The challenge of the Word of God is it doesn't cater to our feelings. It acts contradictory to our feelings.

But when we honor it, it comes true and our fear becomes faith.

Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans, co-host of the Marriage Today podcast. Today we have a great teaching for you that I pray grows your marriage and blesses you as you seek to center your marriage on Christ.

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God bless you.

When Jesus told the Pharisees the truth about themselves, they wanted to kill him. That was their

response. So let me talk about the challenges of change. Submit to one another in the fear of God.

Wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as also

Christ's head of the church and he is the savior of the body.

Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be their own husbands

and everything, husbands love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave

himself for her, that he might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the

word that he might present her to himself a glorious church

not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that she should be holy and without blemish

so husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies he who loves his own wife loves

himself for no one ever hated his own flesh but nourishes and cherishes it just as lord does the church

well i've been a marriage

counselor for 34 years and I've never one time read that to a person in having marriage

problems and gotten anything other than discussed. I'm talking about Christians. When you have a

woman struggling, by the way, that begins with a very important sentence that says submit to one another in the fear of God. Wives, here's how to do that. Husbands, here's how to do that. Ephesians 5 does not tell women to submit to men and men to rule over women. That's not what it says. It says, men, here's how you submit to your wife. Women, here's how you submit to your husband. Again, Karen and I never talk about who the boss is in our family because Jesus is the boss in our family. Okay, everything we do is under the authority of Jesus. So listen. So when you read Ephesians 5, there's just like giving, just like tithing. You know, I've never preached on tithing anybody applauded.

But I've literally seen people get beat red and just get up and leave.

Talking about tithing.

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