Welcome to Gospel in Life. When it comes to marriage, we often use words like soulmate

or the one. These words can reveal an underlying belief that, to have a good marriage, you just

have to find the perfect person. But the biblical vision for marriage is starkly different.

It's a way for two imperfect people to help each other become who God intended them

to be. Listen as Tim Keller explores the meaning of marriage.

The title of this sermon tonight is Marriage 3. I figure this is the summer time. At the

end of the summer, you see a lot of sequels. Here's child's play 3. There's Terminator 2.

There's Rocky 85. And there's Marriage 3. I figured this is, I was just in the, I figured

you'd be in the swing of it. Please turn with me to Ephesians 5. Those who come to the

evening service know that this is part of a series that we started 18 years ago or so

on the book of Ephesians. And we're moving through the book of Ephesians at the pace

of a, you know, a geriatric slug pretty much. It's very, very, very slowly through the book

of Ephesians. And we've come to the, maybe the classic text, the longest, the most famous

text in the entire Bible on the subject of marriage. So let me read to you again from

Ephesians 5 verses 21 to 32. And then we will take it from there. Submit to one another out

of reverence for Christ. Why submit to your husbands as to the Lord? For the husband is

the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body of which he is the

Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so why should submit to their husbands in all

things? Husbands love your wife just as Christ loved the church and gave, hers himself

up for her, to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

and to present her to himself as a radiant church without staying or wrinkle or any other

blemish, but holy and blameless. In this way, husbands ought to love their wives as their

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