Sermon Tone Analysis

Do you want to have a great marriage?

Do you want to have a great church?

The mystery is great but I’m speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

What is that telling you?

Marriage is very, very sacred—very sacred.

What is a mystery?

New revelation, something in the past hidden, and now revealed.

The mystery is this; this has never been said before in holy Scripture, never in the Old Testament that marriage is to follow the pattern of Christ’s relationship to the church.

Marriage is sacred.

The church is one with Christ, that’s the mystery.

The church is one with Christ, and that’s the picture of marriage.

It is sacred by virtue of its association with the relationship between Christ and His church.

In order to be successful in marriage and in the church, we must

Search for the Will of God

Requires Diligence

The command is for us to “give attention to the way we walk in this world”, so that we “walk accurately and precisely.”

Requires Discernment

Redeeming -

means “to buy up; to deliver from loss.”

It was used in that culture of “purchasing a slave in order to set the slave free.”

Requires Direction

unwise means “stupid or ignorant.”

It refers to a person who “thinks himself wise when actually he knows nothing.”

How do we know the will of God?

We have to understand the principles taught in the Scriptures.

We have to slow down long enough

to read the Word of God.

to meditate on the Word of God.

to understand the Word of God.

Submit to the Authority of the Holy Spirit

Sanction Control

Sanction means give authority, to confirm.

The Spirits will should be your will.

The Spirits thought should be your thoughts.

The Spirits desire should be your desire.

The Spirit is for Guidance.

The Spirit is for Protection.

Show Celebration

When we understand the authority of the Husband and authority of the Spirit for guidance and protection.

Everybody Submit to Everybody.

Wives Submit to each Other.

Secure Contentment

Show the Love of Jesus Christ

Love Starts with those of Authority

Husbands Love Your Wife

True Love Sacrifices

True Love Sanctifies

True Love is Sustains

Striving to Keep the Union of the Body

In Marriage, will you put your union first.

In Church, will you put our union first.

Only as we all Search for the will of God, Submit tot he Authority of the Holy Spirit, Show the Love of Christ while always Striving to Keep the Union of Unity will we be successful in marriages and the church as a witness of what we have received in Jesus Christ.