Welcome to Worship
September 11, 2022
8:30am
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe. —(Hebrews 12:28)
Welcome to Worship: Rev. Bill Archer
Worship Song: Glorious Day
Video: Our Prayer for 9/11
Prayer: Rev. Peggy Peek
Redland Happenings and Welcome: Rev. Peggy Peek
Worship Song: O Praise the Name
Ministry and Mission Moment: Becky McGaffin
Musical Meditation: You’re My Guide
Cathy Stracener and Don Dunnevant
Scripture: Ephesians 5:21-33
Sermon Series: One In Christ
Sermon Title: What is Submission in Marriage
Rev. Mark Adams
Sermon Notes:
“Be fruitful and increase and fill the earth and rule over it.” —Genesis 1:28
“This now is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.” —Genesis 2:23a
“She should be called ‘woman’ for she was taken out of man.” —Genesis 2:23b
“For this reason, a MAN will leave his father and mother and be united, or cling or cleave to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” —Genesis 3:24
21 – Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ,22 – Wives being subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
23 – For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
24 – But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
25 – Husbands love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her;
26 – that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water through the Word,
27 – that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and blameless.
28 – So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
29 – for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
30 – because we are members of His body.
31 – For this cause a man shall leave His father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
and the two shall become one flesh.
32 – This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
33 – Nevertheless let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself, and let the wife see to it that she respects her husband. —Ephesians 5:21-23
What does God use Paul to tell us about submission in marriage?
So, what does Paul say?
1.) It’s
.
“submit YOURSELVES to one another.” —Ephesians 5:21
2.) It’s
.
“As the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in EVERYTHING.” —Ephesians 5:24
3.) It’s
.
“Submit to ONE ANOTHER in the fear of Christ,” —Ephesians 5:21
Paul goes on to explain HOW this works by first addressing the wife and then the husband.
Wives:
a. Submissive
.
“Wives, submit to your husbands as 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.” —Ephesians 5:24
“The word, ‘submit’ in verse 22 is not in the Greek text. It is supplied in verse 21.”
“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ—wives to your husbands as to the Lord.” —Literal translation
b. Submissive
.
“Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.” —Ephesians 5:25
Biblical principles in decision making from Dr. Gilbert Belziekien in his book, Beyond Sex Roles.
Husbands:
a.
to one another.
b. Give greater
to the spouse that has stronger
or
in that particular area.
c. Give consideration to whether a decision
one spouse more than it does the other.
d. Learn to compromise.
e.
together and wait for
guidance.
Prayer helps develop our oneness as a couple better than ANYTHING as we go TOGETHER to our LORD and then follow His leading.
After all He is the HEAD of all marriages!
Now in those rare times when the husband has to make a call in a decision as head it should only after a lot of JOINT prayer and discussion so that in essence it is still a JOINT decision.
4.) It’s
!
Truly Christlike love “does not demand its own way.” —1 Corinthians 13
“Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.” —Philippians 2:4
5.) It’s
.
“Submit to one another—OUT OF REVERENCE FOR CHRIST.” —Ephesians 5:21
“Be filled with the Spirit.” —Ephesians 5:18
Time of Decision and Commitment: Build My Life
Benediction: Rev. Mark Adams