Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for November 3, 2019

The Window of Your Marriage

Ephesians 5:22-33

I. Introduction

• from new standards to new relationships
• priority of the home
• transitional verse: 5:21-“submitting”
• Because God designs marriage to reflect the relationship between Christ and the Church, fulfill your assigned role by the power of the Holy Spirit.

II. Wives (22-24)

• submission does not imply inferiority
• basis of authority
• differing God-appointed roles
• submission: the humble recognition of the divine ordering of society
• two reasons for submission: creation and redemption (1 Tim. 2:11-15; 1 Cor. 11:8)
• creation and redemption-not culture

III. Husbands (25-33)

• authority does not mean tyranny
• scope of authority
• love your wives (agapao)
• two analogies

♦ as Christ loves the church
♦ as husbands love their own bodies (1Pet. 3:7)

• Christ’s bride and body (Gen. 2:24)
• five verbs showing Christ’s care: loved, gave, sanctify, cleansed, present
• biblical marriage: a “window” through which the world may look to observe the way Christ loves the church and the way the church submits to Christ.
• the profound mystery: Christ/church and husband/wife connection

IV. So What?

• “How many of us have realized that we are always to think of the married state in terms of the atonement? Is that our customary way of thinking about marriage? Where do we find what the books have to say about marriage? Under which section? Under ethics. But it does not belong there. We must consider marriage in terms of the doctrine of atonement.” (Jones, Life in the Spirit, p. 148.)
• Am I prepared…?
• Do I love…?