Hey, church family, it is time for Devo.

This one comes by special request.

Ephesians chapter 5, we are going to talk about marriage.

I was actually on an elder Zoom call meeting earlier in the week.

And one of the elders just said, hey, anybody else kind of getting a little snippy with your spouse?

And because I don't know that we are used to spending this much time together.

And it was pretty unanimous around the elder table via Zoom.

We all raised our hand.

I saw this thing online, it said,

during Corona, my wife and I played this game called,

Why do you do it that way?

And there are no winners, which is so true.

So what I thought we'd do is get a little refresher here

on the roles of husbands and wives in the scriptures. So Ephesians chapter 5,

the great news about the book of Ephesians is the first half of it is about the gospel,

gospel, gospel, gospel, gospel, Ephesians too, that you and I were dead in our trespasses,

but God, rich in mercy, saved us that we are

saved by grace through faith, not by works. And then when he gets to like chapter four,

it takes this hard turn and now talks about what we should look like as saved people.

And then as he's landing the plane in chapter 5,

he's going to talk about all the different roles that we have,

and then finally he'll close it up with the spiritual warfare and the armor of God.

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