Eph 5:22-33; Pro 14:1; 21:19; 12:4; 1Jo 2:1-2; Rom 8:12-15; Eph 4:22-24, 32; Pro 31:10-31; 1Co 13:1-8.
PRCHR-43-160228 - length: 69:26 - taught on Feb, 28 2016
Class Outline:
Practical Christianity:
Job descriptions for a happy marriage
Husbands, love your wives. Every day.
Wives, respect your husbands. Every day.
And both of you, keep forgiving one another.
Ladies, wives…
When you encourage your children not to respect their dad, that is an awful thing.
When you are always nagging your husbands, it comes across as you not respecting him.
“Contentious” means “brawling”. Always fighting her husband on things.
When you use sex as a weapon to get what you want…
When you take the kids’ side against him.
When you undermine him by the way you spend money.
When you speak ill of him in public.
How do we deal with our failures in marriage?
Admit it. Confess your sins to your Father and, if it will be healing, to your spouse.
Rejoice in what Jesus Christ did at the cross to wipe away our sins.
Remind yourself of who you are. And cry out to your Daddy for help.
GAL 5:16
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
Be more forgiving of your spouse from now on.
Job description for a virtuous wife
EPH 5:24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
100%. Everything. All in.
Job description for a Christian husband
EPH 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her
100%. All in. Everything.