Welcome to Gospel in Life. The power of marriage is that it is a reflection of the Gospel.

Today Tim Keller explores how marriage can help us more deeply understand Christ's love for us

and how Christ's love for us can completely transform our marriages.

Our preaching a little sermon series on marriage and we did a mortal invisible,

god-only wives that are wetting. That was our hymn on the way in. On the way out it was nobody knows the trouble I've seen.

So anyway. But on the way in we sang immortal invisible, god-only wives.

So, as you know, we're going through the book of Ephesians and instead of really a series of sermons, I don't know when I started these,

but instead of a series of sermons on Ephesians, what it really is is a series of series on Ephesians,

because you get to a particular set of verses and you see it's on a new subject and what we try to do is

something we're not doing obviously in the morning services because the morning services have a slightly different focus.

What I'm doing is I'm trying to show you when you take a look at a small number of verses on a subject that there's a tremendous amount that can be drawn out of there.

So we try to go through in a more, not a totally, but a more comprehensive and exhaustive way looking at that subject.

Now we come to the classic, maybe the Locust classicus, the classic passage in the whole Bible and marriage.

It's Ephesians chapter 5 and I'm going to start reading from verses 21 down to verse 32.

It's maybe the most famous. It's certainly probably the longest and the medius passage there is in the Scripture on how God understands marriage.

We're going to read that and on tonight we will kind of even overview some basic principles as we often do when we begin and then we're going to go to the Lord's table and ask Him to meet with us.

And you don't have to worry about covering all the territory on the first night because as you know I never ever do.

Let's take a look at Ephesians 5 though and I'll read verses 21 to 32.

Familiar, famous, as well deserved. I'm going to start with verse 21 though.

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 head of the church?

The church is his body of which he is the Savior.

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