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Jerry Jacquot

Marriage - The Bible Way

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Ephesians 5:215:33

Groucho Marx once said, Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution.
Many have kind of negative attitude towards marriage dont they? Someone once said, in the irst year of marriage, the man spe
listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.
Rodney Danger ield said, My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.
Henny Youngman said, My wife and I have the secret to making a marriage last. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant fo
She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
On July 29, 1981, one of the most highly publicized and glamorous weddings in history took place. Britain's Prince Charles marrie
ceremony watched by an estimated audience of 750 million people worldwide. 4500 pots of fresh lowers lined the route to St. P
2500 people crowded that grand church where more than 75 technicians with 21 cameras worked to enable the world to watch t
many people, this was a modern fairy tale. A royal prince weds a lovely lady in a grand cathedral surrounded by adoring subjects
envy of millions. They were rich, young, handsome. It was a "marriage made in heaven." Sadly, we know that the fairy tale becam
couple grew more and more distant. Affairs ensued. The storybook marriage made in heaven eventually collapsed into adultery a
more than a prince, a lady, and a palace to make a happy marriage. As someone said, "marriages may be made in heaven but the
be done on earth." For marriages to survive, they require regular maintenance. They require effort.
But more than that, they require a certain kind of effort. We must do the right things to have a successful marriage. God's Word te
things are. God presents His program for a happy marriage in the Scriptures. Marriage works well only when we pay attention to
responsibilities God has mapped out for us.
In Ephesians 5, the Apostle Paul gives us the picture of a Christian marriage. In this key passage about marriage, we see the God
responsibilities of husbands and wives.
Eph. 5:1921 "speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the
thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of Go
Paul has been describing the Spirit illed life. In vv. 1921, he uses several descriptive participles to de ine the activity of the Spiri
those activities, found in v. 21, lays the groundwork for what follows. Spirit illed believers submit to one another because of Chr
seek to serve one another. In what follows, Paul describes how this mutual submission is played out in the home.
I. Wives submit to your husbands (vv. 2224) "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of
Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives
husbands in everything."
Biblical submission described. \Because so much of the church has long disregarded the full teaching of Scripture, many believer
truths to be unfamiliar and even hard to accept. And because the church has been so engulfed in, identi ied with, and victimized b
standards, Gods standards seem outofdate, irrelevant, and offensive to modern mentalities. His way is so high and so contrary
world that it is incomprehensible to many in and out of the church.

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