Understanding Marriage from Ephesians 5

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1. Two Big Ideas

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

How what God tells us about everyday Christian living can impact our marriage and family.

3. What Submission Is – Ephesians 5:21

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

How God’s direction for submission in marriage practically works – and makes sense.

5. Reasons for a Wife’s Submission – Ephesians 5:22-24

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

Love never works in marriage unless we really understand what God means by love.

7. The Shared Life – Ephesians 5:25-32

God has a high goal for the Christian marriage – a genuinely shared life.

8. Oneness in Marriage – Ephesians 5:28-32

What oneness in marriage means, what prevents it, and how to grow in it.

9. The Transformed Marriage – Ephesians 5:33

How God wants the Christian marriage to move onward, and upward.