Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there. 30 And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, 31 so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel. Matthew 15:29-31 (ESV)
Jesus can heal any relationship!
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Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Ephesians 5:22-24 (ESV)
Real life stuff. (Marriage & Kids)
It all starts with our relationship with Jesus. Whether you are married, single, young, old, or middle-aged, God calls you first and foremost to be a godly man or a godly woman.
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What does this word submit mean?
To be ranked under in military order.
Chosen by God (order and harmony).
For God shows no partiality (or favoritism). Romans 2:11 (ESV)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,
there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 (ESV)
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“God-intended role.”
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:5-8 (ESV)
Wives are to submit to their own husbands.
This submission is not forced. The Christian wife who promises to submit does so because her vow is “as to the Lord,” to her own husband.
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This points to the bigger picture of what marriage is to be…
The Marriage reflects the relationship between Christ and his church.
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All of our lives, our marriages, our families, our jobs are to point to something bigger—to redemption. To God’s plan of redemption accomplished through Jesus Christ.
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