Do you read posts or listen to podcasts about restored relationships and think, That could never happen in my marriage? In this powerful conclusion to the Mystery of Marriage Podcast series, I’m joined by fellow Brookwood Care Pastors, Gene Beckner, and Doug Wildman as we interview Rick and Kristin Hrabe. Their story is one of forgiveness and restoration through God’s grace.
As we’ve discussed in previous posts, this podcast series on The Mystery of Marriage from Brookwood Care Ministries lays out the Biblical purpose of marriage and what it means to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. In the first episode, we discussed Ephesians 5:21. Then we explored the Biblical role of husbands in marriage (Ephesians 5:25-30) followed by two discussions on the Biblical role of wives in marriage (Ephesians 5:22-24).
As you listen to these podcasts, I encourage you to read the passages being referenced:
21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 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. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 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. 28 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. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body.
31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
(Ephesians 5:21-33 NLT)
How has listening to this episode or this series challenged your relationship with God or with your spouse?
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