Marriage as Completion: Gender Roles, Part 1

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Depending on the culture it’s sitting in, Christianity can either be considered radically liberal or horribly conservative. But Christianity isn’t to the left or to the right. In fact, if it’s true that Christianity doesn’t arise from the human spectrum of thought, but that it comes from above, then it’s natural that it doesn’t fit any particular ideology—and that every ideology is going to be suspicious of it. In a series on marriage, we come now to the question of whether there’s any differentiation between the roles and obligations of a husband and wife in marriage. And the basic thesis in Ephesians 5 is that being male and being female are overlapping but distinguishable ways of being human. I’d like to show that Ephesians 5 teaches us 3 things about gender roles: 1) there are roles, 2) why there are roles, and 3) what those roles are. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 29, 1991. Series: Marriage. Scripture: Ephesians 5:22-33. Today's podcast episode is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gospel in Life. The power of marriage is that it is a reflection of the Gospel.
0:10.0	Today Tim Keller explores how marriage can help us more deeply understand Christ's love for us
0:16.0	and how Christ's love for us can completely transform our marriages.
0:21.0	We're looking tonight at a subject that many of you are going to say why did you choose that subject?
0:27.0	It's just like the mountain climber. The same reason the mountain climber climbs the mountain because it's there.
0:31.0	Why are we choosing the subject we're choosing tonight because it's there?
0:35.0	Because the Bible is God's self-disclosure. It's the written Word of God.
0:40.0	And everything that is stated there, whether or not it happens to be controversial at this little point in time and space,
0:47.0	or not we have to digest it, we have to understand it.
0:50.0	And so tonight we're going to look again at this passage on marriage that we've been seeing for this is the seventh week now.
0:58.0	We're looking at Ephesians 5 verses 21 to 32.
1:02.0	But tonight we're especially going to look at this major issue where it says wife submit to your husbands and husbands you're the head of the wife.
1:10.0	What does that mean? What does that mean? Finally tonight we look at it as a mentally complicated subject.
1:17.0	And we're going to look at it. So let's first of all read the passage Ephesians 5 verses 21 to 32.
1:24.0	And then we tackle.
1:27.0	Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
1:31.0	Why have submit to your husbands as to the Lord?
1:34.0	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.
1:41.0	Now as the church submits to Christ so why should submit to their husbands in everything?
1:46.0	Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy,
1:52.0	cleansing her by the washing with water through the word and to present her to himself as a radiant church without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish but holy and blameless.
2:01.0	In this same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.
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