5:22-33

January 17, 2020

Pastor Tony Felich 

Sermon Application [file] 

 

Ephesians 5:22 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. 

With marriage as a metaphor for Christ and the Church, we have clear and helpful direction for wives and husbands.    

· What is the special role of the husband?    

· What does “love your wives” mean?    

· How is marriage a picture of Christ and the Church?