Understanding Marriage from Ephesians 5 – David Guzik

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1. Two Big Ideas</li> <li> <ul> <li>In this message David Guzik looks at two foundational ideas essential to understanding the Christian marriage: that family is important to God, and that Christianity makes a difference in marriage.</li> </ul>
2. Spiritual Preparation for Marriage – Ephesians 5:14-21</li> <li> <ul> <li>How what God tells us about everyday Christian living can impact our marriage and family.</li> </ul>
3. What Submission Is – Ephesians 5:21</li> <li> <ul> <li>Submission is a wide concept in the Christian life, not only dealing with marriage. Understanding what submission is and is not.</li> </ul>
4. Submission in Marriage – Ephesians 5:22-24</li> <li> <ul> <li>How God’s direction for submission in marriage practically works – and makes sense.</li> </ul>
5. Reasons for a Wife’s Submission – Ephesians 5:22-24</li> <li> <ul> <li>God not only tells us what to do; He also often tells us why. In Ephesians 5 we learn many reasons for submission in marriage.</li> </ul>
6. What Love Is – Ephesians 5:25</li> <li> <ul> <li>Love never works in marriage unless we really understand what God means by love.</li> </ul>
7. The Shared Life – Ephesians 5:25-32</li> <li> <ul> <li>God has a high goal for the Christian marriage – a genuinely shared life.</li> </ul>
8. Oneness in Marriage – Ephesians 5:28-32</li> <li> <ul> <li>What oneness in marriage means, what prevents it, and how to grow in it.</li> </ul>
9. The Transformed Marriage – Ephesians 5:33</li> <li> <ul> <li>How God wants the Christian marriage to move onward, and upward.</li> </ul>

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