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All right, welcome back to day two on our deep dive of what it means to be a

godly husband. Ephesians 521. The Bible says, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

So then it's going to spend several verses talking about how wives are to live that out, and then it's going to spend

several verses talking to husbands about how to live it out. But before it does that, it says that

basically a good marriage is that of mutual submission, that we're to submit to one another

out of reference for Christ, and essentially what it means to mutually submit is just you make

somebody else's deal a bigger deal than your deal.

In fact, if you've ever had a really good friendship, this is the bedrock of a good friendship,

that you're not in it for yourself, but a really good friendship is built on mutual submission.

And so a really good marriage is built first and foremost on a really good friendship is built on mutual submission. And so a really good marriage is built first and foremost on a really good friendship.

It's not built on finances.

It's not built on sex.

It's not built on romance.

It's built on Christ.

And we mutually submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

In fact, this might throw especially some of you old heads off. A good marriage is not even based on commitment. I know you're going to hear that, you know, love is not a feeling and it's all about commitment. No, no, man. Commitment is a byproduct of the fact that you have been saved or deemed by the gospel, that you have covenanted with somebody to spend your life with them till death do you part.

But if you want a good marriage and not simply an enduring marriage, then you don't simply

commit to the marriage.

No, no, no, no.

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