Wedding for Valerie and Jeff
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Introduction
Introduction
Successful marriages need submission and sacrifice to reflect the great reality of the gospel.
Submission
Submission does not mean turning your mind off.
Submission does not mean agreeing with everything your husband says.
Submission does not mean you subject yourself to abuse or sin.
Submission is a voluntary choice that puts your husbands will before you own, and allow him to be the responsible leader and sacrificial servant God has called him to be.
Sacrifice
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Sacrificial love is not passive, domineering, or lazy.
Sacrificial love is an active love. Sacrificial love is covenant love. It is a decisive love. It is a committed love. It is a self-denying love.
A godly husband will take initiative in and responsibility in the home, the church, and the world.
Marriage has to be more about you. If you make your marriage all about one another, you will be disappointed and disillusioned when your spouse fails or you will get bored. Marriage has a greater purpose to bring God glory in serving Him and one another.
The Bible says: “Wives should submit to their husbands in everything” ( 24). And immediately we think of patriarchal societies in which men have all the power. We think of inferiority and inequality. It makes us uncomfortable— and with good reason!
Tim Chester. Gospel-Centered Marriage (Kindle Locations 260-262). The Good Book Company.
Tim Chester. Gospel-Centered Marriage (Kindle Locations 260-262). The Good Book Company.
Men and women are equal. But equality does not rule out having complementary roles or “headship”— one person being in charge. The place we see this clearly is in the doctrine of the Trinity.
Tim Chester. Gospel-Centered Marriage (Kindle Locations 287-289). The Good Book Company.
Tim Chester. Gospel-Centered Marriage (Kindle Locations 260-262). The Good Book Company.
Tim Chester. Gospel-Centered Marriage (Kindle Locations 287-289). The Good Book Company.
Love is putting someone else before myself: their interests, their wishes, their needs, their comfort. The fact that you desire your spouse and feel warm thoughts about them does not mean you love them. Nor is it any good loving someone in some abstract sense. Love is washing dishes, cooking the dinner, putting the garbage out, not highlighting their faults, not worrying if they put things away in the wrong place, not buying the gadgets or clothes you want, but thinking about their feelings, listening to their point of view, asking about their day. And love covers over a multitude of sins. It’s not that love discounts or dismisses sin. But it forbears and forgives. Love chooses to see annoying habits as charming foibles.
Tim Chester. Gospel-Centered Marriage (Kindle Locations 573-575). The Good Book Company.
Tim Chester. Gospel-Centered Marriage (Kindle Locations 569-573). The Good Book Company.