Marriage as Priority and Friendship

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

4.8 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

I’m tired of listening to sentimental, slurpy talks on marriage during weddings and in Sunday school and in sermons. They have about as much depth and reality to them as a Hallmark card. The fact is, marriage is many things—in fact, it’s everything except slurpy and sentimental. Marriage is glorious: it’s a burning strength and joy. Marriage is hard: it’s blood, and it’s sweat, and it’s tears. It’s defeats, and it’s victories. It’s almost everything except sweet. We’re in a series on the Bible’s view of marriage. We’ve already looked at the power, the definition, and the priority of marriage. We look now at 1) the great purpose of marriage, and 2) what this purpose means in practicality. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 8, 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.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.
0:20.0	Okay, two Ephesians 5. We've started somewhere in August, I guess, about three weeks, three weeks ago.
0:34.0	This is the fourth week, obviously. We're looking at this passage in Ephesians 5.
0:41.0	We're looking at verses 22 to 32, which is really maybe the classic text in the whole Bible on marriage.
0:48.0	And we're spending about six to eight weeks looking at the subject and let's proceed. Let me read it again to you.
0:57.0	Starting verse 21.
1:00.0	Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
1:05.0	Why submit to your husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body of which he is the Savior.
1:14.0	Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
1:20.0	Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word,
1:29.0	and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
1:37.0	In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies, he who loves his wife loves himself.
1:44.0	After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it just as Christ does the church.
1:50.0	For we are members of his body. For this reason, our man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and the two will become one flesh.
1:59.0	This is a profound mystery, but I am talking about Christ in the church.
2:05.0	However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself and the wife must respect her husband.
2:13.0	This is God's Word.
2:16.0	Now, always must do a little recapping, but a little bit less each week.
2:26.0	Marriage is something that the people talk about in the church all the time, but I must admit I'm tired of listening
2:32.0	to sentimental Slurpy talks on marriage during weddings and in the church and in Sunday school and in sermons there.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tim Keller, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tim Keller and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.