Ephesians 5:20-33 A man nailed to a tree makes marriage better.
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Transcript of Ephesians 5:20-33 A man nailed to a tree makes marriage better.
What We Will Cover Today
1. What the passage meant in its original setting.
2. How the passage is misused.3. What the passage means for us at RBC this
morning.
Paul Windsor
Wear your knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew language like you wear your underwear - it is needed for support, but it is embarrassing if you display it publically.
Let’s Play Find the Main Verb
. . . be filled with the Spirit:speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spiritsinging and making music from your heart to the Lordgiving thanks always to God the Father for everything
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christsubmitting to one another out of reverence for Christ
the wives to their own husbands as to the Lord
For the husband is the head of the wife . . .
The Husband is Head of the Wife
1. God created a hierarchy within the man-wife relationship, which was frustrated by sin at the Fall, and must be redeemed within the Church.
2. God created man and wife to be equal, which was frustrated by sin at the Fall, and must be reinstated in the Church.
Husbands
• Love your wives in the same way that Jesus loves the church.
• Love your wives in the same way you love your own body.
• Love your wives in the same way you love yourself.
Husbands and Wives
• You are part of the body of Jesus: [who] gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
For this reason Jesus left the Father and became united to the church and we are now “in Christ”.
In Answer to How it Went Wrong
Marriage is an act of gracious hospitality, of unconditional openness to the other, and of self-giving. The operations of divine grace in the marriage God establishes with his people should discourage us, I think, from conceiving the marriage relationship in terms of rights. Marriage is established in virtue of the unconditional gift of oneself to the other, not on the basis of rights held over against one another.
People of Roslyn
Take off: Put on:Being lazy, opting out of responsibility Sacrificial love
Gossiping, slandering, ‘scoring points’, gathering a faction, being resentful
Respect, even when it’s not wholly deserved
Being selfish, meeting your own needs Sacrificial love
Manipulating Respect, even when it’s costly