A Husband's Integrity and a Wife's Respect
Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Superficial attraction doesn't produce respect--character does. Today, Sinclair Ferguson identifies a key characteristic for every faithful, fruitful Christian marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Things Unseen we've been talking about family life and yesterday we were thinking |
| 0:14.0 | about the family life commandment, the commandment that focuses on honoring our father and our mother. |
| 0:22.1 | I want to think with you today about another commandment, one that's actually directed |
| 0:27.0 | to wives, but its fulfillment is related to both husband and wife. I'm thinking about |
| 0:33.7 | Paul's teaching on marriage in Ephesians chapter 5 verses 22 to 33. He says, let the wife see |
| 0:41.9 | that she respects her husband. Actually the verb that Paul uses here is the verb that's often |
| 0:48.4 | translated fear, but I'm sure Bible translators are right to translate it as respect. I'll have |
| 0:57.6 | more to say about this, but for the moment here's a major key to married life. A wife should respect |
| 1:04.6 | her husband. When couples have come to talk to me about marriage, I've always looked for this |
| 1:11.5 | basic grace. Does she respect him? I don't mean is she head over heels and love with him, |
| 1:19.1 | on his own that could easily blind her to his faults. No, it's respect that matters and respect |
| 1:27.0 | means trust, respect means that his character leads you to believe that his love is true and |
| 1:33.4 | they who keep his word, that he's faithful, that there are qualities in him that you feel you can |
| 1:39.3 | appreciate and admire. It's the kind of sense that Ruth had about Boahs, isn't it, |
| 1:45.9 | that made her think he was the kind of man with whom she would be at home and safe and secure. |
| 1:53.8 | It means that a young woman or for that matter an older woman feels that this man will be my very |
| 1:59.8 | best friend in all the world. Because you see if you don't respect him before you marry him, |
| 2:07.1 | it's very unlikely that you'll respect him after you marry him. |
| 2:13.0 | There was a time in my life when I was teaching in theological seminary when I found myself |
| 2:17.5 | often at church conferences and hosted over a few days by a husband and wife and one of the things |
| 2:24.2 | I rather enjoyed secretly I admit was that while I was with them I would try and work out why they |
| 2:30.7 | had got married in the first place. What, for example, could I see in the husband that had caused |
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