Dance Partners
Relationship Goals
October 17, 2021
A covenant is a deep, exclusive, legal, personal, and permanent commitment that is made between two parties.
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, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. 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.—Ephesians 5:22-33
Wives are called to submit to their husband’s leadership and husbands are called to lead with sacrificial love for their wives.
1. Wives are called to submit to their husbands.
A. Submission
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. —Ephesians 5:22
B. Submission
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 . —Ephesians 5:23
C. Submission
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. —Ephesians 5:24
2. Husbands are called to love their wives.
A. Husbands
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 blameless. —Ephesians 5:25-27
B. Husbands
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. 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. —Ephesians 5:28-30
“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. —Ephesians 5:31-32