The Role of Man and Woman

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Perhaps now more than ever, people misunderstand the relationship between men and women in marriage. Today, R.C. Sproul looks to the Bible to explain the roles that God has ordained for husbands and wives.

Request R.C. Sproul’s teaching series The Intimate Marriage on DVD, plus lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide, with your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3879/donate

Meet Today’s Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What God says to me as a husband and to you as a husband is you are responsible to love your wives like Jesus loved the church.
0:10.0	The same Jesus who is responsible to manage the universe promises and keeps the promise to hear every prayer that comes to him from his bride.
0:19.9	He listens to his bride. He cares about his bride. So much does he
0:26.0	care about his bride that he lays down his life for his bride. When the topic of marriage comes up, one area that can be controversial is the discussion of the
0:44.3	biblical roles of men and women, the role of the husband, the role of the wife, and that's the topic
0:50.2	R.C. Spro will tackle on this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. Marriage is under
0:56.6	attack, and if we're to offend and promote marriage, we need to ensure that our views align
1:02.4	with Scripture. And that's why we're featuring this series The Intimate Marriage on our Saturday
1:07.6	episodes. We trust that what you've heard so far from this series, under God's
1:12.6	blessing, has been a help to you, especially if you're married. I do encourage you to request the
1:18.5	entire series so that you can go deeper in your study, and so you can use the discussion questions
1:24.2	in the study guide. When you make a donation of any amount in support of
1:28.4	renewing your mind before midnight tonight, we'll send you the DVD and unlock digital access
1:33.9	in the free Ligonier app. Simply visit Renewingyourmind.org to give your gift today. Well, here's Dr. Sprole
1:42.0	on the roles of men and women in marriage.
1:47.7	Welcome once more to our study on Christian marriage, and this will be our last session together.
1:55.0	And I've saved the controversial material to this time, because what we're going to be looking at here is the role of the man and the woman in marriage.
2:04.6	I think it's important that we give some attention to this question as it is addressed in the New Testament
2:11.6	because of the high degree of controversy that has surrounded this issue in recent years. And so I'd like to
2:18.8	direct your attention, if I may, to the instruction that we receive in the fifth chapter of Paul's
2:25.2	letter to the Ephesians. And I'm going to begin at verse 21, where we read these words, submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
2:40.8	That is usually seen as the connecting statement between what Paul taught earlier in this
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

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

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