Understanding Marriage from Ephesians 5 – David Guzik
- 1. Two Big Ideas
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- 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.
- 2. Spiritual Preparation for Marriage – Ephesians 5:14-21
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- How what God tells us about everyday Christian living can impact our marriage and family.
- 3. What Submission Is – Ephesians 5:21
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- Submission is a wide concept in the Christian life, not only dealing with marriage. Understanding what submission is and is not.
- 4. Submission in Marriage – Ephesians 5:22-24
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- How God’s direction for submission in marriage practically works – and makes sense.
- 5. Reasons for a Wife’s Submission – Ephesians 5:22-24
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- 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.
- 6. What Love Is – Ephesians 5:25
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- Love never works in marriage unless we really understand what God means by love.
- 7. The Shared Life – Ephesians 5:25-32
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- God has a high goal for the Christian marriage – a genuinely shared life.
- 8. Oneness in Marriage – Ephesians 5:28-32
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- What oneness in marriage means, what prevents it, and how to grow in it.
- 9. The Transformed Marriage – Ephesians 5:33
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- How God wants the Christian marriage to move onward, and upward.