we series: people we marry
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The People We MarryEphesians 5:21-26
“MARRIAGE IS THE LIFELONG PURSUIT OF MERGING DIFFERENCES”
AUTHOR: ALESIA LEWIS
QUOTE OF THE MORNING
Marriage = God’s intimate union between a man and a woman in which the two become one.
Greek 1062. Gamos Marriage, wedding or festival: John 2:1, Revelation 19:7 - The intimate and everlasting union of Christ
Point 1. Commit to pledge (oneself) to a position
Point 2. Submit
to yield power, will or authority to another
Point 3. Permit to allow to occur
Point 1. Commit
Ephesians 5
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
Ephesians 523 For the husband is the head of the
wife as Christ is the head of the church,
his body, of which he is the Savior.
Point 2. Submit
Ephesians 5
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also
wives should submit to their husbands in
everything.
Point 3. Permit
Ephesians 5
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the
word,
Point 1. Commit
Point 2. Submit
Point 3. Permit
Servants of Christ