Christ Centered Marriage

Husband and Wife question

Regarding our sermonette today "The Fulfilled Marriage," we have had a couple common questions. The first is (1.) Should a woman literally submit to her husband in everything?(2.) We know that a woman should submit to her husband but doesn't Ephesian 5:21 (the preceding verses to your sermoneete) read "submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ," meaning that the husband should also submit to the wife?

These are good questions, one I will address in here in this blog and the other in tomorrows sermonette. Regarding questing one, yes, a wife should literally submit to her husband in everything in every-way except when he calls for her to flagrantly disobey God's word. In Acts 5:29 Peter was faced with the same type of question and here was the response, "But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men." Yet Romans thirteen is clear in verse 1-2

13:1 "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment"

Make no mistake about this issue, the husband is the governing authority over his house hold. Therefore, this verse is appropriate for the regulation of a marriage also. Christians must obey all (yes that mean speed limit's too) authority up to the point when the authority is clearly contrary to God's word. (Ex 1:15-17; Da 6:4-10)


Until next time, stay Christ centered!

The Fulfilled Marriage

In our sermonette (a mini-sermon that is about 5-10 min's, listen above) today, we discussed the fulfilled marriage. With the divorce rates at soaring numbers, with the disappearing instatution of the home, with the media imposed idea of marriage, the time is long overdo that we return to a biblical position of marriage. The Bible teaches complementarianism. Comlementarianism is very accurately defined by Ligon Duncan when he said 'God has created men and women equal in their essential dignity and human personhood, but different and complementary in function with male headship in the home and in the Church.' May this sermonette bless you in your marriage, consider your ways.

Our text today is from Ephesians 5:22-28

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. [1] 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.