Lord's Day Sermon
April 1, 2023
Filled in the Spirit at Home
Sermon Details
Read passage (ESV) — Ephesians 5:22-33
Wives and Husbands
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.
Outline
- Wives Show Reverence to Christ Through Submission to Their Own Husbands (22-24)
- Husbands Demonstrate Allegiance to Christ by Loving Their Own Wives as Christ Does His Church (25-32)
- The Applicatory ________________________ of the Matter You Must Not _______________________ (33)
- Applications A. A wife’s submission is a reflection of her submission to Christ. B. A wife’s relationship to her husband is rooted in Christ and is designed to show forth the beauty of His glory. C. Submission to those who are over us is really submission to Christ. D. Husbands bear the major _______________________ for the _________________________ in marriage and for how ________________________ a marriage will be. E. God instituted marriage to _____________________ the eternal __________________ that Christ Jesus sustains with His _________________. F. The Christian view of the marriage relationship puts the __________________ in the role of making ________________ that ____________ permeates and undergirds the relationship.