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