Message Notes:

Passionately Pursuing Your Marriage Commitment

Eph 5:15-31 So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.

For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s Word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. And we are members of his body. As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”

God’s Liquid Nails

1. Be Spirit-Controlled Completely

Eph 5:18 Let the Holy Spirit fill and control you.

Eph 4:30-31 Do not make the Holy Spirit sad. The spirit is God’s proof that you belong to Him… Do not be bitter or angry or mad. Never shout angrily or say things to hurt others… Be kind and loving to each other…

Gal 5:16, 19-24 So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. When you follow desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

2. Speak To One Another With Care

Eph 4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

3. Submit To One Another In Humility

1 Peter 5:5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed in humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

4. Sacrifice Willingly

Phil 2:3-5, 8 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who… being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross!

5. Serve Unselfishly

1 Cor 7:3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Which liquid nail do I need to work on?

 Being Spirit-Controlled Completely?

 Speaking To One Another With Care?

 Submitting To One Another In Humility?

 Sacrificing Willingly?

 Serving Unselfishly?