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Ephesians 5:22–31; 1 Peter 3:1–7

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 24, 2026

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God’s design is better than culture’s experiment.

1. A Word for the Wise Wife: Respectful Submission

“Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”

Colossians 3:18, CSB

so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission to their husbands, so that God’s word will not be slandered.

Titus 2:4-5 CSB

a. Submission is not inferiority

“There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Galatians 3:28, CSB

b. Submission is not silence

c. Submission is spiritual beauty

d. Submission is ultimately unto the Lord

2. A Message for the Modern Man: Sacrificial love

a. A husband’s love is sacrificial

b. A husband’s love is sanctifying

c. A husband’s love is sensitive

d. A husband’s love is nourishing and cherishing

“To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.”

Ephesians 5:33, CSB

e. A husband’s love honors

3. But How?

a. Stop saying, “They started it.”

b. Obey your command, not your spouse’s command.

c. Replace reaction with obedience.

d. Speak your spouse’s God-given language.

e. Remember marriage requires the gospel.