The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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The sermon text for this evening's message is found in Ephesians,

Chapter 5, versus 21 through 33.

And that's page 978 on the Pugh Bible if you're looking there.

Ephesions 521 through 33.

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives.

Submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church his body, and is himself its savior.

Now as the church submits to Christ to also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Husbands love your wives, as Christ love the Church and gave himself up for her,

that you might sanctify her having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present

the church to himself in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing that she might

be wholly and without blemish.

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.

He who loves his wife loves himself.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes it, just as Christ

does the Church, because we are members of his body.

Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother, and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

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