Rooted In Your Wealth 22.2

Josh Owens

Clear Springs Baptist Church

Rooted In Our Wealth • Sermon • Submitted 4 months ago • Presented 4 months ago

Marriage

A Husband

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A Spirit-Filled Marriage (2)

Text: Ephesians 5:25-33

Introduction

This topic of marriage has truly taken a dirt road to liberal subjectivity. The foundation of marriage has been more neglected in our day than any other. We live in a time when must confusion has entered the understanding of gender, marriage, and family. To be honest, in some cases, the historic Christian view of marriage brings some to being hostile.

Quote: “For the first time in its history, Western civilization is confronted with the need to define the meaning of the terms “marriage” and “family.” What until now has been considered a “normal” family, made up of a father, mother, and a number of children, has in recent years begun to be viewed as one among several options.” — Kostenberger and Jones

Quote: Stott summarizes marriage very well: “Marriage is an exclusive heterosexual covenant between one man and one woman, ordained and sealed by God, preceded by the leaving of parents, consummated in sexual union, issuing in a permanent mutually supportive partnership, and normally crowned with the gift of children.”

As we approach this text, let us understand that marriage in this life was designed to be a shadow of the Heavenly marriage between Christ and His bride (the church).

While Paul does not exhaustively deal with marriage here, he does point out some key responsibilities of husbands and wives. These key responsibilities will allow your marriage to run the marathon it has to run.

Gen. 2:18 “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”

Gen. 1:28 “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

God established marriage for many reasons.

1) A Spirit-Filled Husband

A. Husbands must lead with a sacrificial love

What Paul is talking about here is a Golgotha love.

Think about to Jesus’ scourging.

He went through all of the that simply because He loved the church.

We can forget the lesson Jesus taught when he washed the disciple's feet.

Paul is talking about a foot-washing love.

What you witness when reading about Jesus’ act of service is an unparalleled humility and love.

Men…this calling is a call to die!

Paul is wanting you to lead and love your wife without selfish ambitions.

Die to yourself (schedule, dreams, ambitions, etc.)

It will take this kind of approach to remain faithful to your bride (lust, anger, pride, purity, etc.)

Paul is calling you men to live a servants to your wife.

Referring back to Jesus’ footwashing, you notice there was no request, but simply an INITIATIVE to serve.

This is a calling to ACTIVELY love your wife. — 1 Corinthians 13:4–8 “4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.”

Not only the “act” of serving, but also the “attitude” of serving.

Don’t serve just to get her to stop nagging about what needs to be done.

We often misunderstand what “needs to be done.”

B. Husbands must lead with a SANCTIFYING LOVE

Paul transitions from speaking about redemption to creation as the pattern of love

Would any of you men neglect to nourish or provide your body what it needs?

Gen. 2.24 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

Don’t miss read Paul as promoting husbands to be self-serving. He is directing husbands to think through how they treat their own body.

Do you long for intimacy, joy, security, health, peace, companionship, community? PROVIDE IT FOR HER!!!

How are you doing in the nourishing department?

How will taking the promotion impact her?

How will a different work schedule impact her?

How will your multiple responsibilities impact her?

Husbands, love your wife as your own body even if it means setting your career dreams aside.

Really, what is more important?

Quote: God ordained marriage. Christ set the pattern for marriage. The Spirit empowers marriage.

The gospel is such good news to a marriage.

Jesus died for both husbands and wives that find themselves slipping away from the task God has given you.

Quote: Spurgeon said of His love: This love of Christ is the most amazing thing under Heaven, if not in Heaven itself. How often have I said to you that if I had heard that Christ pitied us, I could understand it. If I had heard that Christ had mercy upon us, I could comprehend it. But when it is written that he actually loves us, that is quite another and a much more extraordinary thing! Love between mortal and mortal is quite natural and comprehensible, but love between the Infinite God and us poor sinful finite creatures, though conceivable in one sense, is utterly inconceivable in another. Who can grasp such an idea? Who can fully understand it? Especially when it comes in this form—“HE” (read it in large capitals) “loved me, and gave Himself for me”—this is the miracle of miracles! (“Christ’s Love to His Spouse,” emphasis in original)

The best advice I could give would be to never stop focusing on Christ as you endeavor to live out a Spirit-filled marriage.

C. Husbands must lead their marriage to reflect Christ’s relationship to His church.

Marriage is a serious matter.

Quote: Adam had to give part of himself in order to get a bride, but Christ gave all of Himself to purchase His bride at the cross. God opened Adam’s side, but sinful men pierced Christ’s side. So united are a husband and wife that they are “one flesh.” - Warren Wersbie

If Christ has enable husbands and wives with the power to reflect Him and His church, why are so many failing? SOMEONE IS OUT OF GOD’S WILL.

Both kinds of submission must be found within the church toward Christ and one another.

If the marriage institution fails in submission to Christ, the church will fail in the same.