2 to 1 Part V “Roles”
Context vs. Concept
Testosterone vs. estrogen
Eph 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. Eph 5:23 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. Eph 5:24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
-Submit in leadership (crown the king)
-Allow the tunnel vision to guys ide as God intended
-Step up and be a man
-Who do you trust? God’s will or yours.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, Eph 5:26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, Eph 5:27 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. Eph 5:28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Eph 5:29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, Eph 5:30 because we are members of his body.
-Love your wives was a foreign concept
-Christ surrender power for the betterment off the church (allow her peripheral vision)
-When a man is put down ( “as himself” ), he will not be an effective leader
Eph 5:31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
- Together is the sweet spot (Mutual Submission)
Eph 5:32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Eph 5:33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband
Podcast:
Listen to Paul and Brad discuss the sermon
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HlFdrjYIEDKFFBkZ3bDO5D4Y_75t2MT3
*LifeGroup Questions *
1. How do you see your “role” in your marriage?
2. Wive's, in what way can you crown the king, your husband, even in the tough times?
3. Husbands, How can you step up in your marriage/family and love/lead them?
4. Is there mutual submission in your marriage?
5. As a husband how can we love our wife in a way that represents Christ love for the church? (Sacrifice)
**LifeGroup Leader* close by asking the couples in the room to hold hands while you pray over the men and women in the room. Encourage them to pray together as a couple when they get home and to talk openly about anything God brought to their attention while studying this lesson.
Please make them aware about the resources that we have OFC for family and marriage counseling. They can call the office @601-849-6407 (tel:6018496407) and ask for Becky Johns if they need any help in that area.
Sermon V "Roles"
06/02/19
June 2, 2019 • Paul Barnard
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