Ephesians
When Men and Women Aren’t Seen
Stop thinking the way you think and think like your spouse. Ephesians 5:33 – However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
The Husband as “Prophet”
A husband’s job is to be a picture or “prophecy” of something greater. Ephesians 5: 25-33 – 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, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and…
But My Personality Type Isn’t “Submissive”
Submission may feel more unnatural to some, but it remains God’s requirement, nonetheless. Ephesians 5:21-22 – Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
The Mutinous Wife
A wife leading her Christian marriage is actively destroying it. Ephesians 5:22-24; Luke 10:40-42; Genesis 4:6-8
When Your Wife is Hurting
When She is in pain, He is in pain. Ephesians 5:22-33; John 11:17-44
Submission Ain’t Weak!
Ladies, submission is not about what you do, it’s about who you are. Ephesians 5:22 – “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as to the Lord.”
Modesty – Part Two
Ladies, you are to be revered, not consumed. You are to be treated as sacred, not common. 1 Timothy 2:9-10 – I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
Modesty – Part One
Satan is the enemy, not the opposite sex. Ephesians 5:3-21 (exc.) – But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed… Let no one deceive you with empty words… Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil……
The World’s Kool-Aid
If you drink the world’s Kool-Aid, you will get the same stomachache. Ephesians 4:17-23 – So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of…
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